I am John Carter in Moscow.
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Now in Kiev, the
capital of Ukraine.
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I am John Carter in Petra.
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Reporting from India.
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In Colombia.
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I am John Carter.
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Today, on the Carter Report,
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John Carter brings us a
report from Putin's, New Russia.
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John Carter with the KGB.
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We're so glad today to welcome
you to this great program.
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This is a report
from Putin's New Russia.
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We just come back from Russia
and it's absolutely astounding.
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Russia is a
formidable force in the world
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and some would say
in American politics.
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We won't get into that.
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We were there in 1971
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when the Soviet Union
was challenging the West.
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We were there in 1991
when communism collapsed
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and with it the economy.
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I've now been there,
glory be to God 49 times.
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And I have seen with my
team tremendous changes.
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Let me say this,
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"He who ignores
President Putin's New Russia,
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does so at his own peril."
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A new revolution is
now happening in Russia.
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Now, where is Russia?
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How big is Russia?
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What was the Great
Russian experiment?
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What is so different
about Russian history?
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What is the
average Russian like?
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And what is God doing
today in Putin's Russia?
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All this and much
more in this program today.
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Russia consists of a land mass
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of 6,600,000 square miles.
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It is twice as big as
the United States of America.
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It covers one-eighth
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of earth's inhabited land area.
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It's a huge big place
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from east to
west is 4,200 miles.
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It has a border that stretches,
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can you believe
it, 36,000 miles.
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Thirteen seas and three oceans
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wash the shores
of Mother Russia.
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In 1999, Beverley and
I with our terrific team
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traveled by train
from Moscow to Vladivostok.
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We stayed one night in the city
of Irkutsk next to Lake Baikal.
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It took us eight days,
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and I think we
traveled over eight time zones.
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It's a vast place.
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When we went to Siberia,
I had a preconceived idea
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that this was going
to be a terrible place.
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But it's like Canada,
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it's a land of lakes,
and rivers, and mountains,
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the Taiga
forest, tremendous forest
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is bigger than the
United States of America.
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The Taiga forest.
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And Russia is cold.
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We've done a television
program on Lake Baikal.
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Until I've gone to Russia
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I've never heard of Lake Baikal.
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It contains more than one-fifth
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of all the surface
fresh water in the world.
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It's bigger than all
the American great lakes
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put together.
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In some places it is
more than a mile deep.
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And most folks have
never heard of Lake Baikal.
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I've been out there
doing a television program
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when it was minus 40 degrees.
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Russia can get
very, very chilly.
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It once was ruled by czars
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or kings in the
Russian Orthodox Church.
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It was a land of tremendous
wealth and a great economy.
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The common people were
kept for hundreds of years
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in servitude, poverty,
one would say, slavery.
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Then came the
great revolution of 1917.
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This was led by a man
by the name of Mr. Lenin
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who got his
ideas from Karl Marx.
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He was a German Jew.
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He said these words,
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"Let the ruling classes tremble
at a communistic revolution.
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The proletarians have nothing
to lose but their chains.
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They have a world to win.
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Workingmen of
all countries unite!"
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And for a while it appeared
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as though communism
would rule the world.
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You should not forget this,
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for every reaction
there is another reaction.
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Communism was a revolt
against a corrupt church
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and a corrupt government,
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that's why you have communism
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in some places in Latin America.
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They thought they were going
to make the people's paradise,
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heaven on earth,
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but millions perished
especially under Stalin.
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I want you to
meet a friend of mine,
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a dear friend, his
name is Paul the Prisoner.
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He is an Adventist Christian.
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He is my friend and my brother.
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During the days
of the communists,
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he had a little printing press
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and used to turn out
Christian literature.
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And this, of course, was
forbidden by the Kremlin.
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One of our own church members
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turned him in to the KGB.
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He was placed in a refrigerator
cell for three years.
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They would freeze him up,
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when he was dying
they would throw him out.
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Freeze him up
again, his teeth fell out.
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They said, "You can leave,
but there is one condition,
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you just have to be a reporter.
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You've got to report on
your people in the church.
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You've got to be an informer."
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He said, "Never, never, never."
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He stayed there for three years.
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He now works in the
prisons for Russian prisoners.
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Another friend of mine
was Pastor Mikhail Kulakov
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because he was a
preacher of the gospel,
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he was sent to Siberia,
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and worked out in the
freezing minus 40, minus 50
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in the forest for five years.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
whom I think is a great man
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personally apologized to him.
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He said, we
cannot return the years
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but we say, "We're sorry."
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There's a city in the
far east that is famous
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at least some of
us know about it,
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it is the city of Magadan.
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One of the coldest hellholes
on the face of the earth
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where hundreds of
thousands of Christians
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and descendants was
sent maybe millions went.
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The life expectancy
of a person in Magadan
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was measured in
weeks rather than years.
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The roads were paved
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with human bones.
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On one occasion in
Vladivostok that I have visited
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after traveling on
the Trans-Siberian Express
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that I had the
privilege of driving
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for a little while.
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But in Vladivostok a group
of the prisoners on their way
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to Magadan revolted
over some issue like food.
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And so the communists,
the atheists hose them down
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in the midst of winter,
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they immediately
became blocks of ice
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by the thousands.
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Tens of millions were
sent to concentration camps
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under the atheists.
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Dostoyevsky was one of
the Great Russian writers
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and philosophers,
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he said these words
in one of his books,
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"If there is no God,
everything is permitted."
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And I would say to you, why not?
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If there is no God,
everything is permitted.
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Because if there is no God,
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there is no right
and there is no wrong.
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Most people do
not think logically.
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They think if
you get rid of God,
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everything can be the same.
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That's stupidity.
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The only reason
we know there's good
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is because we
believe there is God.
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You see.
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And it has been said
that God through the influence
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of the philosophers
died in the 19th century
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and man died in the 20th,
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in Russia they
died by the millions.
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One of the
greatest of the saints
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of the Christian church
was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
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you ought to read his
book "The Gulag Archipelago,"
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you ought to read it.
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He says that 60 million people,
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mainly Russians were imprisoned
during the 20th century
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by the atheistic communists.
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Did you hear how many?
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He said 60 million
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were put into the
Gulag Archipelago,
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these concentration camps.
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If there is no God,
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everything is permitted.
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I've discovered that some
of the greatest Christians
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in the world had been Russians
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because great suffering
produces great character,
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and when you have a time
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of continual
prosperity and affluence
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like you have in
Australia and in America
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it breeds weak Christians,
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and weak people.
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Person who's been
driving me around over there
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now for 25 years is a
pastor whose name is Vitaly.
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He told me the
story of his mother.
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She was an Adventist
Christian in the days of Stalin.
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She wanted to go to
church from her little village
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somewhere in Siberia
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which is always
cold except in summer.
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When you're gonna have
a 100 degrees Fahrenheit
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for about six weeks.
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But she would start walking
to church on Friday evening
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and walk through the snow,
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sometimes having to
wade through the snow.
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And then as the sun came
up, she'd get out on the road
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and she thumb a
ride as they used to say.
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They'd put her on the back
of a truck, a Russian truck,
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she would
travel for three hours.
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Think how cold,
think of the rafting truck.
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And some of us find
it hard to get out of bed
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to go to church.
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And then she
would get to the church
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and it would start at
9 o'clock in the morning
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with preaching, and
singing, and praying,
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reading the Word and
would finish at 5 o'clock.
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Eight hours straight
church, you know why?
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They needed it, they wanted it.
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They were hungry for God.
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They weren't like us.
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Hungry for God.
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And then at half past
five she'd start to walk back,
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and she'd walk out to the road,
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and she'd get on a truck
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which would take
her to the forest,
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and then she'd walk
all through the night.
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And as the sun came
up on Sunday morning
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say at half past
eight, she would get home.
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She did it year after year.
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Great suffering
makes great people.
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I want you to come over
here to Proverbs 24:11, 12.
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I want you to look at this text.
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And I want you to ask God,
"God, explain this text to me,"
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because I don't think
most of us understand this.
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Proverbs 24:11, 12.
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"Deliver those who
are drawn toward death,
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hold back those
stumbling to the slaughter.
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If you say, 'Surely
we did not know this,'
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does not He who
weighs the heart consider it.
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He who keeps your
soul, does He not know it?
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And will He not render to each
man according to his deeds?'"
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The Bible says,
there are people,
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the lost people
outside of Christ.
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And the Bible says,
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they're stumbling
towards their death.
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The Bible says, deliver them.
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People have
asked me the question,
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"Why go to Russia?
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Why go to some of
these dreadful countries
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where your life is in danger?"
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Because...
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And I don't say
this self-righteously,
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I say it from the Bible.
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I believe it, I
believe the Bible.
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I believe there's no
other way to be saved
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except through Jesus Christ.
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I don't believe
that we're born saved.
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I don't believe the
nonsense that people are saved
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until they reject.
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Everybody is
saved until He rejects.
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You don't read that in the Bible
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that is the religion of
very, very, lazy people.
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I want you to come over
here to Ephesians 2:1-3.
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And I want you to
notice what the Bible says
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about the state of
people outside of Christ.
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And this will
help you to understand
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why we believe in evangelism.
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You're not going to hear this
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most likely in your
church next weekend,
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so listen to it carefully.
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Ephesians 2:1-3.
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"And you He is made alive,
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who were dead in
trespasses and sins,"
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without Christ the
Bible says you're dead,
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"In which you once walked
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according to the
course of this world,
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according to the prince
of the power of the air,
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the spirit who is now at work
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in the sons of disobedience,
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among whom also we all
had conducted ourselves
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in the lusts of our flesh,
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fulfilling the desires of
the flesh and of the mind,
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and were by
nature children of wrath,
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just as the others."
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The Bible actually talks
about people who are dead.
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And it says not
only are they dead,
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but they are children of wrath.
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Does it make sense now to you
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that Jesus said,
"Go into all the world
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and preach the gospel,"
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because without
Christ people are dead."
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People say, "I
can't believe this."
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I appeal to you to do one thing,
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to believe the
words of the Bible.
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Read on
Ephesians 2:4 and onwards,
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"But God, who is rich in mercy,
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because of His great
love with which He loved us,
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even when we were
dead in trespasses,
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made us alive
together with Christ by grace
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you have been saved,
and raised us up together,
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and made us sit together
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in the heavenly
places in Christ Jesus,
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that in the ages to
come He might show exceeding
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riches of His
grace in His kindness
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toward us in Christ Jesus.
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For by grace you have
been saved through faith,
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and that not of yourselves,
it is the gift of God,"
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then it says, "not of
works, lest anyone should boast.
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For we are His workmanship,
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created in Christ
Jesus for good works,
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which God prepared beforehand
that we should walk in them."
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The Bible teaches
this categorically
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that the only way
that we can be saved
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is by the grace of God.
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We're not saved
because we're good enough.
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We're not saved
because of our righteous works.
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This sort of is hard for
the carnal heart, isn't it?
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The Bible says, "We're
saved by grace through faith.
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We are saved through
the Lord Jesus Christ."
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And the Bible tells us
that people need to hear
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the word of the
gospel so they can be saved.
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Now look at verse 12 if
you don't mind, Ephesians 2:12.
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Ephesians 2:12.
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Look at these words and
please believe these words.
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Look at it in the Bible,
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"That at that time
you were without Christ,
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being aliens from the
commonwealth of Israel
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and strangers from
the covenants of promise,
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having no hope and
without God in the world."
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I've seen them.
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I've seen millions of souls
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here in the United
States of America and in Russia
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without hope and
without God in the world.
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Now please notice verse...
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Let me see verse 13.
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"But now in Christ Jesus
you who once were far off
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have been brought near
by the blood of Christ."
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Verse 17, "And He came
and preached peace to you
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who were afar off and
to those who were near.
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For through Him
we both have access
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by one Spirit to the Father.
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Now, therefore,
you are no longer
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strangers and foreigners,
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but fellow
citizens with the saints
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and members of
the household of God."
00:19:46.11\00:19:51.32
Listen to me,
people have said to me,
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"Got have retired 15 years
ago, why do you keep going?"
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Because I believe in the Bible.
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It's not a job,
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I don't work
for an organization,
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I'm not paid to do what I do.
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The Bible says, "Without
Christ people are lost."
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And the reason we've gone
to Russia and other places
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is because we believe the Bible,
00:20:19.05\00:20:22.05
we are not liberals who
explain away the Word of God.
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The Bible teaches that
the preaching of the gospel
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is God's ordained
means of saving the lost.
00:20:34.43\00:20:40.54
We say this humbly,
we invite you to join us,
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step out of the lethargy,
00:20:44.64\00:20:46.88
step out of the lethargy
00:20:46.91\00:20:49.74
of the church which is sleeping.
00:20:49.78\00:20:53.55
We walk in the footsteps
of the great missionaries
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and the great preachers.
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Jesus Christ, our blessed Lord
was a preacher of the gospel.
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Jesus was a missionary.
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He came on a mission
from another universe.
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We believe in evangelism.
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You know what the
word evangelism means?
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It's got a bad name now
00:21:19.74\00:21:21.21
because the people
don't want to be disturbed.
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Evangelism means the
preaching of the good news
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of Jesus Christ.
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You cannot be a Christian
and be opposed to evangelism.
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Jesus was the
greatest evangelist.
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Then you have the
great Apostle Paul,
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the greatest theologian.
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I say to the theologians
00:21:41.56\00:21:43.47
"If you want to be
like the Apostle Paul,
00:21:43.50\00:21:46.47
then step away from your desk,
00:21:46.50\00:21:49.70
and go to Russia
or some other place
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and preach the gospel."
00:21:52.61\00:21:55.14
You see, Paul was an evangelist,
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Peter was an evangelist,
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John Wesley my...
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What should I say, my hero.
00:22:06.55\00:22:09.59
This little Englishman
preached 42,000 sermons,
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traveled 360,000
miles on the back of a horse
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in the midst of winters, why?
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Driven, burning, a
fire in his belly, why?
00:22:21.44\00:22:25.27
Because he believed
the words of Christ.
00:22:25.31\00:22:29.51
I appeal to you,
folks, to step out of it
00:22:29.54\00:22:32.01
and start to believe in
the God who believes in you,
00:22:32.05\00:22:35.68
and believe the Bible.
00:22:35.72\00:22:37.05
I think of David Livingstone
who came from Scotland,
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and who went to darkest Africa.
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I've walked in his footsteps.
00:22:44.86\00:22:47.06
I have been to Victoria Falls.
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I've been
through all of that area.
00:22:50.43\00:22:52.43
I've been to the
City of Livingstone.
00:22:52.47\00:22:56.30
He said I saw the
smoke of a thousand villages.
00:22:56.34\00:23:01.24
Nobody there believed in Christ.
00:23:01.28\00:23:04.31
The liberal will tell you today,
00:23:04.35\00:23:05.88
"Oh, they're all saved
because they haven't rejected."
00:23:05.91\00:23:09.92
My message to you
is they're all lost
00:23:09.95\00:23:13.76
because they haven't accepted.
00:23:13.79\00:23:17.63
So David Livingstone
with fire in his belly
00:23:17.66\00:23:21.63
went to Africa and
preached the Gospel of Christ.
00:23:21.66\00:23:26.94
And that is why
we went to Russia
00:23:26.97\00:23:29.37
and returned almost 50 times.
00:23:29.40\00:23:33.94
We did so not because we like
sitting in the back of planes,
00:23:33.98\00:23:40.08
we do so because we believe
00:23:40.12\00:23:43.18
in the message of
the Gospel of Christ,
00:23:43.22\00:23:48.56
"That God so loved the
world that He gave His only Son.
00:23:48.59\00:23:53.53
So that whoever believes in Him,
00:23:53.56\00:23:57.57
shall not perish but
have everlasting life,"
00:23:57.60\00:23:59.77
but people have got to believe."
00:23:59.80\00:24:03.34
Paul said in
Romans, "How shall I believe
00:24:03.37\00:24:07.61
without a
preacher coming to them."
00:24:07.64\00:24:10.78
That is why I believe
that the greatest gift
00:24:10.81\00:24:14.42
it is described
in 1 Corinthians 12.
00:24:14.45\00:24:19.15
The greatest gift to say
is the gift of the apostle,
00:24:19.19\00:24:24.43
one who was sent to
preach the Gospel of Christ.
00:24:24.46\00:24:28.53
This is the Word of God.
00:24:28.56\00:24:31.53
I'm going to tell you now
some stories that are amazing,
00:24:31.57\00:24:36.34
stories of grace and power,
00:24:36.37\00:24:40.88
stories that
will make your heart
00:24:40.91\00:24:44.71
start to beat a
little bit faster.
00:24:44.75\00:24:48.88
And if these stories
don't make your heart
00:24:48.92\00:24:50.69
beat a little faster,
00:24:50.72\00:24:52.15
you better check your
pulse to see if you've got one.
00:24:52.19\00:24:57.43
I'm going to tell you
stories about our meetings
00:24:57.46\00:25:01.86
with the KGB officers
00:25:01.90\00:25:04.90
who said to me, "Don't
forget us, we too have souls."
00:25:04.93\00:25:11.21
I'm going to
introduce to you today
00:25:11.24\00:25:15.54
the mafia godfather
who is now my brother
00:25:15.58\00:25:18.78
saved through the
preaching of the gospel.
00:25:18.81\00:25:25.02
I'm going to tell you
about the largest baptism
00:25:25.05\00:25:30.23
in the history
of Ukraine, Russia.
00:25:30.26\00:25:34.63
And we're gonna do
so after this break,
00:25:34.66\00:25:37.50
stay with us, the
best is still to come.
00:25:37.53\00:25:41.74
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I've gone there 49 times
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