From Arcadia, California,
the Carter Report presents
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'The Living
Word' around the world.
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I just want to give
you a warm welcome today,
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because this is an
extraordinary program.
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I am going to
talk about a person
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who was unlike any other person
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on the face of
the entire planet.
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So please join us today
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for this very special
program of the Carter Report.
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But right now it is my privilege
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and my joy to introduce to you,
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two very fine young
people who are going to come
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and bring us some
beautiful Christian music.
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Would you please
welcome today Joel,
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who's gonna be playing
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and the person is going
to be singing is Christia.
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So would you
please welcome today
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from Los Angles,
Christia and Joel.
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Even in a world
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when nothing stays the same
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There is still a truth,
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a truth that still remains
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Forever you will always be
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Our God of
heaven, the Lord in me
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The King of
hope, the Lord of love
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The Prince of Peace,
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the Lamb of God
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Even though the heart
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It always seems to change
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There is still a love
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A love that will remain
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Forever you will always be
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A God of heaven, the Lord in me
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The King of
hope, the Lord of love
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The Prince of
Peace, the Lamb of God
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Lord, You will always be exalted
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King of Kings, and Holy Father
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You will always be exalted
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King of Kings
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You're always forever you
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Will always be a God of High
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The Lord in me
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The king of
hope, the Lord of love
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The Prince of
Peace, the Lamb of God
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Forever you will always be
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A God of heaven, the Lord in me
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The King of
hope, the Lord of love
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The Prince of
Peace, the Lamb of God
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The topic today
is "Incomparable".
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Would you say it? Incomparable.
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When I was a young preacher,
I used to say incomparable.
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That's fine because it means
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quite simply
nothing can be compared,
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'Incomparable,'
nothing can be compared.
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Because the word
means, beyond compare.
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You can't compare anyone
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or anything to that
which you're speaking of,
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beyond compare, matchless,
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this is a good
one, second to none.
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Today we're gonna
talk about somebody
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who is second to none.
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Surpassing, over
and beyond, surpassing.
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Transcendent, beyond
anything that you and I
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can comprehend or understand,
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unequalled, without peer.
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So I've called to talk today
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by this word, 'Incomparable.'
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And the theme text is found here
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in John Chapter 8 and verse 12.
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And I'd like you
to turn in you Bibles
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please to the Gospel
according to John Chapter 8:12.
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I want you to think of
these extraordinary statements,
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John Chapter 8:12, "When
Jesus spoke again to the people,
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he said, "I am the
light of the world.
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Whoever follows me
will never walk in darkness,
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but will have
the light of life.'"
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What is the light of
the world physically?
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It's a sun. Jesus was saying,
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"I am the sun, if you follow me,
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you'll never walk in darkness,
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but you'll have
the light of life."
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Either Jesus therefore was
every thing He said He was,
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everything He claimed to be
or else He was a raving lunatic.
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Some people say he was a
good man and we will admit that.
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My friend, do not
dare patronize Him.
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He is either what He claimed
to be the light of the world,
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or else He was a stark
raving lunatic, a mad man.
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Imagine if any preacher
would have come here today,
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imagine if I were to say to you,
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"I am the light of the world.
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If you follow me, you
will never walk in darkness,
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but you will have
the light of life."
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You would say, he
is absolutely bonkers.
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He is crazy.
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Nothing compares on
our planet to the sun.
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Jesus is 'Incomparable.'
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Nothing can compare to Him.
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I want you to come
over now to John 14:6.
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John 14:6, please. And
I want you to please turn
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to the text and those
of you watching at home
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may be go get a
Bible and turn to the text,
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"Jesus answered, "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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I would suggest you today
that the vast majority of people
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who professed to be
Christians haven't got a clue
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what that text is
saying. What about you?
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Jesus is the way,
the truth and the life
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and you can't be
saved in any other way
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through a personal
experience with Christ.
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He is matchless, He is
unequal, He is second to none.
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He is not in the same
category as any other person.
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He is surpassing transcendent.
Without peer, He is unequalled.
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He is the way, the
truth and the life.
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I've had the
privilege to study the lives
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and deeds of
great men of history
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who helped to make this world
a better and a safer place.
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Men like Abraham Lincoln,
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the great liberator.
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This man who
trusted in God was the man
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who broke the
chains on the slaves here
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in the United States of America
and then Winston Churchill,
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I read about
Churchill for years.
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My admiration
grows as time goes by.
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He was the man who said,
"Never, never, never give up."
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And when England was
facing the hordes of the Nazis'
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and when London
was burning at night
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and when Hitler
was glutting over
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the demise of Great Britain,
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he said, "I've nothing to offer
but blood, sweat and tears.
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We will go on."
What is that our aim?
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Victory, total
victory at any cost,
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the great man.
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And then of course there
was a man who gave us liberty,
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gave the Jewish people
Israel, liberty, Moses.
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Then there was Gandhi, the
man who through not fighting,
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but through peaceful means
liberated the nation of India.
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Martin Luther, the great
protestant reformer who said,
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as he stood before
the great of the earth,
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"I will not recant
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here I stand." Great man.
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Another man, an
American, almost took his name,
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Martin Luther King, you remember
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he was the great
civil rights activist here
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in the United States of America
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who fought against
the terrible racism
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that had plagued this
country for hundreds of years
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and we remember his
speech, "I have a dream,
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I climbed the mountain and
I've seen the promise land."
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Then if you go back
many years to the days
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of the Spanish armada,
when the church of Rome said,
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"we're going to
crush this power."
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There was Queen Elizabeth
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and then later
still there was the man
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who saved Britain from a
bloody French Revolution,
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my hero, John Wesley.
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And within our lifetime,
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a Russian, Mikhail Gorbachev,
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who allowed the
masses to go free
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from the slavery of communism.
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Almost all of these man looked
to Christ for inspiration.
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But the more you study,
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besides their great deeds
are many glaring imperfections.
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But the more you
study the life of Christ,
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I say to the skeptic
and the critic, be honest.
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The better he gets, like a
rare jewel of exquisite worth
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and unblemished and
dazzling splendor is Christ,
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He is Incomparable. In spite
of his followers and detractors,
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He had done more good than
the rest of humanity combined.
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And today, I want you to notice
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with me here in
this beautiful church.
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I want you to notice six
stories from the life of Jesus.
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The first story is called Jesus,
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the defender of women.
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The text is found
in Mark Chapter 14,
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Matthew Mark, Mark 14
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and this is dedicated
to the women in our church.
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Mark Chapter 14:3 to 9,
"While he was in Bethany,
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reclining at the
table in the home of a man
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known as Simon the leper,
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a woman came
with an alabaster jar
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of very expensive
perfume, made of pure nard."
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Worth tens of
thousands of dollars.
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"She broke the jar and
poured the perfume on his head.
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Some of those
present were saying
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indignantly to one another,
"Why this waste of perfume?
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It could have been sold
for more than a year's wages
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and the money
given to the poor."
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And they rebuked her harshly.
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'Leave her alone,' said Jesus.
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'Why are you bothering her?
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She has done a
beautiful thing to me.
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The poor you will
always have with you,
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and you can help
them any time you want.
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But you will not always have me.
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She did what she could.
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She poured perfume on my body
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beforehand to
prepare me for my burial.
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I tell you the truth,
wherever the gospel is preached
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throughout the world,
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what she has done will also
be told, in memory of her.'"
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Jesus said to the critics,
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leave her alone,
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He liberated her then and
He is liberating women today.
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He's the defender of women.
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And if you doubt this I say
to all of the women's libbers,
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God bless you
and everybody else.
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If you think Jesus is not
responsible for you liberty,
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go to those countries,
where Jesus is not worshiped
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and there women are nothing.
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It is Christ who restored women.
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Would you come over
here to Luke 8:1 to 3.
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It is incredible that a woman
should ever criticize Christ.
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Very few do.
Luke Chapter 8:1 to 3,
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"After this, Jesus
traveled about from one town
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and village to
another, proclaiming
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the good news of
the kingdom of God.
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The Twelve were with
him, and also some women
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who had been cured of
evil spirits and diseases.
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Mary, called Magdalene from
whom seven demons had come out.
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Joanna the wife of
Cuza, the manager of Herod's
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household,
Susanna, and many others.
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These women were
helping to support him
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out of their own means."
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My friends can
you get the picture?
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When Jesus came to
town, His entourage,
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when Jesus came to
town, there were the disciples
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and a great number of
women there were with Him
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because He loved them.
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They loved Him, because He
loved them and set them free
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from the
suppression of man made laws.
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Wherever Jesus
goes women are elevated
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and only in those
countries where Christ is Lord.
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No women should
be against Jesus.
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Thus He is the
incomparable emancipator.
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There's no one
like Him for women.
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Notice the second
story, Jesus, The Teacher.
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No one like Him, come over here
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to Matthew
Chapter 5:38 and onwards,
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Matthew 5:38 and onwards.
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Notice a sample of his
extraordinary teachings.
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Matthew 5:38, "You
have heard that it was said,
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according to Mosses, 'Eye
for eye, and tooth for tooth.'
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But I tell you, do
not resist an evil person.
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If someone strikes
you on the right cheek,
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turn to him the other also.
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And if anyone wants to
sue you and take your tunic,
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let him have your cloak as well.
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If anyone forces you to go
one mile, go with him two miles.
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Give to the one who asks you,
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and do not turn
away from the one
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who wants to borrow from you.
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You have heard that it was said,
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'Love your neighbor
and hate your enemy.'
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But I tell you,
love your enemies
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and pray for
those who persecute you,
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that you may be the sons
of your Father in heaven.
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He causes his sun to
rise on the evil and the good,
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and sends rain on the
righteous and the unrighteous."
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Those of you, who
trust in armies and in swords
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and atom bombs and all of
those things here in America,
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let me tell you something,
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Jesus never lost a battle.
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Our armies have, frequently.
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The nation that
relies upon its armies
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is doomed to self destruct.
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There is something
bigger than armies, than tanks,
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and aircraft
carriers and Hydrogen bombs.
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When the disciples went out
to confront the Roman Empire,
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they did not go with swords,
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they went with the
teachings of the Christ.
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And the teachings of
Christ are greater than any army
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including the
Marines and the Air core
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and anybody else
you should dare mention.
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Today, mightier than
swords, arrows, guns, tanks,
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fighter jets, aircraft carriers
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and bombs, are His teachings,
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therefore He is the
teacher without compare,
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He is the incomparable teacher.
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The third story, so
what is my argument today?
00:21:23.19\00:21:26.07
My argument is this,
unless you're His disciples,
00:21:26.08\00:21:33.25
you are a
person most of epithet.
00:21:33.26\00:21:37.72
We should never
scorn the atheist.
00:21:37.73\00:21:40.03
We should pray for the atheist,
00:21:40.04\00:21:41.86
because he is
spiritually a pauper.
00:21:41.87\00:21:47.13
But with Christ,
the poorest man is rich,
00:21:47.14\00:21:50.49
but without Christ
the richest man is poor.
00:21:50.50\00:21:55.61
Notice the third story,
Jesus and a condemned woman
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caught in the
act by the rat pack.
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Would you please
notice this, John 8:1 to 11.
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The story of a condemned woman
00:22:12.84\00:22:16.68
caught in the
act by the rat pack.
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John Chapter 8:1 down to 11,
00:22:21.84\00:22:26.39
"But Jesus went to
the Mount of Olives.
00:22:26.40\00:22:29.57
At dawn he appeared
again in the temple courts,
00:22:29.58\00:22:32.06
where all the
people gathered around him,
00:22:32.07\00:22:34.07
and he sat down to teach them.
00:22:34.08\00:22:37.07
The teachers of the
law and the Pharisees
00:22:37.08\00:22:39.66
brought in a woman
caught in adultery."
00:22:39.67\00:22:42.18
How did they do it, I wonder?
00:22:42.19\00:22:45.55
Because they have
device the whole thing.
00:22:45.56\00:22:51.68
They made her stand before
the group and said to Jesus,
00:22:51.69\00:22:54.42
"Teacher, this woman was
caught in the act of adultery.
00:22:54.43\00:23:00.63
In the Law Moses commanded
us to stone such women.
00:23:00.64\00:23:04.52
Now what do you say?"
00:23:04.53\00:23:06.13
They were asking
this question as a trap,
00:23:06.14\00:23:08.49
in order to have a
basis for accusing him.
00:23:08.50\00:23:12.55
But Jesus bent down
and started to write
00:23:12.56\00:23:14.73
on the ground with his finger.
00:23:14.74\00:23:16.67
When they kept
on questioning him,
00:23:16.68\00:23:19.08
he straightened
up and said to them,
00:23:19.09\00:23:20.94
"If any one of
you is without sin,
00:23:20.95\00:23:23.45
let him be the first
to throw a stone at her.'
00:23:23.46\00:23:27.89
Again he stooped down
and wrote on the ground.
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At this, those who heard
began to go away one at a time,
00:23:32.88\00:23:38.44
the older ones first,
until only Jesus was left,
00:23:38.45\00:23:42.65
with the woman
still standing there.
00:23:42.66\00:23:44.91
Jesus
straightened up and asked her,
00:23:44.92\00:23:48.08
"Woman, where are they?
00:23:48.09\00:23:51.94
Has no one condemned
you? No one, sir," she said.
00:23:51.95\00:23:58.86
"Then neither do I
condemn you," Jesus declared.
00:23:58.87\00:24:03.25
"Go now and leave
your life of sin.'"
00:24:03.26\00:24:09.73
Would you please for a
moment imagine the scene
00:24:09.74\00:24:16.14
and the drama of the events.
00:24:16.15\00:24:19.50
Here is a nameless woman,
00:24:19.51\00:24:24.97
and the people who've caught her
00:24:24.98\00:24:27.52
are the super
religious, the Pharisees.
00:24:27.53\00:24:34.97
The leaders of
the so called church.
00:24:34.98\00:24:38.38
It was obvious that one
of their number was the man
00:24:41.40\00:24:46.22
who was committing the adultery,
00:24:46.23\00:24:48.95
but why is it
that they didn't bring
00:24:48.96\00:24:52.58
the man and throw him down?
00:24:52.59\00:24:56.27
It reminds one of the stories
in a Middle Eastern custom
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where if a woman
commits adultery,
00:25:01.23\00:25:04.18
she is buried in the
desert sand up to her nose
00:25:04.19\00:25:08.58
and the man is
buried up to his ankles.
00:25:08.59\00:25:13.46
Why? Because people
do not worship this man
00:25:13.47\00:25:19.67
who was beyond compare,
00:25:19.68\00:25:21.76
who was second to
none, that is why.
00:25:21.77\00:25:26.37
And those of you who
live in a country like America
00:25:26.38\00:25:32.35
or Australia, or
Canada, or Britain
00:25:32.36\00:25:37.45
that is been influenced
by Christ in the Bible,
00:25:37.46\00:25:41.29
you ought to thank God,
00:25:41.30\00:25:45.12
or else you too may be
buried up to your neck,
00:25:45.13\00:25:48.80
up to your nose in the sand.
00:25:48.81\00:25:53.91
The women of the story
00:25:53.92\00:25:55.11
was a victim of
religious pretenders.
00:25:55.12\00:26:00.66
Jesus gave to this
nameless woman hope.
00:26:00.67\00:26:05.23
He restored her self-respect.
00:26:05.24\00:26:07.96
He forgave her sins
00:26:07.97\00:26:11.68
and drove off the rat pack.
00:26:11.69\00:26:16.03
He's been doing it ever since.
00:26:16.04\00:26:19.80
You know the story
of the old skeptic,
00:26:19.81\00:26:21.66
and the little girl's new Bible.
00:26:21.67\00:26:24.62
The daddy went along to see
the old skeptic who was dying.
00:26:24.63\00:26:30.11
Dying without
God, without Christ.
00:26:30.12\00:26:33.16
And the young man said,
let me give you my Bible
00:26:33.17\00:26:38.74
and may be you'll start to read
my Bible and you'll find hope.
00:26:38.75\00:26:42.98
He said, get out of here
00:26:42.99\00:26:45.48
and take your
old Bible with you.
00:26:45.49\00:26:50.68
Young man went home
and told to his wife
00:26:50.69\00:26:53.34
with the little girl listening.
00:26:53.35\00:26:56.47
And he said, "The old
man said get out of here,
00:26:56.48\00:27:00.89
I don't want your old Bible."
00:27:00.90\00:27:03.27
And the little
girl thought to herself,
00:27:03.28\00:27:06.74
maybe, maybe.
00:27:06.75\00:27:11.32
So she went and saw the old man,
00:27:11.33\00:27:15.51
the old skeptic who
was dying and she said,
00:27:15.52\00:27:18.53
"Daddy told me you
don't want his old Bible,
00:27:18.54\00:27:24.27
but mommy and daddy gave me
a new Bible for my birthday.
00:27:24.28\00:27:28.40
May be I can
give you my new Bible,
00:27:28.41\00:27:33.96
and she left it and ran.
00:27:33.97\00:27:38.22
Before he dies, the old
harden sinner wrote the poem.
00:27:38.23\00:27:46.05
I've tried in
vain a thousand ways
00:27:46.06\00:27:48.98
My fears to
quell, my hopes to raise,
00:27:48.99\00:27:52.65
But what I need, the Bible says,
00:27:52.66\00:27:56.62
Is ever, only Jesus.
00:27:56.63\00:27:59.80
My soul is
night, my heart is steel
00:27:59.81\00:28:03.64
I cannot see, I cannot feel,
00:28:03.65\00:28:06.87
For light, for
life I must appeal
00:28:06.88\00:28:10.61
In simple faith to Jesus.
00:28:10.62\00:28:14.32
He died, He lives,
He reigns, He pleads,
00:28:14.33\00:28:18.44
There's love in all
His words and deeds,
00:28:18.45\00:28:21.92
There's all a
guilty sinner needs
00:28:21.93\00:28:25.52
forevermore in Jesus.
00:28:25.53\00:28:30.77
Though some will
mock, and some will blame,
00:28:30.78\00:28:35.34
I'll go with all
my sin and shame,
00:28:35.35\00:28:39.50
I'll go to Him because His name
00:28:39.51\00:28:43.62
above all names, is Jesus.
00:28:43.63\00:28:48.12
Have you gone to Him, friend?
00:28:48.13\00:28:50.61
As you're
watching on television,
00:28:50.62\00:28:52.02
have you gone to Him?
00:28:52.03\00:28:55.89
He is the incomparable redeemer.
00:28:55.90\00:29:00.91
He is the
redeemer without compare,
00:29:00.92\00:29:05.47
without comparison.
The fourth story is,
00:29:05.48\00:29:09.46
Jesus at a funeral.
00:29:09.47\00:29:12.72
The funeral of a man,
00:29:12.73\00:29:15.19
he'd been dead for some days.
00:29:15.20\00:29:17.18
You turn over the pages in John,
00:29:17.19\00:29:19.14
you come to John
11:38 and onwards.
00:29:19.15\00:29:22.28
This man's name was Lazarus.
00:29:22.29\00:29:25.00
He died, was dead for four days
00:29:25.01\00:29:27.80
and Jesus comes
apparently too late.
00:29:27.81\00:29:33.53
John 11:38 and
onwards, Jesus gets there,
00:29:33.54\00:29:37.40
I am sorry after
the funeral, too late.
00:29:37.41\00:29:40.71
"Jesus, once more deeply
moved, came to the tomb."
00:29:40.72\00:29:44.98
Now before I go any further,
00:29:44.99\00:29:47.21
please look at me for a moment.
00:29:47.22\00:29:49.74
You wonder why I read the Bible.
00:29:49.75\00:29:53.05
I read the Bible
because I need the Bible.
00:29:53.06\00:29:56.06
I need the Bible
because I am a sinner,
00:29:56.07\00:29:58.58
because I am weak. And
without the word of God,
00:29:58.59\00:30:03.10
I am completely nothing at all.
00:30:03.11\00:30:06.38
I know there are
people in this congregation,
00:30:06.39\00:30:08.07
you're so proud and
you're so self sufficient,
00:30:08.08\00:30:11.26
may be not proud but
it is a form of pride.
00:30:11.27\00:30:14.47
But you are so self sufficient
that you don't read your Bible,
00:30:14.48\00:30:17.64
I know that. How do I know?
00:30:17.65\00:30:20.22
I can tell it by
the lives you live.
00:30:20.23\00:30:23.19
I can tell it by
your indifference,
00:30:23.20\00:30:25.96
your lack of zeal for God,
your lack of love for the lost.
00:30:25.97\00:30:32.99
And in this church
we turn to the Bible,
00:30:33.00\00:30:36.04
because in this church our
authority is not the church.
00:30:36.05\00:30:40.75
In this church our
authority is not a committee.
00:30:40.76\00:30:45.13
In this church our
authority is not a conference.
00:30:45.14\00:30:48.43
Our authority is the
Bible, the word of God.
00:30:48.44\00:30:53.58
We believe in the
great protestant principle.
00:30:53.59\00:30:56.61
People have been
writing me letters and they say,
00:30:56.62\00:30:59.33
you know, we're
supposed to believe in this,
00:30:59.34\00:31:01.67
but when you go
to many churches.
00:31:01.68\00:31:03.72
People don't know their Bibles,
they don't read their Bibles,
00:31:03.73\00:31:06.58
they don't quote from the Bible
00:31:06.59\00:31:08.04
and the preacher
doesn't even preach from it,
00:31:08.05\00:31:12.26
because he's a clergyman.
00:31:12.27\00:31:16.33
So we read the Bible, we
believe in Sola Christus,
00:31:16.34\00:31:19.76
only Christ, Sola scriptura,
Sola gratia, Sola fide.
00:31:19.77\00:31:24.25
Only Christ, only scripture,
only grace, only faith.
00:31:24.26\00:31:27.98
And you need the Holy Spirit
to get this into your mind.
00:31:32.54\00:31:35.37
A preacher can
be a great preacher
00:31:35.38\00:31:37.04
and you can
preach hard to people,
00:31:37.05\00:31:39.23
but because of
their indifference
00:31:39.24\00:31:41.47
and they think they know it all.
00:31:41.48\00:31:44.18
Let me tell you this,
you get rid of that notion.
00:31:44.19\00:31:48.48
You're ready for this?
00:31:48.49\00:31:49.58
This is one of the dumbest
00:31:49.59\00:31:51.07
of all civilizations in
the history of the world.
00:31:51.08\00:31:56.69
People know
trivia, but they don't know
00:31:56.70\00:31:58.80
the most important things.
They don't know how to live.
00:31:58.81\00:32:04.34
And if they don't think
they need the scriptures.
00:32:04.35\00:32:06.35
Did you know they discovered
now there is a new addiction
00:32:06.36\00:32:11.06
which is as bad as taking drugs,
00:32:11.07\00:32:14.34
you know what it is?
Addiction to the internet.
00:32:14.35\00:32:18.35
Playing these crazy games.
00:32:18.36\00:32:21.13
In South Korea alone
there're two million young men
00:32:21.14\00:32:26.42
who are complete
addicts to the internet.
00:32:26.43\00:32:30.10
Just want to be surfing
the internet, playing games.
00:32:30.11\00:32:33.01
I've got people who come--
I know them in the church,
00:32:33.02\00:32:37.47
they can't wait
till they get home,
00:32:37.48\00:32:39.00
here they go
again, they're addicted.
00:32:39.01\00:32:42.52
And you know what it
does? It destroys them.
00:32:42.53\00:32:45.56
It decrease
their mental abilities,
00:32:45.57\00:32:48.53
and their social
skills. You can't talk to them,
00:32:48.54\00:32:51.45
because they
don't know what to say,
00:32:51.46\00:32:53.71
they're dumb, they're dumb
00:32:53.72\00:32:56.96
and they're sick and they
need the word of God. Amen.
00:32:56.97\00:33:00.89
You know what I'm saying?
00:33:00.90\00:33:03.79
So in this church, we
try to be faithful to God
00:33:03.80\00:33:07.51
and we try to be
faithful to the congregation.
00:33:07.52\00:33:11.96
So let's read the text,
00:33:11.97\00:33:14.72
"Jesus, once more
deeply moved, came to the tomb.
00:33:14.73\00:33:18.00
It was a cave with a
stone laid across the entrance.
00:33:18.01\00:33:20.86
'Take away the stone,' he said.
00:33:20.87\00:33:22.83
'But, Lord,' said Martha,
the sister of the dead man,
00:33:22.84\00:33:25.70
'by this time
there is a bad odor,
00:33:25.71\00:33:27.82
for he has been
there four days.'
00:33:27.83\00:33:29.53
Jesus said, 'Did I not
tell you that if you believed,
00:33:29.54\00:33:32.95
you will see the glory of God?'"
00:33:32.96\00:33:36.09
People would say,
seeing is believing.
00:33:36.10\00:33:38.60
The Bible says,
believing is seeing.
00:33:38.61\00:33:41.94
Now there's most
people says well,
00:33:41.95\00:33:43.59
I won't believe until I see it.
00:33:43.60\00:33:45.09
Well, you never gonna see it.
00:33:45.10\00:33:47.81
People say seeing is believing,
no believing is seeing.
00:33:47.82\00:33:53.80
"'Did I not tell you that
if you believed, you will see.'
00:33:53.81\00:33:57.36
So they took away the stone.
00:33:57.37\00:33:58.76
Then Jesus looked
up and said, 'Father,
00:33:58.77\00:34:00.72
I thank you that
you have heard me.
00:34:00.73\00:34:02.86
I knew that you always hear me,
00:34:02.87\00:34:05.64
but I said this for the benefit
of the people standing here,
00:34:05.65\00:34:09.12
that they may
believe that you sent me.'
00:34:09.13\00:34:11.65
When he had said this, Jesus
called out in a loud voice,
00:34:11.66\00:34:15.64
'Lazarus, come out!'
The dead man came out,
00:34:15.65\00:34:19.76
his hands and feet
wrapped with strips of linen,
00:34:19.77\00:34:23.12
and a cloth around his face.
00:34:23.13\00:34:25.03
Jesus said to them, 'Take off
00:34:25.04\00:34:26.81
the grave
clothes and let him go.'"
00:34:26.82\00:34:29.63
I don't know
anybody has ever done that.
00:34:33.93\00:34:37.55
Here in the United
States we hear faith healers
00:34:37.56\00:34:40.86
who are interested in your
money doing great miracles,
00:34:40.87\00:34:46.20
but we have no reliable evidence
00:34:46.21\00:34:47.90
of resurrection
taking place today.
00:34:47.91\00:34:49.86
People say no, no
they do take place. Where?
00:34:49.87\00:34:52.57
Well on places
where nobody goes.
00:34:52.58\00:34:54.10
So you can't check outline.
00:34:54.11\00:34:57.08
And it would
never gets on television
00:34:57.09\00:34:58.96
and where there's no
decent doctor who's gonna check
00:34:58.97\00:35:01.48
that they are really
dead in the first place.
00:35:01.49\00:35:05.82
There's only one
person does the resurrections.
00:35:05.83\00:35:08.76
Scientists are
working on getting creating
00:35:08.77\00:35:11.07
life in a
laboratory, but my friend
00:35:11.08\00:35:14.92
all they're doing
is taking the stuff
00:35:14.93\00:35:16.67
that God has given them
00:35:16.68\00:35:18.00
and trying to put
it together again.
00:35:18.01\00:35:20.09
That's what they are doing,
Imagine the raising of Lazarus,
00:35:20.10\00:35:23.32
a man who's been
dead for four days,
00:35:23.33\00:35:26.41
he walks out of the
tomb and he's alive.
00:35:26.42\00:35:29.84
You believe this?
00:35:29.85\00:35:32.08
Lot of you don't
even believe this, do you?
00:35:32.09\00:35:35.60
A lot of you folks watching,
you don't believe this.
00:35:35.61\00:35:37.74
You heard a sermon
but you don't believe it.
00:35:37.75\00:35:39.76
If you believed it, you
would be a different person,
00:35:39.77\00:35:42.72
you would have faith.
00:35:42.73\00:35:47.13
And the person raised,
Lazarus is coming back.
00:35:47.14\00:35:52.92
One day He himself
came back from the dead
00:35:52.93\00:35:56.14
and He promises to resurrect
all those who have faith in Him.
00:35:56.15\00:36:00.97
And come over
here to John Chapter 6,
00:36:00.98\00:36:02.54
"Then why are you so
many of you scared of die?"
00:36:02.55\00:36:06.49
John Chapter
6:39, I had a friend
00:36:06.50\00:36:09.52
who's always talking religion
to me, always talking faith.
00:36:09.53\00:36:13.09
Always talking,
talking, talking, talking,
00:36:13.10\00:36:15.86
but he was scared
to get on a plane.
00:36:15.87\00:36:19.89
Terrified to flying, I
said why don't you fly.
00:36:19.90\00:36:23.55
Well he said, my
wife and I was scared.
00:36:23.56\00:36:26.52
I said I thought you
were a super Christian.
00:36:26.53\00:36:29.70
I thought you had
super-- no he said, I am scared.
00:36:29.71\00:36:32.98
You know why? He
was scared of dying,
00:36:32.99\00:36:37.46
because he
didn't have faith at all
00:36:37.47\00:36:40.19
Didn't have faith in Jesus.
00:36:40.20\00:36:41.97
John Chapter 6:39.
"And this is the will of him
00:36:41.98\00:36:47.27
who sent me, that I shall lose
00:36:47.28\00:36:49.07
none of all
that he has given me,
00:36:49.08\00:36:51.47
but raise them
up at the last day.
00:36:51.48\00:36:53.60
For my Father's
will is that everyone
00:36:53.61\00:36:55.86
who looks to the
Son and believes in him
00:36:55.87\00:36:58.44
shall have eternal life,
00:36:58.45\00:36:59.77
and I will raise
him up at the last day."
00:36:59.78\00:37:02.63
But you better have the Son
00:37:02.64\00:37:04.73
or else you come out
in the wrong resurrection.
00:37:04.74\00:37:07.63
Look at John Chapter 5:24-25.
00:37:07.64\00:37:10.93
I am told in America,
when I look at television
00:37:10.94\00:37:13.90
and I look at preachers
00:37:13.91\00:37:15.62
and all of
these religious stuff,
00:37:15.63\00:37:17.83
I am assured that everybody
is going to go to heaven.
00:37:17.84\00:37:23.14
That's what all
the preachers speak,
00:37:23.15\00:37:24.63
that's what the
politicians speak.
00:37:24.64\00:37:27.26
That's what the president
say, and for everybody say it,
00:37:27.27\00:37:30.36
there's only one
problem with it. It's not true.
00:37:30.37\00:37:35.43
Jesus said, few
there be, that find it.
00:37:35.44\00:37:39.66
That's what Jesus said.
00:37:39.67\00:37:42.46
And therefore you
got to have faith,
00:37:42.47\00:37:45.48
and you got to
have a relationship
00:37:45.49\00:37:47.73
with the incomparable person.
00:37:47.74\00:37:50.66
The person who
was beyond compare,
00:37:50.67\00:37:54.03
matchless, second to none.
00:37:54.04\00:37:55.87
And you got to know Him
as your Lord and your Savoir.
00:37:55.88\00:38:00.19
Look at John
Chapter 5:24 and 25,
00:38:04.77\00:38:09.56
John Chapter 5:24,
25, "I tell you the truth,
00:38:09.57\00:38:13.89
whoever hears my
word and believes him
00:38:13.90\00:38:16.17
who sent me has eternal life."
00:38:16.18\00:38:18.62
You got to
believe in the Father too.
00:38:18.63\00:38:20.53
"And will not be condemned,
00:38:20.54\00:38:21.73
he has crossed
over from death to life.
00:38:21.74\00:38:23.73
I tell you the truth, a
time is coming and has now come
00:38:23.74\00:38:27.29
when the dead will hear
the voice of the Son of God
00:38:27.30\00:38:29.67
and those who hear
will live." Astounding.
00:38:29.68\00:38:36.87
He is the
incomparable life giver,
00:38:36.88\00:38:42.09
the life giver
without comparison.
00:38:42.10\00:38:46.54
Now the fifth story, Jesus
and a friend who messed up.
00:38:46.55\00:38:53.83
Most of us are very fickle.
00:38:56.94\00:39:02.38
Jesus was not
fickle, He was faithful,
00:39:02.39\00:39:08.52
no one like Him.
00:39:08.53\00:39:09.93
Look at Luke
Chapter 22:31 and onwards.
00:39:09.94\00:39:12.46
You know, whom I am
speaking of, that's Peter,
00:39:12.47\00:39:16.19
the big fisherman, Luke 22:31.
00:39:16.20\00:39:23.91
"Simon, Simon, Satan has asked
to sift all of you as wheat.
00:39:23.92\00:39:27.74
But I have
prayed for you, Simon,
00:39:27.75\00:39:30.35
that your faith may not fail.
00:39:30.36\00:39:32.03
But when you have turned
back, strengthen your brothers."
00:39:32.04\00:39:35.74
See he replied,
"Lord, I am ready
00:39:35.75\00:39:38.28
to go with you to
prison and to death."
00:39:38.29\00:39:41.12
Jesus answered,
'I tell you, Peter,
00:39:41.13\00:39:44.28
before the rooster crows today,
00:39:44.29\00:39:46.35
you will deny three
times that you know me.'''
00:39:46.36\00:39:51.42
That He said to Peter.
00:39:51.43\00:39:53.35
Peter was full
of self confidence
00:39:53.36\00:39:56.73
and who is this
Peter? Oh Peter, fortunately,
00:39:56.74\00:40:04.50
was not a clergyman,
Peter was a fisherman.
00:40:04.51\00:40:11.59
And if you are in
the company of Peter,
00:40:11.60\00:40:15.43
you are in the company of fish
00:40:15.44\00:40:19.26
and water and nets.
00:40:19.27\00:40:26.98
And Peter was a good person.
00:40:26.99\00:40:33.59
We would have liked Peter.
00:40:33.60\00:40:37.23
And if you come over to
Mark Chapter 11:27 and onwards,
00:40:37.24\00:40:43.16
Mark 14:27 and onwards,
00:40:43.17\00:40:48.19
Jesus said "'You
will all fall away,'
00:40:48.20\00:40:51.31
Jesus told them,
'for it is written,
00:40:51.32\00:40:52.82
I will strike the shepherd,
and the sheep will be scattered.
00:40:52.83\00:40:56.29
But after I have risen,
00:40:56.30\00:40:57.72
I will go ahead
of you into Galilee.'
00:40:57.73\00:41:00.51
Peter declared,
'Even if all fall away,
00:41:00.52\00:41:04.11
I will not' 'I tell you
the truth,' Jesus answered,
00:41:04.12\00:41:09.10
'today-yes, tonight-before
the rooster crows twice
00:41:09.11\00:41:13.44
you yourself will
disown me three times.
00:41:13.45\00:41:17.91
'But Peter
insisted emphatically,
00:41:17.92\00:41:20.30
'Even if I have to die with you,
00:41:20.31\00:41:22.67
I will never disown you.'
00:41:22.68\00:41:26.00
And all the
others said the same."
00:41:26.01\00:41:30.59
And you know the
story, don't you.
00:41:30.60\00:41:34.04
When Jesus needed a friend,
00:41:34.05\00:41:36.80
when Jesus needed
a rock to lean on,
00:41:36.81\00:41:41.27
a few girls said to
Peter, "You all with him"
00:41:41.28\00:41:45.94
and the Bible said
Peter began to curse and swear
00:41:45.95\00:41:51.42
and he said, "I
know not the Man."
00:41:51.43\00:41:55.57
And somebody
said, when Peter said,
00:41:55.58\00:41:59.34
"I know not the Man,
00:41:59.35\00:42:03.02
it was the lie
that told the truth."
00:42:03.03\00:42:07.35
He told a lie,
but he told the truth
00:42:07.36\00:42:10.34
because he didn't know the man.
00:42:10.35\00:42:14.75
He knew about the
Man, he knew His miracles,
00:42:14.76\00:42:19.64
he loved Him, but
he never knew the Man.
00:42:19.65\00:42:25.39
Therefore he denied the
Lord with cursing and swearing
00:42:25.40\00:42:30.73
when Jesus was
desperate for a friend,
00:42:30.74\00:42:34.75
Peter should have been there,
00:42:34.76\00:42:36.94
but Peter let
him down, pretty sad.
00:42:36.95\00:42:41.22
What about you?
00:42:41.23\00:42:43.34
Look at Mark Chapter 16:7.
00:42:43.35\00:42:45.52
We thank God for friends
who stay by in good times
00:42:45.53\00:42:50.61
and in bad times
who are faithful.
00:42:50.62\00:42:55.72
Look at Mark Chapter 16:7.
00:42:55.73\00:43:01.17
Now Jesus send a
message after the resurrection,
00:43:01.18\00:43:03.65
because Peter was
pretty discouraged.
00:43:03.66\00:43:06.61
He was a broken man, he
denied the Lord, runaway,
00:43:06.62\00:43:12.66
"But go, tell his
disciples and Peter,
00:43:12.67\00:43:19.65
'He is going ahead
of you into Galilee.
00:43:19.66\00:43:21.83
There you will see him,
just as he told you and Peter.'"
00:43:21.84\00:43:28.17
That should encourage
every person in this church,
00:43:28.18\00:43:32.52
because we've all messed up.
00:43:32.53\00:43:35.36
We've all done dumb things.
00:43:35.37\00:43:37.64
We've all done bad things.
00:43:37.65\00:43:40.32
We've all denied the Lord
with cursing and swearing.
00:43:43.42\00:43:47.61
How many of us are known
00:43:47.62\00:43:51.13
in our workplace as
followers of Christ.
00:43:51.14\00:43:55.81
Or are we like the
church member who said,
00:43:55.82\00:43:58.37
I keep my faith to
myself and nobody in the office
00:43:58.38\00:44:02.06
would guess that I'm a
Christian, because he's not.
00:44:02.07\00:44:07.90
No such thing as
a secret Christian.
00:44:07.91\00:44:12.61
But the message
to every person is,
00:44:12.62\00:44:15.93
go tell my
disciples, and Peter, and Mary,
00:44:15.94\00:44:20.90
and Suzie, and Harvey,
00:44:20.91\00:44:23.66
and David and
Ron, I will see them.
00:44:23.67\00:44:31.39
At a great
religious convention here
00:44:31.40\00:44:34.02
in the United States of
America was a church leader
00:44:34.03\00:44:38.52
whom I was proud to call friend.
00:44:38.53\00:44:43.36
A good man, and wherever
00:44:43.37\00:44:46.20
he went at this great convention
00:44:46.21\00:44:50.12
the people swarmed
around him like a hive of bees,
00:44:50.13\00:44:56.74
can you imagine
it? Wherever he walked,
00:44:56.75\00:45:00.62
a great crowed went with him.
00:45:00.63\00:45:04.01
Can we just talk to
him, he's our great leader.
00:45:04.02\00:45:11.06
But he lost his job,
00:45:11.07\00:45:12.56
possibly he didn't
deserve to lose it,
00:45:17.88\00:45:20.30
because he was such a
good man trying to do the best.
00:45:20.31\00:45:25.16
There are no perfect people.
00:45:25.17\00:45:29.53
But the next year he
went to the great conference,
00:45:29.54\00:45:33.76
he walked alone.
00:45:33.77\00:45:36.76
How fickle.
00:45:41.08\00:45:42.73
Where was the Christianity?
00:45:46.69\00:45:49.28
Jesus is a lot better
than his professing followers.
00:45:54.91\00:46:02.79
He never gives up.
00:46:02.80\00:46:06.37
Jesus is a friend
00:46:06.38\00:46:09.01
without compare, incomparable.
00:46:09.02\00:46:14.74
The sixth story is
Jesus and the Jewish leaders.
00:46:14.75\00:46:18.96
Jesus the Jew, and the
leaders of the Jewish nation.
00:46:18.97\00:46:24.28
Would you come over
here to John Chapter 8.
00:46:24.29\00:46:26.85
A Christian should
never ever be antisemitic,
00:46:26.86\00:46:30.42
because our Lord is a Jew.
00:46:30.43\00:46:33.60
He is still a
Jew today, in glory.
00:46:33.61\00:46:38.31
Blake, there is a Jew
today at the right hand of God,
00:46:38.32\00:46:43.21
there's a Jew
there, his name is Jesus.
00:46:43.22\00:46:46.83
I've had people
write to me and said,
00:46:46.84\00:46:48.35
Jesus wasn't a Jew, goodness.
00:46:48.36\00:46:51.65
I mean talk about dumbness.
00:46:51.66\00:46:53.68
John Chapter 8, I am
telling you John Chapter 8,
00:46:53.69\00:46:57.51
"The Jews answered him,
"Aren't we right in saying
00:46:57.52\00:46:59.44
that you are a
Samaritan and demon-possessed?"
00:46:59.45\00:47:01.82
so they were
really attacking Him.
00:47:01.83\00:47:03.79
Verse 52, "At
this the Jew exclaimed,
00:47:03.80\00:47:06.64
'Now we know that
you are demon-possessed!
00:47:06.65\00:47:09.14
Abraham died and
so did the prophets"
00:47:09.15\00:47:12.27
Verse 54, "Jesus replied,
00:47:12.28\00:47:15.09
'If I glorify myself,
my glory means nothing.
00:47:15.10\00:47:17.62
My Father, whom
you claim as your God,
00:47:17.63\00:47:19.46
is the one who glorifies me.
00:47:19.47\00:47:20.97
Though you do not
know him, I know him.
00:47:20.98\00:47:22.97
If I said I did not, I
would be a liar like you,
00:47:22.98\00:47:28.97
but I do know him
and obey his word.
00:47:28.98\00:47:31.19
Your father Abraham rejoiced
at the thought of seeing my day,
00:47:31.20\00:47:34.68
he saw it and was glad.'
00:47:34.69\00:47:37.59
'You're not yet
fifty years old,'
00:47:37.60\00:47:39.38
the Jewish said to him,
'and you have seen Abraham!'
00:47:39.39\00:47:42.95
I tell you the
truth," Jesus answered,
00:47:42.96\00:47:45.66
'before Abraham was born,
00:47:45.67\00:47:49.15
I am!'
00:47:49.16\00:47:53.76
At this, they picked
up stones to stone him,
00:47:53.77\00:47:56.49
but Jesus hid himself, slipping
away from the temple grounds."
00:47:56.50\00:48:01.16
He was the only
person he said the expression
00:48:01.17\00:48:05.07
which is tantamount to
saying I am Yahweh Elohim,
00:48:05.08\00:48:09.50
I am Jehovah, I am El Shaddai.
00:48:09.51\00:48:12.67
Expression, I am is expression
00:48:12.68\00:48:16.19
that can only be
used by all mighty God.
00:48:16.20\00:48:19.16
If I were to say that today,
00:48:19.17\00:48:22.43
I would deserve to be
struck by bolt of lightning.
00:48:22.44\00:48:25.26
He's the only person who
ever lived to claim to be God
00:48:28.72\00:48:32.56
and was considered insane
and in total control of Himself,
00:48:32.57\00:48:36.85
ask God to expand your mind.
00:48:36.86\00:48:39.48
He claim to be the prime mover,
00:48:39.49\00:48:41.41
the one who made the universe.
00:48:41.42\00:48:43.29
If scientists were right
when they say the universe
00:48:43.30\00:48:45.57
is 13.72 billion years
old, then Jesus was saying,
00:48:45.58\00:48:50.48
He existed in a
place outside our universe,
00:48:50.49\00:48:54.10
more than 13 billion
years ago and beyond.
00:48:54.11\00:48:57.84
He existed
before time and space.
00:48:57.85\00:49:01.63
He made time and space.
00:49:01.64\00:49:05.25
This places Him in a completely
00:49:05.26\00:49:07.58
different
category to you and to me,
00:49:07.59\00:49:10.51
because He has limitless
power, limitless knowledge,
00:49:10.52\00:49:15.85
limitless wisdom,
limitless presence,
00:49:15.86\00:49:19.96
limitless authority,
limitless love, limitless grace,
00:49:19.97\00:49:26.26
thus he is indeed
the incomparable God.
00:49:26.27\00:49:33.48
All other Gods are puny,
00:49:33.49\00:49:36.63
silly and non consensual.
00:49:36.64\00:49:41.96
Listen to these words,
00:49:41.97\00:49:43.63
Christianity is not a set
of rule, so we have rules.
00:49:43.64\00:49:47.65
I could easily
have been a Methodist
00:49:47.66\00:49:49.88
if I lived in the
days of John Wesley
00:49:49.89\00:49:52.24
because I like methods.
00:49:52.25\00:49:56.22
I like being organized.
00:49:56.23\00:49:58.17
I am not very tolerant with
people who are disorganized.
00:49:58.18\00:50:06.12
Christianity is
not a set of rule,
00:50:06.13\00:50:08.87
it is not about being a vegan.
00:50:08.88\00:50:11.93
Or what you wear or more
importantly what you don't wear,
00:50:15.62\00:50:19.91
or how much money you have.
00:50:19.92\00:50:21.34
Some of those things
may be of inconsequence.
00:50:21.35\00:50:25.74
But that is not Christianity.
00:50:25.75\00:50:28.48
They may flow from
certain aspects of Christianity,
00:50:28.49\00:50:31.60
but Christianity is all about
Jesus, the light of the world.
00:50:31.61\00:50:38.44
If you don't belong to a
church with Christ is the Lord
00:50:38.45\00:50:42.51
and where His word is
preached, find another church.
00:50:42.52\00:50:48.56
And He would very much
like to be your emancipator,
00:50:53.75\00:50:59.81
your teacher, your redeemer,
00:50:59.82\00:51:03.74
your life giver,
your friend, your God.
00:51:03.75\00:51:10.07
He's a total
gentleman, doesn't push His way
00:51:10.08\00:51:13.12
in where He is not
wanted, in Revelation it says,
00:51:13.13\00:51:17.25
Revelation 3, "I
stand at the door,
00:51:17.26\00:51:21.61
and knock, if any
anyone will open the door,"
00:51:21.62\00:51:27.56
what a paradox,
the all mighty God
00:51:27.57\00:51:31.03
and He can't open
the door himself."
00:51:31.04\00:51:35.80
He's a total gentleman.
00:51:35.81\00:51:38.26
He knocks, but its up to
each one of us to open the door
00:51:38.27\00:51:42.12
to the one who is matchless
without peer, second to none.
00:51:42.13\00:51:48.03
That's the thing,
doesn't push His way anywhere.
00:51:55.74\00:52:00.13
You can sit here in church,
you can be a nominal Christian,
00:52:00.14\00:52:03.60
you can hard in your
heart, you can listen it all.
00:52:03.61\00:52:07.11
You can go through the motions,
00:52:07.12\00:52:08.87
because you think that's
Christianity, you are deluded.
00:52:08.88\00:52:12.95
It is knowing Christ, as
your Lord and as your Savior.
00:52:15.95\00:52:20.12
Everybody in America
wants Jesus, the Savior.
00:52:20.13\00:52:26.83
But He is the Lord Jesus Christ,
00:52:26.84\00:52:30.53
and the Lord means, the Master.
00:52:30.54\00:52:34.64
Listen to this poem, I love it.
00:52:38.50\00:52:42.12
I see his blood upon the rose
00:52:42.13\00:52:45.71
And in the stars
the glory of his eyes,
00:52:45.72\00:52:50.85
His body gleams
amid eternal snows,
00:52:50.86\00:52:54.63
His tears fall from the skies.
00:52:54.64\00:52:58.99
I see his face in every flower,
00:52:59.00\00:53:04.00
The thunder and the singing
of the birds are but his voice.
00:53:04.01\00:53:11.95
And carved by his power
00:53:16.64\00:53:18.62
the rocks are his written words.
00:53:18.63\00:53:23.98
All pathways by
his feet are worn,
00:53:23.99\00:53:29.41
His strong heart stirs
00:53:29.42\00:53:34.18
the ever-beating sea,
00:53:34.19\00:53:38.29
His crown of thorns is
twined with every thorn,
00:53:38.30\00:53:46.16
His cross is every tree.
00:53:46.17\00:53:50.17
I present to you
today, I give to you today
00:53:54.38\00:54:00.79
the incomparable Christ. Amen.
00:54:00.80\00:54:05.36
Second to none,
00:54:05.37\00:54:08.16
without compare, amen.
00:54:08.17\00:54:14.24
Hello friend, I am John Carter.
00:54:14.25\00:54:16.58
I am here today to tell
you the most amazing news.
00:54:16.59\00:54:20.01
I want to thank you
firstly in Jesus name
00:54:20.02\00:54:23.14
for your magnificent support.
00:54:23.15\00:54:25.44
We are on our
way to Port Moresby,
00:54:25.45\00:54:29.17
the capital of Papua New Guinea.
00:54:29.18\00:54:32.27
We are going to see
the amazing power of God.
00:54:32.28\00:54:35.58
We are going there to
preach the everlasting gospel.
00:54:35.59\00:54:39.28
I'll be preaching every night
00:54:39.29\00:54:41.36
outdoors in the
national stadium.
00:54:41.37\00:54:44.27
The locals tell us we will have
over 100,000 people a night,
00:54:44.28\00:54:50.02
some say, 150,000 people.
00:54:50.03\00:54:53.11
A few have said may be 200,000,
00:54:53.12\00:54:57.17
but I want you to know this,
00:54:57.18\00:54:58.84
we go in the name
of Christ to preach
00:54:58.85\00:55:01.22
the gospel and to save souls.
00:55:01.23\00:55:04.95
And I am saying today, I
can't do this without your help.
00:55:04.96\00:55:09.48
I've got to raise right now
$500,000 for this great campaign
00:55:09.49\00:55:17.27
that is going to shake
an entire nation for God,
00:55:17.28\00:55:22.37
please be my partner.
00:55:22.38\00:55:24.41
Write to me John
Carter P.O. Box 1900
00:55:24.42\00:55:28.86
Thousands Oaks,
California, 91358.
00:55:28.87\00:55:32.51
In Australia my Aussie friends,
please write to Terrigal.
00:55:32.52\00:55:37.14
The address is now
appearing on the screen.
00:55:37.15\00:55:40.30
Please stand with me in
this tremendous outreach
00:55:40.31\00:55:44.98
to the people of
the Papua New Guinea.
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We used to talk
about "Mission Impossible."
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All of a sudden it has
become "Mission Possible."
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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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When Christ shall come,
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with shouts of acclamation
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And take me home,
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what joy shall fill my heart
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Then I shall bow
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in humble adoration
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And there proclaim,
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"My God, how great You are!"
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Then sings my soul,
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my Savior God, to Thee
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How great Thou art
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How great Thou art
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Then sings my soul,
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my Savior God, to Thee
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How great Thou art
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How great Thou art
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How great Thou art
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How great Thou art
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