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, all by myself alone.
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In this big studio, no
people, no camera people,
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by myself alone
with a little tiny crew
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upstairs led by my son, David.
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And we're
bringing you this message
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because it's so important.
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Now, have you ever felt
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really, really anxious?
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Have you ever felt...
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I just don't know what
the future holds for me,
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I don't know if
I'm even going to live.
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There's a lot of fear
out there today in America
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because tens of
thousands of people,
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our brothers and
our sisters have died.
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And then we've got all
these doctors and nurses
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and essential workers
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who are putting
their lives on the line.
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And before we start today,
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we're going to
have a prayer for you
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and we're going to
have a prayer for all
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those suffering from COVID-19.
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And we're going to have
a prayer for the doctors
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and the nurses and
the essential workers.
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Let's pray together.
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Our Father in heaven,
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we thank You today
for Your great grace.
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We thank You for
our Lord Jesus Christ
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through whom
everything is possible.
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We pray today in the precious
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mighty name of
Jesus for the doctors,
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and the nurses, and
the essential workers
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who are putting their
lives on the line today
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as they battle this demon
from hell called COVID-19.
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Bless them today
and preserve them.
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And we pray that you
will bring to our hearts
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today a message of
hope and courage and peace
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that we shall know that in God
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we shall not be
afraid but we shall overcome.
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And we pray this
prayer in Jesus' mighty name.
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Amen and amen.
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Well, my friend, God bless
you and welcome to the program.
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Today, I'm going to talk about
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our hiding place.
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I've had a gun stuck in my back.
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Have you?
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It could be a
rather scary experience,
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seemed to be a
million miles from home
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walking down a
jungle pathway in Africa
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with a gun stuck in my back.
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I'm going to tell you
how I found a hiding place
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because today I'm
going to talk about
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the hiding place
that God has for you
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and that God has for me
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and God has for all of us
if we will only accept it.
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I've also spent a rather,
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I call it a scary night
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up on the Golan Heights.
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That's about the most
dangerous place in the world,
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it's between Syria and Israel
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and I was stuck there one night.
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But I found a hiding place,
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I'm gonna talk to you
about the hiding place today
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because there is a hiding place
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where we can run and
get away from our fears.
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Life is full of
situations that are full of fear
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and uncertainty
but the main thing,
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my friend, is not what
is going on outside of us
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but what is
going on inside of us.
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And I want to tell you
today how you can have peace,
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and hope, and security,
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and how you can
find a hiding place.
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COVID-19, it's not
good, it's not good.
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Hundreds of thousands
around the world have died.
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In America nobody expected
this would happen in America
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with tens and tens of
thousands of people have died.
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I'm living
right on the very edge
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of the great city of Los Angeles
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where many, many
people have died,
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but it is nothing compared
with the great city of New York
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where thousands and thousands
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and thousands of
people have died,
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I say pray please
for the city of New York.
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Anxiety is at a very high level.
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Now, I can't even
get out of my house,
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not even to have a haircut.
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Folks say to me
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when you're gonna get a haircut?
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I guess, I'm gonna get a haircut
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when the
government allows me to go
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and get my haircut.
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You say, well, why
doesn't Beverley cut your hair?
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Well, Beverley
doesn't want to try to do that
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and I think she might do okay,
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but I think I'll go
to the haircutter just,
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just the same.
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Anxiety is at a very
high level, you know it.
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Monday, April 20 this year,
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2020, oil prices fell to minus
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almost 37 dollars, minus 37.
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Unparalleled in
the history of oil.
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Now they have
somewhat rebounded,
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but nobody knows
what is going to happen.
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This was scary for some.
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Now I've been predicting
an economic earthquake.
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If you watched some of my videos
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you'll see where I talk about
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the coming world
financial collapse.
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I believe it is going to
happen but I want to tell you
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when it comes,
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we are going to
have a hiding place.
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I didn't believe
in sensationalism,
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but I do believe in
the prophecies of the Bible
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and the Bible tells me
it's going to get worse
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before it gets better,
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but it's going
to get much better
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when Jesus comes,
that's the good news.
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Now as you know
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I don't believe in
Darwinian theories.
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The Darwinian
theory of evolution
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that says everything gets better
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and better and better,
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that seems to be
a failed philosophy,
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don't you think?
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Things are not getting better.
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The Bible says things
are going to get worse
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before they get better.
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And they're going to get better
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not because of the
vices of Darwinian theorists
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and so forth,
they're going to get better
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when God comes,
when Christ returns.
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I believe that Christ is coming.
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My theme text,
here it is, Psalms 32:7.
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I'm going to take my Bible,
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the New King James Version
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and I'm going to
turn to Psalm 32:7,
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and here it is,
brother and sister.
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"You are my hiding place."
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God is my hiding place.
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"You preserve me from trouble,
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you shall surround me
with songs of deliverance."
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God is my hiding place.
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Now, there's another
text I want to read to you.
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I'm going to turn
over now to Psalm 119.
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I think it is Psalm,
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where it is,
where you're hiding?
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Psalm 119:114.
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This is a pretty long Psalm.
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Goodness me, Psalm 119:114,
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"You are my hiding place
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and my shield."
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I've got a shield.
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"I hope in Your word."
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When everything falls
apart, God is our hiding place.
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Now there is a terrific text
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I want to read to you
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and I'm going to
turn to Isaiah 32:1, 2.
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"Look, a righteous king
is coming," that's Christ.
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"Honest princes
will rule under him."
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Here it is, listen to this.
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"He will shelter Israel
from the storm and the wind."
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He's a shelter,
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"He will refresh her
as a river in the desert."
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He's going to give us
sustenance in the desert.
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"He's going to refresh
her as a river in the desert
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and as the cool shadow
of a large rock in a hot
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and a weary land."
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When it is hot,
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He is going to be
our cooling shade,
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He is going to
be our hiding place.
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I want you to know
this, brother, sister,
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you can have a
hiding place today even when
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COVID-19 is ravaging the world
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and hundreds of
thousands of people are dying
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and when the stock exchange
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is collapsing
and oil is tumbling
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and hundreds.
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millions,
millions here in America,
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30 million people
have lost their jobs.
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I want to say to you today,
there's good news for you,
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God is our hiding place.
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And my hiding place, my friend,
is found, listen to this,
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wait for it, my
hiding place is found
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not in the words
of the politicians,
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they need our prayers, sure.
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But my hiding place is not found
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in the words of the politicians.
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Are you listening to me today?
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My hiding place is found
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in the precious promises of God.
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Now I want to read a
text to you, 2 Peter 1:4.
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2 Peter, "By which have been
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given to us exceedingly,"
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that's big, that's expansive.
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"Exceedingly great,
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exceedingly great
and precious promises,
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that through these
you may be partakers
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of the divine nature,
having escaped the corruption
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that is in the
world through lust."
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The Bible tells me that we have
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great and precious promises.
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And when things are
filled with fear and anxiety,
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we can go to these great
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and precious promises
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and we can have
our hiding place.
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I'm here today by myself,
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all by myself alone
in our television studio,
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no camera people
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but God is with us
and I'm here to tell you,
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we can have a hiding place.
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I'm going to
tell you some stories.
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Didn't get these out of a book.
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On the whole, these are
things that I know are true
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because they happen to me.
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These are events
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that powerfully
influence my life.
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I'm going to take
you back a few years.
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I got to take
you back to the days
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when I was a boy student
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at Avondale
College in Australia.
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I can think it was wintertime,
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it was, Avondale
can get pretty cold.
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It was cold, most of us
were suffering from the flu,
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we were feeling fatigued,
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were feeling sick and
then we had the accountant
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who was continually after us
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because we were
behind on our fees, 3fs,
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flu, fatigue, and fees.
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I don't know
which one was the worst,
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but I do know this,
one night feeling very low
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I went out on
the Avondale campus
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and I looked up into the stars.
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I looked up
into the face of God.
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Do you know how many
stars there are, brother?
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Well, back there in those
days there were a lot of stars,
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we knew of, but
nothing like today.
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We knew that they were,
there was the Milky Way system,
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but as for other galaxies
we didn't know much about it.
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We now know today
besides the Milky Way system
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of which we are a tiny part,
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there are 2 trillion
galaxies in the cosmos.
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They're the ones that
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we can actually
see with telescopes.
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That's 2,000 billion,
can you comprehend that
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in each, each galaxy
is composed of at least
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a hundred billion blazing suns.
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If you like mathematics,
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you can try to work it out
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and find out how many suns,
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stars there are in the universe.
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You can't say the
words, a huge, huge number.
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And there's something else,
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astronomers, now you got to
listen hard to get this one,
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not too many people know this,
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I'm just gonna share
this with you in confidence.
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You ready for this?
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Most of the universe,
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99.5 plus
percent of the universe
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is made up of dark
matter or dark energy,
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that stuff that we
don't know what it is.
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And you can't see it,
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you can't look at
it with a telescope.
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So the stuff that
we can actually see out
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there all of these
vast, vast galaxies,
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that's the stuff we can see
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and it's less than half percent,
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less than half of 1% of
the whole of the universe.
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Did you get this?
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Have I lost you?
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People say, "Well, if
we get bigger telescopes,"
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now you won't gonna see it
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because it's made up of
stuff that cannot be seen.
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And nobody to
this point in time,
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nobody knows what it is.
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But what we can say
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all of these
trillions of galaxies
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that's less than half of 1%
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of what the
universe is composed of,
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how big is God.
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I didn't know this
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when I was a
student at Avondale College,
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but when I looked
up into the stars,
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I said to
myself, "How big God is?
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What a big God He is.
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How mighty He is.
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And if God is such a big God,
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then surely He can
take care of this poor,
00:15:02.70\00:15:06.57
skinny student who's
got the flu and fatigue
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and he's got
problems with his fees."
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I want to turn over here
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to the Book of
Isaiah Chapter 40.
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Now, I want you
folks listen to this text
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because this tells me that
you and I have a hiding place.
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Isaiah 40:26, it says,
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Isaiah 40:26, you ready?
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"Lift up your eyes on high,
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and see who
created these things,
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who brings out
their hosts by number
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He calls them all by name,
by the greatness of His might
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and the strength of His
power, not one is missing."
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The Bible says,
"Look up to the heavens,
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look up to God,
look up to the stars."
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Verse 29, "He
gives power to the weak.
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And to those who have no
might He increases strength."
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You feeling down today?
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He wants to give you, He
wants to give you strength.
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"Even the youths
shall faint and be weary,
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and the young men
shall utterly fall,
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but those who wait on the Lord
shall renew their strength."
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Are you listening?
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"They shall mount up
with wings like eagles,
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they shall run and not be weary,
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they shall walk and not faint."
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That's my hiding place.
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The God who made the stars.
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This great God
Who made the stars,
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the Bible tells me became a man,
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His name is Jesus Christ,
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He died for our
sins on the cross,
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He's coming again,
He wants to live in you
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and He wants you to live in Him
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and He wants to be your rock.
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He wants to be your river,
He wants to be your shelter,
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from the tempest He
wants to be your hiding place.
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It is the truth.
Here is the next story.
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I was in Saint
Petersburg, Russia,
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been holding a campaign
in this tremendous building.
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It's a huge place,
00:17:07.22\00:17:08.56
it's about
40,000-50,000, had it packed,
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but I got sick when I was there.
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Don't often get
sick, but I got sick.
00:17:14.73\00:17:16.63
So they rushed me into hospital.
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That's not a fun
experience to be rushed
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to a Russian hospital
in a Russian ambulance.
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But they rushed
me off, you know,
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we had these
tremendous meetings,
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we saw thousands of people
come to God but I got a sick,
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so I'm rushed
off to the hospital.
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Then the night comes
when I get terribly sick.
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The doctor is
incapacitated, you know why?
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Here he could not help at all.
00:17:44.93\00:17:47.10
I was there by myself
alone, didn't even have a nurse.
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My blood pressure
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was dropping in a dangerous way.
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I was able to
take my blood pressure.
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Nobody was there.
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And I thought to
myself, what's going to happen
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but I tell you something,
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I started to
repeat to myself Psalm 23,
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"Even though I walk through
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the valley of
the shadow of death,
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I will fear no evil."
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It became my hiding place.
00:18:16.99\00:18:19.69
I could jump inside the text
00:18:19.73\00:18:21.53
and I was safe and I was secure.
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I want to say to you even
with the economy in shambles
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and COVID-19 taking
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hundreds of thousands
of lives around the world,
00:18:30.14\00:18:33.58
I want you to
know, I will not fear
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because the Lord is my shepherd,
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I shall not want anything.
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I have wonderful neighbors
where we live in Thousand Oaks,
00:18:43.18\00:18:47.06
which is right on the edge
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of the great
city of Los Angeles.
00:18:48.46\00:18:51.66
Great neighbor,
wonderful neighbor,
00:18:51.69\00:18:54.66
Dr. Roy, professor at
00:18:54.70\00:18:57.33
Pepperdine University, Dr. Roy.
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And I was talking to
him, he came to see me.
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And I said, I've missed
you, he said, here I was away,
00:19:07.44\00:19:11.55
he said, you've
been away but he said,
00:19:11.58\00:19:13.65
I had open-heart surgery,
00:19:13.68\00:19:16.58
I was operated on in
a hospital in this area,
00:19:16.62\00:19:19.75
I won't tell you the hospital
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'cause this could be very scary.
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This is what he told me,
this is the truth in my home.
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He said, "The
anesthetic never worked,
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it put me into a state
where I could not move,
00:19:32.60\00:19:36.00
I could not
speak, I could not cry,
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I could not blink my eyelids
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but I was fully conscious
00:19:42.11\00:19:45.01
and I could feel
the doctor cutting."
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I said you were dreaming.
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No, no, he said,
it went on for hours.
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This sometimes
happens, you know,
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the anesthetic doesn't work,
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doesn't take away
the sense of pain.
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I said, "What did you do?"
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He said, "I quoted
Psalm 23, I kept saying it,
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the Lord is my shepherd,
00:20:05.37\00:20:07.80
even though I walk through
00:20:07.84\00:20:09.17
the valley of
the shadow of death,
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I will fear no evil."
00:20:10.57\00:20:11.91
My friend, I can't
think of a situation
00:20:11.94\00:20:15.71
much worse than to
be on a operating table
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with your heart
opened up and the doctors,
00:20:20.18\00:20:23.89
he said, I could
hear the doctors talking
00:20:23.92\00:20:26.05
and laughing,
discussing their plans
00:20:26.09\00:20:31.16
and I could feel the
knife cutting me but he said,
00:20:31.19\00:20:33.46
I hung on to Psalm
23 and I had peace.
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I want to tell you this.
00:20:39.37\00:20:42.14
If Psalm 23 works
under those circumstances,
00:20:42.17\00:20:44.97
it'll work under
any circumstance.
00:20:45.01\00:20:47.78
Even though I walk through
00:20:47.81\00:20:49.34
the valley of
the shadow of death,
00:20:49.38\00:20:51.81
I believe that God's presence
00:20:51.85\00:20:53.52
is all we need to weather
the storm of uncertainty,
00:20:53.55\00:20:57.65
I believe in Jesus,
I believe His promises,
00:20:57.69\00:21:01.02
I believe He's our refuge.
00:21:01.06\00:21:04.13
Now let me say a few words
to all who are feeling lost
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and afraid 'cause I know that
00:21:07.30\00:21:11.03
there are lots of
people out there today
00:21:11.07\00:21:12.70
who are feeling very lost
00:21:12.73\00:21:14.57
and they're
feeling very, very afraid.
00:21:14.60\00:21:19.01
I want to talk to
those people today
00:21:19.04\00:21:20.61
who are feeling lost and afraid.
00:21:20.64\00:21:22.34
I want to tell you a story from
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the great country of Ukraine.
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I was there
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when it was
wintertime in Ukraine.
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And it was, it
was bitterly cold.
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I've been to Russia
and Ukraine about 50 times.
00:21:36.22\00:21:40.86
And so, I checked-in
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at this hotel out on
the edge of this city
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where I was staying,
the city of Dnipropetrovsk.
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And because I like
to exercise every day,
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I felt before
I'm gonna go to sleep
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I'm gonna go for walking,
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so about 9 o'clock
at night I went walking,
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I felt quite confident
00:21:58.08\00:21:59.41
because I knew the
city relatively well.
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But as I walked,
the snow became blindy,
00:22:01.72\00:22:05.49
it just snowed and snowed
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and snowed and snowed,
00:22:07.36\00:22:09.09
and after walking for an
hour I was having great times,
00:22:09.12\00:22:11.76
I'm walking here in the
snow and I'm enjoying this.
00:22:11.79\00:22:15.36
And after about
an hour or so of this
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I decided that I
would turn around
00:22:17.30\00:22:19.03
and I would go back.
00:22:19.07\00:22:20.57
So I turned around
and I start going back.
00:22:20.60\00:22:24.37
But then you know what happens?
00:22:24.41\00:22:27.68
Well, I can't find my way back,
I'm lost, I'm totally lost.
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I go down this street,
00:22:32.18\00:22:34.32
it's a dead-end, I come
back, I go down this street,
00:22:34.35\00:22:36.72
I go here, it's
completely black,
00:22:36.75\00:22:39.85
there are no
people, you know, it's dark,
00:22:39.89\00:22:42.29
it's snowing heavily,
00:22:42.32\00:22:44.49
there's no light and I'm lost.
00:22:44.53\00:22:48.60
And the time is getting going by
00:22:48.63\00:22:50.83
and I'm starting to get cold
00:22:50.87\00:22:55.24
but I recalled my hiding place,
00:22:55.27\00:22:59.51
Psalm 91:9-11,
00:22:59.54\00:23:05.21
Psalm 91:1-11,
00:23:05.25\00:23:09.45
"Because you've made the Lord
00:23:09.48\00:23:11.19
who is my refuge,
even the Most High,
00:23:11.22\00:23:14.16
your dwelling place,
no evil shall befall you,
00:23:14.19\00:23:18.19
nor shall any plague
come near your dwelling,
00:23:18.23\00:23:21.83
for He shall give His
angels charge over you,
00:23:21.86\00:23:24.77
to keep you in all your ways."
00:23:24.80\00:23:26.87
My mother taught me that
00:23:26.90\00:23:28.24
as a little boy
growing up in Brisbane,
00:23:28.27\00:23:30.51
Queensland, Australia.
00:23:30.54\00:23:32.84
God is going to send His angels
00:23:32.87\00:23:34.94
and His angels are
going to watch over you
00:23:34.98\00:23:37.98
and you'll have a hiding place.
00:23:38.01\00:23:42.18
So I said to myself,
I'm lost but I'm not lost,
00:23:42.22\00:23:47.29
I'm not alone, I have peace,
00:23:47.32\00:23:50.09
God is going to take care of me,
00:23:50.13\00:23:51.89
His angels are with me now.
00:23:51.93\00:23:54.13
His angels are still taking care
00:23:54.16\00:23:56.56
of people today.
00:23:56.60\00:23:58.10
I want you to know this.
00:23:58.13\00:24:00.97
I prayed earnestly,
00:24:01.00\00:24:02.34
God helped me
to get out of this,
00:24:02.37\00:24:03.71
helped me to get
back to the hotel
00:24:03.74\00:24:05.07
'cause I'm starting to freeze.
00:24:05.11\00:24:06.47
And soon I stumbled
upon the gate of a park.
00:24:06.51\00:24:10.25
I've been to that
park many, many times,
00:24:10.28\00:24:12.21
I recognized the gate.
00:24:12.25\00:24:14.08
And once I got to the gate,
00:24:14.12\00:24:15.68
I knew that I could get
safely back to the hotel.
00:24:15.72\00:24:19.59
So, I got to the
gate and then I said,
00:24:19.62\00:24:23.22
I'm okay, I'm safe.
00:24:23.26\00:24:27.96
And soon as I
ran through the snow,
00:24:28.00\00:24:30.97
I can see the
lights of the hotel
00:24:31.00\00:24:33.17
and I was back into the hotel,
00:24:33.20\00:24:34.84
nobody knew where I had been.
00:24:34.87\00:24:38.51
I ran up the stairs,
00:24:38.54\00:24:40.24
opened up my room,
it's nice and warm.
00:24:40.28\00:24:43.45
I got into bed, I
said, thank You, God,
00:24:43.48\00:24:47.92
thank You, God,
00:24:47.95\00:24:49.65
You are a totally
reliable trustworthy God,
00:24:49.68\00:24:54.32
You have been my hiding place.
00:24:54.36\00:24:57.69
And when I was lost,
You brought me back safely.
00:24:57.73\00:25:00.96
Listen to me, you
may be feeling lost now
00:25:01.00\00:25:06.13
because of the
chaos of the situation,
00:25:06.17\00:25:08.24
because of the
insecurities of the situation,
00:25:08.27\00:25:10.77
because so many
people are dying,
00:25:10.81\00:25:12.87
I want you to know,
God is our hiding place
00:25:12.91\00:25:17.88
and we can go to Him,
00:25:17.91\00:25:19.91
we can put our faith in Him
00:25:19.95\00:25:22.22
and we can know that even though
00:25:22.25\00:25:24.19
we walk through the
valley of the shadow of death,
00:25:24.22\00:25:27.32
we will fear no evil,
00:25:27.36\00:25:29.56
we will know that God
00:25:29.59\00:25:31.43
is totally
reliable and dependable,
00:25:31.46\00:25:34.66
we will know that
God is our hiding place,
00:25:34.70\00:25:39.03
I invite you
today to come to God
00:25:39.07\00:25:42.57
and find in Christ
a place of security,
00:25:42.60\00:25:46.94
your own personal hiding place.
00:25:46.98\00:25:49.98
My friend, I'm going to be
back in just a few moments,
00:25:50.01\00:25:54.25
I've got some
amazing stories to tell you
00:25:54.28\00:25:57.42
as we talk about
the great pandemic,
00:25:57.45\00:26:00.49
but as we talk about deliverance
00:26:00.52\00:26:03.69
for the child of God.
00:26:03.73\00:26:05.39
Stay with us, I'll be back soon.
00:26:05.43\00:26:07.66
This is a Carter Report
update on the Coronavirus.
00:26:20.21\00:26:23.31
Events around the globe
00:26:23.35\00:26:24.68
are being
postponed and canceled.
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We do not know
how long our lives
00:26:26.58\00:26:28.18
will be disrupted
00:26:28.22\00:26:29.55
but this we do know,
the virus will be stopped.
00:26:29.58\00:26:32.45
Health officials have
asked all of us to use caution
00:26:32.49\00:26:35.46
when traveling, wash your hands
00:26:35.49\00:26:37.29
and avoid crowds
as much as possible.
00:26:37.33\00:26:39.49
The John Carter
gospel program in Manila
00:26:39.53\00:26:42.13
will take place
in the near future,
00:26:42.16\00:26:44.43
until then may we all
take refuge in the Holy Spirit
00:26:44.47\00:26:47.90
and know that God's grace
00:26:47.94\00:26:49.54
will guide us
through this unsettling time.
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quick recovery for those
00:26:52.11\00:26:55.01
and their families
touched by the virus.
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As we continue to provide you
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