Welcome to a new
Carter Report series,
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The Game Changers.
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These rare individuals
appear once in a lifetime.
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Like a blazing
meteor across the night sky,
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they change the
course of history.
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They show us the way forward.
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Welcome to The Game Changers.
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Welcome back.
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We're talking today
about the game changes
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and this is one of
the greatest game changes
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in the history
of the human race.
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His name is John the Baptist.
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Now we're picking up
from where we left off.
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I'm going to turn
now to Luke 1:16-17,
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I want the studio
audience to look at the text.
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"He will turn many of
the children of Israel
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to the Lord their God.
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He will also go before Him,"
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and get this,
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"in the spirit
and power of Elijah,
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'to turn the
hearts of the fathers
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to the children,
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and the disobedient to
the wisdom of the just,
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to make ready a people
prepared for the Lord.'"
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So when he came,
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he came with the spirit
and the power of Elijah.
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He was a special boy
with a special mission.
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I believe that God
calls each one of us
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to do something special.
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But this special little boy
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had a most extraordinary mission
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to tell the people that
Christ was going to come.
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Now when you get back
to the story of his birth,
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Zechariah doesn't believe,
he's dumb but the baby is born
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and Zechariah doesn't call
him Zechariah as he wanted to,
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he calls his name John.
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And this little boy
grows up not in the city,
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not over the bright
lights but in the desert.
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Look at Luke 1:76 and 80.
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Verse 76, "And you, child,
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will be called the
prophet of the Highest,
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for you will go
before the face of the Lord
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to prepare His ways.
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So the child grew and
became strong in spirit,
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and was in the
deserts till the day
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of his manifestation to Israel."
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I mean, that's sort
of a throwaway verse.
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But that tells you
that for about 30 years,
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John the Baptist,
wasn't John the Baptist then,
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but John was out in the desert.
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Why?
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I was watching
the Ten Commandments
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with Charlton
Heston the other day.
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I love that movie.
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Did you know
that Charlton Heston
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was actually born...
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This is truth, John Carter,
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if you didn't know
this, you go Google it.
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It's the truth and
this is not a joke.
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He was born John Charles Carter.
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I'm John James
Carter but John...
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And then his mother remarried
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and she married a Mr. Heston.
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And they called him
not Charles but Charlton.
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In this tremendous movie,
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there's a voice-over that says
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that Moses is
driven by the Spirit of God
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into the desert.
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And the words are,
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"He's driven into the
dust from which he came."
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Moses is down in the desert,
in the dirt, in the sand.
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Then the voice-over says
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"The metal refined
is ready for his Maker."
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I've got something to
tell you that's pretty hard
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to tell people from Hollywood,
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and from Los
Angeles, and from Sydney.
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If you want to be used by God,
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you got to go to the desert.
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If not physically, I
recommend physically too
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but go there spiritually
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where you can
hear the voice of God.
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You need to get away.
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We need to get
away from the city,
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we need to forget our...
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Cell phones, our iPhones,
all the rest of this stuff,
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our tablets.
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Need to forget
all of this stuff.
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We need to get away
from our televisions.
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Did you know that
people who are continually on
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these devices suffer
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a deterioration in their IQ?
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That is why we are
becoming the dumbest race
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in the history of the world.
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It's true, the dumbest race.
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And that is why we
find it so hard to study.
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"Oh, I can't understand that."
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That's why we have
elections on sound bites,
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you know why, because we go,
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two or three words.
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That's what we can
remember because the mind
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is being destroyed.
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I have a book
called Desire of Ages,
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page 103, it says,
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"He looked upon
the king in his beauty
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out on the desert,
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self was forgotten,"
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goes for a walk along the beach,
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"he beheld the
majesty of holiness
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and felt himself to be
inefficient and unworthy.
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He was ready to go
forth as heaven's messenger,
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unawed by the human,
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because he had
looked upon the Divine.
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He could stand
erect and fearless
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in the presence
of earthly monarchs,
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because he had bowed low
before the King of Kings."
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That's why God sent
him into the desert.
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Elijah went into the desert,
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Moses into the desert.
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He was not trained
in earthly institutions.
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He was not trained in
the theological seminary.
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God didn't want him
to get his mind messed up
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by all the
garbage of those days.
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He was not
ordained by man but by God.
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In my church, I seem to think
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we put too much emphasis upon
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the ordination procedure,
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and our church has been
almost split over ordination.
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There is something far
more than the ordination of man
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and that is the
ordination of God, you see.
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If you've got the
ordination of God,
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you've got everything you need.
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One great man said,
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"Christ the Son
of God has sent me,
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all the widespread lands,
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Mine the mighty ordination,
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of the nail pierced hands."
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Now, that's really the
ordination that counts,
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not all the
pomp, and the prestige,
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and the ceremony.
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When he's around
30, just a young man,
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he's called to
preach the Word of God.
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Matthew 3:1-2,
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"In those days, John the Baptist
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came preaching in
the wilderness of Judea,
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and saying, 'Repent, for
the kingdom is at hand."'
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He was not a
pastoral psychologist,
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he was a preacher.
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And verse 3 says, verse 3,
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his message was, turn from sin.
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"For this is he
who was spoken of
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by the prophet Isaiah, saying:
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'The voice of one
crying in the wilderness.
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Prepare the way of the
Lord, make His paths straight."'
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And when he went out,
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he had a message
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that was hot
from the heart of God.
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He didn't mouth
useless, pious platitudes.
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The voice of God, his
message was turn from sin,
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repent of your sins.
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And after he preached,
people couldn't sleep at night.
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That's the mark
of a good preacher.
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Matthew 3:4-6,
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"And John himself was
closed in camel's hair,
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with a leather
belt around his waist,
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and his food was
locusts and wild honey.
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Then Jerusalem, all Judea,
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and all the region
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around the
Jordan went out to him
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and were baptized
by him in the Jordan,
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confessing their sins."
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People tell me,
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God doesn't believe
in public evangelism.
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I would tell them,
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God doesn't
believe in their ideas
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because God believes it.
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And here is a man
who was on fire for God.
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And when a man is on fire,
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people will come
and watch him burn.
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There was a church once on fire,
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they're not in my notes,
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I'm telling people today.
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A church was on fire
and people rushed to put out
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the fire at night time.
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And the pastor saw an
atheist there and he said,
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"What are you doing at church?
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You don't even
believe you're an atheist."
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He said, "I'm here
because it's the first time
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I've seen the church on fire."
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And if the church were on fire,
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people would go to church.
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People want to hear John
because John was on fire.
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He came in
fulfillment of Bible prophecy,
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a clear loud certain
voice with divine authority.
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He reminded the
people of Elijah.
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He preached with
the Spirit of God.
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His words cut
through the pretended piety
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of all the religious leaders
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with their robes.
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Look at Matthew 3:7-8.
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Matthew 3:7-8,
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"But when he saw
many of the Pharisees
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and Sadducees," the
leaders of the church,
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"coming to his
baptism, he said to them,
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'Brood of vipers!"'
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Goodness, brood of vipers,
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You bunch of rattlesnakes.
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"Brood of vipers!
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Who warned you to flee
from the wrath to come?
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Therefore bear fruits
worthy of repentance."
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He said all your
talk counts for nothing,
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it is what you are.
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You see.
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We got to do more
than talk to talk.
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We got to walk the talk.
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This man called
for radical change
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in the way people lived.
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That's what the gospel does.
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The gospel takes
us just as we are
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but the gospel doesn't
leave us just as we are.
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The gospel brings
about a radical change
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in the life or else it's phony.
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Matthew 3:11.
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Matthew 3:11,
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"I indeed baptize you
with water unto repentance,
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but He who is coming
after me is mightier than I,
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whose sandals I am
not worthy to carry.
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He will baptize you
with the Holy Spirit
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and with fire."
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So he said,
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"I'm only the voice,
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there's one
coming and I'm not worthy
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to carry His sandals."
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The climax of
John's life, what was it?
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It wasn't his death.
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It's recorded
in Matthew 3:13-14.
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Matthew 3:13-14,
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"Then Jesus came from
Galilee to John at the Jordan
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to be baptized by him.
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And John tried to prevent Him,
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saying, 'I need to
be baptized by You,
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are you coming to me?"'
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You know,
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Jesus just
before this was up there
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in Galilee of the Gentiles.
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He was in a little town
by the name of Nazareth.
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He was working as
an honest carpenter.
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He made the best chairs.
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He made the best tables
because He was the best person.
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And He heard
about this firebrand
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out in the wilderness
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and he's preaching his heart out
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and he says,
"Father, the hour has come."
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He goes down to the John,
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He goes down to the Jordan.
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John helps him
down the muddy banks,
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and he says, "I
can't baptize you,
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you need to baptize me."
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Jesus says,
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"Do it to fulfill
all righteousness."
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The greatest
honor ever given to man,
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apart from the honor of
being the mother of our Lord,
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to baptize Christ and
present Him to the world,
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the climax of his life.
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It'll be good if I
could finish this talk today
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by telling you that John went on
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and did greater,
greater, greater things.
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But from that time on,
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it was all downhill
in the negative sense.
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The crowds fell away.
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There was a new and a
better preacher in town.
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He'd been the
most popular person
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in the whole nation.
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People by the tens of
thousands had come to hear him.
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Now the crowds fell away.
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And in John
3:30, John said this,
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"He must increase,
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I must decrease."
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This is the mark of greatness.
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Then came imprisonment,
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loneliness, and doubt.
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John was not without his falls.
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Very understandable,
he's in this rotten prison,
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probably damp, musty,
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nobody's come to save him.
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And he gets two
of his disciples,
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and they come to
Jesus, and they say,
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"Are you the one who is to come
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or should we look
for somebody else?"
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And Jesus doesn't answer them.
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He just goes on healing people,
00:14:46.41\00:14:49.68
feeding people, saving souls,
00:14:49.72\00:14:53.09
preaching the gospel.
00:14:53.12\00:14:56.46
When the long day
comes to an end, He says,
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"Go tell John what you
saw, and say these words,
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'Blessed is he who
is not offended in Me."'
00:15:03.40\00:15:08.37
Amen.
00:15:08.40\00:15:10.41
And John hears the
message and it's enough.
00:15:10.44\00:15:15.48
What do you think of
when you think of John?
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Solitude, the desert,
powerful preaching, repent,
00:15:18.41\00:15:23.82
giving glory to Jesus,
great courage before Herod,
00:15:23.85\00:15:28.06
a lonely death, no big funeral,
00:15:28.09\00:15:31.59
no choir singing
00:15:31.63\00:15:35.56
but a place with Jesus in glory.
00:15:35.60\00:15:39.23
So this life is
not all there is,
00:15:39.27\00:15:42.67
our death is not the end.
00:15:42.70\00:15:47.78
Here is a spear
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from the South Pacific.
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A very brave young man,
00:15:53.68\00:15:55.78
Brian Dunn with his wife Val
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went out to the Solomons.
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He was a graduate
00:16:02.66\00:16:03.99
of our great
Sydney Adventist Hospital.
00:16:04.03\00:16:07.40
He went as a John the Baptist
00:16:07.43\00:16:11.83
to tell people of
the coming of Christ.
00:16:11.87\00:16:14.44
That part of the world is
very precious to Australians
00:16:17.87\00:16:22.58
because the
Japanese were coming down
00:16:22.61\00:16:25.11
to take over Australia.
00:16:25.15\00:16:29.22
And the
Australian Navy supported
00:16:29.25\00:16:32.05
by the might of
the great American Navy
00:16:32.09\00:16:34.86
met the Japanese.
00:16:34.89\00:16:38.59
We lost a huge number of ships.
00:16:38.63\00:16:43.00
We're always
thankful to God for America.
00:16:43.03\00:16:47.07
There would be no Australia
if there had been no America.
00:16:47.10\00:16:51.71
I say to modern day Americans,
00:16:51.74\00:16:55.11
listen up,
00:16:55.14\00:16:57.91
we owe a great deal of gratitude
00:16:57.95\00:17:01.15
to the United States of America.
00:17:01.18\00:17:04.12
And Brian Dunn
00:17:04.15\00:17:05.89
and his bride went
out there to the Solomons,
00:17:05.92\00:17:10.39
a medical missionary.
00:17:10.43\00:17:12.43
He's healing people,
he's preaching the gospel.
00:17:12.46\00:17:17.77
This is just like it
was, this is a replica.
00:17:17.80\00:17:23.00
And a native
controlled by evil spirits came
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and drove it through him.
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We did all we could
00:17:31.21\00:17:34.68
but nothing
could be done for him.
00:17:34.72\00:17:36.52
But Brian Dunn
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was John the Baptist,
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will be with Christ in glory.
00:17:48.56\00:17:50.90
Amen.
00:17:50.93\00:17:52.27
And I want to say
this to you, listen to me,
00:17:55.60\00:17:59.51
if you will come to
Christ, not just talk
00:17:59.54\00:18:04.71
but in the heart, in here,
00:18:04.75\00:18:07.72
if you come to
Christ and if you say,
00:18:07.75\00:18:12.09
"I am a sinner, Lord,
00:18:12.12\00:18:14.92
and I ask You to
come into my life
00:18:14.96\00:18:19.16
and I accept Your
death for my sins."
00:18:19.19\00:18:23.47
Jesus will do just that.
00:18:23.50\00:18:28.57
And with John,
00:18:28.60\00:18:32.34
and with Brian,
00:18:32.37\00:18:35.61
and with God's people
down through the ages,
00:18:35.64\00:18:39.81
and with the dying thief,
00:18:39.85\00:18:43.42
you will be with
Christ in paradise.
00:18:43.45\00:18:46.89
Amen. Amen.
00:18:46.92\00:18:48.46
This is the word
00:18:48.49\00:18:51.39
of the Lord.
00:18:51.43\00:18:54.83
In the name of the
Father, and of the Son,
00:18:54.86\00:18:59.83
and of the Holy Spirit,
00:18:59.87\00:19:03.00
amen and amen.
00:19:03.04\00:19:06.01
People risk their
lives to be baptized
00:19:15.45\00:19:17.65
in croc infested waters.
00:19:17.69\00:19:21.42
Hundreds break down the
doors to hear the gospel.
00:19:21.46\00:19:26.59
And thousands are
baptized all over the world.
00:19:26.63\00:19:30.10
Religious leaders and
governments threatened
00:19:33.54\00:19:35.57
to shut down any ministry.
00:19:35.60\00:19:38.21
The Carter Report
team is surrounded
00:19:38.24\00:19:40.11
by security guards on
missions throughout the world.
00:19:40.14\00:19:44.25
These are the challenges
00:19:44.28\00:19:46.25
and the miracles
of the Carter Report,
00:19:46.28\00:19:49.75
which remains
00:19:49.78\00:19:51.12
an international
gospel driven ministry
00:19:51.15\00:19:53.89
supported by fact and science,
00:19:53.92\00:19:56.76
not blind faith.
00:19:56.79\00:19:58.53
The Carter Report
00:20:01.60\00:20:02.93
has been an inspired
evangelistic ministry
00:20:02.96\00:20:05.07
for over 50 years
reaching over 35 countries
00:20:05.10\00:20:09.20
in over 22 languages
00:20:09.24\00:20:11.81
around the world.
00:20:11.84\00:20:15.98
Millions hear the gospel
00:20:16.01\00:20:17.35
from the second largest
00:20:17.38\00:20:18.71
satellite network in the world.
00:20:18.75\00:20:23.55
Numerous radio
stations broadcast
00:20:23.59\00:20:25.45
the Carter Report
with 24-hour programming
00:20:25.49\00:20:29.02
and it's accessible
24/7 on the Internet.
00:20:29.06\00:20:32.96
It's also available on Apple TV,
00:20:32.99\00:20:35.36
Roku, Amazon, and YouTube.
00:20:35.40\00:20:40.74
Offices are operating in India,
00:20:40.77\00:20:42.94
Australia, and California.
00:20:42.97\00:20:45.84
Many orphanages
have been visited
00:20:49.51\00:20:51.38
in Russia, India, El
Salvador, and the Ukraine.
00:20:51.41\00:20:55.18
Several schools are
supported in multiple countries.
00:20:59.55\00:21:02.09
And over 100 churches
00:21:05.86\00:21:07.66
have been
started around the world.
00:21:07.70\00:21:09.80
The largest evangelistic
event in Carter Report history
00:21:14.00\00:21:17.87
is held in Papua New Guinea
reaching hundreds of thousands.
00:21:17.91\00:21:21.44
In El Salvador,
the soccer stadium
00:21:25.31\00:21:27.55
is filled night
after night to capacity.
00:21:27.58\00:21:30.19
Communism falls
00:21:36.09\00:21:37.79
and what follows
is the largest baptism
00:21:37.83\00:21:40.86
in Ukraine and Russian history.
00:21:40.90\00:21:42.83
Hundreds of thousands of Bibles
00:21:50.21\00:21:52.14
are given away across the globe.
00:21:52.17\00:21:56.14
Throughout this ministry,
00:21:56.18\00:21:57.55
countless individual
lives have been changed forever.
00:21:57.58\00:22:01.95
Thank you, Pastor
Carter, for your program.
00:22:01.98\00:22:03.99
It has changed
my life completely.
00:22:04.02\00:22:06.35
In 1992, I came to your meetings
00:22:06.39\00:22:09.69
to listen to
English language spoken.
00:22:09.72\00:22:12.36
That was the only reason.
00:22:12.39\00:22:15.43
Now what other
message is there in the world
00:22:15.46\00:22:21.14
that would work on Skid Row
00:22:21.17\00:22:24.54
and on Opera House
halfway around the world?
00:22:24.57\00:22:28.94
John Carter preaches
a plain simple message
00:22:28.98\00:22:34.85
about the grace of God.
00:22:34.88\00:22:37.52
And because of Elder Carter,
00:22:37.55\00:22:39.09
we've raised this center
and we've done it together.
00:22:39.12\00:22:42.12
And hundreds and
hundreds of thousands of people
00:22:42.16\00:22:45.13
that have heard the gospel
00:22:45.16\00:22:46.86
through the preaching of a man
00:22:46.90\00:22:49.10
who is sold out to Jesus Christ.
00:22:49.13\00:22:52.20
Solomon Islands,
00:22:52.23\00:22:53.57
when you see 10,
000 or more stand
00:22:53.60\00:22:56.67
and come forward
in response to a call,
00:22:56.71\00:22:59.67
that is mind-blowing.
00:22:59.71\00:23:01.58
And then you see them baptized
in a crocodile-infested river.
00:23:01.61\00:23:06.45
It started in Avondale College,
00:23:06.48\00:23:08.48
where a theology
student met a young woman
00:23:08.52\00:23:11.32
with a heart for medicine
and helping others in need.
00:23:11.35\00:23:14.96
What began with
bringing the Word
00:23:14.99\00:23:17.26
throughout small
Australian country towns
00:23:17.29\00:23:19.89
grew to the
largest secular meeting
00:23:19.93\00:23:21.73
of non-religious persons
00:23:21.76\00:23:23.53
ever assembled in
Sydney, Australia.
00:23:23.57\00:23:27.80
I have also been blessed
00:23:27.84\00:23:29.17
with the opportunity
of visiting orphanages
00:23:29.20\00:23:31.44
in every city
that we have worked in.
00:23:31.47\00:23:33.71
I'm very thankful for
the help of friends here
00:23:33.74\00:23:37.08
in the US and in Australia.
00:23:37.11\00:23:39.78
Through your support
00:23:39.81\00:23:41.15
we've been able
to buy clothes, food,
00:23:41.18\00:23:42.92
school supplies, and medicines.
00:23:42.95\00:23:45.22
We were able to obtain
00:23:45.25\00:23:46.59
24,000 pounds
of medical supplies
00:23:46.62\00:23:49.56
which was then flown in to Kiev,
00:23:49.59\00:23:51.66
the capital of Ukraine,
00:23:51.69\00:23:53.36
by US military Hercules plane.
00:23:53.40\00:23:59.07
One thing has never
changed over all this time
00:23:59.10\00:24:02.70
and that is to simply bring
the good news of the gospel
00:24:02.74\00:24:06.11
to all corners of the earth.
00:24:06.14\00:24:07.91
Along the road,
00:24:11.88\00:24:13.42
several important people
have helped the Carter Report
00:24:13.45\00:24:16.32
stay true to their mission.
00:24:16.35\00:24:17.92
There are 10 truths
00:24:39.21\00:24:40.68
that John Carter
still believes in
00:24:40.71\00:24:42.88
after 50 years of teaching.
00:24:42.91\00:24:47.85
Number one, it is
better to please God
00:24:47.88\00:24:51.15
than to please man.
00:24:51.19\00:24:52.95
Amen!
00:24:52.99\00:24:54.89
Number two, the
truth is not for sale.
00:24:54.92\00:24:59.69
Number three, human popularity
00:24:59.73\00:25:02.76
is very fickle and
should not be sought.
00:25:02.80\00:25:06.97
Truth number four,
00:25:07.00\00:25:09.10
with God all
things are possible.
00:25:09.14\00:25:13.27
Number five, honor duly,
00:25:13.31\00:25:18.38
integrity, decency,
00:25:18.41\00:25:22.68
and loyalty still matter
00:25:22.72\00:25:25.85
in today's twisted society.
00:25:25.89\00:25:31.19
Truth number six
that I still believe,
00:25:31.23\00:25:34.23
we have the God-given right
00:25:34.26\00:25:37.83
and a
responsibility to serve God
00:25:37.87\00:25:42.44
and to think for ourselves
guided by the Holy Spirit.
00:25:42.47\00:25:47.64
This is a heart of Christianity
00:25:47.68\00:25:51.88
and the soul of America.
00:25:51.91\00:25:55.92
Truth number seven
that I believe still,
00:25:55.95\00:25:58.09
people are more
important than big organizations
00:25:58.12\00:26:02.02
or little organizations.
00:26:02.06\00:26:04.79
Truth number eight
that I still believe,
00:26:04.83\00:26:07.46
family and
friends are precious gifts
00:26:07.50\00:26:12.43
from God that are irreplaceable.
00:26:12.47\00:26:17.21
Truth number
nine that I believe,
00:26:17.24\00:26:19.24
there are more reasons
now to believe in the Creator
00:26:19.27\00:26:23.11
than at any previous time
in the history of the world.
00:26:23.14\00:26:26.92
Number ten,
00:26:26.95\00:26:29.08
the gospel is
still the power of God
00:26:29.12\00:26:33.62
for the salvation
of all who believe.
00:26:33.66\00:26:37.79
As I look back
through the good times
00:26:37.83\00:26:40.53
and the dark days,
00:26:40.56\00:26:43.26
through the
opposition, through the tears,
00:26:43.30\00:26:48.14
through the
threats upon my life...
00:26:48.17\00:26:50.01
I say, wait for it,
00:26:56.21\00:27:01.22
to God be the glory.
00:27:01.25\00:27:04.39
Great things He has done.
00:27:04.42\00:27:07.49
The most important
number is the number one.
00:27:07.52\00:27:11.59
People all over
the world are hungry
00:27:11.63\00:27:14.36
for the truth.
00:27:14.40\00:27:16.26
They are breaking down
00:27:16.30\00:27:17.63
the door to get in
to hear the gospel.
00:27:17.67\00:27:20.77
Will you hold the
door open for them
00:27:20.80\00:27:23.04
as they rush to
enter the kingdom?
00:27:23.07\00:27:26.07
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