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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Pastor Carter ponders If
This Were My Last Sermon.
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I just want to
welcome you here today,
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the audience in the studio,
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and especially the audience
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across the
United States of America
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and around the world.
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We thank you for
joining the Carter Report today.
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If this were my
last sermon, if it were,
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what would I...
what would I say?
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I would say those things
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that are the most
important to me personally.
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I wouldn't talk about trivia.
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I'd talk about things
that were very important.
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So the topic today is
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If This Were My Last Sermon,
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what would I say?
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Of course,
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this could be my
last sermon, couldn't it?
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It could be
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because of the
uncertainty of life.
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None of us know
when we're going to die.
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This is true.
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There's a text in the Bible,
and I want you to notice it.
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Matthew 24:44,
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Matthew 24:44.
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Jesus said,
"Therefore, you also be ready,
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for the Son of Man is coming
at an hour you do not expect."
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Now this, of course,
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as you know is referring to
the Second Coming of Christ,
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but listen carefully to this.
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In reality, as
far as I'm concerned,
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the Second Coming
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is no farther removed than what?
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Than my death.
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Because once I
die, I fall asleep,
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and the next thing I
know will be return of Christ.
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So in such an
hour, as you think not,
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in an hour, you do not expect.
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I happen to live
in a very nice place.
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I live in Thousand
Oaks, Southern California.
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We said it was
about the safest place
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in the world,
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until a gunman and
an enraged white man
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with a chip on his shoulder
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walked into this bar,
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where they were dancing,
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square dancing,
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lots of young people
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were celebrating
their graduation.
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He shot to
death 12 young people.
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Then a policeman
ran towards the fire.
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He was shot down too.
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So when I walk
around Thousand Oaks now,
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I'm not quite as
secure as I used to be.
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The policeman who
died in the line of duty
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came from Moorpark,
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where our studio is.
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Recently,
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a highway patrol
officer came to see us
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at the Carter Report office.
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I felt impressed to talk to him.
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He said, "You
know, I live a number
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of miles from Moorpark."
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He said, "I live in an
area in Southern California
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where there are gangs."
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He said, "Every
morning when I leave my family,
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I kiss them, and I hug them,
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and I pray with them
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because I might
never see them again."
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So you and I really do not know
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in such an hour
as you think not.
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And then, of course,
there were the people
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who got on the
new Boeing 737 MAX.
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I'm a great fan of
the Boeing Company,
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but at least I used to be
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because there was
this computer thing.
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They didn't take
time to sort out...
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and they're superjet.
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They said it's the
safest plane in the world,
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flying faster than it
should have been flying,
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straight into the
ground, into the sea.
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Killed around 350 people.
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As that plane went down,
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they would have
been unconscious.
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They had a minute
or two to get ready.
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That's how it happens to people.
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We don't like to
think about these things,
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but it is true.
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Life is uncertain,
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but death is certain.
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I am now
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almost an old man.
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I've been
preaching without a break
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for almost 60 years.
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Who can...
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Who's gonna say
they've been doing that?
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I saw the first Russian
Sputnik in the night sky
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above Avondale
College in my first year,
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a boy from the bush.
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I saw it wobble across the sky.
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So I've been
preaching now for a long time.
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So this could be my last sermon.
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And if this were my last sermon,
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what would I say to you?
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I'd say this firstly,
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there is a Creator God,
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and He's very
good, and He's very kind.
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I wouldn't try to give
you a scientific proof.
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I've given you so much stuff
on the anthropic principle.
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I'd say, if you
haven't got it now,
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I'm not going to
try to convince you
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because most
people believe what?
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What they want to believe.
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And because of the
weight of evidence,
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I choose to believe in
God, not because of blind faith.
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Look at John 3,
would you, please?
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And verse 16.
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John 3:16, you
know it all by heart.
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"For God so loved the world,
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He gave His only begotten Son.
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Whoever believes in Him,"
should say shall not perish,
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not should not perish,
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"shall not perish, but
have everlasting life."
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So the Bible tells me
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that God is
very, very, very good.
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When I was a boy growing
up in Brisbane, Australia,
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I used to listen
to the top songs,
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one of the top songs
sung by Eddie Fisher.
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Does anybody ever
remember Eddie Fisher?
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Yes. Oh, goodness.
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You must be old.
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Eddie Fisher sang this song.
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Oh, my pa-pa,
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to me he was so wonderful
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Oh, my pa-pa,
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to me he was so good
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No one could be so
gentle and so lovable
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Oh, my pa-pa,
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he always understood
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Now this is an old German song.
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Would you believe it?
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He's singing about
an old German father
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who was also a
clown in the circus.
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Gone are the days
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when he would
take me on his knee
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And with a smile,
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he'd change my tears to laughter
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Oh, my pa-pa,
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so funny, so adorable
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Always the clown,
so funny in his ways
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Oh, my pa-pa, to
me he was so wonderful
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Deep in my heart,
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I miss him so today
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That pa-pa was a dim reflection
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of our Heavenly Father.
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And you have been loved
from the very beginning.
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I would tell you,
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you have a pa-pa who loves you.
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I will also tell you if
this were my last sermon,
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I tell you this,
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family and friends
are also very important.
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Human relationships,
tremendously important.
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Turn with me to
Ephesians 3:14-15.
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Would you, please?
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Ephesians 3.
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We're going to
look at verse 14 and 15.
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"For this reason,
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I bow my knees to the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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from whom the whole family
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in heaven and earth is named."
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The Bible talks about a
great family of God's people.
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The farewells we
often sing behold Him,
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blessed be the tie that binds.
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I would tell my loved ones,
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I'd say this to them,
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"I really love you."
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I would tell my wife,
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"I love you, thank you."
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I'd tell my son, my
daughters, "I love you."
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Some of my family,
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my immediate family
got together recently
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at Pismo Beach.
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This is my
beautiful daughter, Leanne,
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who is a
psychiatrist in San Francisco,
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who works for abused children.
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I'm proud of her.
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This is Beverley
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who's put up with
me for a long time.
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My daughter, Julie,
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who's an intensive care nurse,
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who is married to Keith,
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who was a colonel in the US Army
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and an anesthesiologist.
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Good guy.
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He is David, my
television producer,
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been working with me and for me
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for more than a quarter century.
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So I would say to my family,
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I love you, and thank you.
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I would say, with family,
there should be no harsh words.
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Let me tell you something else,
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and no lawsuits.
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My American friends,
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we have nothing to be proud of
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when we are the
most litigious people
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on the face of the planet.
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It is a shame and a disgrace.
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It shows a deep-seated cancer,
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it's called greed.
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I hear of people who
just live to sue others.
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They're always
carrying out lawsuits.
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They have smart attorneys,
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who are experts at telling lies.
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They're carrying out lawsuits.
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I've been sued.
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Because of my
work, I've been sued.
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People said, "Well,
we're going to take him down."
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God took them down.
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But I would never,
never sue a person.
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They said, "No, you don't know.
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Sometimes,
you've got to come out."
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No, no, no, I
have a greater weapon.
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You know what I do?
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If a person wants to sue me
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or take me down,
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I have a special
ceremony with a group of people,
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and I'd put that
person in the hands of God,
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the judge of the whole earth.
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Amen.
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And what has happened?
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I've seen
attorneys go to prison.
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I've seen people
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who've been
trying to take me down
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and destroy the ministry.
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I've seen them laid aside
by the cold hand of death.
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I don't need an
attorney to defend me.
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And it is a shame and a disgrace
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when families get so bitter
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and so greedy that
they sue each other,
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and in the church.
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I won't do it.
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It's a sin.
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Turn to 1 Corinthians 6:6-7,
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1 Corinthians 6:6-7.
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"But brother goes to
law against brother,"
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in the church, in the family,
"and that before unbelievers!
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Now therefore, it is
already an utter failure
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for you that you go to
law against one another.
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Why do you not
rather accept wrong?"
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Why not lose?
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"No, no, I can't,"
that's because of pride,
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and greed, and sin.
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"Why do you not
rather accept wrong?
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Why do you not rather
let yourselves be cheated?"
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I would rather be cheated...
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than go to law
against my brother.
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You see, that's completely
opposed to our spirit.
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If that is so, then
our spirit is wrong.
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It's of the devil.
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Something terribly
wrong with a nation
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that has more attorneys
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than the rest of
the world put together.
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1 Timothy 6:8-10.
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Paul says, "And
having food and clothing,
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with these we shall be content.
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But those who desire to
be rich fall into temptation
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and a snare,
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and into many
foolish and harmful lusts,
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which drown men in
destruction and perdition.
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For the love of money is
a root of all kinds of evil,
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for which some have strayed
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from the faith
in their greediness,
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and pierced themselves
through with many sorrows."
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The love of money is a cancer.
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You cannot love money
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and go to heaven.
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Saying, "No, no,"
that's what Jesus said.
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Jesus said,
"You can't love money
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and go to heaven."
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People will say,
"Well, that's not right."
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Well, I'm sorry.
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I'm just gonna give it
to you from the scriptures.
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Therefore, no taking
advantage for financial gain,
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no bad feelings.
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I would say if
this were my sermon,
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if I were your
pastor in your church,
00:15:03.90\00:15:06.00
I'd say, make that phone call.
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Reach out.
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Here's a little
poem my mother gave to me
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when I was a young man.
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It took me years
to appreciate it.
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"Not Understood"
by Thomas Bracken.
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Not understood,
we move along asunder
00:15:24.79\00:15:28.59
Our paths grow
wider as the seasons creep
00:15:28.62\00:15:31.63
Along the years, we
Marvel and we wonder
00:15:31.66\00:15:35.36
Why life is life,
00:15:35.40\00:15:38.07
and then we fall asleep
00:15:38.10\00:15:40.80
Not understood
00:15:40.84\00:15:42.87
Not understood, we
gather false impressions
00:15:42.90\00:15:45.41
And hug them
closer as the years go by
00:15:45.44\00:15:50.28
Till virtues often
seem to us transgressions
00:15:50.31\00:15:53.68
And thus men rise and
fall, and live and die
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Not understood
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Not understood!
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How trifles often change us
00:16:01.42\00:16:03.73
The thoughtless
sentence and the fancied slight
00:16:03.76\00:16:07.50
Destroy long years of
friendship and estrange us
00:16:07.53\00:16:12.33
And on our souls,
there falls a freezing blight
00:16:12.37\00:16:16.77
Not understood
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O God!
00:16:18.77\00:16:20.11
That men would
see a little clearer
00:16:20.14\00:16:22.48
Or judge less harsh
where they cannot see
00:16:22.51\00:16:24.98
O God!
00:16:25.01\00:16:26.35
That men would
draw a little nearer
00:16:26.38\00:16:28.05
To one another,
they'd be near Thee
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And understood
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Can you think about this?
00:16:33.96\00:16:36.59
Can we think
about loving each other
00:16:36.62\00:16:39.53
and stop employing
all of these attorneys
00:16:39.56\00:16:43.20
so that we can make a fast buck?
00:16:43.23\00:16:46.03
What about Christ?
00:16:46.07\00:16:49.90
These folks are my heroes.
00:16:49.94\00:16:52.27
This is the Carter Report team.
00:16:52.31\00:16:54.94
This is my mother over here.
00:16:54.98\00:16:57.28
And my dad was an
arch Roman Catholic
00:16:57.31\00:17:00.78
before he came to
one of my meetings.
00:17:00.82\00:17:02.38
This is me down
here with Beverley,
00:17:02.42\00:17:04.52
and we were just
out on the ministry.
00:17:04.55\00:17:06.22
That's my grandfather
right in the back there.
00:17:06.25\00:17:09.62
But here's the team.
00:17:09.66\00:17:11.33
Here's my son, David,
00:17:11.36\00:17:13.26
my producer for a
quarter of a century.
00:17:13.29\00:17:17.27
MK Terrence who's
working with Walt and Chuck.
00:17:17.30\00:17:20.34
Beverley who stood with
me through thick and thin.
00:17:20.37\00:17:23.81
Tom and Jacob.
00:17:23.84\00:17:26.44
And he's Angelo
who does my mail-outs.
00:17:26.47\00:17:30.75
And Shibito
looks after my books.
00:17:30.78\00:17:33.25
Then there's Sherry,
and Javier, and Susie.
00:17:33.28\00:17:36.52
Susie has been
with us for 25 years.
00:17:36.55\00:17:40.16
She said it seems like 100.
00:17:40.19\00:17:41.99
Listen...
00:17:45.36\00:17:46.70
we have a very sweet team.
00:17:49.73\00:17:52.60
We got no bad feeling.
00:17:52.63\00:17:56.10
And we try to help each other.
00:17:56.14\00:17:59.84
And we try to be generous.
00:17:59.87\00:18:04.95
There's nothing I despise more
00:18:04.98\00:18:08.22
than a mean selfish person.
00:18:08.25\00:18:11.15
Sorry, that's just
how I feel about it.
00:18:11.19\00:18:14.69
If you knew Jesus,
00:18:14.72\00:18:16.06
He'd be very
generous, kind person.
00:18:16.09\00:18:22.16
Another truth I'd
want to say to you
00:18:22.20\00:18:23.83
if this were my last sermon,
00:18:23.87\00:18:25.20
if it were,
00:18:25.23\00:18:26.94
there is life after death
for all of God's children.
00:18:26.97\00:18:31.24
So many of my old dear
friends are sleeping in Christ.
00:18:31.27\00:18:35.78
I am one of the last.
00:18:35.81\00:18:39.98
My mother who taught me to pray,
00:18:40.02\00:18:43.52
prayed with me every
morning before I went to school.
00:18:43.55\00:18:48.22
My father,
brought up as an altar boy
00:18:48.26\00:18:51.29
in the great
Roman Catholic Church,
00:18:51.33\00:18:54.10
who came to one of my meetings
and found Christ in the gospel.
00:18:54.13\00:18:58.57
My mother is an old, old lady,
00:18:58.60\00:19:02.67
she lived in '97.
00:19:02.70\00:19:06.44
I want you to see,
00:19:06.47\00:19:07.81
I made some friends
00:19:07.84\00:19:09.18
who touched my
life in a special way.
00:19:09.21\00:19:12.55
Ed and Joy Totenhofer.
00:19:12.58\00:19:14.85
Straight out of
college, more than 50 years ago,
00:19:14.88\00:19:18.22
Beverley and I, as
I said in Australia,
00:19:18.25\00:19:20.79
wet behind the ears.
00:19:20.82\00:19:23.56
We went to a town in
the outback of Australia
00:19:23.59\00:19:26.43
by the name of Broken
Hill, this mining town,
00:19:26.46\00:19:30.67
silver, lead, zinc.
00:19:30.70\00:19:33.30
The Totenhofers, Ed and
Joy, they were our mentors,
00:19:33.34\00:19:38.54
and our friends,
and they loved us.
00:19:38.57\00:19:42.18
Let me tell you something
about all of my friends,
00:19:42.21\00:19:44.31
my close friends.
00:19:44.35\00:19:47.62
We hate lies.
00:19:47.65\00:19:50.09
Didn't say we hate
liars, but we hate lies,
00:19:50.12\00:19:55.02
and dishonesty,
and greed, and fraud,
00:19:55.06\00:19:59.56
and hypocrisy, hated all.
00:19:59.59\00:20:04.23
These people did not
know how to tell a lie
00:20:04.27\00:20:09.24
and they taught us
00:20:09.27\00:20:12.37
how to preach the Word.
00:20:12.41\00:20:14.84
They're sleeping.
00:20:14.88\00:20:18.51
Tom Ludowici.
00:20:18.55\00:20:20.15
Tom.
00:20:20.18\00:20:22.02
Tom took an interest in me
00:20:22.05\00:20:23.69
when I was 17 at
Avondale College,
00:20:23.72\00:20:27.09
and Tom explained to
me the gospel of Christ.
00:20:27.12\00:20:32.26
He loved me,
and he cared for me.
00:20:32.29\00:20:35.26
I'm here today
because of my old buddy,
00:20:35.30\00:20:40.04
Dr. Tom Ludowici.
00:20:40.07\00:20:44.67
See you soon, Tom.
00:20:44.71\00:20:47.81
Graeme Bradford,
00:20:47.84\00:20:50.35
one of the great
scholars in the church.
00:20:50.38\00:20:54.98
Died of cancer,
melanoma, no fault of his own.
00:20:55.02\00:20:58.95
Australian, so much sun.
00:20:58.99\00:21:03.39
Got a little thing on his arm.
00:21:03.43\00:21:05.56
The doctor messed up,
00:21:05.59\00:21:07.80
doctors don't mess up.
00:21:07.83\00:21:09.63
Hey, doc.
00:21:09.66\00:21:11.00
Oh, they're
perfect, aren't they?
00:21:11.03\00:21:13.00
Same as you and
me, they're sinners,
00:21:13.03\00:21:15.54
needing grace.
00:21:15.57\00:21:17.71
Just put a knife
in and said nothing.
00:21:17.74\00:21:21.34
Come back.
00:21:21.38\00:21:22.71
When he came back,
full-blown melanoma.
00:21:22.74\00:21:26.41
Took three years to die.
00:21:26.45\00:21:29.75
A hero, a theologian,
a Christian gentleman,
00:21:29.78\00:21:33.46
I miss our weekly phone calls
00:21:33.49\00:21:36.52
when we talked theology.
00:21:36.56\00:21:38.56
I got nobody left
now to talk theology to.
00:21:38.59\00:21:41.60
You say, "No, no, no, no."
00:21:41.63\00:21:43.00
No, it's not.
00:21:43.03\00:21:44.37
I miss Graeme.
00:21:47.40\00:21:49.44
Then there was George Burnside.
00:21:49.47\00:21:52.27
Beverley and I worked with...
00:21:52.31\00:21:53.64
We had no
children in those days.
00:21:53.68\00:21:55.01
We worked with this
great Australian evangelist
00:21:55.04\00:21:59.08
in a town by the name
00:21:59.11\00:22:00.88
of Wagga Wagga
in New South Wales.
00:22:00.92\00:22:05.75
And with the Totenhofers,
00:22:05.79\00:22:07.69
he taught me everything I know
00:22:07.72\00:22:10.46
about preaching the
gospel and evangelism.
00:22:10.49\00:22:13.70
I've never met an evangelist
00:22:13.73\00:22:16.80
as powerful as this man.
00:22:16.83\00:22:20.94
A young man came to
me during the campaign,
00:22:20.97\00:22:23.57
we called those
campaigns missions.
00:22:23.61\00:22:25.51
Hell, I despise the term effort.
00:22:25.54\00:22:28.64
People say, we're
running an effort.
00:22:28.68\00:22:31.41
It's like they're
giving birth to barbed wire.
00:22:31.45\00:22:35.72
It's an effort.
00:22:35.75\00:22:37.25
Don't they know
anything about the grace of God?
00:22:37.29\00:22:39.49
"Oh, we're running an effort."
00:22:39.52\00:22:41.82
It's disgusting.
00:22:41.86\00:22:43.46
We called campaigns missions.
00:22:43.49\00:22:47.73
Still do, running our mission.
00:22:47.76\00:22:51.23
One guy, worldly lost young man,
00:22:51.27\00:22:56.30
blasphemer,
00:22:56.34\00:22:57.67
after Pastor Burnside
had preached for an hour,
00:22:57.71\00:23:00.48
he said, "Why
does he have to stop?"
00:23:00.51\00:23:04.58
Pastor Burnside would
have a little pause and say,
00:23:04.61\00:23:07.28
"I'm going to start
again, go for another hour."
00:23:07.32\00:23:09.78
He'd say, "Why
does he have to stop?"
00:23:09.82\00:23:14.46
He was a preacher.
00:23:14.49\00:23:16.26
He was a man of God.
00:23:16.29\00:23:18.49
In Australia, they
say, there are three sexes,
00:23:18.53\00:23:21.90
men, women, and clergymen.
00:23:21.93\00:23:25.60
A clergyman in the
eyes of most Australians
00:23:25.63\00:23:28.57
is something
between a man and a woman.
00:23:28.60\00:23:31.14
But this man was no clergyman.
00:23:31.17\00:23:34.98
He was a man of God.
00:23:35.01\00:23:38.15
He could preach.
00:23:38.18\00:23:39.78
I was terrified of him.
00:23:39.81\00:23:43.42
Robert Parr,
president of conference,
00:23:43.45\00:23:47.99
great city of Sydney.
00:23:48.02\00:23:49.79
Robert Parr was the person
00:23:49.82\00:23:52.36
who made possible
00:23:52.39\00:23:53.83
the Sydney Opera House campaign.
00:23:53.86\00:23:56.90
Listen, skeptic,
00:23:56.93\00:23:59.33
'cause I meet tons of skeptics,
00:23:59.37\00:24:03.37
and you don't impress me.
00:24:03.41\00:24:06.44
I feel sorry for you.
00:24:06.47\00:24:08.94
A skeptic said to Robert Parr,
00:24:08.98\00:24:10.58
they said to me, "It won't work.
00:24:10.61\00:24:12.08
It's impossible.
00:24:12.11\00:24:13.45
Nobody's ever done it before.
00:24:13.48\00:24:14.88
The days of public
evangelism are over.
00:24:14.92\00:24:17.12
Don't you know?"
00:24:17.15\00:24:18.49
Goodness me, they're
pathetic, aren't they?
00:24:18.52\00:24:23.02
Mine eyes have seen the glory.
00:24:23.06\00:24:24.63
I've seen the glory
00:24:24.66\00:24:25.99
of the coming of
the Lord in Russia,
00:24:26.03\00:24:27.56
where we had millions of
people attend the meetings,
00:24:27.60\00:24:30.50
atheists, unbelievers,
oh, no, get converted,
00:24:30.53\00:24:34.10
I say to the unbelievers.
00:24:34.14\00:24:37.44
The record that was set
at the Sydney Opera House,
00:24:37.47\00:24:41.14
back in the 1980s, has
never ever been broken.
00:24:41.18\00:24:46.05
The greatest crowds
attended the Sydney Opera House
00:24:46.08\00:24:52.52
for the preaching of the gospel.
00:24:52.55\00:24:55.46
Wouldn't have
happened without Bob Parr.
00:24:55.49\00:24:59.03
Then there were
my Avondale teachers,
00:24:59.06\00:25:02.93
so many of them.
00:25:02.96\00:25:04.30
There's a
beautiful old Avondale chapel
00:25:04.33\00:25:06.80
built by the early Americans.
00:25:06.84\00:25:08.60
We went out there.
00:25:08.64\00:25:09.97
So many of them.
00:25:10.01\00:25:11.44
They taught me
that Christ was good
00:25:11.47\00:25:14.28
and God was loving.
00:25:14.31\00:25:15.78
I would not be here today
00:25:15.81\00:25:17.38
except for my Avondale teachers.
00:25:17.41\00:25:22.45
They're all sleeping alone.
00:25:22.48\00:25:25.32
And then, Norm
Matiko, my Canadian manager
00:25:25.35\00:25:28.82
for my great
campaigns in Russia and Ukraine,
00:25:28.86\00:25:33.93
where we saw the glory of God.
00:25:33.96\00:25:38.43
They're all sleeping.
00:25:38.47\00:25:41.64
I'm thankful to God and to them.
00:25:41.67\00:25:45.67
And I would say to you today,
00:25:45.71\00:25:47.34
there's coming a
Resurrection Day.
00:25:47.38\00:25:50.61
And I say, rest in peace,
00:25:50.65\00:25:54.02
rise in glory.
00:25:54.05\00:25:57.82
I will see them all again.
00:25:57.85\00:25:59.55
More amazing
truths to come, very soon.
00:26:03.06\00:26:06.49
Stay with us.
00:26:06.53\00:26:07.96
Hello, friend.
00:26:23.14\00:26:24.61
I'm John Carter.
00:26:24.65\00:26:25.98
Behind me is the
great city of Manila,
00:26:26.01\00:26:29.82
the capital of the Philippines.
00:26:29.85\00:26:32.12
Did you know,
this is quite amazing,
00:26:32.15\00:26:33.89
there are more
people living in this area
00:26:33.92\00:26:36.09
than in New York City?
00:26:36.12\00:26:38.13
And Christ died
for these people.
00:26:38.16\00:26:40.90
We came here,
00:26:40.93\00:26:42.43
oh, a long time
ago back in 1984,
00:26:42.46\00:26:46.94
what's that, 34-35 years ago,
00:26:46.97\00:26:49.90
and we came here with
a team of young people,
00:26:49.94\00:26:52.24
and we came to the PICC.
00:26:52.27\00:26:55.34
It is our intent to come here,
00:26:55.38\00:26:57.81
hire the biggest
hall that's available,
00:26:57.85\00:26:59.95
the greatest outdoor
stadium, whatever it takes.
00:26:59.98\00:27:04.25
You've got more than
20 million souls out here.
00:27:04.29\00:27:09.19
And I say it again.
00:27:09.22\00:27:10.56
These are people
for whom Christ died.
00:27:10.59\00:27:13.26
I'm asking you to pray
00:27:13.29\00:27:14.63
for the people
of the Philippines.
00:27:14.66\00:27:16.87
Please pray for the
people here in Metro Manila.
00:27:16.90\00:27:20.70
And please write
to me, John Carter,
00:27:20.74\00:27:23.14
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00:27:23.17\00:27:25.21
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00:27:31.35\00:27:36.92
We're back in Manila,
00:27:36.95\00:27:38.72
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00:27:38.75\00:27:41.62
That message is
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00:27:41.66\00:27:46.80
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