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.
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From El Salvador.
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I'm John Carter
in Sydney, Australia.
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John Carter tells
Stories from Down Under,
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Grace Abounding
Where Least Expected.
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Welcome back, my friend,
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we're talking about grace
in the most unlikely places.
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We're talking
about land down under.
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We're talking about
what's going on in Australia.
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There are many challenges
today to the Australian dream
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just as there are challenges
to the American dream.
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You know, it sounds
great, the American dream,
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and it's a wonderful concept.
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But Australia also has a dream.
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These are the challenges.
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See if you can empathize
with this, my American friends.
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Drugs.
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Anybody know what
I'm talking about?
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Drugs, emptiness,
and loss of purpose.
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Last night, Beverley and
I are turned on television
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to watch our favorite
speaker Ravi Zacharias.
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Ever heard Ravi?
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You know, he talks
about the lack of purpose.
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Something's going on in
society and society is changing,
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monumental leaps,
monumental strides.
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There was a time in Australia
as there was in America,
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I believe,
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and you Americans will empathize
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with what I'm saying,
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there was a time
when the old American
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was the most
honest, hard-working person
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on the face of the earth.
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And we didn't need too
many attorneys, did we?
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Because if an
American told you something,
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well, you could
take it to the bank,
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you could believe this.
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But today, we've got,
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literally, millions of attorneys
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because people don't
trust each other anymore.
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I had an amazing
experience a number of years ago
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when I was a boy,
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just finishing
college, many years ago.
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I got on my Harley Davidson
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and I rode through
Western New South Wales.
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A great country it's...
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I had this motorbike.
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A great country,
sheep and wheat country.
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I didn't know
what I was going to do,
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where would I stay at night?
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I was selling books.
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So I'd travel in the
daytime, selling books.
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Then at nighttime,
where was I going to stay?
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I had a most amazing experience.
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You know what
would happen to me?
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I'd come along to
a farm or a station
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as they call them there or
a ranch and they say to me,
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"Boy, where you
staying tonight?"
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"Well, I got nowhere to stay."
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"Well, you're
gonna stay with us."
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And the folks were so generous.
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People didn't rob each other.
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They didn't lock their houses.
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Never locked their homes.
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They were just
marvelously generous
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and
overwhelmingly sincere people
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were these Aussie farmers.
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And there are still
people like that today,
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but they're
getting less and less
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because the culture is changing.
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And that's why
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we've got to have
a heap of attorneys.
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Somebody said this.
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When the big God goes out,
all the little gods come in.
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Ever heard that?
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You get rid of the big God
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and you don't
get rid of religion,
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you get lots of other things.
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You get lots of substitutes.
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And many Aussies are
replacing the big God
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with lots of little gods
like football and cricket.
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And in Australia,
the main god is sport.
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I guess, a bit like America.
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Have you folks heard
of Dr. Richard Dawkins?
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He's the greatest
atheist in the world,
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at least he's the
best known atheist.
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He's a great
scientist from Great Britain.
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And he's been railing
against the Christian church.
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He's been saying,
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"You can't trust
the Christian church."
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And the day is going
to come, he says, soon,
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and we're going to get
rid of the Christian church.
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But recently, he's
been saying something else.
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He's been saying,
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let's not get rid
of the Christian church
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because as we get rid
of the Christian church...
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Now I'm going to
whisper this to you.
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He's been saying this,
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he got in a lot
of trouble for this,
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he's been saying this.
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If you get rid of
the Christian church,
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the Muslims are
going to take over England.
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A lot of people are saying,
"Well, that's sort of racist."
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Oh, well, maybe it is.
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But let me tell you something.
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When you get
rid of one religion,
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you're simply
going to get another one.
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And in Australia,
they're kicking out...
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Many places,
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they're kicking out the big God,
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and lots of
little punk puny gods
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are coming in.
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And there's a
feeling of restlessness
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and disillusionment
and a lack of purpose.
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The greatest sickness of
our times, my friend, is...
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You know what it is?
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The greatest
sickness of our times,
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it's meaninglessness.
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Our souls were made for God,
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and they cannot rest
until they rest in Him.
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It is the truth.
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Let me talk a little bit
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about the
Australian-American alliance.
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I'm glad that I'm a
citizen of both countries
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and I love both countries.
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I have a great loyalty
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to the United States
of America where I live.
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There's the ANZUS
Treaty, A-N-Z-U-S.
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It's very old.
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It binds three
countries together,
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Australia, New
Zealand, and the United States.
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Australia, New
Zealand, the United States.
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John McCain, who
was one of my heroes,
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made this statement.
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He said, he came out and
spoke to the people in Canberra,
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at the Capital, and he said,
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"We have fought
and bled together
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like no other two nations
on the face of the earth."
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He said, we have fought,
we have fought side by side,
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we have been spilling our
blood in the defense of freedom
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for more than 100 years.
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Let me tell you a
little bit about it.
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We fought
together in World War I.
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Bloody fighting.
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We fought
together in World War II,
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in the Pacific,
in the Middle East,
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in Europe,
Americans and Australians.
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We fought
together in the Korean War
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as we fought against
tyranny and against communism.
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Australia was the only
nation that went to the aid
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of the United States of
America in the Vietnam War,
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nobody else would do it.
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But Australians went and
fought with the Americans,
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and they lost.
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We lost thousands of lives
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because we believe in
America and we love America.
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America is popular in Australia.
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In the first Iraq war,
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Australia answered the
call and stood with America.
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In the Afghanistan war,
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Australia joined
forces with America.
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In the second Iraq
war, we were there.
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In the recent war in Syria,
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Australia stood shoulder
to shoulder with America.
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Right now, the
Americans and the Australians
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are building a
mighty military base
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in the north of Australia
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because they believe the
threat to security and freedom
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is going to come from
the north of Australia.
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And so we still
have the ANZUS Treaty.
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And so I'm very
much at home in Australia
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'cause I was born there.
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That's the land of my birth.
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It's the land that nurtured me,
but I tell you folks something,
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I'm very much at home
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with my American
brothers and sisters.
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I love America.
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Let me tell you about an amazing
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and great medical outreach
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by a group of people who
call themselves Adventists
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or Seventh-day
Adventists in Australia.
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It's the Sydney
Adventist Hospital.
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This is the prime minister
of Australia at the time
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opening a new wing of the
Sydney Adventist Hospital,
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affectionately
called the Sydney San.
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San is short for
sanitarium, not sanatorium.
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Who are the Adventists?
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They're a small
Protestant church,
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not that small.
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Well, there are 65,000
Adventists in Australia.
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What do they believe?
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They believe first and foremost
in the Gospel of Christ.
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They do not
believe that they say
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by keeping the 10 Commandments.
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They believe in grace abounding.
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They believe in
the Second Coming.
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That is why they
are called Adventists.
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They believe in
the coming of the Lord.
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They also believe
in the commandments
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and the fourth commandment,
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which is the
keeping of the Holy Sabbath.
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They believe in creation.
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And they believe the
body is the temple of God,
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and they believe
in caring for people.
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And that is why
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they have
established, around the world,
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hundreds and
hundreds of hospitals,
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none better than the
Sydney Adventist Hospital,
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which is easily one of the
great hospitals of Australia
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and not only one of the
great hospitals of Australia,
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one of the great
medical centers of the world.
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It was established in 1903
on land that had been purchased
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by the American
prophet Ellen White.
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It now has a
staff of 2,300 people,
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plus 500 volunteers,
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and a service by 1,100
accredited medical offices.
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Annually, the
Sydney Adventist Hospital
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has 58,000 in patients
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and 125,000 out patients
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and delivers tens of
thousands of little babies.
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Tens and tens and tens,
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possibly, hundreds of
thousands of little baby Aussies
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have been brought into the world
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in this hospital.
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It is a teaching hospital
of the University of Sydney,
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which is like a
hospital in America
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being affiliated
with Harvard or Yale.
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It is the gold standard.
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This is the campus of the
Sydney Adventist Hospital.
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I'm proud of this hospital
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because I was associated with it
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because I was the
senior pastor on a large church
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on the campus of the
Sydney Adventist Hospital.
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It is a great hospital.
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I don't want to go into
a hospital particularly,
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but if I could have the
choice, which I may not have,
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I would choose
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the Adventist
Hospital in Sydney.
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In fact, I was talking
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to the prime
minister of Australia
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a number of years ago.
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He was a famous
charismatic figure.
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His name was Gough Whitlam,
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the prime minister of Australia.
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He had just had a
medical procedure done
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in the Sydney
Adventist Hospital.
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It's the hospital of choice.
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It is the
largest private hospital
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in the largest state,
the State of New South Wales.
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The biggest, the
wealthiest state.
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And he said to me,
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"I have been in
your hospital," he said,
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"what a calling
you people have."
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This is the hospital of choice
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for people who
want the best treatment.
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You know what it tells me?
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It tells me that
people who are small in number
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can do
tremendous things for God.
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And even if you're down under,
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it doesn't mean you
got to stay down under,
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you can be right on top.
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You can be the head.
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You don't have to be the tail.
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And this hospital in
Australia is the head.
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It's not the tail.
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Adventists in Australia
punch above their weight.
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And they do this
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because they believe
in the power of prayer
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and the power of grace.
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Now let me tell
you folks something.
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This whole body's
been going for a long time.
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I'm no longer a boy.
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Looking okay, don't you think?
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Folks, the Bible says,
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"Your body is
the temple of God."
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I believe this.
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I believe that this body
here is the temple of God.
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And this hospital exists
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because Adventist believes
the body is the temple of God.
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I don't believe
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in putting garbage
into the temple of God.
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A lot of people
just laugh about this.
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Nothing to laugh about
when you're getting cancer,
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heart disease, and diabetes,
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and dementia, and
every other disease.
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If you look
through the window here,
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just a moment, down the road,
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there is this large
church with the red roof.
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That's the
Wahroonga Adventist Church.
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It was my happy privilege
00:14:43.35\00:14:44.68
to be the senior
pastor of that church
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and to have
hundreds of medical personnel
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as members of my congregation.
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When Beverley and I left
to come to the United States,
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the Adventist Hospital took
us into a beautiful restaurant
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at the Sydney Opera
House to give us a send off
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because of our
close relationship.
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We believe that the
body is a temple of God.
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Now I don't
believe in the nonsense
00:15:14.78\00:15:17.91
that says just
eat what you like,
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do what you like
and God will bless you.
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Don't believe that.
00:15:24.79\00:15:27.16
Because I believe the
body is the temple of God,
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by the grace of God,
I don't drink alcohol.
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No.
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Says John the Baptist,
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"He shall be great
in the sight of the Lord
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and shall neither
drink wine nor strong drink."
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You can read that in the Bible.
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I want to be great in
the sight of the Lord,
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you know?
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I don't want to have
my mind all confused.
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So I don't drink.
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I don't smoke.
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I don't...
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Of course, I don't use
drugs, recreational drugs.
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I don't believe in this stuff.
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I believe in following the diet
00:16:04.43\00:16:06.49
that is outlined
in the scriptures.
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And I believe in
plenty of exercise.
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Yesterday, I
climbed up in the mountains,
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walked for hours.
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I don't get shortness of breath.
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I can run up hills.
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And it's because I try
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to practice the
teachings of the Bible.
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This hospital was...
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Here's the Prime
Minister Tony Abbott,
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a number of years ago,
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he's opening the new
wing of this great hospital.
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I think it has at
least 30 operating theaters.
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It is a light that
shines in the darkness.
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I mentioned New South Wales,
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people say, "What
on earth is that?"
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Well, Australia was
founded by the British.
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And over there in Britain,
there was a place called Wales
00:16:51.94\00:16:55.48
and there was a
very beautiful place
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that was called Southern Wales,
00:16:57.08\00:16:59.61
and when they came to
this part of the world,
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they called it New South Wales.
00:17:01.38\00:17:04.89
So you've got a great
state south of New South Wales,
00:17:04.92\00:17:08.16
that is Victoria, it's
one of the great states.
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I love it, the
great city of Melbourne.
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They say it's the
best city in the world.
00:17:13.73\00:17:17.10
But then the biggest
state is New South Wales
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and the Adventist Hospital
is the biggest and the best.
00:17:20.57\00:17:27.14
People say you
can't do these things
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if you don't have a huge group.
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No, it's not so.
00:17:31.75\00:17:34.42
When you have the wind
of God under your wings,
00:17:34.45\00:17:36.92
you can rise to
unattainable heights.
00:17:36.95\00:17:41.42
Okay, let me move on,
going to talk about your genes.
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Your genes are not who you are.
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Would you take your Bible
and turn to Galatians 3:26-29.
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Galatians 3:26-29.
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Your genes are not who you are.
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Galatians 3:26 and onwards.
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Have you got it?
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Galatians 3:26-29,
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"For you are all sons of God
through faith in Christ Jesus.
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For as many of you as
were baptized into Christ
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have put on Christ.
00:18:21.23\00:18:22.83
There is neither Jew nor Greek,
00:18:22.86\00:18:26.77
there is neither slave nor free,
00:18:26.80\00:18:28.80
there is
neither male nor female,
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for you are all
one in Christ Jesus.
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And if you are Christ's,
then you are Abraham's seed,
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and heirs
according to the promise."
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Look at me.
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It doesn't
matter about your genes.
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It doesn't matter
where you came from.
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It doesn't matter
about the color of your skin.
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Don't talk this racism.
00:18:54.83\00:18:57.10
What matters is the
content of your character
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because of your
relationship to Christ.
00:19:02.40\00:19:07.31
But having said that, I'm
going to show you my genes.
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Some of my
friends, to be nice to me,
00:19:11.68\00:19:14.32
decided that they would
take a little bit of my saliva.
00:19:14.35\00:19:18.29
I said, "What do
you want my saliva for?
00:19:18.32\00:19:19.69
It's my saliva."
00:19:19.72\00:19:21.22
They said, "We want a little..."
00:19:21.26\00:19:22.59
I said, "I don't know
00:19:22.62\00:19:23.96
what you're going to do with it.
00:19:23.99\00:19:25.33
You may put it on
something and get me convicted."
00:19:25.36\00:19:27.73
They said, "No, we're
going to send it away to 23..."
00:19:27.76\00:19:31.03
I think it's called 23andMe.
00:19:31.07\00:19:34.67
So they sent it away.
00:19:34.70\00:19:36.57
How curious can you get?
00:19:36.60\00:19:37.94
They wanted to know.
00:19:37.97\00:19:39.74
So it came back, John
Carter, English and Irish 87%.
00:19:39.77\00:19:45.08
Beverley said, "So what?
00:19:45.11\00:19:47.55
You know, what do you
expect? We've known that."
00:19:47.58\00:19:51.29
She said, "I
think you're 100% Irish
00:19:51.32\00:19:54.02
because you're a bit impatient."
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Okay, 87%.
00:19:55.82\00:19:58.26
Now this was a
stunner, French and German.
00:19:58.29\00:20:02.10
Oh, I said, "I don't like this."
00:20:02.13\00:20:04.83
They're out to get me.
00:20:04.87\00:20:06.20
French and German,
3%, Northwest European.
00:20:06.23\00:20:09.87
The Vikings.
00:20:09.90\00:20:12.81
Okay, don't take me
on, don't challenge me,
00:20:12.84\00:20:16.64
the Vikings, 8.8%.
00:20:16.68\00:20:19.61
This was a shock,
Spanish and Portuguese.
00:20:19.65\00:20:24.39
I said, "I
don't believe it," 1%.
00:20:27.52\00:20:30.76
But it went on even further.
00:20:30.79\00:20:33.23
Western Asian and
North African 0.2%.
00:20:33.26\00:20:38.00
That means out of
500 of my ancestors,
00:20:38.03\00:20:42.00
one of them came
from the Middle East.
00:20:42.04\00:20:44.47
I said, "Hallelujah!
00:20:44.51\00:20:45.84
That's where Jesus...
00:20:45.87\00:20:47.21
That's where Jesus came from."
00:20:47.24\00:20:49.24
You know how it happened?
00:20:49.28\00:20:51.41
Well, the
Moors, who are Muslims,
00:20:51.45\00:20:54.48
from the Middle
East, conquered Spain,
00:20:54.52\00:21:00.32
and they married Spanish people.
00:21:00.36\00:21:07.00
And some of those
people went across the channel,
00:21:07.03\00:21:11.17
and they went to England.
00:21:11.20\00:21:14.84
And so at least
00:21:14.87\00:21:19.27
a few of my ancestors...
00:21:19.31\00:21:22.41
Have a look at this.
This is sort of amazing.
00:21:22.44\00:21:27.25
87% in England,
8.8% Scandinavia,
00:21:27.28\00:21:31.95
3% in Germany, 1% in Spain,
00:21:31.99\00:21:34.82
but then
somebody came across here,
00:21:34.86\00:21:40.50
married somebody, and
this got up into here.
00:21:40.53\00:21:47.04
And I said, I'm...
00:21:47.07\00:21:48.74
sort of amazed.
00:21:48.77\00:21:52.14
That is what I really expected.
00:21:52.17\00:21:53.81
But let me tell
you folks something.
00:21:53.84\00:21:56.48
Remember this.
00:21:56.51\00:21:59.85
It's not your ancestry
00:21:59.88\00:22:01.28
but your
relationship to the Messiah.
00:22:01.32\00:22:03.39
We talk too much about race.
00:22:03.42\00:22:06.76
And in the last few years,
00:22:06.79\00:22:08.12
racism has become a
real problem in America.
00:22:08.16\00:22:11.43
You know, black
people against white people,
00:22:11.46\00:22:14.13
white people
against black people,
00:22:14.16\00:22:18.03
Jewish people...
00:22:18.07\00:22:22.27
It's ungodly, it's
unchristian, it's satanic.
00:22:22.30\00:22:27.91
We should never be racist.
00:22:27.94\00:22:30.85
The lady who cuts my hair
two or three times a year said,
00:22:30.88\00:22:36.25
"Your genes make you the
beautiful person you are,
00:22:36.28\00:22:39.55
doesn't matter
where you came from."
00:22:39.59\00:22:44.69
I heard him on TV in Australia
when I was a boy preacher.
00:22:44.73\00:22:48.86
He was a black man.
00:22:48.90\00:22:52.23
He said this,
00:22:52.27\00:22:53.74
"We do not learn to
live together as friends,
00:22:53.77\00:22:55.80
we will die apart as fools."
00:22:55.84\00:22:58.51
"I have a dream today!
00:22:58.54\00:22:59.87
I have a dream that one day
00:22:59.91\00:23:01.24
little black
boys and black girls
00:23:01.28\00:23:02.64
will be able to join
hands with little white boys
00:23:02.68\00:23:05.98
and white girls as
sisters and brothers.
00:23:06.01\00:23:10.65
I have a dream today!
00:23:10.69\00:23:12.02
I have a dream that one day
on the red hills of Georgia,
00:23:12.05\00:23:15.16
the sons of former slaves
00:23:15.19\00:23:16.62
and the sons of
former slave owners
00:23:16.66\00:23:18.76
will be able to
sit down together
00:23:18.79\00:23:20.26
at the table of brotherhood.
00:23:20.30\00:23:22.90
I have a dream that
my four little children
00:23:22.93\00:23:24.93
will one day live in a nation
00:23:24.97\00:23:26.63
where they will not be judged
by the color of their skin
00:23:26.67\00:23:29.14
but by the content
of their character.
00:23:29.17\00:23:32.27
I look forward
confidently to the day
00:23:32.31\00:23:34.44
when all who work for a living
00:23:34.48\00:23:36.95
will be one with no
thought to their separateness
00:23:36.98\00:23:39.35
as Negros, Jews, Italians,
or any other distinctions.
00:23:39.38\00:23:44.62
This will be a day
00:23:44.65\00:23:45.99
when we will bring
into full realization
00:23:46.02\00:23:47.72
the American dream, a
dream not yet realized."
00:23:47.76\00:23:52.96
April 3, 1968, the day
before he was murdered.
00:23:52.99\00:23:59.10
"I don't know
what will happen now,"
00:23:59.13\00:24:00.97
said Martin Luther King,
00:24:01.00\00:24:02.60
"we've got some
difficulty days..."
00:24:02.64\00:24:04.04
A Baptist minister,
00:24:04.07\00:24:05.97
"We've got some
difficult days ahead.
00:24:06.01\00:24:07.94
But it doesn't
matter with me now
00:24:07.98\00:24:09.88
because I've been
to the mountaintop.
00:24:09.91\00:24:13.72
And I don't mind.
00:24:13.75\00:24:15.08
Like anybody, I would
like to live a long life.
00:24:15.12\00:24:17.29
Longevity has its place.
00:24:17.32\00:24:19.95
But I'm not
concerned about that now.
00:24:19.99\00:24:22.36
I just want to do God's will.
00:24:22.39\00:24:25.33
And He's allowed me
to go up to the mountain.
00:24:25.36\00:24:29.13
And I've looked over.
00:24:29.16\00:24:30.50
And I've seen the promised land.
00:24:30.53\00:24:33.13
I may not get there with you.
00:24:33.17\00:24:34.70
But I want you to know tonight
00:24:34.74\00:24:36.54
that we, as a people,
will get to the promised land.
00:24:36.57\00:24:40.81
And I'm happy tonight.
00:24:40.84\00:24:42.54
I'm not worried about anything.
00:24:42.58\00:24:45.41
I'm not fearing any man.
00:24:45.45\00:24:47.28
Mine eyes have seen the glory
00:24:47.32\00:24:50.12
of the coming of the Lord."
00:24:50.15\00:24:54.72
So he was a black
man, and I'm a white man.
00:24:54.76\00:25:00.13
But in the sight of God,
00:25:00.16\00:25:01.50
He doesn't see white
people or black people,
00:25:01.53\00:25:03.87
He sees souls made
in the image of God.
00:25:03.90\00:25:08.40
I heard this preacher
when I was down under,
00:25:08.44\00:25:14.61
and it taught me this.
00:25:14.64\00:25:16.34
It doesn't matter
the circumstances,
00:25:16.38\00:25:19.11
doesn't matter
00:25:19.15\00:25:21.05
whether you're
rich or you're poor,
00:25:21.08\00:25:22.45
whether you're
white or you're black,
00:25:22.48\00:25:26.42
with Christ in your heart,
00:25:26.45\00:25:30.83
you're gonna
soaron wings like eagles,
00:25:30.86\00:25:34.76
and by the grace of
God, by his abounding grace,
00:25:34.80\00:25:39.60
you will be on top,
even when you're down under.
00:25:39.63\00:25:45.81
This is the Word of the Lord.
00:25:45.84\00:25:47.41
There's only one thing
00:25:53.52\00:25:54.85
that really
counts in this lifetime,
00:25:54.88\00:25:57.62
your relationship to Christ.
00:25:57.65\00:26:00.02
And then if you have
00:26:00.06\00:26:01.39
a right
relationship with Christ,
00:26:01.42\00:26:03.99
you'll want to tell
people about Christ.
00:26:04.03\00:26:06.83
That's why Jesus
said, "Go into all the world
00:26:06.86\00:26:09.50
and preach the
gospel to every creature."
00:26:09.53\00:26:13.37
By the grace of God,
we're going to do that,
00:26:13.40\00:26:16.00
we are doing that.
00:26:16.04\00:26:18.11
That is why we're
going back to Cuba,
00:26:18.14\00:26:20.61
to this communist
land, to preach Christ.
00:26:20.64\00:26:25.08
We're accepting an invitation
00:26:25.11\00:26:26.72
to go to the vast,
huge city of Manila,
00:26:26.75\00:26:31.85
the capital of the Philippines.
00:26:31.89\00:26:33.32
Been there before,
00:26:33.36\00:26:35.06
but, by the grace of
God, we're going back.
00:26:35.09\00:26:38.43
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And please stand with us
00:26:40.06\00:26:42.66
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00:26:42.70\00:26:45.43
You say, "How do you do it?
00:26:45.47\00:26:46.90
Who pays the bills?"
00:26:46.94\00:26:48.70
We do.
00:26:48.74\00:26:50.07
"Do you get any help,
00:26:50.11\00:26:51.44
financial help from the church?"
00:26:51.47\00:26:52.87
No, my friend. We don't.
00:26:52.91\00:26:54.74
But we get a lot of help
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00:26:54.78\00:26:59.18
Please support us
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00:27:00.88\00:27:03.92
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00:27:03.95\00:27:06.96
Everything else
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00:27:06.99\00:27:10.13
So would you please write to me?
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00:27:22.14\00:27:24.07
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00:27:24.11\00:27:26.44
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00:27:26.47\00:27:30.28
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00:27:30.31\00:27:33.11
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00:27:33.15\00:27:36.79
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00:27:36.82\00:27:40.36
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