I'm John Carter in Moscow...
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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 Columbia...
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I'm John Carter.
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Today, on the Carter
Report, John Carter talks about
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same-sex marriage and
the mark of the beast.
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We give you an extraordinarily
warm welcome today.
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Australia has just become
one of the Me Too nations.
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Over in Australia,
about 61% are saying "Me Too."
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They've joined those countries
that have declared themselves
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in favor of same-sex unions.
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About 61% of
the people said yes.
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They're now following
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the example of the
United States of America,
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Canada, New Zealand,
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Great Britain,
France, and Germany,
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and others that have
repudiated thousands of years
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of established
custom and moral law
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with their obvious
shrug of the shoulders.
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Today, I decided to
answer a number of questions
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that I think are
of vital importance.
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I do so,
thankfully, not as a politician
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but as a Christian
who believes the Bible.
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I don't ask you
necessarily to agree with me
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but to consider what may be
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of great relevance to
our peace, prosperity,
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and our wellbeing.
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May I say these
words with real sincerity,
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too often the LGBTQ community
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has been treated
badly by some people
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who call themselves
Christians, some churches,
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and I think for many
years by society in general.
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I believe this has been
wrong, and we should all say,
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"I'm sorry,"
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because the way we have acted
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has not represented
the Spirit of Christ.
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We should never forget
we are all children of God.
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Sadly, we belong
to a fallen humanity,
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and none of us is whole,
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we all need God's amazing grace.
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I want to say to every person,
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I think our
attitude ought to be,
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we may disagree with you,
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but in spite of
our disagreements,
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we love you
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because Jesus,
of course, loves us.
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And Jesus, of course,
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is called the friend of sinners.
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And the topic today is
a rather explosive topic,
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same-sex marriage and
the mark of the beast,
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what have they
possibly got in common.
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We're going to start
by sharing two texts,
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the first one is found
in Matthew 19:4 and onwards.
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And this not from the
church, this is from Jesus.
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Matthew 19:4-6.
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"And He
answered," this is Jesus,
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"said to them,
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'Have you not read
that He who made them
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at the beginning made
them male and female.'"
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This is Jesus.
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"He made them male and female."
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"And said, 'For this reason
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a man shall leave
his father and his mother
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and be joined to his wife.'"
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"Male and female."
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"'And the two
shall become one flesh'?
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so then they are no
longer two but one flesh.
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Therefore, what God
has joined together,
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let not man separate."
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Don't be mad with me.
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The Bible says,
quoting the Lord Jesus Christ,
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the Son of God,
"In the beginning
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He made them male and female."
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And Jesus said
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that a true
marriage was between a man,
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one man and one woman.
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This is what the Bible says.
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Now please listen to me,
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and I say to my Aussie
friends, give me please fair go.
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Please listen
to what I'm saying.
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Now I want you to come
now to Revelation 13:11, 16
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which seems at the start
to be totally irrelevant.
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"Then I saw another beast
coming up out of the earth.
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He had two horns like a
lamb, spoke like a dragon."
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Here is an antichrist power
that arises in the last days.
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"He cases all,
both small and great,
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rich and poor, free and slave,
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to receive a mark
on their right hand
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or on their foreheads,
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and that no one may buy or sell
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except one who has the mark
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or the name of the beast
or the number of his name."
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What on earth has this got
to do with our topic today?
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Let me tell you briefly
because I'm going to elaborate
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as we go along.
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In the last days,
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people will become
exceedingly intolerant,
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and unless you see it their way,
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you are going to be boycotted.
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And I can show you
that in the last days
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the mark of the beast
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is tied in with
changing the Law of God.
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More to come.
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Now we're going to
ask a number of questions
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and hopefully
give a clear answer.
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Number one, do we
have the right to choose?
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Has God given us
freedom of choice?
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Do I have the right to
engage in sexual activity
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that is condemned in the Bible?
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I would say,
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"Yes, I do have the right
to choose my own lifestyle
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as long as my right
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does not
infringe upon your right."
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But God has
given to us the gift,
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freedom of choice.
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I want you to
come to Genesis 3:1-10.
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Genesis 3:1-10.
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Would you please
notice it in the Bible?
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"Now the serpent," that's Satan,
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"was more cunning
than any beast of the field
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which the Lord God had made.
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And he said to the
woman, 'Has God indeed said,
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'You shall not eat of
every tree the garden'?'
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And the woman
said to the serpent,
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'We may eat the fruit
of the trees of the garden
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but of the fruit of the tree
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which is in the
midst of the garden,
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God has said,
'You shall not eat it,
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nor shall you
touch it, lest you die."
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Then the serpent
said to the woman,
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'You will not surely die.
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For God knows that in
the day you eat of it,
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your eyes will be opened
and you will be like God,
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knowing good and evil.'
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So when the woman saw
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that the tree was good for food,
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that it was
pleasant to the eyes,
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and a tree
desirable to make one wise,
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she took of its fruit and ate.
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She also gave to her
husband with her, and he ate.
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Then the eyes of
both of them were opened,
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and they knew
that they were naked,
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and they sewed
fig leaves together
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and made themselves coverings.
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And they heard the
sound of the Lord God
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walking in the garden
in the cool of the day,
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and Adam and his
wife hid themselves
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from the
presence of the Lord God
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among the trees of the garden.
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Then the Lord God
called to Adam and said to him,
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'Where are you?'
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So he said, 'I heard
Your voice in the garden,
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and I was afraid
because I was naked,
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and I hid myself.'"
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The greatest
teaching in the Bible
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is that God loves people.
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God is a God of Love.
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Listen to me,
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God gave us a dangerous gift,
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choice,
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the ability to
choose good and evil.
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You see, I could not love...
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I would not have the
capacity to respond to love
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if I had been made a robot.
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So God gave to
us a dangerous gift,
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it was choice,
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we can choose good,
and we can choose evil.
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I'm going to tell
you an amazing story.
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It comes from one of the
greatest authors of all time.
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The Russian Dostoyevsky,
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he talks about
the Grand Inquisitor,
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the scene is Spain,
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the occasion the
burning of 100 heretics
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who dared to
challenge the church.
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And after the
burning of the 100 heretics,
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Christ arrives in
the town in Spain,
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walks around,
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the people fall down
before Him and they worship Him,
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they say it's really
Christ, He heals the sick,
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raises the dead,
He does miracles.
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The people are worshipping
Him, but the great inquisitor,
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the Jesuit comes and says,
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"Throw Him into
prison, in the dungeon!"
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He says to Christ,
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"We will burn
You tomorrow, Christ.
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Why have You come
back to trouble us?"
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And all the people bowed down
before the Grand Inquisitor.
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That night the Grand Inquisitor
comes and visits Christ
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who is in the prison.
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Christ is sitting
there waiting His execution
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the next day at the
hands of the church.
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And the Grand Inquisitor says,
"Christ, why did You come back?
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We worked so hard
to make things good.
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We were going good.
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Why did You have
to come back, Christ?
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And by God, I'll
burn You tomorrow."
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Then he says this...
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This is just a little
quote from Dostoyevsky.
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"We corrected Your great deed
and founded it upon miracle,
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mystery, and authority."
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See, this is what people want,
miracle, mystery, authority.
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"And people were glad
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that they had once
been brought together
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into a flock
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and that at last
from their hearts
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had been removed
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such a terrible gift, choice,
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which had brought
them so much torment.
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Were we right, to teach
an act thus, would you say?
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Did we not love mankind,
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when we so humbly
admitted his helplessness,
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lightning his burden with love,
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and allowing his
feeble nature even sin,
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but with our permission?
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Why have You come to
get in our way now, Christ?
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By God, I'll burn you tomorrow."
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And Jesus says nothing.
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And the Grand Inquisitor
goes on and on and on,
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and then says,
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"And they shall
have no secrets from us.
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We shall permit
them or forbid them
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to live with their
wives or paramours,
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to have or not to have children,
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all according to
their degree of obedience.
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And they will submit to
us with cheerfulness and joy.
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The most agonizing
secrets of their consciences,
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all, all will they bring to us,
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we shall resolve it all,
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and they will attend
our decision with joy
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because..."
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Now listen, "it
will deliver them
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from the great anxiety
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and fearsome present torments
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of free and individual decision.
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All will be happy."
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"Christ, why did You come back?"
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This is a tale told
by Ivan to his brother
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in the book The
Brothers Karamazov,
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one of the great masterpieces.
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And because Christ is love,
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He gave us a great
and wonderful gift,
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freedom of choice.
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I can choose, I
can't tell you what to do,
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I can urge arguments upon you,
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I can preach to you,
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but I cannot forbid
you to do this or that
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because God
doesn't even do that.
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Freedom of choice,
a very dangerous gift,
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but without that
gift, I am a mere robot
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without the capacity to love.
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The church, my friend,
can preach, argue, and teach,
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and it should,
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but it cannot take from people
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the right to
choose their own destiny
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even though that destiny may be,
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in my opinion, evil.
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So God is love, we can choose.
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Number two question,
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do people have the
right of freedom of speech
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and freedom of worship?
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And there are people
today from the liberal left
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and the radical
right who would tell me
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you can only
believe what I tell you
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you can believe.
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We're in an age
of gross intolerance,
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from the left
and from the right.
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Do people have the
right of freedom of speech
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and freedom of worship?
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Come with me to
Revelation 17:1-6
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for a little bit of history.
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Revelation 17,
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"Then one of the seven angels
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who had the seven bowls
came and talked with me,
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saying to me,
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'Come, I will
show you the judgment
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of the great harlot
which sits on many waters,
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with whom the kings of the earth
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committed fornication,
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and the inhabitants of the earth
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were made drunk and crazy
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with the wine of
her fornication.'
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So he carried me away
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in the Spirit
into the wilderness.
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And I saw a woman
sitting on a scarlet beast
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which was full of
names and blasphemy,
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having seven
heads and ten horns.
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The woman was arrayed
in purple and scarlet,
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and adorned with gold and
precious stones and pearls,
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having in her hand a golden cup
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full of abominations and
filthiness of fornication.
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And on her forehead a
name was written Mystery,
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Babylon the Great,
the Mother of Harlots,
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and of the
Abominations of the Earth.
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I saw the woman,
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drunk with the
blood of the saints
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and with the blood
of the martyrs of Jesus.
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And when I saw her,
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I marveled with
great amazement."
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What is it talking about?
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It is talking
about the union of church
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and state in the dark ages.
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I spoke about this a
little bit last week.
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This is a description of the day
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when the church and
the state became one
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and when the
papacy ruled the world.
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During the reign of Papal Rome,
there was no freedom of speech
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and no freedom of worship
and no freedom of choice.
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And most people were happy
00:17:02.12\00:17:04.15
because the
burden of responsibility
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had been taken from them.
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During this time,
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there was a terrible
persecution of non-conformists,
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Jews, Protestants, Muslims,
00:17:14.43\00:17:16.97
and non-conforming Catholics.
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They were all persecuted
by this dreadful system
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that some people
confuse with the church.
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That organization
that did these abominations
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had nothing to do with Christ.
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They were a counterfeit.
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I believe in the
separation of church and state
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that all people
have the right to argue,
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teach, preach,
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and advocate ideas
that may be objectionable
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to the majority.
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This is guaranteed in the
USA by the First Amendment.
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This operates in the
domain of public affairs,
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public universities,
not in private institutions.
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If you work for
the Ford Motor Company,
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you cannot be advocating
the sale of Chevy trucks.
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So when it talks
about freedom of speech,
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it talks about freedom of speech
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in the public
domain, in universities
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and all state
institutions everywhere,
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except where people are employed
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by certain organizations.
00:18:25.77\00:18:29.70
Now we believe or
every true American believes
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in the freedom
of preaching things
00:18:34.28\00:18:37.05
that may to some of us
be totally objectionable.
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I might even call what
you're saying hate speech,
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but you have
the right to say it,
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even though I object
to it with all my soul.
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I would remind and some say...
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I don't like this because
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you can only say those things
that I think are acceptable.
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That is an
abominable idea, I tell you,
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it is totally un-American,
un-Christian, and unacceptable.
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But today,
people on the far-left
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and the far-right
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believe in freedom
of speech for themselves
00:19:13.25\00:19:17.65
but not for the rest of us.
00:19:17.69\00:19:19.95
I would remind you,
there was no freedom of speech
00:19:19.99\00:19:22.36
and no freedom of
worship in Nazi Germany.
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Didn't happen that long ago,
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95 percent of the
people went along with it.
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You say, "No, it can't be true."
00:19:31.30\00:19:32.63
Yes, 95 percent.
00:19:32.67\00:19:34.87
So truth is not necessarily
on the side of the majority,
00:19:34.90\00:19:39.81
and just because 61
percent, or 75 percent,
00:19:39.84\00:19:43.21
or 95 percent
says something is true,
00:19:43.24\00:19:45.71
it doesn't make it right.
00:19:45.75\00:19:48.12
Don't forget this.
00:19:48.15\00:19:52.22
There was no freedom of
speech and no freedom of worship
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in Fascist Italy.
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No freedom of speech
and no freedom of worship
00:19:57.76\00:20:00.06
in Communist Russia.
00:20:00.10\00:20:01.43
I have been to
Russia 49 and 50 times,
00:20:01.46\00:20:05.17
I went there
00:20:05.20\00:20:06.53
when the communists were ruling.
00:20:06.57\00:20:08.00
They were the far-left.
00:20:08.04\00:20:10.37
People say, "No, no..."
00:20:10.41\00:20:11.74
Yes, they were the far-left.
00:20:11.77\00:20:15.24
There was no freedom of
speech and no freedom of worship
00:20:15.28\00:20:17.68
in communist China,
not much there today.
00:20:17.71\00:20:20.28
No freedom of speech
and no freedom of worship
00:20:20.32\00:20:22.75
in communist North Korea, zero,
00:20:22.78\00:20:26.22
or even in many
American universities.
00:20:26.25\00:20:29.46
Can you believe it?
00:20:29.49\00:20:30.83
In many American universities...
00:20:30.86\00:20:35.53
where they have what they
call free zones, and people say,
00:20:35.56\00:20:41.14
"You cannot say anything,
00:20:41.17\00:20:42.64
you cannot teach anything
00:20:42.67\00:20:44.37
that I may find offensive."
00:20:44.41\00:20:47.68
I would say to such young people
00:20:47.71\00:20:49.51
it is time for you to grow up
00:20:49.54\00:20:51.61
and realize that
you're living in a real world
00:20:51.65\00:20:54.28
where many things
you're going to discover
00:20:54.32\00:20:56.32
are offensive.
00:20:56.35\00:20:59.15
So I believe in the
free exchange of ideas,
00:20:59.19\00:21:02.06
and I believe that you
have the right to say to me
00:21:02.09\00:21:05.63
and to teach things
that I dislike intensely.
00:21:05.66\00:21:11.07
So we believe in
freedom of speech
00:21:11.10\00:21:13.27
and freedom of religion.
00:21:13.30\00:21:15.44
I do not believe
in many religions,
00:21:15.47\00:21:18.07
but I believe that I must defend
00:21:18.11\00:21:20.91
the right of those people
to practice their religions
00:21:20.94\00:21:25.15
to the last drop of my blood,
00:21:25.18\00:21:27.08
and I'm talking
about the Muslim religion,
00:21:27.12\00:21:29.45
and I'm talking about the
Hindus, and the Buddhists,
00:21:29.48\00:21:32.62
and the Catholics,
and the Protestants,
00:21:32.65\00:21:34.66
and every person.
00:21:34.69\00:21:36.52
They may disagree with
me, I may disagree with them,
00:21:36.56\00:21:38.69
but that's not the point.
00:21:38.73\00:21:41.13
There are two
very intolerant groups
00:21:41.16\00:21:43.70
in the world today in America,
00:21:43.73\00:21:48.20
the far-right and the far-left.
00:21:48.24\00:21:50.64
But there's one
good thing about America
00:21:50.67\00:21:52.74
that other countries don't have,
00:21:52.77\00:21:54.34
at least the far-left is
balanced by the far-right.
00:21:54.38\00:22:00.28
But in some countries,
even the country of my birth,
00:22:00.32\00:22:04.65
it seems to me that the far-left
00:22:04.69\00:22:08.86
is the power that
is heard all the time
00:22:08.89\00:22:14.63
and people are
afraid to disagree.
00:22:14.66\00:22:18.23
Remember, the
Sadducees were the liberals
00:22:18.27\00:22:21.20
and the Pharisees
were the conservatives,
00:22:21.24\00:22:23.87
and both put
Christ on the cross.
00:22:23.91\00:22:28.54
Bad as each other,
00:22:28.58\00:22:29.91
so I say to you as an
American, let freedom reign.
00:22:29.94\00:22:35.32
Now here's a very
important question.
00:22:35.35\00:22:41.49
And I hope my homosexual friends
00:22:41.52\00:22:43.49
will be tolerant with me
00:22:43.53\00:22:44.86
and will believe in
freedom of speech now.
00:22:44.89\00:22:48.63
Why are so many
Christians like me
00:22:48.66\00:22:52.63
so opposed to the
so-called same-sex marriage?
00:22:52.67\00:22:55.94
Why not be more loving?
00:22:55.97\00:22:58.37
Well, certainly, we
should be more loving.
00:22:58.41\00:23:01.58
Martin Luther said these words,
00:23:01.61\00:23:03.88
"My conscience is
captive to the Word of God.
00:23:03.91\00:23:07.28
So unless I'm
convinced by reason
00:23:07.32\00:23:09.65
and the texts of the Bible,
00:23:09.68\00:23:11.29
I cannot and I will not recant."
00:23:11.32\00:23:14.56
So you see some of
us have convictions,
00:23:14.59\00:23:18.43
some of us actually believe.
00:23:18.46\00:23:20.60
There are too many passages
in the Bible that condemn sex
00:23:23.63\00:23:26.63
between men and
men and women and women
00:23:26.67\00:23:30.91
for me to ignore
what the Word of God says.
00:23:30.94\00:23:34.21
See this is my dilemma.
00:23:34.24\00:23:35.78
I want to fit in, I want
to be friends with everybody,
00:23:35.81\00:23:40.42
I dislike quarrels.
00:23:40.45\00:23:44.45
But first and
foremost, the Bible says,
00:23:44.49\00:23:46.76
"I shall worship
the Lord your God
00:23:46.79\00:23:48.66
and Him only shall you serve."
00:23:48.69\00:23:50.39
Therefore, my first allegiance
is not to the US Supreme Court
00:23:50.43\00:23:56.03
or to the Australian Parliament,
00:23:56.06\00:24:00.27
my first allegiance
is to the Word of God.
00:24:00.30\00:24:03.30
And what am I going
to do with this text?
00:24:03.34\00:24:06.17
I want you to come over
here to Leviticus 20:13.
00:24:06.21\00:24:09.88
Leviticus 20:13.
00:24:09.91\00:24:12.95
Now some would say
this is hate speech,
00:24:12.98\00:24:15.78
and it should be
removed from the Bible.
00:24:15.82\00:24:19.35
Some people have said
this, I've heard them say it
00:24:19.39\00:24:21.79
on American
television, this is hate speech.
00:24:21.82\00:24:25.33
I would remind you,
it is the Word of God.
00:24:25.36\00:24:30.27
Leviticus 20:13, here it is,
00:24:30.30\00:24:33.57
"If a man lies with a
male as he lies with a woman,
00:24:33.60\00:24:40.04
both of them have
committed an abomination.
00:24:40.08\00:24:44.08
They shall
surely be put to death.
00:24:44.11\00:24:45.98
Their blood shall be upon them."
00:24:46.01\00:24:49.98
Now I can hear 1,000 objections,
00:24:50.02\00:24:53.15
you're saying we
should put people...
00:24:53.19\00:24:54.56
No, no, no, what
I'm saying is this,
00:24:54.59\00:24:58.89
in the Old
Testament, you had a theocracy,
00:24:58.93\00:25:01.70
it was different to
the New Testament system,
00:25:01.73\00:25:03.93
you were church and state,
00:25:03.97\00:25:05.80
religious law was civil law,
and if you broke the Sabbath,
00:25:05.83\00:25:10.24
you were put to death,
00:25:10.27\00:25:11.94
if you cursed your
father and your mother,
00:25:11.97\00:25:13.91
you were put to death,
if you committed adultery,
00:25:13.94\00:25:17.38
you were put to death.
00:25:17.41\00:25:19.21
How many would be left today?
00:25:19.25\00:25:21.08
But if you did those
things in the Old Testament,
00:25:21.12\00:25:23.62
the judgment came
immediately and suddenly.
00:25:23.65\00:25:28.06
And this is not done today.
00:25:28.09\00:25:30.13
Thank God we leave it to
the hands of a merciful God
00:25:30.16\00:25:33.80
and the Last Judgment,
but the Bible does say,
00:25:33.83\00:25:38.33
"If a man lies with a man
as a man lies with a woman,
00:25:38.37\00:25:42.84
that is an abomination."
00:25:42.87\00:25:46.27
So as a Christian,
here is my dilemma,
00:25:46.31\00:25:50.05
am I to go along
with the majority
00:25:50.08\00:25:52.75
and say I will fit in
00:25:52.78\00:25:57.05
or will I say
with Martin Luther,
00:25:57.09\00:26:01.12
here I stand,
00:26:01.16\00:26:04.46
I can do none other."
00:26:04.49\00:26:08.53
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