The Carter Report presents
"Plain Talk" with John Carter.
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Hello, friend.
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I'm John Carter and you
are tuned to the Carter Report.
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Our program today is
entitled, "Plain talk."
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Most folks like plain talk.
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They don't want
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they don't want deceit.
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They want somebody
to tell it as it is.
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And so we've called
this program "Plain Talk."
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Welcome today to
the Carter Report.
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Hi. I'm John Carter.
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My wife Beverly and I
were watching television
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the other night, 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,
"What an earth can we do
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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,
how can we keep the church
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as a vibrant force
in the world today,
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in Australia, in America
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and in Europe and in
the 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 of the church
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in England a few 100 years
ago, 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 a 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 that other people said
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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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Jesus taught church
unity, "That they may be one."
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Do you see the
day when Protestants,
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Orthodox and
Catholics will be one church?
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And what separates you
from the Catholic Church?
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Yes, I do see that day.
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It's coming on like a flood.
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Just recently they had
a big meeting over here
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in the United States,
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huge crowd of
evangelicals and they said,
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"Hey, there's
nothing separating us today
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from the wonderful
Holy Roman Catholic Church."
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Yes, I think
it's going to happen.
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I think the Protestants
are going to get together,
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I mean, who cares
what you believe anymore
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as long as you're
just loving to people.
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And I think,
they are going to turn
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to the Roman Catholic Church
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that still is a
mighty force in the world
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with a charismatic Pope.
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And I think the Orthodox Church
is going to come along too,
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yeah, I think we
are living in the day
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of the unity of the churches.
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Now, the person said,
"What makes you different
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from the Roman Catholic Church?"
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I want to say
this to every person.
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I love my
brothers and my sisters
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in the Roman Catholic Church.
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Bless your heart.
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My father was a Roman Catholic.
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He was an alter boy,
when he was a little fellow.
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And so I was
brought up with a fair dose
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of the Roman Catholic religion.
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So, just get this from my heart,
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I love Roman Catholics.
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But I don't believe
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in what the Roman
Catholic Church teaches.
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What?
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You don't believe in
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what the Roman
Catholic Church teaches?
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No, I don't believe in
what the Roman Catholic Church
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teaches on the gospel.
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I believe the Bible
teaches one great gospel
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and I don't believe
the Roman Catholic Church
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truly understands the gospel.
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The Bible tells me,
when I come to Christ
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and believe in Him, I
am justified through faith.
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This means that God
declares that I am righteous.
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But in the Council of
Trent, the Roman Catholic Church
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teaches the justification
is not a declaration
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but of making of righteousness.
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What's the differences you say?
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Well, it's a difference
between night and day.
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Big doors swing on
little hinges, my friend.
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You see if
righteousness through faith
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is a making of righteousness,
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it means I never
come to the place
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where I am
righteous enough to be saved.
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Therefore, I need a
good burning up in purgatory.
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But the Bible teaches,
the moment I come to Jesus,
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I am declared righteous.
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That's the
difference, the gospel;
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the gospel is God's good news.
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Don't you know about
the wonderful Mother Teresa?
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Haven't you read her letters
published after her death,
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that she never
had a day of peace?
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She was filled
with fear and remorse,
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because even though she
was striving and praying
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and doing good works,
she couldn't get good enough.
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Oh, my friend, she needed
to hear the good news of God.
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That is not our
goodness but, it is His goodness
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and the sinners
declared righteous.
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That's the big
difference, the gospel.
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I don't believe
in the priesthood.
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Oh, I do believe in the priest
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and I don't believe
in the earthly priest.
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I believe there is one priest.
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That is Jesus;
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I don't believe in
any earthly priest,
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I don't believe in
confessing my sins to a sinner.
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I believe in
confessing my sins to God.
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Oh, you say, your a
little bit fanatical.
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No, no, no.
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I'm a little bit
biblical, I'm sorry.
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I believe in keeping
the commandments of God
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and the Church of Rome tells me,
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they changed the Sabbath.
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I believe that the saints
are sleeping in the grave;
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I can show you
this in the Bible.
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Jesus said, "They're
sleeping, they're sleeping."
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I didn't believe the Virgin Mary
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or Saint Peter
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or any of those holy
people are in heaven,
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I believe there are
waiting the resurrection.
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So that's the
death nail in my opinion
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to the teachings of
the Roman Catholic Church.
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I love Roman Catholic Church,
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but I am a
Protestant and a Bible believer.
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So help me God, amen.
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That's the plain truth
that I'm telling you here today.
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Do you believe in
purgatory and hell?
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I don't believe in purgatory
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as something that
the church thought up,
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you know,
purgatory is just a myth.
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There's no such
place as purgatory.
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That was a
theological necessity,
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because the Roman
Church doesn't understand
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the truth of the gospel.
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Do I believe in hell?
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Yes, I do believe in hell.
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Somebody says, "No, no, no,
there's no such thing as hell,
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no, no, no you
can't believe in hell."
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Well, the Bible
teaches there is hell.
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Jesus spoke about a place
of burning where the damned go.
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Jesus said in Matthew 13,
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"That the wicked
will be thrown into hell
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at the end of the world."
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I know how many
people are in hell now.
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Would you like to
know? I have an inside look.
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Zero. There's nobody in hell.
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You don't go to
hell when you die.
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Hell is at the end of the world,
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and the Bible teaches
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that the fire of the judgment,
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fires of Gehenna will go out,
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and the wicked will
cease their troubling,
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because the
wicked will be no more.
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I believe in the love of God.
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I do not believe
in the monstrous idea
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that God is a terrorist,
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who loves to torture people
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for million and
millions and trillions of years,
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as it's taught by
the Catholic Church
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and by many Protestant Churches.
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Now I love those people,
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but I've got good
news for them today.
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God loves you so much.
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He cares for you so much.
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Christ died for you.
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If you believe in
Him, you will not perish
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but you will everlasting life
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and salvation is
free for you today.
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I have broken
every rule in the book.
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I am guilty of
murder, theft and adultery.
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Is there any hope for me?
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Yes, there is.
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But, you better
start coming to God now
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and don't put it off.
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What happens if
you die in this--
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as my beloved
Catholic friend say,
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"In a state of sin."
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If you die in a state of sin,
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you will go to hell
at the end of the world.
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But is there hope
for you? Yes, sure.
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I am the preacher of the gospel
and the gospel means good news.
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I'm gonna come over here.
I think it is to Isaiah 55.
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Now listen to this
my despairing friend.
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"Seek the Lord
while He may be found;
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call upon Him while He is near.
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Let the wicked forsake his way
and the evil man his thoughts.
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Let them turn to the Lord,
and He will have mercy on him,
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and to our God, for
He will freely pardon."
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If there is a desire
in your heart to be saved,
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you can be saved.
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So, come to Christ
now and the Bible says,
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God will
completely, freely pardon you,
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and you will be saved.
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Will America
always be blessed by God
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and have His protection?
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I love America.
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I love the constitution.
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I love what America has done.
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America has been
for so many years,
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are a great
blessing in the world.
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As a famous pastor
standing on television said,
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"We shouldn't have
won the Second World War.
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We weren't ready.
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But God put His hand over us
and we had the blessing of God,
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because His hand was
over us to protect us."
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But listen, my friend.
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If you want to understand
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what's going to
happen to you or me,
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or to America, or to
Australia, or Great Britain,
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just go and read your Bible.
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When the people
of God obeyed God,
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when they followed God,
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when they kept His commandments,
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God blessed them.
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But when they
turned away from God,
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God allowed the
Philistines and the Babylonians
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and the Assyrians and the Romans
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to come and destroy them.
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People say, "Well, what
happen to the Jewish nation?
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It was destroyed in 70 A.D.
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because the people
turned away from God.
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I'm saying with the
heart of love for America.
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And I love America,
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but we are seeing a
turning away from God
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today in America.
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We have a press
that bombards us 24/7
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with liberal ideas
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and a blatant
attack upon the Bible,
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upon the word of God
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and upon American
traditions and values.
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And we have today, in America,
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a blatant attack
upon the Christian home,
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upon marriage,
from the politicians,
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from the leaders,
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from the
commentators on television,
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on the radio commentators,
they seemed to have,
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oh, many of them,
seem to have a burden
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to attack the word of God
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and everything that
the word of God teaches.
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You know, what
I'm talking about?
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And I believe that if America
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goes the way of
the Roman Empire,
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America will go down exactly
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as the Roman Empire went down.
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God is no respecter of persons.
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If we do the sins
of ancient Israel,
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we do the sins
of the Babylonians,
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if we do the sins
of Sodom and Gomorrah,
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we're going to go down
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like the
Babylonians, the Israelites.
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We're just going to go down.
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We sing the great
song, "God bless America.
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God shed His grace on thee."
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I want to say what we
need in America today,
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is a day of repentance.
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A year of repentance.
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We need to have a turning to God
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and coming back to the Bible
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and coming back to
the commandments of God
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and coming back to
Christian marriage.
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God will only bless America
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as America
follows the word of God.
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This is Plain
Talk and God bless you.
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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
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under Fidel that
came to this country
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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 this 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 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. So
what are we gonna 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
and "as wise as serpents
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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.
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Write to me, 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
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in Revolutionary
Square in Havana, Cuba,
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saying to you, God bless you
and thank you for your support.
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Who made God?
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God's been around forever.
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The very nature of God
means that nobody made Him.
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Now our God is not
some city little tin God
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like Richard
Dawkins likes to deride.
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Did you know this,
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before the
creation of the universe
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that scientists
call The Big Bang?
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People say, "If you
believe in the Big Bang,
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you got to
believe in evolution."
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No, no, no, no, The Big Bang
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is simply a
scientific term for the point
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when God created the
universe out of nothing,
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in a blinding flash of energy.
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Now before creation,
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before what
scientist called the Big Bang,
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there was no time.
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But God was there.
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God is not in
time, time is in God.
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And if there was no
time before the Big Bang
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then it does away
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with the
necessity of God being made.
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God is a being
who is self existent.
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Do you believe in demons?
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Do I believe in demons?
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Yeah, I'm sure I
believe in demons.
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I'm not a fanatic who
thinks that everything that's--
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bad that happens
is caused by demon.
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I don't believe that.
Now that's fanaticism.
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I'm going to try to find a
text for you and here it is.
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This is good one.
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I could show you a lot
of text, but this will do.
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Matthew 4:1
"Then Jesus was led by
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the Spirit into the desert
to be tempted by the devil."
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Hear that? There's a devil.
There's a master mind of evil.
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The Liberals didn't
in evil before 9/11.
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But even the
liberals after 9/11 said,
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"Well, there's got to be
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something that's
evil in the world
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and the universe."
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There is.
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The Bible talks,
Jesus talks about
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a personal devil or Satan.
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And when you read
in the New Testament
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and other parts of the Bible,
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you read of the
activity of evil spirits.
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The Bible says,
"These are fallen angels."
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They got nothing to
do with dead people.
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Good angels are not dead
people who've died and gone,
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you know, people
who've gone to heaven.
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Now that's not true.
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The Bible talks about Satan,
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who was the leader
of the hosts of darkness
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and therefore,
you have, probably,
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billions and
billions of evil spirits.
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And they try to
cause trouble in the world,
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they're, they're the
ones who deceive people,
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they're the people
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who are behind
pornography and pedophilia,
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and whores and all
the evil in the world.
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But the good news is
this, that Jesus Christ is Lord
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over the devil and
Lord over the demons
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and that is why you need to have
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Jesus Christ on your side
and in your heart, my friend.
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Did Jesus really exist?
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Well, ask Richard Dawkins,
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the world's most famous atheist.
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He made the
foolish statement once,
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I think with the
great mathematician
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John Lennox from
Oxford University
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that there was no evidence
for the existence of Jesus.
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But I heard him
say more recently,
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and this was good.
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He said, "I was wrong."
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My friend, it
takes a bit gumption,
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a bit of decency
to say, "I was wrong."
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Some people would
rather die than say
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they are wrong.
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Richard Dawkins
says, "I was wrong."
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There is
historical evidence for Jesus.
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Jesus was a Jewish man
born of a peasant girl,
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the Blessed Virgin
Mary about 2000 years ago,
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who lived on this
earth, who died on the cross
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and who was
raised from the dead.
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Now you say, oh, no that's all--
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that says-- the
Irish say that's hooey.
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It's nonsense. No,
it's historical fact.
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I ask you the question,
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what happened to
the body of Jesus?
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If it wasn't raised,
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what happened to
the body of Jesus?
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Why didn't the Romans produce it
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or the Jews produce it?
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And say, "No, this all a hoax."
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They couldn't
produce the body of Jesus,
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because the body
wasn't in the tomb,
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the body was no where,
the body wasn't stolen away,
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the body was raised
and went home to glory.
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Yes, history tells
me there was a Jesus
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and the good news is He's alive.
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How do you know the
Bible is God's word?
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I heard a young
man get up and say,
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"I believe in the Bible
just because I got faith."
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I don't believe that,
I think that's foolish,
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pardon my saying.
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This is plain talk, you
know, and pardon my saying,
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but I think it's foolish to say,
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"I just believe
because I've got faith."
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That's what Muslims say,
they believe in their teachings
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because they've got faith.
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The Buddha say,
"I believe in Buddha
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because I've got faith."
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Faith is just belief.
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I believe in the Bible
because of the evidence.
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I've studied
biblical archaeology
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for about 50 years.
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The Bible is
historically accurate.
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Now there is a
great British scholar,
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Kenneth Kitchen.
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You ought to get his book,
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"On the Reliability
of the Old Testament."
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It is the most scholarly book
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on the reliability of the Bible.
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He slays the
dragons of unbelief.
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There is overwhelming
evidence that the Bible
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is historically true.
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Not long ago, I was in Israel,
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I went into great Israeli museum
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and there they had
found a tablet or a--
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an artifact that had the
name of King David on it.
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And the skeptics were
saying David was a myth.
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No, he was not a myth.
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The characters of the Bible
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are as real as
you are or as I am.
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I believe the Bible
because of prophesy.
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This book is not like
the Quran or some other book.
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This book is full of prophesy.
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I have seen 10s of,
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100s of 1000s of
atheists in Russia
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come to God after
I presented the truth
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about the prophesies.
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You say 100s of 1000s?
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Well, we had
millions come to our meetings.
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I've seen 100s of
1000s of atheists come
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because of the prophesies.
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And the Bible is shown true
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because of the person of Christ.
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Nobody could have invented Him.
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The person of Christ
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is the greatest
evidence for the Bible.
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And there's another
great piece of evidence,
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wherever the Bible
goes, it enlightens.
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It uplifts, it saves,
it makes people healthier,
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it gives them freedom.
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Look at the
countries in the world
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that reject the Bible.
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They are the most
wretched countries
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where the women are oppressed,
where the people are poor.
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What made America
the greatest nation?
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And what made Britain great?
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What made America
great? I will tell you.
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The Bible, because
it's the word of God.
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Is there life after death?
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Absolutely.
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Why do I believe
in life after death?
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Because of the
fact and I like facts.
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I don't like just
talking religious talk.
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I want the truth.
God give me the truth.
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I want the truth and Jesus said
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this word is the truth.
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Now I'm gonna come over here
and read a bit of God's truth,
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coming over here to
the 1 Thessalonians 4:16,
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written by one of
the greatest theologians,
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scholars, one of
the greatest minds
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that the world has
ever seen, that's Paul.
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1 Thessalonians 4:16.
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"For the Lord Himself
will come down from heaven,
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with a loud command, with
the voice of the archangel
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with the trumpet call of God,
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and the dead in
Christ will rise first."
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The Bible says,
Christ is going to come back.
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The Bible says,
the dead are sleeping.
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This means that,
Mary is sleeping,
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Saint Peter is sleeping,
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all the saints
of God are sleeping.
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You don't go to
heaven when you die.
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Oh, where did
you get that heresy?
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Well, I got that
truth out of the Bible.
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I don't go by just
the teaching of my church.
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I go by the
teachings of the Bible
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and the Bible says,
Christ is going to come back,
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He's going to raise the dead
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and God's people are
going to go home to glory.
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One day I'm
going to live forever
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and you can too,
if you come to Christ.
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Do you believe in hope?
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You better believe it.
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When I look
around this world today,
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crime and the
violence and the raging racism
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and I see ISIS
and these awful groups
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that are murdering
and killing and raping
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and doing all of
these abominable crimes,
00:26:07.70\00:26:11.07
one could be
overcome with despair,
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one can say, you
know, what's the--
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what's the use?
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Everything is getting worse.
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Every day I get out of
bed in the morning I say,
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"Thank God, I
have the blessed hope."
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And God's hope is
not wishful thinking.
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Someone says, "Oh,
when you talk about hope,
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you just hope
it's gonna happen."
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No, my hope is based
upon God and upon Christ
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and upon the
resurrection of Christ
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that He rose from the dead,
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and that He's
going to come back.
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When He comes back, you
know, what he's gonna do?
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He's gonna take His
people home to glory.
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Very dear friend of mine
passed away just recently,
00:26:53.41\00:26:57.41
my beloved brother Warren Judd.
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Went over to Loma
Linda on Monday night
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for his memorial,
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had a little
part in his service.
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Everybody there was sad,
but everybody there was happy.
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Happiness and
sadness co-existing.
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Everybody was happy
because everybody had hope.
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I told the people,
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we're not saying
good bye to Warren.
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We're simply saying,
"Good night, old friend.
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We're gonna see
you in the morning."
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We're gonna see him
again. We've got hope.
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My friend, we want to
share this hope with you.
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Write to me please,
00:27:36.02\00:27:37.35
John Carter
Post Office Box 1900,
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Thousands Oaks,
California 91358.
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In Australia,
write to the address
00:27:42.62\00:27:44.49
on the screen at
Terrigal, New South Wales.
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We have this hope.
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Support us,
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of evangelism.
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God loves you, we love you too.
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Jesus is coming again,
Jesus came the first time,
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He died for you on the cross
and He's going to come again.
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and until next time,
this John Carter saying,
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I love you and God bless
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