I'm John Carter in Moscow,
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and now in Kiev,
the capital of Ukraine.
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I'm John Carter in Petra.
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Reporting from India.
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In Colombia.
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I'm 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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Welcome back to
this first hand report
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from Mr. Putin's New Russia.
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Just come back from Russia
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and we have seen
some amazing things.
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This was my 49th visit
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to the lands of
the old Soviet Union.
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And I have seen there
the mighty power of God.
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I want to reminisce a little bit
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and tell you some
of the great things
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we've seen over the years.
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I want to talk to you
and tell you about the story
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of our meeting with the KGB.
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Now these guys have
got a new name today
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but it's still
the same organization.
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In '92, we were running this
great campaign in the old city,
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the Russian city
of Nizhny Novgorod,
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used to be called
the city of Gorky.
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We had tremendous
crowds of people coming.
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One night, this
will be hard to believe.
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This lady came to
see me and she said,
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"The KGB general
would like to meet you."
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Oh, yeah.
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I told the church leaders,
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they thought it
was funny, they said,
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"Any time the KGB
wants to talk to us
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is to pull out our fingernails.
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But anyhow, this
lady kept coming.
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She was a colonel in the KGB.
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And then she said,
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"The KGB general has been
in the audience every night.
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Can we bring him
around the back?"
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I said, "You
know, we'd be honored."
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So General Vladimir
came around the back.
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He looked at me in
the eye and he said,
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"Pastor Carter, I
want to tell you something.
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I teach the people all
the secrets about the KGB,
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we've got a
training college here.
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Would you come to
our training college?
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Would you talk to our officers?"
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I said, "Yes, of course."
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He said, "We might be the KGB."
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But then he put his
hand here and he said,
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"We still have souls."
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He said we still have souls.
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And so I was taken
to the KGB headquarters
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in Nizhny Novgorod.
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This gentleman is a colonel.
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This is General
Vladimir who became my friend.
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And this gentleman over here
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is also or was a
colonel in the KGB.
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They sent around two black
cars and picked up our team,
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took us to the KGB headquarters,
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gave us a tremendous meal.
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At the end of the meal,
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General Vladimir
got to have some vodka,
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and he said,
"Now, Pastor Carter,
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you're going to come
and preach to my man."
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He said, "Will you
have a toast in vodka?"
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I said, "I don't
think so, General."
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He said, "Why not?"
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I said,
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"Because of my
religious convictions,
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I don't drink alcohol."
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He said,
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"You're the
strangest man I've ever met."
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We went in and there we met
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a thousand young
officers of the KGB.
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I had no idea
what I was going to say
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but I started to
preach from the Bible.
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I told them why
I believe the Bible
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then I told them
the story of salvation,
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I told them about Christ.
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Can you believe this?
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This is in the
headquarters of the KGB.
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And then I felt
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the power of God
come down upon me
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and I had an altar call.
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And when they
came down the front,
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they crowded around me so much,
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they thought I
would be crushed to death.
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We baptized
some of those people.
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When we were in Nizhny
Novgorod just a few weeks ago,
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a message came
from those same people,
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"We are glad you are
here and we welcome you back."
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Can you believe this?
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We actually
baptized some of those people
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down in Volga
river members of the KGB.
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People say, "I
can't believe it."
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My friend,
according to your faith
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be it unto you.
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I want to talk to you
about the pastor in Dzerzhinsk,
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that's the city
next to Nizhny Novgorod.
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We are running this campaign
in Gorky, Nizhny Novgorod,
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tens of thousands of
people coming every day
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preaching every night.
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We saw the mighty power of God.
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And then this man here
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asked me to come
over to his church.
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He didn't have a
church, not a church building.
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I said, "I can't
come. I can't get away.
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I hardly have time to sleep."
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But anyhow, he
begged and begged,
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and I hired the
palace of support
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over there in Dzerzhinsk
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which is named
after Dzerzhinsky,
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the founder of the KGB.
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When I went over there
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they told the
people I'd be coming,
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I could not even
get into the street.
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The people were everywhere,
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thousands of
people outside, inside.
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I went in, I
preached my heart out,
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I said, "I can't come back.
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But I can give
you some videotapes
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that we recorded in
the Shrine Auditorium
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in Los Angeles."
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This is true.
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This pastor was
transferred after that campaign
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down to Kazan,
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which is the headquarters
of the Muslims, a Muslim city.
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He had no money for a budget.
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There's no money for
evangelism today in the church
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unless you raise it like me.
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And so this pastor
went from door to door
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with my videos preaching Christ.
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And Hildar, the
Godfather got a copy.
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This is true.
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And he looked at them.
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And by the grace of God,
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he was
converted instantaneously.
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I'm telling
you. I'm telling you.
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He was
converted instantaneously,
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he sold his big house
that had been built upon drugs,
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and he built a
cathedral for God's church.
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I saw him only
very, very recently.
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Hildar the silly.
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These men now...
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These are my friends.
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This is the ex Godfather.
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This guy is okay.
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This guy came out
from Crimea to see me,
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a leader of the mafia.
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This man has just been baptized.
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How were they won?
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Through the
preaching of the Word of God.
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Amen.
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I want you folks to know
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that there's power
in the name of Jesus.
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Then we had this
tremendous baptism.
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This was in '92 when we
started the work of God there.
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This is my old
friend Danny Shelton
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who became my
partner in evangelism.
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We went down to the Volga River.
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You know, the people
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who actually
served as our deacons.
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We set up the tents,
helped the people get dressed,
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the Russian army.
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The officers of
the Russian army,
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and there we had
the largest baptism.
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I think after that time
in the history of Russia,
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thousands and thousands,
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including members of the
KGB and Russian soldiers.
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Now as the meetings carried on
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and we saw the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit,
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we got a phone
call from the governor
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of the province saying,
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"Pastor Carter,
I want you to come
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to the Kremlin
in Nizhny Novgorod.
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And this is where I met this man
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who became my friend,
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who became the
greatest advocate of freedom
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in modern times in
Russia, Boris Nemtsov.
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I explained to him democracy,
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the separation
of church and state.
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He became one of
the great leaders
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in the Russian parliament.
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Tragically, just
a little while ago,
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he was gunned down
outside the Kremlin in Moscow.
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This is his
sister Dr. Julia Outkina
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whom I had the
privilege of baptizing.
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A doctorate from
Leningrad University,
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now the person in
charge of 3ABN Russia,
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a great
evangelist, a great preacher
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of the gospel of Jesus.
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My friend, how great is God?
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I'm asking you.
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We have seen the power of God,
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and we've had an influence
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that has reached even
inside the walls of the Kremlin.
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Now after we had
this tremendous baptism,
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there was no place to
take the new converts,
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but Danny Shelton was there.
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And God moved upon the
heart of Danny Shelton,
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and we went to this
place that looked like
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a bombed-out building
from the days of the blitz
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in the World War II.
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The communists
were going to build
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a great cathedral
dedicated to atheism
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for the communist youth.
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But Danny said,
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"We're going to buy the ruins,
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we're going to
buy the foundation."
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There's nothing there.
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People say, "It can't be done."
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We had people
come to us standing,
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and I had people,
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they came to us, and they said,
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"You know it can't be done.
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You can't get the money.
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And if you get the money,
and if you put the building up,
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it's going to fall down.
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And even if it
doesn't fall down,
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nobody's going to come."
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This is now the
3ABN Russia building.
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It is the largest
protestant building
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in all of Russia.
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It was built
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because Danny
Shelton had faith in God.
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I'm telling you, with God,
nothing shall be impossible.
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This is where we held a
meeting just a couple weeks ago.
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I was preaching in this place,
it has a tremendous auditorium.
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It is now a television center.
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We did a
television program there.
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Who could believe this?
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A big television center,
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the biggest center of its
kind in the whole of Russia,
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built by Adventist
laypeople for the glory of God.
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Now some time back,
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I was flying with
Aeroflot over Siberia.
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They've got,
today, the latest freight
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but in those days
they had pretty old planes.
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But this is one
of their new planes.
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I was flying over Siberia,
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and I believe
Beverley was with me.
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And the crew came out
and they stood around me,
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and I said,
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"We heard you're on board."
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Can you believe this?
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Thirty eight
thousand feet over Siberia.
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Who knows me? Nobody knows me.
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They said,
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"We've been to your meetings,
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we've seen what God
has been doing for you."
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And where He had to say,
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"Slava Bogu, praise God.
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And would you honor us
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by putting your name in our book
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that every plane has."
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I marveled what God had done.
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We've heard they said.
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Places where
God took us, Moscow,
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and I got to go
through this pretty fast.
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Moscow in 1991,
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the first ever full
sky evangelistic campaign
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by a foreigner
in the Soviet Union.
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This was when
communism was still ruling.
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This is the audience
in the Palace of Culture
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down the road from the Kremlin.
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People say, "It can't be done."
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Then the next year, we
went to Nizhny Novgorod.
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We were proud to go
to the city of Sakharov.
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He was the father of
the Soviet hydrogen bomb
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I believe,
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and he was sent
there as a dissident
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because he wouldn't kowtow
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to atheism and communism.
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We went to his city.
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And we saw the power of God.
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We saw...
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I don't say any longer,
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I'm looking forward
to seeing Pentecost,
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I have seen Pentecost.
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I have seen the power of God.
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I have seen Him.
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We went to Dzerzhinsk,
named after Dzerzhinsky.
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I ran a
campaign there with video
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so hundreds of people
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so I went to St Petersburg.
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And this...
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They say, you couldn't
hire a place like this,
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we hired it,
and glory be to God,
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we filled it
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time after time
after time for weeks.
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So many people saved.
00:13:09.92\00:13:11.69
We went to Irkutsk in
Siberia, preached in winter,
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and preached in
summer, preached in storms,
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preached when the
lightning was flashing,
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preached and preached Christ,
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and we saw
hundreds and hundreds,
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thousands of
souls come to Christ.
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Went to Volgograd
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that saw the greatest
battle of the World War II,
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they say, two
million people died
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fighting over Volgograd.
00:13:41.72\00:13:44.09
Went to Kazan, they said to us,
00:13:44.12\00:13:46.89
"One preacher
can't go to East Kazan
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because it's a Muslim center."
00:13:49.92\00:13:52.99
Other people said to me,
00:13:53.03\00:13:54.36
"You can't baptize Muslims."
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Well, tell that to Jesus. Amen.
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Tell that to Jesus.
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And in Kazan, Hildar city,
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we saw the power of God.
00:14:06.61\00:14:09.08
We had a baptism in
front of the mosque.
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In Ukraine, we went to Kiev,
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this great country of Ukraine.
00:14:17.22\00:14:20.42
We went to Kiev.
00:14:20.46\00:14:22.96
The meetings were so successful.
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A Hundred thousand
people couldn't get inside.
00:14:28.40\00:14:32.60
A Hundred thousand...
00:14:32.63\00:14:33.97
Now people say, "No,
that doesn't happen today."
00:14:34.00\00:14:36.71
I've spoken to
people in Australia
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and the people in America
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who do not understand
00:14:40.98\00:14:42.31
the things of the spirit of God.
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Their vision is this big,
00:14:44.38\00:14:46.58
it extends to the
end of their own noses
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you've met them.
00:14:49.12\00:14:50.65
The people will say,
00:14:50.69\00:14:52.02
"No", people who are
opposed to evangelism,
00:14:52.05\00:14:54.76
the people who are opposed
to the preaching of the Bible.
00:14:54.79\00:14:58.69
The people who
believe everything
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except for what God says.
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But here 100,000
people turned away
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and look at the crowd.
00:15:06.40\00:15:09.87
We saw, baptized in
the slightly radioactive,
00:15:09.90\00:15:16.41
cold waters of the Napier River
00:15:16.44\00:15:18.81
3,530 communists, atheists,
00:15:18.85\00:15:24.89
unbelievers baptized
00:15:24.92\00:15:26.96
in the name of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
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We've seen the power of God.
00:15:30.39\00:15:33.06
In Ukraine, we
went to Dnepropetrovsk.
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We saw thousands come to Christ.
00:15:38.40\00:15:40.44
We went to Kharkov and we
saw thousands come to Christ.
00:15:40.47\00:15:46.21
We went to Odessa
down on the Black Sea,
00:15:46.24\00:15:49.34
we saw thousands come to Christ.
00:15:49.38\00:15:51.85
We went to
Zaporozhye, Russia with a...
00:15:51.88\00:15:55.18
The Cossacks tried
to run us out of town.
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We know what it
is to see persecution
00:16:00.02\00:16:01.99
but we saw the
power of God in Ukraine.
00:16:02.02\00:16:08.60
Why? Well, it's simple.
00:16:11.83\00:16:15.37
We didn't have special talent,
we just happened to be willing.
00:16:15.40\00:16:19.87
We were in the right
place at the right time.
00:16:19.91\00:16:23.24
You know,
Romans 8:28, it says...
00:16:23.28\00:16:25.81
Romans 8:28,
00:16:25.85\00:16:28.08
"We know that all
things work together for good
00:16:28.12\00:16:30.52
to those who love God, to
those who are the called,"
00:16:30.55\00:16:33.12
what does it say,
"according to His purpose."
00:16:33.15\00:16:35.92
God has got a purpose.
00:16:35.96\00:16:37.86
And the most
important thing you and I can do
00:16:37.89\00:16:39.86
is to be in the plan
and the purpose of God
00:16:39.89\00:16:43.77
and put away our cowardice.
00:16:43.80\00:16:46.47
Now let me answer this question.
00:16:46.50\00:16:48.07
How does the
church pastor find money
00:16:48.10\00:16:50.04
to pay for all his campaigns?
00:16:50.07\00:16:51.87
'Cause I had to
find all the money.
00:16:51.91\00:16:55.11
Well, Danny
Shelton has helped me.
00:16:55.14\00:16:58.15
These campaigns cost
00:16:58.18\00:16:59.51
millions and millions
and millions of dollars.
00:16:59.55\00:17:01.48
You say, "That's not a
lot." You try raising it.
00:17:01.52\00:17:05.09
I want to tell you something,
00:17:05.12\00:17:06.49
there's no limit to
His grace and His power.
00:17:06.52\00:17:10.86
Now this story here
00:17:10.89\00:17:12.23
is not to get you
folks to do the same,
00:17:12.26\00:17:13.70
but if the Lord
impresses you, that's good.
00:17:13.73\00:17:16.63
A man told me
with his own mouth,
00:17:16.67\00:17:20.50
he set down to
write the Carter Report
00:17:20.54\00:17:23.17
a check for $1,000.
00:17:23.20\00:17:25.57
That's good. It's good.
00:17:25.61\00:17:27.58
You know, he wrote down,
00:17:27.61\00:17:30.51
pay to Carter Report
$1,000 and a voice said to him,
00:17:30.55\00:17:35.65
"Make it $10,000."
00:17:35.68\00:17:38.62
No, I'm not
making this out, folks.
00:17:38.65\00:17:40.76
He continued to write $1,000,
00:17:40.79\00:17:42.86
"No, I told you,
make it $10,000."
00:17:42.89\00:17:46.49
He said, "I said $1,000."
00:17:46.53\00:17:48.46
The voice said,
"Make it $10,000."
00:17:48.50\00:17:51.63
He said, "Okay, make it 10,000."
00:17:51.67\00:17:53.37
Man said, "Here's the $10,000"
00:17:53.40\00:17:56.87
He said, "I can take no credit.
00:17:56.91\00:17:59.91
The Holy Spirit
told me in a voice,
00:17:59.94\00:18:02.34
'make it $10,000.'"
00:18:02.38\00:18:06.55
Whatever God tells you to do,
00:18:06.58\00:18:09.18
He will supply the
means and the money.
00:18:09.22\00:18:12.89
And our problem
is not lack of money,
00:18:12.92\00:18:14.79
our problem is lack of faith.
00:18:14.82\00:18:18.26
I meet people all the
time, even in the church,
00:18:18.29\00:18:20.70
even in the ministry,
00:18:20.73\00:18:22.06
"Oh, it can't be done."
00:18:22.10\00:18:23.43
No, it's impossible.
00:18:23.47\00:18:24.80
We don't talk like this.
00:18:24.83\00:18:26.17
No, no.
00:18:26.20\00:18:28.64
You are like,
00:18:28.67\00:18:30.01
"Hey, don't be
talking like that..."
00:18:30.04\00:18:31.94
I mean, what's wrong with them?
00:18:31.97\00:18:36.95
I said to people like that,
00:18:36.98\00:18:38.31
"Make it 10.
00:18:38.35\00:18:40.62
Make it 10."
00:18:40.65\00:18:43.95
We ran this campaign
in the city of Dzerzhinsk,
00:18:43.99\00:18:46.65
named after Dzerzhinsky,
the founder of the KGB.
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They didn't have a church.
00:18:50.16\00:18:51.76
There were no churches,
00:18:51.79\00:18:53.70
Protestant
churches in Dzerzhinsk,
00:18:53.73\00:18:56.73
but we had a great baptism.
00:18:56.77\00:18:59.33
What we got to do
with these people?
00:18:59.37\00:19:02.24
Oh, there was a
couple back in Australia,
00:19:02.27\00:19:03.97
they heard about it,
00:19:04.01\00:19:05.71
Lorraine Hazel Jones,
00:19:05.74\00:19:07.64
some of the great saints of
God from the land down under.
00:19:07.68\00:19:12.78
They sent me the money
00:19:12.81\00:19:14.88
that they got by
the grace of God,
00:19:14.92\00:19:18.75
it was exactly
enough to build this church.
00:19:18.79\00:19:24.33
Now they got a church.
00:19:24.36\00:19:26.19
My God will
supply all your needs.
00:19:26.23\00:19:29.10
I go to some
churches and they say,
00:19:29.13\00:19:31.33
"We couldn't have
a television wall,
00:19:31.37\00:19:33.50
we couldn't have that."
00:19:33.54\00:19:34.87
You know, why you don't have it?
00:19:34.90\00:19:36.27
Because, you don't have vision,
00:19:36.30\00:19:38.61
you don't belong to the mission.
00:19:38.64\00:19:41.04
You're living
down in the low lands.
00:19:41.08\00:19:43.28
You got no faith.
00:19:43.31\00:19:45.75
Start to believe the Bible.
00:19:45.78\00:19:48.05
Believe in the God
who believes in you.
00:19:48.08\00:19:50.45
The Bible says,
00:19:50.49\00:19:51.82
"My God will
supply all your needs."
00:19:51.85\00:19:55.79
Then we ran a campaign
00:19:55.82\00:19:58.46
right next to
the Volga Auto Plant,
00:19:58.49\00:20:00.66
one of the biggest
buildings in the world,
00:20:00.70\00:20:04.07
but we had no church.
00:20:04.10\00:20:05.83
We baptized 1,200
people, no church.
00:20:05.87\00:20:08.80
But an old man
here in Los Angeles
00:20:08.84\00:20:11.21
by the name of Charles, he said,
00:20:11.24\00:20:15.38
"We got to build a church."
00:20:15.41\00:20:16.75
Here it is getting built.
00:20:16.78\00:20:18.11
He said, "What do you need?"
00:20:18.15\00:20:19.48
I said, "$100,000"
00:20:19.51\00:20:21.52
"When do you need
it?" "I need it now."
00:20:21.55\00:20:23.55
"Here it is."
00:20:23.59\00:20:25.79
Yeah.
00:20:25.82\00:20:27.16
Yes, my folks, my
folks, listen to this,
00:20:27.19\00:20:30.89
"According to your
faith be it unto you."
00:20:30.93\00:20:35.06
We've seen the power of God.
00:20:35.10\00:20:38.30
We're not a big ministry.
00:20:38.33\00:20:41.17
We just happen to do big things.
00:20:41.20\00:20:43.91
Amen.
00:20:43.94\00:20:45.54
You see, not a big ministry,
00:20:45.57\00:20:48.54
we just happen to do big things
00:20:48.58\00:20:50.48
because we work for a big God.
00:20:50.51\00:20:52.41
Amen. You see.
00:20:52.45\00:20:54.15
Now let me tell
you about Nizhny, 2017.
00:20:54.18\00:20:57.75
There are new laws.
00:20:57.79\00:20:59.12
The Putin government
has brought about new laws,
00:20:59.15\00:21:02.06
far and unlike John Carter
00:21:02.09\00:21:03.69
just can't go to
Russia and preach.
00:21:03.73\00:21:06.09
You got to get
missionary licenses.
00:21:06.13\00:21:08.63
Some people said,
00:21:08.66\00:21:10.00
"Well, you're not
gonna get them of course,
00:21:10.03\00:21:11.37
that's impossible."
00:21:11.40\00:21:12.73
But we got them.
00:21:12.77\00:21:14.14
And after we
started up the program...
00:21:14.17\00:21:18.67
Before we started,
00:21:18.71\00:21:20.04
I had a big Russian
flag put down in the front,
00:21:20.08\00:21:23.08
big Russian flag.
00:21:23.11\00:21:24.45
When you put a Russian flag,
00:21:24.48\00:21:25.81
why did you put an American one?
00:21:25.85\00:21:27.18
Go to prison? You kidding?
00:21:27.22\00:21:28.58
Put a Russian flag.
00:21:28.62\00:21:31.02
It was televised,
00:21:31.05\00:21:33.09
and the people
and the whole series
00:21:33.12\00:21:35.56
as we made into a
television series,
00:21:35.59\00:21:37.73
and they took that section
00:21:37.76\00:21:39.69
and they took it to the
Kremlin for Putin to see.
00:21:39.73\00:21:44.93
You see, we went there
for a number of reasons
00:21:44.97\00:21:47.97
and one was not to
fall out with the government
00:21:48.00\00:21:53.78
but to make friends, and we did.
00:21:53.81\00:21:58.38
Moscow government
sent us a message,
00:21:58.41\00:22:01.42
"We'll take care
of you. We like you."
00:22:01.45\00:22:06.22
We had no persecution,
we had no resistance,
00:22:06.25\00:22:08.69
we had no opposition,
00:22:08.72\00:22:10.39
God gave us favor in
the eyes of the people
00:22:10.43\00:22:12.53
and the government.
00:22:12.56\00:22:13.90
What were the
Russians like to us?
00:22:13.93\00:22:15.56
They could not have been nicer
00:22:15.60\00:22:17.87
or kinder or more generous.
00:22:17.90\00:22:22.74
Don't confuse the Russian people
00:22:22.77\00:22:24.24
with the
policies of the Kremlin.
00:22:24.27\00:22:28.08
The new Russia,
00:22:28.11\00:22:29.58
well, the streets are
full of imported cars,
00:22:29.61\00:22:33.52
new buildings,
new planes, new trains
00:22:33.55\00:22:37.65
that whisk along
at 120 miles an hour.
00:22:37.69\00:22:44.59
Look at some of these buildings,
00:22:44.63\00:22:46.90
the newest fleet of aircraft
in the world, super trains.
00:22:46.93\00:22:53.13
But I'm going to
tell you folks something.
00:22:58.37\00:22:59.71
Our biggest
problem is not persecution.
00:23:04.25\00:23:10.09
Prosperity is the
enemy of the gospel.
00:23:10.12\00:23:13.86
Great changes have taken place
00:23:13.89\00:23:15.66
in spite of
difficulties however.
00:23:15.69\00:23:18.83
I spoke on Russian
television every night.
00:23:18.86\00:23:22.20
They say, "It's impossible!"
00:23:22.23\00:23:23.97
Well, no.
00:23:24.00\00:23:26.40
Despite of difficulties,
00:23:26.43\00:23:27.77
we saw souls saved and baptized,
00:23:27.80\00:23:31.17
we saw the church strengthened,
00:23:31.21\00:23:33.78
we saw the
production of a new TV series
00:23:33.81\00:23:37.65
to be distributed
right across Russia.
00:23:37.68\00:23:40.88
We were supported by
the 3ABN Russia Team,
00:23:40.92\00:23:44.75
the American Carter Report Team,
00:23:44.79\00:23:47.06
Dr. John Hammond from Australia,
00:23:47.09\00:23:49.19
the prayers of our
church leaders around the world,
00:23:49.22\00:23:56.13
Elder Wilson prayed
that God would fill us
00:23:56.16\00:23:59.73
with the Holy
Ghost, and God did.
00:23:59.77\00:24:02.94
And this is the set,
there's a Russian flag.
00:24:02.97\00:24:06.98
Danny Shelton and his
wife, Beverley, and me,
00:24:07.01\00:24:10.71
I have so much
to be thankful for.
00:24:10.75\00:24:13.25
David shot the
television commercials,
00:24:13.28\00:24:16.92
done differently to any
other religious organization
00:24:16.95\00:24:22.42
which has brought
out the biggest crowds,
00:24:22.46\00:24:26.59
secular crowds in the
history of Christianity.
00:24:26.63\00:24:30.23
You say, "I don't believe it."
00:24:30.27\00:24:31.67
Well, you don't have to.
00:24:31.70\00:24:33.03
It just happens to be true.
00:24:33.07\00:24:35.20
We saw...
00:24:35.24\00:24:36.57
This is the 3ABN crew,
00:24:36.60\00:24:38.97
some of the Carter
Report crew, my translator.
00:24:39.01\00:24:42.44
I just love these people
and I think they love us too.
00:24:42.48\00:24:48.82
So what can I say?
00:24:48.85\00:24:52.49
Here we see
people coming forward.
00:24:52.52\00:24:56.09
My translator from
Zaoksky University.
00:24:56.12\00:24:58.79
We now have a
university in Russia.
00:24:58.83\00:25:02.16
People say, "No, you
can't do these things."
00:25:02.20\00:25:03.87
"Hey, step out of
the darkness, brother.
00:25:03.90\00:25:07.47
Start to have faith in God.
00:25:07.50\00:25:09.44
Put your money
into the work of God,
00:25:09.47\00:25:12.61
but put it
basically into evangelism."
00:25:12.64\00:25:18.28
I've gone there 49 times
00:25:18.31\00:25:20.45
because I've
seen the power of God.
00:25:20.48\00:25:25.35
I know.
00:25:25.39\00:25:26.99
Listen to me, I want
to tell you something.
00:25:27.02\00:25:29.52
I know Jesus is alive.
00:25:29.56\00:25:33.43
Amen.
00:25:33.46\00:25:34.90
I know He is alive,
00:25:34.93\00:25:39.17
and I know that the
gospel is the power of God
00:25:39.20\00:25:45.01
and to salvation to
everyone who believes.
00:25:45.04\00:25:48.54
Amen. Amen.
00:25:48.58\00:25:51.11
And Amen.
00:25:51.15\00:25:52.48
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00:26:00.29\00:26:03.99
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00:26:04.03\00:26:06.29
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00:26:06.33\00:26:11.13
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00:26:11.17\00:26:14.34
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00:26:17.41\00:26:19.47
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00:26:37.93\00:26:39.89
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I believe in the
Ten Commandments.
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I believe in the true gospel.
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I believe in the last days.
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I believe in the
America that believes in God.
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I believe in heaven.
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I believe in evangelism.
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This I believe.
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The seven DVD
series, This I Believe,
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can be yours with a
gift of $75 USD or $105 AUD.
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Please write to us at
the address on the screen
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or visit our
website at CARTEREPORT.ORG.
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Pastor Carter and
the Carter Report team
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recently returned from Russia.
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They brought back
with them a special report
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on Putin's New Russia.
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I've gone there 49 times
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because I've
seen the power of God.
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John Carter
would like to offer you
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this free one hour DVD,
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Report From Putin's New Russia.
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That is why I believe
that the greatest gift
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is the gift of the apostle.
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Write to the
address on the screen,
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call, or visit our website
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and receive your free DVD report
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about Putin's New Russia.
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I have seen Pentecost.
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I have seen the power of God.
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Get your free DVD,
Report From Putin's New Russia
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and watch the
amazing transforming power
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