I want to give you just
the warmest welcome today,
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to our viewers around the world
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across this great
land of United States
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down into Australia,
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up there in Canada
right around the world.
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And also to the home audience
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because you folks
look so good today.
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I want to thank you for coming.
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The topic today is
"More Hot Potatoes."
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And we have some
potatoes here today
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and I'd like to
think that they were hot
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but anyhow we have some
hot potatoes here today.
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We had a program entitled,
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"Hot Potatoes" some months ago.
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It was so successful,
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we decided that
we'd have another program
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and we would call
it "More Hot Potatoes."
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I'm going to take today
a number of telephone calls
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and we have somebody
who's going to give us
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a question right
now on the telephone.
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Hi Pastor
Carter, this is Monica.
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I was baptized 27 years ago
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in the name of Jesus
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into the church
of the living God.
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Would you
suggest I get re-baptized
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in the name of the Father,
the Son and the Holy Ghost?
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Monica, thank you so
much for the question today.
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Let me read it again,
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27 years ago I was
baptized in the name of Jesus
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into the church
of the living God.
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Would you
suggest I get re-baptized
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in the name of the Father,
the Son and the Holy Ghost?
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Monica, baptism doesn't save.
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Do I believe in
baptizing people,
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of course I do.
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But the right of
baptism doesn't save.
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I believe that
when a person is saved,
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he ought to be baptized.
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Would you come with
me in the scriptures,
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my friends and
the home audience?
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Over here to 1 Corinthians 1
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and we have a great
home audience here today
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in our church at
100 West Duarte road,
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Arcadia, California
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which is the best
church you can ever attend.
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1 Corinthians 1:17, Paul says,
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"For Christ did
not send me to baptize,
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but to preach the gospel--
not with words of human wisdom,
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lest the cross of Christ
be emptied of its power."
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So he said Christ
didn't send him to baptize
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but to preach the gospel.
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But then in verse 16 he says,
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"Yes, I also baptized
the household of Stephanas,
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beyond that, I don't remember
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if I baptized anyone else."
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So baptism is not
the most important thing,
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the most important thing is
your relationship to Christ.
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The Bible does teach
on occasions re-baptisms.
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If you turn to the
Book of Acts 19:3-5,
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it tells about how
some people were baptized
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into John the Baptist baptism
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but later on they were baptized
in the name of the Jesus
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when they got
more light from God.
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Now if you come over
now to Mathew 28:19, 20
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you have our Lord telling us
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how people ought to get baptize.
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Mathew 28:19, 20
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"When Jesus came
to them and said,
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'All authority in heaven
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and on earth has
been given to me.
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Therefore go and make
disciples of all nations,
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baptizing them in
the name of the Father
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and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit,
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teaching them to
observe all things.
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A person ought to be baptized
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in the name of
the blessed Trinity.
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And what you need to do,
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Monica is make
this a matter of prayer
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and ask God to
reveal to you His will
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so that you will do
what He wants you to do.
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Let's have the
next question, please.
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Hi Pastor Carter
and my name is Cynthia
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and I have a question for you.
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I know that God
knows what I'm thinking.
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Can Satan also read our minds?
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Thank you so much, Cynthia.
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I was reading in Time Magazine
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and Newsweek that
scientist are working
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on a machine to
read people's minds.
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That's a little
bit scary, isn't it?
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I don't think
Satan can read our minds
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but he's super smart.
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And often he knows what we're
thinking by the way we look
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and by what we're doing.
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But there's one thing that
is very, very clear in the Bible
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and that is this,
"God can read our minds."
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Would you come
over here to John 2:25,
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God knows
everything I've thought,
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He knows what I'm thinking now.
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Sitting here in church, He
knows what you're thinking.
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He knows what I'm thinking.
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John 2:25, it says of Jesus,
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"He did not need
man's testimony about man,
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for He knew what was in a man."
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The Bible tells me God
knows everything about us
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and He loves us just the same.
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Now there's
another person on the line.
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Hello Pastor
Carter. My name is Robert.
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And I have a question for you.
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It is now 2012
and most of us know
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that it is another election
year in the United States.
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We often hear Christians
talking about whether the church
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should have more
influence in the government,
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especially in regards
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to moral and
social issues of today.
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Could you please
give me the biblical view
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on this very important
issue of church and state.
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Thanks, Pastor Carter.
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Bob, that is
indeed a hot potato.
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Jesus said--I think you
know the text render the Caesar,
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the things that be Caesar's,
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and to God the
things that be God's.
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There is a
legitimate fear for the church
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and there is a fear for
the state of the government.
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And both sides
shouldn't cross over.
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That is why America believes
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in the separation
of church and state.
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What happens when the
church controls the state?
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Well, if you go back in history
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and study the
story of the dark ages.
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When the Roman
church controls the state,
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you had millions and
millions of people put to death.
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Whenever the church
dictates to the state,
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you have religious persecution.
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What happens when the
state controls the church?
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The state ought to stay
out of the churches backyard.
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The state has got no
right here in this building,
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no right at all.
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But you go to Russia
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and when the state
controls the church
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you had some 15 million people
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put to death for
all sorts of reasons.
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And so-- and most people
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don't seem to be
aware of these things,
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most people
don't seem to realize
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the danger of church
and state mingling together.
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And so render the Caesar
the things that be Caesar's.
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What happens when the
state controls the church?
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Communist Russia, Nazi Germany.
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How then should the
church influence society?
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What is the best
way now, you know,
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I know that
people in this country.
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Many millions of people believe
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that the church ought to be
loving Congress all the time.
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And better still the church
got to have its representatives
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in Congress or the White House
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to impose upon us
their own viewpoints.
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Some people believe
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that we need to get back
to the keeping of Sunday.
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And they pray
earnestly that one day
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we're going to get a president
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and this
president is going to say,
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we're going to
bring in Sunday keeping
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or Congress is going to pass it.
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When that happens,
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you have the
situation of antichrist
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because that's what it is.
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When church and
state are joined together
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you have the
essence of antichrist.
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How should the
church influence society?
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Let me tell you,
it's very simple.
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Not by having
lobbyist in Washington
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but by doing what the
church is being called to do,
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that is to preach the gospel.
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The church ought to get
out of the church buildings
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and go out into the
world and to preach the gospel,
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that's what Jesus did.
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Jesus was not a lobbyist
with the Roman government.
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That's what Paul did,
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that's what all
the apostles did.
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They went into the world
and they preached the gospel.
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That is why this ministry
believes in worldwide evangelism
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and by the grace of
God this is why we do it.
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And so we can change society
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for the good by
preaching the gospel
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because the
gospel uplifts society.
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Wherever the gospel goes
you have the greatest freedom
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where woman are
the most respected,
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where the Bible and Christ go.
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Now what about a
person who is a politician
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and he believes in
Christ and the gospel?
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Remember Wilber, Wilberforce,
wherever a person is,
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he should try to
influence Congress
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or whatever to make
the world a better place.
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But I should not
endeavor who force upon you
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my own religious convictions.
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Because my religious convictions
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belong to me and the state
has got no right to tell me
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what I ought to think,
how I ought to worship,
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that is between
me and God. Amen.
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And so Jesus our Lord said,
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"Render to Caesar the
things that be Caesar's,
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and to God the
things that be God's."
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I wish Christians were
more interested in evangelism
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than they are in
elections, don't you?
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Going to take another question.
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Hello, Pastor
Carter, this is Ron calling.
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In studying my Bible
I read that it tells us
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that flesh and blood will
not enter the kingdom of heaven.
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Could you please
tell me what this means?
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Ron, very
perceptive question, very good.
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I am going to turn to a
text, I want the home audience
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to turn with me to
please 1 Corinthians 15:50.
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It's the chapter on
the State of the Dead
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and the Resurrection.
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So 1 Corinthians 15:50,
"I declare to you, brothers,
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that flesh and blood cannot
inherit the kingdom of God."
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Now this explains it,
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"Nor does the perishable
inherit the imperishable."
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It is talking
about our corrupt fallen
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sinful natures, fallen humanity.
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Remember Ron, on one occasion
Jesus said to Saint Peter,
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when Peter made
the great confession,
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"You are the Christ,
the son of the living God."
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Jesus said,
"Peter, flesh and blood
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does not reveal this unto you."
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In other words,
frail, sinful humanity
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has not revealed this unto you.
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When the Bible
says flesh and blood
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should not inherit
the kingdom of God.
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It is talking about corrupt,
sinful, perishable humanity.
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But one day God is
going to take this corrupt,
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perishable, sinful humanity
and God is going to make it new
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and we are going to live forever
in the kingdom of God. Amen.
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You see that's what we believe,
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that's part of the
good news of the gospel.
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Somebody else is on
the phone, I believe.
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Good morning, Pastor Carter.
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My name is Michelle and
I have a question for you.
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A friend tells me the
Bible writers were on drugs
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when they wrote
down their vision.
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This has confused
and discouraged me.
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What do you think?
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Thank you, Michelle.
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Seems to me that your
friend does a lot of bad drugs.
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I guess you have to be on drugs
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to make such a
statement, wouldn't you?
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This is not the first
time I've been asked this.
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Some folks came
to me and they said,
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"We were told by a friend
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the Bible was written by
people who were on drugs."
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It hardly warrants an answer.
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I would say people
who say things like that
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have never read
the Holy Scriptures.
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Try reading Isaiah 40,
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"Those who wait upon the
Lord shall renew their strength.
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They shall mount up
on wings like eagles.
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They shall run
and not be grow weary.
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They shall walk and not faint."
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The most sublime
language in the world.
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This book is the
greatest masterpiece
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the world has ever seen.
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Even people who
are non-believers,
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who don't even believe
in God they read the Bible
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because of the
glory of the language.
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Go read Matthew
5, the Beatitudes.
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When I was in Russia once
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when the communists
were ruling the place,
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a man said to me, "Then Bible
is just nonsense, foolishness."
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I took out my Bible and I
read to him the Beatitude.
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He said, "I've
never read anything so--
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heard anything so wonderful."
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I gave him my own Bible.
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I would say my friend,
there are some questions
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and even though
it's good question
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and you are repeating somebody
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but nobody with a rational mind
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would ever
postulate the absurd theory
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that this book was written
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by people who were
having hallucinations
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because they were on drugs.
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I think that only a person
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who is having
hallucinations himself
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would make such
an absurd statement.
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It is the living
word of the living God.
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Now I am going
to invite Hugo Yin
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who is not a
stranger to this church
00:14:48.27\00:14:52.06
and Hugo is going to come now.
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He is going to come
and bless us with the song.
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Would you please
welcome our friend, Hugo.
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Who can say for certain
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Maybe you're still here
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I feel you all around me
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Your memories so clear
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Deep in the stillness
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I can hear you speak
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You're still an inspiration
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Can it be
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That you are my
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forever love
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And you are watching
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over me from up above
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Fly me up to where you are
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Beyond the distant star
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I wish upon tonight
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To see you smile
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If only for awhile
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To know you're there
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A breath away's not far
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To where you are
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Are you gently sleeping
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Here inside my dream?
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And isn't faith believing?
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All power can't be seen
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As my heart holds you
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Just one beat away
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I cherish all you gave me
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Everyday
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For you are my
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forever love
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Watching me from up above
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And I believe
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that angels breathe
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And that love will live on
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And never leave
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Fly me up to where you are
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Beyond the distant star
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I wish upon tonight
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To see you smile
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If only for awhile
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To know you're there
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A breath away's not far
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To where you are
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I know you're there
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A breath away's not far
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To where you are
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Later on today, I am
going to answer the question.
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What do our
friends, the Mormons believe?
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That will be a little later on
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but now I am going to
take this telephone call.
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Hi Pastor Carter, my
name is Shawna Taylor
00:19:06.25\00:19:09.39
and I really want to say
I appreciate your sermons
00:19:09.42\00:19:11.69
every weekday, really
are very uplifting for me.
00:19:11.72\00:19:14.39
But I have a question
for you today, Pastor Carter.
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My husband was brought up
00:19:16.63\00:19:17.77
in a very strict
legalistic church
00:19:17.80\00:19:20.45
and when he was
old enough he left
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and he has not look back.
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However, he now refuses
to take any of our children
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or send them to Sabbath school.
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He said that they can
make their own decision
00:19:28.72\00:19:30.66
when they grow
up about religion.
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So my question to
you Pastor Carter,
00:19:32.39\00:19:34.14
what do you
think of his attitude?
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Let me read this back to you,
00:19:38.43\00:19:42.44
"My husband was brought up
00:19:42.47\00:19:43.51
in a very strict
legalistic church
00:19:43.54\00:19:45.28
and when he was
old enough he left,
00:19:45.31\00:19:47.00
has not look back
He now refuses to take
00:19:47.03\00:19:50.66
or send our
children to Sabbath school
00:19:50.69\00:19:52.56
and says, they can
make their own decision
00:19:52.59\00:19:54.80
when they grow
up about religion.
00:19:54.83\00:19:57.35
What do you
think of his attitude?"
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You can be sure of one thing.
00:20:00.50\00:20:03.02
If you don't
train your children now
00:20:03.05\00:20:04.69
when they are
little to love Jesus,
00:20:04.72\00:20:07.48
they are not
going to make a decision
00:20:07.51\00:20:09.49
later on to follow Christ.
00:20:09.52\00:20:12.31
Some people say, well, you know,
00:20:12.34\00:20:14.18
I am just going to let
them believe what they like now.
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When they grow up
they are giong to be free
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to make their own decision.
00:20:19.44\00:20:20.64
No, they have already made it.
00:20:20.67\00:20:22.08
You made it for
them. You made it for them.
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I want you to come
over here to a text
00:20:25.76\00:20:27.37
in the Bible to Proverbs 22:6,
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Book of Proverbs 22:6 it is.
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Proverbs 22:6, a wise man said,
00:20:35.83\00:20:42.78
"Train a child in
the way he should go,
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and when he is old he
will not turn away from it."
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There's an old
saying by another wise man.
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It says, "As the twig is bent
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so the tree is inclined."
00:20:59.74\00:21:03.88
If you want a little
child to grow up to worship God,
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don't leave until that
little child is a grown adult
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but teach that little child,
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Jesus loves me this I
know for the Bible tells me so.
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Do it now.
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Parents have got a
tremendous responsibility.
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Somebody else on the line.
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Hello, Pastor
Carter, my name is Steven.
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I have question for you sir.
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My question is why is
the word Lord in the Bible
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sometimes used in capital letter
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and other times
it's used in lower case?
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An example on the capital
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and the lower case Luke 10:27.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Why is it that you find
somewhere in the scriptures
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when it says
Lord, it's all in caps
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and in other places
in the New Testament
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it's big L then
small letters for Lord?
00:22:04.45\00:22:09.03
It's because the Old
Testament is written in Hebrew
00:22:09.06\00:22:12.48
and the New
Testament is written in Greek.
00:22:12.51\00:22:16.57
Now when it's talking about
the self-existent almighty God,
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it uses the
word-- come over here,
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put this on the
blackboard this morning.
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It may be a little
hard for you to follow it
00:22:27.23\00:22:29.86
because I made it
a little bit fancy
00:22:29.89\00:22:32.38
but here you got the
actual name for the almighty God
00:22:32.41\00:22:36.46
and in the Old Testament
that is Yahweh, which is Yhwh.
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This is the most sacred
word in all of creation.
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The word that is used
for Lord in the New Testament
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is the Greek word
Kurios and basically it means,
00:22:51.79\00:22:56.34
oh sir or as my Spanish
friends would say senior.
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Did I said it right? Senior.
00:23:02.51\00:23:06.28
And so in Proverbs and
other parts of the Bible
00:23:06.31\00:23:09.69
when it refers
to the almighty God,
00:23:09.72\00:23:11.77
the self-existent
God, He is called Yahweh
00:23:11.80\00:23:15.62
and that is
translated LORD in big caps.
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Some translations it's
actually translated Yahweh,
00:23:21.75\00:23:26.04
other
translations it's translated
00:23:26.07\00:23:28.48
not so accurately by
the term or the name Jehovah
00:23:28.51\00:23:33.47
and then when you
come to the New Testament
00:23:33.50\00:23:36.04
you don't have the word Yahweh
00:23:36.07\00:23:37.62
of course, you have Kurios
and it is translated Lord.
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It's because of the
difference of the languages.
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Is somebody else
waiting on the line there?
00:23:45.49\00:23:49.09
Hi, Pastor
Carter, my name is Skip.
00:23:49.12\00:23:51.86
I am calling in
because I really enjoy
00:23:51.89\00:23:54.98
your teaching
straight from the Bible.
00:23:55.01\00:23:57.24
I have a question for you.
00:23:57.27\00:23:59.00
I am dating a
woman who is a Moslem
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and I am a Christian.
00:24:01.40\00:24:02.44
I belong to the
Seventh-day Adventist church.
00:24:02.47\00:24:05.08
Do you think our
marriage will be successful?
00:24:05.11\00:24:09.22
Skip, you are asking
me as a pastor a question.
00:24:09.25\00:24:15.70
I imagine you
want an honest answer
00:24:15.73\00:24:18.72
not a political one.
00:24:18.75\00:24:22.44
I believe that Christians
ought to marry Christians
00:24:22.47\00:24:25.03
and Moslems
ought to marry Moslems.
00:24:25.06\00:24:28.47
People say, but the
religions are compatible.
00:24:28.50\00:24:31.01
No, there's no
close relationship
00:24:31.04\00:24:36.92
between the Christian
faith and the Moslem faith.
00:24:36.95\00:24:40.45
Now I appreciate
and respect Moslems
00:24:40.48\00:24:44.49
but the Moslem religion
00:24:44.52\00:24:46.78
is incompatible
with Christianity.
00:24:46.81\00:24:50.36
I want you to come over
here in the New Testament
00:24:50.39\00:24:53.82
over here Skip to
John 8:53 and onwards.
00:24:53.85\00:25:00.21
John 8:53 and onwards.
00:25:00.24\00:25:07.51
The Bible says or the Jews said,
00:25:07.54\00:25:10.09
"Are you greater
than our father Abraham?
00:25:10.12\00:25:12.36
He died, and so
did the prophets.
00:25:12.39\00:25:14.28
Who do you think you are?"
00:25:14.31\00:25:16.59
Verse 56, "Your father Abraham
00:25:16.62\00:25:19.37
rejoiced at the
thought of seeing my day,
00:25:19.40\00:25:21.76
he saw it and was glad.'
00:25:21.79\00:25:24.78
'You are not yet
fifty years old,'
00:25:24.81\00:25:26.76
the Jews said to him,
'and you have seen Abraham!'
00:25:26.79\00:25:29.78
'I tell you the truth,'
00:25:29.81\00:25:31.64
Jesus answered,
'before Abraham was born--"
00:25:31.67\00:25:37.63
what does He say, "I am.
00:25:37.66\00:25:41.65
At this, they picked
up stones to stone Him,
00:25:41.68\00:25:44.63
but Jesus hid Himself,
00:25:44.66\00:25:46.30
slipping away from
the temple grounds."
00:25:46.33\00:25:49.39
Jesus claims to
be Yahweh Elohim.
00:25:49.42\00:25:55.43
He is the almighty Son of God.
00:25:55.46\00:25:59.01
Mohammed, the Moslems
believed was a great prophet
00:25:59.04\00:26:03.83
but Mohammed didn't
claim to be the son of God.
00:26:03.86\00:26:07.94
The Moslems do not believe
that Jesus is the Son of God.
00:26:07.97\00:26:12.73
They believe
that he is a prophet.
00:26:12.76\00:26:15.86
But the Moslems do not believe
in the divinity of Christ
00:26:15.89\00:26:20.61
or in His atoning sacrifice.
00:26:20.64\00:26:25.24
And therefore
there is a great gulf
00:26:25.27\00:26:28.19
between the Moslem
faith and the Christian faith.
00:26:28.22\00:26:32.51
I don't think you ought to,
00:26:32.54\00:26:33.72
if you are a Christian
you should not marry a Moslem,
00:26:33.75\00:26:37.46
I am telling you.
00:26:37.49\00:26:38.71
Look at Chapter 8:24,
00:26:38.74\00:26:41.61
Jesus said, "I told you
that you would die in your sins,
00:26:41.64\00:26:46.10
if you do not
believe that I am the one
00:26:46.13\00:26:48.86
I claim to be, you will
indeed die in your sins."
00:26:48.89\00:26:55.49
My friend, this
is pretty strong.
00:26:55.52\00:26:58.39
Jesus-- and now people
say, well, Jesus was bigotry.
00:26:58.42\00:27:01.58
No, no, He was the Son of God.
00:27:01.61\00:27:04.75
He was the Son of God,
so don't pick on Jesus.
00:27:04.78\00:27:07.65
Jesus said to the Jews,
00:27:07.68\00:27:09.20
if you don't
believe that I am who I am
00:27:09.23\00:27:14.14
then you are going
to die in your sins.
00:27:14.17\00:27:17.02
And if you are a Christian
and if you marry a Moslem,
00:27:17.05\00:27:20.21
you are marrying a
person who does not believe
00:27:20.24\00:27:23.50
that Jesus is the Son of God.
00:27:23.53\00:27:26.85
You are going to have problems.
00:27:26.88\00:27:29.19
And so is the person
who is going to marry you.
00:27:29.22\00:27:31.67
Come over here
to 2 Corinthians 6.
00:27:31.70\00:27:35.37
2 Corinthians 6:14 and onwards.
00:27:35.40\00:27:38.93
Now you may say to me,
00:27:38.96\00:27:40.11
well, it's going to
be different with me.
00:27:40.14\00:27:41.99
No, it's not my friend.
It's not going to be different.
00:27:42.02\00:27:46.24
And if you go ahead
and have that marriage
00:27:46.27\00:27:48.81
I don't believe that God is
going to bless that marriage.
00:27:48.84\00:27:52.92
Sorry to tell you
that but I don't believe
00:27:52.95\00:27:55.18
that God can
bless that marriage,
00:27:55.21\00:27:58.31
Christians ought
to marry Christians.
00:27:58.34\00:28:00.63
And when I say Christians
ought to marry Christians,
00:28:00.66\00:28:03.23
don't just marry any person
who professes to be a Christian,
00:28:03.26\00:28:07.53
marry a person who is a
genuine born again believer.
00:28:07.56\00:28:11.85
2 Corinthians 6:14 and onwards,
00:28:11.88\00:28:14.53
"Do not be yoked
together with unbelievers.
00:28:14.56\00:28:18.32
For what do righteousness
and wickedness have in common?
00:28:18.35\00:28:22.13
Or what fellowship can
light have with darkness?"
00:28:22.16\00:28:24.83
Now I am not saying that
Moslem faith is wickedness
00:28:24.86\00:28:27.46
but it is
incompatible with our faith.
00:28:27.49\00:28:30.97
"What fellowship can
light have with darkness?
00:28:31.00\00:28:33.52
What harmony is there
between Christ and Belial?
00:28:33.55\00:28:36.66
What does a believer in Christ
00:28:36.69\00:28:39.98
have in common
with an unbeliever?"
00:28:40.01\00:28:43.79
And then you
come down to verse 17,
00:28:43.82\00:28:45.93
"Therefore come out from them
and be separate, says the Lord."
00:28:45.96\00:28:51.50
So if you are
asking my honest counsel,
00:28:51.53\00:28:55.56
I would say, go
to the Word of God.
00:28:55.59\00:28:59.13
As Billy Graham said,
if you are keeping company
00:28:59.16\00:29:02.27
with a non-believer,
drop him and drop him fast.
00:29:02.30\00:29:07.49
That's my advice to you.
00:29:07.52\00:29:11.23
And we got somebody else
with the question now, please.
00:29:11.26\00:29:15.36
Hello, Pastor Carter,
thanks for taking my call.
00:29:15.39\00:29:18.58
My name is Bob and
I've been reading my Bible
00:29:18.61\00:29:22.68
and I ran across
the name of a fellow
00:29:22.71\00:29:25.69
and I don't know who he is.
00:29:25.72\00:29:29.38
They call him Michael
00:29:29.41\00:29:30.63
and they say he
is the archangel.
00:29:30.66\00:29:33.63
And I am wondering
who is this Michael
00:29:33.66\00:29:36.18
and who is this archangel?
00:29:36.21\00:29:39.48
Good question Bob.
00:29:39.51\00:29:42.00
Jesus is archangel.
00:29:42.03\00:29:44.82
Jesus is the self-existent God
00:29:44.85\00:29:47.49
but Jesus is the
leader of the angels
00:29:47.52\00:29:52.26
and in Daniel 12, we are
not going to turn to the text.
00:29:52.29\00:29:54.75
It says,
"Michael the great prince
00:29:54.78\00:29:57.31
who stands for God's people."
00:29:57.34\00:29:58.65
He stands up, so He is the
great prince for God's people.
00:29:58.68\00:30:02.88
And then in 1
Thessalonians 4:16-17,
00:30:02.91\00:30:08.56
it says when Jesus comes back,
00:30:08.59\00:30:10.66
He comes back with a
voice of the archangel
00:30:10.69\00:30:14.23
and with the
trumpet call of God.
00:30:14.26\00:30:16.51
Jesus I believe is Michael
00:30:16.54\00:30:21.27
and He is the
leader of the angels
00:30:21.30\00:30:25.99
but not an angel
Himself. Next question.
00:30:26.02\00:30:29.90
Hello, Pastor
Carter. My name is Denis.
00:30:29.93\00:30:32.29
My wife and I were recently
mounding over a question
00:30:32.32\00:30:35.98
we had related to Cain.
00:30:36.01\00:30:38.40
Cain married a woman from Nod
00:30:38.43\00:30:40.17
and they had a child Enoch
00:30:40.20\00:30:42.29
but what and where
was this tribe of Nod?
00:30:42.32\00:30:45.98
And other then Enoch
00:30:46.01\00:30:47.24
where does this tribe fit
into the big scheme of things?
00:30:47.27\00:30:50.94
A very, very big hot potato.
00:30:50.97\00:30:54.80
That's the biggest hot
potato we've dealt with so far.
00:30:54.83\00:30:57.64
That potato is about
as big as that potato.
00:30:57.67\00:31:00.24
It's a big one.
00:31:00.27\00:31:02.03
The land of Nod was
told in the Book of Genesis 4
00:31:02.06\00:31:05.27
and I think verse
16, was east of Eden.
00:31:05.30\00:31:09.77
That would make it somewhere
over near Iraq, Pakistan.
00:31:09.80\00:31:16.07
The Garden of Eden
was in the middle east
00:31:16.10\00:31:19.61
and the Bible tell us
that there was the land of Nod.
00:31:19.64\00:31:23.61
We are not told a
great deal about it.
00:31:23.64\00:31:25.70
Denis, let me say
this to you my friend.
00:31:25.73\00:31:28.79
The Bible doesn't give us
00:31:28.82\00:31:30.30
all the answers
about everything.
00:31:30.33\00:31:33.57
Doesn't give us all the answers.
00:31:33.60\00:31:36.57
We are not expected
to have all the answers.
00:31:36.60\00:31:39.03
Why was the Bible written?
00:31:39.06\00:31:40.72
To make me smart
on every subject? No.
00:31:40.75\00:31:43.55
So that I will
believe in Jesus Christ
00:31:43.58\00:31:46.44
and I will be saved.
00:31:46.47\00:31:48.56
That's the reason
the Bible was given.
00:31:48.59\00:31:50.76
Here's another question now.
00:31:50.79\00:31:53.93
Hello, Pastor
Carter. My name is Blake.
00:31:53.96\00:31:56.37
I really enjoy your preaching
00:31:56.40\00:31:58.11
and I have a
question for you today.
00:31:58.14\00:32:00.45
Professor Richard Dawkins
teaches that God is a delusion
00:32:00.48\00:32:04.03
and Christianity and
Judaism have committed
00:32:04.06\00:32:06.35
terrible crimes
against humanity.
00:32:06.38\00:32:08.92
Why are so many
today turning to atheism
00:32:08.95\00:32:12.52
and is there an answer?
00:32:12.55\00:32:14.90
Professor Dawkins
has made some points
00:32:14.93\00:32:18.21
but none of them are valid.
00:32:18.24\00:32:20.28
He is the
world's greatest atheist
00:32:20.31\00:32:24.03
and I believe the position
00:32:24.06\00:32:25.49
he takes is
intellectually lacking.
00:32:25.52\00:32:30.47
I don't believe it's respectable
00:32:30.50\00:32:32.44
for a person to
say there's no God.
00:32:32.47\00:32:34.29
How on earth will he
know, has he been everywhere?
00:32:34.32\00:32:36.54
Has he seen
everything? Of course not.
00:32:36.57\00:32:38.32
So how can he say that?
00:32:38.35\00:32:40.77
He says that Christians and Jews
have done some terrible things.
00:32:40.80\00:32:44.67
Yes, they have.
00:32:44.70\00:32:46.72
Think what the Church of
Rome did in the Dark Ages
00:32:46.75\00:32:50.21
and other people who
profess to believe in God
00:32:50.24\00:32:53.76
have done some bad things.
00:32:53.79\00:32:55.21
That does not make God bad.
00:32:55.24\00:32:58.68
To say that you are
not going to believe in God
00:32:58.71\00:33:00.96
because some so
called Christians or Jews
00:33:00.99\00:33:06.48
have done things is
illogical and foolish.
00:33:06.51\00:33:11.05
But let me remind
00:33:11.08\00:33:12.21
the great
professor of this truth
00:33:12.24\00:33:15.38
that nobody has persecuted
more than the atheists.
00:33:15.41\00:33:19.96
I've been to Russia and Ukraine
and I have visited places
00:33:19.99\00:33:24.07
where millions of
people were butchered
00:33:24.10\00:33:27.33
by people who
believe in the same ideas
00:33:27.36\00:33:30.65
as the great professor Dawkins
00:33:30.68\00:33:33.22
who believe that the highest law
is the survival of the fittest.
00:33:33.25\00:33:38.86
So what's good for the
goose Professor Dawkins
00:33:38.89\00:33:43.01
is good for the gander.
00:33:43.04\00:33:45.63
Nobody has persecuted
more than the atheists.
00:33:45.66\00:33:49.55
Now, why do I believe in God?
00:33:49.58\00:33:52.54
I can give you a million reasons
00:33:52.57\00:33:54.49
but let me-- I
don't have time today,
00:33:54.52\00:33:56.30
I can take a whole
discourse on this but listen,
00:33:56.33\00:34:00.32
one moment after creation
00:34:00.35\00:34:01.81
that scientists
call the big bang.
00:34:01.84\00:34:04.45
One millisecond,
there were four forces
00:34:04.48\00:34:07.61
that came into
being in the universe.
00:34:07.64\00:34:09.75
They haven't been there before.
00:34:09.78\00:34:11.23
Gravity, the
strong nuclear force,
00:34:11.26\00:34:13.71
the weak nuclear force so forth.
00:34:13.74\00:34:16.05
There are four big forces.
00:34:16.08\00:34:17.92
We now know that if those
four forces had been out of sync
00:34:17.95\00:34:23.76
by one quadrillionth
of one quadrillionth
00:34:23.79\00:34:26.46
by one quadrillionth
of one quadrillionth,
00:34:26.49\00:34:29.45
a one
quadrillionth of one percent
00:34:29.48\00:34:31.88
the universe would
have imploded or exploded.
00:34:31.91\00:34:36.68
And that is why
there's hardly a cosmologist
00:34:36.71\00:34:41.92
left in the world today
who does not believe in God
00:34:41.95\00:34:45.98
because of the evidence.
00:34:46.01\00:34:47.39
I believe in God not
because of blind faith,
00:34:47.42\00:34:51.35
I believe in God because
of the overwhelming evidence.
00:34:51.38\00:34:56.00
And there's another evidence
I would give to you today
00:34:56.03\00:34:58.82
and that is this
the evidence of Christ.
00:34:58.85\00:35:01.42
You only got to
read His writings
00:35:01.45\00:35:03.16
and you will find they
are the most sublime teachings
00:35:03.19\00:35:06.87
in the history of the world.
00:35:06.90\00:35:09.33
Why do many
people become atheists?
00:35:09.36\00:35:12.13
Well, some perhaps
because they are confused
00:35:12.16\00:35:15.31
and others I think
because it is easier.
00:35:15.34\00:35:21.00
No God, you can
do what you like.
00:35:21.03\00:35:24.72
Beverly showed me a video
last night on two great doctors
00:35:24.75\00:35:30.08
who went to India to
work with the lepers.
00:35:30.11\00:35:34.61
Dr. Brand, Dr. Brand.
00:35:34.64\00:35:37.65
You see them
touching the lepers,
00:35:37.68\00:35:40.13
touching their sores.
00:35:40.16\00:35:41.96
Working for the down cast.
00:35:41.99\00:35:45.13
You don't see too many
atheists doing it, do you?
00:35:45.16\00:35:49.14
No, you don't but
the followers of Christ.
00:35:49.17\00:35:54.32
Now we are going
to take another break
00:35:54.35\00:35:55.76
and then I am
going to talk about
00:35:55.79\00:35:57.36
what do the Mormons believes.
00:35:57.39\00:35:59.12
So stay with us.
Hugo, come and sing to us.
00:35:59.15\00:36:03.39
Would you please welcome him?
00:36:03.42\00:36:05.15
My faithful Father,
00:36:23.70\00:36:31.55
enduring Friend
00:36:31.58\00:36:36.30
Your tender mercy's
00:36:36.33\00:36:39.69
like a river with no end
00:36:39.72\00:36:46.55
It overwhelms me,
00:36:46.58\00:36:53.94
covers my sin
00:36:53.97\00:36:58.76
Each time I come
into Your presence
00:36:58.79\00:37:05.88
I stand in wonder once again
00:37:05.91\00:37:13.88
Your grace still amazes me
00:37:13.91\00:37:21.77
Your love is still a mystery
00:37:21.80\00:37:29.48
Each day
00:37:29.51\00:37:33.09
I fall on my knees
00:37:33.12\00:37:38.38
'Cause Your
grace still amazes me
00:37:38.41\00:37:46.25
Your grace still amazes me
00:37:46.28\00:37:54.25
Oh precious Savior,
00:38:07.56\00:38:15.20
You make me whole
00:38:15.23\00:38:20.06
You are the Author
00:38:20.09\00:38:23.45
and the Healer of my soul
00:38:23.48\00:38:30.36
What can I give You,
00:38:30.39\00:38:37.25
Lord, what can I say
00:38:37.28\00:38:42.53
I know I've nothing to repay You
00:38:42.56\00:38:49.52
Only to offer You
00:38:49.55\00:38:53.76
my praise
00:38:53.79\00:38:57.97
Your grace still amazes me
00:38:58.00\00:39:05.46
Your love is still a mystery
00:39:05.49\00:39:12.95
Each day
00:39:12.98\00:39:16.37
I fall on my knees
00:39:16.40\00:39:21.74
'Cause Your
grace still amazes me
00:39:21.77\00:39:29.38
Your grace still amazes me
00:39:29.41\00:39:35.88
It's wider
00:39:38.99\00:39:42.59
It's stronger, it's higher
00:39:42.62\00:39:50.00
It's deeper, it's wider
00:39:50.03\00:39:57.60
It's stronger, it's higher
00:39:57.63\00:40:03.09
Than anything my eyes can see
00:40:03.12\00:40:10.27
Your grace still amazes me
00:40:10.30\00:40:17.64
Your love is still a mystery
00:40:17.67\00:40:24.91
Each day
00:40:24.94\00:40:28.57
I fall on my knees
00:40:28.60\00:40:33.90
'Cause Your
grace still amazes me
00:40:33.93\00:40:41.44
Your grace
00:40:41.47\00:40:43.93
still amazes me
00:40:43.96\00:40:51.93
This program is
entitled, "Hot potatoes."
00:41:14.92\00:41:18.01
During the segment I am
going to answer the question.
00:41:18.04\00:41:21.25
What do our friends,
the Mormons really believe?
00:41:21.28\00:41:24.53
But firstly, I got
somebody on the line.
00:41:24.56\00:41:28.32
Hi, Pastor
Carter, my name is Susan
00:41:28.35\00:41:31.21
and I am a
healthcare professional.
00:41:31.24\00:41:33.48
I would like to
know how the devil
00:41:33.51\00:41:36.02
can make a
person physically ill.
00:41:36.05\00:41:39.05
Ellen White talked about this
00:41:39.08\00:41:40.51
and I have heard
missionaries talk about it.
00:41:40.54\00:41:43.10
I know we cannot
ascribe all illness to the devil
00:41:43.13\00:41:46.51
but can we have
any understanding
00:41:46.54\00:41:48.35
of this phenomenon? Thank you.
00:41:48.38\00:41:52.88
We do believe as
Christians in evil spirits.
00:41:52.91\00:41:58.43
You want to give
evil spirit a wide birth.
00:41:58.46\00:42:03.54
Don't have anything
to do with religion,
00:42:03.57\00:42:08.01
it's got anything
to do with spiritism.
00:42:08.04\00:42:11.43
So yes, there are evil spirits.
00:42:11.46\00:42:14.01
I believe they
can harass a believer
00:42:14.04\00:42:18.10
but they cannot posses him.
00:42:18.13\00:42:21.42
The devil can't
share the same kitchen
00:42:21.45\00:42:24.92
with the creator.
00:42:24.95\00:42:26.13
He can't come inside you.
00:42:26.16\00:42:27.69
The devil can't come inside
you if you have God there.
00:42:27.72\00:42:32.81
He can posses an unbeliever
00:42:32.84\00:42:34.94
who has played
around with the devil.
00:42:34.97\00:42:37.97
I met people who have
played around with the devil
00:42:38.00\00:42:41.91
and I believe they
have become demon possessed.
00:42:41.94\00:42:45.35
Don't-- don't try it.
00:42:45.38\00:42:48.56
Some say, I am going to try it.
00:42:48.59\00:42:50.20
Don't, don't, don't try it.
00:42:50.23\00:42:52.87
It's better to
play with lightning.
00:42:52.90\00:42:56.94
So I believe that
he can harass people
00:42:56.97\00:42:59.44
but having said all of that,
00:42:59.47\00:43:02.18
almost all sickness is
the result of our lifestyles.
00:43:02.21\00:43:08.38
Don't we like
the person who said,
00:43:08.41\00:43:10.52
the devil made me to it.
00:43:10.55\00:43:14.36
It's not usually
the devil to blame
00:43:14.39\00:43:17.17
if we suffer from some disease.
00:43:17.20\00:43:19.83
It's because of our lifestyle.
00:43:19.86\00:43:22.57
The Bible says whatever
man sows that shall he reap.
00:43:22.60\00:43:26.76
If a person lives
and obeys God's laws,
00:43:26.79\00:43:31.01
he is going to be blessed.
00:43:31.04\00:43:32.63
If a person lives
to disobey God's laws,
00:43:32.66\00:43:36.97
he will suffer
because of the consequences.
00:43:37.00\00:43:42.35
Let's have another
question, please on the phone.
00:43:42.38\00:43:47.29
Hi, Pastor
Carter. My name is Karen.
00:43:47.32\00:43:50.52
I have a question for you.
What is blasphemy of the spirit?
00:43:50.55\00:43:57.36
A very, very good question.
00:43:57.39\00:43:58.97
It should concern particularly
people who go to church
00:43:59.00\00:44:03.73
because the best place
00:44:03.76\00:44:04.90
to blaspheme the Holy
Spirit is in a church.
00:44:04.93\00:44:10.92
It can be
dangerous to go to church
00:44:10.95\00:44:13.01
if you have a
spiritful preacher.
00:44:13.04\00:44:14.88
Come over here with
me to Matthew 12:31.
00:44:14.91\00:44:19.79
Matthew 12:31, and
Jesus, our Lord is talking.
00:44:19.82\00:44:26.48
Matthew 12:31, and Karen,
00:44:26.51\00:44:30.99
I want you to listen carefully
00:44:31.02\00:44:32.31
as we read the
words of Jesus here.
00:44:32.34\00:44:34.70
Matthew 12:31, Jesus said,
00:44:34.73\00:44:37.41
"And so I tell you,
every sin and blasphemy
00:44:37.44\00:44:40.30
will be forgiven men,
00:44:40.33\00:44:42.16
but the blasphemy
against the Spirit
00:44:42.19\00:44:45.53
will not be forgiven."
00:44:45.56\00:44:48.04
We should read verse 32,
"Anyone who speaks a word
00:44:48.07\00:44:51.12
against the Son of
Man will be forgiven,
00:44:51.15\00:44:54.79
but anyone who speaks
against the Holy Spirit
00:44:54.82\00:44:57.37
will not be forgiven,
00:44:57.40\00:44:58.82
either in this age
or in the age to come."
00:44:58.85\00:45:02.07
I want you to think about this.
00:45:02.10\00:45:05.00
Jesus said the
most dangerous thing
00:45:05.03\00:45:10.26
that a person can do is to
sin against the Holy Spirit.
00:45:10.29\00:45:16.78
If a person sin
against the Holy Spirit
00:45:16.81\00:45:20.76
and blasphemes him,
the person cannot be saved.
00:45:20.79\00:45:25.79
Pretty serious.
00:45:25.82\00:45:28.06
Now the
unpardonable sin is not murder,
00:45:28.09\00:45:32.08
it's not adultery,
it's not fornication,
00:45:32.11\00:45:34.88
it's not stealing
because if you come to God
00:45:34.91\00:45:37.63
and confess any of those sins,
00:45:37.66\00:45:39.37
God will forgive you.
00:45:39.40\00:45:41.33
But God can't forgive you
00:45:41.36\00:45:42.53
for the sin
against the Holy Spirit.
00:45:42.56\00:45:46.03
How does it work?
00:45:46.06\00:45:47.10
Well the Holy Spirit is
the third person of the Godhead
00:45:47.13\00:45:49.95
and the Holy Spirit
comes, he's send from God
00:45:49.98\00:45:52.73
and he convicts us of sin.
00:45:52.76\00:45:57.78
How does he do this?
00:45:57.81\00:45:58.84
Well, maybe I am
sitting here in church
00:45:58.87\00:46:01.41
and the preacher is
anointed by the Holy Spirit
00:46:01.44\00:46:04.28
and he is preaching
from the Word of God
00:46:04.31\00:46:07.31
and he is talking
about a sin in my life
00:46:07.34\00:46:11.29
and I say, "No, I am not
going to do what he says.
00:46:11.32\00:46:14.65
I am not going to
do what God says."
00:46:14.68\00:46:17.47
And so as the Holy
Spirit speaks to us
00:46:17.50\00:46:20.49
or speaks to that individual,
that person hardens his heart.
00:46:20.52\00:46:26.68
It says in the Old Testament
in the Book of Genesis,
00:46:26.71\00:46:29.36
"My spirit will not
always strive with man."
00:46:29.39\00:46:33.58
The Spirit of
God strives with us.
00:46:33.61\00:46:37.07
I've taken meetings
00:46:37.10\00:46:38.30
and I've seen the Spirit
of God striving with people.
00:46:38.33\00:46:41.71
As I preached the Word of God,
00:46:41.74\00:46:43.86
I've seen beads of
perspiration come out,
00:46:43.89\00:46:47.34
out of person's forehead
00:46:47.37\00:46:48.74
as he struggled
with the Spirit of God.
00:46:48.77\00:46:51.79
As I've said, "Would
you raise your hand?"
00:46:51.82\00:46:55.20
person is struggling.
00:46:55.23\00:47:00.32
Now this is an important truth,
00:47:00.35\00:47:03.92
every time I say no to God,
00:47:03.95\00:47:08.72
it's easier to
say no the next time.
00:47:08.75\00:47:13.08
So if I
continue to say no to God
00:47:13.11\00:47:15.75
the time will certainly come
00:47:15.78\00:47:18.31
when the Spirit of God will talk
to me with a voice of thunder
00:47:18.34\00:47:24.17
and I won't even hear him
00:47:24.20\00:47:26.59
because I've harden my heart.
00:47:26.62\00:47:29.54
When I was a young
minister a few years ago,
00:47:29.57\00:47:34.81
Beverly and I lived
next to a railway track.
00:47:34.84\00:47:38.58
At 1 o'clock in the morning
00:47:38.61\00:47:40.26
the Sothern Aurora
would come thundering down
00:47:40.29\00:47:43.65
that railway
track at Wagga Wagga
00:47:43.68\00:47:46.44
in South, New South Whales.
00:47:46.47\00:47:50.73
The first night
we were terrified,
00:47:50.76\00:47:52.47
I thought it was
coming through the bedroom.
00:47:52.50\00:47:54.35
The next night it woke
us up, the next night--
00:47:54.38\00:47:57.27
but we know, a week or two
00:47:57.30\00:48:00.00
Sothern Aurora would
come thundering along--
00:48:00.03\00:48:02.44
we wouldn't even hear it.
00:48:02.47\00:48:05.64
That's what happens
with the Spirit of God.
00:48:05.67\00:48:08.12
That is why
there are some people
00:48:08.15\00:48:09.50
who come to
church year after year
00:48:09.53\00:48:12.17
and the preaching
of the Word of God
00:48:12.20\00:48:17.47
because of their
reaction hardens their hearts.
00:48:17.50\00:48:21.43
That's why the Bible tells us
00:48:21.46\00:48:23.45
today if you
will hear his voice,
00:48:23.48\00:48:27.03
do not harden your heart.
00:48:27.06\00:48:29.48
Nobody here has
committed the unpardonable sin
00:48:29.51\00:48:32.82
because if you hope to be saved
00:48:32.85\00:48:35.97
and if you have a
desire to be saved
00:48:36.00\00:48:38.42
the Spirit of
God has not left you.
00:48:38.45\00:48:41.78
But the message of the Word
of God is do it and do it now.
00:48:41.81\00:48:47.53
Another question.
00:48:47.56\00:48:50.01
Hi, Pastor
Carter, this is Stephanie.
00:48:50.04\00:48:52.75
Thank you for your
wonderful teaching.
00:48:52.78\00:48:55.14
I have a question for
you. What do Mormons believe?
00:48:55.17\00:49:01.77
What do the Mormons believe?
00:49:01.80\00:49:07.39
Now folks in this
church we do not talk politics.
00:49:07.42\00:49:11.48
Amen. Amen.
00:49:11.51\00:49:12.78
Say it louder. Amen.
00:49:12.81\00:49:14.05
Amen. Yeah.
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But we are dedicated to
the preaching of the truth
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and we will never come
to the place where we say,
00:49:22.59\00:49:25.51
"Because of
political correctness
00:49:25.54\00:49:28.47
we will cease to
preach the truth."
00:49:28.50\00:49:32.06
The Mormons have another Bible.
00:49:32.09\00:49:36.44
There it is. It is
the Book of Mormon.
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They say it is another
scripture about Jesus Christ.
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So they do not believe
00:49:46.33\00:49:48.36
in the protestant
principle of Sola Scriptura
00:49:48.39\00:49:53.06
but they believe
they have another Bible.
00:49:53.09\00:49:58.09
It starts in 1832
00:49:58.12\00:50:01.11
when some golden
plates were found
00:50:01.14\00:50:03.94
containing the record of
a man by the name of Mormon
00:50:03.97\00:50:08.45
who was an ancient
American as you would expect.
00:50:08.48\00:50:13.72
He told how
Jesus visited America
00:50:13.75\00:50:18.33
after the resurrection
00:50:18.36\00:50:21.18
and revealed the truth
of God and the true gospel.
00:50:21.21\00:50:26.38
His name was Mormon
00:50:26.41\00:50:28.16
and he wrote it down
we are told in this book.
00:50:28.19\00:50:31.68
Joseph Smith, who Mormons
believe was a true prophet,
00:50:31.71\00:50:37.18
was visited by
the son of Mormon.
00:50:37.21\00:50:40.54
His name was Moroni.
00:50:40.57\00:50:43.51
He was visited by a dead man
00:50:43.54\00:50:47.37
who was still alive.
00:50:47.40\00:50:51.26
People say
what's wrong with that?
00:50:51.29\00:50:53.39
Because it is spiritism.
00:50:53.42\00:50:57.72
People say, do you believe
he was visited by a person?
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Yes, I believe it.
00:51:01.09\00:51:05.53
But the Bible
teaches and I have debated
00:51:05.56\00:51:08.51
with the Mormons
and the Mormon bishops.
00:51:08.54\00:51:12.37
They believe
that the dead live on.
00:51:12.40\00:51:16.59
They believe in the
immortality of the soul.
00:51:16.62\00:51:21.84
I can't believe this book
and I don't recommend it to you
00:51:21.87\00:51:25.23
because I
believe it came through
00:51:25.26\00:51:26.76
the agency of an unclean spirit.
00:51:26.79\00:51:31.14
Let me read you something here,
00:51:31.17\00:51:34.08
"And now, behold, if
Adam had not transgressed
00:51:34.11\00:51:36.80
he would not have fallen,
00:51:36.83\00:51:38.06
but he would have
remained in the Garden of Eden.
00:51:38.09\00:51:40.92
And all things
which were created
00:51:40.95\00:51:42.65
must have
remained in the same state
00:51:42.68\00:51:44.74
in which they were
after they were created.
00:51:44.77\00:51:47.79
And they would have had
no children, no children.
00:51:47.82\00:51:53.09
Therefore they
would have remained
00:51:53.12\00:51:54.64
in a state of
innocence, having no joy,
00:51:54.67\00:51:57.05
for they knew no misery.
00:51:57.08\00:52:00.49
Doing no good,
for they knew no sin."
00:52:00.52\00:52:03.25
So you can't do
good unless you have sin.
00:52:03.28\00:52:06.37
"Adam fell that men might be.
00:52:06.40\00:52:14.14
Adam fell that men might be,
00:52:14.17\00:52:16.52
and men are that
they might have joy."
00:52:16.55\00:52:20.45
So Adam had to sin
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before children
could come into the world.
00:52:22.86\00:52:29.13
Either you are going
to follow the scripture
00:52:29.16\00:52:31.97
which came from
the hand of the God
00:52:32.00\00:52:33.61
or you're going to
follow the Book of Mormon
00:52:33.64\00:52:36.09
that came from a
hand of a dead man.
00:52:36.12\00:52:39.76
Not a dead man but a
spirit, an evil spirit.
00:52:39.79\00:52:43.48
The Book of Mormon teaches
the immortality of the soul
00:52:43.51\00:52:46.52
and Joseph Smith
says in the introduction
00:52:46.55\00:52:49.79
to the Book of Mormon,
00:52:49.82\00:52:51.09
it is the most
correct of any book on earth.
00:52:51.12\00:52:56.80
Do they believe the Bible?
00:52:56.83\00:52:57.86
They will say, yes, as
it is rightly translated
00:52:57.89\00:53:02.41
but the Book of
Mormon is above everything?
00:53:02.44\00:53:07.09
We as Christians
believe in Sola Scriptura. Amen.
00:53:07.12\00:53:13.85
And what you
can't get for doctrine
00:53:13.88\00:53:15.86
out of the Holy scriptures
00:53:15.89\00:53:18.00
you better leave
aside, I tell you.
00:53:18.03\00:53:23.21
Then there was the book,
the Pearl of Great Price.
00:53:23.24\00:53:30.58
It perplex to be from
the hands of Joseph Smith,
00:53:30.61\00:53:34.53
He receive this and you
got all the hieroglyphics
00:53:34.56\00:53:37.86
then he wrote down,
well this is Abraham doing,
00:53:37.89\00:53:40.91
this is Abraham
doing something else.
00:53:40.94\00:53:43.09
He was safe because nobody
understood the hieroglyphics.
00:53:43.12\00:53:48.86
The Pearl Of Great Price,
00:53:48.89\00:53:51.59
archeologists have examined
it who knows the hieroglyphics
00:53:51.62\00:53:54.79
and they say it
is a complete fraud
00:53:54.82\00:53:58.85
from beginning to end.
00:53:58.88\00:54:01.59
God does nothing in
partnership with the devil
00:54:01.62\00:54:05.39
and He does nothing
in partnership with lies.
00:54:05.42\00:54:11.74
The religion was
started on polygamy.
00:54:11.77\00:54:17.96
You only have to
study the history
00:54:17.99\00:54:22.19
and Joseph Smith
made the famous statement.
00:54:22.22\00:54:24.79
You better listen to
it, don't close your ears.
00:54:24.82\00:54:29.16
"What man is God once was
00:54:29.19\00:54:32.68
and what God is man may become."
00:54:32.71\00:54:38.76
Mormonism which is
based on spiritism,
00:54:38.79\00:54:42.67
not on the Bible,
is based on the idea
00:54:42.70\00:54:45.95
that what man is God once was
00:54:45.98\00:54:48.17
and what God is man may become.
00:54:48.20\00:54:50.47
Every man, not the women
00:54:50.50\00:54:52.55
but every man, the men
get to resurrect the wives.
00:54:52.58\00:54:56.79
But what God is, man may become?
00:55:00.92\00:55:04.80
And every man through
the teachings of Mormon
00:55:04.83\00:55:08.89
can become Yahweh
Elohim over his own universe.
00:55:08.92\00:55:16.86
I was debating some years ago,
00:55:16.89\00:55:18.91
I don't debate anymore
00:55:18.94\00:55:20.34
because I
became a little quieter
00:55:20.37\00:55:22.51
but I was debating with
some Morman elders in Australia
00:55:22.54\00:55:26.28
because some of their members
were coming to my meetings
00:55:26.31\00:55:29.65
and I was invited to
debate with the Mormon bishop
00:55:29.68\00:55:35.55
and I used the Bible.
00:55:35.58\00:55:37.38
And when a Mormon
cannot answer from scripture,
00:55:37.41\00:55:40.06
immediately he
gives his testimony,
00:55:40.09\00:55:41.83
"I believe in Joseph Smith."
00:55:41.86\00:55:43.22
He believes that is more
powerful than anything else,
00:55:43.25\00:55:46.53
the word of his testimony.
00:55:46.56\00:55:48.93
And after they gave
the testimony I said,
00:55:48.96\00:55:51.37
"I believe that the
Jesus is the Son of God
00:55:51.40\00:55:54.22
and I believe the Book of Mormon
00:55:54.25\00:55:55.89
came from the
hand of a evil spirit.
00:55:55.92\00:55:58.24
And I believe in the
Bible and the Bible alone."
00:55:58.27\00:56:01.25
And then I started to speak
about the State of the Dead.
00:56:01.28\00:56:07.55
And as I spoke the Mormon
Elder cried out to the flock,
00:56:07.58\00:56:10.93
put your hands on
your ears and all shout.
00:56:10.96\00:56:16.41
And they put their
hands on their ears
00:56:16.44\00:56:18.43
and they started to shout.
00:56:18.46\00:56:19.92
He cried out to them,
00:56:19.95\00:56:21.88
"Do not listen to the words
00:56:21.91\00:56:23.90
he is giving
you, close your ears."
00:56:23.93\00:56:28.11
And then he cried to
some of his fellow bishops,
00:56:28.14\00:56:30.53
"let us take him
and throw him outside
00:56:30.56\00:56:33.47
so we don't
have to hear the word
00:56:33.50\00:56:35.49
that he is preaching anymore."
00:56:35.52\00:56:36.90
And they took me physically
and threw me down the stairs.
00:56:36.93\00:56:43.36
Close your ears.
00:56:43.39\00:56:47.69
Now I have a
word to you my friend,
00:56:47.72\00:56:49.79
you better listen and
you better listen good.
00:56:49.82\00:56:55.08
Put your faith in Jesus
00:56:55.11\00:56:59.39
and put your
faith in the Word of God
00:56:59.42\00:57:04.84
and turn your backs
on the works of darkness,
00:57:04.87\00:57:11.08
the works of
spiritism for Jesus sake. Amen.
00:57:11.11\00:57:18.71
Amen and amen. Amen.
00:57:18.74\00:57:20.81
And I want to
thank you for joining me.
00:57:20.84\00:57:24.14
Send me your hot potatoes.
00:57:24.17\00:57:28.06