From Arcadia, California
the Carter Report Presents,
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"The Living
Word" around the world.
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People wonder
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what is happening in America,
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at the very heart
of this great nation.
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Tremendous changes taking place.
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People say you can hardly
recognize the America of today
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to the America
of a few years ago.
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What is happening in America?
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Today I'm going
to talk about that,
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when I answer the question,
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does God really care
about America and Australia?
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Does God care
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about what is
happening in the world today?
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But firstly, please
let me have the privilege
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of introducing my wife Beverley,
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who's going to come
and give you a message.
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Would you please
welcome her today?
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Happy Sabbath, everyone.
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Happy Sabbath.
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Way back in the late
1500s and the early 1600s
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there lived one of England's
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greatest poets and
writers William Shakespeare,
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who wrote amongst
many other things,
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"No legacy is so
rich as honesty."
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Now most of us would agree
that honesty is the best policy.
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However let's
not leave it there.
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Two hundred years later
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another famous writer a
Frenchman this time wrote,
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"A legacy of honesty
without grace and mercy
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can turn us into
villains or devils".
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In his 19th century
novel Les Miserables,
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Hugo tells a story
of a number of people,
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including a police inspector
who believed in honesty
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but had no idea
of mercy and grace.
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Another is this
thief, Jean Valjean
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who had stolen some sliver
candle sticks from a clergyman.
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Now, the clergyman
believed in honesty
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and grace and mercy.
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He knew that Valjean stolen
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to get money to buy some food.
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That didn't excuse
what he had done of course.
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But on Valjean's capture
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and being brought
back to the clergyman,
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he was forgiven and was
sent on his way a free man.
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Valjean now understood
the importance of honesty
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and the meaning
of grace and mercy
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and for the rest of his
life Valjean endeavored to live
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and to share these
great truths with others.
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In a sense this is the
story of a gospel isn't it,
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because we are sinners
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but because of God grace
and mercy we are forgiven.
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Grace and mercy,
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preachers tell us
that grace is getting
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what we don't deserve,
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salvation,
forgiveness and eternal life,
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while mercy is not
getting what we deserve,
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condemnation and eternal death.
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Grace and mercy,
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two of the most beautiful words
in all the English language
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in any language,
because we all need them.
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To anyone here or perhaps
you're watching this telecast
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and you haven't experienced
God's grace and mercy,
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I encourage you to do so today.
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The Bible says, "Let
us give thanks to the Lord
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for His grace and
mercy endureth forever."
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Amen. Amen.
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Hello, friend, I am
John Carter in Colombia.
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Behind me is the great
city of Bogota the capital
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of this amazing country.
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This city is a city
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of more than
eight million souls.
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It's up more than
8,000 feet in the Andes
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and we've come here
today with one purpose in mind
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to preach the everlasting
gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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We are here because we
have a commission from God.
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Jesus said, "Go
into all the world
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and preach the
everlasting gospel,
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baptizing them in
the name of the Father,
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and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit."
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The people here need
the gospel of Christ.
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And I am asking
you today come with us,
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if not in body but
come with us in spirit.
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This is been a
very, very dangerous city.
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A very dangerous
part of the world
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but we believe that we are safe
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when we are in the hands of God.
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Therefore I am beseeching
you in the name of Christ
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and in the names of these
eight million plus inhabitants
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in the city of Bogota
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to come and help us to
preach the Word of God.
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Please support the preaching
of the Word of God in Columbia.
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Please write to me,
John Carter, PO Box 1900,
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Thousand Oaks,
California, 91358.
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In Australia, write
to me at the address,
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Terrigal, New
South Wales, Australia.
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Jesus said,
"Work while it is day
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the night is coming
when no man can work."
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Please write to me today.
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Thank you and God bless you.
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Our topic today is, Does God,
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the great God
who made the stars,
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does He care?
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Does He care about you,
does He care about America?
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Does He care about anything?
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Does God care about cancer?
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Something we're all
some what little afraid of.
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Does He care about cancer,
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loneliness,
poverty, pain, suffering?
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Does He care about
the children of Chernobyl.
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We've been in that very area,
we've particularly Beverley,
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visited the orphanages
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that have these
poor little kids,
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the victims of radiations.
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Does God care about them?
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Does He care about the
grandmothers of Chernobyl?
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They went back,
they're living there
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because they say this is home.
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Does God care about the
exploitation of the poor,
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the minimum wage,
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lying, unjust
wars, violence, rape,
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the abuse of little
boys and little girls?
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Does God care about America?
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Does He care about
the widows of Iraq?
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Have you heard about them?
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Hundreds of thousands of them
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who lost their
husbands in the war,
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now they've got
nobody to take care of them,
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they sort of ostracize.
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Does God care about sin?
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Does God care about homosexuals?
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Let me go no further,
before I say, yes He does.
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He loves homosexuals.
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Does He care about
who is sleeping with who?
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You say, nobody
knows, nobody cares.
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Does He care about pornography
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or is He taking a nap?
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It would seem so,
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I want you to
take your Bible today
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and turn to the Book of Jeremiah
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and today, I will stay basically
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in the Book of
Jeremiah the prophet.
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So turn over here Jeremiah,
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were gonna come to chapter
1 and verses 1 down to 3.
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Jeremiah 1:1-3. This
book is about 2,600 years old.
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Jeremiah 1:1
"The words of Jeremiah
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son of Hilkiah,
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one of the priests at Anathoth
in the territory of Benjamin.
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The word of the
Lord came to him."
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So what you're gonna
hear today my friend,
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is the word of the Lord.
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Not the word of the
president of the United States,
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not the word of the Congress,
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but the word of the Lord
therefore you can believe it.
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"The word of
the Lord came to him
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in the thirteenth
year of the reign of Josiah
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son of Amon king of Judah,
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and through the reign
of Jehoiakim son of Josiah
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king of Judah,
down to the fifth month
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of the eleventh year of Zedekiah
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son of Josiah king of Judah,
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when the people of
Jerusalem went into exile."
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This is a book about
fighting and bloodshed
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and the destruction
of the city of Jerusalem.
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It is written in
tough hard times.
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Word of the Lord came to him.
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In verses 4 and 5 and
what America needs today,
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what Australia needs,
what this church needs
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is the word of the Lord.
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"The word of the
Lord came to me, saying,
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'before I formed you
in the womb I knew you,
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before you were
born I set you apart,
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I appointed you as a
prophet to the nations.'
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" I want you to personalize that
because if you read the Bible
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and you don't personalize it,
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it doesn't mean hill of beans.
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God said before you were born,
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before you were conceived,
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before you were made in the womb
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God says I knew
you, I appointed you.
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Listen, God sees
you, God knows you.
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God knows what you're
thinking right now in church.
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God knows when you're
sleeping with somebody
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you shouldn't be sleeping with.
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Before I formed you
in the womb I saw you.
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God is real, He is almighty,
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He is holy, He is
loving, He is very older,
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has an infinite
intelligence therefore
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He knows
everything about everything.
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He exists.
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The latest theory
in science is that
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God made
everything out of nothing
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and they tell us
this, with a straight faith.
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The great professor
Dawkins from Oxford University,
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I heard him say, oh he
said, we know a postulating
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the theory that
God made everything.
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No, no, no of course not God
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that the universe was
made by nothing out of nothing.
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They're even
putting up books on this,
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out of nothing.
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That you craziness,
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atheistic listen, those of you
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who believe in
atheistic evolution,
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who think they've got the
church on the ropes, listen,
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they teach though
they would not say
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it as plainly as this.
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They teach if you
leave hydrogen gas
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alone by itself
for billions of years
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it'll become people
singing and dancing.
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If you leave boil it down
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yet to the common
lowest common denominator,
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if you leave
hydrogen gas alone by itself
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for billions of
years through evolution
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it'll become people
singing and dancing.
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I say balderdash.
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Now incase you folks don't know,
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I am a grandpa.
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I have a
granddaughter called Amelie
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and she is a little over
two and she is a chatterbox.
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And when I was up in
the city of San Francisco
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she said to me, it's ridiculous.
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This is her word at present,
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she has different
flavors of the month
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and at present
it is not ridiculous
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but it's ridiculous.
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I say with Amelie the
theory that the universe
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was made out of
nothing is ridiculous
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even though smart
people are saying it.
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He knows
everything about everything
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and everyone He knows you.
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Those of you who are
sitting down the back,
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those of you who are
sitting down the front,
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He knows everything.
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Now, I want you
to come to a book
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that was written by Jeremiah,
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therefore it's an extension
of the Book of Jeremiah.
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It's the next book
it's a book of Lamentations.
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Don't read it when you
are depressed, Lamentations,
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because it's the
Lamentations of Jeremiah
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concerning the destruction
of the city of Jerusalem
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with blood and horror
and famine and misery.
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If you come to Lamentations
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and onwards,
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Lamentations
written by Jeremiah,
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his lamentation concerning
the sins of the people.
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Verse 17, "I have
been deprived of peace,
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I have forgotten
what prosperity is.
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So I say, 'My splendor is gone
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and all that I had
hoped from the Lord.'
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I remember my
affliction and my wandering,
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the bitterness and the gall.
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I well remember them
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and my soul is
downcast within me.
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Yet this I call to mind
and therefore I have hope,
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because of the Lord's great love
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we are not consumed, for
his compassion never fail.
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They are new every morning,
great is thy faithfulness."
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Listen to this, God is faithful
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because God is loving.
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Jeremiah wrote in the
midst to suffering, God cares.
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But how can God
care when He is in heaven
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and I'm on the
earth, that is the question.
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I would read to
you today if I had time
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a most excellent
statement from this book,
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"The Cross of
Christ" by John Stott.
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Everybody got to read it.
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The cross of Christ,
the greatest argument
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that God loves me my friend,
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is the cross of Christ.
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How do I know God cares for me?
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How do I know that He's
not a benevolent grandpa
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a billion light years away?
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How do I know whether
He's not taking a nap?
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Because in the person
of Jesus He became a man,
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God became a man.
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This is the
doctrine of the incarnation.
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God became a man.
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And He became a
man, who suffered,
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who was
slighted, who was insulted,
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who was
betrayed by His disciple.
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Who was crucified by the Romans,
00:17:27.29\00:17:32.93
who recedes Him at the hands
00:17:32.96\00:17:35.26
of His own brothers
and sisters the Jews.
00:17:35.29\00:17:41.44
On the cross,
00:17:41.47\00:17:43.42
He tasted the
pain of every person
00:17:43.45\00:17:47.50
who had ever lived.
00:17:47.53\00:17:50.73
He tasted the pain
of cancer and loneliness
00:17:50.76\00:17:55.25
and heartache and
suffering and rejection so
00:17:55.28\00:17:59.12
He knows, He cares.
00:18:02.92\00:18:10.12
Does God care about my pain?
00:18:10.15\00:18:13.26
The cross of
Christ proves He cares.
00:18:13.29\00:18:16.21
If you go to Gethsemane
00:18:16.24\00:18:18.69
you'll find
there that is outside
00:18:18.72\00:18:20.52
of course Jerusalem today.
00:18:20.55\00:18:24.24
You'll find that
our dearly beloved
00:18:24.27\00:18:26.19
Roman Catholic
friends have left a pot there.
00:18:26.22\00:18:30.29
And it has a poem
00:18:30.32\00:18:32.56
and I have
forgotten the poem except for
00:18:32.59\00:18:35.31
of these few words that say,
00:18:35.34\00:18:37.44
although we do not
understand You, we trust You.
00:18:37.47\00:18:41.16
We cannot understand
with our finite minds
00:18:44.30\00:18:48.95
the infinite mind of God except
00:18:48.98\00:18:52.61
that we know He is good
and He is compassionate great,
00:18:52.64\00:18:58.75
He's your faithfulness.
00:18:58.78\00:19:02.88
And so because He became a man
00:19:02.91\00:19:05.26
even though we do
not understand Him fully,
00:19:05.29\00:19:11.78
we can trust Him fully.
00:19:11.81\00:19:17.15
So let me say this plainly,
God cares about suffering,
00:19:17.18\00:19:23.09
He cares about
the widows in Iraq,
00:19:23.12\00:19:25.99
the victims of war,
00:19:26.02\00:19:29.09
He cares about the
children of Chernobyl,
00:19:29.12\00:19:32.57
the family that
lost their home He cares,
00:19:32.60\00:19:37.30
He cares about the
person who lost his job
00:19:37.33\00:19:41.10
and the soldier
back from Afghanistan
00:19:41.13\00:19:44.28
who lost his legs.
00:19:44.31\00:19:46.12
So the first point I want
you to get in your minds today
00:19:49.73\00:19:53.07
is that God is
infinite in wisdom
00:19:53.10\00:19:56.41
but He's infinite in
love, He cares for you,
00:19:56.44\00:20:00.16
He loves you, He cares for you.
00:20:00.19\00:20:02.84
The cross of Christ
proves that He loves you.
00:20:02.87\00:20:09.66
He has you on His mind,
00:20:09.69\00:20:14.00
but, but,
00:20:14.03\00:20:19.36
there is another
side to Gods caring,
00:20:19.39\00:20:23.07
not only is He
loving, He is holy.
00:20:23.10\00:20:28.29
There are two great attributes
to the character of God,
00:20:28.32\00:20:31.52
He is love but He is holy
00:20:31.55\00:20:34.66
and cannot tolerate evil.
00:20:38.86\00:20:42.37
And that's the major
theme of the Book of Jeremiah,
00:20:42.40\00:20:45.54
when we are not all
together comfortable with
00:20:45.57\00:20:49.55
God cares about the world,
how we live and what we do.
00:20:54.23\00:21:01.07
The Book of Jeremiah,
00:21:01.10\00:21:02.57
I read it through many
times the last few weeks,
00:21:02.60\00:21:05.52
reads like a report on
current affairs in America.
00:21:05.55\00:21:10.99
It is totally and
absolutely relevant.
00:21:11.02\00:21:16.75
Listen, the Book of
Jeremiah was written about
00:21:16.78\00:21:23.26
God's chosen
special nation, Israel.
00:21:23.29\00:21:29.62
We in America would
like to think of ourselves
00:21:29.65\00:21:32.57
as distinct from all the
other nations in the world.
00:21:32.60\00:21:37.51
We call it
American exceptionalism.
00:21:37.54\00:21:42.43
Ronald Reagan
summed it up when he said
00:21:42.46\00:21:44.88
America was a
shining city on a hill
00:21:44.91\00:21:51.15
so was Israel.
00:21:55.33\00:21:56.36
Jeremiah is totally
relevant because it almost seems
00:21:59.47\00:22:03.58
He is describing our times.
00:22:03.61\00:22:06.32
Therefore I want you to notice
00:22:06.35\00:22:08.95
what was happening to
the people of God back there
00:22:08.98\00:22:11.94
and relate it to what is
happening today in America
00:22:11.97\00:22:15.92
and in the
church and in the world.
00:22:15.95\00:22:18.28
Would you please?
00:22:18.31\00:22:20.48
I want you to come
now to Jeremiah 2:11-13,
00:22:20.51\00:22:26.23
Jeremiah 2:11-13
here we are talking about
00:22:26.26\00:22:33.53
the chosen nation,
the city on a hill.
00:22:33.56\00:22:40.72
"'Has a nation
ever changed its Gods?
00:22:40.75\00:22:44.27
Yet they are not Gods at all.
00:22:44.30\00:22:46.40
But my people have exchanged
their glory for worthless idols.
00:22:46.43\00:22:50.76
Be appalled at this, O heavens,
00:22:50.79\00:22:52.69
and shudder with great
horror,' declares the Lord.
00:22:52.72\00:22:55.38
'My people have
committed two sins,
00:22:55.41\00:23:00.03
they have forsaken me,
the spring of living water,
00:23:00.06\00:23:03.84
and have dug their own
cisterns, broken cisterns
00:23:03.87\00:23:09.26
that cannot hold water.'
00:23:09.29\00:23:13.06
" There was a great
apostasy in the land of Israel,
00:23:13.09\00:23:19.39
they gave up the truth of God,
00:23:19.42\00:23:23.76
the truth of a Word of God.
00:23:23.79\00:23:28.21
They got rid of God's cistern
00:23:28.24\00:23:31.25
and they made
themselves their own cistern.
00:23:31.28\00:23:36.61
They forsook the
way of God's word
00:23:36.64\00:23:40.37
and they
substituted their own religion.
00:23:40.40\00:23:44.23
Now my friend, you will get
hopefully soon this magazine
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if you're on our mailing list.
00:23:50.62\00:23:52.48
Its 56 pages its glossy,
it's got great stories in it,
00:23:52.51\00:23:57.75
it's called Ebenezer.
00:23:57.78\00:24:01.54
If you want to
know what Ebenezer
00:24:01.57\00:24:03.21
means look up your Bible.
00:24:03.24\00:24:05.11
It is a Carter report
magazine of understanding
00:24:05.14\00:24:09.11
inside can bad be good,
nothing too hard for God.
00:24:09.14\00:24:16.02
It tells amazing
stories, science of the times,
00:24:16.05\00:24:20.09
my warning from the pope.
00:24:20.12\00:24:23.67
Did he give me a warning?
00:24:23.70\00:24:24.73
Absolutely, yes, he
sent a warning to me.
00:24:24.76\00:24:29.82
Why they buried the
bishop on the sidewalk?
00:24:29.85\00:24:32.97
It is a story of how the bishop
was buried on the sidewalk.
00:24:33.00\00:24:37.26
The bishop who said we
would never ever preach
00:24:37.29\00:24:39.94
in the city of
Kiev it's in here.
00:24:39.97\00:24:44.05
Miracle in a communist prism,
00:24:44.08\00:24:46.68
plus articles
Facebook refuses to advertise.
00:24:46.71\00:24:51.84
I have an article here
on political correctness
00:24:51.87\00:24:55.51
and the new taught police
00:24:55.54\00:24:57.72
I have an article on
what is happening in America
00:24:57.75\00:25:03.55
where people are taking
away our freedom of speech.
00:25:03.58\00:25:10.10
You see, now,
you need to get this
00:25:10.13\00:25:12.86
and you need to write to me
if your not on my mailing list,
00:25:12.89\00:25:15.10
if you write to me,
we will send you a copy.
00:25:15.13\00:25:19.17
Now, I want to
read to you from a man
00:25:19.20\00:25:21.76
whom I have appreciated
and respected for years.
00:25:21.79\00:25:26.71
Dr. Billy Graham calls
for national repentance.
00:25:26.74\00:25:32.44
World famous
evangelist Dr. Billy Graham
00:25:32.47\00:25:35.69
warns that the nation faces
increasing threats to civil
00:25:35.72\00:25:40.36
and religious
liberties from its government.
00:25:40.39\00:25:47.44
He also commented
regardless of what society says,
00:25:47.47\00:25:52.04
we cannot go on much
longer in the sea of immorality
00:25:52.07\00:25:58.74
without judgment coming,
the return of Christ is near.
00:25:58.77\00:26:04.40
The 95 year old
preacher adds our early fathers
00:26:04.43\00:26:09.17
lead our nation
according to Bible principles
00:26:09.20\00:26:13.49
our country is turning
away form what made it so great.
00:26:13.52\00:26:20.58
The human heart can only be
changed by the power of God.
00:26:20.61\00:26:26.72
And a person of course
who believes exactly the same
00:26:26.75\00:26:29.93
is this person
here Dr. Ben Carson.
00:26:29.96\00:26:34.16
Who said it so at the
National Prayer Breakfast,
00:26:34.19\00:26:37.32
he said we are turning
away from the Word of God
00:26:37.35\00:26:44.00
and we are drowning
in the sea of immorality.
00:26:44.03\00:26:50.19
We have forsaken the
spring of everlasting life.
00:26:50.22\00:26:54.25
We have got rid of God's system
00:26:54.28\00:26:57.30
and we are making
systems of our own.
00:26:57.33\00:27:02.33
Great changes are
taking place in America,
00:27:02.36\00:27:06.31
are you aware of these things?
00:27:06.34\00:27:09.76
Pastor Rick Warren, another man
00:27:09.79\00:27:11.70
whom I appreciate
was being interviewed
00:27:11.73\00:27:13.74
by the Englishmen, Piers Morgan,
00:27:13.77\00:27:16.36
who personally I like,
00:27:16.39\00:27:17.70
I think he's one of the
greatest of all interviewers.
00:27:17.73\00:27:20.72
They were talking
about many subjects but then,
00:27:20.75\00:27:24.46
Rick Warren talked to
him about same sex marriage
00:27:24.49\00:27:27.45
and he said, why
do you still say that
00:27:27.48\00:27:29.99
marriage is
between a man and a woman?
00:27:30.02\00:27:33.36
He said, America is changing,
00:27:33.39\00:27:35.92
most Americans no longer believe
like you do, pastor Warren.
00:27:35.95\00:27:41.59
He said, don't you think
00:27:41.62\00:27:43.41
it is time to change the Bible?
00:27:43.44\00:27:49.81
I appreciated
big man Rick Warren
00:27:49.84\00:27:52.13
who looked him in
the eye and he said this,
00:27:52.16\00:27:55.89
we do not have the authority
00:27:55.92\00:27:58.86
to tamper with the Word of God.
00:27:58.89\00:28:01.61
But I want to tell you
folks, something today,
00:28:03.61\00:28:06.09
there are lots of
churches and lots of people
00:28:06.12\00:28:09.92
who are changing the Word of God
00:28:09.95\00:28:12.65
but I want them
to know something,
00:28:12.68\00:28:14.42
judgment is coming.
00:28:14.45\00:28:16.82
Now, come over
here to Jeremiah 36,
00:28:16.85\00:28:20.65
you got to read this book
through, it's pretty heavy
00:28:20.68\00:28:22.79
but you got to read it
through it will do you good.
00:28:22.82\00:28:26.94
Jeremiah 36:20-24,
00:28:26.97\00:28:30.69
"After they put the
scroll in the room of
00:28:30.72\00:28:34.23
Elishama the secretary,
00:28:34.26\00:28:37.07
they went to the
king in the courtyard
00:28:37.10\00:28:38.87
and reported everything to him.
00:28:38.90\00:28:41.45
The king sent
Jehudi to get the scroll,
00:28:41.48\00:28:44.20
and Jehudi
brought it from the room."
00:28:44.23\00:28:47.26
So forth, then he
reads it to the king.
00:28:47.29\00:28:50.09
Come down to verse 22,
"It was the ninth month
00:28:50.12\00:28:52.85
and the king was
sitting in the winter apartment
00:28:52.88\00:28:56.17
with a fire burning in
the firepot in front of him.
00:28:56.20\00:28:59.53
When Jehudi had read three
or four columns of the scroll."
00:28:59.56\00:29:03.42
The Word of God, by Jeremiah.
00:29:03.45\00:29:07.00
"The king cut them
off with a scribe's knife
00:29:07.03\00:29:10.51
and threw them into the firepot,
00:29:10.54\00:29:14.21
until the entire scroll
was burned in the fire."
00:29:14.24\00:29:19.49
Verse 24, "The king
and all his attendants
00:29:19.52\00:29:22.11
who heard all these
things showed no fear,
00:29:22.14\00:29:25.04
nor did they
tear their clothes."
00:29:25.07\00:29:29.26
I want to tell
you folks, something
00:29:29.29\00:29:30.76
and I want to say
to the people watching
00:29:30.79\00:29:33.96
across this great
country and around the world.
00:29:33.99\00:29:37.97
Today, people are making
war against the Word of the Lord
00:29:38.00\00:29:44.77
and they don't fear.
00:29:44.80\00:29:47.10
They say we're going
to do what we want to do
00:29:47.13\00:29:50.71
and we are going to
force you to follow us.
00:29:50.74\00:29:58.25
The Judgment is coming.
00:29:58.28\00:30:00.87
The other night
00:30:00.90\00:30:02.72
I was listening
to Richard Dawkins,
00:30:02.75\00:30:05.08
again in a debate in
which he got completely beaten,
00:30:05.11\00:30:09.12
debating an old Christian
from Oxford University.
00:30:09.15\00:30:13.54
Richard Dawkins says, we
are all here by blind chance.
00:30:13.57\00:30:19.58
There is no God,
00:30:19.61\00:30:20.77
the universe was made by
itself and nothing there.
00:30:20.80\00:30:25.77
We are here simply
00:30:25.80\00:30:27.39
we are a product of
time plus matter plus chance.
00:30:27.42\00:30:33.21
And this is the new atheism
00:30:33.24\00:30:37.23
it is permeating
every American university.
00:30:37.26\00:30:43.33
Almost every common trader,
00:30:43.36\00:30:48.50
almost with one notable
exception, here in America,
00:30:48.53\00:30:52.51
almost every
television outlet run by people
00:30:52.54\00:30:58.88
who despise the Word of
the Lord they're humanists.
00:30:58.91\00:31:06.82
They believe that man
is a measurable things.
00:31:06.85\00:31:11.91
I listen to a talk
00:31:11.94\00:31:13.47
that everybody
got to try to get.
00:31:13.50\00:31:16.21
You can try to
find it on the internet
00:31:16.24\00:31:19.19
but a talk by
the great Schaeffer.
00:31:19.22\00:31:23.19
Francis Schaeffer
you never read his books,
00:31:23.22\00:31:25.73
you are to read them.
00:31:25.76\00:31:27.50
"The God Who Is
There" by Francis Schaeffer
00:31:27.53\00:31:31.68
you can go to a
bookstore and get it,
00:31:31.71\00:31:33.82
The God Who Is There, he
gave this talk 30 years ago
00:31:33.85\00:31:38.81
in Dr. Canady's
church and he said,
00:31:38.84\00:31:41.50
there are things
happening today in America
00:31:41.53\00:31:45.14
that you're not
going to believe.
00:31:45.17\00:31:48.20
He said, the
humanist have taken over.
00:31:48.23\00:31:52.82
And therefore the
country is no longer
00:31:52.85\00:31:57.31
being guided by the
faith of her fathers.
00:31:57.34\00:32:02.35
And tremendous changes
are going to happen in America
00:32:02.38\00:32:07.46
and Christians
he said 30 years ago
00:32:07.49\00:32:10.38
are going to be persecuted
because of their faith.
00:32:10.41\00:32:16.84
Would you come over
here it's starting to happen.
00:32:16.87\00:32:19.23
Come over here, to
Jeremiah Chapter 5,
00:32:19.26\00:32:22.74
Jeremiah 5:30, 31
and I can't understand
00:32:22.77\00:32:28.38
how people who call themselves
00:32:28.41\00:32:30.32
Adventist can be
so lackadaisical.
00:32:30.35\00:32:34.76
They don't seem to have
any fire in their bones.
00:32:34.79\00:32:37.95
I thank God for 3ABN and
some other of these outlets.
00:32:37.98\00:32:41.88
Look at Jeremiah 5:30,
00:32:41.91\00:32:45.15
"A horrible and shocking
thing has happened in the land,
00:32:45.18\00:32:49.14
the prophets prophesy lies,
00:32:49.17\00:32:51.19
the priests rule by
their own authority,
00:32:51.22\00:32:53.52
and my people love it this way."
00:32:53.55\00:32:55.98
And here is the text,
00:32:56.01\00:32:57.71
"But what will
you do in the end?"
00:32:57.74\00:33:02.06
I want to say this to you
00:33:02.09\00:33:03.80
and everybody
watching the telecast,
00:33:03.83\00:33:05.98
you can get away
from biblical marriage,
00:33:06.01\00:33:08.75
you can get away
from the word of the Lord,
00:33:08.78\00:33:11.53
you can despise the Church,
00:33:11.56\00:33:13.51
but what will you do in the end?
00:33:13.54\00:33:16.73
That's the word.
00:33:16.76\00:33:18.19
What will you do in the end?
00:33:18.22\00:33:22.94
The Bible spoke
about false prophets
00:33:22.97\00:33:24.91
who deceive the people,
who are willing to be deceived.
00:33:24.94\00:33:28.26
What about you?
00:33:28.29\00:33:29.32
Are you willing to be deceived?
00:33:29.35\00:33:30.85
I think some of you are.
00:33:30.88\00:33:33.52
How do you know
the Lord for yourself?
00:33:33.55\00:33:35.26
Look at Jeremiah
6:13 and onwards,
00:33:35.29\00:33:39.53
"From the least to the greatest,
all are greedy for gain,
00:33:39.56\00:33:43.16
prophets and priests
alike all practice deceit.
00:33:43.19\00:33:46.01
They dress the
wound of my people
00:33:46.04\00:33:47.91
as though it were not serious.
00:33:47.94\00:33:50.17
Peace, peace, they
say, when there is no peace.
00:33:50.20\00:33:53.58
Are they ashamed of
their loathsome conduct?
00:33:53.61\00:33:55.93
No, they have no shame at all,
00:33:55.96\00:33:58.18
they do not even
know how to blush."
00:33:58.21\00:34:01.09
Come down to verse 16,
00:34:01.12\00:34:02.45
"This is what the Lord says,
00:34:02.48\00:34:03.92
'Stand at the
crossroads and look,
00:34:03.95\00:34:05.97
ask for the ancient paths,
00:34:06.00\00:34:08.71
ask where the good
way is, and walk in it,
00:34:08.74\00:34:11.88
and you will find
rest for your souls.'"
00:34:11.91\00:34:14.57
I want to say to
every person here today,
00:34:14.60\00:34:17.73
we've heard a great
deal about changing America,
00:34:17.76\00:34:21.91
but the question is
what do we want to change?
00:34:21.94\00:34:26.35
Do we want to change
the faith of fathers?
00:34:26.38\00:34:31.06
The Bible says,
look for the old ways
00:34:31.09\00:34:34.86
and return to the old ways
00:34:34.89\00:34:38.12
and there you will
find rest to your souls.
00:34:38.15\00:34:40.55
But the Bible says,
the children of Israel
00:34:40.58\00:34:43.13
sit no way smarter than you are.
00:34:43.16\00:34:46.06
I noticed today
00:34:46.09\00:34:47.12
that many churches
are starting to cave.
00:34:47.15\00:34:51.76
There are some churches
that are standing up for God
00:34:51.79\00:34:54.25
and they are saying, no, no, no
00:34:54.28\00:34:56.71
we will not badge from old ways
00:34:56.74\00:34:58.95
but other churches are saying,
no, we're going to change.
00:34:58.98\00:35:05.77
Today we're seeing the rejection
00:35:05.80\00:35:07.69
of two God-ordained institutions
that came from paradise.
00:35:07.72\00:35:12.38
The first one is the Sabbath.
00:35:12.41\00:35:14.32
Come over here
00:35:14.35\00:35:18.11
and onwards to your
hearts and gentle people.
00:35:18.14\00:35:20.49
Jeremiah 17:21
and onwards please
00:35:20.52\00:35:24.22
and notice this in
the Word of the Lord.
00:35:24.25\00:35:27.11
"This is what the Lord says,
00:35:27.14\00:35:28.45
be careful not to carry
a load on the Sabbath day
00:35:28.48\00:35:31.39
or bring it through
the gates of Jerusalem.
00:35:31.42\00:35:34.07
Do not bring a
load out of your houses
00:35:34.10\00:35:35.98
or do any work on the Sabbath,
00:35:36.01\00:35:37.31
but keep the Sabbath day holy,
00:35:37.34\00:35:39.21
as I commanded your forefathers.
00:35:39.24\00:35:41.36
Yet they did not listen
00:35:41.39\00:35:42.58
or pay attention,
they were stiff-necked
00:35:42.61\00:35:44.40
and would not listen
or respond to discipline.
00:35:44.43\00:35:47.83
But if you are
careful to obey me,
00:35:47.86\00:35:49.47
declares the
Lord, and bring no load
00:35:49.50\00:35:52.05
through the gates of
this city on the Sabbath,
00:35:52.08\00:35:54.59
but keep the Sabbath day holy
by not doing any work on it,
00:35:54.62\00:35:58.07
then kings who sit on
David's throne will come
00:35:58.10\00:36:00.35
through the gates of this
city with their officials.
00:36:00.38\00:36:02.88
They and their officials
will come riding in chariots
00:36:02.91\00:36:05.10
and on horses,
accompanied by the men of Judah
00:36:05.13\00:36:07.89
and those living in Jerusalem,
00:36:07.92\00:36:09.21
and this city will
be inhabited forever.
00:36:09.24\00:36:12.92
People will come
form the towns of Judah
00:36:12.95\00:36:14.49
and the villages
around Jerusalem,
00:36:14.52\00:36:16.21
from the territory of Benjamin
00:36:16.24\00:36:17.80
and the western foothills,
from the territory of country
00:36:17.83\00:36:20.20
and the Negev,
bringing burnt offerings
00:36:20.23\00:36:22.63
and sacrifices,
grain offerings, incense
00:36:22.66\00:36:25.01
and thank offerings
to the house of the Lord.
00:36:25.04\00:36:27.24
But of you do not obey me
00:36:27.27\00:36:28.33
to keep the Sabbath day
holy by not carrying any load
00:36:28.36\00:36:31.17
as you come through the gates
of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day,
00:36:31.20\00:36:34.14
then I will kindle
an unquenchable fire
00:36:34.17\00:36:37.24
in the gates of the Jerusalem
00:36:37.27\00:36:38.96
that will
consume her fortresses."
00:36:38.99\00:36:40.97
Jerusalem was destroyed,
00:36:41.00\00:36:42.50
the children of
Israel went into captivity
00:36:42.53\00:36:44.78
for doing the same
sins that we are doing today
00:36:44.81\00:36:47.13
and one of those major sins
is the breaking of the Sabbath.
00:36:47.16\00:36:51.41
The greatest theologian
possibly of the 20th century,
00:36:51.44\00:36:56.18
Karl Barth one of his books,
00:36:56.21\00:36:58.57
Dogmatics quotes an authority
00:36:58.60\00:37:01.75
who said these
words, I've said these words
00:37:01.78\00:37:03.73
before I have quoted Karl Barth
00:37:03.76\00:37:05.51
and I want you to hear it.
00:37:05.54\00:37:07.51
He said, "When the holy
day becomes the day of man,
00:37:07.54\00:37:14.72
society and humanity wither
away and the demons rule."
00:37:14.75\00:37:22.22
Now you said I just
don't turn them, yeah,
00:37:22.25\00:37:25.04
what will you do in the end?
00:37:25.07\00:37:28.46
When the holy day
becomes the day of mans,
00:37:28.49\00:37:31.49
society and humanity
wither away and the demons rule.
00:37:31.52\00:37:36.44
They're ruling today in America.
00:37:36.47\00:37:38.95
Was America a better place
when people went to church?
00:37:38.98\00:37:43.49
I live in a
street where everybody
00:37:43.52\00:37:45.00
calls himself a
Christian nobody goes to church.
00:37:45.03\00:37:48.95
Once upon a people--
00:37:48.98\00:37:50.01
once upon a time
people went to church
00:37:50.04\00:37:51.79
and they thought they
were keeping the Sabbath
00:37:51.82\00:37:53.79
and they kept Sunday.
00:37:53.82\00:37:55.40
Were they better
people? Absolutely.
00:37:55.43\00:37:59.04
But today
everything is gone by the board
00:37:59.07\00:38:02.86
and we have hewn
cisterns that don't hold water.
00:38:02.89\00:38:08.24
National apostasy will be
followed by national ruin,
00:38:08.27\00:38:14.51
Ellen White said and
the churches are caving.
00:38:14.54\00:38:18.78
The Second institution
00:38:18.81\00:38:20.47
that came out of the
Garden of Eden was marriage.
00:38:20.50\00:38:25.84
Marriage
between man and a woman,
00:38:25.87\00:38:30.78
this is a word of the Lord.
00:38:30.81\00:38:35.10
I heard smart guy on television
00:38:35.13\00:38:39.16
with a preacher he said,
answer me this, yes or no.
00:38:39.19\00:38:44.53
Did Jesus ever
condemn homosexual act,
00:38:44.56\00:38:49.76
yes or no?
00:38:49.79\00:38:53.38
I wish I had been there,
00:38:53.41\00:38:56.35
because I would have
answered that question
00:38:56.38\00:38:58.40
with another question.
00:38:58.43\00:38:59.91
Have you stopped
beating your wife yet?
00:38:59.94\00:39:04.10
Have you stopped
beating your wife yet?
00:39:04.13\00:39:06.53
Can you answer
that with the yes or no?
00:39:06.56\00:39:08.79
Well, if you say yes,
00:39:08.82\00:39:09.85
it means you've
been beating your wife,
00:39:09.88\00:39:11.61
if you say no
your still beating her.
00:39:11.64\00:39:16.19
Come on now,
00:39:16.22\00:39:20.10
but that preacher
was smart enough to say,
00:39:20.13\00:39:23.55
Jesus said and he is quoting
Matthew 19, in the beginning
00:39:23.58\00:39:28.79
God made them male and female
00:39:28.82\00:39:33.31
and for this reason a
man will leave his father
00:39:33.34\00:39:37.69
and his wife and
be united to his wife
00:39:37.72\00:39:41.15
and they will become one flesh,
00:39:41.18\00:39:42.87
that's what Jesus said.
00:39:42.90\00:39:44.67
But there are
preachers who are caving,
00:39:48.00\00:39:51.37
they're giving up,
they're running away.
00:39:51.40\00:39:54.17
Let me say this to you.
00:39:54.20\00:39:56.36
Don't give in the--
give into the bullies
00:39:56.39\00:40:00.45
who want to intimidate you.
00:40:00.48\00:40:05.60
People are just
caving they're so weak.
00:40:05.63\00:40:09.06
I like the attitude of
those Roman Catholic nuns
00:40:09.09\00:40:13.23
are they the
little sisters of mercy,
00:40:13.26\00:40:16.01
you say well, I
don't believe with that,
00:40:16.04\00:40:17.26
and we are not
talking about that.
00:40:17.29\00:40:19.09
I like their attitude
00:40:19.12\00:40:21.00
when they said, no,
no, no and they stood up
00:40:21.03\00:40:25.33
to the mighty
federal government.
00:40:25.36\00:40:30.54
And they are
not gonna be robbed.
00:40:30.57\00:40:34.39
You can close us down they said
00:40:34.42\00:40:36.88
but we ain't
gonna sign no paper.
00:40:36.91\00:40:40.89
Don't be
intimidated by the bullies.
00:40:44.60\00:40:50.35
Israel was guilty of
the worship of other Gods.
00:40:50.38\00:40:53.84
God's people
worshiping other Gods.
00:40:53.87\00:40:55.99
Come over here
to Jeremiah 7:16-18,
00:40:56.02\00:41:00.00
Jeremiah 7,
00:41:00.03\00:41:01.68
see I'm just taking
a bit out of Jeremiah,
00:41:01.71\00:41:04.35
can't explain all
this book in a few minutes.
00:41:04.38\00:41:07.84
Jeremiah 7:16-18,
00:41:07.87\00:41:11.02
"The children gather
wood, the father light the fire,
00:41:11.05\00:41:13.73
and the women knead the dough
00:41:13.76\00:41:15.51
and make cakes of bread
for the Queen of Heaven.
00:41:15.54\00:41:18.14
They pour out drink
offering to other Gods
00:41:18.17\00:41:21.01
to provoke me to anger."
00:41:21.04\00:41:23.01
So God is
capable of getting angry.
00:41:23.04\00:41:27.56
It was a great turning from God
00:41:27.59\00:41:29.82
and the
worshiping of other Gods.
00:41:29.85\00:41:32.62
Listen to me my
American friends, and listen up,
00:41:32.65\00:41:35.78
whatever we put
in the place of God
00:41:35.81\00:41:37.53
or put before
God is a false God,
00:41:37.56\00:41:40.29
today people worship money,
00:41:40.32\00:41:44.38
money,
possessions, material idols
00:41:44.41\00:41:49.11
we even have a
television show American Idol.
00:41:49.14\00:41:53.77
People say it's funny,
00:41:53.80\00:41:55.57
that's because
they're idolatries, idolatry.
00:41:55.60\00:41:59.76
There is a great emptiness
00:41:59.79\00:42:01.10
among people today
Saint Augustine said
00:42:01.13\00:42:03.46
"As souls were made for God
00:42:03.49\00:42:05.35
they cannot rest
until they rest in Him."
00:42:05.38\00:42:07.74
And so today
there's a great vacuum.
00:42:07.77\00:42:10.97
Got to have the
latest gadget, materialism,
00:42:11.00\00:42:14.61
the restless wish
you had more things.
00:42:14.64\00:42:16.80
What do you want? More.
00:42:16.83\00:42:22.64
God is Holy and He
cares about you, how we think,
00:42:22.67\00:42:28.09
what we do and whom we worship.
00:42:28.12\00:42:30.96
That is why the first angles
message says, "Worship Him
00:42:30.99\00:42:34.59
who made the
heavens and the earth,
00:42:34.62\00:42:38.06
sea and the springs of water."
00:42:38.09\00:42:40.88
I'm not called to
worship the government,
00:42:40.91\00:42:44.46
I'm not called first
00:42:44.49\00:42:45.90
and foremost to be an American,
00:42:45.93\00:42:49.71
I'm called to worship Christ.
00:42:49.74\00:42:53.33
Christ first, and last
and best in everything,
00:42:53.36\00:42:58.13
and the best citizens of people
00:42:58.16\00:42:59.69
who believe that
because God is holy,
00:42:59.72\00:43:05.28
He is our necessity
our God of judgment.
00:43:05.31\00:43:11.07
Would you come to
Jeremiah 25, Jeremiah 25:15-18,
00:43:11.10\00:43:18.70
"This is what the Lord,
the God of Israel said to me,
00:43:18.73\00:43:22.39
'Take from my hand this cup
filled with the wine of my wrath
00:43:22.42\00:43:27.35
and make all the nations
to whom I send you drink it,
00:43:27.38\00:43:30.39
when they drink it
they will stagger and go mad
00:43:30.42\00:43:33.59
because of the sword
I will send among them.'
00:43:33.62\00:43:36.13
" Judgment is coming.
00:43:36.16\00:43:38.03
Look at verse 30 and onwards,
00:43:38.06\00:43:40.41
"Now prophesy all these words
against them and say to them,
00:43:40.44\00:43:43.33
'The Lord will
roar from on high,
00:43:43.36\00:43:45.68
he will thunder
from his holy dwelling
00:43:45.71\00:43:48.29
and roar
mightily against his land.
00:43:48.32\00:43:50.35
He will shout like
those who tread the grapes,
00:43:50.38\00:43:53.15
shout against all
those who live on the earth.
00:43:53.18\00:43:56.11
The tumult will resound
to the ends of the earth,
00:43:56.14\00:43:59.09
for the Lord will bring
charges against the nations,
00:43:59.12\00:44:03.03
he will bring
judgment on all mankind
00:44:03.06\00:44:05.83
and put the
wicked to the sword.'
00:44:05.86\00:44:08.40
This is what the
Lord almighty says, 'Look!
00:44:08.43\00:44:10.37
Disaster is
spreading from nation to nation
00:44:10.40\00:44:13.23
a mighty storm is rising
from the ends of the earth.'"
00:44:13.26\00:44:19.73
Listen to me,
00:44:19.76\00:44:23.10
God Is not of a
benevolent grandpa.
00:44:23.13\00:44:27.71
He is not an
oversized teddy bear.
00:44:27.74\00:44:33.85
God is a holy almighty God
00:44:33.88\00:44:39.01
and He has the
capacity of anger.
00:44:39.04\00:44:42.34
You say no, no, no.
00:44:42.37\00:44:44.13
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
00:44:44.16\00:44:47.48
I listened to a sermon
by Pastor Charles Stanley
00:44:47.51\00:44:50.24
on American television, he said,
00:44:50.27\00:44:52.97
God has had His
hand over America,
00:44:53.00\00:44:55.38
do you believe that?
00:44:55.41\00:44:57.60
He said during
the Second World War
00:44:57.63\00:44:59.52
we were unprepared,
00:44:59.55\00:45:01.35
God had His hand over America.
00:45:01.38\00:45:06.26
When we are
attacked at Pearl Harbor,
00:45:06.29\00:45:09.61
unfortunately the
aircraft carries right to see
00:45:09.64\00:45:12.32
God had His hand over America.
00:45:12.35\00:45:15.20
Pastor Stanley said,
that hand is being removed
00:45:15.23\00:45:20.31
and as the hand
of God is removed
00:45:20.34\00:45:23.08
from this great
nation my friend,
00:45:23.11\00:45:26.77
we will be naked
before our enemies.
00:45:26.80\00:45:32.86
Jefferson said, I
tremble for my country,
00:45:32.89\00:45:38.04
when I
recognize that God is just
00:45:38.07\00:45:41.48
and justice
cannot sleep forever.
00:45:41.51\00:45:45.34
From this magazine Ebenezer,
00:45:45.37\00:45:47.51
there is a article answering
00:45:47.54\00:45:50.50
Hilary Clinton on
same sex marriage.
00:45:50.53\00:45:54.45
Of course the
politicians will say anything
00:45:54.48\00:45:56.41
they need to say to get elected
00:45:56.44\00:45:58.19
at least many of them will.
00:45:58.22\00:46:00.13
But there's an
article I've written here
00:46:00.16\00:46:02.10
that you are to get,
here it is, here it is.
00:46:02.13\00:46:04.92
When demons invade planet earth,
00:46:04.95\00:46:10.07
"Even now, the
world is being prepared
00:46:10.10\00:46:12.26
for a demonic take over.
00:46:12.29\00:46:14.60
The rejection of
God's Word, His holy law,
00:46:14.63\00:46:17.23
and the institutions of
marriage and the Sabbath,
00:46:17.26\00:46:20.38
all set the stage
for the last drama."
00:46:20.41\00:46:24.06
The Bible says,
as the nations reject
00:46:24.09\00:46:28.69
the word of the
Lord, judgment will come.
00:46:28.72\00:46:34.37
Jeremiah was not
popular with the government,
00:46:38.75\00:46:42.32
the priests, his church,
00:46:42.35\00:46:45.01
the false
prophets, all the people.
00:46:45.04\00:46:47.09
You know what
they did to Jeremiah?
00:46:47.12\00:46:49.22
After he preached the
word of the Lord they got him
00:46:49.25\00:46:51.73
and they throw him
into a filthy dungier
00:46:51.76\00:46:55.34
and he sank down
under his armpits
00:46:55.37\00:46:58.41
in a filthy mere they said,
00:46:58.44\00:47:01.89
you can read it in Jeremiah.
00:47:01.92\00:47:03.58
We will not
tolerate his preaching.
00:47:03.61\00:47:07.20
They said he's even preaching
against the government,
00:47:07.23\00:47:10.18
he's preaching
against Jerusalem,
00:47:10.21\00:47:12.39
he is preaching
against their sanctuary,
00:47:12.42\00:47:15.04
he is preaching
against their king.
00:47:15.07\00:47:18.15
The day will come,
as Billy Graham said,
00:47:23.64\00:47:29.11
God's people will be persecuted
00:47:29.14\00:47:32.17
because they preach
the word of the Lord.
00:47:32.20\00:47:36.59
But as Margaret Thatcher said,
00:47:36.62\00:47:38.79
when she was facing the enemy,
00:47:38.82\00:47:40.85
this woman is not the turning.
00:47:40.88\00:47:46.55
Neither should we be.
00:47:46.58\00:47:51.79
God never calls cowards.
00:47:51.82\00:47:56.58
But I want to tell you folks,
00:47:56.61\00:47:57.76
something
Jerusalem was destroyed,
00:47:57.79\00:48:00.74
completely
ravaged by Nebuchadnezzar
00:48:00.77\00:48:04.83
but Jeremiah was saved.
00:48:04.86\00:48:09.72
So back to the
question, does God care?
00:48:09.75\00:48:12.93
Of course He does,
00:48:12.96\00:48:14.62
because He is
love, because He is holy.
00:48:14.65\00:48:19.13
The Bible teaches,
00:48:19.16\00:48:20.78
not have too much
time to tell you this.
00:48:20.81\00:48:25.77
The God is
preparing a New Jerusalem
00:48:25.80\00:48:29.86
that all Jerusalem
went down with fire
00:48:29.89\00:48:33.29
because the people
have forsaken the Lord.
00:48:33.32\00:48:41.04
If God is going
to have true people,
00:48:41.07\00:48:45.65
and they're going to have a
city called the New Jerusalem.
00:48:45.68\00:48:50.82
I want to go
there what about you?
00:48:50.85\00:48:53.45
Look at Revelation 21:1-5.
00:48:53.48\00:48:56.07
My friend, we're
living in a tremendous time.
00:48:56.10\00:48:58.52
What a time to be preaching.
00:48:58.55\00:48:59.94
I can't
understand why every preacher
00:48:59.97\00:49:02.97
in and out running evangelistic
00:49:03.00\00:49:04.30
campaigns and preaching.
00:49:04.33\00:49:08.08
I guess, maybe
they just don't believe
00:49:08.11\00:49:11.78
as I ought to believe.
00:49:11.81\00:49:13.45
"Then I saw a new heaven
00:49:13.48\00:49:14.56
and a new earth
for the first heaven
00:49:14.59\00:49:16.06
and the first
earth had passed away,
00:49:16.09\00:49:17.75
and there was no longer any sea.
00:49:17.78\00:49:19.34
I saw the Holy
City, the new Jerusalem,
00:49:19.37\00:49:23.83
coming down out
of heaven from God,
00:49:23.86\00:49:26.63
prepared as a bride beautifully
dressed for her husband."
00:49:26.66\00:49:30.80
God says, I am here
now and I'm with you.
00:49:30.83\00:49:34.11
How beautiful.
00:49:34.14\00:49:35.90
"They will be his people,
00:49:35.93\00:49:37.35
and God himself will be
with them and be their God.
00:49:37.38\00:49:41.26
He will wipe every
tear from their eyes.
00:49:41.29\00:49:43.86
There will be no more death
00:49:43.89\00:49:45.44
or mourning or crying or pain,
00:49:45.47\00:49:48.47
for the old order of
things has passed away."
00:49:48.50\00:49:51.83
At the end of the
storm, there's a beautiful day.
00:49:55.69\00:50:03.08
There's a beautiful place.
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Is it worth to
struggle? It sure is.
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Is it a struggle? It sure is.
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It's so easy to
give into the complacency
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and to get into your
miserable little comfort zone.
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I would say, oh, I just
don't want to be disturbed.
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That's apostasy.
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But God is going to have
a people, pride and true.
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I sometimes
listen to the Gaytheist.
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I heard a man sing
this song I liked it.
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It's my head.
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You know, you get
a song in your head,
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you can't get it out.
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It's like the man said,
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"Don't think of
the little red monkey
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when you're
trying to make gold."
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So we know what he
thought of, don't you?
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Little red monkey all the time.
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I have returned to
the God of my childhood,
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to the same simple
faith as a child I once knew.
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Like the prodigal son
I long for my loved ones
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for the comforts of
home and the God I outgrew.
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I have returned to
the God my childhood.
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Bethlehem's Babe,
the prophet's Messiah.
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He's Jesus to me, eternal deity.
00:51:23.51\00:51:27.36
Praise His
name, I have returned.
00:51:27.39\00:51:31.86
I have returned to
the God of my mother
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with unfailing faith
for the child of her heart.
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She said bring them up
the way that you want them.
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Thank God when they
grown they'll never depart.
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I have returned to
the God of my mother.
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I learned that her knee
is the lily of the valley.
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He's Jesus to me eternal deity.
00:51:55.53\00:51:59.44
Praise His
name, I have returned.
00:51:59.47\00:52:04.04
I have returned to
the God of my father,
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the most God-like
man a child could know.
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I just heard a shout
from the angels in glory,
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praising the Lord a
Child has come home.
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I have returned to
the God of my father,
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Creator of heaven and
earth God of the universe.
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He's Jesus to me eternal deity.
00:52:29.50\00:52:34.44
Praise His
name, I have returned.
00:52:34.47\00:52:39.29
I have returned to
the Yahweh of Judah.
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On my knees I did fall
where the wall now stands.
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This lesson I learned
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as I've worked my way homeward.
00:52:50.01\00:52:53.06
The Savior of all
is a comfort to man.
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I have returned to
the Father of Abraham.
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The shepherd of Moses
who called Him, great I am.
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He's Jesus to me eternal deity.
00:53:10.15\00:53:15.42
Praise His
name, I have returned.
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What about you?
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It's time for us to return
to the God of our fathers.
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The God of our mothers,
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I say this to Americans
00:53:35.86\00:53:37.38
it's time for you to
stop being Americans again.
00:53:37.41\00:53:42.05
Return to the God
of the Pilgrim Fathers.
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It's time for
us who ever we are,
00:53:46.19\00:53:48.65
wherever we are
to return to Christ
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and the word of the Lord.
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Please kneel.
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Our Father in heaven,
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we thank You for
the word of the Lord.
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We thank You for
the word of the Lord
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that still speaks to us today.
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And Father, most of us are like
the ancient children of Israel.
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We worship other Gods,
00:54:23.58\00:54:26.08
we fume out
cisterns manmade ones
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and they are broken
they are not holding water.
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Many of us have forsaken
the truths of the Sabbath
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because it's too hard for us.
00:54:38.00\00:54:39.99
We'd rather be at
Macy's or Las Vegas
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rather be shopping or sleeping.
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Many of us still Father,
00:54:47.32\00:54:48.50
attempted to give up
the truth of marriage
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and to be brain
washed by these people
00:54:51.64\00:54:54.47
with these insidious agendas.
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Our Father, into our heart
00:54:59.30\00:55:02.66
give us a Holy
Spirit borne conviction
00:55:02.69\00:55:07.11
to return to the
Bible, Word of God
00:55:07.14\00:55:12.06
and to Christ as Savior.
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As we're praying here today
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on our knees
with every head bowed,
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every eye closed in
the presence of our Father.
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How many will
raise a hand and say,
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by God's grace
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I will return to the old ways,
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the good ways, God's way.
00:55:37.24\00:55:41.04
Would you raise your hand
if that as you prayer today
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I have returned, my Father,
00:55:44.37\00:55:48.10
I'm getting
back, I'm going back.
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I'm going to stand
fast, I'm weak, I can't do it
00:55:53.52\00:56:00.36
but You can so do it through me.
00:56:00.39\00:56:05.31
Bless this church today
dear Father, with a new vision.
00:56:05.34\00:56:09.87
Might be a vision of preaching
00:56:13.18\00:56:18.09
the message of
God in a greater way
00:56:18.12\00:56:21.98
because of the
times in which we live.
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Bless these precious people
00:56:24.69\00:56:27.22
and cover them
with the blood of Jesus.
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We worship You, bless
You, thank You and praise You.
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Give You glory in
Jesus name, amen and amen.
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I'll shout it
while eternity rolls
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Oh, He touched me
00:56:52.68\00:56:59.69
Oh, He touched me
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And oh, the joy
that floods my soul
00:57:08.32\00:57:16.32
Something, something
happened and now I know
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He touched me and made me whole
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Oh, He made me whole
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