The Carter Report
presents, Mission and Message.
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A new look at the
church and its future.
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Is the church an
endangered species
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or is a time of
explosive growth just ahead?
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Now, here is John Carter.
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Glad to see you today
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and I give you
the warmest welcome.
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Listen to this,
"It's very difficult"
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some would say,
"It's almost impossible
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to get someone to see a truth
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or an idea when
his salary depends upon
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him not seeing it."
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What do you think of that?
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Almost impossible to
get someone to see an idea
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when his financial income
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depends upon not seeing it.
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This, of course, would include
people in the oil industry.
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Also it would include
lots of people in the church,
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especially those who
are employed by churches
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to teach certain ideas.
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And if their salary depends
upon their not seeing an idea,
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it's very, very hard to
get them to see this idea.
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Now, last week we spoke about,
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the last meeting
was on the mission,
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the mission of
the Christian church,
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what is the
mission of the church?
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Or is it just to
build institutions
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and big, build big offices,
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what's the
mission of the church?
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And today we're
going to take that further,
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and we're going to
talk about the message,
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because the
mission of the church
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is to teach and to
preach the message.
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So that's the
topic today, my friend.
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Last week was the
mission, today is the message.
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Not a message, but the message.
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Now, we're not
talking today about fake news,
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or political
news, or religious news,
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or reports of
current events, trivia news,
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entertainment
news from Hollywood,
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you can get all of
that on television.
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We're talking about something
which is over and beyond,
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that which people
think is essential.
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We're talking about a message
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that one day will turn
this world upside-down.
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A message of startling truth
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that will decide the
fate of millions of people,
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almost too hard to believe.
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This message is
bigger than the White House.
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Most people seem to be
obsessed with the White House,
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bigger than America,
bigger than Wall Street,
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bigger than the pope,
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and bigger than any
church in the world.
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One day it will
assume global importance.
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It is above
politics and religions.
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Now, I want to
warn you of one thing.
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Not only is this great
message of paramount importance,
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but it is almost
dangerous to teach it.
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Almost dangerous to teach it.
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One day, people will be killed
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because they teach this message.
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And this message is found
in the last book in the Bible,
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Revelation 14.
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And I want you
to take your Bible,
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all of you watching in
our Carter Report studio
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and come with me to
Revelation, the last book.
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Revelation 14:6, 7,
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dear hearts and gentle people.
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Revelation 14:6, 7,
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"And I saw another angel
flying in the midst of heaven,
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having the everlasting gospel
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to preach to those
who dwell on the earth,
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to every nation,
tribe, language, and people,
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saying with a loud voice,
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'Fear God and give glory to Him,
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for the hour of
His judgment has come,
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and worship Him that
made heaven, and earth,
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the sea and the
springs of water.'"
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We are going to see
that this tremendous message
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takes place just a little while
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before the return of Christ.
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In fact, it is
called in the scriptures,
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try to get this down
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into the
molecules of your minds.
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It is called the
message of the three angels.
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We just read the
first angel's message.
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Now, we're going to notice
the second angel's message.
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Revelation
14:8, Revelation 14:8,
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"And another
angel followed, saying,
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'Babylon is fallen, is
fallen, that great city,
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because she has made all
nations drink of the wine
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of the wrath of
her fornication.'"
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So you've got one angel,
then you have another angel.
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This angel, talks
about a system of a religion
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that has called
Babylon the Great,
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the mother of harlots,
the abominations of the earth.
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And then if you notice verse,
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please, 9 and 10
of the same chapter,
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"Then the third
angel followed them,
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saying with a loud voice,
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'If anyone worships
the beast and his image,
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and receives his mark on
his forehead or on his hand,
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he himself shall
also drink of the wine
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of the wrath of
God," goodness me,
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"which is poured
out full strength
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into the cup of His indignation.
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He shall be tormented
with fire and brimstone
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in the presence
of the holy angels
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and in the
presence of the Lamb."
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Now, please look carefully.
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The Bible says that before
the return of Jesus Christ
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and before the
great Judgment Day,
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the Bible says
there is a tremendous
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earth-shaking message
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that goes to the world,
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and it is
symbolized by three angels
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flying in the midst of heaven.
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That message
that is full of truth,
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and pathos, and the love of God
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is also filled with controversy.
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The devil hates it.
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It is that message
that prepares men and women
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for the harvest for
the end of the world.
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Notice now Revelation 14:11, 12,
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because this
gives us the context,
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and a text without a
context is a pretext.
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Revelation 14:11, 12,
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"And the smoke of
their torment ascends
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forever and ever," strong stuff,
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"they have no rest day or night,
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who worship the
beast and his image,
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whoever receives
the mark of his name."
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It's very strong, verse 12 says,
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"Here is the
patience of the saints,
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here are those who
keep the commandments of God
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and the faith of Jesus."
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This message produces...
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living saints.
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If you are not a living saint,
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you sure are not
going to be a dead saint.
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Now what is a saint?
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Or who is a saint?
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A mummified being that
is somehow made into a saint
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by an ecclesiastical leader.
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No, a saint is a
normal human being
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who keeps the
commandments of God
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and has the faith of Jesus.
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And so here is a
tremendous worldwide message
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that shakes up the world.
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It is seen flying
in the midst of heaven
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because that is
symbolic of a worldwide
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shattering proclamation.
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It is the message, the context,
now we come to the context.
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Revelation 14:14-16,
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here is the context,
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"Then I looked, and
behold, a white cloud,
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and on the cloud One
sat like the Son of Man,
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having on His
head a golden crown,
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in His hand a sharp sickle.
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And another angel
came out of the temple,
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crying with a loud voice
to Him who sat on the cloud,
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'Thrust in Your sickle and reap,
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for the time has
come for You to reap,
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for the harvest of
the earth is ripe.'
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So He who sat on the cloud
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thrust in His
sickle on the earth,
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and the earth was reaped.'"
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Listen to me, the Bible teaches,
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you can see it over
here, this great video wall,
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there is a great
message that goes to the world.
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It is a message that
talks about the gospel,
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Babylon, the
beast, image of the beast,
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the mark of the beast,
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and it calls men and women
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to keep the commandments of God.
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And it produces people
that the Bible calls saints.
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And a saint is a
normal ordinary person,
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like you and me who loves Christ
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and keeps the commandments.
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And the Bible says
that this tremendous message
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is given to
prepare men and women
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for the final Day of Judgment.
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So the Bible teaches
there is a judgment day.
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This may seem terribly
quaint for some people.
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But the Bible teaches,
there is a Day of Judgment.
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And because there
is a Day of Judgment,
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there is also or there
are also some other truths.
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Number one, God made us.
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And because God
made me in His own image,
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I am accountable to God,
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and one day, I'm
going to meet God.
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I meet people
who said, when I die,
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that's the end of me,
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I go six feet
under and it's all over.
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No, no, it's not.
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It's all just starting.
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The Bible says that
there is a Day of Judgment
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because I'm accountable to God,
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because God made me
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in His own image.
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Therefore, we are
accountable to Him.
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We are not sons of the slime,
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I'm not the bizarre product
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of time plus matter plus chance.
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Don't believe that nonsense.
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I don't believe that nonsense.
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I believe, it's the
most unscientific idea
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that has ever come upon
people around the world,
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and especially
in the universities
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that we are simply the
bizarre accident of what,
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cosmic accident.
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No, I believe there is evidence
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that proves that
we were made by God,
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by a great intelligent designer.
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Therefore, we are
accountable to Him,
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and our choices
and our lifestyles
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do make a difference.
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And this makes me,
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and it makes you
different to the communists,
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different to the
secularists, the humanists,
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the atheists, and the agnostics.
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This overwhelming truth
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that I was made
in the image of God
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and because I was made by God,
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one day I will meet God.
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I will stand before God.
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I can fool lots
of people so can you.
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We can all fool lots of
people, we can fool our spouses,
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we can fool our bosses,
we can fool the government,
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we can fool the tax people,
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but we can't fool
the Creator who made us,
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who knows everything
there is to know about us.
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And every one of us one
day will stand in the judgment.
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Now, these three angels
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flying in the midst of heaven
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that are seen prior
to the Judgment Day,
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these three angels
must not be taken literally.
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The Book of Revelation
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is a book of symbols.
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And the three angels represent
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a great supernatural,
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spiritual awakening
that happens around the world
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in the last days.
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The three angels represent
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a great spiritual
movement of destiny
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that prepares the
world for the harvest
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or the Judgment Day of
the Second Coming of Christ.
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That, of course,
follow off from last week,
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that is the
mission of the church.
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Now church can do lots of
wonderful, wonderful things,
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and those things are important.
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But the great
mission of the church
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is the preaching
of the message of God
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that prepares men and women
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for the coming of
Christ and the Judgment Day.
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I want you to think about that.
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Because some people would
say that the Christian church,
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not even in a subtle way
but in a very blatant way
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has been
sidetracked from the mission.
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The church does lots
and lots of good things
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that are largely irrelevant.
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But the mission of the church
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is the proclamation of
God's message to the world
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so that men and
women, like you and me
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can be prepared
for the Judgment Day.
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I want you to notice
Revelation 14:6 again.
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Notice it in the Bible.
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See this is the Word of God.
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Jesus said, it is written,
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"Man shall not
live by bread alone,
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but by every word that proceeds
out of the mouth of God."
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If you go to a church
and you're not hearing this,
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then you're going
to the wrong church.
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This is the Word of God,
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and it is
through the Word of God
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that we are prepared
for the Judgment Day.
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Revelation 14:6 says,
"Then I saw another angel,"
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word Angelos means messenger,
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"flying in the midst of heaven,"
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a worldwide proclamation,
huge, big, tremendous,
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"having the everlasting gospel,"
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I like these next two words,
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"to preach, to
preach, to preach to those
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who dwell on the
earth, to every nation,
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tribe, tongue, and people."
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Now, talks about this
a little bit last week.
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The Bible tells us, God has put
a lot of gifts in the church.
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We know this.
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But the Bible tells us
that the most important gift
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that you can have,
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whether you are
employed by the church
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or whether you are not
employed by the church,
00:17:23.61\00:17:25.71
the most
important gift you can have
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is to be a
communicator of the goodness
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and the grace of God.
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And that is called preaching.
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Now would you come over
here to 1 Corinthians 12:28.
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Now, we talked
about this last week,
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we talked about this at length.
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In fact, this
was almost the theme
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of the talk last week.
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1 Corinthians 12:28, this
is the most misunderstood,
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the most ignored passage
in the whole of the Bible
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as far as most
churches are concerned.
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12:28, "And God has
appointed these in the church:
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first apostles..."
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What does that mean?
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A modern
translation is a missionary,
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a person on a
mission to preach the gospel
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and to save the lost.
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"First, apostles,
second prophets..."
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A prophet here is a,
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is an explainer
of the Word of God.
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"The second prophets,
third teachers, after that,
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after that miracles,
then gifts of healings,
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helps, administrations,
varieties of tongues."
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Listen to this.
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The most important thing
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that a person can do is
to lead people to Christ
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so that person can
be saved in the kingdom.
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Anything else doesn't
really matter a great deal.
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First apostles, why
don't we talk about this?
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Why don't we emphasize this?
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Well, one thing is
the devil hates it.
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And when it says
there are three angels
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flying in the midst of heaven
00:19:33.54\00:19:34.87
having this great
message to preach,
00:19:34.90\00:19:37.24
it is talking
about a proclamation
00:19:37.27\00:19:40.21
that goes to the
ends of the earth
00:19:40.24\00:19:42.64
and it goes, wait, for this,
it goes through human lips.
00:19:42.68\00:19:49.42
It is a divine anointing
00:19:53.62\00:19:58.16
upon a human instrumentality,
00:19:58.19\00:20:02.00
where the Spirit of
God comes upon a person,
00:20:02.03\00:20:06.60
and he is super charged by God
00:20:06.63\00:20:11.54
to give a divine utterance
00:20:11.57\00:20:14.34
which is taught
here in this book.
00:20:14.38\00:20:20.45
Do I need to remind you of
this that Jesus was a preacher?
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He went around preaching.
00:20:26.65\00:20:28.96
John the Baptist was a preacher.
00:20:28.99\00:20:31.16
He was a
firebrand of a preacher.
00:20:31.19\00:20:35.16
Peter, the big
fisherman was a preacher.
00:20:35.20\00:20:39.43
None of these people thought of,
00:20:39.47\00:20:40.84
I'm saying it, got
to say this very softly,
00:20:40.87\00:20:45.61
none of these people
were sitting in offices,
00:20:45.64\00:20:50.88
calling
themselves administrators.
00:20:50.91\00:20:54.22
Now that's important,
not putting that down,
00:20:54.25\00:20:57.69
that's important.
00:20:57.72\00:20:59.82
But there are some
things that are important,
00:20:59.85\00:21:02.32
and there are other
things that are essential.
00:21:02.36\00:21:07.23
So Jesus was a preacher.
00:21:07.26\00:21:11.57
The Bible tells me,
John was a preacher,
00:21:11.60\00:21:13.80
John came preaching.
00:21:13.84\00:21:16.74
Peter was a preacher.
00:21:16.77\00:21:18.27
John who wrote the Book
of Revelation was a preacher.
00:21:18.31\00:21:22.21
Martin Luther, Paul,
00:21:22.24\00:21:24.28
Paul the greatest
preacher since our Lord.
00:21:24.31\00:21:28.95
Martin Luther was a preacher.
00:21:28.98\00:21:32.62
That's why they
caused so much trouble
00:21:32.65\00:21:36.83
and did so much good.
00:21:36.86\00:21:38.99
Martin Luther, John Wesley,
42,000 sermons in a lifetime,
00:21:39.03\00:21:45.40
360,000 miles on
the back of a horse.
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Where are the men today?
00:21:48.94\00:21:52.44
No namby-pamby.
00:21:52.47\00:21:54.78
John Wesley, Charles Spurgeon,
00:21:54.81\00:21:58.05
the prince of
preachers they say.
00:21:58.08\00:22:01.38
Billy Graham in
our own day and age,
00:22:01.42\00:22:04.75
and some people
whom I know will say
00:22:04.79\00:22:07.82
"Why would you ever talk,
00:22:07.86\00:22:09.92
why would you ever
talk about this man?"
00:22:09.96\00:22:12.13
I believe that
since his great preaching
00:22:16.03\00:22:20.57
has been silenced,
00:22:20.60\00:22:24.11
mainly through old age,
00:22:24.14\00:22:27.38
America has lost...
00:22:27.41\00:22:29.84
her moral bearings.
00:22:29.88\00:22:34.48
They called him the
conscience of America.
00:22:34.52\00:22:37.39
We would not be
discussing certain issues today
00:22:37.42\00:22:41.46
if the preaching
of the Word of God
00:22:41.49\00:22:44.49
was standing out in vast
campaigns across America.
00:22:44.53\00:22:49.96
America was like a light shining
00:22:50.00\00:22:53.97
in a dark place...
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through preaching.
00:22:58.51\00:23:00.78
H.M.S Richards, who
was a member of my church.
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The dean of Adventist preachers.
00:23:05.38\00:23:08.52
He refers in his
book Feed My Sheep
00:23:08.55\00:23:10.95
to the time in
the Dark Ages when...
00:23:10.99\00:23:15.59
They said in so many words
00:23:15.62\00:23:17.96
up with candles,
down with preaching.
00:23:17.99\00:23:22.63
Lots of ceremonies,
lots of religious gunk,
00:23:22.66\00:23:29.10
lots of candles,
lots of fire attitudes,
00:23:29.14\00:23:34.18
lots of talking,
lots of vestments,
00:23:34.21\00:23:37.55
lots of robes...
00:23:37.58\00:23:39.51
so that men got
dressed up like ladies.
00:23:43.18\00:23:46.96
True, H.M.S
Richards says in his book,
00:23:46.99\00:23:51.03
"Up with candles,
down with preaching."
00:23:51.06\00:23:55.03
Now, you're going
to see it, my friend,
00:23:58.40\00:24:01.07
whether you participate in
it or not is another matter.
00:24:01.10\00:24:05.44
But before the
end of this world,
00:24:05.47\00:24:08.44
the greatest
preachers are going to arise,
00:24:08.48\00:24:12.38
and they are going to
stand for the message,
00:24:12.41\00:24:16.72
to save the lost for Christ.
00:24:16.75\00:24:19.42
You see, if you
are not in Christ,
00:24:19.45\00:24:22.06
the Bible says
that you are lost.
00:24:22.09\00:24:25.43
And a message goes
forth in the last days
00:24:25.46\00:24:28.73
to save the lost for Christ.
00:24:28.76\00:24:32.80
Now, the first
part of that message.
00:24:32.83\00:24:39.44
The Bible says, it's
the everlasting gospel.
00:24:39.47\00:24:44.68
There is nothing
new about the gospel.
00:24:44.71\00:24:47.12
Some people have
folks in the Old Testament
00:24:47.15\00:24:50.99
being saved in a certain way,
00:24:51.02\00:24:53.12
and folks in the New Testament
being saved in a certain way.
00:24:53.15\00:24:57.56
Other folks said
people just in the last days
00:24:57.59\00:25:01.20
being saved in a
certain way, it's not true.
00:25:01.23\00:25:06.63
It goes against the Word of God.
00:25:06.67\00:25:09.67
It's everlasting.
00:25:09.70\00:25:11.37
There's only one gospel,
00:25:11.41\00:25:13.01
the only way
whereby people can be saved
00:25:13.04\00:25:17.05
is by the sheer mercy
00:25:17.08\00:25:20.05
and the grace of God
00:25:20.08\00:25:21.88
demonstrated through the life
and the death of Jesus Christ.
00:25:21.92\00:25:25.99
So it's the everlasting gospel.
00:25:26.02\00:25:29.32
And I'm going to talk,
after this little break,
00:25:29.36\00:25:32.36
I'll be back, we'll all be back,
00:25:32.39\00:25:33.86
we're going to have
applause in a moment.
00:25:33.90\00:25:36.20
But then I'm going to talk
00:25:36.23\00:25:37.93
about the message of the gospel.
00:25:37.97\00:25:41.77
Let me tell you this.
00:25:41.80\00:25:44.61
You don't just discover
the gospel by reading about it,
00:25:44.64\00:25:49.88
it is a divine
revelation that will hit you
00:25:49.91\00:25:53.62
like a bolt of lightning,
00:25:53.65\00:25:56.25
and I hope that
happens to you today.
00:25:56.28\00:25:58.89
We'll be back after this break.
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