I'm John Carter in Moscow...
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In Columbia... I'm John Carter.
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Today on the Carter Report,
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John Carter talks
about same-sex marriage
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and the mark of the beast.
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Welcome back.
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The same-sex marriage
and the mark of the beast.
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Now, I am talking
today not as a politician.
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I am not a politician,
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I am a minister of the
gospel and a humble Christian.
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I believe the Bible.
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And therefore, I want
to say to all my friends
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who are watching
the telecast today,
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I just want you to
open up your mind and say,
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"Is this fair and reasonable?"
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I believe what we need
more than anything else
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in America today
is more tolerance,
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and more love,
and more kindness,
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and so I want to
share these texts with you.
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Now, the first text
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I am taking out
from where I left off
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in the last session.
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I want you to turn over
here to Romans 1:24 to 27.
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In the last session,
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I took a text out
of the Old Testament.
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Now, I am going to take
one out of the New Testament.
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We're going to come
to Romans 1:24 to 27,
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and I am going to ask you,
put yourself in my situation.
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How can I as a person who
professes to follow Christ
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and the teachings of the Bible,
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how can I disregard these texts.
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Please, be honest and tell me.
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Paul says, "Therefore God also
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gave them up to uncleanness,
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in the lust of their hearts,
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to dishonor their
bodies among themselves,
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who exchanged the
truth of God for the lie,
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and worshiped and served
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the creature
rather than the Creator,
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who is blessed forever.
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Amen.
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For this reason God gave them up
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to vile passions.
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For even their women exchanged
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the natural use for
what is against nature.
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Likewise also the men,
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leaving the
natural use of the woman,
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burned in their
lust for one another,
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men with men committing
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what is shameful,
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and receiving in themselves
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the penalty of their
error which was due."
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Is somebody going to say
to me that's hate speech?
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Are people going to say,
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are liberal people going to say,
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"I am not going to allow
you to teach these things.
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You've got to take this
Bible out of the church.
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You can't teach
this in church school
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because we don't believe
in freedom of speech for you."
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But the Bible
says very plainly here,
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the sex between men and men,
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and women and women
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is forbidden in the scriptures.
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And as Martin Luther said,
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"My conscience is
bound by the Word of God
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unless I am convinced
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by reason of the
text of the Bible,
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I cannot and I will not recant."
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So that is my
friend, the Christians' stand
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and the Christians'
dilemma in our liberal society.
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As some time back,
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I saw an interview
with Pastor Rick Warren
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and Piers Morgan on CNN.
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And Piers Morgan,
who is doing a stint
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from the great
land of England had said
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to Pastor Rick Warren
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who has been
called America's pastor.
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He said, "How can you be
against same-sex marriage?"
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He said, well, Rick Warren said,
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"Piers, my problem is,
the Bible is against it."
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He said as well,
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"Isn't it time for
you to update the Bible?
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Isn't it time for you to get rid
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of these offensive passages?"
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Pastor Warren said this
and I would say the same,
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"We love homosexuals..."
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Hear this, we love you,
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Jesus loves you,
Jesus died for you,
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we love you.
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"But the bible says
homosexual acts are wrong,
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just as adultery is wrong.
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All sins are wrong."
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I believe being
homosexual is not a sin
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but choosing to break
the law of God is a sin,
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whether it would be fornication,
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or adultery, or any other sin.
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Now in America, we have here
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a great
organization called the NAACP,
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National Association
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for the
Advancement of Colored Persons.
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They have made same-sex marriage
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as civil rights issue
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against the views
of the vast majority
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of African-Americans
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in this great land
of the United States.
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But I would point out today,
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you can't chose your
color when you are born.
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Perhaps you can't
choose your sexual orientation,
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but you can choose what you do.
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And so this is not,
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I would say respectfully
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this is not a
civil rights issue,
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this is a moral issue.
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May I say this,
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and I say it in
love but I say it.
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The media
generally, not everybody
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but the media
generally is opposed to Christ
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and Christianity and
represents the liberal left.
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Many of those people
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are atheists and Marxists,
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and they seem to want
to pull down Christianity,
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they seem to want to pull down
the cross at every opportunity,
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and if they can poke a finger
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at some pedophile in the church,
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they jump for joy,
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but I want to
remind the media today
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about this important truth.
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What corrupt
ministers and priests too,
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this is got nothing to do
with Christ, and the Bible,
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and the Word of God.
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Please, do not confuse
the issue with all this smoke.
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The liberal left, I say,
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"Look at the sex
scandals in Hollywood.
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Look at the sex scandals
among the stars of the media,
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left and right.
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Look at the sex scandals
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among the politicians."
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And these are the people
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who tell you what
to do and most of us,
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not am I saying it are so naive,
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we believe what they say.
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Today, when you turn on the news
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you don't get the news,
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you get somebody's opinion,
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whatever happened to news.
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So what am I to do?
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I'm talking to myself, I
will not surrender my faith,
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remember Luther.
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If you ask me to participate
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in a gay
marriage as a Christian,
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I will politely say no,
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because this would
involve my right to worship God,
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and I am not
going to be dragged back
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to the days of the dark ages
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when people were so intolerant.
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I refuse to go backwards.
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You have the right to do,
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to choose to do
what you want to do,
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and I have the
right to do the same,
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and God helping me,
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I will be true to my conscience
and true to the Bible, you say.
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Remember, many on the far left
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like those on the
far right are motivated
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by the spirit of intolerance
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and they believe
in freedom of speech,
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say certainly do
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but only to themselves
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and for themselves.
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Recently, I was visiting
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the beautiful city of Sydney.
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I went to the Town Hall
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where once I held
evangelistic meetings,
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the City Hall.
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And next to the City Hall
is one of my favorite spots,
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it is the Anglican cathedral.
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And the Anglican cathedral
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and the
Anglican people in Sydney
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take the same stand that I do
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because they believe the Bible.
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And they have issued a warning
from the Anglican Church,
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the Church of
England and Sydney says,
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"Christians in Australia
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can expect to be persecuted."
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And therefore I say,
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we must remember Martin
Luther who said, "Here I stand."
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The Christian church
must say, "Here I stand."
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My own
denomination, my own church,
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I am an Adventist Christian,
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my own church must step
up to the front and say,
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"Here I stand."
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And not be babies,
and not be cowards.
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It's easy to be brave
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when there is
nothing to be brave about.
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It is time for Christians
to say, "Here I stand.
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I will stand with the Anglicans.
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I will stand with every person
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whoever he is."
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The next question,
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do I have the
right to love everyone
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as President Obama once said.
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In an interview
with Pastor Rick Warren,
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Senator Obama said, listen,
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these are his words,
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"I believe that marriage
is the union between a man
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and a woman.
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Now, for me as a Christian,
it is also a sacred union.
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God's in the mix,"
said Senator Obama.
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Why did he change?
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Remember,
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President and
Mrs. Clinton and DOMA,
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the Defense of Marriage Act.
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Don't you remember
President Clinton saying,
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"I will defend marriage
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which is a sacred union
of one man and one woman."
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Don't you remember that?
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Have you forgotten?
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Have you forgotten the
pledges of President Obama?
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I will answer the question,
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do I have the
right to love anybody
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with another question.
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Do I have the right
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to sexually
love little children?
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Do I have the right to
love many women sexually?
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Canada is grouping
now with this problem.
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They are all for
same-sex marriage
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but now there is a
great influx of people coming
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into the country
who practice polygamy.
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How can they say
that is morally wrong?
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So we will take this
and we will take that,
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and we will be our own gods.
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Do I have the right
to sexually love animals?
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Some say, "Yes,"
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but as a Christian
I say, "No, no, no."
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And many
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who are not
Christians agree with me
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including many honorable members
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in the gay community.
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They say, "Polygamy is wrong."
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I say to them, "Who says?"
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Many of these
people do not believe,
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who do not believe
the Bible will often take
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a correct moral stand
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based on romantic
feelings of right and wrong.
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Why? Well, we think it so.
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I want something more
than romantic feelings
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of right and wrong.
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I want an infallible guide
and that infallible guide for me
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is the Bible, forgive me.
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May I remind you
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that all great
civilizations have been built
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upon the moral code
down in the Ten Commandments.
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You can't just
say this is wrong.
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You must have a reason
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that is bigger
than your personal likes
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and your personal
dislikes, you say.
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Once upon a time
there was a great dam.
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It stood solid and
firm for many years.
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It was here in
the land of America.
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It was holding back
a mighty sea of water.
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But then there came a man
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who drilled a hole
into the wall of the dam,
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soon there was a little prickle,
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then a rush, then a flood.
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President Obama, what
they're trying to do so,
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was the man who drilled the hole
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in the wall of the dam.
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And you say to him,
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"Why did you
change your view point?
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Because you said
things to Pastor Rick Warren,
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you agreed with Bill Clinton
on the defense of marriage
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and most American
people have forgotten
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all of those things.
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What's wrong?
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Could it be the politicians
gave up their moral stand
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because of votes?
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Not a moral issue anymore,
how can I get the votes?
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Now, I have news for you.
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When you bore a hole
into the wall of the dam,
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you can be sure of one thing,
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the flood is coming.
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The flood is coming.
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You can laugh, you can sneer,
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you can make it look good,
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but the flood is coming.
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Would you come over here
to Jude, the Book of Jude,
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second last book in the Bible,
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Jude 4-7
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in the Holy Word of God.
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Now, can you see why
some people hate the Bible
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because it condemns them.
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"For certain men
have crept in unnoticed,
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who long ago were marked
out for this condemnation,
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ungodly men,
00:15:45.91\00:15:47.24
who turn the grace
of God into lewdness
00:15:47.28\00:15:49.61
and deny the only God
and our Lord Jesus Christ.
00:15:49.64\00:15:52.68
But I want to remind you,
though you once knew this,
00:15:52.71\00:15:55.98
that the Lord having saved
00:15:56.02\00:15:57.39
the people out of
the land of Egypt,
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afterward destroyed
those who did not believe..."
00:16:01.62\00:16:04.69
They were saved
and they were lost.
00:16:04.73\00:16:06.56
"And the angels
00:16:06.59\00:16:07.93
who did not keep
their proper domain,
00:16:07.96\00:16:09.80
but left their first abode,
00:16:09.83\00:16:11.83
He has reserved
in everlasting chains
00:16:11.87\00:16:14.77
under darkness
00:16:14.80\00:16:16.14
for the judgment
of the great day..."
00:16:16.17\00:16:17.91
Judgment is coming.
00:16:17.94\00:16:19.57
"As Sodom and Gomorrah,
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and the cities around them
in a similar manner to these,
00:16:23.01\00:16:28.55
having given themselves
over to sexual immorality
00:16:28.58\00:16:34.39
and gone after strange flesh,
00:16:34.42\00:16:38.39
are set forth for an example,
00:16:38.43\00:16:43.77
suffering the
vengeance of eternal fire."
00:16:43.80\00:16:48.07
There is a flood coming.
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I think of the words
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that really great man
Thomas Jefferson who said,
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"I tremble for my country
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when I reflect that God is just,
00:17:03.39\00:17:06.45
that his justice
cannot sleep forever."
00:17:06.49\00:17:09.82
Almost everybody today believes
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that America is
in a moral free fall.
00:17:12.63\00:17:18.37
A national
apostasy will be followed
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by national ruin.
00:17:21.70\00:17:26.78
He said, "I
tremble for my country."
00:17:26.81\00:17:30.78
Woo to God, we had leaders
00:17:30.81\00:17:33.35
like the founding
fathers of America.
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Why did you call Revelation 13
00:17:39.29\00:17:41.09
that talks about
the mark of the beast?
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Because the mark of the beast
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is fundamentally an
attack upon the law of God.
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Daniel 7:25 is a
parallel prophecy.
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Daniel 7:25,
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"He shall speak pompous
words against the Most High,
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shall persecute the
saints of the Most High,
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and shall intend to
change times and law.
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Then saints shall be
given into his hands for a time
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and times and half a time."
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Without giving you an exegesis.
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The mark of the
beast is tied up,
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my beloved friends,
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with an attack upon
the law of Almighty God.
00:18:16.62\00:18:22.06
The mark of the beast is tied up
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with an attack
upon the law of God
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by the government
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which will then
enforce its own laws.
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Pretty scary, huh?
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In the Garden of Eden,
God gave two great gifts.
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You can read it
in Genesis 1 and 2.
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The first gift was marriage.
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Genesis 1:27,
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two gifts given in
the Garden of Eden.
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"So God created
man in His own image,
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in image of God He created him,
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male and female
He created them."
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This is marriage,
one man, one woman.
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Now Genesis 2:24,
00:19:01.84\00:19:05.97
"Therefore a man shall
leave his father and his mother
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and be joined to his wife,
00:19:10.38\00:19:12.05
and they shall
become one flesh."
00:19:12.08\00:19:15.02
The first great
gift that God gave
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to the human race was marriage.
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And the second great gift
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that God gave to the
human race was the Sabbath.
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Genesis 2:1-3 says,
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"Thus the heavens and the earth,
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and all the host of
them, were finished.
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And on the seventh
day God ended His work
00:19:35.70\00:19:37.71
which He had done,
00:19:37.74\00:19:39.11
and He rested on the seventh day
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from all His work
which He had done.
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Then God blessed the seventh day
00:19:44.25\00:19:47.28
and sanctified it
00:19:47.32\00:19:49.32
because in it He
rested from all His work
00:19:49.35\00:19:53.36
which God had created and made."
00:19:53.39\00:19:55.86
Look at me and listen
up, and listen up real good.
00:19:55.89\00:20:00.63
In the Garden of Eden,
00:20:00.66\00:20:03.60
God gave two mighty pillars
00:20:03.63\00:20:07.27
of society,
00:20:07.30\00:20:11.27
marriage and the Sabbath.
00:20:11.31\00:20:15.01
The devil hates them both.
00:20:15.04\00:20:19.71
When you destroy marriage
00:20:19.75\00:20:23.89
and the Sabbath,
00:20:23.92\00:20:26.89
hell is not far behind.
00:20:26.92\00:20:32.29
Now, listen to
this. Listen to this.
00:20:32.33\00:20:37.57
My authority, you,
00:20:37.60\00:20:39.43
some will say to me
after this telecast,
00:20:39.47\00:20:42.04
well, the Supreme Court
says so, that makes it right.
00:20:42.07\00:20:46.34
That doesn't
make it right at all.
00:20:46.37\00:20:50.01
Aren't you listening to me?
00:20:50.05\00:20:52.55
The Supreme Court is
not the Supreme Court,
00:20:52.58\00:20:56.69
there is a
Supreme Court in glory.
00:20:56.72\00:20:59.89
And when the Supreme Court
contradicts the law of God,
00:21:03.22\00:21:06.90
I contradict the Supreme Court
00:21:06.93\00:21:10.80
because that is our
authority of the Supreme Court
00:21:10.83\00:21:15.80
and a bunch of
politicians shaking
00:21:15.84\00:21:19.77
in their shoes.
00:21:19.81\00:21:22.84
And let me read you something,
00:21:22.88\00:21:26.38
Karl Barth loved this statement,
00:21:26.41\00:21:28.62
often quoted it,
00:21:28.65\00:21:30.42
"When the holy day
becomes the day of man, society,
00:21:30.45\00:21:33.52
and humanity wither
away and the demons rule."
00:21:33.56\00:21:37.79
The great German theologian,
00:21:37.83\00:21:39.39
the greatest theologian
probably of the 20th century.
00:21:39.43\00:21:43.37
When you get rid of the Sabbath,
00:21:43.40\00:21:44.93
he says the demons rule.
00:21:44.97\00:21:46.97
The same happens when
the holy union of a man
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and a woman is replaced
00:21:49.90\00:21:51.81
by a man made institution.
00:21:51.84\00:21:55.91
Society and
humanity wither away.
00:21:55.94\00:21:59.11
The essence of
the mark of the beast
00:21:59.15\00:22:00.68
is the acceptance of God,
00:22:00.72\00:22:02.48
man's law instead of God's law.
00:22:02.52\00:22:05.52
When the state changes
God's law and enforces it,
00:22:05.55\00:22:09.46
there you have in
essence, the mark of the beast.
00:22:09.49\00:22:14.20
When you accept
00:22:14.23\00:22:15.56
the law of the
state in the place
00:22:15.60\00:22:16.93
of the law of the Creator,
00:22:16.97\00:22:18.60
you are bowing down
and accepting in essence
00:22:18.63\00:22:22.97
the mark of the beast.
00:22:23.00\00:22:24.57
So it matters, doesn't it?
00:22:29.21\00:22:32.11
Therefore, what
is my conclusion?
00:22:32.15\00:22:37.15
What shall we do?
00:22:37.19\00:22:40.19
I speak as a
Christian, not as a politician.
00:22:40.22\00:22:46.16
I speak as a Christian
who believes the Holy Bible.
00:22:46.19\00:22:49.60
Number one,
"Resolve to love all people,"
00:22:49.63\00:22:53.34
even the intolerant bigots
on the left and the right.
00:22:53.37\00:22:58.21
And show an
attitude of tolerance
00:22:58.24\00:23:00.58
not for the sin
but for the sinner.
00:23:00.61\00:23:02.71
We all need love and grace.
00:23:02.74\00:23:07.52
We are all
broken. We are all broken.
00:23:07.55\00:23:09.88
We're all born broken.
00:23:09.92\00:23:12.82
The heterosexual
and the homosexual,
00:23:12.85\00:23:15.42
we're all broken.
00:23:15.46\00:23:19.29
Number two, "Stand up
and speak up for Christ,
00:23:19.33\00:23:22.10
do not be intimidated
by lawless men and women."
00:23:22.13\00:23:25.87
When we were in Ukraine in 1995,
00:23:25.90\00:23:28.84
the government said to
me, "Close down the meetings,
00:23:28.87\00:23:33.44
or else we will
put you in prison."
00:23:33.48\00:23:36.44
I said, "Go ahead."
00:23:36.48\00:23:41.12
Pride, whether
you're gonna close down?
00:23:41.15\00:23:43.69
No.
00:23:43.72\00:23:46.12
That was the word
they never heard before,
00:23:46.15\00:23:48.32
a preacher saying, "No."
00:23:48.36\00:23:51.93
Therefore stand up,
don't be intimidated.
00:23:51.96\00:23:55.53
Number three,
"Prepare for persecution."
00:23:55.56\00:24:01.84
Well, Billy Graham
00:24:01.87\00:24:03.20
was out running
his great campaigns.
00:24:03.24\00:24:05.84
He was a moral force.
00:24:05.87\00:24:10.45
He was the
conscience of America.
00:24:10.48\00:24:15.28
He said,
00:24:15.32\00:24:16.65
"Christians will be
persecuted in the United States
00:24:16.69\00:24:20.22
by the United States government,
00:24:20.26\00:24:24.39
get ready for it."
00:24:24.43\00:24:26.70
Number four,
00:24:26.73\00:24:28.26
"Rejoice that you are called
00:24:28.30\00:24:29.86
to serve Christ
in difficult times."
00:24:29.90\00:24:35.10
When I was in
China, I met a pastor
00:24:35.14\00:24:40.74
because he
wouldn't give up his faith
00:24:40.78\00:24:42.98
in the days of Mao.
00:24:43.01\00:24:46.28
He was tortured,
00:24:46.31\00:24:47.65
thrown into
prison for ten years,
00:24:47.68\00:24:49.32
slept on concrete,
beaten everyday, starved.
00:24:49.35\00:24:53.36
After ten years,
they let him out,
00:24:53.39\00:24:56.19
they put him in another prison
on the concrete being beaten,
00:24:56.22\00:25:00.73
went on for ten years.
00:25:00.76\00:25:03.50
I felt that I was in the prisons
00:25:03.53\00:25:05.27
of greatness.
00:25:05.30\00:25:06.70
May God raise up in His church,
00:25:06.74\00:25:11.31
men and women who
will stand for the truth,
00:25:11.34\00:25:16.91
though the heavens fall.
00:25:16.95\00:25:19.35
Therefore...
00:25:19.38\00:25:21.85
Therefore, I say this to you
00:25:21.88\00:25:26.15
to my Australian
friends, my American friends,
00:25:26.19\00:25:30.03
my friends around the world,
00:25:30.06\00:25:32.39
I say to you,
00:25:32.43\00:25:34.60
less I am convinced by reason
00:25:34.63\00:25:38.90
or the text of the Bible.
00:25:38.93\00:25:41.94
My conscience is
captive to the Word of God.
00:25:41.97\00:25:47.84
Therefore, I cannot
00:25:47.88\00:25:51.61
and I will not recant...
00:25:51.65\00:25:53.92
Here I stand.
00:25:57.49\00:26:00.89
I can do no other.
00:26:00.92\00:26:05.06
God help me.
00:26:05.09\00:26:08.26
Amen. And amen.
00:26:08.30\00:26:13.20
And amen.
00:26:13.23\00:26:16.91
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