After almost 60 years
as a pastor and evangelist,
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John Carter has
touched the lives
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of millions with
honesty and integrity.
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He is convinced that the answers
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to all our questions are
found in an ancient book.
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Today, he answers
questions that you,
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his viewers have asked.
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John Carter
invites you to listen,
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weigh the evidence and
draw your own conclusions.
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Welcome to questions
and answers about divorce,
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marriage,
depression, rebellious kids,
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religion, and much more.
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Hello, friend, I'm John Carter.
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Welcome today to the
Carter Report, part two.
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You're gonna hear today
the voice of my great friend,
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Wayne Hackett,
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one of the most
recognized voices
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across the great
United States of America.
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Wayne has been
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a part of the Carter Report team
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for many, many years.
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And today, Wayne,
here is a personal welcome
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to our program today to you
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and your
beautiful wife, Marilyn.
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Welcome today to
the Carter Report,
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ladies and gentlemen.
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Thank you, Pastor Carter.
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I'm happy to present
these questions to you
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from our viewers.
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Sharon in Manila would like
to know more about the gospel.
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What is it all about?
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Well, that's true.
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There's a lot of confusion
about all sorts of things,
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but you know, a book
that helps us to escape
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the pit of
confusion is right here.
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It is called the
Bible, the Holy Scriptures.
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Now the Bible talks a
great deal about the gospel.
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And as you know,
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the word gospel
simply means good news.
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Isn't that good? Good news.
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Now I'm gonna go to
the tremendous book,
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the fantastic book of Romans.
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The great preacher Tyndale,
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the great British reformer
referred to this book as good,
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glad, and merry tidings,
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that makes a man's
heart to sing for joy
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and his feet to dance.
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Wow.
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Romans 1:2 says,
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"The gospel He promised
beforehand through His prophets
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in the Holy
Scriptures regarding His Son,"
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then it says,
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"Jesus Christ our Lord."
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The gospel is about God.
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The gospel is about Christ.
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The gospel is about Jesus.
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That's the good news.
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The good news is not about you.
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The good news is not about me.
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There's no good
news about this world.
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The good news, my
friend, is about God.
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What is the gospel?
What is the good news?
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The gospel is this.
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God the Creator, Yahweh, Elohim,
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the self-existent God
decided out of sheer grace
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and love and mercy
to become a human being
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in the person of Christ.
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He lived among us,
lived a sinless life.
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Then He went to the
cross and paid for my sins
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and then He rose from the dead
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and He's going
to come back again.
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That's the gospel.
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The gospel is not about you,
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the gospel is not about me.
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It concerns us, but
primarily it's not about us
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because there's no
good news about us.
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The gospel is about
Christ, it's about God.
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And the gospel tells me this
that Christ has died for you,
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Christ loves you.
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For God so loved the
world that He gave His only Son,
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so that whoever believes
in Him shall not perish,
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but have everlasting life.
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So if I come to
Christ as a penitent sinner
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and trust in Him, I
pass from death unto life
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and my name is
written down in glory.
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I say, "Hallelujah."
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What do you say, my friend?
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I come as the leper
with all of my filth
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and all of my sin.
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I come just as I am.
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But note this, I
don't stay just as I am.
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The grace of God
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working through the
Holy Spirit changes me.
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So I become a new person.
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That is the heart and the soul
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and the essence
and the simplicity
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of the Gospel of
Jesus Christ our Lord
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Randall from
London is wondering,
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what kind of future do
you see for the church?
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It seems to be
dying out in America,
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Australia, and Europe.
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Well, I'd say to you, my friend,
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don't be
deceived by appearances.
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The true church of
the living God will never,
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never, never die out.
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And let me remind you of this,
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that the church at
the very end of time
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may look a little bit different
to the church right now.
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God has got a
church and Jesus said,
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"The gates of hell will not
prevail against His church."
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I don't care
where the church is,
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whether it's in China,
whether the church is booming
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and growing and going
with the mighty power of God
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or whether the church is in
the United States of America
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or Canada or down in Australia
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or across in Europe
or in Great Britain.
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The gates of hell will not
prevail against the church.
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Now let me read
you a text Roman,
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not Romans, but Revelation 7:9,
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here it is.
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"After this I
looked, and there before me
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was a great multitude
that no one could count,
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from every nation,
tribe, people and language,
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standing before the
throne and in front of the Lamb.
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They were wearing white robes
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and were holding palm
branches in their hands."
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This is a picture of the church,
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the church that is
ready when Jesus returns.
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The Bible says, "It
is a great multitude."
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I am full of optimism
after I read this text.
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I believe that in the last days,
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in spite of the powers of hell,
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in spite of the
perversity of human beings,
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in spite of human
ingenuity, to try to outwit God,
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in spite of the devil himself,
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God is going to have a church
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which is going to
number a great multitude.
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And by the grace of God,
let me tell you something.
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Don't forget this.
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There's room for you
in the kingdom of God,
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because in the last days,
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God is going to
save a great multitude.
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This is the word of the Lord.
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Bill from Cape Town is
unsure about the final judgment.
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How will we be judged?
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Do I believe in
the final judgment?
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Well, the
concept of the judgment
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is about as
unpopular as you can imagine,
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because wicked people
don't want to think that God
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is going to
call them to account.
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Wicked people
don't even want to think
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that there is a judge.
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They don't even
wanna think there's a God.
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Of course, I believe
in the final judgment
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because the Bible
teaches the final judgment.
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I'm gonna read you a
text out of the Bible.
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I'm gonna come
here to the great Book
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of Revelation Chapter 20,
I'm trying to get the text.
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Here it comes,
just be patient with me.
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Here it is.
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Verse 11, 20:11,
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"Then I saw a great
white throne and him
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who was seated on it.
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Earth and sky
fled from his presence,
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and there was no place for them.
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And I saw the
dead, great and small,
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standing before the
throne and books were opened.
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Another book was opened,
which is the book of life.
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The dead were
judged according to
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what they had done as
recorded in the books."
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Verse 13, "The sea gave
up the dead that were in it,
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and death and
Hades or hell gave up
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the dead that were in them,
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and each person was judged
according to what he had done."
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People say, I'm
totally confused now.
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We're going to be
judged by our works.
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Yeah, you better believe it.
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I am saved by
grace, that's the merit,
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saved meritoriously by grace.
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I am saved
instrumentally by faith.
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Faith is the
instrument that reaches out
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and takes hold
of the grace of God.
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There's no merit in my faith.
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There's only merit
in the grace of God,
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but I am saved
evidentially by works.
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There's no merit in human works,
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except that works
show whose side you are on.
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Are you listening to me?
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You and I are going
to be judged according
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to our works because the
work show whether we are genuine
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or whether we are
a bunch of phoneys.
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I'm saved by
the blood of Christ.
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I'm saved by the grace of God.
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I accept this gift by faith,
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but there are a lot of people
who talk a lot of religion,
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my friend, they're just
talking religion all the time,
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but it doesn't mean a thing.
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The judgment will indicate,
the judgment will vindicate
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the very process
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of how God deals with sin.
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God is a righteous
judge. God is a holy judge.
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I was talking to a
friend of mine Felino Salazar
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over there in Los
Angeles sometime back.
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And he said to me,
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"Don't forget the tape
recorder is always running.
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People can run away from God,
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and they can curse
and they can swear,
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and they can fornicate
and they can tell lies."
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And they can carry on as
we see people doing today
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in the world, but he said,
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"The tape recorder is running."
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God has a record.
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And this record will
come up in a future judgment.
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And the record will
show whether I am a child
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of God or whether I
am a child of Satan.
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Yes, I believe in
the justice of God.
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And I believe in the
coming kingdom of God.
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And I believe in the judgment.
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And I believe that
Christ is my Savior.
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Chris from California
thinks the pope is a breath
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of fresh air.
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What are your
thoughts on Pope Francis?
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Do you like the pope?
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Do you think he'll be
saved and go to heaven?
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Do I like Pope Francis?
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Do I think he's
going to be in heaven?
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Well, he seems to
be a nice guy to me.
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He's got a nice smile.
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I like the fact
that he doesn't drive
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around in a huge big limousine.
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Did you know this?
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He drives quite in
this little fiat car.
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I don't know
how he gets into it.
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It's just a tiny little fiat.
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I think one size
bigger than a Bambino.
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Drives this thing
around, around Rome.
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Well, that's really nice.
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The pope, of course,
as most people don't know
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is a Jesuit
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and probably the smartest people
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in the Roman Catholic Church.
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They're very smart people.
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But when people say,
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"Do I think the pope
is going to be in heaven?"
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Well, that's
something you ought to be.
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I think you ought
to be talking to God
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about this one
because God is the judge.
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I can't tell you whether
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the pope's
going to be in heaven.
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I can only tell
by the grace of God
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that I will be in heaven
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if I have come as a
penitent sinner to Christ.
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And if I have
repented of my sins
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and I've allowed the Holy Spirit
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to get inside me and
start to change me that,
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of course, is the
fruitage of salvation.
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There are going to be
lots and lots of wonderful
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Roman Catholic people in heaven.
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The Adventist
Church has got a prophetess
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by the name of Ellen White.
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And she wrote a book
called Great Controversy.
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And she said, the vast
majority of God's true children
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were found in the
Roman Catholic Church.
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I think it gotta be millions
and millions and millions
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of wonderful Roman
Catholic Christians in heaven.
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I'm not gonna try to say
this Catholic, this Catholic.
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No, no, no. I'm not
gonna say this Adventist.
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No, no, no.
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I'm going to leave
it in the hands of God,
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because God after all is
said and done is the judge.
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You and I have never been called
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to play the part of the judge.
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God is the judge.
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Julia from Moscow
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is looking for your
thoughts on the Woke Movement?
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What is truth?
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Well, truth is
different to what my opinion is.
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My opinion, you know,
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it doesn't
really count for much.
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People say,
"Well, I got my opinion
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and you got your opinion,
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and therefore I've got my truth
and you've got your truth."
00:14:16.38\00:14:20.12
No, I don't buy into that stuff.
00:14:20.16\00:14:23.19
I think that's really,
00:14:23.22\00:14:24.93
I'm sorry but I think
that's really nonsense.
00:14:24.96\00:14:29.03
I can have my opinion,
00:14:29.06\00:14:30.40
but my opinion is
often different to truth.
00:14:30.43\00:14:36.04
Truth is truth.
00:14:36.07\00:14:38.37
The earth is a
sphere, that's not my opinion.
00:14:38.41\00:14:43.48
The earth goes around the
sun. That is not my opinion.
00:14:43.51\00:14:48.18
That is the truth.
00:14:48.22\00:14:49.55
The universe is composed
00:14:49.58\00:14:51.05
of billions and
trillions of suns.
00:14:51.09\00:14:55.56
Now we know
trillions of great galaxies.
00:14:55.59\00:14:58.46
Some of them much, much
bigger than the Milky Way
00:14:58.49\00:15:01.13
says that's a
truth, not my opinion.
00:15:01.16\00:15:05.63
Now, when we come
to spiritual matters,
00:15:05.67\00:15:08.47
the truth is found in this book,
00:15:08.50\00:15:11.54
this book which is
called the Holy Scriptures.
00:15:11.57\00:15:15.41
Jesus said,
"Sanctify them by your truth.
00:15:15.44\00:15:19.65
Your word is truth."
00:15:19.68\00:15:21.18
Jesus also said, "It is written,
00:15:21.22\00:15:24.32
man shall not
live by bread alone,
00:15:24.35\00:15:26.79
but by every
word that proceeds out
00:15:26.82\00:15:29.76
of the mouth of God."
00:15:29.79\00:15:31.23
This contains all the truth
00:15:31.26\00:15:33.76
we need to know for salvation.
00:15:33.80\00:15:37.97
Now, about a hundred years ago
00:15:38.00\00:15:39.63
in the African
community in America,
00:15:39.67\00:15:43.44
they started to talk about woke,
00:15:43.47\00:15:46.27
people woke, they woke up,
00:15:46.31\00:15:50.05
they woke up to
social injustice.
00:15:50.08\00:15:52.35
They woke up to
racial injustice.
00:15:52.38\00:15:55.32
And in the last few years,
00:15:55.35\00:15:57.59
this has become quite
a movement in America.
00:15:57.62\00:16:01.42
And I think has
spread around the world.
00:16:01.46\00:16:03.76
Most things start in America,
00:16:03.79\00:16:06.76
and the rest of the
world obediently gets in line.
00:16:06.80\00:16:11.93
Now there are some
good things in woke.
00:16:11.97\00:16:15.20
I woke up to the
fact that I was a sinner,
00:16:15.24\00:16:17.74
I came to Christ.
00:16:17.77\00:16:19.11
You woke up?
00:16:19.14\00:16:20.48
Yeah, I woke up when
the Holy Spirit spoke to me.
00:16:20.51\00:16:23.28
But today it's being stretched
in every imaginable way.
00:16:23.31\00:16:28.08
It's being stretched as
far as racism is concerned
00:16:28.12\00:16:31.69
and gender equality
00:16:31.72\00:16:34.52
and all of
those different things
00:16:34.56\00:16:36.66
that you have
people saying, I'm a man,
00:16:36.69\00:16:39.13
but I woke up and I'm a woman.
00:16:39.16\00:16:41.73
I believe that God
made the male and female
00:16:45.23\00:16:47.54
in the beginning,
00:16:47.57\00:16:48.90
but we're not
gonna get into that now.
00:16:48.94\00:16:51.01
But woke simply is an expression
00:16:51.04\00:16:54.14
that refers to an awakening.
00:16:54.18\00:16:57.71
It can be good
and it can be bad.
00:16:57.75\00:17:02.25
And as it is being
practiced today on the streets
00:17:02.28\00:17:05.32
of the United States of America,
00:17:05.35\00:17:07.42
to me, it often seems to be bad,
00:17:07.46\00:17:12.86
but I believe in the
great spiritual awakening
00:17:12.89\00:17:16.87
when the Spirit of
God comes into my life
00:17:16.90\00:17:20.47
and the Spirit of God shows
tells me that I'm a sinner.
00:17:20.50\00:17:25.61
And I come to Christ
and I repent of my sins,
00:17:25.64\00:17:29.58
and I turn away from my sins.
00:17:29.61\00:17:31.35
And by the grace of God,
00:17:31.38\00:17:32.91
I start to keep
the commandments of God
00:17:32.95\00:17:35.38
and walk in the
way of the truth.
00:17:35.42\00:17:38.35
That's the awakening
I wish for every person,
00:17:38.39\00:17:41.12
including you, my dear friend.
00:17:41.16\00:17:43.16
Cindy from Portland is
assuming that as a white man,
00:17:46.33\00:17:50.30
you may not
support Black Lives Matter.
00:17:50.33\00:17:53.23
Is she right?
00:17:53.27\00:17:56.91
So you're telling me
because I'm an old white man
00:17:56.94\00:18:00.71
with white hair.
00:18:00.74\00:18:02.08
Well, not white hair,
sort of just a tinge of gray.
00:18:02.11\00:18:06.61
Because I'm a white
person I'm a racist?
00:18:06.65\00:18:08.72
No, that's nonsense.
00:18:08.75\00:18:11.15
Racism is not a
matter of the skin.
00:18:11.19\00:18:15.22
Racism is a matter of the heart.
00:18:15.26\00:18:19.39
There are white
people who are racist.
00:18:19.43\00:18:21.63
We know this.
00:18:21.66\00:18:23.50
Yeah, we've had a
problem with white racism.
00:18:23.53\00:18:25.63
But if you go to Africa,
00:18:25.67\00:18:27.37
you'll find this black racism.
00:18:27.40\00:18:30.27
What are you
gonna do with Rwanda,
00:18:30.31\00:18:32.97
where black people
kill more than a million
00:18:33.01\00:18:35.71
other black people?
00:18:35.74\00:18:37.08
Why?
00:18:37.11\00:18:38.45
Because they belong
to a different tribe.
00:18:38.48\00:18:41.02
Now that's something most people
00:18:41.05\00:18:42.38
never hear anything about.
00:18:42.42\00:18:43.99
I say this, racism
doesn't start with the color
00:18:44.02\00:18:48.32
of the skin, it
starts with the condition
00:18:48.36\00:18:50.93
of the depraved human
heart, and we need to realize.
00:18:50.96\00:18:54.46
Do I believe that
black lives matter?
00:18:54.50\00:18:56.10
Of course, I believe it.
00:18:56.13\00:18:58.97
Black lives do matter.
00:18:59.00\00:19:01.10
All lives matter.
00:19:01.14\00:19:03.94
Colored lives matter.
00:19:03.97\00:19:06.01
Asian lives matter.
00:19:06.04\00:19:07.98
English lives matter.
00:19:08.01\00:19:10.05
African lives matter.
00:19:10.08\00:19:11.95
Hey, let's follow the
scriptures in this one.
00:19:11.98\00:19:15.28
I'm gonna come over here to
00:19:15.32\00:19:17.72
Genesis 1:27.
00:19:17.75\00:19:22.89
This is the answer to racism.
00:19:22.92\00:19:26.76
You listening?
00:19:26.80\00:19:29.53
"So God created
man in His own image,
00:19:29.56\00:19:33.07
in the image of
God, He created him,
00:19:33.10\00:19:36.34
male and female
He created them."
00:19:36.37\00:19:40.24
Hey, you still listening?
00:19:40.28\00:19:42.24
I believe that every person
is made in the image of God.
00:19:42.28\00:19:45.91
I believe that the black person
is made in the image of God.
00:19:45.95\00:19:48.62
He is a child of God.
00:19:48.65\00:19:51.62
Christ died for him.
00:19:51.65\00:19:54.06
I believe that Asian people
00:19:54.09\00:19:55.76
who look a
little different to me
00:19:55.79\00:19:57.46
are made in the image of God.
00:19:57.49\00:19:58.83
God is a big God.
00:19:58.86\00:20:01.16
He's got a big family.
00:20:01.20\00:20:03.70
I believe that white
people, and brown people,
00:20:03.73\00:20:06.43
and colored
people, and black people,
00:20:06.47\00:20:09.14
and Chinese people,
00:20:09.17\00:20:10.97
gone, are children of God.
00:20:11.01\00:20:15.64
Let this sink
down into your ears.
00:20:15.68\00:20:17.75
Racism is not so much
the problem with the skin.
00:20:17.78\00:20:22.02
It's the problem with the heart.
00:20:22.05\00:20:24.02
The great Martin Luther King,
00:20:24.05\00:20:25.65
the great
preacher of righteousness
00:20:25.69\00:20:29.56
and racial equality said
00:20:29.59\00:20:32.99
he hoped the day would come
00:20:33.03\00:20:34.70
when people were
going to be judged,
00:20:34.73\00:20:36.67
not by the pigmentation
or the color of their skin,
00:20:36.70\00:20:40.77
but by the content
of their character.
00:20:40.80\00:20:43.00
We've gotten away from that.
00:20:43.04\00:20:44.87
I think Martin Luther
would be ashamed of many people
00:20:44.91\00:20:47.64
today who invoke his name.
00:20:47.68\00:20:49.41
We get away from racism
00:20:52.95\00:20:54.48
when we see in every
person a child of God,
00:20:54.52\00:20:57.52
whether he is black
brown, or I don't care
00:20:57.55\00:21:01.09
what it is
because God made us all.
00:21:01.12\00:21:04.49
He is our heavenly
Father and Jesus died for us.
00:21:04.53\00:21:10.30
I believe all lives matter.
00:21:10.33\00:21:13.03
Tom from Riverside is
feeling depressed and beat up.
00:21:16.64\00:21:21.41
Have you a word
from the Lord for him?
00:21:21.44\00:21:26.41
Well, I guess on occasions,
00:21:26.45\00:21:28.48
we all feel
depressed and beat up.
00:21:28.52\00:21:32.85
This is a tough world.
00:21:32.89\00:21:35.32
It's not getting any better.
00:21:35.36\00:21:38.69
You know, I get
up, I read my Bible
00:21:38.73\00:21:42.10
and I talk to God in prayer.
00:21:42.13\00:21:43.93
And then, maybe
it's not a good idea.
00:21:43.97\00:21:47.44
I catch up on the news.
00:21:47.47\00:21:50.94
And so sometimes I look
a little bit at the news
00:21:50.97\00:21:53.98
to see what's going
on around the world.
00:21:54.01\00:21:56.95
I don't wanna be
so heavenly minded
00:21:56.98\00:21:59.18
that I'm of no earthly use.
00:21:59.21\00:22:02.38
And so I turn on a
little bit of television,
00:22:02.42\00:22:04.72
I may get CNN or
Fox and you know,
00:22:04.75\00:22:07.62
ad nauseum, it goes on.
00:22:07.66\00:22:09.22
If you don't
have God in your life,
00:22:12.69\00:22:14.23
you're going to be depressed.
00:22:14.26\00:22:16.73
You look at the
situation in China,
00:22:16.77\00:22:19.80
the situation in Taiwan,
00:22:19.83\00:22:22.74
the situation in India,
00:22:22.77\00:22:25.81
which is having a meltdown
00:22:25.84\00:22:27.31
because of this awful pandemic.
00:22:27.34\00:22:32.25
We think of the round 600,000
00:22:32.28\00:22:35.58
of our brothers and our
sisters who died in America.
00:22:35.62\00:22:40.79
Goodness.
00:22:40.82\00:22:42.62
We go to church
and we sing the hymn,
00:22:42.66\00:22:44.46
this is my Father's world.
00:22:44.49\00:22:45.96
Hey, often doesn't
seem to be like that.
00:22:45.99\00:22:49.86
But listen to me,
00:22:49.90\00:22:52.03
we are not to judge
according to appearances,
00:22:52.07\00:22:55.64
Jesus said.
00:22:55.67\00:22:57.31
Jesus said, don't judge
according to appearances.
00:22:57.34\00:23:00.34
It's not what it appears to be.
00:23:00.38\00:23:04.51
In spite of appearances,
00:23:04.55\00:23:06.61
there is far
more good in the world
00:23:06.65\00:23:09.32
than there is evil
because it is true,
00:23:09.35\00:23:13.46
this is my Father's world.
00:23:13.49\00:23:16.02
He is still in charge.
00:23:16.06\00:23:17.99
He hasn't walked
off the throne and said,
00:23:18.03\00:23:20.20
hey, devil, take it over.
00:23:20.23\00:23:21.73
No, He's still in charge.
00:23:21.76\00:23:25.57
And He's working all
things according to His will.
00:23:25.60\00:23:29.67
I want to be in the will of God.
00:23:29.70\00:23:31.54
I am so glad
that I'm a Christian
00:23:31.57\00:23:33.54
that I believe in Christ.
00:23:33.58\00:23:35.01
I would suggest to
you, if you're feeling down
00:23:38.48\00:23:40.85
and depressed to realize this,
00:23:40.88\00:23:42.92
you're special.
00:23:42.95\00:23:44.99
There's nobody like you.
00:23:45.02\00:23:47.22
Jesus died for you.
00:23:47.26\00:23:48.92
He would have died for you
00:23:48.96\00:23:50.33
if you'd been the
only one lost soul.
00:23:50.36\00:23:52.13
You say, "I can't believe."
Well, start to believe it.
00:23:52.16\00:23:55.00
You're made in the image of God.
00:23:55.03\00:23:56.67
Christ died for you.
00:23:56.70\00:23:59.17
He has a plan and
a purpose for you.
00:23:59.20\00:24:01.90
Go get your Bible.
Read Romans 8:28-39.
00:24:01.94\00:24:05.27
Let me say it
again. Read Romans 8:28-39.
00:24:05.31\00:24:10.38
I'd read it to
you now if I had time,
00:24:10.41\00:24:12.41
but you can read it.
00:24:12.45\00:24:14.85
Just go get your Bible.
00:24:14.88\00:24:17.85
Go get this power
of God inside of you.
00:24:17.89\00:24:20.09
Romans 8:28-39.
00:24:20.12\00:24:21.89
All things are
working together for my good,
00:24:21.92\00:24:25.79
nothing can separate me
from the love of Christ.
00:24:25.83\00:24:30.03
There's something else.
00:24:30.07\00:24:32.33
Jesus is coming to clean up
00:24:32.37\00:24:35.84
the mess.
00:24:35.87\00:24:39.24
Hey, yes, Jesus
is coming to clean up
00:24:39.27\00:24:44.25
the mess.
00:24:44.28\00:24:45.61
He said,
00:24:45.65\00:24:47.42
don't let your
hearts be troubled.
00:24:47.45\00:24:49.08
You believe in
God, believe also in Me.
00:24:49.12\00:24:51.45
In My Father's
house are many mansions,
00:24:51.49\00:24:53.46
if it were not so,
I would have told you,
00:24:53.49\00:24:55.62
I go to prepare a place for you.
00:24:55.66\00:24:57.46
And if I go and
prepare a place for you,"
00:24:57.49\00:24:59.39
here it is, "I will come again
00:24:59.43\00:25:03.97
and receive you unto
Myself that where I am,
00:25:04.00\00:25:07.44
there you may be also."
00:25:07.47\00:25:09.60
The King is coming.
00:25:09.64\00:25:12.11
So, my friend,
00:25:12.14\00:25:14.28
it is not the
outlook that counts.
00:25:14.31\00:25:18.25
It is the uplook
00:25:18.28\00:25:21.55
and the uplook is bright
00:25:21.58\00:25:24.29
with the promises of God.
00:25:24.32\00:25:27.79
Today, we send you love
00:25:27.82\00:25:30.13
and greetings and
the blessings of God
00:25:30.16\00:25:33.60
from the Carter Report.
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