The Carter Report presents
Plain Talk with John Carter.
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Hello friend. I'm John Carter.
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Welcome to the Carter
Report and today, to Plain Talk.
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Around the world people
watch our television program.
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And people send in
heaps and heaps of questions.
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Today, we'll be dealing
with those important questions.
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Maybe your question
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is going to be
answered today on Plain Talk.
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Hello friend.
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I'm John Carter in Havana, Cuba.
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I'm standing here in
Revolutionary Square.
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This great square is dedicated
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to the great
Communist Revolution under Fidel
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that came to this
country back 50, 60 years ago.
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This place is still
undergoing a revolution.
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We've come to check out
the reality of the situation.
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Freedom of speech is
not allowed here still,
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preaching the
gospel out of doors
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is not allowed here still,
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whatever you hear
about reconciliation,
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nothing has really changed.
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We've been told,
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we cannot run
public campaigns in Cuba,
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in any part of this world.
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We can run meetings in churches.
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That's allowed.
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So what are we going to do?
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We're going to
support the people of God
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in this part of the world.
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We're going to
step through those doors
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as God opens those doors.
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We're not going to
come and cause a commotion
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and cause trouble
to the people of God.
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We will work diligently
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and "as wise as serpents
and as harmless as doves."
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Stand with us in the
preaching of the gospel.
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Wherever it is,
stand with us. Write to me.
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Post Office Box
1900, Thousand Oaks,
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California 91358.
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In Australia, write
to me at the address
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which is now appearing
on the screen at Terrigal.
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And let us go forward
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for a mighty
spiritual revolution
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as we take the gospel of Christ
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to the lost around the
world as God opens the doors.
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This is John Carter
in Revolutionary Square
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in Havana, Cuba saying to you,
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God bless you and
thank you for your support.
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What difference is there
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between the Muslim and
the Christian religion?
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Huge difference.
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The Muslims believe in
the Quran, their holy book.
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We believe in the Bible.
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People say, "Oh,
no, one holy book
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is as good as
another holy book."
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That isn't so.
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The Bible teaches
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that Jesus Christ
is the Son of God,
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that Jesus is the Creator,
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and that Jesus Christ
died on the cross for our sins.
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The Muslims don't believe
that. That's the difference.
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Let me read to
you from John 8:56.
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Jesus says to the Jews.
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"'Your father Abraham rejoiced
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at the thought of seeing my day,
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He saw it and was glad.'
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'You are not yet 50 years
old,' the Jews said to him.
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'And you have seen Abraham?'
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'I tell you the
truth,' Jesus answered,
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'before Abraham
was born, I am!'"
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Jesus said, "I am."
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And these words mean,
I am the Almighty God,
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the Great I Am.
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"At this they picked
up stones to stone Him.
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But Jesus hid himself,
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slipping away from
the temple grounds."
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The Bible teaches that
Jesus is the Great I Am.
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Now if Jesus is the Great I
Am, then the only true religion
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is the religion of Jesus Christ.
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I'm going to come
over now to John Chapter 1
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and we're going to start
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at the very
beginning of this chapter
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as I try to answer
that very good question.
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John 1: 1 says, "In
the beginning was the Word.
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And the Word was with
God and the Word was God."
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And Jesus is the Word.
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"He was with God
in the beginning.
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Through Him all
things were made,
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without Him nothing was
made that has been made."
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The Bible teaches that
Jesus made the universe.
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My Muslim friends say,
Jesus was a great prophet.
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He was a mighty man of God.
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We respond by saying, thank you.
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But Jesus was more
than a mighty man of God.
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Jesus was the Son of God.
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Jesus was the Creator.
Jesus was the Great I Am.
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And the Bible teaches
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that Jesus died on
the cross for our sins.
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The Muslims say,
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"No, He didn't die on the cross.
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No, the great prophet of
God cannot die on the cross."
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But the Bible says
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that the Son of God
actually died on the cross.
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That's the difference.
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Who pays for your
evangelistic campaigns?
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And why do you even
bother to do this work?
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Well, it's not a bother.
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We do this work
because God told us to do it.
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It's commanded in
the Holy Scriptures.
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We don't do it
because it's easy.
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We don't do it
because it's just some job.
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We do it because
of our convictions.
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I'm going to come
over here in the Bible
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and I'm coming over
here to Acts Chapter 4
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and getting close, 4:12 it says,
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"Salvation is
found in no one else,
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for there is no other
name under heaven given to men
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by which we must be saved."
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The only way a
person can be saved
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is through Jesus Christ.
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Now you say to me
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well, that's not
politically correct.
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Not everybody
believes that today,
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in fact, most people
don't believe that anymore.
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Quite frankly, I don't
care what most people believe.
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I really don't.
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I don't want to be
politically correct.
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I want to be God correct.
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And I want to
believe the Scriptures.
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And the Bible tells me
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that the only way
that a person can be saved
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is through the
Lord Jesus Christ.
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Jesus said,
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"I am the way, and
the truth, and the life."
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My friend, that is the truth.
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Now I'm gonna turn over
now to the Book of Ephesians
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here in the New Testament.
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And I'm going to
read you here a text
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that many Christians,
people in the church,
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they don't seem to believe it.
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Ephesians 2 tells me,
and in verse 1 it says.
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"As for you, you were dead
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in your transgressions
and in your sins."
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If a person doesn't know Christ,
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the Bible says,
he is a dead man,
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he is a dead woman,
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and he needs the
Gospel of Christ.
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Are you listening to me?
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And then the
Bible goes on to say,
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it talks about the lost.
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"Remember that at that time
you were separate from Christ,
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excluded from
citizenship in Israel
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and foreigners to the
covenants of the promise."
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Listen to these words.
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"Without hope and
without God in the world."
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"Without hope and
without God in the world."
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"But now in Christ Jesus
you who once were far away
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have been brought near
through the blood of Christ."
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Now I know there are
lots of people today,
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even people in the church
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don't like to
hear this plain word,
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they don't want to
hear this plain truth,
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they don't want to hear
the, the clear word of God.
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But the Bible says,
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the only way you can be
saved is through Christ,
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through the preaching
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of the
everlasting gospel of Christ.
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That's why I do this work.
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You say, but "oh,
no, that's your job."
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You know this,
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you're gonna have
a job as a doctor.
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No, no,
everybody has been called,
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if you're a
Christian, you've been called
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to teach the gospel of Christ
and to win the lost for Christ.
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That's why we do it.
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And we go wherever
God opens the doors.
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Who pays for these campaigns?
Well, people like you.
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You say you don't get any money
from the church organization.
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No, not a dime.
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But we don't, we don't need it
because God supplies our needs.
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We have faith in God and
people send offerings to us
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and we use that money
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for the most
important work in all the world.
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It's God's work.
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It is the preaching of
the everlasting gospel.
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And we invite you
to become our partner
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in this great work, in
the preaching of the gospel.
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God bless you. Amen, I say.
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Here's a theological question.
What is righteousness by faith?
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That is a theological question.
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And it's a
tremendously important question.
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The person who
sent me this letter said
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"What is your belief in
righteousness by faith?"
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You know, I'm a
bit scared sometimes
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of these theological terms
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because it can be a
turnoff for some people
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they say, you know,
"What are you talking about?
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Why can't you just
say simple things?"
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Well, we're trying to
say simple things today.
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The Bible says in Luke 15:1.
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"Now the tax
collectors and sinners
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were all gathering
around to hear Him.
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But the Pharisees and
the teachers of the law
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muttered, muttered, muttered,"
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"This man welcome
sinners and eats with them."
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Righteousness by faith
says that God loves sinners.
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If you're a sinner,
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I want you to
know Jesus loves you.
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If you are a sinner,
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Jesus would like to
come to your house today.
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He'd like to talk with you.
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He'd like to sit down
and have a meal with you.
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This man receives sinners.
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Righteousness by faith tells
me that we're born sinners.
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Every one of us, we're
born without a knowledge of God
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and we're born in
need of the grace of God.
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Now how can an
unrighteous person
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become righteous
in the sight of God?
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A lot of people
don't understand this.
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And the reason they
don't understand this,
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is because they
don't read their Bibles
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and even if they
do read their Bibles,
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they don't seem to
believe what they're reading.
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And here's the Book of Romans
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written by the
world's greatest theologian
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after our Lord.
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That was Saint
Paul. He says Romans 4.
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"What then shall we say
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that Abraham, our forefather
discovered in this matter?
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If, in fact, Abraham
was justified by works,
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he had something to boast
about but not before God."
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You can't be
saved by being good.
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You can't be
saved by your works.
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"What does the Scriptures say?
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Abraham believed God,
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it was credited to
him as righteousness."
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Credited.
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"And when a man works,
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his wages are not
credited to him as a gift
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but as an obligation.
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However, to the
man who does not work
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but trusts God who
justifies the wicked."
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Can you believe this?
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The Bible says He
justifies the wicked.
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"His faith is
credited as righteousness."
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Now listen.
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Your soul depends upon
your getting this my friend.
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The Bible says, we're
born in a state of sin.
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We're born, lost.
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People say, I
don't want to hear that.
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You know why you
don't want to hear it?
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It's because
you're self righteous.
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But you can't be saved
if you're self righteous.
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You can only be saved
through God's righteousness.
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Now God is
completely, absolutely perfect.
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Jesus is absolutely righteous.
And the Bible tells me this.
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When I come to Christ, as
a penitent, in true faith,
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and I take hold of
Christ and I believe in Him,
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He gives me as a
gift, His righteousness.
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The Bible says it's a credit.
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It's as though you've got
yourself in a terrible mess
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and you owe a billion dollars.
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And someone comes along
and by the grace of God,
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and because of
the love in his heart,
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he credits you
with all that money.
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It's credited to
you. You didn't earn it.
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It is the gift of God.
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Righteousness by faith
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is when God takes a
poor sinner like you and me
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and because of
the merits of Christ,
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because of the
blood of the cross,
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are you listening?
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Because of the
blood of the cross,
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because Jesus paid it all,
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He gives you as a
gift His righteousness.
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My friend, we
are saved by works,
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Christ's works.
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We are saved by righteousness,
Christ's righteousness.
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It's given to you
and to me as a gift.
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Not because of our goodness,
but because of His goodness.
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It can be your's today.
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Why don't you say
now, I confess my sin
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and I accept Jesus as
my Lord and my Savior?
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Hi, I'm John Carter.
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My wife Beverly and I
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were watching
television the other night
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watching the
news, American News.
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They told us that the
church in North America
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is actually shrinking.
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They said that
atheism is the fastest growing
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religious movement
today in North America.
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And people are saying
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what on earth can we
do to save the Church.
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Well, of course,
Christ died for the church,
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He saved the church.
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But what they mean is,
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how can we keep the
church as a vibrant force
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in the world today,
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in Australia, in
America and in Europe
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and in rest of the world.
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Let me tell you a little story.
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John Wesley was one
of the greatest preachers
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of the English
speaking world has ever heard.
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John Wesley came upon the scene
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of the church in
England a few hundred years ago,
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when the church was dying.
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Like the church today,
it was a shrinking church.
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But the people in the
church were in state of denial.
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They refused to
accept the reality
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that the church was dying.
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John Wesley did something
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that other people
said couldn't be done.
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He revived the church
through public evangelism.
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Did you hear that?
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He started to preach
Christ, he preached the Bible
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and he preached out
of doors and indoors.
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And the church was saved.
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Not only did he
save a lot of souls,
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the souls of sinners,
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he saved the
souls of the saints.
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Please join me, my
friend, in evangelism.
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It's what Jesus did.
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Write to me, John
Carter, Post office Box 1900,
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Thousand Oaks, California.
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In Australia, write to me
at the address on the screen
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at Terrigal, in New South Wales.
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Join me, my friend,
in preaching Christ.
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Join me in public
evangelism around the world.
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Thank you, in Jesus' name.
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Pope Francis is a Jesuit.
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Who are the Jesuits
and what do they believe?
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Well, now that's
quite a question.
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Not many people
asked me that question.
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Most people don't know
anything about history.
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It is true that Pope Francis,
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who is immensely
popular is a Jesuit,
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as you would expect him to
be popular, if he were a Jesuit.
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The Jesuits were founded
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about the time of Martin Luther,
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back in the early
1500s, about 500 years ago,
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by a Spaniard, by
the name of Ignatius
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from Loyola, a
little town in Spain.
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People call him Ignatius Loyola.
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But it's really
Ignatius of Loyola.
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And he was born with a passion
for the Roman Catholic Church.
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When Martin Luther
was studying the Bible,
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and studying the Book of
Romans to discover the truth
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about
righteousness through faith,
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and the truth of the
Bible, Ignatius was a soldier.
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He was fighting as a soldier.
He had blood on his hands.
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He was a brave soldier.
He got terribly injured.
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And while he was recovering,
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he had a vision of
the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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Martin Luther got his
revelation from the Bible.
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Ignatius Loyola got it
from visions given to him,
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he believed by the
Blessed Virgin Mary.
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But I believe
that the Bible teaches
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that the Blessed
Virgin Mary is dead.
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And she's asleep,
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a great saint of God,
awaiting the resurrection.
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So how can a person who is
dead come to you in a vision?
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It's an impossibility.
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So he gave his heart to
the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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And then he went
into deep meditations.
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And he wrote the
spiritual exercises.
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And when you do the
spiritual exercises,
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you meditate,
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and you prostrate
your soul before God
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and you do it for days and
weeks and months and years.
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And by so doing,
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he felt he was coming
to be more like Jesus.
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And that's why they
founded the Jesuits,
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well, he founded the Jesuits.
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And that's why
people joined the Jesuits
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because they believed
they were following Jesus.
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They became the leaders
of the counter-Reformation.
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Now you know about the
Reformation, don't you?
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That's when Martin Luther got up
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and preached the
Bible and the Bible alone,
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taught the true gospel
of righteousness by faith,
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taught the commandments of God,
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and the faith of Jesus,
and the Bible prophecies.
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And the Reformation
had tremendous success
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around the world.
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But then the popes,
with the Jesuit said,
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we've got to stop the
progress a Protestantism.
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And they started
what the historians call,
00:19:37.21\00:19:40.54
you know what it's called?
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The counter-Reformation.
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And the Jesuits were in charge
of the counter-Reformation
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at the Council of Trent.
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It was the
purpose of the Jesuits
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to obliterate Protestantism
from the face of the earth.
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They became the
greatest scholars,
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the greatest theologians,
some of the greatest scientists
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and they infiltrated
almost every government,
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and every church,
and every organization.
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They were the pope's
soldiers and the pope's men.
00:20:18.61\00:20:24.72
They were in charge
of the bloody Inquisition
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and they put to
death hundreds of thousands
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of Catholics,
Protestants and Jews.
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They were the Jesuits.
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And today, we have a
Jesuit in the Vatican.
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Do you believe in
evolution? And if not, why?
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These are such good questions.
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Do I believe in evolution,
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well, what sort of
evolution are you talking about?
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Tell me that.
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Are you talking
about micro evolution?
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Because every person
believes in micro evolution,
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every person believes
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in variation within the species.
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We see through
mutations, viruses mutating.
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They become slightly different.
That's microevolution.
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But macroevolution
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is the idea that man
came from the hominids,
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who came from another
species connected to the apes,
00:21:23.45\00:21:28.42
and we all go back to
some simple celled creature
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that spontaneously generated.
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Do I believe in that?
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No, I do not
believe in macroevolution.
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Because I believe
it is unscientific.
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As Stephen Jay Gould said,
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one of the
greatest evolutionists
00:21:52.44\00:21:54.08
of the 20th century, he said,
00:21:54.11\00:21:56.44
"For all practical purposes,
neo-Darwinism is dead."
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I don't believe it.
00:22:01.98\00:22:04.55
Should
Christians keep the Sabbath?
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When is the true Sabbath?
And why do so few keep it?
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Well.
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Why do so few keep it
doesn't concern me at all.
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Truth is not
discovered by counting noses.
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You don't discover truth
by finding the biggest church.
00:22:20.97\00:22:24.97
I am a Sabbath keeper.
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"Oh, then, you must
be a Jew." No, no, no.
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I'm not a Jew.
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But I follow a
Jesus who was a Jew.
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I'm a spiritual Jew.
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But I keep the Sabbath
because Jesus, my Lord,
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the founder of
the Christian church
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was a Sabbath keeper.
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And the Sabbath was changed
hundreds of years after Jesus.
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In fact, it was changed
by the Roman Catholic Church.
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"You know, that's
terrible what you're saying."
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No, no.
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We're just talking about
the plain facts here today.
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You see, we're just
talking about plain talk
00:23:10.49\00:23:12.92
and so and that's
what we're trying to do.
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But it was, the
Sabbath was changed
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by the Vatican and they say so.
00:23:17.16\00:23:20.30
Now the Bible says,
"Jesus went to Nazareth,"
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this is Luke 4,
"where He'd been brought up
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and on the Sabbath day
He went into the synagogue,
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as was His custom."
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Jesus was a Sabbath keeper.
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Jesus risked His life
00:23:33.71\00:23:37.08
to show the
importance of the Sabbath.
00:23:37.11\00:23:41.38
He precipitated a number
of crises with the Pharisees
00:23:41.42\00:23:46.76
and the Jewish religious
leaders over the Sabbath.
00:23:46.79\00:23:51.09
He never did
that for circumcision
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or for the ceremonial law.
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Jesus was a Sabbath keeper.
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All the early
Christians were Sabbath keepers.
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But hundreds of
years after Christ,
00:24:00.74\00:24:04.71
the Roman Catholic
Church changed the Sabbath
00:24:04.74\00:24:08.61
from the seventh day to
the first day of the week.
00:24:08.64\00:24:13.11
How do I know it?
00:24:13.15\00:24:14.52
It was predicted in the
Bible in Daniel Chapter 7: 25.
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Because I've got a ton of books
00:24:19.19\00:24:22.46
written by my beloved friends
in the Roman Catholic Church,
00:24:22.49\00:24:26.39
and they say, "Of
course, we changed the day.
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And the change is the
mark of our authority."
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Where did the
different nations come from?
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Well, that's an easy one.
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Some of these
questions you sent to me
00:24:43.31\00:24:45.75
are really tough
ones and some of them,
00:24:45.78\00:24:48.08
I, you know, I've got
to really think hard about
00:24:48.12\00:24:50.59
but I don't have to
think about this one at all,
00:24:50.62\00:24:52.82
because all the nations
came from the hand of God.
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We're all related.
00:24:56.42\00:24:58.39
Every person on the planet
goes back to the first couple,
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Adam and Eve, an
historical couple.
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They did exist.
00:25:05.13\00:25:06.70
And so I'm
related to white people,
00:25:06.74\00:25:10.37
I'm a white person so
I'm related to white people
00:25:10.41\00:25:13.04
but I'm related to
black people and brown people
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and yellow
people and red people.
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We all come
from the hand of God.
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We're all brothers and
sisters. And we all need Christ.
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I'm a new believer.
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And I'm having real problems
with what I find in the church.
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Should I just stay home
and have church by myself?
00:25:32.49\00:25:36.00
Well, I'd only stay home
and have church by myself
00:25:36.03\00:25:38.63
if somebody was
threatening to take my life
00:25:38.67\00:25:41.17
when I went to church
00:25:41.20\00:25:42.54
and I don't think
it's as bad as that, is it?
00:25:42.57\00:25:45.27
Now, they have always
been hypocrites in the church.
00:25:45.31\00:25:49.74
People say I don't go to church,
00:25:49.78\00:25:51.61
I couldn't join the church
00:25:51.65\00:25:52.98
because it's got
so many hypocrites.
00:25:53.01\00:25:54.88
But there are more hypocrites
00:25:54.92\00:25:56.25
outside the church
than inside the church.
00:25:56.28\00:25:59.42
But Jesus said
there would be hypocrites
00:25:59.45\00:26:02.82
and there would be
unworthy members in the church.
00:26:02.86\00:26:07.73
But do you need to follow Christ
00:26:07.76\00:26:11.03
and not the
people inside the church?
00:26:11.07\00:26:14.24
The problem is that
people try to follow the church.
00:26:14.27\00:26:18.11
And that's why
they get into trouble.
00:26:18.14\00:26:19.57
In Matthew 13, Jesus spoke
about the weeds and the tares.
00:26:19.61\00:26:24.61
The weeds of the good people--
00:26:24.65\00:26:27.35
And the tares,
they are the bad ones
00:26:27.38\00:26:29.55
but, there's
good weed there also
00:26:29.58\00:26:32.45
and Jesus talks about it.
00:26:32.49\00:26:33.82
He says,
00:26:33.86\00:26:35.19
"The weeds are pulled
up and burned in the fire,
00:26:35.22\00:26:37.19
it's going to happen like
this at the end of the age.
00:26:37.23\00:26:40.66
They will throw them
into the fiery furnace."
00:26:40.70\00:26:43.57
And then it says,
00:26:43.60\00:26:44.93
"He's gonna weed
out of His kingdom
00:26:44.97\00:26:46.30
everything that causes
sin, all that do evil."
00:26:46.33\00:26:49.47
Then it says, "The
righteous will shine
00:26:49.50\00:26:51.47
like the sun in the
kingdom of His father."
00:26:51.51\00:26:55.04
In the church, there are
two types of individuals.
00:26:55.08\00:26:59.85
You've got the wheat
and you've got the weeds.
00:26:59.88\00:27:04.22
You've got the wheat
and you've got the tares.
00:27:04.25\00:27:07.52
You've got the good
and you've got the bad.
00:27:07.56\00:27:10.76
You've got the sincere
and you've got the hypocrites.
00:27:10.79\00:27:15.30
But remember what
Jesus said to His disciple.
00:27:15.33\00:27:19.57
"Don't worry about
this man. Follow me."
00:27:19.60\00:27:23.61
You and I are not
saved by the church.
00:27:23.64\00:27:25.87
The church needs salvation.
00:27:25.91\00:27:28.78
We are saved by
the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:27:28.81\00:27:34.08
Jesus had a church of 12 members
00:27:34.12\00:27:36.89
and one of them was a murderer,
a hypocrite, a thief, a liar.
00:27:36.92\00:27:41.42
His name was Judas.
00:27:41.46\00:27:44.36
Now go to church. Try
to make the church better.
00:27:44.39\00:27:47.33
Go and shine for Jesus
and keep your eyes on Jesus.
00:27:47.36\00:27:51.87
And when Jesus comes, my friend,
00:27:51.90\00:27:54.30
if you a following Jesus,
00:27:54.34\00:27:56.81
you are going to go
home with Him to glory.
00:27:56.84\00:28:01.44
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