From Arcadia, California,
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"The Living
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Did we all come from Adam?
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Or the prehistoric Lucy?
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Welcome to the Carter Report.
My name is James Venegas.
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We have more Fresh Hot
Potatoes questions for you.
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Our special guest
is 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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Welcome to our
Fresh Hot Potato program.
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We are very privileged to have
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the distinguish
Pastor John Carter with us.
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Welcome along,
Pastor Carter. Thank you.
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We have questions for
you again from our viewers,
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very good questions
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and from the
developing world as well. Yes.
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I want to read a question
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to start things
off from Malcolm,
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who is from Papua New Guinea.
Recently we were out there.
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He says, he resides in Lae city.
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He talks about how there are
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many different
provinces in Papua New Guinea.
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And it got him wondering
where they all originated from,
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they are all
different pigmentations,
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different cultures there.
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He says that these
people are Bougainvillians
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and they are the blackest people
on earth according to him.
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And their
culture is very ancient.
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His question is, why
is so many different races
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and where did we come from?
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Is it Adam
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or is it the
prehistoric Lucy of evolution?
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I'm not a
paleontologist of course,
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I'm not an
authority on the races
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in Papua New Guinea,
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we were there not very long ago,
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we had these
vast crowds of people.
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We finished with
150,000 people a night,
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more than 100,000 every night.
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So, we know a little
bit about the people there.
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They are wonderful people.
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Why some of them
this man is saying
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from where do they
come from, he said?
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From Bougainville
in Papua New Guinea.
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Yeah, Bougainville this
is a very very black. Yes.
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Yes, derivation of those races
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specifically I don't know.
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I do know that the Bible teaches
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and I believe the Bible,
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I believe we came
from a common ancestry.
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And I believe that
those black black people
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are my brothers.
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Because we came
from the same origin,
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we came from a
couple, Adam and Eve.
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I believe that story.
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Now, where do you stand
on the issue of evolution?
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Now, they tell
us about this Lucy
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who is dated very far back.
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Is Lucy perhaps
our common ancestor?
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I don't think so,
and I'll tell you why.
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The best signs
now say she wasn't.
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Lucy was a, they say
an ape like creature.
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Like a Hominid, like a
human type of creature.
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That is extremely debatable,
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I think she was
just a like a monkey.
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But she was discovered
over there in East-Africa
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and she was discovered
by the great professor
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I'm thinking
now, Professor Leakey.
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Leakey, yeah. I
think it was Leakey.
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He said that she was the
ancestor of the human race,
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and that we all go
back through this little ape
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like creature that was found
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in this desert
area in East-Africa.
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Now, here is a bombshell.
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On PBS before he
died number of years ago.
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The great professor
who discovered Lucy said,
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I was wrong.
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He said she is not our ancestor.
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What she is we do not know,
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but he said and
this caused pandemonium
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in the scientific world.
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But, Leakey was
tremendously honest man.
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He said the latest investigation
leads me to believe,
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that she was not the
originator of the human race.
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And she is got nothing
to do with human beings.
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Now, Pastor James,
he said something else,
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he said the amazing thing is
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we can't find an
ancestor for Homo sapiens.
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And it appears
that Homo sapiens,
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human beings appeared suddenly
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and distinctly
upon the human field,
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upon the world.
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He said they were not
there, then all of a sudden
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we have a vast
number of Homo sapiens.
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Now, this is the very opposite
of the doctrine of evolution.
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Now, tell me about missing link.
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What can you tell me about that?
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Missing link, so a
transitional forms of life.
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Now, remember I'm a
scholar of the Bible.
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I don't claim to be a scientist
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but I just do a
little bit of reading.
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Certainly do.
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And we should not become
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so alit that we think
that all knowledge is,
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this is for this type of person,
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this is for this sort of person.
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No, no, God has given us a mind
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where by we can investigate.
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The great Charles Darwin
writing 150-160 years ago said
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that he believed
that there would be found
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a vast number of
transitional life forms.
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You see as the
evolutionary process went ahead,
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it have this life
form of a millions of years
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becoming this life form.
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And in the end
from Ordeal of Swamp,
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and a single cell creature
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you would have human
beings after billions of years.
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And so he said we
expect to find a myriad,
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he said astronomical
number of transitional forms.
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Now, this is something
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that ardent
evolutionist will not tell you.
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This is something
that Richard Dawkins
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would never
disclose for an audience.
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But after more than 150 years,
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this vast number of
transitional life forms,
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this vast number
is still missing.
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Now, they have some
circle transitional life forms.
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But, they are very
rare and they are debatable.
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An honest
paleontologist and evolutionist,
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when they are
pressed they will say this.
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The prediction of
the great Charles Darwin
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that they would come a myriad
of transitional life forms
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this prediction has
failed to come to place. Yes.
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And therefore I cannot
believe in Darwinian Theory,
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I don't believe it is true,
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I do not believe
in Neo-Darwinism.
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And there is another
reason, can I give it to you.
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Yeah, please.
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Darwin said there is
something that kept him awake
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and that was the human mind.
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He said we believe
that this human mind,
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whereby we think
through the mysteries of life.
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It evolves from
the lowest creature
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that you can imagine.
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It evolved from the
lowest and the basest animal
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and that evolved from the
lowest single cell creature
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in this primordial soup. Yes.
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But he said this is the problem.
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We believe in evolution
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and we believe this all
happened by blind chance.
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This is his argument.
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We believe that
every thing happened
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by uncoordinated
blind chance without God.
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He said then how can
we trust this mechanism
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that came by blind chance,
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how can we trust it
to think these thoughts,
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to work at our origin.
That's a great question.
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Very good, very good question.
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And as time has
gone by, honest people
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and there's heaps of
honest marvelous scientists,
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it is wrong for us to think
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that all these
scientists are dishonest,
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no that's not true.
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That's a
terrible statement to say,
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but heaps of
scientists are saying,
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well, maybe, maybe
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we have believed in ideas
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that may not be
really true at all.
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And so do I
believe in the theory of--
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this is what Dawkins teaches,
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like Richard
Dawkins, the great atheist,
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he believes in
time, plus matter,
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plus chance. Yes, yes.
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So if you have enough time
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and enough matter
and enough chance,
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you will have people.
Don't believe that nonsense.
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In other words if you
have enough hydrogen molecules
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that's how it
started hydrogen molecules.
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And you leave them alone
for enough number of years,
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that will end up people.
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Oh, I can't believe
that, I cannot believe this,
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I believe the evidence is
in from astronomy particularly
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that shows that there
is a great creator God.
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So, you are saying that it's
like a circular argument really
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because how can we even
come up with that theory
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if we are--if we
don't have the capacity.
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Now, I just wanted to
answer Malcolm's question
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here with the races.
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Some people think
that darker pigmentation
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is perhaps a lower race.
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What difference does it
mean to you to know that
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we come from a creator God?
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If we come, Pastor
James, from a creator God,
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it means that every
person is a child of God,
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distinct and glorious.
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When I was in
Russia, years ago now,
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back in 92 during the
collapse of the Soviet Empire.
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I was there when it happened.
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I was there in '91.
I saw it all happen.
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I would tell
those vast audiences
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you are not an
animal, you are not a machine,
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you are a child of God.
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Communism taught people
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that there is a native
say in Papua New Guinea.
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Something nothing.
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The communist taught people
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that at the most
they were an animal.
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They are simply a machine
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and thus they
were worth nothing.
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That's they
trampled them into the dust
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and they taught to them
and did unspeakable things.
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I tell them no,
you are a child of God,
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I saw them come
forward in campaigns
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by the hundreds
of the thousands,
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even millions
weeping and crying,
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discovering that there
was a God who loved them.
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That's why I message
also to Richard Dawkins,
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he may not love
God, but God loves him.
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Absolutely.
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And so we are saying to Malcolm
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that race does not matter
what color of the pigmentation.
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It makes no difference.
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It makes no difference,
we come from one creator God
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and from one common ancestor
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and that is Adam
and his wife Eve.
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There is
excellent evidence today
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from science that traces back.
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Now, I'm not going to
get into this too much
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because we don't have time.
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But even scientists who
don't believe in the Bible
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or God believe that
the human race Homo sapiens
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appeared relatively recently.
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Relatively recently
and came from a couple.
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Wow, again confirming
the truths of the Bible.
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We thank you
Malcolm for that question.
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Thank you for that great answer,
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Pastor Carter, tapping
into that knowledge of yours.
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We will be back after
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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 8 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 has 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
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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
8 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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And welcome back to our program
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Fresh Hot Potatoes
with Pastor John Carter.
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Welcome back,
Pastor Carter. Thank you.
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We have been
answering some questions
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from the islands
from Papua New Guinea.
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And I have another one for you.
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It's totally
different to the last one,
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not as deep, but
just as important.
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It is a question
from Leonard via email,
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they have, they are
very hooked up over there.
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Yes, they are.
Very big on facebook.
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In Papua New
Guinea, tradition says that
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a man must pay his
wife a bride price.
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10 to 40,000 kina,
depending on the demand,
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is this
biblical? Leonard asks us.
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I don't read anything in
the Bible about bride prices,
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but there are customs
not unlike this in the Bible.
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You'll read in the Bible
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that a marriage back
in those patriarchal days
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was accompanied by
much tradition and splendor.
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You will read where when
the girl went to marry Isaac,
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the handmaids went with her.
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And so they put
money into the pot
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and but it can be quite
different in the islands.
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Where it can almost be
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a little bit of
commercial exploitation.
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Now for a poor person
in the islands 40,000 kina
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that's $20,000.
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I think that can may be a
little bit of exploitation.
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But I'm not an
authority on island customs.
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And that's important to be said,
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we cannot comment
on a different custom
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but we certainly can comment
that what the Bible teaches.
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Another good question from
another person from the islands.
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This time from
the Solomon Islands.
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I'm a Seventh-day Adventist
living in the Solomon Islands.
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I'm so interested in the reports
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and a book that
I have read about
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the evangelistic
work that you do so.
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This person is
Lindale, she has read the book.
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Thank you for allowing the Lord
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to let you visit
the Solomon Islands
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and also everywhere
else where you have visited.
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I say I'm a Christian
but I live the opposite life.
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How can I become
a much better person
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and live for Jesus everyday?
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I want to read more books
about your evangelism also,
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but she is really looking
for that genuine Christian life,
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what can she do?
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She can read a Bible, I
love the Solomon Islands.
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One of the highlights in my life
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when we went to the Solomon's,
we'd vast crowds of people.
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And they are just
the nicest people,
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you are going to find
anywhere under God's blues sky.
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She is facing a problem
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which is not unique
to the Solomon Islands.
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People say, how can I
live the Christian life.
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The world is so hard,
temptations are so great.
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Before I come to
Christ, Pastor Venegas,
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I've got one
nature the Bible says
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that's the carnal sinful nature.
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But I have tried come to
Christ, I have a second nature.
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It is a spiritual
nature and the nature
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that I feed the
most is the nature
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that is going to win the battle.
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Now, if I've got two dogs
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and they're both
exactly the same size
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and those dogs fight.
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Which dog will win? Neither.
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But if I starve one dog
and I feed the other dog,
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which dog is going
to win? The strong one.
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And so if you want to
carnal nature to succeed,
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then feed it
pornography, violence,
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all of those carnal things,
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but if you want
the spiritual nature
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to succeed and she does,
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you must feed it
on the word of God.
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And if you feed the spiritual
nature on the word of God.
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If you read
your Bible every day,
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if you go to church and
if you start a prayer life,
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the spiritual
nature is going to win
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and you will be a
strong happy vibrant Christian.
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Yes, yes.
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And there is a lot to be said to
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for receiving the Holy
Spirit into one's life.
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And this is how you
receive the Holy Spirit.
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Did you know in the scriptures
receiving the word of God
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is the same as
receiving the Holy Spirit.
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Now this is
something people overlook,
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but when the Bible talks
about receiving the Holy Spirit,
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you can't
receive the Holy Spirit
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apart from the word.
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And you can't receive the
word apart from the Holy Spirit.
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And so, they go together.
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I have a completely different
question here from Ingrid,
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she is not from the
islands I don't think,
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she may well be.
Probably from Germany.
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Ingrid, yeah or
anywhere else in the world
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but she has sent
an email and she asks,
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what about being
cremated? Is that Christian?
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Does the Bible
say anything about it.
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I thought I should not please
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let me know what you think,
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very important
question for Ingrid.
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Now, when she says about
being cremated, is it okay?
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It's okay once
you are dead. Yes.
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But you know, Ingrid you
don't want to get cremated
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before you have to get cremated.
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Let me-- That's a given.
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That's a given, isn't it? Yes.
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Yeah. Well-- What
does the Bible say?
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Well, the Bible
doesn't actually say cremation,
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but let me read you a text
that may just be a little help,
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that's in Revelation 20 it says,
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The dead were judged
out of the Book of Life
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they were judged
according to what they had done
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as recorded in the books,
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the sea gave up the
dead that were in it,
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and Death and Hades
the grave gave up the dead
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that were in them and
each person was judged
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according to what he had done."
And that's in Revelation 20.
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It says, Pastor Venegas,
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it says, the sea
gave up the dead.
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Now a person who
has been lost at sea,
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say a hundred years ago,
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a thousand years ago is
nothing, nothing left is there.
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He is been eaten by the
fishes and everything else
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but God is not
dependent upon the old body.
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God knows all about us.
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He knows everything about us,
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it is recorded in a
tremendous computer,
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that is the mind of God.
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And so we are
recorded in the mind of God
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and if you and I
should die today,
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God knows
everything about every molecule
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and whether we
have been lost at sea
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or whether we have been cremated
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or whether we have been buried,
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it makes no difference to God.
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He will bring us
forth new living,
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wonderful,
joyful, new creations.
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Praise the Lord. Hallelujah.
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Your position is really
it doesn't make a difference.
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No, no. Makes no difference.
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I had an old missionary
friend, his name was Keith,
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he is just a great guy,
Australian very down to earth.
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And he said to me, you know,
John, he said this years ago,
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he said I don't
care how they bury me.
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He said if you are
around, I don't care
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if you nail me
up in a banana box.
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I said Keith, we are not going
to nail you up in a banana box.
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He said, but it doesn't matter
and Beverley said to my dad
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when we stood looking
down at his father's grave
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in the little town of
Esk in Queensland Australia.
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My father was standing
there in a very pensive mood
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and Beverley said to him dad,
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he said, we all
gonna come here one day.
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She said, dad, it doesn't matter
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how you go down
but how you come up.
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Amen. Hallelujah.
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And we are going to
come up in the resurrection,
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how we're going
to come up new people
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and so I don't care
whether I'm cremated,
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whether I'm buried,
whether I'm even lost at sea.
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I'm coming up,
I will rise again.
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Amen. Because of Christ.
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Very good, very good answer
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and again great
questions coming in.
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I have a completely
different theological question.
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We don't have a lot of time,
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but Rovina emails
in a question saying,
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your understanding of Daniel's
prophetic day and timeline?
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She would be interested to
know what you have to say about
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Daniel's
prophetic day and timeline.
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That's a big question?
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It's a vast question, I
don't know if I'm equal to it.
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There are four major
lines of prophecy in Daniel.
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Daniel 2, Daniel 7, Daniel 8
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and then you really
have Daniel 9 to 12.
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They all cover
basically the same ground.
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They start in
the days of Babylon
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and they come
down to the last days.
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Daniel 2 is the great image.
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Daniel 7, the four beast,
the lion and you know the bear,
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the leopard and then the
monster and the ten horns.
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And in Daniel
8, you have the Ram
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and he goat, then
you have the 2,300 days.
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And then in Daniel 9
you have the 70 weeks
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and the 69 weeks
and that culminates
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of course in the end of time
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as we read in Daniel 12.
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The great message of
the Book of Daniel is this.
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Whatever evil may do,
Christ is the Lord of history
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and He would triumph over evil
and He will set up His kingdom.
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And the kingdom will
be given to the people
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of the saints of the most high.
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I have a burning
passion in my soul
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that Christ is coming soon
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and the kingdom of
God is going to be set up.
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And that is why we live.
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This is why we breathe
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and that is why
we preach the gospel.
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Our final question
for this program is this
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and it comes from Vincet.
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It's a good question too
and it's a good on to finish on.
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I have been
watching your programs lately
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and I see that
you take great pains
00:25:53.12\00:25:55.78
trying to point out
00:25:55.81\00:25:56.84
that salvation is
through Jesus alone.
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I try to understand this, I
know that I can't save myself,
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but I want to
know how do you know
00:26:03.66\00:26:05.82
that you are doing
God's will and not your own
00:26:05.85\00:26:07.63
and how do you know that
God is really talking to you
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and it's not just yourself?
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So how do you
balance this idea of--
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Pastor Venegas,
a super question.
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This man has got so
much truth in this question,
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we do try to point out
that we are saved by grace.
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We can never make
it home by ourselves,
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amazing grace,
how sweet the sound.
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That saved a wretch like me.
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I once was lost
but now I'm found.
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I was blind but now I see.
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There is
something that he must learn
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and we must all
learn more and more
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and that is not to trust
our feeling and our emotions.
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And many people
say well, you know,
00:26:45.24\00:26:47.62
I feel that this
is what I ought to do,
00:26:47.65\00:26:49.85
but that may be your
hormones are working.
00:26:49.88\00:26:52.76
You can't go by
your feelings, it may be
00:26:52.79\00:26:55.27
because you had a
bad night or a good night
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or because of
something someone said to you.
00:26:58.18\00:27:01.75
You must not go
by your feelings,
00:27:01.78\00:27:04.16
you must go by
your trust in God.
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We must obey God
whether we feel like it or not.
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And if we desire
to do the will of God,
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He will lead us
through certain steps.
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Number one, He will lead us
according to the word of God.
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He never leads us to
break the commandments.
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Number two, He will
open doors and close doors,
00:27:28.25\00:27:32.73
as we say to God, please show me
00:27:32.76\00:27:34.79
what I should do.
00:27:34.82\00:27:35.85
It seems to be your will,
00:27:35.88\00:27:37.51
then He will open a
door or close a door.
00:27:37.54\00:27:39.91
And we shouldn't be rushing God.
00:27:39.94\00:27:43.20
He leads us through the
counsel of Godly friends.
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Be careful here
because there are many people
00:27:46.53\00:27:49.19
who are quick to give counsel,
00:27:49.22\00:27:50.86
but they are the last
people you should listen to.
00:27:50.89\00:27:53.16
You should listen to, listen,
wise people whom you can trust,
00:27:53.19\00:27:59.58
they are few and far
between but there are some.
00:27:59.61\00:28:02.40
And finally He leads through
00:28:02.43\00:28:04.17
the movings of
the spirit of God.
00:28:04.20\00:28:06.11
That is for last
because those movings
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may be confused
with your feelings.
00:28:08.89\00:28:11.62
But when you have all
these pointers together,
00:28:11.65\00:28:15.72
you can know
that you are walking
00:28:15.75\00:28:18.10
in the way of God's will.
00:28:18.13\00:28:19.49
Trust in the Lord
with all your heart
00:28:19.52\00:28:20.97
and lean not on your
own understanding. Yes.
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Thank you, Pastor
Carter, for your time.
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It's been great
to have you with us.
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Thank you. Thank
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