John Carter was scheduled
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to teach this program in Manila,
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but now at his
studio in Los Angeles.
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During the
COVID-19 restrictions,
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John Carter will teach us
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how to find hope,
inspiration and power
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in the world to come.
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There are brighter days ahead
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in God's
wonderful world of tomorrow.
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And now, here is John Carter.
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Hi, friend. I'm John Carter.
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Welcome to the Carter Report.
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We're talking about the
power of the world to come.
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This is part two.
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Let me tell you,
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amazing little story
happened in Australia.
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Group of guys
were sitting together
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one night in a bar or a hotel
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as they call it in Australia,
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in a pub, as they
call it in Australia.
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They were drinking away
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and then they started
to talk about their wives.
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You won't believe this
one, but it's true, I'm told.
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They started to talk about
how great their wives were.
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One man was talking
about his wife, he said,
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"You guys just got no idea.
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She's just
amazing and wonderful.
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She's so great
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that I can go home
any time of the night,
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drunk as
anything, and I say to her,
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"Honey, I'm
home, and I'm hungry,
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and I want some food."
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And she gets up and
gets me anything I want."
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Now the rest of the men
thought this was amazing.
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And they didn't believe it.
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And so they had a little bet.
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Well, we'll go to your
house and we'll see, okay,
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so they got up a cab or a taxi.
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They arrived at John's house.
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He cried out with a big voice.
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Hey, Mary it's John,
I'm here with my mates.
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And we're really hungry.
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Drunks are always hungry.
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Have you noticed that?
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She gets out of bed
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and she gets a
nice meal for them.
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They sit down and
they have a great meal.
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And then they get embarrassed
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and they say, "John,
we think we better go."
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Oh, he says, "Mary understands.
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She knows, she gets me anything
I want and you're my mate.
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So have the food."
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But then they say,
"No, we got to go."
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So they go.
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John is sitting
there and Mary comes in.
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And he says to her,
"Mary, why do you do it?
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Why do you do it?
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I come home, drunk
any time of the night,
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and I cry out, I
want something to eat,
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and you get up
and you get it for me
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and you never, ever complain."
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So she paused and she
said, "I'll tell you why.
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Because John, the
way you're living,
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this is the only life
you're going to have."
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I believe in heaven.
You don't believe in God.
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So I'm trying to make this life
as close to heaven as I can,
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because the way you're living,
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you're going to
know nothing better.
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But as for me,
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I have the hope of
heaven in my heart.
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And I have a wonderful,
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wonderful peace."
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That broke him up.
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This true story,
this man was so broken up.
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He said, "Mary, I want
to have what you've got.
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I want to have the peace
and I want to have the joy
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that you've got.
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I too, I want to believe."
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Now listen to me, my friend.
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If you've got the hope
of heaven in your heart,
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if you understand the
power of the world to come,
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you can face anything.
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And today, we're talking about,
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"The Power of
the World to Come."
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And that is why
we love that song
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that Vera Lynn used to sing.
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You know the song?
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Yeah, we'll be seeing you.
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It's not all over,
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because there's
something better.
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Now I'm going to
come in the Bible
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to Revelation 21:1 and 2.
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And this is a follow on
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from the first
segment of the program
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on the power of
the world to come.
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Here it comes.
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"Now I saw a new
heaven and a new earth,
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for the first
heaven and the first earth
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had passed away.
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Also there was no more sea.
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Then I, John, saw the holy city,
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the New Jerusalem,
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coming down out
of heaven from God,
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prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband."
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We talked about that
in the first segment,
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but the Bible tells me,
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a great miracle
is going to happen.
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This mighty city
is going to come down
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past the galaxies through space
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and it's going to come down
and will rest upon this earth.
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The Bible says
it, and I believe it.
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And when that happens, we
shall have heaven on earth.
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We are going to taste the
power of the world to come.
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Look at Revelation 21:3.
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These are the
words of Holy Scripture.
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You can believe
it. It's not fake news.
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It's the Word of God.
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"And I heard a loud
voice from heaven saying,
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'Behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men,
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and He will dwell with them,
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and they shall be His people.
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God Himself will be
with them and be their God.'"
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The Bible says, this new world
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is going to become the
center of the universe,
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not an old sin cursed world,
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but a new
beautiful, wonderful world.
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Now God has got a
plan for your future.
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You may say, "Well,
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I don't think
I've got a future."
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I don't, I just, I
don't think there's any.
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I want to tell you, my friend,
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God has got a
plan for your future.
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And I'm going to
show you what the plan is.
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2 Peter, Chapter 3.
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Now Peter was
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one of the greatest
people who's ever lived.
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And he wrote this book.
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And he says in 2 Peter 3:10-13.
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Listen up. Listen carefully.
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"But the day of
the Lord will come
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as a thief in the night."
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Oh, wait, let me
stop there for a minute.
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This brings me back
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many, many years
when our son David,
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who is in charge of
our television production,
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and who is doing
such a fantastic job,
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right at this very moment.
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He was just a little baby.
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We had him in his
bassinet on a bed.
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We're in this
room right next to him.
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I woke up one
night. Little disturbance.
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There was a man
getting out of the window.
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We rushed in, David was okay.
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But he'd been
standing on the bed
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on which David's
bassinet had been placed.
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Now he was a thief.
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I called the police.
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The police came out they
said, "Hey, anybody hurt?"
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Said, "Don't think so."
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Well, they said,
"Unless you get hurt,
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we can't do
anything to help you."
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That's political
correctness, my friend.
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But the thief came.
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I chased him down the road
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just as well I didn't
catch him because he's so big.
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But I want you
to know something.
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A thief doesn't tell
you when he's coming.
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And God's not
going to tell you either.
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So you better be ready,
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and you better listen up
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and you better
take this seriously.
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"But the day of the Lord
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will come as a
thief in the night,
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in which the
heavens will pass away
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with a great noise,
and the elements will melt
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with fervent heat,
both the earth and the works
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that are in it
will be burned up."
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Therefore,
since all these things
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will be dissolved,
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what manner of persons
ought you to be in holy conduct
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and godliness, looking for
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and hastening the
coming of the day of God,
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because of which the
heavens will be dissolved,
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being on fire, and
the elements will melt
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with fervent heat?
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Nevertheless we,
according to His promise,
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look for new
heavens and a new earth
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in which righteousness dwells."
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Bible tells me
that the old order,
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the old heavens, the cosmos,
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and the old earth,
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the very elements are
going to catch on fire,
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and they are going to be in
the words of Holy Scripture,
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they're going to be dissolved.
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And then the Bible tells me,
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God is going to make a
new heaven and a new earth.
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Listen.
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Number one, the
fiery destruction
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of the cosmos.
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Are you listening to me?
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The fiery
destruction of the cosmos,
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the destruction of the elements,
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the passing away of the heavens,
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the end of planet
earth, this sinful earth,
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which is burned up,
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the creation of a new
heaven and a new earth.
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Now, please listen to me.
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All of these
things of the old order
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are going to be
totally destroyed.
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And Almighty God, the Creator,
who said in the beginning,
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God created the
heavens and the earth.
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He's going to do it again.
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We are going to
have the creation
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of new heavens and a new earth.
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This is the word of the Lord.
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You can believe it.
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So death is not the
end, we'll meet again
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as Vera Lynn sang to the troops
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in the first
World War in Britain.
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God will give His
people a new world
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with everything
to light the sensors,
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thrill the soul,
satisfy the heart,
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bigger and better
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than anything we've
ever seen or realized.
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Anything we've ever imagined.
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What will this life be like?
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The power of the world to come?
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Number one, it's
going to be endless.
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There's going to be no sin,
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therefore, there's
going to be no death.
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There will be no funerals,
no undertakers, no hospitals.
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None of those things,
because there'll be no sin.
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It will be real.
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People won't be
sitting on rosy tinted clouds
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strumming their harps.
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Philippians 3:20 and 21,
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Philippians 3:20, and 21.
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The prophet says,
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"For our
citizenship is in heaven,
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from which we also
eagerly wait for the Savior,
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the Lord Jesus Christ,
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who will
transform our lowly body
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that it may be
conformed to His glorious body,
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according to the working by
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which He is able even to
subdue all things unto Himself."
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The Bible says, God's people
are going to get new bodies.
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New bodies? Yeah.
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The Bible says,
they're going to be bodies
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like Christ had.
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When Christ was
resurrected from the dead,
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He had the eternal body
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which could not decompose,
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which would last for eternity.
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And it was a real body
because Jesus, you know,
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with His disciples,
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He prove that He wasn't a spirit
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by eating some fish.
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He said, if you got
anything to eat here,
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and they got Him
some fish and, you know,
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bread and stuff,
and He ate it to show
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that He was not a
spirit in the earth made new.
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In God's new creation,
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God's people are
going to be real people
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and they're going
to do real things.
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How does that make you feel?
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Makes me feel good.
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I don't want to be a
spirit, I want to be me.
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Real glorified human
beings doing real things.
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Isaiah 65:21 and 22,
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"They shall plant
vineyards and eat their fruit,
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they shall not
build and another inhabit,
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they shall not
plant and another eat,
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for as the days of a tree,
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so shall be the
days of My people,
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and My elect shall long
enjoy the work of their hands."
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In this New World Order,
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God's people are
not going to be spirits.
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Don't believe that
stuff that is sometimes
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taught that God's
people are going to be
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spirit sitting on
clouds strumming harps.
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That's not true.
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They're going to be real people.
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And they're going
to do real things.
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I say hallelujah.
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Isaiah 65:21 and 22.
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Isaiah 65:21 and 22.
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I want you to see this.
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There it is, verse 21 and 22.
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Listen to the words,
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"They shall plant
vineyards and eat their fruit,"
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hey, they're not
spirits, "they shall not build
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and another
inhabit, they shall not plant
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and another eat, for
as the days of a tree,
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so shall be the
days of My people,
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and My elect shall long
enjoy the work of their hands."
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So they're not going
to be disembodied spirits
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sitting on rosy tinted
cloud strumming their harps.
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No, they're going to be
real people with real bodies,
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and they're going to
do real, real things.
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And, folks,
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there's not going to be any sin.
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And because there's no sin,
because sin has been abolished,
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therefore there's
going to be no pain,
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no sickness, no
fatigue, no sorrow,
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and no depression, Hey, no sin,
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but it's going to,
it's going to be wonderful
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and we will taste the
power of the world to come.
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Look at this text,
Isaiah 65:25, Isaiah 65,
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it says, "'The wolf and the lamb
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shall feed together,
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the lion shall
eat straw like the ox,
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and dust shall be
the serpent's food.
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They shall not hurt nor destroy
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in all My holy
mountain,' says the Lord.'"
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No wars.
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You won't need a military
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because there's
going to be no sin.
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Then Revelation 21:4 and 5.
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It just caps it all
with a description of glory.
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"And God will wipe away
every tear from their eyes,
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there shall be no more death."
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Hey, don't you want
to go to that place?
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No more death, no
pandemics, no COVID-19,
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"no more death,
nor sorrow, nor crying,
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there shall be no more pain,"
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no pain, no pain, no depression,
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"for the former
things have passed away.
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Then He who sat
on the throne said,
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'Behold, I make all things new.'
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And He said to me, 'Write,
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for these words are
true and faithful.'"
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You can believe this,
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because this, my
friend, is the very word of God.
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These are not
just the words of man.
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It's a description.
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It is a look into the
future, into the world to come.
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Listen, no deaths, no funerals,
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no hospitals, no sick people,
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no pandemics better
than you can understand,
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better than any person
can comprehend or realize.
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It is going, we're
going to taste the power.
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Are you listening to me?
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We're going to taste the
power of the world to come.
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We'll meet again.
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Death is not the
end, we will meet again.
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So listen up and
believe it and have faith.
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You see, my friend,
we need to have hope.
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You can put up with
anything if you got hope.
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You can put up with
anything if you got hope.
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But the death of hope always
leads to the hope for death.
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But I'm talking today hope,
hope, hope and we have hope,
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because Christ is coming
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and He's going to
give us a brand new world.
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Now somebody's
going to say to me,
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"Oh, John Carter,
it's too good to be true.
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It's just pie in the sky
and sweet wine by, you know."
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Going to tell you a little story
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now that's dear to my heart.
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And that's the story
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of the great Australian outback.
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A lot of folks don't know
this, but continental Australia,
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it's the smallest continent.
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It's the biggest Island.
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But continental Australia
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is about the same size
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as the United States of
America if you take off Alaska.
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The outback is big, big country.
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Huge.
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Want to tell you
a little bit about
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the plight of the people
living there hundred years ago.
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There were in remoteness,
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the loneliness, the dangers,
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you got bitten by a
snake, what could you do?
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The heat in summer,
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blistering heat, and in winter,
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at nighttime you can freeze.
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Now I'm thinking
more than 100 years ago.
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No doctors, no nurses,
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no hospitals in the outback
of Australia 100 years ago.
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And some of the bravest
people in the world went
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and live there.
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The Reverend John Flynn,
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a Presbyterian minister
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founded the
Australian Inland Mission.
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He was a person who cared
for the souls of the people.
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He did that in 1912.
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And with a broken
old car or a camel,
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he would go into the outback
and minister to the people.
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Qantas started in 1920
in Longreach, in Queensland.
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It is the oldest airline
in the English speaking world.
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It is also the
safest airline in the world,
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and it's a part of our story.
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Flynn started the School of
the Air around the same time
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using a pedal
radio for the children
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on the remote cattle station,
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so they could get an education.
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Then Flynn started
the Flying Doctor Service,
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still going today,
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one of the marvels of the world.
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He started it in 1928
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to bring medical help to
the people of the outback.
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The first flight for
the Flying Doctor Service
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was with a rented Qantas
plane at 20 cents a mile.
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The plane was called Victory.
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Hey, still listening.
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Then the plane
was started to bring
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the children of the outback
on holidays to see the sea.
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At Manly today which
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is a suburb of Sydney,
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is a large building
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where children are brought
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from the inland to
experience the ocean.
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I've seen some of those boys
and girls going back 50 years.
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I have seen some of them
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being escorted by
the nurses to the beach,
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and then into the ocean.
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You see, reading about
the ocean is not enough.
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You got to taste it.
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It's like heaven.
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Nothing can prepare
you for the experience.
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The winder, the
waves, the sound of the surf,
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if you've got to experience it
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before you can understand it.
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That's like heaven.
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So big, so
beautiful. Feel so good.
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Reading about it is not enough.
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Listening to a
lecture is not enough.
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I've seen the look on the faces
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of the children
from the outback.
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I've heard the, "Oh, ah, wow!
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This is a million times
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better than my teacher told me."
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That's what
heaven's going to be like,
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a million times better.
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What does the
infidel know about this?
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Nothing.
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And I want to tell
you, folk, something.
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You can't
understand it fully now.
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You got to experience it.
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That's why the Bible says,
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the great text,
"Eye has not seen,
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nor ear heard, nor have entered
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into the heart of
man, the things which God
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has prepared for
those who love Him."
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A billion times better.
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Wouldn't you like to go there?
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Wouldn't you like to go there?
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What's stopping you my
friend? Billion times better.
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And Jesus wants me
there, that's the best thing.
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John 3:16, "For God
so loved the world that
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He gave His one and only Son,
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that whoever believes
in Him shall not perish
00:21:50.57\00:21:53.27
but have eternal,
everlasting life."
00:21:53.31\00:21:56.81
The Creator God became a
man and died on the cross
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so that you could go to heaven.
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What's stopping you?
00:22:02.12\00:22:04.85
It tells you, He loves you.
00:22:04.89\00:22:07.36
We're talking today
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about the power
of the world to come.
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I love American
history. I love America.
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The Battle of Gettysburg,
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one of the great
battles of the Civil War,
00:22:17.40\00:22:20.20
General Meade
versus General Lee.
00:22:20.24\00:22:22.70
On the third day
came Pickett's Charge
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12,000 southerners,
members of the Confederacy
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versus the Union
storming up Cemetery Hill.
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Tremendous courage,
but for a lost cause.
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So the southerners
that day lost the battle
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as they lost
this war, Civil War.
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Lincoln, that great president
00:22:50.73\00:22:53.27
sent this
message to his general,
00:22:53.30\00:22:56.67
"Pursue the
enemy, break his power.
00:22:56.71\00:23:00.01
Now is your opportunity
00:23:00.04\00:23:01.38
to end the war and
stop the bloodshed."
00:23:01.41\00:23:04.25
Pursue, pursue, pursue.
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But they couldn't. You know why?
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It fought to stop,
they were exhausted.
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That night, what
a scene of carnage.
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Thousands, tens
of thousands bodies
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lying on the ground.
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Men moaning, crying for
water, crying for their mothers,
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crying for their fathers.
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And then, there was seen
00:23:33.98\00:23:35.54
an old farmer coming
across the field of Gettysburg.
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An old Quaker, an old Christian,
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holding up the lantern
and looking for his boy,
00:23:41.82\00:23:44.12
"John Hartman, thy
father seeketh thee."
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One poor boy got himself
up on his elbow and he said,
00:23:48.12\00:23:50.73
"Would to God that
were my father seeking me."
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And the other
soldiers took up the cry,
00:23:54.70\00:23:56.40
John Hartman,
where are you, John?
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Where are you,
John? Your daddy is here.
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The old Quaker father
would take a few steps,
00:24:02.84\00:24:04.94
hold up the lantern,
00:24:04.97\00:24:06.31
look at the faces of
the boys and cry out,
00:24:06.34\00:24:09.34
"John Hartman, thy
father seeketh thee."
00:24:09.38\00:24:13.85
And finally,
one of the bloodiest
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areas of the field where
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the north and the
south had fallen together.
00:24:19.05\00:24:22.26
One poor soldier boy
00:24:22.29\00:24:25.13
got himself up on his elbows
00:24:25.16\00:24:29.10
and cry cried out, "Father,
00:24:29.13\00:24:32.13
here father, here father."
00:24:32.17\00:24:37.34
The old father went over.
00:24:37.37\00:24:39.61
Put down, put down the lantern,
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and he lifted up his boy.
00:24:43.38\00:24:46.58
And he carried him
home to safety, and healing.
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Listen, across the
battlefield of this world
00:24:51.85\00:24:56.22
comes a man with
nail pierced hands,
00:24:56.26\00:24:59.56
and he lifts up a
lantern and he cries out,
00:24:59.59\00:25:02.30
"John Hartman, thy
father seeketh thee."
00:25:02.33\00:25:05.33
Your father is
seeking you today.
00:25:05.37\00:25:10.31
Christ died on
the cross for you.
00:25:10.34\00:25:15.38
Jesus is coming
again. It is the truth.
00:25:15.41\00:25:20.35
He's preparing a
place for you today.
00:25:20.38\00:25:23.32
You can taste the power
of the world to come today.
00:25:23.35\00:25:27.42
If you will simply lift
up a hand to God and say,
00:25:27.46\00:25:32.73
"Here father, here father."
00:25:32.76\00:25:37.77
And your Father
00:25:37.80\00:25:40.10
will put down the lantern.
00:25:40.14\00:25:45.67
Stoop down and lift you up
00:25:45.71\00:25:50.88
and carry you home.
00:25:50.91\00:25:53.62
Believe in Him
today, He loves you.
00:25:53.65\00:25:58.32
This is the power
of the world to come.
00:25:58.35\00:26:02.42
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