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 bring us
this unique evangelism special,
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Is It Time to Quit?
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We're delighted today
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to welcome you to
the Carter Report.
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We welcome our
viewers across the great land
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of the United States of America,
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We thank you for
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The program today
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is called evangelism special,
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Is It Time to Quit?
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Should we give up?
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Is it time to quit
preaching the gospel
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because times are tough.
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Money is hard to get.
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Is it time to quit?
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Somebody came
to me, not long ago
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and said rather wisely
"You're getting pretty old.
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Don't you think
it's time to quit?"
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I told him this story.
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I had a friend in
Australia, many years ago.
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He was an old
minister of the Gospel,
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Pastor W.M.R Scragg.
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When he was into his 90's,
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people would come to
him and say "Pastor Scragg,
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don't you think
it's time to quit?"
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And he'd say this
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"When I think of
the man on the cross,
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I can't quit."
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So it's not about me,
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it's about the man on the cross.
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When I think of the man
on the cross, I can't quit.
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Why do evangelism?
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We're gonna talk
about that today.
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But firstly, let us
answer the question.
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What is evangelism?
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Most folks have got no idea.
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I'm talking about
people in the church.
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Most folks have
got no idea at all
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what evangelism means.
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I want you to
come in your Bibles.
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Come over here with me
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to the writings
of the Apostle Paul.
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And come with me to
Romans 1:14 and onwards, please.
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Romans 1:14 and onwards,
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the words of the great Paul.
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He says, "I am a debtor
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both to Greeks
and to barbarians,
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both to wise and to unwise.
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So, as much as is in me,
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I am ready to
preach the gospel to you
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who are in Rome also.
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For I'm not
ashamed of the gospel.
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Not ashamed of
the Gospel of Christ,
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for it is the
power of God to salvation
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for everyone who
believes, for the Jew first,
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also for the Greek
partially, Gentile".
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There was reason
in the days of Paul
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to be ashamed of the gospel.
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How could a person ever support
the idea that God became a man,
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and was crucified
as a common criminal?
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For most people that
was a cause of shame.
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But Paul says, "I'm
not ashamed of the gospel."
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People, who are
opposed to the gospel
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do so in their ignorance.
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Ignorance!
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And what do I mean by this?
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The very word evangelism means
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to preach the good news.
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The word evangelism
comes from the Greek language
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and in the Greek
language the word gospel,
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it's evangel.
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And so if a person is
opposed to preaching the gospel,
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I would vent you to say,
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it is because that person
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doesn't understand
the Gospel of Christ.
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It's very, very
serious charge to me.
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But how can a person be
opposed to the cross of Christ?
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Because evangelism
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is the preaching of
the cross of Christ.
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And the Apostle Paul, I
would like you to note this,
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my brothers and my sisters,
here in Southern California.
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The Apostle Paul was
not an arm chair theologian.
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He did not sit behind a desk.
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He did not just
attend committee meetings.
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I doubt if he attended any?
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He was an evangelist,
a preacher of the gospel.
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He said, "I'm a
debtor to all men and women,
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because all men and
women are lost without Christ."
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This is a terrible state,
but it's in inflammatory state.
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But many theologians,
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especially in
Southern California
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would disagree with me
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that all people
without Christ are lost.
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Why do you think Paul
went trampling around the world
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preaching the
story of a crucified man
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if people were already saved?
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We are not naturally saved.
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The world is
lost without Christ.
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That's why he
said, "I'm a debtor."
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Then he said, "I'm
ready to preach the gospel.
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I'm not ashamed of the gospel."
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Many years ago, story
is told of a young man
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and his little baby sister.
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And they came
under a horrendous fire
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and it swept through their home,
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their parents away.
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And the young man
waded into the fire
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and he plucked his little sister
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as a brander from the burning.
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Forever he was
scared, forever he was blind.
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And you could see this couple
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walking downsome of the
streets of Washington, D.C.
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beneath the beautiful trees.
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People would say,
"Who is the ugly man
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and who is the beautiful girl?
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Is she not ashamed
to be seen with him?"
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And if you were to say to her,
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"Aren't you
ashamed of this man?"
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She would say no.
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He got his scars saving me.
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Jesus got His scars
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saving us.
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He got His scars to
save us from the fire.
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How can people say
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they do not
believe in evangelism?
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What an abominable idea.
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So we come back to the question.
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Why do evangelism?
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Now we have
established what evangelism is.
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It is the
preaching of the good news.
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There are a number
of compelling reasons
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why we at the Carter
Report have not quit,
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and why we
believe in evangelism.
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Number one,
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because Jesus Christ,
our Lord commanded it.
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People say, "I've got to
wait until a committee tells me
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whether I should
do evangelism or not."
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It's a very, very strange idea.
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We do evangelism because
Jesus, our Lord told us to do.
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Jesus came, spoke to them.
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You see the text,
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Matthew 28:18-20
following the scriptures.
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"Jesus came and
spoke to them saying,
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'All authority
has been given to Me
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in heaven and on earth.
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Go therefore and make
disciples of all the nations,
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baptizing them in
the name of the Father
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and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit,
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teaching them to
observe all things
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that I have commanded you.
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And lo, I am with you always,
even to the end of the age.'"
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We do evangelism
firstly because Jesus is Lord.
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And because Jesus is Lord,
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we are in the business of
doing what He tells us to do.
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Look at Luke 24:45-47.
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Luke 24,
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"And he opened
their understanding
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so that they might
comprehend the Scriptures.
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Then he said to
them, 'Thus it is written,
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and thus it is
necessary for the Christ
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to suffer and to rise
from the dead the third day,
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and that repentance
and remission of sins
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should be
preached, should be preached,
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should be preached in
His name to all nations,
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beginning at Jerusalem.'"
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Listen to me, without the gospel
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men and women are lost.
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We're not saved
because we are sincere
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or because we are good enough.
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We are saved because we
accept the Gospel of Christ.
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And Jesus said,
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"It's necessary that the
gospel shall be preached."
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And we do it
because Jesus is Lord.
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Why do evangelism?
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Here is the second reason,
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because
Revelation 14 describes it.
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And Revelation 14
describes God's last message
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to a dying world.
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Revelation14:6 and 7,
and as you read these texts,
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say to God, "God, open my eyes,"
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because some of us may
be walking in darkness.
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"Then I saw another angel
flying in the midst of heaven,
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having the everlasting gospel
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to preach to those
who dwell on the earth,
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to every nation,
tribe, tongue, and people,
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saying with a loud voice,
'Fear God, give glory to Him,
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for the hour of
His judgment has come,
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and worship Him who
made heaven and earth,
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the sea and the
springs of water.'"
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Have you ever
thought about this?
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These are three angels
flying in the midst of heaven.
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This is talking about
a worldwide proclamation.
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It is not just talking
about friendship evangelism
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over the back fence.
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Now friendship
evangelism over the back fence
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is a very
important part of evangelism.
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But it's far more
involved in these words here.
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"And another angel
followed them, saying,
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'Babylon is fallen, is
fallen, that great city,
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because she has
made all the nations
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drink of the wine of the
wrath of her fornication.'
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And a third angel followed them,
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saying with a loud
voice, saying with a loud voice,
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'If any one worships
the beast and his image,
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and receives his
mark on his forehead
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or on his hand.'"
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And it goes on to say,
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he's going to drink of the
wine of the wrath of God's fury.
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I was talking to a
minister back in Australia,
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I said, my
friend, this is talking
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about a worldwide
public proclamation,
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the angels are flying
in the midst of heaven.
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In fact, the Greek word
can be translated, the eagles.
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You've seen the
eagles soaring up high.
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Everybody can see them.
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This is not something
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which is done in
a corner, my friend.
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It is a public proclamation.
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It is something big.
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Now some people don't get this
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because they don't
understand Scripture.
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And what they try to do?
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They try to keep the
angels down with the turnips
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and with the cabbages.
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But the Bible says,
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"The angels are flying
in the midst of heaven."
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This is more than anything else,
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a public proclamation
of the truth of God's word
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for these last days.
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And what do they preach?
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They preach the gospel.
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They preach the
judgment hour message.
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They preach the truth,
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that God is the
Creator Christ, is Lord.
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They won against the beast,
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image of the beast
and the mark of the beast.
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And they call people to
keep the commandments of God
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and have the faith of Jesus.
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The public
proclamation of that message
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is the most important enterprise
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that is ever been
given to the human race.
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Nothing compares
to it or with it.
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It is a worldwide
public proclamation.
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And that is why
we do evangelism,
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because it's biblical.
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Why do evangelism?
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Here's the third reason.
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Because the
church started with it.
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I have a great
friend in the United States.
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Brother, I was going to
say in Australia, great friend,
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I got them in the
United States too.
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But I've got a
great friend in Australia,
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and he was talking
to a bunch of people
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who called
themselves Christians.
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And they said to him,
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we are categorically
opposed to evangelism.
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They hold office in the church.
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They claim to be
members of the remnant church.
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And publically they say,
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"We are totally
opposed to evangelism."
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My friend who
is a church leader,
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said to them,
"Don't you understand this,
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the church started
with public evangelism?"
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Oh, no, no, no,
that can't be so.
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The Bible teaches
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that the church
started with public evangelism,
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when a man, who is a
fisherman, stood up to preach.
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And I want you to
see the text, Acts 2:14,
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dear hearts and gentle people.
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Notice the text, and
our consciences today
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should be guided
by the Word of God.
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Acts 2:14 says,
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"But Peter, standing
up with the eleven..."
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He didn't sit
down to give a sermon.
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"But Peter,
standing up with the eleven,
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raised his voice
and said to them,
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'Men of Judea and all
who dwell in Jerusalem,
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let this be known to
you, and heed my words.'"
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This started the
Christian church,
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a mighty sermon
about Jesus Christ
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in the context
of Bible prophecy.
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And the Bible tells
us how this sermon ended.
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Acts 2:38 and 41
in the scriptures,
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"Peter said to them, 'Repent,
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and let every one
of you be baptized
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in the name of Jesus Christ
for the remission of sins,
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and you shall receive
the gift of the Holy Spirit.'
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Then those who gladly
received his word were baptized,
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and that day about
three thousand souls
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were added to the church.'"
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The church was born
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when a man filled
with the Holy Spirit
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stood up and
preached about Jesus.
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And he was not
a whispering hope.
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He was the voice of
God to those people.
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So that's why I
believe in evangelism,
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because there wouldn't
have been a church without it.
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They had a tremendous baptism.
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And evangelism
should always lead to people
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being added to the church.
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Why do evangelism?
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Number four.
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Because it is God's net cast
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into the ocean of lost humanity.
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Let me talk about
this, lost humanity.
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I don't think this would
be sown in the Philippines.
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I know it's not sown in Russia.
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I know it's not sown in Ukraine.
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It is sown in parts of
the United States of America
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where people tell me you
don't need to do evangelism
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because everybody is born saved,
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and everybody will get to heaven
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unless they rebel
against God personally.
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So I guess that is so,
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the best thing to
do is to keep it quiet
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and not give them the
opportunity of rejecting.
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I believe that men and women
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without Christ are lost.
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And that is why we are called
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to do evangelism.
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It is God's net cast
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into the ocean of lost humanity.
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Matthew 13:47 is the
text I want you to see.
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Matthew 13:47
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"Again, the kingdom of
heaven is like a dragnet
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that was cast into the sea
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and gathered
some of every kind."
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God has got a dragnet.
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It's not just throwing out
a fishing line here and there,
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and that may be
good and appropriate.
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But it
certainly does not do away
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with casting out a net.
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Would you like to know
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why public evangelism today
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is opposed by many people?
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It's because the devil hates it.
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The devil hates it,
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because evangelism is the net
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that is cast into the
ocean of lost humanity,
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and brings in
souls to the kingdom.
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Now I'm gonna tell
you point number five now.
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This is pretty important.
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Here it is.
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Why do evangelism?
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Wait for this,
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because the
preaching of the gospel
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is powerfully effective
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when accompanied
by the Holy Spirit.
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I'm not an arm chair theologian.
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I'm not a theorist.
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I've met so many people
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who believe in the
philosophy of failure.
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I've had people
come to me over years,
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more than half a
century preaching.
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And they say,
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"But don't you know
it doesn't work anymore."
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"Oh, is that so, who
told you that, the devil?"
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Don't you know it
doesn't work anymore?
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Don't you know
that it's useless today
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to try to do great campaign
00:19:52.29\00:19:54.69
because people just
are not going to come?
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Now, I will admit, it's tough.
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And that's one
reason people don't do it.
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It's tough.
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It demands consecration.
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It demands hard work.
00:20:08.54\00:20:10.24
It demands ability.
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And it demands something else.
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I'm gonna tell you
something else what it demands.
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It demands money.
00:20:15.71\00:20:17.61
People have said to me,
00:20:17.65\00:20:18.98
"But these
campaigns that you run
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they're terribly expensive."
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Hey, you kidding?
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How much value are you
going to put upon a soul?
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You're gonna tell me it's not...
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You couldn't run a
campaign for a million...
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a million dollars
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that would be an
abomination to run a campaign.
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May be we should be
talking about 20 million.
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Please, it
depends upon your vision.
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It depends upon
what you believe.
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It depend whether your
faith is apostolic or apostate.
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I believe this.
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I believe, and I'm not
an arm chair theologian.
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I've had people
come to me in Australia,
00:21:02.46\00:21:04.63
and I'm an Australian
with American citizenship too.
00:21:04.66\00:21:09.23
But I've had people come to
me in Australia and they say,
00:21:09.26\00:21:12.03
"But you know, you
can't do it anymore,
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it's impossible."
00:21:14.37\00:21:15.70
I said, "Excuse me, if
my memory is still working,
00:21:15.74\00:21:19.41
weren't you one of those
00:21:19.44\00:21:20.91
who came to me at
the Sydney Opera House
00:21:20.94\00:21:22.88
and said it wouldn't work?"
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Whoa! We did yes.
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Did it work then?
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Yes, it worked then.
00:21:27.85\00:21:29.78
But it won't work now.
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I say may God revive His people
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and give birth to dead souls.
00:21:37.89\00:21:41.90
Where is our
faith in the living God?
00:21:41.93\00:21:44.63
I believe in it because
the preaching of the gospel
00:21:48.44\00:21:51.81
is powerfully effective
00:21:51.84\00:21:53.84
when accompanied
by the Holy Spirit.
00:21:53.88\00:21:57.21
I'm going to tell
you some stories today
00:21:57.25\00:22:00.35
that would even convince
00:22:00.38\00:22:02.48
the unconverted
00:22:02.52\00:22:06.62
that the gospel is
still the power of God.
00:22:06.65\00:22:09.02
Let me start by
taking you to India.
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Number of years ago
00:22:17.53\00:22:18.87
we got a call to go
run a campaign in India.
00:22:18.90\00:22:21.80
Now I'm just a church
pastor, I've pastored.
00:22:21.84\00:22:24.84
People say, "You're a
professional evangel."
00:22:24.87\00:22:27.11
No, I'm not.
00:22:27.14\00:22:28.71
I'm a pastor
00:22:28.74\00:22:30.18
who does
evangelism in a spare time,
00:22:30.21\00:22:33.42
when he can
raise the money for it.
00:22:33.45\00:22:36.05
I would do a lot more evangelism
00:22:36.08\00:22:38.09
if people sent me more money.
00:22:38.12\00:22:40.36
I can't do what I can't do.
00:22:40.39\00:22:43.32
When we went to India,
00:22:43.36\00:22:44.69
this land of
Hinduism and paganism,
00:22:44.73\00:22:47.53
we were told it will not work.
00:22:47.56\00:22:50.37
It is an impossibility.
00:22:50.40\00:22:53.34
I can still remember...
00:22:53.37\00:22:55.74
You know, I'm not trying to
sound self righteous in this
00:22:55.77\00:22:58.81
'cause I'm a sinner
just saved by grace.
00:22:58.84\00:23:01.71
And what I do? I'm
struggling all the time.
00:23:01.74\00:23:05.25
I didn't find it easy.
00:23:05.28\00:23:06.98
I'm struggling all the
time, I'm falling and rising.
00:23:07.02\00:23:11.35
They said, "Nobody is
going to come to the meetings.
00:23:11.39\00:23:13.22
Nobody is going to
come to the meetings."
00:23:13.25\00:23:14.82
Look at this in India.
00:23:14.86\00:23:16.62
The meetings lasted the longest
of any Christian meetings
00:23:16.66\00:23:20.16
in a public form
like this in the history,
00:23:20.20\00:23:22.73
no it is not true.
00:23:22.76\00:23:24.10
Yes, it is true.
00:23:24.13\00:23:25.47
The crowds grew thousands
of thousands every night.
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Soon we had tens of thousands
of Hindus and Muslims coming.
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The Indians are fine people.
00:23:34.48\00:23:36.44
They have great brains.
00:23:36.48\00:23:39.31
They have a superior intellect.
00:23:39.35\00:23:41.75
They like
carefully reasoned arguments.
00:23:41.78\00:23:45.29
Take Ravi
Zacharias, he comes from India.
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One of the greatest proponents
of the Christian faith
00:23:48.29\00:23:50.79
in the world today is an Indian.
00:23:50.83\00:23:53.63
Not an American,
not an Australian,
00:23:53.66\00:23:55.20
Ravi Zacharias.
00:23:55.23\00:23:56.97
One night when we
had an altar call here.
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As I went into prayer,
the people started to pray.
00:23:59.27\00:24:02.94
I had never seen
anything like it before.
00:24:02.97\00:24:05.11
And I am not a Pentecostal.
00:24:05.14\00:24:08.74
But I saw up the
back of this vast crowd
00:24:08.78\00:24:11.88
that went as far
as my eye could see.
00:24:11.91\00:24:13.72
I saw people
raising their hands to God,
00:24:13.75\00:24:16.62
Hindus and Muslims.
00:24:16.65\00:24:18.45
Whoever seen the wind
blows through the wheat
00:24:18.49\00:24:21.22
have their
heads waving the wind.
00:24:21.26\00:24:24.09
The prayers swept
across the great audience.
00:24:24.13\00:24:27.53
People who are
completely oblivious
00:24:27.56\00:24:30.13
to the work of the Holy Spirit
00:24:30.17\00:24:31.50
said to me, it never happened.
00:24:31.53\00:24:34.54
They got a mercy on their souls.
00:24:34.57\00:24:36.57
The Spirit of God
swept through the crowd
00:24:36.60\00:24:38.71
and came down the front.
00:24:38.74\00:24:40.08
And soon we had 40,000.
00:24:40.11\00:24:41.98
God had 40,000
Hindus and Muslims
00:24:42.01\00:24:45.88
raising their hands
as they accepted Jesus.
00:24:45.91\00:24:48.78
What do you say for this?
00:24:48.82\00:24:50.65
Well I'd tell you this.
00:24:50.69\00:24:52.09
I would tell you
this, our God is not dead.
00:24:52.12\00:24:57.39
We still have a
ministry in India.
00:24:57.43\00:25:00.23
We have a
television program in India.
00:25:00.26\00:25:02.83
We are supporting
poor little children,
00:25:02.86\00:25:05.87
the untouchable children.
00:25:05.90\00:25:07.64
So that they can at
least get a break on life.
00:25:07.67\00:25:10.24
And so they'll not
be sold into slavery.
00:25:10.27\00:25:12.84
We still go to India.
00:25:12.87\00:25:16.54
When I went to India
00:25:16.58\00:25:17.91
and I saw the
power of God there.
00:25:17.95\00:25:22.42
I understood the
words of Paul where he said,
00:25:22.45\00:25:24.92
"I am not ashamed of the gospel,
00:25:24.95\00:25:26.49
it is the power of God
00:25:26.52\00:25:28.12
the salvation for
everyone who believes."
00:25:28.16\00:25:29.82
Amen!
00:25:29.86\00:25:31.19
What does God think about us
00:25:33.96\00:25:37.20
when we say it doesn't work?
00:25:37.23\00:25:40.24
I've got lots of
exciting stories to tell you.
00:25:40.27\00:25:42.44
The best stories I can tell you,
00:25:42.47\00:25:45.27
I've seen with my own eyes.
00:25:45.31\00:25:48.31
Mine eyes have seen the
glory of the coming of the Lord.
00:25:48.34\00:25:52.78
I'm not an arm chair theologian.
00:25:52.81\00:25:55.18
I've been there, I've seen it.
00:25:55.22\00:25:57.65
I've done it
for the glory of God
00:25:57.69\00:26:00.09
and will be back soon.
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Hello, friend.
00:26:20.81\00:26:22.24
I'm John Carter.
00:26:22.28\00:26:23.61
Behind me is the
great city of Manila,
00:26:23.65\00:26:27.42
the capital of the Philippines.
00:26:27.45\00:26:29.68
Did you know,
this is quite amazing.
00:26:29.72\00:26:31.45
There are more
people living in this area
00:26:31.49\00:26:33.76
than in New York City.
00:26:33.79\00:26:35.72
And Christ died
for these people.
00:26:35.76\00:26:38.56
We came here,
00:26:38.59\00:26:40.00
oh, long time ago back in 1984.
00:26:40.03\00:26:44.63
What's that, 34, 35 years ago,
00:26:44.67\00:26:47.50
and we came here with
a team of young people
00:26:47.54\00:26:49.90
and we came to the PICC.
00:26:49.94\00:26:53.01
It is our intent to come here,
00:26:53.04\00:26:55.48
hire the biggest
hall that's available,
00:26:55.51\00:26:57.58
the greatest outdoor
stadium, whatever it takes.
00:26:57.61\00:27:01.88
You've got more than
20 million souls out here.
00:27:01.92\00:27:06.82
And I say it again.
00:27:06.86\00:27:08.19
These are people
for whom Christ died.
00:27:08.22\00:27:10.93
I'm asking you to pray
00:27:10.96\00:27:12.29
for the people
of the Philippines.
00:27:12.33\00:27:14.53
Please pray for the
people here in Metro Manila.
00:27:14.56\00:27:18.37
And please write to me,
John Carter, P.O. Box 1900,
00:27:18.40\00:27:22.87
Thousand Oaks, California 91358.
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write to me at Terrigal,
00:27:26.34\00:27:28.88
at the address that is
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00:27:28.91\00:27:34.52
We're back in Manila,
00:27:34.55\00:27:36.52
and we're back
with a message from God,
00:27:36.55\00:27:39.25
that message is,
Christ died for you.
00:27:39.29\00:27:44.39
And Christ is coming again soon.
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