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Is Jesus the
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or are there
different ways to be saved?
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This is James Venegas,
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Pastor Carter,
welcome to the program.
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Thank you. Great to
have you here again.
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Glad to be here.
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Some really, really hot
and fresh potatoes for you.
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We're gonna get stuck in again,
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Michael writes in an email
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about a comment that
you made a while ago.
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He has seen it on YouTube.
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He says, that you said
now you know that Allah
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is the same as the God
that the Christians worship.
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Apparently this
is what you've said
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and that Allah is
another word for God
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and then he also says that
he has seen on your website
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that you talk about trusting
in Christ alone for salvation.
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Of course.
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And he says, it seems to
be an irreconcilable conflict
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between these two statements.
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Pastor Carter,
are there many ways,
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do all roads lead to
Rome or is cross the only way?
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Let me read you a text,
and then I'll talk about Allah.
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Acts 4:12, "Salvation
is found in no one else,
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for there is no other
name under heaven given to men
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by which we must be saved."
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The only way to be
saved that the Bible says
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is through the
Lord Jesus Christ.
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That is not politically correct.
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We live in an era in the world
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especially here in
this Great United States.
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When we are taught that
everything is of equal worth.
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Every religion is the same.
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Every God is the same.
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I'm not buying it.
I don't believe it.
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I don't have any sympathy
for that viewpoint at all.
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I'm not politically correct as
ifar as salvation is concerned.
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I hope I'm biblically correct.
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Let me read you
the text again, pastor.
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"Salvation is
found in no one else."
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I mean, what don't we
understand about that?
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I have-- I read
this text to people
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and then they want to
argue and they philosophies
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and they say it's not
fair, I don't believe.
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I'm not talking philosophy,
I'm talking from the Bible.
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Salvation is
found in no one else,
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for there is no
other name, no other name.
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We ought to put it up in lights,
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no other name
under heaven given to men
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by which we must be saved.
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The only way we can
be saved the Bible says
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is through the
Lord Jesus Christ.
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That's why I preach the gospel,
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because there is no other
name, there is no other way.
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Now, Allah. Yeah, Allah, Islam.
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Now, in the Old Testament
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the word for
God is Elohim or El.
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Very similar, Allah, El, Elohim.
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Arab Christians in their Bible
refer to God by the term Allah.
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I'm talking here
not about Muslims,
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I'm talking
about Arab Christians.
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In their Bible when
they read about God,
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they read about Allah.
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But they don't believe the same
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as the Muslims
believe about God.
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Muslims believe that Jesus is
a great prophet and a great man.
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But we don't believe He
is merely a prophet or a man.
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We believe that He is
the eternal Son of God.
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Yes. Amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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We believe He is
the eternal Son of God.
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We believe as Christians
what the Bible teaches
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we believe in the trinity,
we do not believe in three gods.
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We are not
polytheists, we are monotheists.
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We believe in the unity of God.
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Hear, O Israel, The
Lord our God is one.
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But Jesus said,
go and baptize them
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in the name,
singular of the Father,
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the Son and the
Holy Spirit. Yes.
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He didn't say baptize
them in the names, the name.
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God is
manifested in three people,
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the Father, the Son
and the Holy Spirit.
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Okay, so no conflict whatsoever
Christ is the only way.
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Christ is the only way
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and we do not believe
in the Muslim teaching.
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Now, we are not here
to criticize Muslims.
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We ought to stop
criticizing people.
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We ought to stop
putting people down.
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We ought to stop hate
speech and all of the stuff.
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It is so bad.
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Of course there is
wars and everything,
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we ought to love Muslims.
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I have Muslim friends, but
I want every person to know
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that I believe that
the only way to salvation
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is through the
Lord Jesus Christ.
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Politically incorrect I'm? Yes.
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But biblically correct I'm also.
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So moving away from the Muslims
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and on that
point that you touched.
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How about those people that
perhaps lost their grandparent
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and there were a good person.
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When Jesus returns is
there anything for them?
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That argument is often
used about a loved one dying
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who is not a member of
our church or my church.
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The last thing we want to do
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is to sit in
judgment on individuals.
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That would be to
play the place of God.
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God is the judge.
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I can tell people this, that if
God can get someone into heaven
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He will because
He wants them there.
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But I come back to this
text, there is no other name,
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but the name of Christ.
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Salvation is through
Jesus, but having said that,
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let us remember that people were
saved by grace through faith
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in the Old Testament and
they were not talking about
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the name of Jesus specifically.
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Where they? No, no.
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I mean, they
weren't talking about--
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they weren't people
like coming to our church
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and or coming to
Christian churches
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and raising their hands
and praising the name of Jesus.
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They were
worshipping Yahweh, Elohim.
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And salvation was
found through Him.
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Now, Jesus is the only way
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whereby people
are going to be saved.
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But when we get home to glory,
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we may have a
few things to learn.
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And I will have more
than a few things to learn.
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So this are the
question I have here
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relates to
exactly the same thing.
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So are people saved on
the light that they have.
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Imagine someone that
lives in a remote place
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in the jungles of South America.
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Never heard of
the gospel of Jesus.
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Once again I'm
politically incorrect.
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I would disagree
with many, many people
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who go to so
called Christian churches.
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And when they say that
people have lived according,
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lived by-- they are saved
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by living to the
light they have had.
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Firstly, I would comment that no
person on the face of the earth
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has ever lived up
to the light He has.
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Nobody, because we all sinned,
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we fall short of
the glory of God.
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So the argument
that people are saved
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because they live
according to the light
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they've got is erroneous.
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Because that would mean
that we are saved by works.
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And all of our
works are incomplete.
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Now, if you read
the Book of Romans.
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The great theme of the
Book of Romans is that,
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you can't be saved by your works
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because your works
are not good enough.
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And when I say that to people,
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I find that most of them have
never read the Book of Romans.
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If you want to
understand salvation,
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be honest with yourself.
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And sit down and
read the Book of Romans,
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read at least the
first eight chapters.
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And read it slowly and
don't be like the elder
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who came to me
years ago and said,
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I have been
reading the Book of Romans
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like you told me to and that's
not what we believe, is it?
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He says, we don't believe
what Paul's, of course we do.
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It's not what he believed
but he had a new revelation.
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I saw him 40
years later he said,
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it took me 40 years
for the light to come on
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because the Book of Romans says
we are saved by grace alone,
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Christ alone, faith alone.
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So how do we
balance Paul in Romans
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and James the brother of Jesus
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who talks about faith
and works, working together?
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Well, Wesley did it long
time ago and far better than me.
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And I will see if this
memory is still working.
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This is its
great test, right now.
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John Wesley said we are saved
meritoriously through grace.
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Instrumentally
through faith not by faith,
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instrumentally through
faith, it's the instrument,
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evidentially by works.
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Meritoriously by grace,
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instrumentally through faith,
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thirdly, evidentially by works.
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Works are the evidence
that my faith is genuine.
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Now there are millions of
people who talk about faith.
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They don't have faith at all.
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It's a fantasy because
they don't have any works.
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They say they have got faith
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and they're
looking at pornography.
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They say they have got faith,
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they spend two minutes
a week reading the Bible
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and 40 hours a week
watching television.
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Well, they don't have faith
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because the work show
that they don't have faith.
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And then when you
come through, pastor,
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to the Book of Revelation
20, there is a passage there
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that says, "We
are judged by works."
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People say oh, no,
we are judged by faith.
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No, no, no. You are
not judged by faith.
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Revelation 20 says, "We
are judged by our works."
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Matthew 7, doing the
will of God, the fruits,
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so in the
scriptures the fruits--
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the fruits of faith are works,
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and where you have no
works, you don't have faith.
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So, that is the balance.
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Remember what the Paul said,
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I would not work my soul to
save for this my Lord has done,
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but I would work like any slave
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for the love of
God's dear son. Amen.
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So the sum total of these
questions that we have had
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is that we are
saved by Christ alone,
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nothing that we can do,
but the flip side is that
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it will be evidenced in
the way in which we live. Yes.
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We need to pause for a moment.
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We got a few more
good questions coming up.
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But we are gonna take
a very important message.
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The Carter Report is a
self supporting ministry
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with the global mission.
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We believe that the most
important thing that we can do
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in this tremendous
hour is to tell people
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about the Lord Jesus
Christ because Jesus said,
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"I am the way, the
truth and the life."
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We do not believe that
this is business as usual.
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We believe that we are
living in the closing hours,
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in the history of this world.
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Bless your heart, friend.
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Look at the signs that are being
fulfilled almost every day.
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The signs of the
times are shouting at us,
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and they're saying,
"Jesus is coming soon."
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I want you to be my
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I want you to be my partner
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I want you to be my
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of the distinctive truths
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www.cartereport.org.
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I want to hear from you today.
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And welcome back to
our Fresh Hot Potatoes
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with Pastor John Carter.
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Pastor Carter, we
have answered some
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very deep theological questions.
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We've tried to.
We've tried to anyway.
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And according to the scriptures
I think we have done very well.
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I want to turn the spotlight
on you a little bit and ask you.
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You have been doing evangelism
now for over 50 years.
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Why is it that
you do evangelism?
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Why do you do it?
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Pastor Venegas, it's
because I believe the Bible.
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It's as simple as that.
Let me give you a text again.
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Here it is, here it is,
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"The name of Jesus
Christ of Nazareth,
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salvation is
found in no one else,
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for there is no other
name under heaven given to men
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by which we must be saved."
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I don't believe that
we are saved by churches.
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Churches don't save.
My church can't save me.
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My church needs to be saved.
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So how can an organization
that needs saving, save me?
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Christ is my
savior, I believe this.
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I'm going to say
these words slowly,
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because they are controversial
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and completely
politically incorrect.
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The problem is they are true.
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We are not saved by
living up to the light we have
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because none of us do it.
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We are not saved
because we are good enough.
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We are not saved because we
are born in a certain religion.
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We had a person in our church
and we believed was a prophet.
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Her name was Ellen White,
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and she said,
millions are going down
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into Christless
graves unwarned, unsaved.
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Now, you know, we like to
quote her when it suits us,
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but we don't like to
quote her when it disturbs us.
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When it suits us, good,
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when it disturbs
us, oh, no, I wouldn't.
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Millions are going down
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into Christless
graves unwarned and lost.
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I believe that people
without Christ are lost.
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And Jesus said to the
disciples through Peter,
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"I'll give you the
keys of the kingdom."
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Why don't we believe that text?
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Why do we just use it to argue
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with our beloved friends
in the Roman Catholic Church?
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Why do we turn it into a
negative, it's a positive.
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He said, "I'll give you
the keys of the kingdom."
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The keys of the
kingdom represent
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the knowledge of the
gospel of righteousness by faith
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through Christ alone
as told in this Bible.
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When that gospel is preached,
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the key is put in
the door of paradise
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and the door is opened up.
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Therefore I do
evangelism because I believe
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that God has given
to us His disciples,
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the keys of the kingdom.
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And I believe that people are
going to be lost by the millions
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because Christians were
too indifferent to Christ
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into the plight of the heathen.
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Why do we go to
dangerous places?
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Because we do, to preach
Christ, so people will be saved.
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But many Christians say,
oh, they will be saved anyhow.
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They are deluded,
they are totally deluded.
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Now, there is
another question here
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about
evangelism that I have got.
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What have been the
greatest obstacles?
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May be you have
answered this already
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but what have you seen
to be the greatest obstacle
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to evangelism and
the keys of the kingdom?
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Well, I've had some
interesting experiences,
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I've had people
come after me with guns
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and I have been
marched down the road
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in a jungle track in Africa
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with machine guns
expecting to be shot.
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I don't consider
those to be great obstacles
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because we have the
presence of holy angels.
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The greatest obstacle to
the preaching of the gospel
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everywhere is
unbelief in the words of God.
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And here is the text, there
is no other name under heaven
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but you read this
so often to Christians
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and they will explain it away.
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They will end up by
completely explaining away
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and saying oh, but they
are going to be saved anyhow.
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You see, don't tell them.
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They are going
to be saved anyhow.
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If they are going
to be saved anyhow,
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there is no
inducement to tell them.
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You see, if they are
going to be saved anyhow,
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there is an inducement
to keep them in the dark.
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Why bring them into the light
and give them the responsibility
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and therefore
millions of Christians
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are keeping millions
of lost souls in the dark,
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because they do not believe
the plain words of the Bible.
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And of course that
brings up the issues
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of the reform church or
predestination. Yes, yes.
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If we don't see the need
to bring people to cross,
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then what would spur us on to.
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And that's why those churches
are dying too. Yeah, yeah.
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Something a bit more personal,
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again along the
lines of evangelism.
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Pastor Carter, who influenced
you the most in your life?
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Who are the influences other
than Jesus Christ, of course?
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I had some wonderful
people who have influenced me,
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some alive and some dead.
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John Wesley, all
goodness, the Apostle Paul
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but in more
recent times John Wesley,
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you know, a flame
in the hand of God,
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this little preacher
who preached 42,000 sermons,
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traveling on
the back of a horse,
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360,000 miles, he was a man.
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Most of us are just babies.
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In more recent
times, H.M.S. Richards,
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great preacher of the gospel,
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the man who raised up
the Voice of Prophecy.
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A man who was a man of God,
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who walked with God and
he was a Bible preacher.
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Then there have been
others, Bible teachers,
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some scholars, Billy
Graham has influenced me
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in the sense that he is a man
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who believes in the
preaching of the gospel
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and believes in
running big campaigns.
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He has to overcome
tremendous cynicism
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from politically
correct Christians.
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So, I had a number of
people who have influenced me.
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Brave people and
courageous people,
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and people who believe in
the word and who practice it.
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There is another question
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about your journey in
ministry in evangelism.
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What has been the
most or the single most
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amazing spiritual event
that you have ever experienced?
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Now, that's a big,
that's a big question
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you have seen a lot of things.
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Well, well, well, in
India when we had 30,000 people
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come down in front and I recall
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and as I prayed the spirit
of God took over the meeting
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and the people spontaneously
broke out in prayer.
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You can hear the prayers
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sweeping around this
vast audience, unforgettable.
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'92 possibly in Nizhny
Novgorod, Gorki in Russia.
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In this place where they
sent the decedent to close city
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where the communist said,
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we don't even think of
him anymore, they told me.
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And then the opening
night, the crowd was so great,
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that they had to send
the officers of the KGB
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to act as our deacons
and take up the offering.
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That night when the firebombs
were thrown on the stage
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and my Russian
friends were rushing around
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pouring water on the
firebombs as I was preaching,
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but then seeing tens
of thousands of atheists
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and communists come to Christ,
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preaching to the KGB as
I have on two occasions.
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And having the KGB
Colonel stand and salute
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and all the Colonel stand up
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and more than a
thousand officers stand
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and then come down in the front
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to give their lives to
Christ and accept Bible.
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I believe that we are
living in the day of God's power
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and I'm praying for the time
to come when there will come
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a revival among church
members in the western world.
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Where the church is asleep,
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indifferent, asleep,
ignorant of the word of God,
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but one day there
will come a mighty revival
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among God's people and
the work will be finished.
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So I guess looking forward then,
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the other question
I have for you here
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is what then are your hopes and
dreams and goals for the future?
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Perhaps on a personal note
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and perhaps also for the rest
of us following your footsteps.
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What do you see for the future?
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I see only good things. I
think the best is yet to be.
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I've been remarkably
privileged and blessed.
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The wealth of this world leaves
me completely indifferent,
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but the wealth of souls
won to Christ stirs my soul.
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We are going to
have a new approach,
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we are going to continue to work
in Russia and other countries
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even including the Islands
of the Sea, PNG and so forth.
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The Solomon, the Philippines
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but we are going to
go down to Colombia.
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Now, I'm told it's dangerous,
but you know, it's dangerous,
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more dangerous
probably in Los Angeles.
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The will of God
will never take you
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where the grace of
God cannot keep you
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and we think
there is a great avenue
00:25:34.22\00:25:37.36
for the preaching of
the gospel in Latin America.
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Where we are seeing
today, millions of Latinos
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come to a
knowledge of the scriptures.
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They are stepping out of an old
church with all its traditions
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and these people are
finding salvation in Christ.
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That's pretty exciting.
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And in the word of
God that's what I hear.
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Yes. Coming back to the word.
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Time Magazine calls
it "The New Reformation."
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The New Reformation.
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I want to be a part
of the New Reformation,
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while God gives me strength.
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The final question
I wanted to ask you
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is something very personal
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and I think it's a
good place to finish.
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And that is what Jesus
means to you individually?
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We've talked about evangelism,
we've talked about theology.
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What does Christ mean to you?
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I want to finish on
that note for our viewers.
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He is a person
who has influenced me
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more than anybody else.
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I read His writings every day.
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The most
important part of the Bible
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are the words of the Christ,
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the gospels
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,
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easily the most important part,
00:26:47.49\00:26:49.05
and the words of the
gospels, the words of Christ.
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He shapes my life. I
find salvation in Him.
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I commune with Him
all through the day.
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I can't imagine
a day without Him.
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I have no doubt
that He is alive.
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Oh, He is, He is
absolutely alive.
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He lives. No one
can get rid of Him.
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The communists
couldn't get rid of Him.
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I preached in a great
place in the Soviet Union
00:27:19.12\00:27:22.06
where Khrushchev said,
we're going to get rid of him.
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Well, time got
rid of Khrushchev,
00:27:25.86\00:27:28.32
but Jesus is
alive and well. Amen.
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And He is coming back in glory.
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So to me He's the
alpha and the omega,
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the beginning and the end.
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Pastor Carter, we thank
you for sharing your heart
00:27:38.64\00:27:41.37
for answering these questions.
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And once again
we want to thank you
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for all the great
questions that have come in.
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We want to again invite
you to send more questions in.
00:27:46.44\00:27:49.89
Anything you have
regarding the scriptures
00:27:49.92\00:27:52.17
and Pastor Carter
will answer those for you.
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The website is cartereport.org.
00:27:54.15\00:27:57.12
We thank you for
joining us, God bless you.
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