From Arcadia, California,
the Carter report presents
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"The Living
Word" around the world.
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This Newsweek
magazine inspired today's talk.
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Take a close look,
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it says "forget the
church, follow Jesus."
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Now should we forget the church?
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I'm going to talk
about that in the talk today.
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Forget the church,
it says follow Jesus.
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This is not a
religious magazine,
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this is a secular
unbelieving as they come.
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But I'm going to
quote from it today,
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but firstly it is my privilege
to introduce a beautiful
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and charming and
gracious and lovely young lady.
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I love her to death.
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She's got the voice and
the disposition of an angel.
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Her name is, Sharon Verde.
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Would you please
welcome Sharon today?
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God bless you.
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I was taken just a young child
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Bound and marked for slavery
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So forsaken stripped of all life
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Could this be my destiny?
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But Lord
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You send someone to find me
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And though I leave
that place behind me
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These scars
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Remind me of the
love You have for me
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Were it not for
you where would I be?
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For these scars
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They point me to
the cross of Calvary
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I bear them in your name
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And I won't be
ashamed of these scars
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What can man do,
but take the body?
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Death has lost its grip on me
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With your blood you
claimed and bought me
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You have set my spirit free
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And Lord
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With every pain
I'm yearning to know
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The suffering of Your journey
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These scars
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Remind me of the
love You have for me
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Were it not for
you where would I be?
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For these scars
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They point me to
the cross of Calvary
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I bear them in your name
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And I won't be ashamed
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Let these marks
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I tell them more than loss
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Point them to Your cross Lord
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I will boldly wear
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These marks that tell the world
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Jesus I am Yours
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These scars
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Remind me of the
love You have for me
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Were it not for
You where would I be?
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Oh, for these scars
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They point me to
the cross of Calvary
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I bear them in Your name
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And I won't be
ashamed of these scars
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Oh, these scars
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Oooooo.
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According today from Newsweek,
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a secular, secular magazine.
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Famous in North America,
famous around the world.
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Look at it, Newsweek.
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It says, forget the
church, follow Jesus.
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What you think about that?
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Well, we're
gonna talk about that,
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should we forget the church?
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What should we forget?
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Inside, well, there's a
picture of our Lord's hand.
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Amazing isn't it?
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The world can't get rid of Him.
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You know, they can
say He doesn't exist,
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but He just goes on existing.
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That's the problem.
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The bishop of Sydney
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I heard him getting
interviewed in Sydney.
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He's an
evangelical, great man of God.
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And Peter Jensen
said-- they said to him,
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don't you know Bishop Jensen,
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Archbishop that the atheists
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are having a big
convention in Sydney.
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Oh, he said, that's wonderful.
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I'm glad they are coming.
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They talk about
God all the time.
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He said, I noticed
Christians don't talk about Him
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but Richard Dawkins
can't talk for two minutes
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before he start
talking about God
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who doesn't exist, you know.
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Now look at this
though, The Forgotten Jesus.
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Now he's writing to
Christian America...
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The Forgotten Jesus.
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Christianity has been
destroyed by politics, priests
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and get rich
evangelists ignore them.
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Writes Andrew
Sullivan "and embrace Him."
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You're going to
notice as we go through today
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that this is sort of a theme
that runs through the talk.
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If you live by your feelings
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you're gonna be up
and down all the time.
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If you live according to
your feelings and your emotions,
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you'll be unstable in
all your relationships.
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Your marriage is
not going to last.
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You'll have bad relationships
with your children.
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And you'll always
be late to church.
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That is if you
feel you should even go.
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And so this magazine talks
about the problem in the church.
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Let me read to
you just a bit of it.
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"Organize
religion is in decline.
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Organized religion
itself is in trouble.
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The Catholic Church--
this is written by a Catholic.
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"The Catholic Church's hierarchy
lost much of its authority
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over the American flock
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with the unilateral
prohibition of the pill
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in 1968 by Pope Paul VI.
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But in the last decade,
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whatever shred
of moral authority
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that remained has evaporated.
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The hierarchy was exposed
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as enabling,
and then covering up
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an international
conspiracy of abuse and rape
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countless youths and children.
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I don't know what greater
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indictment of a
church's authority
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there can be except the refusal,
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even now, of the
entire leadership
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to face their
responsibility and resign."
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He says, the whole
system from the pope down
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the whole
hierarchy are to resign...
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amen, in repentance
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for the terrible
sin against children.
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"Instead, they obsess
about others sex lives,
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about who is
entitled to civil marriage,
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and about who pays for birth
control in health insurance.
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Inequality,
poverty, even the torture
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institutionalized
by the government
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after 9/11 these issues attract
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far less of
their public attention.
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For their part, the
mainline Protestant churches,
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which long promoted
religious moderation,
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have rapidly
declined in the past 50 years.
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Evangelical Protestantism
has stepped into the vacuum,
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but it has serious
defects of its own."
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And he talks about Bad Religion.
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How We Became a
Nation of Heretics,
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The Forgotten Jesus.
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Listen to this. I'm
ashamed to say this.
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I want to say this to
all the evangelicals like me.
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I'm an evangelical Christian.
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Evangelical means you
believe in the gospel.
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Now it's the most abuse term,
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but the word
evangelical in itself is good,
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but not what it represents.
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Listen to this.
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"And what group of
Americans have pollsters found
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to be most supportive of
torturing terror suspects?
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Evangelical Christians."
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The Christian shout
amen, torture him some more.
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Something has gone very wrong.
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The crisis of our time,
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you think this
man was preaching.
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I wish he could preach
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in a thousand of
our Christian churches
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that have forgotten Jesus.
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"All of which
is to say something
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so obvious is almost taboo.
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Christianity is in crisis.
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It seems no accident to
me that so many Christians
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now embrace materialistic
self-help than self-denial,
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or that most Catholics,
even regular churchgoers
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have tuned out the hierarchy
in embarrassment or disgust.
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Given this
crisis, it is no surprise
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that the fastest-growing
segment of belief
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among the young
people is atheism,
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which has leapt in popularity
in the new millennium.
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Nor is it a shock that
so many have turned away
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from organized Christianity
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and toward 'spirituality,
meditation, yoga.'
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"The thirst for God
he says is still there.
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How could it not be,
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why does the universe
exist rather than nothing?"
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That's why I
interviewed Hugh Ross.
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These are the great questions,
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that most Christians
are afraid to think about.
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"How did humanity
come to be on this
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remote blue speck of a planet?
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What happens to us after death?
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Remain as
pressing and mysterious
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as they've always been?"
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Now then he quotes religion.
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A famous evangelical author
and television evangelist.
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"God wants to
increase you financially,
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by giving you promotions,
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fresh ideas,
creativity, think big.
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Think increase. Think abundance.
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Think more than enough."
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When a Bible is
never opened on the pulpit
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and people will sit and
gaze and say, boy, that's great.
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You know why?
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They are living
by their feelings
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and not by faith in God,
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in Christ, or is
in the word of God.
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He talks about
the forgotten Jesus.
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It is now a fact that most
Christians do not know Him.
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I want you to come to
a theme text John 14:5-6.
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Please turn in
your Bible to the text.
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This is not a
feely, touchy, good church.
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We want to be in
touch with God. John 14:5-6.
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"Thomas said to
Him, 'Lord, we don't know
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where You are going, so
how can we know the way?'
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Jesus answered,
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'I am the way and
the truth and the life.
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No one comes to the
Father except through Me."
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But most
Christians do not know Him.
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I want to remind every person
watching the telecast today,
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it is time of
political excitement
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Jesus was not
involved in politics.
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Well, He lived in the
days of the Roman Empire,
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some people would have said,
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well, Jesus run for the senate.
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Jesus of course was a Jew
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and the ruling
body over the Jews
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was a group of
religious politicians
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called that's Sanhedrin.
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I want to remind
every person here today
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Jesus never
held political office
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and what is more, He
never held any church office.
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You say better goes against
him, oh, well, I'm sorry.
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If it goes
against what is wrong.
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Jesus was the un-politician.
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Come to John 18:36. John 18:36.
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Jesus said to Pilate,
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"My kingdom is
not of this world.
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If it were, My
servants would fight
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to prevent my
arrest by the Jews.
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But now My kingdom
is from another place."
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Christ followed a higher path.
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Jesus unlike the
television evangelist
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have brought this
grace to the name of Christ
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did not seek worldly
power influence or riches.
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Jesus was a poor man.
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Come over here to
Philippians 2:5-8.
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Philippians 2:5-8.
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It says, "Your
attitude should be the same
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as that of Christ Jesus,
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Who, being in very nature God,
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did not consider
equality with God
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something to be grasped,
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but made himself nothing,
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taking the very
nature of a servant,
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being made in human
nature or the likeness of a man.
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And being found in
appearance as a man,
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he humbled himself and
became obedient to death--
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even death on a cross."
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I said again, Jesus
did not seek worldly power,
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influence, or riches.
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I say it to every person
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watching who is deluded
by the prosperity gospel.
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The prosperity gospel
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is the very antithesis
of the teachings of Christ.
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It appeals to man's carnal heart
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and is far removed
from our blessed Lord.
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Could you imagine Jesus saying,
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instead of saying,
blessed are the meek,
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blessed are the pure in heart,
blessed are those that mourn.
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Jesus would say God
wants to increase you
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financially by
giving you promotions,
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fresh ideas,
creativity, think big.
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Think increase. Think abundance.
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Think more than enough.
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The unknown Jesus.
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You know why most
Christians in this country
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of the United
States do not know him?
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Would you like to know why?
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Because they
don't open their Bibles.
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They go to
churches where the preacher
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doesn't quote the Bible
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or he may say a text
to make people feel good.
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As Larry King sits in time back,
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talking to a
prosperity gospel preacher
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who had great success
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and a great
congregation in size.
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He said, why don't
you quote the Bible?
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All he said, I'm not.
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It is because people live
according to their feelings
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and that is why we
have so much instability
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that is why even in this church
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people come to
church at 12 o' clock
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because when they
woke up they were feeling,
00:20:48.54\00:20:51.75
that they didn't feel
like going to church today.
00:20:51.78\00:20:57.15
Has anybody here ever
heard of the word, duty?
00:20:57.18\00:21:01.81
Oh, somebody said to
me that's an awful word.
00:21:01.84\00:21:05.40
It's not an awful
word for soldiers.
00:21:05.43\00:21:08.62
Honor, duty, guard, country.
00:21:08.65\00:21:14.22
I've been--I don't
say this self-righteously,
00:21:14.25\00:21:16.65
because I've got no reason
to be righteous about anything.
00:21:16.68\00:21:20.41
But I got up early
every Sabbath morning
00:21:20.44\00:21:22.77
and driven for
the last 25 years,
00:21:22.80\00:21:25.89
60 miles to this church
00:21:25.92\00:21:28.06
and I've done it year
after year, day after day,
00:21:28.09\00:21:32.16
not because I am
motivated by feeling,
00:21:32.19\00:21:36.39
because sometimes I
feel like giving it all away.
00:21:36.42\00:21:41.70
But I look to Christ
00:21:41.73\00:21:45.37
not feeling but faith.
00:21:45.40\00:21:51.52
That's the reason some of
you are in so many problems.
00:21:51.55\00:21:54.57
I know when you
come into church,
00:21:54.60\00:21:56.33
you can't help yourself.
00:21:56.36\00:21:57.79
You got to be
playing with your cell phone
00:21:57.82\00:22:01.38
or else you got to be
playing with your iPad.
00:22:01.41\00:22:04.97
If you even invite
people over to your house,
00:22:05.00\00:22:07.75
you can't even
have a conversation.
00:22:07.78\00:22:11.14
You got to be
texting. What's wrong with you?
00:22:11.17\00:22:14.82
It is--don't
laugh, it is a sickness.
00:22:14.85\00:22:18.29
It is a psychological disease.
00:22:18.32\00:22:22.09
Did you know, they've
discovered that people
00:22:22.12\00:22:23.71
who are all the time
00:22:23.74\00:22:28.34
are suffering a
decrease in their IQ?
00:22:28.37\00:22:33.87
They are dumbing down.
00:22:33.90\00:22:36.33
The greatest
antidote to the dumbing down
00:22:40.00\00:22:42.30
on this
foolishness is a systemic study
00:22:42.33\00:22:45.58
of the word of God and
getting out of bed early
00:22:45.61\00:22:48.96
and going to church and
doing your religious duty,
00:22:48.99\00:22:53.43
add a motivation for
Christ, because you love Him.
00:22:53.46\00:22:57.62
You do your duty,
because you love Him.
00:22:57.65\00:23:00.19
People say, why
haven't you retired
00:23:00.22\00:23:02.62
enjoying the rest
to sit on the beach?
00:23:02.65\00:23:04.85
Because I have a duty
to Christ, that is why.
00:23:04.88\00:23:10.18
By the grace of God
00:23:10.21\00:23:11.81
I will not be a namby-pamby wimp
00:23:11.84\00:23:17.90
that is guided by how I feel.
00:23:17.93\00:23:23.37
I say this to you, come over
here to Matthew 19, Matthew 19.
00:23:26.45\00:23:34.41
Now I got a lot of text
00:23:34.44\00:23:36.62
so you better go
pretty fast, 23, 24.
00:23:36.65\00:23:39.69
Matthew 19:23-24.
00:23:45.85\00:23:51.21
"Then Jesus said
to his disciples,
00:23:51.24\00:23:53.12
'I tell you the truth,
00:23:53.15\00:23:54.52
it is hard for a rich man
00:23:54.55\00:23:56.10
to enter the
kingdom of heaven.'"
00:23:56.13\00:23:58.12
Have you ever
heard of prosperity
00:23:58.15\00:23:59.55
gospel preacher talk about this?
00:23:59.58\00:24:03.25
"Again I tell you,
it is easier for a camel
00:24:03.28\00:24:05.92
to go through
the eye of a needle
00:24:05.95\00:24:07.32
than for a rich man to
enter the kingdom of God."
00:24:07.35\00:24:09.71
So much for this
nonsense of prosperity gospel.
00:24:09.74\00:24:13.07
Would you come to Luke
12, Luke 12:15 and onwards.
00:24:13.10\00:24:19.78
"Then he said, 'Watch out.
00:24:19.81\00:24:21.19
Be on your guard
against all kinds of greed,
00:24:21.22\00:24:25.52
a man's life does not consist
00:24:25.55\00:24:27.47
in the abundance
of his possessions.'
00:24:27.50\00:24:30.40
And he told them this parable,
00:24:30.43\00:24:31.80
'The ground of a certain
rich man produced a good crop.'"
00:24:31.83\00:24:34.97
We're talking now about
Wall Street and the bankers.
00:24:35.00\00:24:38.54
"He thought to
himself, 'What shall I do?
00:24:38.57\00:24:40.37
I have no place
to store my crops.
00:24:40.40\00:24:42.32
Then he said,
this is what I'll do.
00:24:42.35\00:24:44.02
I will tear down my
barns and build bigger ones,
00:24:44.05\00:24:46.88
and there I will store
all my grain and my goods."
00:24:46.91\00:24:50.53
And I'll get more stuff
going on the stock exchange.
00:24:50.56\00:24:54.66
"And I'll say to myself,
00:24:54.69\00:24:56.06
you have plenty of good
things laid up for many years.
00:24:56.09\00:24:58.31
Take life easy,
eat, drink and be merry.'
00:24:58.34\00:25:01.98
'But God said to him, you fool.
00:25:02.01\00:25:05.86
This very night your life
will be demanded from you.
00:25:05.89\00:25:10.21
Then who will get what you
have prepared for yourself?
00:25:10.24\00:25:13.95
This is how it
will be with anyone
00:25:13.98\00:25:16.89
who stores up things for himself
00:25:16.92\00:25:19.15
but is not rich toward God.'"
00:25:19.18\00:25:22.95
One magazine article said
00:25:22.98\00:25:24.35
recently that most Christians
people have called themselves
00:25:24.38\00:25:28.28
Christians are
monumentally ignorant.
00:25:28.31\00:25:33.77
I've been telling you for years
00:25:33.80\00:25:36.25
and I've been
pouring out my heart.
00:25:36.28\00:25:38.20
I've been saying
don't go by your feelings,
00:25:38.23\00:25:41.06
but go by the word of God.
00:25:41.09\00:25:42.65
And I know that
some of you have obeyed
00:25:42.68\00:25:45.97
and you have
believed and you done it
00:25:46.00\00:25:48.50
and you been blessed
00:25:48.53\00:25:49.90
and I know that
some of you have said,
00:25:49.93\00:25:51.79
he's not gonna
tell me what to do.
00:25:51.82\00:25:54.39
Nobody tells me what to do.
00:25:54.42\00:25:56.81
I do what I want to
do and I will always do
00:25:56.84\00:26:00.16
what I want to do, my friend.
00:26:00.19\00:26:03.30
Play not the fool.
00:26:03.33\00:26:06.46
Play not the fool.
00:26:06.49\00:26:09.87
Listen, we need to
be weary of churches
00:26:09.90\00:26:15.78
where preachers call
themselves life coaches.
00:26:15.81\00:26:20.28
What do you do?
I'm a life coach.
00:26:20.31\00:26:23.74
Who do not preach from the Bible
00:26:23.77\00:26:26.59
where the congregation
is composed of lost souls
00:26:26.62\00:26:31.97
who come to hear pleasing things
00:26:32.00\00:26:34.45
and who do not know
the forgotten Jesus.
00:26:34.48\00:26:37.79
You tell me
this is Christianity.
00:26:37.82\00:26:41.03
This is not the
Christianity of the Bible.
00:26:41.06\00:26:45.69
And there no place my friend,
00:26:45.72\00:26:49.33
where people are more controlled
00:26:49.36\00:26:52.61
by their feelings
than in tinsel town.
00:26:52.64\00:26:58.50
Los Angeles,
00:26:58.53\00:27:02.15
that has polluted
the wells of the world
00:27:02.18\00:27:07.55
with their
liberalism in everything else.
00:27:07.58\00:27:12.39
And you and I are now
a part of this culture.
00:27:12.42\00:27:17.12
You and I will need to
fight a little bit harder
00:27:17.15\00:27:20.08
to escape the mud around us.
00:27:20.11\00:27:26.01
Come to 2 Timothy
4:1-5, 2 Timothy 4:1-5.
00:27:26.04\00:27:33.81
I'm just getting
ready to go folks.
00:27:33.84\00:27:36.38
2 Timothy 4:1-5 I'm
just warming up you see.
00:27:36.41\00:27:42.10
2 Timothy 4:1-5. If I
catch anybody not with the Bible
00:27:42.13\00:27:46.71
I'll come down and grab you.
00:27:46.74\00:27:50.00
Yeah, I'll do that.
00:27:50.03\00:27:51.42
I did it once in church
over in the other church.
00:27:51.45\00:27:56.33
The lady never ever took
her eyes off the Bible again.
00:27:56.36\00:28:01.12
I think she's still
sitting reading a Bible.
00:28:01.15\00:28:03.24
2 Timothy 4:1-5,
00:28:03.27\00:28:04.90
"In the presence of
God and of Christ Jesus,
00:28:04.93\00:28:07.67
who will judge the
living and the dead,
00:28:07.70\00:28:09.46
and in view of his
appearing and his kingdom,
00:28:09.49\00:28:11.73
I give you this
charge, Preach the Word."
00:28:11.76\00:28:15.19
You see, preach the word.
00:28:15.22\00:28:19.93
"Preach the word,
be prepared in season,
00:28:19.96\00:28:21.82
out of season,
correct, rebuke and encourage--
00:28:21.85\00:28:24.86
with great patience
and careful instruction.
00:28:24.89\00:28:26.90
For the time will come
00:28:26.93\00:28:28.30
when men will not put
up with sound doctrine.
00:28:28.33\00:28:30.37
Instead, to suit
their own desires,
00:28:30.40\00:28:33.44
they will gather around them
00:28:33.47\00:28:34.98
a great number
of teachers to say
00:28:35.01\00:28:37.80
what their
itching ears want to hear.
00:28:37.83\00:28:40.71
They will turn their
ears away from the truth
00:28:40.74\00:28:44.51
and turn aside to myths.
00:28:44.54\00:28:47.63
But you, keep your head
00:28:47.66\00:28:49.03
in all
situations, endure hardship,
00:28:49.06\00:28:51.77
do the work of an evangelist,
00:28:51.80\00:28:54.01
discharge all the
duties of your ministry."
00:28:54.04\00:29:00.96
So I want to give you
a little counsel today.
00:29:00.99\00:29:03.73
My beloved friends,
watching in Australia,
00:29:03.76\00:29:08.90
I want to give
you a little counsel
00:29:08.93\00:29:11.36
that is based on the word of God
00:29:11.39\00:29:13.45
and my friends,
in this great church.
00:29:13.48\00:29:16.44
Number one, here it
is, sync for yourself.
00:29:16.47\00:29:21.80
Number two, be
suspicious of authority figures
00:29:21.83\00:29:28.71
in the world and in the church.
00:29:28.74\00:29:32.25
Because the president
says, that doesn't make it so.
00:29:32.28\00:29:38.45
Be suspicious of
authority figures
00:29:38.48\00:29:43.05
be a student of God's word.
00:29:43.08\00:29:47.16
Now few years ago I ran a big
campaign in Harare, Zimbabwe.
00:29:47.19\00:29:52.03
Doesn't it sound good?
00:29:52.06\00:29:53.43
Harare, Zimbabwe,
Salisbury, Rhodesia.
00:29:53.46\00:29:59.45
And I preach the word
00:29:59.48\00:30:01.68
and I put up all the great
prophecies on the blackboard
00:30:01.71\00:30:05.57
because that is what I do
00:30:05.60\00:30:08.48
and that is what I
was ordained to do.
00:30:08.51\00:30:13.89
And a girl on television
had read in all the newspapers,
00:30:13.92\00:30:17.62
it was a national sensation
00:30:17.65\00:30:23.49
and it appeared as though at
one stage some people told me,
00:30:23.52\00:30:27.82
hey, the government may
close down your meetings
00:30:27.85\00:30:33.12
in the Harare
International Conference Center
00:30:33.15\00:30:36.22
because of our
success that God gave to us.
00:30:36.25\00:30:41.99
The devil never
wants to close down
00:30:42.02\00:30:44.39
something that's doing nothing.
00:30:44.42\00:30:48.29
And they sent
along a cabinet member
00:30:48.32\00:30:51.32
and he gave a great talk.
00:30:51.35\00:30:53.21
And the people said,
00:30:53.24\00:30:54.73
well, he's gonna toss
you out of the country.
00:30:54.76\00:30:58.23
Oh, ye of little faith.
00:30:58.26\00:31:00.23
The brethren were terrified.
00:31:03.08\00:31:06.02
What's gonna happen to it?
00:31:06.05\00:31:07.42
He came along and I stood here
00:31:07.45\00:31:10.11
and the cabinet member
he gave a great speech.
00:31:10.14\00:31:15.91
And then he talked about
00:31:15.94\00:31:17.60
how the missionaries came to
Africa, Livingston and others.
00:31:17.63\00:31:23.46
And then he turned to me,
00:31:23.49\00:31:26.86
a minister, a cabinet
member in the government
00:31:26.89\00:31:30.37
and he turned to me and
he made the sign of the cross
00:31:30.40\00:31:33.97
and he said, In the name of
the Father, Son and Holy Spirit
00:31:34.00\00:31:38.83
I charge you, John
Carter, preach the word,
00:31:38.86\00:31:44.68
preach the
word, preach the word.
00:31:44.71\00:31:50.25
Now this great congregation
00:31:50.28\00:31:51.97
and the brethren
were so relieved.
00:31:52.00\00:31:55.45
And everybody
got up and cheered,
00:31:55.48\00:31:59.31
but whether they cheer or not,
00:31:59.34\00:32:01.65
we are called
to preach the word.
00:32:01.68\00:32:05.13
Jesus taught the
importance of the individual
00:32:08.36\00:32:11.59
that every soul is important.
00:32:11.62\00:32:14.84
Jesus was a gospel preacher.
00:32:14.87\00:32:17.58
Look at Luke 15:1,2.
00:32:17.61\00:32:22.02
"Now the tax
collectors and 'sinners'"
00:32:22.05\00:32:26.12
they were the
harlots and the prostitutes
00:32:26.15\00:32:28.06
and all other
bad people in society
00:32:28.09\00:32:31.13
"Were all
gathering around to hear him.
00:32:31.16\00:32:33.49
But the Pharisees and the
teachers of the law muttered,
00:32:33.52\00:32:38.14
'This man welcomes
sinners and eats with them.'"
00:32:38.17\00:32:41.28
And Jesus said,
you're right. I'm guilty.
00:32:41.31\00:32:47.39
He cared for the
outcast of society
00:32:47.42\00:32:51.57
especially
women, Mary Magdalene.
00:32:51.60\00:32:56.24
The Bible says,
she had seven demons.
00:32:56.27\00:33:00.16
The woman caught in
adultery with the Pharisee.
00:33:00.19\00:33:06.84
He said to her,
neither do I condemn you,
00:33:06.87\00:33:08.90
go, and sin no more.
00:33:08.93\00:33:11.36
I'm going to say something
00:33:11.39\00:33:12.76
and I don't want
you to misunderstand it.
00:33:12.79\00:33:16.23
The Christian church
needs to stand against sin.
00:33:16.26\00:33:20.60
We need to stand
against those things
00:33:20.63\00:33:22.93
that undermine the
Bible and our Christian faith,
00:33:22.96\00:33:27.09
that undermine the church
and that destroy the nation.
00:33:27.12\00:33:31.13
The church needs
to speak against him,
00:33:31.16\00:33:35.20
but we ought to love the sinner.
00:33:35.23\00:33:39.94
I read in an
article some time ago
00:33:39.97\00:33:41.95
about a gay parade in
one of our great cities.
00:33:41.98\00:33:45.00
And as the homosexuals
in this great gay parade
00:33:48.28\00:33:52.66
were marching down the
streets of an American city
00:33:52.69\00:33:56.67
some of them held
up banners that said,
00:33:56.70\00:33:59.76
Jesus loves me this I
know. For the Bible tells me so.
00:33:59.79\00:34:05.88
Well, some of you
are shaking your heads.
00:34:05.91\00:34:07.80
I've got news for
you. He does love them.
00:34:07.83\00:34:11.12
You better believe
it. You say, oh, no Jesus.
00:34:11.15\00:34:14.58
Yes, He does.
Jesus died for them.
00:34:14.61\00:34:18.78
If Jesus was here today they
would come and hear Him preach.
00:34:18.81\00:34:24.16
They wouldn't go and
listen to these charlatans.
00:34:24.19\00:34:30.36
But as this parade
went down the street,
00:34:30.39\00:34:32.42
a group of "Christians"
00:34:32.45\00:34:37.03
on the other side of this street
00:34:37.06\00:34:38.62
held up signs that
said "burn faggot burn."
00:34:38.65\00:34:45.22
You are going to
burn for eternity in hell.
00:34:45.25\00:34:48.46
Jesus hated sin,
but He loved the sinner.
00:34:53.36\00:34:58.02
And the sinners loved him.
00:34:58.05\00:35:01.27
I want any person who
is watching the telecast,
00:35:01.30\00:35:04.72
if you are a gay
person I want you to know
00:35:04.75\00:35:09.51
while we do not agree
with the gay lifestyle,
00:35:09.54\00:35:13.66
we love you and you're
welcome in this church.
00:35:13.69\00:35:18.35
You're welcome in this church.
00:35:18.38\00:35:20.91
His greatest
teaching was the love of God.
00:35:20.94\00:35:23.95
John 3:16, "For
God so loved the world
00:35:23.98\00:35:28.18
that he gave His only Son,
00:35:28.21\00:35:30.24
so that whoever believes in Him
00:35:33.93\00:35:37.00
shall not perish but
have everlasting life."
00:35:37.03\00:35:42.91
He told us to love our enemies.
00:35:42.94\00:35:44.84
That's a bit hard, isn't it?
00:35:44.87\00:35:46.42
Would you come over here
to Matthew 5:43 and onwards?
00:35:46.45\00:35:51.07
Matthew 5,
00:35:51.10\00:35:54.40
the favorite
topic of His discourses
00:35:54.43\00:35:56.45
was the paternal love
of God, that God loved us.
00:35:56.48\00:36:00.98
John 5:43 and onwards.
00:36:01.01\00:36:04.44
"You have heard
that it was said,
00:36:04.47\00:36:05.98
'Love your neighbor
and hate your enemy.'
00:36:06.01\00:36:10.90
But I tell you,
love your enemies
00:36:10.93\00:36:12.95
and pray for those
who persecute you."
00:36:12.98\00:36:15.56
Now here's the punch line
00:36:15.59\00:36:17.60
"That you may be the sons
of your Father in heaven."
00:36:17.63\00:36:23.22
If you don't do that He
says you're son of the devil.
00:36:23.25\00:36:28.38
"That you may be the
sons of your Father in heaven.
00:36:28.41\00:36:31.95
He causes his sun to
rise on the evil and the good,
00:36:31.98\00:36:36.17
and sends rain on the
righteous and the unrighteous."
00:36:36.20\00:36:42.02
I want to ask
everybody watching the telecast,
00:36:42.05\00:36:45.70
I'm said that this
is even controversial.
00:36:45.73\00:36:50.20
Jesus said, if you
don't love your enemies,
00:36:50.23\00:36:54.02
you're not one of His disciples.
00:36:54.05\00:36:56.58
That's what He said.
00:36:56.61\00:36:58.45
I want to ask
everybody watching the telecast,
00:36:58.48\00:37:01.49
can you imagine Jesus
waterboarding somebody.
00:37:01.52\00:37:06.03
Because it
appears to this country
00:37:10.11\00:37:11.85
the majority of
Christians believe it.
00:37:11.88\00:37:14.73
He said, love your enemies.
00:37:17.37\00:37:22.81
That is why this
man in Newsweek says,
00:37:22.84\00:37:26.08
he is the forgotten Jesus.
00:37:26.11\00:37:30.21
Did you know that waterboarding
00:37:30.24\00:37:32.92
comes from the
Spanish inquisition?
00:37:32.95\00:37:37.80
How tragic that so
many Christians in the USA
00:37:37.83\00:37:41.93
perhaps the majority
believe in torture and offended.
00:37:41.96\00:37:46.95
One of the blackest chapters
00:37:52.59\00:37:54.67
in the history of
this great nation,
00:37:54.70\00:37:58.36
one was slavery
00:37:58.39\00:38:01.49
and one was torture.
00:38:01.52\00:38:05.48
And if you want to see
00:38:05.51\00:38:07.76
America survive and thrive
00:38:07.79\00:38:13.60
do not condemn those
practices that will destroy her.
00:38:13.63\00:38:18.43
How can you be a Christian
00:38:24.35\00:38:27.64
and condemn those things?
00:38:27.67\00:38:29.97
How tragic there are so
many Christians are the ones
00:38:30.00\00:38:33.09
who seem to want wars
and who loved violence.
00:38:33.12\00:38:38.67
Am I getting close to you?
00:38:38.70\00:38:41.10
The forgotten
Jesus, do you know Him?
00:38:41.13\00:38:44.84
Do you even know about Him?
00:38:44.87\00:38:46.77
Would you come over
here to 2 Timothy 3:1-5.
00:38:46.80\00:38:52.91
2 Timothy 3:1-5, "But mark this,
00:38:52.94\00:38:56.24
there will be terrible
times in the last days.
00:38:56.27\00:38:59.55
People will be lovers of
themselves, lovers of money,
00:38:59.58\00:39:03.22
boastful, proud, abusive,
disobedient to their parents,
00:39:03.25\00:39:06.94
ungrateful, unholy,
without love, unforgiving,
00:39:06.97\00:39:12.53
slanderous, without
self-control, brutal,
00:39:12.56\00:39:15.90
not lovers of the
good, treacherous,
00:39:15.93\00:39:18.46
rash, conceited,
00:39:18.49\00:39:20.15
lovers of pleasure
rather than lovers of God--
00:39:20.18\00:39:25.81
having a form of
godliness but denying its power.
00:39:25.84\00:39:32.37
Have nothing to do with them."
00:39:32.40\00:39:35.31
I humbly ask every person
00:39:35.34\00:39:37.65
watching the
telecast this question
00:39:37.68\00:39:40.05
and you sitting in the church
00:39:40.08\00:39:41.45
particularly those of
you dosing in the back.
00:39:41.48\00:39:45.94
Is it not time to return
00:39:45.97\00:39:47.50
to the Jesus of the
Bible and to follow Him?
00:39:47.53\00:39:50.75
Is it not time
for you and for me
00:39:50.78\00:39:53.38
to break with the pack,
00:39:53.41\00:39:56.10
the pack and
become true disciples.
00:39:56.13\00:40:01.75
Jesus taught nonviolence,
00:40:01.78\00:40:06.52
loving our enemies,
00:40:06.55\00:40:09.87
and seeking first
the Kingdom of God.
00:40:09.90\00:40:13.40
He also taught
forgiveness to the wayward
00:40:13.43\00:40:16.37
the erring
profligate who turn homeward.
00:40:16.40\00:40:20.38
Would you come
over here to Luke 15?
00:40:20.41\00:40:23.41
This is a chapter that should
give every struggling sinner
00:40:23.44\00:40:27.57
who is watching this
telecast a bit of hope
00:40:27.60\00:40:31.05
and that's what
I want to give you.
00:40:31.08\00:40:33.29
Luke 15:11, you know it well.
00:40:33.32\00:40:36.82
"Jesus continued, 'There
was a man who had two sons.
00:40:36.85\00:40:40.69
The younger one said to
his father, Father, give me'
00:40:40.72\00:40:44.55
it's a cry of this generation.
00:40:44.58\00:40:46.60
"Give me my share of the estate.
00:40:46.63\00:40:49.98
So he divided his
property between them.
00:40:50.01\00:40:52.72
Not long after that, the younger
son got together all he had,
00:40:52.75\00:40:56.21
set off for a distant country
00:40:56.24\00:40:58.27
and there squandered
his wealth in wild living.
00:40:58.30\00:41:02.52
After he had spent everything,
00:41:02.55\00:41:04.00
there was a severe
famine in that whole country,
00:41:04.03\00:41:06.24
and he began to be in need.
00:41:06.27\00:41:08.45
So he went and hired himself out
to a citizen of that country,
00:41:08.48\00:41:11.35
who sent him to his
fields to feed pigs.
00:41:11.38\00:41:16.25
He longed to fill
his stomach with the pods
00:41:16.28\00:41:18.41
that the pigs were eating,
but no one gave him anything.
00:41:18.44\00:41:23.77
When he came to his senses,
00:41:23.80\00:41:25.17
he said, how many of my father's
hired men have food to spare,
00:41:25.20\00:41:29.81
and here I am starving to death!
00:41:29.84\00:41:33.85
I will set out and go back
to my father and say to him,
00:41:33.88\00:41:36.35
Father, I have sinned
against heaven and against you.
00:41:36.38\00:41:41.36
I am no longer worthy
to be called your son,
00:41:41.39\00:41:44.30
make me like one
of your hired men.
00:41:44.33\00:41:46.36
So he got up and
went to his father.
00:41:46.39\00:41:50.39
But while he was
still a long way off,
00:41:50.42\00:41:53.06
his father saw him and was
filled with compassion for him,
00:41:53.09\00:41:57.46
he ran to his son,
00:41:57.49\00:41:59.86
threw his arms
around him and kissed him.
00:41:59.89\00:42:05.02
The son said to him,
00:42:05.05\00:42:06.42
Father, I have sinned
against heaven and against you.
00:42:06.45\00:42:08.99
I am no longer worthy
to be called your son.
00:42:09.02\00:42:11.74
But the father said
to his servants, Quick!
00:42:11.77\00:42:13.87
Bring the best
robe and put it on him.
00:42:13.90\00:42:15.72
Put a ring on his
finger and sandals on his feet.
00:42:15.75\00:42:19.31
Bring the
fattened calf and kill it.
00:42:19.34\00:42:21.37
Let's have a
feast and celebrate.
00:42:21.40\00:42:26.18
For this son of mine
was dead and is alive again,
00:42:26.21\00:42:32.18
he was lost and is found."
00:42:32.21\00:42:37.16
The forgotten Jesus,
00:42:40.81\00:42:44.27
taught
forgiveness to the wayward.
00:42:44.30\00:42:49.77
Jesus had a lot
of successful people
00:42:49.80\00:42:54.75
but not much success
00:42:54.78\00:42:57.27
with
self-righteous religious people.
00:42:57.30\00:43:01.73
But He had a lot of success
00:43:01.76\00:43:04.28
with prodigals like you and me.
00:43:04.31\00:43:08.80
So there's hope
for the despairing.
00:43:08.83\00:43:12.07
There are two sayings
00:43:12.10\00:43:13.47
that I wish I could
write up on the blackboard
00:43:13.50\00:43:15.55
but I don't have room.
00:43:15.58\00:43:17.38
I've told you this before
some of you have taken it in,
00:43:17.41\00:43:21.30
others of you have dismissed it.
00:43:21.33\00:43:24.58
Number one, Man is far worse
than he ever feared to think.
00:43:24.61\00:43:30.58
Man in himself is fallen.
00:43:30.61\00:43:34.73
Man is a sinner.
00:43:34.76\00:43:37.08
Man has a depraved nature,
00:43:37.11\00:43:39.50
that is why even Christians
don't even go to church,
00:43:39.53\00:43:45.36
to keep His commandments.
00:43:45.39\00:43:46.96
That is why they come to church
00:43:46.99\00:43:49.02
and they can't stop
playing with their cell phones
00:43:49.05\00:43:54.68
or taking phone calls or
wanting to get out quickly.
00:43:54.71\00:43:58.18
Oh, my stomach,
I've got to fill it.
00:43:58.21\00:44:01.02
That is because
of their depravity.
00:44:01.05\00:44:05.80
And depravity
causes spiritual blindness
00:44:05.83\00:44:09.29
that is why they
don't read their Bibles.
00:44:09.32\00:44:11.47
That is why they say
nobody tells me what to do.
00:44:11.50\00:44:16.38
Because this
thing that is called sin
00:44:16.41\00:44:19.99
has made us
blind to our own falls,
00:44:20.02\00:44:24.79
but not blind to
the falls of earth.
00:44:24.82\00:44:27.92
That's why we're critical.
00:44:27.95\00:44:31.23
But that is why we
move by our feelings
00:44:31.26\00:44:37.05
and you hear people
say it all the time,
00:44:37.08\00:44:38.83
well, I feel its right.
00:44:38.86\00:44:40.38
Some people say, I make
my decisions from the gut.
00:44:40.41\00:44:44.68
Goodness.
00:44:44.71\00:44:46.17
I feel that it's right.
00:44:46.20\00:44:48.01
I have a gut feeling.
00:44:48.04\00:44:52.56
That is a sign
of out of depravity.
00:44:52.59\00:44:55.79
That is why the
Bible says, Jesus said,
00:44:55.82\00:44:58.46
"Man shall not live by
bread alone, but by every word."
00:44:58.49\00:45:02.22
And thus if we live
according to our feelings
00:45:02.25\00:45:05.15
we are unstable and
some of us here are...
00:45:05.18\00:45:08.80
unstable.
00:45:11.58\00:45:13.13
In all of our relationships
unstable without families,
00:45:13.16\00:45:17.28
unstable without
church, unstable in society,
00:45:17.31\00:45:22.69
unstable at our work,
00:45:22.72\00:45:27.06
because of feelings.
00:45:27.09\00:45:30.23
And so the first truth is this,
00:45:30.26\00:45:32.29
man is far worse than
he ever feared to think.
00:45:32.32\00:45:36.74
The second truth is,
00:45:36.77\00:45:38.99
God is far better
than he ever dared to hope.
00:45:39.02\00:45:44.04
In spite of our
sin and our depravity
00:45:44.07\00:45:48.15
God loves us just the same.
00:45:48.18\00:45:53.20
Yes, He loves the
homosexual in the gay parade
00:45:53.23\00:45:57.37
and wishes to touch Him.
00:45:57.40\00:46:03.05
He loves the self-righteous
Pharisee in the church
00:46:03.08\00:46:07.75
and longs to touch him.
00:46:07.78\00:46:12.43
Now religion. This man
says, forget the church.
00:46:12.46\00:46:16.59
Well, there's two
types of religion.
00:46:20.29\00:46:24.08
It's good and bad religion.
00:46:24.11\00:46:27.17
Most religion is bad. Oops.
00:46:27.20\00:46:32.12
Richard Dawkins the world's
most famous atheist has a point.
00:46:32.15\00:46:36.75
He says, religion has
started most of the wars.
00:46:36.78\00:46:40.60
Religion today is
responsible for covering up
00:46:40.63\00:46:43.87
the abuse of thousands,
tens of thousands of children.
00:46:43.90\00:46:48.77
Look at the scandals in the
Roman Catholic Church, he says.
00:46:48.80\00:46:55.22
So most religion
I believe is bad.
00:46:55.25\00:47:00.11
How does God
regard bad religion?
00:47:00.14\00:47:02.29
Come over here to
Revelation 17:1-6.
00:47:02.32\00:47:05.48
How does God
regard bad religion?
00:47:05.51\00:47:08.62
Well, He doesn't like it.
00:47:08.65\00:47:10.53
Revelation 17,
00:47:10.56\00:47:13.65
oh come to verse,
00:47:13.68\00:47:17.25
oh, verse 1.
00:47:17.28\00:47:18.65
"One of the seven angels who had
the seven bowls came and said
00:47:18.68\00:47:21.19
'Come, I will
show you the punishment
00:47:21.22\00:47:22.75
of the great prostitute,"
00:47:22.78\00:47:24.15
that stands for the
church, the prostitute church.
00:47:24.18\00:47:26.47
"With whom the kings of
the earth committed adultery."
00:47:26.50\00:47:31.18
The church is embed
with the state here.
00:47:31.21\00:47:34.01
"Then the angel carried me away
in the Spirit into a desert.
00:47:34.04\00:47:37.77
There I saw a woman."
00:47:37.80\00:47:39.48
And if you come to verse 4
00:47:39.51\00:47:41.40
"The woman was
dressed in purple and scarlet,
00:47:41.43\00:47:43.63
was glittering with gold,
precious stones and pearls."
00:47:43.66\00:47:46.29
She was a part of
the prosperity gospel.
00:47:46.32\00:47:48.51
"She held a
golden cup in her hand,
00:47:48.54\00:47:50.39
filled with abominable things
00:47:50.42\00:47:52.33
and the filth
of her adulteries."
00:47:52.36\00:47:53.87
That's the antichrist.
00:47:53.90\00:47:55.69
God doesn't like it.
00:47:55.72\00:47:57.30
Look at Revelation 18:11.
00:47:57.33\00:48:01.38
This talks about the
overthrow of the system
00:48:01.41\00:48:03.82
that is called Babylon.
00:48:03.85\00:48:05.23
The merchants of the "'Woe!
Woe, O great city, O Babylon.'"
00:48:05.26\00:48:11.03
Verse 11, "'The
merchants of the earth
00:48:11.06\00:48:12.74
will weep and mourn over her
00:48:12.77\00:48:15.47
because no one buys
their cargoes any more--
00:48:15.50\00:48:17.16
cargoes of gold,
silver, precious stones
00:48:17.19\00:48:19.97
and pearls, fine linen,
purple, silk and scarlet cloth,
00:48:20.00\00:48:23.75
every sort of citron wood,
00:48:23.78\00:48:25.90
and articles of
every kind made of ivory,
00:48:25.93\00:48:29.62
costly wood,
bronze, iron and marble.'"
00:48:29.65\00:48:32.53
It's like Wall Street
00:48:32.56\00:48:33.93
"'Cargoes of cinnamon and spice,
00:48:33.96\00:48:36.02
of incense,
myrrh and frankincense,
00:48:36.05\00:48:40.15
of wine and olive oil,
00:48:40.18\00:48:42.42
of fine flour and
wheat, cattle and sheep,
00:48:42.45\00:48:45.85
horses and carriages, and
bodies and souls of men.'"
00:48:45.88\00:48:53.49
You see what this religion is.
00:48:53.52\00:48:56.44
Things first, people last.
00:48:56.47\00:49:00.73
That's false religion.
00:49:00.76\00:49:03.13
Money first and people last.
00:49:03.16\00:49:08.25
So listen to what I say.
00:49:08.28\00:49:11.77
Beware of power hungry clerics
00:49:11.80\00:49:17.55
who are wolves
in sheep's clothing.
00:49:17.58\00:49:21.41
Beware of
churches that are political
00:49:21.44\00:49:25.51
and they proclaim that candy
coated gospel of cheap grace.
00:49:25.54\00:49:30.91
Beware, beware of hierarchies
00:49:30.94\00:49:35.83
that demand obedience
country descriptor and reason.
00:49:35.86\00:49:41.67
Beware of yourself
00:49:41.70\00:49:44.91
and your carnal inclinations
to neglect Bible study
00:49:44.94\00:49:49.41
and attendance on time
after preaching of the word.
00:49:49.44\00:49:57.21
Should we forget
religion, bad religion?
00:49:57.24\00:50:02.74
Amen.
00:50:02.77\00:50:06.73
But there is a religion
00:50:06.76\00:50:10.31
that comes from God
and I would embrace that.
00:50:10.34\00:50:14.37
Would you come
over here to Hebrews 12?
00:50:14.40\00:50:18.44
I would embrace the
religion that comes from God
00:50:18.47\00:50:23.70
and I may have to look
a bit before I find it.
00:50:23.73\00:50:28.26
Hebrews 12:22-24.
00:50:28.29\00:50:34.39
Describing the church
it says, the true church.
00:50:36.57\00:50:40.88
The people of God they elect,
00:50:40.91\00:50:46.07
"But you have
come to Mount Zion,
00:50:46.10\00:50:49.09
to the heavenly Jerusalem,
the city of the living God.
00:50:49.12\00:50:53.79
You have come to thousands
00:50:53.82\00:50:55.43
upon thousands of
angels in joyful assembly,
00:50:55.46\00:51:01.11
to the church of the firstborn,
00:51:01.14\00:51:03.47
whose names are
written in heaven.
00:51:03.50\00:51:09.05
You have come to
God, the judge of all men,
00:51:09.08\00:51:11.83
to the spirits of
righteous men made perfect,
00:51:11.86\00:51:16.47
to Jesus the
mediator of a new covenant,
00:51:16.50\00:51:20.31
and to the sprinkled blood
00:51:20.34\00:51:22.37
that speaks a better
word than the blood of Abel."
00:51:22.40\00:51:28.47
So listen to this.
00:51:28.50\00:51:31.39
Find a church,
00:51:31.42\00:51:33.36
so this to the congregation
out there in television land.
00:51:33.39\00:51:37.61
Find a church big or small
00:51:37.64\00:51:42.27
where Jesus is the Lord,
00:51:42.30\00:51:45.98
where the one true
holy gospel is proclaimed,
00:51:46.01\00:51:49.77
where the people
beliefs say it with me.
00:51:49.80\00:51:52.64
Sola Christus, only Christ.
00:51:52.67\00:51:56.24
Sola Scriptura, only scripture.
00:51:56.27\00:51:59.60
Sola Gratia, only grace.
00:51:59.63\00:52:02.87
Sola Fide, only faith.
00:52:02.90\00:52:06.22
The battle cry
of the reformation.
00:52:06.25\00:52:11.33
And where people keep
the commandments of God
00:52:11.36\00:52:14.39
rather than the
traditions of men.
00:52:14.42\00:52:18.98
Jesus said,
00:52:19.01\00:52:22.45
"I am the way,
00:52:22.48\00:52:26.74
the truth and the life."
00:52:26.77\00:52:31.62
So let it be written.
00:52:31.65\00:52:36.00
So let it be done.
00:52:36.03\00:52:40.23
Amen and amen.
00:52:40.26\00:52:45.15
Hello friend, I am John Carter.
00:52:45.18\00:52:47.48
I am here today to tell
you the most amazing news.
00:52:47.51\00:52:51.01
I want to thank you
firstly in Jesus name
00:52:51.04\00:52:54.13
for your magnificent support.
00:52:54.16\00:52:56.54
We are on our
way to Port Moresby,
00:52:56.57\00:53:00.20
the capital of Papua New Guinea.
00:53:00.23\00:53:03.42
We are going to see
the amazing power of God.
00:53:03.45\00:53:06.70
We are going there to
preach the everlasting gospel.
00:53:06.73\00:53:10.19
I will be preaching
every night outdoors
00:53:10.22\00:53:13.55
in the national stadium.
00:53:13.58\00:53:15.39
The locals tell us we will have
over 100,000 people a night,
00:53:15.42\00:53:21.08
some say 150,000 people.
00:53:21.11\00:53:24.15
A few have said, maybe 200,000
00:53:24.18\00:53:28.03
but I want you to know this.
00:53:28.06\00:53:29.77
We go in the name of Christ
00:53:29.80\00:53:31.72
to preach the
gospel and to save souls.
00:53:31.75\00:53:36.05
And I am saying today, I
can't do this without your help.
00:53:36.08\00:53:40.42
I have got to raise
00:53:40.45\00:53:46.19
for this great campaign
00:53:46.22\00:53:48.31
that is going to shake
an entire nation for God.
00:53:48.34\00:53:53.36
Please be my partner.
00:53:53.39\00:53:55.52
Write to me, John
Carter, Post office box 1900,
00:53:55.55\00:53:59.98
Thousand Oaks,
California, 91358.
00:54:00.01\00:54:03.51
In Australia, my Aussie friends,
please write to Terrigal.
00:54:03.54\00:54:08.30
The address is now
appearing on the screen.
00:54:08.33\00:54:11.15
Please stand with me in
this tremendous outreach
00:54:11.18\00:54:16.07
to the people of
Papua New Guinea.
00:54:16.10\00:54:19.29
We used to talk
about mission impossible.
00:54:19.32\00:54:24.60
All of a sudden it has
become mission possible.
00:54:24.63\00:54:29.15
This is an opportunity to reach
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an entire nation for
the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Please write to me today
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and I want to say to
you from my heart to yours,
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thank you, in Jesus name.
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The sick and lame
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To set the captive free
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To break the prisoners chain
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I'd still be in the dark
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Grappling for the door
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Longing for some way, somehow
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Love came for me
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Love rescued me
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Love called my name
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Love took my place
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Sweet Lamb of God
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I'm bowing down
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My eyes have seen
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I'm finally free
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Love came for me
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If You had not come
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Willing, spotless Lamb
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My sin would be too much
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For You to take me as I am
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But, oh, the blood of Christ
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That washes over me
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Flowing from
your hands, your feet
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I don't have to
worry where I'd be
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'Cause Love came for me
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Love rescued me
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Love called my name
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Love took my place
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Sweet Lamb of God
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I'm bowing down
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My eyes have seen
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That I'm finally free
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Love came for me
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This baby King
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My everything
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Love came for me
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Jesus came for you and me
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