The Carter Report presents
Plain Talk with John Carter.
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Welcome today to Plain Talk.
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Today I'm talking about
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some of the most
interesting questions
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that's ever been asked.
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We've got thousands of
people around the world,
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who watch our
television programs
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and these thousands of people
send in thousands of questions.
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They range from the
impossible to the absurd,
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to the practical
to the impractical,
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but they're all
really good questions.
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And we're very glad
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that you are a part
of our audience today.
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This is Plain Talk and
here is the first question.
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Does God still heal the sick?
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Does God still heal the sick?
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Well, God's an
almighty God, isn't he?
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Our God can do
anything he wants to do.
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And of course,
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God can heal the
sick and on occasions,
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God does step into a
timeframe and into where we are,
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and puts his
finger upon somebody
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and he actually works a miracle.
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So I do believe that
God does heal the sick.
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Would you come over
here though to Exodus 15,
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which I think is a key text
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that most people
really don't look at.
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Exodus 15:26, if you got it.
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Just want to
welcome the audience today,
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because you are as
always a superb audience
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here in our studio in
Moorpark, in California.
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Exodus, what did I say,
15:26, there it is, God said,
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"If you diligently heed
the voice of the Lord your God
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and do what is
right in his sight,
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give ear to his commandments
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and keep all his statutes,
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I will put none of
the diseases on you
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which I have
brought on the Egyptians."
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What does it say folks?
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"For I am the
Lord who heals you."
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I've seen God work miracles.
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I have.
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You say, lot of healings, no.
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I'm not a faith
healer or anything like that
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but I have seen
that God has on occasions
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stepped in and God
has worked a miracle.
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But this text says,
that if we obey God's word,
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He's going to put none of
these awful diseases upon us
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that you find in the world.
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Now, gonna tell you
something, you folks listening.
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In the Bible
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you've got some
amazing health laws.
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I'm telling you.
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Have you heard of the sad diet?
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S-A-D, the sad diet,
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is that's what most
folks in this part of the world
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enjoy the sad diet,
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it's called the
Standard American Diet
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and it's the reason
why people are so sick.
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Why we've got so much diabetes
and heart disease and cancer.
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But the Bible says
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if we obey God's law
and follow the health laws
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that are taught in the Bible,
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we're going to live longer
and we're going to feel better
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and we're gonna be
blessed in everyway.
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Now, I was watching PBS,
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Public
Broadcasting few months back,
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and I heard a doctor
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by the name of Dr. Joel Fuhrman,
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he's a Jewish doctor.
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Well, he sort of stunned me
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because he was so, so,
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so very good and he spoke
about the super micronutrients
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that we don't get in white bread
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and all the rest
of this terrible food.
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And he spoke about
why people are dying,
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you know,
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with all of these
terrible diseases.
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Now, I'm gonna tell you,
my American friends, something
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and I hope you gonna love me
just the same after I tell you.
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So you're ready for this?
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Now I'm telling the
Australians this too,
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and I'm telling the
people in England, telling,
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but I'm talking
especially to the Americans.
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The Standard American Diet,
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you're ready for
this, want me to say,
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I think it's great just
like the government tells me.
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The Standard American Diet
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is the quickest
way to a cemetery
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that I know.
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Now the Bible tells me that
there's another sort of diet
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and that is whole foods,
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not talking about the
shop over here either.
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But it's fresh fruits,
and vegetables, and nuts,
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and grains, and more than this,
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it's also exercising
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and it's having a good attitude,
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it's having...
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You got to keep
your attitude right.
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You've got to have an
attitude of gratitude.
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And if you have an
attitude of gratitude
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and if you're thankful to God
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and if you get out
of bed in the morning
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and, you know,
there's a God who loves me.
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And God has got
a plan for my life
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and one day after
this life, which is great,
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but one day I'm going to
go on living for eternity
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and I'm going to follow
the commandments of God,
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you are going to be blessed
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and that is the greatest healing
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that God can give to you
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and it's a healing
that the world needs.
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Do you believe in evolution?
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Do I believe in evolution?
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I've given some talks,
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I've interviewed some scientists
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and people have
asked me the question,
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''Do you believe in evolution?'
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' What sort of
evolution do you mean?
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There's micro evolution
and there's macro evolution.
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You know the difference.
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I believe in micro evolution.
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Every person who is educated,
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and even people
who aren't educated
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believe in micro evolution.
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A virus mutates
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and so you get a cure
to kill this wretched thing
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but it mutates, so
it's mutating all the time.
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It's not becoming a
different life form,
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it is still the same basic virus
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but micro evolution
is changing a little bit
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so that it becomes
impervious to our attacks.
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Okay.
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But then there
is macro evolution
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and I don't believe it.
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Macro evolution says that,
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we have come from
an animal ancestry.
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Now, I just want to
talk about this a little bit
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because I don't believe in this.
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I don't believe in Darwinism.
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Charles Darwin,
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you all know of Charles Darwin,
he was a brilliant Englishman.
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He said that after his
death, in the geologic column,
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I just want to try to think
of the words he said, he said,
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'they would
discover a myriad form
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of transitional life-forms.'
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So that if you looked at
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the different layers
in the geologic column
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which is similar
all around the world,
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he said, they
would discover millions
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and millions of
transitional life-forms
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that showed how this life-form
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was transformed
into this life-form
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and this one was
transformed, so forth.
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After more than
150 years, my friends,
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the transitional
life-forms have not been found.
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How do I know?
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Are you a
scientist, you're saying?
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Well, who are you?
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Well, one of the greatest
evolutionists in the world
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was Stephen J. Gould.
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He said the fact
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that they had not discovered
the transitional life-forms,
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was the dirty little
secret of pale anthropologists.
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So after more than 150 years,
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Darwinism is dead.
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And there had
been other scientists
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beside Stephen J.
Gould, for instance,
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let me tell me you
about Professor Leakey.
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Have you heard
of Professor Leakey?
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He found Lucy down in
Africa, you know the story?
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You know,
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there was this
funny little creature
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and he said, Leakey said,
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that the human
race came from Lucy.
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And all of the, all
of the, not all of them
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but most of the scientists
and all of the evolutionists,
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hurrah, hurrah, here
is the proof of Darwinism.
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But before he died
Professor Leakey went on PBF,
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and I have the
statements and he said,
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''All that I said about her
being our ancestor was wrong."
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He said it's not true at all.
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We are not
descended from Lucy, he said,
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''It seems in my research..."
Now listen to this concept.
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Leakey said, ''It
seems in my research
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that the human race
appeared recently and suddenly
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as a new and distinct species.'
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' Now I believe
that, say I believe that,
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because that's
exactly what the Bible says.
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The Bible teaches
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that the human
race did not evolve.
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The human race was made
in the very image of God.
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And therefore every
person is distinct and glorious.
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That is why I
believe a little baby
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before it's born is
distinct and glorious
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and worth more than
all the money in the world.
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I believe that every
human being is precious,
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because we did not
come down from the trees,
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we came down from the
stars, we came down from God,
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we were made in
the image of God.
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Why is it so hard to say sorry?
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Do you find it
hard to say sorry?
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Why is it so hard to say sorry?
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Well,
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that's a tough
question, isn't that?
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Would you come
over here to Luke 15.
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We'll see what our Lord Jesus
had to say about saying sorry.
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I know with some people,
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they'd rather
die than say sorry.
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Luke 15:17 and onwards.
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This is the story of
a runaway prodigal boy.
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Luke 15 in the Bible,
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Luke 15:17 and onwards, it says,
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"But when he came to himself,"
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this is the boy who
cleared out, you know,
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took his
father's money, went away.
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"When he came to
himself, he said,
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'How many of my
father's hired servants
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have bread enough and to
spare and I perish with hunger!
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I will arise
and go to my father,
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will say to him, Father,
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I've sinned against
heaven and before you,
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and I am no longer
worthy to be called your son.
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Make me like one of
your hired servants."
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' But look at verse 17, it says,
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but when he...what
does it say, my audience?
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What does it tell me
when he came to himself?
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That's the hard part.
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Hard part is to
come to yourself.
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What does it mean
to come to yourself?
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Where you see
yourself as God sees you.
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You come to yourself.
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The human heart,
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and I'm talking about
people in the church also,
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you know, lot of
people in the church,
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you got tons of religion
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but they don't
have a lot of Christ.
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They've got to
come to themselves too.
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How the human heart by
itself, this human brain,
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made up of trillions of
cells, this human heart,
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this human mind in
itself is very proud.
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We're born proud.
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You don't have to
go to the seminary
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to become proud.
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You don't have to go
to the theological school
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to become a Pharisee.
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We are born
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with a black blot
of atom in our veins
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and we are born Pharisees.
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I remember once
a lady saying to me
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'cause I was giving the family
a little bit of counseling,
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not that I'm a great counselor.
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But she said to me,
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"I've been married to my
husband here for 30 years
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and I've never
heard him say, sorry."
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I think they're
getting a divorce, no wonder.
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I mean he was sort
of a pain, wasn't he?
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He couldn't bring himself,
he couldn't come to himself
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and squeeze it out and say,
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''Look, I've been a real dope.
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I'm sorry, I messed up."
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It's because of the pride
that is in the human heart.
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Let me tell you something.
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Unless we can learn
to say sorry to God,
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and say sorry to our spouses
and sorry to our churches
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and sorry to our children
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and everybody else
that we have sinned,
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we're not going to heaven.
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Now some people think
everybody goes to heaven.
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I don't believe that at all,
I don't believe that nonsense,
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it's all propaganda.
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Don't believe that propaganda.
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Don't believe that
political small talk.
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I believe in God's plain talk.
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Jesus said, "Unless you repent,
you will all likewise perish."
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So repentance is not because
I've been caught with my hand
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in the cookie jar.
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That was like Esau.
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I repent because I'm sorry.
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I actually have a feeling inside
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and I feel sorry
and I'm remorseful.
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When I do this,
God can bless me,
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and my family will
accept me and love me
00:14:42.48\00:14:46.58
and I will become
a better human being.
00:14:46.61\00:14:51.72
And I'll be
easier to get along with.
00:14:51.75\00:14:55.16
Should churches get involved
in real estate ventures?
00:14:55.19\00:14:58.79
Boy, you're asking me
these tough questions?
00:14:58.83\00:15:00.70
I don't why you're asking
me all these tough questions.
00:15:00.73\00:15:03.60
The last question was easy.
00:15:03.63\00:15:04.97
Should churches get involved
in real estate ventures?
00:15:05.00\00:15:07.64
Let me give you a text.
00:15:07.67\00:15:09.00
Come over here to
1 Corinthians 9:14,
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1 Corinthians 9:14,
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well I guess
everybody at some time
00:15:17.58\00:15:19.21
has to get involved
in a real estate venture,
00:15:19.25\00:15:21.88
but shouldn't be the main line.
00:15:21.92\00:15:24.12
Shouldn't be the main line
00:15:24.15\00:15:26.69
and it shouldn't
even be a side line.
00:15:26.72\00:15:28.89
It should be a thing that you do
00:15:28.92\00:15:30.86
when you can't do anything else.
00:15:30.89\00:15:33.06
Like buying a house
or selling your house
00:15:33.09\00:15:34.90
or something like that,
00:15:34.93\00:15:36.33
shouldn't be what you're
trying to do in your life.
00:15:36.36\00:15:39.07
1 Corinthians, what
did I say, chapter 9:14,
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"Even so the Lord has commanded
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that those who preach the gospel
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should live from the gospel."
00:15:46.57\00:15:49.08
Now, I know of ministers
00:15:49.11\00:15:52.78
who've got secondary jobs,
00:15:52.81\00:15:56.38
so they turn up at
church on Wednesday night
00:15:56.42\00:15:58.65
and they turn up at
church in the weekend,
00:15:58.69\00:16:00.32
but during the week
00:16:00.36\00:16:01.69
they're doing all
sorts of other stuff.
00:16:01.72\00:16:04.16
They're selling cars,
they're doing real estate,
00:16:04.19\00:16:07.30
they ought to be fired.
00:16:07.33\00:16:10.70
They really are ought to
be called in by the president
00:16:10.73\00:16:14.57
of the conference or
whoever he is and say,
00:16:14.60\00:16:18.81
like the Donald
says, "You are fired."
00:16:18.84\00:16:23.95
I know of one church
organization that not long ago
00:16:23.98\00:16:28.48
lost $42 million
00:16:28.52\00:16:33.22
in a real estate
venture that went bust.
00:16:33.25\00:16:38.13
Think where that, and they said,
00:16:38.16\00:16:40.50
we don't have any
money for evangelism.
00:16:40.53\00:16:44.27
No, they said, we
don't have any money
00:16:44.30\00:16:46.20
to go preaching the gospel
00:16:46.23\00:16:47.80
but we're gonna
put in a strip mall,
00:16:47.84\00:16:50.54
we're gonna do all
this sort of stuff,
00:16:50.57\00:16:51.91
we're gonna make money.
00:16:51.94\00:16:53.27
They didn't have
the blessing of God.
00:16:53.31\00:16:56.04
I think the curse of
God was upon their project.
00:16:56.08\00:16:58.38
They lost $42 or $44
million, how do I know?
00:16:58.41\00:17:03.35
Because one of the
people who was on the inside
00:17:03.39\00:17:06.35
told it to me, when
he thought he was dying.
00:17:06.39\00:17:08.06
I believe that the...
00:17:11.33\00:17:12.66
At now, sometimes the church
has to do some real estate.
00:17:12.69\00:17:15.80
You got to buy buildings,
you got to buy a land,
00:17:15.83\00:17:18.30
let's be realistic,
you got to build hospitals,
00:17:18.33\00:17:21.67
but I'm talking about
going out on a venture
00:17:21.70\00:17:24.61
to take God's money
and try to make money
00:17:24.64\00:17:27.64
out of God's money.
00:17:27.68\00:17:29.01
It's a sin.
00:17:29.04\00:17:31.88
The Bible says those
who preach the gospel
00:17:31.91\00:17:34.58
should live of a gospel.
00:17:34.62\00:17:36.35
Now, people have said
to me at the Carter Report,
00:17:36.38\00:17:39.32
I've had some wonderful
and wealthy people come to me
00:17:39.35\00:17:43.22
and they've said, Pastor Carter,
00:17:43.26\00:17:45.49
how come that you seem
to get money to do things,
00:17:45.53\00:17:51.10
because we do.
00:17:51.13\00:17:55.37
It's because God blesses us.
00:17:55.40\00:17:58.37
When you preach the gospel,
00:17:58.41\00:18:01.14
people will start
sending you money,
00:18:01.18\00:18:04.21
that's what happens.
00:18:04.25\00:18:06.11
Money comes in through the mail.
00:18:06.15\00:18:08.88
We're going to go to Cuba,
00:18:08.92\00:18:10.62
it's gonna cost
us a heap of money.
00:18:10.65\00:18:13.86
We're gonna go to Ukraine.
00:18:13.89\00:18:16.02
We've been running
big campaigns everywhere
00:18:16.06\00:18:18.09
and people say, well, I
guess the church pays for it.
00:18:18.13\00:18:22.53
You're kidding, like your sense
of humor, no, of course not.
00:18:22.56\00:18:26.43
We don't get a Brass razoo.
00:18:26.47\00:18:28.80
In Australia that means nothing.
00:18:28.84\00:18:31.61
We don't get
anything from the church.
00:18:31.64\00:18:35.41
But that God blesses
you when you do God's work.
00:18:35.44\00:18:39.11
Do we have times of
trial when our faith is tested?
00:18:39.15\00:18:42.52
You better believe it.
00:18:42.55\00:18:44.52
I've had times
when I've thought,
00:18:44.55\00:18:45.89
I don't know how I'm gonna pay
00:18:45.92\00:18:47.26
the wages this
next week, you know.
00:18:47.29\00:18:49.89
You don't have
enough money in the bank.
00:18:49.92\00:18:52.36
But whenever it
comes to the crunch,
00:18:52.39\00:18:54.80
God blesses us
and the money comes.
00:18:54.83\00:18:57.80
I believe that those
who preach the gospel
00:18:57.83\00:19:00.17
should live of the gospel.
00:19:00.20\00:19:02.20
And the reason that we
don't have more evangelism
00:19:02.24\00:19:05.77
is because people don't
have enough faith in God.
00:19:05.81\00:19:08.91
That's the reason.
00:19:08.94\00:19:10.28
Not because it doesn't work.
00:19:10.31\00:19:11.65
It's because they don't
have enough faith in God,
00:19:11.68\00:19:14.15
so I don't believe
that it's a general rule,
00:19:14.18\00:19:17.02
churches or conferences
00:19:17.05\00:19:21.82
or whatever ought to be
fooling around with real estate.
00:19:21.86\00:19:27.06
I believe they ought to be out
preaching the gospel of Christ.
00:19:27.10\00:19:30.27
Can you say amen?
00:19:30.30\00:19:31.83
Yeah, say it again, amen.
00:19:31.87\00:19:34.14
Thank you.
00:19:34.17\00:19:35.80
How can I beat depression?
00:19:35.84\00:19:38.84
How can I beat depression?
00:19:38.87\00:19:40.74
Now that's not a good question.
00:19:40.78\00:19:42.11
That's super,
super good question.
00:19:42.14\00:19:47.12
Lot of people
suffer with depression.
00:19:47.15\00:19:49.75
When I would go to Russia,
00:19:49.78\00:19:51.22
I ran the first big
evangelistic public campaign,
00:19:51.25\00:19:55.52
as a foreigner
in the Soviet Union.
00:19:55.56\00:19:58.89
I started this campaign
when communism was still ruling.
00:19:58.93\00:20:02.53
I was over there in Moscow.
00:20:02.56\00:20:04.53
I was the first, by
the grace of God to do it.
00:20:04.57\00:20:07.90
Somebody said the
first silly enough to try,
00:20:07.94\00:20:11.67
but when I met
the Russian people,
00:20:11.71\00:20:17.01
I found them to be the most
depressed people I'd ever met.
00:20:17.05\00:20:20.52
Now Americans by nature,
00:20:20.55\00:20:23.02
at least seem to be upbeat
00:20:23.05\00:20:25.95
and candeo and happy and like...
00:20:25.99\00:20:29.76
you know, when they go out
and they eat they're all happy.
00:20:29.79\00:20:33.13
We ought to be happy.
00:20:33.16\00:20:35.70
But when I went to
Russia and have 10,000 people
00:20:35.73\00:20:37.93
in an audience,
nobody would look at me.
00:20:37.97\00:20:41.47
It's like
preaching in some churches.
00:20:41.50\00:20:45.21
I preached in churches
00:20:45.24\00:20:47.24
where people don't
want to look at you either,
00:20:47.28\00:20:48.94
they have their heads down.
00:20:48.98\00:20:51.95
Now I've preached
in churches like that,
00:20:51.98\00:20:53.31
it's like
preaching in a cemetery.
00:20:53.35\00:20:57.15
And when I would
preach to the Russians,
00:20:57.19\00:20:59.32
they wouldn't have
eye contact with me.
00:20:59.35\00:21:01.99
They're terribly depressed.
00:21:02.02\00:21:03.63
One night I said in Nizhny
Novgorod or old city of Gorky,
00:21:03.66\00:21:07.23
put up your hands if
you suffer from depression.
00:21:07.26\00:21:09.96
Here, 10,000 hands and
even including children.
00:21:10.00\00:21:13.54
Russia is a depressed society.
00:21:13.57\00:21:16.50
It was depressed
because of atheism.
00:21:16.54\00:21:20.11
And don't give me any
talk about atheism being good.
00:21:20.14\00:21:22.71
Atheism is a curse.
00:21:22.74\00:21:25.11
Atheism tore the
heart out of Russia,
00:21:25.15\00:21:30.65
murdered millions of people
00:21:30.69\00:21:32.29
and turned everybody
into a depressive alcoholic.
00:21:32.32\00:21:36.86
That's why the
Russians are great drinkers.
00:21:36.89\00:21:40.50
Now you know why
the Russians drank?
00:21:43.53\00:21:46.90
They're totally depressed.
00:21:46.94\00:21:49.07
They got more
alcoholics in Russia
00:21:49.10\00:21:50.77
than any other
part of the world,
00:21:50.81\00:21:52.21
that's because of
atheism which caused depression.
00:21:52.24\00:21:56.51
Now come to a text
here and you may wonder
00:21:56.54\00:21:58.95
why I'm gonna
read you this text.
00:21:58.98\00:22:01.05
Come over here
to Ephesians 4:26,
00:22:01.08\00:22:05.65
you folks doing okay.
00:22:05.69\00:22:07.56
You really are a
good audience, you know.
00:22:07.59\00:22:10.29
We're just going to
enjoy our company together.
00:22:10.33\00:22:15.20
Ephesians 4:26,
00:22:15.23\00:22:17.57
now you may wonder
why I read you this text
00:22:17.60\00:22:19.90
when we're
talking about depression.
00:22:19.93\00:22:21.80
That's in the New Testament,
00:22:21.84\00:22:23.44
my friends, Mathew,
Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans,
00:22:23.47\00:22:26.24
Corinthians,
Keep going, Galatians,
00:22:26.27\00:22:28.91
Ephesians 4:26,
00:22:28.94\00:22:31.75
"Be angry, and do not sin,
00:22:31.78\00:22:35.98
do not let the sin
go down on your wrath.
00:22:36.02\00:22:39.55
Now the Bible says, look at me,
00:22:39.59\00:22:42.12
Bible says it's
all right to be angry.
00:22:42.16\00:22:46.06
You see something which is bad,
00:22:46.09\00:22:49.76
you see pair of
files getting away
00:22:49.80\00:22:51.53
with it or something like
that, it's right to be angry.
00:22:51.57\00:22:56.30
It's right to be
angry against injustice
00:22:56.34\00:23:00.08
and all of those things,
but it's crazy to stay angry.
00:23:00.11\00:23:03.91
The angry do not sin,
00:23:06.28\00:23:08.02
don't let the sun
go down on your wrath.
00:23:08.05\00:23:10.02
Look at me,
00:23:10.05\00:23:12.42
probably the major
cause of depression
00:23:12.45\00:23:16.39
is unresolved anger.
00:23:16.42\00:23:21.70
You may have reason to be angry,
00:23:21.73\00:23:23.87
I have been angry in
my life and sometimes,
00:23:23.90\00:23:27.60
I've held on to it.
00:23:27.64\00:23:30.31
It's a dumb thing to do.
00:23:30.34\00:23:31.87
Anger will make you depressed.
00:23:31.91\00:23:35.84
You got to get
rid of your anger.
00:23:35.88\00:23:38.41
You got to go
and see the person.
00:23:38.45\00:23:40.85
You got to let it out.
00:23:40.88\00:23:42.78
You got to
forgive, forgive, forgive.
00:23:42.82\00:23:47.79
Now I'm gonna tell you a
book, recommended to you.
00:23:47.82\00:23:53.19
Let me think.
00:23:53.23\00:23:54.56
Here it is, Happiness is
a Choice by Minirth, Meier,
00:23:54.60\00:23:59.73
two Christian psychologists,
00:23:59.77\00:24:02.00
Happiness is a Choice
00:24:02.04\00:24:06.54
and it tells you how
to overcome depression.
00:24:06.57\00:24:09.81
Every person who is depressed
can get over depression
00:24:09.84\00:24:12.31
once they learn the secret.
00:24:12.35\00:24:15.55
What are the
cultural wars all about?
00:24:15.58\00:24:18.05
The cultural wars.
00:24:18.09\00:24:19.55
Well, it's going
on all around us.
00:24:19.59\00:24:24.13
Particularly here in America,
00:24:24.16\00:24:26.59
which was basically
00:24:26.63\00:24:28.40
a Judeo-Christian
civilization, a culture.
00:24:28.43\00:24:33.60
It was based on a concept,
00:24:33.64\00:24:35.40
there's a God and the
Bible is true, you see.
00:24:35.44\00:24:39.67
And that human life is sacred.
00:24:39.71\00:24:42.78
That's what it's based on.
00:24:42.81\00:24:44.15
It's based on morality.
00:24:44.18\00:24:46.31
One man, one woman
00:24:46.35\00:24:49.28
but through the teachings
00:24:49.32\00:24:50.65
of some of the
great German philosophers
00:24:50.69\00:24:53.52
and other
philosophers, the universities,
00:24:53.56\00:24:57.89
the American universities,
00:24:57.93\00:24:59.59
the British and the
Australian and so forth
00:24:59.63\00:25:02.16
have been permeated
with the doctrines of niche
00:25:02.20\00:25:06.67
Neo-Darwinism and
other philosophers.
00:25:06.70\00:25:08.97
I can give you their names
00:25:09.00\00:25:11.84
and this has set up a war
against God and the Bible.
00:25:11.87\00:25:18.58
You see it on television,
00:25:18.61\00:25:20.12
television
people are the spokesman
00:25:20.15\00:25:22.62
on the whole for
this, this cultural war.
00:25:22.65\00:25:26.49
It has brought about
tens of millions of abortions.
00:25:26.52\00:25:31.96
It's brought about so
many killings in the streets
00:25:31.99\00:25:34.80
where human life doesn't count.
00:25:34.83\00:25:37.20
Now America is at the crossroads
00:25:37.23\00:25:42.64
and unless
America changes her path,
00:25:42.67\00:25:45.44
America will go down.
00:25:45.47\00:25:46.98
What is it needed?
00:25:47.01\00:25:48.34
And this is true with rest
of the nations in the world,
00:25:48.38\00:25:50.65
we need to turn to God
00:25:50.68\00:25:53.95
and we need to get back
to the faith of our fathers
00:25:53.98\00:25:57.49
that is found in the Bible.
00:25:57.52\00:25:59.75
Amen.
00:25:59.79\00:26:01.12
Can you say amen?
00:26:01.16\00:26:02.49
Amen and amen.
00:26:02.52\00:26:04.99
Hello, friend.
00:26:17.34\00:26:18.87
I'm John Carter in Havana, Cuba.
00:26:18.91\00:26:22.21
I'm standing here in
Revolutionary Square.
00:26:22.24\00:26:26.55
This great square is dedicated
00:26:26.58\00:26:28.72
to the great
communist revolution
00:26:28.75\00:26:30.72
under Fidel that came
to this country back 50,
00:26:30.75\00:26:34.62
60 years ago.
00:26:34.66\00:26:36.32
This place is still
undergoing a revolution.
00:26:36.36\00:26:40.40
We've come to check out
the reality of the situation.
00:26:40.43\00:26:45.00
Freedom of speech is
not allowed here still.
00:26:45.03\00:26:48.47
Preaching the gospel
00:26:48.50\00:26:49.84
out of doors is
not allowed here,
00:26:49.87\00:26:52.37
still whatever you
hear about reconciliation,
00:26:52.41\00:26:55.38
nothing has really changed.
00:26:55.41\00:26:58.65
We've been told, we
cannot run public campaigns
00:26:58.68\00:27:03.02
in Cuba in any
part of this world.
00:27:03.05\00:27:07.22
We can run meetings in
churches, that's allowed.
00:27:07.26\00:27:10.83
So what are we going to do?
00:27:10.86\00:27:12.63
We're going to
support the people of God
00:27:12.66\00:27:14.10
in this part of the world.
00:27:14.13\00:27:15.63
We're going to
step through those doors
00:27:15.66\00:27:17.83
as God opens those doors.
00:27:17.87\00:27:20.40
We're not going to
come and cause a commotion
00:27:20.44\00:27:25.07
and cause trouble
to the people of God.
00:27:25.11\00:27:28.08
We will work diligently
00:27:28.11\00:27:30.65
and as wise as serpents
00:27:30.68\00:27:34.15
and as harmless as doves.
00:27:34.18\00:27:36.89
Stand with us in the preaching
of the gospel, wherever it is,
00:27:36.92\00:27:41.12
stand with us.
00:27:41.16\00:27:42.49
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00:27:42.52\00:27:44.69
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00:27:44.73\00:27:47.06
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00:27:47.10\00:27:49.43
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00:27:49.46\00:27:53.27
And let us go forward for a
mighty spiritual revolution,
00:27:53.30\00:27:58.14
as we take the Gospel of Christ
00:27:58.17\00:28:01.34
to the lost around the
world as God opens the doors.
00:28:01.38\00:28:05.51
This is John Carter
in Revolutionary Square,
00:28:05.55\00:28:09.82
in Havana, Cuba saying to you,
00:28:09.85\00:28:12.75
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