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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Now from John Carter,
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"The True Gospel
and No Fake News."
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Welcome back, my friends.
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We're talking today
about the true gospel,
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and no fake news.
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And today, we're talking
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about some of the
great truths of the gospel.
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And I'm inviting you
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to step outside of
the comfortable box
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and to think for yourselves.
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I'm asking you to just be
God's revolutionaries and say,
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"I'm not going to be
overawed by authority figures,
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whether it's the
priest, whether it's the pastor,
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whether it's the politician,
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but by the grace of God,
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I'm going to be a child of God.
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And I'm going
to think for myself
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outside the box."
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Now the first great truth
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we noticed in the first
segment of the program is this,
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that man was made in
the very image of God,
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man and woman,
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they were made
god like creatures.
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They did not need a savior,
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because they'd never sinned,
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that's the first truth.
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Our first parents
did not need the gospel.
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But now here we
come, truth number two.
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Here it is, number two.
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When man sinned,
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he became a lost soul,
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his nature became
sinful and depraved,
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and he needed a savior.
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Something
happened deep inside man.
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The image of God was marred.
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Now, I've got some things here
that I think are pretty neat.
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I picked up these
coins when I was in Russia.
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I've been to Russia 49
times running big campaigns.
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And on these coins,
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some of them go back to 1843,
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some go back to
1893 and pretty old.
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But if you look really hard,
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you can see the
face of the tsar,
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the king of Russia.
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Have a look.
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You can see.
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And this one here,
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you have the
double headed eagle.
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You know what that
represents in Russia?
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That's the union
of church and state.
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And some people in America
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think church and
state should be united.
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Well, that's
what the Russians did.
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And that's why
you had so many people
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put to death in Russia.
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But just as this
coin is sort of marred,
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you can still see
the image of the tsar
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that is defaced
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and is marred.
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And so in humanity today,
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you can still
see the image of God.
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Sometimes you got
to look real hard,
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but the image of
God remains in man.
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But the Bible tells
us that because of sin,
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the image of God is indistinct
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and marred.
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And when Adam sinned,
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we became a race of sinners.
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And that's why naturally
we're all empty inside.
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That's why the great
Roman Catholic theologian,
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Saint Agustin said,
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"Our souls made for God,
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and they cannot rest
until they rest in Him."
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There's something
that is empty inside
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and we are born this way.
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Wants you to come over
here to Romans 5:12-14.
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This is a text that
most people don't read,
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and if they do read it,
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they don't understand it
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and if they do
understand what they say,
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"I'm not going to believe it."
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Romans 5:12.
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We need to let
the Word of God speak.
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"Therefore," Paul says,
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"just as through one man," Adam,
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"sin entered the world,
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and death through sin,
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and thus death
spread to all men,
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because all sinned."
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The Bible tells me this,
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that when Adam sinned,
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listen to this,
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we sinned in Adam.
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The Bible tells us
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that Adam
represented the human race.
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If you look at
verse 14, it says,
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verse 14,
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"Nevertheless death
reigned from Adam to Moses,
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even over those
who had not sinned
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according to the likeness
of the transgression of Adam,"
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what is that saying?
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"Who is a type of
Him who wants to come."
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The Bible says,
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"The death came into the
world like a tremendous flood,
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and the world
was deluged in sin."
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And the Bible
says, now listen to this,
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just got to
think outside the box,
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just got to think.
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The Bible says,
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"Adam to Moses,
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death reigned over those people
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who had not
sinned in the same way
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that Adam sinned."
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How did Adam sin?
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It is a willful
trends, transgression.
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But the Bible says,
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"Death reigned over people
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who had not
sinned as Adam sinned."
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For instance,
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little babies died.
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Why did the little babies die,
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have you thought this through?
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It is because the
human race, my friends,
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because we were in Adam,
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we were lost in Adam.
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It's like Adam was
driving the motorcar
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and we were
sitting in the backseat.
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And when that
motorcar went off the freeway,
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we went off the freeway,
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because we were in the backseat.
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You say, "I was
not in the backseat.
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I wasn't there."
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Oh!
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Tell me where were you?
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We were in Adam.
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The whole of the
human race was in Adam.
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And the Bible tells me
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that we were lost in Adam.
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Romans 5:19,
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would you look at this, please?
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People say, "Look,
I can't believe this."
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Oh, my friend,
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you got to
think outside the box,
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and you got to think honestly.
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Look at verse 19,
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"For as by one
man's disobedience, "
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who's this? Adam.
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"As by one man's
disobedience," what does it say?
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"Many were made sinners."
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No, no, no.
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Somebody says,
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"We are not made
sinners because of Adam."
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Hey, hey, hey.
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Are you gonna believe the Bible
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or you gonna
believe your own reasoning?
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The Bible says, "By
one man's disobedience,
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many were made sinners.
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So also by one man's obedience,
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many will be made righteous."
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When Adam sinned,
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the world was
deluged into darkness
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and into death.
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That's why David said,
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"I was born in sin.
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And in sin did my
mother conceive me."
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He's not
talking about being born
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out of wedlock.
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He's saying, I am born
in a state of corruption.
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And because I am born
in a state of corruption,
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I do not need a swimming lesson.
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I need a savior.
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I need somebody
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who's going to
come down and save me.
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I want you to come over
now to Romans Chapter 3.
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I urge you to read
the Book of Romans.
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You say, "It's difficult."
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Well, that's
another reason to read it.
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Romans 3:23.
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The Bible says,
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"For all have
sinned," that's the past tense,
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past tense, "and fall
short of the glory of God."
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Can you hear
what I'm saying today?
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The Bible says,
"All have sinned."
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That is the past tense.
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And the Bible says,
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"I am falling short
of the glory of God."
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So I try to jump
my way to heaven,
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I try to get across this abyss,
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but the Bible says,
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I fall short of
the glory of God.
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That's why I don't
need a swimming lesson.
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I don't need so much a teacher.
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I don't need so much an example.
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I need a savior.
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It's so important to
let the Word of God speak
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and to put aside
our preconceived ideas.
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When I was in Australia,
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I was the pastor
of a beautiful church
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in New South Wales,
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outside the town of Albury,
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there was a wonderful family,
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Mr. and Mrs. Miller.
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And he said to me,
when I went out there
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to study the
Word of God with him.
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He said, "Pastor
Carter, I am a bigoted Lutheran.
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I thought, I wonder,
"What sort of Lutheran that is"
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He said, "I am quite bigoted."
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Now, I'd heard
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of different types of Lutherans.
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But he said,
"I'm a bigoted one."
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You know what he was
saying? He's an old German.
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I'm bigoted.
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He said, "I'm a
bigoted Lutheran."
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Well, I said, "My
friend, join the club."
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I can take you to places
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where there are
bigoted Catholics,
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and bigoted Methodists,
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and bigoted Adventists.
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And in America,
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I would say bigoted Republicans
and bigoted Democrats
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and some bigoted independents.
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We've got to ask
God to help us here.
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Many of us are
bigoted and pride keeps us so.
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That is why we
need the Spirit of God
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for Revelation.
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I've seen people sit
in the pews of churches
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and steal themselves
when they hear the subject.
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No! No!
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No! No!
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What is it? No!
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What does the text say? No!
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These are people who have been
going to church for 50 years.
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Bigoted.
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Look at John 3:3.
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This tells you what we need.
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"Jesus answered and said to him,
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'Most assuredly, I say to you,
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unless one is born again,
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he cannot see
the kingdom of God.'"
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Before you can
start to understand
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the scriptures
and the Word of God,
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you've got to have the
help of the Holy Spirit.
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So when you
read the Word of God,
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you can't understand it.
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It's commonly good,
you can't understand it.
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You need grace.
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And here's a quote
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from one of the most
prolific Christian writers
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of our modern times.
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Ellen White said
this and listen to this.
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I find that most
folks take what they want,
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leave what they want.
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But let's listen to this please.
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She said this,
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"The religious services,
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the prayers,
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the praise,
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the penitent
confessions," or the penitent,
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I'm really sorry,
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"the penitent confession of sin
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ascend from true believers,"
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the saints,
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"as incense to the
heavenly sanctuary,"
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hey, this is
gonna be pretty good,
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"but passing
through the corrupt channels
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of humanity,
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they are so defiled,"
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hey, people tell me,
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the saints are perfect,"
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they are so defiled that
unless purified by blood,
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they can never be
a value with God."
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The prayers of the saints,
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their penitent confession,
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even their confessions.
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"They ascend not
in spotless purity,
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and unless the intercessor,
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who is at God's right hand,
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presents and purifies
all by His righteousness,
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it is not acceptable to God."
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You say, "No, this is
okay about the pagans.
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This is okay
about the bad people."
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This is talking
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about the really good people.
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You know, what the worst sin is?
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Self-righteousness.
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And most of us who go to
church have got enough to hear.
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So the Bible tells us,
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"I need a savior."
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I don't need good
advice, I need good news.
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Next great truth is this.
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This is almost kind of
asked you to believe this.
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The Creator God
became a man to save us.
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True Christianity is different
to every other religion.
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In the Muslim religion,
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Allah is remote and distant.
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But in the Bible,
God becomes a man.
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Who would have thought of this?
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He doesn't just
stand on the riverbank
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and throws a rope,
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He gets into the river.
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Imagine the
President of the United States.
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Okay, visualize it.
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He goes over to
Africa, the Congo.
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He finds a poor village,
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where they got Ebola.
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He lives with the people
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and finally is
infected with the Ebola virus
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and he dies.
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You say, impossible.
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Well, that's what God did.
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That's what God did.
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Say, "No, no, no!" Yes.
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Or maybe Mr. Putin, the
world's wealthiest person,
00:14:09.81\00:14:13.28
wonder where he
got his money from.
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He leaves the gilded
halls of the Kremlin,
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where I've been.
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He goes to a
village in Northern Siberia.
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I know Siberia,
like the back of my hand.
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He finds a cold
hungry dark village
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contaminated with nuclear waste.
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I've been to those places.
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He lives with the
poorest of the poor.
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He finally become sick
with radiation poisoning
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and he dies.
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That's what Jesus did.
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You know what it's called?
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It's called grace.
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John 1:1 says
this, look at the text.
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John Chapter 1,
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"In the beginning was the Word
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and the Word was with God,
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and the Word was God."
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This is the logos.
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Verse 14 and verse
16, verse 14 and verse 16.
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"And the Word," the logos,
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"became flesh
and dwelt among us,
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and we beheld His glory,
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the glory as of the
only begotten of the Father,
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full of grace and truth,
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and of His fullness
we have all received,
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and grace for grace."
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It's almost
impossible to believe it.
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God becomes a man.
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Who would believe this?
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I've been in places
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where the power
was 11,000 volts.
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You know what you got to do?
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You got to get a
good transformer,
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a step down transformer.
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So you can take the 11,000 volts
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and bring it down to 110, 120,
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so you can use it.
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When God came to this earth,
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He had so much
energy and so much power.
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He said, "This
will kill them all."
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So Jesus became the
step down transformer.
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And He came in a form
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that we could tolerate,
and that we could accept.
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You know what it's called?
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It's called love.
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It's called grace.
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There are two great truths
that you and I need to learn,
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but probably some of
us will never learn it,
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because we've got
religion but we haven't got God.
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Number one,
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man is far worse
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than he ever feared to think.
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Number two,
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God is far better
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than He ever dared to hope.
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And the second is the gospel.
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Look at Hebrews 2:17 and 7:26.
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Hebrews 2:17 for a start,
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"Therefore, in all things
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He had to be made
like His brethren,
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that He might be a merciful
and faithful High Priest
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in things pertaining to
God to make propitiation,"
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atoning sacrifice, "for
the sins of the people."
00:17:10.76\00:17:14.06
And so He becomes
not a make believe man,
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but He becomes a
man of flesh and blood.
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He is born in the ordinary way.
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He's born with crying,
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and probably with some blood.
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And who is this baby?
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He is the logos.
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He is Yahweh,
Elohim, El Shaddai.
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So you see, you need a
Revelation to see this.
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If we saw this,
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we would realize
that God is far bigger
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than we are and far
better than we deserve.
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And you can show, you can tell
00:17:56.14\00:17:57.51
whether a person
has accepted this or not
00:17:57.54\00:18:00.31
by how he treats people.
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If he's harsh, and he's
hard, and he's legalistic,
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and if in the
words of Shakespeare,
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he demands his pound of flesh,
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then he is a lost soul,
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even though he sits
up the front of church,
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every Sabbath, every Lord's Day.
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That's the truth.
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Now look at the
next verse, Hebrews 7:26,
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"For such a High
Priest was fitting for us,
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who was holy,
harmless, undefiled,"
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and look at these words,
most people don't read this,
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most people don't
read their Bibles.
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They say, "It's too hard."
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"Separate from sinners,
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and has become
higher than the heavens."
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He was made
like us in every way,
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with one vital distinction.
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No sin,
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had no evil in Him,
00:18:54.36\00:18:57.27
no propensities to evil.
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Theologians use
the word propensities.
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My son said to me,
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don't use it because
people don't understand it.
00:19:05.71\00:19:07.84
It simply means
tendencies to evil.
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People say, "Well,
00:19:12.35\00:19:15.02
who's got tendencies to evil?
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You have.
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I have.
00:19:19.09\00:19:20.42
People are
like, "No, I haven't."
00:19:20.46\00:19:21.79
Well,
00:19:21.82\00:19:23.86
you are deluded and deceived.
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And if you think
00:19:27.33\00:19:28.66
that you've got
no tendencies to sin,
00:19:28.70\00:19:31.00
and that you're not sinless,
00:19:31.03\00:19:33.54
let me talk to
your family members.
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Let me talk to them.
00:19:38.67\00:19:40.58
I've met a man once,
00:19:40.61\00:19:42.01
I was in Minneapolis
to take some meetings,
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and he stood
outside and he said,
00:19:44.41\00:19:46.18
"I want everyone
to know I'm sinless."
00:19:46.21\00:19:50.02
I said, "Can I meet your wife?"
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I mean...
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this is a sick delusion.
00:19:58.23\00:19:59.69
One great author said,
the closer we come to Christ,
00:20:03.20\00:20:06.47
the more sinful we'll
appear in our own eyes,
00:20:06.50\00:20:10.17
you know.
00:20:10.21\00:20:13.44
Only people who
are self-righteous
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are the people
00:20:14.98\00:20:16.31
who know nothing of
God's righteousness.
00:20:16.34\00:20:18.38
And He came on a mission,
00:20:18.41\00:20:20.12
this God-man, this logos,
00:20:20.15\00:20:22.98
this Yahweh Elohim.
00:20:23.02\00:20:25.49
He came on a mission.
00:20:25.52\00:20:27.16
And He came on a mission,
00:20:27.19\00:20:29.42
which was an amazing mission.
00:20:29.46\00:20:33.60
And this is where I guess,
00:20:33.63\00:20:36.80
Robert Carter,
00:20:36.83\00:20:38.17
the descendant of
John Carter got it from.
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Luke 4:16-19.
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Luke 4:16-19,
00:20:47.34\00:20:53.52
dear hearts and gentle people,
00:20:53.55\00:20:55.82
and I don't apologize
for using a lot of texts.
00:20:55.85\00:20:59.45
If you want to avoid
the mark of the beast,
00:20:59.49\00:21:02.52
and start to
think outside the box
00:21:02.56\00:21:04.53
and read your Bible,
00:21:04.56\00:21:05.96
don't be brainwashed.
00:21:05.99\00:21:07.83
Verse 16 and onwards,
00:21:07.86\00:21:09.20
"So He came to Nazareth,
00:21:09.23\00:21:10.57
where He had been brought up.
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As His custom was,
00:21:12.53\00:21:14.24
He went into the
synagogue on the Sabbath day
00:21:14.27\00:21:16.17
and stood up to read."
00:21:16.20\00:21:17.54
Had a good
custom, He went to church.
00:21:17.57\00:21:20.38
"He was handed the
book of the Prophet Isaiah.
00:21:20.41\00:21:23.35
When He had opened the book,
00:21:23.38\00:21:24.71
He found the place
where it is written:
00:21:24.75\00:21:27.42
'The Spirit of the
Lord, God is upon Me,
00:21:27.45\00:21:29.48
because He has anointed Me
00:21:29.52\00:21:30.95
to preach the
gospel to the poor.
00:21:30.99\00:21:33.89
He sent Me to
heal the brokenhearted,
00:21:33.92\00:21:37.06
to proclaim
liberty to the captives,
00:21:37.09\00:21:39.76
and recovery of
sight to the blind,
00:21:39.79\00:21:42.70
to set at liberty,
00:21:42.73\00:21:44.07
those who are oppressed,
00:21:44.10\00:21:46.84
to proclaim the
acceptable year of the Lord,'
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and He closed the book.'"
00:21:50.71\00:21:53.78
Now He tells us why He came.
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Just look at it,
00:21:57.05\00:22:00.42
to preach good news to the poor.
00:22:00.45\00:22:03.39
Well, I'm poor, poor in spirit.
00:22:03.42\00:22:07.36
I need good news.
00:22:07.39\00:22:08.86
"To heal the brokenhearted,
00:22:08.89\00:22:12.59
to preach
deliverance to the captives."
00:22:12.63\00:22:15.86
Every person outside
of Christ is a slave.
00:22:15.90\00:22:20.74
"Recovery of
sight to the blind,"
00:22:20.77\00:22:23.91
without God, we are blind.
00:22:23.94\00:22:28.68
"To set at liberty
those who are oppressed
00:22:28.71\00:22:31.05
to preach the
acceptable year of the Lord."
00:22:31.08\00:22:37.35
So I say to you,
00:22:37.39\00:22:38.72
listen, if you
feel poor in your soul,
00:22:38.75\00:22:42.39
Christ is for you.
00:22:42.42\00:22:44.33
If you are brokenhearted,
Christ is for you.
00:22:44.36\00:22:48.03
If you are a
captive to sin, drugs,
00:22:48.06\00:22:50.37
Christ is for you.
00:22:50.40\00:22:52.73
If you are blind
spiritually and physically,
00:22:52.77\00:22:55.27
if you are oppressed,
then Christ is for you,
00:22:55.30\00:22:58.87
that's why He came.
00:22:58.91\00:23:01.31
You say, "Well,
00:23:01.34\00:23:02.68
we had a lot to do with it."
00:23:02.71\00:23:04.05
No, we had
nothing to do with this.
00:23:04.08\00:23:06.51
He did this before we were born.
00:23:06.55\00:23:09.28
And He made all this possible
by His death for our sins
00:23:09.32\00:23:12.45
on the cross.
00:23:12.49\00:23:13.82
John 3:14-17 says,
00:23:13.86\00:23:17.53
"Just as Moses lifted up
the snake in the wilderness,
00:23:17.56\00:23:21.50
so the Son of Man
must be lifted up,
00:23:21.53\00:23:23.60
that everyone
who believes in Him
00:23:23.63\00:23:25.43
may have eternal life.
00:23:25.47\00:23:27.14
For God so loved the world
00:23:27.17\00:23:28.77
that He gave His
one and only Son,
00:23:28.80\00:23:31.11
that whoever believes
in Him shall not perish,
00:23:31.14\00:23:35.34
but have eternal life.
00:23:35.38\00:23:37.01
For God did not send
His Son into the world
00:23:37.05\00:23:39.45
to condemn the world,
00:23:39.48\00:23:41.58
but to save the
world through Him."
00:23:41.62\00:23:45.19
It says, shall not perish.
00:23:45.22\00:23:50.23
It's not hard to
believe you know,
00:23:50.26\00:23:53.90
a little child can believe,
00:23:53.93\00:23:57.03
an old man can believe,
00:23:57.07\00:23:59.83
a rich person can believe,
00:23:59.87\00:24:02.30
a poor person can believe,
00:24:02.34\00:24:04.57
a living person can believe,
00:24:04.61\00:24:06.51
a dying person can believe,
00:24:06.54\00:24:10.05
not a dead person,
00:24:10.08\00:24:11.41
but a dying person.
00:24:11.45\00:24:13.82
I had the privilege
of going some years ago,
00:24:13.85\00:24:16.65
I just came back from
Manila some years ago.
00:24:16.69\00:24:19.55
Went on death row in Manila,
00:24:19.59\00:24:22.46
and baptized young man
00:24:22.49\00:24:24.03
who had been sentenced to death.
00:24:24.06\00:24:26.76
I didn't tell them,
00:24:26.80\00:24:28.13
they needed us
a swimming lesson.
00:24:28.16\00:24:30.63
I told them,
they needed a savior
00:24:33.70\00:24:37.64
and I baptized them.
00:24:37.67\00:24:39.01
The blacks,
00:24:42.08\00:24:44.41
many years ago,
00:24:44.45\00:24:46.38
wrote the words of this hymn.
00:24:46.41\00:24:49.92
It became famous, famous,
00:24:49.95\00:24:54.89
particularly with
Martin Luther King.
00:24:54.92\00:24:57.93
This was written
by John Wesley Work,
00:24:57.96\00:25:00.90
many of those poor slaves
took the name of John Wesley.
00:25:00.93\00:25:05.93
"Free at last, free at last,
00:25:05.97\00:25:07.74
I thank God, I'm free at last.
00:25:07.77\00:25:10.57
Free at last, free at last,
00:25:10.61\00:25:12.27
I thank God I'm free at last.
00:25:12.31\00:25:15.51
Way down yonder in
the graveyard walk,
00:25:15.54\00:25:18.38
I thank God I'm free at last.
00:25:18.41\00:25:21.65
Me and my Jesus
going to meet and talk,
00:25:21.68\00:25:24.59
I thank God I'm free at last.
00:25:24.62\00:25:28.39
On my knees when
the light passed by,
00:25:28.42\00:25:30.99
I thank God I'm free at last.
00:25:31.03\00:25:33.40
Tho't my soul
would rise and fly,
00:25:33.43\00:25:36.26
I thank God I'm free at last.
00:25:36.30\00:25:40.57
Some of these
mornings, bright and fair,
00:25:40.60\00:25:44.14
I thank God I'm free at last.
00:25:44.17\00:25:47.64
Goin' to meet
King Jesus in the air,
00:25:47.68\00:25:53.48
I thank God,
00:25:53.52\00:25:56.12
I'm free at last."
00:25:56.15\00:25:58.05
That is the
message of the gospel.
00:25:58.09\00:26:00.92
Next time, I'm
going to talk to you
00:26:00.96\00:26:03.56
about the true gospel,
00:26:03.59\00:26:05.66
the Jesuits
00:26:05.69\00:26:07.03
and the grace of God.
00:26:07.06\00:26:08.80
I say to you today,
00:26:08.83\00:26:10.23
"I thank God,
00:26:10.27\00:26:12.80
I'm free at last."
00:26:12.83\00:26:15.84
Amen and amen.
00:26:15.87\00:26:17.87
Time,
00:26:23.41\00:26:24.75
it takes only a
minute to have eternal life.
00:26:24.78\00:26:27.22
How can you get
saved in a minute?
00:26:27.25\00:26:28.98
It's simple.
00:26:29.02\00:26:30.35
First, believe that
Jesus was the Son of God.
00:26:30.39\00:26:32.89
Second, accept His
free gift of eternal life
00:26:32.92\00:26:36.02
and then you're saved.
00:26:36.06\00:26:37.93
It's not hard. It
doesn't take any time.
00:26:37.96\00:26:40.73
You can be saved
in a minute right now.
00:26:40.76\00:26:43.73
Pray with me, "Lord God, I
realize that I am a sinner.
00:26:43.77\00:26:47.97
My sin has
separated me from You.
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I accept that Your Son
Jesus Christ died for me.
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I ask Jesus into my heart."
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If you prayed this
prayer, you are saved.
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The next thing to
do is, tell someone.
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Fellowship with
other followers of Jesus,
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get baptized,
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read your Bible, and pray.
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Choices,
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we make them every day, all day.
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The most important
choice you'll make in your life
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is whether to
choose eternal life
00:27:13.86\00:27:15.86
or let it pass you by.
00:27:15.90\00:27:17.70
If you would
like more information
00:27:17.73\00:27:19.07
about your new life,
00:27:19.10\00:27:20.44
call the number
and visit our website.
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Greater Manila is
more than 20 million souls.
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Almost all
these beautiful people
00:27:29.61\00:27:31.41
are ignorant of the
true Gospel of Christ.
00:27:31.45\00:27:34.38
Manila needs Jesus.
00:27:34.42\00:27:36.45
Thirty five years ago,
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John Carter came to Manila.
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Pastor Carter is
returning to Manila
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with an urgent assignment,
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preach the Gospel of Christ
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and the great
truths of the Bible.
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Don't water down the message.
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Make it plain, make it clear,
00:27:49.76\00:27:52.03
make it Christ centered.
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The Carter Report
needs your help now
00:27:53.90\00:27:56.94
to light a fire
in the Philippines.
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Your gift will help
open the doors of bondage,
00:27:59.11\00:28:01.91
smash the chains of sin,
00:28:01.94\00:28:03.85
and open the gates of paradise
00:28:03.88\00:28:05.51
to thousands of lost souls.
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The churches have
sent out an urgent plea
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for the Carter Report to return.
00:28:10.35\00:28:12.39
Help us proclaim the
true Gospel of Christ
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to the
beautiful Filipino people.
00:28:15.26\00:28:17.49
Please send your support
to the address on the screen.
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Visit our website
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