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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I just want to give the most
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warm welcome to our
viewers today on 3ABN
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and also the Word
Network right around the world.
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This is a tremendous
topic today winning the race,
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the perseverance of the saints.
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Thank you for joining us today.
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But right now we
have a beautiful lady
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who is going to
come and sing for us
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her name is Sharon Verde.
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Would you welcome her today?
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Sharon Verde.
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You are the Potter
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And I am the clay
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You are the Artist
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And I am the paint
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You are the Writer
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And I am Your song
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I will be Your instrument
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My whole life long
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Play me, change me,
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Color me
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In shades of You,
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In shades of You
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Play me, sing through me
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A melody
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So when they look at me
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They will only see
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Who You are
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You are my Father
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And I am Your child
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An empty vessel
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And You are the fire
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All that You are Lord
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Is all I desire
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Master, Creator
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Take my life
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And mold me, change me
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Color me
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In shades of You,
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In shades of You
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Play me, sing through me
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A melody
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So when they look at me
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They will only see
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Who You are
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Create in me a work of us
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I want to tell you the
story of a very special
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courageous Russian
woman, Mrs. Bartram.
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How do I know?
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The story is
true because her son
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who is a pastor
told me the story.
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I've known this man
Vitelli for about 24 years.
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So he has become like a brother.
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He told me the
story of his mother.
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And when he told me the story
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I was sort of overwhelmed.
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They lived in a little village
in heart of the Soviet Empire.
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They were the only Christians.
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They happened to be
Adventist Christians.
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But this story could be
told about other Christians,
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Baptists and so
forth Pentecostals
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with a twist of
course a little different.
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They were the only Christians.
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The mother was a believer
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the father however was
a communist and atheist.
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Very much opposed
to the Christian faith.
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And the people
persecuted the mother
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because she believed in God
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and she believed in the Bible.
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It didn't help things
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when they only cow they had,
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the family cow was
struck by lightening.
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Can you believe it?
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The cow was struck by lightening
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and the people
said in the village
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where is God, where is God.
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Have you ever faced
like this sometimes?
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The cows of
Christians get hit by lightening
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on occasions, Christians do too.
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Where is God?
Well, God is there.
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She was a person who believed
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in keeping of the Sabbath,
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the Seventh-day Sabbath.
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And so to get to church
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she would have to leave
home on Friday afternoon.
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I want you to think about this.
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She'd leaved home
on Friday afternoon
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and she would start
to walk through the snow.
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And where she lived it
got to minus forty below.
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Can we comprehend this?
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I have been in minus forty.
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It's very, very cold.
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And so she would walk
all through the night,
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it was worse when spring came
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because the snow became slush.
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And sometimes she went through
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freezing water up to her hips.
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And in the morning
on Saturday morning
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she got to a place
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where she knew a
man or had a truck
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and she knew the truck
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would be leaving
at a certain time
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and he let her sit in the
back of the truck on the tray,
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out in the cold and
he drove about 30 miles.
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When she got to church
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they stayed at church
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from 9 o'clock until
5 o'clock or 6 o'clock.
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That's how long church lasted.
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Why?
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Because they
were hungry for God,
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this was anytime
they had the fellowship.
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Can you understand it?
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And some of us can't
get along to church on time
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and we talk about having faith.
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And then after
church say may be 6 o'clock
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and the sun would go down
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as you know in winter
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around 4
o'clock, quarter-to-four.
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And so she would
walk all through the night
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and she get back
home on Sunday morning.
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She had a son who
was in the Soviet army
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and the son who
was in the Soviet army
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was a young man who
was a believer in God.
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But he was killed
in one of the wars
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that the Russians
got themselves into.
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There is always a
reason for a war, isn't there?
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And so when the man
came with the telegram
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the father cursed.
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He cursed God whom
he didn't believe in,
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he cursed Stalin,
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he cursed everybody
in the communist party
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and he cursed the village,
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he cursed and he cursed.
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I said to Vitelli
"What was your mother doing?"
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He said, "When she got the news
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she went in to the bedroom"
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and he said "I was
there as a little boy
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and I heard her singing hymns
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and praising God."
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This woman and her son today
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had and have the
perseverance of the saints.
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They are not easily turned away,
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they are winners.
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Now I want you to
take your Bibles please.
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And come over
here to 2 Timothy 4:6-8
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and we're going
to turn to the words
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of the great Saint Paul.
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"For I am
already being poured out
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like a drink offering,
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and the time for my departure."
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Please turn to the text.
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"I have fought the good fight,
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I have finished the race."
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He was not a quitter.
"I have kept the faith.
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Now there is in store for me
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the crown of righteousness,
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which the Lord,
the righteous Judge,
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will award to me on that day
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and not only to
me, but also to all
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who have longed
for his appearing."
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You notice, those
strong pungent phrases.
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He says "I have
fought the fight."
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Don't think when
you become a Christian
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that this is just
a little tiny game,
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it is a battle
against tremendous odds.
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I have fought the fight.
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I have finished the
faith, not a quitter.
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God doesn't call
people to be quitters.
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People will say
"well look I just, I just,
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just not strong enough."
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Well done, just
get strong in God.
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See he says, I fought the fight,
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finished the race,
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I have kept the faith.
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I have fought. I have finished.
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I have kept.
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God's people
are called to fight,
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to finish and to keep.
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Now the precious
friend of mine over there
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in the former Soviet Union
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in Moscow is a man
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whom we call Paul the prisoner.
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A Christian in Moscow.
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He had a little
printing press down
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on the basement of his home
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for the preparation
of Christian literature.
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One of the church members,
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one of the elders of the church
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went and informed
on him to the KGB.
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That happened a million
times in the Soviet Union.
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Brother shall betray brother.
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He was thrown in
a refrigerator cell
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in Moscow naked,
a little bit of soup
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and a little bit of
bread his teeth fell out.
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He's got false teeth now.
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I am humbled when
I am in his presence,
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he is a man, not a mass.
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And so they said to him
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you just tell
us the other people
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who were involved
in the printing press.
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He said, as the Russians
can say very well "HET" no.
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It's good to say yes
and it's good to say no.
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And he said, no.
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Three years in prison,
in a refrigerator cell.
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He fought, he
finished, he kept the faith.
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He now goes into Russian prisons
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which are little hells
and works for the prisoners.
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We gave him
10,000 Bibles to help me.
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How did he survive,
didn't have a Bible.
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He recalled the
texts of the Bible,
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he had the Word
of God in his head.
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He didn't trust his feelings.
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Most of us trust our feelings.
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Oh, I'll go to church.
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I don't feel like it.
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I will standout
all but I don't know
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if I can do this.
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I have just not
feeling so good today.
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We need to become
men and women in Christ.
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I fought the good
fight, finished the race,
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I have kept the faith.
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He trusted in God, he
didn't trust in his feelings.
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If you trust in your feelings
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the feelings are
going to deceive you.
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We need less tears
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and more trials and tribulations
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so that when we will
learn to stand up for God
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and to experience the
perseverance of the saints.
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Turn in your Bibles
over here to Hebrews 3:14,
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dear hearts and general people.
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Hebrews Chapter 3
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and we are glad to have
a great audience in 3ABN
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and the Word
Network, with us today.
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Hebrews 3:14, the Bible says,
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"We have come to share in Christ
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if we hold firmly till the end
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the confidence we had at first."
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So the Bible tells me
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that I am saved
by the blood of Jesus
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as I hold on to the confidence.
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Somebody has asked
the pertinent question,
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what about the teaching
"once saved always saved."
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That means, I come to Christ
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then it doesn't matter
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I am safe forever whatever I do.
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Number one, three truths,
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I may be a great sinner
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but in the words of John Newton
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I may be a great--
I am a great sinner
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but Christ is a great Savior.
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Now come over here to
John Chapter 10, please.
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John Chapter 10.
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Are you glad to be in church?
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Amen.
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John Chapter 10
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we're gonna preach
up a storm here today.
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John 10:27
onwards. Are you ready?
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"My sheep listen to my voice,
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I know them, and they follow Me.
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I give them eternal life,
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and they shall never perish,
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no one can snatch
them out of My hand.
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My Father, who
has given them to Me,
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is greater than all.
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No one can snatch them
out of My Father's hand."
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Look at me.
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If I am in Christ and
if I am trusting in Christ
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nobody can take me
out of the Father's hand
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I have eternal security.
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Amen. It's a
teaching of the Bible.
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Doesn't depends so
much upon my grasp upon him
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as His mighty grasp on me.
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Number two, second truth.
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God will never
force me to follow Him.
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God never revokes the
privilege of freedom of choice.
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Come over here, come on.
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Come over here John Chapter 15.
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John 15:5 and onwards.
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You better listen to this.
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"I am the vine,
you are the branches.
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If a man remains
in me, and I in him,
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he will bear much
fruit apart for me
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you can do nothing.
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If anyone does not remain in me,
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he is like a branch
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that is thrown away and withers,
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such branches are picked up,
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and thrown into
the fire and burned."
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The Bible says if
we abide in Christ
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we are eternally secure.
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But the Bible says if I
severe my relationship to Christ
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I will be thrown
into the fire and burnt.
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Would you come
down here to verse 16
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"You did not choose me,
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but I chose you
and appointed you
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to go and bear fruit,
fruits that will last."
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The proof that I
am in Christ is that
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I will be bearing fruit.
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The proof that a
church is in Christ
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is that it is bearing fruit
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and people are coming to Christ
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and they're getting baptized.
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That is the proof
that we are in Christ.
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Would you come over
here now to Luke Chapter 8
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and verse--Matthew, Mark, Luke,
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Luke Chapter 8--
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I am just an old fashioned
Bible preacher God help us all.
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Luke 8:11 and onwards.
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This is talking about the sower.
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"This is the
meaning of the parable.
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The seed is the word of God."
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We're preaching it today.
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"Those along the path
are the ones who hear,
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and then the devil comes
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and takes away the
word from their hearts,
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so that they may not
believe and be saved."
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Look at me, this text
says in the words of our Lord
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if you truly
believe you're saved.
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So belief is salvation.
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"Those on the rock are the ones
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who receive the word with joy
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when they hear it but
they have not, have no root.
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They believe for a while."
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Therefore if they
believe they're saved.
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"They believe" they
are saved "for a while,
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but in the time of
testing they fall away."
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God has given to every person
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the gift of freedom of choice.
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He will never,
He will never force
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His will upon me and
force me to follow Him.
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I want you to know this.
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And I want you to know
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that his grace is
sufficient for all of our needs.
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Would you come over here
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to 2 Corinthians
12:7 and onwards,
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2 Corinthians 12:7 and onwards.
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"To keep me from
becoming conceited
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because of these
surpassingly great revelations,
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that was given me
a thorn in my flesh,
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a messenger of
Satan, to torment me.
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Three times I
pleaded with the Lord
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to take it away from me.
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But he said to me,
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'My grace is sufficient for you,
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for my power is made
perfect in weakness.'
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Therefore I will
boast all the more gladly
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about my weaknesses,
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so that Christ's
power may rest on me.
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That is why, for Christ's sake,
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I delight in weaknesses,
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in insults, in hardships,
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in
persecutions, in difficulties.
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For when I am
weak, then I am strong."
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So His grace is sufficient.
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When I ran years ago
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the great campaign in
that magnificent building
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the Sydney Opera House
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I brought out
from the United States
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a great singer
Pastor Marshall Kelly.
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I will never forget
that great African American
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that saint of
God singing the song
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"He giveth more grace
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when the burdens grow greater,
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He giveth more strength
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when the labors
increase, to added affliction
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He addeth His mercy,
to multiplied trials,
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His multiplied peace."
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So I would have
you realized today
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whatever the
struggle He is sufficient.
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Listen, carefully because that
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I am going to
give a strong word,
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this is being the preamble.
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"We are called in weakness
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but we are not
called for weakness."
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Did you hear me?
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We are called in weakness,
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some people stay
weak all their lives
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no one know
that Christian church
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is in such a
desperate situation so often.
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We are called in weakness
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but we are not
called for weakness,
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we are called for strength.
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We are not called for defeat.
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We are called for victory. Amen.
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We are not called to runaway,
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we are called to fight the foe.
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We are not
called to be quitters.
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We are not called
to surrender the flag,
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we are called to lift up
the banner of Prince Emanuel.
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I was at a place that I liked
very much Vancouver Harbor.
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Beverley and I were there
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and we were walking
along looking at the boats.
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And a little long
American lady came along
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and engaged us in conversation.
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She said to me,
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you look like a Conservative
and I am Republican.
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But, I told her and I don't
wish to fool out with anyone,
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I told her, "I don't
belong to Republican Party
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or the Democratic Party,
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I belong to Christ party." Amen.
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But she spoke
about a terrible incident
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that it happened
in the Middle East
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where apparently, our soldiers
were told to stand down.
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And she said this
little lady this high
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quivering with
indignation and righteousness
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she said to me
"Americans don't stand down."
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Amen.
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And neither do Christians. Amen.
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We are not
called to be quitters.
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I fought the good fight,
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I have finished my cause,
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I have kept the faith.
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Therefore we
come to this question
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how can I be a child of God
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who perseveres to the end?
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If everybody had
come through the doors
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of this church had remained true
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this church would have
a membership of 10,000.
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How can I be a child of God
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who perseveres to
the end that is next?
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So stay tuned and
be with me next time.
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Hello friend, I am
John Carter in Columbia.
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Behind me is the
great city of Bogota
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the capital of
this amazing country.
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This city is a city of
more than eight million souls.
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It's up more than
8,000 feet in the Andes.
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And we've come today
with one purpose in mind
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to preach the everlasting gospel
00:26:32.61\00:26:34.96
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
00:26:34.99\00:26:37.46
We are here because we
have a commission from God.
00:26:37.49\00:26:41.44
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 the Father
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and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit."
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The people here need
the gospel of Christ.
00:26:53.61\00:26:57.86
And I am asking you today
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come with us if not in body
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but come with us in spirit.
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This has been a
very, very dangerous city
00:27:04.25\00:27:07.26
a very dangerous
part of the world.
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But we believe that we are safe
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when we are in the hands of God.
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Therefore, I am beseeching
you in the name of Christ
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and in the names of
these eight million plus
00:27:19.20\00:27:22.70
inhabitants in the
city of Bogota to come
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and help us to
preach the word of God.
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Please, support the preaching
of the word of God in Columbia.
00:27:29.86\00:27:33.98
Please write to me John Carter,
00:27:34.01\00:27:36.16
Post Office Box 1900,
00:27:36.19\00:27:38.76
Thousand Oaks,
California, 91358.
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In Australia write
to me at the address
00:27:42.46\00:27:45.51
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.
Thank you and God bless you.
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We pray for blessings
00:28:23.27\00:28:27.48
We pray for peace
00:28:27.51\00:28:31.44
Comfort for family
00:28:31.47\00:28:35.44
Protection while we see
00:28:35.47\00:28:39.71
We pray for
healing, for prosperity
00:28:39.74\00:28:47.45
We pray for Your mighty hand
00:28:47.48\00:28:51.44
To ease our suffering
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