Today, we're talking
about "The Fate of the Heathen."
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Now, what do we
mean by the term heathen?
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Well, this is a very broad term.
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It means people
who worship strange
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fire and God's, they're heathen.
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There are billions
of those in the world.
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But then there
is a sophisticated
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form of heathenism
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that we might
dare call paganism.
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Now, paganism,
that is beautiful temple
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and beautiful
costumes and beautiful robes
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and all of those things.
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And so, we're talking
about vast numbers of people
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who don't follow Christ.
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But in the last session,
we saw the text that said,
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"Jesus is the way,
the truth, and the life.
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And no one can
come to God, the Father
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unless they come through Jesus."
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And that it was Jesus
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who made an atoning
sacrifice for our sins.
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Therefore I am suggesting to you
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on the authority
of the word of God
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that the only way
people can be saved
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is by coming to Christ.
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I want you to think about that,
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because that's a
bit of a bombshell.
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All people are born
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with the knowledge
of right and wrong.
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Everybody who was born
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is born with the
knowledge of the law of God.
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But nobody is born
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with the
knowledge of the gospel.
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Nobody.
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When it says their
thoughts sometimes accuse
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and sometimes defend them
in the text we read before.
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It's not saying
that they're saved
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by living up to
the light they have.
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Because the whole
theme of the Book of Romans
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in the Bible is this,
that people need Christ,
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the way, the
truth, and the life.
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Now...
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I guess I've
spoken, I say this humbly,
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probably there are more atheists
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than just about
any person around.
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I've spoken to millions of them.
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And I know from my
own personal experience
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and from the
preaching of the Bible
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that these people need Christ,
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because without Christ,
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they are in a great darkness.
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I'm not a philosopher.
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I'm talking here Bible truths.
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I have seen in a
meeting say 10,000 people,
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atheists, unbelievers,
communists, Marxists.
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At the start of the
meeting with their heads down,
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they won't look at me.
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And as I preached
the gospel of Christ,
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their heads
come up a little bit.
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Come up a little bit.
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And when I asked the men
will they come to Christ?
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I'm talking about Russia.
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I've seen them come
down to front in such a hurry
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that I was in
danger of being killed.
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Why?
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Because they
know better than we do
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that a heart
without Christ is lost.
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So don't tell me there's
a lot of light out there.
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Christ is the light of
the world, only Christ.
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Now, he said something,
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which was quite controversial
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and politically
incorrect in John 3:1 down to 7.
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I want you to think
about the theological
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and the practical
implications of this text.
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John Chapter 3, "There was a man
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of the Pharisees name Nicodemus,
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a ruler of the Jews.
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The same came to Jesus
by night and said to him,
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''Rabbi, we know that You
are a teacher come from God,
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for no one can do
these signs that you do
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unless God is with him."
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Jesus answered
and said to him..."
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Now, he's
talking to a theologian.
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"Most assuredly I say to
you, unless one is born again,
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he cannot see the
kingdom of heaven."
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That means you Nicodemus.
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Unless you're born again,
you're not going to heaven.
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Nicodemus said to him,
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"How can a man be
born when he is old?
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Can he enter a second time into
his mother's womb and be born?"
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He didn't get it, did he?
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"Jesus answered, "Most
assuredly, I say to you,
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unless one is born of
water and of the Spirit,
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he cannot enter
the kingdom of God.
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That which is born
of the flesh is flesh,
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that which is born
of the Spirit is spirit.
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Do not marvel
that I said to you,
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'You must be born again."
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'What's he talking about?
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What Jesus is talking about?
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Now it is
believed why some people,
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who are more
philosophically inclined
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than biblically literate.
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That when we're born,
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and we come into the
world as little babies,
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we come saved,
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and sinless,
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and perfect.
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This view is held by
fathers, not by mothers,
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who look after them.
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But I want you
folks to come over here
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to Genesis Chapter 5.
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Dear hearts and gentle people,
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and you are such a
wonderful audience.
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Genesis 5:1-3
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and you folks
come from Thousand Oaks
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where I live,
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which is such a beautiful
place in Southern California.
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Genesis Chapter 5.
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You, folks, got more
enthusiastic about that
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than anything else today.
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This is the book of
the genealogy of Adam.
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In the day that God created man.
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He made him in
the likeness of..."
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who?
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We were made in the
likeness of who, tell me?
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God. "Made in
the likeness of God.
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He created them male and female,
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and blessed them and called them
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Mankind in the
day they were created.
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And Adam lived one
hundred and thirty years,
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and begot a son
in his own likeness,
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after his image,
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named him Seth."
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Now, Spurgeon said,
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"Because of the sin of Adam,
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we have his black
blood in our veins."
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By that he meant,
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we are born with propensities
and tendencies to sin.
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If you ever seen a little
baby this long lose its temper.
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Where did he get
that temper from, mothers?
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Yeah.
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This is the answer that always
comes from the fathers, yeah.
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But we are born-- David said,
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"I was born in sin
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and in sin did my
mother conceive me."
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God cannot take us to heaven
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while we have these
old natures that love sin.
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Therefore, we've
got to be born again.
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And only Christ
can give us life.
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Now, come over
here to John 1:1 please,
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the Gospel of John.
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This is perhaps
the greatest book
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that was ever written
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in the history
of the human race.
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John 1:1 dear hearts.
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"In the beginning was the Word,
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and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God."
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This is talking about
Jesus, verses 9 and onwards.
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"That was the true Light
which gives light to every man
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who comes into the world.
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He was in the world,
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and the world
was made through Him,
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and the world did not know Him.
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He came to His own, His
own did not receive Him.
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But as many as received Him,
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to them He gave the right
to become children of God.
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Even to those who believe
in His name: who were born,
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not a blood, nor of
the will of the flesh,
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nor of the will
of man, but of God."
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So what happens?
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Now, I want everybody
watching this program,
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you think you got problems.
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You think, you know, things
are so impossible for you.
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You've got children who've
gone almost like delinquents,
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they're on drugs.
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You don't know what to do.
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I want to tell you,
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Jesus Christ is a mighty savior.
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Amen.
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I want you to know this.
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I want you to know
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that when a
person comes to Christ,
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he comes in true faith, a
miracle happens in his life.
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God changes that person.
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Becomes a brand new person.
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We've got far too
much religion in the world.
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Far too much
religion in the world
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but not enough of Christ.
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Saul the Pharisee
becomes Paul the Apostle.
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Peter the stone
becomes Peter of the rock man.
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Hallelujah, I
knew that was coming.
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John and James
are sons of thunder
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become John and
James the sons of patience.
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I'm still working on that one.
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Ildar the mafia
man becomes Ildar,
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the commandment
keeping Christian.
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Who is Ildar?
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Well, whenever I
go back to Russia,
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Ildar is there to greet me.
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He used to be the
head of the Russian mafia.
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He still scares people.
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He does.
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Where if I go anywhere in Russia
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and I take Ildar, I get respect.
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He's told me how he
filled a man's belly with lead.
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Five bullets and said,
"Next time I'll kill you."
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He said, "Next
time I won't shoot you
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where I've just
shot you, I'll kill you."
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I saw him just very recently.
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He's now a
preacher of the gospel.
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Amen. Amen.
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His life is changed.
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When he heard, you
know, how he came to Christ.
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He got our DVDs, amazing.
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We had them
translated into Russian.
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We didn't give him,
somebody gave him some DVDs.
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After he saw the first
one, he was born again.
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Amen. Amen
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I'm telling you,
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you say these
things don't happen.
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These things do happen.
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Amen.
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And then, he went out
and saw his lieutenants
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hit 400 armed
soldiers with machine guns.
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He sold his beautiful house
that was built out of drugs.
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And he built a magnificent
church for the glory of God.
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Amen. Amen.
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He is a peaceful
man, appeasable man.
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He's a loving man.
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It is the power of
God, I'm telling you.
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Amen.
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And Jesus is the way,
the truth, and the life.
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He is the only
way, He is not a way.
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Don't believe this
nonsense that Jesus is a way.
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Don't believe this nonsense
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that is taught
even in many pulpits,
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that every road
goes home to glory.
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It's not true.
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Jesus is the way,
the truth, and the life.
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And He's the only way.
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I'm going to read
your statement here by
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an American thought leader.
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I think she certainly
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had the inspiration
of God when she wrote.
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Listen to this.
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"I saw that the slave
master will have to answer
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for the soul of the slave
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whom he has kept in ignorance,
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and the sin of the slave
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will be visited upon the master.
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God cannot take
to heaven the slave
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who has been kept in
ignorance and degradation,
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knowing nothing
of God or the Bible,
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fearing nothing
but his master's lash,
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and holding a lower
position than the brutes.
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But He does the
best thing for him
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that a compassionate God can do.
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He permits him to be
as if he had not been,
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while the master must
endure the seven last plagues,
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then come up in
the second resurrection
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and suffer the
second, most awful death.
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Then the justice of
God will be satisfied."
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Now, those people watching,
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you can get this
little book that I wrote,
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it's a booklet, "The
Fate of the Heathen."
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Write to me John Carter.
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And the address is on the screen
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for the United States
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and Australia and
other places, ask for it.
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The Fate of the Heathen,
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it will put a
fire in your belly.
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Amen. Amen.
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Now, I got a feeling
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a lot of people don't understand
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this great truth
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and that is why
they don't do evangelism.
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They talk about people
being saved in darkness.
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I don't think they're going
to be saved in their darkness.
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Ellen White
describes a group of people
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who must have
been tens of thousands,
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hundreds of thousands
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that were kept in
ignorance and darkness.
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You will say,
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"Those who believe
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that were saved by living
up to the light they have."
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Well, God is going to
take all of them to heaven.
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She says, they
never had an opportunity.
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They're not even
going to be resurrected.
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Who is to blame?
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The slave master
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is gonna go to hell.
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But his going to hell
doesn't help the Negro slave.
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That God is in the
business of transforming lives.
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God cannot take
into heaven of race,
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of unredeemed sinners.
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Now, every talk
should have a therefore.
00:14:31.67\00:14:35.97
If you aim at
nothing, you're gonna hit it.
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"Therefore
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God has given to the church
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the work of taking the
gospel of salvation to the lost.
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That is why the church exists."
00:14:46.28\00:14:49.08
To many churches have
become cozy little clubs.
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An offense in the
nostrils of Almighty God.
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Would you come over here
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to Matthew 28:16 and onwards?
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These are the words
of our blessed Lord.
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Matthew 28:16, and onwards,
dear hearts and gentle people.
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"Then the eleven disciples
went away into Galilee,
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to the mountain which
Jesus had appointed for them.
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When they saw Him,
they worshiped Him,
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and some doubted.
00:15:27.59\00:15:29.59
But then Jesus came
and spoke to them, saying
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"All authority
has been given to Me
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in heaven and on earth..."
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Hallelujah.
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"Go therefore and make
disciples of all nations
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baptizing them in the
name of the Father..."
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The singular, talking
here about the trinity.
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"The name of the Father
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and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit."
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People say, "Well,
you know, it's an option.
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When did Jesus say this?
00:15:55.88\00:15:57.22
Because the world is lost
without Christ, that's why.
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People have said to
me. "It doesn't seem fair.
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It doesn't seem fair
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that people are
going to be lost."
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Remember the Negro slaves.
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Doesn't seem fair to me
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that Christ came down from glory
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and went through hell
and hung on the cross.
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And the church
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that has the truth of God,
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will it souls perish?
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The greatest of all sins
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is to withhold salvation
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from those who
are within your reach.
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People said to me years ago
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when I went to
Russia for the first time.
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They said, "Why does he go?
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What's he doing?
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What sort of thing is
he got going on in Russia?"
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It's because they are
in darkness and blindness.
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They're in the church,
but they were not in Christ.
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They were lost souls
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and preaching is God's ordained
means of saving the lost.
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When the church despises
the pulpit Spurgeon said,
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God will respite the church.
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Don't forget it.
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Come over here to Romans 10.
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You're good audience, folks.
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Romans 10:12 and onwards.
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Romans 10:12 and onwards,
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"For there is no distinction
between Jew and Greek
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for the same Lord over all
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is rich to all
who call upon Him,
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For "whoever calls
upon the name of the Lord
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shall be saved."
00:17:38.19\00:17:39.52
Oh, no anybody who just,
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you know, it's just good.
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No.
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"Whoever calls on the name
of the Lord shall be saved.
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How then shall they call on Him
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who in whom they
have not believed?
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And how shall
they believe in Him
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of whom they have not heard?
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And how shall they
hear without a preacher?"
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And how shall they
preach unless they are sent?
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As it is written:
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"How beautiful
are the feet of those
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who preach the gospel of peace,
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Who bring glad
tidings of good things!"
00:18:06.82\00:18:10.55
Preaching, it's
got a bad rap today
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in the church, elsewhere.
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People want to do every, every
sort of thing but preaching.
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I've heard people say to
me, "Don't talk so loud."
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Don't get me mad I say.
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They say, "Don't talk so loud.
00:18:33.24\00:18:36.24
We don't believe
in preaching anymore.
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We just believe
in being friendly."
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I believe in a God of
judgment too and his coming.
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Would you come over here
to 1 Corinthians Chapter 1,
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I Corinthians 1:20-24.
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You, folks, having good time.
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Yes.
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Okay, 1 Corinthians
1:20-24 "Where is the wise?
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Where is the scribe?
00:19:07.78\00:19:09.24
Where is the
disputer of this age?
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Has not God made foolish
the wisdom of this world?
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For since, in the wisdom of God,
00:19:14.08\00:19:15.48
the world through
wisdom did not know God,
00:19:15.52\00:19:17.79
it pleased God
through the foolishness
00:19:17.82\00:19:20.09
of the message preached
to save those who believe.
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For Jews request a sign,
and Greek seek after wisdom;
00:19:24.89\00:19:30.40
but we preach Christ crucified,
00:19:30.43\00:19:33.70
to the Jews a stumbling block
and to the Greeks foolishness,
00:19:33.74\00:19:37.67
but to those who are called,
00:19:37.71\00:19:39.14
both Jews and Greeks,
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Christ the power of God
00:19:40.94\00:19:44.11
and the wisdom of God."
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My, friends, listen to this.
00:19:46.68\00:19:49.58
In spite of an indifferent
00:19:49.62\00:19:53.15
and often indolent church,
00:19:53.19\00:19:57.19
and I've been a pastor
for more than 50 years.
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In spite of an indifferent
00:20:02.20\00:20:03.83
and indolent sleepy church.
00:20:03.87\00:20:09.07
And a corrupt and
persecuting world,
00:20:09.10\00:20:13.11
God has always had his
preachers of righteousness.
00:20:13.14\00:20:16.75
Enoch, Noah, Moses,
Elijah, John the Baptist,
00:20:16.78\00:20:22.32
Jesus our blessed Lord.
00:20:22.35\00:20:24.72
Paul the Apostle,
Martin Luther my hero.
00:20:24.75\00:20:28.96
John Wesley who
preached 42,000 sermons
00:20:28.99\00:20:31.69
and traveled 360,000 miles
00:20:31.73\00:20:34.23
not in a Mercedes but
on the back of a horse,
00:20:34.26\00:20:38.03
Ellen White, H.M.S Richards.
00:20:38.07\00:20:41.40
When we were in
El Salvador recently,
00:20:41.44\00:20:44.81
we had 80 pastors preaching
00:20:44.84\00:20:49.31
80 running campaigns.
00:20:49.34\00:20:51.98
To get their
people to the meetings,
00:20:52.01\00:20:55.62
we had to hire
760 buses, hallelujah.
00:20:55.65\00:21:00.49
Hallelujah.
00:21:00.52\00:21:01.86
People say, "Oh, no,
it can't happen anymore."
00:21:01.89\00:21:05.33
Nothing can defeat the
work of the gospel of Christ.
00:21:05.36\00:21:10.13
I'm giving you folks
the DVD Victory at Kiev.
00:21:10.17\00:21:14.70
You folks
watching, you can get it,
00:21:14.74\00:21:17.01
Victory at Kiev.
00:21:17.04\00:21:19.17
Write to me John Carter,
get the video, Victory at Kiev.
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I was there only few weeks ago.
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Went and visited the
tomb of the Patriarch.
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On the footpath,
00:21:30.65\00:21:32.15
he said, "You
will come and preach
00:21:32.19\00:21:33.52
here over my dead body."
00:21:33.56\00:21:36.42
Just before I got
up to preach, he said,
00:21:36.46\00:21:38.19
"We're going to throw you
out, we're going to do this.
00:21:38.23\00:21:41.66
Your life will not be safe."
00:21:41.70\00:21:44.13
He died just
before I got up to preach.
00:21:44.17\00:21:50.51
In the video, Victoria
at Kiev, we saw the power,
00:21:50.54\00:21:54.44
you'll see the power of God.
00:21:54.48\00:21:57.08
That the power of God is mighty,
00:21:57.11\00:21:59.28
and nothing can
stop the successful
00:21:59.31\00:22:02.65
prosecution of his work.
00:22:02.68\00:22:06.02
Now, I'm going
to read you a poem.
00:22:06.05\00:22:10.49
Here it goes.
00:22:10.53\00:22:11.86
"Sometimes I
put in a little bit.
00:22:11.89\00:22:13.23
Sometimes I got to
leave out a little bit.
00:22:13.26\00:22:15.16
But I'm going to
get down to the poem
00:22:15.20\00:22:17.37
because I've got a clock here,
00:22:17.40\00:22:19.23
and it's no
respecter of persons.
00:22:19.27\00:22:21.04
Here it is.
00:22:21.07\00:22:22.40
How much is a person worth?
00:22:22.44\00:22:23.77
Want you to think about it.
00:22:23.81\00:22:25.14
How much is a person worth?
00:22:25.17\00:22:28.44
It was battered and
scarred, and the auctioneer.
00:22:28.48\00:22:30.51
Thought it
scarcely worth his while.
00:22:30.55\00:22:33.85
To waste his time
on the old violin,
00:22:33.88\00:22:36.99
but he held it up with a smile.
00:22:37.02\00:22:39.35
"What am I bid,
good people", he cried,
00:22:39.39\00:22:41.92
"Who starts the bidding for me?"
00:22:41.96\00:22:43.89
"One dollar, one
dollar, Do I hear two?"
00:22:43.93\00:22:46.26
"Two dollars,
who makes it three?"
00:22:46.29\00:22:49.03
"Three dollars
once, three dollars twice,
00:22:49.06\00:22:51.97
Going for three"...
00:22:52.00\00:22:54.84
but no!
00:22:54.87\00:22:57.44
From the room far
back came a gray-haired man
00:22:57.47\00:23:01.04
who picked up the bow,
00:23:01.08\00:23:02.88
then wiping the
dust from the old violin,
00:23:02.91\00:23:05.31
and tightening up the strings.
00:23:05.35\00:23:07.38
He played a
melody, pure and sweet,
00:23:07.42\00:23:09.92
As sweet as an angel sings.
00:23:09.95\00:23:12.35
The music ceased
and the auctioneer
00:23:12.39\00:23:14.32
with a voice that
was soft and low, Said
00:23:14.36\00:23:16.59
"What now am I bid
for the old violin?"
00:23:16.62\00:23:19.29
As he held it up with the bow.
00:23:19.33\00:23:21.76
"One thousand, one
thousand, Do I hear two?"
00:23:21.80\00:23:24.33
"Two thousand,
Who makes it three?"
00:23:24.37\00:23:26.23
"Three thousand
once, three thousand twice,
00:23:26.27\00:23:28.90
Going and gone, " said he.
00:23:28.94\00:23:30.91
The people
cheered, some of them cried,
00:23:30.94\00:23:34.21
"We just don't understand.
What changed its worth?"
00:23:34.24\00:23:38.28
The man replied:
00:23:38.31\00:23:40.82
"The touch of
the Master's hand."
00:23:40.85\00:23:43.62
And many a man
with life out of tune,
00:23:43.65\00:23:45.75
And battered and
bruised with sin,
00:23:45.79\00:23:48.02
Is auctioned cheap
to a thoughtless crowd
00:23:48.06\00:23:51.43
Much like the old violin.
00:23:51.46\00:23:54.20
A "mess of pottage,"
00:23:54.23\00:23:55.73
a glass of wine, A
game and he travels on,
00:23:55.76\00:23:58.93
He's going once,
He's going twice,
00:23:58.97\00:24:01.20
he's going and almost gone!
00:24:01.24\00:24:04.94
But the MASTER comes,
00:24:04.97\00:24:07.41
and the foolish crowd,
can never quite understand,
00:24:07.44\00:24:11.05
the worth of a soul,
00:24:11.08\00:24:13.48
and the change that's wrought
00:24:13.52\00:24:17.59
by the touch of
the MASTER'S hand.
00:24:17.62\00:24:19.72
Amen.
00:24:19.75\00:24:21.99
We believe that
Jesus and Jesus alone,
00:24:22.02\00:24:28.26
only Jesus is the way,
00:24:28.30\00:24:32.47
the truth, and the life.
00:24:32.50\00:24:36.71
And the church exist
for one supreme purpose.
00:24:36.74\00:24:43.04
To preach the gospel of Christ,
00:24:43.08\00:24:46.01
so help us God.
00:24:46.05\00:24:49.22
Amen and amen.
00:24:49.25\00:24:50.59
Amen.
00:24:50.62\00:24:54.09
Now, I'm going to
have a prayer with you.
00:24:54.12\00:24:58.23
Would you bow your heads.
00:24:58.26\00:25:00.23
Dear father, we thank you today
00:25:00.26\00:25:03.03
the Christ is the way,
the truth, and the life.
00:25:03.06\00:25:06.47
We live in a world that's
hurtling towards its doom.
00:25:06.50\00:25:10.07
We can see tremendous
changes happening in America.
00:25:10.11\00:25:14.04
There're so many
people in America
00:25:14.08\00:25:15.54
have given up on God.
00:25:15.58\00:25:18.45
And I think
they've discovered freedom,
00:25:18.48\00:25:20.12
they've discovered
a terrible bondage.
00:25:20.15\00:25:23.89
But we know,
00:25:23.92\00:25:26.05
every person is
precious in the sight of God,
00:25:26.09\00:25:28.32
and every person can be saved.
00:25:28.36\00:25:30.99
Therefore put into the
hearts of every one of us,
00:25:31.03\00:25:33.63
these people here today.
00:25:33.66\00:25:36.36
Put a fire in our bellies
00:25:36.40\00:25:39.33
and a love in our hearts.
00:25:39.37\00:25:43.27
Put conviction in our souls,
00:25:43.30\00:25:45.11
save us Lord, from
being wishy-washy Christians.
00:25:45.14\00:25:49.51
And bless us as we reach
out to the lost around us,
00:25:52.61\00:25:56.55
for whom Christ died.
00:25:56.58\00:25:59.52
We pray that you'll
bless these precious people
00:25:59.55\00:26:01.72
here today in our studio,
00:26:01.76\00:26:03.32
we love them, dear
Father, and they love you.
00:26:03.36\00:26:06.80
Bless them, we worship
you and bless you today,
00:26:06.83\00:26:10.23
in Jesus' name, amen.
00:26:10.27\00:26:12.67
Amen. And amen, amen.
00:26:12.70\00:26:15.20
Hallelujah.
00:26:15.24\00:26:16.57
Thank you Jesus. Thank you.
00:26:16.60\00:26:20.14
Hello friend, I'm
John Carter in Moscow.
00:26:20.18\00:26:23.81
I'm standing here
at the very center
00:26:23.85\00:26:26.01
of the Russian nation.
00:26:26.05\00:26:27.65
I'm in Red Square.
00:26:27.68\00:26:29.52
Behind me is St.
Basil's Cathedral.
00:26:29.55\00:26:33.05
And over here is the Kremlin.
00:26:33.09\00:26:35.96
It's amazing, I'm able to talk
to you from Red Square today.
00:26:35.99\00:26:40.63
This is by the grace of God.
00:26:40.66\00:26:43.16
I'm here today to preach
00:26:43.20\00:26:44.60
the everlasting
gospel of Christ.
00:26:44.63\00:26:47.40
I first came here in 1991.
00:26:47.44\00:26:51.67
It was my privilege
to run the first ever
00:26:51.71\00:26:55.24
evangelistic campaign
in the old Soviet Union.
00:26:55.28\00:26:59.78
And we saw thousands
of people come to Christ.
00:26:59.81\00:27:03.79
I've been back here 43 times.
00:27:03.82\00:27:07.79
We have run campaigns
00:27:07.82\00:27:09.62
right across Russia
and all around Ukraine.
00:27:09.66\00:27:14.20
We've seen millions of
people come to our meetings
00:27:14.23\00:27:18.23
and hundreds of thousands
of people come to Christ.
00:27:18.27\00:27:22.37
I'm asking you today
00:27:22.40\00:27:24.11
to continue to
support the work of God
00:27:24.14\00:27:27.51
here in the lands of
the former Soviet Union.
00:27:27.54\00:27:31.78
The need is
greater than ever before.
00:27:31.81\00:27:35.88
In the name of Jesus,
00:27:35.92\00:27:37.92
please write to me, John Carter,
00:27:37.95\00:27:41.32
PO Box 1900, Thousand
Oaks, California 91358.
00:27:41.36\00:27:47.13
In Australia,
00:27:47.16\00:27:48.50
please write to me at
the address at Terrigal.
00:27:48.53\00:27:52.90
I've been taking
meetings the last few days.
00:27:52.93\00:27:55.77
And from here,
00:27:55.80\00:27:57.14
I go on to Ukraine to
preach the gospel of Christ.
00:27:57.17\00:28:02.21
Thank you for your
magnificent support.
00:28:02.24\00:28:06.01
Please write to me today.
00:28:06.05\00:28:08.02
And I want to say to you
00:28:08.05\00:28:09.72
in the name of Jesus, thank you,
00:28:09.75\00:28:13.02
thank you and thank you.
00:28:13.05\00:28:16.93
For a copy of today's program,
00:28:22.00\00:28:24.00
please contact
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00:28:24.03\00:28:27.64
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00:28:27.67\00:28:31.77
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00:28:31.81\00:28:33.48
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00:28:33.51\00:28:36.75
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