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 us with
questions and answers
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with Pastor John Carter.
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Hi, friend.
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I'm John Carter.
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How are you doing today?
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I'm doing fine.
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Today is my birthday.
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It's my birthday.
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I don't know if
I should tell you
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how old I am,
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but I'm getting up there.
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Let me give you
just a little clue.
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We've been in this work now,
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Beverley and me for 59 years.
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And I didn't start
when I was two years old.
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And so, you know,
I'm certainly getting up,
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but today is a great day.
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I've been tremendously blessed.
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I feel, I feel terrific.
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I know this is COVID time.
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And our hearts go
out to all those people
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who are suffering with COVID
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and as the results of COVID,
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but in spite of it all,
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and even though we can't
be in our television studio,
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we're right here today,
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and we have a message,
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we're talking about plain truth,
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honest answers,
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that's what
people are wanting today.
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There's so much
confusion out there.
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People just don't
know what to think.
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They don't know what to believe,
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but by the grace of God,
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today, we're going to
talk about present truth,
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truth that is
relevant to you and to me.
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And by the grace of God,
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we're going to be
talking about honest answers.
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So we've got lots
and lots of questions
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that come in from
our marvelous friends,
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our viewers on television,
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on 3ABN and on
the other networks.
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And so here is
the first question.
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By the grace of God,
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I'm going to be giving you today
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honest answers.
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Here's Wayne.
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Rosemary from
Topeka, Kansas wrote,
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"I'm an 86-year-old woman.
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I think I've
committed the unpardonable sin.
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Some years ago, I
drove my family away.
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I told them to stay away.
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We are now talking again,
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but I feel that I have
sinned against the Holy Spirit.
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Is there hope for
this foolish old woman?
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Oh, you're not...
You're not foolish old woman.
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I think you're probably...
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Well, I shouldn't say probably.
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I'm sure you're a
very beautiful lady,
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86 years of age.
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Hey, that's even older than me.
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So I've got
empathy for you my dear.
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You're 86,
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but I'm coming up
the road behind you.
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I hope you're feeling as
good as I'm feeling here today.
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Have you committed
the unpardonable sin?
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No, you haven't.
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This is the honest truth.
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You haven't
committed the unpardonable sin,
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and I can prove it to
you out of the Holy Bible.
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Can I read you a text?
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And I want to say to
Wayne, thank you, Wayne.
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Wayne Hackett for
being with us today,
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even though you're
not here in the studio,
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you've got all these questions
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and you're
reading these questions
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that have come in
from our beautiful viewers.
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Now, I want to tell this
beautiful 86-year-old lady,
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why she has not
committed the unpardonable sin.
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Jesus said this,
"And so I tell you,"
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this is, let me see.
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Matthew 12:31-32.
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I'm gonna read it to
you out of the Bible.
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"And so I tell you,"
this is Jesus talking.
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You can believe what Jesus says.
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"So I tell you,
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every sin and blasphemy
will be forgiven, man."
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Hey, that's great news.
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God will forgive
the sin of adultery,
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fornication, even murder.
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Hey, David committed just
about all of those things.
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"Every sin will be forgiven men,
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but the blasphemy
against the Spirit
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will not be forgiven."
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That's the unpardonable sin.
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When you sin
against the Holy Spirit,
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Jesus says,
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"Anyone who speaks a
word against the Son of man
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will be forgiven,
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but anyone who speaks
against the Holy Spirit
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will not be forgiven,
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either in this age
or in the age to come."
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Jesus said, I
want you to hear this,
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86-year-old beautiful lady.
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Want you to hear this.
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Jesus said,
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"Every sin will be forgiven
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if we confess that sin to God,
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and if we repent of that sin."
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Will God forgive
fornication? Yes, He will.
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Will He forgive
murder? Yes, He will.
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Will He forgive adultery?
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Yes, He will.
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Will He forgive lying?
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Yes, He will.
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But there's a condition
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we've got to repent of our sins,
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we've got to come to Christ.
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We've got to come to God
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and we've got to
repent of our sins.
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Now, this is where
the Holy Spirit comes in.
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Jesus says,
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"If you sin
against the Holy Spirit,
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you'll never be forgiven."
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I'm going to tell you a story
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that goes back many, many years.
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Beverley and I just been married
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for a little while.
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We were staying in a town
in Australia, wait for it,
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the name of the
town was Wagga Wagga
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and we were staying
right next to a train track.
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The Southern Aurora
used to go past midnight.
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We'd be sleeping
peacefully like babies.
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And then at 12 o'clock,
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we would be
shaken out of our sleep.
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Almost scared out of our skins
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by the roar of
the Southern Aurora.
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This train woke us up.
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Woke up the second
night and the third night,
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the fourth night...
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Well, heard but, no
just went back to sleep,
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the fifth night,
oh, you're a bit of...
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The sixth night,
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the seventh night
we slept through it.
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You see, we can
become sensitized.
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You get this?
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We can become sensitized.
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We can build
calluses, not only on our hands,
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but on our hearts.
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When the Holy Spirit
comes and talks to us,
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we should say,
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"Yes, I'm going
to repent of this sin
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and I'm going to do it now."
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But if you keep
saying no to the Holy Spirit,
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you will get
calluses on your soul,
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your ears will become hardened.
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And you won't hear the
voice of the Spirit of God.
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Therefore, you will
not repent of your sins.
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And when you do not
repent of your sins,
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this leads to the state
that is called in the Bible,
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the unpardonable sin.
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Now this 86-year-old
lady who wrote this question
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hasn't committed
the unpardonable sin
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because she's got
a guilty conscience,
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which is the evidence
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that the Holy Spirit
is talking to her soul.
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So my 86-year-old
dear, just realize this.
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God loves you.
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Jesus died for you.
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And the Holy
Spirit is talking to you.
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Now I'm gonna come
over here a bit further
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if you folks to
be patient with me.
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Ephesians 4:18-19,
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we're talking here today,
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the honest truth.
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It says,
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"They are darkened
in their understanding
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and separated
from the life of God
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because of the
ignorance that is in them
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due to the
hardening of their hearts."
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Oh, wow!
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Then it says,
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"Having lost all sensitivity,
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they have given
themselves over to sensuality
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as to indulgent in
every kind of impurity
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with a continual lust for more,
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it says, they've
lost all sensitivity."
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Their hearts have become hard.
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The Southern Aurora is
roaring down the track.
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They can't hear it anymore.
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They've heard it so often.
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They've said no, no, no.
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And every time a
person says no to God,
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it's easier to
say no the next time.
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And if a person keeps
saying no, no, no, no, no,
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he will build
calluses on his soul,
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his spiritual
ears will become deaf.
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That's the most dangerous
condition a person can get into
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when he loses all sensitivity.
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But 86-year-old
lady, what should you do?
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Repent of your sin.
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Tell God, you're sorry.
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And realize that
Jesus died for you.
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And that God loves you
and accept this free salvation
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and be saved in the kingdom.
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Great question.
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Now here's
another great question
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from Wayne Hackett.
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Bob from Flint,
Michigan wants to know,
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"Should Christians
be involved in politics?
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My pastor openly
supports the Republican Party
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from the pulpit.
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Where do you stand?"
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I was sort of afraid somebody
was going to ask that awkward,
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embarrassing question
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that I didn't
want to talk about.
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Should a Christian
be involved in politics?
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Why not?
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A Christian can be involved
in any legitimate activity,
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any lawful activity.
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You've heard of
William Wilberforce,
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the great British reformer
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who led to the
emancipation of so many slaves
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who stopped the slave
trade in the British Empire
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while he was a
member of parliament.
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We need good
people in parliament
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and in the Senate
and in the Congress.
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People who fear God trusting God
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and who have a
sense of right and wrong.
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So a Christian can be involved
in politics, absolutely.
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Now, the person has
had the impertinence
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to ask me,
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do I belong to
a political party.
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And I'm going to
confess in public,
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yes, I belong to a party.
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I belong to a party.
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I belong to Christ's
party, not a political party.
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I don't care what
party you belong to,
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but this is my choice.
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I don't belong to
any political party.
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I am fiercely an independent.
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I love people
who are Republicans.
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I love people who are Democrats.
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I love people who, well,
don't belong to anything.
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God loves people.
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I want you to know this,
God loves you and so do I.
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Hear this? God loves you.
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There are good
people wherever you go.
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And there are bad
people wherever you go.
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We ought to judge people
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on who they are
and what they are.
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You know why people
originally came to America?
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They came to get away
from that church state system
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that had been
such a curse in Europe
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for hundreds and
hundreds of years.
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When the church got
involved in politics,
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the Dark Ages,
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when the church
joined to the state,
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that became the very essence
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and the very
heart of Antichrist.
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And I read your text
here out of the Apocalypse.
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That's Revelation 17,
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"One of the seven
angels who had the seven bowls
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came and said to me,
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'Come, I will
show you the punishment
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of the great prostitute,
who sits on many waters."
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In the Bible, in the prophecies,
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you got two women.
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A good woman
represents good church.
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A bad woman
represents the bad church.
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And the bad
church is the Antichrist.
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You want to know what
the essence and the heart
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and the soul of Antichrist is?
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Well, hang in there.
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Says, "The great prostitute,
who sits on many waters.
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With her, the kings of the earth
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committed adultery,
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not literally, but
an unholy alliance,
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and the inhabitants of the earth
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when were intoxicated
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with the wine
of her adulteries."
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That got so mixed up,
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did this church so
mixed up in political power
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that they became so
crazy that they were drunk.
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They couldn't think straight.
00:13:48.52\00:13:50.63
Have you met people like this?
00:13:50.66\00:13:52.19
They can't think straight.
00:13:52.23\00:13:55.43
A verse 3 Revelation 17 says,
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"Then the angel carried me away
in the Spirit into a desert.
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There I saw a woman
sitting on a scarlet beast."
00:14:02.54\00:14:06.27
The beast is the state.
00:14:06.31\00:14:09.28
"The beast was
covered with blasphemous names
00:14:09.31\00:14:12.35
and had seven
heads and ten horns."
00:14:12.38\00:14:14.95
This is the great Roman beast.
00:14:14.98\00:14:19.09
"The woman was
dressed in purple and scarlet,
00:14:19.12\00:14:22.99
was glittering with gold,
precious stones and pearls."
00:14:23.02\00:14:26.13
She got lots of money.
00:14:26.16\00:14:28.80
She held a
golden cup in her hand
00:14:28.83\00:14:30.80
filled with abominable things
00:14:30.83\00:14:33.57
and the filth
of her adulteries."
00:14:33.60\00:14:35.87
Wow!
00:14:35.90\00:14:38.44
"This title was written
on her forehead mystery:
00:14:38.47\00:14:41.74
Babylon the great,
the mother of prostitutes
00:14:41.78\00:14:45.61
and the
abominations of the earth.
00:14:45.65\00:14:47.72
I saw that the woman was drunk
with the blood of the saints.
00:14:47.75\00:14:52.75
The blood of those who
bore testimony to Jesus."
00:14:52.79\00:14:55.99
When I saw her it says,
00:14:56.02\00:14:58.76
he wandered
with great amazement.
00:14:58.79\00:15:01.93
The beast is the state.
00:15:01.96\00:15:05.70
The woman, this prostitute
here is the apostate church.
00:15:05.73\00:15:11.21
And here you've
got a system of church
00:15:11.24\00:15:13.84
and state and they join together
00:15:13.88\00:15:18.38
to persecute people
00:15:18.41\00:15:21.18
and to enforce religious laws.
00:15:21.22\00:15:25.89
That is the heart and
the soul of Antichrist.
00:15:25.92\00:15:31.33
The great pioneers
00:15:31.36\00:15:32.93
who established the
United States of America
00:15:32.96\00:15:35.90
believed in what
I'm talking about today.
00:15:35.93\00:15:38.23
This is the honest truth.
00:15:38.27\00:15:42.97
You're giving me
honest questions.
00:15:43.00\00:15:44.77
I'm trying to give
you honest answers.
00:15:44.81\00:15:46.68
So help me, God.
00:15:46.71\00:15:48.38
That, my friend,
00:15:48.41\00:15:50.01
I believe is the honest truth.
00:15:50.05\00:15:54.22
Now is my buddy Wayne
Hackett, another question.
00:15:54.25\00:16:01.09
Cheryl from Denver, Colorado
00:16:01.12\00:16:03.02
is concerned that
COVID-19 has become politicized.
00:16:03.06\00:16:07.33
Do you think it's a hoax?
00:16:07.36\00:16:09.30
What is your
attitude to science?
00:16:09.33\00:16:11.80
What political
party do you belong to?
00:16:11.83\00:16:15.44
Oh, goodness, me.
00:16:15.47\00:16:16.81
I wish you folks would ask me
easy questions on my birthday.
00:16:16.84\00:16:22.04
I think you owe it to me.
00:16:22.08\00:16:23.41
I've been doing this work.
00:16:23.45\00:16:24.78
Beverley and I have been
in this work of evangelism
00:16:24.81\00:16:27.25
and teaching the truth
00:16:27.28\00:16:28.75
and trying to
win souls to Christ.
00:16:28.78\00:16:30.89
We've been doing
this for 59 years.
00:16:30.92\00:16:33.36
So at least on my birthday,
00:16:33.39\00:16:35.02
you should be asking me
some very easy questions,
00:16:35.06\00:16:39.33
but actually you are,
00:16:39.36\00:16:41.33
this is a great question
00:16:41.36\00:16:42.70
that Wayne has brought
from one of our friends.
00:16:42.73\00:16:47.17
What do I know about COVID-19?
00:16:47.20\00:16:48.90
Well, I'm not a scientist.
00:16:48.94\00:16:50.41
I'm not a doctor,
00:16:50.44\00:16:52.97
but I do know that
00:16:53.01\00:16:54.34
in the United States of America,
00:16:54.38\00:16:55.78
where I've lived for 35 years,
00:16:55.81\00:16:58.51
more than half a million
00:16:58.55\00:17:00.45
precious American
friends have died.
00:17:00.48\00:17:03.79
I have a dear
friend who died of COVID
00:17:03.82\00:17:05.82
just a week or two ago.
00:17:05.85\00:17:07.66
A dear friend who died of COVID.
00:17:07.69\00:17:10.66
I've got a daughter who
is an intensive care nurse,
00:17:10.69\00:17:13.96
who is working in San Francisco,
00:17:14.00\00:17:15.93
trying to save people
who are dying of COVID-19.
00:17:15.96\00:17:19.47
Don't tell me it's a hoax.
00:17:19.50\00:17:21.50
It's not a hoax.
00:17:21.54\00:17:23.10
She's married to a man
who's an anesthesiologist.
00:17:23.14\00:17:25.71
His job is to put
this breathing apparatus
00:17:25.74\00:17:28.84
down the throat, into the lungs.
00:17:28.88\00:17:31.18
Of course, there's
tremendous tension.
00:17:31.21\00:17:33.82
Working terribly hard,
00:17:33.85\00:17:35.35
long hours and
seeing people die.
00:17:35.38\00:17:40.16
As I said, just a few days ago,
00:17:40.19\00:17:42.66
a dear friend of
mine died of COVID-19.
00:17:42.69\00:17:44.83
It was not a hoax.
00:17:44.86\00:17:47.26
I've had other friends,
one of the elders of my church,
00:17:47.30\00:17:52.00
he was retired
and moved up North.
00:17:52.03\00:17:54.10
You wouldn't meet a better man.
00:17:54.14\00:17:56.20
He's just a great man.
00:17:56.24\00:17:59.01
His name was Fernando.
00:17:59.04\00:18:03.01
Fernando.
00:18:03.04\00:18:04.41
He died of COVID-19.
00:18:04.45\00:18:07.72
It's not a hoax.
00:18:07.75\00:18:09.62
Do I believe in science?
00:18:09.65\00:18:11.02
I believe in genuine science.
00:18:11.05\00:18:15.39
Now, of course,
there's some bogus science.
00:18:15.42\00:18:20.23
I don't believe in
the theory of evolution
00:18:20.26\00:18:23.47
that we've all come
from a primordial swamp.
00:18:23.50\00:18:27.57
And we all came
from a single amoeba,
00:18:27.60\00:18:32.47
some cell or something like this
00:18:32.51\00:18:34.44
billions of years.
00:18:34.48\00:18:35.81
I don't believe
this, I believe in truth.
00:18:35.84\00:18:39.41
I believe in true science.
00:18:39.45\00:18:42.45
I believe in going
where the evidence goes.
00:18:42.48\00:18:47.02
Now Jesus said this
and listen carefully.
00:18:47.06\00:18:51.16
Jesus said,
00:18:51.19\00:18:52.53
"You'll know the truth
00:18:52.56\00:18:53.90
and the truth
will make you free."
00:18:53.93\00:18:55.90
It is a tragedy
00:18:55.93\00:18:57.33
that politics gets
in the way of truth
00:18:57.37\00:19:00.27
and COVID-19 has
become politicized.
00:19:00.30\00:19:03.94
That's a tragedy,
00:19:03.97\00:19:07.41
'cause the most
important thing we can do is
00:19:07.44\00:19:09.78
to try to save souls
and to try to save lives.
00:19:09.81\00:19:16.55
And I want you to know,
00:19:16.58\00:19:20.26
if you've got COVID or
if you've got a loved one,
00:19:20.29\00:19:22.52
who's got COVID
00:19:22.56\00:19:23.89
or if you've got a loved
one who has died from COVID.
00:19:23.93\00:19:27.30
I want you to know
00:19:27.33\00:19:30.57
that we have our
loving heavenly Father
00:19:30.60\00:19:33.37
who gave His Son
Jesus to die for us.
00:19:33.40\00:19:36.84
I want you to know this,
00:19:36.87\00:19:38.21
it's going to be better one day,
00:19:38.24\00:19:41.54
we're gonna beat this thing.
00:19:41.58\00:19:44.61
And one day, my friend, one day,
00:19:44.65\00:19:48.45
there's gonna be a new world,
00:19:48.48\00:19:50.19
no sickness, no sorrow, no death
00:19:50.22\00:19:54.36
or any of those things.
00:19:54.39\00:19:57.03
The great news of
the Bible is this.
00:19:57.06\00:19:59.59
Jesus is coming.
00:19:59.63\00:20:03.20
David belongs to
a church in Sydney
00:20:03.23\00:20:05.13
that once had
more than 1000 members,
00:20:05.17\00:20:08.10
but now is down to 150.
00:20:08.14\00:20:11.07
He wants to know
00:20:11.11\00:20:12.54
what is happening to the church
00:20:12.57\00:20:14.44
in today's secular society?
00:20:14.48\00:20:17.98
Well, I love Sydney.
00:20:18.01\00:20:22.28
One of my favorite
cities in the world.
00:20:22.32\00:20:24.72
Let me tell you something.
00:20:24.75\00:20:26.35
One of the biggest
churches in the world
00:20:26.39\00:20:28.49
is in secular Sydney,
00:20:28.52\00:20:30.93
where tens of thousands
of people come together
00:20:30.96\00:20:33.53
every weekend to worship God,
00:20:33.56\00:20:36.36
because they're just
full of love for God.
00:20:36.40\00:20:40.94
And this is in secular Sydney.
00:20:40.97\00:20:44.97
Never count the church out
00:20:45.01\00:20:48.34
because if you belong
00:20:48.38\00:20:49.71
to the true
church of the living God
00:20:49.74\00:20:51.35
that worships Jesus
00:20:51.38\00:20:53.52
and follows the Bible,
00:20:53.55\00:20:55.78
your church is
never going to die.
00:20:55.82\00:20:59.49
But if I belong to a church
00:20:59.52\00:21:00.86
that used to have a
thousand members or more,
00:21:00.89\00:21:03.16
and I'm down to 150,
00:21:03.19\00:21:04.99
I would start to think
00:21:05.03\00:21:06.36
maybe there's something wrong
00:21:06.39\00:21:07.73
with what's going
on inside that church,
00:21:07.76\00:21:10.00
because the Bible
talks about evangelism.
00:21:10.03\00:21:13.60
Some people say we hate
the very word evangelism.
00:21:13.64\00:21:16.91
Well, that's the reason
00:21:16.94\00:21:18.27
why your church
is dying, my friend,
00:21:18.31\00:21:19.64
because you hate evangelism.
00:21:19.67\00:21:21.81
You know what evangelism means?
00:21:21.84\00:21:23.85
Evangelism means,
now wait for this,
00:21:23.88\00:21:26.05
evangelism means
00:21:26.08\00:21:27.78
the preaching of
the Gospel of Christ.
00:21:27.82\00:21:31.05
How can you hate that?
00:21:31.09\00:21:33.22
And the most successful
churches in the world today
00:21:33.25\00:21:36.22
believe in evangelism.
00:21:36.26\00:21:38.69
They go out and
they preach the gospel.
00:21:38.73\00:21:40.50
They're
preaching it on television,
00:21:40.53\00:21:41.86
they're preaching it in halls.
00:21:41.90\00:21:43.23
They're preaching it everywhere.
00:21:43.26\00:21:44.60
They're having small groups,
00:21:44.63\00:21:45.97
but they have a
passion in their souls,
00:21:46.00\00:21:48.60
they've got a
fire in their bellies
00:21:48.64\00:21:51.07
and those churches are growing.
00:21:51.11\00:21:52.94
Jesus said this,
00:21:52.97\00:21:54.31
I'm gonna see if I
can find this text.
00:21:54.34\00:21:56.68
Matthew 16:18.
00:21:56.71\00:22:03.49
Are you ready for
this? Here it comes.
00:22:03.52\00:22:06.45
All right, verse 18.
00:22:06.49\00:22:07.82
Jesus said,
00:22:07.86\00:22:09.19
"But I tell you
that you are Peter,
00:22:09.22\00:22:11.03
and on this rock I
will build my church,
00:22:11.06\00:22:13.53
and the gates of
Hades will not overcome it."
00:22:13.56\00:22:19.33
The gates of hell,
00:22:19.37\00:22:21.54
the legions of evil angels,
00:22:21.57\00:22:28.34
dictators,
00:22:28.38\00:22:30.45
wicked politicians, Hitlers,
00:22:30.48\00:22:35.35
I don't care.
00:22:35.38\00:22:36.89
They will never
defeat the church of God
00:22:36.92\00:22:40.49
because the true church of
God is built upon the rock.
00:22:40.52\00:22:44.19
And the rock is
Jesus Christ Himself.
00:22:44.23\00:22:48.43
And the true church
at last will triumph
00:22:48.46\00:22:51.50
and God's people
will go home to glory.
00:22:51.53\00:22:56.24
That's the honest truth.
00:22:56.27\00:23:00.28
Mary from New
Zealand has a few questions.
00:23:00.31\00:23:03.58
"What do you
think of Pope Francis?
00:23:03.61\00:23:06.05
What do you think
about the Australian cardinal
00:23:06.08\00:23:08.12
who was found
guilty of pedophilia
00:23:08.15\00:23:10.19
and locked up in Victoria?
00:23:10.22\00:23:12.89
What do you think
00:23:12.92\00:23:14.26
of the Pope's
recent pronouncement
00:23:14.29\00:23:15.79
on homosexual unions?
00:23:15.82\00:23:19.06
Well, now that's a big question.
00:23:19.09\00:23:20.43
I just hope I
can remember it all.
00:23:20.46\00:23:23.33
There's a series of questions.
00:23:23.37\00:23:25.43
What do I think of Pope Francis?
00:23:25.47\00:23:27.34
Well, I don't know Pope Francis.
00:23:27.37\00:23:29.77
I can tell you a few
things about Pope Francis,
00:23:29.80\00:23:32.87
but I don't want
to be judgmental.
00:23:32.91\00:23:35.24
Many of my friends think
00:23:35.28\00:23:36.61
he's just the
nicest sort of guy,
00:23:36.64\00:23:39.81
he's graded,
00:23:39.85\00:23:41.18
you know, shaking
hands and kissing babies.
00:23:41.22\00:23:43.02
And they say, he's
a very nice person.
00:23:43.05\00:23:46.09
The pope is a Jesuit, of course.
00:23:46.12\00:23:50.06
The Jesuits are
just great intellectuals
00:23:50.09\00:23:54.10
with a tremendous mission.
00:23:54.13\00:23:56.56
And this is a
pope with a mission.
00:23:56.60\00:24:00.60
Some would say
with some legitimacy
00:24:00.64\00:24:04.11
I think that Pope
Francis is pushing a band wagon
00:24:04.14\00:24:09.74
that is called liberalism.
00:24:09.78\00:24:13.15
Others would say
just trying to make things
00:24:13.18\00:24:16.89
more accessible to
people to come into the church.
00:24:16.92\00:24:22.52
Now, of course, for
more than a thousand years,
00:24:22.56\00:24:24.89
the Catholic Church has
been a very conservative
00:24:24.93\00:24:27.70
and a rather cold
state organization,
00:24:27.73\00:24:30.87
very exclusive.
00:24:30.90\00:24:32.63
If you weren't a Roman Catholic,
00:24:32.67\00:24:34.14
you are gonna go to hell,
00:24:34.17\00:24:36.04
then came along good Pope John
00:24:36.07\00:24:37.61
and he started to
call us Protestants,
00:24:37.64\00:24:39.94
separated brethren.
00:24:39.97\00:24:41.31
Well, that was nice.
00:24:41.34\00:24:42.71
And Pope Francis has
come a little bit further.
00:24:42.74\00:24:45.55
And Pope Francis
now is reaching out
00:24:45.58\00:24:47.72
and he's making
tremendous stirs,
00:24:47.75\00:24:49.58
the
conservatives in his own church
00:24:49.62\00:24:51.72
are fighting him fiercely.
00:24:51.75\00:24:55.19
He seems to be making
rather liberal statements
00:24:55.22\00:24:58.29
about gay marriage and
other things like this,
00:24:58.33\00:25:01.00
though his own
church is totally opposed,
00:25:01.03\00:25:04.67
of course, to gay marriage,
00:25:04.70\00:25:07.80
even though the
Roman Catholic Church
00:25:07.84\00:25:09.37
had lots and lots and
lots of problems with priests
00:25:09.40\00:25:13.74
who have been pedophiles
00:25:13.78\00:25:15.24
and all other
types of sexual deviance.
00:25:15.28\00:25:19.11
But this is a pope
00:25:19.15\00:25:20.48
who is trying to show
that the Roman Catholic Church
00:25:20.52\00:25:23.95
has got a smiling face.
00:25:23.99\00:25:27.32
And therefore he
is teaching some ideas
00:25:27.36\00:25:30.53
that I think are
not taught in the Bible.
00:25:30.56\00:25:34.30
I believe that Pope Francis,
00:25:34.33\00:25:36.53
even though he seems
to be a very nice man
00:25:36.56\00:25:40.47
would do better
00:25:40.50\00:25:42.24
if he were to
preach from the Bible
00:25:42.27\00:25:45.61
and to show us exactly
00:25:45.64\00:25:46.98
what the
commandments of God require,
00:25:47.01\00:25:49.34
and if he were to
preach the Gospel of Christ,
00:25:49.38\00:25:54.42
but I don't want to be
critical of Pope Francis.
00:25:54.45\00:25:58.99
I think we've all got
enough mistakes in our own lives
00:25:59.02\00:26:03.26
and enough of
our own private sins.
00:26:03.29\00:26:06.96
But I believe that
what is needed today,
00:26:07.00\00:26:10.17
the biggest need today
in the Christian Church
00:26:10.20\00:26:12.60
is for people to
teach the honest truth.
00:26:12.63\00:26:16.30
Jesus said,
00:26:29.82\00:26:31.15
"All authority
has been given to Me
00:26:31.19\00:26:32.99
in heaven and on earth.
00:26:33.02\00:26:35.29
Go therefore and make
disciples of all the nations,
00:26:35.32\00:26:39.69
baptizing them in
the name of the Father
00:26:39.73\00:26:42.20
and of the Son, and
of the Holy Spirit."
00:26:42.23\00:26:47.47
John Carter reports,
00:26:47.50\00:26:49.24
"We have seen God's
power as the Gospel of Christ
00:26:49.27\00:26:52.47
has been proclaimed in Africa,
00:26:52.51\00:26:56.24
India,
00:26:56.28\00:26:58.71
Russia,
00:26:58.75\00:27:01.38
Ukraine,
00:27:01.42\00:27:04.29
Cuba,
00:27:04.32\00:27:07.19
El Salvador, and
many other places.
00:27:07.22\00:27:10.93
We invite you to partner with us
00:27:10.96\00:27:14.00
in proclaiming Jesus Christ."
00:27:14.03\00:27:15.80
To God be the glory,
00:27:19.73\00:27:22.84
great things He has done.
00:27:22.87\00:27:24.37
Write today to
the Carter Report,
00:27:27.41\00:27:30.55
P.O. Box 1900,
00:27:30.58\00:27:32.71
Thousand Oaks, California 91358.
00:27:32.75\00:27:37.62
That's the Carter Report,
00:27:37.65\00:27:39.99
P.O. Box 1900,
00:27:40.02\00:27:42.29
Thousand Oaks, California 91358.
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