The Carter Report
team has answered the call
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to proclaim the Gospel of Christ
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in dangerous places.
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Without fear for
their own safety,
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they have traveled to India,
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Russia, Ukraine,
Central America, Africa,
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Papua New Guinea,
and the Philippines.
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They go for the love
of God and lost souls.
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John Carter now
answers questions
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that reveal the untold
story of battles fought and won.
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He tells how God delivered
them over and over again.
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For God's glory,
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we present Escape from Death.
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We are aware that El
Salvador is a dangerous country
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with gang
kidnappings and murders.
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Did you ever feel that
your life was in danger?
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To tell you the truth,
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I never felt my
life was in danger.
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My Carter Report team,
my family came with me.
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And we never felt threatened,
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because of our text
that is found in the Bible.
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I want to read this text to you.
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It is a text that
my own mother taught me
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many, many years ago.
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I'm not going to tell
you how many years ago.
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Here it is.
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This is Psalm 34:7,
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"The angel of the
Lord encamps around those
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who fear him, and
he delivers them."
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We felt the
presence of holy angels.
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There's no doubt about it.
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El Salvador is a
dangerous country.
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Thousands and thousands,
tens of thousands of people
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have been
murdered in El Salvador.
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Absolutely.
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And we went into
some dangerous places.
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And we held
meetings in a vast auditorium
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or outdoor stadium
that seated 60,000 people.
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But we had the protection
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of holy angels.
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Were the meetings in
the giant outdoor stadium
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guarded against gang attacks?
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You had around
60,000 people in attendance.
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What security
arrangements did you make?
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We had the best
security in the universe.
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We had the
protection of holy angels.
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Now going to the meetings,
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the police and militia was
so concerned for our safety
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that they escorted us.
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We had two
truckloads of armed soldiers
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in front of us
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and two truckloads of
armed soldiers behind us,
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all with machine guns.
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I've had an
exciting life, folks,
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I gotta tell you,
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I love
preaching the Word of God.
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And we had police,
people on motorbikes
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and we got down
to the auditorium,
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or got down to
the outdoor stadium.
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And there we had
around 60,000 people.
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And to the best of my knowledge,
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we had no security
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except the
security that really counts,
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the security of Almighty God.
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We were taken
also up into the hills,
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where kidnappings
taking place all the time.
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And I spoke there
to about 100 pastors,
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the finest pastors I'd
met anywhere in the world.
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They all came to the
meetings with their Bibles.
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And bless their hearts,
they looked like pastors,
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and they had a passion,
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a burning passion in their souls
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to preach the Gospel of
Christ and to save lost sinners.
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God bless them.
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You've been to Iraq.
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Why did you go there when
we all know it isn't safe?
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Did you ever meet
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President Saddam Hussein?
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Yes, I've been to
Iraq on lots of occasions.
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I've gone there
because of my interest
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in biblical archaeology.
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You see, I
believe there is evidence
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to believe the Bible.
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I don't believe
in faith in faith.
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I believe in faith
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in that which is true.
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I don't believe in nonsense.
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I believe in the words of Jesus
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where Jesus said,
you'll know the truth,
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and the truth will set you free.
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And I went to
Iraq or old Babylonia
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or old Mesopotamia,
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because of my interest
in discovering evidences
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to show to unbelievers,
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that the Bible
is the Word of God.
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Did I meet the
butcher of Baghdad?
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No, I didn't.
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But after we got
there, he placed,
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placed us under house
arrest or hotel arrest,
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and told us we could not leave
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until we gave up our videotape
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and I said, "No, no, no."
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And so, his soldiers
came for us at midnight,
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and we were taken through
the back lanes of Baghdad,
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and taken to a place
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where we were
interrogated and threatened.
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And they said,
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"You've got to
give us your video
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or else you never
gonna leave this country."
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I said, "Well, I
don't mind it here."
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Looks like I'll be
staying here for a while.
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We did not surrender.
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And God looked after us.
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And God preserved us
from the dangers of the land
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of Saddam Hussein.
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You and the Carter
Report team went to India,
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a nation of more
than a billion souls.
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Hinduism is the
official religion,
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but there are many Muslims.
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This nation barely
tolerates Christians.
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What happened?
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Yes, by the grace of
God, we went to India,
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and we love the Indian people,
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some of the nicest
people on the face of the earth
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are found in India.
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It is a land of more
than a billion souls.
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And these people are
hungry for the Word of God.
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We saw tens of thousands
come into an outdoor stadium,
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it was a cricket stadium,
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because the people in India
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love to play the old
English game of cricket,
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and they probably some
of the best in the world.
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And so we had
coming to the meetings
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tens of thousands of Muslims
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and tens of thousands of Hindus.
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And we're told that
these people have got
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no interest at all in Christ,
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and no interest
in the Word of God.
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I saw, we saw
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the mighty
outpouring of the Spirit of God
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in the land of India.
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One night, when I was preaching,
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I started to pray.
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And something amazing happened.
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I've never seen it
quite like this before.
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The Spirit of God came in,
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my friend, and
took over the meeting.
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And the people,
Hindus and Muslims
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started to raise their
hands and pray, pray to God.
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And this was an appeal
to accept Jesus Christ.
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And then we had an altar call.
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And we saw, now this
is God's honest truth,
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because people said
this could never happen.
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Tens of thousands
of Hindus and Muslims
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came down the front
with their hands raised,
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believing in the
Lord Jesus Christ.
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I believe in evangelism.
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I believe that God is not dead.
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And I believe that
the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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is the power of
God unto salvation.
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Hallelujah, praise His name.
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Is it true
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that your
evangelistic campaign in India
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ran longer than
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those of any other
religious organization
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before or since?
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With massive crowds
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for nearly two weeks?
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For the glory of God,
we say, "Yes, it is true."
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But not only for
the glory of God,
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we say, my friend, for
the greater glory of God,
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because it was the
power of Jesus Christ
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that was being magnified.
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This didn't happen
because we went there.
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It happened
because God went there,
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and God worked miracles.
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But after we had
been preaching there
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for around two weeks,
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the powers of
persecuting religion
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came against us.
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And we were told,
you got to close down,
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you got to get out of here.
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And the government said,
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we're going to
follow this religion.
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And even though you've
got a permit to do this,
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we're going to close you down.
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And because we were not prepared
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to put the risks,
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put at risk the
lives of the people
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who were in the meetings,
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we quietly left.
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But the work went on,
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even better than
if we had stayed.
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Now, we saw
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hundreds and hundreds
of wonderful Hindu people,
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Muslim people baptized in India.
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But after the persecution came,
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and the meetings
were closed down,
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the Indian people
went out on the streets
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of Visakhapatnam.
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And they sat down
and they protested that
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they were not allowed
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to publicly
attend these meetings.
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But God opened doors for us.
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And we opened
an office in India.
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This is Drew,
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and we have a little
staff over there today.
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And we are
preaching the Word of God
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to millions of
people on India TV,
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even in the capital of
New Delhi, in Visakhapatnam,
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right across the
whole Indian nation
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on satellite.
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We've seen the power of God.
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And I want you to
know when people talk about
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defeat in God's
Word, it doesn't exist,
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because the work
of God goes ahead,
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and Jesus Christ is Lord.
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During 1995,
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the Carter Report team
traveled to Kiev, Ukraine,
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and conducted an
evangelistic campaign
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that had a national
and international impact.
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What happened
before you arrived?
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Well, before we got there,
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and we'd already
booked this great auditorium,
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best auditorium in
the whole of Ukraine.
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It seated about 12,000 people.
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So a big auditorium,
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a huge palace of
some famous place.
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But before we got there,
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and we'd already
put out the advertising,
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we're advertising on television,
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advertising on radio,
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and the big guns were sounding.
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We put out
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hundreds of
thousands of color brochures.
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We take this seriously, folks.
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The leader of the
state church said this,
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"John Carter will
only preach in Ukraine
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in this city
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over my dead body."
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What I'm going to tell you,
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I wish, I wish I
wasn't telling this story.
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I wish it never happened.
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But just before we got there,
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the leader of the
state church dropped dead.
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And rioting took place,
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because his priests
tried to have him buried
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inside the state cathedral.
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And the government said,
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"No, he's not worthy
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to be buried in
the state cathedral.
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Bury him outside the
front on the sidewalk."
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And that's where he's buried.
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And when you go to Kiev,
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you can actually
see where he's buried.
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He is out there.
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He's buried
outside the cathedral.
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And so there was fighting.
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They went out and
they fought the militia
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with wooden crosses,
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the militia shot them down.
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And there was
blood in the streets.
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And so we opened the meetings
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at a time of tremendous tension.
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But we opened with
this absolute certainty
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that God was with us.
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And by the grace of God,
the Word of God would prevail,
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and it did.
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How did the death of a
Ukrainian religious leader
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influence your meetings?
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Was your life threatened?
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I've had my life
threatened on many occasions.
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But it was threatened
on one occasion in Kiev,
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when the leader of,
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one of the leaders of
the government in charge
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or religious affairs told me,
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"If you don't
stop these meetings,
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if you don't close
down these meetings,
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for which you have
official permission,
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official permission,
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you've got the documents signed,
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we know this, but
if you don't sign,
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close down these meetings,
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something bad is
going to happen to you.
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And we will not
guarantee your safety."
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I told the leader of
that department of religion
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of the Kiev government,
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"By the grace of God,
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we will not close
down these meetings,
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because we have
permission for these meetings.
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And more important
than your permission,
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we have the
blessing of the Holy Spirit.
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And we have hundreds
of thousands of people
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who were coming
to the meetings."
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If God is for us,
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who can be against us.
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Did your meetings go ahead?
00:14:01.60\00:14:03.81
What were the results?
00:14:03.84\00:14:08.54
Yes, the meetings did go ahead.
00:14:08.58\00:14:11.31
I went down to the auditorium.
00:14:11.35\00:14:13.01
The meetings were due to start,
00:14:13.05\00:14:14.52
we had multiple
sessions as we always do.
00:14:14.55\00:14:17.25
Went down there
about half past one,
00:14:17.29\00:14:19.35
because the first
meeting started at 3 o'clock.
00:14:19.39\00:14:22.26
I couldn't even
get in the street.
00:14:22.29\00:14:26.13
I couldn't get in the street.
00:14:26.16\00:14:27.50
People say, "Oh, John Carter,
00:14:27.53\00:14:28.86
we don't believe these stories."
00:14:28.90\00:14:30.23
But we can show you pictures.
00:14:30.27\00:14:34.07
We're told that in the gospels
00:14:34.10\00:14:36.24
if Jesus could not
do many mighty miracles
00:14:36.27\00:14:39.67
in certain places,
00:14:39.71\00:14:41.14
because of the
unbelief of the people,
00:14:41.18\00:14:45.01
the religious
people had so little faith
00:14:45.05\00:14:47.72
that God cannot work miracles.
00:14:47.75\00:14:50.89
If evangelism is not working
in your church, my friend,
00:14:50.92\00:14:54.12
maybe it's
because of your unbelief.
00:14:54.16\00:14:57.79
But when I got down there
to the great Palace of Sport
00:14:57.83\00:15:00.73
with my team about 1 o'clock.
00:15:00.76\00:15:03.57
We couldn't get near the place
00:15:03.60\00:15:04.93
because there were
100,000 people standing outside
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trying to get in.
00:15:08.64\00:15:10.51
You say, 100,000?
Yes, at least 100,000.
00:15:10.54\00:15:13.61
My great friend Bob
Ludwig got out his camera,
00:15:13.64\00:15:17.08
he took a picture.
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Couldn't see
where the crowd ended.
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The government
declared a state of emergency.
00:15:21.82\00:15:25.15
Closed down the railway stations
00:15:25.19\00:15:27.39
to stop the people coming.
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They came in ever
increasing crowds.
00:15:29.52\00:15:33.19
We saw tens of thousands
of people in the meetings
00:15:33.23\00:15:37.33
and coming to a
knowledge of God.
00:15:37.37\00:15:42.64
Do you ever have trouble paying
00:15:42.67\00:15:44.87
for this inspiring
kind of evangelism?
00:15:44.91\00:15:50.35
Well, I always have
trouble paying for things.
00:15:50.38\00:15:52.68
Trouble is my second name.
00:15:52.71\00:15:55.25
But I believe in
the power of God.
00:15:55.28\00:15:57.32
I have faith in this
great God who believes in us.
00:15:57.35\00:16:01.62
But let me just get back
to the meetings a little bit.
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The meetings went
every night for three weeks,
00:16:04.26\00:16:06.23
multiple sessions.
00:16:06.26\00:16:08.30
Then the government said,
00:16:08.33\00:16:09.83
"You're only
allowed to baptize 100."
00:16:09.86\00:16:11.53
I said, "Thank you very much.
00:16:11.57\00:16:12.90
But we're taking our
orders from a higher power."
00:16:12.93\00:16:15.10
"No, you've got to
take your orders from us.
00:16:15.14\00:16:16.81
We tell you, you're
gonna need to baptize 100."
00:16:16.84\00:16:18.61
I said, "No, no,
00:16:18.64\00:16:19.97
we will baptize the
people whom God has called."
00:16:20.01\00:16:23.24
And we baptized three and about,
00:16:23.28\00:16:25.88
by the power of God,
glory be to God alone.
00:16:25.91\00:16:28.22
We saw baptized
in the Dnieper River
00:16:28.25\00:16:30.75
in the freezing
waters of the Dnieper River.
00:16:30.79\00:16:33.89
We saw 3,550 souls baptized.
00:16:33.92\00:16:39.09
Glory be to God.
00:16:39.13\00:16:40.53
In spite of the
powers of darkness,
00:16:40.56\00:16:42.90
in spite of persecution,
in spite of threats,
00:16:42.93\00:16:46.84
in spite of,
00:16:46.87\00:16:48.50
of everything the
devil was throwing.
00:16:48.54\00:16:52.24
They said, "Do we ever
have trouble paying for these?"
00:16:52.27\00:16:55.41
Now, we don't have
trouble paying for these things.
00:16:55.44\00:16:57.58
Because God moves upon
the hearts of God's people.
00:16:57.61\00:17:00.88
We've got friends
like Danny Shelton,
00:17:00.92\00:17:02.95
and he supports us.
00:17:02.98\00:17:04.32
He says,
00:17:04.35\00:17:05.69
"Support this campaign
00:17:05.72\00:17:07.06
because God is
with these people."
00:17:07.09\00:17:09.26
And 3ABN comes with us.
00:17:09.29\00:17:11.63
And they've got faith
because we believe in Jesus.
00:17:11.66\00:17:15.83
We believe in the gospel.
00:17:15.86\00:17:17.97
We believe in God.
00:17:18.00\00:17:20.14
We believe in the
commandments of God.
00:17:20.17\00:17:23.00
And we believe in evangelism.
00:17:23.04\00:17:26.47
And we believe in you.
00:17:26.51\00:17:29.68
People send money.
00:17:29.71\00:17:32.25
And for standing with
us in the greatest work
00:17:32.28\00:17:34.55
in all the world,
00:17:34.58\00:17:36.58
and being our faith partners,
00:17:36.62\00:17:39.59
I say thank you
00:17:39.62\00:17:41.92
in Jesus' name.
00:17:41.96\00:17:45.93
What about in America?
00:17:45.96\00:17:48.06
Have you been in
dangerous situations
00:17:48.10\00:17:50.03
during your 35 years in the USA?
00:17:50.07\00:17:55.30
Well, I just love the
United States of America.
00:17:55.34\00:17:59.17
Lived there for 35 years.
00:17:59.21\00:18:02.21
I say, God bless America.
00:18:02.24\00:18:04.91
Now I was born
and bred in Australia.
00:18:04.95\00:18:07.78
And I like to tell my friends.
00:18:07.82\00:18:11.42
I've got an Australian passport.
00:18:11.45\00:18:13.05
But I've also got
an American passport.
00:18:13.09\00:18:16.09
I love both countries.
00:18:16.12\00:18:17.46
And both countries
have been so good to me.
00:18:17.49\00:18:21.20
I've been so blessed to
be brought up in Australia,
00:18:21.23\00:18:25.47
in a place that once upon a time
00:18:25.50\00:18:27.17
was a God fearing nation,
00:18:27.20\00:18:29.64
no longer but used to be.
00:18:29.67\00:18:31.64
I was taught up to
believe in God in Australia,
00:18:31.67\00:18:33.91
then I went to America.
00:18:33.94\00:18:37.18
And I've got so many marvelous
00:18:37.21\00:18:39.18
and wonderful American friends.
00:18:39.21\00:18:42.48
Yeah, I've been to a few
dangerous places in America.
00:18:42.52\00:18:45.12
But I've never felt as though
I was in a situation of danger,
00:18:45.15\00:18:50.69
because I felt
the presence of God.
00:18:50.73\00:18:54.60
I know when I was preaching
in the great Shrine Auditorium,
00:18:54.63\00:18:57.43
downtown Los Angeles,
00:18:57.47\00:19:00.20
a very nice little auditorium
that seats 6,600 people.
00:19:00.24\00:19:04.51
Packed four times over
for the opening lecture.
00:19:04.54\00:19:08.11
People tell me it doesn't work.
00:19:08.14\00:19:10.25
Hey, it works in
America, it works in Siberia,
00:19:10.28\00:19:12.05
it works in India,
00:19:12.08\00:19:13.48
it works anywhere
where people are prepared
00:19:13.52\00:19:15.22
to work with the Holy Spirit.
00:19:15.25\00:19:16.79
Don't forget it.
00:19:16.82\00:19:19.22
One night, I received a bullet
00:19:19.25\00:19:22.36
that was sent to me
along with the offering.
00:19:22.39\00:19:26.06
Now, of course, I
didn't have anything to do
00:19:26.09\00:19:27.60
with the offering.
00:19:27.63\00:19:28.96
But the usher said,
"Hey, this is for you."
00:19:29.00\00:19:31.63
Somebody sent me a bullet
00:19:31.67\00:19:33.74
because they thought
I was criticizing them.
00:19:33.77\00:19:35.90
Because I was
talking about the pharaohs
00:19:35.94\00:19:38.11
as some crazy things
happened downtown Los Angeles,
00:19:38.14\00:19:42.21
I can tell you,
00:19:42.24\00:19:44.25
and I can tell
you other stories.
00:19:44.28\00:19:46.58
But God has been good to me.
00:19:46.61\00:19:48.22
America has been good to me.
00:19:48.25\00:19:49.78
Australia has been good to me.
00:19:49.82\00:19:52.42
And I'm so glad,
00:19:52.45\00:19:53.79
I'm just so glad that
I have been called by God
00:19:53.82\00:19:57.23
to preach the Gospel of Christ.
00:19:57.26\00:19:59.96
Who pays the bills?
00:20:04.00\00:20:06.37
Over the years,
00:20:06.40\00:20:07.74
these national campaigns
have cost millions of dollars?
00:20:07.77\00:20:11.27
Are you supported
by big corporations?
00:20:11.31\00:20:15.01
Does the church organization
00:20:15.04\00:20:17.11
finance these outreaches?
00:20:17.15\00:20:18.71
No, we're not supported
by any big corporations.
00:20:22.28\00:20:25.25
We're not supported by
the church organization.
00:20:25.29\00:20:28.99
But we are
supported by God Himself.
00:20:29.02\00:20:32.69
That makes the difference.
00:20:32.73\00:20:34.30
But let me go back a little
bit to the campaign in Kiev.
00:20:34.33\00:20:37.53
What happened there?
00:20:37.57\00:20:39.73
In spite of the
tremendous opposition,
00:20:39.77\00:20:41.80
the people continue to come.
00:20:41.84\00:20:44.87
I've never seen crowd.
00:20:44.91\00:20:46.24
Well, I have, I've
seen tremendous crowds
00:20:46.27\00:20:48.54
right around the world.
00:20:48.58\00:20:50.88
This is a worldwide phenomenon.
00:20:50.91\00:20:53.31
But we saw tremendous crowds.
00:20:53.35\00:20:55.42
We saw tremendous opposition.
00:20:55.45\00:20:59.29
My life was threatened.
00:20:59.32\00:21:01.22
I was told, if you
don't close down the meetings,
00:21:01.26\00:21:04.16
we're going to close you down.
00:21:04.19\00:21:05.53
We had all of
these, these threats.
00:21:05.56\00:21:08.13
But we were not afraid
because we are conscious
00:21:08.16\00:21:11.77
of the presence of holy angels.
00:21:11.80\00:21:13.77
You hear what I'm saying.
00:21:13.80\00:21:16.34
Then after we had run
every night of the week,
00:21:16.37\00:21:18.81
for three weeks,
00:21:18.84\00:21:20.18
multiple sessions every night.
00:21:20.21\00:21:22.08
We had a tremendous
baptism in the frigid waters
00:21:22.11\00:21:25.78
of the Dnieper River.
00:21:25.81\00:21:27.72
And we saw in spite
of active persecution,
00:21:27.75\00:21:31.89
3,550 souls baptized
00:21:31.92\00:21:37.89
into the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:21:37.93\00:21:39.53
What do you say, my friend?
00:21:39.56\00:21:41.06
I say,
00:21:41.10\00:21:42.43
"Glory be to God.
00:21:42.46\00:21:44.63
Glory be to the
Father, and the Son,
00:21:44.67\00:21:47.50
and to the Holy Spirit.
00:21:47.54\00:21:49.40
Amen."
00:21:49.44\00:21:53.84
What would you say
to a young man or woman
00:21:53.88\00:21:56.88
who feels
called to the ministry?
00:21:56.91\00:22:01.92
I would say this,
keep your eyes on Christ.
00:22:01.95\00:22:06.72
And remember, the
work of the ministry
00:22:06.76\00:22:08.56
is not just a job,
00:22:08.59\00:22:09.92
many people I
think, or some people
00:22:09.96\00:22:11.56
join the ministry,
get into the ministry
00:22:11.59\00:22:13.56
because they
think it is a safe job.
00:22:13.60\00:22:17.23
I pity those people.
00:22:17.27\00:22:19.77
The call to the ministry
00:22:19.80\00:22:21.30
is just that it is a
call to work for God.
00:22:21.34\00:22:25.07
It is not a safe job.
00:22:25.11\00:22:26.44
It is not
sitting behind some desk,
00:22:26.47\00:22:29.61
like I'm doing today.
00:22:29.64\00:22:31.11
I don't belong here,
00:22:31.15\00:22:32.51
sitting behind
this desk in my house.
00:22:32.55\00:22:35.48
I have a calling from God.
00:22:35.52\00:22:37.09
And if you've got
a calling from God,
00:22:37.12\00:22:39.29
you need to be
obedient to that calling.
00:22:39.32\00:22:42.22
And remember this,
00:22:42.26\00:22:44.36
that the will of
God will never take you
00:22:44.39\00:22:47.03
where the grace of
God cannot keep you.
00:22:47.06\00:22:49.03
Did you get that?
00:22:49.06\00:22:51.43
The will of God
will never take you
00:22:51.47\00:22:52.90
where the grace of
God cannot keep you.
00:22:52.93\00:22:56.04
And if you are called by God,
00:22:56.07\00:22:57.71
you will have a call to
preach the Gospel of Christ.
00:22:57.74\00:23:03.24
The most important
work in all the world,
00:23:03.28\00:23:06.05
my friend, are
you listening to me?
00:23:06.08\00:23:08.72
The most important
work in all the world,
00:23:08.75\00:23:11.05
according to Holy Scripture
00:23:11.09\00:23:14.39
is the preaching of
the gospel to lost souls.
00:23:14.42\00:23:17.89
Lost souls? Yes.
00:23:17.93\00:23:20.03
I believe people are lost
until they come to Christ,
00:23:20.06\00:23:23.43
and repent.
00:23:23.47\00:23:27.90
And if God puts His
Holy Spirit upon you,
00:23:27.94\00:23:31.11
and if you have
a calling from God,
00:23:31.14\00:23:34.01
you will have a
burden resting upon you
00:23:34.04\00:23:38.05
to go and preach the gospel.
00:23:38.08\00:23:41.02
Make sure that
00:23:41.05\00:23:42.68
this calling is from God.
00:23:42.72\00:23:45.09
People today
are sometimes afraid
00:23:48.42\00:23:50.03
to speak up for their faith.
00:23:50.06\00:23:52.03
Is there a future
for public evangelism?
00:23:52.06\00:23:57.27
I see a fantastic future,
because I believe in the Bible,
00:23:57.30\00:24:02.90
I believe in Jesus.
00:24:02.94\00:24:04.27
Jesus said,
00:24:04.31\00:24:05.64
"This gospel of the kingdom
00:24:05.67\00:24:07.11
shall be preached
in the whole world
00:24:07.14\00:24:09.61
as a witness to all nations,
00:24:09.64\00:24:11.71
and then the end
is going to come."
00:24:11.75\00:24:14.08
Then when I
turned to Revelation 14:6
00:24:14.12\00:24:17.52
and onwards, it says,
00:24:17.55\00:24:18.89
"I saw another angel
flying in the midst of heaven."
00:24:18.92\00:24:23.66
That, my friend,
00:24:23.69\00:24:25.13
describes a worldwide
00:24:25.16\00:24:28.26
public proclamation.
00:24:28.30\00:24:31.23
This is not something
that's going to finish
00:24:31.27\00:24:33.23
in obscurity.
00:24:33.27\00:24:34.77
This is going to
finish in, listen to me,
00:24:34.80\00:24:37.61
in a blaze of glory.
00:24:37.64\00:24:40.51
And I believe we're going to see
00:24:40.54\00:24:42.44
millions and millions
and millions of people
00:24:42.48\00:24:46.05
from India,
00:24:46.08\00:24:47.65
and Africa, and
America, and Asia,
00:24:47.68\00:24:51.39
and Australia, and from
Russia, and from Ukraine,
00:24:51.42\00:24:55.12
all around the world.
00:24:55.16\00:24:56.99
I believe they're
going to come to a knowledge
00:24:57.03\00:24:58.99
of Christ and salvation.
00:24:59.03\00:25:01.66
And I believe that God
is going to raise a people,
00:25:01.70\00:25:05.97
and He's going to put
His Spirit inside them,
00:25:06.00\00:25:08.50
and they're going to
get a fire in their bellies.
00:25:08.54\00:25:14.38
Are you listening to me?
00:25:14.41\00:25:17.11
The greatest days
00:25:17.15\00:25:18.48
for the preaching of
the Gospel of Christ,
00:25:18.51\00:25:20.42
and the greatest
days for public evangelism
00:25:20.45\00:25:25.25
are still to come.
00:25:25.29\00:25:28.42
I believe it.
00:25:28.46\00:25:31.23
Not my opinion,
00:25:31.26\00:25:33.29
it is taught in the Word of God.
00:25:33.33\00:25:37.03
Amen.
00:25:37.07\00:25:41.70
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