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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In this program,
John Carter proclaims,
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nothing shall be
impossible for you.
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Hello, friend. I'm John Carter.
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Welcome to our
magnificent audience
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around the world.
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We're so glad that
you joined us today.
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Because we've got a
terrific program for you.
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The theme of
the program is this.
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Nothing shall be
impossible for you.
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I want you to think about that,
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nothing shall be
impossible for you.
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I want to tell you a
story from El Salvador,
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personally told to me
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when I was visiting
that tragic country.
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You know why so many
folks are leaving El Salvador,
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don't you?
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You know why they're
leaving Central America.
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It's because of
the horrendous crime,
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the gangs, the murders.
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And El Salvador sort of
is at the top of the list
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for crime and violence.
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When I was there,
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we ran a series of
meetings and we were safe,
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everything was okay.
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But since then,
one of my colleagues
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whose name is,
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I'm going to tell it to you
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because I don't
want you to forget it.
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His name is
Nelson, Nelson Tiano.
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He went down to a place
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that was
completely drug infested.
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When he got down to that place,
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he wanted to
visit a church member
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who was very, very sick.
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He thought this church
member was going to die.
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But suddenly, he was
surrounded by a gang of killers.
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And they got him out of the car.
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And there was this
diminutive figure clutching
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a Bible under his arm.
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And the gang leader said to him,
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"Who are you?"
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He said, "I'm a pastor.
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I'm going to visit
one of my church members."
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He said, "What
do you got there?"
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He said, "I've got
a copy of the Bible.
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I'm taking it
to read it to her."
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The gang leader said, "We
are out gunned here today."
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He said to his
men, "We're out gunned.
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This man has got
the great power of God.
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We've only got
these machine guns,
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but he's got the
great power of God.
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We are outgunned."
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Want to tell you,
folk, something today,
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I don't want you
to ever forget it.
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By the grace of God,
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the powers of darkness
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are outgunned
by the Word of God,
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and by the
preaching of the Word of God.
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And Jesus said,
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"Nothing is going to
be impossible unto you."
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That's the topic.
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We've got a theme
text. It's Matthew 17:20.
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Going to put this up
and I want you to see it.
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Matthew 17 and
here it is verse 20.
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"Jesus said,
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"If you've got faith as
small as a mustard seed..."
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That's only a tiny little thing.
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"If you've got faith as
small as a mustard seed,
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you can say to this mountain,
'Move from here to there, '
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and it will move."
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Now notice,
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"Nothing will be
impossible for you."
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Say it over and
over and over again
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until it sinks down
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into the molecules of your mind.
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I want you to know this.
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The power of darkness
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is outgunned by
the power of God.
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Get it my, friend, believe it.
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Say it over and over again.
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Nothing shall
be impossible to me
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if I've got faith
like a mustard seed.
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Now, the presentation
today falls into three parts.
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It's pretty simple.
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Yesterday, today and tomorrow.
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And so we're going to
start right now with yesterday.
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We've got nothing
to fear for the future
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said a great American writer,
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"We've got nothing
to fear for the future,
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except we forget the way
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the Lord has
led us in the past."
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Nothing to fear for the future,
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except we forget the way
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the Lord has led us in the past.
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That is the truth.
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And that's why we say
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nothing shall be
impossible unto you.
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Jesus also said these
words, these are great words.
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In John 11:40,
He said these words.
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I want you think
of this, He said,
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"Did I not tell you
that if you believe you
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will see the glory of God."
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You know what
our big problem is?
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We really don't believe, do we?
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Jesus said, "If you believe,
you will see the glory of God."
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I urge you today to believe,
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because you will
see the glory of God.
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This special
program is dedicated
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not only to the glory of God,
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it is dedicated to
the greater glory of God.
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It's not about us.
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It's all about Him.
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And it's dedicated to
the greater glory of God.
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So we're talking
today about yesterday.
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In 1976, it's a long time ago,
three young men brainstormed.
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It's in a little
town in Australia,
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in South, New South Wales.
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Figure that out.
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It's a little town
by the name of Albury.
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It's not that little, I
thought it was a big town.
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And these young men
were asking the question,
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they were probing the question,
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how can the church
reach secular people
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because basically, my friend,
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this is may not be something
that people want to hear.
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But basically, the church today
is not reaching secular people.
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On the whole, the church
is preaching to the choir.
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They love committee meetings,
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and they love
getting in a holy huddle
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and reaffirming themselves.
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But these young men
were audacious enough
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to ask the question,
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how can the church
reach secular people?
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And they believe that
God gave them an answer.
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Create amazing TV ads
about life, destiny, God,
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unseen forces,
wonders of ancient people,
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mysteries of the
universe, prophecy,
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and put those ads on
primetime television.
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Hey, you gonna pay for it?
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Well, nothing
shall be impossible.
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Those young men
believed that if they had faith
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as small as a mustard
seed, miracles would happen.
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And what was the result?
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Well, the result
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was that the
magnificent Sydney Opera House
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was packed six times
for the opening session.
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And the sessions
continued every weekend
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for more than five months.
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I want you to know this
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because today we
live in the church
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in a time of great skepticism.
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I meet the
skeptics all the time,
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and they say,
hey, it can't be done.
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If it can't be done,
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it's because we
don't even have faith
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like a mustard seed.
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That's the problem.
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The problem is not
with the power of God.
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The problem is with
our unbelieving hearts,
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because Jesus said,
"Nothing shall be impossible."
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I know this
happened because I was there.
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Let me say this to
every person watching today,
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those who pride themselves
on being members of the church.
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God wants us to think
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outside the box of
religious orthodoxy.
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Is anybody listening?
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He wants us to
think outside the box
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of churchiness and tradition.
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Remember, nothing
shall be impossible.
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Say it over and over again
until you start to believe it.
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God is great.
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God loves us.
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God loves people.
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God does impossible things.
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Plus, God has a
destiny for my life.
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You believe that?
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A lot of people just think
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they're a bit
like something nothing,
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bit of flotsam on the ocean.
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But I believe that God has
got a purpose for every life.
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It's a great text, John 18:37.
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This is one of the
great texts in the Bible.
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John 18:37.
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And these are
the words of Christ,
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He said,
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"For this cause I was born...
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and for this cause I
have come into the world,
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that I should bear
witness to the truth."
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We know this applies to
Christ, especially to Christ,
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specifically to Christ.
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But listen to me.
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In a secondary sense,
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it applies to every
person who is a child of God.
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For this hour, I was
born and for this reason,
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I came into the world.
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God has got a purpose and
a destiny for every person
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and I have felt the
hand of God upon me.
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I say, to the
greater glory of God,
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I want you to come now to 1990.
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Hey, that's a long time ago.
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Those days my hair
was of different color.
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And I think I had more energy.
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And I think I had a
little more zoom and voom.
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We hired the Shrine Auditorium,
downtown Los Angeles.
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24,000 packed it in
for opening sessions.
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In spite of the traffic
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for which Los Angeles is famous,
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24,000 people packed
it in multiple sessions.
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And then the meetings went
on for a long period of time.
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And from those meetings in
the great Shrine Auditorium,
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where they used to
hold the Academy Awards,
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a new church was born.
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You listening to me,
a new church was born.
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The Shrine meetings were
a part of the plan of God.
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It was in God's destiny.
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And the birth of that
church was in the plan
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and the destiny of God
for this hour was I born,
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Jesus said.
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God had a plan for that church,
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and He's got a plan for
you if you will open your heart
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and if you'll listen to God.
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Now, here is a great truth.
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It is an
unpalatable truth sometimes.
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Sometimes we have to be
hurt before we can be healed.
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When man closes a
door, God opened a window,
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and the door seemed to close
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in the great
city of Los Angeles.
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But God opened a
tremendous store into a place
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that Ronald Reagan had
called the evil empire.
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And we're talking
about the Soviet Union,
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the great center of atheism.
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Did you know this?
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During the 70 years,
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when the atheist communists
had ruled Russia and Ukraine,
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tens of millions of people
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had been killed
in the death camps.
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I have been to those places.
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I have been to those places,
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I have explored those places
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where tens of million,
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some say 70 million people
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were murdered by the
communists and the atheists
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and you're going to tell me,
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it doesn't
matter what you believe.
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I want you to know this.
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What you believe
shapes your life.
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If you believe in God,
God will shape your life.
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But if you don't believe in God,
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nothing is going to
really shape your life
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except your atheistic beliefs.
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There was a great cry for help.
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And by the grace of
God, we heard the cry.
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In the providence of
God, we heard the cry.
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This is not about
us, it's all about Him.
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Let me tell you,
of the power of God,
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I want you to sit
back, I want you to listen.
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Because in my ministry,
I've met so many, many skeptics
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and unbelievers in the church.
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I've met them where
they say it can't be done.
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It's absolutely
impossible they say,
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it can't be done.
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That's because
they don't have faith
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even as small as a mustard seed.
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But if we have faith as
small as a mustard seed,
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nothing will be impossible.
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Now listen up.
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Moscow 1991, we were
called to go to Moscow.
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Remember, with God,
nothing shall be impossible,
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say it over and over again.
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When I went there, I
felt a sense of destiny.
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Romans Chapter
8 is a great text.
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Romans Chapter 8,
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written by the
great Apostle Paul
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tells us that God has a purpose.
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We are called
according to His purpose.
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I want you to listen to me.
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God has got a
purpose for your life.
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He's got a purpose for my life.
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When you're sitting here today,
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and you're listening on
this television channel,
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I want you to
know you're not alone.
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God loves you.
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He's got a
purpose for your life.
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When we went there,
we felt the hand of God,
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we hired the Palace of Culture,
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just down the
road from the Kremlin.
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Amazing things happen.
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I was invited to
speak on Soviet television.
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This man was in charge
of Good Evening Moscow.
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Can you believe this?
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I remember him
so very, very well.
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He asked me questions like this.
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Why is the
Soviet Union collapsing?
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Who is God? Is there a God?
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I had, this is the truth of God.
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I had the
privilege at the very center
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of the evil empire to
quote President Reagan.
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I had the privilege
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of getting the
television crew together
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on the Soviet set,
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and talking to them about God
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and reading to them
from the Word of God
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and they were outgunned,
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because we had the power of God.
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They had tanks, they
had military weapons,
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but we had the power of God.
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I'll never forget the crowds.
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Meetings would start at
10 o'clock in the morning.
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They would go all
day without a break
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except for water and food,
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until 10 or 11 o'clock at night,
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amazing meetings.
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Many officers from
the Russian army came.
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I was asked to talk
to all types of people,
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even people from the
KGB more about this later.
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Asked to talk to the professors
from Moscow University.
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Talking to so many people,
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people who did not believe.
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I remember I call
it the great silence.
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This is an old picture
of this historic event.
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I was preaching
there with my translator,
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and I was
preaching my heart out.
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Did I have energy?
Yes, 12 hours of preaching.
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Yes, I had energy. Why?
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Because with God,
nothing shall be impossible.
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What's wrong
with our faith today?
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I can remember
when I was preaching
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that my translator
suddenly went silent.
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And I wondered
what was going on.
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I kept on preaching.
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And then I looked over to him,
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I saw that he was
weeping copiously.
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And then I gazed into the
faces of the great audience,
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every person was crying.
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You know why?
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I was telling them
the story of Christ
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that never heard it
before, and they were weeping.
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I had an article, people say,
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"Oh, that stuff doesn't work."
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But it doesn't work if
you don't work with it,
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my friend.
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If you don't put your
life in the hands of God,
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of course, it's
not going to work.
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People say, "We don't
see miracles anymore."
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That's not because of
God, that's because of us.
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Nothing shall be
impossible Jesus said.
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I made an altar call
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and members of
the army officers,
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I remember one
Soviet Captain stood up
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and saluted and
marched his soldiers,
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they came down the front,
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they came down
the front weeping,
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because of the power of God.
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I want you to know,
this is not about us.
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It is about Him.
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We hired, we booked the
Great Hall of Congresses
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in the Kremlin,
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one of the greatest
theaters in the world.
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We paid the deposit,
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we're not going to go into this,
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but it was
secretly stolen from us.
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But we believe
that we must forgive
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those who sin against us.
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But when man closes a door,
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God opens a window
and a better window.
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And we were told go to
Gorky and we went to Gorky,
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the city of the
dissidents, and we went there.
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Listen, because God had
a bigger and a better plan.
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And when people
stand in the way of God,
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God can move them aside.
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And He can do bigger things.
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Now, what was our message?
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What did we preach
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when we went to Russia, Ukraine?
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Let me tell you, God made you.
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These people had been told
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that we're simply
animals or machines.
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So I cried out to
the great masters.
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God made you.
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God loves you.
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You are special.
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When you walk out
of this meeting today,
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you can walk out
with your head high,
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because you're a child of God.
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You're not a son of
the slime, God made you.
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And God became a man
and the person of Christ
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and Christ on the
cross died for your sins.
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Can you believe this?
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No wonder the great
masses of Russians wept,
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because they were
hearing the true gospel of God.
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You are special.
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God made you.
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He has a purpose for you.
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And if you come to Him
and truly believe in Him,
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He will give you
right now everlasting life.
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So we didn't
preach some radical idea,
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like the prosperity gospel,
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that God just wants
you to become prosperous,
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and very wealthy,
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and the biggest
house in the street.
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No, we said, God loves
you, Christ died for you.
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And even in your
poverty, God has a plan for you.
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And He's got a
great future for you.
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I want you to know this.
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The gospel is the
power of God unto salvation.
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Explain this to me,
my skeptical friend.
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Are you listening?
Explain this to me.
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There can be an
audience of thousands of people.
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10,000 people at 6 o'clock,
they won't even look at me.
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They're looking
down, they're sullen,
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they're depressed.
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Of course, they're depressed.
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If you don't believe in God,
you're going to be depressed
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and suicidal.
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And by 7 o'clock
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after the gospel of
Christ has been preached,
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you've got 10,000 people
raising their hands to God
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and weeping as
they accept Christ.
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What do you say about that?
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I can tell you what it is.
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It is the power of
God unto salvation.
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I want you to believe in
the God who believes in you.
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And so we say today,
that every person hear this,
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to God be the glory.
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Great things He has done.
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When we start to
think that we're the ones
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and the power's going to go.
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But I want you to know today,
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I want this to sink
down into your heads
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into the molecules of your mind,
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to God be the glory.
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So 1992 we went to Gorky.
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Danny Shelton.
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God bless him,
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helped us to raise the
budget because we had no money.
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But our friends
and supporters on 3ABN
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heard the call of God
and they sent their checks.
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And so we went to Gorky.
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It was amazing.
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We had such huge
crowds in the Palace of Sport.
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The crowds were so
great in the Palace of Sport,
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that when I got down there
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and tried to get
there with Beverley,
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we couldn't get there
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because the
crowds were so great.
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They were
breaking down the doors.
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People say, "We
don't believe any of this."
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When I came back to
America and went to Australia,
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they said, "We don't
believe any of this."
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This is because they are
living in a spiritual wasteland
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where they've never
felt the power of God,
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what about you?
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But the power of
God is available.
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So Russian army took
us in a military vehicle.
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Russian army now working for us.
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An old man is
standing outside he's crying,
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"I've waited 70 years
for Jesus, let me in."
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The power of God.
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We didn't have any deacons.
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You know who
supplied us with deacons?
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Hey, you're going to find
this hard to believe, the KGB.
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You say, "I don't
believe it." Yeah, the KGB.
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They asked me to preach
to them on two occasions.
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I preached to
thousands of members
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of the KGB
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and given to them
like General Vadima here,
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my friend, a copy
of the Word of God,
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nothing shall be impossible.
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We saw the power of God.
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We had fire bombs also.
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Big religious organization
tried to burn us out.
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And Governor Nemtsov
who became our friend,
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he sent the militia
and the militia came
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and looked after us and
protected us and saved us.
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The young governor
of Nizhny Novgorod,
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we had multiple sessions.
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We would have
up to 10,000 people
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in an altar call,
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people with their
hands up crying out for God.
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You say, "That's
roar emotionalism."
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No, it's not.
It's roar Holy Spirit.
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Do you think
there's something good
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and sanctimonious and
holy about spiritual deadness
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because you walk
into some churches
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and they're so cold,
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you could skate down the aisles.
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But we're talking here
about a holy flame of fire.
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That's what we're talking about.
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Then we had the amazing baptism.
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We had many, many
baptisms, amazing baptisms,
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amazing audiences.
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The baptism was
put on supported,
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can you believe it, by
the army and by the police.
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The police led us
down to the Volga River,
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the army set up the tents.
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You saying, "You know,
you got to be putting me on.
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Did this really happen?" Yes.
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The army set up the tents.
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They helped the people
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to get into
their baptismal robes.
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You say, "Is this
really true? Yes, it is.
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You see, nothing
shall be impossible.
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What can the skeptics say?
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And I'm talking
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about the
skeptics in the church.
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I want you to know God is great.
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We meet with the
governor Boris Nemtsov.
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What happens is amazing.
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He gives His
testimony to what he has seen,
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we're able to
share Christ with him
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and the Word of God.
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The power of
darkness was outgunned
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by the power of God,
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I want you to hear this.
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This is a Soviet helicopter.
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And sitting
there in the helicopter
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is my son, David.
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You say, "No, these
got to be fake photos."
00:24:42.04\00:24:44.45
Hear a lot about fake news.
00:24:44.48\00:24:45.91
This is not fake news.
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This is the good news.
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This is the power of God.
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Start to believe, my friend,
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and get out of
that spiritual rut.
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Here it is over
the baptism and David
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is in this Soviet helicopter
00:24:56.83\00:24:59.73
being flown around by a colonel,
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for the power of
God, for the glory of God.
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And Danny Shelton has a vision.
00:25:07.64\00:25:10.17
He buys a building
that was going to be used
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by the Communist Youth.
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It's not finished.
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The Soviet economy collapses.
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You know what happens?
00:25:19.95\00:25:21.38
Danny hires
workers, he starts to build.
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And now we have,
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3ABN has the
Christian Cultural Center
00:25:26.62\00:25:31.26
in Russia,
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built by our lay
people who sent their checks
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because they
believe that with God,
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nothing is impossible.
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It is the largest
Protestant building
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in all of Russia.
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And there's a lot more to come.
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We're talking
about the power of God,
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we're talking
about the truths of God.
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We've got amazing
stories to tell you.
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Stay with us and
I'll be back in a moment.
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Hi, friend.
00:26:14.67\00:26:16.00
I'm John Carter overseas,
locked up in our hotel.
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Outside in the hallway
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there are police to make sure
00:26:22.38\00:26:24.91
that we don't break
this dreadful quarantine
00:26:24.95\00:26:28.65
because of COVID.
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Everything is changed.
00:26:30.19\00:26:31.69
The Carter Report goes on.
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And we continue to preach
the gospel around the world.
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By the grace of God, we
continue to do evangelism.
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But listen, we need
your support as never before.
00:26:41.46\00:26:45.63
We desperately need your help
00:26:45.67\00:26:48.10
to continue to
preach the gospel in India
00:26:48.14\00:26:51.84
and other countries
00:26:51.87\00:26:53.21
that are
desperately needing Christ.
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My friend, please
hear this urgent appeal.
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