From Arcadia, California,
the Carter Report presents
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"The Living
Word" around the world.
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If there is one Christ
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why are there so
many Christian churches?
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Welcome to the Carter
Report my name is James Venegas,
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with some more
Fresh Hot Potatoes.
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We welcome our
guest Pastor John Carter.
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Jesus said, "Go
into all the world
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and make
disciples of all nations,
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baptizing them in
the name of the Father,
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Son, and Holy Spirit."
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The Carter Report
team has therefore
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accepted the challenge
of Worldwide Evangelism.
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Millions in Russia, Ukraine,
the Philippines, Africa,
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India, Australia,
the United States,
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and the Isles of the Sea have
heard the good news of Christ
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as John Carter has
proclaimed God's Living Word.
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You are invited to be
a part of the Carter team
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by praying and by giving
and when God calls by going.
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Write a note now
to Pastor John Carter,
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PO Box 1900, Thousand
Oaks, California 91358
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or to PO Box 861,
Terrigal, NSW 2260, Australia.
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Jesus said, "With God
all things are possible."
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Welcome to the
program, Pastor Carter.
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Thank you. Fresh Hot Potatoes.
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We are so
privileged to have you with us
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and to have so many thoughtful
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and thought provoking
questions from our viewers.
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We are gonna get
stuck straight in again
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because there
are so many to cover.
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I want to ask you if there was
one Jesus and one first church
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why today are there so many
different Christian churches?
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Because people stubbornly
refuse to walk in the light.
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Let me give you a text. Sure.
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I think there is a text here
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that may help us in 1 John 1:7.
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Okay. I think it is, yes.
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"But if we walk in the
light, as he is in the light,
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we have
fellowship with one another,
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and the blood of
Jesus Christ, His Son,
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purifies us from all sin."
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If we walk in the light
as Christ is in the light,
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we will have
fellowship with each other
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we will be united.
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The problem is this,
that churches have got
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this bad habit of
drawing up creeds.
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They say, well,
this is what we believe.
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Why do you believe? Because...
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I believe what
my church believes.
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Oh, what does
your church believe?
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Well, it
believes what I believe.
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Now, what does your
church and you believe?
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Well, we both believe the same.
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God founded a church, in
the days of the apostles.
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As time went by the
church fell away from the truth.
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You find that in 2
Thessalonians Chapter 2
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it talks about the great
apostasy, the falling away.
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Then there came a
system of church and state.
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A paganized
system, baptized paganism
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had so many,
many, many traditions
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not taught in the word of God,
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not walking in the light
but that church could still say,
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hey, we trace our
ancestry back to the apostles.
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That doesn't prove anything.
You see, doesn't prove a thing.
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If you want to get the
oldest religion in the world
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I guess you got to go to
the Canaanites or somebody else.
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Age is not a determining
factor in truth, truth is. Yes.
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There came a great reformation
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Martin Luther started
preaching but after he died,
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his followers said,
well, we're gonna stick
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for what Luther
said, Luther had the truth,
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we are not going any further
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and then there came a schism
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and after
another church was formed
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they had some
more truth of course.
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They got little bit more truth
but they made the same mistake.
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They drew up creeds. Yes.
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The true heart of Protestantism
is of we don't have a creed,
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but we walk in the
light as He is in the light,
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that we recognize that only
God and His word are infallible
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and we need to walk in
the light of God's word
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and if we do this, we will
have fellowship with each other.
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So is there a true church today?
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The true church universally
is made up the universal church.
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If you go back to Adam
you can trace the church
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from the days
of Adam to our day.
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It is a church
that trusts in God,
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doesn't trust in
his own righteousness.
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The church that is
saved by the gospel
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and a church that keeps
the Commandments of God.
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God has always had a church,
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even when people
thought the church had vanished.
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But in the last
days it speaks about
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the appearance of
a special movement.
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Chapter 12:17 of Revelation
"And the dragon" the devil
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"was in enraged at
the woman, the church,
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and went off to make war against
the rest of her offspring
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those who obey
God's commandments
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and hold to the
testimony of Jesus."
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In the last
days, there will emerge
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a people who believe in Christ.
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Who believe in the gospel
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and who believe in
the Commandments of God?
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And they won't have
a denomination or name.
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I think what we should
do, Pastor Venegas, today
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is not talk about denominations,
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that simply infuriates people.
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It plays into
the hands of bigots.
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As somebody said you know,
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I have said it over and
over again a million times.
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Well, I'm saved
because I believe
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to the church of so and so.
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That's not
necessarily so, is it?
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God knows the heart,
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God has His people in the
Great Roman Catholic Church,
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millions of them.
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Honest people who
trust in Christ alone. Yes.
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God has His people
in the Lutheran church,
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the Baptist church,
the Methodist church
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you can go on and on.
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God has His people everywhere
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in every nation
and every church.
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But, what we
should consider is this
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not that we criticize others
who don't belong to "our church"
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but we should make sure
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that we are walking
in the light of His word.
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Does that answer your question?
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Yes, it does. It does.
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Trying to push those buttons.
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You are throwing,
as they say in cricket,
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you were throwing a
curve ball, a curve ball move.
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That's the one, that's the one.
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Now, we have got a
very interesting email here
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from a lady called Debra.
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Its come through
the internet. Good name.
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Yes, very good name. Hi, Debra.
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Have a listen to
this, dear Pastor Carter,
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I watched part of the
video in which you invited
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a bishop of the
catholic church to talk about
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the changing of the
Sabbath by the Catholic Church
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also a rabbi, who convinced,
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who was convinced that
Sabbath falls on Saturday
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and has not been changed.
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I uploaded part of the
video as I got it from a friend
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and it caused quite a stir
or an uproar among my friends
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form other
denominations on Facebook.
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They protested
saying that it's hoax's.
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They demanded
that I have to know
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and give them the
name of that bishop.
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Would you please clarify?
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Let me try to help. Yes.
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There is an old saying, a text
with out a context is a pretext.
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If you are going to
watch one of my sermons,
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watch it in its entity,
the word that was used there
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and it's a definite word,
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it says, we uploaded
part of the video. Yes.
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Don't upload part of any thing
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because you will get
a text without a context
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and you will end
up with a pretext.
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I would like to say to
Debra, look at the entire video.
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See the whole lot and
look at the subtitles,
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it tells you
exactly who the person was.
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But, let me tell
you something, Debra,
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and my friend Pastor
Venegas, all those statements
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that were read
there by the "Rabbi"
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and by the "Bishop"
were authentic statements.
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The man who had the mightier
and who read those statements
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was reading from
the official writing
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of the Roman Catholic
Church, there is no hoax there.
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Now, you are a Sabbath keeper?
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Yes, like Jesus. Like Jesus.
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Like Paul. And like Paul.
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A young lady named Jackie,
I assume she is a young lady.
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Oh, I think so. We
call her young lady.
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She says in a
question, please tell me exactly
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how you spend your Sabbath?
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Do you start it on
Friday beside the church service
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what else do you do on Sabbath?
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Jesus said the
Sabbath was made for man.
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The Sabbath was
made for our good.
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God never gave us a Sabbath
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to restrict us and
take things from us.
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But he gave us holy commandments
how we are to keep the Sabbath.
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You can read those holy
commandments in Exodus 20
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and other passages.
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If you want to see how
the Sabbath should be kept
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you need to look
at the life of Jesus.
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Jesus went to
church on the Sabbath.
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You see the
Sabbath is the Lord's Day,
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it is the rest day,
it is the blessed day
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which makes it the best day
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and for most
people it is the test day.
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And so we are told
that Jesus went to church
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and Jesus healed on the Sabbath.
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So I go to church
on the Lord's Day.
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Not the Jewish day.
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But, oh, of course the Jews,
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they are welcome to keep it too
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and we have Jewish
people in this congregation.
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So, the Sabbath is
made for all people.
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I go to church, I try
to have a wonderful meal
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with my friends
on the Sabbath day.
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And I often go for a
walk on the Sabbath day.
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When people say,
couldn't keep that old Sabbath.
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It's such a yoke of bondage,
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I don't know, what
they are talking about.
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You don't know what a mango
is like until you taste it.
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So the Bible
says, taste and see.
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Can you make comment on when
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the Sabbath
begins for you and why?
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Well, it doesn't begin for
me, it begins for the world.
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The Sabbath is
from sunset to sunset.
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The Bible says, in
Leviticus "From even unto even,
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shall you keep your Sabbaths."
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And so, the day of
paganism commences at midnight
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when good people
ought to be asleep.
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It commences at the
darkest time of night, James.
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Yes. Yes.
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But God has stay
commences with the great stroke,
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a stroke from heaven.
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When the sun dips
beyond the horizon,
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beyond the horizon
then the Sabbath commences.
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Friday evening
is the seventh day
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and the seventh day
starts Friday sunset
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and it goes
through to Saturday sunset.
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Who says so? Every
theologian who knows.
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Every historian, every
Roman Catholic Scholar,
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ever Jew, every
Rabbi, every encyclopedia
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the Sabbath
from sunset to sunset
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its not my day,
it's the Lord's Day.
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It's the day that Jesus kept.
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It's the day that you
ought to keep too, friend.
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And it's the best day.
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It's the best day,
rest day, test day.
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Test day and the rest day.
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Now, we have lots
more questions to ask you
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but we are gonna
take a moment and pause
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and we are gonna hear
from an important message.
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Hello, friend, I am
John Carter in Colombia.
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Behind me is the
great city of Bogota
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the capital of
this amazing country.
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This city is a city of
more than eight million souls.
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It's up more than
8,000 feet in the Andes.
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And we've come here
today with one purpose in mind
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to preach the everlasting
gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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We are here because we
have a commission from God.
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Jesus said, "Go
into all the world
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and preach the
Everlasting Gospel,
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baptizing them in
the name of the Father,
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and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit."
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The people here need
the Gospel of Christ.
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And I am asking
you today come with us,
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if not in body but
come with us in spirit.
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This is been a
very, very dangerous city.
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A very dangerous
part of the world
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but we believe that we are safe
when we are in the hands of God.
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Therefore I am beseeching
you in the name of Christ
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and in the names of these
eight million plus inhabitants
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in the city of Bogota to come
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and help us to
preach the word of God.
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Please support the preaching
of the word of God in Columbia.
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Please write to me,
John Carter, PO Box 1900,
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Thousand Oaks,
California, 91358.
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In Australia, write
to me at the address,
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Terrigal, New
South Wales, Australia.
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Jesus said,
"Work while it is day
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the night is coming
when no man can work."
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Please write to me today.
Thank you, and God bless you.
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And welcome back to a
Fresh Hot Potatoes program
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with Pastor John Carter.
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How are we going?
We are doing well.
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How are you doing?
I'm doing pretty well.
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You are in the
hot seat, don't you?
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Now we are
answering some great questions
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that are coming in
through the internet,
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especially through the
email and through our Facebook
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and we have
another one here for you.
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Gustavil through an email says--
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Gustavo. Gustavo, oh, I'm sorry.
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Nobody would fake that
name. Did I say it properly?
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No, no, I
wouldn't know how to say.
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He says, how can I distinguish
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who is a true prophet
or who is a false prophet?
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Are there biblical
verses to distinguish
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who is true and who is false?
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Good question, easy answer.
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I think, I think, I
think it is Matthew 7.
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"Watch out for false
prophets." Matthew 7:15.
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"They come to you
in sheep's clothing,
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but inwardly they
are ferocious wolves.
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By their fruits you
will recognize them."
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then down in verse 29, he says,
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"By their fruit you will
recognize them" repeats it.
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"Not everyone who
says to me, 'Lord, Lord,'
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will enter the
kingdom of heaven,
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but only he who does the will
of my Father who is in heaven."
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Jesus said, you can tell a
true prophet by the fruits.
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You don't get orange,
you don't get oranges off a--
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An apple tree. An
apple tree or a mango tree.
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So that's a symbolic thing,
what would fruits look like?
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Acts of righteousness.
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If a person claims
to be a true prophet
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but he is a man who loves money
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and whose ministry is
based on fleecing the flock.
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Are there any people like this?
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If there are people whose
even a ministry has one emphasis
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and that is to fleece the
flock they shear the flock.
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They put the money
into his own pocket
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he is a prophet, okay. Yes.
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He is a false prophet.
And he is making a profit.
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He is making a profit.
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And true prophet will
live a righteous life,
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he will not be
an adulterous man,
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he who won't be a
thief, he won't be a liar,
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he won't be a cheat but he
will be a person who loves God
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and loves the people of God and
who lives for the glory of God.
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And of course we are talking
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a prophet being
a messenger of God.
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Yes, a messenger of God.
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Not just any old
preacher, we are talking about--
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And the Bible tells that there
are heaps of false prophets.
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Yes, yes, and there
will be more as well.
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And people are easily taken
in, James, by false prophets
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because they
don't read their Bibles
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and because
most people are naive
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and they are taken in by
bitter glamour, you know.
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And the Bible teaches that
there will be much falling away
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because of these people.
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People need to think for
themselves and read their Bibles
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and make up their own opinions.
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Yes, now a couple of practical
questions about the ministry,
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the Carter Report ministry.
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Sandy writes, I love
your teaching on television.
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What I don't
understand is why you have
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so many flags on your stage?
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I got to fill it
up some how, Sandy.
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No, no, that's
not the full question.
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And no Israel
flag? Oh, goodness.
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Not only that why you,
sorry, not only that, she says,
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but why do you
revere so much Martin Luther
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when he had such
a hatred for Jews?
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He is pope of the
Jews and their lives,
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of course, the Nazi's loved him.
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So are you
favoring Martin Luther and--
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over the Jews here?
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Let's get to an easy
part first, the flags.
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I thought, we
had an Israeli flag.
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Okay. I'm sorry if we don't.
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But there are hundreds
of nations in the world
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and we don't have
room for hundreds of flags.
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But I'm quite certain at
one stage we had an Israeli flag
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because we love
the Jewish people.
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This is a Jewish book
and this amazes some people
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but Jesus was a Jewish man.
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All the apostles
were Jewish people.
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The Blessed Virgin Mary,
the icon of the Catholic Church,
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Jewish, a Jewish woman.
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And Martin Luther,
Martin Luther was raised up
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by God to commence
a great reformation
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that was based
on Sola Scriptura,
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Solo Christo,
Sola Gratia, Sola Fide.
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That's the rallying cry
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of the great
protestant reformation.
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I believe in
everything with all my heart.
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But Martin Luther as he
got old got cantankerous.
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That's what happens you know.
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That happens, they
tell me that happens.
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So, he got
cantankerous, he got very sick,
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he was continually in pain
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and he wrote some
very, very unpleasant things
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about the Jews
that the Nazi's used.
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I say this to the
shame of his name.
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That he said things that
could fall into the enemies,
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into the hands of the
enemies of the Jewish people.
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That just tells you
that people are fallible
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and we should not follow
people including Martin Luther
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we should follow Christ.
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Very true. Who was a Jew.
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Yes, so we love
the Jews? Yes we do.
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And we respect Martin Luther
for what--how God used him.
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For what he did but not for
what he said about the Jews.
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Absolutely,
another practical question
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from lady named
Elaine, through the email.
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When will you be holding a
crusade in London, England,
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in your mother country?
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Well, my homeland is Australia
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but my folks came from
England a long time ago.
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They came out, Elaine, with very
cheap type of transportation.
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They came out courtesy
of the government on boats
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but we won't go into
that one right now, James.
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It's a
different-- different program.
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We would love to run
a campaign in London.
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We went over there a couple
of years ago to check it out.
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But, Elaine,
you must understand,
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that we raise
the budgets ourselves
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for these
campaigns, nobody helps us.
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We don't have a
big church denomination
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that is bank rolling us.
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In fact, we
don't have a bank role.
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We raise the money ourselves
and when money comes in
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through a certain
project then or as it comes in,
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then we can move ahead.
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And if the Lord
wish to give us money
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to run a campaign in
London we would do so.
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But to run a
campaign in London would cost
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many, many millions of dollars.
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And we would need to have a team
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come together over
there who would work with us
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in the preaching of
the Gospel of Christ.
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God has many people in
the great city of London.
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Yes, Marvelous city.
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There is a great
need there, so perhaps.
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Enormous, enormous need,
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I just wish that the
spirit of God would move
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upon the hearts of
English people and our people
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and that they would
storm the city of London
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to preach Christ and the gospel.
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Amen. Amen.
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Now, I back to some
biblical questions here.
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We have a fellow
called, Laurence on the email.
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He says, when
will probation close?
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Now, we first need to
explain what is probation
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for those who don't know?
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I think I know
where he is coming from.
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He is talking about the
last time of opportunity.
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But, if you are a lost
soul you are not on probation.
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You know, and if you
come to Christ in true faith
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you are not on probation either.
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But what he is talking
about is the time of opportunity
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for the world to come to God.
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Would that be like
Noah's ark? Yes, yes.
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When the door closes.
Yes, it's when the door closes.
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And it appears in
the study of scriptures
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that the door of mercy closes
just before the second coming.
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At the time when the seven
last plagues are bought out.
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When the human race is
sinned away its stay of grace
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when that happens we do not know
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but we do know that
now is the day of grace.
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And if we come to Christ now,
whatever our defects and false
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and our
imperfections and our grow sins
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we can find salvation now,
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because now is
the accepted time.
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Now is the day of salvation.
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Amen, now we have a
couple of Bible verses
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that we have
been asked to look up.
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Jackie, for example she asks
what does Matthew 16:9 mean?
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So we have to look
that up-- Matthew 16:9
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Matthew 16:9 what does it mean?
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Matthew 16:9,
well, I want to know.
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Thank you
Jackie, for the question.
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I hope Jackie, that I
can answer this question now.
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Matthew 16-- Matthew
16:19, excuses me 16:19.
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Matthew 16:19, oh, here it is,
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"I will give you the
keys of the kingdom of heaven"
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oh, good text,
I believe in that.
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"Whatever you bind on
earth will be bound in heaven,
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whatever you loose on
earth will be loosed in Heaven."
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So we are going back
to question of Peter here
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and Jesus speaking to Peter,
He--we talked about the Petros
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and Petra and what
is Jesus telling here?
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Yes, Jesus said
to His disciples,
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I'm going to
give you the capacity
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to open the doors of heaven.
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He said, I'm going
to give you the key
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and that and if you
use that key correctly
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you will open
the doors of paradise
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to a multitude of people.
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At another
occasion Jesus chastise
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the religious
leaders of His day.
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He said, you have taken
away the key of knowledge,
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you wouldn't go in yourself,
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you won't let
other people get in.
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The key is the
knowledge of the scriptures,
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the knowledge of the scriptures
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and the key that
God gave to Saint Peter
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under the Christian church
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was the key of the
knowledge of the Gospel of God.
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The one true holy gospel
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that the vast majority
of people do not understand.
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But their gospel of
faith in Christ alone,
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Solo Christo, Sola
Scriptura, Sola Gratia,
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only grace, only faith
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when that gospel is
preached, Pastor Venegas,
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a key is inserted
in the door of paradise
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and the door is
opened and sinners are saved.
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So, we are not saying here that,
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that Peter was going to be
God's representative on earth
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making decisions
for God on earth.
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Well, every person
who is a true Christian
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is God's
representative on earth. Yes.
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But no person,
no person can assume
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a divine authority
presumptuously in his own right.
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Peter was a sinner, Peter died.
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Peter had been saved by grace
like the rest of the apostles.
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But what did Peter do?
Peter went out and he preached.
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At Pentecost he stood up
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and he preached to a
great crowd of people.
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He put the key in open
the door, 3,000 souls came in.
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Yes, so, obviously it wasn't
so much his authority on earth
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but he and the
gospel that went--
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That is the authority.
Yes, it's through the gospel.
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It is not an
arbitrary authority.
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No man can say to one
person or another person.
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I'm going to let you in,
I'm going to keep you out.
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Correct. No, no, no.
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That's God's purgative. Yes.
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But a true Christian minister
is called to preach the gospel
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and through the gospel,
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through that key of
knowledge sinners are saved.
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And on that note, we
are going to have to end
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our time together
Fresh Hot Potatoes.
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We thank you Pastor
Carter, for your time.
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And we thank you for watching,
keep those questions coming in.
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