The Carter Report presents,
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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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Today, we're
talking about the message.
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This is part two.
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The Bible teaches
in the very last days,
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a great message rises
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and gets people
ready for the Judgment Day.
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This is the
message of the three angels
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of Revelation 14.
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This is just what
we've been talking about.
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The first part of that message
is the preaching of the gospel,
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all the good news.
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Now, what on
earth is the gospel?
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The good news is not about us.
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There is no good news about us.
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The good news is about God.
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The good news is this that
God because He loves the world.
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In the person of His own
Son, God became a human being.
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And the Bible tells us,
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He died for our sins on
the cross to bring us to God.
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Jesus...
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Wait for this,
Jesus in essence is God,
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a very God from all eternity.
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When He came to this earth,
however, He was a carpenter,
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Did you know, He was not a part
of any religious establishment.
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Isn't that amazing?
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He was not employed
by a church organization.
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He did not serve on a committee.
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He was not a member
of a political party.
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He was not a
Republican or a Democrat.
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He never held a position of
influence in the government.
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He never held
office in any organization.
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He never traveled more
than a couple of hundred miles,
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and He never wrote a book.
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And yet He is the
most influential person,
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the most important person in
the history of the human race.
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Now, the Book of
Revelation written by John
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also has another book.
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The Book of Revelation
has a complementary book
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because it's
written by the same person,
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and that is the Gospel of John.
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Now, please take your Bible
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and turn to John 1:1-3,
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please, if you don't mind.
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Now John, the man who wrote
the Book of Revelation said,
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"In the beginning was the Word,
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and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God.
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He was in the
beginning with God.
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All things were
made through Him,
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without Him nothing was
made that has been made.
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And the Word became
flesh and dwelt among us,
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and we beheld His glory,
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the glory as of the
only begotten of the Father,
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full of grace and truth."
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And so the Word is Christ.
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The Word was with
God and the Word was God,
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and He became a human being.
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And the greatest text in
the whole Bible is John 3:16,
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Bible says, "For
God so loved the world
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that He gave
his one and only Son
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that whoever believes
in Him shall not perish
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but have everlasting life."
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This is the word of the gospel.
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And, folks,
that's the main reason
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I believe in Jesus
Christ and the Bible
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is because He
presents the only solution
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to the human problem.
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The Bible
describes me perfectly.
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When I read the Bible
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and I read the
characters in the Bible,
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I can see my own sins,
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all of my faults,
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all of my problems.
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There's something dreadfully
wrong with the human race.
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It is called sin
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that causes all the
troubles that afflict humanity.
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We all have this problem.
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We are born in a
state of rebellion
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and alienation to God.
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And the good news is that
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God in the person
of His Son Jesus Christ
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became a real man.
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What amazing, isn't it?
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And He died for your sins
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and my sins on the cross.
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And if I believe
this, my life is changed.
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There's a story
of an old skeptic.
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It's an old story and it's true.
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This old man was dying.
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He was the president
of an atheistic society.
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He was dying.
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So a young man went across
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with a little
girl and talked to him,
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and the young man
said, the young father said,
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"Maybe I can leave you
my old Bible, my Bible."
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And the skeptic said, "I
don't want your old Bible.
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Get out of here."
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And later on this
little girl thinking about it,
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she thought to herself,
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"Well, he doesn't
want daddy's old Bible.
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I've got a new Bible
that I got for my birthday.
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Maybe he'll like my new Bible."
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So she went over and knocked
on the door and he came out
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and she said, "I'm really sorry
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that you don't
want daddy's old Bible,
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but maybe you'll
have my new Bible."
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What do you say
to a little girl?
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So this famous atheist
took the little girl's new Bible
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and as he read it,
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and I promise this
will happen to you.
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If you read the
Bible, and read the Gospels,
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and the Word of God,
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a change it will happen in here,
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you will be changed inside.
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The old man died.
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And when they went
through his belongings
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they discovered this,
this is pretty true story,
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it's almost too good to be true.
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"I've tried in
vain a thousand ways,
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my fears to quell and my
hopes to raise but what I need,
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the Bible says
is ever, only Jesus.
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My soul is night,
my heart is steel.
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I cannot see, I cannot feel.
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For light, for life
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I must appeal in
simple faith to Jesus.
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He died, He lives,
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He reigns, He pleads.
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There's love in all
His words and deeds.
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There's all a
guilty sinner needs
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forever more in Jesus.
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Though some should
sneer and some should blame,
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I'll go with all
my guilt and shame.
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I'll go to Him because His name,
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above all names, is Jesus."
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Jesus knows the
problem in our hearts
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and He has the solution,
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it is called the gospel.
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And the good news of
Christ is our message.
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Would you
notice Revelation 14:7?
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Read it before, going to
read it again, Revelation,
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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 who
made heaven and earth,
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the sea and the
springs of water."'
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What does it mean?
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The Bible says, "Fear
God, give glory to Him
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because we live in
the time of the judgment."
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It means that we need
to treat God with respect.
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I want to tell
you, folks, I think,
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I get a shutter every
time I hear some person say,
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"Oh my God!"
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Or talk about Jesus Christ.
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The Bible says,
"Fear God, respect God."
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And when you respect God,
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you will respect people
who are made in His image,
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you will not be
calling them names.
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You will not be
putting down people
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because they're of a
different color to you
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or a different social status.
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Fear God, give glory to Him.
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In El Salvador, I
went up in the mountains,
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I had a meeting
with a hundred pastors.
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They were really
soldiers, soldiers of the cross.
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Going to say this to you all,
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this is going to
be seen in Australia.
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I don't say this
to embarrass anybody
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but some people
need to be embarrassed.
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I met with these
pastors in this country
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that is filled
with crime and gangs.
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I noticed...
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they dressed as
though they were going to see
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the president of
the United States.
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They were going to see Christ.
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They sang with a passion
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that came from their bellies.
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I thought to myself,
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"What's happened in
America to the church?
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What's happened to
the church in Australia,
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where people go to church
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as though they are
going to a beach party?"
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Maybe I am
terribly old fashioned.
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I learned something here
in El Salvador, I was blessed.
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The Bible says, "The hour
of His judgment has come."
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Daniel, the Prophet,
in chapter 7 of his book
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wrote about a
judgment that takes place,
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takes place before
the return of Christ,
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and it says,
"Worship the Creator.
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Worship Him who
made the heavens,
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the earth, the sea,
the springs of water."
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When I was a boy of 19 or 20,
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Beverley and I who
were at Avondale College
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went down to Sydney.
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We went to hear a preacher
preaching to 150,000 people.
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Of course, in
Australia people have said,
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"Well, this just can't happen.
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Nobody in secular
Australia is going to go
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and hear this preacher."
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How little they knew.
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And then I heard a man sing
before Billy got up to preach,
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and he sang a song that
had made this pilgrimage.
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It started in Sweden
where it was composed,
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then it went to
Germany, then to Russia,
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and then came to the USA,
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and I heard this
man sing the song,
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"O Lord my God."
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Of course, you know the song.
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George Beverly
Shea, "O Lord, my God,
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when I in awesome wonder
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consider all the
worlds Thy Hands have made.
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I see the stars, I
hear the rolling thunder,
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Thy power throughout
the universe displayed.
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Then sings my soul..."
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What about it
when we go to church?
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We are going to
the football match,
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going to a beach party.
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"Then sings my soul,
my Savior God, to thee:
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How great thou
art, how great thou art!
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Then sings my soul,
my Savior God, to thee:
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How great thou art,
how great thou art!"
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We are talking
here about worship
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they had it in El Salvador.
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"And when I think that
God, His Son not sparing,
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sent him to die, I
scarce can take it in,
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that on the cross, my
burden gladly bearing,
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He bled and died
to take away my sin.
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When Christ shall come
with shout of acclamation
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and take me home, what
joy shall fill my heart.
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Then I shall bow
in humble adoration,
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and then proclaim my
God, how great thou art!"
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Christians everywhere
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have lost the art
of worshipping God.
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Many of our hymns
are about me, me, me.
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Worship is not about
me, it is about Christ,
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then sings my soul.
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Revelation 14:8 is the
second angel's message.
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"Another angel
followed them saying,
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'Babylon is fallen, is
fallen, that great city,
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because she has made all nations
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drink of the wine of the
wraths of her fornication."
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Now, this is the
message we're called to preach.
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Babylon is a
great religious system
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that is active
in the world today.
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I had been to the old
city of Babylon many times.
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It was a city that was built
on the worship of false gods.
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Babylon is alive and well today.
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Today, there are many gods
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that we worship
but only one God.
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In Revelation 14:9 and 10,
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you have the most controversial
message in the world.
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"Then a 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 wine
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of the wrath of God."
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Goodness me.
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We naturally
avoid talking about it.
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I know by
experience, if you preach it,
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you will be a marked man.
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You may even get your
name in the black book.
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You will receive threats
but God says, "Preach it."
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People say, "No, no.
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Don't talk about
that stuff anymore.
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We've grown."
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You're right.
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We've grown beyond
God, that's the problem.
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God says, "Preach it."
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Going to preach about the beast,
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the Bible says, "Preach it.
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Preach it with love.
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Preach it with tact.
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Preach it with
compassion but preach it."
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Oh, Lord, I couldn't.
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Well, then you are not a
part of God's last day movement.
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So God says, "You preach it,
and preach it, and preach it,
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and preach it."
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Covered by the blood of
Christ, preach it with love.
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Preach it in the
context of the cross of Christ
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but preach it...
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because the Bible says,
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"It is the preaching
of that whole package,
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the gospel,
creation, the judgment,
00:16:55.78\00:17:00.22
a warning against Babylon,
00:17:00.25\00:17:03.72
and then the great
message about the beast,
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the image of the
mark of the beast."
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That is the message
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and the mission of the
church is to preach the message
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with love with
tact, but preach it.
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I can tell you
stories but not now.
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Our mission is
not to be popular.
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I want it, no.
00:17:37.49\00:17:40.09
Our mission is
not to be popular,
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political, prejudiced,
00:17:42.86\00:17:44.79
panicky, or pigeon hearted.
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God is looking for men and women
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who will preach it in
the context of the cross.
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We are called to please God,
00:17:57.04\00:17:58.51
we're not called
to please the church,
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we're not called to
please some committee,
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we are called to
please God, so help us God.
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Have you heard of
Bloody Claverhouse?
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John Graham of Claverhouse.
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He lived in 17th
century Scotland.
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He was a great
persecutor of the Protestants.
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There was a little
group of Protestant pastors
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who were being kept alive
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in a cave up in
the Scottish highlands.
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And a little Scottish boy
would take them food every day.
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But there are always informers.
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The lowest of the low
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and they informed
on this little boy.
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And Claverhouse
got the little boy
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by the scruff of the neck,
00:19:08.31\00:19:10.71
rode over to a cliff
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and held him out at arm's length
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and said, "Tell me laddie,
00:19:14.38\00:19:18.05
where are the ministers?"
00:19:18.09\00:19:23.22
And then he said,
"Look down laddie,
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it's a long way down there."
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It's a long way down there
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but the little boy
screwed his neck around,
00:19:31.57\00:19:34.14
he said, "It's a long way
down but not as far as hell."
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And then he said the words,
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"I canno' and I will naa."
00:19:44.01\00:19:49.15
That's good Scottish theology,
I cannot and I will not.
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I will stand for
what I believe in,
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I canno' and I will naa.
00:19:58.33\00:20:04.30
That, of course, was the spirit
of the Scottish Protestants
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who refused to
betray their own people.
00:20:08.50\00:20:13.01
It is that same courage that
is needed in these last days,
00:20:13.04\00:20:18.01
I canno' and I
will naa, you see.
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Look at Revelation 14:12,
00:20:22.12\00:20:26.72
Revelation 14:12,
00:20:26.76\00:20:29.72
"Here is the
patience of the saints,
00:20:29.76\00:20:33.50
here are those who
keep the commandments of God
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and the faith of Jesus."
00:20:37.30\00:20:41.07
It doesn't say,
00:20:41.10\00:20:42.44
here are those who keep
the commandments of the church,
00:20:42.47\00:20:46.94
it says, "Here are those who
keep the commandments of God."
00:20:46.98\00:20:53.58
And the Bible says,
00:20:53.62\00:20:54.95
"Here is the
patience of the saints."
00:20:54.98\00:20:59.55
So you will
never be a dead saint
00:20:59.59\00:21:01.79
unless you're a living saint,
00:21:01.82\00:21:04.23
who keeps the
commandments of God.
00:21:04.26\00:21:06.46
And in the commandments of God,
00:21:06.49\00:21:08.20
you have two great institutions,
00:21:08.23\00:21:11.80
one is the
Sabbath, the Lord's day
00:21:11.83\00:21:14.70
and the other one is marriage,
00:21:14.74\00:21:17.71
and both are being trampled
underfoot today by the world
00:21:17.74\00:21:23.85
and much of the church.
00:21:23.88\00:21:27.55
But in the last days,
00:21:27.58\00:21:29.58
God will raise up the people
like that little Scottish boy,
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I canno' and I will naa,
00:21:35.36\00:21:39.06
and they will uphold
the commandments of Christ
00:21:39.09\00:21:42.66
and especially, the
Sabbath and marriage.
00:21:42.70\00:21:49.94
And you know what marriage is.
00:21:49.97\00:21:51.84
There will be God's
people doing God's mission
00:21:56.98\00:22:00.92
and preaching God's
message in God's way.
00:22:00.95\00:22:04.25
And the Bible
says, "They will triumph.
00:22:04.29\00:22:07.76
It will take a
little bit of courage
00:22:07.79\00:22:11.59
to be saved in these last days."
00:22:11.63\00:22:17.43
Look at Revelation 15:2 and 3.
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Revelation 15:2 and 3,
00:22:23.67\00:22:29.04
"And I saw something
00:22:29.08\00:22:30.41
like a sea of
glass mingled with fire,
00:22:30.45\00:22:34.02
and those who have the victory
over the beast and his image
00:22:34.05\00:22:38.45
and over his mark and
over the number of his name,
00:22:38.49\00:22:42.39
standing on the sea of glass,
00:22:42.42\00:22:44.93
having harps of God.
00:22:44.96\00:22:46.59
They sing the song of
Moses, the servant of God,
00:22:46.63\00:22:50.20
and the song of
the Lamb, saying:
00:22:50.23\00:22:52.77
'Great and
marvelous are Your works,
00:22:52.80\00:22:54.77
Lord God Almighty!
00:22:54.80\00:22:56.14
Just and true Your
ways, O King of the saints.'"
00:22:56.17\00:23:01.14
Listen to me.
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The people of God,
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even though they may
be persecuted will triumph
00:23:06.61\00:23:12.12
and get home to
glory, that is a fact.
00:23:12.15\00:23:18.43
Years ago, I ran a
campaign in the great
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and the beautiful
city of Melbourne,
00:23:21.33\00:23:22.86
the capital of
Victoria in Australia.
00:23:22.90\00:23:25.50
I had a beautiful audience,
00:23:25.53\00:23:28.30
some thousands and
thousands of people
00:23:28.34\00:23:30.51
in the great
Dallas Brooks theatre.
00:23:30.54\00:23:33.17
In the audience every night
00:23:33.21\00:23:34.64
sitting in that great
theater seated thousands,
00:23:34.68\00:23:38.31
there is a beautiful
young woman, husband,
00:23:38.35\00:23:42.05
and two little kids
came to every meeting.
00:23:42.08\00:23:45.52
After a while,
00:23:45.55\00:23:49.19
you get to know
people in the audience
00:23:49.22\00:23:51.76
and know where they are sitting,
00:23:51.79\00:23:54.63
and one night she wasn't there.
00:23:54.66\00:23:57.90
And weeks went by
and she wasn't there.
00:23:57.93\00:24:01.24
Husband came to me and said,
"Would you come to my home?"
00:24:01.27\00:24:05.81
I said, "Why?" She's very sick.
00:24:05.84\00:24:07.81
She used to have
this long beautiful hair.
00:24:07.84\00:24:11.15
When I went to the home,
00:24:11.18\00:24:13.85
she had no
hair, dying of cancer.
00:24:13.88\00:24:18.92
I went in and
sat beside her bed.
00:24:18.95\00:24:22.79
I read her John
3:16 and I told her,
00:24:22.82\00:24:28.86
"My dear, you are
going to get your hair back."
00:24:28.90\00:24:35.60
She said, "I am afraid."
00:24:35.64\00:24:38.81
So I read her the
texts of the Bible,
00:24:38.84\00:24:41.18
read to her from the
Book of Psalms and so forth,
00:24:41.21\00:24:43.91
and the fear
went out of the room.
00:24:43.95\00:24:48.32
I never saw her again
00:24:52.62\00:24:58.06
but I will,
00:24:58.09\00:25:01.56
because she will be home
safe with Jesus in glory.
00:25:01.60\00:25:05.93
Listen to me, my friends.
00:25:05.97\00:25:07.94
God has got a message
that will go to the world.
00:25:07.97\00:25:12.11
It will triumph gloriously
00:25:12.14\00:25:14.91
and the people
follow that message
00:25:14.94\00:25:18.15
and preach it...
00:25:18.18\00:25:19.51
are going to live
with Jesus forever,
00:25:22.38\00:25:27.66
and ever, and ever, and ever.
00:25:27.69\00:25:33.73
Would you not like to
be part of those people
00:25:33.76\00:25:39.90
who get home to glory
00:25:39.93\00:25:42.70
and who sing the song of Moses,
00:25:42.74\00:25:45.47
the servant of God
00:25:45.51\00:25:48.34
and the song of the Lamb?
00:25:48.38\00:25:53.82
God has a message,
00:25:53.85\00:25:57.65
and God will have people
00:25:57.69\00:26:04.36
in the name of the
Father and of the Son,
00:26:04.39\00:26:09.10
and of the Holy Spirit.
00:26:09.13\00:26:13.03
Amen, and amen.
00:26:13.07\00:26:17.21
Amen.
00:26:17.24\00:26:18.57
Time, that takes only a
minute to have eternal life.
00:26:22.91\00:26:26.82
How can you get
saved in a minute?
00:26:26.85\00:26:28.38
It's simple.
00:26:28.42\00:26:29.75
First, believe that
Jesus was the Son of God.
00:26:29.78\00:26:32.49
Second, accept His
free gift of eternal life,
00:26:32.52\00:26:35.42
and then you're saved.
00:26:35.46\00:26:37.43
It's not hard, it
doesn't take any time.
00:26:37.46\00:26:40.26
You can be saved
in a minute right now.
00:26:40.30\00:26:43.26
Pray with me, "Lord God, I
realize that I am a sinner.
00:26:43.30\00:26:47.44
My sin has
separated me from You.
00:26:47.47\00:26:49.74
I accept that Your Son
Jesus Christ died for me.
00:26:49.77\00:26:52.84
I ask Jesus into my heart."
00:26:52.87\00:26:54.91
If you pray this
prayer, you are saved.
00:26:54.94\00:26:57.51
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00:26:57.55\00:27:00.35
fellowship with other followers
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read your Bible and pray.
00:27:04.79\00:27:06.76
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00:27:10.46\00:27:13.29
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00:27:13.33\00:27:15.16
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