The Carter Report
presents "Living Victoriously".
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Secrets of Success
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from Prime Minister
Daniel of Babylon city
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with your host, John Carter.
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So glad to have you folks back.
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This is the second
part of the series,
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"Living Victoriously".
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We're talking today
from the book of Daniel,
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Daniel 1, where these young guys
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were discovered to
be ten times better.
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We read the story
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in the last part
of the first program.
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We had Daniel,
Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
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and they
purposed in their hearts
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that they would follow God.
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And the Bible tells us
that God so blessed them
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that they ended up
being ten times better.
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And what we're trying to get
across to every person today,
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you folks
watching on television,
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to the studio
audience, is this great truth
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that if you and I
purpose in our hearts
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that we're going to do
what God wants us to do,
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God is going to bless us,
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and we're going to
be ten times better.
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We're going to be victorious
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and we are not
going to be victims.
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What I'm trying to
tell you today is this,
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we don't have to go through life
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with a complex and
say, "I'm a victim.
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I was born with
this sort of color,
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or I was born in this society.
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I was born in this country.
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I was born with
this deprived education.
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Therefore, I can
never, never get ahead."
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I want you to know,
with a blessing of God,
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you can be ten times better
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than you can even
imagine you could be.
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Ten times better.
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And so today, what we're doing?
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We're talking about
living victoriously.
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Never victims, always victors
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and remember the
great theme text is,
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he purposed,
this is from Daniel 1,
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"He purposed in his heart
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that he would
not defile himself."
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And the story ends up,
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he's ten times better.
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I told you folks in the
last part of the first talk
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about Desmond Doss.
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He was just a boy of the farm,
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just a boy from some little town
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in the Midwest,
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in the United States of America.
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He didn't have a big education.
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He didn't really come
from a privileged background.
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He wanted to get in the army
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because he was
an American patriot,
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just a young guy like Daniel.
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Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah
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that we're reading
about today in Daniel 1.
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And he who got this young guy
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off this farm
from a troubled home,
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and he purposes in his heart
that he's going to follow God.
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He goes in the army,
and he won't carry a rifle
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because of his
religious convictions.
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He's persecuted.
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The people, the
soldiers who worked with him
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before he got into battle,
they thought he was a weirdo
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but the time came
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when his battalion
wouldn't go into battle
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unless Doss went with them.
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I guess most of you folks
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have seen the
movie "Hacksaw Ridge",
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it's a story of a young guy
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from a poor background
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who became a
mighty soldier for God
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because he
purposed in his heart.
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God blessed him.
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He got the
Congressional Medal of Honor.
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He saved on this
occasion, 75 soldiers.
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He was wounded
four times himself.
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This young Seventh-day Adventist
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non-conformist
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and Harry Truman
gave him the highest award
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that you can give,
Congressional Medal of Honor.
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His fellow
soldiers held him almost,
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you know, not almost but in awe
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because of his
courage and his integrity
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and because he
just shined like a star.
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He was ten times better.
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I want to say
to the young people
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watching the telecast today,
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I want to say to
our studio audience,
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God can do
amazing things for you
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if you believe in Him
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and if you purpose in your heart
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and if you put God
first, like Martin Luther.
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Now you all know
about Martin Luther
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who stood before the
Imperial Diet at Worms,
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and Martin Luther who
had purposed in his heart
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that he would
not defile himself.
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And who was determined
that he was going to follow God.
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You know the story.
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They tried to
kill Martin Luther.
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They tried to get rid of him.
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The great movement got going
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and that movement
swept around the world.
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Now I want to tell
you folks something,
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the people who follow the
teachings of Martin Luther,
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that is Sola
Scriptura, only the Bible,
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only Christ, only grace,
only faith, those nations,
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I want you to know this,
they became ten times better.
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I want you to know it.
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They became ten times better.
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Have you ever wondered this?
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I don't want to
sound nationalistic
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but have you ever wondered this?
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Why does America have
an immigration problem?
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Russia doesn't.
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People are not lined
up beating down the walls.
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They don't have to build
a wall around Russia, folks,
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people are trying to get out.
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But people have
been coming to America
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for a long, long, long time.
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You know why?
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Because this nation was
founded on the teachings,
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this is controversial.
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It is the truth.
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This nation was not
founded by atheists.
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It was founded by people
who believed in the Bible.
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And they believed in
Sola Christus, only Christ,
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only scripture, only grace.
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Why do you think they're trying
to get up from Latin America
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and everywhere else?
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Why are they talking
about building this big wall?
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And not trying to
do that in Russia?
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They're doing it
because people have realized
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that this country
has got something better
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and it's got something better
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because it was founded
upon the teachings of the Bible.
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This is the truth.
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I know there are
lots of secular people now
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in the United States of America
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and they're trying to do
away with America's heritage.
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We don't believe this stuff.
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Listen, this
country has been better
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because it was founded
upon a better foundation.
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And that's why
people have come here.
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That's why it's
been ten times better.
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Because, now this is
very politically incorrect
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but so be it,
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because it was founded
as a Protestant country.
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You all heard of Abraham,
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you know the story of Abraham,
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and we're talking
about living victoriously,
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being ten times better,
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and we're going to
go along to Abraham.
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Here comes Abraham.
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Here he is.
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You know the story of Abraham.
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Now God called him out of
a barren part of the world.
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Told him to go
into a place by faith
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and then, he had a lot of trials
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and one of the biggest trials,
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he was told to
offer up his son, Isaac.
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But you know the
story of Abraham.
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Abraham purposed in his heart,
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whatever God told him
to do, he's going to do.
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Now you can be like
most people in the world,
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you can say, "I'm just
going to go with the crowd."
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The crowd stands for mediocrity.
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The crowd put
Christ on the cross,
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don't forget it.
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But the people whom God
has blessed in this world
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have been
individuals who stood up for God
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and for what they believe in.
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Martin Luther, Desmond Doss,
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Daniel, Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego,
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and this man here.
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And the Bible tells us
something about this man.
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If you come over
here to Hebrews 11:12,
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please come over
here to Hebrews 11:12.
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The Bible says,
"Therefore from one man,
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and him as good as dead,
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from a man as good as dead,
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were born as many as the
stars of the sky in multitude
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innumerable as the sand
which is by the seashore."
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You know, God provided a lamb
in the place of his son Isaac.
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But here is a man,
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almost a better one.
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Nobody would have
known anything about him.
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But because Abraham decided
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that he would follow God
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and stand up for God
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because he
purposed in his heart.
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And because he was
not a mediocre conformist,
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like most folks.
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God blessed him.
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He became the
father of the faithful.
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Millions and
millions of children.
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The Muslims look to him.
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The Jews look to him,
they call him "Father."
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The Christians look back to him.
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God didn't bless him ten times,
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God blessed him a million times.
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What am I trying
to tell you, folks?
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If you purpose in
your heart like Daniel,
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these three young guys,
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if you decide to step out
of the crowd and to follow God,
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that is going to bless you.
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He's gonna make
you ten times better.
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You know the story
of Jacob and Laban.
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Laban was a tight-fisted beggar.
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Laban with just a tight,
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just a tight, and
mean, nasty sort of person
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and here's Jacob,
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who later was called
Israel, Prince of God.
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He's working for him.
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And this mean old Laban,
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he's got the meanest streak,
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he's got the streak
of the camel in him.
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So mean.
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He changes his wages ten times,
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the Bible said, "Ten times."
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Jacob says, "I've had
it, I'm going to leave."
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Laban says, "Y'all, just stay.
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Name your wages."
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Well, he said,
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"No, I don't want
you to pay me anything,
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just let me pass
through your flock
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and let me take out
the ones that are speckled.
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The ones that are brown
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and the ones that are striped,
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let me have those."
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Laban says, "This
is the deal of deals."
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He said, "I don't
want those things.
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Anyhow you're
going to have them,
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you take them all."
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And so he gets
the deformed ones,
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the sick ones.
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And he gets the blessing of God.
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You know what happened?
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When Jacob says, "You're going
to have those sort of sheep,
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those goats."
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They multiply like crazy.
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Then he changes
the wages ten times,
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he says, "No, I made a mistake,
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you can have those
sheep and those goats,"
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and they multiply ten times.
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Jacob has his name
changed a bit later on.
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It's changed from
Jacob, the Supplanter,
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and he becomes
Israel, the Prince of God.
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No, he's not ten times
better, thousand times better.
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Why?
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Because God blessed him.
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Because he
purposed in his heart.
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I want you to come over
here if you don't mind, please.
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Genesis 30
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and we're going to
read a few texts there
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in the book of Genesis.
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Genesis 30:30,
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where it talks about the
man who became ten times better.
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"For what you had
before I came was little,
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it has increased
to a great amount,
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the Lord has blessed
you since my coming,"
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If you can get a
person who believes in God,
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you better get
that person on side,
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you see, better
employ that person.
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"And now, 'when
shall I also provide
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for my own house?'
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So he said, 'What
shall I give you?'
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And Jacob said, 'You
shall not give me anything.
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If you will do
this thing for me,
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I will again feed
and keep your flocks.
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Let me pass through
all your flock today,
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removing from
there all the speckled
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and spotted sheep,
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and all the brown
ones among the lambs,
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and the spotted and
speckled among the goats,
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and these shall be my wages.'"
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Give me the losers.
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"Thus the man became
exceedingly prosperous,
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and had large flocks,
female and male servants,
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and camels and donkeys."
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How do you figure that out?
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He got that which
nobody else wanted.
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And look at me,
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if you don't
understand this principle,
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it's because you
don't know about God.
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But if you
understand this principle,
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your life is
going to be changed.
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The blessing of God makes rich.
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Now I can give a testimony.
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I wasn't planning to,
but I'm going to give it.
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The Carter Report
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is not the biggest
ministry in the world,
00:15:08.94\00:15:11.54
but God has blessed us.
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Ten times, ten times, ten times,
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ten times, ten times, ten times.
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Yeah, we've
been able to do stuff
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that other people can't do.
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That wealthy
organizations can't do,
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they just, they say,
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"We can't do it,
it's impossible."
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They say, "We
don't have the money."
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We say, "We don't have it
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but we serve the
God with the money.
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We serve the
person with the money.
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We serve the
man with the money."
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I had a person
come into my office
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here in
Moorpark, little while ago.
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He's a big American businessman.
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He said, "You must
be a good businessman."
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I said, "I'm not a
businessman at all,
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I'm flat at being a pastor."
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He said, "How can you pay?
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How do you pay for all of this?
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How can you run these huge
big evangelistic campaigns?"
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I said, "Because
I believe in the God
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who makes us ten times better.
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He blesses us."
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Like He blessed
in the last program.
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Dr Hammond, how He
blessed the doctor?
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Ten times better.
00:16:26.38\00:16:28.28
Abraham, how He blessed?
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Daniel, became
the Prime minister.
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You know what our problem is?
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We don't have enough faith.
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Most of us are just talk.
00:16:36.86\00:16:39.66
You know what I'm
saying? Most of us just talk.
00:16:39.69\00:16:43.57
But God wants to
make you ten times better.
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God's blessing will
make you ten times better.
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Look at this.
00:16:48.40\00:16:49.74
God's blessing will
make you ten times better.
00:16:49.77\00:16:52.67
Then there was Joseph.
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You know the story of Joseph?
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He was a bit like Daniel.
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His brothers got jealous of him.
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Joseph was a bit uppity,
00:17:01.32\00:17:03.22
you know, he started
to tell them more stories
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about people bowing down to him,
00:17:06.05\00:17:08.06
that got them a bit mad,
00:17:08.09\00:17:09.42
so they threw him in a pit.
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And then they
sold him to some people
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going down to the land of Egypt.
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Then he got a job
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with a man by the
name of Mr. Potiphar.
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And when he got into that place,
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this young guy was so blessed
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that the whole
household was blessed.
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So I tell you,
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I want to take
people into my organization
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like that person
because when they come in,
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they'll bring a blessing.
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I don't want somebody coming in
who's going to bring a cursing.
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I want somebody who
comes with a blessing.
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So God blessed out of his house.
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But you know the old story.
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There is a woman involved.
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And the Bible says,
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"This young man was handsome
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and she was wicked."
00:18:04.58\00:18:09.65
And she tried to
seduce him because she said,
00:18:09.68\00:18:12.62
'This young guy is
ten times better.'"
00:18:12.65\00:18:16.83
And he had
nothing to do with her,
00:18:16.86\00:18:18.86
he ran away.
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Left his cloak
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which was not
probably the best thing to do.
00:18:23.33\00:18:25.80
Left his cloak and
when Mr. Potiphar got down,
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out she came and she said,
00:18:28.87\00:18:30.21
"This Hebrew
servant that you brought in,
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he tried to rape me."
00:18:32.21\00:18:33.54
So, poor young
Joseph, he's just a boy,
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hasn't got white hair like me.
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So they throw him in
prison, he's there for years.
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Bad things
happen to good people.
00:18:48.56\00:18:50.89
You don't complain
00:18:54.06\00:18:55.40
because something
bad happens to you,
00:18:55.43\00:18:56.77
that's a lot of people.
00:18:56.80\00:18:58.13
Life wasn't meant to be easy.
00:18:58.17\00:18:59.80
Life wasn't meant to
make us into crybabies.
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Hear what I'm saying?
00:19:03.54\00:19:04.87
God doesn't want crybabies.
00:19:04.91\00:19:08.21
God is breeding man,
00:19:08.24\00:19:10.28
you know what I'm saying?
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And ladies too.
00:19:11.88\00:19:14.68
So he's in
prison there for years.
00:19:14.72\00:19:17.65
Then a couple of guys get
thrown there from the king,
00:19:17.69\00:19:22.29
the baker, and the butler.
00:19:22.32\00:19:24.33
You know the story,
and they have these dreams.
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You can't keep a good man down.
00:19:29.26\00:19:31.20
So Joseph interprets
the dreams but when the man,
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the butler, when he
gets back into the King,
00:19:35.74\00:19:38.44
back to Pharaoh,
back to the King's palace,
00:19:38.47\00:19:40.64
he forgets all about
this young guy in the prison.
00:19:40.68\00:19:44.91
But God didn't forget him.
00:19:44.95\00:19:47.62
Then the King has a dream.
00:19:47.65\00:19:49.12
You know the dream, Pharaoh.
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Pharaoh has a
dream, Pharaoh has a dream
00:19:51.25\00:19:54.16
and he dreams
about the fat sheep
00:19:54.19\00:19:57.56
and the skinny sheep.
00:19:57.59\00:20:00.46
You know the story.
00:20:00.50\00:20:01.83
Dreams about this dream.
00:20:01.86\00:20:04.70
And then the butler
gets over his amnesia
00:20:04.73\00:20:08.20
and he says,
"When I was a bad man
00:20:08.24\00:20:11.04
and I was in prison,
00:20:11.07\00:20:12.41
I met there a young
guy by the name of Joseph."
00:20:12.44\00:20:17.78
And the King
says, "Bring him to me."
00:20:17.81\00:20:20.32
So they shave him.
00:20:20.35\00:20:22.88
Make him clean,
00:20:22.92\00:20:24.95
and put some deodorant on him.
00:20:24.99\00:20:28.76
And they bring
him into the palace
00:20:28.79\00:20:30.66
and the Bible tells,
00:20:30.69\00:20:32.56
Joseph becomes
00:20:32.59\00:20:35.53
the Prime Minister of Egypt.
00:20:35.56\00:20:40.30
Amazing,
00:20:40.34\00:20:43.30
and he saves the world
00:20:43.34\00:20:45.61
because he feeds
them the bread of life.
00:20:45.64\00:20:50.51
Amazing, not ten times
better, hundred times better.
00:20:50.55\00:20:53.98
What's wrong with some of us?
00:20:54.02\00:20:56.79
Living such little
tiny sniffling lives
00:20:56.82\00:21:00.39
because we don't have any faith.
00:21:00.42\00:21:04.29
There's a text,
talks about this,
00:21:04.33\00:21:07.23
Joseph, bit later on
meets up with his brothers,
00:21:07.26\00:21:11.27
Genesis 41:41-43,
00:21:11.30\00:21:15.24
"Pharaoh said to Joseph,"
00:21:15.27\00:21:17.17
going back a little bit,
we're gonna read it though.
00:21:17.21\00:21:18.81
"'See, I have set you
over all the land of Egypt.'
00:21:18.84\00:21:21.81
Then Pharaoh took his
signet ring off his hand
00:21:21.84\00:21:25.28
and put it on Joseph's hand,
00:21:25.31\00:21:27.85
he clothed him in
garments of fine linen,
00:21:27.88\00:21:30.52
put a gold
chain around his neck.
00:21:30.55\00:21:32.79
Had him ride in
the second chariot
00:21:32.82\00:21:35.42
which he had,
00:21:35.46\00:21:36.79
and they cried out
before him, 'Bow the knee!'
00:21:36.83\00:21:41.16
'Bow the knee!'
00:21:41.20\00:21:42.76
So he set him over
all the land of Egypt."
00:21:42.80\00:21:45.27
Prime Minister, next to Pharaoh.
00:21:45.30\00:21:48.80
And then a little bit
later, he meets his brothers,
00:21:48.84\00:21:53.04
and that, the
brothers who had done him in.
00:21:53.07\00:21:56.04
Genesis 50:20-21.
00:21:56.08\00:21:59.25
Genesis 50, he
says to his brothers,
00:21:59.28\00:22:02.88
"'But as for you, you
meant evil against me,
00:22:02.92\00:22:06.45
but God meant it for good,
00:22:06.49\00:22:09.19
in order to bring it
about as it is this day,
00:22:09.22\00:22:12.69
to save many people alive.
00:22:12.73\00:22:14.83
Now therefore, do not be afraid,
00:22:14.86\00:22:18.97
I will provide for
you and your little ones.'
00:22:19.00\00:22:23.71
And he comforted them
and spoke kindly to them."
00:22:23.74\00:22:28.34
You know what he said?
00:22:28.38\00:22:30.45
He didn't say, "I got lucky."
00:22:30.48\00:22:32.88
He says, "You meant
evil. God made it for good."
00:22:32.91\00:22:37.45
People can mean evil to you,
00:22:37.49\00:22:42.36
doesn't matter.
00:22:42.39\00:22:44.56
God can make you
ten times better,
00:22:44.59\00:22:47.00
ten times better.
00:22:47.03\00:22:48.96
They can mean evil,
00:22:49.00\00:22:50.33
but God can turn
the evil into good.
00:22:50.37\00:22:52.10
It's happened in my own life.
00:22:52.13\00:22:53.47
One of my favorite
characters is Moses,
00:22:56.47\00:23:00.64
you know, Charlton
Heston played Moses.
00:23:00.68\00:23:03.11
My sister said Charlton Heston
was more Moses than Moses.
00:23:03.14\00:23:08.78
But there was Moses
00:23:08.82\00:23:11.35
in the cart of
the great Pharaoh.
00:23:11.39\00:23:13.59
I've studied this
period in Egyptian history,
00:23:17.39\00:23:19.83
I know it pretty well,
I know all the Pharaohs.
00:23:19.86\00:23:22.70
I've met quite a few
of them face to face.
00:23:22.73\00:23:26.77
I've been into the Cairo museum,
00:23:26.80\00:23:30.01
the great Cairo museum
00:23:30.04\00:23:32.71
and I have been
into the Royal Mummy Room
00:23:32.74\00:23:38.95
with my team, with Dr. Hawass,
00:23:38.98\00:23:43.25
the great
director of antiquities
00:23:43.28\00:23:46.09
for the land of Egypt.
00:23:46.12\00:23:47.99
I was in suitable company.
00:23:48.02\00:23:51.49
And when I was there,
00:23:51.53\00:23:54.16
I went and I
looked at my old friend,
00:23:54.20\00:23:58.07
Ramesses the Great.
00:23:58.10\00:24:03.37
And I saw, they
say, people said,
00:24:03.41\00:24:05.67
"Are these the real guys?"
00:24:05.71\00:24:07.04
Yeah, they're the real guys.
00:24:07.08\00:24:08.41
Fair dinkum, true-blue,
they're the real guys.
00:24:08.44\00:24:13.31
I saw also there,
00:24:13.35\00:24:15.18
Hatshepsut, possibly
the foster mother of Moses,
00:24:15.22\00:24:19.09
Ahmose, Thutmose III,
00:24:19.12\00:24:22.22
the great Pharaoh who said,
"I will not let Israel go."
00:24:22.26\00:24:27.30
But I never saw Moses.
00:24:27.33\00:24:29.16
He could have been the Pharaoh.
00:24:29.20\00:24:31.93
But Pharaoh Moses
as he could have been
00:24:31.97\00:24:35.77
is not in the Cairo
museum, he's in heaven today.
00:24:35.80\00:24:42.31
You know why?
00:24:42.34\00:24:45.05
Like Daniel,
purposed in his heart...
00:24:45.08\00:24:47.72
like Abraham,
purposed in his heart,
00:24:51.12\00:24:55.99
"I will serve God."
00:24:56.02\00:24:59.03
And he did.
00:24:59.06\00:25:01.46
And Moses is not
ten times better,
00:25:01.50\00:25:06.33
he's a trillion,
trillion, trillion times better
00:25:06.37\00:25:09.60
and those young Hebrew men back
in the days of Nebuchadnezzar,
00:25:09.64\00:25:15.14
one of them eventually
00:25:15.18\00:25:17.78
became the Prime
Minister of Babylon.
00:25:17.81\00:25:23.02
His friends became
00:25:23.05\00:25:25.85
Secretary for
this foreign affairs,
00:25:25.89\00:25:30.23
person in charge of
HUD, and Minister of Defense.
00:25:30.26\00:25:36.93
Ten times better.
00:25:36.97\00:25:40.17
Do not sell yourself short.
00:25:40.20\00:25:41.80
Some of you are
selling yourself short.
00:25:41.84\00:25:45.74
You are not
reaching your potential.
00:25:45.77\00:25:48.68
God wants to bless you.
00:25:48.71\00:25:52.91
God has called
us not to failure.
00:25:52.95\00:25:56.89
God has called us to greatness.
00:25:56.92\00:26:01.66
With the blessing of God,
00:26:01.69\00:26:03.86
His people are ten times better.
00:26:03.89\00:26:09.83
Amen.
00:26:09.86\00:26:11.20
Hi, there. I'm John
Carter in Havana, Cuba.
00:26:17.27\00:26:20.04
This is communist fortress.
00:26:20.08\00:26:22.34
We are here to
preach the gospel of Christ
00:26:22.38\00:26:24.41
to the public
00:26:24.45\00:26:25.78
but more than this,
00:26:25.81\00:26:27.15
we are running a
School of Evangelism
00:26:27.18\00:26:29.68
and Biblical Studies
for the Cuban pastors,
00:26:29.72\00:26:34.06
140 pastors coming
00:26:34.09\00:26:36.73
from right across
this wonderful island
00:26:36.76\00:26:40.13
and they're
coming to join with us,
00:26:40.16\00:26:41.76
to study how best
00:26:41.80\00:26:43.67
we can meet the
needs of the Cuban people.
00:26:43.70\00:26:47.80
The Cuban people are just
the most wonderful people.
00:26:47.84\00:26:50.84
They're warm and friendly,
00:26:50.87\00:26:52.94
and I'm amazed that in
the meetings every night
00:26:52.97\00:26:55.14
that we are taking,
00:26:55.18\00:26:56.85
that I think most
of the people there,
00:26:56.88\00:26:59.51
are young people.
00:26:59.55\00:27:01.18
Now, of course,
when I say, young people,
00:27:01.22\00:27:02.78
I mean people up to
say, 35 years of age.
00:27:02.82\00:27:07.16
They're young to
me, but they're so warm,
00:27:07.19\00:27:10.13
and they're so receptive,
00:27:10.16\00:27:12.09
and when they come forward
night by night to accept Jesus,
00:27:12.13\00:27:15.73
they come with
tremendous sincerity,
00:27:15.76\00:27:18.40
so what a
privilege it is to be here
00:27:18.43\00:27:20.44
in the land of Cuba.
00:27:20.47\00:27:23.04
But remember to
pray for the pastors,
00:27:23.07\00:27:26.51
140 pastors are
coming from Guantanamo Bay
00:27:26.54\00:27:31.21
and other places right
across this island nation.
00:27:31.25\00:27:34.95
They're coming to
join forces with us.
00:27:34.98\00:27:36.95
Think of this, they're
coming from Guantanamo Bay
00:27:36.99\00:27:40.72
and everywhere, we're
going to meet with them,
00:27:40.76\00:27:43.12
study with them, pray with them,
00:27:43.16\00:27:45.43
to devise the best
means of reaching this nation
00:27:45.46\00:27:50.23
for the Lord Jesus Christ,
00:27:50.27\00:27:52.27
and thank you for
being my special partner.
00:27:52.30\00:27:55.44
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