From Arcadia, California,
the Carter Report presents
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"The Living
Word" around the world.
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Hello, friend I am
John Carter in Columbia.
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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're 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
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,
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Post Office Box 1900,
Thousand Oaks, California 91358.
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In Australia write to
me at the address Terrigal,
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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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We're extremely
glad to welcome you today
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to the Carter Report.
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Today, I am going to talk about
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"Keeping the
Faith in Tough Times."
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But firstly, great
music from Kevin Youk.
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Would you please
welcome him here today?
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Great is Thy faithfulness
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O God my Father
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There is no shadow
of turning with Thee
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Thou changest not, Thy
compassions, they fail not
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As Thou hast been,
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Thou forever wilt be
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Great is Thy faithfulness
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Great is Thy faithfulness
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Morning by
morning new mercies I see
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All I have needed
Thy hands hath provided
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Great is Thy faithfulness
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Lord, unto me
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Pardon for sin and
the peace that endureth
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Thine own dear presence
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To cheer and to guide
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Strength for today
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And bright hope for tomorrow
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Blessings all mine,
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With ten thousand beside
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Great is Thy faithfulness
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Great is Thy faithfulness
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Morning by
morning new mercies I see
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All I have needed
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Thy hands hath provided
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Great is Thy faithfulness
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Lord, unto me
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Beverley and I have just
come back from San Francisco.
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Mark Twain said
about San Francisco
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"that the coldest winter
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he'd spent anywhere in the world
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it was a summer
in San Francisco."
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My daughter
Julie and her husband
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just had a little baby boy
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but before I
show you the pictures
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of the little baby boy
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I am gonna show you a
picture of my little girl
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whose name is Amelie.
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Now, she is two years of age
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and she is four months
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and Beverley and I
when Julie was in hospital
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we were in-charge we
told her just what to do
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and she did everything--
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I am a tough grandpa.
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Now let me tell you a story.
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It had been a
long day Julie had,
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had this baby nine
pounds fourteen ounces.
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We'll talk about that later.
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So Beverley and I
were looking after Amelie
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and the Amelie hadn't got
much sleep in the afternoon.
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And so when night
time came about 7 o'clock
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we said come on,
we'll go to bed now
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she gave her a bath
and she said don't want.
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You see, I just said
well we just gonna do it.
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She said don't want.
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Now what do you--
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you know you got to be
tolerant on these occasions.
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What would you like to do?
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She said, "I
want to watch Thomas."
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You know who Thomas is?
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Thomas is a train.
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Here Thomas is a train
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and he has got lots of friends.
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And so I did what
I am best at doing.
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I negotiated, I said, Amelie.
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She's this
high. She's this high.
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And I said to her, now Emilie,
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one Thomas then bed.
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She said, two Thomas.
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This high, two Thomas.
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So Beverley said you know she,
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it's she's all
stood up and she is upset
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and she doesn't
know what's going on.
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So, up the stairs
we go to began Thomas.
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We go up stairs and we sit down
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and back to turn on Thomas.
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She beep in the first
little bit I thought may be.
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So I said, come and
sit on grandpa's knee.
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She said, no I'll sit on lion.
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Beverley bought her a
chair it looks like a lion.
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She said, no I'll sit on lion.
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So anyhow we said all right
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we will show you Thomas.
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We looked a one Thomas
and then she said two Thomas.
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We showed her three Thomas's
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and then she went
down that she was prepared
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then she was back falling over.
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We took her down
to put her in her bed.
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And I said to her
trying to do my sweetest
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and a tough grandpa.
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I said now, would you
like grandpa to give you kiss?
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She said, no.
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Now folks, I got a
message to tell you.
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My daughter Julie said to
me we looked at her fingers.
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She got tiny little fingers.
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Julie said, look to her
little fingers it's tiny
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but she has got
you wrapped around it.
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Let me tell you folks, something
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you can
negotiate with your grandpa
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but you can't
negotiate with God.
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And today we are
gonna talk about something's
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that cannot be negotiated.
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You can't go to
God and say two Thomas.
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You know God says, one.
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You can't say, two Thomas
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and see its three Thomas.
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Want to see, want
you to see the little boy
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who was born
because he is a grandson,
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our first grandson
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and his name is Leon Alexander,
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nine pounds twelve ounces.
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Now there's another
picture here that shows him
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a little better anyhow,
nine pounds twelve ounces.
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When the doctor came to see me
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because of course he
wanted to keep me informed.
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He said to me he is a big boy.
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He has got such a
big chest and big arms.
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He said, I guess he
gets that from his grandpa.
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Now he didn't say that at all
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but I thought
that's what he is thinking.
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Now folks, there's something
that's absolutely true--
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babies and parents today
need prayer as never before
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because of the world
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into which
these babies are born.
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And I not just talking
about liberal San Francisco,
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I am talking about the world.
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Babies and children and parents
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need the prayers of
those who love them.
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I want you to take your Bibles
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and turn with me
to 2 Timothy 3:1-9
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in the word of the Lord,
2 Timothy 3:1 and onwards.
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I want you to notice
these words in the Bible
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and I am glad that you folks
bring your Bibles to church.
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"But mark this:
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There will be terrible
times in the last days."
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The KJV says
"perilous times will come."
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"People will be
lovers of themselves."
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Have you heard
Christians say to each other
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"you got to love yourself."
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They say that all the time.
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You got to love yourself
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and they quote
the text Jesus said
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"you shall love your
neighbors as yourself."
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Jesus wasn't talking
about how it ought to be.
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Jesus was
talking about how it was.
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And people today
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have got an
inordinate love for themselves.
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Me, me, me.
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Jesus said in the last days
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"people are going
to love themselves."
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"Lovers of
money, boastful, proud,
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abusive, ungrateful, unholy,
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without love,
unforgiving, slanderous,
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without self-control, brutal,
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not lovers of the
good, treacherous,
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rash, conceited,
lovers of pleasure
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rather than lovers of God."
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This is talking about people
apparently, in the church.
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"Having a form of
godliness but denying its power.
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Have nothing to do with them."
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Keep on reading.
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"They are the kind who
worm their way into homes
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and gain control
over weak-willed women."
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Now the translation
says "gullible, naive, women
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but it is true also of man."
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"Who are loaded down with sins
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and are swayed by all
kinds of evil desires,
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always learning but never
able to acknowledge the truth."
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Always learning.
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"Just as Jannes and
Jambres." Magicians.
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"Opposed Moses, so also
these men oppose the truth--
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men of depraved minds,
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who, as far as the faith
is concerned, are rejected.
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But they will not
get very far because,
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as in the case of those men,
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their folly will be
clear to every person."
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These verses, listen carefully,
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are inept
description of the people
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who live in Los
Angeles and Hollywood
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and New York and Sydney
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and Melbourne, around the world.
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And these conditions
were told will be we found
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among professing believers.
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I want to read from the book
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by Ravi Zacharias, page 12,
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"Can Man Live Without God."
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Cindy Thula gave me
this book sometime back
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and I am starting to read it--
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just I have finished it.
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Listen, "May I
suggest that in this sense
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we are possibly a
unique generation.
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A massive global assault
has been launched upon us,
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and it the arts more
than any other single force
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that predominate as
an influential agent,
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molding our character,
our values and our beliefs.
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This invasion
bypasses our reason
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and captures our imagination.
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Never before in history."
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Amazing "has so
much been stake as is now
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in the hands of the
imagemakers of our time.
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There is
something very ironic here.
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Western man is
long prided himself
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as being the
offspring of the Enlightenment,
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nurtured at the feet
of sophisticated thinkers.
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Yet he has, in turn
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brought about the
humiliation of reason."
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The humiliation of the reason.
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"By the
instruments that were born
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from the strength of the mind.
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This second level
of philosophizing,
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through the arts, has shaped
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the national
mind-set in everything
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from determining war strategy
to electing presidents."
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He is talking here to Americans.
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"To finding ones
identity in cars and deodorants.
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Existentialist philosophy
such as Jean-Paul Sartre
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and Albert Camus
did not waste their time
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establishing syllogisms."
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That is the basis for reason.
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"They harnessed the
passion of an empty world
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within the human psyche
infused it with their own ethos,
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affecting the mood and
feelings of an educated herd."
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America has now
become an educated herd.
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"A homogenization
of our cultural tastes
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quickly ensued,
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and a fastening upon
our sensitivities or rather,
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a desensitization of conscience,
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but securely in place.
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Through
technology the whole world
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has now become
the media's parish,
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talk show hosts the prophets,
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actors and
musicians the priests,
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and any script will
do for the Scriptures
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as long as moral
constraints are removed.
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Sitting before a well-lit box is
all the cultic performance needs
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and each person can enthrone
his or herself as divine.
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Truth has been
relegated to subjectivity."
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Do you know what
that means subjectivity?
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Everything is subject.
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It's subject to how you feel.
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It is not based upon
objective truth anymore.
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We have seen in America a
total paganisation of society
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and you and I are part
of it some more than others.
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"Beauty has been
subjected to the beholder
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and as millions are idiotized"
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as millions are idiotized.
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"Night after night,
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a global commune
has been constructed
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with the arts
enjoying a totalitarian rule."
00:17:39.13\00:17:44.67
This means this that modern man
00:17:44.70\00:17:49.05
in his
foolishness has given up God
00:17:49.08\00:17:53.85
and the truths of the Bible.
00:17:53.88\00:17:56.94
And even if he professes
to be a Christian in America
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he knows virtually
nothing about the scriptures
00:18:00.90\00:18:03.79
and he is too lazy to read.
00:18:03.82\00:18:06.64
That's night by
night he is idiotized.
00:18:06.67\00:18:10.97
He is ruled not
by logic and reason
00:18:14.66\00:18:18.42
but by raw
emotion in the church too.
00:18:18.45\00:18:22.25
Why do you do it?
Because I feel like it.
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Why are you getting married?
00:18:24.34\00:18:25.44
Because I feel like it.
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Why are you getting a divorce?
00:18:26.83\00:18:28.14
Because I feel like it.
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Why are you leaving your family?
00:18:29.59\00:18:31.07
Because I feel like it.
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And Christians and church goes
00:18:34.70\00:18:37.10
in their moral attitudes
surveys have carried out
00:18:37.13\00:18:40.83
and no different to
the people in Hollywood
00:18:40.86\00:18:42.91
and San Francisco, idiotized.
00:18:42.94\00:18:49.20
Beverley and I with
Russell and Paula Owens
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from Texas and Paul
Zink from California
00:18:52.90\00:18:55.69
went to Russia in 1991
00:18:55.72\00:18:58.37
to conduct an
evangelistic campaign in Moscow
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and we made an
alarming discovery.
00:19:01.42\00:19:03.45
Are you strong enough
to hear what we discovered?
00:19:03.48\00:19:07.01
Although communism was evil
00:19:07.04\00:19:10.13
and nobody has preached
to more communist and I have.
00:19:10.16\00:19:14.10
Nobody has
railed against communism
00:19:14.13\00:19:16.38
more than I have
although communism was evil.
00:19:16.41\00:19:22.10
The people were
able to think concentrate
00:19:22.13\00:19:25.90
and accept biblical truths
00:19:25.93\00:19:28.01
far better than
Americans or Australians.
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Why? Because apparently,
00:19:35.19\00:19:38.90
that evil system
was not as bad as ours
00:19:38.93\00:19:43.27
in destroying the mind.
00:19:43.30\00:19:46.08
So I could preach to an
audience of 10,000 people
00:19:46.11\00:19:49.39
night after night and
they would not stir or not move
00:19:49.42\00:19:52.76
and they were like sponges
00:19:52.79\00:19:55.88
try doing that in
America or Australia.
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You know, this tale of
the secret valley of the blind
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I have told it to you
on a number of occasions.
00:20:05.66\00:20:08.93
About the valley
up in the himalays
00:20:08.96\00:20:11.79
where everybody was blind
and they felt that was normal.
00:20:11.82\00:20:16.37
And the young man
fell into that valley
00:20:16.40\00:20:20.05
and fell in love
with a girl and they said
00:20:20.08\00:20:22.74
because he was
abnormal, because he had eyes
00:20:22.77\00:20:25.99
he couldn't marry the
girl until they blinded him.
00:20:26.02\00:20:30.58
The valley of the blind,
let me tell you something
00:20:30.61\00:20:33.39
and don't forget it
as you may not hear it
00:20:33.42\00:20:35.55
from me much longer.
00:20:35.58\00:20:37.16
Los Angeles is the
valley of the blind.
00:20:37.19\00:20:41.03
And America has largely become
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the valley of the blind
00:20:42.82\00:20:43.89
along with other
western countries.
00:20:43.92\00:20:49.26
And we think we are
normal when we are not.
00:20:49.29\00:20:53.67
What has happened
to the human race?
00:20:56.56\00:20:58.38
What has happened to America?
00:20:58.41\00:21:00.90
The great
universities were established
00:21:00.93\00:21:03.31
as Christian
centers did you know that?
00:21:03.34\00:21:06.13
Harvard, Yale, Princeton
00:21:06.16\00:21:09.28
where founded as
evangelical Christians centers
00:21:09.31\00:21:12.21
to preach the gospel.
00:21:12.24\00:21:14.51
I read not very
long ago of an address
00:21:14.54\00:21:17.22
that was delivered at Harvard
00:21:17.25\00:21:19.07
back in the mid 1800s
00:21:19.10\00:21:21.68
and it was a talk on the trinity
and the divinity of Christ.
00:21:21.71\00:21:28.35
Those places now don't even
believe in God on the whole.
00:21:28.38\00:21:34.08
The great American universities
00:21:34.11\00:21:38.85
are now
propagation centers of atheism
00:21:38.88\00:21:41.83
and meaninglessness
aggressively antigod
00:21:41.86\00:21:46.23
and antichristian
00:21:46.26\00:21:48.14
and so are the
universities in Europe
00:21:48.17\00:21:50.40
especially the
German and the British ones.
00:21:50.43\00:21:56.44
I quote "Can Man
Live Without God" page 31
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where the author quotes
00:22:00.13\00:22:02.32
the great
professor Stephen Jay Gould
00:22:02.35\00:22:08.20
a person who influences
00:22:08.23\00:22:10.44
the thinking of your
favorite television people.
00:22:10.47\00:22:16.38
He says "We are here
00:22:16.41\00:22:17.99
because one odd group of fishes
had a peculiar fin anatomy
00:22:18.02\00:22:24.08
that could transform into
legs for terrestrial creatures
00:22:24.11\00:22:29.51
because comets struck the earth
00:22:29.54\00:22:31.36
and wiped out dinosaurs,
thereby giving mammals
00:22:31.39\00:22:35.01
a chance not
otherwise available.
00:22:35.04\00:22:36.83
So thank your lucky
stars in a literal sense,
00:22:36.86\00:22:40.84
because the earth
never froze entirely
00:22:40.87\00:22:42.95
during an ice age,
00:22:42.98\00:22:44.84
because a small
and tenuous species,
00:22:44.87\00:22:47.63
arising in Africa a
quarter of a million years ago,
00:22:47.66\00:22:52.54
has managed, so far,
00:22:52.57\00:22:53.82
to survive by hook and by crook.
00:22:53.85\00:22:57.96
We may yearn for
a 'higher' answer
00:22:57.99\00:23:00.03
but none exists."
00:23:00.06\00:23:03.18
This is what is taught today.
00:23:03.21\00:23:05.15
This is what the
media believes in the west.
00:23:05.18\00:23:12.23
"We may yearn for
a 'higher' answer'
00:23:12.26\00:23:14.69
but none exists.
00:23:14.72\00:23:16.62
This explanation,
though superficially troubling,
00:23:16.65\00:23:19.62
if not terrifying,
00:23:19.65\00:23:21.23
is ultimately
liberating and exhilarating."
00:23:21.26\00:23:26.86
Now, Ravi Zacharias
comments on this statement.
00:23:26.89\00:23:34.41
"There is a terrible irony
in all of this, isn't there?
00:23:34.44\00:23:39.41
What is the exhilaration
00:23:39.44\00:23:40.83
and liberation he
is talking about?"
00:23:40.86\00:23:44.47
I listened to
Dr. Richard Dawkins,
00:23:44.50\00:23:49.97
last night debating
00:23:50.00\00:23:51.56
a Christian from
Oxford University
00:23:51.59\00:23:55.10
who got the better
of him at every point.
00:23:55.13\00:23:57.36
This man Dawkins says,
"Because there is no God
00:24:07.14\00:24:11.62
we have a new and
wonderful liberation."
00:24:11.65\00:24:16.19
It is what is told in
the great universities.
00:24:16.22\00:24:18.65
"There is a terrible irony
in all of this, isn't there?
00:24:18.68\00:24:21.35
What is the exhilaration
00:24:21.38\00:24:22.53
and liberation
he is talking about?
00:24:22.56\00:24:23.85
Am I missing something?
00:24:23.88\00:24:26.05
Is this liberation
synonymous with the fact
00:24:26.08\00:24:28.13
that we have
become one of the most
00:24:28.16\00:24:29.93
violent and
drugged nations on earth?"
00:24:29.96\00:24:33.09
Talking about America.
00:24:33.12\00:24:34.66
One of those violent
00:24:34.69\00:24:36.93
and drugged up nations on earth.
00:24:36.96\00:24:38.37
"Is this the acceleration
that makes sedatives
00:24:38.40\00:24:40.72
and acids that
most highly sold drugs
00:24:40.75\00:24:43.84
across pharmaceutical counters,
00:24:43.87\00:24:46.50
to slow us down
from our mad rush
00:24:46.53\00:24:48.53
for an ever-increasing wealth."
00:24:48.56\00:24:51.39
And what I say
refers also to Germany
00:24:51.42\00:24:55.28
where a million men
everyday go to prostitutes.
00:24:55.31\00:25:00.96
Why not because there is no God
00:25:00.99\00:25:04.63
and there is no Bible
and the churches are empty.
00:25:04.66\00:25:09.14
And one reason
the churches are empty
00:25:09.17\00:25:11.15
is because the
churches have failed
00:25:11.18\00:25:12.94
to reclaim the word of God
00:25:12.97\00:25:14.41
and have become
cold dead centers.
00:25:14.44\00:25:15.92
"Is this the exhilaration
that is sending our songwriters
00:25:18.56\00:25:21.18
and musicians into
a frenzy on the stage
00:25:21.21\00:25:25.34
and into a
stupor in their homes?
00:25:25.37\00:25:29.06
Is this the exhilaration
venting forth on our talk shows
00:25:29.09\00:25:32.19
that pride themselves
00:25:32.22\00:25:33.40
in profane
argument as entertainment?
00:25:33.43\00:25:37.09
Is this the exhilaration
00:25:37.12\00:25:38.21
that has fragmented our families
00:25:38.24\00:25:39.85
and often victimized
the weakest in our midst?
00:25:39.88\00:25:42.64
Is this the
exhilaration of living
00:25:42.67\00:25:44.70
in the bloodiest
century in history?
00:25:44.73\00:25:50.38
Is this the exhilaration
of generation of young people
00:25:50.41\00:25:53.22
often fatherless,
many times hopeless?
00:25:53.25\00:25:58.71
Is all this
reason for exhilaration?
00:25:58.74\00:26:01.01
Or are we playing
deadly war games once again?"
00:26:01.04\00:26:05.93
I want to say this to you
00:26:05.96\00:26:06.99
and I say this to
you very seriously.
00:26:07.02\00:26:09.78
This thinking has
influenced all of us.
00:26:09.81\00:26:14.59
The church too often
is reflection of society
00:26:14.62\00:26:18.75
that lives by its own rules.
00:26:18.78\00:26:21.29
Thus we find today
growing more and more
00:26:21.32\00:26:24.50
lying, cheating, hating,
00:26:24.53\00:26:28.09
racism, sexual confusion.
00:26:28.12\00:26:31.48
Men don't know
they're men and women
00:26:31.51\00:26:33.10
don't know they're women.
00:26:33.13\00:26:35.93
And it's taught
from the highest people
00:26:35.96\00:26:37.46
in the land sexual depravity
00:26:37.49\00:26:41.12
no right or no wrong.
00:26:41.15\00:26:44.10
Well, I want to
tell you something
00:26:44.13\00:26:45.70
the church is called to
be better and to do better.
00:26:45.73\00:26:52.63
And so the Bible says mark this
00:26:52.66\00:26:54.34
"there will be terrible
times in these last days."
00:26:54.37\00:26:57.76
Perilous times are here
00:26:57.79\00:26:59.42
and we must recognize
00:26:59.45\00:27:01.20
that these are no ordinary times
00:27:01.23\00:27:04.81
and extraordinary times called
for an extraordinary response.
00:27:04.84\00:27:11.34
Hallelujah, amen. Amen.
00:27:11.37\00:27:12.72
A person I admire
is Dr. Billy Graham,
00:27:17.42\00:27:21.68
95 and going strong.
00:27:21.71\00:27:27.85
Very recently Dr. Graham said,
00:27:27.88\00:27:30.46
America is
changing and being changed.
00:27:30.49\00:27:34.79
He said why do they
want to change America
00:27:34.82\00:27:37.53
it was founded
on godly principles.
00:27:37.56\00:27:41.11
I can tell you why Dr. Graham,
00:27:41.14\00:27:45.53
you know, the reason he says
00:27:45.56\00:27:48.21
"there is a war against Christ.
00:27:48.24\00:27:50.76
Christians can expect
persecution in America.
00:27:50.79\00:27:55.06
We are drowning in
a sea of immorality."
00:27:55.09\00:28:00.98
Said Billy "judgment is coming."
00:28:01.01\00:28:03.76
And if you don't
believe it my friend,
00:28:06.82\00:28:09.26
and if you don't turn to
God and prepare to meet God
00:28:09.29\00:28:13.05
you're going to be
swept away in the flood
00:28:13.08\00:28:15.94
because it's coming--
00:28:15.97\00:28:17.43
judgment is coming upon America,
00:28:17.46\00:28:22.22
judgment is
coming upon the world.
00:28:22.25\00:28:25.94
And the greater the
light the nation has had
00:28:25.97\00:28:28.74
the greater the judgment.
00:28:28.77\00:28:31.12
And American has had more
light than any other nation
00:28:31.15\00:28:34.40
in the history of
the world except Israel.
00:28:34.43\00:28:37.16
An extraordinary time calls
for an extraordinary response.
00:28:40.59\00:28:45.89
Look at 2
Timothy 3:10 and onwards.
00:28:45.92\00:28:50.05
"You, however, know
all about my teachings,
00:28:50.08\00:28:53.25
my way of life, my
purpose, my faith, my patience,
00:28:53.28\00:28:56.08
my love, my endurance, my
persecutions and suffering.
00:28:56.11\00:29:01.01
What kinds of
things happened to me
00:29:01.04\00:29:02.40
in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra,
00:29:02.43\00:29:04.53
the
persecutions that I endured."
00:29:04.56\00:29:06.16
Have you ever persecuted?
00:29:06.19\00:29:09.20
"Yet the Lord
rescued me from all of them.
00:29:09.23\00:29:11.50
`In fact everyone who
wants to live a godly life
00:29:11.53\00:29:14.32
in Christ Jesus
will be persecuted."
00:29:14.35\00:29:16.52
And we are not being persecuted
00:29:16.55\00:29:18.02
it's because we are
failing in our mission.
00:29:18.05\00:29:20.06
"While evil man and impostors
will go from bad to worse,
00:29:23.17\00:29:28.41
deceiving and being deceived."
00:29:28.44\00:29:31.09
It's not going to get better
00:29:31.12\00:29:32.63
its going to get
worse until Jesus comes.
00:29:32.66\00:29:36.95
"And how from infancy
00:29:36.98\00:29:38.12
you have known
the holy Scriptures,
00:29:38.15\00:29:39.49
which are able to
make you wise for salvation
00:29:39.52\00:29:42.02
through faith in Christ Jesus.
00:29:42.05\00:29:44.11
All scriptures is God-breathed
and useful for teaching,
00:29:44.14\00:29:48.04
rebuking, correcting and
training in righteousness,
00:29:48.07\00:29:51.66
so that the man of God may be
00:29:51.69\00:29:53.07
thoroughly equipped
for every good work."
00:29:53.10\00:29:55.01
We see here the
rejection of reason
00:29:58.46\00:30:03.50
and in the
place of kingly reason
00:30:03.53\00:30:06.32
we have the prostitute emotion.
00:30:06.35\00:30:08.12
The relegation or the rejection
of scripture to a place
00:30:09.87\00:30:13.50
of obscurity will
bring about the dark ages.
00:30:13.53\00:30:18.40
In the Middle
Ages when this book
00:30:18.43\00:30:20.44
was no longer
allowed to be read.
00:30:20.47\00:30:22.96
When they burn the
Bibles and burn the martyrs
00:30:22.99\00:30:26.52
there was a time of darkness,
00:30:26.55\00:30:28.42
history calls it
the dark ages as America
00:30:28.45\00:30:32.08
and the world steps out
of the light of the gospel
00:30:32.11\00:30:35.15
we have another dark ages.
00:30:35.18\00:30:36.90
And America is now
entering upon the dark ages.
00:30:38.71\00:30:43.96
Scripture is
our hope in defense.
00:30:47.71\00:30:52.14
Now, I want you
to notice carefully,
00:30:52.17\00:30:56.37
prayerfully Gods man,
00:30:56.40\00:31:00.88
Gods women for
such a time as this?
00:31:00.91\00:31:05.94
Look at 2
Timothy 4:1 and onwards.
00:31:05.97\00:31:10.31
Extraordinary times
demand extraordinary people.
00:31:10.34\00:31:16.07
Chapter 4, "In the presence
of God and of Christ Jesus
00:31:16.10\00:31:21.86
who will judge the
living and the dead
00:31:21.89\00:31:25.22
and in view of his
appearing and his kingdom
00:31:25.25\00:31:29.77
I give you this
charge, Preach the Word,
00:31:29.80\00:31:35.61
be prepared in
season and out of season."
00:31:35.64\00:31:39.47
That's why our minister
can never be on holidays.
00:31:39.50\00:31:43.85
He is still a minister
when he is on holidays.
00:31:43.88\00:31:46.61
He doesn't say "I
am going on vacation
00:31:46.64\00:31:48.56
therefore I am no
longer a minister."
00:31:48.59\00:31:51.66
"In season out of season,
00:31:51.69\00:31:55.41
correct, rebuke and encourage
00:31:55.44\00:31:59.26
with great patience
and careful instruction.
00:31:59.29\00:32:02.28
For the time will come
when men will not put up
00:32:02.31\00:32:04.66
with sounds doctrine.
00:32:04.69\00:32:05.98
Instead, to suit
their own desires,
00:32:06.01\00:32:08.45
they will gather around
them a great number of teachers
00:32:08.48\00:32:11.71
to say what their
itching ears want to hear.
00:32:11.74\00:32:15.01
They will turn their
ears away from the truth
00:32:17.78\00:32:21.57
and turn aside
to myths and fables.
00:32:21.60\00:32:24.90
But you, keep your
head in all situations,
00:32:26.60\00:32:30.63
endure hardship, do
the work of an evangelist,
00:32:30.66\00:32:37.87
discharge all the
duties of your ministry."
00:32:37.90\00:32:40.62
A Christian is
called to be a soldier.
00:32:44.71\00:32:48.38
Paul said to
Timothy you're called
00:32:49.71\00:32:54.37
to endure
hardness as a good soldier.
00:32:54.40\00:32:58.73
A Christian is not
called for weakness
00:32:59.75\00:33:02.67
he is called the strength.
00:33:02.70\00:33:05.47
I want to say a few words now
00:33:05.50\00:33:07.90
about the ordination of women
00:33:07.93\00:33:10.78
which is a discussion that
is tearing through the churches
00:33:10.81\00:33:14.86
especially the
Seventh-day Adventist church.
00:33:14.89\00:33:18.25
I think much of the present
discussion misses the mark
00:33:20.11\00:33:25.46
and I will tell
you why every person,
00:33:25.49\00:33:30.10
every man and every women
00:33:30.13\00:33:32.69
every person is
called to preach the gospel.
00:33:32.72\00:33:35.57
This idea I
can't preach the gospel
00:33:38.59\00:33:41.63
until I am ordained is a heresy.
00:33:41.66\00:33:44.72
I believe in the
words of the Paul had said
00:33:46.36\00:33:51.33
"Christ the son of God has
sent me to all widespread lands,
00:33:51.36\00:33:57.67
Mine the mighty ordination
over the nail-pierced hands."
00:33:57.70\00:34:03.98
And it's interesting when
I read in Mark 3:14 it says
00:34:07.11\00:34:14.49
"He ordained twelve
that they might be with him
00:34:14.52\00:34:19.98
and that he might
send them forth to preach."
00:34:20.01\00:34:24.41
Now look at me
00:34:24.44\00:34:27.07
that word ordained
is not in the Greek.
00:34:27.10\00:34:33.15
You didn't know that.
00:34:33.18\00:34:34.86
Read it in the NIV it says
00:34:34.89\00:34:37.18
"He appointed twelve
that they might be with him.
00:34:37.21\00:34:42.83
And that he might
send them forth to preach."
00:34:42.86\00:34:47.28
Look at me I want to talk
to the television audience
00:34:47.31\00:34:51.32
you folks over
here the only reason
00:34:51.35\00:34:55.65
that a person
ought to be ordained
00:34:55.68\00:34:58.11
or appointed is to
go forth and preach.
00:34:58.14\00:35:02.34
Who agrees with
me? H.M.S. Richards.
00:35:02.37\00:35:05.65
Go an read his
book Feed My Sheep.
00:35:05.68\00:35:08.78
A person should not be appointed
00:35:08.81\00:35:12.15
or ordained to be an accountant
00:35:12.18\00:35:17.54
or any other job the Bible says
00:35:17.57\00:35:20.50
"that they might
go forth and preach."
00:35:20.53\00:35:25.33
You all know John Wesley
my hero John Wesley's mother
00:35:25.36\00:35:31.45
what a hero she would make.
00:35:31.48\00:35:34.93
On one occasion
John Wesley was away
00:35:34.96\00:35:36.94
from the pulpit he was
preaching somewhere else.
00:35:36.97\00:35:40.33
And then John Wesley
heard the scandalous news
00:35:40.36\00:35:44.03
that his mother was
preaching the word of God
00:35:44.06\00:35:47.79
to the people who stayed behind.
00:35:47.82\00:35:50.21
What a heresy?
00:35:50.24\00:35:51.40
He was an Anglican clergyman.
00:35:51.43\00:35:53.94
And so he
hastened back and started
00:35:53.97\00:35:56.25
to rebuke his
mother who cut him short.
00:35:56.28\00:35:58.75
She said "I am as much
called to preach the gospel
00:35:58.78\00:36:02.27
as are you my son, John."
00:36:02.30\00:36:05.38
I want to tell you today
00:36:05.41\00:36:07.32
"every person
whether he is a man
00:36:07.35\00:36:10.51
or a woman is
appointed to preach the gospel."
00:36:10.54\00:36:15.51
But that's hard work.
00:36:18.84\00:36:22.81
We are not ordained or appointed
00:36:22.84\00:36:26.05
so that we feel better
and we have a better status.
00:36:26.08\00:36:30.34
It's not about status,
it is about soul winning.
00:36:30.37\00:36:34.83
Paul says to
Timothy, preach the word.
00:36:37.63\00:36:41.00
Let me talk about this.
00:36:41.03\00:36:42.56
He didn't say preach the
traditions of the church.
00:36:42.59\00:36:45.81
Every church has
got its own traditions.
00:36:45.84\00:36:48.94
He didn't say preach the
traditions of the church,
00:36:48.97\00:36:52.58
he said preach the word.
00:36:52.61\00:36:55.68
This is the word, the Bible
00:36:55.71\00:36:58.72
when in season
and out of season.
00:36:58.75\00:37:02.47
That means
whenever you're called,
00:37:02.50\00:37:05.64
whenever there is an opportunity
you are to preach the word.
00:37:05.67\00:37:10.19
What word are you to preach?
00:37:12.79\00:37:16.21
You're to preach
the gospel of Christ.
00:37:16.24\00:37:19.79
That's the most important word.
00:37:19.82\00:37:21.61
Come over here to
1 Corinthians 15:1-4,
00:37:21.64\00:37:24.67
1 Corinthians 15:1-4 dear
hearts and general people.
00:37:24.70\00:37:31.45
"Now brothers, I want
to remind you of the gospel
00:37:31.48\00:37:35.38
I preached to you
which you received
00:37:35.41\00:37:38.45
and which you
have taken your stand.
00:37:38.48\00:37:40.64
By this gospel you are saved,
00:37:40.67\00:37:43.17
if you hold firmly to
the word I preached to you.
00:37:43.20\00:37:45.59
Otherwise, you
have believed in vain.
00:37:45.62\00:37:48.03
For what I received I passed
on to you as a first importance
00:37:48.06\00:37:51.99
that Christ died for our sins
00:37:52.02\00:37:54.75
according to the
scriptures, that He was buried,
00:37:54.78\00:37:58.00
that He was
raised on the third day
00:37:58.03\00:38:00.22
according to the scriptures"
00:38:00.25\00:38:02.22
we are called to
preach the good news,
00:38:02.25\00:38:06.02
the word of the gospel.
00:38:06.05\00:38:09.91
And I want to
say to every person
00:38:09.94\00:38:11.65
who is watching on television
00:38:11.68\00:38:13.44
and we have an
audience around the world
00:38:13.47\00:38:16.66
a sermon displeases God
00:38:16.69\00:38:20.21
if it doesn't somewhere
have in it the gospel of Christ.
00:38:20.24\00:38:25.67
I have got to think of people
coming into hear me preach
00:38:25.70\00:38:28.85
who may be lost souls.
00:38:28.88\00:38:30.45
I need to tell them
the gospel God loves you.
00:38:30.48\00:38:34.00
Jesus died for you.
00:38:34.03\00:38:36.65
Christ went to the
cross because He loves you.
00:38:36.68\00:38:40.72
He went to the
cross and bore your sins.
00:38:40.75\00:38:43.68
He made an atoning
sacrifice for your sins
00:38:43.71\00:38:47.48
and if you believe in
Him today you are passed
00:38:47.51\00:38:51.20
from death unto life
the heart of every sermon
00:38:51.23\00:38:55.02
is the cross of the Christ.
00:38:55.05\00:38:59.49
Hanging on the
cross was the gospel.
00:38:59.52\00:39:03.00
We have to preach the
sure word of Bible prophecy.
00:39:03.03\00:39:06.52
We have to preach Revelation 14
00:39:06.55\00:39:08.64
the Three Angels Messages.
00:39:08.67\00:39:10.32
The Lord of God
the commandments,
00:39:10.35\00:39:14.45
His incarnation, His
holiness, His atoning sacrifice.
00:39:14.48\00:39:20.33
We ought to preach the blood,
00:39:20.36\00:39:22.14
we ought to
preach His resurrection,
00:39:22.17\00:39:23.97
His
intercession, His coming again
00:39:24.00\00:39:26.22
the judgment life everlasting.
00:39:26.25\00:39:30.11
Preach the word.
00:39:30.14\00:39:32.80
And that's talking to you too.
00:39:32.83\00:39:34.45
You say it doesn't
that's I am not a preacher.
00:39:34.48\00:39:36.18
Yes, God has called
you to be a preacher,
00:39:36.21\00:39:38.84
to preach the word.
00:39:38.87\00:39:39.90
Every body is
ordained to preach.
00:39:39.93\00:39:43.49
We are not called to please man
00:39:43.52\00:39:47.78
but God I am not
appointed to seek popularity
00:39:47.81\00:39:52.61
what you think about me
00:39:52.64\00:39:54.44
my American friends
is of little value to me.
00:39:54.47\00:39:59.95
Let's get that
out of the way now.
00:39:59.98\00:40:02.08
What you think about me is
really of no interest to me
00:40:02.11\00:40:07.12
I want to be a preacher of
God's word who pleases God.
00:40:07.15\00:40:13.20
Preach the word in
season, out of season.
00:40:16.42\00:40:22.08
Come back to 1
Timothy 4:2 and onwards.
00:40:22.11\00:40:26.44
And unless you
and I are doing this
00:40:26.47\00:40:29.36
we are a gross of relevancy.
00:40:29.39\00:40:32.19
2 Timothy 4:2 and onwards.
00:40:32.22\00:40:37.24
"Preach the word,
be prepared in season,
00:40:40.21\00:40:42.81
out of season,
correct, rebuke and encourage
00:40:42.84\00:40:45.42
with great patience
and careful instruction.
00:40:45.45\00:40:48.71
For the time will come
when men will not put up
00:40:48.74\00:40:50.65
with sound doctrine.
00:40:50.68\00:40:52.06
Instead, to suit
their own desires,
00:40:52.09\00:40:54.23
they will gather around
them a great number of teachers
00:40:54.26\00:40:57.10
to say what their
itching ears want to hear.
00:40:57.13\00:41:01.12
They will turn
their ears away the truth
00:41:01.15\00:41:03.85
and turn aside to myths.
00:41:03.88\00:41:06.03
But you keep your
head in all situations,
00:41:06.06\00:41:08.46
endure hardship, do
the work of an evangelist,
00:41:08.49\00:41:13.47
discharge all the
duties of your ministry."
00:41:13.50\00:41:17.47
A minister is not
called to be popular
00:41:17.50\00:41:20.66
but to be faithful.
00:41:20.69\00:41:23.09
The Bible talks about here
is you have got itching ears
00:41:23.12\00:41:27.94
that describes the
people of Los Angeles today.
00:41:27.97\00:41:32.67
It describes the
people of San Francisco today.
00:41:32.70\00:41:37.18
It describes the
people of Europe.
00:41:37.21\00:41:41.22
Did you know in England today
00:41:41.25\00:41:44.45
there are more people
attending Muslim mosque
00:41:44.48\00:41:48.99
than going to
Christian churches.
00:41:49.02\00:41:52.60
Why because the fire
00:41:52.63\00:41:55.71
has gone out on the
pulpit in the churches.
00:41:55.74\00:41:59.00
They got dead men
preaching to dead congregations
00:41:59.03\00:42:02.19
and the Muslims taking over.
00:42:02.22\00:42:04.70
People will say we
got to stop the Muslim.
00:42:07.28\00:42:09.84
Well, you go just
go and preach the word
00:42:09.87\00:42:14.15
and there will be a change.
00:42:14.18\00:42:17.60
Itching ears, that means
people will say entertain me,
00:42:17.63\00:42:23.05
make me laugh, its
great going to church
00:42:23.08\00:42:27.74
because I get so many laughs
00:42:27.77\00:42:29.78
and then I get fed
up by the big potluck.
00:42:29.81\00:42:32.80
Make me feel good
tell me how to make money,
00:42:32.83\00:42:36.05
tell me that I
am going to heaven
00:42:36.08\00:42:39.09
when I am living like hell.
00:42:39.12\00:42:42.50
Itching ears,
that's our society,
00:42:42.53\00:42:50.24
that's our civilization
00:42:50.27\00:42:52.44
and that's why Billy Graham
said with a voice of thunder,
00:42:52.47\00:42:55.97
judgment is coming upon America.
00:42:56.00\00:43:00.66
A minister doesn't
say to the congregation,
00:43:00.69\00:43:04.06
what do you want to do?
00:43:04.09\00:43:05.45
He doesn't say that.
00:43:05.48\00:43:07.07
He tells them what the
Bible tells them to do.
00:43:07.10\00:43:11.75
He doesn't preach
myths and fairytales
00:43:11.78\00:43:15.84
but he endures hardship.
00:43:15.87\00:43:17.76
If you are going to
be a true Christian today
00:43:17.79\00:43:20.28
you got to endure hardship.
00:43:20.31\00:43:23.11
He says, do the
work of an evangelist.
00:43:23.14\00:43:26.68
People always think of me
00:43:29.47\00:43:30.77
as an
evangelists but I am pastor.
00:43:30.80\00:43:35.87
I am pastor.
00:43:35.90\00:43:37.38
When I go to
Australia I am not a gardener,
00:43:37.41\00:43:42.49
I am not a tractor driver
00:43:42.52\00:43:45.89
but I do the work of a gardener
00:43:45.92\00:43:49.15
and I get out
with my little tractor.
00:43:49.18\00:43:53.02
I do the work of
a tractor driver.
00:43:53.05\00:43:57.08
Every minister,
every church member
00:43:57.11\00:44:00.14
is called to do the
work of an evangelist.
00:44:00.17\00:44:03.87
What's wrong with us?
00:44:03.90\00:44:06.13
We're talking
about the Spirit of God
00:44:06.16\00:44:07.95
but the Spirit of God my friend,
00:44:07.98\00:44:10.11
is never given
until we preach the word
00:44:10.14\00:44:13.07
and live the word.
00:44:13.10\00:44:14.38
I left home when I was 16.
00:44:18.31\00:44:21.21
Traveled a thousand miles,
00:44:21.24\00:44:24.40
drove a
bulldozer, North Queensland,
00:44:24.43\00:44:27.62
12 hours a day up
at quarter-to-four
00:44:27.65\00:44:30.93
in the morning
in Taipei country--
00:44:30.96\00:44:36.23
one of the most
dangers snakes in the world.
00:44:36.26\00:44:38.17
I love seeing a sun
come up when I am sitting up
00:44:41.46\00:44:45.35
there on a great
big diesel tractor
00:44:45.38\00:44:49.74
and I am doing the
work of a tractor driver
00:44:49.77\00:44:53.11
even though I am not.
00:44:53.14\00:44:56.29
So I went through
college driving a bulldozer
00:44:56.32\00:44:59.50
I know bit about it.
00:44:59.53\00:45:00.92
You're called to do
the work of an evangelist
00:45:04.16\00:45:08.14
so it's too hard.
00:45:08.17\00:45:09.34
Well, then my friend,
00:45:09.37\00:45:12.12
you got a problem
only God can heal you.
00:45:12.15\00:45:16.31
The church I have discovered
00:45:16.34\00:45:17.73
after pastoring
the biggest churches
00:45:17.76\00:45:19.91
in the smallest
ones as around the world
00:45:19.94\00:45:21.96
the church becomes
contentious and gossipy
00:45:21.99\00:45:25.00
when evangelism is neglected.
00:45:25.03\00:45:27.93
You notice that when
I would go into a place
00:45:27.96\00:45:30.62
I would often find
churches firing like mad,
00:45:30.65\00:45:33.74
killed candy cats as
they'd would say in Ireland.
00:45:33.77\00:45:36.58
People fighting,
people criticizing,
00:45:36.61\00:45:38.89
criticizing the church pastor,
00:45:38.92\00:45:40.90
criticizing
everybody else talking about
00:45:40.93\00:45:44.75
what people
wear on their fingers
00:45:44.78\00:45:46.98
and everything else.
00:45:47.01\00:45:51.19
But the people
will lose themselves
00:45:51.22\00:45:54.20
in the chorus
greater than themselves,
00:45:54.23\00:45:58.95
the church will grow.
00:45:58.98\00:46:01.11
Listen to this,
leaders of this church,
00:46:01.14\00:46:03.76
if this church is not doing
the work of an evangelists,
00:46:03.79\00:46:08.29
if this church is not growing,
00:46:08.32\00:46:11.34
if this church is
dying and God will remove
00:46:11.37\00:46:15.58
the candlestick
out of its place.
00:46:15.61\00:46:18.02
Be warned.
00:46:18.05\00:46:20.85
Preach the word, do
the work of an evangelist.
00:46:20.88\00:46:27.05
Like in verse 6,
00:46:27.08\00:46:29.36
"For I am
already being poured out
00:46:29.39\00:46:31.96
like a drink offering,
00:46:31.99\00:46:34.04
and the time has
come for my departure."
00:46:34.07\00:46:35.75
He said just
about worn myself out
00:46:35.78\00:46:39.71
my life is heading away.
00:46:39.74\00:46:42.65
Verse 7, "I
fought the good fight."
00:46:42.68\00:46:48.78
Most of us have no
idea what that means.
00:46:48.81\00:46:52.66
This work in which we
are engaged is a battle.
00:46:52.69\00:46:56.58
Paul said "I have
been beaten by the Jews,
00:46:56.61\00:46:59.97
I have been
stoned, I have shipwrecked,
00:47:00.00\00:47:02.73
my back has been
opened up by the lash.
00:47:02.76\00:47:06.42
I fought a good fight."
00:47:11.68\00:47:12.94
I know a little bit about this.
00:47:16.67\00:47:20.89
We are called to be soldiers
00:47:20.92\00:47:25.41
not babies.
00:47:25.44\00:47:28.60
"I have fought the good fight,
I have finished the race,"
00:47:28.63\00:47:35.12
a runner has goal
he needs discipline.
00:47:35.15\00:47:38.71
The race is not for the
cowardly or the indolent.
00:47:38.74\00:47:42.20
"I have kept the
faith" Paul said.
00:47:47.44\00:47:53.69
"I remain true. I
have not turned back.
00:47:53.72\00:47:58.78
I have been
faithful to my calling."
00:47:58.81\00:48:01.39
There was a time when
Paul was so overwhelmed
00:48:01.42\00:48:04.64
by the work that
he almost gave up.
00:48:04.67\00:48:09.15
Ellen White says, he
looked back to the cross,
00:48:09.18\00:48:12.65
because he felt
like giving it all away.
00:48:12.68\00:48:15.82
The beatings, the
coldness in the church,
00:48:15.85\00:48:18.47
the treachery of the brethren.
00:48:18.50\00:48:22.12
He looked back to the
cross, and took courage.
00:48:22.15\00:48:25.15
I have kept the faith.
00:48:30.24\00:48:31.74
This calls for an extraordinary
endowment of God's grace.
00:48:36.99\00:48:43.50
We live in an age of
babies, spiritual weaklings.
00:48:43.53\00:48:49.31
We are called
to be men and women
00:48:49.34\00:48:54.24
and fight the fight of faith.
00:48:54.27\00:48:56.41
Verse 8, "Now
there is in store for me
00:49:04.26\00:49:09.23
the crown of
righteousness, which the Lord,
00:49:09.26\00:49:11.39
the righteous judge
will award to me on that day
00:49:11.42\00:49:15.10
and not only to me,
00:49:15.13\00:49:16.21
but also to all who have
longed for His appearing."
00:49:16.24\00:49:19.56
The end result is
the reward, the crown.
00:49:19.59\00:49:23.88
This reward is not for all.
00:49:23.91\00:49:26.83
People will say, no, no, no
00:49:26.86\00:49:28.07
everybody is gonna be saved,
everybody is gonna be saved.
00:49:28.10\00:49:31.93
No one is gonna be lost
everybody is going to be save.
00:49:35.81\00:49:38.57
No, it's not true.
00:49:38.60\00:49:42.61
Reward is for the
person who fights the faith,
00:49:42.64\00:49:46.62
fights the
battle, keeps the faith.
00:49:46.65\00:49:49.01
You say, well, this
is salvation by works.
00:49:49.04\00:49:51.10
No, but unless
you have these works
00:49:51.13\00:49:54.89
you are not saved.
00:49:54.92\00:49:56.71
Salvation, leads to a complete
turn around in the life.
00:49:56.74\00:50:02.06
Boys become men,
girl's become women
00:50:02.09\00:50:08.17
they are people with
some strength of character.
00:50:08.20\00:50:13.04
Not man be bambies not wimps.
00:50:13.07\00:50:14.79
It's not for all but for
those who keep the faith.
00:50:21.75\00:50:24.70
Paul said, "Beyond the dungeon,
00:50:24.73\00:50:26.18
the grave desfile of tears
there is a bright shining light
00:50:26.21\00:50:29.84
it's called the heaven."
00:50:29.87\00:50:31.96
When I was in Australia
I buried my brother-in-law.
00:50:31.99\00:50:35.07
I was his best man
when he married my sister.
00:50:35.10\00:50:39.37
John was a faithful Christian.
00:50:39.40\00:50:42.95
My last memories
of John Stockerhof
00:50:42.98\00:50:46.60
when I went up to
study the word with him
00:50:46.63\00:50:48.55
and give him some
comfort a few months ago.
00:50:48.58\00:50:52.14
John with his Bible,
00:50:52.17\00:50:53.99
marked underlined a man of God
00:50:54.02\00:50:57.73
who was totally
consistent in his walk.
00:50:57.76\00:51:00.56
He was in a church
one week and stayed
00:51:00.59\00:51:02.28
away the next week
because he was a spiritual wimp.
00:51:02.31\00:51:05.15
He kept the faith.
00:51:09.73\00:51:11.73
Look at verses 14 to 18
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"Alexander the metalworker
did me a great deal of harm."
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It will happen to you.
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You'll have elders who
do you great deal of harm
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and people who
try to destroy you.
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I have received
bullets in my offering plates.
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"Alexander the metalworker
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he did me a
great a deal of harm.
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The Lord will repay
him for what he has done.
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You too should be on
your guard against him
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because he is
strongly opposed our message.
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At my first defense,
no one came to my support,
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but everyone deserted me."
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Where were the brethren?
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"May it not be
held against them.
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The Lord stood by my
side and gave me strength,
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so that through me message
might be fully proclaimed
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and all the
Gentiles might hear it.
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And I was delivered
from the lion's mouth."
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From Nero.
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"The Lord will rescue
me from every evil attack
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and will bring me
safely to his heavenly kingdom
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to him be glory
for ever and ever.
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Amen."
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I can tell you for
those are faithful,
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for those who read the word,
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oh, I can't take
time to read the word,
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get over that indolence
and that spiritual laziness.
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If you say that it
is because you have been
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brainwashed by the foolish media
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and idiotized by the box.
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But you give your life to Christ
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and if you follow Him
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and if you are
faithful to the mission
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to preach the word
and if you don't runaway
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from the foe but if you
gonna look the foe in the eye
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and you will say can
say "I will not move."
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There is a crown of glory.
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Extraordinary times
demand an extraordinary response
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from an extraordinary people.
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When engulfed by the
terror of the tempestuous sea,
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unknown waves before you roll.
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At the end of doubt
and peril is eternity,
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though fear and
conflict seize your soul.
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Just think of stepping on shore,
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and finding it
heaven of touching a hand,
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and finding it God's
of breathing new air,
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and finding it
celestial of waking up in Glory,
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finding it "Home."
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When surrounded by the blackness
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of the darkest night,
oh, how lonely death can be.
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At the end this long
tunnel is a shinning light,
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for death is
swallowed-up in victory.
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But just think of
stepping on shore,
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and finding it
heaven, of touching a hand,
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and finding it God's
of breathing new air,
00:54:20.23\00:54:26.42
and finding it celestial
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of waking up in Glory,
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and finding it "Home."
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In the name of the
Father and of the Son
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and of the Holy Spirit.
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Amen.
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The Carter Report is a
self supporting ministry
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with a global mission.
00:54:55.82\00:54:57.44
We believe that the
most important thing
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that we can do in
this tremendous hour
00:54:59.41\00:55:02.27
is to tell people
about the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Because, Jesus
said "I am the way
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the truth and the life."
00:55:08.29\00:55:09.97
We do not believe that
this is business as usual.
00:55:10.00\00:55:14.06
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 been
fulfilled all most everyday.
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The signs of the
times are shouting at us
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and they are saying
Jesus is coming soon.
00:55:27.58\00:55:30.98
I want you to be my
partner in global mission.
00:55:31.01\00:55:34.53
I want you to be my partner
in helping to tell the world
00:55:34.56\00:55:37.93
about the coming of Jesus.
00:55:37.96\00:55:40.17
I want you to be my
partner in preaching
00:55:40.20\00:55:43.26
of the distinctive truth
of the Three Angels Messages.
00:55:43.29\00:55:47.97
Please, check us out
at the New Carter Report
00:55:48.00\00:55:52.23
website cartereprot.org.
00:55:52.26\00:55:55.06
We have a special section
whereby you can ask questions
00:55:55.09\00:55:59.88
and I will give you the answers
00:55:59.91\00:56:01.78
from the living
word of the living God
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that is the cartereport.org.
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My friend, we want you
to join us in the mission
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to preach the gospel in China,
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in India, in
Australia, in Africa,
00:56:17.08\00:56:20.67
in the United States of America
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wherever people are lost
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and wherever people
need to hear the good news
00:56:24.89\00:56:28.41
that Jesus saves.
00:56:28.44\00:56:30.92
Please check us out the
New Carter Report website
00:56:30.95\00:56:34.60
cartereprot.org.
00:56:34.63\00:56:37.31
I want to hear from you today.
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Our debtors
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And lead us not into temptation
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But deliver us from evil
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For thine is the kingdom
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And the power
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And the glory
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For ever
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Amen
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