The Carter Report presents
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"Plain Talk" with John Carter.
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Hello, friend.
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I'm John Carter.
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Welcome today to
the Carter Report.
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And today, the
program is entitled
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"Plain Talk."
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Don't you want plain talk?
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People say to me,
"I'm tired of politics,
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I'm tired of people
just telling me stuff
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that they don't even believe.
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"I want plain talk."
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Today, we will be
answering all the questions.
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Your question
maybe answered today.
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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
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is the fastest
growing religious movement
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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
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as a vibrant force
in the world today,
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in Australia, in
America and in Europe
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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 in England
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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
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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
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1900, 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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You and your team
have worked in El Salvador.
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How dangerous is it
to visit El Salvador?
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El Salvador, the
land of the savior.
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Do I like El Salvador,
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I love El Salvador.
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But you better be pretty careful
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before you go to El Salvador.
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We went there
just a few months ago
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and there was a
lull in the fighting.
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But the fighting is comeback.
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And they're killing people.
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It's just terrible.
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About 30 people, 28 or 30 people
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are being killed
everyday now in El Salvador.
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When we went to El
Salvador few months ago,
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we hired the great
National Football Stadium,
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glory be to God.
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My friend, you ought
to come with us sometime,
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get involved in something
which is bigger than you are.
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That's why we do this.
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Because we're doing this,
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we want to be involved
in something bigger than us.
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We want to be
involved in God's work.
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I couldn't be bother
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just playing that all
fashion game of church.
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Do I go to church,
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yeah, I'm preaching this
coming weekend in church.
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But I want to do more
than just go along to church,
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I want to be obedient
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to the words of
Jesus when He said,
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"Go into all the
world" and preach the gospel.
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We've got a mandate from heaven.
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What's wrong with us?
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We better get on with it.
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So we hired the
National Football Stadium.
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We had a crowd of people there,
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52,000 people.
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We hired 750 buses.
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They came from
right across El Salvador.
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We saw 5000 people baptized
into the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Remember,
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the will of God
will never take you
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where the grace of
God cannot keep you.
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If God calls you to El Salvador,
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you can go
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and you don't need to be afraid.
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But don't go just as a tourist
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because that could
be pretty dangerous
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but only go where
God opens the doors.
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As a father and a grandfather,
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have you any
advise for young parents?
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I guess, the
first thing I'd say is
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Beverly and I think to ourselves
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and we say,
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we're glad we had
our children when we did
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because it
seems so harder today.
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When our children were
just, you know, little kids,
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they didn't turn on television
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and see all these
terrible immorality.
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They didn't see politicians
condoning homosexual activity.
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They didn't see
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all that dreadful
violence, goodness.
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Turn on television today
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and it's sex,
viciousness, murder,
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killing, lying,
cheating and stealing.
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And so I want to say
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to parents who are
watching this program today.
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I know you love your children.
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But take some advice
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from a father and a grandfather,
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who loves his family.
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You better pray a lot
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and teach your children to pray.
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Don't say that dump statement
that I hear some parents say.
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They say, "Well, we
just leave it to our kids.
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We're not going to
teach them anything
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and when they grow up,
they can make their choice."
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They will,
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they'll make the wrong choice.
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Why are you doing that?
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They say, "No, no,
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we're just gonna
leave it to them.
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When they grow up they
can do what they like."
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That's a terrible thing to do,
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that's an
irresponsible thing to do.
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Teach your children,
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"Jesus loves me, this I know,
for the Bible tells me so."
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Teach your little children
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that this is God's word
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and that the
happiest people in the world
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are the people
who follow God's word,
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the happiest, the healthiest,
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the people who live the longest.
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Did you know that the
people who live the longest?
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Take your children to church.
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Sunday School, Sabbath School,
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remember the Catholics
are right when they say,
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"Family that prays
together, stays together."
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Don't let your little
children just run wild.
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Don't let them be sucked in
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by the false
philosophy of this world.
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You got to stand up
and fight for your kids.
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You run a
self-supporting ministry
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that obviously God has blessed.
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How do you handle your finances?
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How do I handle
all the finances,
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well, I don't
handle them at all.
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So when people
along to me and they say,
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"Pastor Carter, I want
you to take this money."
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I say, "Look, I don't want
you to give it to me at all.
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I want you to send it to us
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and our treasurer
will take care of it.
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Or else I can tell you
how you're gonna handle it,
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you know, you can mail it to us,
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you can give online
and all of those things."
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We have an in-house
full time accountant.
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And she makes sure
that we are squeaky clean
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and when we have had audits,
we have been squeaky clean.
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And then we have an
accountant out of house.
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And that accountant,
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every month goes
through our books,
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checks things out,
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make sure that we're acting
according to the law of God
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and the law of the land
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that we are in
harmony with the IRS
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in the United States of America.
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But look me in the eye, friend,
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listen to this,
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when you send money
to the Carter Report,
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it is not wasted.
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We don't have a
bloated bureaucracy.
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We're a lean,
mean fighting machine.
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We don't have a lot
of people on our team
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but we have the best.
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And we take your money,
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and we use it for
the saving of souls.
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The most
important thing you can do
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is to put your
money into the work of God
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where it is used
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for the saving of
the lost for Christ.
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Do you believe in the Trinity?
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Yes, I certainly do
believe in the Trinity.
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I've discovered when
I've gone back to Australia
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and fortunately,
it's no widespread
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but as I travel
around the world,
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I find people who tell me that
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they don't
believe in the Trinity
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because it's a pagan concept.
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Well, I don't
believe in the pagan trinity,
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no, I don't.
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But I believe in
the biblical Trinity.
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The Trinity can be
shown from the scriptures.
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It is as plain as
the nose on your face.
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Brother, sister, Jesus said,
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"Go into all the world
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and make
disciples of all nations"
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Matthew 28, you
know the passage.
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Baptizing them in the
name, didn't say names,
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the name, N-A-M-E, singular,
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the name of the Father,
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the Son and the Holy Spirit,
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one name.
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Jesus linked three people
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together in a holy unity
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which
theologians call the Trinity.
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Now people who don't
believe in the Trinity,
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if, if they have the idea
that the Trinity is not taught,
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they have Jesus
talking about a unity
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between the Creator,
plus a Creature, the Son,
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plus the Holy
Spirit who is a thing.
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That idea is false.
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The Bible teaches
there is a Father,
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there is a Son,
there is a Holy Spirit.
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If I had time today, I
think I could convince you,
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even a person
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who doesn't
believe in the Trinity,
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that Jesus is the son of God
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and that Jesus takes
the same title as God.
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Did you know,
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in Hebrews Chapter 1,
Jesus is called God and Lord?
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And when it says,
Lord in Hebrews Chapter 1,
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it is quoting Psalm,
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Psalm 102,
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where talks about
Yahweh, big L-O-R-D
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or as it is in the KJV, Jehovah.
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Jesus Christ in the Bible
is called Yahweh, Jehovah.
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He is called God.
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He is called the
self existent one.
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He is the first and the last,
the way, the truth and life.
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Well, I believe in the Trinity.
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I don't believe
in the pagan Trinity
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but I believe in
the Trinity of my Bible.
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Yes, Sir.
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How do you feel
about those groups
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that insult the
Prophet Mohammed,
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in the name of
freedom of speech.
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Are you a "Charlie" too?
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No, I'm not a
Charlie, I'm a John.
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No.
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You all know about
this Charlie business.
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There was that,
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case of terrorism,
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where some terrorist came in
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and they
murdered a lot of people
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because they were
deriding the prophet.
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Killing is
evil, killing is evil.
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Let me tell you,
folks, something else.
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Jesus said,
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"You shall love your
neighbor as yourself."
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No, I'm not Charlie.
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I hope I follow Christ.
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There are some
people that seems to me
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who are really
good at hate speech.
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They attack people,
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they attack Christians,
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they attack Jesus,
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they attack the Jews,
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they attack the Muslims.
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They make cartoons of Christ,
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they make cartoons of Mohammed,
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why do they do this
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in the name of
freedom of speech?
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Do they have the
right to do this?
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Yes, they do.
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But listen,
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just because you have the right,
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doesn't make it right.
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As a Christian,
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I'm bound by the
teachings of Christ.
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Jesus said, "Love your enemies."
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Amazing.
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"Love those who prosecute you."
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Wonderful.
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He said,
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"Love your
neighbor as yourself.''
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How can I deride
the Prophet Mohammed?
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How can I do this,
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how can I make cartoons
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and love the followers?
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No, my friend.
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I believe that as a Christian,
I'm called to a higher law.
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I don't believe
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that I am called to
political correctness.
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I don't believe that I'm called,
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thank God, to be the politician.
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I believe that I'm
called by the grace of God
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to tell the truth
and to love my neighbor.
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And that, my friend,
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as far as I'm concerned,
guides me and motives me.
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And that's why I'm telling you,
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this is 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
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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
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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 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
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and "as wise as serpents
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and as harmless as doves."
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Stand with us,
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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
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as God opens the doors.
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This is John Carter
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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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Many believe that
Jesus will return.
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What will happen
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when He's
returned to this planet?
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Well, of course today,
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you have a great theory
which is called the rapture.
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That people are going to
be raptured home to glory
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and it's going to be
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sort of a secret thing.
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One person is gonna be here
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and the other
person is going to go.
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I know that most
churches in North America
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believe in the rapture theory.
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I don't believe it.
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Sorry to tell you that,
I don't want offend you,
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I don't believe it
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because I don't
believe it is true.
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I believe in the
words of Scripture
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and I don't believe this
idea of the rapture is true
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though I know that there are
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heaps of wonderful people
who believe in the rapture.
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But what I'm saying is this,
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can't we agree to disagree
without being disagreeable?
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Do I have to tell you everything
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that you already believe
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or can I say to you,
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hey, brother, can
we have a look at this?
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Can't we
disagree on these things?
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Don't you have the
right to your viewpoint,
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don't I have the
right to my viewpoint.
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But I want to go beyond that.
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I want to show
you what I believe
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the Bible teaches on this.
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2 Thessalonians
Chapter 1 and verse,
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2 Thessalonians 1,
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I'm gonna start at verse 5.
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"All this is evidence
that God's judgment is right,
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and as a result
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you will be counted
worthy of the kingdom of God,
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for which you are suffering.
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God is just:
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He will pay back
trouble to those who trouble you
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and give relief to
you who are troubled,
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and to us as well."
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There is a judgment day.
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"This will happen
when the Lord Jesus
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is revealed from heaven
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in blazing fire with
His powerful angels."
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My friend,
that's not secret thing.
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"He will punish
those who do not know God
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and do not obey the
gospel of our Lord Jesus.
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They will be punished
with everlasting destruction
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and shut out from
the presence of the Lord
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and from the
majesty of His power
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on the day He comes
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to be glorified
in His Holy people
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and to be marveled
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at among all
those who have believed.
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This includes you,
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because you believed
our testimony to you."
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Listen to me,
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when Jesus comes back,
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there are going to be
two classes of people,
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two and only two,
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the righteous and the wicked,
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the believing
and the unbelieving.
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The Bible says,
when He comes back,
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He is going to punish
and destroy the wicked.
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And He's going to
redeem His people.
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He's going to save His people.
00:19:39.34\00:19:41.74
So this is going to
happen simultaneously.
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The wicked are
going to be punished,
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they're going to be destroyed.
00:19:47.48\00:19:48.92
And the righteous
are going to be delivered
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and they're going to be saved.
00:19:51.42\00:19:54.26
So I believe that
when Jesus comes back,
00:19:54.29\00:19:57.96
He's going to
comeback to punish the wicked
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and He's going to comeback
00:20:00.93\00:20:02.96
to save His people.
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I want to say to you
00:20:05.23\00:20:07.64
and please
listen, please listen.
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I want to say to you,
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don't wait until that
day to get right with God.
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I know, people say,
00:20:16.31\00:20:17.65
"Well, I'm going
to wait just till
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I'm just about to ready to die
and then I'm going to repent."
00:20:20.15\00:20:22.75
Remember my friend,
00:20:22.78\00:20:25.35
the man who plans to repent
00:20:25.39\00:20:30.43
at the 11th hour,
00:20:30.46\00:20:32.83
usually dies at 10:45.
00:20:32.86\00:20:35.43
So don't put it off
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and the other person says,
00:20:37.57\00:20:38.90
"Well, I'm gonna
wait until Jesus' coming,
00:20:38.93\00:20:40.84
then I will repent."
00:20:40.87\00:20:42.70
It's too late, my friend.
00:20:42.74\00:20:44.44
The time to repent and
to come to Christ is now.
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Why don't you use
the original Bible,
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the King James Version?
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I'm always glad,
especially when I'm here
00:20:56.32\00:20:58.62
in this wonderful
country of America where I live,
00:20:58.65\00:21:01.49
when people come up to me
and express their admiration
00:21:01.52\00:21:05.06
for the wonderful
King James Version.
00:21:05.09\00:21:07.66
Because that is the
Bible of my old mother church,
00:21:07.70\00:21:11.57
the Church of England.
00:21:11.60\00:21:14.04
It's certainly not
an American translation.
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It is the famous
translation of 1611.
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And it was sponsored by
00:21:23.35\00:21:26.15
the king of England, King James.
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But it's not the original Bible.
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There were English translations
before the King James Version.
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That was the Geneva
Bible, the Bishops' Bible
00:21:38.66\00:21:43.43
and they were
wonderful translations.
00:21:43.47\00:21:45.67
And there is no translation
00:21:45.70\00:21:47.60
that I love more
than the venerable KJV.
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I still, I know, so
much of it by heart.
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"Who hath
believed of our report?
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And to whom is the
arm of the Lord revealed?
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For he shall grow up
before him as a tender plant,
00:22:00.92\00:22:03.79
and as a root out of dry ground,
00:22:03.82\00:22:05.59
he hath no form nor comeliness."
00:22:05.62\00:22:07.79
Isaiah 53.
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So I've memorized a lot of it.
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But listen,
00:22:12.56\00:22:13.96
it's not the original Bible.
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Language changes
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and we don't speak
Elizabethan English.
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We don't say, thees and thous.
00:22:23.81\00:22:27.64
So when you meet
your wife in the morning
00:22:27.68\00:22:29.41
you don't say,
00:22:29.44\00:22:31.48
you don't call her thee
00:22:31.51\00:22:33.38
or any of that stuff
00:22:33.42\00:22:35.65
as the puritans did.
00:22:35.68\00:22:38.02
And therefore,
00:22:38.05\00:22:39.39
the Bible needs to be refreshed.
00:22:39.42\00:22:41.52
And I did this with
the New King James Version.
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I have been using
00:22:44.86\00:22:46.19
since my days in
the Sydney Opera House.
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I've been using the
New International Version.
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It is an excellent translation.
00:22:52.30\00:22:55.04
I recommend it to you.
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I also use other translations
00:22:56.44\00:23:00.38
like the New
American Standard Bible.
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It's an excellent translation.
00:23:04.41\00:23:06.55
But look, I've
got a few Bibles here.
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It's not so much
the Bible that you use,
00:23:09.85\00:23:13.59
as how much you use it
00:23:13.62\00:23:15.96
and whether you obey it or not.
00:23:15.99\00:23:18.73
If you read the Bible
in whatever translation,
00:23:18.76\00:23:22.26
it will lead you to Christ
00:23:22.30\00:23:24.53
if you have a sincere heart.
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What do you think of the
Bible that many of us use,
00:23:27.84\00:23:30.61
called the Clear Word?
00:23:30.64\00:23:33.11
Well, I know, a bit
about the Clear Word.
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It is not a
translation in the Bible.
00:23:36.85\00:23:39.95
It is written by an
outstanding biblical scholar
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and a wonderful Christian man
00:23:45.19\00:23:46.79
with a depth of vision
and a passion for people.
00:23:46.82\00:23:52.19
But many of the people
who read the Clear Word
00:23:52.23\00:23:54.70
don't read the introduction.
00:23:54.73\00:23:57.77
And I do not use
it as it was composed.
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The author tells you
as plain as anything,
00:24:03.37\00:24:06.64
"It is a paraphrase."
00:24:06.68\00:24:10.51
And so it should not
be used as a study Bible.
00:24:10.55\00:24:13.98
Well, people say, "I
like it and it's easy
00:24:14.02\00:24:16.65
and I, I don't have to think
00:24:16.69\00:24:18.35
because
everything's been put in here."
00:24:18.39\00:24:20.36
Shame upon you.
00:24:20.39\00:24:23.76
You should get
a good translation
00:24:23.79\00:24:25.39
and if you want to
use the Clear Word,
00:24:25.43\00:24:28.86
use it as the author
directed, as a paraphrase.
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It is not the word of God.
00:24:33.47\00:24:37.17
Should woman be
allowed to pastor and preach?
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Should woman be allowed
to pastor and to preach,
00:24:41.44\00:24:43.75
well, that's a
sort of hard potato
00:24:43.78\00:24:45.81
but we're gonna give
some plain talk about that.
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Give some plain answers.
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When I was in Russia not
very long ago-- in China,
00:24:51.62\00:24:55.52
I was amazed to meet
with most of the pastors
00:24:55.56\00:24:59.69
from England, China.
00:24:59.73\00:25:02.66
And I discovered that the people
00:25:02.70\00:25:04.90
who hold the
church together in China
00:25:04.93\00:25:08.50
are lady preachers.
00:25:08.54\00:25:11.57
And I think the way we
practice ordination today
00:25:11.61\00:25:14.44
may not be totally scriptural.
00:25:14.48\00:25:20.18
The Bible talks
about appointing people
00:25:20.22\00:25:23.89
and the Bible says,
00:25:23.92\00:25:25.82
"He appointed 12 to be with Him
00:25:25.85\00:25:28.66
that He might send
them forth to preach."
00:25:28.69\00:25:31.69
A minister of God is
appointed to be with Jesus
00:25:31.73\00:25:35.96
and to go forth
and preach the gospel.
00:25:36.00\00:25:38.57
And if he's not doing that,
00:25:38.60\00:25:40.17
he should not be
appointed or ordained.
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Read the book by H.M.S. Richards
00:25:45.77\00:25:48.48
"Feed My Sheep."
00:25:48.51\00:25:49.84
He says the same.
00:25:49.88\00:25:52.58
Now culture changes,
00:25:52.61\00:25:56.69
the word of God doesn't
change but culture changes.
00:25:56.72\00:25:59.05
Back in the days of the Bible,
00:25:59.09\00:26:01.92
women weren't even allowed
to speak outside the home.
00:26:01.96\00:26:05.59
That's not so today.
00:26:05.63\00:26:07.56
Women had a servient position.
00:26:07.60\00:26:09.86
But the gospel
has released them.
00:26:09.90\00:26:12.93
If a woman is called by God
to preach and to save souls,
00:26:12.97\00:26:19.27
you better get out of
the way and let her do it.
00:26:19.31\00:26:22.44
But let no man and no woman
00:26:22.48\00:26:25.51
seek out for
ordination simply for prestige.
00:26:25.55\00:26:29.72
Some people do that today.
00:26:29.75\00:26:32.49
They want to be
ordained or appointed
00:26:32.52\00:26:35.36
so they can be called pastor
or elder or something else
00:26:35.39\00:26:38.43
so that they have a
little bit of prestige.
00:26:38.46\00:26:40.53
My friend, the job
doesn't come with prestige,
00:26:40.56\00:26:43.40
it comes with a great burden.
00:26:43.43\00:26:48.74
It comes with a great command,
00:26:48.77\00:26:50.27
it comes with a
great responsibility,
00:26:50.31\00:26:52.37
that's the word
00:26:52.41\00:26:53.74
and that is to
preach the word of God.
00:26:53.78\00:26:56.34
Whether you're man or woman,
00:26:56.38\00:26:58.38
you can do that if
God has called you.
00:26:58.41\00:27:00.78
And God would call more
00:27:00.82\00:27:02.15
but most of us don't
want to hear His voice.
00:27:02.18\00:27:04.99
And so I believe in women
00:27:05.02\00:27:06.86
fulfilling their
rightful position
00:27:06.89\00:27:09.29
in the church of God.
00:27:09.32\00:27:11.59
But I've got a
message for you now.
00:27:11.63\00:27:14.70
Before this program
Plain Talk comes to an end,
00:27:14.73\00:27:18.10
I'm asking you
to believe in Jesus,
00:27:18.13\00:27:20.57
I'm asking you to come to Jesus.
00:27:20.60\00:27:22.10
I don't care where you
are, I don't care who you are.
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Jesus died for you,
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Jesus said, "For
God so loved the world
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that He gave His only Son,
so that whoever believes in Him
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shall not perish,
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but have everlasting life."
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Believe today.
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And please write
to me, would you?
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John Carter,
Post Office Box 1900,
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Thousand Oaks, California 91358.
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write to me at Terrigal.
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Send an offering for evangelism.
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Help us together
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to light a
candle in the darkness.
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Until next time, God
bless you, my friend.
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