The COVID-19 pandemic
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caused the deaths
of over 600,000 people.
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Words cannot
describe the devastation
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that COVID-19 has
caused in the United States,
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South America, Europe,
Russia, and in Great Britain.
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We've lost devoted members
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of the Carter
Report team in India
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and thousands of
precious souls continue to die
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without vaccination.
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Pastor Carter has a message
for all those who are hurting
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by the loss of
their mothers and fathers,
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sons and daughters,
sisters and brothers,
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husbands and
wives, friends, neighbors,
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doctors and nurses.
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We are blessed to know
that death is not the end
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and that roses will bloom again.
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"Pastor,
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I would like your
thoughts on why you think
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the Soviet Union collapsed?"
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That, Wayne, is a
very, very good question.
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That question was
asked by Wayne Hackett.
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One of the great voices
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in the United States of America,
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well-known voice
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and a great friend
of the Carter Reports.
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Well, Wayne, I've
been to the land of Russia
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and Ukraine or
the old Soviet Union,
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no less than 49 times.
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I went there to preach
the resurrection of Christ
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and to tell the people
that roses will bloom again,
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even though things
may look pretty bad,
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one day things are
going to get a lot better.
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And I believe in the
resurrection of Christ,
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but of course that's something
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that the Soviets
never taught the people.
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They took hope out of the souls
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of the Russian people.
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When you take hope
out of a person's soul,
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you're killing that person.
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It has been said,
"The death of hope
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always leads to
the hope for death."
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And the Soviet
communist system had torn
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the hope out of the
hearts of the Russian people.
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And it was a nation
just filled with despair.
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In 1991, I visited Moscow.
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I ran a campaign, an
evangelistic campaign,
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just down the
road from the Kremlin
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in the great Palace of Culture.
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And there we saw
the mighty power of God.
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We saw thousands and
thousands of communists
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and atheists and
Marxists coming to the meetings.
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The university professors
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from the great
Moscow University,
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they came and they said to
me, "What's happening to us?
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What's happened
to the Soviet Union?
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Why there are so many suicides?
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Why is our system collapsing?"
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I said, "Because it is
based upon a dead man."
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They said, "What
are you talking about?"
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Well, I said to
him, I just gave a talk
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outside the tomb of Lenin,
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because I went to
the tomb of Lenin.
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I joined a big queue, a
big line of Russian people.
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And I went and I stood there
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and I looked
down at the waxy form.
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That's the real
person, but he's embalmed.
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And I saw the man
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who'd caused the
world to tremble.
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He was the founder of
communism in the Soviet Union,
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very cold, very
still, and very silent.
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I went outside the tomb
and with my television crew
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I gave a talk on the
resurrection of Christ.
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In those days,
you could do this.
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This was 1991 and
communism was going down,
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but it was still
sort of in Russia,
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but it was, it was
impotent, Gorbachev was there,
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but communism was dying.
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And I answered the
question of those professors.
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And I said, people
have asked me the question,
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"Why is communism
dying? Why is Russia dying?"
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I said, "Here's the answer.
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Communism is dying in Russia
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and the Russian
economy is dying.
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The Soviet system is going into
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the dustbin of history
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because it was
based upon a dead man."
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It was based upon
Lenin and Lenin believe,
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you believe me, my friend,
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he's dead because
I've just seen him.
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But the
Christian Church in Russia
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is very much alive today.
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Do you want don't know why?
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Because it is not
based upon a dead man,
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it is based upon
our living Christ.
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Jesus walked out
of the tomb and said,
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"I am the
resurrection and the life."
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"We've often talked
about the many times
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you went to the
Siberian concentration camps
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and cemeteries.
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Going there must
have changed your life?"
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It changed my life forever.
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I don't think I can really
describe to you how I felt.
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I've been to
Siberia on many occasions.
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Did you know that in Siberia,
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the communists, the
atheists put to death
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10 million innocent people.
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They would send them on
the Tran-Siberian Express.
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I'd been on the
train many, many times.
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They would send them across
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on many occasions to Vladivostok
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and then they'd ship them north
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up to a hell hole of a place.
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They paved the roads
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with the bones of the prisoners.
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What can one say?
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How can one
describe one's feelings
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of the prisoners
who died in Magadan.
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Ever heard of Magadan?
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Oh, God have mercy upon us.
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Magadan, the people went there
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and they were brutalized.
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And the streets of Magadan
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were composed of the
bones of the prisoners.
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Tens of thousands of
them were believers in Christ.
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They were there
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because of
their faith in Christ.
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I've seen things
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that will never
get out of my soul.
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But when I went to Siberia,
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when I went to Russia,
when I went to Ukraine,
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when I went to
these communist countries,
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these places that had had
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their souls
sucked out by atheism,
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who'd been taught despair.
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They'd been
told, you're nothing,
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at the most, you're an animal,
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at the least, you're a machine,
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you're simply the product of
time plus matter, plus chance,
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I went with a message.
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I said, no, no.
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You are a child of God.
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You're made in
the very image of God.
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Christ came to this
earth and He died for you.
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I saw people atheists,
communists by the thousands,
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by the tens of the thousands
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come forward to give
their lives to Christ,
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weeping and crying
as they accepted Christ.
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Now I'm going to read to
you from the Apostle Paul,
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this great Jewish scholar.
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Without the Apostle
Paul, we would have no,
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none of the great
democracies today.
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Without the
writings of the Apostle Paul,
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we would not have
had the Book of Romans.
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And the Book of Romans
gave us the reformation,
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and the reformation gave
us the great democracies,
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and the great democracies
gave us freedom and liberty.
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Now, I'm going to
read to you the words
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of this great man,
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who just changed
the course of history.
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He says in this book,
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1 Corinthians 15:51 and onwards.
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Listen carefully.
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"Behold, I tell you a mystery:
We shall not all sleep."
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That means we're
not all going to die.
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"But we shall all
be changed in a moment,
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in the twinkling of an
eye, at the last trumpet.
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For the trumpet will sound,
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and the dead will be
raised incorruptible,
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and we shall be changed.
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For this corruptible
must put on incorruption,
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and this mortal
must put on immortality.
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So when this corruptible
has put on incorruption
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and this mortal
has put on immortality,
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then shall be brought to
pass the saying that is written:
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'Death is
swallowed up in victory.'
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O Death, where is your sting?
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O Hades, where is your victory?
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The sting of death is sin,
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and the strength
of sin is the law.
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But thanks be to God
who gives us the victory
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through our Lord Jesus Christ.'"
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This tremendous
scholar, the Apostle Paul,
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who changed the
course of history,
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who gave us
democracy and freedom,
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all the things
we take for granted.
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He said, "The
day is going to come.
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And the trumpet
is going to sound."
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Christ is going to return.
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The Almighty
Christ is going to return,
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and He's going to give a shout.
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And the trumpet
is going to sound
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and the dead are going
to come out of their tombs.
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Yes, roses will bloom again.
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And he said, "This corruptible,
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this body which is corruptible,
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this body which is mortal
is going to become immortal.
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Death is going
to be swallowed up
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in victory."
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And God's people
are going to get,
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wait for this.
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God's people are going
to get brand new bodies,
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glorious bodies.
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They will never get old.
They will never get white hair.
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They will never get fatigued.
They will never suffer pain.
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They will never go through
the suffering of depression.
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They won't have
any of those things.
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Those things are
going to be passed away.
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Roses will bloom
again, just wait and see.
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Christ is going to return
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and the dead are
going to be raised.
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This is the word of the Lord.
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"The message of Jesus Christ
transformed the lives of many
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Russians and communists.
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Can you tell us about them?"
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Yes.
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I think of Olga.
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Olga was a young woman
when she lived in Ukraine,
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but not a young woman
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when we met her
in Nizhny Novgorod.
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But when she was
an elderly woman,
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she came to our meetings in
the city of Nizhny Novgorod.
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She came and she found Christ
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and she found
salvation and she found hope.
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And she told me
this amazing story.
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When she was a young
woman, she lived in Ukraine
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and she lived
there during the time
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of the invasion of
Ukraine by the Nazis.
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When they came into her village,
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because her
village resisted them.
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All the people,
all the Ukrainians
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were marched.
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This was in the
middle of winter,
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out into the snow.
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And they were made to build
or dig this tremendous grave,
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dig out this big
hole in the ground.
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And then with hundreds
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and hundreds of
other Ukrainians,
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men and women, boys and
girls, they were made to stand
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around this big
drain, this big ditch,
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this big hole in
the frozen ground.
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And then the Germans
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turned on them
their machine guns,
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and they machine
gunned them to death.
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And the bodies fell
down into the ditch,
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but Olga, just a slip of a girl,
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just a young
girl and a young man
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ran for their lives.
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They ran as fast as they could.
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They ran into the forest
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and amazingly they escaped.
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Olga was able to get on a train.
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And after some weeks
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she found a way
to the city of Gorky,
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as it was called.
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It was called
Gorky by the communists.
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It is now
called Nizhny Novgorod.
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And so she got there
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and she married
the love of her life.
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And they lived
together for several years.
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And then one day
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there was a
knocking on the door.
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In fact, it was at
the middle of the night.
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Her husband went to the door
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and they said, the
KGB said, come with us.
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Olga never saw him again.
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He was taken away
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and he was put to
death by the communists.
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And for the rest of
her life, she lived a life
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of quiet desperation.
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No hope because
she'd been taught
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by the
communists, there is no God.
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She was an atheist
through and through.
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Then she came to our meetings.
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When she came to our meetings,
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she heard what
you've heard today.
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She'd heard the truth
that the Bible is true.
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That Christ is true.
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That Christ died for our sins.
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And that Christ was
raised from the dead.
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And she gave her life to Christ.
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I had the
privilege of baptizing her
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in the frigid
waters of the Volga River.
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As she came up out of the water,
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her face was shining
with the glory of God.
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My friend,
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I want you to
have that joy today.
00:14:25.56\00:14:27.13
I want you to know
today that Christ is alive
00:14:27.16\00:14:30.97
and that the dead
are going to live again.
00:14:31.00\00:14:33.40
I want you to know
that by the grace of God,
00:14:33.44\00:14:35.70
if you believe in
Christ with all of your heart,
00:14:35.74\00:14:39.07
you are going to be
raised from the dead
00:14:39.11\00:14:41.18
and you are going
to live for eternity
00:14:41.21\00:14:42.74
in the kingdom of God.
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I want to read you a text,
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and this is a text that
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I have never grown
tired of reading to people.
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I'm going to come over
here to the Gospel of John.
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And I'm going to turn
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to John 14:1-3.
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Now, just listen, listen to this
00:15:02.80\00:15:04.97
because it's gonna
do you a lot of good.
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John Chapter 14, Jesus said,
00:15:07.57\00:15:10.71
"Let not your
hearts be troubled,
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you believe in
God, believe also in Me.
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In My Father's
house are many mansions,
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if it were not so,
I would have told you.
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I go to prepare a place for you.
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And if I go and
prepare a place for you,
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I will come again and
receive you to Myself,
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that where I am,
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there you may be also."
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Hey, Jesus said,
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"Don't let your
hearts be troubled.
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Believe in God,
believe also in Me.
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In My Father's
house are many mansion,
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there's room for you.
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There's plenty of
room, there's room for you.
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I'm going to
prepare a place for you.
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I know all about you.
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I love you.
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I died for you and
I'm going to come again,
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and I'm going to
take you to myself."
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That's the story
I told to Ludmilla.
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She was married to an
officer of the KGB in Russia.
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She came to the
meetings. She was an atheist.
00:16:09.83\00:16:13.67
She gave her life to Christ.
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Her son came to the meetings.
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He'd been a member of the mafia.
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Can you believe it?
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When I baptized him,
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his face shone
with the glory of God,
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but the mafia came for
him and they killed him.
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I was not there
when this happened.
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She took his funeral,
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hundreds of atheists
came, they found Christ
00:16:36.46\00:16:39.53
and she preached the
truth that you are hearing today
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that Christ is alive.
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That Christ is coming again.
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I want you to
believe this, my friend,
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and as you believe this,
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the peace and
the glory of Christ
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will come into your soul.
00:16:57.68\00:17:00.28
And you will
know in your own heart
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that roses will bloom again.
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Christ is coming.
00:17:08.16\00:17:11.46
There's going to be
a great resurrection.
00:17:11.49\00:17:14.13
And we're going
to get new bodies.
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And we're going to
live forever with Jesus
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in the kingdom of God.
00:17:20.07\00:17:21.77
I say to you today,
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believe in the God
who believes in you.
00:17:24.91\00:17:29.61
"You talk of the
roses blooming again.
00:17:33.35\00:17:36.48
Does nature influence you?
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Somehow giving you hope?"
00:17:38.92\00:17:40.82
Wayne, that's really a
great question, isn't it?
00:17:43.99\00:17:46.86
Wayne Hackard who is
asking the questions today.
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Does nature give us hope?
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When winter comes
just about everything dies,
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at least in Siberia.
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I've been in Siberia
in the very, very midst
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of winter.
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My family had been
with me there in Siberia.
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I've traveled from
Moscow to Vladivostok.
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It took seven days.
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We crossed over at
seven or eight time zones.
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You look out the
window of the train
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and you see the
frozen wasteland of Siberia.
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You see the Great Taiga Forest.
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You see the snow,
often when the train stopped,
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we'd get out and
we'd walk in the snow
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minus 40 degrees.
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At every railway
station we stopped
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and we set up a PA system.
00:18:43.25\00:18:44.69
We set up
floodlights at midnight,
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at two in the
morning, four in the morning.
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And I preached the hope
that is found in Christ.
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We had crowds of
people who met us
00:18:53.33\00:18:55.33
from Moscow to Vladivostok,
met us with bread and salt.
00:18:55.36\00:19:00.54
They welcomed us and they
said, "We're so glad you've come
00:19:00.57\00:19:03.67
because you've brought us hope."
00:19:03.71\00:19:07.18
We came with the
message of a risen Christ.
00:19:07.21\00:19:10.71
We came with the
message that Christ is alive
00:19:10.75\00:19:13.28
and Christ is
going to come again.
00:19:13.31\00:19:15.35
And the dead are
going to be resurrected.
00:19:15.38\00:19:18.59
That is the message.
00:19:18.62\00:19:19.95
You've gotta believe, my friend.
00:19:19.99\00:19:22.66
You've gotta let this
hope get down into your soul.
00:19:22.69\00:19:25.13
You've gotta let
again inside your heart
00:19:25.16\00:19:28.26
and transform you.
00:19:28.30\00:19:29.63
You've gotta believe
that roses will bloom again.
00:19:29.66\00:19:34.90
In Siberia, I've
been there in summer,
00:19:34.94\00:19:36.81
I've been there in springtime,
00:19:36.84\00:19:39.51
and after the
dreadful cold of those long,
00:19:39.54\00:19:42.44
long Siberian winters,
00:19:42.48\00:19:45.91
you see the green leaves coming.
00:19:45.95\00:19:49.15
Wind starts to
blow balmy breezes.
00:19:49.18\00:19:53.05
The grass comes
out fresh, luxuriant.
00:19:53.09\00:19:58.93
Listen, don't forget it.
00:19:58.96\00:20:02.10
After every winter,
without an exception.
00:20:02.13\00:20:06.17
After every
winter, there comes spring.
00:20:06.20\00:20:10.54
And after spring
there comes summer.
00:20:10.57\00:20:14.28
And during summer,
everything is alive.
00:20:14.31\00:20:17.51
The trees are
green, the grass is green.
00:20:17.55\00:20:21.42
The birds are singing.
00:20:21.45\00:20:22.92
After death, there is life.
00:20:26.05\00:20:29.82
Even nature tells us
roses will bloom again,
00:20:29.86\00:20:34.90
just wait and see.
00:20:34.93\00:20:36.46
Put away your
despair, my friend,
00:20:36.50\00:20:39.03
believe in the God
who believes in you.
00:20:39.07\00:20:41.04
"You have personally
lost loved ones and friends,
00:20:44.17\00:20:48.78
not just from this
pandemic, but over time.
00:20:48.81\00:20:53.31
How do you deal with
the passage of time?"
00:20:53.35\00:20:55.85
I think of the
empty tomb of Christ.
00:20:59.92\00:21:05.19
I think of the
words of the angel
00:21:05.23\00:21:07.70
to those people back there
00:21:07.73\00:21:09.96
2000 years ago, He's
not here, He's risen.
00:21:10.00\00:21:14.54
That's going to be said
00:21:14.57\00:21:15.90
of every one of
God's children one day.
00:21:15.94\00:21:17.54
He's not here. He's
not here in this tomb.
00:21:17.57\00:21:21.44
He's risen.
00:21:21.48\00:21:24.08
Hope burns in my heart.
00:21:24.11\00:21:26.72
I want hope to burn
in your heart today,
00:21:26.75\00:21:29.92
my dear friend.
00:21:29.95\00:21:33.15
Sure.
00:21:33.19\00:21:34.92
I'm now going through a
different stage in my life.
00:21:34.96\00:21:39.29
My hair has got
00:21:39.33\00:21:42.20
one or two gray hairs.
00:21:42.23\00:21:45.43
My wife tells me,
you got too many of them.
00:21:45.47\00:21:47.64
You better go and
have your hair cut.
00:21:47.67\00:21:49.47
And I said, okay, okay, okay.
00:21:49.50\00:21:50.84
But you know,
00:21:50.87\00:21:52.21
it's nice out here in Australia
presently it's wintertime
00:21:52.24\00:21:55.24
and it's nice to be
wearing a hat all the time,
00:21:55.28\00:21:57.15
and this is my
hat and keeps me warm.
00:21:57.18\00:21:59.25
But I'm now
starting to know what it is
00:22:02.28\00:22:04.32
to get old.
00:22:04.35\00:22:07.09
But I think of the
words of the angel.
00:22:07.12\00:22:08.89
He's not here. He's risen.
00:22:08.92\00:22:11.36
Christ is alive.
00:22:11.39\00:22:12.83
Hallelujah, Christ is alive.
00:22:12.86\00:22:17.37
Many years ago,
00:22:17.40\00:22:19.10
1917 the communists went around,
00:22:19.13\00:22:22.74
the atheists went around Russia
00:22:22.77\00:22:25.94
and they told the
people Christ is dead.
00:22:25.97\00:22:29.88
The church is dead,
you're now communist.
00:22:29.91\00:22:34.05
And you've gotta
believe there's nothing.
00:22:34.08\00:22:36.69
And one
communist official got up
00:22:36.72\00:22:38.75
before a big crowd
of Russian peasants
00:22:38.79\00:22:41.59
and harangued them
for more than an hour,
00:22:41.62\00:22:43.83
giving them all the
reasons that God didn't exist.
00:22:43.86\00:22:47.96
And after he got through,
00:22:48.00\00:22:51.20
he said to the Russian
pastor who was standing there.
00:22:51.23\00:22:55.54
He said it in
sarcasm, in derision.
00:22:55.57\00:22:59.47
He said, "I'll give you
five minutes to reply to me.
00:22:59.51\00:23:03.61
We believe in freedom here.
00:23:03.65\00:23:05.28
You got five minutes
to rebut what I've said."
00:23:05.31\00:23:08.42
The pastor got up.
00:23:08.45\00:23:09.78
And he said to the
communist official,
00:23:09.82\00:23:12.69
"I don't need five minutes.
00:23:12.72\00:23:15.19
Just give me five seconds."
00:23:15.22\00:23:17.49
And he turned to
the Russian people
00:23:17.53\00:23:19.73
and he gave the historic
Russian Easter greeting.
00:23:19.76\00:23:22.80
He said, "The Lord is risen."
00:23:22.83\00:23:27.04
And the Russians thundered back,
00:23:27.07\00:23:28.77
"He is risen indeed."
00:23:28.80\00:23:32.51
That's what I tell
people. The Lord is risen.
00:23:32.54\00:23:35.31
He is risen indeed.
00:23:35.34\00:23:37.75
That gives us
hope. That gives us joy.
00:23:37.78\00:23:40.38
That gives us
so much joy to know
00:23:40.42\00:23:42.35
roses will bloom
again, my friend.
00:23:42.38\00:23:46.05
Sure,
00:23:46.09\00:23:47.92
I see the leaves of
autumn falling fast around me.
00:23:47.96\00:23:53.63
My mum and my dad, but
I'm gonna see them again
00:23:53.66\00:23:56.56
because I trusted in Christ.
00:23:56.60\00:24:00.10
I'm going to see my old friend
00:24:00.14\00:24:03.14
and my buddy Graeme Bradford.
00:24:03.17\00:24:06.68
Gonna see him
again. He got melanoma.
00:24:06.71\00:24:11.08
Carried on,
fought the good fight
00:24:11.11\00:24:12.68
for four years.
00:24:12.71\00:24:14.05
Then he died. I
took his funeral.
00:24:14.08\00:24:17.19
I'm gonna see Graeme again.
00:24:17.22\00:24:19.32
Tom Ludowici, the
man who led me to Christ
00:24:19.35\00:24:21.82
when I was a boy
of 17 years of age.
00:24:21.86\00:24:24.16
Going to see Tom again.
00:24:24.19\00:24:28.10
I'm gonna see Asso.
00:24:28.13\00:24:31.17
I could just
mention these names.
00:24:31.20\00:24:32.93
Gonna see Alicia.
00:24:32.97\00:24:35.44
So many friends,
so many dear ones.
00:24:35.47\00:24:38.87
So many people
00:24:38.91\00:24:40.24
who still live in my mind today.
00:24:40.28\00:24:44.15
I want you to know
00:24:44.18\00:24:45.51
death is not the end, my friend.
00:24:45.55\00:24:48.28
We believe not in fantasy.
00:24:48.32\00:24:51.02
We believe in the facts.
00:24:51.05\00:24:54.82
Our faith is based
upon not fairy tales.
00:24:54.86\00:24:59.16
Our faith is based
upon historical evidence.
00:24:59.19\00:25:04.90
The witnesses wrote it down
00:25:04.93\00:25:06.60
and we have the
record here today.
00:25:06.63\00:25:08.70
Yes, indeed, roses
00:25:08.74\00:25:11.61
will bloom
again, just as He said.
00:25:11.64\00:25:16.31
Just wait and see.
00:25:16.34\00:25:17.68
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