I'm John Carter in Moscow.
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In Havana, Cuba.
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Now in Kiev, the
capital of Ukraine.
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I'm John Carter in Petra.
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Right here in Communist China.
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Reporting from India.
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Hi, I'm John Carter
in the Solomon Islands.
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I'm John Carter in
Soweto. From El Salvador.
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I'm John Carter
in Sydney, Australia.
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Now John Carter's
uplifting message,
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"On Top When You're Down Under."
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Welcome back, my friend.
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We're talking about
how you can be on top
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even when you're down under.
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In this segment, I'm
going to tell you about
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Michael and Lindy Chamberlain,
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a couple of very decent people
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who was thrown
into prison for murder,
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at least Lindy was, for murder
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when they were
completely innocent.
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Before we get to this,
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I'm going to talk to you about
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some of the cities in Australia.
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I was telling you
folks in the last segment
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that the closer you
follow the principles
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of the commandments of God,
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decency, hard work,
you're just going to be on top,
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you're going to be
tremendously blessed.
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And Australia,
like America was founded
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on Christian principles.
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I know a lot of
people in Australia today,
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they just don't
want to hear that.
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They say, "No, no, no,
we're a secular society."
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We have the
separation of church and state.
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That's absolutely true.
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But the land
down under was founded
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on the Bible and faith in God,
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and especially faith
in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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I love this place. I
love the cities of Australia.
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I love Sydney, Melbourne,
Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth,
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and little country towns.
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Once or twice a year, I
go over to those places,
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and I get on the manly steamer.
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And I go out on Sydney
Harbor, and I sort of relax,
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and I smell the salted air.
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Can't help, but tell you this.
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But the city of Melbourne
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for the last three or four years
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has been voted the
best city in the world.
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By the Australian?
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No, no, no, by the Americans,
by the Economist magazine also.
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In the top cities in the world,
the top 10 cities in the world,
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you have four Australian cities.
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Now why?
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Because this nation was
based on Christian principles.
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It wasn't based on the Quran.
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In America, there's a lot
of discussion about healthcare,
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how can we help people
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with their
bodies, with their souls.
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Australia is blessed to
have universal healthcare.
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It came in about 40 years ago.
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Everybody pays a
levy of 2% on their taxes.
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And even if you get
sick in the Outback,
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if you're 1,000
miles from a doctor,
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they have the Royal
Flying Doctor Medical Service.
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And they'll send
a plane 1,000 miles
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to take care of you.
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So this is a blessed country.
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And I believe that as a
country becomes wealthy,
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it is under an obligation
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to share the
wealth with the people.
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So Australia has been called
by Newsweek, Time Magazine,
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The Economist, more
recently, the lucky country.
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But there is no
such thing as luck.
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It's the
outworking of unrecognized
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Christian principles and
those people don't get it.
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They're carrying out
those Christian principles,
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and they don't realize
where they got it from.
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They got it from Christ,
and they got it from the Bible.
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Remember the man who said,
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he said, "I don't
know what's going on,"
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but he said, "The harder I work,
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the luckier I get."
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So my friend, I
don't believe in handouts,
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I believe in hand ups.
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But I don't believe a society
will rise and bless the people
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when it is based on,
pardon my saying this,
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a welfare mentality.
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Some stories from down under.
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Look at this text, John 3:16.
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Here is one of the great text.
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You know it off by heart.
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"For God so loved the world
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that He gave His
only begotten Son,
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that whoever believes
in Him should not perish,
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but have everlasting life."
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Well, that's taken
from the King James Version.
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New King James Version
says, "He shall not perish,
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but he'll have
everlasting life."
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I was privileged as a
boy of 16 to leave home.
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I left home.
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My parents had come
out of the depression.
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They had no money.
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I wanted to go to college.
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And so I went
1,000 miles from home.
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I went way up in the north,
where there are crocodiles,
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and I drove a big bulldozer
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to get my fees to go to college.
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I believe that the
harder a person works,
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the luckier he gets.
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I believe in the
gospel of hard work.
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I went to Avondale College.
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These are some
pictures of the old Avondale
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founded by some American
missionaries and pioneers,
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led by wonderful,
little feisty American lady
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whose name was Ellen White.
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And because she
stood on too many toes
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here in the
United States of America,
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you're not going to read
this in official circles,
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but she was set
out to the antipathies
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out to the land down under.
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And she loved the place.
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She believed that she was given
a vision of Avondale College.
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And the church leaders
said, "No, it can't be done.
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No, it's
impossible. You can't raise..."
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She raised the money
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and she bought the
1,500 acres of land.
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And then a government
specialist had come in,
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and he looked at the land,
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and he said,
"This land is so poor,
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that even if a
bandicoot came along here,
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he'd have to take
you to lunch with him."
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She said,
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"God has said, 'We
ought to buy His place.'"
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When I went to this
college as a boy of 16,
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I felt the influence
of the Spirit of Christ
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and the Spirit of God.
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And in this chapel
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that you can see on the screen,
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and the old Avondale chapel
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where the
jacaranda's still grown bloom,
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I heard a sermon on
the God-filled plank
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where the pastor said,
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"Inside every
person, there's an emptiness,
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and only God can
fill that emptiness."
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I said, "He's talking to me."
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It was because of
the Americans who came.
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It was because Ellen
White bought the land.
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It is because people believed
in the ethic of hard work
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that Avondale came into being.
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And I was there for six years.
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It's a story of divine guidance.
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I felt the hand of
God on my shoulder.
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I felt I was
walking on sacred ground.
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People will tell you,
Australians are so secular,
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they're ungodly.
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Well, some of them are.
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But if you look at
the Australian $20 note,
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the $20 bill.
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On the $20 bill,
you have this gentleman,
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and he is a
Presbyterian minister.
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The Reverend John
Flynn, who got on a camel,
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and who traveled
thousands of miles
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to bring the Gospel of Christ
to the people in the Outback.
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I know the Outback, I've
been through the Outback.
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Well, you can go
into the never, never land
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where it never, never
seems to come to an end,
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a harsh land.
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Where in winter you
can freeze to death,
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and in summer
you can quickly die
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because of the heat
and the lack of water.
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And he with some
other ministers came
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and brought the gospel.
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He was the man who founded
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the Royal Flying Inland Service.
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Marvelous.
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The first planes were rented
to them by Qantas Airlines.
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Qantas, as you all know,
stands for the Queensland
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and Northern
Territory aerial service,
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the safest airline in the world,
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and the oldest airline in
the English-speaking world.
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Since they've been flying
jets, which is about 60 years,
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they never lost a passenger,
never had an accident.
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And they loaned him one
of their planes like this,
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and it became the
plane that took a doctor
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who piloted the plane himself
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for the people in
the lonely Outback.
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He believed in evangelism.
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If you look at Romans 10:8-15,
I want to pick up some verses.
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Romans 10, "What does it say?
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The word is near
you, in your mouth,
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and in your heart
that is the word of faith,
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which we preach
that if you confess
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with your mouth the Lord Jesus
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and believe in your heart
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that God has
raised Him from the dead,
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you will be saved.
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For with the heart one
believes unto righteousness,
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and with the mouth confession
is made unto salvation.
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For the scripture says,
'Whoever believes in Him
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will not be put to shame.'
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For there is no distinction
between Jew and Greek,
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for the same Lord over all
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is rich to all
who call upon Him.'"
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You got to call upon Him.
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And the next text says,
"For whoever calls on the name
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of the Lord shall be saved."
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You got to call?
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"How then shall they call on Him
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in whom they have not believed?
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And how shall
they believe in Him
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of whom they have not heard?
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And how shall they
hear without a preacher?
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And how shall they
preach unless they are sent?
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As it is written,
'How beautiful are the feet
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of those who preach
the gospel of peace,
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who bring glad
tidings of good news.'"
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John Flynn
believed in evangelism,
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he believed that people
without Christ were lost.
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That's a rare idea today.
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But when I was a boy at college,
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Beverley and I were taken down
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to the Sydney Exhibition Ground,
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and we heard a man
with fire in his belly.
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The great American
evangelist, Billy Graham.
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We heard him preach the
gospel to 150,000 people.
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That's when I decided
I would become a preacher
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and an evangelist.
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And this man made
such a profound change
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in American morals that
we miss him so much today.
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America is not
as good without him.
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I tell you.
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Australia is
the secular society.
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Of 2016 census,
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54% of Australian
said they were Christians
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down from about
75% a few years before,
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30% say they have no religion.
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Australian society
is heavily influenced
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by the American TV culture.
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And the media or
much of the media
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has an anti-Christian
bias in Australia.
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Anything new, my
American friends?
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Also, of course,
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you have the great
universities in Australia.
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Like the great
American universities,
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where their religion
is secularism and atheism.
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Vain ideas.
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With the growing
secularization in Australia,
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of the Australian culture
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and the kicking of
God out of the door,
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there is a growing crime
rate and disillusionment.
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The crime is still low,
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but it will
increase, I can tell you.
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Let me tell you
about two of my friends.
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Pastor Mrs. Chamberlain,
who are dear friends of mine.
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They were at Ayers Rock, Uluru.
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This is the aboriginal word,
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that big, huge rock in
the middle of Australia,
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the biggest rock in the world.
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They were
eating at the campfire.
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Lindy just had a
little beautiful baby.
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Its name was Zarya.
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She heard him cry.
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There's a book
called A Cry in the Dark.
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See the movie Evil
Angels with Meryl Streep.
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And Lindy ran to the tent,
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and she saw a large dog emerge
with something in his mouth.
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And she cried
out, "Oh, God, oh, God,
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the dingo has taken my baby.
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This is a...
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I could tell you the whole story
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because I was
emotionally involved in this.
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And these
people were my friends.
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And these people
were completely innocent.
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But they had a problem.
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They were Christians.
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And they belong to a
little misunderstood church,
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the Seventh-day
Adventist Church.
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And so they were
tried, all right?
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They were tried in the media,
every night on television,
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every day front
page in the newspaper.
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At the first
hearing, they were exonerated.
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And the colonel said,
"I will never forget it
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because we stayed up,
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we turned on at
TV on Friday night
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to see what the
verdict would be."
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He said, "Pastor
Mrs. Chamberlain,
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on behalf of the
Australian people,
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we apologize to you
for the terrible defamation
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of character you have suffered."
00:15:07.64\00:15:10.67
But then a little bit later,
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the police from
the Northern Territory
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that is not even a state,
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it is the land
of the wild buffalo
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and the crocodile.
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They sent their representatives
to Avondale College,
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and they were arrested
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and charged with murder.
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And then this is
what appeared everywhere.
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Don't shoot animals over people.
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Lies!
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Free her? No!
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Hang her! Hang her!
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And so the culture,
the popular culture,
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which was so anti-Christian,
00:15:47.88\00:15:50.58
my friend, people's
views can change in a moment.
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You can be popular one day
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and you can be burnt the next.
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The trial went
it seemed forever...
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In the Northern Territory.
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And then in the end of the
jury came back and they said
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Lindy Chamberlain,
who was already pregnant,
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was guilty of murder.
00:16:21.08\00:16:23.08
And Pastor Michael
guilty of being an accessory
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after the fact.
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See the movie, Evil
Angels with Meryl Streep.
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So Lindy was taken
00:16:32.62\00:16:33.96
and incarcerated in
the tropics in Darwin.
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But it wasn't over.
00:16:39.76\00:16:42.43
And many people
started to fight for justice,
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in spite of the media
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that wanted them hung.
00:16:49.60\00:16:52.71
Then there came a
change in circumstances.
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Roman Catholic
judge came on our side.
00:16:57.08\00:17:01.95
Salvation Army
came out on our side.
00:17:01.98\00:17:05.05
And after what seemed
to be a million years,
00:17:05.09\00:17:10.53
another court case was held.
00:17:10.56\00:17:13.60
And they discovered a
story of corruption and lying.
00:17:13.63\00:17:18.30
And they were
totally exonerated.
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It's only a
little bit of the story.
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I tell it to you
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because it shows
you what our media,
00:17:28.41\00:17:33.38
which is anti-Christian,
can do to God's people.
00:17:33.42\00:17:36.92
And so Australians have in them
00:17:39.95\00:17:44.56
because of what they've seen
00:17:44.59\00:17:47.23
the church do on
so many occasions,
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many of them have
a bias against God.
00:17:50.30\00:17:54.77
Of course,
00:17:54.80\00:17:56.50
the pedophile scandals
in the Catholic Church.
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Goodness, you talk
to the average Aussie,
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he'd say, "Is that
what you call God's Church?"
00:18:04.35\00:18:09.52
Seven percent of the
priests are active pedophiles
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in Australia, in
America, in Canada,
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in Italy, in
Ireland, in Great Britain,
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in Spain, on, and on, and on.
00:18:20.33\00:18:26.13
But I am funded because I've run
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great evangelistic
campaigns in Australia,
00:18:28.04\00:18:30.94
and I say to my Aussie friends,
00:18:30.97\00:18:33.17
do not use such a
dumb argument against God
00:18:33.21\00:18:37.01
because God is
not rightly portrayed
00:18:37.05\00:18:40.72
by those who
often take His name.
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God is not the church.
00:18:45.09\00:18:49.46
God is God. Let God be God.
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And if you're
going to talk about
00:18:53.26\00:18:54.60
the bad things that
Christians have done,
00:18:54.63\00:18:57.43
why don't you
start to talk about
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the bad things
that atheists have done.
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Come on now. I said, "Come on."
00:19:03.24\00:19:05.91
Have you heard of Russia,
00:19:05.94\00:19:07.28
50 million people
murdered by atheists,
00:19:07.31\00:19:11.58
and even more dreadful things
00:19:11.61\00:19:14.18
for the size of
the place in Cambodia.
00:19:14.22\00:19:16.82
Pol Pot.
00:19:16.85\00:19:18.19
These were
secularists and atheists.
00:19:18.22\00:19:21.22
So don't condemn God
00:19:21.26\00:19:22.79
because of the
deeds of some Christians.
00:19:22.82\00:19:25.63
Please don't give me this.
00:19:25.66\00:19:27.63
Very recently, Cardinal Pell,
00:19:27.66\00:19:30.93
a close friend of the Pope.
00:19:30.97\00:19:35.27
You have the Pope, the next man,
00:19:35.30\00:19:38.34
and then the Australian Cardinal
00:19:38.37\00:19:41.88
in charge of the
money of the Vatican,
00:19:41.91\00:19:46.48
big guy, ay?
00:19:46.51\00:19:48.58
Cardinal Pell.
00:19:48.62\00:19:50.55
Cardinal of Australia
00:19:50.59\00:19:53.79
just recently tried
00:19:53.82\00:19:59.19
and sentenced by
the court in Victoria,
00:19:59.23\00:20:04.20
and found guilty of
being the pedophile in chief.
00:20:04.23\00:20:10.77
Now he's asked for an appeal.
00:20:10.81\00:20:14.91
And therefore, we should not say
00:20:14.94\00:20:17.15
that he is guilty.
00:20:17.18\00:20:19.51
The Chamberlain's
were innocent, you know.
00:20:19.55\00:20:24.72
And there is too often
today among unbelievers
00:20:24.75\00:20:29.66
an inbuilt bias
against Christians.
00:20:29.69\00:20:34.36
I am probably the last person
00:20:34.40\00:20:37.60
to defend the
Pope or his Cardinal.
00:20:37.63\00:20:41.74
But I would say as
an Australian would say,
00:20:41.77\00:20:46.04
let him have a fair go.
00:20:46.07\00:20:50.11
And let us
consider the evidence.
00:20:50.15\00:20:53.72
But all of this
says burn and seed
00:20:53.75\00:20:58.59
the sun-burnt soul.
00:20:58.62\00:21:01.92
But I say to our detractors.
00:21:01.96\00:21:06.26
Don't throw the baby
out with the bathwater.
00:21:06.29\00:21:10.47
Be intellectually
and morally honest.
00:21:10.50\00:21:14.14
Don't confuse Christ
00:21:14.17\00:21:16.30
with those who
profess to follow Him.
00:21:16.34\00:21:20.71
Christ is not the church,
00:21:20.74\00:21:22.18
and then you had the
influence of President Obama,
00:21:22.21\00:21:24.85
tremendously popular.
00:21:24.88\00:21:27.22
And Australia stood out
against same sex marriage,
00:21:27.25\00:21:30.72
a secular country.
00:21:30.75\00:21:32.09
They said it's wrong.
00:21:32.12\00:21:33.86
It goes against
culture and against the Bible.
00:21:33.89\00:21:38.09
But then they had a referendum.
00:21:41.00\00:21:43.77
And they went
with President Obama,
00:21:43.80\00:21:48.67
and said, "We will
have same sex marriage."
00:21:48.70\00:21:52.14
Now some people have predicted
00:21:52.17\00:21:53.68
the demise of the
Christian Church in Australia.
00:21:53.71\00:21:57.45
But I want to tell
you, don't count it out yet.
00:21:57.48\00:22:01.38
I've got some
amazing things to tell you.
00:22:01.42\00:22:03.02
I won't get through
today, but I will next week.
00:22:03.05\00:22:06.55
There are 4 million kids
enrolled in Australian schools,
00:22:06.59\00:22:11.33
65% go to government schools,
00:22:11.36\00:22:14.50
35%, more than one-third
go to independent schools,
00:22:14.53\00:22:19.00
mainly Christian schools,
00:22:19.03\00:22:21.30
Roman Catholic,
Church of England,
00:22:21.34\00:22:24.61
Adventist, and other schools.
00:22:24.64\00:22:27.48
Wherever you go, you
see great church schools,
00:22:27.51\00:22:31.51
probably the most
affluent in the world.
00:22:31.55\00:22:34.78
More than
one-third of Aussie kids
00:22:34.82\00:22:36.65
go to church schools, why?
00:22:36.69\00:22:41.26
It's funny,
00:22:41.29\00:22:42.62
because liberal parents know
00:22:42.66\00:22:44.46
that a Christian
education based...
00:22:44.49\00:22:48.20
An education based
on Christian principles
00:22:48.23\00:22:50.87
is best.
00:22:50.90\00:22:53.80
So secular parents
send their children
00:22:53.84\00:22:56.44
by the millions
to church schools.
00:22:56.47\00:23:00.18
Now if you go out to Australia,
00:23:00.21\00:23:03.21
and if you talk to many Aussies,
00:23:03.24\00:23:05.48
you'll think the
church is ready to be buried.
00:23:05.51\00:23:07.68
It doesn't
matter, it's finished.
00:23:07.72\00:23:12.25
Go to Sydney, my friend.
00:23:12.29\00:23:14.72
And in the City of
Sydney, which is a...
00:23:14.76\00:23:18.06
I love Sydney,
it's my old hometown.
00:23:18.09\00:23:20.76
Here is a church in Sydney.
00:23:20.80\00:23:24.70
One of the
biggest Christian churches
00:23:24.73\00:23:28.17
in the world.
00:23:28.20\00:23:30.41
It's in Sydney.
00:23:30.44\00:23:31.77
It's sending
missionaries to Los Angeles.
00:23:31.81\00:23:35.11
Don't laugh. Why not?
00:23:35.14\00:23:38.08
You know, you laugh and
say, "We don't need it."
00:23:38.11\00:23:41.15
Who are you kidding?
00:23:41.18\00:23:43.28
Of course, we do.
00:23:43.32\00:23:44.65
They are sending
missionaries to America,
00:23:44.69\00:23:47.82
to Los Angeles, and
New York, and London,
00:23:47.86\00:23:51.23
and they're building churches
like this, vast churches.
00:23:51.26\00:23:55.93
And the congregations
are composed of young people.
00:23:55.96\00:24:01.80
So we would say to the people
who say the church is over.
00:24:01.84\00:24:05.31
Look at this.
00:24:05.34\00:24:06.68
And as the
Australians would say,
00:24:06.71\00:24:08.04
"Put that in your
pipe and smoke it."
00:24:08.08\00:24:12.71
You can't kill it, my friend.
00:24:12.75\00:24:15.68
Recently I was in Sydney,
00:24:15.72\00:24:17.72
the city that I love so much.
00:24:17.75\00:24:19.15
I feel at home in Sydney.
00:24:19.19\00:24:22.02
Very safe city,
very little crime.
00:24:22.06\00:24:24.96
You can wander around at
anytime of the day or night
00:24:24.99\00:24:27.33
and you're not going
to get hurt generally.
00:24:27.36\00:24:31.83
I was in the heart of Sydney
00:24:31.87\00:24:33.57
and I saw these people pouring
into the Sydney City Mission,
00:24:33.60\00:24:39.87
which is run by the Methodist.
00:24:39.91\00:24:42.58
This is dead,
nobody would be here.
00:24:42.61\00:24:46.41
Ladies in high heels,
men in their business suits,
00:24:46.45\00:24:49.55
they were going into
this place for a Bible study.
00:24:49.58\00:24:55.99
Bible study, then
I wandered a block,
00:24:56.02\00:24:58.56
and I went to The
Church of England Cathedral,
00:24:58.59\00:25:04.87
Anglican Cathedral.
00:25:04.90\00:25:06.60
I got there at noon time,
00:25:06.63\00:25:08.80
and people were
studying the Bible.
00:25:08.84\00:25:14.01
You can't kill it.
00:25:14.04\00:25:16.58
I don't care what
people say or what people do.
00:25:16.61\00:25:20.52
Jesus said, "On this
rock, I will build My church,
00:25:20.55\00:25:25.15
and the gates of hell
will not prevail against it."
00:25:25.19\00:25:29.02
And the church was not
built upon Cardinal Pell,
00:25:29.06\00:25:32.46
and it wasn't
built upon the Pope,
00:25:32.49\00:25:35.46
the church was built
upon the Rock, Christ Jesus.
00:25:35.50\00:25:41.64
And the gates of hell
shall not prevail against it.
00:25:41.67\00:25:46.04
And so, next program,
00:25:46.07\00:25:48.74
I'm going to take it further
00:25:48.78\00:25:50.11
and tell you more
stories from down under.
00:25:50.15\00:25:53.75
But I want you to know this.
00:25:53.78\00:25:56.52
If you and I, whether we
be Aussies, or Americans,
00:25:56.55\00:26:00.99
or Brits, or whatever,
00:26:01.02\00:26:03.06
if we follow the
truths of the Bible,
00:26:03.09\00:26:09.46
we are going to be
remarkably blessed.
00:26:09.50\00:26:13.37
And we will be on top
00:26:13.40\00:26:16.14
even when we're
living down under.
00:26:16.17\00:26:19.31
There's only one thing
00:26:22.64\00:26:23.98
that really
counts in this lifetime,
00:26:24.01\00:26:26.51
your relationship to Christ.
00:26:26.55\00:26:29.22
And then if you have
00:26:29.25\00:26:30.59
a right
relationship with Christ,
00:26:30.62\00:26:33.09
you want to tell
people about Christ.
00:26:33.12\00:26:35.92
That's why Jesus
said, "Go into all the world
00:26:35.96\00:26:38.29
and preach the
gospel to every creature."
00:26:38.33\00:26:42.36
By the grace of God,
00:26:42.40\00:26:43.83
we're going to do
that, we are doing that.
00:26:43.87\00:26:47.20
That is why we're
going back to Cuba,
00:26:47.24\00:26:49.50
to this communist land,
00:26:49.54\00:26:51.61
to preach Christ.
00:26:51.64\00:26:54.21
We're accepting an invitation
00:26:54.24\00:26:55.84
to go to the vast,
huge city of Manila,
00:26:55.88\00:27:00.92
the capital of the Philippines.
00:27:00.95\00:27:02.38
Been there before,
00:27:02.42\00:27:04.05
but by the grace of
God, we're going back.
00:27:04.09\00:27:07.42
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00:27:07.46\00:27:09.16
And please stand with us
00:27:09.19\00:27:11.76
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00:27:11.79\00:27:14.43
You say, "How do you do
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00:27:14.46\00:27:17.73
We do.
00:27:17.77\00:27:19.10
"Do you get any help,
00:27:19.13\00:27:20.47
financial help from the church?"
00:27:20.50\00:27:21.84
No, my friend, we don't.
00:27:21.87\00:27:23.77
But we get a
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00:27:23.81\00:27:26.68
and from His children.
00:27:26.71\00:27:28.31
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00:27:33.01\00:27:36.05
Everything else
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00:27:36.08\00:27:39.19
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00:27:55.54\00:27:59.34
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