From Arcadia, California
the Carter Report Presents
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the Living Word
around the world.
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We're taking today about
the power of the word of God,
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the Bible tells me it is
not just and ordinary word
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it is the living
word of the living God
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and I want you to know this
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if you can get the
word of God into your soul
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you're going to be
filled with the power,
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the same power
that made the universe,
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that made the stars.
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It is the power of God.
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God's word will give you wisdom.
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We need it in today's world.
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There is one entire
book devoted to wisdom
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and wisdom is
more than knowledge.
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Today we got more knowledge
than we know what to do with
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but wisdom
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is far more than knowing stuff.
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I had a young person come
to me long ago and he said,
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Pastor Carter, I've
discovered a book in the Bible.
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He said its
exciting it is amazing
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talks about marriage
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talks about just
about everything.
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He said it is absolute--
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I've been trying
to get him to read it.
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He said, its amazing
have you ever heard of it
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Book of Proverbs?
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A book which is crammed
full of the wisdom of God.
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If you read that book
in other parts of the Bible
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you're going to be able
to make these decisions.
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How can I choose
the right profession?
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Now dear friend of
mine in this Church
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lost his job this
week here in America,
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because he stood up for Christ.
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I said to him,
that's the best thing
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that ever happened to you.
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You lost your job
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because you stood up for Christ,
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I want you to know my friend,
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if the devil
takes anything from you
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God has got something a
million times better for you,
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you see.
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So how can I choose
the right profession?
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How can I choose the right wife?
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How can I choose
the right husband?
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Are you folks listening?
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How can I choose
the right investment?
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I want to show you
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a grossly
misunderstood text in the Bible.
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Come over here to
Matthew 7:1 and onwards.
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Matthew Chapter 7:1 and onwards
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and I am going to
tell you what it means
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and I am going to save
you from a real delusion.
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Matthew 7 and these are
the words of our blessed Lord
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who saved us with His own
precious blood on the cross.
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Matthew 7, you folks got it?
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Tell me have you got it?
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Okay, "Do not judge,
or you too will be judged.
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For in the same
way you judge others,
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you will be judged,
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and with the measure you
use, it will be measured to you.
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Why do you look at
the speck of sawdust
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in your brother's eye
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and pay no attention to
the plank in your own eye?"
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What is it talking about?
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Saying dunk and dumb people,
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when you're sins are
worst than their sins.
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Don't try to read their hearts.
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You are not walking
in that person's shoes.
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Jesus was talking there
about the sin of pharisaism
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which is alive today in
the church, in the world.
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So Jesus said,
don't condemned people
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when you can't read their hearts
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but today there are
people who are saying
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a Christian is not
allowed to judge anything.
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They say we have been told
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we are not allowed to judge
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in any situation.
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All lifestyles are same.
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You can't talk about lifestyle,
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you can't say this
action or activity is wrong
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because Jesus
said "don't judge."
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Now a text without a context
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is a pretext.
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You've been along
before, haven't you?
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And I want you to notice,
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I think it's in the same chapter
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where Jesus talks
about spiritual discernment.
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Oh, before we read that
come over here to John 7
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then we're going to
come back to that chapter.
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John 7:24, Jesus said,
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John 7:24, "Stop
judging by mere appearances.
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And make--" what did He say?
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Jesus said "Make
a right judgment."
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Jesus said, don't judge
in a foolish superficial way
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which is simply based
on outward appearances
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but Jesus said,
"make a right judgment."
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Now listen carefully
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because what I am
going to say is important.
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Come over here to Matthew
7 back to the same chapter.
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Remember, a text
without a context is a pretext.
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Thank you that's good.
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Matthew 7:15 and
onwards Jesus said
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"Watch out for false prophets.
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They come to you
in sheep's clothing,
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but inwardly they
are ferocious wolves.
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By their fruit you
will recognize them.
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Do people pick
grapes from thornbushes,
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or figs from thistles?
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Likewise every good
tree bears good fruit,
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but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
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A good tree
cannot bear bad fruit,
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and a bad tree
cannot bear good fruit.
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Every tree that does not
bear good fruit is cut down
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and thrown into the fire.
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Thus, by their fruits
you will recognize them."
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Look at me Jesus said
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"you better judge
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a right judgment
by their fruits."
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Let me give you an illustration.
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I've gone to the Soviet Union,
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been back, gone their 42times.
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Plans still to go
and run campaigns.
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Jesus said "judge by
the fruits of the life"
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I have looked and I say
this with Christian courtesy
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I have looked at the
fruits of militant atheism.
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I have looked to
the fruits of Marxism
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and I have made
a right judgment.
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It's bad the fruit is bad
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that's why I don't
want anybody to follow with.
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I've gone to some countries
with a worship pagan God's.
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I'm thinking one
country where they worship
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more than a million God's
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and I've gone to that
country and I love those people
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and we want to help those people
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and we want to help them
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because they are in
bondage to evil, evil gods.
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And the fruitage
is seen in poverty,
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terrible
discrimination against women,
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they abuse of children
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particularly little baby girl's.
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The fruits are bad
fruits therefore Jesus said
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"you need to judge
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any set of
circumstances by the fruits."
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Getting married?
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Look at the fruit of the person.
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Is the person dishonest?
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Does he tell you,
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we won't talk about the ladies,
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does he tell you lies
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because I want you
ladies to know something
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and you might not
want to hear this.
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Here it comes,
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if he lies to you
once before you married
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he lied you a million
times after he got you.
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So the Bible said Jesus said
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by their fruits is he dishonest,
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does he tell
lies, is he unstable?
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And the spirit of
God as you read the word
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will give you
spiritual discernment.
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Don't you
sometimes wonder about people
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who don't seem
they have their capacity
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to make a right decision
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and they go from one
blunder to another blunder
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and they say,
what's wrong with me?
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Why can't I just
have got bad luck?
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No, you don't have
spiritual discernment,
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but if you take
Christ into your heart
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and the Word of
God into your soul
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and if you read particularly
the Book of Proverbs,
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God will give you the capacity
of making wise decisions.
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I was talking to
my son yesterday,
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we're talk about
a television problem
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and I said well,
listen to your mother David,
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because she makes
very good decisions.
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You know what he said to me?
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Then why did she marry you?
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He came back as quick as any.
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Now David and I are
not talking at present,
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but I am just kidding.
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But God will
give you the capacity
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to make wise decisions.
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Come over here to
the Book of Proverbs
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Chapter 2, Proverbs Chapter 2.
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My son is some what
a dry sense of humor.
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At least I'm
hoping that's what it is.
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Proverbs 2:1 and onwards.
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"My son, if you accept my words
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and store up my
commands within you,
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turning your ear to wisdom
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and applying your
heart to understanding,
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and if you cry out for insight
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and cry aloud for understanding,
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and if you look
for it as for silver
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and search for it as
with hidden treasure,
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then you will
understand the fear of the Lord
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and find the knowledge of God."
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Now I want you to come
to another passage here.
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I want you to come over here
to Proverbs 6:16 and onwards.
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Proverbs Chapter 6, you ready?
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Proverbs 6, written by one
of the wises men who ever lived.
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Gonna start at verse 16.
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"There are six
things the Lord hates,"
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oh, people say the
Lord doesn't hate any thing.
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Well these six things,
six things He does hate.
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There are six
things the Lord hates.
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"Seven that are
detestable to him, haughty eyes,
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" forward push "
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, "
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God hates a lying tongue.
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"Hands that shed innocent blood,
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a heart that
devises wicked schemes,
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feet that are
quick to rush into evil,
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a false witness
who pours out of lies
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and a man who stirs up
dissension among his brothers."
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If you let this
word get into your soul
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you won't what I have a
lot of time with a person
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because he is
dissension among brothers
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or a person who's hardy,
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or a person who's
got a lying tongue.
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Jesus said by their
fruits you'll know them.
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How then, shall I read the Bible
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with discipline?
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The Methodist will go Methodist
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because they had a
method and they had discipline.
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This is not a word
that a lot of people like.
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Discipline we say to God, God,
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by the grace of God with
the aid of the Holy Spirit
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I will give 30
minutes a day to carefully
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and prayerfully
read the Word of God.
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You know, I don't, I don't
know never I will give you.
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Different mind as
pastor Willie G is been with us
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and some of our
big campaigns overseas
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came with us to Papua New Guinea
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when we had more than
a hundred thousands souls
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every night.
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And before he went up to sing
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I would go to
see where Willie was.
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You know what
Willie would be doing
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he's supposedly here
today but Willie got sick.
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Willie sitting
around the back of the stage
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and he got a Bible
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and Willie is
praying in the Spirit.
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He's reading the word.
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When he comes to ascend here
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and he goes over to
the back room to get ready
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you go and see Willie,
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you know, what Willie is doing.
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My friend, I am just
so impressed to that man
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but he's and he is a
pastor to gang members
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here in Los Angeles.
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Glory be to God but
Willie is sitting over there
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getting ready for the meeting
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and he is not just
sitting around doing
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talk, talk, gossip,
gossip he is reading the word.
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The Bible teaches to be
filled with the Holy Spirit
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is the same as to be
filled with the Word of God,
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because the Word of God is
the word of the Holy Spirit.
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Now I want to
tell you something.
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I'll make a promise to you.
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If you will start seriously
to read the Word of God
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and if you do it every
day I am was busy you are.
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But you've make a vow
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I am going to
read the Word of God,
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a miracle will
happen in your life.
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Do I believe in
miracles? Absolutely.
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I believe in the
miracle of Calvary
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the Christ died for us.
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I believe in the
miracle of the Holy Spirit.
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I believe that when
people read the Word of God
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miracles happen to
them, their life is changed.
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And many of us
have got good intensions
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but we got weak wills.
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Not buying an exercise machine.
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People buy exercise
machines and it dies of rust.
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You got to say, I'm going
by God's grace, Jesus help me.
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I don't feel like it
today but Jesus help me
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and God can take a weak
will and make it a strong will
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because He is the Lord
of the universe, my friend.
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So we start reading
the word systematically.
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Read slowly and
bring your mind back.
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I've been reading the
word from more than 50 years
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but can I tell
you folks something,
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I got to bring my mind back
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because my mind starts to wander
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what I'm gonna build
one on-- oh, come back.
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So sometimes I read
the chapter at the back
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and read it that way.
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It keeps me concentrating.
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Would you come over here
please if you don't mind,
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come over here with
me to John Chapter 3
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and we're just
going to give you a sample
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of reading the word.
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This is little illustration.
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Now I know that some of
you folks got lots of problems.
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God will start
solving your problems
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when you start giving Him
the word of God in your life.
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When you say, I'm
going to give myself to You
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and with the Holy Spirit
I am going to read the word.
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Come over here to John Chapter 3
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"Now there was a
man of the Pharisees
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named Nicodemus,
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a member of the
Jewish ruling council.
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He came to Jesus
at night and said,
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'hey Rabbi, we know
that you are a teacher
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who has come from God.
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For no one could perform
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the miraculous
signs you are doing
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if God were not with him.'
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" True.
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"In reply Jesus
declared, 'I tell you the truth
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no one can see
the kingdom of God
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unless he is born again.'"
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How do I read the Word of God?
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I personalize it.
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When I read this text
I say, am I born again?
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Jesus said I can't be
saved unless I'm born again.
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So I got personalize it
and I have got to say Lord,
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if I'm not born
again speak to me now
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and may I be born again
through the blood of Christ.
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Then you keep on reading,
then you come down to verse
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started-- we should be
reading right through this
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but you know we
got so much time.
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Verse 14 Jesus said,
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"Just as Moses lifted
up the snake in the desert,
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so the Son of
Man will be lifted up
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that everyone
who believes in him
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may have eternal life.
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'For God so loved the world
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that He gave His
one and only Son,
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that whoever believes in Him
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shall not perish but
have everlasting life.'
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" Listen to me, how
do I personalize this?
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I say may be I am
feeling down a bit depressed.
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I say for God
so loved the world,
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for God so loved John Carter.
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If it been only one sin
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there wouldn't
have been a cross.
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For God so loved the
world but God so love me
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that He gave His Son
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and His Son went
to the Cross for me
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and I have truly believed in Him
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I will have everlasting life
and I will go home to glory.
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So I should read the word
and I should personalize it
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but what translation.
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I love the King James Version.
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It's a Bible of my old
church the Church of England
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translated in 1611.
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I personally today
I am using the NIV.
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But I don't
care what translation
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give the New King
James version the good news
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the New American Standard
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you can even do what I am doing
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and its taken me a long time
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to get into the 20th
century little on the 21st,
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I got an iPad and
when I'm on a plane
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and when I'm
flying to South Africa
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and its a 16 hour flight.
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I read through at least
three books of the Bible
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and when I get
out in Johannesburg
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I am super charged
because of the Word of God.
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So read the word,
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you all know the story
don't you about the Titanic,
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that British
ship that went down?
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What a tragedy.
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The lifeboats
went out in the water
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but the lifeboats
weren't even filled.
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And so as the
Titanic was going down
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and the people were
out on the lifeboats
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and they were looking back
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they could see
the boat going down.
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Then a man saw something.
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Won't believe it floating
in debris it was a Bible
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floating on the water.
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He reach out
and he picked it up,
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it became is constant companion.
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He was a man
without faith in God
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when he got on to that Titanic
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but when he was saved,
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physically that
book saved his soul.
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Listen my friend, in
the name of the Father,
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and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit
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I comment to you here it is
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a spoke marked from
the reign of Siberia,
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I comment to you the
living word of the living God
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in Jesus name.
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Amen.
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Hallelujah.
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And praise the Lord
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and please kneel
with me as we pray.
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Our Father, in your
beautiful church here
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we are getting down on our knees
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we're here to
worship You and to bless You
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and to praise Your holy name.
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We thank You for Jesus
Christ our blessed Lord,
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we thank You for the cross.
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We thank You that on the cross
He paid the price for our sins,
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made a perfect atonement.
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We thank You today
that Jesus is alive
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and that Jesus says
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as that the Holy Spirit
is here today in our church.
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We thank You for
giving us this amazing gift
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the holy word, the
living word of the living God.
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As we are praying
today every head bowed,
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every eye closed have
many would say this to God
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with a holy intent
recognizing our weaknesses?
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How many would say
by the grace of God
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I will give to
You sometime everyday
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and I will read the word,
I will personalize the word.
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Can you raise your hand
if that is you pray today?
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I will read the word, I
will personalize the word,
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I will obey the word,
I will revel in the word,
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I will be washed
by the blood of Jesus.
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My Father, we need
a contact with You.
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The world is so wild, so calm
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and we need time
with You and the word.
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Today Lord, we are
lifting our hands and we saying
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wash us in the blood of Christ.
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Put Your spirit, the
Holy Spirit in our hearts.
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Make us the
people you want us to be
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who reflect the
name of our Christ.
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So bless these dear
people, bless the great audience
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that is watching across
the United States of America
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and around the world.
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Bless them today.
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May the word bring
them salvation today?
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So we worship You, we
bless You, we praise You,
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we give You
glory, we give You honor,
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we say hallelujah
00:24:52.13\00:24:55.60
and we say this pray
in Jesus precious name
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for His sake and for His glory,
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amen and amen, amen.
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It's my privilege
today to introduce us
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very special guest from
the great land of India,
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home to 1.2 Billion souls.
00:25:20.32\00:25:25.74
This brother comes
from the city of Rajahmundry
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that I had the
privilege of visiting
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and he is
engaged in gospel work.
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I'm so pleased to
have with his today
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Dr. Johnson Jacob.
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Welcome, my friend.
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Tell me why you are here?
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Yeah, we just want you
to know that you're welcome.
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Tell me why you are here
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at the Carter
Report Center in Arcadia?
00:25:49.34\00:25:52.33
I'm here to
translate and interpret
00:25:52.36\00:25:56.57
the messages of
Pastor John Carter
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into Telugu
language to be aired in the
00:25:59.45\00:26:02.69
television programs in India.
00:26:02.72\00:26:05.48
We're so glad that you're here
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and we say
halleluiah, praise the Lord.
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How many people
speak the language--
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now there's 1.2 billion Indians
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but they're divided up
into various language groups,
00:26:15.65\00:26:18.29
how many people speak Telugu?
00:26:18.32\00:26:21.17
Nearly 90 million
people speak Telugu
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and all the
people of Andhra Pradesh
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are hungry for the Lord's word
00:26:29.50\00:26:32.96
and we are so thankful
that the Carter Report Ministry
00:26:32.99\00:26:38.65
is giving them a great support
00:26:38.68\00:26:41.13
by sharing the Lord's message
to the television programs
00:26:41.16\00:26:44.59
and in other ways.
00:26:44.62\00:26:45.94
Otherwise the
people of Andhra Pradesh
00:26:45.97\00:26:48.58
are facing many challenges
00:26:48.61\00:26:50.74
and they do not
have any other support
00:26:50.77\00:26:53.13
anywhere outside of India.
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We discovered a
doctor when we went to India
00:26:56.59\00:27:00.39
and we ran that great campaign
00:27:00.42\00:27:02.66
outdoors in
Visakhapatnam remember that?
00:27:02.69\00:27:08.48
We noticed-- we were
tremendously impressed
00:27:08.51\00:27:12.55
by the hunger of the
people for the Word of God.
00:27:12.58\00:27:15.79
Is their in your field
where we're trying to help,
00:27:15.82\00:27:21.39
is there an
intense desire for people
00:27:21.42\00:27:24.88
to get to know
the gospel of Christ?
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Yes, sir.
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They are really looking forward
00:27:28.20\00:27:30.25
for the gospel
ministry of the Carter Report
00:27:30.28\00:27:34.10
to come back and do
the ministry once again.
00:27:34.13\00:27:37.15
In fact, most of
this people I was told
00:27:37.18\00:27:40.40
they were
anxiously waiting and praying
00:27:40.43\00:27:43.00
that they could have
this privilege once again.
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Pastor, we're
privilege to have you with us
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and today we tell
you in the name of Jesus
00:27:51.17\00:27:55.29
we will stay with
you and stand with you
00:27:55.32\00:27:59.19
in the preaching of
the gospel of Christ
00:27:59.22\00:28:01.51
to the people of India.
00:28:01.54\00:28:02.63
Thank you for coming.
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God bless you
brother, thank you.
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Thank you so much, Pastor.
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Thank you.
00:28:07.73\00:28:09.08
And my song shall ever be
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How marvelous! How wonderful!
00:28:19.89\00:28:26.42
Is my Savior's love for me!
00:28:26.45\00:28:33.32
Is my Savior's love
00:28:33.35\00:28:38.53
for me!
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For me!
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