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, welcome back.
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We're talking today
about our hiding place.
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Some people would say
these are scary times.
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They are right, the economy,
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we don't know
what's going to happen.
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We do know that
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there are tens of
millions of people
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who've lost their jobs
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here in the
United States of America.
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I want to tell you today,
you don't need to be afraid
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because God is our hiding place.
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Have you ever had a
gun stuck in your back?
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I have.
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I was in Africa,
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and I had a gun
stuck in my back.
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It's a rather scary experience.
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We've been running
this great campaign
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in the city of Harare, Zimbabwe.
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That's the new name
for Salisbury, Rhodesia,
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very beautiful city.
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At least it used to
be a very beautiful city.
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And we had
thousands and thousands
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of people coming to our meetings
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as we were preaching
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the blessed gospel of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
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I had to go back to
the television station.
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It was out in the
bush, out in the jungle.
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I had to go
there for an interview
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but when I got there, I
discovered it was a set up.
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And soon I was surrounded
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by a bunch of
soldiers with guns,
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protruding me with their guns.
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And they were lead by a man
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who was a terrorist
and he was cursing at me
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and railing at me
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because I was there
preaching the Gospel of Christ
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and that was something
they didn't want to understand.
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At least, he didn't
want to understand it.
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He hated Christians.
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And soon I was marched
down this road in the jungle,
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and I had this guns
sticking in my back.
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Now that can be a
rather scary experience
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when you seem to be a
million miles from home,
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and you got a gun out
sticking in your back.
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You know what I did?
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I recalled Psalm 23.
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"Even though I walked 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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I got a tremendous peace.
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I knew that I was
in the hands of God.
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And I knew that
nothing could touch me
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while I was in the hands
of the God who made the stars.
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And then I thought of
another tremendous text.
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That's Hebrews 13:5, 6.
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And I want to share
that text with you right now.
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If you're feeling afraid,
if you're feeling anxious,
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if you're scared
of the circumstances,
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I want this text to sink down
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into the molecules of your mind,
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here is the text.
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"Let your conduct be
without covetousness,
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be content with
such things as you have."
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Now here it is,
"For He Himself has said,
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'I will never leave
you nor forsake you.'
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So we may boldly say,
'The Lord is my helper,
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I will not fear,
what can men do to me?'"
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I tell you what, my friend.
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When you're in Africa,
and you seem to be forsaken
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by every person on
the face of the earth
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and you're there by yourself.
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And you've got a gun
sticking in your back
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and a terrorist
is cursing at you
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and saying that he's
going to have you killed.
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You need to find a hiding place.
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And deep down
inside God spoke to me,
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God said, John, you
don't have to be afraid
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because I'm going
to take care of you.
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I want to say this today
from my heart to your heart,
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my beloved brother and sister,
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don't be afraid
because God has said,
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I will never,
never, never leave you
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and I'll never forsake you.
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As soon as we walk
down this jungle path,
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the terrorist was driving car,
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he was cursing me out
of the window of the car,
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and all these
soldiers were walking with me,
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some pushing me along with guns.
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Then the terrorist said,
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"I'm gonna leave
you to these men."
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They turn the car around
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and he went back to
the television station.
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And as soon as
he was out of sight,
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the soldiers got around me
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and they put down their guns,
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and they started to
hug me and they said,
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"Pastor Carter, we know you,
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we come to your meetings,
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we've come to your meetings,
and we've accepted Christ."
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I said, "Thank God,
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He's my hiding place
and He has preserved me."
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And soon they
rushed me off in a car
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and got me back to the meeting,
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the people were
waiting for me at the meeting.
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They wondered why I was so late.
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I want you to know this.
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No circumstance is too
bad for the God who loves you
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and the God who died on
the cross to redeem you.
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Now, it's quite
likely that we're going to go
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into a great recession,
maybe a great depression.
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You can't keep printing billions
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and trillions of dollars
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and think you can
just keep doing this.
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A day is coming when
it's going to be a day
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of judgment and
somebody's going to say,
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I've come for the money.
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And so, a lot of
people are saying,
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what are we going to
do if we have a depression
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or even a recession?
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I want you to look
again at Isaiah 32:2,
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and I'm going to read
it in this translation.
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Isaiah 32:1 and onwards now,
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"Look, a
righteous King is coming!"
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This is Christ.
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"Honest princes
will rule under him.
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He will shelter Israel
from the storm and the wind."
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Wow, "He's gonna be a shelter
from the storm and the wind."
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I need that shelter.
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"He will refresh her
as a river in the desert
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and as the cool shadow
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of a large rock in a hot
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and a weary land."
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Just think about this.
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In other words, my
brother and my sister,
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God is going to
be our hiding place,
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He's going to be our
shelter from the storm,
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He's going to be our
refreshing stream in the desert.
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He's going to be our shadow
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of a mighty
rock in a weary land.
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Praise God.
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Did you notice this?
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On Monday, the
20th of April, 2020,
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oil dropped to minus 37 dollars,
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the biggest drop
in the history of oil.
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I've long been predicting
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a collapse of the world economy.
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I do this on the
basis of Bible prophecy.
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I do not believe
in sensationalism,
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but I do believe in following
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the truths of the word of God.
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I say this to everybody
who is watching the telecast,
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listen to me, you
can't keep printing money
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as we are doing here
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in the United States of America.
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The treasury can't keep saying,
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hey, let the printing
presses run for another week
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and we'll print
another 2 or 3 trillion dollars
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and we'll just give it out.
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There is coming a
day of accounting.
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But I want you to know
if we have a depression
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that God is going
to be our hiding place.
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The recent
collapse of oil has sent
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a cease big
shock around the world,
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especially Russia,
Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Canada
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and the United States of America
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where we are simply saying,
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let the printing presses run
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and print the
trillions of dollars
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because we do not
believe in balancing the budget.
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Right now, we
have 30 million decent,
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honest, good
Americans unemployed.
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Now, I know a little bit
about the great depression
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because my parents went through
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the great
depression in Australia.
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And this I can tell
you is a terrible time
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for my parents, they
lost everything they had,
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they lost their
shop, they lost their home,
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but my mother discovered Christ
during the great depression
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and she discovered that
Christ was her hiding place.
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Going to turn
to a text over here
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in Luke 21:25 and on.
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Luke 21:25 and onwards.
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Luke 21:25 and onwards.
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And I want you to listen
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now to the words of
our Lord Jesus Christ,
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doesn't matter
whether you believe me or not,
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but matters a great deal
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if you believe
the words of Christ.
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"There will be signs in the sun,
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in the moon, and in the stars,
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and on the earth distress
of nations, with perplexity,
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the sea and the waves roaring."
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The literal sea,
literal waves roaring,
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but the sea also represents
the nations of the world.
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They'll be roaring.
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"Men's hearts
failing them from fear
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and the
expectation of those things
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which are coming on the earth,
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for the powers of the
heavens will be shaken.
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Then they will see the
Son of Man coming in a cloud
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with power and great glory."
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The Bible tells us great things
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are going to happen to
the earth, great calamities,
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and the nations are
going to be terrified.
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But during that time,
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the people of God
will not be frightened
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because they will have
peace and security in Christ
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because He is
their hiding place.
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So, I want you to know this,
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we have peace in
the midst of the storm,
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we have a hiding place.
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And for the Christian,
the bad news is the good news
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because Christ is coming.
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Do you hear this?
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The bad news is
the good news, brother.
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The bad news is the
good news, sister, why?
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Christ is coming.
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And Christ right
now is our hiding place,
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this is the word of God.
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But until He comes,
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He will supply
our physical needs.
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Did you hear this?
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Until He comes,
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He will supply
our physical needs.
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I want to give you one
of those precious promises
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that we spoke about
in the first session,
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Philippians 4:19
says, "And my God..."
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Are you listening to me,
please, are you listening?
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"And my God shall supply,"
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He needs to be your
personal God, my God.
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"And my God shall
supply all your need,"
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not all your wants.
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"My God shall
supply all your needs
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according to His riches
and glory by Christ Jesus."
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The Bible tells me
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and this is a
promise from Almighty God,
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the God who made the
stars that He will supply
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all of our needs
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even in the midst
of a great recession
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and depression.
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He is my hiding place and
I run to Him and I'm safe.
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When I was a boy preacher
out of Avondale College,
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I was sent to a little town,
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beautiful little
town in New South Wales,
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biggest state in Australia.
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Sent to a town by
the name of Parks,
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New South Wales, Australia.
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I met there an old man,
his name was Mr. Draper,
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he told me the story
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when he was a young man
living in the Parks area.
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He was so poor, he
was living in a tent.
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And then he'd put in some wheat,
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trying to get the wheat to grow,
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nothing seemed to work.
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Then he went along to
some meetings in Parks,
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and he heard an
evangelist preach about Christ.
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And he gave his life to Christ.
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He became a true Christian.
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And he started to keep
the commandments of God,
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I met this
great man, Mr. Draper.
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Used to hear him pray,
the most wonderful prayers
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I've ever heard,
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filled with all
the promises of God.
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He knew God and God knew him.
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Then Mr. Draper
started to pay his tithe.
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Do I believe in tithing?
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Of course, I believe in tithing.
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The Bible teaches that
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one tenth of everything
we have belongs to God.
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So I believe in returning
a tithe to God and since,
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listen to me, since I
have been paying tithe
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and maybe sometimes two
tithes and three tithes,
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I don't know how to
cope with all the blessings
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that Almighty God gives me.
00:14:08.54\00:14:10.85
So I say to you,
if you're not a tither
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and if God is not your partner,
00:14:13.98\00:14:15.68
my friend, you're missing
out on a tremendous blessing.
00:14:15.72\00:14:19.22
So Mr. Draper said he
started to pay his tithe
00:14:19.25\00:14:21.42
and keep God's commandments.
00:14:21.46\00:14:22.79
And he said, wow,
00:14:22.82\00:14:25.19
you should have seen
the wheat, the bumper crops.
00:14:25.23\00:14:29.16
He said, I eat that, I
couldn't have believed it.
00:14:29.20\00:14:31.87
But the blessings
came down from God
00:14:31.90\00:14:34.40
and the
blessings came up from God.
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There was so much wheat,
00:14:37.01\00:14:39.24
I was able to
get out of the tent.
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I was able to
build myself a house.
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He said, I have
been marvelously blessed.
00:14:43.85\00:14:48.68
And then he
quoted to me Luke 6:38,
00:14:48.72\00:14:52.45
the words of
Jesus, look at this.
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This is terrific.
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"Give, it will be given to you."
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The people who are the
richest people in the world
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spiritually in every other way
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are the people who
give, not the stingy people.
00:15:05.53\00:15:09.00
"Give, it will be given to
you, good measure, pressed down,
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shaken together,
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and running over will
be put into your bosom.
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For with the same
measure that you use,
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it will be
measured back to you."
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He said, I got
so many blessings.
00:15:26.86\00:15:31.29
God gave me the blessings,
00:15:31.33\00:15:33.06
shaken, press
down, running over.
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He said, I just couldn't
handle all the blessings.
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God is good.
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He discovered that
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God was good and
God was his refuge.
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God was his hiding place.
00:15:48.04\00:15:50.31
God was his
refuge from the storm.
00:15:50.35\00:15:52.88
God was his running river
of abundance in the desert.
00:15:52.91\00:15:57.85
God was his
shadow of a mighty rock
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in a weary land.
00:16:01.29\00:16:03.93
God was everything he needed.
00:16:03.96\00:16:06.46
Mr. Draper found
his hiding place.
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I want to say this to
you, my friend, my brother,
00:16:09.36\00:16:11.40
my sister, listen to me.
00:16:11.43\00:16:13.87
He is my refuge.
00:16:13.90\00:16:15.94
He is my shelter from the storm.
00:16:15.97\00:16:18.04
He is your river in the desert.
00:16:18.07\00:16:20.81
He is your mighty
rock in a weary land.
00:16:20.84\00:16:25.41
He is our refuge when
money is in short supply.
00:16:25.45\00:16:30.55
And when the
treasury can no longer keep
00:16:30.59\00:16:32.95
printing trillions of dollars,
00:16:32.99\00:16:35.16
when they go broke,
God doesn't go broke.
00:16:35.19\00:16:38.89
When money is in short supply
00:16:38.93\00:16:40.70
and times are tough,
God is our hiding place.
00:16:40.73\00:16:46.33
When I was a boy in
college, didn't have much money,
00:16:46.37\00:16:49.74
was there for six years.
00:16:49.77\00:16:52.27
And one vacation
I went selling books
00:16:52.31\00:16:55.14
in Western New South Wales,
00:16:55.18\00:16:57.38
beautiful country
and beautiful people.
00:16:57.41\00:17:00.92
And I rode my Harley Davidson,
I'm sorry to tell you this,
00:17:00.95\00:17:05.15
but this is inappropriate
00:17:05.19\00:17:06.55
but I love Harley Davidsons
and I used to love riding
00:17:06.59\00:17:11.56
my motorbike out
meeting all the farmers,
00:17:11.59\00:17:16.90
selling books,
but it can be tough
00:17:16.93\00:17:20.04
because where do
you stay at night,
00:17:20.07\00:17:22.00
I had nowhere, nowhere to stay.
00:17:22.04\00:17:25.24
But about 7 o'clock at night
00:17:25.27\00:17:26.61
I'd start praying to
God, God, look here I am.
00:17:26.64\00:17:30.31
No hotels here,
no motels, no tents.
00:17:30.35\00:17:35.78
A lot of wheat
country, a lot of country roads.
00:17:35.82\00:17:40.02
And I'd say, God,
You're my hiding place.
00:17:40.06\00:17:44.69
And every
night, week after week,
00:17:44.73\00:17:47.30
month after month, I
was given a place to stay.
00:17:47.33\00:17:52.97
I started out so
skinny, I weighed 130 pounds,
00:17:53.00\00:17:58.37
the ministerial
students at Avondale had a club
00:17:58.41\00:18:00.84
we called it the Bones Club,
00:18:00.88\00:18:03.08
we were so skinny,
didn't get enough food.
00:18:03.11\00:18:08.25
Been there for years
trying to get through college,
00:18:08.28\00:18:11.25
get a degree in theology.
00:18:11.29\00:18:14.59
But when I was there,
00:18:14.62\00:18:16.12
I put on 14 pounds
riding the motorbike,
00:18:16.16\00:18:20.50
not in college, 14 pounds,
00:18:20.53\00:18:22.73
because people
were so generous to me.
00:18:22.76\00:18:25.40
God blessed me.
00:18:25.43\00:18:27.20
I want you to know
God is our hiding place,
00:18:27.24\00:18:29.74
He is a hiding place
even for poor students.
00:18:29.77\00:18:32.77
Look at Psalm 32:7, 8.
00:18:32.81\00:18:35.21
Psalm 32:7, 8, "You
are my hiding place,
00:18:35.24\00:18:40.02
You shall
preserve me from trouble,
00:18:40.05\00:18:42.25
You shall surround me
with songs of deliverance."
00:18:42.28\00:18:45.39
God did it for
me on one occasion.
00:18:45.42\00:18:47.96
Now I'm no good
at mechanical things.
00:18:47.99\00:18:51.56
Riding my bike down the road,
00:18:51.59\00:18:52.93
I heard a noise, I
went back looked at the back
00:18:52.96\00:18:55.80
wheel which is
very hard to take off
00:18:55.83\00:18:58.27
when you've got no tools.
00:18:58.30\00:19:00.14
Even with tools it
would be very hard for me,
00:19:00.17\00:19:02.27
there I found huge big
nail sticking in the tire
00:19:02.30\00:19:06.81
and that tire had
a rubber tube inside.
00:19:06.84\00:19:10.28
So I said, "What can I do?"
00:19:10.31\00:19:12.58
I can get the nail out
00:19:12.61\00:19:14.68
but I can't get the
tire off and I can't fix it.
00:19:14.72\00:19:17.29
I got down there in the dust.
00:19:17.32\00:19:18.99
Are you still listening to me?
00:19:19.02\00:19:20.79
You better hear this.
00:19:20.82\00:19:22.19
I got down there in
the dust in New South Wales
00:19:22.22\00:19:25.16
beside the Harley Davidson.
00:19:25.19\00:19:26.63
I said, God, "I've got no tools.
00:19:26.66\00:19:30.77
I don't know what to do.
00:19:30.80\00:19:32.73
I'm trying to earn my
fees to go back to college.
00:19:32.77\00:19:36.27
I'm going to take this nail out,
00:19:36.30\00:19:38.11
please keep it up,
00:19:38.14\00:19:41.24
pull the nail out."
00:19:41.28\00:19:44.71
I'm expecting to hear
00:19:44.75\00:19:46.08
the noise of
the air blowing out,
00:19:46.11\00:19:47.92
not a lot of faith, you see.
00:19:47.95\00:19:51.22
But it doesn't
depend just upon our faith,
00:19:51.25\00:19:53.49
it depends all upon
God, He's our hiding place.
00:19:53.52\00:19:56.59
I pulled the nail
out, I got on the bike
00:19:56.62\00:19:59.66
and I had enough
faith to get on the bike.
00:19:59.69\00:20:01.80
And I rode it down the road
00:20:01.83\00:20:03.37
and I rode it for
the next three months
00:20:03.40\00:20:07.24
selling books,
00:20:07.27\00:20:08.60
children's books on
the Gospel of Christ.
00:20:08.64\00:20:12.11
The tire never went
flat, God kept the tire up.
00:20:12.14\00:20:16.08
You say, "It's impossible."
00:20:16.11\00:20:17.48
Nothing is impossible to
the God who made the stars.
00:20:17.51\00:20:21.08
I want you to know, my friend,
that God is our hiding place.
00:20:21.12\00:20:26.59
God is our refuge.
00:20:26.62\00:20:29.82
H.M.S. Richards is
one of the great preachers
00:20:29.86\00:20:32.29
of the United States of America,
00:20:32.33\00:20:34.40
had a quartet, they
used to sing the song,
00:20:34.43\00:20:37.00
there is a place of quiet rest,
00:20:37.03\00:20:41.50
near to the heart of God.
00:20:41.54\00:20:43.81
When you get near
to the heart of God
00:20:43.84\00:20:45.81
you will find that
it is a wonderful place.
00:20:45.84\00:20:49.31
It is a place without fear,
00:20:49.34\00:20:52.58
it is a place of
quiet rest for you.
00:20:52.61\00:20:54.78
So we will not fear a
recession or a depression
00:20:54.82\00:20:58.82
because we have a
hiding place and we are safe.
00:20:58.85\00:21:02.56
We shall not be
fearful or anxious.
00:21:02.59\00:21:06.83
Now let me tell you
this, I'm gonna run out of time
00:21:06.86\00:21:08.83
before I run out of stories.
00:21:08.86\00:21:10.43
I was in a war zone
00:21:10.47\00:21:12.87
and alone in a broken-down taxi.
00:21:12.90\00:21:17.01
I flew from Amman in
Jordan to Damascus in Syria,
00:21:17.04\00:21:20.98
it was a time of
fear and tension.
00:21:21.01\00:21:24.11
In Damascus, I hired a car
00:21:24.15\00:21:25.95
and drove
hundreds of miles north
00:21:25.98\00:21:29.02
going to an archaeological site
00:21:29.05\00:21:30.72
called Tell Mardikh
00:21:30.75\00:21:33.19
where they discovered
the ancient city of Ebla.
00:21:33.22\00:21:35.86
Then I had to
come back to Damascus,
00:21:35.89\00:21:38.56
a long, long day full of tension
00:21:38.59\00:21:42.23
because this is a
dangerous part of the world.
00:21:42.26\00:21:44.87
When I got back to Damascus,
00:21:44.90\00:21:46.80
I discovered that
my flight back to Amman
00:21:46.84\00:21:49.80
had been canceled,
so I had to get a taxi,
00:21:49.84\00:21:53.07
a service taxi and
drive down the road
00:21:53.11\00:21:56.54
at the middle of
night down to Amman
00:21:56.58\00:22:00.22
and had to go
over the Golan Heights.
00:22:00.25\00:22:03.42
And in the middle
of the night the taxi
00:22:03.45\00:22:05.35
broke down on the Golan Heights.
00:22:05.39\00:22:09.12
There were
soldiers going everywhere.
00:22:09.16\00:22:11.09
My taxi driver got out,
went to try to get help.
00:22:11.13\00:22:15.10
He was away for
a couple of hours.
00:22:15.13\00:22:17.07
I could see tanks
moving around the car.
00:22:17.10\00:22:21.54
God was my hiding place.
00:22:21.57\00:22:23.00
I thought of Psalm 23.
00:22:23.04\00:22:25.91
I thought of Psalm 91.
00:22:25.94\00:22:27.84
And I said, "You
are my hiding place."
00:22:27.88\00:22:31.25
We got the car
going, we got back to Amman
00:22:31.28\00:22:35.45
after one of the most dangerous
experiences of my life,
00:22:35.48\00:22:39.55
but I had peace
because God was with me.
00:22:39.59\00:22:44.76
I've read in my mind Psalm
91, not gonna go through it now.
00:22:44.79\00:22:50.27
But where God says,
00:22:50.30\00:22:51.67
"I will be with you in trouble."
00:22:51.70\00:22:56.40
We shall not fear.
00:22:56.44\00:22:58.87
God is my hiding
place when sorrow strikes.
00:22:58.91\00:23:04.31
Got to move on a little
bit, I'll run out of time,
00:23:04.35\00:23:06.61
but I'm going to tell
you a wonderful story.
00:23:06.65\00:23:09.35
Death is the ultimate threat,
00:23:09.38\00:23:10.89
but there is a
hiding place from death.
00:23:10.92\00:23:15.96
Folks, I'm not an
armchair theologian,
00:23:15.99\00:23:17.83
what I'm telling
you I know it's true
00:23:17.86\00:23:20.03
because I've
seen the power of God.
00:23:20.06\00:23:23.23
This is the story of Mr.
and Mrs. Horatio Spafford,
00:23:23.26\00:23:26.63
who lived in Chicago
during the 19th century.
00:23:26.67\00:23:29.80
He was a very
successful businessman,
00:23:29.84\00:23:32.04
but he lost everything
in the Great Chicago Fire.
00:23:32.07\00:23:34.58
He decided to take his wife
and four daughters to England
00:23:34.61\00:23:37.85
to assist the great
evangelist Dwight Moody.
00:23:37.88\00:23:41.38
At the last moment, he
was forced to stay behind
00:23:41.42\00:23:44.29
to attend urgent
business matters.
00:23:44.32\00:23:46.89
So he sent his
family ahead on the ship,
00:23:46.92\00:23:49.82
Ville du Havre, he
planned them to join them
00:23:49.86\00:23:53.03
in two weeks,
00:23:53.06\00:23:54.40
but it was not to be the
ship carrying his family,
00:23:54.43\00:23:58.30
his wife and four
daughters was struck and sunk
00:23:58.33\00:24:01.50
by the English vessel
Loch Earn in just 12 minutes.
00:24:01.54\00:24:05.57
The survivors finally
landed at Cardiff in Wales.
00:24:05.61\00:24:09.71
Mrs. Spafford
cabled her husband,
00:24:09.74\00:24:13.31
"Saved alone."
00:24:13.35\00:24:19.05
Although stricken by
grief, Horatio found comfort,
00:24:19.09\00:24:21.76
peace and hope in
Christ, his hiding place.
00:24:21.79\00:24:24.03
He penned these
words, we sing them.
00:24:24.06\00:24:27.10
When peace like a
river, attendenth my way,
00:24:27.13\00:24:29.66
when sorrows
like see billows roll.
00:24:29.70\00:24:32.90
Whatever my lot, thou
hast taught me to say,
00:24:32.93\00:24:35.37
it is well, it is
well with my soul.
00:24:35.40\00:24:39.04
Though Satan should buffet,
though trials should come.
00:24:39.07\00:24:41.81
Let this blest
assurance control,
00:24:41.84\00:24:44.28
that Christ hath
regarded my helpless estate,
00:24:44.31\00:24:48.08
and hath shed His
own blood for my soul.
00:24:48.12\00:24:52.82
And Lord, haste the day
when the faith shall be sight,
00:24:52.85\00:24:56.36
the clouds be
rolled back as a scroll,
00:24:56.39\00:24:59.69
the trumpet shall resound,
00:24:59.73\00:25:01.46
and the Lord shall descend,
00:25:01.50\00:25:04.53
even so, it is well as my soul.
00:25:04.57\00:25:08.60
Listen to me, brother, sister,
00:25:08.64\00:25:12.54
faith sees beyond the present
00:25:12.57\00:25:15.71
and sees our glorious future.
00:25:15.74\00:25:18.95
It sees beyond death
00:25:18.98\00:25:20.85
and sees life in
God's precious promises,
00:25:20.88\00:25:24.92
it finds a hiding place.
00:25:24.95\00:25:29.39
It finds
security, it finds hope,
00:25:29.42\00:25:33.86
it finds
assurance, it finds rest.
00:25:33.90\00:25:37.20
Whatever happens, my friend,
00:25:37.23\00:25:39.83
you and I are never,
00:25:39.87\00:25:43.64
never alone.
00:25:43.67\00:25:46.11
Never forsaken.
00:25:46.14\00:25:48.28
I invite you today,
00:25:48.31\00:25:50.51
take Christ into your heart.
00:25:50.55\00:25:54.58
Believe in Christ,
trust in His promises.
00:25:54.62\00:26:00.52
And the Almighty
God who loves you
00:26:00.56\00:26:06.29
will be your hiding place.
00:26:06.33\00:26:10.37
Amen and Amen.
00:26:10.40\00:26:13.54
And God bless you.
00:26:13.57\00:26:14.90
Time, it takes only a
minute to have eternal life.
00:26:19.01\00:26:22.78
How can you get
saved in a minute?
00:26:22.81\00:26:24.55
It's simple.
00:26:24.58\00:26:25.91
First believe that
Jesus was the Son of God.
00:26:25.95\00:26:28.55
Second, accept His
free gift of eternal life,
00:26:28.58\00:26:31.55
and then you're saved.
00:26:31.59\00:26:33.49
It's not hard. It
doesn't take any time.
00:26:33.52\00:26:36.29
You can be saved
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00:26:36.32\00:26:39.33
Pray with me, Lord God, I
realized that I am a sinner.
00:26:39.36\00:26:43.47
My sin has
separated me from You.
00:26:43.50\00:26:45.87
I accept that Your Son
Jesus Christ died for me.
00:26:45.90\00:26:48.87
I ask Jesus into my heart.
00:26:48.90\00:26:50.97
If you prayed this
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00:27:06.55\00:27:09.32
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00:27:09.36\00:27:11.43
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