I'm John Carter in Moscow.
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In Havana, Cuba.
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Now in Kiev, the
capital of Ukraine.
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I'm John Carter in Petra.
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Right here in Communist China.
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Reporting from India.
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Hi, I'm John Carter
in the Solomon Islands.
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I'm John Carter in Soweto.
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From El Salvador.
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I'm John Carter
in Sydney, Australia.
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Join in us with
Questions and Answers
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with Pastor John Carter.
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Hi, friend, I'm John Carter.
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Hope you're doing well.
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I'm here in Los Angeles.
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And today we're
having a special Q&A program.
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We're dealing with
some of the questions
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you've been sending to us.
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This is the second
part of the Q&A program.
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And we're going to pick up
where we left off last time,
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but we want to
give you right now
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a very special welcome.
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We're glad that you joined us.
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The person who's going
to ask the questions today
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is Wayne Hackett.
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He's a voice
well-known right across
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these great
United States of America.
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And we're glad to have
Wayne with us also today.
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What part
should the church play?
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I'll better explain
this a bit more to you
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because we've been talking
about the great challenges
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that America is
facing, the racism, the riots,
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the murders, everything else.
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Many people say
that we're seeing
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the disintegration of society,
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such as we saw for a
bit up there in Seattle,
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when they got rid of the police
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and soon they were
having people getting killed,
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and the place being
turned into a nightmare.
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And the question is,
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"What part should the
church play in these difficult,
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but tremendous times?"
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Here it is.
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I believe the church
ought to get out of politics.
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Or I think the church
ought to get out of politics
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and preach Christ.
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Does anybody agree with me?
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Preachers need to save souls
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and stop trying to promote
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a certain political agenda
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or political party.
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The church is called to
uphold the name of Christ.
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And let me say this to you,
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we need to repent of our sins.
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I don't mind talking about
we need to repent of our sin.
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We need to repent of our
sins because we are sinners.
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Genesis 3, it talks
about the fall of man.
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It tells how sin
came into the world
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and we are born
in this state of sin.
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We are born
alienated from the life of God.
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But in Genesis Chapter 3,
we have the lostness of man,
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but in John 3, we
have the redemption of man
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through the coming of Christ.
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Jesus said, "You
got to be born again.
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You got to become
a brand new person."
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Therefore, we need
a spiritual rebirth.
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We need to repent of our sins.
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We need to love our
neighbors as ourselves,
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whatever the color of the skin.
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A Christian, my
friend, cannot be a racist.
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Hear what I'm saying?
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We need to read
our Bibles every day,
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especially the words of Jesus.
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We just may learn something.
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In this great land of
the United States of America
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that was founded
upon faith in God
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and belief in
the Holy Scriptures,
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there is a tremendous
ignorance of the holy truths
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of the Holy Word of God.
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People know nothing
what is inside the Bible.
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And because of this we
have turned away from God.
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We need to find a good church
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where Jesus is worshiped
and His teachings followed.
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We need to reject violence,
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whether white,
black, brown or yellow.
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There is enough
plain to go around.
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And, my friend,
we're not just talking
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here today about
a social problem.
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People say racism is
just a social program.
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I'm here to tell you today that
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racism is far more
than a social problem.
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Racism, are you listening to me?
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Racism, my friend,
is a spiritual problem.
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Because when you recognize
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that a black man or a
brown man or a white man,
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all of these people are
made in the very image of God,
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you will love your
neighbor as yourself.
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Therefore, I want
to say this to you.
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We need to reject violence,
we need to find a good church,
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and then we need
to talk up the home.
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The destruction
of the American home
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is destroying society.
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Kids need a mom and a dad.
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We need to determine
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to share God's love
with a new person every day.
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Can any person say amen?
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Let me talk a
bit about the home.
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There's nothing more important
than the home, my friend.
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And today, in America,
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we are seeing the
destruction of the home
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and that's why
there is so much violence,
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that is why there is looting,
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that is why there is racism,
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that is why
there is so much crime.
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That is why the murder rate
is going through the ceiling
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in some parts of America
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because of the
destruction of the home.
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You know what kids
need? Kids need a mom.
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And kids need a dad.
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And when you
got a mom and a dad,
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who love God and who
keep His commandments,
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and who go to church,
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you're going to have a peaceful
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and a blessed society.
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That's why Washington said,
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it's almost, he
said, impossible.
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Almost impossible,
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he said to govern a nation
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without God and the Bible,
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so we need to love people.
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And we need to determine
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that we're going
to get back to God
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and we're going to practice
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loving our
neighbors as ourselves.
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I want to read you a
text out of the Bible.
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And I'm going to come
over here to Revelation 17:3.
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And some of you will say,
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"Why on earth are
you reading this text?
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It seems to be
completely inappropriate."
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Well, you just give me a moment
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and you'll see why it is needed.
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Revelation 17:3,
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"So he carried me away
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in the Spirit
into the wilderness."
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Now this is a prophecy.
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"And I saw a woman
sitting on a scarlet beast
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which was full of
names of blasphemy,
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having seven
heads and ten horns."
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Now the old
Americans understood this,
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present day Americans
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on the whole haven't got a clue.
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They don't know
what it's talking about.
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But the Pilgrim Fathers
understood these things.
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You may say, "It's
totally irrelevant to
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what's going on
in the world today."
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My friend, you need to get back
to the faith of our fathers,
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I'm telling you.
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This picture in the
Book of Revelation of a woman
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seated upon the beast
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is the picture of the
union of church and state.
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And when the church
gets involved in politics
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and dictates to the government
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and when the government
dictates to the church,
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there you have the very essence
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and the soul of the Antichrist.
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Are you listening to me?
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Now, my American
friends, you will say,
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"We've never heard
anything like this before."
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Well, that's because
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we've forgotten the
faith of our fathers.
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Faith of our fathers
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living still is
the great old hymn
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that I was brought up on.
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And the great founders of
the United States of America
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understood the importance
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of the separation
of church and state.
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But when the church is involved
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in politics and when the church
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stops preaching the Word of God,
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when the church stops
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upholding the
commandments of God,
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society goes down the drain.
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And what America needs today
is a rebirth of the Spirit.
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We need to be born again.
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We need to become new people.
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And preachers need to
start preaching the Bible
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and the Word of God,
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and repentance and
the cross of Christ.
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And that is needed today,
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more than anything else
we need a spiritual rebirth.
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I want you to
notice Luke 24:46-49
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that talks about
the mission of Christ
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and the mission of the church.
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Are you listening, preachers?
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"Then He said to
them, 'Thus it is written,
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and thus it was necessary
for the Christ to suffer
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and to rise from
the dead the third day,
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and that repentance
and remission of sins
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should be preached in
His name to all nations,
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beginning at Jerusalem.
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And you are
witnesses of these things.
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Behold, I send the
promise of My Father upon you,
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but tarry in the
city of Jerusalem
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until you are endued
with power from on high.'"
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Jesus said, "Repentance
has got to be preached."
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The truth of
Christ dying for our sins,
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it's got to be preached.
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The remission of sins,
it's got to be preached.
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The coming of the Holy
Spirit, it's got to be preached.
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You want a solution to racism?
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You want a solution to rioting?
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You want a solution to murders?
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You want a solution to crime?
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You want a
solution to brutality?
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I tell you, my friend,
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there's a solution and
it's not through politics.
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Oh, you say, "It's got
to be through everything."
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No, it's not through politics.
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It is through a
spiritual rebirth.
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What did you make of
Ben Carson saying that
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we are walking in the footsteps
of the old Roman Empire?
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Well, Ben Carson said
that, Wayne, a few years ago.
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Ben Carson, you know,
is the famous neurosurgeon,
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famous doctor, now
involved in politics
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and he is in the cabinet.
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And I remember at
this prayer breakfast
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he said that America
was walking in the footsteps
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of the old Roman Empire.
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What do I think about it?
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Well, I think
Ben Carson was right.
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He was right
then, he's right now.
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And when he spoke
about the old Roman Empire,
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he was talking about
the degradation of sin
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and how it brought about
a collapse of Roman society.
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Look at Romans
Chapter 1, my friend.
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I'm gonna read it
to you in the Bible.
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Romans Chapter 1 and, of
course it's called Romans
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because it was
written to the Romans.
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Romans 1, and I'm
going to start at verse 21.
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It's referring to
the old Roman Empire.
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"Because,
although they knew God,
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they did not glorify Him as God,
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nor were thankful,
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but became futile
in their thoughts,
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and their foolish
hearts were darkened."
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Get away from God,
you get into darkness.
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"Professing to be
wise, they became fools."
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Like us today.
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"And change the glory
of the incorruptible God
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into an image made
like corruptible man
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and birds and
four-footed animals
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and creeping things."
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The worship of the creature
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instead of the
worship of the Creator.
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Verse 24,
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"Therefore God also
gave them up to uncleanness,
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in the lusts of their hearts,
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to this honor their
buddies among themselves,
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who exchanged the
truth of God for the lie,
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and worshiped and
served the creature
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rather than the Creator,
who was blessed forever.
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Amen."
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That's what we're doing
today, especially in Hollywood,
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worshipping the
creature instead of the Creator.
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You know, it's true.
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And verse 26 and 27,
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"For this reason God
gave them up to vile passions.
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For even their women
exchanged the natural use
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for what is against nature.
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Likewise also the men,
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leaving the
natural use of the woman,
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burned in their
lust for one another,
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men with men
committing what is shameful,
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and receiving in themselves
the penalty of their error
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which was due."
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Paul here is
describing the old Roman Empire.
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But Paul could
write the same words
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if he were alive today
about the great American Empire.
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As we've turned from God,
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as we've stopped
worshipping the Creator,
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as we worshipped the creature,
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we've turned
away from God's laws.
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And we need a spiritual rebirth.
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Politics is not going to do it.
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And look at Romans 1:28-32.
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Romans 1, "And
even as they did not
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like to retain God
in their knowledge,
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God gave them
over to a debased mind,
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to do those things
which are not fitting,
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being filled with
all unrighteousness,
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sexual immorality,"
sounds like America,
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"wickedness,
covetousness, maliciousness,
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full of envy,
murder," that's our cities.
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"strife,
deceit, evil-mindedness,
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they are whisperers, backbiters,
00:15:05.97\00:15:08.50
haters of God, violent,
00:15:08.54\00:15:10.81
proud boasters,
inventors of evil things,
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disobedient to parents,
undiscerning, untrustworthy,
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unloving,
unforgiving, unmerciful,
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who knowing the
righteous judgment of God."
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There is a judgment,
"That those who practice
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such things are
deserving of death,
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not only do the same
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but also approve of
those who practice them."
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Wow!
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That's the old Roman Empire.
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Gave up on God,
gave up on the Creator.
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Turned away from truth.
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Worshiped the
creature instead of the Creator
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and went into
every vile practice.
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And, of course,
as you know today,
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my fellow American,
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some of this garbage is
taught today in our schools.
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Kids, you know, it's a big sin
00:16:12.77\00:16:15.10
to have a Bible in the school,
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in a state school.
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Not good to have a prayer.
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No, I don't want
to do that stuff.
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It's okay to
teach little children,
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all sorts of
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perverted practices.
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So I agree with Ben Carson.
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And I believe
that the great need
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in America today
and around the world
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and in my old
homeland of Australia,
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the greatest need
is not more politics.
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I believe, it's more of Christ.
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What does the Bible
prophecy say about our times?
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Wayne, it says a lot.
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We don't have so much
time to talk about this today.
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Usually, you know, I
try to get too much in.
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But in the Book of Revelation
it has an amazing prophecy
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that talks about our day.
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"I saw another
beast or another nation
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coming up out of the earth.
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Two horns like a
lamb spoke like a dragon."
00:17:18.83\00:17:21.44
Comes up peaceful
talking the gospel.
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"He performs great signs,
00:17:24.01\00:17:26.07
he makes even fire come
down from heaven on the earth
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in the sight of man."
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Spiritism.
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"He deceives those
who dwell on the earth
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by the signs which
he was granted to do
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in the sight of the beast,
00:17:36.25\00:17:37.59
telling those who
dwell on the earth
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to make an image to the beast
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who was wounded by
the sword and lived.
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He caused all,
both small and great,
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rich and poor, free and slave,
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to receive a mark
on their right hand
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or in their foreheads."
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Now, I don't have
time to go into this,
00:17:54.67\00:17:56.44
but let me take a flashlight
and shine it around little bit.
00:17:56.47\00:18:02.28
It talks about a great power
that arises in the last days.
00:18:02.31\00:18:06.78
This power comes up
peacefully talking the gospel.
00:18:06.82\00:18:10.99
That's why it's called a
Lamb because Jesus is the Lamb.
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But this power turns away
from the truth of the Bible
00:18:15.82\00:18:21.33
and it becomes a
dictatorial power.
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Church and state join together.
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Religion becomes
the great persecutor.
00:18:31.31\00:18:34.01
Here you have the
union of church and state,
00:18:34.04\00:18:36.61
there you have Spiritism,
00:18:36.64\00:18:38.78
the Great
Tribulation, lawlessness,
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hatred of the
good, exaltation of evil,
00:18:42.12\00:18:45.62
glorification of violence,
00:18:45.65\00:18:47.26
even climate
change is mentioned.
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I believe in the prophecies,
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it seems to be
referred to in a text,
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I think it's in Revelation
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11:18.
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Revelation 11, "The
nations were angry."
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Angry now, aren't they?
00:19:07.94\00:19:09.74
This is a
description of our day.
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Goodness me.
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"Your wrath has
come, the time of the dead,
00:19:14.48\00:19:16.95
that they should be judged,"
00:19:16.99\00:19:18.32
you're gonna be judged,
00:19:18.35\00:19:20.12
"and that You should reward
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Your servants the prophets,"
00:19:21.52\00:19:23.02
you're gonna get your reward,
00:19:23.06\00:19:24.83
"and the saints, and
those who fear Your name,
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small and great,
and should destroy
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those who destroy the earth."
00:19:29.70\00:19:31.03
The Bible says that Christ
will return when human beings
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have the capacity
to destroy the earth.
00:19:35.20\00:19:38.54
So you're going to
have religious persecution,
00:19:38.57\00:19:40.54
you're going to have the
union of church and state,
00:19:40.58\00:19:42.78
and you're going to have
00:19:42.81\00:19:44.18
the nations
destroying the earth.
00:19:44.21\00:19:45.88
And many people,
00:19:45.91\00:19:47.25
including this guy believes that
00:19:47.28\00:19:50.62
we have come to
this tremendous hour.
00:19:50.65\00:19:54.22
But also it talks about
the triumphs of the gospel.
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This is the good news,
00:19:57.33\00:19:58.66
Matthew 24 and
there's a text here.
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Matthew 24 and it
talks about the triumph.
00:20:01.83\00:20:07.17
"Because
lawlessness will abound,"
00:20:07.20\00:20:09.60
it's happening today,
00:20:09.64\00:20:11.74
"the love of
many will grow cold."
00:20:11.77\00:20:13.84
Happening today.
00:20:13.88\00:20:15.68
"But he who endures to
the end shall be saved.
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And this gospel of the kingdom
00:20:19.68\00:20:21.68
will be
preached in all the world
00:20:21.72\00:20:23.99
as a witness to all the
nation, then the end will come."
00:20:24.02\00:20:27.09
Listen.
00:20:27.12\00:20:30.33
The gospel is not
going to fizz out.
00:20:30.36\00:20:33.70
I got burned out Roman candle.
00:20:33.73\00:20:37.00
Gospel is going to be preached.
00:20:37.03\00:20:38.53
And the Bible
indicates that in the last days
00:20:38.57\00:20:42.10
there is going to be
00:20:42.14\00:20:43.87
a great
multitude of people saved.
00:20:43.91\00:20:48.84
They're going to come
from China, and India,
00:20:48.88\00:20:53.75
and Russia, and America,
00:20:53.78\00:20:58.29
and Great
Britain, and Australia,
00:20:58.32\00:21:01.72
and Latin America.
00:21:01.76\00:21:05.43
And we're living in the days
00:21:05.46\00:21:07.63
when God is going to
finish His work and you and I
00:21:07.66\00:21:12.07
better get ready for
the coming of Christ.
00:21:12.10\00:21:15.30
What is the greatest threat
00:21:15.34\00:21:16.81
to the existence of
the church in America?
00:21:16.84\00:21:19.81
Wayne, that's a great question.
00:21:19.84\00:21:24.55
It's a profound question
00:21:24.58\00:21:26.15
because you can't give
an easy answer to this.
00:21:26.18\00:21:30.99
I think one of
the greatest problems
00:21:31.02\00:21:33.09
we face today in
the Western world,
00:21:33.12\00:21:35.96
in my old homeland of Australia,
00:21:35.99\00:21:38.39
and in these great
United States of America,
00:21:38.43\00:21:41.30
and in lots of other places too,
00:21:41.33\00:21:43.33
is that we have a
superficial reality religion.
00:21:43.37\00:21:48.00
We have a lot of religious talk.
00:21:48.04\00:21:51.54
You know, we go
through the motions
00:21:51.57\00:21:53.04
and we're almost
getting to the place now
00:21:53.07\00:21:55.34
we've even forgotten how
to go through the motions.
00:21:55.38\00:21:59.68
But I think getting to
the heart of the question
00:21:59.71\00:22:04.89
and the heart of
the answer is this.
00:22:04.92\00:22:07.89
The greatest
threat to the existence
00:22:07.92\00:22:09.82
of the church in
America is lack of Bible study,
00:22:09.86\00:22:15.40
a lack of a
personal understanding
00:22:15.43\00:22:18.30
of what the Bible teaches.
00:22:18.33\00:22:20.60
And there's a tremendous text,
I want to share it with you.
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It's Matthew 4:1-4.
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I want you in
places to stay with me
00:22:28.18\00:22:30.51
and think about this.
00:22:30.55\00:22:32.61
"Then Jesus was led up
00:22:32.65\00:22:34.08
by the Spirit
into the wilderness
00:22:34.12\00:22:37.12
to be tempted by the devil."
00:22:37.15\00:22:39.22
So the Bible teaches
00:22:39.25\00:22:40.79
there is a real devil
and there's a real Christ.
00:22:40.82\00:22:45.29
"When He had fasted
forty days and forty nights,
00:22:45.33\00:22:48.33
afterward He was hungry.
00:22:48.36\00:22:51.50
Now when the tempter
came to Him, he said,
00:22:51.53\00:22:54.57
'If you are the Son of God,
00:22:54.60\00:22:55.94
command these
stones to become bread.'"
00:22:55.97\00:22:59.61
Do a miracle.
00:22:59.64\00:23:00.98
I want you to do a miracle.
00:23:01.01\00:23:02.34
A lot of people today, my
friends, are into miracles.
00:23:02.38\00:23:05.51
And the devil
also is into miracles.
00:23:05.55\00:23:09.22
"But He answered and said,"
here it is, "'It is written,
00:23:09.25\00:23:14.22
man shall not
live by bread alone,
00:23:14.26\00:23:17.33
but by every word
00:23:17.36\00:23:19.39
that proceeds from
the mouth of God.'"
00:23:19.43\00:23:23.83
Now Jesus when He was
confronting the devil,
00:23:23.87\00:23:26.90
He said, "A miracle
is not going to do it.
00:23:26.94\00:23:31.34
I'm not going to do a miracle."
00:23:31.37\00:23:33.34
Because the most important thing
00:23:33.38\00:23:35.71
that you can do is to
feed on the Word of God.
00:23:35.74\00:23:39.28
It is written,
man shall not live
00:23:39.31\00:23:41.28
by bread alone.
00:23:41.32\00:23:42.65
That's what we're
trying to do in America.
00:23:42.68\00:23:44.82
We're trying to
live on bread alone.
00:23:44.85\00:23:47.06
And we like
miracles, and we like gadgets,
00:23:47.09\00:23:50.06
and we like things,
00:23:50.09\00:23:51.66
but these things
don't help the soul.
00:23:51.69\00:23:55.16
You know, we're empty inside
00:23:55.20\00:23:57.90
and what we need to do
00:23:57.93\00:23:59.93
is to get back to
the old-fashioned,
00:23:59.97\00:24:04.84
the old-fashioned custom,
00:24:04.87\00:24:06.24
as I could call it
of the personal reading
00:24:06.27\00:24:10.01
of the scriptures.
00:24:10.05\00:24:12.81
When I was a young
preacher in Australia,
00:24:12.85\00:24:15.42
just a boy preacher,
00:24:15.45\00:24:17.69
sent to a town by
the name of Parkes.
00:24:17.72\00:24:20.02
There was an old
man in that Parkes.
00:24:20.06\00:24:21.82
His name was Mr. Draper.
00:24:21.86\00:24:24.79
He was the old
elder of the church.
00:24:24.83\00:24:26.76
And when he would pray,
00:24:26.80\00:24:28.16
his prayers were just
filled with the promises of God.
00:24:28.20\00:24:33.00
There was power there, you
could feel the Holy Spirit,
00:24:33.03\00:24:35.57
the Spirit of God
was moving through him.
00:24:35.60\00:24:38.91
At the same time, I
was studying the Bible
00:24:38.94\00:24:42.38
with some people out on a farm,
00:24:42.41\00:24:44.01
that little town by
the name of Girilambone.
00:24:44.05\00:24:47.48
And they had been unbelievers,
00:24:47.52\00:24:48.85
but they started to
read the scriptures.
00:24:48.88\00:24:51.85
As they started to
read the scriptures,
00:24:51.89\00:24:54.82
they were filled
with joy and peace
00:24:54.86\00:24:57.63
and they had a new
power in their lives.
00:24:57.66\00:25:00.00
You can have
that power, my friend,
00:25:00.03\00:25:02.40
but you've got to get back
00:25:02.43\00:25:04.20
to serious
reading of the scriptures.
00:25:04.23\00:25:07.24
And during a time
of tremendous drought,
00:25:07.27\00:25:10.27
they said to me, you know,
00:25:10.31\00:25:12.97
I want you to know,
00:25:13.01\00:25:14.34
our barns are
full, our barns are full.
00:25:14.38\00:25:16.44
Hey, we're not
talking about wheat.
00:25:16.48\00:25:18.58
They were talking
about the spiritual,
00:25:18.61\00:25:21.68
the spiritual food,
deep down in their souls.
00:25:21.72\00:25:27.62
My friend, we need a
mighty turning to God,
00:25:27.66\00:25:29.99
I'm telling you this today.
00:25:30.03\00:25:31.36
We need a mighty turning to God.
00:25:31.39\00:25:33.73
We need to come back to God.
00:25:33.76\00:25:35.53
We need to come back to Christ.
00:25:35.56\00:25:38.93
We need to come
back to the scriptures.
00:25:38.97\00:25:42.37
We need to believe in Jesus.
00:25:42.40\00:25:44.34
We need to confess
and forsake our sins.
00:25:44.37\00:25:47.94
We need to find a good church
00:25:47.98\00:25:50.01
where Jesus is worshiped
00:25:50.05\00:25:52.15
and the commandments are upheld.
00:25:52.18\00:25:55.28
And I want to
tell you something,
00:25:55.32\00:25:56.65
if we will seek God,
00:25:56.69\00:25:58.72
He will pour out upon
us a blessing so great,
00:25:58.75\00:26:02.16
there will not be
room enough to receive it.
00:26:02.19\00:26:07.06
May God bless you
today and watch over you.
00:26:07.10\00:26:11.83
Amen and amen.
00:26:11.87\00:26:13.20
God has got a time and
a place for everything.
00:26:17.91\00:26:21.18
Nothing happens by chance.
00:26:21.21\00:26:25.41
In spite of the
powers of darkness,
00:26:25.45\00:26:28.78
nothing can
destroy the Church of God.
00:26:28.82\00:26:33.49
And I'm not ashamed
00:26:33.52\00:26:35.32
of the Gospel of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:26:35.36\00:26:40.96
That the gospel is
not about you and me,
00:26:41.00\00:26:43.70
it is the good news
about the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:26:43.73\00:26:46.94
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