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"The Living
Word" around the world.
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How should a
Christian live in a socially,
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racially divided society?
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This is the Carter
Report my name is James Venegas.
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We have some more
Fresh Hot Potatoes for you
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with our special
guest Pastor John Carter.
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Welcome back, you're with us
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with Fresh Hot Potatoes
with Pastor John Carter.
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Pastor Carter, it's
good to have you with us.
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Thank you, delighted to be here.
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We have many, many
questions coming in,
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pouring in from the
internet our audience out there
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and the very for provoking
theological cultural questions.
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We have the one straight
of the bat here from Daniel,
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who asks, how
should a follower of Christ
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live in a racially,
culturally divided society?
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What would you say to that?
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A Christian in the
words of Martin Luther King
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should see people
through their character,
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not the
pigmentation of their skin.
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Racism, racism where by we
cut people out of our society
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because of the
color of their skin
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is an abomination in
the eyes of the Lord.
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Now I'm going to come
over here, Pastor Venegas,
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to a text in Galatians
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and it's written by
the great Apostle Paul.
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You can't imagine Paul
being a racist, can't you?
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Galatians 3, now remember this,
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racism is not confined
to any one racial group.
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Yes, yes, very true.
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Some people say, well, you know,
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it's on the province of
this category of society.
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No, no, no, you've got racists
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with every different type
of color that you can imagine.
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Very true.
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And you're only going to travel
around the world as I have
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and you find
racist in every country
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with every different color. Yes.
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Now the Bible
says, Galatians 3:26,
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"You are all sons of God
through faith in Christ Jesus."
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Then verse 28 says, "There
is neither Jew nor Greek slave
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nor free male nor female free.
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You are all one in Christ Jesus.
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If you belong to Christ
then you're Abraham seed
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and heirs
according to the promise."
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The Bible says, "In
Christ, we are Abraham seed.
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We are all
spiritual Jews." Yes, yes.
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Whether I'm white
with an English background
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or I'm brown or yellow or
black or red I don't care.
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If you belong to
Christ, you are a child of God.
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And a Christian should
abhor racism in every situation.
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So what we do when
the media and trails,
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court trials start to stir up
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that sense of
unfairness and justice?
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How do we respond to that?
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The media, the media
is continually stirring.
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I mean, how could
they sell newspapers,
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the newspaper
people if they want story?
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How could CNN or Fox or whatever
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or the ABC or
Channel 9 in Australia
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how could they ever get ratings
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unless they were
stirring the pot?
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A Christian owe to
ignore all that stuff.
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Ignore, okay.
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Why should we be
polluted by pollution?
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Why should we allow
people who have no knowledge
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of the truth of God
brainwash our minds.
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We got to think for ourselves
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and we owe to stay clear of
all of these divisive issues.
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Yes, yes. So stay clear.
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I think so. Okay.
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Unless there is a
great injustice done.
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Yes, but then what we do?
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Do we--do we riot, do we--
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A Christian owe to stand
on the side of justice. Okay.
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But at the same time he
should not be manipulated.
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Yes. And the--
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Do we do it in an
aggressive fashion?
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No, I don't think
so. Jesus didn't, did He?
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No, He didn't.
Neither did the apostles.
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They may think,
think about Jesus
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He never preached a
sermon against slavery. Yeah.
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And yet the Bible
in the New Testament
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at least is against slavery.
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Well, is it, is it
because they Apostle Paul said,
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be good to your slaves. Yeah.
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But the Bible gave
great principles and truths.
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And when those great truths
and principles were followed
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slavery was done
away with. Yes, yes.
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And so the Bible is
like the salt, the permeate.
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It's like the
yeast the ferments.
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And the best way that we
can reform society, my brother,
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is not by
marching on the streets
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but it is by
preaching the word of God
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because this book is the great
liberator of the human race.
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And when this book is preached
there is an end of racism.
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And also of the
putting down of women.
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Well, speaking of putting down
of women and all the same sex,
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the things going on currently
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how is marriage
in the home faring?
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Thanks to all of this media hype
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and all of these
decisions being made.
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How important is
marriage in the home still
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and the role of women?
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How does all that work now
with all the changes going on?
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Marriage is the
bedrock of society.
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If marriage
goes, then society goes
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and when society
goes, the state goes.
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If marriage goes in America,
it is the end of America.
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And anything
that weakens marriage
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weakens the
United States of America.
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How can people be so
blind to these things?
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No society can survive
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if we destroy the relationship
between men and women.
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And what is
happening today is this,
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there is a great
merging of the sexes.
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And so people are telling us
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that men and women
are exactly the same.
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That is nonsense. Okay.
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As the French say,
long live the difference.
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Let me read you a
text here in the Bible.
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Let me read you a
text from our Lord.
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And when it comes
down to the bottom line,
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we got to see
what the Bible teaches.
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All the philosophers and
all the television people,
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they're not worth
listening to on most things.
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We got to go by the
word of God. Absolutely.
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Get it from the word of God,
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Jesus said this in
Matthew 19:4 and onwards,
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"Haven't you
read, he replied that
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at the beginning the Creator
'made them male and female'
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and said 'for this reason a man
will leave his father and mother
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and be united to his wife and
the two will become one flesh.'"
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So what consequences
are you saying currently
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I mean, that one flesh
is just not there anymore.
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Well, it is with
millions of people.
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I mean, the vast
majority of Americans
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and Australians believe
in this type of marriage.
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They may not be
allowed to have their say,
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or they maybe
drowned out by the liberals
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and by the political people
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and the televisions people
who have their own agenda.
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It is an amazing thing that
these people get on television
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they have their agenda
and they push their agenda
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and the voice of the
majority is completely,
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almost completely ignored.
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But Jesus said, man and a woman
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anything that
destroys that relationship
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will destroy society.
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As it brought down
in the Roman Empire
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it will bring
down any empire, James.
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And are you're saying
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any cultural
consequences at the moment.
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In one segment of
our great society,
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one segment, 73%
of those individuals,
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73% of those individuals do
not have a father in their home.
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Now in the--in the cities
the figure is probably 100%.
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But right across this great land
of the United States of America
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and its getting
worst, getting worst,
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it is now 73%
of those families--
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That is an incredible figure.
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Seventy three
and this is a fact.
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It's probably high now
because it's rising all the time
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but 73% had been
forsaken by the father.
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These men know how to beget
but tragically they forget.
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Beget, forget and so
they forget their children
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and they forget their
wives they are dead beads.
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So remind us again
what is the biblical idea
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for those of us living
in such a fluid society?
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One man, one
woman, man and woman.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Unless the Supreme
Court says, polygamy is okay,
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they may do this the next time.
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But now of course the
Bible says one man, one woman.
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And in that segment of
our great American society
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with 73% of the homes
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are without a father,
wait till you hear this.
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The young men who
come out of those families
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have 10 times the crime
rate of the rest put together.
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Ten times the crime rate
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and 25% of them are either
in prison now or on parole.
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Those poor little kids who
grew up into poor young men,
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who got into these
societies that glorified wise,
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who is to blame?
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Well, don't blame--
don't blame the church,
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don't blame the government,
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blame those
irresponsible fathers
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who walked out
on their families.
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Now, this politically incorrect,
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but I challenge anybody to
contradict these statistics.
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Nobody can
contradict these statistics.
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The president has
some what alluded to them.
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He has some what spoken
of this terrible condition.
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And the only way that we
can redeem the situation,
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can it be redeemed?
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Yes. How?
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By return to
biblical marriage, James,
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Yes, yes, yes. Stability.
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So what we are saying in
issues of race and culture
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and marriage and the
home, going back to the Bible--
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Go back to the Bible. Is
the way to save our country?
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God is--God doesn't
care about your color.
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God is colorblind.
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You know, God
doesn't look upon you and say
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will your ancestry came
from such and such a place
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and my ancestry came
from such and such a place.
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After all it said
and done who cares.
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It's not who your ancestors
where its what you are today.
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Yes, yes.
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And so in the sight of God
every person is born equal.
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A Blackman, I
preached to more black people
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I guess than just
about anybody around.
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I preached a million of them.
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Recently we did a series
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for black people up
in Papua New Guinea.
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We had at the end, you know,
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well over a hundred
thousand people a night.
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We saw the mighty Spirit of God
poured out upon those people.
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So, God loves black people.
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He loves Anglos,
He loves Hispanics,
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He loves the Chinese.
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You bet there
are so many of them.
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So it is not the
color of your skin,
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it is the content
of your character.
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Let's never forget it.
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And that is what
the Bible teaches.
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And Pastor Carter, so
many great questions coming in
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we got some more to
put to you in just a moment
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but we will be back just after
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I want to hear from you today.
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And welcome back,
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to some more fresh hot potatoes
with Pastor John Carter.
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My name is James Venegas
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and we have questions pouring in
theological as well as cultural.
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We have more
questions to get straight into,
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we can't waste any time.
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The Sabbath, Pastor Carter,
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the Jewish
biblical Christian Sabbath
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is it is too
relevant in today world?
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Is it something
more than just a symbol,
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is it something we
should hear to Sabbath?
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Pastor Venegas, at
the very beginning of time
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in the Book of
Genesis, the Book of Beginnings
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God gave two great institutions.
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You know you are a pastor. I do.
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Number one, what was number one?
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Marriage. Marriage, yes.
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Yeah, marriage.
One man one woman.
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And people can argue
until cows come home,
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it makes no difference.
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It's the truth of God.
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I don't care what
they say in television,
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they may say we don't
believe this any more.
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Well, that's obvious.
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Look at the mess
they got themselves into.
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He gave marriage and then
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He also gave the
Sabbath. The Sabbath.
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Now, I am gonna read it
to you out of Genesis 2:1-3,
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"Thus the heavens and the earth
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were completed in
all their vast array.
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By the seventh day
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God had finished the
work He had been doing,
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so on the seventh day He
rested from all his work.
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And God blessed the
seventh day and made it holy
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because on it He rested
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from all the work of
creating that zhe had done."
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But made marriage,
and He made the Sabbath.
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So what you are saying is that
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this is not a
Jewish thing at all.
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No, no, no, it was for
the Jews that is for us too.
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Jesus said the
Sabbath was made for man.
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Mark 2:27, 28, "The
Sabbath was made for man."
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And the last time I checked
M-A-N doesn't spell J-E-W.
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Exactly, exactly.
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Now, the Jews are men but
men are not necessarily Jews.
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Correct, correct.
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When it says the
Sabbath was made for men,
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when Jesus said
it, He meant mankind.
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Because the
human race needs a time
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when they can come apart
from the rush of the crowds
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and from the complexities
of world and worship God.
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And that's what
Americans used to do this.
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They on Sundays, almost
everybody went to church.
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Today almost
nobody goes to church.
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Yes, now, some people say
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isn't it more about
relationship rather than a day?
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Well, why can't you
have both? Why--why a day?
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Well, it's really hard
to have the relationship
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unless you have a
time of meditation.
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You see, the
Bible says Jesus said
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"Seek first the kingdom of God."
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Today we don't do this. No.
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We seek first going to the isle
of Macy's or somewhere else.
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And so on the freeways
people rushing, tearing.
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Are people happier? No.
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Crime is raging, we have
international crisis a day.
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Jesus said, "Come
apart and rest awhile."
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And Jesus was a Sabbath keeper.
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And there is a great theologian
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perhaps the greatest
theologian of the 20th century.
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Okay. Karl Barth.
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Yes, Karl Barth.
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And Karl Barth, he was certainly
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was not a
Seventh-day Adventist. No.
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But Karl Barth
quoted another writer
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in his article on the Sabbath
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and Karl Barth was a
great defender of the Sabbath.
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And Barth said
this, he quoted this,
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"When the Holy day
becomes a day of man,
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society and humanity wither
away and the demons rule."
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Society and humanity today
are withering away in America.
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I live in a street,
James, of wonderful people
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nobody goes to
church. Yeah, yeah.
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People don't go
to church anymore.
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You have some super churches
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but most people are
too busy to go to church
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except for a funeral
or wedding or Christmas.
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And thus we have today a
plague of crime and breakdown,
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physical, mental, a
breakdown of the home,
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people don't
know what to believe.
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And so marriage is not
going and the Sabbath is gone
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and what is happening
the demons are ruling.
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Yeah, and so we become
a very selfish society,
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we forget from where we came.
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Now another theological question
that's come in from David.
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He asks, "How do you see
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End Time
Prophecies being fulfilled?"
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For those who don't know
what End Time Prophecies are,
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these are the
predictions and warnings
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of the Bible for our day.
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How do you see them being
fulfilling in your life time?
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James, I have been
studying this wonderful old book
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for more than 50 years.
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I believe it is the word of God.
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The greatest challenge
to 21st Christianity today,
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I will tell you what it
is, it's anti-intellectualism.
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People have checked
out with their minds
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and they no longer
study the word of God,
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they checked out.
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Most so called
Christians are ignorant
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of the teachings
of the word of God.
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That's why they say,
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"Oh, same sex
marriage, that's okay."
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Oh, the Sabbath is abolish,
"Oh, yeah, that's okay to do."
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And then if
somebody comes along say,
00:22:16.61\00:22:18.27
"Well, you know we can
have multiple wives or husband."
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Oh, yeah that's okay.
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There is a vacuum of
intellectual knowledge.
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Now when you
study the scriptures
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the Bible tells us
that certain events
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will take place
in the last times.
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I'm convinced with all my soul
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that we are living in
the last closing moments
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in the history
of the human race.
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I believe that the assult
on the word of God is a sign.
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I believe that the
giving up of biblical marriage
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or endorsing same sex marriage
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I believe that's
a sign of the times.
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I believe that the
war, the passive war
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against the Commandments
of God including Sabbath.
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Now, I jotted down
here from Matthew 24, May I?
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Yes, absolutely.
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Persecution of believers,
we are going to see that,
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we are going to
see it in America.
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Because Christians
have certain believes
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and they say,
"No, we can't do this."
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They are going to be persecuted.
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Persecution of believers.
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The Eventual union
of church and states.
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The setting up of theocracy to
enforce man made religious laws.
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Number 3, great
natural and national disasters.
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We shouldn't mess with God.
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He's got an arsenal out
there in the yellow stone,
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if God lifts that bomb
off it will wipe out America.
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Look at the National Geographic
on this one, the Yellowstone.
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Religious apostacy, a
falling away from the truth
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whereby people become so secular
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and so liberal that
they no longer believe.
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Number five, a war
against the law of God.
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You see it happening?
Oh, absolutely, absolutely.
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So these things that
you've just mentioned
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Religious Apostacy,
war against the law.
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We are seeing literally it
happen before our very eyes.
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Absolutely.
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Even in my life time,
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things are just have
been turned on your head.
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People have said to me,
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more things have
happened in the last 12 months.
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They said, we never thought
these things would ever happen
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in this country that
was based on the Bible.
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I have been caution
and warned against this.
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A removal of
God's protective hand,
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talk about that in a moment.
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Enforcement of man made
religious laws, Revelation 13.
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And everybody is
being spied on today.
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There is no place you can hide.
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Continual wars in
Jerusalem and Israel.
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The flash point, the
Bible says, "Wars to the end."
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The gospel to the world
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and the emergence
of a faithful remnant.
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Tell me more about the removal
of God's protective hand.
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Well, there is a preacher
I enjoy here in North America
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his name is
Pastor Charles Stanley.
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Oh, he's a Bible
preacher not a philosopher,
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and he believes in marriage
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and he believes
in the commandments.
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I heard him say this, if we
turn away from God as a nation.
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He said God has had
His hand over America.
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He even said, we shouldn't
have won the Second World War,
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we weren't ready but
God had His hand over us.
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He said, God has His hand over
this nation in a marvelous way.
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America is raised up by God.
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But Pastor Stanley said,
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if we turn away from
God and break His word.
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Despise His word
and change His laws
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the hand of God will be removed.
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And God will no
longer protect us
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and just as disasters came
upon the children of Israel
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so disasters will come upon us.
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Now this is a good
point-- Pretty scary enough.
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Yeah, but many of
evangelists preaches that,
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that God is directly punishing
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and He has in the
Bible a couple of times
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but mostly in the Bible
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when His people
aren't following His ways,
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He seems to
remove. Yes, He does.
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Its different sort of
statement that some put out
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that God punished us on 9/11.
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It's God's
removal of His protection.
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I think we've got to be careful,
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unless we make self
righteous, pontifical statements
00:26:54.24\00:26:58.67
and say well, God
punish the people in New York.
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Well, why didn't He punish
the people in Los Angeles?
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You know, isn't God impartial?
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We need to be careful when we
try to make specific statements
00:27:10.12\00:27:13.70
that God is punishing
here and punishing there.
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Your point is well taken.
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What God does, He takes
away the hand of protection.
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Yes, yes.
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And we are going to
see as people interfere
00:27:22.66\00:27:25.43
more and more
with the word of God,
00:27:25.46\00:27:27.21
we are going to see the
hand removed more and more.
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And this is going to
bring abou, Pastor Venegas,
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in such a time of trouble
00:27:33.43\00:27:35.83
that the government
and the great church
00:27:35.86\00:27:38.54
they're going
to all get together
00:27:38.57\00:27:40.00
and then they go to setup their
own little worldwide theocracy.
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This is spoken of in
the Book of Revelation
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and then they're going to try to
bring about the blessing of God
00:27:46.17\00:27:49.00
by enforcing their
own religious laws.
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Yes, yes.
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The scene, the
stage is being set.
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Absolutely.
00:27:56.49\00:27:57.52
Now, this isn't
said for us to be afraid
00:27:57.55\00:28:00.28
but to be warned and to be ready
00:28:00.31\00:28:01.81
to see what is
going on around us.
00:28:01.84\00:28:03.64
Pastor Carter, it's been
a pleasure again, today to--
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My pleasure to be here.
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Answer some of these question,
they are great questions.
00:28:07.64\00:28:09.05
They are coming
in from the internet,
00:28:09.08\00:28:10.45
from our viewing
audience out there.
00:28:10.48\00:28:12.06
We do encourage you
to send more questions in
00:28:12.09\00:28:14.40
via our website
carterreport.org, that is O-R-G.
00:28:14.43\00:28:18.36
We are want to
hear the questions,
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bring them here and
answer them for you.
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Thank you, Pastor
Carter, for your time.
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My pleasure, thank you.
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We will see you next time.
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God bless you and God bless you.
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