We have a
terrific program today,
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just came back from Cuba.
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I saw there the power of God.
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Now here is the message from me
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not here but on
location in Cuba.
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We should never say
something is impossible
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because Jesus said,
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"With God, all
things are possible."
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It seems impossible to
think that a group of Americans,
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Australians could come
here to Castro's communist Cuba
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and preach the gospel.
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We're here with the permission
of the Cuban government.
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We've got special
visas so we can preach here.
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I've had the
privilege of preaching
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in the most
difficult places, Moscow,
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all across Russia,
all around Ukraine.
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Dangerous places in Africa,
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but this is one of the
biggest miracles of all.
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Here we are,
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a Carter Report
team, just a little team.
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But we're here
by the grace of God,
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because with God
all things are possible.
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But God works through people,
He's working glory be to God
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we believe through us,
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but He's also working
my friend through you,
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because of your prayers
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and your support and your gifts.
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These people many of them
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are hearing the true gospel
of Christ for the first time.
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So my heart is full of
thanks to God and to you today.
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Let's get a fire
going in this country.
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We have established a beachhead
on the shores of Castro's Cuba.
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A gospel beachhead
not a military one.
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We are the ambassadors of peace
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and we've come here to
preach the gospel of peace.
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Stand with us, and
thank you for your support.
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Now what is amazing is this.
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What is amazing is this.
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You can't advertise in Cuba.
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You can't, you know, we
wanted to go on television
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as we do in other places,
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wanted to do a
thousands of radio spots
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and put it in the newspapers
but you can't do that.
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If you try to, you go to prison.
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But I want you to know
the Bible says, Jesus said,
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"With God nothing
shall be impossible."
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And even though it
was a short campaign
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because of
circumstances and even though
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we preached under
real difficulties,
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to this point of time
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over 900 souls have been
baptized with no advertising.
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So I just want you to know that
my heart is sort of bursting
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because you imagine if
you went to a town here,
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if we went to
say to Thousand Oaks
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or some other place
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and we baptized almost it's a,
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may be it's a
1000 souls baptized
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over there now, I don't know,
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but I want you
to know it was done
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with no advertising
expect people going out
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and say and
saying, come and hear
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the preaching of the gospel.
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I want you to take your Bibles
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and come over here to
Isaiah 55:10 down to 12.
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You glad to be
here today, folks?
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I'm glad to be here today.
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He's a friend of mine
who's of my age he said,
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I'm glad to be anywhere.
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Isaiah 55:10 and onwards.
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The Bible says, "For
as the rain comes down,
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and the snow from
heaven, and do not return there,
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but water the earth,
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and make it bring forth and bud,
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that it may give
seed to the sower
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and bread to the eater,
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so shall my word be that
goes forth from my mouth,
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it shall not return
to me void or empty,
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but it shall
accomplish what I please."
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And I want you to know this
that the Word of God is mighty
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and powerful in
Russia, around the world,
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and I can say now
also in Cuba, yes.
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Yes indeed.
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God's word when
preached will always accomplish
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what God pleases.
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And I want to say
this to the great audience
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because this program
is seen around the world.
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I want to say this
to you, never give up.
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Hear this?
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Never give, that's
what Winston Churchill said,
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"Never give up, never
give up, never give up."
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And we should
never, never give up
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because the
Word of God is mighty
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and powerful even in Cuba.
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Now Cuba is where the end
of the world almost began,
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did you know this?
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Armageddon almost
started in the island of Cuba,
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about 100 miles
from the good old USA.
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This is how it
happened, this is Cuba's story.
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Batista was an evil dictator
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who unfortunately
received the reluctant
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support of the
United States of America.
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The Batista era
was a time of poverty,
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corruption,
persecution, torture,
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and every other
terrible awful thing.
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It became the
breeding ground of communism.
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I want to read to you
from President John Kennedy.
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October 24, in 1963
President Kennedy said,
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"I believe that
there is no country
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in the world including
any and all the countries
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under colonial dominion,
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where economic
colonization, humiliation
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and exploitation
were worse than in Cuba...
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in part owing to my
country's policies..."
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How quickly we forget.
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How quickly we forget.
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"In part according
to my country's policies
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during the Batista regime...
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To some extent it is as though,
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look at this, Batista
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was the
incarnation of a number of sins
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on the part of
the United States.
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Now we shall have
to pay for those sins."
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Whenever you
have a corrupt church
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and a corrupt government,
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you have the fertile soil
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for oppression and communism.
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That's what happened in Russia
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and that's what
happened also in Cuba.
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The Castro Revolution
went from 1953 to 1959,
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and then Castro
formed an alliance
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with the wicked
old Soviet Union,
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you know these
things, don't you?
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The crisis occurred
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October 16 to 1928, 1962.
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I was a boy
preacher in a little town
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by the name of Broken Hill.
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I remember when
the news came to us
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about the blockade,
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I believed that the end
of the world was coming.
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We came this close
to nuclear annihilation.
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The USA had deployed
missiles in Italy and Turkey.
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Did you know that?
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And so the
Soviets deployed missiles
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in response in Cuba.
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July 1962, there
was a secret meeting
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between Khrushchev and Fidel.
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An agreement to put
Soviet missiles in Cuba.
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This was after
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the disastrous Bay of
Pigs Invasion of 1961.
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And the air force
with the U-2 plane
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produced clear
pictures of Soviet missiles
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pointing towards the
United States of America.
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You just think of it.
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So close to home
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there was Soviet missiles
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pointing towards the
United States of America.
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It could have been
the end of the world.
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Now John Kennedy
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and the military
imposed the famous blockade.
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They said you will come this far
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and no further.
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This was the day
the world almost ended.
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Here is a message on
occasion from Havana, Cuba.
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I was just a boy
preacher in Australia,
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just out of college when
I heard the amazing news.
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The Russians have
placed nuclear missiles
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right here in Cuba.
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Of course the Americans
could not tolerate this,
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because America is
just 80 or 90 miles
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over in that
direction, just off the coast.
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It seemed as though
the end of the world
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was going to come.
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I was in the outback in
Australia in a little town
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called Broken Hill.
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The world collectively
with the people in Broken Hill
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held its breath.
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We wondered, would
we see the next day.
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But the grace
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and the
providence of God prevailed
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and peace was declared,
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but this place remained
locked fast in communism.
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It's still very
restrictive here.
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In our meetings
we cannot advertise,
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we can't use
television, we can't use radio,
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we can't use newspapers,
we can't hand out handbills,
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and so it is difficult.
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But I want you
to know something,
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with God nothing is impossible.
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Wonderful crowds of people
are coming to the meetings.
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They're mainly young
people, and they're hungry,
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and they're thirsty for God.
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It's amazing to see them
come forward night by night
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and accept Jesus Christ.
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Last night I
was sort of overcome
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when I saw all
these young people,
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this fast
wonderful group of people
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coming forward to
accept Jesus Christ.
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Some of them weeping,
coming forward to accept Christ
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and asking for baptism.
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I want you to know today this,
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don't forget it,
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with God nothing
shall be impossible,
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glory be to the
Father and to the Son
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and to the Holy Spirit.
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I'm John Carter
reporting from the place
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where the end of
the world almost began.
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Now those of you
who still remember
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those dark days,
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there came this final agreement,
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the Soviets would
dismantle the rockets
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after the blockade
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and America secretly
would remove her missiles
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from Italy and Turkey.
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Cuba became
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a satellite state
of the Soviet Union,
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and went down into a time
of oppression and darkness.
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Castro who has just
passed away as we all know,
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almost brought the
world to a fiery end
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and people are not
going to forgive this
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or forget this very quickly.
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Since the 1960s
Cuba has been in,
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as you know my
friend in time war.
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I would say this however,
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and what I'm
saying now some folks
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will find hard to
understand but it's a fact.
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Life under Castro
even though it's been bad,
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you've had religious oppression
and you've had persecution
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and an unjust imprisonment,
and you've had torture
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but it's been better
than it was under Batista.
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Because at least the
people have got freedom
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they go to church.
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I was amazed when I went there,
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the place was filled with spies.
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They say one in ten
people in the audience
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there was spies,
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but nevertheless
they would not arrest,
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we had complete freedom.
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You can see the
place is in a time mode,
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everything stopped back in 1960.
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One party state
today still persecution,
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very little freedom of speech,
but I was allowed to preach.
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I say glory be to God.
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People say well, is
there any religion left?
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Yes, because you
can't get rid of it.
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You can do what you
like, the Soviets did
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all they could to
get rid of religion
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but you can't kill,
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you can't kill
the gospel of Christ.
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You can't kill the desire
in the hearts of the people
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to worship God.
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But the Adventist church is
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one of the strongest churches
in the land of Cuba today.
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It's an amazing thing.
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Many of the churches
have just been obliterated
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because of atheism,
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but the Adventist
church is going strong.
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There are two people
who've had a in this,
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this is not propaganda.
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This is just a fact.
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The Adventist
church is going strong,
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and we ran
campaigns all over Cuba.
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We had campaigns all over Cuba.
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And these two people who
had a tremendous influence
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upon Cuba I think for good.
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President Obama
and Pope Francis.
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May be if they had
not done what they did,
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I would not have
been allowed to go
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and preach openly in Cuba
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so I thank God.
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What about religion?
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It says, still
plenty of religion.
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Atheism is the
main religion of course,
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but many people still worship
the secret Occult Palace.
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The religion, some of you folks
know what I'm talking about,
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you know the
religion of the Caribbean?
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Voodoo, you have
Satanism, all of those things,
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and so
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this place is just
waiting for the doors to open
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and we are going to see
an evangelistic explosion,
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glory be to God.
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And this Carter
Reporter has sought to establish
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and we have
done so successfully.
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We've sought to
establish a beachhead in Cuba,
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a gospel beachhead.
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Come over here to Acts 4:12,
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I want to read
you this great text.
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Acts 4:12, Acts 4:12,
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the Bible says,
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"Nor is there
salvation in any other,
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for there is no other name
under heaven given among men
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by which we must be saved."
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Folks, what the world
needs is not more religion,
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it needs more of Christ.
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And what Cuba
needs, what America needs,
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what Australia
needs, what the world needs
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is the gospel of
the Lord Jesus Christ,
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and that's the power
of God unto salvation.
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Now what happens when
people get rid of Jesus?
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Let me talk to
you a bit about this.
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I've been to Russia,
I got to think hard now,
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been to Russia and Ukraine
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47 times.
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I went there during
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the collapse of
the Soviet Union.
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What did I see?
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As communism, as
atheism collapsed,
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I saw tremendous poverty,
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tremendous alcoholism.
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I saw thousands and
thousands of orphans.
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I saw people literally starving.
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That's life without God,
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life without Christ.
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The Soviets kicked God out.
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Read what
Alexander Solzhenitsyn said,
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"We have forgotten God
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and all these
things have come upon us."
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So I want to say to
the television audience,
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I want to say to
the young people,
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the happiest people,
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the most blessed people
on the face of the earth
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are not the unbelievers
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but the people
who believe in Christ,
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and who believe in the Bible.
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I'm telling you, come over here
to Deuteronomy 28:2 down to 6,
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Deuteronomy 28:2 down to 6,
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Deuteronomy 28:2 down to 6
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and the Bible says,
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"And all these
blessings shall come upon you
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and overtake you,
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because you obey the
voice of the Lord your God:
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'Blessed shall
you be in the city,
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and blessed shall
you be in the country.
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Blessed shall be
the fruit of your body,
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the produce of your ground
and the increase of your herds,
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the increase of your cattle
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and the
offspring of your flocks.
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Blessed shall be your
basket and your kneading bowl.
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Blessed shall you
be when you come in,
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and blessed shall be
you, you be when you go out.'
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" Listen,
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the best countries in the world
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are not the atheistic countries.
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Listening to me,
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the best countries in the world
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are not the atheistic countries.
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They're not the
communistic countries,
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they're not the pagan countries.
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They're the countries
where the people believe in God,
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and they
believe in Jesus Christ.
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But when the
Soviets got rid of God,
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it brought hell.
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So what did we do in
Cuba, we ran campaigns.
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A sponsored
campaigns around the island,
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I ran in the city of Havana.
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We ran campaigns
in Guantanamo Bay.
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You know about this?
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Guantanamo Bay,
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we had a tremendous
campaign in Guantanamo Bay.
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No advertising allowed
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but the people
came by the thousands.
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I was asked to preach
with my little team in Havana,
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in a part of Havana
that is called, this is true,
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the Viper,
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the Viper.
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We went to this place
that is actually called
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the Viper.
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The church there is
called the church of the Viper.
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Hard to believe it, isn't it?
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Because it is a place
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that has been given over
to spiritism and demonism.
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And every night people
stood outside on the streets,
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people who came
from the religion
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of the Viper
praying to their gods
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that we would be destroyed.
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So we preached
under difficulties,
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but I want you to know
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we had the power of God with us
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and the power
of the Holy Spirit.
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Now I have some testimonies
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from some of the people
who came to the meetings.
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We saw all of
these young people,
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all of these beautiful people,
00:20:05.33\00:20:06.77
now I have these testimonies
00:20:06.80\00:20:09.54
which are hot from the
hearts of these people.
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I want you to listen to them.
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Glory be to God,
beautiful people.
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Now we have with
us today Alan De Leon.
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He was member of our team.
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Alan, I want you to come
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and tell the people from
your heart and your soul.
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What impression you
got from Castro's Cuba?
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Glad to have you
here. Thank you so much.
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Tell us about it?
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What impressed me
the most specifically was
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just the warmth and the greeting
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that we received
from the people there.
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Every night they
would come packed
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into these really
uncomfortable wooden pews,
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really squeezed together,
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sometimes they'll be
sitting on each other's laps,
00:22:21.27\00:22:23.17
just to hear your preaching.
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During the actual programs
00:22:24.91\00:22:26.68
there would be this
hush over the crowd,
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where the only thing you
could hear is the buzzing
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from the electricity
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and the humming from the fans.
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But the people stayed,
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nobody wanted to
get up and leave early.
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It was just such a
overwhelming positive response.
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Hallelujah. Yes.
00:22:39.82\00:22:41.16
We saw the power of God
and you were a blessing heart.
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Thank you.
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We also ran a
school of evangelism.
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We brought in the pastors
right across this great island,
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140 pastors.
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This was a wonderful experience.
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I just want to tell
you, folks, something
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the salt has not lost its savor.
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And I'm going to
show you now a report
00:23:05.38\00:23:08.22
and here we got
some of the pastors
00:23:08.25\00:23:10.82
and Beverley standing with
me down in front these folks.
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Here is the pastor
from Guantanamo Bay.
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Now
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here is the message on location
about the school of evangelism.
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Hi, there I'm John
Carter in Havana, Cuba,
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this communist fortress.
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We're here to preach the
gospel of Christ to the public,
00:23:32.64\00:23:35.94
but more than this
00:23:35.98\00:23:37.41
we are running a
school of evangelism
00:23:37.45\00:23:40.02
and biblical studies
for the Cuban pastors.
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One hundred and forty pastors
00:23:43.95\00:23:45.95
coming right across
this wonderful island,
00:23:45.99\00:23:50.03
and they're coming
to join with us to study
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how best we can meet the
needs of the Cuban people.
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The Cuban people are just
the most wonderful people,
00:23:57.70\00:24:00.80
they're warm, friendly,
00:24:00.84\00:24:02.70
and I'm amazed that in
the meetings every night
00:24:02.74\00:24:05.14
that we're taking,
00:24:05.17\00:24:06.64
that I think most
of the people there
00:24:06.68\00:24:09.51
are young people.
00:24:09.54\00:24:11.01
Now, of course
when I say young people
00:24:11.05\00:24:12.68
I mean people up to
say, 35 years of age,
00:24:12.71\00:24:16.95
they are young to me.
00:24:16.99\00:24:18.52
But they're so warm,
and they're so receptive.
00:24:18.55\00:24:22.02
And when they come forward
night by night to accept Jesus,
00:24:22.06\00:24:25.73
they come with
tremendous sincerity.
00:24:25.76\00:24:28.36
So what a privilege it is
to be here in the land of Cuba.
00:24:28.40\00:24:32.83
But remember to
pray for the pastors,
00:24:32.87\00:24:36.47
140 pastors are
coming from Guantanamo Bay
00:24:36.50\00:24:41.04
and other places,
00:24:41.08\00:24:42.41
right across this island nation.
00:24:42.44\00:24:44.81
They're coming to
join forces with us.
00:24:44.85\00:24:46.92
Think of this,
00:24:46.95\00:24:48.28
they're coming from
Guantanamo Bay and everywhere.
00:24:48.32\00:24:52.02
We're going to meet
with them, study with them,
00:24:52.05\00:24:53.99
pray with them
00:24:54.02\00:24:55.36
to device the best means
00:24:55.39\00:24:57.66
of reaching this nation
for the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:24:57.69\00:25:02.20
And thank you for
being my special partner.
00:25:02.23\00:25:05.57
Folks,
00:25:09.57\00:25:11.34
we're not finished with Cuba.
00:25:11.37\00:25:13.14
This is just a start.
00:25:14.18\00:25:16.54
We want to flood that
island with thousands,
00:25:16.58\00:25:19.78
hundreds of thousands
of gospel filled DVDs.
00:25:19.81\00:25:23.35
We can do it.
00:25:23.39\00:25:24.89
We can get permission to do it.
00:25:24.92\00:25:26.49
Not one Cuban
pastor has got a motor car.
00:25:26.52\00:25:29.86
All got bicycles.
00:25:29.89\00:25:32.29
Lot of those
bicycles broken down.
00:25:32.33\00:25:35.33
We want to give the
pastors new bicycles.
00:25:35.36\00:25:39.13
We want to put into
their hands the tools
00:25:39.17\00:25:42.40
to reach this
country for Christ.
00:25:42.44\00:25:46.47
So we're just back
from communist Cuba.
00:25:46.51\00:25:50.21
What can we say?
00:25:50.25\00:25:51.71
We've seen more
than 900 souls baptized
00:25:51.75\00:25:55.38
and we say,
glory be to the Father
00:25:55.42\00:25:58.39
and to the Son and
to the Holy Spirit,
00:25:58.42\00:26:01.86
amen and amen.
00:26:01.89\00:26:04.99
Hi, I'm John Carter.
00:26:16.44\00:26:18.54
My wife Beverley and I
were watching television
00:26:18.57\00:26:20.71
the other night watching
the news, American news.
00:26:20.74\00:26:24.05
They told us that the
church in North America
00:26:24.08\00:26:26.38
is actually shrinking.
00:26:26.41\00:26:28.32
They said that atheism
00:26:28.35\00:26:29.68
is the fastest growing
religious movement today
00:26:29.72\00:26:32.05
in North America.
00:26:32.09\00:26:33.69
And people are saying,
00:26:33.72\00:26:35.06
what on earth can we
do to save the church?
00:26:35.09\00:26:37.56
Well, of course
Christ died for the church,
00:26:37.59\00:26:39.39
he saves the church.
00:26:39.43\00:26:40.83
But what they mean is
00:26:40.86\00:26:42.20
how can we keep the
church as a vibrant force
00:26:42.23\00:26:44.87
in the world
today, in Australia,
00:26:44.90\00:26:46.67
in America and in Europe
and in the rest of the world?
00:26:46.70\00:26:49.64
Let me tell you a little story.
00:26:49.67\00:26:51.31
John Wesley was one
of the greatest preachers
00:26:51.34\00:26:53.61
that the English
speaking world has ever heard.
00:26:53.64\00:26:56.68
John Wesley came up on
the scene of the church
00:26:56.71\00:26:59.81
in England a few
hundred years ago
00:26:59.85\00:27:01.68
when the church was dying.
00:27:01.72\00:27:03.25
Like the church today,
it was a shrinking church,
00:27:03.28\00:27:07.22
but the people in the church
were in a state of denial.
00:27:07.26\00:27:09.72
They refused to
accept the reality
00:27:09.76\00:27:12.16
that the church was dying.
00:27:12.19\00:27:13.76
John Wesley did something that
00:27:13.80\00:27:15.70
other people
said couldn't be done.
00:27:15.73\00:27:17.67
He revived the church
through public evangelism,
00:27:17.70\00:27:21.37
did you hear that?
00:27:21.40\00:27:22.74
He started to preach
Christ, he preached the Bible
00:27:22.77\00:27:25.84
and he preached out
of doors and indoors
00:27:25.87\00:27:28.41
and the church was saved.
00:27:28.44\00:27:30.78
Not only did he
save a lot of souls,
00:27:30.81\00:27:33.15
the souls of sinners,
00:27:33.18\00:27:34.65
he saved the
souls of the saints.
00:27:34.68\00:27:38.95
Please join me my
friend in evangelism.
00:27:38.99\00:27:44.13
It's what Jesus did.
00:27:44.16\00:27:46.29
Write to me John Carter,
00:27:46.33\00:27:47.66
PO Box 1900,
Thousand Oaks, California.
00:27:47.70\00:27:51.60
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to me at the address
00:27:51.63\00:27:54.40
on the screen at
Terrigal in New South Wales.
00:27:54.44\00:27:58.77
Join me my friend
in preaching Christ.
00:27:58.81\00:28:02.71
Join me in public
evangelism around the world.
00:28:02.74\00:28:07.95
Thank you in Jesus name.
00:28:07.98\00:28:10.32
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00:28:18.83\00:28:21.03
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