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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Welcome back.
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This is the second
part of the program
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on the Evangelism Special,
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Is it Time for Us to Quit?
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And during the last segment,
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I talked about seeing
the power of God revealed.
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I said, I believe that
the preaching of the gospel
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was powerfully effective
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when accompanied by the
work of the Holy Spirit.
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Just want to say to the
people who're watching on tele,
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on the television
today around the world.
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Wanna ask you this question,
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"Have you actually
felt in your own soul,
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and in your own life
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the mighty power
of the Holy Spirit?"
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I believe that
public evangelism works
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because I believe in the
power of the Holy Spirit.
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In the last segment
we talked about India.
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What we saw in India,
the tremendous crowds,
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Hindus, Muslims
coming to Christ.
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But that is the last segment.
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Now I'm going to take you
to PNG or Papua New Guinea.
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Port Moresby is said to be
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the most
dangerous city in the world.
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I don't know if that is so.
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Been to Africa, lots of
dangerous cities in Africa,
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but they say Port Moresby
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is possibly the most
dangerous city in the world.
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We hired a big
football stadium there.
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We started with a small crowd
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of 120,000, 130,000,
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140,000 the next night, 150,000.
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Some people say
on the last night
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we had 200,000
people, I don't know.
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And they weren't
just in this arena here,
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they went and got
into another arena
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down the road
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and people stood on
the tops of their cars,
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trying to listen,
to hear the message.
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We had gang
members who came, hundreds,
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maybe thousands of gang members.
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One night I was preaching
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on the power of
the Spirit of God.
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Now, people say to me
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back in
Australia, back in America,
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they'd look at me like this,
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"Doesn't work you know?
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Can't be done,
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couldn't spend
money on evangelism,
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couldn't hire the
Opera House again,"
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because it may
have worked back then
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when we said it
wouldn't work then,
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but it certainly
wouldn't work today.
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But when I preached that
night on the Spirit of God,
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I put up on the...
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We had these vast screens.
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We put up on the screens
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a picture of the white dove
representing the Holy Spirit,
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just before I
came out to preach.
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Now this is a
decent audience, isn't it?
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Before I came out to...
This is an altar call incident.
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That's not the crowd.
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What you're seeing
there is the altar call.
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Pastor Willy T was singing.
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Then I heard
this tremendous roar
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coming from the audience,
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a roar by the
sound of many waters.
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Never heard it before.
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I went out,
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Willy T was
pointing up into the heavens
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and the crowd, everybody,
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150,000 or more people standing,
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pointing up and there coming low
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across the
audience is God's truth,
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was a great white dove.
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Such as, they've never seen
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in that part of
the world before.
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When we had the baptism,
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thousands
baptized out in the ocean.
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The white dove came in
across this congregation.
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And people said,
"We've seen the glory of God."
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When I went back to Australia
and America, they said,
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"These things
don't happen here."
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You know why they
don't happen here?
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Because of our lack of
faith, because of our unbelief,
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because of our sins,
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because church people
spend more time in politics
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than they do praising God.
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And so we saw there
the mighty power of God.
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1991, we were
called to go to Moscow,
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Bob Spangler from
the General Conference
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called me and he said,
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"We'd like you
to be our guinea pig
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and go and see if it'll
work in the Soviet Union."
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And so, and just we went
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and just down the
road from the Kremlin,
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we hired the Palace of Culture.
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Never seen anything like it.
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I started preaching there
at 10 o'clock in the morning,
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and I would finish it
half past 10 at night,
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with breaks only
for bread and water.
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When I had altar calls,
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I had hundreds
of Soviet soldiers,
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officers march down the
front to come to Christ.
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Couldn't happen
here, could it? No.
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If it doesn't happen
here, it's because of our sins!
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That's why it
doesn't happen here.
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I was preaching hard one night
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and this was the
crowd in the palace.
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This was the first
great evangelistic campaign
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by a foreigner
in the Soviet Union.
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Glory be to God.
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As I was preaching
one night, preaching hard,
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all of a sudden I discovered
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that my translator
had stopped speaking.
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And I turned to look
at him, he couldn't talk.
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He was crying.
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Then I looked at the
audience through the lights
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and whole audience,
thousands of people all crying.
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They said, "We've never
seen anything like this.
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We've seen the glory
and the power of God."
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I was taken and interviewed
on Good Evening Moscow,
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on Soviet television.
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This is Andrew, he asked me
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before an audience
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of 200 million people.
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He said, "Tell me is there a God
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and how can we get to know God?"
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This was on Soviet television.
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Then I stood with
the television crew
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on Soviet television
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and taught them to pray
and put my arms around them
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as they prayed and
gave their lives to Jesus.
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The problem that's
happened to the church
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in the western world, my friend,
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is that we have
lost our faith in the God
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of the impossible situation.
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This is the problem.
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We've taken the mighty angels
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that should be flying
in the midst of heaven
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and we pulled
them down to our level,
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and we've kept
them down in the dust.
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It is our unbelief
that the work of God
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does not go forward
with leaps and bounds
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because God has the power.
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Even I'm telling you today,
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lot of people are
not going to like this,
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but the problem
is, it is the truth.
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And I have truth on my side.
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In 1995, I've been to Russia.
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Some of you folks know 49 times.
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Russia and Ukraine 49 times,
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half the time in
winter, half the time in summer.
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I've spent probably a year
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in the winters of
Siberia and other places.
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Went to Kiev, the
capital of Ukraine.
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People came to me and they said,
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"Well, you know,
it may have happened
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in Nizhni Novgorod,
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it may have happened
in some other places,
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but it's not gonna happen here."
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When we got to
the opening meeting,
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look at this, here is a crowd.
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They're estimated
at a 100,000 people
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who couldn't get in.
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Ukrainian government
declared a state of emergency
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and closed down
the railway system,
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to stop the crowds from coming.
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We had tremendous opposition.
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Whenever you are
doing something for God,
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you're gonna have opposition.
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If you're not
getting opposition,
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it's because what
you're doing is ineffective
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and you're not worth opposing.
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So go and think about that one.
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Now we got, these
are the crowds inside
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at the Palace of Sport.
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People were...
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They're endangered,
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people being crushed
to death by the crowds.
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The government then
tried to close us down.
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They threatened me
that I could be killed
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if I did not
close the meetings down.
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I said, "Go
ahead, do your best."
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The meetings finished in glory.
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We had people who
came to us from Chernobyl,
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they hired a bus to bring people
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from the
villages around Chernobyl
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with their pastor
who is a saint of God.
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He had courage.
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Makes most of us in
the west look like wimps.
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No, I'm telling you.
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I received after we
started an official welcome
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from the patriarch.
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That's like the pope of Ukraine,
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because his predecessor
had drop dead after he said,
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"That John Carter
would preach in Ukraine
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only over his dead body."
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This is the man
who followed him.
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This is my friend
Pastor Norman Matiko
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who introduced us.
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We had a great
baptism in the Dnieper River.
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And we saw there,
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thousands and thousands
and thousands people baptized.
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Some say it is
the greatest baptism
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in the history of Ukraine
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since Vladimir a
thousand years, years ago
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baptized Ukraine
into the Orthodox faith.
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So I believe, my
friend, in the power of God.
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In 1992, we went
to Nizhni Novgorod.
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That's the old city of Gorky.
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It was a closed city
since the days of Stalin.
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It's where Sakharov
went, one of my heroes.
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Not only was he the
father of the Soviet bomb.
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No hero for that.
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But he was a great patriot
and he stood for democracy.
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And so he was
exiled to Nizhni Novgorod,
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once called Gorky.
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When we started there in 1992...
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This gentleman here,
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I just want you to
have a look at this.
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This is the chief of the
KGB with some of his staff.
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General Vladimir,
he came to the meetings
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and he said,
"Please, Pastor Carter,
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don't forget us,
even we have souls."
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You know what St.
Augustine said, Augustine?
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"Our souls were made for God,
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and they cannot rest
until they rest in Him."
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We have a great work,
weapon working on our sides.
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It is the hunger in
the souls of men and women.
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If you don't have that hunger,
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it's because you're
very, very sick spiritually.
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Ravi Zacharias
said the other night
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when I was watching him.
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He said, "Show me a
man who has no shame.
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And I will show
you a man or women
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on his way to
becoming a monster."
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Ravi Zacharias said, "The
greatest need in America,"
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you know what it is?
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Not this hyped up
religion where we say,
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"Oh, we're so good."
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And we live these rotten lives.
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Said the
greatest need in America,
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I would say in Australia
is for a sense of shame.
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Because you don't come
to God until you have shame.
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So the KGB came to the meetings.
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The KGB young men
there acted as my deacons.
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We had a baptism
down by the river,
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here's Danny
Shelton and Igor Pespekin.
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You see some tens here
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that were set up
by the Russian army.
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The Russian army
acted as my deacons
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down at the Volga River.
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When we saw
thousands and thousands
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baptized into Christ.
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So please don't come and
tell me, it doesn't work.
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One of the main
reasons it doesn't work
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is because you don't work.
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Did you get that one?
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Am I being too subtle?
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One of the main
reasons evangelism doesn't work
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is because we don't work.
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So if you don't
read the Bible story,
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read about the apostles.
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They weren't
arm chair theologian
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sitting around
talking about assertoric,
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theological subjects.
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They were out
preaching the gospel
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sweating and bleeding.
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That's real Christianity.
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Then in 1990 we ran a
campaign in Los Angeles.
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It won't work in Los Angeles,
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I can tell you, it's impossible.
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People are too bad,
too dumb, too wicked.
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So we hired downtown
The Shrine Auditorium.
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It's one of the
biggest auditoriums
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in North America, seats 6,600.
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People said to me,
"No one's going to come,
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it's impossible, won't work."
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Oh, after a while you
get tired of this people.
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Pardon my saying
'cause you get tired of them.
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How does God feel about them?
00:14:06.21\00:14:09.04
When people who
profess to believe in God,
00:14:09.08\00:14:12.31
they're
professional wet blankets.
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Nah, can't
happen, won't work here.
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Happens on the world scene.
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It happens at the local church,
00:14:21.66\00:14:24.49
where you have people
running the show too often,
00:14:24.53\00:14:27.66
who have no faith at all,
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except faith
that they want to stay
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in some position in the church.
00:14:33.23\00:14:36.37
And they fight
like Kilkenny cats
00:14:36.40\00:14:39.87
to get elected back
into some church office.
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And then they say,
but now that won't work.
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Well at the Shrine Auditorium,
00:14:46.75\00:14:48.18
at some of the biggest crowds
in the history of the shrine,
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had 24,000 people
come to the opening.
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In spite of
horrendous LA traffic,
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I have driven
500,000 miles in LA traffic.
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God have mercy on my soul.
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But they came
downtown Los Angeles.
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You know what I think, folks?
00:15:10.97\00:15:12.67
I think too often the church
00:15:12.71\00:15:14.04
has lost the
reason for its existence.
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They think the church exists
00:15:19.21\00:15:21.02
to perpetuate
safe, comfortable jobs.
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The church exists to
preach the Gospel of Christ.
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And it's amazing
how God gave us money
00:15:36.00\00:15:38.03
for all of these campaigns.
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Campaign in India
that I showed you,
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last segment,
cost a million bucks.
00:15:42.77\00:15:45.31
Where does a pastor
00:15:45.34\00:15:46.68
like John Carter
get a million bucks?
00:15:46.71\00:15:49.04
A million bucks.
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We went ahead in faith,
and at the end of the campaign,
00:15:54.22\00:15:56.72
we'd spent a million bucks,
00:15:56.75\00:15:58.69
and we'd raised
another million bucks,
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which we put into evangelism.
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We couldn't buy a church,
we couldn't buy a building,
00:16:04.16\00:16:06.49
because we kept putting
money into what is important.
00:16:06.53\00:16:11.67
Now my concept of Christianity
00:16:11.70\00:16:13.17
is very
different to some of yours.
00:16:13.20\00:16:15.87
Some people say,
00:16:15.90\00:16:17.24
"I want a church which is
a nice, comfortable club."
00:16:17.27\00:16:19.61
Well, don't
come and work for me,
00:16:19.64\00:16:21.01
because it won't be quiet
and it won't be comfortable.
00:16:21.04\00:16:25.38
The shrine
meetings were closed down
00:16:25.41\00:16:30.59
by a bunch of liberals,
00:16:30.62\00:16:34.16
thinking they just
finished the work of God,
00:16:34.19\00:16:35.89
but from that defeat came
00:16:35.92\00:16:37.69
the Community
Adventist Fellowship Church,
00:16:37.73\00:16:40.13
that helped to win
20,000 souls in Russia.
00:16:40.16\00:16:44.17
They couldn't win them,
00:16:44.20\00:16:45.53
weren't allowed to
win them in Los Angeles.
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God said, "Go somewhere else."
00:16:47.30\00:16:49.57
They won 20,000 in Russia.
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That's why it
says in Romans 8:28,
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"We know that in all things,
00:16:54.84\00:16:56.18
God works for the
good of those who love Him,
00:16:56.21\00:16:58.51
who have been called
according to His purpose."
00:16:58.55\00:17:00.52
God has got a
purpose, my friend.
00:17:00.55\00:17:04.65
You and I better
get out of our rut
00:17:04.69\00:17:08.72
and get into the purpose of God.
00:17:08.76\00:17:10.99
Some of us have no idea
00:17:11.03\00:17:12.36
I'm afraid what
Christianity is all about.
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Pardon my saying this?
00:17:14.73\00:17:16.26
In 1984, when I
was senior pastor
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of the Great Wahroonga Church,
which I love dearly, in Sydney.
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It was the
church at the division
00:17:23.54\00:17:25.37
where the Sydney
Adventist Hospital is,
00:17:25.41\00:17:28.34
which I personally think is
the best hospital in the world.
00:17:28.38\00:17:32.45
Just telling you
some of those things,
00:17:32.48\00:17:33.82
you may not
agree with, it's okay.
00:17:33.85\00:17:35.58
Everybody's got
the right to be wrong.
00:17:35.62\00:17:37.59
Now, in 1984,
because the church needed it,
00:17:37.62\00:17:42.59
and the church was fighting,
00:17:42.62\00:17:44.13
and they were
divided with perfectionism
00:17:44.16\00:17:46.53
and every other stupidity,
00:17:46.56\00:17:48.33
we took this bunch of
young people to Manila.
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And over there you see
00:17:53.07\00:17:54.40
Graham
Bradford, my great friend,
00:17:54.44\00:17:56.04
who passed away
not very long ago.
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And they were
more members who came,
00:17:58.21\00:18:00.28
but the people who came
with, played in the orchestra,
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they were not there.
00:18:03.98\00:18:05.95
And you can see the
crowds waiting in Manila to get
00:18:05.98\00:18:10.22
into the Filipino
International Convention Center.
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Vast crowds inside,
vast crowds outside.
00:18:17.13\00:18:21.73
They would say when
I'd finished preaching,
00:18:21.76\00:18:23.70
please preach again.
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We've got to let more people in.
00:18:25.53\00:18:28.04
People are blocking the streets.
00:18:28.07\00:18:30.71
People said, "Oh,
no, it can't happen."
00:18:30.74\00:18:34.91
How long is the Lord
going to put up with us,
00:18:34.94\00:18:36.64
before He
replaces us with people
00:18:36.68\00:18:38.55
who've got some faith?
00:18:38.58\00:18:41.05
Hear what I'm saying?
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And then it was El Salvador.
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I was mighty blessed
to go to El Salvador.
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We hired this
great outdoor arena,
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the biggest football
stadium in Central America.
00:18:52.49\00:18:57.77
And some of them said,
"Oh, it can't happen here.
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It's impossible, you know."
00:18:59.67\00:19:02.14
Hear this stuff,
00:19:02.17\00:19:03.51
and it makes you
feel like throwing up.
00:19:03.54\00:19:05.41
The greatest crowds in
the history of that arena
00:19:05.44\00:19:08.51
came to hear the
Word of God preached.
00:19:08.54\00:19:11.61
The greatest crowds,
bigger than their grand finals,
00:19:11.65\00:19:14.78
in their football matches.
00:19:14.82\00:19:17.15
So unbeliever,
00:19:17.19\00:19:18.52
what are you
going to say about that?
00:19:18.55\00:19:19.92
And this happened also
00:19:19.95\00:19:21.29
because we had down
there a union president
00:19:21.32\00:19:23.12
whose name was
Pastor Abel Pacheco.
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He said, "It can be done,
00:19:25.83\00:19:27.36
it shall be
done, it will be done,
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God help us."
00:19:29.40\00:19:31.03
And it happened.
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In one day there, in this place,
00:19:32.50\00:19:35.00
we baptized in one
day more than 5000 souls.
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Time will fail me
to tell of Melbourne.
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We're going to run a
little video as I talk here.
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Sydney, St. Petersburg,
00:19:47.85\00:19:53.52
Kazan, Volgograd.
00:19:53.56\00:19:57.96
This is India on the screen now.
00:19:57.99\00:19:59.56
These are crowds in India.
00:19:59.59\00:20:00.93
Look at this,
folks, for crying out loud.
00:20:00.96\00:20:03.13
People say, "It can't happen."
00:20:03.16\00:20:04.93
Even some of
the Indians told us,
00:20:04.97\00:20:06.67
"No, it can't happen in India,
00:20:06.70\00:20:08.14
happened in Russia,
can't happen in India."
00:20:08.17\00:20:12.57
Vast crowds of people
00:20:12.61\00:20:15.54
as far as the eye
could see in India,
00:20:15.58\00:20:20.12
Hindus and Muslims praising.
00:20:20.15\00:20:23.12
No, it can't.
00:20:23.15\00:20:24.49
Hey, it's a wonder the Lord
00:20:24.52\00:20:26.52
hasn't spewed us
out of His mouth.
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That's the talk of rebellion.
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That's the talk of
Laodicea, that's the talk...
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of weaklings.
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Look at the people coming here
to have their babies blessed.
00:20:39.87\00:20:44.37
Thousands of
mothers coming here,
00:20:44.41\00:20:47.38
holding up their babies,
00:20:47.41\00:20:49.24
bless my babies,
bless my children.
00:20:49.28\00:20:52.15
Bless them, been amazing.
00:20:52.18\00:20:54.92
Of course, we
can't bless anything,
00:20:54.95\00:20:56.82
but we can bless
them in the name of God.
00:20:56.85\00:20:59.69
And I think we
got some more video.
00:20:59.72\00:21:02.06
I don't know, maybe that's it.
00:21:02.09\00:21:03.43
Maybe we saw it all.
00:21:03.46\00:21:05.33
Here we go. Oh, here we go.
00:21:05.36\00:21:06.96
This is now in.
This is in Petersburg.
00:21:07.00\00:21:09.03
We hired the biggest
auditorium just about in Russia.
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These are the crowds that came.
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Have a look at this.
00:21:13.80\00:21:15.14
These are the
people coming for baptism.
00:21:15.17\00:21:17.91
Sometimes have a 100 pastors in.
00:21:17.94\00:21:20.74
This is in Kazan, Russia.
00:21:20.78\00:21:22.64
Hey couldn't happen in Russia.
00:21:22.68\00:21:24.15
I want to tell you today,
00:21:24.18\00:21:25.51
that gospel is the
power of God unto salvation,
00:21:25.55\00:21:28.82
if you got some faith.
00:21:28.85\00:21:30.19
These are people
being baptized in.
00:21:30.22\00:21:32.22
This is in front
of a Muslim mosque.
00:21:32.25\00:21:36.06
No, when I
showed these pictures,
00:21:36.09\00:21:38.03
they said, "That's dangerous."
00:21:38.06\00:21:41.00
Do you want to
come with us? "No."
00:21:41.03\00:21:43.83
Do you have faith in God? "Yes."
00:21:43.87\00:21:45.90
No, come on, go
home, get some faith.
00:21:45.93\00:21:50.11
These are Russians.
00:21:50.14\00:21:52.27
This is in
Irkutsk, that's in Siberia.
00:21:52.31\00:21:56.64
I've been there where
all you can see was ice.
00:21:56.68\00:22:00.55
This is preaching
out of doors, in Siberia.
00:22:00.58\00:22:05.55
When we baptize
the people there,
00:22:05.59\00:22:08.29
the water was so cold.
00:22:08.32\00:22:11.19
These are people coming,
I think to Dnepropetrovsk,
00:22:11.23\00:22:14.16
I'm not sure, but somewhere.
00:22:14.20\00:22:16.03
I think this
could be in Ukraine.
00:22:16.06\00:22:18.13
Look, the people
are standing everywhere.
00:22:18.17\00:22:20.94
The problem we
faced was that people
00:22:20.97\00:22:23.10
would go hack off in Ukraine.
00:22:23.14\00:22:25.04
The problem was that people
could get crushed to death.
00:22:25.07\00:22:30.78
Now I'd be doing a lot more,
but I don't have the money.
00:22:30.81\00:22:34.48
People say, "You're a
professional evangelist."
00:22:34.52\00:22:36.18
No, I'm not.
00:22:36.22\00:22:37.55
I'm a pastor, the
same as any other pastor.
00:22:37.59\00:22:40.86
But I believe the Bible.
00:22:40.89\00:22:43.12
This is Odessa,
down in the Black Sea.
00:22:43.16\00:22:46.29
And the biggest crowds,
00:22:46.33\00:22:47.66
I think in the
history of Odessa.
00:22:47.70\00:22:49.20
And here people are
coming to get baptized.
00:22:49.23\00:22:52.87
Goodness me.
00:22:52.90\00:22:55.00
Thousands and
thousands, Zaporozhye.
00:22:55.04\00:22:57.94
That's the
headquarters of The Cossacks.
00:22:57.97\00:23:02.41
Oh, dear.
00:23:02.44\00:23:03.78
They tried to run
us out of town there,
00:23:03.81\00:23:05.81
literally run us out of town.
00:23:05.85\00:23:08.65
It was dangerous.
00:23:08.68\00:23:10.02
When you laugh, you
want to come and find out.
00:23:10.05\00:23:12.75
See where your faith is.
00:23:12.79\00:23:14.46
Johannesburg, said,
"No, it couldn't happen."
00:23:14.49\00:23:16.99
Yes, this is South Africa.
00:23:17.03\00:23:19.86
Thousands and thousands,
00:23:19.89\00:23:21.23
and I preached the
whole message of God,
00:23:21.26\00:23:23.33
the three angels' messages.
00:23:23.37\00:23:24.70
Some people say,
00:23:24.73\00:23:26.07
"You know you
shouldn't preach that,
00:23:26.10\00:23:27.44
you may offend somebody."
00:23:27.47\00:23:28.80
I say it, because I
expect to offend the devil.
00:23:28.84\00:23:31.74
And if you happen
to get offended too,
00:23:31.77\00:23:33.78
it's because you're
on the side of the devil.
00:23:33.81\00:23:35.94
Look at the people
getting baptized here.
00:23:35.98\00:23:38.45
This is down in...
00:23:38.48\00:23:40.82
This is El Salvador.
00:23:40.85\00:23:42.28
Look at the
crowd in El Salvador.
00:23:42.32\00:23:46.09
Now those people
are crazy for football,
00:23:46.12\00:23:49.26
but the people who came out here
00:23:49.29\00:23:51.06
to hear the Word of God preach.
00:23:51.09\00:23:52.56
They were the biggest crowd,
00:23:52.59\00:23:53.93
bigger than
their football crowds.
00:23:53.96\00:23:56.26
People say,
"No." Yes. Look at it.
00:23:56.30\00:23:58.93
This is in the Solomon Islands.
00:23:58.97\00:24:00.74
Here we are baptizing in
a crocodile infested river.
00:24:00.77\00:24:06.61
The baptism went fast.
00:24:06.64\00:24:11.25
This is in Cuba.
00:24:11.28\00:24:14.38
This is in Cuba,
00:24:14.42\00:24:16.92
where we were not
allowed to advertise.
00:24:16.95\00:24:18.82
But the people went out,
00:24:18.85\00:24:20.29
and the people
did the advertising.
00:24:20.32\00:24:23.93
We had the largest baptism
there in the history of Cuba.
00:24:23.96\00:24:29.86
So, my friends,
00:24:29.90\00:24:32.13
the preaching of Christ's gospel
00:24:32.17\00:24:33.80
is powerfully effective
00:24:33.84\00:24:35.47
when accompanied
by the Holy Spirit.
00:24:35.50\00:24:37.44
The problem is, most of us
don't have the Holy Spirit.
00:24:37.47\00:24:41.11
Most of us are in a
Laodicean condition,
00:24:41.14\00:24:43.95
and we're very comfortable,
very easy, very lazy,
00:24:43.98\00:24:47.65
very complacent
and very selfish.
00:24:47.68\00:24:52.12
Why do evangelism?
00:24:52.15\00:24:53.49
Because it contains the solution
00:24:53.52\00:24:54.86
to all the ills of humanity,
00:24:54.89\00:24:57.03
as we're told in John 3:16,
00:24:57.06\00:24:59.43
"For God so loved the
world that He gave His only Son,
00:24:59.46\00:25:03.00
so that whoever believes
in Him shall not perish,
00:25:03.03\00:25:05.33
but have everlasting life."
00:25:05.37\00:25:06.80
The gospel forgives sin.
00:25:06.84\00:25:10.11
Let me say this,
before I run out of time,
00:25:10.14\00:25:12.77
how wonderful it
would be in America,
00:25:12.81\00:25:15.94
if Christians spent the
same energy on evangelism
00:25:15.98\00:25:20.18
that they do on politics.
00:25:20.22\00:25:24.99
Yeah, they're
really much into politics.
00:25:25.02\00:25:29.02
And the politics
won't save anything,
00:25:29.06\00:25:32.06
makes it worse.
00:25:32.09\00:25:34.10
The gospel forgives sin,
00:25:34.13\00:25:35.46
it breaks the controlling
power of sin in the life.
00:25:35.50\00:25:37.77
It heals the broken heart.
00:25:37.80\00:25:39.40
It restores
broken relationships.
00:25:39.43\00:25:41.74
It gives hope for the future.
00:25:41.77\00:25:43.41
It lifts up the cast down.
00:25:43.44\00:25:45.57
It brings justice and liberty.
00:25:45.61\00:25:47.71
It takes away
pessimism and gives joy.
00:25:47.74\00:25:50.31
It overthrows racism.
00:25:50.35\00:25:52.15
It makes old
people into new people,
00:25:52.18\00:25:55.15
and it gives them eternal life.
00:25:55.18\00:25:57.95
Glory be to God,
00:25:57.99\00:26:02.06
in the name of the Father,
00:26:02.09\00:26:04.46
and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit.
00:26:04.49\00:26:09.36
Amen and amen.
00:26:09.40\00:26:11.77
Hello, friend. I'm John Carter.
00:26:21.31\00:26:23.85
Behind me is the
great city of Manila,
00:26:23.88\00:26:27.95
the capital of the Philippines.
00:26:27.98\00:26:30.25
Did you know,
this is quite amazing.
00:26:30.29\00:26:32.12
There are more
people living in this area
00:26:32.15\00:26:34.36
than in New York City.
00:26:34.39\00:26:36.36
And Christ died
for these people.
00:26:36.39\00:26:39.16
We came here, oh,
long time ago back in 1984.
00:26:39.19\00:26:45.17
What's that, 34, 35 years ago,
00:26:45.20\00:26:48.14
and we came here with
a team of young people
00:26:48.17\00:26:50.44
and we came to the PICC.
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It is our intent to come here,
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hire the biggest
hall that's available,
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the greatest outdoor
stadium, whatever it takes.
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You've got more than
20 million souls out here.
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And I say it again.
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These are people
for whom Christ died.
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I'm asking you to pray
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for the people
of the Philippines.
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Please pray for the
people here in Metro Manila.
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And please write to me,
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Thousand Oaks, California 91358.
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at the address that is
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We're back in Manila,
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and we're back
with a message from God,
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that message is,
Christ died for you.
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And Christ is coming again soon.
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Please support us.
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Write to me
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And also write to me
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Thank you for your support.
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