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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Welcome today to
the Carter Report.
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This is part four of this
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great new series
"Living Victoriously".
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And we give you a
huge welcome today.
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We're just so glad to
see you here in our studio.
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The topic is
recovery from humiliation,
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insanity, and
financial disaster.
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How to get back on top
when the bottom falls out?
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Years ago, when Beverley
and I were young people,
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we were sent in
Australia to North Queensland.
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In Australia, as you
go north it gets hotter,
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and as you go
south it gets colder.
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So right down
southern Australia,
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you have the Australian Alps,
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where you have a huge
amount of snow in winter,
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not much snow on summer.
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But you have a
vast amount of snow
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where people go
skiing in wintertime,
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but in the north it's a
land of water buffalo...
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Ever seen those things?
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Water buffalo weighs about a ton
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and also the biggest
crocodiles in the world.
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We were sent to a
town by the name of Mackay.
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And we were running,
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what was called in
those days a mission.
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A mission is
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when you had a mission to
do something great for God.
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I've heard people,
when I've come to America
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and they say, they're
running an evangelist campaign
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and they say,
they're running an effort.
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My goodness.
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"What are you doing?"
"I'm running an effort.
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It's such an effort to do..."
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We don't run efforts for God.
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Anything we do for God is
a privilege and a pleasure.
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You know, not doing an effort
but we were running a mission.
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And this beautiful
couple with their children
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came along to the
mission in the town of Mackay.
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Remember the town, Beverley.
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Our campaigns in those days
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were like the
everlasting gospel,
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they went on and on and on.
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So a campaign that we
would run in those days
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or a mission
would last six months,
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twice a week.
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And we would visit everybody
who came to the campaign,
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at least 25 times.
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We just visited, and
visited, and visited.
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And when I visited this home,
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I could see this
young woman was having
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real, real mental difficulties.
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The whole family,
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they were terribly
concerned about her.
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She was a young mother
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and she had all the
symptoms of a mental disorder.
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She was anxious,
she was depressed,
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and worse than
that, she was confused.
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The husband was
just worried to death.
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I saw something happened
there as a young minister
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that I had never
ever seen before.
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As she started
to read the Bible,
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and I teach
people read the Bible.
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I have a saying,
"Read your Bible every day."
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If you don't read your Bible,
you're not going to be strong,
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you're going to be weak,
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it's not enough to go to church.
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Sometimes going to church...
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Listen to this, it
can be bad for you.
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If you don't hear
the true gospel of Christ
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preached in church,
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and if you only
get a lot of legalism,
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something like that,
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it's not going
to be good for you.
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And so this young woman,
who'd never gone to church,
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she started coming to church,
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and she started
to read her Bible
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for the first time in her life.
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And we said this to
her, we want you to say this,
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"I am a child of
God, I am important,
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God has a plan for my life."
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So we said to her,
"Look, don't give up,
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God hasn't given up on you."
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Because when
the bottom falls out
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and you're down
below the bottom,
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God is about to do something
extraordinarily good for you.
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And we've got to read these
great fat texts in the Bible,
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like Isaiah 40:26 and onwards.
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And I want you
please to turn with me
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in the
scriptures to Isaiah 40:26
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and onwards
where the Bible says,
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"Lift up your eyes on high,
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and see who has
created these things,
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who brings out
their host by number,
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talking about the stars,
He calls them all by name,
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by the greatness of His might
and the strength of His power,
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not one is missing.
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Why do you say,
O Jacob, and speak,
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O Israel: 'My way is
hidden from the Lord,
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and my just claim is
passed over by my God'?
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Have you not
known? Have you not heard?
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The everlasting God, the Lord,
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the Creator of
the ends of the earth,
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neither faints nor is weary.
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His
understanding is unsearchable.
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He gives power to the weak,
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and to those who have no
might He increases strength.
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Even the youths
shall faint and be weary,
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and the young men
shall utterly fall,
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but those who wait on the
Lord shall renew their strength,
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they shall, this is great,
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they shall mount up
with wings like eagles,
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they shall run and not be weary,
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they shall walk and not faint."
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As this young woman started
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to contemplate
the greatness of God.
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God loves me, I
am a child of God,
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I am important,
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God has a plan and
a purpose for my life,
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I am special in
the sight of God,
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I am a child of the King.
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You know, what
happened to this young woman?
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She is completely healed.
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The healing took some months.
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But by the time the
mission had come to a close,
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she was totally
healed in her mind,
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because she had
been filled with anxiety,
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which had made her distraught.
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But God can heal people
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even when they're
suffering from insanity.
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So many mental
and emotional problems
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are caused by man's lostness.
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Listen to me please.
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There are some great
questions that you've got to ask
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and answer such as, who am I?
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What am I?
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Am I a cosmic accident?
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That what's taught
in the universities.
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Where do I come from?
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Do I come from the slime
from some primordial sea?
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Am I the victim of blind chance?
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Where do I come
from? Why am I here?
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Many people, even people
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who go to church
can't answer that question.
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I have no idea,
why they're here?
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Why am I here?
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Is this all an accident?
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Or do I have an appointment
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with God's divine destiny?
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Why am I here? And
also where am I going?
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Is life the end of existence?
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Is death the penalty
for the crime of being born?
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So you can't
answer those questions,
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you will go crazy.
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A philosophy in almost
every university today,
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in all the secular
universities teaches this,
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this is true.
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Not what they teach
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but it's true
that they teach it.
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Man is the product of
time, plus matter, plus chance.
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Man is a product of time,
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plus matter, plus chance.
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That's why the vast majority
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of evangelical
Christian young people
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who go to universities,
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who are not fortified
with the truth lose their way.
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You see, so they need
not religious propaganda,
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they need to know the truth.
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Man is the product of
time, plus matter, plus chance,
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that is Darwinism.
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Albert Camus, a great
philosopher said this,
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"Up to now, man
derived his coherence
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from his Creator..."
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Our coherence that
which held us together,
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it came from our creator.
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"But from the moment
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that he consecrates
his rupture with him..."
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He consecrates his rupture,
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we're ruptured from
God and he celebrates it.
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"He finds himself delivered
over to the fleeting moment,
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to the passing days,
and to wasted sensibility."
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You want to
understand the big problem
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in the world today,
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it's because man is
not only lost his address
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where he came
from, where he belongs,
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but he's lost his
own personal identity.
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And so he is given over
to the moment of passing days
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and to wasted sensibility.
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You wonder
what's wrong in America.
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Phillip Adams in the Australian
Weekend Review said this.
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"We are as significant
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as the eight
billionth grain of sand
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beyond the final palm
tree in the most distant oasis
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in the Sahara Desert."
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So what is man
worth, if this is true?
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If man is the
product of blind chance,
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then man is worth nothing.
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You better listen to this
because one day your children
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may have to face some things
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and if you don't
have the answers,
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they never will, so listen up.
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The death of God always
leads to the death of man.
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It has been said that
God died in the 19th century
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and man died in the 20th.
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Now today we
have the new insanity,
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it's based on these ideas,
nothing produced everything.
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That's what Richard Dawkins,
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the great evolutionist,
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biologist from
Oxford University teaches
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with a straight face,
nothing, and millions,
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millions in America
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follow Richard Dawkins.
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You know, the biggest, fastest,
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growing religious
moment in North America,
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beside the Muslims, atheism.
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And most churches
do not have the answer.
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They're talking about
little sweet nothings.
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Nothing produced everything.
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Non-life produced life.
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Randomness produced fine-tuning.
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Non-reason produced reason.
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Chaos produced order.
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That is the
doctrine of neo-Darwinism.
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Now I could talk to
you about this at length.
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Let me give you a tiny bit,
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the philosopher
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who most influences Americans
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in their
universities is Nietzsche,
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Friedrich
Nietzsche who wrote the book,
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"The Antichrist".
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I won't talk to you about it,
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but it's all based upon
this and it produces this.
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Marks, who was a German Jew,
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embraced the
teachings of Darwinism.
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He said thank, not
thank God, but thank goodness.
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Now we've got a
scientific reason
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for communism.
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Hitler embraced the
teachings of Nietzsche
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and step with a
copy of their Antichrist
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under his pillow, you know that.
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This led to the greatest
extinction of human beings
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in the history
of the human race,
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a 100 million.
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I've been to places in Russia...
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I don't have time to
talk to you about it,
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where tens of millions
have been tortured to death,
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because of this evil teaching,
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the new atheism
produces the new insanity.
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That doesn't mean
every atheist is crazy,
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but the teachings
bring about craziness.
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It teaches the
doctrine of meaninglessness.
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The greatest
sickness of our times
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is not heart
disease, it is not cancer.
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Those things can
largely be prevented
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if we were smart
enough to eat right.
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The greatest sickness of
our times is meaningless,
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which explains, of course,
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why there are so many
suicides in Hollywood.
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Now today, we're
going to consider
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the story of a very
powerful and wealthy man,
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he went crazy, went insane.
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He lived out in the wilderness
by himself for seven years,
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who acted like an animal,
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and he came back and
got it all back plus some.
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He was the
original comeback kid.
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The most amazing
story in the Bible is found
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in Daniel 4,
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and I want you
to turn to the text
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Daniel, please turn to
the text in the studio.
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Daniel
overcomes spiritual sloth.
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Look up the text.
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Daniel 4:1 and onwards,
"Nebuchadnezzar the king,
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to all peoples,
nations, and languages
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that dwell in all the earth:
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Peace be multiplied to you.
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I thought it good to
declare the signs and wonders
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that the Most High
God has worked for me.
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How great are His signs,
and how mighty His wonders!
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His kingdom is an
everlasting kingdom,
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and His dominion is from
generation to generation.
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I, Nebuchadnezzar,
was at rest in my house,
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and flourishing in my palace."
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This story, of course,
is historically correct.
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I've had a fair bit to do
with biblical archaeology.
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I don't believe in the nonsense
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that's propounded
by very ignorant people
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that you can't believe
the stories of the Bible.
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I believe the
stories of the Bible,
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especially the
stories of Daniel.
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We know that Belshazzar was
as real as any person today.
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We know that Nebuchadnezzar was.
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I've seen the
cuneiform and inscriptions
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with his name written on them.
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So we're not dealing here
with just a made-up story.
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This is a chapter
out of the book called
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"The Rich and the Famous",
you see it on television.
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Nebuchadnezzar
was a billionaire,
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one of the
world's greatest egotists.
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He was like Saddam Hussein.
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I've been to Iraq
on a few occasions
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and I know a bit about this guy,
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who considered himself to
be the new Nebuchadnezzar.
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So when I went there,
they were these vast billboards
00:17:13.23\00:17:17.13
and on one side it
showed Nebuchadnezzar,
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on the other
side it showed Saddam.
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He was a great,
great egotist was Saddam
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like Nebuchadnezzar.
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But remember the old
saying my mother taught me,
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"Pride goes before a fall."
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And she also taught
me about Humpty Dumpty
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who sat on a wall.
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And Humpty
Dumpty had a great fall.
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All the king's horses
and all the king's men
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couldn't put
Humpty together again.
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But I've got news for you today,
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God, yes, God can put...
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God can put
Humpty together again.
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So if you feel like a Humpty,
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there is hope for you.
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Many years ago,
people were talking about
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the doctrine of
the second chance.
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Is God going to give
sinners a second chance?
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But I've got news,
00:18:30.77\00:18:32.11
I believe in the
doctrine of the second chance,
00:18:32.14\00:18:35.38
I believe in the God
of the second chance,
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and the third chance,
and the fourth chance.
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It is simply called grace.
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Would you come
over here to Roman 5:20?
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The God of the second,
the third, and the fourth,
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and the fifth chance,
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but don't die before it happens.
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Romans 5,
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"Moreover the law entered
that the offense might abound.
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But where sin abounded,
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grace abounded much more."
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This is a great truth,
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the great God of the
Bible is the God of grace.
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The Bible says,
"Where sin did abound..."
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In the King James Version,
00:19:32.97\00:19:34.30
which gives it a
little bit better,
00:19:34.34\00:19:36.30
it says, "Grace
did much more abound."
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That's good news for us
00:19:43.24\00:19:44.95
because none of us
deserve to get to heaven.
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None of us.
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We've all been like Humpty,
00:19:50.45\00:19:54.62
but God is a gracious God.
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Much more abound.
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The God we serve is
the God of much more.
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This is good, isn't it?
00:20:04.63\00:20:06.74
God is much more,
He's much more love,
00:20:06.77\00:20:09.80
much more
grace, much more mercy,
00:20:09.84\00:20:13.71
much more
forgiveness, much more power.
00:20:13.74\00:20:17.11
It has been said that
there are two great truths
00:20:21.65\00:20:25.12
that we need to learn.
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Number one,
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man is much worse
00:20:31.56\00:20:34.00
that he ever feared to think.
00:20:34.03\00:20:35.80
Number two,
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God is much better
00:20:42.47\00:20:44.81
than He ever dared to hope.
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You see.
00:20:48.51\00:20:49.84
So even though we are a
part of a sinful humanity,
00:20:49.88\00:20:55.48
we believe in
the God of much more,
00:20:55.52\00:20:59.22
much more, much more grace.
00:20:59.25\00:21:02.39
And look at Daniel 4:4.
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Daniel 4:4.
00:21:05.96\00:21:09.03
I got to move along a
bit because you, folks,
00:21:09.06\00:21:10.83
getting me sidetracked.
00:21:10.87\00:21:12.40
Daniel 4:4,
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"I, Nebuchadnezzar,
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was at rest in my house,
00:21:18.11\00:21:20.11
and flourishing in my palace."
00:21:20.14\00:21:23.91
Like the song
that I used to sing
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when I was a young guy
00:21:25.81\00:21:27.18
sitting on top of
the world looking over.
00:21:27.22\00:21:30.95
He said, "I'm rich,
00:21:30.99\00:21:34.46
I'm great, I'm powerful,
00:21:34.49\00:21:40.06
I've got all this money."
00:21:40.10\00:21:43.57
He was a great egotist.
00:21:43.60\00:21:46.00
He did not realize
00:21:46.03\00:21:48.94
that he was simply
without the grace of God,
00:21:48.97\00:21:52.91
animated mud on the way to dust.
00:21:52.94\00:21:56.81
It's all of us.
00:21:56.85\00:21:59.05
And should
animated mud be proud,
00:21:59.08\00:22:04.35
sitting on top of the world.
00:22:04.39\00:22:07.82
Look at verses 5-8,
00:22:07.86\00:22:09.52
"I saw a dream,
which made me afraid,
00:22:09.56\00:22:12.39
and the thoughts on my bed
00:22:12.43\00:22:14.10
and the visions of
my head troubled me.
00:22:14.13\00:22:17.93
Therefore I issued a decree
00:22:17.97\00:22:20.10
to bring in all the wise
men of Babylon before me,
00:22:20.14\00:22:23.37
that they might make known to me
00:22:23.41\00:22:25.41
the interpretation of the dream.
00:22:25.44\00:22:27.78
Then the
magicians, the astrologers,
00:22:27.81\00:22:29.78
the Chaldeans, and
the soothsayers came in,
00:22:29.81\00:22:32.75
and I told them the dream,
00:22:32.78\00:22:34.12
but they did not make
known to me its interpretation.
00:22:34.15\00:22:37.32
But at last
Daniel came before me
00:22:37.35\00:22:39.15
his name is Belteshazzar,
00:22:39.19\00:22:41.29
according to the name of my God,
00:22:41.32\00:22:44.06
in him is the
Spirit of the Holy God,
00:22:44.09\00:22:46.70
and I told the
dream before him..."
00:22:46.73\00:22:50.17
And we will pick
that up in a moment.
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He had a dream.
00:22:53.84\00:22:58.11
He had a dream that told
00:22:58.14\00:23:01.81
the history of his own petty,
00:23:01.84\00:23:05.98
wealthy, little life.
00:23:06.01\00:23:09.32
Now pick it up now
with me verses 9-18.
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"Belteshazzar,
chief of the magicians,
00:23:16.12\00:23:17.89
because I know that the Spirit
of the Holy God is in you,
00:23:17.93\00:23:22.20
and no secret troubles you,
00:23:22.23\00:23:24.03
explain to me the
visions of my dream
00:23:24.07\00:23:26.70
that I have seen,
and its interpretation.
00:23:26.74\00:23:30.01
These were the visions
of my head while on my bed:
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I was looking, and behold,
00:23:35.48\00:23:37.68
a tree in the
midst of the earth,
00:23:37.71\00:23:41.18
and its height was great.
00:23:41.22\00:23:43.55
The tree grew and became strong,
00:23:43.59\00:23:46.02
its height
reached to the heavens,
00:23:46.05\00:23:48.12
and it could be seen to
the ends of all the earth.
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Its leaves were lovely,
00:23:52.76\00:23:56.00
its fruit abundant,
00:23:56.03\00:23:59.13
and in it was food for all.
00:23:59.17\00:24:03.24
The beasts of the
field found shade under it,
00:24:03.27\00:24:07.08
the birds of the
heavens dwelt in its branches,
00:24:07.11\00:24:11.65
and all flesh was fed from it.
00:24:11.68\00:24:14.35
I saw in the visions of
my head while on my bed,
00:24:14.38\00:24:18.12
and there was a
watcher, a holy one,
00:24:18.15\00:24:24.03
coming down from heaven.
00:24:24.06\00:24:25.53
He cried aloud and
said, "Chop down the tree
00:24:25.56\00:24:29.33
and cut off its branches,
00:24:29.36\00:24:30.87
strip off its leaves
and scatter its fruit.
00:24:30.90\00:24:34.70
Let the beasts
get out from under it,
00:24:34.74\00:24:37.44
and the birds from its branches.
00:24:37.47\00:24:39.74
Nevertheless leave the
stump and roots in the earth,
00:24:39.77\00:24:44.91
bound with a band
of iron and bronze,
00:24:44.95\00:24:48.38
in the tender
grass of the field.
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Let it be wet
with the dew of heaven,
00:24:51.05\00:24:54.39
and let him
graze with the beasts
00:24:54.42\00:24:57.13
on the grass of the earth.
00:24:57.16\00:24:58.63
Let his heart be
changed from that of a man,
00:24:58.66\00:25:03.13
let him be given
the heart of a beast,
00:25:03.16\00:25:06.07
and let seven
times pass over him.
00:25:06.10\00:25:08.50
This decision is by
the decree of the watchers,
00:25:08.54\00:25:11.97
and the sentence by
the word of the holy ones,
00:25:12.01\00:25:14.24
in order that
the living may know
00:25:14.28\00:25:15.78
that the Most High
rules in the kingdom of men,
00:25:15.81\00:25:19.01
gives it to whomever He will,
00:25:19.05\00:25:21.88
and sets over it
the lowest of men."
00:25:21.92\00:25:23.82
This dream I,
King Nebuchadnezzar,
00:25:23.85\00:25:26.09
have I've seen it.
00:25:26.12\00:25:28.26
But you, Belteshazzar,
declare its interpretation,
00:25:28.29\00:25:32.06
since all the
wise men of my kingdom
00:25:32.09\00:25:34.46
are not able to make known to me
00:25:34.50\00:25:36.56
the interpretation,
but you are able,
00:25:36.60\00:25:39.53
for the Spirit of
the Holy God is in you."
00:25:39.57\00:25:44.14
What on earth does it mean?
00:25:44.17\00:25:46.27
Here is great tree
00:25:46.31\00:25:50.15
planted by the river.
00:25:50.18\00:25:53.82
And the birds fly
through the branches,
00:25:53.85\00:25:57.22
and the monkey
swing on the limbs,
00:25:57.25\00:26:01.59
and the animals graze
on the grass down below,
00:26:01.62\00:26:06.59
what does it mean?
00:26:06.63\00:26:09.53
We will tell you,
00:26:09.56\00:26:11.70
after we have this little break,
00:26:11.73\00:26:14.14
we'll be back.
00:26:14.17\00:26:15.50
Hello, friend. I'm John Carter.
00:26:26.61\00:26:29.18
By the grace of God,
I'm going back to Russia.
00:26:29.22\00:26:32.32
I've been to the lands
of the old Soviet Union
00:26:32.35\00:26:34.52
47 times,
00:26:34.56\00:26:37.63
that's in the last 25-26 years.
00:26:37.66\00:26:40.80
We are planning to go to
the city of Nizhny Novgorod
00:26:40.83\00:26:45.23
or the old Russian
city of Gorky made famous
00:26:45.27\00:26:48.77
by the poet, Gorky.
00:26:48.80\00:26:51.74
We are going there
because 25 years ago
00:26:51.77\00:26:54.64
we ran a great
campaign in Nizhny Novgorod
00:26:54.68\00:26:58.61
and we saw 2,530 souls,
00:26:58.65\00:27:03.45
2,530 Russians,
communists, atheists,
00:27:03.49\00:27:07.62
all sorts of unbelief baptized
into Christ in the Volga River.
00:27:07.66\00:27:13.29
We're going back
because the need is enormous
00:27:13.33\00:27:17.10
and because the
Russians are saying,
00:27:17.13\00:27:18.77
"Please come and help us."
00:27:18.80\00:27:21.37
Freedom is
disappearing in Putin's Russia.
00:27:21.40\00:27:26.07
It's almost impossible
now to hire an auditorium,
00:27:26.11\00:27:29.01
almost impossible
to preach the gospel.
00:27:29.04\00:27:32.31
And so, by the grace of God,
00:27:32.35\00:27:34.22
we are applying for
special missionary visas.
00:27:34.25\00:27:37.79
Are we going to get them?
00:27:37.82\00:27:39.15
We think so, by
the grace of God.
00:27:39.19\00:27:41.52
And we're going to
advertise by the grace of God
00:27:41.56\00:27:44.33
on television and on radio.
00:27:44.36\00:27:46.29
Please write to me.
00:27:46.33\00:27:47.66
I've got to raise $250,000 now.
00:27:47.70\00:27:53.40
Please write to me, John Carter,
00:27:53.44\00:27:55.20
PO Box 1900, Thousand
Oaks, California 91358.
00:27:55.24\00:28:00.48
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write to the address
00:28:00.51\00:28:02.91
now appearing on the screen.
00:28:02.94\00:28:04.98
This could be
Russia's last opportunity.
00:28:05.01\00:28:08.68
Please write to me.
00:28:08.72\00:28:10.05
I ask you in the name
of God write to me today
00:28:10.09\00:28:14.52
and pray for Russia.
00:28:14.56\00:28:16.32
Thank you and God bless you.
00:28:16.36\00:28:18.19
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