From Arcadia, California
the Carter Report Presents,
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the Living Word
around the world.
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We've been talking
about the "Worth of a Soul."
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We told you that soul
is was more important,
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is more important than
anything in the universe
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because the soul is
made in the image of God.
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But let me talk now
about the individual person
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and the nation or an institution
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or even our church organization.
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I want you to come over
here to the words of our Lord.
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I'm glad you've joined us today.
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Come over here
at John Chapter 11
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and this is a church
that is based upon the Word,
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this why we've got to
have Bibles here today.
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That's why we turn to the text,
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that's why we don't
just gaze at the screen
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and read the
words off the screen.
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We get it out of the Bible.
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Come over here to John 11: 45.
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The practical Jesus it's called.
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"Therefore many of the
Jews who had come to visit Mary,
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and had seen what Jesus
did, put their faith in Him.
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But some of
them to the Pharisees
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and told them
what Jesus had done.
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Then the chief
priests and the Pharisees
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called a meeting
of the Sanhedrin."
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That's the big,
that's the big committee.
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"'What are we accomplishing?'
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they asked.
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'Here is this man performing
many miraculous signs.
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If we let Him go on like
this, everyone will believe Him,
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and then the Romans
will come and take away
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both our place and our nation.'
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Then one of
them, named Caiaphas,
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who was high priest that year,
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" the big man in
the church, "spoke up,
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'You know nothing at all!
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You do not realize
that it is better for you
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that one man die for the people
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than that the
whole nation perish.'"
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He said this, you
gonna have the big picture.
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The church is more
important than one person.
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He said we've got a
great marvelous organization.
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We are the people of God.
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We're the people
of Bible prophecy.
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We keep the Commandments of God.
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We pay our tithe and we go along
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to a meeting
place on the Sabbath.
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We're looking forward to
the coming of the Messiah.
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Its better that one person dies,
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then that all of
this to get messed up.
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I'm going to
quote you, from a man
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who is the pastor of
the Glendale City Church
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many years ago Dr. Beitz.
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Listen, "It was
religious institutionalism
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that crucified Christ.
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It was
religious institutionalism
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versus a personal Christ.
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It was in effect
organizational religionism
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versus the gospel.
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It was religious
heritage against God.
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earthen vessel had become
more the object of devotion
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than the treasure
within the vessel.
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Here's the age-old
tendency towards idolatry
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for man is basically religious
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and wishes to
make himself secure
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within religious
institutions, and, therefore,
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hides himself from
the very presence of God."
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I'm hiding in the church
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and its better that one man die,
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then I lose all this stuff.
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Dr. MacKay is
quoted by Dr. Beitz.
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One of our serious troubles
in the church today is that
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it has become
legitimate to be institutional.
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The moment the church becomes
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completely
programmed and depersonalized,
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it becomes a
monument to God's memory
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and not an
instrument of divine power.
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You see, when men
build institutions
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they become their ultimate end
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instead of just
the means to an end.
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That is an idolatry.
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Men build and build,
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and they forget the
purpose of the building.
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Institutions become
more important than people.
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There are no shepherds in
the institution any longer,
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only people trying to
prevent the ship from rocking.
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Then it is that truth suffers
and good men are crucified.
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Then it is that
the Spirit departs.
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The glory has departed."
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Dr. Beitz goes on,
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"Caiaphas thought
he must save the church
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therefore, Christ must die.
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But Christ had
come to save the church.
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Where would we have stood
had we been there that day?"
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He asks.
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"The issue before Caiaphas
is everlastingly present.
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We have to choose continually
between tradition and scripture,
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between the
institution and the individual,
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between what is
popular and accepted
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and what is true.
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There is no need
to crucify Christ
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that the
institution may be saved.
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Unless Christ
lives, the institution
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is already dead!"
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Now I want to say to
you folks, here today
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you better listen up
and you better listen good
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because there's lots of us
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who are trusting in
the church organization
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to get us home to glory.
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That is the sin of Caiaphas
who put Christ on the cross.
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When the Spirit of God departs
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there is nothing there.
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What counts one
soul, you know the text,
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don't need to turn to this one.
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Let you off for this text.
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John 3:16.
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Say it "For God so
loved the world" come on,
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"that He gave His only son
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so that whoever believes in Him
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shall not perish but
have everlasting life."
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The reason Jesus came
was not to build a building
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though we need
to have buildings.
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Reason Jesus came
was to save the world.
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Not talking about
our cars or our things,
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Jesus is talking
about a world of souls
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made in the image of God.
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So the world is
of tremendous value.
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But I want you to
come to another text
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now this is pretty
hard to believe I know,
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one should come over here
to the Book of Galatians 2:20,
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this is almost
too hard to believe.
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He says this, "I have
been crucified with Christ."
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You see Christ died for me.
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When Christ died
legally I was in Christ.
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"I have been
crucified with Christ
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and I no longer live,
but Christ lives in me.
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The life I live in the body,
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I live by faith
in the Son of God,
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who loved me and
gave himself for me."
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He loves the
world the Bible says.
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Another text says,
He died for the church,
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but this text
brings it in closer
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the Bible says Paul
says He died for me.
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You may find
this incomprehensible,
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it may be a challenge
too much for the human mind
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but if you had
been the one lost soul,
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there would have been a cross.
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Can you believe that?
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If I had been the one lost
soul there will be no cross,
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and got on the cross.
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How much are you worth?
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Therefore we come
again to the question,
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what is the worth of a soul?
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One person, one poor
of woman in Calcutta,
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one beggar in Johannesburg,
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one gang member in Los Angeles,
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one rebellious teenager,
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one old man in
the retirement center.
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One person how much
worth more than the world?
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The value of a
soul, think about this,
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well, next you
tempted to put somebody down,
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or to tear them down think of it
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a person its worth so much.
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It can only be
estimated by the price paid.
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The blood of
Christ the Son of God,
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if you want to know
what a person is worth
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go to the cross, not buildings,
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I don't care about buildings.
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Therefore, if the
soul is more valuable than
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all the gold in the world,
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all the diamonds
and the precious stones,
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if a soul of
person is so valuable,
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that God in Christ
would redeem that soul
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with His blood.
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What is the most important
thing I can do with my life?
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Shakespeare said, he is the rub.
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Are you ready for this?
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Can you bear this?
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I'm going to quote from
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one of the greatest
people whoever lived
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that was Paul, a Jewish scholar,
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a theologian, a
preacher, a traveler,
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an evangelist.
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I want you to come over
here to Philippians 2:14-16.
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Philippians 2:14-16.
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Listen to the words
of the greatest scholar
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apart from our Lord in the
history of the Christian church.
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He was not I
will say to my friends
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who are theologians,
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he was not and
anti-theologian like you.
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He was out on the road.
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Is that uncomfortable?
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I hope so.
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Verse 14 and onwards,
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"Do everything
without complaining
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or argument or arguing,
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so that you may
become blameless and pure,
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children of God
without fault in a crooked
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and depraved generation amen,
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in which you shine
like stars in the universe
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as you hold out
the word of life."
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The church is called to
shine like stars in the universe
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and to hold out the
word of life to a dying world
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and if the church
is only interested in
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meet, greet and eat,
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it is a grand of
relevancy in the sight of God.
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Even though they sing
hymns and say platitudes.
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One of my favorite characters
is Bishop Fulton Sheen,
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a prince to the
Roman Catholic Church,
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he's been dead
for number of years.
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He had a
television program called,
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"Life is Worth Living"
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and obviously from my
Protestant background,
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I did not agree with many
of the things that he believed,
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but I didn't
believe some things.
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And he believed that the
only thing that was worth
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anything in the
world was a human soul
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that's what he taught.
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And on one occasion the Bishop
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went to a hospital where
an atheist was dying of cancer
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and he came in and he said,
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I've come can I pray for you.
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He said get out, priest.
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Get out priest, I hate you.
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But Bishop Fulton
Sheen came back the next day
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and the next day and each
time he was told by the man,
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get out I hate you, priest.
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And Bishop Fulton
Sheen tells the story
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or told the story,
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that he knelt down
and he prayed to the Lord
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and he said, Lord,
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if you gonna help me
to save this lost soul
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because he was, I
will build a church,
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I think somewhere in Africa,
he said that will be my vow.
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Help me he said, help me,
help me to save this lost soul
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and I will
dedicate a church to You.
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I will raise the money.
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When this man was almost
dead he came in the last time
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and he said I want
to pray for your soul,
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the man said get out, priest.
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He said to him let
me say this before I go,
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just say these
words, Jesus, have mercy.
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He said, I'll never say it.
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He said say, Jesus, have mercy.
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And the archbishop
came to the hospital
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the next day he was met by
a nurse and she said bishop,
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the old man with
cancer finally died,
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but you'll be
interested in knowing
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he was saying some words.
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The Bishop said,
what was he saying?
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Jesus, have
mercy. Jesus, have mercy.
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Jesus, have mercy.
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The most
important thing my friend,
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in the mind of the bishop
was the salvation of a soul.
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Would you come over here to
the 2 Corinthians Chapter 2,
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2 Corinthians Chapter 2.
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Second Corinthians 2:12- 16.
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And who is the lost soul?
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Any person my friend,
outside the kingdom of God
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is a lost soul
the Bible teaches.
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We are saved
only through Christ.
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Second
Corinthians 2:14 and onwards,
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"But thanks be to God,
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who always leads us in
triumphal procession in Christ
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and through us
spreads everywhere
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the fragrance of
the knowledge of Him.
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For we are to God the
aroma of Christ among those
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who are being saved and
those who are perishing.
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To the one we are
the smell of death,
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to the other, the
fragrance of life.
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And who is
equal to such a task?"
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The most important
think is to save a soul.
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I want to say a
few words to those
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who are watching
the television program
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who believe that
they're called to be ministers.
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Make sure that
God has called you.
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In the days of John Wesley
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he spoke about
taking holy orders
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and so we do today.
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He of course was a priest
in the Great Anglican Church
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and raised up
the Methodist Church
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and he said if
you take holy orders
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make sure God has called you.
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Come with me fast
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to 1 Corinthians
12: 27 and onwards.
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In the light on what I've said
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you can
understand now this text.
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"Now you are the body of Christ,
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and each one of
you is a part of it.
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And in the church
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God has appointed
first of all apostles."
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That's a person who
goes and preaches the gospel.
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Apostolos one who is sent.
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"Second
prophets," that is a person
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who preaches the divine word,
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"third teachers,
then workers of miracles,
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also those
having gifts of healing,
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those able to help others,
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those with gifts
of administration,
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and those who speak in tongues
listen in the name of God."
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If you are priding
to be our minister,
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some say my aim is
to be administrator
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and get behind the desk,
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Jesus was never behind the desk,
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neither was the Apostle Paul.
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The most important gift
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is to go into the
world and saves souls,
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because one's soul is worth
more than a whole wide world.
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Jesus said I give you
the keys of the kingdom,
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He said to His disciples.
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People don't understand
that, the keys of the kingdom.
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You open the doors
to Paradise I tell you,
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however does open to paradise
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through the
preaching of the gospel.
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I say to the young men
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and the young
women in this church,
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why throw your
lives away on that
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which is relatively unimportant.
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The most important work
is to preach the gospel.
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Why have we gone to
Russia and Africa and China
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and we're going back to India,
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why do we do this?
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Because we will not pray church,
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because we are driven
on by the word of the Lord.
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Our faith is
built upon scripture
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not the institution.
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I'm going to read you something.
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You know what
gonna meet you again.
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"Twas battered and
scarred," but like me.
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"And the auctioneer
thought it hardly worth
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his while to waste
time on the old violin,
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but he held it up with a smile.
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"What am I bid,
good people", he cried,
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"Who starts the bidding for me?
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One dollar, one
dollar, Do I hear two?
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Two dollars, who makes it three?
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Three dollars
once, three dollars
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twice, going for three.
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But, no, from the room
far back a gray bearded man
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came forward and
picked up the bow,
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then wiping the
dust from the old violin
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and tightening up the strings,
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he played a melody,
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pure and sweet as
sweet as the angel sings.
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The music ceased
and the auctioneer
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with a voice that
was quiet and low, said
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'What now am I bid
for this old violin?'
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And he held it up with the bow.
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One thousand, one thousand.
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Do I hear two?
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Two thousand,
who makes it three?
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Three thousand once,
three thousand twice,
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going and gone," said he.
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The people
cheered, some of them cried.
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We just don't understand
what changed its' worth?
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The man replied, 'The
Touch of the Masters Hand.'
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And many a man
with life out of tune
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and battered
and bruised with sin
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is auctioned cheap
to a thoughtless crowd
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much like that old violin.
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A mess of
pottage, a glass of wine,
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a game and he travels on.
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He is going once,
he is going twice,
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he is going and almost gone.
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But the Master comes,
00:20:37.86\00:20:41.03
and the foolish crowd
never can quite understand,
00:20:41.06\00:20:46.04
the worth of a soul
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and the change that is wrought
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by the Touch of
the Masters' Hand.
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We're privileged
to have with us today,
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violinist Jing Zhou,
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she's going to
come and play for us
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the great British hymn,
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written by the great
evangelist and preacher
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who led well
before us to Christ.
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The hymn is
called "Amazing Grace."
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Would you please
come? You're welcome here.
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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.
00:26:04.57\00:26:11.04
It's up more 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 of our Lord Jesus Christ.
00:26:19.86\00:26:24.72
We're here because we
have a commission from God.
00:26:24.75\00:26:28.63
Jesus said " Go
into all the world
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and preach the
everlasting gospel,
00:26:32.35\00:26:34.99
baptizing them in
the name of the Father
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and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit."
00:26:37.50\00:26:40.86
The people here need
the gospel of Christ.
00:26:40.89\00:26:45.05
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.
00:26:51.55\00:26:54.66
A very dangerous
part of the world
00:26:54.69\00:26:57.31
but we believe that we are safe
00:26:57.34\00:26:59.95
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
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plus inhabitants
in the city of Bogota
00:27:09.31\00:27:13.57
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.
00:27:17.06\00:27:21.22
Please write to me John
Carter, Post Office Box 1900,
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Thousand Oaks, California 91358.
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In Australia write to
me at the address Terrigal,
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New South Wales, Australia.
00:27:33.98\00:27:36.79
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.
00:27:45.88\00:27:47.91
And I'm the one to blame
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I caused all the pain
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He gave Himself,
the day He wore my crown
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Amen. Amen.
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