I'm John Carter in Moscow...
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I'm John Carter.
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Today on the Carter Report,
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Pastor Carter brings us
the triumph of Protestantism.
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We welcome you back
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to the second
part of the program
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on the triumph of Protestantism.
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In the last portion
of the presentation,
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I talked about the Dark Ages,
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how the church went down
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into the
darkness of papal night.
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We spoke about
all these strange,
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awful teachings from pagan
Rome that invaded the church.
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Then I thought
rising sun shedding its rays
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across solemn
and darken landscape
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came the Protestant Reformation.
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John Wycliffe,
have you heard of him?
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In the 1300s, he was
over there in England
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translating the Bible.
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All of these people
were terribly persecuted
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and some of them
were put to death
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because they
actually read the Bible.
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In Bohemia or
Czechoslovakia in the 1400s,
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it was a Roman Catholic
priest by the name of Jan Hus
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preaching the Bible,
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a great
preacher, great man of God,
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they burned him at the
stake, burned millions of people
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mainly Roman Catholics,
Jews, and then Protestants.
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Then there was Martin
Luther, the German priest
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stood before the
Diet of Worms in 1521
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said those famous
words, "Unless I am convinced
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by the plain words of
the Bible or by reason,
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my conscience is
captive to the Word of God.
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I cannot and I will not recant.
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Here I stand, God help me."
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In Switzerland, in the
1530, there was John Calvin.
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And in Scotland in the 1560s,
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there was John Knox
preaching the Word of God.
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Now these great preachers
had all of this in common,
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they believed
in the great Solas.
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Now if you forget
everything else today
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become intelligently
informed on this great subject
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and understand and
believe the great Solas.
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Sola Christus,
Latin, only Christ.
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Sola scriptura, only scripture,
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everything comes from the Bible.
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Sola gratia, only grace,
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I can only be saved
by the grace of God.
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Sola fide, only
faith, faith in Christ,
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my Savior and my
great High Priest.
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And the Book of Romans
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became the powerhouse of
the Protestant Reformation.
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Martin Luther
took as his great text,
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Romans 1:16 and 17,
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I want you to
notice it, Romans 1,
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"For I am not
ashamed of the gospel,
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not ashamed of
the gospel of Christ,
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for it is the
power of God to salvation
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for everyone who believes,
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for the Jew first
and also for the Greek.
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For in it the
righteousness of God is revealed
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from faith to
faith, as it is written,
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'The just shall live by faith.'"
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Martin Luther had
a tremendous mind,
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and as a Roman Catholic priest,
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he heard about the
righteousness of God.
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And Martin
Luther said, "I hate it.
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I hate it."
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His old priest who
is hearing his sin said,
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"Why do you hate it?"
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He says, "Because God is
righteous, I'm unrighteous,
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God is sinless, I'm a
sinner, therefore God hates me.
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And if God hates
me then I hate God."
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The
righteousness of God I hate it.
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And then he came
through his study
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to comprehend the truth
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that when the Bible talks
about the righteousness of God,
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it doesn't mean to
condemn us but to save us.
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It is the righteousness
that comes from Christ
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because of His
death on the cross
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and which is given
to us as a free gift,
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and that was the power house
of the Protestant Reformation.
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Come over now to
Romans 3:20 to 24.
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Some would say,
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this is the high
watermark of scripture.
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"Therefore by
the deeds of the law
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no flesh will be
justified in His sight,
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for by the law is
the knowledge of sin."
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You can't be saved
by your good works.
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"But now the
righteousness of God
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apart from the law is revealed,
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being witnessed by
the law and the Prophets,
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even the righteousness of God,
through faith in Jesus Christ,
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to all and on all who believe.
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For there is no difference,
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all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God,
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being justified,"
declared righteous,
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"justified freely by His grace
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through the redemption
that is in Christ Jesus."
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Listen, this
became heart and the soul
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of the Protestant Reformation
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that I cannot earn
my own righteousness,
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I cannot pay for my sins,
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the Christ on the cross
has already paid for my sins.
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And therefore if
I believe in Him,
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I am declared righteous.
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Look at this, "I
am declared righteous
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the moment I come
to Him in true faith."
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And if this is
true, if this is true,
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I do not need an earthly priest.
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I do not need to go and
confess my sins to a priest.
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I have Christ.
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Christ is my High Priest.
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Christ paid for my
sins with His own blood
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and therefore I am free.
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Now The Economist magazine
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has told us a little bit
about Protestant Reformation
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and I was quite
amazed to read this
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in this secular magazine.
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Early Christianity,
this was the pristine gospel.
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And over here, you've got
the Eastern Orthodox Church
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that later on became
the Russian Orthodox Church.
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But over here,
you've got a break way,
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the Roman Catholic Church.
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And then you've got the coming
of the Protestant Reformers.
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You can see there,
"The Reformation, 1517,
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Martin Luther, John
Calvin, the Anabaptist,
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the Anglicans in England
preaching the Word of God.
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And then you had
the Presbyterians
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and the Mennonites.
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And then you come
down a little bit further
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to the Baptists,
and the Puritans,
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the people who founded
the United States of America
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and there would
have been no America
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without the Protestant
Reformation, don't forget it.
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So it talks about the Puritans.
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Then you come
down to the Quakers,
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the Congregationalists,
and the Amish.
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Then you come down
to the Great Awakenings,
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and you have the
Southern Baptists.
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And then we're
told by The Economist,
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you've also got there
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as true Protestants
Seventh-day Adventists,
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and the Methodists,
and the Salvation Army,
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and the Assemblies of God,
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and it talks
about all the churches
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that came from the
Protestant Reformation.
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And these churches
were raised up by God.
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And when they
were raised up by God,
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they brought a positive message
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of hope and
salvation to the world,
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the results of Protestantism.
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Now, I know this gets
some people terribly mad,
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but you can argue with me
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but you can't
argue with the facts.
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These are just the facts.
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The Economist magazine
is not a religious article,
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it's just telling you the facts.
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It's talking about economics.
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The results of Protestantism,
freedom of conscience.
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I have a free conscience
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because I've
confessed my sins to Jesus
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and Jesus has forgiven me.
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Freedom of conscience,
prosperity in all things,
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and the liberation of
women, and that is why, ladies,
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if you want to go to a
place where women are liberated,
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you better go to a place
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that has heard
the Protestant gospel.
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This is the truth.
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I'm going to read to
you here from The Economist.
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Let me see what
I can find for you.
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It says, "Protestant toleration
was good for business, too."
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It goes on and says,
that the wealthiest countries
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in the world were
the Protestant ones.
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It's true.
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Like the United States...
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Just go and look and see
where the Protestant Reformers
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unleashed their
message upon the world.
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They're the best
countries in the world.
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It's where women are liberated
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and it's where
people are the happiest
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and the most prosperous.
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This is the truth
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and it even draws a
map of those countries.
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"The places where
Protestantism is most alive
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and seems
politically most salient
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where its churches
continue to argue about
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who is right and
what the Bible means,
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issuing statements
and counterstatements
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just as Luther did,"
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this is where it
says it's retained,
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it's important
status in the world.
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And then it says,
"Where overweening rulers
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clash with people demanding
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their rights to
religious freedom,
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Luther's
divisive, dynamic spirit
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will remain an inspiration
for a long time to come."
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And then it goes on to say this.
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Now listen to is,
my American friends.
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Communist China is
an oppressive place,
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but that's where
Protestantism thrives.
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We thrive when we are oppressed,
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and in communist China
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where people are being
still beaten up for their faith,
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where the government is
bulldozing our churches.
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Within the next
three or four years,
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The Economist magazine
says, we are going to have
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more than 160
million Protestants,
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160 million.
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It says, America
no longer will be
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the biggest Protestant country,
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it will be China
where people are going,
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are still being oppressed,
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where the Protestants grow
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so God blesses the nation.
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It's a fact, you
can argue with me,
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may not like what I'm
saying, it's the truth.
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The best countries,
the freest countries,
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the most prosperous countries,
I've been around the world
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so many times, I've lost count.
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The cleanest
countries, the safest countries,
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the healthiest
countries are the countries
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that accepted the preaching
of the Protestant Reformers.
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That's the
truth. That's the truth.
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And that's why so many
people from other countries
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are just lining up to
get into these countries
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where the gospel was preached,
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that's what's happening.
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Protestantism, 500 years
ago, a Roman Catholic priest,
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I'm not saying
anything against Catholics,
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the heroes of this story
they're all Roman Catholics,
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Protestants
reformers, Roman Catholics.
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Five hundred years ago
a Roman Catholic priest
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nailed his 95 theses
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to the door of a
Roman Catholic Church,
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he had some courage.
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He started a revolution
that released a tidal wave
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of freedom, life, and prosperity
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around the world.
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And I have a question for you,
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and I've got a question
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for the television
audience, here it is.
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Are you a Protestant or
are you a Roman Catholic?
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Now I'm going to tell
you how you can find out.
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I got a number
of questions here.
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Number one, "I believe in the
final authority of Scripture,
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not a church
committee and not the pope."
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I believe in the final
authority of Scripture,
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not a church
committee or the pope.
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If you say, "No, I
can't believe that",
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then you're a Catholic.
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But if you say, yes,
you're a Protestant, you see?
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Now question number two.
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You can see it on the screen.
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"I believe all doctrine must
be based on the Bible alone,
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not on other writings.
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If you say yes to that, I
believe in the Bible alone,
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you're a Protestant.
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If you say, no,
you're a Catholic.
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Number three, "I believe
that religious hierarchies..."
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This gets me into
trouble in my own church.
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"I believe that religious
hierarchies are basically
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Roman Catholic in
nature, and often make mistakes.
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If you say, "No, no,
I can't believe that,"
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then you're a Catholic.
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But if you say,
"Yes, I believe that,"
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then you're a Protestant.
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Number four, "I believe
I'm saved only by Jesus,
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not good works done in
me by the Holy Spirit."
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If you say yes,
you are a Protestant.
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Number five, "I believe
I have direct access to God
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without a priest or a pastor."
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If you say, no, no,
I don't believe that,
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well, that's
because you're a Catholic.
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But if you say, yes, I believe
that, you're a Protestant.
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Number six, "I
believe I'm saved and safe
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when I come to
Christ in true faith."
00:15:08.17\00:15:11.84
Saved safe, justified,
liberated, emancipated,
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on my way to glory,
going direct to Amazon, see?
00:15:17.98\00:15:23.82
Don't have to go to the mall.
00:15:23.85\00:15:27.02
Don't have to
negotiate for bargains.
00:15:27.06\00:15:29.92
And if you say, I
believe I'm saved and safe
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when I come to
Christ in true faith,
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then you're a Protestant.
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Number seven, "I believe
the church cannot take my name
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out of the Book of Life."
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Oh, I know some
Protestants would say,
00:15:42.74\00:15:44.27
no, no, if I give
this fellow a membership
00:15:44.31\00:15:46.78
because I disagree with somebody
00:15:46.81\00:15:48.34
then I'm gonna go to hell
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'cause the church can
do that, that's nonsense.
00:15:49.78\00:15:53.48
No, no, no, I believe the
church cannot take my name
00:15:53.52\00:15:58.22
out of the Book of Life, yes.
00:15:58.25\00:16:00.52
I'm a Protestant.
00:16:00.56\00:16:02.09
Number eight, "When
my conscience conflicts
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with my church," including
my own Protestant church,
00:16:05.03\00:16:10.50
"I must disobey the church
and follow my conscience."
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I say, yes, you see?
00:16:14.44\00:16:17.81
Now I know lots of
folks in my church they say,
00:16:17.84\00:16:21.51
"No, no, no, I'm
concerned about my job,
00:16:21.54\00:16:26.18
so I've got to say no."
00:16:26.21\00:16:28.45
I say, when my conscience
conflicts with the church,
00:16:28.48\00:16:32.15
I must disobey my church
and follow my conscience.
00:16:32.19\00:16:36.46
Yes, yes.
00:16:36.49\00:16:39.96
Number nine, I believe the
real reason the church exists
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is not to sit
around and waste time
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with heaps of committees
00:16:46.97\00:16:49.60
because after
people spend so much time
00:16:49.64\00:16:51.64
in their committees
nothing has been accomplished
00:16:51.67\00:16:54.44
except that they feel good.
00:16:54.48\00:16:57.08
They think they've
done something, they have.
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They wasted their own
time and the Lord's time.
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Listen, I believe the
real reason the church exists
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is to preach the
Gospel of Christ.
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Yes, that's what
a Protestant says.
00:17:09.59\00:17:11.83
Number ten, "I believe
my first loyalty is to God,
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not the church organization."
00:17:16.73\00:17:18.87
No, says the Catholic.
00:17:18.90\00:17:22.40
The church organization
first, it is divinely inspired.
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That's the
teaching of the papacy.
00:17:27.88\00:17:30.35
I believe my
first loyalty is to God,
00:17:33.98\00:17:36.42
not the church organization.
00:17:36.45\00:17:37.89
Yes.
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And if you can say yes
to all of those things,
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you're a Protestant.
00:17:43.16\00:17:45.59
And you're part
of the Holy Spirit
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anointed movement
of divine destiny.
00:17:47.13\00:17:49.86
Protestantism is the
original Christian religion.
00:17:49.90\00:17:54.14
Lost for more
than a thousand years
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but now restored.
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It is the wave of the future,
it is marching on to glory.
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You see?
00:18:05.35\00:18:07.35
And you may know some
poor little Protestant Church
00:18:07.38\00:18:10.62
in America or
Australia that's dying.
00:18:10.65\00:18:14.92
That's probably
those people in that church
00:18:14.96\00:18:18.29
are Catholic Protestants.
00:18:18.33\00:18:21.20
They don't know
what they believe,
00:18:21.23\00:18:22.66
they've got no conviction,
00:18:22.70\00:18:24.33
they've got no
fire in their bellies,
00:18:24.37\00:18:26.17
they're lazy, you see?
00:18:26.20\00:18:30.24
But I want you to know
that the true Protestant Church
00:18:30.27\00:18:32.91
is marching home
to glory, hallelujah!
00:18:32.94\00:18:36.01
Now let me give you a text,
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Revelation 7:9, 10 and bit more.
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Revelation 7:9,
"After these things
00:18:42.78\00:18:46.65
I looked and behold,
00:18:46.69\00:18:48.62
a great multitude
which no one could number,
00:18:48.66\00:18:52.43
of all nations,
tribes, peoples, and tongues,
00:18:52.46\00:18:55.83
standing before the
throne and before the Lamb,
00:18:55.86\00:18:59.67
clothed with white robes,
00:18:59.70\00:19:01.57
with palm
branches in their hands,
00:19:01.60\00:19:04.14
and crying out
with a loud voice,
00:19:04.17\00:19:05.77
saying,
'Salvation belongs to our God
00:19:05.81\00:19:09.78
who sits on the throne,
and to the Lamb!'" Christ.
00:19:09.81\00:19:14.85
"Then one of the
elders answered, saying to me,
00:19:14.88\00:19:17.52
'Who are these arrayed
in white robes," you see?
00:19:17.55\00:19:21.16
They're justified. Who are they?
00:19:21.19\00:19:23.43
"Where did they come from?
00:19:23.46\00:19:24.79
I said to him, 'Sir, you know.'
00:19:24.83\00:19:26.49
So he said to me,
'These are the ones
00:19:26.53\00:19:28.93
who came out of
the great tribulation,
00:19:28.96\00:19:31.00
and washed their robes
00:19:31.03\00:19:33.03
and made them white in
the blood of the Lamb.'"
00:19:33.07\00:19:35.84
They are true Protestants.
00:19:35.87\00:19:37.97
You know why?
00:19:38.01\00:19:39.34
'Cause they're washed
in the blood of the Lamb.
00:19:39.37\00:19:41.88
They go directly to
Christ for salvation.
00:19:41.91\00:19:45.11
They have a personal
experience with Christ.
00:19:45.15\00:19:47.42
You see, Catholicism emphasizes
the glory of the church
00:19:47.45\00:19:53.89
and the
infallibility of the pontiff.
00:19:53.92\00:19:57.26
Protestantism emphasizes
not the glory of the church,
00:19:57.29\00:20:01.00
but the glory of
the Christ, you see,
00:20:01.03\00:20:04.87
and the fallibility
of all earthly committees
00:20:04.90\00:20:11.11
and earthly people.
00:20:11.14\00:20:15.14
So don't you get
it out of your heads
00:20:15.18\00:20:17.05
if you want to be saved.
00:20:17.08\00:20:19.11
Sola Christus, only Christ.
00:20:19.15\00:20:21.68
Sola scriptura, only scripture.
00:20:21.72\00:20:24.85
Sola gratia, only grace.
00:20:24.89\00:20:27.66
Can't you hear, Luther?
00:20:27.69\00:20:29.19
Sola fide, only faith.
00:20:29.22\00:20:33.43
We're not saved
by faith and works,
00:20:33.46\00:20:35.66
we're saved by
our faith that works.
00:20:35.70\00:20:39.70
You see, you get it.
00:20:39.73\00:20:44.14
So it's marching home to glory.
00:20:44.17\00:20:47.01
Millions in the Roman Catholic
countries of Latin America
00:20:47.04\00:20:50.81
are leaving the Church of Rome
00:20:50.85\00:20:52.18
and joining the Church of Jesus.
00:20:52.21\00:20:54.65
In 1970, there were 23 million
Protestants in Latin America,
00:20:54.68\00:20:58.65
they're now up to 2015,
121 million Protestants.
00:20:58.69\00:21:04.36
Now, I have been to El Salvador,
00:21:04.39\00:21:10.53
a Roman Catholic country,
full of crime, full of drugs,
00:21:10.57\00:21:16.64
full of violence,
and full of darkness,
00:21:16.67\00:21:22.18
but God is not
dead in El Salvador.
00:21:22.21\00:21:25.11
I want you to see the
people who came to the meetings.
00:21:25.15\00:21:28.85
We hired 765 busses
to bring the people.
00:21:28.88\00:21:35.16
Here they, look at the stadium,
00:21:35.19\00:21:37.43
it is the biggest
stadium in Central America,
00:21:37.46\00:21:41.60
the biggest crowd
00:21:41.63\00:21:42.96
in the history of
the football stadium
00:21:43.00\00:21:44.80
and those folks
are crazy for football.
00:21:44.83\00:21:47.64
But I want to tell you
00:21:47.67\00:21:49.00
there's something
stronger than football,
00:21:49.04\00:21:51.84
it is Sola Christus,
only Christ, Sola scriptura,
00:21:51.87\00:21:56.48
sola gratia, sola fide,
this is what we preach there.
00:21:56.51\00:22:01.28
In one day, we saw 5,000,
00:22:01.32\00:22:05.39
many Roman Catholics baptized.
00:22:05.42\00:22:08.62
The vice president of
the nation said to me,
00:22:08.66\00:22:11.33
this is what El Salvador needs,
00:22:11.36\00:22:13.90
that Protestant gospel
because that liberates people.
00:22:13.93\00:22:18.10
It lifts people up, it
redeems people, you see.
00:22:18.13\00:22:24.61
So I'm a Protestant, I guess
you can work that out by now.
00:22:24.64\00:22:28.04
I'm on the winning side.
00:22:28.08\00:22:30.81
My beloved dad was a
strong Roman Catholic.
00:22:30.85\00:22:35.72
His father and mother
were strong Roman Catholics,
00:22:35.75\00:22:38.02
his mother came from Tipperary.
00:22:38.05\00:22:40.79
And his father
came from England,
00:22:40.82\00:22:42.66
but he was a Catholic too.
00:22:42.69\00:22:44.86
As a boy, my dear old dad
all he knew was the church,
00:22:44.89\00:22:49.36
many beatings were his mistakes,
00:22:49.40\00:22:52.93
he was an altar
boy in the church.
00:22:52.97\00:22:57.91
Well, I knew him growing up,
I saw he had no peace, no joy,
00:22:57.94\00:23:02.91
he knew the math and Latin,
but he never read the Bible,
00:23:02.94\00:23:06.08
he didn't know what it was.
00:23:06.11\00:23:10.49
He lived in fear of hell,
00:23:10.52\00:23:13.15
until he found the Lord
Jesus Christ as his Savior.
00:23:13.19\00:23:17.69
He started to read his Bible,
00:23:17.73\00:23:20.40
he found hope,
and faith, and joy
00:23:20.43\00:23:24.63
and was baptized as
a Protestant Adventist.
00:23:24.67\00:23:30.21
He died with the
certainty of the resurrection.
00:23:30.24\00:23:34.71
He died believing in
only Christ, only scripture,
00:23:34.74\00:23:38.58
only grace, only faith,
00:23:38.61\00:23:41.22
I could have been
a Catholic priest,
00:23:41.25\00:23:46.22
but with the help of my mother
who was a strong Protestant,
00:23:46.25\00:23:50.13
I found the true gospel.
00:23:50.16\00:23:54.36
And today, I thank God
that first and foremost,
00:23:54.40\00:24:01.00
I am a Christian,
that's my religion.
00:24:01.04\00:24:06.37
And secondly, I thank God
00:24:06.41\00:24:09.54
that I am a Protestant.
00:24:09.58\00:24:14.02
And thirdly, thirdly,
00:24:14.05\00:24:18.39
I am an Adventist.
00:24:18.42\00:24:22.12
And in that order,
and if you get it wrong,
00:24:22.16\00:24:25.23
you won't be a Christian,
you won't be a Protestant,
00:24:25.26\00:24:27.73
you won't be anything,
00:24:27.76\00:24:31.17
except a very unhappy person.
00:24:31.20\00:24:34.50
And today, I'm
going to do something
00:24:34.54\00:24:36.71
as we wind up this program.
00:24:36.74\00:24:39.01
I'm going to
dedicate this program
00:24:39.04\00:24:40.94
to my mom and my dad,
00:24:40.98\00:24:44.31
to James and Jean Carter.
00:24:44.35\00:24:48.25
This old man who died
00:24:48.28\00:24:50.99
with his faith in
Christ as a true Protestant,
00:24:51.02\00:24:55.59
no longer fearing the flame,
00:24:55.62\00:25:00.83
and I dedicated to my mother
00:25:00.86\00:25:05.23
'cause she is
with my two sisters.
00:25:05.27\00:25:08.70
And there she was when
she was 97 years of age
00:25:08.74\00:25:13.61
going strong, reading the Bible,
00:25:13.64\00:25:16.95
and giving me a hard time.
00:25:16.98\00:25:20.18
So I dedicate
the program to them.
00:25:23.25\00:25:26.82
My mother, a great Protestant
00:25:26.86\00:25:32.23
who understood the
prophecies of the Bible,
00:25:32.26\00:25:35.30
who taught me to love the Bible
00:25:35.33\00:25:40.10
and to hate the antichrist,
00:25:40.14\00:25:44.47
and to be true to
the faith of my fathers.
00:25:44.51\00:25:49.28
And so it is with joy today
00:25:49.31\00:25:55.18
that I dedicate this
program on Protestantism
00:25:55.22\00:26:00.19
to my mother and to my father
00:26:00.22\00:26:05.33
whom one day soon in glory,
00:26:05.36\00:26:08.86
I shall see again
because Christ is the way,
00:26:08.90\00:26:14.34
the truth, and the life, amen.
00:26:14.37\00:26:19.27
This is my 43rd visit...
00:26:30.52\00:26:33.69
to preach the everlasting gospel
00:26:36.93\00:26:39.59
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
00:26:39.63\00:26:41.30
And they had smoke
bombs and they had fire bombs,
00:26:51.34\00:26:54.58
and the Russian army had
to take me to the meetings.
00:26:54.61\00:26:57.25
I come here, my
friend, because of the need.
00:27:00.72\00:27:03.45
These were days of grace
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00:27:03.49\00:27:09.72
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00:27:49.36\00:27:53.10
The greatest truth in the Bible,
00:27:53.13\00:27:55.07
it is the truth
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00:27:55.10\00:27:58.81
It has
completely changed my life,
00:27:58.84\00:28:00.68
and I'm going to be
baptized this Sabbath.
00:28:00.71\00:28:02.91
Pastor Carter has
put something in my heart
00:28:02.94\00:28:05.48
that I will never forget.
00:28:05.51\00:28:06.85
Thank you Pastor
Carter for your program,
00:28:06.88\00:28:08.82
it has changed
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