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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Join us with
questions and answers
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with Pastor John Carter.
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Welcome today to
the Carter Report.
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I'm John Carter.
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And today we have a
special session Q&A.
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You folks send in
your Bible questions.
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And I by the grace
of God, I answer them.
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Then we have a
great television studio
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here in Southern California,
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in beautiful Moorpark
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next to my
hometown of Thousand Oaks,
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and the questions come
in from the live audience
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and also from around the world.
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And we're going
to put up the address
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if you've got a Bible question,
not a political question,
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we're not into politics here.
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We believe in Jesus,
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and we belong to one party here.
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I'm not afraid
to tell people this,
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I'm not a Democrat.
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I'm an old time conservative.
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I'm not a Republican, either.
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I am an independent, and
I'm independent for Jesus.
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And I'm not going to ask
any party to think for me.
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I'm not going to ask any church
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to think for me
either my friend.
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By the grace of God,
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I am going to think
God's thoughts after Him
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and my mind is
going to be captive
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to the Word of God.
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So here we go
with your questions.
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Luke 12:10.
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What is the blasphemy
against the Holy Spirit
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that will not be forgiven?
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Okay, we're gonna go
through a lot of questions.
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Come over here to Luke.
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I'm sorry, I'm gonna go fast.
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But you know, I got
to get through this.
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Luke 12:10.
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I want to get through so
I don't leave anybody out.
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Luke 12:10.
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Jesus says, "Anyone who speaks
a word against the Son of Man,
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it'll be forgiven him."
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You can speak against Jesus.
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And if you
confess and forsake it,
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God will forgive you.
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"But to him who blasphemes
against the Holy Spirit,
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it will not be forgiven."
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That's pretty,
pretty solid stuff.
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You can sin against
Jesus, and you can be saved.
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You can sin against people
in the world, you can be saved.
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You can commit any sin.
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Jesus said, "All types of
sins are going to be forgiven."
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But if you sin
against the Holy Spirit,
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you won't be saved.
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This is called
the unpardonable sin.
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How does this work?
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The Holy Spirit
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is the third
person of the Godhead.
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He is the active agent
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in the redemption of the soul.
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Say I come to a
meeting like this,
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I turn on a
certain television program,
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or else I'm reading
the Holy Scriptures,
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and a voice starts
to speak to my heart.
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And that voice
convicts me of my sin.
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That's the Holy Spirit.
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The Holy Spirit
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is the third
person of the Godhead,
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who leads me to
Christ and to salvation.
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Listen carefully,
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because some of you
folks here don't get this.
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A lot of folks go to church,
and they're really Pharisees,
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because they've
never been convicted
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of their need of a Savior.
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They're always
criticizing other people.
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Have you met people like this?
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always got a story to
tell you about other people.
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They ought learn to
listen to what the Spirit of God
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has to say to them,
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because the Holy Spirit
comes and convicts me of sin.
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You've heard of John Newton?
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He was the man who
wrote Amazing Grace,
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the greatest hymn probably
that's ever been written.
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He was a slave ship
captain, using a bit.
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This man was involved
in the selling of slaves,
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selling of flesh
and blood, human beings.
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But he came under the
influence of a mighty preacher,
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he preaches,
the Wesley brothers,
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those men could preach,
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they had the Spirit
of God in their souls.
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And as they preached the
gospel, this man cried out,
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"I am a great sinner, but
Christ is a great Savior."
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That's written on his tombstone.
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Many of us here today,
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even some of you
folks sitting here,
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in this studio in Moorpark,
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maybe you've never
had that experience
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where you say,
I'm a great sinner.
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You know, I can tell you
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all the other
sinners in the church,
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let say again the Pharisees.
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We don't want to hear that.
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I'm a great sinner, but
Christ is a great Savior.
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So he comes and
talks to my heart,
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and when he talks to my heart,
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the first time I hear
him like a trumpet sound.
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It's like a train,
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the southern
Aurora in Australia,
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roaring past
your bedroom window,
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wakes you up.
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Yeah, I hear it.
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Then I ought to do
something about it.
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But if I keep saying no to God,
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and if I stifle the
voice of the Holy Spirit,
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and if I get
calluses on my soul,
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I will sin away the Holy Spirit,
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and that is the
unpardonable sin,
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and I will lose all
conviction and I will be lost,
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and I'll be preaching and
talking, and I won't care.
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Pretty serious stuff this.
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Come over here
to Ephesians 4:30.
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I've seen people
under the mighty conviction
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of the Holy Spirit of God.
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I've seen tens of thousands,
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hundreds of
thousands come to Christ,
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and I've seen people,
especially religious people,
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commit the unpardonable sin.
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Ephesians 4:30, says,
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"Do not grieve the
Holy Spirit of God,
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by whom you were sealed
for the day of redemption."
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If I grieve the Holy Spirit,
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I will come to the place
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where I will have no conscience,
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I can break God's laws,
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and I am lost and
I really don't care.
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Like a man who
kept the pet dove.
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He kept putting his hand out
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and putting a little
bit of food for the dove.
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And as the dove kept
coming, he pulled his hand away,
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dove would come,
pull his hand away.
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It's like the Holy Spirit.
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Pull your hand away,
keep pulling it away,
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keep hardening your heart.
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And the time came
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when He put out
his hand for one time,
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and the dove
said no and flew away.
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And when that
happens to a person,
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he's committed
the unpardonable sin.
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No conscious,
no shame, no guilt.
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The Great American
evangelist Dwight Moody
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tells of a young man
who attended his meetings
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and ran out of the meeting
saying, "Holy Ghost leave me."
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Pretty dangerous.
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This young man was knocked over
by a horse and dray in Chicago.
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Moody went along to his deathbed
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and wanted to pray with him
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and the young man
said to him, "Mr. Moody,
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I pray that the Holy
Spirit would lead me and he has.
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I am lost, I am
damned, and I don't care."
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I've met people like this.
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Their hearts are
as hard as anything.
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I've met people in
the church like this,
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like the eagle on
the ice flow at Niagara
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feeding on bit of meat
or something, some carrion.
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And as he was feeding on it,
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his talons sunk
down into the ice.
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That's like people
feeding on the carrion.
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And when he came to
Niagara Falls were roaring.
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He thought he just flexed
his mighty wings and fly away.
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When he tried to, he couldn't.
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He was frozen in the ice.
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There are people
who go to church,
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especially church
people week after week,
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and they're frozen in the ice.
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Got all the talk in the
world, they talk religious,
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talk ad nauseum.
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They know the problems in
the church and in the world.
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They don't know the
problems in their own hearts.
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And so the Holy
Spirit is sent from God
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to convict us of sin.
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And when the Holy Spirit comes,
we need to say, "Yes, God,
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yes God, yes God and do it now."
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That's why the
Bible says do it now.
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The devil says, "Don't say no."
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The devil says, "Do it tomorrow.
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Don't say no, do it tomorrow."
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Because tomorrow never comes.
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Question seven,
going from last week,
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last segment,
vengeance and punishment,
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is this God's strange act?
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Isaiah 28:21, let me
see if I can find it.
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Isaiah
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or as I say in
Australia, Isaiah,
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Isaiah 28:21,
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Isaiah 28:21,
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"For the Lord will
rise up as in Mount Perazim,
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he will be angry as
in the valley of Gibeon,
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that he may do his
work, his awesome work,"
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in the KJV it says,
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"his strange work and
bring to past his act,
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his unusual, his strange act."
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And then the person
says, "Are they destroyed
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by the
brightness of His character
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and perfect love?"
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Well, if you turn to
2 Thessalonians 1:7-8
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'cause I'm running out of time.
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I'm going to read
this off the screen.
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"And to give you who
are troubled rest with us
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when the Lord Jesus
is revealed from heaven
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with His mighty angels,
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in flaming fire
taking vengeance..."
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Oh, people like, "No, no,
God doesn't take vengeance.
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God hasn't got any wrath."
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Those people just
don't read the Bible.
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"Taking vengeance on
those who do not know God,
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and on those who do not obey
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the gospel of our
Lord Jesus Christ."
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God comes as the judge.
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He doesn't come
to save the wicked.
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They've had their opportunity.
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And the Bible tells
us they are destroyed,
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the glory that
destroys the wicked
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immortalizes the saints.
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I had a man in Los Angeles
who came to my church for years
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and never understood
or appreciated one word
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that came out of my mouth,
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because he'd been
brought up in the church,
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but he was brain dead almost.
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He would say, "Oh, I
don't believe any of this.
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My God is a teddy bear.
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My God is a big
loving teddy bear.
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I want you to know this.
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God is not a teddy bear.
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He is the God of
righteousness and holiness
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that gave His Son
to die for our sins.
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Romans 1:18 is a text
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that everybody ought
to get into their heads,
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especially those who follow
the Southern California heresy
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of the moral influence theory,
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which is one of
the biggest heresies
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ever to come out
of the pit of hell.
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Very popular in this place.
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For the wrath of God...
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Oh, no, better
take some scissors
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and chop that out.
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"For the wrath of God
is revealed from heaven
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against all ungodliness
and unrighteousness of men,
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who suppress the
truth in unrighteousness."
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The Bible talks
about the wrath of God.
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And there are hundreds of
texts that talk about this.
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This is not some petulant
little God who gets cranky.
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This is a mighty holy
God who reacts against evil
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and unrighteousness and sinners,
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who spit in His face.
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And when He comes back,
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He comes back to take vengeance.
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Now, I'm not
gonna turn up the text,
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but in Peter it says,
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"For God did not spare
the angels that sinned."
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Oh, what do you
man, He didn't know.
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He cast out the angels."
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And then it says, "If
God didn't spare the angels,
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and If he didn't spare
those in the days of Noah,
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but sent a flood."
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People say, "No,
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that all just
happened by itself."
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Hey, well, why do
you talk like this?
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Why don't you read the Bible?
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And then it says,
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"If he didn't spare the
people in Sodom and Gomorrah."
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This was the wrath of God.
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And then in Romans
Chapter 8, it says,
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I heard HMS Richards
preach a mighty sermon on this.
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I preached this
sermon many times,
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people think
it's a great sermon,
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but I got it from HMS Richards.
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God didn't spare the angels.
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He didn't spare
people in the flood.
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He didn't spare the Sodomites.
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He that spared not His own son.
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You know why He
didn't spare His own son?
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Because His own Son
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took the curse
of sin upon Himself.
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You want to know what hell is?
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Look at the cross.
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You want to see
the wrath of God?
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Look at the cross.
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I do not believe in
the moral influence theory.
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I believe in the Gospel of God,
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a holy God.
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So He didn't spare His own Son
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because His own Son
took our sin upon Himself
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and He tasted the wrath of God
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that tells you
how much He loves us,
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and why we ought
to run to Christ.
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Next question, here it is.
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Do the wicked, I think it is,
let me see if I got it right.
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Yeah, I think so.
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Do the wicked...
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We had these on
little bits of paper,
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but I wrote them down
here so I wouldn't lose them.
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Do the wicked agree
with their judgment?
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Well, you should ask the wicked.
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Do the wicked...
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Okay, let me give
you an answer if I can,
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Philippians 2:10 and 11.
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And I'm going to
read it off the screen
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Philippians 2:10 and 11.
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So I can move along.
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"That at the name of Jesus
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every knee should
bow of those in heaven,
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and those on earth,
and those under the earth,
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and that every
tongue should confess
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that Jesus Christ is Lord,
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to the glory of God the Father."
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Everybody's going to bow down.
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The righteous are
going to bow down,
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the wicked are
going to bow down,
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and the devil is
going to bow down,
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and the evil angels
are going to bow down,
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and they're going to
bow down because they know
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that they're
wrong and God is just.
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Nobody's going to
doubt the justice of God.
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And Revelation
15:4 is a good text.
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Revelation 15:4.
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"Who shall not fear You, O
Lord, and glorify your name?
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For You alone are holy.
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For all nations shall
come and worship before You."
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Now look at this.
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"For your judgments
have been manifested."
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When this show is finished,
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the great controversy
between Christ and Satan.
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People wonder,
"Why doesn't God come?"
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Because, in a
sense, in Romans 3,
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it says that God is
on trial, says that.
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Romans Chapter 3
says, "God is on trial."
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And His own works
will vindicate Him
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as the works of Satan,
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and sinners will
condemn themselves.
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That's why they
can't go to heaven,
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because they
wouldn't want to be there.
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And so I think
there'll be no doubt about it.
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Everybody will say,
"Just and true are Your ways."
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There'll be no people there
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making silly
smart little speeches.
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Next question.
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I'm trying to hear your take
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on why other
people beside our church
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will be saved.
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Well, imagine that.
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And now let me go any further
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I can't understand how
a person in this church
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could ever say that.
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When they claim that
Ellen White was a prophet
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and she said,
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"The vast majority of
people who are true Christians
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are found in the
Roman Catholic Church
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and the Protestant Churches."
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Oh, no, we're the only ones.
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Isn't it funny that we
like to read those things
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that make us
feel more righteous?
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That's the old
sinner's self righteousness.
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That's the worst of all sins.
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And then I'll read the
rest because I like it.
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I really enjoy your ministry.
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You tell it like it
is, no sugarcoatings.
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Oh, goodness,
nobody's ever said that before.
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Now look at Revelation
7:9, turn to this text.
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I know I'm going fast,
but you folks are smart.
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Revelation chapter, we
have a very great audience.
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Revelation 7:14.
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I said to him, Sir,
have I got the right one?
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No, Revelation 7:9,
"After these things I looked,
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and behold, a great
multitude, lots of folks,
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which no one could
number, praise God,
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of all nations,
tribes, people and tongues,
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standing before the
throne and before the Lamb,
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clothed with white robes,
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with palm
branches in their hands."
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Here is a great
multitude made up of white folks
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and black folks and
brown folks and yellow folks
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and all sorts of folks.
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And it's such a big company
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that you can't even number them.
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Now, who are these folks?
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Let me see. Verse 14
tells us who they are.
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I said to him, sir, you know,
John asks who are these folks?
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I... You know,
so, he said to me,
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these are the ones who came
out of the great tribulation,
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and washed their
robes and made them white
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in the blood of the Lamb.
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Now, I'm not
going to try to give
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a exposition of
everything in that text,
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but it tells me that
the people who are saved,
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you're listening to me,
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the people who are
saved are not saved
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because of their success
in keeping the commandments.
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Oh, no, no, no.
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They're saved
because of the grace of God,
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and because they're
washed in the blood of the Lamb.
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That's the only
way you can be saved.
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And if a person truly
comes to Christ in true faith,
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he's washed in
the blood of the Lamb,
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and he becomes a
part of God's big family.
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I believe the word so much
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of the great
Protestant reformers.
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It's a part of my theology.
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It's a part of my ministry.
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It's a part of my lifestyle.
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A lot of people don't like it.
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I get a lot of criticism,
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I sometimes get
some nasty letters.
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I don't care.
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I believe in what Luther taught
and the Protestant reformers.
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Sola Christus, only Christ.
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Sola Scriptura, only scripture,
Sola Gratia, only grace.
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Sola Fide, only faith.
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People say, "No, it's
making it too simple."
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No, it's making biblical.
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When you start
adding on to the Scripture
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and the truth of the gospel,
00:19:27.56\00:19:29.90
you go into the
devil's religion.
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So I am saved by
the blood of Jesus.
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And when I come to Jesus,
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I am right with God right now.
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And as the lady said,
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the vast majority are not found
inside our church just as well.
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Majority are found in
the Roman Catholic Church
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and the great
Protestant Churches,
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so let's not be
critical of other people.
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If we gonna be hard on anybody,
00:19:59.53\00:20:00.93
we ought to be hard on ourselves
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and confess our sins.
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Okay, here's the next question.
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The Bible says that
those who crucified Jesus
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will resurrect
to see Jesus come.
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Will these people resurrect
again after 1,000 years?
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You know, you ask me
such tough questions.
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Revelation 1:7,
00:20:18.25\00:20:21.45
is the text that is
quoted, so would you,
00:20:21.48\00:20:23.15
dear hearts and gentle
people, turn to Revelation,
00:20:23.18\00:20:26.15
the apocalypse,
the great revealing,
00:20:26.19\00:20:29.59
the last great
book in the Bible,
00:20:29.62\00:20:32.16
which is a book on
the blood of Christ
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and on the wrath of God.
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Revelation 1:7.
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Revelation 1:7,
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"Behold, He is
coming with clouds,
00:20:43.14\00:20:46.84
and every eye shall see
Him even those who pierced Him.
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So the people
who pierced Christ,
00:20:49.68\00:20:51.01
the high priest,
the Roman soldiers,
00:20:51.05\00:20:53.72
Pilate and all of
those wicked people
00:20:53.75\00:20:56.72
are going to be
raised to see Jesus coming.
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Oh goodness.
00:20:59.62\00:21:00.96
"And all the tribes of the earth
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will mourn because of Him.
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Even so, Amen."
00:21:03.73\00:21:07.06
Now, I don't have time
to give an exegesis on this,
00:21:07.10\00:21:10.50
but the Bible teaches
in Revelation Chapter 20,
00:21:10.53\00:21:15.90
that everybody,
everybody outside of Christ
00:21:15.94\00:21:19.64
is going to be
raised after the millennium.
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This is our chart, magnum opus,
00:21:23.24\00:21:25.85
this is our
crowning glory chart.
00:21:25.88\00:21:29.75
So when Jesus comes,
it's the first resurrection,
00:21:29.78\00:21:32.95
the righteous are
raised, Christ returns,
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the translation of the saints.
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The earth is depopulated
during the millennium,
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this whole talk on
this, you can write in for it.
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And then, the Bible says
00:21:42.43\00:21:44.10
the rest of the
dead did not live again
00:21:44.13\00:21:45.80
until the thousand
years were finished.
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They come, so if
you don't come up here,
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you're gonna come up here.
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I don't care who you are.
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If you don't
come up in the first,
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you're going to
come up in the second.
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And the Bible says,
00:21:57.18\00:21:58.58
these wicked people are
raised for their judgment,
00:21:58.61\00:22:03.79
the executive
judgment and the fire falls.
00:22:03.82\00:22:08.29
And so I believe
00:22:08.32\00:22:09.69
that they'll be
raised to see Christ come.
00:22:09.72\00:22:13.16
And then they'll be
raised after the millennium.
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All of this is
pretty serious stuff.
00:22:17.17\00:22:19.43
These great prophecies
00:22:19.47\00:22:20.90
and these great
truths are in the Bible,
00:22:20.94\00:22:22.94
so that we will wake out
of our spiritual lethargy,
00:22:22.97\00:22:26.61
and we will run in
faith and in haste to Christ.
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That's why I do the work I do.
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Next question.
00:22:34.48\00:22:35.82
What is the significance
of all the emphasis on blood?
00:22:35.85\00:22:38.69
Is it a simple symbol of life?
00:22:38.72\00:22:40.99
Yes, the life is in the blood.
00:22:41.02\00:22:44.19
The Bible says, "The
blood is the symbol of life."
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Jesus shed His blood,
He gave His life for us.
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So when it says that
Christ gave His blood,
00:22:51.43\00:22:55.14
it means that
Christ gave His life
00:22:55.17\00:22:58.54
and He gave His
life on the cross,
00:22:58.57\00:23:02.28
when He bore the wrath of God.
00:23:02.31\00:23:05.71
When all our sins
were laid upon Him.
00:23:05.75\00:23:07.72
After the millennium,
if you are not in Christ,
00:23:07.75\00:23:11.25
then you're going
to bear your own sin
00:23:11.29\00:23:13.76
and you will taste hell.
00:23:13.79\00:23:15.92
That is the
teaching of the Word of God.
00:23:15.96\00:23:19.43
Now, let me come
to the last question
00:23:19.46\00:23:21.56
that we're going
to deal with today
00:23:21.60\00:23:22.93
and I'll have to go
3,000 miles an hour.
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I've heard that there
is no eternal burning hell
00:23:25.50\00:23:28.00
with sinners
being tortured forever.
00:23:28.04\00:23:30.61
Then what is the
biblical meaning of death,
00:23:30.64\00:23:32.57
hell and Hades?
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Listen fast.
00:23:33.98\00:23:35.31
Hell is a place
of burning Gehenna.
00:23:35.34\00:23:38.51
Hades simply means the grave.
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I want you to
notice Jude Chapter 1,
00:23:42.02\00:23:46.12
there's only one
chapter and verse 7.
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Look at this.
00:23:48.12\00:23:49.46
"As Sodom and Gomorrah
00:23:49.49\00:23:51.29
and the cities around them
in a similar manner to these,
00:23:51.33\00:23:55.30
having given themselves
over to sexual immorality
00:23:55.33\00:23:59.07
and gone after strange flesh,
are set forth as an example,
00:23:59.10\00:24:03.87
suffering the vengeance,
look at it, of eternal fire."
00:24:03.91\00:24:08.28
Sodom and Gomorrah
00:24:08.31\00:24:11.61
suffered the
vengeance of eternal fire.
00:24:11.65\00:24:14.32
I have been with
my television crew
00:24:14.35\00:24:17.29
and with Beverley.
00:24:17.32\00:24:18.65
Beverley and I were
about the first people
00:24:18.69\00:24:20.02
to go there.
00:24:20.06\00:24:21.39
We have felt the
bits of human bone.
00:24:21.42\00:24:23.29
We have felt the ashes.
00:24:23.32\00:24:24.66
We did a TV show on this.
00:24:24.69\00:24:26.86
And the Bible says,
they're not burning today.
00:24:26.90\00:24:31.43
But the fire that burned Sodom
and Gomorrah was eternal fire,
00:24:31.47\00:24:37.01
eternal in its consequences
00:24:37.04\00:24:39.71
and it burned forever and ever.
00:24:39.74\00:24:43.11
The Bible says
00:24:43.14\00:24:44.65
that Jonah was in
the belly of the whale
00:24:44.68\00:24:48.08
or the fish forever.
00:24:48.12\00:24:52.05
In the Book of Jonah, it
says, he was there forever.
00:24:52.09\00:24:55.59
But then we're
told in other places,
00:24:55.62\00:24:58.46
he was there for three
days and for three nights,
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listen to me.
00:25:02.23\00:25:04.53
And if you can get...
God is not a terrorist.
00:25:04.57\00:25:07.84
Some people have a
god who's a terrorist.
00:25:07.87\00:25:10.31
He tortures people.
00:25:10.34\00:25:11.67
He's going to work a miracle
00:25:11.71\00:25:13.04
and keep people alive
for billions of years,
00:25:13.07\00:25:15.34
so he can torture them.
00:25:15.38\00:25:17.75
Ingersoll said, "If that's God,
00:25:17.78\00:25:19.75
I hate him
because he's the devil."
00:25:19.78\00:25:22.05
I think people have grossly
misunderstood these statements.
00:25:22.08\00:25:24.59
Even the great
evangelist, Billy Graham,
00:25:24.62\00:25:26.55
who taught eternal
hellfire in the last year said,
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I can't believe it.
00:25:30.06\00:25:31.39
It's not taught in the Bible.
00:25:31.43\00:25:32.76
It's based upon a
misunderstanding of the text.
00:25:32.79\00:25:35.96
So I believe
what's going to happen
00:25:36.00\00:25:37.60
is that the wicked are
going to be consumed with fire.
00:25:37.63\00:25:42.80
And then God is going
to have a clean universe,
00:25:42.84\00:25:46.11
and it's going to be
the home of God's people,
00:25:46.14\00:25:50.81
and the fire will go out.
00:25:50.85\00:25:55.45
That to me sounds like
a loving and a reasonable
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and a just God.
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Now, if you've
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and next time we're going
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