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 will help you
today in discovering God's will.
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Welcome back.
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This is a
continuation of the first part.
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We are talking today about
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discovering the will
of God in your own life.
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And in the last
segment, we were talking about
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watching for the
providences of God,
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that God opens
doors, God closes doors.
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And I was telling the
folks about some amazing things
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that happened in Russia,
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amazing things that
happened in Ukraine.
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But amazing things also happen
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here in the
United States of America.
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We have been hiring
for more than 10 years
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of building in Glendale
and paying a lot of money.
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We couldn't buy anything,
because every bean we got,
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every dollar we got,
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we put it into evangelism
in Russia and Ukraine.
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So we had no money
left for ourselves.
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But we were having problems,
we needed a place to worship.
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So I got a realtor
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and he told me to
come over to Pasadena.
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And he said, "I've
got a great place for you
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to see in Pasadena."
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I went there all expectant.
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And he said, "Oh, oops."
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He said, "I forgot the key.
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Can you come back tomorrow?"
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I said, "Most unlikely."
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He said, "Well, maybe
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would you be interested
in going over to Arcadia."
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He said, I know,
it's another 10 miles.
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I said reluctantly.
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He said, "You might like it."
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So I went over
there and we had no money.
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I'm telling you folks,
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you talk about not
having money for God's will.
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We didn't have a dime.
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And this place was going
to cost a lot, a lot of money.
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And he said,
"I'll need this deposit.
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Have you got it?"
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I said, "But have it very soon."
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I'm serious,
we'll have it very soon.
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Then he said, "You'll
have to raise so many millions.
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Can you do it?"
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I said, "By
God's grace, we will."
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And we got this building.
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This magnificent building
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that became the headquarters
for The Carter Report
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for many, many years,
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and we kept it for a long time
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until God told us
in His providence,
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we had to move on.
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That was hard for
us to our hearts out.
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But we moved on and
we sold this property.
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And then, we didn't know
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where to try to
get another property,
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but my son David
and I got in his car
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and we drove around Los Angeles
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and we came at to
Moorpark, we came out here.
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When we came to this building,
we found out it was for sale.
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When we came
through the front door,
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a lady came out and she
said, "Don't come in here.
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This is a terrible place.
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You don't want to get
this place, it's terrible."
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This place was
owned by the bank.
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The property had gone bankrupt.
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And then the
people from the bank
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came and talked to me.
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And the guy
said, "What do you do?"
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I told him what we
did by the grace of God.
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He said, "My
brother is a pastor."
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He said, "These other
people are offering $100,000
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more than you are
prepared to offer,
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but we're going to
accept your offer."
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Because the bank
believes that you would have it.
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You see.
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So, folks, I believe
in the providence of God.
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I have this saying,
"Watch for the providences
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and God honors faith."
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So we've gone
through two of the ways
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you can discover the will of God
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and you need to see this
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in the first
part of the program.
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Now here we
come to number three.
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God reveals His
will through the counsel.
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Now wait for
this, of wise friends.
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You know the story of
Moses and his father-in-law,
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and Moses was
just working so hard.
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He didn't have a
moment, hardly to himself,
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hardly he had
enough time to sleep,
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because people
were coming to him
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all the time.
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And then the father-in-law
gave him some good advice.
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You read this in
Exodus 18:14, 19, and 21.
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"So when Moses'
father-in-law saw
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all that he did for the people,
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and he said, 'What is this thing
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that you are
doing for the people?
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Why do you alone sit,
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and all the
people stand before you
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from the
morning until evening?'"
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He said, "What on earth,
why you're doing this for?"
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He said, "It's just
too much for you to do."
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And then you've
got verses 19 and 21.
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"Listen now to my voice,
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I will give you counsel,
and God will be with you:
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Stand before God for the people,
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so that you may bring
the difficulties to God."
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So he said to him,
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"You've got to get a bunch
of other people to help you."
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"Moreover you shall select
from all the people able men,
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such as fear God, men of truth,
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hating covetousness,
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and place such over them
to be rulers of thousands,
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rulers of hundreds,
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rulers of fifties,
and rulers of tens."
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Was this counsel, good counsel,
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and where did it come from?
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It came from the
father-in-law of Moses,
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but I'm here to
tell you something today.
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God spoke through that old man.
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God reveals His will
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through the
counsel of wise friends.
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Now listen to this.
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You need to seek out a person,
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a wise man or a wise woman
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who knows God.
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The Book of Proverbs talks about
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avoiding the counsel of fools.
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And the world today,
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I'm afraid to
say is full of people
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who are not wise.
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Find people who have
spiritual discernment.
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Not like Job's friends.
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Now, they were bad counselors.
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The world and the
church are full of people
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who are bad counselors,
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but you got to find somebody
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who was like
Moses' father-in-law.
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When Beverley and I
were going to buy a house
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in the Southland in
Southern California,
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we met a man by
the name of Pastor
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Lloyd Wyman,
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and I found that
he was a wise man.
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He said, "Come out here
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to where I live
in Thousand Oaks."
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He said, "You know,
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there are lots of
airplane captains,
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who buy their houses here."
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I said, "Why?"
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He said, "It's the
only place around here
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that doesn't have smog."
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He said, "As they
fly over Thousand Oaks,
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it's the air is clean,
as they go further south,
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it gets bad, bad, bad."
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And so we listened to him.
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We bought a
house in Thousand Oaks,
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because we
listened to the counsel
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of a wise friend.
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I say, "Seek wise counselors
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not those who will tell
you what you want to hear."
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Did you get this?
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Have you seen the series
on TV called, "Pawn Stars?"
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I'm probably saying it wrong.
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I told all my friends,
"Hey, I got a great program
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that I watch on television.
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It's called Pawn Stars."
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Because Australians
when they say P-A-W-N,
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they say porn.
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They said, "Goodness me."
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You told what?
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Pawn, P-A-W-N.
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I was watching Rick on
Pawn Stars the other day.
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This is a pretty good story.
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A man comes along
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and he's got
Abraham Lincoln's chair.
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Rick says to
him, "How do you know
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it's Abraham Lincoln's chair?"
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He says, "Well, I'm sure it is."
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"Oh, are you
sure it is?" "Yeah."
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So they get a picture
of Abraham Lincoln's chair
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and they compare
it with this chair
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or one like it.
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And they say,
"Well, it's different."
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You know what the man says?
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He says... Now you
won't believe this.
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He says, "We all believe
what we want to believe."
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And he said, "I
happen to believe
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this is Abraham
Lincoln's chair."
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Well, Rick said, "I'm
just not gonna buy it,"
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because Rick is a smart guy.
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A lot of people
say, "I believe it
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because I want to believe it."
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Most folks, my
friend, listen to me.
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Most... Can I say this?
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Most Democrats believe
what they want to believe,
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most Republicans believe
what they want to believe,
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most Independents believe
what they want to believe,
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which is the
highest form of dumbness
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among the sons and
the daughters of men.
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Am I telling
you the truth? Yeah.
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Listen to me, seek counselors
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who will tell you the truth
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and that's sometimes
mighty hard, you see.
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Seek counselors who
will tell you the truth,
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not people who are
going to as the Bible says,
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"Scratch your itching ears."
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There still are
people who are wise,
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but they are few
and far between."
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Here's another way you
can find the will of God.
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Point number
four, seek God's glory,
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not your own.
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I want you to
turn to Matthew 6:31-33
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and Jesus is talking here.
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"Therefore do not worry,
saying 'What shall we eat?'
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or 'What shall we drink?'
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or 'What shall we wear?'
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For after all these
things the Gentiles seek.
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For your heavenly Father knows
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that you need
all these things.'"
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Please look at this text.
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"But seek first
the kingdom of God
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and His righteousness,
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and all these other
things will be added to you."
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The Bible says,
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"Seek the glory of God."
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Now the Jesuits,
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they had one good
thing, they had a good motto,
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for the greater glory of God.
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Go beyond...
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Listen to this
my fellow ministers.
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Shown mediocrity,
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shown mediocrity and conformity.
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The sins of the small minded,
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go beyond, do more,
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climb the highest
mountain, reach for the stars.
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Years ago, it is my
privilege to get to know
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Colonel James Irwin,
the pilot for Apollo 15.
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He walked on the moon.
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I've walked with him
around nameless valley ranch
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down in Texas.
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One night he said to us,
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"Would you like
to see some pictures?
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Like a home picture show?"
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Yeah, well, here I'm
getting off the lunar module,
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here I'm walking
around, you know.
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This man because of his going
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beyond developed a
relationship with God.
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He said, "There's got
to be a personal God."
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He founded an
organization called
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"High Flight Foundation."
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I say to every person,
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"Go beyond, aim
higher, think bigger,
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shun the terrible
sin of mediocrity,
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of small mindedness.
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And remember this,
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the path of
conformity is always,
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the path of conformity
always leads to mediocrity.
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And there are some organizations
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that turn out little
baby robots mediocre.
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Yes, man. Yes!
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Yes, my finger up. Yes, yes.
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That is terrible cowardice
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and so much
against God, so go higher.
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In 1991, we received
a call to go to Russia.
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Pastor Bob Spangler
called me from Washington D.C.
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He said, "We want
you to go to Moscow,
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run an evangelistic
campaign and see if it works."
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We asked God to reveal His will,
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did Beverley and I.
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God opened doors.
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It was part of His gospel plan.
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It was in
harmony with Scripture.
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People say, "Should
we go into all the world
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and preach the gospel?
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Why don't you
read the scriptures?"
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You don't need
to pray about this.
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A church board
should not pray about,
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"Shall we go into all the world
and preach the scriptures."
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That's blasphemy
to pray about that.
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Jesus said, "Go
into all the world
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and preach the gospel."
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What's wrong with you?
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Oh, we don't know what...
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Well, why don't
you start believing?
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So we took God at His word
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and we saw the glory of God.
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We saw the largest
baptism in the Volga River
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in the history of Russia.
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It was so amazing
that Russian television,
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national television
sent a television crew
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and they made a movie
out of The Carter Report
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in Russia, and they showed it
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around the ex-Soviet Union,
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and they put the most
wonderful music to it.
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People say, "No,
those things don't happen."
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No, they may not happen to
you, because you don't believe.
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But if you believe
and if you go higher,
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you will see the glory of God.
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Now let me tell you something.
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When you seek the glory of God,
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you're going to have
lots and lots of problems,
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and we have seen the problems.
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Now we come to another method,
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we can call it,
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another way of discovering
the will of God for your life.
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Number five,
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you can tie this
up with my first talk.
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This is the second
part of discovering
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the will of God for your life,
and here's point number five.
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So get both and watch it.
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When you're
seeking to do God's will,
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you need to ask this question?
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"Is this the work or the calling
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that God has given to me to do?"
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Has God actually
call me to do this work?
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Look at Mark 13:34.
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Mark 13, "It is like a
man going to a far country,
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who left his house
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and gave
authority to his servants,
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and to each his work,
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and commanded the
doorkeeper to watch."
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So God has given
to each man his work.
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Now what on
earth does that mean?
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Well, each person
has a special work to do
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and you can do something
far better than I can do.
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And each person has
been given a work to do
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that nobody else
can do quite as well.
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I don't need to pray
that God will show me
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if I should become a doctor.
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It's not my work,
or a rocket scientist,
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or a farmer, et
cetera, et cetera.
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One needs to
look inside his heart
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and see what God has given him
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or given her to do.
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Then, let it grow for His glory
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and don't be put
down by authority figures
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who are afraid of success.
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A young man came
to see his pastor.
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He said, "I'm
praying that God will show me
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whether I should be a minister."
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The pastor said, "Do
you like public speaking?"
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Now he said, "I hate it."
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Do you like
talking to people?" "No."
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"Do you like
people?" "Not really."
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"Do you like studying?" "No."
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The pastor said, "It sounds like
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you've been called to be a monk.
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You haven't been called
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because God hasn't
given you this work."
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Now point number six,
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discovering the will
of God for your life.
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Now, my friends,
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let these things
get into your minds,
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let them sink down
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into the molecules of your mind.
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Point number six,
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God reveals His
will through the deep
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movings of the Spirit.
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This is listed last,
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because it is
the most perverted.
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Romans 8:26-28.
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Romans 8:26-28,
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"Likewise the
Spirit also helps us
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in our weaknesses."
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Why? Because we are weak.
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"For we do not know
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what we should
pray for as we ought."
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We can't even work
out what we ought to pray.
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"But the Spirit Himself
makes intercession for us
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with groanings
which cannot be uttered.
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Now He who
searches the hearts knows
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what the mind of the Spirit is,
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because He makes
intercession for the saints
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according to the will of God,"
according to the will of God.
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"And we know that
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all things work
together for good,"
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a better translation is
that God works in all things.
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"For the good of
those who love Him,
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who are the called
according to His purpose."
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And so, God leads
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through the deep
movings of the Spirit.
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Now, listen carefully to this.
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We need to be careful
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and not mistake
the voice of the Spirit
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for what I want to do.
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Have you heard
this? God told me.
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Why are you going to
do this? God told me.
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Oh!
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I've heard this
a thousand times.
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God told me to get married.
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Oh, okay.
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So why are you
getting a divorce now?
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Hmm. God told me.
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God told me to leave my job
and start up a new business.
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God... I've had
people say this to me.
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I had a multimillionaire
come to me and say,
00:19:05.81\00:19:08.38
"Should I take my money
and invest in this scheme."
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He said, "I believe
you're a man of God.
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Tell me what you
think. Give me your counsel."
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Got him to tell me what it was.
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I said, "I don't
think you should do it."
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You're gonna lose your,
maybe your home, everything.
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But he said,
"God has told me to."
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I said, "Then, why on
the earth you're asking me?"
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Come on, why are you asking me?
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So you made up your mind?
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Yes. So God is...
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Are you sure? Yes.
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So he went ahead and
did what he wanted to do
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and lost everything.
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Got turned out of his house.
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And don't say, "Oh,
God, why did you do it?"
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We must not
confuse what we want to do
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with the voice of the Spirit.
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When I was a young minister,
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I was send to a place in
the outback of Australia,
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on the outer Bourke
where the churches are few,
00:19:59.76\00:20:02.93
and men of religion
are scanty, that's a poem.
00:20:02.96\00:20:07.34
On a path seldom crossed
say by folks that are lost,
00:20:07.40\00:20:10.41
One McGinnis McGee had a shanty,
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but that's a big poem.
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So I was sent to a place
by the name of Broken Hill
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and I was working
with Pastor Todd Naufer
00:20:17.35\00:20:19.58
a great evangelist.
00:20:19.61\00:20:20.98
We are preaching the
great truths of the Bible,
00:20:21.02\00:20:23.05
and I was visiting a
family and the lady said,
00:20:23.08\00:20:27.06
"We made up our
minds not to follow this."
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I said, "Why?"
00:20:29.26\00:20:30.59
She said, "A
little bird came down,
00:20:30.63\00:20:33.50
and fluttered down
and sat on my windowsill."
00:20:33.56\00:20:38.33
And the little bird
was a sign from God,
00:20:38.37\00:20:40.90
not to keep His commandments.
00:20:40.94\00:20:44.64
Now, why it's
not a sign to keep."
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No, God has spoken to me.
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For many people,
00:20:51.55\00:20:52.91
this is a total,
00:20:52.95\00:20:56.02
total delusion.
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But God does
give deep convictions
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as we yield to
His Spirit, He does.
00:21:03.66\00:21:07.30
So the misuse
should not cancel out
00:21:07.30\00:21:10.63
what they use.
00:21:10.67\00:21:14.20
In Russia and
Ukraine, as in most places
00:21:14.24\00:21:16.97
I have gone we have
had great opposition
00:21:17.01\00:21:20.34
from all sorts of places.
00:21:20.38\00:21:22.94
People love to play politics
00:21:22.98\00:21:26.08
and it doesn't pay
to be too successful,
00:21:26.11\00:21:29.68
because some people
will get as crazy as a hornet
00:21:33.15\00:21:38.39
if you're too successful.
00:21:38.43\00:21:41.03
But we were going to Russia.
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And I said, "I'm going
to invite my old friend,
00:21:45.23\00:21:48.17
Danny Shelton, who
has stood beside us
00:21:48.20\00:21:51.01
when nobody else
would support evangelism.
00:21:51.04\00:21:54.91
But one person
said, "No, don't do that."
00:21:54.94\00:21:59.48
But I had a conviction
down deep in my belly.
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And Danny came, he
supported the campaign,
00:22:06.15\00:22:10.06
and today we have the
largest Protestant building
00:22:10.13\00:22:16.16
in the whole of Russia,
00:22:16.20\00:22:18.67
because somebody
could dream big dreams.
00:22:18.70\00:22:24.17
The greatest
hindrance to the work of God,
00:22:24.21\00:22:28.51
the greatest
hindrance, pious people,
00:22:28.54\00:22:31.55
who are full of
religious platitudes,
00:22:31.58\00:22:35.08
who are standing
in the way of God.
00:22:35.12\00:22:38.99
So think about that,
are you one of those people?
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Then, we went to Kiev and
the opposition intensified.
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These were the people
00:22:47.96\00:22:49.30
who couldn't get
inside the meetings.
00:22:49.33\00:22:51.07
No, no.
00:22:51.10\00:22:52.43
No, 100,000 people
outside who couldn't get in.
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People said, "It can't be done."
00:22:56.37\00:22:58.31
That is the cry of the man
00:22:58.34\00:23:01.21
who has never
seen the face of God.
00:23:01.24\00:23:04.65
That is the cry
of the bureaucrat,
00:23:04.68\00:23:08.52
but not the cry of the prophet.
00:23:08.55\00:23:10.39
Something amazing
happened, there was a man there,
00:23:10.42\00:23:12.75
who was the patriarchate
of the great state church,
00:23:12.79\00:23:15.79
the most powerful
religious man in Ukraine.
00:23:15.82\00:23:19.49
He said this, "John
Carter will preach here
00:23:19.53\00:23:22.40
only over my dead body."
00:23:22.43\00:23:27.54
And that's
exactly what happened.
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Don't laugh about
it, it's not funny.
00:23:30.01\00:23:32.27
The terrible death of a man,
00:23:32.31\00:23:33.98
who's opposing the work of
God is not a laughing matter.
00:23:34.04\00:23:36.91
He's buried on the sidewalk,
because the government said,
00:23:36.95\00:23:40.32
"You can't bury
him inside the church."
00:23:40.38\00:23:43.89
The man who said,
00:23:43.95\00:23:45.62
"John Carter will preach
here only over my dead body."
00:23:45.65\00:23:48.92
I would be afraid to hinder
00:23:48.96\00:23:53.29
or oppose the work of God.
00:23:53.36\00:23:56.80
I've seen too many die.
00:23:56.83\00:23:58.60
I'm not joking.
00:23:58.63\00:24:01.27
I would be afraid to do it.
00:24:01.30\00:24:03.74
I would say this to you.
00:24:03.81\00:24:07.58
We must have deep convictions
00:24:07.61\00:24:09.38
because if you don't
have deep convictions,
00:24:09.41\00:24:11.55
you're not going to do anything.
00:24:11.58\00:24:13.52
You're going to be
a failure with God.
00:24:13.55\00:24:16.69
Three thousand five
hundred and thirty souls
00:24:16.72\00:24:19.52
baptized in the first
baptism in the Dnieper River.
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Why?
00:24:23.22\00:24:24.56
Because God is great
and God honors faith.
00:24:24.59\00:24:27.50
And the problem with most
of us and most Christians,
00:24:27.60\00:24:30.97
and most people in churches
is that they think so small.
00:24:31.00\00:24:36.14
Their great
unreligious talk, but no action.
00:24:36.17\00:24:41.68
It's not the person who talks,
00:24:41.71\00:24:43.75
it's the person who does.
00:24:43.81\00:24:45.78
Now, a summary,
Discovering God's Will.
00:24:45.81\00:24:50.65
Write it down, number one,
00:24:50.69\00:24:52.25
according to His
Word and His commandments.
00:24:52.29\00:24:54.56
God never says,
00:24:54.59\00:24:55.92
"You don't have to pray about
00:24:55.96\00:24:57.29
whether you will
commit adultery or not.
00:24:57.33\00:25:00.13
God says, "No,
you don't do that.
00:25:00.16\00:25:01.76
You don't have to pray
that you're going to have a job
00:25:01.80\00:25:03.97
where you're going to steal
and you're going to tell lies."
00:25:04.00\00:25:07.24
Liars will not get to
heaven. You hear this.
00:25:07.27\00:25:10.54
People say, now I've
had people say to me,
00:25:10.61\00:25:12.41
"In Los Angeles, everybody lies,
00:25:12.44\00:25:14.21
what's wrong with you?"
00:25:14.28\00:25:17.48
Liars will not get to heaven.
00:25:17.55\00:25:19.65
I don't care who they are.
00:25:19.68\00:25:22.98
Number two,
00:25:23.02\00:25:24.42
God opens and
closes doors, Providence.
00:25:24.45\00:25:27.66
Number three, He speaks
through wise counselors,
00:25:27.69\00:25:30.63
but find a wise counselor,
who will tell you the truth,
00:25:30.66\00:25:33.90
not what your
itching ears want to hear.
00:25:33.93\00:25:37.33
Number four, for
His glory, not ours.
00:25:37.37\00:25:41.74
Number five, God
appointed every man his work,
00:25:41.77\00:25:45.51
what are you doing?
00:25:45.54\00:25:47.64
And number six,
00:25:47.68\00:25:49.38
the movings of the Spirit of God
00:25:49.41\00:25:52.65
lay by when you're in harmony
with all these other things
00:25:52.68\00:25:56.08
you say, "I must go
ahead, I can do none other."
00:25:56.12\00:26:00.62
And when all are in harmony,
you will be in God's will.
00:26:00.69\00:26:04.83
And remember
this, my dear friends,
00:26:04.86\00:26:07.50
the will of God will
never, never take you
00:26:07.56\00:26:13.27
where the grace of
God cannot keep you.
00:26:13.34\00:26:17.24
Amen and amen. Amen.
00:26:17.31\00:26:19.04
Time, it takes only a
minute to have eternal life.
00:26:24.48\00:26:28.35
How can you get
saved in a minute?
00:26:28.38\00:26:30.19
It's simple.
00:26:30.22\00:26:31.55
First believe that
Jesus was the Son of God.
00:26:31.59\00:26:34.16
Second, accept His
free gift of eternal life,
00:26:34.19\00:26:37.23
and then you're saved.
00:26:37.26\00:26:39.13
It's not hard. It
doesn't take any time.
00:26:39.16\00:26:41.93
You can be saved
in a minute right now.
00:26:41.96\00:26:44.87
Pray with me, Lord God, I
realize that I am a sinner.
00:26:44.90\00:26:49.07
My sin has
separated me from You.
00:26:49.10\00:26:51.47
I accept that Your Son
Jesus Christ died for me.
00:26:51.51\00:26:54.44
I ask Jesus into my heart.
00:26:54.48\00:26:56.58
If you prayed this
prayer, you are saved.
00:26:56.61\00:26:59.41
The next thing to
do is tell someone,
00:26:59.45\00:27:02.15
fellowship with
other followers of Jesus,
00:27:02.18\00:27:04.95
get baptized, read
your Bible and pray.
00:27:04.99\00:27:08.52
Choices, we make
them every day all day.
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The most important choice
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is whether to
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In this series, John
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Seven great signs
of the apocalypse.
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If the dead are unconscious,
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who are the beings
that pretend to be the dead?
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Is there such a
person as the devil?
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What is the
essence of Antichrist?
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What is the root cause
of this deadly malaise?
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