Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR100002
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00:01 Welcome to the Carter Report at the Sir John Guise Stadium
00:03 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 00:06 More than 100,000 souls are in attendance 00:09 and John Carter is preaching the word of God. 00:11 The Great congregation sits motionless. 00:14 They are spellbound, not by the oratory of the speaker 00:17 but by the spirit of God as He bares witness to His word. 00:21 An atmosphere of divine solemnity 00:24 mingled with a holy joy pervades the stadium 00:27 and spills out to the thousands gathered outside. 00:31 Night by night, in weather fair and foul, 00:34 the old warrior preaches on. 00:36 Tens of thousands come to Christ. 00:39 Thousands are baptized in the sea at Ela beach 00:42 and still more press forward to publicly confess Christ. 00:46 Now this is your opportunity 00:49 to be a part of what many have called a new Pentecost. 00:52 Welcome to the Carter Report at the Sir John Guise Stadium 00:56 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 01:02 Are you folks ready for a great meeting tonight? 01:05 I better hear it from you. 01:08 Are you ready for a divine encounter? 01:12 Are you ready for this? 01:16 I'm glad to hear you are talking back to me tonight, 01:18 because you are just a great audience. 01:21 Tonight's topic is "Visitors from other Worlds." 01:27 And the amazing wonders of our inhabited universe. 01:35 Now listen very, very carefully. 01:39 If you want to be a happy person, 01:42 you've got to have the answers 01:44 to a number of very important questions. 01:49 And here there are, if you don't understand this, 01:52 you never going to be a happy person. 01:56 It doesn't matter so much where you were born? 02:00 What country you come from? 02:02 But it all depends upon your knowing 02:06 the answers to these questions. 02:08 Number one, who am I? 02:11 The Russians for 70 years were taught by the atheist, 02:15 that they were nothing more than a bit of junk. 02:21 At the best an animal, at the worst a machine. 02:26 Are you an animal, are you a machine 02:29 or are you a child of God? 02:33 That's what we are going to talk about tonight. 02:35 Where did I come from is a great question. 02:38 Am I the product, listen to this, this is not too deep. 02:43 Am I the product of time, 02:46 plus matter, plus chance? 02:52 Am I a cosmic accident or was I created 02:59 by an Almighty God who loves me? 03:02 Many people will tell you 03:04 that there is no purpose to your life. 03:10 Where did i come from? Why I'm here? 03:14 And where am I going? Do you know where you are going? 03:22 Do you know for a certainty 03:27 that you are living according to a divine plan 03:31 and that you are somebody important and special 03:36 even if you don't have much money? 03:39 Because one day you're going to be richer 03:43 than all the pharaohs of Egypt, did you hear this? 03:47 You are going to be richer than all the pharaohs of Egypt. 03:55 Tonight we are gonna take you to the stars. 04:00 You are gonna just love this tonight 04:03 as we lift you up, take you to the stars. 04:06 Every one of those little specks on the screen is a galaxy 04:11 composed of billions and billions 04:15 and billions of blazing suns. 04:18 Listen to me, when I was a small boy 04:22 growing up in Brisbane, Queensland. 04:26 And I married a Queenslander 04:29 and her father fought right here 04:34 in this part of the world of the Kokoda Trail. 04:39 He fought side by side 04:43 with your fathers and your grandfathers. 04:46 So I want you to know, that you and I 04:49 have got something in common together tonight. 04:53 I want you to know that. 04:57 I'm not just a foreigner, who has come in here, 04:59 but I'm your friend and I'm your brother, 05:02 I want you to know that. 05:05 Now listen to me, when I was little boy 05:07 growing up in Brisbane, which is a beautiful city. 05:10 I asked my mother the question, 05:13 because I was always interested in astronomy, 05:15 I asked her the question. 05:17 Where does the universe start? Where does the universe end? 05:21 It's a good question, because I had the idea 05:24 that somewhere out there in space there was a brick wall 05:29 and on the other side of the brick wall 05:32 it was the end of the universe. 05:35 I've asked the question, time after time since that day. 05:40 How vast is the universe? How big are the stars? 05:44 How many stars? How big are the galaxies? 05:47 How many galaxies are there? 05:50 How important is this little "Cosmic Speck of Dust" 05:55 that we call planet Earth? 05:58 You folks listening to me tonight? 06:01 This is pretty important, who is God? Where is God? 06:07 Within all of us there is the consciousness of God. 06:10 I don't care whether you are a white person in America, 06:14 a black person in America. 06:15 I don't care about the color of your skin, 06:18 because God doesn't. 06:21 I want you to know something God hates racism, 06:26 and God hates-- God hates, no He loves people, 06:29 but He hates the sin of racism, where people hate each other 06:35 because of how they look. 06:39 What is this God like? 06:43 I want you to know, He is a good God 06:46 and within every one of us 06:48 there is the consciousness of God. 06:50 We are born with it, you can't get away from it. 06:55 The great Roman Catholic theologian, St Augustine said, 06:58 "Our souls were made for God 07:01 and they cannot rest until they rest in Him." 07:04 There may be a man or a woman sitting there tonight 07:07 and you're not happy, you know what, 07:11 you think money is going to make you happy. 07:14 That's a foolish notion. 07:16 Maybe some of you are sitting here tonight 07:18 and inside you there is a vacuum and an emptiness, 07:24 only God can fill that my friend. 07:27 And not some little god out in the jungle, 07:30 not some little idol, but the great God 07:34 who made the universe. 07:40 Did you know we live in an expanding universe? 07:47 There's a great picture that was taken many years ago 07:50 of the great Professor Einstein 07:53 talking to the great Professor Hubble 07:55 after whom the telescope is named, the Hubble telescope. 08:02 The great professor is showing pictures 08:08 from the stars that showed that the universe is expanding. 08:15 It's expanding in some places almost at the speed of light 08:23 which is 186,000 miles a second. 08:29 And all of the galaxies 08:32 are moving away from each other. 08:39 We live in an expanding universe. 08:43 Many, many years scientists believed that the universe 08:48 had never had a beginning. 08:50 They believed in the Steady State theory of the universe. 08:55 So they did not believe in an origin of the universe, 08:59 such as the Bible teaches. 09:01 But this book I've got in my hands tonight, 09:04 which is the Holy Bible tells me in Genesis 1:1, 09:10 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." 09:16 God created the heavens and the earth. 09:22 When it said the heavens, it meant the universe. 09:25 "In the beginning God created heavens and the earth." 09:29 The Bible spoke about a beginning of the universe. 09:34 Scientists and even Einstein until he was an old man believed 09:39 that the universe had always been there. 09:44 But Professor Hubble brought the pictures 09:47 that showed to Professor Einstein 09:50 that the universe had a beginning. 09:53 And one of America's greatest scientists Dr. Jastrow of NASA 10:00 wrote an article recently, he said, 10:02 all of this caught us by surprise, he said, 10:06 "we had not expected to find an abrupt beginning 10:10 to the universe we had always thought it was there." 10:14 He said, "Now we know, 10:18 it is true that the Bible is correct, when it says, 10:23 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.'" 10:31 I want you to know this. 10:33 Now scientists have got a name for it. 10:36 Look at these pictures from NASA. 10:39 Look at these island universes, look at these galaxies. 10:45 Those galaxies are composed a billions of blazing suns. 10:50 Not millions, but billions of blazing suns. 10:55 And the Bible says, 10:57 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." 11:01 The Bible was right. 11:05 'Cause the Bible taught that there was a beginning 11:09 and scientists now know that there was a beginning 11:12 and they call it, don't be afraid of the term, 11:15 they call it, The "Big Bang." 11:19 Listen how big is the universe? 11:22 Well, we are going to have a just a little game here tonight. 11:26 And I'm going to go over here to the blackboard 11:29 and I'm going to put up a little drawing of the Milky Way system. 11:35 At the beginning of the Milky Way 11:39 there is a black hole. 11:43 It exerts a tremendous gravitational pull 11:48 and everything in the Milky Way system 11:52 is revolving around the black hole. 11:58 And 30,000 light years from the center of our galaxy 12:05 is a tiny little planet and it is called planet Earth. 12:11 It is in the only place in the galaxy 12:17 where life can survive. 12:20 If our planet was up here 12:24 towards the center of the universe, 12:26 if it was down here 12:28 we could not live, we could not survive 12:32 and in this great Milky Way system. 12:36 Now you wait for it friend, in the Milky Way system 12:40 of which we are a tiny little part 12:42 there are 200,000 million blazing suns, 12:50 and some astronomers are saying, 12:54 that is a conservative figure 12:56 may be there are 400 billion suns in the Milky Way system. 13:04 And if you go across the Milky Way system, 13:08 traveling at the speed of light. 13:10 And this is our backyard, if you go across 13:13 the Milky Way system it takes you 13:15 traveling at 186,000 miles a second 13:18 it takes you a 120,000 years. 13:24 This is our Milky Way system. 13:28 Now listen, I want to tell you folks something, 13:32 because this is sort of astounding. 13:36 How many stars could be in the universe? 13:42 How many stars up there in space? 13:47 We now know this, now wait for this. 13:54 We now know this, this is conservative. 13:58 The Milky Way alone has 200 billion stars. 14:03 But there are 200 billion galaxies like the Milky Way. 14:13 I want you to think about this. 14:16 How many stars in universe? 14:19 Well let's have a little bit of fun 14:21 here tonight in Port Moresby. 14:22 And let's do a little bit of mathematics. 14:26 Look at this how many stars? 14:28 Let's say the average number of stars 14:30 for galaxy same as in our system, 200 billion. 14:35 And we know there are 200 billion galaxies 14:39 the total number of stars in the universe is 40... 14:46 It is that? 14:50 It's an incredible figure. 14:53 This would give us 14:54 the total number of blazing suns in the universe. 15:01 And the Bible says, "In the beginning 15:04 God created the heavens and the earth." 15:07 The total number of stars it is 40 with 21 zeros 15:14 that means 40,000 quadrillion stars. 15:20 And they are expanding, everything is expanding. 15:24 I've got so much amazing stuff I can tell you. 15:28 Listen, you don't have to remember all of this stuff, 15:34 but this is absolutely true. 15:38 What we see out there tonight, 15:40 I want you go and see on the screens, 15:43 is less than 1% 15:48 of the universe 15:49 because 99% of the universe 15:52 is made up of listen, 15:56 dark matter. 15:59 God said in the book of Job, 16:02 do you know where darkness dwells? 16:08 The vast majority of the universe 16:12 is made up of stuff that we cannot photograph. 16:17 We notice there because it has a gravitational pull. 16:23 We notice there we can feel the effect of it. 16:26 Now listen to this. 16:28 Not only is there dark matter, 16:32 but there's dark energy and we don't know what it is, 16:37 but the dark energy is driving the expansion of the universe. 16:44 And it is so finely tuned, it is inconceivable 16:51 to the human mind that this could have happened by itself. 16:58 Now you've all heard of Napoleon the Great. 17:03 One day, one night he was out on the Mediterranean Sea 17:07 on one of his warships and his officers were standing around 17:12 and they were talking about the question, 17:16 "Is there a God?" 17:17 They had been in the French Revolution 17:19 and they got rid of God they thought, 17:21 "How do you get rid of God?" 17:23 You can't vote God out, 17:24 you don't have an election get rid of God. 17:28 And after a while of heated debate, 17:30 they turned to Napoleon and they said, 17:33 they said, what you think Sir, Sire? 17:38 Is there a God and Napoleon throw open his cloak 17:43 and he shrugged his arm up to the skies and he said, 17:46 gentlemen, "If there is no God, 17:49 then pray tell me who made the stars?" 17:53 That's the question I want to ask tonight 17:55 to the skeptics, to the atheists. 17:58 I want you to be intellectually honest 18:00 with yourself and with God, if there is no Creator God, 18:05 then pray tell me who made the stars? 18:11 When you look at the stars there was overwhelming evidence 18:17 that there is a great and a wonderful 18:22 and a marvelous Creator. 18:25 I'm going to take my Bible 18:27 and I'm going to turn to the Book of Isaiah 40. 18:30 And I'm going to read some texts there 18:33 and I'm going to put these texts up on the screen. 18:36 The men are going to put them there now. Isaiah 40. 18:42 The Bible says, "Surely the nations 18:45 are like a drop in a bucket; 18:47 they are regarded as dust on the scales." 18:51 We're just like dust. 18:54 "He weighs the islands as though 18:56 they were fine dust," the Bible says. 18:59 He is so big and keep on going, I want to read this text. 19:03 "He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth." 19:07 The Bible thousands of years ago, 19:09 when people talked the earth was flat, 19:12 it spoke about the circle of the earth. 19:15 "And it' people are like grasshoppers. 19:20 He stretches out the heavens like a canopy." 19:24 That's the expansion of the universe. 19:26 "And spreads them out like a tent to live in." 19:32 "'To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?' 19:35 says the Holy one." Listen to these words. 19:39 "Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: 19:42 who created all these? 19:44 He who brings out the starry host one by one, 19:48 and calls them each by name. 19:50 Because of his great power and mighty strength, 19:54 not one of them is missing." He is almighty. 19:59 "Do you not know? Have you not heard? 20:01 The Lord is the everlasting God, 20:06 the Creator of the ends of the earth. 20:08 He will not grow tired or weary, 20:10 and his understanding no one can fathom. 20:15 He gives strength to the weary 20:17 and increases the power of the weak." 20:23 Then it says, even young people 20:27 will grow tired and get weary. 20:31 But those who trust in a Lord will renew their strength. 20:38 The Bible says they will soar on wings like eagles 20:43 they will run and not grow weary. 20:47 They will walk and not faint. 20:49 I want you to know this, now listen carefully. 20:52 You may say tonight, you don't understand my situation, 20:58 maybe I don't, but God does. 21:00 You may say, I've got a huge problem, 21:02 I've got a huge health problem, 21:04 I've got a huge financial problem, 21:06 I've got a huge social problem. 21:08 I want you to know this tonight, 21:10 that the God who made the universe 21:13 is bigger than your problems. 21:18 I want you to know this tonight 21:19 and I want to hear from you tonight. 21:22 I want to hear from you tonight. I want you to know tonight. 21:26 If you and I can learn to trust the Creator of the universe, 21:33 He has the solution for every human problem. 21:38 He has the solution to my problem 21:42 and He's got the solution for your problem tonight. 21:46 And the purpose of this meeting is to get us 21:49 to reach out and touch the great Creator of the universe. 21:54 Listen to me, listen to this. 21:58 Now this is going to get a bit heavy, 22:00 but I want to tell you something. 22:02 When I was a boy going to college in Australia, 22:06 I was so poor in those days. 22:11 I didn't know how I was going to pay my school fees. 22:15 I'm sure we've got students here tonight. 22:17 And some of you are poor, but no poor than I was. 22:23 I was a poor student. 22:25 I didn't know how to pay my school fees. 22:30 And one night I went out and I looked up at the stars. 22:34 I was discouraged, I was depressed, I was beaten up, 22:38 and I went out and I looked up at the stars. 22:42 And as I opened my heart up to the God who made the stars, 22:47 there came a tremendous peace in my heart. 22:51 And I knew that God was alive and the God 22:54 who made the stars would take care of me. 22:59 I want you to know tonight, 23:00 if you can learn in this meeting, 23:02 if you can learn to trust the God who made the stars. 23:07 You are going to have a tremendous peace 23:10 and you're going to have 23:12 a tremendous power and a tremendous joy. 23:15 Now what I'm going to tell you, 23:18 this you got to really think hard. 23:21 This is not just for university students, 23:24 it is not just for professors, 23:27 it's for every person here tonight. 23:29 But you got to concentrate. 23:32 Do you know what a dime is? 23:35 A dime, dime is like 5 cents. 23:41 You know, what 5 cents, about this big. 23:45 How big is a 5 cent piece? 23:49 Well, it's tiny. How heavy is it? 23:52 It's very, very light. 23:56 Think of Papua New Guinea in the mountains, is it heavy? 24:01 Tremendously heavy. 24:04 How heavy is Australia? 24:06 Very heavy. 24:07 How heavy is the world? 24:09 Tremendously heavy. 24:11 How heavy is a universe? 24:15 Incomprehensible. 24:18 If the universe were heavier, listen, if the universe 24:24 were heavier or lighter 24:27 by the weight of a dime, 24:33 we would not be here tonight. 24:36 Earth would not be here tonight. 24:40 The world would not be here tonight. 24:45 It's overwhelming. 24:49 Think of a dime and people will tell me 24:53 all of this just happened by chance, 24:56 I want to tell you none of this happened by chance. 24:59 There is a great designer. 25:07 As we look up into the stars we see so many amazing miracles 25:14 that we are forced to say, they must be a God. 25:19 And here is the second one, this is pretty heavy, 25:21 so you better just tune in there and put your thinking cap on. 25:26 We call this one the old radio dial. 25:31 I was brought up in the days 25:33 we didn't have television, thank God. 25:35 But we had radios and we would tune in the radio station. 25:41 Does anybody know what I'm talking about? 25:45 I want you to think that God is got a gravity meter. 25:51 That gravity keeps us here on the planet. 25:55 And stops our earth from going away from the sun. 26:01 I went you to the think of gravity meter 26:04 that's not a 1,000 miles across but it is a billion, 26:09 billion miles across and it's got a dime. 26:14 And it's calibrated in centimeters, this much. 26:19 How many centimeters have you got? 26:21 You got trillions, trillions and trillions 26:24 and trillions and trillions and trillions of centimeters. 26:28 Now listen to this. Listen, can you believe this? 26:32 Now this is astronomy, this is science, this is a fact. 26:38 Gravity is so fine tuned. 26:43 That if you were to turn the dial, 26:45 one centimeter to the left or to the right. 26:48 If gravity was off by one trillionth of a trillionth 26:54 of trillionth of a quadrillionth of a quadrillionth. 26:58 We would not be here tonight, the universe would blow off. 27:06 Now these new discoveries from NASA and other scientists 27:11 around the world have convinced 27:13 some of the world's greatest atheists and agnostics to say, 27:18 I'm going to come in out of the cold, 27:22 this could not have happened by itself. 27:25 I am forced to believe 27:29 that there is a great Creator God. 27:35 It is overwhelming, it is incredible. 27:39 Now I'm going to give you another one. 27:41 Now I'm not apologizing because I'm giving you solid stuff. 27:44 If you come to these meetings you are going to get the truth. 27:47 Jesus said, you will know the truth 27:49 and the truth will make you free. 27:51 You are not going to get stuff which is trivial. 27:53 You are not just gonna get a bunch of funny stories. 27:56 You are not gonna get a lot of raw emotionalism. 27:59 You are going to get the truth. 28:01 And the truth is going to bless you 28:03 and the truth is going to set you free. 28:06 This one, we call the mass density of the universe. 28:10 That's the total density of the universe. 28:13 If the mass density of the observable universe 28:17 was increased or decreased. I don't understand this. 28:23 But if it were increased or decreased 28:25 by one quadrillionth of one quadrillionth 28:31 of one quadrillionth of one quadrillionth, 28:36 life on the planet would be impossible. 28:42 There is one chance 28:44 in one with 59 zeros. 28:52 Now we are gonna put that up on the screen. 28:56 The chance of this happening by itself, 29:00 look at it, and you're going to come to me 29:03 after the lecture and say, but no there is no God. 29:07 It all just happened by itself. 29:09 I want to say it 29:11 to the university students here tonight. 29:12 I've got a reason for you to believe in the God, 29:15 who believes in you. I want you to know this. 29:19 And I'm going to tell the people of PNG something else tonight. 29:25 I've lectured to millions of people in Russia. 29:28 I saw what atheism did. 29:30 I saw how it destroyed their souls. 29:33 When the atheists were ruling Russia, 29:35 they put to death 50 million people, 29:40 50 million people. 29:44 I believe in God, not because 29:47 I've got to got emotional feeling in my stomach. 29:51 I believe in God, because of the amazing evidence 29:55 that God is giving us today through the telescopes. 30:00 Paul the Evangelist says in the Bible 30:03 that "God will finish His work 30:05 and cut it short in righteousness." 30:07 The Prophet Joel says, 30:08 "God will pour out His spirit in the last days, 30:11 and signs and wonders will follow." 30:13 The Carter Report believes 30:14 that we are now in the end times 30:17 and His spirit is moving mightily. 30:20 During the Port Moresby campaign 30:22 we testified that we saw the power of God revealed. 30:26 God-hungry souls 30:28 could not get enough of the word of the Lord, 30:31 as at creation the spirit of God 30:34 moved upon the face of the waters 30:36 and God brought cosmos out of chaos. 30:40 Souls were recreated in the image of the Creator. 30:44 Instead of hate there was love. 30:46 Instead of despair there was hope. 30:48 Instead of sorrow there was joy. 30:50 And in the place of death, God gave life. 30:54 One night, as John Carter preached on the person 30:56 and work of the Holy Spirit, 30:58 the image of a white bird was flashed on the screens. 31:02 That moment a great white bird flew low 31:05 over the astonished congregation. 31:07 Cries of joy filled the air as the audience recognized 31:10 that God had visited His people. 31:13 A mighty surge of Pentecostal power 31:15 swept the audience of 120,000 souls 31:19 and everyone present felt the warm 31:21 comforting presence of God. 31:24 The Carter Report team invites you my dear viewer, 31:27 to be a partner in this work. 31:29 Soldiers of the Cross are wanted. 31:32 Faith partners are needed. 31:34 Write to us now here at the Carter Report, 31:37 PO Box 1900, Thousand Oaks, CA 91358 31:43 or in Australia, at PO Box 861, 31:47 Terrigal, NSW 2260. 31:50 You may also contact us online at cartereport.org 31:54 or email us at info@cartereport.org. 32:02 Listen to this. 32:03 I want you to think of all the sand 32:07 on all the beaches in beautiful PNG, okay. 32:13 Then I want you to think of all the sand 32:15 on the Gold Coast in Australia. 32:18 Then I want you to think of all the sand in every beach, 32:24 all around the world. 32:26 Then I want you to think of all the sand 32:29 on all the different planets. 32:33 Billions and billions of planets. 32:35 I want you to think of that. 32:38 And I want you to think that one little piece of sand 32:43 is different to all the other billions and billions 32:46 and billions and trillions of other specks of sand. 32:50 And one of those little bits of sand, 32:53 it's got a mark on it. 32:55 And I come to you, and I say, 32:57 I'm gonna blindfold you. 33:00 Now I want you to go out and on the first attempt. 33:04 I want you to travel all through the universe, 33:08 billions and trillions of miles and I want you to find 33:12 that little piece of sand with the black spot on it. 33:17 You say it's utterly impossible. 33:21 The chance of that happening my friend is inconceivable. 33:26 That is that same chance 33:28 astronomers tell us of the universe creating itself. 33:36 The universe is proof 33:41 that there is an Almighty God, who made you. 33:45 I want you to think of a Boeing 747, 33:50 one of the biggest planes in the world. 33:54 I love the old Boeing 747. 33:56 I've flown so many miles in those things. 34:00 I want you to think there is a great factory. 34:05 And in that factory you've got all the parts 34:08 that make up a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, 34:13 I want you to think about this. 34:15 There are literally hundreds of thousands 34:18 may be millions of different parts. 34:22 And all of the sudden there comes a tremendous tornado, 34:27 and it picks up all the parts out of that storehouse 34:31 and it throws them all up into the air 34:35 and they fly around for a few years. 34:39 And then they come down to planet earth, 34:42 all those different parts 34:44 and they assemble themselves into a brand new 747. 34:52 You say, that's absurd, 34:55 it's just as absurd to believe that the universe made itself. 35:02 It is absolutely impossible. 35:06 I want you to notice some text in the Bible. 35:08 I'm going to come Psalm 33:6 and 9. 35:14 Now these are taken 35:16 out of the old Bible that we love. 35:19 This is a Bible believing country. 35:22 Listen, "By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, 35:28 their starry host by the breath of this mouth. 35:33 For he spoke, and it came to be 35:36 he commanded, and it stood firm." 35:41 We now know when the universe came into existent. 35:46 Listen carefully, we know it is a fact, 35:50 it is a certainty, it has been measured. 35:54 The universe came into existence 35:57 billion years ago. 36:05 There was nothing there, 36:08 scientists tell us, there was noting there. 36:11 And all of a sudden, 36:13 out of that infinite speck of cosmic power 36:19 there came a tremendous universe 36:23 of billions and billions of galaxies. 36:30 The Bible says, the Almighty God spoke 36:34 and it was done He commanded and it stood fast. 36:38 This Almighty God is a powerful God, 36:43 He's powerful enough for you. 36:45 Now we are gonna have another text, 36:46 here it is Hebrews 1:1-3. 36:49 "In the past God spoke to our forefathers 36:52 through the prophets at many times 36:54 and in various ways, but in these last days 36:57 he has spoken to us by his Son, 37:00 whom he appointed heir of all things, 37:02 and through whom he made the universe." 37:08 The Bible tells me 37:09 that this vast universe of incomprehensible glory 37:15 and power was made by God through His son Jesus Christ. 37:22 That's what the Bible says. 37:24 I want to say to you tonight my friend, 37:26 it is time for us to turn way from the problems of this world. 37:30 It is time for us to turn away from our depression. 37:33 It is time for us tonight to forget our sorrows. 37:36 It is time for us to look up into the face of God 37:41 and to believe in God. 37:44 And to have His power and have His peace. 37:49 I want to tell you folks something. 37:53 I say this because I love you. 37:56 Listen, listen carefully. 38:01 The happiest people on the face of this earth 38:04 are the people who worship the Creator 38:07 who made the universe. 38:09 The happiest people are not the cynics 38:11 and the atheists and the unbelievers. 38:14 The happiest people are the people 38:17 who believed in Christ and who believed in the Bible. 38:22 And I want you to know tonight if you will take a step of faith 38:26 and step out of darkness and believe in the creator God. 38:33 You are going to be mightily blessed. 38:38 You hear what I am saying... and let's go back. 38:42 How many stars are in the universe? 38:45 Well, there are 200 billion stars in our galaxy. 38:50 Let's take that as an average. 38:53 There are 200 billion known galaxies, 38:57 so the total stars in the universe 39:00 would be this figure. 39:02 And I'm going to go over here to the blackboard 39:05 and I'm going to have a little bit of fun. 39:09 I'm going to put up a calculated guess 39:13 of the number of the stars in the whole of the universe, 39:18 not just in our galaxy, thank you very much. 39:23 Now I'm going to put up this figure 39:25 and I'm going to get it right. 39:28 And then somebody can say it, if they want to say it. 39:32 Here it is, the total number of stars in the universe. 39:55 This is a calculated guess. 40:00 The total number that's of the planet, 40:06 that of stars in the universe. 40:09 Now we're going take this another step, 40:12 I want you to think and I want you to concentrate. 40:16 You're listening. 40:18 "Suppose one star in a million has a planet." 40:24 Let me say it again 40:25 "Suppose one star in a million has a planet." 40:31 What we're gonna do now is divide by a million. 40:35 Say, if one star in a million has a planet, 40:43 this figure here would be 40:46 the number of planets in the universe. 40:52 And did you know that thousands of years ago 40:57 the Bible spoke about life out in the galaxies, 41:02 life in another worlds, did you know that. 41:06 The Bible talks about life out there 41:09 He talks about the Father's House. 41:11 Listen to me, I'm only starting to get warmed up. 41:14 Now I am gonna tell you some things. 41:16 I am gonna turn in my Bible to Nehemiah 9:6 41:23 and we're gonna put it up on the screen, 41:25 so every person here can see it 41:27 and you can hear the word of God. 41:29 I want to say to the people of Port Moresby 41:32 that Bible has got power in it. 41:35 If you take the creator God into your life, 41:37 you've got to have a new power. 41:39 Once upon a time I was an unbeliever. 41:42 I did not always believe in God, 41:46 but then through my study of astronomy 41:48 and archeology and Bible prophecy, 41:51 I came to believe in God, so here is the text. 41:54 "You alone are the Lord." There is only one God my friend. 41:58 There is only one God all the idols that's nothing, 42:01 that's futile, it's foolishness." 42:03 You alone are the Lord. 42:05 You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, 42:08 and all their starry hosts, the earth and all that is on it, 42:13 the seas and all that is in them." Now listen to it. 42:17 "You give life to everything 42:19 and the multitudes of heaven worship you." 42:24 The Bible talks about a multitude 42:28 out there in the heavens. 42:30 Can you believe this? 42:33 I want you to see the stars, 42:35 I want you to look at the galaxies 42:36 as they come on the screen, here it is. 42:39 The Bible says out there among the galaxies 42:44 there is a multitude of intelligent beings 42:48 who worship God. 42:49 This planet is a planet in rebellion 42:54 that turned away from God 42:57 and that's why we have such a mess in the world today. 43:01 That's why we've got death, that's why we've got crime, 43:06 that's why we've got poverty, that's why we've got racism, 43:10 that's why we've got cancer. 43:12 And look at this my friend, just look at this 43:14 an island universe going back millions, even billions of years 43:21 made up of billions and billions of blazing suns 43:26 and the Bible says, the Bible says 43:29 "The host of heaven worships God the Creator." 43:33 We are not alone. 43:36 Now I am going to turn to Job 26:7. 43:42 then there is another text in Job I think 38:47. 43:45 but firstly Job 26. 43:47 This book is about 3,500 years old. 43:53 "He spreads out the northern skies over empty space, 44:00 he suspends the earth over nothing." 44:07 Bless your heart. 44:09 "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? 44:14 Tell me, if you understand. 44:19 Who marked off its dimensions? 44:21 Surely you know! 44:23 Who stretched out a measuring line across it?" 44:28 Or what were you doing? 44:31 "What were you doing when it was made, 44:33 when it's set in place, or who laid its cornerstone. 44:38 While the morning stars sang together and all the angels 44:43 all the sons of God shouted for joy." 44:47 The Bible talks-- I am gonna show you pictures. 44:52 It talks, this is thousands of years ago. 44:56 The Bible talked about a 'round world' 44:59 and it talked about a round world, hanging in space. 45:06 We hold this on the screen. 45:09 We're gonna show you picture 45:11 taken years ago, oh, what a picture. 45:16 The Bible says, He hangs the earth upon nothing. 45:22 Once upon a time people thought the earth was flat. 45:26 The Bible talks about a round world. 45:29 And it talks about this 'round world' 45:33 hanging out there in space. 45:37 It talks about our universe that had a beginning. 45:41 Even Professor Einstein for many years 45:43 believed the universe had no beginning. 45:46 Then they discovered their reality 45:48 and the truth of the big bang, it's just the scientific term, 45:53 you don't need to even use the word 45:55 but as the terms that means 45:57 when God brought things out of nothing 46:01 and He made a universe, it is a scientific fact. 46:07 The Bible asks the rhetorical question, 46:10 if you think you're smart where were you? 46:13 Where were you, when God made the heavens and the earth? 46:16 Where were you when God made the universe? 46:19 Who are you to argue to the Creator God? 46:23 What an amazing concept, 46:25 we're talking about here tonight. 46:28 Now listen my friend, 46:29 I am gonna come over now to the Book of Revelation 12:12. 46:34 that indicates 46:38 that we are not alone in the universe. 46:41 "Therefore rejoice, you heavens." 46:44 Can you read it? 46:46 Rejoice, you heavens," what does it say. 46:49 "And you who dwell in them! 46:52 But woe to the earth and the sea." 46:54 It goes on talks about the devil coming down. 46:57 But the Bible talks, it makes it very, very plain. 47:01 It says rejoice you heavens. 47:04 It's talking about the galaxies and it says "Rejoice you heavens 47:09 and you who dwell in them!" 47:14 Listen I am not speculating here tonight" 47:19 The universe had a beginning. 47:23 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 47:27 Scientists said for many years, 47:29 "No it's absurd, the universe has always been here." 47:32 Pagan religion still say, 47:34 the universe has always been here. 47:37 No the Bible said, a beginning. 47:40 We now know that we are in an expanding universe. 47:45 Everything is moving out because it had a beginning. 47:52 And the Bible says, look at this amazing pictures 47:56 from NASA of the galaxies, the island universes. 48:01 The Bible tells us that out there 48:04 somewhere there are inhabited planets. 48:09 Jesus said, I am gonna go to my Father's House 48:13 and where Jesus went-- 48:17 there was a world of intelligent beings 48:22 and the Bible says one day 48:24 this earth is going to have a space age invasion. 48:30 It already has had an invasion, from beings from other worlds. 48:35 Matthew 28:1-4, you know, I am reading my Bible 48:40 because I believe the Bible is correct. 48:44 I am reading my Bible 48:45 because I believe it is proved true 48:49 by astronomy and archeology and Bible prophecy. 48:52 Well, bless your heart, tomorrow night 48:55 I am gonna talk about the next world dictator. 48:58 The coming world ruler, 49:00 I am gonna talk about the Great middleman 49:03 and the Great Stone of Destiny. 49:05 We're gonna have it on the screen, look at this. 49:09 "After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, 49:12 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary 49:14 went to look at the tomb." 49:17 There was a violent earthquake, 49:18 for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven 49:22 and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone 49:27 and sat on it." He was in charge. 49:30 "His appearance was like lightning, 49:32 and his clothes were white as snow." 49:35 Listen to me. 49:39 We're not alone. 49:41 I am gonna talk in a few nights on the world of the occult. 49:48 I am going to talk about the spirits, 49:51 but I want you to know 49:54 that the Bible talks about beings, 49:57 we call them angels 50:00 which is the Greek word "angelos" 50:03 that means messenger. 50:08 When Jesus was raised from the dead and He was. 50:12 A mighty messenger came from another world 50:16 and he was dressed in glory 50:19 and he had just glory all over him, 50:23 he was shining like the sun 50:26 and he went and he just rolled back the stone 50:30 and he sat on the stone. 50:36 He was the visitor from another world, my friend. 50:42 We're not alone. 50:45 And the Bible teaches one day 50:47 that this earth is going to be invaded, 50:50 somebody says 'I can't believe it' 50:52 well, you better start to believe it, 50:53 because may be you gonna see it. 50:56 Come over I am gonna turn in my Bible to Matthew 25:31 51:01 and what a gorgeous night it is here 51:03 in Port Moresby with this beautiful breeze, 51:06 with this fantastic and wonderful audience. 51:09 Matthew 25:31 look at this text. 51:13 Now my friend, hear the word of the Lord, He's got power. 51:17 This is the word not of John Carter, 51:19 this is the word of the Creator of the universe, 51:23 don't mess with Him. 51:25 He knows all about you, He loves you 51:28 and He wants to come into your life and bless you. 51:32 "When the Son of Man comes in his glory 51:37 and all the angels with him, 51:39 he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory" 51:43 that's a prophecy. 51:46 It was given to us by Jesus Christ. 51:48 He said that He is going to come back to this planet. 51:52 And when He comes back to this planet, 51:55 are you listening to me. 51:56 When He comes back to this planet, 51:59 He's going to come back with all of these visitors. 52:03 All of these messengers, all of these mighty beings 52:08 and this world is going to be invaded. 52:17 To say it's a bit hard to believe, no it's not. 52:22 Great God who made the stars and do few things 52:25 that you and I can't understand my friend. 52:30 Another great prophecies John 14:1-3. 52:35 And I am going to read it to you. 52:37 You can read it off the screens. 52:38 That's why we have these giant screens. 52:41 Jesus said "Do not let your hearts be troubled." 52:44 Jesus said don't worry. 52:46 You know, why we worry? 52:48 Do you know why you worry? 52:50 It's because you don't trust in Him. 52:53 When I worry it's because I am not trusting in Him. 52:57 I am trusting in people, I am trusting in myself. 53:00 Jesus said "Do not let your hearts be troubled. 53:04 Trust in God, trust also in me. 53:09 In my Father's house are many rooms." Wow. 53:14 I believe there are universes beside our universe. 53:18 Come back to the text 53:20 "In my Father's house are many rooms, 53:23 if it were not so, I would have told you." 53:26 He's got house up there in glory. 53:29 "I am going there to prepare a place for you. 53:31 And if I go and prepare a place for you, 53:34 I will come back 53:37 and take you to be with me, 53:39 that you also may be where I am." 53:43 You know, the way to the place where I am going, 53:46 Jesus, the Son of God, 53:50 He was the Creator of the universe. 53:52 Jesus is not like any other person. 53:57 You say, oh yes, He was a great man, 53:59 He was a great guy. 54:00 No, He was not just a great man, 54:02 He was not just a great guy, He was the Son of God. 54:08 He was the Creator of the universe. 54:10 Look at the picture on the screen. 54:13 He holds the stars in His hands 54:17 if He holds the stars in His hands, 54:20 I ask you can't He hold you. 54:24 Can't He help you? 54:26 Don't you think the Lord who made the stars can help you? 54:30 Don't you know that He wants to help you? 54:33 Why are so many people today shutting Him out 54:37 and making their lives a mess? 54:43 He said, I am gonna come back to my Father's house. 54:47 You know, I could talk about this 54:49 I don't have time now. 54:52 But here is our say, here is our universe, 54:58 150 billion light years across. 55:05 God was outside our universe the Father's house 55:11 and He made this and He made lots 55:17 and lots and lots of other planets and galaxies. 55:22 And He said, I am going to come back. 55:31 I want you to know the Bible is full of prophecies. 55:34 Tomorrow night I am gonna deal 55:35 with one of the greatest of all prophecies. 55:39 I am, I am gonna talk about things that will astound you, 55:43 amaze you, fascinate you, thrill you, encourage you, 55:48 lift you up, make you feel better. 55:52 The Great Prophet Daniel written 2,500 years ago 55:57 in the City of Babylon. 55:59 He had a dream about a great metal man, 56:02 head of gold, chest of sliver, belly and thighs of bronze, 56:08 legs part of iron, part of clay. 56:12 He told the history of the world from Babylon 56:15 right down to our own day 56:18 and when you get down to our own day 56:21 down to the feet and the toes and we are living there tonight, 56:26 there came a stone... 56:32 and it struck the image. 56:35 Listen, the next we're gonna put around on the screens 56:39 so that you can see the glory. 56:41 The next great event in the history of the planet 56:46 will be the coming of the stone of destiny 56:52 and the setting up of the kingdom of God. 56:58 Christ with the angels 57:01 coming in power and coming in glory. 57:08 Thank you for joining us today. 57:10 To become a faith partner with Pastor John Carter 57:13 and to receive our monthly newsletter, 57:15 write to us here at the Carter Report, 57:17 PO. 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