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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Hello, friend. I'm John Carter.
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Welcome today to
the Carter Report.
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This is a
continuation of our Q&A segment.
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We've been talking
about your great questions,
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and I've been trying to give you
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some good answers.
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Here's the next question.
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What does the
Bible say about tattoos?
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I heard a groan
from the audience.
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They're the people
who've got tattooed.
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What does the
Bible say about tattoos?
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Would you come over
here to Leviticus 19:26,
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dear hearts and gentle people,
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Leviticus 19:26.
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Is that what I said?
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No, no, it's verse
28, Leviticus 19:28.
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Here it is.
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"You shall not make any cuttings
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in your flesh for the dead,
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nor tattoo, any marks on you,
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I am the Lord."
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So, so much for tattoos.
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Let me tell you a
little bit about tattoos.
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Back in the days when
these words were written,
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tattooing was
something that the pagans did,
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and it was a sign
of their pagan gods.
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Later, tattooing became
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a sign of slavery and bondage.
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The masters used to
tattoo their slaves.
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And so it doesn't seem
to have a lot going for it.
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But let me say
this to my friends
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who've got tattoos everywhere.
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This doesn't mean
you're going to hell.
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God takes us where He finds us.
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God knows your heart.
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And the Bible tells me I
am saved by the grace of God
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because it's just as well
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because if we weren't
saved by the grace of God,
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none of us could be saved.
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Next question.
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Does the Bible
say how many times
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I should forgive someone
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who continually
does wrong to me?
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Text is Matthew 18:22.
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Matthew 18:22,
"Jesus said to him,
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'I do not say to
you after seven times,
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but up to seventy times seven."
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That means no end do it.
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Jesus said,
"Just keep on forgiving
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because you're going to
keep on making mistakes too."
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Jesus told the story, you know,
story about the two debtors.
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One man owed the
Lord $10 billion,
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you know the story,
And the Lord, that's Jesus,
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God forgives this
person owes him $10 billion,
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huge sum of money.
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And this man who
has been redeemed
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with tremendous grace
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has got a tenant
working for him, a slave.
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And this man owes
him $100, 100 bucks.
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He says, pay me
everything. Man says, "I can't.
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Can't, I got no money."
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So he gets him by the throat.
He says, "Pay me everything."
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He says, "If you
don't pay me everything,
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I'm going to sell you.
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I'm going to have you tortured.
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I'm going to sell your wife,
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I'm going to get
rid of your children."
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Now the person who
owes the Lord $10 billion,
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it's us.
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We owe that to the Lord.
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And the worst anybody
can do to us is about $100.
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And so Jesus said,
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"I've given so
much forgiveness to you,
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therefore, your
forgiveness to others
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ought to be without limit."
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You've all heard of
Corrie ten Boom, haven't you?
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Corrie ten Boom was
the beautiful Dutch lady
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who was put in a
concentration camp
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by the German Nazis.
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They killed most
of her family members.
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And she was
allowed to get out of it
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just by the grace of God.
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And she was giving a
talk one day in a church
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and talking about
grace and forgiveness.
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It's great up the
front, grace and forgiveness.
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And after the
meeting, a man came to her.
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He said, "You
remember me, Corrie?
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That was the Nazi guard.
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Murdered her
family, helped to murder.
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He said, "Corrie, is
there forgiveness for me?"
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Then he said, "How
about a hug, Corrie?
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Hey, what would you do?
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Forgive a Nazi?
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Let me tell you something,
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the grace of God is so great
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that a Christian is called
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to forgive his enemies.
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And that is the
mark of a Christian.
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How much do I
owe God? Ten billion.
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How much does my enemy
owe me? Hundred dollars.
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I hear Christians talking about,
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here's the next one here.
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I hear Christians
talking about being born again.
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What does it
mean to be born again?
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Come over here
to John 3:3 and 5.
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These are the words
of our blessed Lord,
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to Nicodemus, the leader,
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one of the leading theologians
in the days of Christ,
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"Jesus answered and said to him,
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'Most assuredly, I say to
you, unless one is born again,
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he cannot see
the kingdom of God."
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Verse 5, "Jesus answered,
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'Most assuredly, I say to you,
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unless one is born again,
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he cannot see
the kingdom of God."
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So my, folks, my dear friends,
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we can talk as much as we like.
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And talk, religious talk
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is tremendously cheap, isn't it?
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You know, religious
people have got a name
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for talking all the time.
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But Jesus said,
that doesn't count a bit.
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You got to be born again.
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When Jesus says, "You
got to be born again."
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He's talking about
becoming a brand new person.
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Like the Russian prisoner.
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We preach the gospel
to millions of Russians.
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Sometimes in the
middle of winter.
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A man who's a murderer.
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He comes in and he
says, "Lord, I'm sorry."
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And the grace of
God gets inside that man
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and he becomes a new person.
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Listen to this.
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Being born again,
mean people become kind.
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You know mean
people in the church?
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Are mean people, cruel,
sarcastic, always talking,
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always criticizing.
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But when they're born
again, they're no longer mean.
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They're kind.
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Dishonest people become honest.
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Lying people become
truthful, violent people,
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I've seen, baptized
lots of violent people.
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We even baptized
people in the KGB.
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They'd become peaceful.
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Legalistic people,
realistic people in the church.
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By the super,
super, super miracle,
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they become loving.
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Lustful people become pure.
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We also had a
baptism some years ago,
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we're going back to
Manila, as you know,
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for a big campaign
by the grace of God.
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That's why we're trying to
raise the money for it now.
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We had a baptism in
Manila on death row.
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These young
Filipinos were assassins,
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they were murderers.
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But through the preaching
of the Gospel of Christ,
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their lives were
marvelously transformed
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by the grace of God.
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Now, a lot of
people in the church say,
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"Well, it's the bad people.
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Bad people like them,
they've got to be born again."
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But Jesus was
talking to a great theologian
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who had religion
coming out of his ears.
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Have you met those people?
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Jesus said, "You
gotta be born again.
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It's tremendously
important being born again,
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as Jesus said."
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Next question, "Once saved,
always saved," is it biblical?
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You folks know the
story of the sower?
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Jesus said, A
sower went forth to sow,
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and when he's sowing,
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he's actually
sowing the Word of God
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and the sower goes
forth and the first person,
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the seed is on the wayside.
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Hot, as hot as concrete.
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It doesn't go in at all, hard.
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Next person, shallow soil,
you know superficial person,
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blah, blah, blah,
religion all the time.
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Superficial person, as
wide as the Mississippi,
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you know, and this deep.
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So it's very shallow.
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And Jesus said, "Well,
that person hears the gospel,
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hallelujah, praise God."
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Jesus said,
"When the sun came up,
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they wilted."
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You know why? Too shallow.
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The Word couldn't get down.
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There are lots and
lots of shallow people.
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Boy, this is proof of
the inspiration of Christ.
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The next group, well,
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the soil is great, it's
rich, it's great, it's terrific.
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And the plants come
up and so do the weeds.
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You know what the weeds are?
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Love of money.
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Hey, I couldn't go
to really... No, no.
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You know what your
problem is, you love your money.
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Jesus said, "The
cares of this life."
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And the fourth
group is the good earth.
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And the seed gets down
and it grows and it grows.
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My God help us to
be good earth people,
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not shallow
people, not thorny people.
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Would you come
over here to Luke 8:11,
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and onwards,
Luke 8:11 and onwards.
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"Now the parable is this:
The seed is the word of God."
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If you don't
hear the Word of God,
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you're not getting the seed.
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If you don't read the Bible,
you're not getting the seed.
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You're going, just
going to shrivel up and die,
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"Those by the wayside
are the ones who hear,
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then the devil comes
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and takes away word
out of their hearts,
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lest they should
believe and be saved."
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Listen, look at me.
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Jesus said, "If
you truly believe,
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you are saved."
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Believing is
equated to salvation,
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lest they should
believe and be saved.
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Verse 13, "But the
ones on the rock are those
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who when they hear,
receive the word with joy."
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Hallelujah.
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"And these have no root,
who believe for a while."
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If they believe for a while,
they are saved for a while.
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Doesn't sound like
once saved always saved.
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"Lest they should believe
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and be saved."
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And these people,
they believe all right,
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when the sun comes
up, they stop believing.
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Let me ask you this question.
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Do two people
have to stay married?
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Certainly not in America.
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Because, my friend, you
don't have to stay married
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because love is
based on a choice.
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You can get a
divorce anytime you want to.
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May not be right.
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But people are not
forced into a relationship.
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Love is based
on freedom of will.
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It's the same with Jesus.
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Jesus is not going to force me
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to stay in a
relationship with Him.
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And He's given me
the capacity of choosing.
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If I didn't have the capacity
of choosing, I couldn't love.
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So it's not a case of
once saved always saved,
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but it's a case of
staying in love with Jesus.
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And the more
you get to know Him,
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the more you love Him.
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That's why I say to
people over and over again,
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like a crack record,
read your Bible every day.
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I can tell you
the greatest weakness
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in American Christianity
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and in Australian Christianity,
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but especially
American Christianity,
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because there are more
Bibles than on anywhere.
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The biggest
weakness is that people
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in this part of the
world don't read the Word.
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You got to read it every day.
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I read it out loud
so it gets into my soul.
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I've been reading
it for many years.
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People are, "I'm too busy."
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Okay, well don't
expect to be saved.
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The seed has to be sown.
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If you're not sowing the seed,
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you can't expect to be saved.
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I don't believe in
once saved always saved.
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I believe in what Moody said.
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"Holding, I am held,"
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or was it
Spurgeon, I don't know.
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"Holding, I am held."
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Next question. Do
pets, animals go to heaven?
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Give me a Bible
answer. Oh, that's a tough.
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I can't give you a Bible answer.
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But I can tell you this.
And this is a Bible answer.
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God is love. God loves people.
00:14:14.32\00:14:17.99
And I think He loves pets
too, because He made them all.
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And heaven is going to be
better than we can imagine.
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Don't you believe that?
00:14:26.59\00:14:28.30
And I think, now listen,
00:14:28.33\00:14:30.77
this is just a
little speculation for me.
00:14:30.80\00:14:33.77
But I think God is
going to make heaven
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so good for His people.
00:14:36.07\00:14:38.97
And if you need to
have that beautiful dog,
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I'm sort of
thinking, He'll give it to you.
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But don't ask me
for a text, okay.
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Next question.
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Well, don't you
think that's reasonable?
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I think so.
00:14:51.82\00:14:53.15
You know, I
love dogs and horses.
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It seems to me
that every day I hear,
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I read or hear about
someone committing suicide?
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Tens of
thousands in this country.
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What does the
Bible say about suicide?
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What about a
believer who commit suicide?
00:15:11.91\00:15:15.31
Now suicide
classically is murder
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because you're killing yourself.
00:15:18.61\00:15:22.62
But there's such a
thing too as mental illness.
00:15:22.65\00:15:27.89
There's a lot of hopelessness
00:15:27.92\00:15:29.79
and pain and
depression in society.
00:15:29.82\00:15:33.50
If a person doesn't
have a job, and he's sick,
00:15:33.53\00:15:37.23
and maybe he's
in pain from cancer,
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don't be too judgmental.
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God is the judge.
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I say to those people,
a better day is coming.
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Daniel 7:27.
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Notice it, the Bible says,
00:15:51.15\00:15:53.05
"And the kingdom
and the dominion,
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and the greatness of the kingdom
00:15:54.75\00:15:56.42
under the whole heaven
shall be given to the people,
00:15:56.45\00:15:59.29
the saints of the Most High.
00:15:59.32\00:16:01.42
His Kingdom is an
everlasting kingdom
00:16:01.46\00:16:04.23
and all dominions
shall serve and obey Him."
00:16:04.26\00:16:06.66
This old world is
going to pass away.
00:16:06.70\00:16:09.20
So hold on, Jesus is coming.
00:16:09.23\00:16:13.30
It's going to get better.
00:16:13.34\00:16:16.84
And don't think the government
00:16:16.87\00:16:18.57
is going to make
it better for you.
00:16:18.61\00:16:20.78
It's not going to last.
00:16:20.81\00:16:23.04
Look to Christ.
00:16:23.08\00:16:24.61
Revelation 21:1 says,
00:16:24.65\00:16:28.58
"Now I saw a new
heaven and a new earth,"
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no pain, no sorrow, no cancer,
00:16:30.92\00:16:32.85
"for the first heaven
00:16:32.89\00:16:34.22
and the first
earth had passed away,
00:16:34.26\00:16:35.76
and there was no more
sea," which causes separation.
00:16:35.79\00:16:39.26
It's going to be so much better.
00:16:39.29\00:16:43.23
So hold on.
00:16:43.26\00:16:44.80
I've read the back of the book.
00:16:44.83\00:16:47.20
And we win.
00:16:47.24\00:16:48.67
Listen, God loves people.
00:16:48.70\00:16:52.31
God is not a Pharisee.
00:16:52.34\00:16:54.04
He understands.
00:16:57.61\00:16:59.25
Christ died for all, we
don't have all the answers
00:16:59.28\00:17:03.55
and we should not think
we have all the answers.
00:17:03.59\00:17:08.69
We shouldn't play the Pharisee.
00:17:08.72\00:17:10.76
We need to trust in Jesus,
recognizing that some people
00:17:10.79\00:17:16.06
have taken their lives
00:17:16.10\00:17:18.23
because of mental illness
00:17:18.27\00:17:21.14
who were
overwhelmed with a sorrow
00:17:21.17\00:17:25.34
that you and I can never fathom.
00:17:25.37\00:17:28.11
So with that one, my friend,
let's not play the judge.
00:17:28.14\00:17:32.48
God is the judge.
00:17:32.51\00:17:34.28
Look at Revelation 21:4.
00:17:34.32\00:17:37.99
"God will wipe away
every tear from their eyes,
00:17:38.02\00:17:41.59
there shall be no more
death, no sorrow, nor crying.
00:17:41.62\00:17:44.99
There shall be no more pain,
00:17:45.03\00:17:46.76
for the former
things have passed away."
00:17:46.80\00:17:48.80
I say to people who are hurting,
00:17:48.83\00:17:50.53
who are in pain.
00:17:50.57\00:17:51.90
I meet people who are hurting
00:17:51.93\00:17:53.47
and who are in
pain all the time.
00:17:53.50\00:17:56.27
When you go to the hospital
00:17:56.30\00:17:57.64
like I had to go
to, there you see,
00:17:57.67\00:17:59.41
I don't see
those things too often,
00:17:59.44\00:18:01.14
there you see people
in real pain groaning.
00:18:01.18\00:18:05.78
But God is going
to wipe it all away.
00:18:05.81\00:18:08.25
We look forward
to a perfect world
00:18:08.28\00:18:10.02
where the redeemed
people saved by grace.
00:18:10.05\00:18:13.19
Next question.
00:18:13.22\00:18:15.72
Are all sins as
bad as each other?
00:18:15.76\00:18:20.10
Lot of people will say,
of course, every sin is bad.
00:18:20.13\00:18:22.20
No, we're not saying that.
00:18:22.23\00:18:23.90
The question is, are all
sins as bad as each other?
00:18:23.93\00:18:26.97
Luke 12:47 and 48, I
think gives the answer.
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Luke 12:47.
00:18:31.57\00:18:34.88
And you can send
me your questions.
00:18:34.91\00:18:36.51
We'll put up the
address on the screen now
00:18:36.54\00:18:40.02
and I will try to
answer your question
00:18:40.05\00:18:42.22
as we're looking
up the text here.
00:18:42.25\00:18:43.99
Luke 12:47 and 48.
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This is talking
about the judgment.
00:18:47.99\00:18:50.53
"And that servant
who knew his masters will
00:18:50.56\00:18:53.93
and did not prepare himself
or do according to his will,
00:18:53.96\00:18:57.63
shall be beaten
with many stripes."
00:18:57.67\00:19:00.90
So some people are
going to get many stripes.
00:19:00.94\00:19:04.21
"But he who did not know
00:19:04.24\00:19:05.57
yet committed things
deserving of stripes,
00:19:05.61\00:19:08.38
shall be beaten with few.
00:19:08.41\00:19:12.51
For everyone to
whom much is given,
00:19:12.55\00:19:14.38
from him much will be required
00:19:14.42\00:19:16.42
and to whom much has
been committed, of him
00:19:16.45\00:19:19.72
they will ask the more."
00:19:19.75\00:19:21.42
So in the judgment
00:19:21.46\00:19:22.96
there's an
allocation of penalties
00:19:22.99\00:19:25.59
and some strong
and some are weaker.
00:19:25.63\00:19:30.03
That is because
00:19:30.07\00:19:31.40
there are
different degrees of guilt.
00:19:31.43\00:19:35.00
All sin is bad, but some
sins are of greater wickedness.
00:19:35.04\00:19:40.41
You know that.
00:19:40.44\00:19:42.24
It's common sense.
00:19:42.28\00:19:44.41
The worst sin is
probably the sin in the church
00:19:44.45\00:19:46.48
that's self righteousness.
00:19:46.51\00:19:48.58
But remember, no
sin is too bad for God,
00:19:48.62\00:19:51.15
if we confess it.
00:19:51.19\00:19:52.52
Our big problem
is we're too proud
00:19:52.55\00:19:54.02
to confess our sins.
00:19:54.06\00:19:55.46
Look at Isaiah 55:6
and 7, Isaiah 55:6 and 7,
00:19:55.49\00:20:00.70
"Seek the Lord
while He may be found,
00:20:00.73\00:20:02.50
call upon Him while He is near.
00:20:02.53\00:20:04.43
Let the wicked forsake his way.
00:20:04.47\00:20:06.70
And the
unrighteous man his thoughts,
00:20:06.74\00:20:08.64
let him return to the Lord,
and He will have mercy on him.
00:20:08.67\00:20:13.34
And to our God, For He
will abundantly pardon."
00:20:13.38\00:20:16.54
Every sin will be forgiven
00:20:16.58\00:20:20.65
if we come as penitent sinners,
00:20:20.68\00:20:24.12
crying to God for mercy.
00:20:24.15\00:20:29.16
But that's the tough part.
00:20:29.19\00:20:30.53
Most of us are too proud.
00:20:30.56\00:20:32.89
Are all people of equal worth?
00:20:32.93\00:20:35.70
That's an awful, oh
no, it's a good question.
00:20:35.73\00:20:38.50
Are all people of equal worth?
00:20:38.53\00:20:41.80
Does God have His favorites?
00:20:41.84\00:20:44.91
Galatians 3:28 is the best text,
00:20:44.94\00:20:48.98
I think on this subject.
00:20:49.01\00:20:52.18
Galatians 3:28.
00:20:52.21\00:20:55.25
I like to tell people this
00:20:59.02\00:21:01.32
because some people
know so little about truth
00:21:01.36\00:21:06.80
that they think
that Jesus was an Anglo.
00:21:06.83\00:21:10.70
Galatians 3:28.
00:21:10.73\00:21:12.57
And so when Jesus is
pictured, He's got blond hair,
00:21:12.60\00:21:17.37
and He's got blue eyes.
00:21:17.41\00:21:19.71
Most unlikely.
00:21:19.74\00:21:21.44
Jesus came from the Middle East.
00:21:21.48\00:21:24.08
Jesus was a Semite.
00:21:24.11\00:21:27.02
I'm not a Semite,
I'm an Anglo Saxon.
00:21:27.05\00:21:31.05
But Jesus was a Jew.
00:21:31.09\00:21:36.42
God's gotta...
00:21:36.46\00:21:37.79
And in Jesus was
combined every person.
00:21:37.83\00:21:42.33
Galatians 3:28.
00:21:42.36\00:21:44.53
There is neither Jew nor Greek.
00:21:44.57\00:21:47.34
When it says
Greek, it means Gentile.
00:21:47.37\00:21:50.04
Doesn't matter
where you come from.
00:21:50.07\00:21:51.94
There's neither Jew nor Greek.
00:21:51.97\00:21:53.38
That's why white supremacy
00:21:53.41\00:21:55.51
or even black supremacy
00:21:55.54\00:21:57.71
as is practiced in
some parts of the world.
00:21:57.75\00:22:00.38
That's why all
of these supremacies
00:22:00.42\00:22:02.45
are an abomination to God.
00:22:02.48\00:22:05.92
"There is neither Jew nor Greek,
00:22:05.95\00:22:07.32
there is neither slave nor free,
00:22:07.36\00:22:09.32
there is
neither male nor female,
00:22:09.36\00:22:12.96
for you are all
one in Christ Jesus."
00:22:12.99\00:22:17.13
Listen to me.
00:22:17.17\00:22:19.37
This is tremendously important.
00:22:19.40\00:22:20.74
I've had the privilege
00:22:20.77\00:22:22.10
of preaching the
gospel in Africa,
00:22:22.14\00:22:25.04
and Russia, and Ukraine,
00:22:25.07\00:22:28.94
Latin America,
and the United States,
00:22:28.98\00:22:31.65
and Australia, and
the islands of the Sea.
00:22:31.68\00:22:34.62
And also in China, and in India.
00:22:34.65\00:22:38.09
I won't go any further or
else I'll tell you too much.
00:22:38.12\00:22:41.42
I want to tell you this.
00:22:41.46\00:22:42.79
It is not your color
or your racial background.
00:22:42.82\00:22:48.36
That doesn't count.
00:22:48.40\00:22:49.86
What counts is
who has your heart.
00:22:49.90\00:22:54.24
And if you believe in Christ,
00:22:54.27\00:22:56.44
the Bible says it doesn't matter
00:22:56.47\00:22:58.37
whether you're black
or brown or pink or green.
00:22:58.41\00:23:02.44
It doesn't matter.
00:23:02.48\00:23:03.81
If you belong to Christ,
you're a child of the kingdom.
00:23:03.85\00:23:09.88
You're saved.
00:23:09.92\00:23:11.79
So racism is abhorrent to God.
00:23:11.82\00:23:14.72
It stinks in the
nostrils of Almighty God.
00:23:14.76\00:23:19.09
A racist cannot be
a Christian, you see.
00:23:19.13\00:23:23.80
So one day Jesus
is going to come.
00:23:23.83\00:23:27.07
He's going to take
His people home to glory
00:23:27.10\00:23:29.94
and what a tremendous family
00:23:29.97\00:23:32.61
He is going to have
in the kingdom of God.
00:23:32.64\00:23:36.08
I want you to know
this, God is a very big God.
00:23:36.11\00:23:41.72
And God has a very big family.
00:23:41.75\00:23:48.09
We want to thank you today
for sending me your questions.
00:23:48.12\00:23:52.63
Keep sending me your questions.
00:23:52.66\00:23:54.00
I'll try to answer
them as I get opportunity.
00:23:54.03\00:23:57.30
But you are a wonderful audience
00:23:57.33\00:23:59.37
and until next time,
thank you for tuning our way.
00:23:59.40\00:24:03.34
And may God richly bless you.
00:24:03.37\00:24:06.91
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