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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Will America survive?
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The solution to
corruption, crime and anarchy.
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Now here is John
Carter with today's message.
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Hi, friend. I'm John
Carter in Los Angeles.
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This is the second
part of the program.
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Here it is,
"Will America survive?"
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Pretty big question, ain't it?
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"The solution to
corruption, crime and anarchy."
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Are we going to survive
through some great coalition
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of church and state?
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I think not.
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Because there is no
greatness, my friend,
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no greatness without goodness
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and goodness does
not come from the state,
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goodness comes
from Almighty God.
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Now here's the text.
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We used this in
the first segment,
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we're going to use it again now.
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2 Chronicles 7:14,
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you do need to
see the first part.
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That's pretty powerful.
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Here we go.
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"If My people who
are called by My name,"
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it used to be the
children of Israel, the Jews.
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"If My people who
are called by My name
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will humble themselves,
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and pray and seek My face,
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and turn from their wicked ways,
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then I will hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin,
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heal their land."
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The same text talks
about the desolation
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that would come
to the people of God
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through famines and
pestilences and wars.
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And then the cry would go
up, what are we going to do?
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And the answer was,
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if my people who
are called by My name
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will pray, humble
themselves and seek My face,
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then there will
come restitution,
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there will come greatness.
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Now, let me just tell you this
before we go any further today.
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I'm quite certain
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that this talk will not please
the far left or the far right
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in the United States of America.
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Because in America today, sadly,
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everything is politicized.
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And we have this great division.
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But today, I'm not
here to please you.
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Did you hear this?
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I love you,
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but I'm not here to please you
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and because I love you, I
want you to know the truth.
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Because Jesus said,
"You'll know the truth,
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and the truth
will make you free."
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So today, I'm
appealing to people of reason,
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people who want to please God,
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and who want to see
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the greatness of
America restored.
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Now let me tell you this also,
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and this is a
little bit controversial.
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A minister's job
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is not to tell
people how to vote.
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"Oh, you say no, no,
no, you got it wrong.
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That's what a
minister's supposed to do.
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A minister is supposed to
tell the people how to vote,
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so that we can have
the right government,
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so we can have
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the greatest nation in
the history of the world."
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It doesn't work like that.
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A minister's job is
not to get out the vote,
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a minister's job
is to save souls,
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and to preach the gospel.
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A minister's job, my friend,
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now hear me please
in the name of God,
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a minister's job is
to preach the gospel
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and to save souls.
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It is not to get out the vote,
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it is to get people into heaven.
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And I want you to know
this great truth today,
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what America needs
more than anything else,
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what we all need, we
need a spiritual rebirth.
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And that's not going to come
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through the
Senate or the Congress,
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and it's not going to
come through the White House.
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It comes from God.
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I'm going to tell you
some amazing great truths.
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We need a spiritual rebirth.
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Remember I say
to you, my friends,
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England in the
days of John Wesley,
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who was a Church
of England minister.
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He was a flame of fire in
the hands of Almighty God,
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he got kicked out of his church,
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the stuffy old
Church of England,
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because he had the temerity
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to go and preach the
gospel out on the streets.
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I want you to notice
this text in the Bible.
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I'm going to turn over here
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to the Gospel of John Chapter 1,
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dear hearts and gentle people,
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John Chapter 1,
and stay with me.
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And I want to say
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how much I love
our great audience
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around the world,
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our tremendous
audience on 3ABN, on Roku,
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Amazon Fire.
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We've got so many
marvelous outlets.
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I have a
fantastic television crew.
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We're working
under great difficulties
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because of the great pandemic
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that is taking tens
of thousands of lives
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here in these United States.
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And today is a time
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when we should be
calling out for God to help us.
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John 1:10 says,
speaking of another John,
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it says, John
Chapter 1 and let me see...
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No, it's verse, verse 6.
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John 1:6,
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"There was a man sent from God,
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whose name was John."
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He wasn't sent by the Sanhedrin.
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He wasn't sent
from the White House.
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He wasn't sent
from the Congress.
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He wasn't sent from
any political party.
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John the Baptist was a
man who was sent from God.
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Oh, today that
we had men and women
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who were sent from God.
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He was called a brand
plucked from the burning.
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The rectory
caught on fire one night,
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it was burned down by
the enemies of his father,
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who was quite a preacher.
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Wesley lived in the 18th century
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from around, no, not
around, from 1703 to 1791,
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he was ordained
an Anglican priest,
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and he went over here
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to the United States of America.
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He went to Savannah,
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because he
wanted to save America.
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And particularly, he
wanted to save the Indians.
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But he was a complete failure,
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because he didn't
have the Spirit of God.
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When he was
traveling on one occasion,
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he got into a tremendous storm,
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and the waves were tossing high,
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and he thought he
was going to drown,
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and he was full of fear,
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but he noticed
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there were some Christians there
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who were called the Moravians.
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And in the midst of the
storm, they were praising God.
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What a spectacle.
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And he longed to
have their faith.
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And then May, 1738,
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he went along to a
little meeting house in London
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on a very cold
day, Aldersgate Lane,
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and he heard
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a layman read the preface
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of Martin
Luther's book to Romans.
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And there
Martin Luther describes
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the power of God
that changes the heart.
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And Wesley stood up in
the meeting, and he said,
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"I felt my heart
strangely warmed."
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And Wesley had found God.
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Or perhaps we should
say, God had found Wesley.
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He was called by
God to save His nation.
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Now, sometimes
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we're completely oblivious
of the facts of history.
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But let me tell
you a little bit today
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about old England.
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What was England
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like in the days of John Wesley,
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in the 18th century?
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Well, the rich
were getting richer,
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and the poor
were getting poorer.
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Nothing new under
the sun, is there?
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Many were out of work,
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the nation was bitterly divided.
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London was a
city of 600,000 souls
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soon to grow to
a million people,
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a great city for those days.
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And people,
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the poor people
lived in terrible squalor.
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The rich lived in
mansions as they do today,
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the poor in filthy
hovels as they do today.
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They live did the
poor on bread and potatoes.
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Five hundred out
of 1000 children died
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before they
reached the age of two.
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Malnutrition, bad water,
dirty food, poor hygiene,
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these were the great assaults
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upon human
dignity and human life.
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The times were
right for a revolution.
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Are you still listening to me,
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because I'm going to
compare this to America.
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And Britain or
England had become rich
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through the slave trade.
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And society was
ripe for revolution,
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such as came to France
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that had similar
social conditions.
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Think about France.
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A corrupt king, a
corrupt foolish queen,
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corrupt priests,
corrupt lords, suffering masses,
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poverty, filth,
disease, and injustice.
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And God sent a man.
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In England, they had
one big business trade,
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well, they had many,
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but one of their main businesses
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was selling alcohol.
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The sale and the
consumption of gin,
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half of all the wheat harvests
didn't go to feeding children,
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but to making gin,
that was cheap and strong,
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a powerful drug for
the suffering masses.
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You know why people turn
to alcohol today, my friend,
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and why they turn to drugs?
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It is because of
the hunger inside
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which they will not admit.
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Saint Augustine said
our souls were made for God,
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they cannot rest
until they rest in Him.
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So England had become
a nation of drunkards.
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Crime, poverty, death,
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disease,
cholera, smallpox, typhus,
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they didn't have COVID-19,
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but they had diseases
that I would suggest to you,
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which were far worse.
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And no health benefits.
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Women were forced
into prostitution.
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Out of a population of
around a million in London,
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up to 50, 000 women were
involved in prostitution,
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because they were starving.
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Often for the gratification
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did they provide these
services for the wealthy,
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the infamous 1%.
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And God sent a man.
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We need a man today.
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We need a man of God.
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You hear what I'm
saying, my friend.
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Don't think the politicians
are going to save you.
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Please let's not be so naive.
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Let us realize
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that salvation is found in God.
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Let me just give you
a summary of England.
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Back in the days of John Wesley,
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poverty, exploitation
of the suffering poor,
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disease, alcohol,
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a pubs would put up
the sign they were abuzz.
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Will make you drunk for a penny
and dead drunk for tuppence
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with straw to lie on.
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That was England.
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Land of hope and
glory, don't think so.
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Injustice, prostitution,
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think of the pornography today
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in the United States of America.
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The rich getting
richer, the poor getting poorer,
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and a great burning resentment
in the hearts of the people.
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And indifferent king
whose stupidity was soon
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to force the Americans
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to go to war
with their motherland,
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I would have
gone to war with them,
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because of the gross injustice.
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Cries from the
French across the channel,
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come, come the revolution
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and it came with
the bloody guillotine.
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But it didn't come to England.
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Why?
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Because God sent a
man whose name was John.
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He was preaching at 4
o'clock in the morning,
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preaching to the miners.
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Children worked in the mines.
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Babies were born in the mines.
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He's turned out of
his father's church.
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Forced to preach out of doors.
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He preached the red
blood gospel of the Bible.
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God loves you.
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God sent His Son to die for you.
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Come to Him.
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He will change your heart
and you will be a new person.
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Plain old-fashioned
preaching from the Bible.
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I would suggest today
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almost a forgotten art
in the world and in America.
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Today it is mainly hot
air and religious hype,
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often mixed with politics,
and virtually no Bible at all.
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People seem to think
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they're going to
be saved by politics.
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Salvation comes from Christ.
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Did Wesley get great opposition?
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You better believe it.
00:15:26.92\00:15:29.62
He's often beaten up
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or gangs were sent
from religious hierarchy.
00:15:31.03\00:15:35.36
He was beaten up, he
was bruised and bloodied,
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thrown into the river.
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I've had opposition,
00:15:39.83\00:15:41.17
but I have lived
a wonderful life.
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Nobody's beaten me up.
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I've never been
thrown into a river
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because I
preached the Word of God.
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But Wesley was persecuted.
00:15:49.84\00:15:52.35
He traveled to America
and he started a mighty fire.
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He was joined by that firebrand,
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George Whitfield,
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who had been a
part of his small group
00:16:03.43\00:16:07.93
when he was at
Oxford University.
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What stories you can
tell about Whitfield?
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Goodness,
00:16:13.97\00:16:15.40
they started up
the Methodist Church,
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what a tremendous church.
00:16:17.44\00:16:19.67
I read an account at
once, people looked out,
00:16:19.71\00:16:22.24
and it looked like so
the place was on fire.
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What was it?
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It was dust,
people riding horses,
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people in
chariots, people running.
00:16:29.62\00:16:34.49
Why were they running?
00:16:34.52\00:16:35.86
They were running to
hear this man of God,
00:16:35.89\00:16:38.39
George Whitfield.
00:16:38.43\00:16:39.76
When they got
into the town square,
00:16:39.79\00:16:41.40
there was a young man,
they put him up on a table.
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And he started to
preach the Word of God.
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And the Spirit of God bore
testimony to the Word of God.
00:16:48.54\00:16:52.31
And people were struck down
by the power of the Holy Spirit
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and people were saved.
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That's what we
need today in America.
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Not more politics.
00:17:04.39\00:17:07.22
Now back in England, John
was preaching vast crowds.
00:17:07.26\00:17:12.46
Oh, well, he must
have had a good PA system.
00:17:12.49\00:17:15.66
No, no microphones.
00:17:15.70\00:17:18.37
Thousands, tens of thousands,
00:17:18.40\00:17:20.04
hundreds of
thousands were converted.
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On one occasion,
00:17:23.30\00:17:25.41
there were about 20, 000
people sitting on a stone wall.
00:17:25.44\00:17:29.88
As Wesley was preaching
under the power of the Spirit,
00:17:29.91\00:17:33.45
the stone wall came
down, it came down gently.
00:17:33.48\00:17:38.09
The people remained
sitting on the stone wall,
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transfixed by the
preaching of this man of God,
00:17:40.99\00:17:44.66
who was filled,
filled, I tell you,
00:17:44.69\00:17:47.20
filled with the
Holy Spirit of God.
00:17:47.23\00:17:49.06
That's what America needs today.
00:17:49.10\00:17:51.80
We need preachers who
will preach the Word of God
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and who will get
out of politics, please.
00:17:54.74\00:17:57.94
Why are you
prostituting your holy calling?
00:17:57.97\00:18:00.78
People say, "Well, I'm
called to get people to vote.
00:18:00.81\00:18:03.95
I'm called to do."
00:18:03.98\00:18:05.31
No, no, no.
00:18:05.35\00:18:06.75
Well, maybe you are.
00:18:06.78\00:18:08.92
But if that's your calling,
it's not the calling of God.
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Because the minister of God
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is called to be
a minister of God
00:18:13.99\00:18:16.29
and to preach the Word of God.
00:18:16.32\00:18:18.29
He's not called, my friend,
to get involved in politics.
00:18:18.33\00:18:23.57
A man came along to hear
the Wesley's, John Newton,
00:18:23.60\00:18:28.44
slave ship
captain, you know the story.
00:18:28.47\00:18:30.81
He wrote Amazing
Grace, how sweet the sound.
00:18:30.84\00:18:35.24
And then he
influenced another man,
00:18:35.28\00:18:37.28
another Englishman
00:18:37.31\00:18:38.65
by the name of
William Wilberforce.
00:18:38.68\00:18:42.25
And Wilber
Wilberforce got into parliament,
00:18:42.28\00:18:45.65
and he was responsible
00:18:45.69\00:18:47.39
for the abolishing
of the slave trade,
00:18:47.42\00:18:50.73
long before Abraham Lincoln.
00:18:50.76\00:18:52.76
Why?
00:18:52.79\00:18:54.13
God sent a man,
God sent preachers,
00:18:54.16\00:18:56.53
God sent a spiritual revolution,
00:18:56.56\00:18:59.23
God sent a
spiritual reformation.
00:18:59.27\00:19:02.94
What are we waiting for?
00:19:02.97\00:19:06.04
Now, let me make this plain.
00:19:06.07\00:19:08.51
A Christian can be
involved in politics.
00:19:08.54\00:19:11.41
Of course he can.
00:19:11.45\00:19:12.88
A Christian can
be in the Senate,
00:19:12.91\00:19:14.72
or in the Congress,
or in the White House.
00:19:14.75\00:19:17.79
But what I'm
preaching against today
00:19:17.82\00:19:20.26
is the union of
church and state.
00:19:20.29\00:19:24.36
A Christian can be
involved in politics
00:19:24.39\00:19:27.00
but the church cannot be.
00:19:27.03\00:19:30.67
It goes against everything
00:19:30.70\00:19:32.67
that the founding fathers
of this nation fought for.
00:19:32.70\00:19:37.37
People say, "Oh, no, no, no.
00:19:37.41\00:19:39.34
The founding
fathers wanted to have
00:19:39.37\00:19:41.08
the union of church and state."
00:19:41.11\00:19:42.68
I tell you, my friend,
00:19:42.71\00:19:44.05
we're dealing today
with massive misinformation.
00:19:44.08\00:19:47.52
Reformation comes not through
the union of church and state.
00:19:51.05\00:19:55.22
And there's a great
text, Romans 1:14-17.
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This is what we need.
00:19:59.06\00:20:00.40
"I'm a debtor both to
Greeks and to barbarians,"
00:20:00.43\00:20:02.63
said Paul,
00:20:02.66\00:20:04.00
"both to wise and to unwise."
00:20:04.03\00:20:05.57
Plenty of those.
00:20:05.60\00:20:06.94
"So as much as is in me,
00:20:06.97\00:20:08.77
I'm ready to preach the gospel
to you who are in Rome also.
00:20:08.80\00:20:14.01
For I'm not ashamed
00:20:14.04\00:20:15.38
of the gospel of
Christ, for it is,"
00:20:15.41\00:20:17.85
what does it say? "The power.
00:20:17.88\00:20:19.38
The power of God for salvation,
for everyone who believes,
00:20:19.41\00:20:22.75
for the Jew first,
and also for the Greek.
00:20:22.78\00:20:25.72
For in it the
righteousness of God
00:20:25.75\00:20:28.16
is revealed from faith to faith,
00:20:28.19\00:20:30.53
as it is written,
00:20:30.56\00:20:31.89
'The just shall live by faith.'"
00:20:31.93\00:20:34.96
When it says
it's the power of God,
00:20:35.00\00:20:37.00
the Greek word is,
00:20:37.03\00:20:38.93
is the same word for dynamite.
00:20:38.97\00:20:41.54
It's the dunamis.
00:20:41.57\00:20:43.44
Preaching of the
gospel of God is the dunamis.
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It is the power of God.
00:20:46.27\00:20:49.71
You still listening to me?
00:20:49.74\00:20:51.08
It's all about Christ.
00:20:53.92\00:20:55.25
It's not about some
church organization.
00:20:55.28\00:20:57.39
Somebody said the true
church talks about Christ,
00:20:57.42\00:20:59.89
a cult talks about itself.
00:20:59.92\00:21:01.46
We're not here to
talk about ourselves.
00:21:01.49\00:21:04.53
It's all about grace.
00:21:04.56\00:21:06.83
It's all about forgiveness.
00:21:06.86\00:21:08.56
It's all about being born again
and made into a new person.
00:21:08.60\00:21:12.90
John 1:10, I'm
going to read it to you.
00:21:12.93\00:21:15.77
John 1:10,
00:21:15.80\00:21:17.87
"He was in the world,
00:21:17.91\00:21:19.47
and the world was
made through him," Christ,
00:21:19.51\00:21:22.31
"and the world
did not know Him."
00:21:22.34\00:21:23.68
They don't know Him today.
00:21:23.71\00:21:25.31
"He came to His
own," Jewish people,
00:21:25.35\00:21:27.92
"and His own did
not receive Him."
00:21:27.95\00:21:29.28
They put him on a cross.
00:21:29.32\00:21:30.95
"But as many as received Him,
00:21:30.99\00:21:32.69
to them He gave
the right or the power
00:21:32.72\00:21:35.42
to become children of God,
00:21:35.46\00:21:37.53
to those who
believe in His name:
00:21:37.56\00:21:39.46
who were born, not of blood,
nor of the will of the flesh,
00:21:39.49\00:21:43.97
nor of the will of
man, but born of God."
00:21:44.00\00:21:47.74
What is it talking
about, born of God?
00:21:47.77\00:21:50.74
When I'm born the first time,
00:21:50.77\00:21:52.11
I'm born with this
sinful, wicked, old nature,
00:21:52.14\00:21:55.44
but when I'm born again,
00:21:55.48\00:21:56.81
God comes into my life,
00:21:56.85\00:21:58.31
and He puts a
new power in my life,
00:21:58.35\00:22:01.12
and I become a brand-new person.
00:22:01.15\00:22:03.35
That's what America needs.
00:22:03.39\00:22:04.92
That's how you can
make America great again.
00:22:04.95\00:22:07.89
America will be great again,
when America is good again,
00:22:07.92\00:22:11.86
and we become good
again by the power of God.
00:22:11.89\00:22:16.46
I don't believe in the heresy
00:22:16.50\00:22:18.03
that all are automatically saved
00:22:18.07\00:22:20.00
until they willfully reject.
00:22:20.04\00:22:22.07
That's taught here
in Southern California,
00:22:22.10\00:22:24.67
a hotbed of all heresies.
00:22:24.71\00:22:27.38
I believe that all are lost
until they willfully accept.
00:22:27.41\00:22:31.28
I believe that when I
accept Christ, by faith,
00:22:31.31\00:22:35.78
and then I start
to read His Word,
00:22:35.82\00:22:38.12
I become
consumed by a new power.
00:22:38.15\00:22:44.39
I've seen it happen.
00:22:44.43\00:22:47.46
I've seen it
happen around the world.
00:22:47.50\00:22:50.07
Think of people in Russia,
00:22:50.10\00:22:52.73
the leaders of
the mafia over there,
00:22:52.77\00:22:57.47
got to cover up their faces.
00:22:57.51\00:23:00.81
The leaders of the
mafia of the Sicilian, Mayag,
00:23:00.84\00:23:04.21
just won't say any
more of their names.
00:23:04.25\00:23:07.32
Men who were the
leaders of the mafia.
00:23:07.35\00:23:12.15
That they came to God
00:23:12.19\00:23:15.12
and they started
to read their Bibles.
00:23:15.16\00:23:17.63
They didn't have a
superficial religion,
00:23:17.66\00:23:19.66
like most of us have.
00:23:19.69\00:23:22.86
God came down
and got inside them.
00:23:22.90\00:23:26.03
And God changed their lives.
00:23:26.07\00:23:27.94
So politics are not enough.
00:23:27.97\00:23:31.01
Protests are not enough.
00:23:31.04\00:23:33.68
I believe in
peaceful protests, not rights.
00:23:33.71\00:23:37.05
Social action is not
enough, handouts are not enough.
00:23:37.08\00:23:40.85
Money is not enough.
Religion is not enough.
00:23:40.88\00:23:43.69
Talking is not
enough. Only Christ is enough.
00:23:43.72\00:23:47.62
We need more than a band
aid, we need the balm of Gilead,
00:23:47.66\00:23:51.39
we need Christ.
00:23:51.43\00:23:53.29
Look at the text
again, 2 Chronicles Chapter 7.
00:23:53.33\00:23:56.90
This is the
theme text. Here it is.
00:23:56.93\00:24:00.20
"When I shut up
heaven, there is no rain,"
00:24:00.24\00:24:03.00
that's what's happening today,
00:24:03.04\00:24:06.21
"or command the
locusts to devour the land,"
00:24:06.24\00:24:08.44
that's happening today,
00:24:08.48\00:24:10.31
"or send
pestilence among My people,"
00:24:10.35\00:24:12.31
that's happening today.
00:24:12.35\00:24:13.68
God blessed it come.
00:24:13.72\00:24:15.58
"My people who
are called by My name
00:24:15.62\00:24:19.22
will humble themselves and pray,
00:24:19.25\00:24:22.09
seek my face and turn
00:24:22.12\00:24:24.86
from their wicked ways,
00:24:24.89\00:24:26.23
then I will hear from heaven
and will forgive their sin
00:24:26.26\00:24:30.60
and will heal their land."
00:24:30.63\00:24:33.64
We're talking here
00:24:33.67\00:24:35.20
about our mighty
spiritual reformation.
00:24:35.24\00:24:39.14
God is sending us warnings,
pestilences, wars, poverty,
00:24:39.17\00:24:43.04
division,
00:24:43.08\00:24:44.41
threats of
nuclear war from China,
00:24:44.45\00:24:46.15
Russia and Korea, North Korea,
00:24:46.18\00:24:50.92
but I wanna tell you, folks
I opened up my heart to you.
00:24:50.95\00:24:54.76
It is time for
spiritual rebirth,
00:24:54.79\00:24:57.56
not for a union
of church and state.
00:24:57.59\00:25:00.33
Time for spiritual rebirth
00:25:00.36\00:25:02.50
and may we say it,
Lord, let it begin with me.
00:25:02.53\00:25:06.97
Please let it begin with me.
00:25:07.00\00:25:10.61
Let it begin with
right here today with me.
00:25:10.64\00:25:15.58
Remember, John Wesley,
00:25:15.61\00:25:19.48
Wilberforce, John Newton.
00:25:19.51\00:25:25.35
Newton wrote the hymn,
00:25:25.39\00:25:28.26
Amazing Grace!
00:25:28.29\00:25:29.62
How sweet the sound
00:25:29.66\00:25:31.26
That saved a wretch like me!
00:25:31.29\00:25:33.90
I once was lost
00:25:33.93\00:25:35.26
but now I'm found Was blind
00:25:35.30\00:25:37.03
but now I see
00:25:37.07\00:25:39.30
'Twas grace that
taught my heart to fear
00:25:39.33\00:25:43.30
And grace, my fears relieved
00:25:43.34\00:25:45.64
How precious did that
00:25:45.67\00:25:47.84
grace appear The
hour I first believed
00:25:47.88\00:25:52.58
Through many
dangers, toils and snares
00:25:52.61\00:25:55.08
I have already come
00:25:55.12\00:25:58.55
'Tis grace hath
brought me safe thus far
00:25:58.59\00:26:00.62
And grace will lead me home
00:26:00.66\00:26:03.76
The Lord has promised good to me
00:26:03.79\00:26:06.96
His Word my hope secures
He will my Shield and Portion
00:26:07.00\00:26:10.70
be As long as life endures
00:26:10.73\00:26:13.90
Yea, when this
flesh and heart shall fail
00:26:13.94\00:26:16.47
And mortal life shall cease
00:26:16.50\00:26:19.01
I shall possess,
00:26:19.04\00:26:20.44
within the veil A
life of joy and peace
00:26:20.48\00:26:25.28
The earth shall
soon dissolve like snow
00:26:25.31\00:26:29.18
The sun forbear to shine
00:26:29.22\00:26:32.02
But God, who called me
here below Will be forever mine
00:26:32.05\00:26:38.09
When we've been there,
00:26:38.13\00:26:39.46
ten thousand years
00:26:39.49\00:26:43.43
Bright shining as the sun
00:26:43.47\00:26:46.40
We've no less days
to sing God's praise
00:26:46.43\00:26:49.40
Than when we'd first began
00:26:52.74\00:26:58.15
Will America survive?
00:26:58.18\00:27:02.48
Greatness is
tied up with goodness
00:27:02.52\00:27:08.16
and goodness is found in Christ.
00:27:08.19\00:27:13.16
Lord, let it begin with me.
00:27:13.19\00:27:16.26
To our police,
00:27:21.40\00:27:23.67
to those who
serve and protect us
00:27:23.71\00:27:25.47
with mercy, love,
dignity, compassion, and honor.
00:27:25.51\00:27:31.85
May God bless you.
00:27:31.88\00:27:33.75
Each day there is no
task that is too large,
00:27:33.78\00:27:37.32
no task too small.
00:27:37.35\00:27:39.92
You take the slings and arrows
00:27:39.95\00:27:41.89
that come your way with courage.
00:27:41.92\00:27:44.76
The badge you wear
00:27:44.79\00:27:46.13
makes you part of a bigger team.
00:27:46.16\00:27:47.86
But we know you are
each unique in God's eyes.
00:27:47.90\00:27:52.23
You are individual human
beings of a police force.
00:27:52.27\00:27:56.81
The greatest
force is God's love.
00:27:56.84\00:27:59.77
There is no one
00:27:59.81\00:28:01.18
who has not
experienced that love
00:28:01.21\00:28:03.18
when you come to their aid.
00:28:03.21\00:28:05.21
We are grateful.
00:28:05.25\00:28:06.65
We know you need our help.
00:28:06.68\00:28:08.62
Working together,
we can live in harmony.
00:28:08.65\00:28:11.19
We pray for the safety of
our homes for our neighbors,
00:28:11.22\00:28:14.76
and for the police that
protect and serve our community.
00:28:14.79\00:28:18.19
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