There are a lot of
places where you can go
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to get yourself killed.
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John Carter and his
team have chosen to go
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to many of those
dangerous cities and countries,
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because they heard a voice,
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a soft, but
persistent voice urging them on.
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This is the story of their
life threatening encounters.
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It is also a story
of God's saving grace.
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For God's glory, we
present Escape from Death.
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Why do you go to the
most dangerous countries?
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What was the reason you went?
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Hi, friend, Welcome
today to the Carter Report.
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I'm so glad that you joined us.
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We don't set out
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to go to the most
dangerous countries.
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We go to places like Africa
and India and Papua New Guinea,
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El Salvador, Colombia,
other dangerous places,
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because we have felt
the hand of God upon us.
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The Bible tells us to
go and preach the gospel,
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and because by the grace of
God we have tried to be obedient
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to the command of God.
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We've gone to some of
these dangerous places.
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Where was the most
dangerous place you went?
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Oh, dear me, that's a tough one.
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We haven't been
trying to keep an account
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of this has been dangerous
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and this is the most dangerous
and this place is okay.
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There are lots
of dangerous prices.
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There are dangerous prices
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in the United States of America.
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You can easily get killed
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by going to some
cities in America.
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You can get killed in Australia.
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You can get killed in any place.
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But there are some places
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that are very, very dangerous
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like Iraq.
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Hey, that's a dangerous place.
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I was placed under house
arrest there by Saddam Hussein,
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the butcher of Baghdad.
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But there are lots and
lots of dangerous places.
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Inter America is a
very dangerous place.
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But we went there
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because we believe
in the Gospel of Christ.
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You once ran a large city
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wide evangelistic
campaign in Zimbabwe.
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You were marched down a jungle
road with guns pointed at you,
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and guns in your back.
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Tell us about it?
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Well, that was
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a rather scary situation.
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I still get
chills when I think about
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what could have happened to
us in the jungles of Africa.
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But before I talk
to you about them,
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tell you that story.
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I want to read you a text
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because this text has
been the motivation of my life,
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and certainly the motivation
of Beverley's life and David
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and the rest of our team.
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The Apostle Paul said this
in Romans 1:14 and onwards.
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He said, "I am obligated,"
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or as it says in
the King James Version,
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I'm a debtor.
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"I'm obligated both
to Greeks and non-Greeks,
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both to the
wise and the foolish.
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That is why I am so
eager to preach the gospel
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also to you who are at Rome."
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Now Rome was a dangerous city.
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Then he goes on to say,
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"I'm not ashamed of the gospel,
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because it is the power
of God for the salvation
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of everyone who believes:
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first for the Jew,
then for the Gentile."
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So Paul went to some
very, very dangerous prices.
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And as I've just
been asked this question
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about going to Zimbabwe,
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Harare, Zimbabwe.
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We are running
this great campaign
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in the Harare
International Conference Center.
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We had thousands and
thousands of people coming.
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And then one day,
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I got an interview to go
out of the city of Harare,
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used to be called
Salisbury, Rhodesia
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and go for an interview
on a television station.
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But when I got to
the television station,
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I discovered it was a set-up,
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because the person in
charge of the television station
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was an ex-terrorist
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who had blood on his hands.
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And after a little bit
of an altercation with him
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because he was
trying to bully us
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into doing things that
we were not prepared to do.
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I found myself as
the sun was going down,
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being marched down a jungle road
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with soldiers all around me,
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and I can feel
their guns in my back.
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It's not a very
comforting experience.
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They have guns
sticking in your back
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and gun pointing at
you from all directions.
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And the terrorist was in his car
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driving along the road
next to us in a Peugeot,
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cursing us and telling me
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that he was going to
have me put to death,
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because he hated all
people from the Western world.
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He hated
Australians. He hated Americans.
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He was the quintessential
racist and terrorist.
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And so after we traveled
a few miles into the jungle,
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he said, "I'm going to
leave you with these men."
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So he turned around his car
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and he drove away.
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And then as soon as
he was out of sight,
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the soldiers
put down their guns,
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and they started to hug me.
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They said, Pastor Carter,
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we come to your
meetings in the Harare
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International Conference Center.
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I had a prayer with them.
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We had a little praise meeting
there in the jungle of Africa.
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They called for a car,
they got to a police station,
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the police sent a car
and they rushed me off
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to the great conference center,
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where thousands
and thousands of people
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were waiting to hear
the Gospel of Christ.
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That was an escape from death.
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But in this experience,
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I felt the
presence of Almighty God,
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and I praise God
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for His
protective keeping power.
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Can you tell us
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how your wife Beverley faced
a deadly situation in Siberia?
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Did a man with a
loaded gun come up to her
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as she spoke to the crowd
at the evangelistic campaign?
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Hey, Beverley is a real soldier.
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I'm not supposed to
tell you this today.
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Now this is
coming from our home.
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And Beverley is
in the house today.
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But she didn't
want to come on camera.
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Can I tell you folks something?
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It's her birthday.
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I'm not gonna say
that she's 39 and holding,
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but I'm sort of
tempted to say it.
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But Beverley is a
tremendous soldier.
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She's got the heart of a
lion and she's got courage.
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Well, we were in
the Far East of Russia
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right over there
in Eastern Siberia.
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And we were holding meetings
on the shores of Lake Baikal,
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the greatest
freshwater lake in the world.
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You know, it's amazing.
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Most of us have
never heard of Lake Baikal.
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But there right
next to this lake,
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there is a pretty big city
of about half a million people.
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It's called Irkutsk.
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We were holding
these great meetings,
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we had tens of thousands
of people coming to hear
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the everlasting
Gospel of Christ.
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And as Beverley
before I got up to preach,
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she was talking to the
people of Siberia, in Irkutsk.
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Then all of a sudden, a
man started to get on stage.
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He climbed up on stage,
and he charged the desk.
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Oh, Beverley, she's a trooper.
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She just kept on talking.
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We have security guards there.
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They were strong Russian guys.
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And they brought this man down.
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But they had to
tussle with this guy.
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He was strong as a lion.
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And it took a few
minutes to subdue him.
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And when they subdued him,
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they found he was carrying.
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Listen to this, he was
carrying a loaded revolver,
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he had a pistol.
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This was a close
encounter with death.
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But the Lord was with us.
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And the Lord
preserved Beverley's life.
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Hallelujah, praise God.
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What were his intentions?
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And what was the outcome?
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We discovered later he that,
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he was a Russian nationalist,
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and he belonged there,
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elite group in their security.
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He was a tough, very clever guy.
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And he'd come down
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because he
didn't like foreigners
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to be in his part of Russia,
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and he was going
to run us out of town.
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The next day, the
Russian security forces
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came to our hotel,
and they talk to us
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and they said,
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"We are covered
with embarrassment,"
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because this man
was coming down there.
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He had ill intent.
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They said,
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"We're going to put
him in a prison in Siberia
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and he's going to
stay in that prison
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for the rest of his life.
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So this was an opportunity
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to talk to those tough Russians
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about the Gospel of Christ,
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and why we're not
ashamed of the Gospel of Christ,
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because it's the power of God.
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And it talks
about the love of God.
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We explained to
them the love of God.
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And then I said to them,
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"We want you to
forgive this man."
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They said, "We're
not gonna forgive him,
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we're gonna lock him up
and throw away the key."
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I said,
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"We want you to forgive him,
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because we have forgiven him."
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And they said, "We
can't understand this."
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So this was an
opportunity to talk to them
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about the
abounding grace of God,
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how sweet the sound
that saved a wretch like me.
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And so they released this man,
he came back to the meetings,
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he became my personal bodyguard.
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And that night, he
gave his life to Christ.
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And later on, he was baptized.
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And by the grace of God,
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we hope that we're going to
see him in the kingdom of God.
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Back at your hotel,
there were men with guns
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that burst into
your son, David's room.
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Who were they, and
what did they want?
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Well, we had a
very exciting time
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in the city of Irkutsk.
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Well, the militia
had decided to take down
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the mafia outside our hotel.
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And my son, David,
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having the heart of a soldier
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decided that he was
going to videotape all of this.
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And so he poked the
camera out the window.
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Now, I wanted him to do this.
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I hadn't told him to do this.
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But he took the initiative,
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he was doing the right thing.
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And so we've got this
great big television camera
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poked out the window
of this hotel in Siberia,
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in Irkutsk,
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videotaping the
mafia and the militia.
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Well, the next thing we knew
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was that the militia
had invaded the hotel.
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And I had decided to
run around to see David
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and go and see how he was doing.
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So I was jogging
along the hallway.
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And I was
followed by the militia.
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I got into David's
room, talking to David.
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All of a sudden,
the militia came by,
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they didn't knock on the door,
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they came bursting in with,
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with machine guns pointing
these guns at our heads.
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It was quite exciting.
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We told the translator,
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"Hey, tell these guys,
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we're just here
preaching the gospel."
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They thought that we
were members of the mafia
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until the translator said,
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"Hey, these people are
from America and Australia.
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And they're here to
preach the Gospel of Christ."
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And so things calm down.
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Once again,
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we saw the power of God
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revealed because God
came in by His Spirit,
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and everything became peaceful,
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and the militia
became our friends.
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I heard that the mafia came
after you in Odessa, Ukraine.
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What actually happened?
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Well, Odessa can be
a pretty rough city.
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It's a beautiful city.
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But the mafia sort of
runs that part of Ukraine.
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We were holding these
meetings for this wonderful city
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of Odessa on the Black
Sea, in this great auditorium.
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It was packed every night.
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Now don't tell me
evangelism doesn't work,
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because I've
seen the power of God.
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Paul said,
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"The gospel is the
power of God for the salvation
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of every person who believes."
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So one night they
decided did the Ukrainian mafia
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to run us out of town.
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What an experience.
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I was preaching away
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and then I
heard this loud noise,
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bang, bang,
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thump, thump.
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Went on for a long time,
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but I thought I
can't do anything about it.
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So I continued to
preach the Word of God
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to this vast crowd,
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in this Palace of
Sport in Odessa, Ukraine.
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And then everything at the
back of the stage went quiet.
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Later on, I discovered that
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some mafia
members had decided that
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they were going to throw me away
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from this place that
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we're going to
throw me off the stage
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and they were going
to run us out of town.
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What they had not counted on
00:14:55.99\00:14:57.33
because God moves
in a mysterious way
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His wonders to perform.
00:15:00.63\00:15:04.03
We had some
tremendous bodyguards.
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And these men were prepared
to give their lives for us.
00:15:07.17\00:15:10.91
And when the mafia
came charging up the stairs
00:15:10.94\00:15:13.61
and on to the stage,
00:15:13.64\00:15:14.98
they were met by
these Russian bodyguards,
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who had a
tremendous fight with them,
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and ended up
throwing them off the stage.
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While that was
almost in the end of that,
00:15:26.52\00:15:28.69
because when I came to
the auditorium the next day,
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as I came in, the
mafia were standing there,
00:15:34.00\00:15:38.13
waiting for me.
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But this time, they saluted.
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And they wished me
the blessing of God,
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and we went on
preaching the Word.
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We don't need to be afraid
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when we have the
support of holy angels.
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Why was the Ukrainian
mafia opposed to your work?
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Because they were
running the whole place,
00:16:02.89\00:16:05.26
they were running Odessa.
00:16:05.29\00:16:07.76
The place was full of crime,
00:16:07.80\00:16:09.50
particularly
sexual crime, AIDS was,
00:16:09.53\00:16:13.44
you know, huge number of people
had AIDS when we went there.
00:16:13.47\00:16:18.77
The place was dangerous.
00:16:18.81\00:16:21.01
And the mafia saw the preaching
of the Gospel of Christ
00:16:21.04\00:16:25.61
as a threat to their business.
00:16:25.65\00:16:28.92
Because when you
preach the gospel,
00:16:28.95\00:16:30.92
you're going to close down sin.
00:16:30.95\00:16:34.76
And by the grace of God,
00:16:34.79\00:16:37.46
this campaign was so successful
00:16:37.49\00:16:40.30
that thousands of people
who had been steeped in sin
00:16:40.33\00:16:44.67
came to a knowledge of Christ,
00:16:44.70\00:16:46.74
and the mafia was defeated.
00:16:46.77\00:16:49.87
Glory be to God.
00:16:49.90\00:16:54.54
Can you tell us about
the time the religious mafia
00:16:54.58\00:16:57.31
bombed your meetings in Russia?
00:16:57.35\00:17:00.52
Can you describe what happened?
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Yes, I can.
00:17:05.05\00:17:07.72
My team, we've had a lot to
do with the mafia in Russia.
00:17:07.76\00:17:12.09
In fact, some years back
00:17:12.13\00:17:13.56
we baptized the
leader of the mafia,
00:17:13.60\00:17:17.27
for I can't tell you the
area, but a vast area in Russia.
00:17:17.30\00:17:23.00
The man in
charge of it, he had a,
00:17:23.04\00:17:25.21
an army of 400 mafia members
00:17:25.24\00:17:28.68
armed to the
teeth with machine guns.
00:17:28.71\00:17:34.02
I saw this man come to Christ.
00:17:34.05\00:17:35.85
I saw his
associates come to Christ.
00:17:35.88\00:17:38.79
They came to Christ because
they had watched on television
00:17:38.82\00:17:43.09
Carter Report
television programs.
00:17:43.12\00:17:47.13
So please don't,
nobody even think
00:17:47.16\00:17:49.83
of coming to me and telling me
00:17:49.86\00:17:51.50
that evangelism doesn't work.
00:17:51.53\00:17:53.80
I'm inclined to say to you,
00:17:53.84\00:17:55.17
I think the problem may
be is that you don't work.
00:17:55.20\00:17:58.31
But if you believe
00:17:58.34\00:17:59.67
in the working
of the Holy Spirit,
00:17:59.71\00:18:01.41
you will believe
in public evangelism.
00:18:01.44\00:18:05.05
And I've had
some great partners.
00:18:05.08\00:18:06.65
My wife has
been a great partner,
00:18:06.68\00:18:08.12
my son David has
been a great partner.
00:18:08.15\00:18:10.25
We've had a great team of
Americans and Australians.
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Members of the church,
00:18:14.19\00:18:15.62
who have faith
and who have vision
00:18:15.66\00:18:17.56
and who believe
00:18:17.59\00:18:18.93
in the anointing
of the Holy Spirit.
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Okay,
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we were invited
to go to the city
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of Nizhny Novgorod
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and thank God,
00:18:28.24\00:18:30.34
Danny Shelton from 3ABN
and his group came with us,
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because Danny is a person
who believes in evangelism.
00:18:34.78\00:18:38.45
Danny believes in the Bible.
00:18:38.48\00:18:40.95
Danny has got vision,
and Danny has got faith.
00:18:40.98\00:18:44.59
But you know, a
lot of people have come
00:18:44.62\00:18:45.95
to Danny over the years.
00:18:45.99\00:18:47.32
And they say to him,
00:18:47.36\00:18:48.69
"Oh, Brother Shelton,
00:18:48.72\00:18:50.06
don't you know, it
doesn't work anymore."
00:18:50.09\00:18:53.60
When he was starting
3ABN more than 30 years ago,
00:18:53.63\00:18:56.97
a bunch of people in the church
came and they said to him,
00:18:57.00\00:19:00.00
"Oh, Brother Shelton,
00:19:00.04\00:19:01.40
don't you know it doesn't work."
00:19:01.44\00:19:03.10
No, he said, "I
don't believe that."
00:19:03.14\00:19:05.84
And when we went
to Nizhny Novgorod
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or the old city of Gorky.
00:19:08.01\00:19:09.44
Danny said,
00:19:09.48\00:19:10.81
"I'm going to come with you.
00:19:10.85\00:19:12.18
And more than this,
00:19:12.21\00:19:13.55
I'm going to help
you raise the budget."
00:19:13.58\00:19:15.02
I said,
00:19:15.05\00:19:16.38
"Glad to have you coming,
00:19:16.42\00:19:17.75
Danny, thank God.
00:19:17.79\00:19:19.12
And especially glad
00:19:19.15\00:19:20.56
you're gonna help
me pay the bills."
00:19:20.59\00:19:23.89
So we open up
there in Nizhny Novgorod.
00:19:23.93\00:19:28.46
The crowd was so great
00:19:28.50\00:19:30.97
that the Russian military
00:19:31.00\00:19:32.67
had to take us
to the auditorium.
00:19:32.70\00:19:36.34
There were tens of
thousands of people
00:19:36.37\00:19:38.44
standing around the auditorium.
00:19:38.47\00:19:40.58
Hey, somebody says
evangelism doesn't work anymore.
00:19:40.61\00:19:44.61
I say, you're living
under a rock, my friend.
00:19:44.65\00:19:48.32
You got to start to believe.
00:19:48.35\00:19:51.32
And so the Russian
military got us into the hole.
00:19:51.35\00:19:55.02
You know what was happening?
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People were
breaking down the doors.
00:19:56.42\00:19:59.43
We saw the power of God.
00:19:59.46\00:20:01.40
People were
breaking the windows.
00:20:01.43\00:20:03.47
People say, "They did
it." Yes, we got it on.
00:20:03.50\00:20:06.70
We got pictures of this.
00:20:06.74\00:20:09.84
All the doors getting busted.
00:20:09.87\00:20:13.21
Every night the authorities
would come to us and say,
00:20:13.24\00:20:16.44
"Hey, you got to pay for
20 windows and 20 doors."
00:20:16.48\00:20:18.68
We said,
00:20:18.71\00:20:20.05
"Praise God, we wish
we were paying for 100."
00:20:20.08\00:20:25.25
Well, we just started up there.
00:20:25.29\00:20:27.02
I was preaching
00:20:27.06\00:20:29.29
and the Russian mafia controlled
00:20:29.32\00:20:31.19
by the great state church,
00:20:31.23\00:20:33.70
get it, the great state church.
00:20:33.73\00:20:36.36
They came down
to the auditorium,
00:20:36.40\00:20:38.77
tried to take it over,
00:20:38.80\00:20:40.14
and they threw smoke
bombs up on the stage.
00:20:40.17\00:20:44.71
Smoke bombs.
00:20:44.74\00:20:47.38
I kept on preaching
00:20:47.41\00:20:49.01
and the audience in Russian
started shouting out to me
00:20:49.04\00:20:52.51
saying John Carter,
00:20:52.55\00:20:54.28
and my translator was telling me
00:20:54.32\00:20:55.65
what they were saying.
00:20:55.68\00:20:57.02
"John Carter, don't be
afraid, Keep on preaching."
00:20:57.05\00:20:59.59
So there's smoke
bombs, fire bombs coming.
00:20:59.62\00:21:03.43
The Russians calling out.
00:21:03.46\00:21:05.26
Be of good
courage, keep on preaching.
00:21:05.29\00:21:07.50
And these people were atheists.
00:21:07.53\00:21:10.17
You see, sometimes the atheists
seem to have more faith in God
00:21:10.20\00:21:12.93
than the so-called
people who go along to church.
00:21:12.97\00:21:17.67
But our Russian pastors
had the courage of lions,
00:21:17.71\00:21:21.38
and they got up on the stage.
00:21:21.41\00:21:23.31
They're all around me
pouring water with buckets,
00:21:23.35\00:21:26.82
putting out the fire bombs.
00:21:26.85\00:21:30.39
Yeah, that was
quite an experience.
00:21:30.42\00:21:32.09
I could tell you more.
00:21:32.12\00:21:33.76
And maybe if you ask me nicely,
00:21:33.79\00:21:36.86
I'll tell you some more stories.
00:21:36.89\00:21:38.56
There was a
famous governor in Russia
00:21:42.50\00:21:44.77
on his way to becoming President
00:21:44.80\00:21:46.94
when he was assassinated.
00:21:46.97\00:21:49.10
Do you know anything about him?
00:21:49.14\00:21:50.64
Yes, it was my privilege
on a number of occasions
00:21:54.04\00:21:56.85
to meet Dr. Boris Nemtsov.
00:21:56.88\00:22:00.12
Now there was a
man with courage,
00:22:00.15\00:22:02.02
he was a hero.
00:22:02.05\00:22:03.99
Later on, we had the
privilege of baptizing
00:22:04.02\00:22:06.22
his beautiful
sister, Dr. Julia Outkina,
00:22:06.25\00:22:11.19
who became the
president of 3ABN in Russia.
00:22:11.23\00:22:15.60
Now when the
mafia was attacking us
00:22:15.63\00:22:17.50
and trying to drive us
out of the city of Gorky,
00:22:17.53\00:22:21.30
later called Nizhny Novgorod.
00:22:21.34\00:22:24.84
Boris Nemtsov, the
governor heard about it,
00:22:24.87\00:22:27.71
and he sent down his militia.
00:22:27.74\00:22:31.48
Hallelujah.
00:22:31.51\00:22:33.58
And they took on the mafia.
00:22:33.62\00:22:36.15
And they dragged them
out of the auditorium.
00:22:36.18\00:22:38.92
And they made it possible for us
00:22:38.95\00:22:41.02
to preach the Gospel of Christ.
00:22:41.06\00:22:45.43
Later on, the governor sent,
00:22:45.46\00:22:48.36
sent an invitation to
the Carter Report team,
00:22:48.40\00:22:52.87
including Danny
Shelton and his team and said,
00:22:52.90\00:22:56.07
"We want you to come.
00:22:56.10\00:22:57.44
The governor and his
staff want you to come
00:22:57.47\00:22:59.71
to the governor's palace,
and we want to talk to you."
00:22:59.74\00:23:04.15
And we have the
privilege of going and meeting
00:23:04.18\00:23:06.45
the governor and also the bishop
00:23:06.48\00:23:09.45
of the city and
all of his staff.
00:23:09.48\00:23:12.62
And I had the privilege of
explaining to Governor Boris
00:23:12.65\00:23:15.96
Nemtsov the great
message of the Gospel of Christ
00:23:15.99\00:23:20.56
and the great
truths of the Bible,
00:23:20.60\00:23:22.23
including the
truth on the separation
00:23:22.26\00:23:25.03
of church and state.
00:23:25.07\00:23:27.74
He became our friend.
00:23:27.77\00:23:30.94
He was our protector.
00:23:30.97\00:23:33.34
And by the grace of God,
the work of God went ahead.
00:23:33.38\00:23:37.35
I believe, my friend,
00:23:37.38\00:23:39.78
in the providential care of God.
00:23:39.81\00:23:43.05
And God bless you and thank you
for supporting this great work.
00:23:43.08\00:23:47.26
So you believe in
public evangelism?
00:23:50.83\00:23:53.53
Most in the church
today say it doesn't work?
00:23:53.56\00:23:56.00
Well, many people
in the world today say
00:23:59.90\00:24:01.60
marriage doesn't work.
00:24:01.64\00:24:04.97
I can tell you, it does work.
00:24:05.01\00:24:06.78
Beverley and I have
been married for a...
00:24:06.81\00:24:08.48
Once she told me
not to tell the folks,
00:24:08.51\00:24:11.65
but it's well over 50 years.
00:24:11.68\00:24:14.85
We believe that marriage works
because the Bible teaches that.
00:24:14.88\00:24:19.45
What's wrong with us?
00:24:19.49\00:24:22.46
The Bible teaches evangelism,
00:24:22.49\00:24:25.13
and Jesus was the
master evangelist.
00:24:25.16\00:24:29.46
I believe in evangelism
00:24:29.50\00:24:31.33
because the Bible
is full of evangelism.
00:24:31.37\00:24:35.60
You go read the Book of Acts.
00:24:35.64\00:24:37.71
The Christian church
started when a man stood up
00:24:37.74\00:24:40.31
and did public evangelism.
00:24:40.34\00:24:43.18
Let me tell you something.
00:24:43.21\00:24:45.11
The greatest
killer of evangelism
00:24:45.15\00:24:47.98
is lack of vision
and lack of faith.
00:24:48.02\00:24:51.22
I've had people come to me
00:24:51.25\00:24:53.05
by the thousands over the years.
00:24:53.09\00:24:55.79
And they say to me,
00:24:55.82\00:24:57.79
"John Carter, where you've been?
00:24:57.83\00:24:59.86
Have you been
living under a rock?
00:24:59.89\00:25:01.83
Don't you know evangelism
doesn't work anymore?"
00:25:01.86\00:25:05.23
I said to them,
00:25:05.27\00:25:06.60
"It may not work for you
00:25:06.63\00:25:07.97
because you don't have faith,
and you don't have vision."
00:25:08.00\00:25:11.64
But I believe in the
power of the Holy Spirit,
00:25:11.67\00:25:13.78
I believe in Jesus.
00:25:13.81\00:25:16.78
And I have seen,
these eyes have seen
00:25:16.81\00:25:20.12
the glory of the
coming of the Lord.
00:25:20.15\00:25:24.85
I believe it works because
I believe that God is alive.
00:25:24.89\00:25:28.52
Jesus said,
00:25:46.07\00:25:47.41
"All authority
has been given to Me
00:25:47.44\00:25:49.38
in heaven and on earth.
00:25:49.41\00:25:51.65
Go therefore,
00:25:51.68\00:25:53.01
and make disciples
of all the nations,
00:25:53.05\00:25:56.15
baptizing them in
the name of the Father,
00:25:56.18\00:25:58.65
and of the Son, and
of the Holy Spirit."
00:25:58.69\00:26:03.83
John Carter Reports,
00:26:03.86\00:26:05.63
we have seen God's
power as the Gospel of Christ
00:26:05.66\00:26:08.93
has been proclaimed in Africa,
00:26:08.96\00:26:12.60
India,
00:26:12.63\00:26:15.24
Russia,
00:26:15.27\00:26:17.74
Ukraine,
00:26:17.77\00:26:20.54
Cuba,
00:26:20.58\00:26:23.65
El Salvador,
00:26:23.68\00:26:25.11
and many other places.
00:26:25.15\00:26:27.25
We invite you to partner with us
00:26:27.28\00:26:30.35
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00:26:30.39\00:26:32.32
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00:26:36.19\00:26:39.16
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