From Arcadia, California
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the Carter Report presents
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"The Living
Word" around the world.
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Lord, I run to You
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No one else will do
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Lord, in trouble times
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I will run straight to You
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Though my heart
and flesh may fail
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Your my very present help
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My tower of strength
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My portion evermore
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Lord, I run to You
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No one else will do
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Lord, You said
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we'd face
trouble, pain, and fears
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But to be of good cheer
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Lord, to be of good cheer
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For You have overcome
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You have overcome the world
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And I lift mine eyes up
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to the mountains
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Where does my help come from
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It comes from You, Lord
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You are the maker
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of earth and heaven
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And there is nothing
that is too hard for You
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Oh Lord,
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I lift mine eyes up
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to the mountains Where does,
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where does my help come from
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It comes from You, oh Lord
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You are the maker
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of earth and heaven
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And there is nothing
that is too hard for You
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Nothing is too hard for You, God
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Nothing is impossible for God
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we know You can do all things
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Yes, yes, yes,yes
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So Lord, we run to You
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And no one else will do
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Lord, You said we'd face
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Trouble, pain, and fears
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Oh, but to be
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Of good cheer Lord
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To be of good cheer
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For You have overcome
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You have overcome the world
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So Lord, we run to You
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Our topic today is how to
study and understand the Bible.
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I could have called it
the Bible in the Outhouse.
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How the Bible was put out
in an outhouse or bit of it
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and a person's soul was saved
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that's the sermon today.
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The amazing
story of how prisoner
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in a communist
prison was saved by finding
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a bit of scripture in a
bucket of human excrement.
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The Bible is unlike any
other book in the world.
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It has withstood
campaigns for its destruction.
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It is not an ordinary book
because it has the power of God.
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Explain this to me if you can.
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I preached in Russia, I
have been to Russia 42 times.
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I was there at the
height of communism
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and when communism fell--
tell this, explain this to me
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how you're gonna have a vast
audience of communist, atheist,
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people like Richard Dawkins, KGB
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at 6 o'clock in the evening
with their eyes downcast.
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No belief in God and
after the Word of God
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has been preached in the power
of the Holy Spirit at 7 o'clock
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you can have 10,000 people
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in that great
auditorium praising God.
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Explain that to me.
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I will tell you what it is.
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It is the power of God.
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We're going to
talk today about how
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ordinary people like you and me
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can understand
its powerful message.
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Today we're going to
discover secrets of divine
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secrets of health and
prosperity and wisdom.
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Example, how to
chose the right husband
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or the right wife,
secrets of successful living.
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Please take your Bible
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and turn with me to
the Book of Hebrews.
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Hebrews 4:12, 13,
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Hebrews 4:12, 13,
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I want every
person to turn to the text
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because we are
turning to the living word
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of the living God.
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Hebrews 4:12, 13.
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Are you ready to go, folks?
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Tell me are you ready to go?
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"For the word of God
is living and active."
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This is not a dead
word. This is a living word.
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It is living and active.
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"Sharper than any
double- edged sword,
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it penetrates even to
dividing soul and spirit,
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joints and marrows,
it judges the thoughts
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and attitudes of the heart.
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Nothing in all creation
is hidden from God sight
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everything is
uncovered and laid bare
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before the eyes of Him to
whom we must give account."
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The Bible tells
me, God tells me that
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His word is living
and powerful and active.
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And if you and I can get
the Word of God into our hearts
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we are going to get the
power of God in our souls.
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Listen, not gonna
talk about this much now
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because I don't have time.
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I don't believe in the
attitude of faith in faith.
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I believe that we ought
to have faith in the truth.
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I don't believe that we
ought to believe the Bible
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just because we want
to believe the Bible.
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But in more than
50 years of ministry
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involved with
archeology and astronomy
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I have come to the conclusion
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that the Bible is
historically accurate.
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And astronomy shows
the power of the God
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who made the world and
who gave us the scriptures.
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This is not a case of
saying to you just believe
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and check your
minds in at the door.
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We're talking
today about evidence
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why you can
believe in the Word of God.
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And the Bible tells us that
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the Word of God is
active and powerful.
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It is the living Word of God.
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It is living and powerful.
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It has God's life
and nobody can kill it.
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In Ukraine some years ago I
stood in a tremendous theatre
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packed out with thousands
and thousands of people
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and I stood on the very spot
and I preached from this Bible,
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this Bible, the Word of God.
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And I stood on the very spot
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where Chairman Chris Chafe
the leader of the Soviet Union
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has stood and made the
deliberate announcement
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he said within 20 years
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the name of Christ will
not be known in the world.
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He said we have a
great experiment and
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we are going to get rid
of God in the Soviet Union
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and then we'll get
rid of God in the world.
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The Chris Chafe has
gone but God is still there.
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And the Word of God was
being preached in the very place
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where he said "we're going
to get rid of the Word of God."
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I want you to know the
Word of God is powerful.
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It contains the power
that made the universe.
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There are 200
billion suns in our galaxy
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and 200 billion plus
galaxies in the universe.
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And the Bible says
"by the word of the Lord
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were the heavens made."
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How big is God?
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You think you got
a problem, my friend.
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You think
something is too big for you.
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I want you to know that the Word
of God is mighty and powerful
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if we could only get this word
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into our souls
and into our hearts.
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I'm going to read
you a little story
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out of our latest
magazine that is called Ebenezer
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and if you'll write to me
we'll try to send you a copy
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if we've still got them.
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"Never Alone.
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He found salvation in a
bucket of human excrement.
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Here's how it happened.
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A Christian in Vietnam was
imprisoned by the communist
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because he was not
ashamed of his faith in Christ.
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He was beaten, starved and
locked up in a filthy cage.
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The atheist kept him
away for days on end,
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have roped
fastened to the roof rafters
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was tied around his neck
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so that he was
forced to stand on his toes.
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As he would
collapse into unconsciousness
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the rope would bite
into his neck jerk him awake.
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All the while his captors
asked him where is your God,
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why didn't He answer
His servant's prayers.
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Give up your
foolish ideas they shouted
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and we will let you go.'
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Finally, beaten and
broken with hope almost gone
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he was sent to work in
the stinking outhouses.
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His job was to carry huge
buckets of human excrement.
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In his weakening condition,
he found it almost impossible
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to hoist the heavy
buckets on to this shoulder.
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He staggered beneath the load.
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The foul smelling
stuff sloshed over him
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and in his heart he asked
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'If God loves me,
why doesn't he help me?'
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" You think you
got a problem, friend?
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"Then one day he
saw a floating on top of
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one of the buckets a
small piece of paper.
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It was a page from
His Bible, His Bible.
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The camp
commandant has confiscated
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his precious little holy book
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and later used
it as toilet paper.
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Quickly the
prisoners scooped cooped it up
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and hid it beneath
his rotten clothing.
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That evening late at
night when all was quite
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he read the words
'never will I leave you,
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never will I forsake you.'
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Hebrews 13:5.
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God had spoken.
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How could he doubt again?
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Within a few weeks,
a new camp commandant
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was appointed and the
Christian was released."
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I want you to know
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a word of scripture is
more powerful and pertinent
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than every word
in ordinary magazine.
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It is living it is powerful.
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God's word is more
powerful than man's word.
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Often in history
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people who tried to
get rid of the Bible
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in the Dark Ages you can read
about this in the encyclopedia.
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They destroyed
the printing presses,
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they burned the printers.
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During an awful time in Europe
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it was a crime to own a Bible,
it was a crime to read a Bible.
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Millions died
because they read the Bible.
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They were sent to the stake
and they were put on the rack.
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The devil has
tried the 100s of years
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to get the rid of the
Bible but he can't do it.
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I think of the
communist and atheist
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in Russia and China.
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I have stood in a building,
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the same building where I spoke
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where Chris Chafe
had spoken but I spoke
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I went downstairs to
the communist dungeons
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were tens of thousands
were tortured for their faith
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and the blood oozed its way
out between the great stones
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and ran down
the streets of Kiev.
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I have been to
places in Siberia.
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I tell you in the name of God
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where millions have
died for their faith,
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butchered for their faith.
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But communism has gone
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but Christ is
still alive in Russia.
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It is the living
word of the living God.
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Listen "The word of
God is living and active.
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Sharper than any
double-edged sword"
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like the Roman used.
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"It penetrates even to
dividing soul and spirit,
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joints and marrows,
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it judges the thoughts and
the attitudes of the heart."
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You can't get away from it.
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"Nothing in all creation
is hidden from God's sight.
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Everything is
uncovered and laid bare
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before the eyes of Him to
whom we must give account."
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Hebrews Chapter 4.
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Let me talk a little
bit with you my friends
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in this beautiful church
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on a great
benefits of prayerfully
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with an open honest
heart studying the scriptures.
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Listen carefully
because this is gonna help you.
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Wherever the Word of God goes
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it brings
prosperity cleanliness,
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health and freedom.
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It'll do the same
for you if you let it.
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Come over here to 2
Timothy 3:15 and onwards.
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Dear hearts and general people,
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2 Timothy 3:15
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"And how from infancy you
have known the Holy Scriptures,
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which are able to
make you wise for salvation
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through faith in Christ Jesus.
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All Scripture is God-breathed
and is useful for teaching,
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rebuking, correcting and
training in righteousness,
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so that the man of God
may be thoroughly equipped
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for every good work."
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Come down to 2
Timothy 4:1 and onwards.
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"In the presence of
God and of Christ Jesus
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who will judge the
living and the dead
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and in view of His
appearing and His kingdom
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I give you this
charge, preach the word,
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be prepared in
season and out of season,
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correct, rebuke and encourage
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with patience and
careful instruction."
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Look at me, the Bible
says that the word of God
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the Bible is God-breathed.
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It says something
similar about the stars.
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It says, He spoke, He has done,
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He spoke the
universe into existence.
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We are not the
results of a cosmic accident.
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God spoke and a
universe appeared
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and the Bible tells me that
when God gave us the scriptures
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He took frail human beings
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and He breathes the
word of God into them.
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The book that we are
holding into our hands
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is completely
unique it is God-breathed.
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Come over here with
me to 1 Peter Chapter 1.
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We are a Bible reading,
Bible believing church here.
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1 Peter 1:23 and onwards.
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1 Peter 1:23 "For
you have been born again,
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not a perishable
seed, but of imperishable,
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through the living
and enduring word of God."
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The living and
enduring word of God
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you can't get rid
of the word of God.
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For 'All men are like grass,
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and all their glory is
like the flowers of field,
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the grass withers
and the flowers fall,
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but the word of the
Lord stands forever.'
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And this is the word
that was preached to you."
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The Bible tells us
that a person is born again
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through the Word of God.
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When we come into this
world in the normal way
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we come in with our
sinful human natures.
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But the Bible tells
me when I come to Christ
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and when I receive
the word of the living God
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a tremendous change
takes place in my life
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and I'm born again.
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The old person dies you say
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you don't know
what my life is like.
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I do know that God
can change any life.
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God can change our
lives, He can take a drunkard
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and He can make him sober.
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He can take a
blasphemer and give Him a sweet
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and holy tongue.
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Would you come over
here to Matthew 4:1-4?
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And those of who are watching
right across this great country
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on this great network I
want you to listen to this.
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May be go get your
Bible Matthew 4:1 and onwards
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"Then Jesus was led by
the Spirit into the desert
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to be tempted by the devil.
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After fasting forty days
and forty nights, he was hungry.
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The tempter came to him and
said 'If you are the Son of God,
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tell these
stones to become bread.'
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Jesus answered, 'It is written.'
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" It is written.
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"Man does not
live on bread alone
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but on every word that
comes from the mouth of God."
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Listen in our
hearts there is hunger.
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Saint Augustine said,
our souls were made for God
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and they cannot rest
until they rest in Him.
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But when you take
Christ into your life
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and you take the
Word of God into your life
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the Bible tells us we
are fed and we are changed.
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Let me give you
some forgotten history.
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After Christ came the Dark Ages
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the Bible was buried
in an unknown language,
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the world became filled
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talking particularly
about your superstition poverty,
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ignorance, great
spiritual darkness.
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The Word of God was
chained in the cathedrals.
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Then came Bible
preachers, Martin Luther
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who translated the Bible into
the tongue of his own people,
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over there in
England Wycliffe Tyndale
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and then in 1611
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we had the birth of
the King James Version.
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Like a mighty
army, like a mighty wave,
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it was a mighty
wave of spiritual power
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unleashed by God
filled with the Holy Spirit
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soaked in the Word of God
that rolled around the world.
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Listen, the
nations that accepted
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the teachings of the Bible
we call it the reformation,
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became the most prosperous
at enlightened nations
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on the face of the
earth and they got liberty.
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The chains were broken those
that rejected the gospel and
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the Word of God became
places of darkness, poverty,
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disease,
ignorance, superstition,
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death and no liberty.
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Bondage, bondage.
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We sometimes ask the
question what made America great
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because America has been great.
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What made America great?
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And many today are forgetting
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the secret of America's success.
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Not her armaments,
not her great banks
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but what made America great?
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The founding
fathers and the people
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who came to this country
came driven by the Spirit of God
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and the preaching
of the Word of God.
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One president spoke of America
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as a shining city on a hill.
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America became the
greatest nation in the world
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not because of atheism
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and not because of communism
and not because of Marxism
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I tell you
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but because of the Word of God.
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And I'm going to continue
this in our next program
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when I'm going to tell you
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how you can
choose the right wife.
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Hello friend, I'm
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
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than eight
thousand 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
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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 of the world
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and preach the
everlasting gospel,
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baptizing them in
the name of a 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'm asking
you today come with us
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if not 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'm 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
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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
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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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I stand amazed in the presence
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Of Jesus the Nazarene
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And wonder how He could love me
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A sinner, condemned, unclean
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Singing how marvelous!
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How wonderful!
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And my song shall ever be
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How marvelous!
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How wonderful!
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Is my Savior's love
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for me!
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