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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Now, here's John
Carter with today's message.
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Hello, friend, I'm John Carter.
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Welcome today to
the Carter Report.
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We're going to
talk about Fred Rogers.
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The Gospel
According to Fred Rogers,
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and how you and I
can have a beautiful day
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in the neighborhood.
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Now, if you look around
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this studio today
in Southern California,
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I'm the only person here
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because we're in a
state of emergency.
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And this is a lockdown time.
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Got four cameras here.
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No camera people,
nobody on the sound system.
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Even the pictures
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that are coming on
this big video wall
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are coming from
about 50-60 miles away,
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coming through the air.
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One or two folks
upstairs in secure places.
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But this is an emergency
because we are in the midst
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of the coronavirus pandemic.
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I'm going to talk to
you today about the gospel
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according to Fred.
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I just got back from Australia.
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I was on my way to Manila.
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But Manila closed down.
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So I had to turn around,
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come back and
come back to America.
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And as I was
flying back to America,
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I finally worked
out how I could turn on
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the television
entertainment system.
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I'm not real good
at that stuff, folk.
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Sorry to tell you that.
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But I worked out, you know,
where you put in the earphones,
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I found it hard to find
the spot on the Dreamliner,
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which is a great plane.
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But in the end, I got a going.
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And I watched a terrific movie.
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I watched this tremendous
movie about Fred Rogers.
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A Beautiful Day
in the Neighborhood
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with Tom Hanks.
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Tom does such a fantastic job.
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Now, he is a tremendous actor.
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And he shines even,
shines even with more luster
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when he represents an
extra part of Fred Rogers.
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Just a little
bit of information.
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Tom Hanks and his wife
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when they were
staying in Australia,
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they caught this coronavirus.
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And Tom and his wife put
this up on their web page,
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or Facebook, or somewhere.
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You know, they're
just a great couple.
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And they went into one
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or Australia's great
hospitals on the Gold Coast.
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And Tom put this up Vegemite.
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And he had some bread there,
slathered in this Vegemite.
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And people wrote
into him and they said,
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"Tom, we're glad you
like the Australian Vegemite.
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But you don't put it
on half an inch thick,
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you know, too
much spoils of flavor."
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But we're glad to say that
Tom has been able to get back
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to this United States.
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And Tom and his
wife are recovering.
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And we all love Tom.
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And we love the movie,
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A Beautiful Day
in the Neighborhood.
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Now, folks, before
we go any farther today,
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we're going to have a prayer.
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This is prayer time.
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If you've got
requests for prayer,
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please write to me, John Carter.
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I will pray for you.
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But I've got some
requests for prayer here today.
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And I'm going to read out
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some of these
requests for prayer.
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These are mainly for doctors
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and nurses who are
on the front lines.
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Dr. Mark Judd here
in Southern California,
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Dr. Greg Hammond over there
in the great land of Australia.
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Now, before we go any farther,
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I'm going to
bring you up-to-date
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on the fatality rates.
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This is the latest
that I can get today.
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In America, well over 300,000,
just a few thousand recently.
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More than 8,000 have died.
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In Spain, 11,000
people have died.
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In Italy, more than
15,000 people have died.
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We're in the midst
of a tremendous battle.
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And I think it's
going to get worse
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before it gets better.
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And we need to call
upon the Lord in prayer.
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I want you to pray with me.
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But I want to
read out these names.
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Dr. Mark Judd on the front line,
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Dr. Greg Hammond,
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great person over
there in Australia,
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Mae Julie and her
husband Keith in San Francisco
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fighting this terrible virus.
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Then, in North Carolina,
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a very beautiful
lady, Mrs. Beagle,
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the mother of our Donn Beagle
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who is just a wonderful member
of the Carter Report team.
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We just couldn't do anything
I think without the help
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of this great American hero.
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So we're going to
pray for Mrs. Beagle.
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Duke University Medical
Center, Raleigh, North Carolina
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for the people there.
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The team at Seqirus,
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they're trying to make vaccines,
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North Carolina.
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Oh, God, help us
to get a vaccine soon.
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Dr. Angela Shed,
Dr. Justin Derek,
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that great Texas
dentist who's seeing patients
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who've got tremendous needs.
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Dr. Victor Cober,
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the ICU doctor in COVID-19
unit in the state of Michigan.
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Oh, Detroit, my friend,
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needs our
prayers, pray for Detroit.
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Dr. Eric Caracas,
Long Beach, California.
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Dr. Dan T. Burgess from Dallas.
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Dr. Robert
Burgess from Burleson.
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I think that's Texas.
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Valerie Cober in UCLA,
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University of
California, Los Angeles,
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Dr. Javier
Piraino from Philadelphia.
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He is the son of
Javier and Susie Piraino,
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who are wonderful team
members of the Carter Report.
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The hospital staff,
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the whole
hospital staff at Kaiser,
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downtown San Francisco,
pray for these people.
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The President of
the United States,
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his team, the
governors and the mayors.
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This is a time, my friend,
delay or aside our differences
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and let us pray
to the God of heaven.
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The hotspots in
the United States.
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Pray for the
great city of New York.
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Pray for the Big
Apple. Pray for New Orleans.
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New Orleans, facing
a tremendous crisis.
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Pray for that place.
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Pray for
Detroit, the great place
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where the cars have
been made for many years.
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Pray for the
people in nursing homes,
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in the retirement
homes and villages.
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Pray for Dr. Fauci.
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You see him up
there with the President.
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This remarkable doctor,
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did you know that his
life has been threatened?
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How amazing at
this time of crisis,
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he's been given
a security detail.
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We ought to pray
for this great doctor.
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And you can send your
requests for prayer to me.
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You can do it and I promise you,
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I will pray for them.
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And here are
doctors from one family.
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The person who is putting up
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the pictures today in the screen
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from 50 or 60 miles
away is Terence Yang.
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He's got 18
doctors in his family.
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Can you believe this?
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Eighteen doctors in his family
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and they're all
on the front line
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and he's asked
us to pray for them.
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Dr. Tom, Dr.
Samuel, Dr. Dan, Dr. Basil,
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Dr. Bruce, Dr. Ben, Dr. Song,
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Dr. Vernon, Dr.
Andrew, Dr. Harold,
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Dr. Cindy, Dr. Braine,
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Dr. Jamie, Dr. Michael,
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Dr. Anthony, Dr. Jana,
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Dr. Jonathan, or Jonathan
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and Dr. April.
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What a remarkable family,
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18 doctors from one family
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fighting this
accursed thing COVID-19
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And may I mention too,
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let us pray today for
the governor of New York,
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Dr. Andrew Cuomo, but
especially for his brother
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who has come down
with the coronavirus.
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Let us pray together.
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I want you now wherever you are,
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to join me in an earnest prayer,
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will you please to
the great God of heaven.
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Shall we pray?
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Our Father in heaven,
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we thank You today
for Jesus our Lord.
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We thank you that
Jesus is Lord of all,
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Lord over the coronavirus,
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Lord over
everything in this world.
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And we pray in His
precious name today
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that you will bless
the names of these doctors
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and government
officials, Don Beagle's mother.
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We pray that
You will send relief
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and You will send it
soon that the laboratories
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will soon get a
medicine that will fight
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and defeat this
unseen enemy, please.
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We pray that the scientists
will soon find the vaccine.
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And so we pray
for every person here.
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We pray for the people who
are watching this telecast.
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We pray that You
will give us peace,
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and give us strength,
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and give us trust in God.
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We thank You for
hearing us this day.
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And we pray this
prayer in a mighty
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and the wonderful
name of Jesus Christ,
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our Lord, and our Savior,
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and for His sake and
all the people said amen.
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I'll have to say
amen out of this room,
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because there's
nobody in this room.
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Did you know that Mr. Rogers
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was an ordained
Presbyterian minister?
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He was a television producer.
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He was puppeteer.
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He was just a remarkable
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and a wonderful person.
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He was also,
I'm told a musician,
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and he kept up his ordination
right through his life.
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Child psychologist.
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Now, I'll have to read this
bit because this is new to me.
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Margaret McFarland helped
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Mr. Rogers plan he
shows that help children
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understand that
they were very special.
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And the reason
America loved Mr. Rogers,
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wherever he was seen
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was that he taught
people that they was special,
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especially children.
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Don't you remember the song,
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you know, what a wonderful song,
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"You're special to me."
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His program Mr. Rogers'
Neighborhood ran for 33 years.
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Cynic said that's impossible
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in materialistic
America and in New York,
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33 years from 1968 to 2001.
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And I can
remember listening to him
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sing a little song,
You're special to me.
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You're special to me.
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Won't you be my neighbor?
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He was teaching people,
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he was projecting the message
that because God made us,
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every person is special.
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That's why people loved him.
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And Tom Hanks was a
really great Mr. Rogers.
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And he...
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that these two men
were slightly related.
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They were six cousins apart
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which is something,
better than nothing.
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Fred had a very
difficult childhood.
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Like many kids,
he was overweight.
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He was, you know, fat.
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And so they
called him Fat Freddy.
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And when he grew up,
he spent most of his time
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in his room by himself,
playing with his puppets.
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A little boy, who was
little bit overweight.
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He didn't have any friends.
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And he didn't feel
very, very special.
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It wasn't until
he went to college
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and university that
people started to see
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that he was very
special and a big footballer
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took Fred under his
wing and took care of him.
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And they became, this
great big huge footballer.
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And Fred, they became buddies.
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That footballer was
a very special friend
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to Mr. Rogers.
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In the movie, Tom
Hanks, this great actor
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whom I admire so much,
acting as Fred Rogers shows
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unconditional love to an honest
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and
understandably cynic reporter.
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You can understand, my friend,
why some reporters are cynical
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They live in a
very cynical world.
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And so, what happens is this.
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Here's this reporter.
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His name is Tom Junot,
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who worked for Esquire Magazine.
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And he was told by his boss
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to do an article on Fred.
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He started out,
trying to get to know Fred,
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and he was like
a lot of reporters,
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very cynical.
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And as I said
before, he was honest,
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but he was very, very cynical.
00:14:34.44\00:14:37.87
Tom Junot said
recently as reported by
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Time Magazine, and I'm going to,
00:14:42.24\00:14:44.35
quote Time Magazine.
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"It was a
complete mystery to me,
00:14:48.52\00:14:52.22
how he could be, who he was,
00:14:52.25\00:14:56.36
how he could stay who he was,
00:14:56.39\00:14:59.93
and that it wasn't a pose,
00:14:59.96\00:15:03.50
it wasn't an act."
00:15:03.53\00:15:06.37
You see, my
friend, with many people,
00:15:06.40\00:15:08.90
it's a pose, it's an act.
00:15:08.94\00:15:12.91
But Fred was the real deal
00:15:12.94\00:15:17.25
because Fred believed in a God
00:15:17.28\00:15:20.08
who loved him, and therefore,
00:15:20.12\00:15:22.52
because he was a part
of God's special creation,
00:15:22.55\00:15:27.02
he was special.
00:15:27.06\00:15:28.96
And that also meant
that you were special too.
00:15:28.99\00:15:34.20
Now please, look at me.
00:15:34.23\00:15:36.23
I'm looking at
you, no studio audience,
00:15:36.26\00:15:39.40
I'm here by myself alone,
00:15:39.43\00:15:42.67
wearing my
Harley Davidson jacket.
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You won't believe it.
00:15:46.37\00:15:47.71
But when I was a young guy,
00:15:47.74\00:15:49.08
I used to ride
my Harley Davidson
00:15:49.11\00:15:51.51
through the
Outback of Australia.
00:15:51.55\00:15:54.68
There's nothing much better than
00:15:54.72\00:15:56.48
getting up early in the morning
00:15:56.52\00:15:58.22
and going down on
Outback road with the birds
00:15:58.25\00:16:01.46
coming out of the
grass and so forth,
00:16:01.49\00:16:04.03
and you're road a Harley.
00:16:04.06\00:16:05.99
But that's got really
00:16:06.03\00:16:07.50
not much to do
with my talk today.
00:16:07.53\00:16:10.73
But my Harley Davidson
was also special to me.
00:16:10.77\00:16:15.64
In the movie, and it's
just, it's a great thing
00:16:15.67\00:16:20.24
that when Tom
Hanks is playing Fred,
00:16:20.28\00:16:26.05
he catches the
spirit of this man,
00:16:26.08\00:16:30.25
and he passes by them, he
brings out the message so,
00:16:30.29\00:16:34.19
so wonderfully,
and it is also sincere.
00:16:34.22\00:16:39.59
It wasn't an
act. It wasn't an act.
00:16:39.63\00:16:43.70
Now, I only discovered this
00:16:43.73\00:16:46.43
recently that Fred
Rogers prayed for people
00:16:46.47\00:16:48.90
by name every day.
00:16:48.94\00:16:50.91
When he got out of bed,
00:16:50.94\00:16:52.27
the first thing he
did, he said his prayers.
00:16:52.31\00:16:54.11
You see, strong
people pray to God
00:16:54.14\00:16:57.75
because they believe in
a God who believes in them.
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I want you to believe in the God
00:17:00.82\00:17:02.25
who believes in you,
my brother, my sister.
00:17:02.28\00:17:04.89
If you're going
through a tough time today,
00:17:04.92\00:17:06.55
and we're all going
through difficult times,
00:17:06.59\00:17:08.39
stressful times,
I say this to you,
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believe in the God
who believes in you,
00:17:10.93\00:17:15.30
because you are special to God.
00:17:15.33\00:17:18.80
God thinks about you.
00:17:18.83\00:17:21.37
He hears your prayers.
00:17:21.40\00:17:23.20
He's got a plan for you.
00:17:23.24\00:17:25.71
So Fred believed that
every person was important.
00:17:25.74\00:17:29.11
That's why he
said, sang the song,
00:17:29.14\00:17:31.15
wish I could sing,
you're special to me.
00:17:31.18\00:17:34.52
And then also,
won't you be my neighbor?
00:17:34.55\00:17:38.05
It'd be wonderful
day in the neighborhood
00:17:38.09\00:17:39.82
if we were all neighbors,
00:17:39.85\00:17:41.99
and we saw
everybody as being valuable,
00:17:42.02\00:17:44.76
and everybody being special.
00:17:44.79\00:17:46.53
You know what?
00:17:46.56\00:17:47.90
It's very sad that
you find the people
00:17:47.93\00:17:51.07
who are often
basically good people,
00:17:51.10\00:17:54.37
but they say
such terrible things
00:17:54.40\00:17:56.10
about our people,
especially in politics.
00:17:56.14\00:17:59.07
They say such rude things,
00:17:59.11\00:18:01.64
and they cast dispersions
upon their political enemies.
00:18:01.68\00:18:05.81
Let me say to everybody
00:18:05.85\00:18:08.02
who's watching
the telecast today,
00:18:08.05\00:18:10.85
that we're all children of God.
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And because we're
all children of God,
00:18:14.39\00:18:16.36
whether we live
in New York City,
00:18:16.39\00:18:18.59
or out here in Los Angeles,
00:18:18.63\00:18:21.10
or over there in Sydney,
00:18:21.13\00:18:23.16
or up there in
Brisbane, or down in Melbourne.
00:18:23.20\00:18:27.14
Whether you live
in San Francisco,
00:18:27.17\00:18:29.54
we may have different viewpoints
00:18:29.57\00:18:32.21
on many things,
00:18:32.24\00:18:34.01
but we are all sons
and daughters of God.
00:18:34.04\00:18:39.25
And because this is true,
00:18:39.28\00:18:42.42
you are a special person.
00:18:42.45\00:18:45.79
There is no one like
you, and God loves you.
00:18:45.82\00:18:50.96
Let me talk about the
outer circle of God's love
00:18:50.99\00:18:54.40
and the inner
circle of God's love.
00:18:54.43\00:18:57.33
John 3:16 is a text that
even unbelievers I think know.
00:18:57.37\00:19:01.94
John 3:16, it's
quoting the words of Jesus.
00:19:01.97\00:19:06.98
We hardly need to look up
that text because we know it,
00:19:07.01\00:19:11.55
we've been taught, and
we've heard it somewhere,
00:19:11.58\00:19:13.85
"For God so loved the world."
00:19:13.88\00:19:17.15
That's the big circle.
00:19:17.19\00:19:18.95
Seven billion of
us, plus and counting.
00:19:18.99\00:19:22.16
But God so loved the
world that He gave his only Son,
00:19:22.19\00:19:25.43
so that whoever believes
in Him shall not perish,
00:19:25.46\00:19:28.53
but have everlasting life."
00:19:28.56\00:19:30.93
That means these
7 billion people.
00:19:30.97\00:19:36.47
Oh, what a big family.
00:19:36.50\00:19:40.11
But God runs the universe.
00:19:40.14\00:19:41.88
And I believe there are
many other universes too.
00:19:41.91\00:19:44.58
I believe that God has
00:19:44.61\00:19:45.95
a vast
incomprehensibly big family.
00:19:45.98\00:19:49.35
But the human family
is very special to God,
00:19:49.38\00:19:54.52
because Jesus died
for the human family.
00:19:54.56\00:19:59.13
But God so loved the
world, He gave his only Son,
00:19:59.16\00:20:01.30
that's the outer
circle of God's love.
00:20:01.33\00:20:04.00
But there is an inner circle.
00:20:04.03\00:20:07.24
And I read about this
in the Book of Galatians,
00:20:07.27\00:20:11.44
which is written by
the great Apostle Paul.
00:20:11.47\00:20:16.24
And in the Book of Galatians,
it talks, my dear friend,
00:20:16.28\00:20:20.55
about the inner
circle of God's love.
00:20:20.58\00:20:23.89
"I have been crucified
with Christ," Paul says,
00:20:23.92\00:20:27.82
"it is no longer I who
live, but Christ lives in me,
00:20:27.86\00:20:33.23
and the life which I
now live in the flesh
00:20:33.26\00:20:36.60
I live by faith
in the Son of God,
00:20:36.63\00:20:40.64
who loved me,
00:20:40.67\00:20:43.41
me and gave Himself for me."
00:20:43.44\00:20:48.18
This is the inner circle.
00:20:48.21\00:20:50.78
The outer circle
is God loves the world
00:20:50.81\00:20:53.21
and Christ died for
the whole human race
00:20:53.25\00:20:55.75
so that anybody
has the opportunity
00:20:55.78\00:20:59.15
of being saved.
00:20:59.19\00:21:01.39
That's the outer
circle of God's love.
00:21:01.42\00:21:03.36
But, my friend, I
want to draw you in today
00:21:03.39\00:21:05.99
into the inner
circle of God's love.
00:21:06.03\00:21:08.96
I know that even
though God loves this world.
00:21:09.00\00:21:11.33
It's a huge world,
00:21:11.37\00:21:12.70
and there are billions of people
00:21:12.73\00:21:14.54
on this world.
00:21:14.57\00:21:16.50
God loves you as though
you were the only individual
00:21:16.54\00:21:22.24
alive on this planet.
00:21:22.28\00:21:25.18
And Christ would have
died for you, brother, sister,
00:21:25.21\00:21:28.12
if you had been
00:21:28.15\00:21:31.55
the only lost soul.
00:21:31.59\00:21:34.79
This is amazing.
00:21:34.82\00:21:37.56
And that is why in
a very special sense,
00:21:37.59\00:21:41.40
you are special to God.
00:21:41.43\00:21:46.57
And you are a special person.
00:21:46.60\00:21:51.01
There's no one like you.
00:21:51.04\00:21:52.71
There's no one
as beautiful as you.
00:21:52.74\00:21:55.98
God thinks about you.
00:21:56.01\00:21:57.71
God cares for you.
00:21:57.75\00:21:59.68
And God in Christ
00:21:59.71\00:22:01.28
went to the cross to redeem you,
00:22:01.32\00:22:04.95
and to save you.
00:22:04.99\00:22:07.69
So, there's the outer circle.
00:22:07.72\00:22:10.73
That's the whole wide world.
00:22:10.76\00:22:12.29
That's pretty big.
00:22:12.33\00:22:13.86
But then there
is the inner circle.
00:22:13.90\00:22:16.93
Look at this.
00:22:16.97\00:22:18.30
I want you to see
this on the screen.
00:22:18.33\00:22:19.77
Everyone is
beautiful in his own way.
00:22:19.80\00:22:22.54
Hear what I'm saying
everyone, everyone is important.
00:22:22.57\00:22:26.57
That's the gospel
according to Fred Rogers.
00:22:26.61\00:22:30.91
This is a wonderful gospel.
00:22:30.95\00:22:34.48
It doesn't matter
whether you're black,
00:22:34.52\00:22:37.25
or white, or brown, or yellow,
00:22:37.29\00:22:41.86
or old with slightly gray hair.
00:22:41.89\00:22:47.13
Whether you're old
or whether you're young,
00:22:47.16\00:22:50.73
whether you're good looking
or rather plain and homely,
00:22:50.77\00:22:55.54
whether you're rich
or whether you are poor.
00:22:55.57\00:22:59.67
As far as God is concerned,
00:22:59.71\00:23:02.91
those things don't
really matter at all.
00:23:02.94\00:23:06.68
What matters is that
you are special to God.
00:23:06.72\00:23:12.65
And because you
are special to God,
00:23:12.69\00:23:16.32
Fred Rogers would say to people
00:23:16.36\00:23:18.46
and those little
kids, you're special to me.
00:23:18.49\00:23:22.30
You're special to me.
00:23:22.33\00:23:25.40
I want us today as we
fight this terrible virus
00:23:25.43\00:23:28.77
to remember that every person
00:23:28.80\00:23:33.21
is special to God.
00:23:33.24\00:23:35.61
That's the gospel
according to Fred Rogers.
00:23:35.64\00:23:39.58
Hey, there's another great text,
00:23:39.61\00:23:41.12
I want to show you.
00:23:41.15\00:23:42.48
Jeremiah 1:5.
00:23:42.52\00:23:46.12
Jeremiah 1:5.
00:23:46.15\00:23:49.22
Gonna turn this
up here in my Bible.
00:23:49.26\00:23:52.09
You know, it's pretty
quiet here in this studio.
00:23:52.13\00:23:54.03
I'm more here by myself.
00:23:54.06\00:23:56.10
But I feel that
you're here with me today.
00:23:56.13\00:23:59.03
Jeremiah 1:5.
00:23:59.07\00:24:04.04
God says, listen to
it, out of the Bible.
00:24:04.07\00:24:08.01
"Before I formed you
in the womb, I knew you."
00:24:08.04\00:24:11.65
Goodness, before I
was even conceived.
00:24:11.68\00:24:15.15
"Before you were
born, I sanctified you.
00:24:15.18\00:24:18.55
I ordained you a
prophet to the nations."
00:24:18.59\00:24:21.62
God says to Jeremiah, look,
00:24:21.66\00:24:23.93
before you're even born,
before you were conceived,
00:24:23.96\00:24:26.83
before you were a
gleam in your father's eye,
00:24:26.86\00:24:31.07
I knew all about you.
00:24:31.10\00:24:33.94
I set you aside.
00:24:33.97\00:24:36.27
I know, you see
God, the Bible says,
00:24:36.30\00:24:38.51
Jesus says even the hairs
of our head are all numbered.
00:24:38.54\00:24:43.04
Now I've got seemed to be
getting few more hairs this day
00:24:43.08\00:24:45.31
since I can't
get to a hairdresser.
00:24:45.35\00:24:47.45
Because we're, you
know, in quarantine.
00:24:47.48\00:24:49.85
I don't know how we're
gonna be after a few months.
00:24:49.88\00:24:52.95
Beverley said,
"You're gonna look a bit
00:24:52.99\00:24:54.32
like one of the prophets
from the Old Testament."
00:24:54.36\00:24:56.42
But Jesus said,
00:24:56.46\00:24:57.83
"The very hairs of
your head are all numbered."
00:24:57.86\00:25:00.66
That means, He
knows all about you.
00:25:00.70\00:25:03.70
He knows how
you're feeling today.
00:25:03.73\00:25:06.87
So you're special.
00:25:06.90\00:25:09.34
So during this time of trial
00:25:09.37\00:25:12.31
while we fight the
coronavirus COVID-19,
00:25:12.34\00:25:15.94
we must remember,
everyone is important,
00:25:15.98\00:25:20.98
rich people and poor people.
00:25:21.02\00:25:23.32
Here in America,
00:25:23.35\00:25:24.69
we have the great
Declaration of Independence.
00:25:24.72\00:25:26.86
Oh, that makes me proud.
00:25:26.89\00:25:28.59
I'm gonna put it up
00:25:28.62\00:25:29.96
if I can somewhere
00:25:29.99\00:25:31.33
the Declaration of Independence.
00:25:31.36\00:25:33.50
We have this marvelous step
00:25:33.53\00:25:35.53
in the
Declaration of Independence.
00:25:35.56\00:25:37.53
But I'm going to...
00:25:37.57\00:25:38.90
I'm going to read it to you,
but I'm going to read it to you
00:25:38.93\00:25:41.40
when I come back.
00:25:41.44\00:25:42.94
Because this, trying to tell
me now I'm running out of time,
00:25:42.97\00:25:46.24
but I'll be back, and
we're going to talk about
00:25:46.27\00:25:49.91
how we can win the battle
00:25:49.94\00:25:52.71
against this
accursed coronavirus
00:25:52.75\00:25:56.08
when we follow the old fashion
00:25:56.12\00:25:59.15
marvelous
religion of Fred Rogers.
00:25:59.19\00:26:03.86
So don't go
away, because we'll go,
00:26:03.89\00:26:06.59
we'll be back in a moment
00:26:06.63\00:26:08.20
with this
special COVID-19 special.
00:26:08.23\00:26:13.50
Stay with us.
00:26:13.54\00:26:15.37
I'll see you soon.
00:26:15.40\00:26:17.61
This is a Carter Report
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00:26:27.02\00:26:30.09
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00:26:30.12\00:26:32.25
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00:26:32.29\00:26:33.62
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00:26:33.66\00:26:35.09
will be disrupted
but this we do know,
00:26:35.12\00:26:37.43
the virus will be stopped.
00:26:37.46\00:26:39.23
Health officials have
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00:26:39.26\00:26:42.26
when traveling, wash your hands
00:26:42.30\00:26:44.23
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00:26:51.24\00:26:53.58
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00:26:53.61\00:26:55.21
God's grace will
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00:26:55.24\00:26:57.35
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00:26:57.38\00:26:58.91
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00:26:58.95\00:27:01.82
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00:27:28.24\00:27:31.95
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00:27:31.98\00:27:33.62
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00:27:33.65\00:27:34.98
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00:27:35.02\00:27:37.72
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00:27:37.75\00:27:40.69
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00:27:45.43\00:27:48.50
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00:27:48.53\00:27:52.63
My sin has
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00:27:52.67\00:27:55.00
I accept that Your Son
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00:27:55.04\00:27:57.91
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00:27:57.94\00:28:00.18
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00:28:00.21\00:28:02.84
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00:28:02.88\00:28:05.51
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00:28:05.55\00:28:08.22
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00:28:08.25\00:28:09.78
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00:28:09.82\00:28:12.02
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