Welcome to the Carter Report
at the Sir John Guise Stadium,
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in Port Moresby,
Papua New Guinea.
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More than 100,000
souls are in attendance
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and John Carter is
preaching the word of God.
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The great
congregation sits motionless.
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They are spellbound not by
the oratory of the speaker,
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but by the Spirit of God as
he bears witness to His word.
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An atmosphere
of divine solemnity
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mingled with a holy
joy pervades the stadium
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and spills out to the
thousands gathered outside,
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night by night in
weather fare and foul.
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The old warrior preaches on
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tens of
thousands come to Christ.
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Thousands are baptized
in the sea at Ela Beach
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and still more pressed forward
to publicly confess Christ.
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Now this is your
opportunity to be a part of
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what many have
called a new Pentecost.
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Welcome to the Carter Report
at the Sir John Guise Stadium
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in Port Moresby,
Papua New Guinea.
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As the mountains
surround Jerusalem
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So the Lord surrounds His people
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As the mountains
surround Jerusalem
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So the Lord surrounds His people
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Surround us, Lord
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Surround us, O Lord
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We need to be in Your presence
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Surround us, O Lord
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Be there trust in the Lord
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Shall be like Zion
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As the mountains
surround Jerusalem
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So the Lord surrounds His people
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As the mountains
surround Jerusalem
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So the Lord surrounds His people
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Surround us, Lord
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Surround us, O Lord
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We need to be in Your presence
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Surround us, O Lord
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Surround us Surround us, O Lord
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Surround us, O Lord
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We need to be in Your presence
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Surround us, O Lord
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Surround us
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O surround us, Lord
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Surround us, O Lord
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We need to be in Your presence
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Surround us
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Surround us, Lord
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We need to be in Your presence
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Surround us, O Lord
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Surround us, Lord
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Thank you Lord
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For You never fail in love
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Surround us, keep us
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Surround us, Lord
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Surround us, Lord
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in heaven the
praises of your people.
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Hallelujah.
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You're mine
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You're worthy
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Surround us, Lord
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Who are these people
attending the Carter Report
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at the Sir John Guise Stadium,
Port Moresby, New Papua Guinea?
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Well, they come
from all walks of life.
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In this great congregation
of more than 100,000,
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we find doctors, lawyers,
politicians, ambassadors,
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carpenters, students, teachers,
believers and unbelievers.
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There are husbands and
wives with their families.
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There are the rich and the
poor, the powerful and the weak.
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They are being told
that Christ alone is the way,
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the truth and the life.
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They are hearing
the words of life
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and their hearts are
being strangely warmed.
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Sometimes they feel
that their hearts will burst
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and they feel compel
to hurry down to the front
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to publicly confess the Savior.
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They are shown in the scriptures
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that God commands men everywhere
to repent and be baptized.
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They respond
with the holy devotion
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and a passionate intensity.
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Will you not join them?
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I have sense tonight
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that the Spirit of
the Lord is in this place.
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I believe this tonight
that God is going to come
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and visit us with the
presence of the Holy Spirit.
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And I believe that God is
going to move here tonight
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as He has never done before.
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The topic tonight
is an amazing topic,
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"The Man Who
Wrote His Own Life Story
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before He Was Born."
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Who was Jesus?
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Seems impossible.
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How can a man
write his own life story
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before he was born, you see.
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It's an absurdity,
except, except, except,
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except if he were God.
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Now we're going to answer
the question, who was Jesus?
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Was He just a good
man or was He the God man?
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I'm going to tell you a
story my friend of roaring camp.
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That was a famous
camp many, many years ago
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in the great
United States of America.
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It happened in California.
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They discovered gold
up there in the hills.
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And when the miners went there,
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they were so intent
upon becoming wealthy
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and getting gold that
they forgot everything.
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And soon they did
generated almost into animals.
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Fighting, killing, stealing,
then they came a coach rolling
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down from the hills
a Wells Fargo coach.
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And as it rolled down the
hill it got out of control
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and it came
tumbling down the hill.
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The driver of
the coach was killed
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and in the coach there was a man
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and his wife and
a little tiny baby.
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Everybody was killed except the
little baby who is thrown out.
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The miners heard
about it and they went out
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and they found the
man and his wife dead.
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They found the
driver dead and they found
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the little baby very much alive.
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And so they
carried the little baby
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back to roaring
camp, roaring camp
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because the people
were roaring all the time
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like wild animals, like
animals roaring, fighting.
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When they took
the little baby back
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they had a committee meeting.
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When we don't know what to
do we have a committee meeting
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So they had a committee meeting
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and they said what are we
gonna do with this little baby,
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because those men those
miners hadn't had a bath.
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They hadn't had a shave.
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They hadn't cleaned their
clothes for months and months.
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And so finally
they picked out a miner
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who seemed to be
the least offensive,
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the least obnoxious
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and they said you're going to be
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the baby's father
and the baby's mother.
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And so he didn't want to do
it but they gave him the baby.
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And he took the baby
back to his filthy hut.
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He was this
beautiful, beautiful child.
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His clothes were
clean, the baby was perfect.
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But when he went inside the hut,
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it was quite apparent
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that everything
there was not perfect.
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The bed was filthy.
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There were dirty
dishes lying in the sink.
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He said what I've got to do.
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I've got to start to clean
up my filthy hut, my cabin.
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So he started to clean it up
and then he looked at the mirror
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that he hadn't
looked at for months
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may be a year or two and
he saw how filthy he was.
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And so he did something
that almost killed him.
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He went down to the
creek and he had a bath.
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And he washed himself
up. He found some soap.
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And he cleaned up the bed.
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He washed the bed
and he washed everything.
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He washed the hut
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because of a beautiful
little baby who had come.
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When the other
miners saw that he got clean
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they started to
clean up themselves.
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They started to make
an amazing discovery.
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They discovered that soap
was made to take the dirt off.
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So they cleaned up
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and after they
cleaned up they discovered
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that-- you see this
camp had no women at all.
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That's what happens to men
when you don't have any women.
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God gave us women. We
couldn't live without women.
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In fact we wouldn't
be here without women.
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But this man, he
said, he looked around
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and they saw they had poverty.
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How they had gone down so low
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that they started to clean
up because of a little baby
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who had come from far away.
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They named that
little baby "The Luck."
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There's no such thing as luck
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but they named
the baby "The Luck."
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Because he brought them luck.
He turned their lives around.
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Two thousand years ago,
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little baby boy
came into this world.
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And He is being
changing lives ever since.
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Wherever He goes, He
cleans people inside, outside.
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He takes away the
crime and the roaring
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and the hatred and the violence.
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Because there's nobody like Him.
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And we're going
to discover tonight
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that He is the man who
wrote his own life story
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before he was born.
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Jesus who became a carpenter
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was born of a Jewish
peasant girl in 5 6 or 7 BC.
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He lived before
He was born. What?
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Yes, He lived
before He was born.
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I'm going to take my Bible
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which is the New
International Version
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and I'm going to
turn to John 17:3-5.
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I tell you tonight my friend,
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this is the
greatest meeting so far.
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We will not have a meeting
that will surpass this meeting.
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John 17:3-5 the Bible
says-- I'm going to read it here
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and you can read
it on the screens.
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"Now, this is eternal
life that they may know you,
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the only true God,
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and Jesus Christ
whom you have sent.
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I have brought
you glory on earth
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by completing the
work you gave me to do.
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And now, Father,
glorify me in your presence
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with the glory I had with
you before the world began."
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My friend,
billions of years ago,
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billions of years ago
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before the creation of
the cosmos Christ was there.
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The Christ whom we serve
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in this meeting
tonight is not just a man.
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He is a man
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but He is also
the almighty Creator
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and the Son of God.
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And the Bible says, Jesus says,
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I was there before
the world was made,
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before the stars were made.
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And it was Jesus who inspired
the prophets of the Bible.
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He inspired the
prophets of the Old Testament.
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And the prophets
of the Old Testament
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predicted all the
great and marvelous
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and major events in
the life of Jesus Christ.
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And thus through the
prophets of the Old Testament
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Jesus Christ the great Creator
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wrote His own life
story before He was born.
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My friend He is
completely distinct.
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There's nobody else like Him.
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And tonight what
we are going to do,
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we are going to notice
some amazing prophecies
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that prove that Jesus
Christ is the Messiah,
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the Son of God
and our coming King.
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Number one it was predicted
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hundreds of years
before He came to this earth
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that He would be born
in a certain little town.
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And I'm going to
turn to Micah 5:2,
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I have got it here in my Bible.
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But what I'm going to do
I'm going to come out here
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and I'm going to read it
with you off the great screen.
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We've got this here
because we want you to see it
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with your own eyes.
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"But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
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though you are small
among the clans of Judah,
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out of you will come for me
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one who will be
ruler over Israel,
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whose origins are from of old."
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The King James Version
says from the days of eternity
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billions and billions
and billions of years ago
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He was there.
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Bible says that this
Almighty God would come down
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and He'll be born in the
little town of Bethlehem.
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But His parents you
see up there on the screen
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they lived in Nazareth
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and Mary was pregnant
and about to have a child.
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And they had to go
back to their own hometown
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and that was Bethlehem.
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And so, look at the screen
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they started on
the perilous journey
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when would the baby be born.
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May be the baby would
come too soon but baby came...
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at the right time
in the right place.
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Jesus was born in Bethlehem
according to the Word of God,
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according, to this
prediction that goes back
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hundreds and hundreds of years
before the coming of Christ.
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It is an amazing story,
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but every word of
it my friend is true.
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Number two, here is
the second great truth,
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the second great prediction.
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His conception, his conception
was completely unique.
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I turn in the Bible
tonight to the Prophet Isaiah
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and I'm going back 2700 years.
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Hundreds of years,
before Jesus was born.
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Isaiah 7:14 and I want you
to notice it with your own eyes.
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I want you to see
it my beloved friends
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hear the word of the Lord.
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"Therefore the Lord
himself will give you a sign.
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The virgin will be with child
and will give birth to a son,
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and will call him Immanuel."
And that means God with us.
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History, tells us,
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that Joseph was engaged to this
beautiful young peasant girl,
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her name was Mary.
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And the Bible tells us
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that before they were
married he discovered,
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he discovered to his
chagrin that she was pregnant
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and therefore he was
going to put her away.
00:19:48.70\00:19:54.23
But God sent down
from glory an angel
00:19:54.26\00:19:58.31
and the angel said
Joseph don't be afraid
00:19:58.34\00:20:01.85
to take this girl as your wife
00:20:01.88\00:20:05.31
because that which is conceived
in her womb is not from you,
00:20:05.34\00:20:12.15
it is from the Holy Spirit.
00:20:12.18\00:20:16.76
And we call this
the virgin birth.
00:20:16.79\00:20:19.44
People say to me, they say to me
00:20:19.47\00:20:22.32
do you really
believe in the virgin birth?
00:20:22.35\00:20:24.39
They say it's impossible.
00:20:24.42\00:20:25.81
Listen, please I
think that the great God
00:20:25.84\00:20:31.25
who made the stars
can do a few things
00:20:31.28\00:20:33.85
that you and I can't understand.
00:20:33.88\00:20:37.07
It's like you know,
00:20:37.10\00:20:38.72
a little ant from
Port Moresby comes along
00:20:38.75\00:20:42.36
and climbs up into one
of our television cameras
00:20:42.39\00:20:45.60
and he starts to talk
about the television camera.
00:20:45.63\00:20:48.29
He goes home to his wife
tonight and he says, you know,
00:20:48.32\00:20:51.43
they've got television cameras
down there in this big stadium
00:20:51.46\00:20:54.77
and he starts to
discuss the television cameras.
00:20:54.80\00:20:57.25
What does an ant know
about the television station?
00:20:57.28\00:21:00.29
What does an ant know
about the television cameras?
00:21:00.32\00:21:02.78
What does an ant
know about anything?
00:21:02.81\00:21:05.47
Now the Bible tells me,
00:21:05.50\00:21:07.13
that the Almighty
God can do a few things
00:21:07.16\00:21:09.81
that human ants can't comprehend
and they cannot understand.
00:21:09.84\00:21:15.40
Now we are going to
come to this great prophecy,
00:21:15.43\00:21:18.10
number three.
00:21:18.13\00:21:19.50
It was
predicted-- listen to this.
00:21:19.53\00:21:23.04
The very year
when He would commence
00:21:23.07\00:21:26.27
His mission and His destiny.
00:21:26.30\00:21:29.84
This prophecy comes
from about 2,500 years ago
00:21:29.87\00:21:34.02
and it comes from the
great city of Babylon.
00:21:34.05\00:21:38.98
And I'm going to turn now
00:21:39.01\00:21:40.90
and we're going to
get it on the screen
00:21:40.93\00:21:43.11
but right here in
my Bible, here it is.
00:21:43.14\00:21:47.90
Right here, I want
you to see it in Daniel 9,
00:21:47.93\00:21:52.79
and its verse-- I
think its verse 24
00:21:52.82\00:21:55.94
but we're going to
put this up on the screen
00:21:55.97\00:21:58.14
and I want you to
see it once again.
00:21:58.17\00:22:02.29
Now this goes back
about 2,500 years ago.
00:22:02.32\00:22:06.27
We're going to do
now some mathematics,
00:22:06.30\00:22:08.85
it's not hard.
00:22:08.88\00:22:10.25
I can understand
it, its plain to me
00:22:10.28\00:22:12.73
and if it's plain to me
00:22:12.76\00:22:14.13
it's going to be
plain to you too.
00:22:14.16\00:22:15.93
It says, "Seventy 'seven'"
00:22:15.96\00:22:18.95
of 490, 490 days, seventy weeks.
00:22:18.98\00:22:25.51
"are decreed for your people."
00:22:25.54\00:22:27.20
they were the Jews
"and your holy city"
00:22:27.23\00:22:29.98
Jerusalem "to
finish transgression,
00:22:30.01\00:22:33.04
to put an end to sin,
to atone for wickedness,
00:22:33.07\00:22:37.31
to bring in
everlasting righteousness,
00:22:37.34\00:22:40.24
to seal up vision and prophecy
and to anoint the most holy."
00:22:40.27\00:22:46.45
Now listen, "Know
and understand this
00:22:46.48\00:22:52.38
from the issuing of
the decree to restore
00:22:52.41\00:22:57.78
and rebuild Jerusalem
until the Anointed One,
00:22:57.81\00:23:02.50
the ruler, that's
the Messiah comes,
00:23:02.53\00:23:05.40
there will be seven
'sevens' and sixty-two 'sevens'"
00:23:05.43\00:23:09.87
And we're gonna leave
it there. I could read on.
00:23:09.90\00:23:12.51
But it says, "That
from a certain decree."
00:23:12.54\00:23:16.95
I'm going to come
over here to the blackboard
00:23:16.98\00:23:19.44
and I want you to come with me
00:23:19.47\00:23:21.32
and I'm going to do a
little bit of mathematics
00:23:21.35\00:23:24.18
here on the blackboard.
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The Bible tells us
00:23:26.10\00:23:28.08
when the great
Messiah would come.
00:23:28.11\00:23:32.54
The Bible says, it
would be a period of 483 days.
00:23:32.57\00:23:40.38
And when God gave
the Bible prophecies
00:23:40.41\00:23:43.48
He did in symbolism
and a day equals a year.
00:23:43.51\00:23:48.14
And these 483 days
represent 483 years.
00:23:48.17\00:23:55.04
And the Bible says, it would be
00:23:55.07\00:23:57.55
from the decree to
restore and to build Jerusalem.
00:23:57.58\00:24:01.90
Now, listen to me real good.
00:24:01.93\00:24:04.86
Jerusalem had been
overthrown and along came a king
00:24:04.89\00:24:09.43
by the name of
Artaxerxes Longimanus
00:24:09.46\00:24:14.47
and in the year, look
at this in the year 457.
00:24:14.50\00:24:21.46
This is exciting,
457 BC he made a decree
00:24:21.49\00:24:27.24
that Jerusalem
should be restored.
00:24:27.27\00:24:29.58
And the Bible says,
add 483 years on to that
00:24:29.61\00:24:34.28
and if you do that it brings
you through to the year 27AD.
00:24:34.31\00:24:41.14
Now, this was
written 2,500 years ago.
00:24:41.17\00:24:45.90
If somebody is going
to say to me tonight,
00:24:45.93\00:24:47.86
oh, what on earth
happened in 27A.D?
00:24:47.89\00:24:51.93
What on earth happened 483 years
00:24:51.96\00:24:56.06
after the decree of
Artaxerxes Longimanus?
00:24:56.09\00:24:59.54
I'm going to tell you.
00:24:59.57\00:25:02.18
Jesus, the Son of God
was in the carpenter shop
00:25:02.21\00:25:10.00
and as He worked
away at the carpenter shop
00:25:10.03\00:25:14.42
He heard the voice of God
and the clock of heaven struck
00:25:14.45\00:25:20.58
and the clock of heaven said,
00:25:20.61\00:25:23.92
it is now-- the
time is fulfilled.
00:25:23.95\00:25:29.13
The kingdom of heaven is at hand
00:25:29.16\00:25:32.60
and Jesus put down His tools
00:25:32.63\00:25:36.03
and He went down
to the Jordan River
00:25:36.06\00:25:38.54
and He went and He saw a man
by the name of John the Baptist
00:25:38.57\00:25:43.94
and He said John, I
want you to baptize me
00:25:43.97\00:25:48.49
because God has now anointed me
00:25:48.52\00:25:52.74
and God has called
me with my mission.
00:25:52.77\00:25:56.38
And as Jesus came
up out of the water,
00:25:56.41\00:26:01.11
Jesus said, the
time is fulfilled
00:26:01.14\00:26:05.36
and the kingdom
of heaven is at hand.
00:26:05.39\00:26:12.85
Nobody else, the date is certain
00:26:12.88\00:26:16.82
we know that Jesus
was baptized in 27AD.
00:26:16.85\00:26:20.04
Because
according, to Jewish recting
00:26:20.07\00:26:22.73
the 15th year of the reign
of Tiberius Caesar is 27AD.
00:26:22.76\00:26:28.23
I'm not guessing
tonight. I'm not speculating.
00:26:31.39\00:26:35.23
I'm not telling
you a fairy story.
00:26:35.26\00:26:37.40
I'm not here to entertain you.
00:26:37.43\00:26:39.34
I'm here to tell you tonight
00:26:39.37\00:26:40.89
that Jesus is the
almighty Son of God
00:26:40.92\00:26:44.88
because He fulfills the
prophecies of the Bible.
00:26:44.91\00:26:50.58
He is the God man who
wrote His own life story
00:26:50.61\00:26:56.41
before He was born
this is the word of Lord.
00:26:56.44\00:27:02.90
Prophecy number four, He
was rejected, for a start,
00:27:02.93\00:27:08.01
"He was very popular."
00:27:08.04\00:27:10.66
And then the tide of popular
opinion turned against Him.
00:27:10.69\00:27:14.92
The religious
leaders turned against Him.
00:27:14.95\00:27:20.16
If you turn to Isaiah 53:3
00:27:20.19\00:27:25.52
and that was
written 2,700 years ago,
00:27:25.55\00:27:31.68
you read these words.
00:27:31.71\00:27:33.27
"He was despised
and rejected by men."
00:27:33.30\00:27:36.50
You just imagine if
God comes down as a man
00:27:36.53\00:27:40.68
and what happens
they'll reject him.
00:27:40.71\00:27:43.05
"He was despised
and rejected by man,
00:27:43.08\00:27:46.11
a man of sorrows and
familiar with sufferings.
00:27:46.14\00:27:50.10
Like one from whom
man hide their faces
00:27:50.13\00:27:53.65
He was despised and
we esteemed him not."
00:27:53.68\00:27:57.39
He came to his own people.
00:27:57.42\00:28:00.43
The people who prophesied
to be the people of God.
00:28:00.46\00:28:03.85
The people who
were the custodians
00:28:03.88\00:28:06.17
of the Holy Scriptures
00:28:06.20\00:28:07.70
the people who
were the custodians
00:28:07.73\00:28:10.02
of the holy law of God.
00:28:10.05\00:28:11.88
You know, what
they did they reject Him
00:28:11.91\00:28:14.35
and finally they
put Him on a cross.
00:28:14.38\00:28:16.70
Every word, every word of
the prophecy came to pass.
00:28:20.76\00:28:26.46
There is only one
person who fulfills
00:28:26.49\00:28:29.52
the
specifications of the prophecy
00:28:29.55\00:28:31.94
and that is the man
Christ Jesus, nobody else.
00:28:31.97\00:28:37.53
Prophecy number
five, the Bible says,
00:28:37.56\00:28:41.22
He would be
betrayed by a friend.
00:28:41.25\00:28:46.05
Can you believe it?
00:28:46.08\00:28:48.92
The Bible says, we're
gonna see this here it is.
00:28:48.95\00:28:52.40
Psalms 41:9, "Even my
close friend whom I trusted."
00:28:52.43\00:28:58.59
What was his name? Judas.
00:28:58.62\00:29:02.97
"He who shared my bread
00:29:03.00\00:29:05.02
has lifted up
his heel against me."
00:29:05.05\00:29:10.10
Jesus did everything for Judas.
He loved him. He cared for him.
00:29:10.13\00:29:15.44
He shared his own food with him.
00:29:15.47\00:29:17.47
But the Bible
says that the Messiah
00:29:17.50\00:29:20.43
would be betrayed
by His own close friend
00:29:20.46\00:29:24.90
and Jesus was betrayed
by Judas--Judas Iscariot.
00:29:24.93\00:29:32.07
Number six, thousands of years,
00:29:32.10\00:29:36.91
hundreds of years
before He was born,
00:29:36.94\00:29:39.66
it was predicted by
the Spirit of Christ
00:29:39.69\00:29:42.44
that the Messiah would be
sold for 30 pieces of silver.
00:29:42.47\00:29:50.24
The God who made the universe,
God who made the stars.
00:29:50.27\00:29:55.57
What a time we
had the other night
00:29:55.60\00:29:57.19
when we showed the
glory of the heavens.
00:29:57.22\00:29:59.91
"And the Lord said to me"
00:29:59.94\00:30:01.31
look on the
screens Zachariah 11:13
00:30:01.34\00:30:03.53
"'Throw it to the
potter' -the handsome price
00:30:03.56\00:30:07.36
at which they priced me.
00:30:07.39\00:30:09.52
So I took the
thirty pieces of silver
00:30:09.55\00:30:12.79
and threw them into the house
of the Lord to the potter."
00:30:12.82\00:30:17.59
History tells us the
story, Judas Iscariot sold Jesus
00:30:17.62\00:30:24.73
to the Jewish hierarchy
for 30 pieces of silver.
00:30:24.76\00:30:32.10
Every word of the
prophecy came to pass
00:30:32.13\00:30:37.35
and when Jesus was
finally taken and arrested.
00:30:37.38\00:30:43.09
Judas was overcome with remorse
and he took the 30 pieces
00:30:43.12\00:30:48.04
and he came running
and he ran into the temple
00:30:48.07\00:30:53.07
and he threw the 30
pieces of silver down.
00:30:53.10\00:31:00.93
Every word I
tell you, every word
00:31:00.96\00:31:06.46
of the prophecy came to pass.
00:31:06.49\00:31:09.88
Jesus is the
only person my friend,
00:31:09.91\00:31:12.76
who fulfills the specifications
of the prophecies?
00:31:12.79\00:31:17.77
Prophecy number
seven, He would be accused
00:31:17.80\00:31:21.91
by false witnesses
that's exactly what happened.
00:31:21.94\00:31:26.30
Psalm 35:11 says, Psalms 35:11,
00:31:26.33\00:31:33.71
"Ruthless or false witnesses."
00:31:33.74\00:31:37.83
In the King James
Version it says false witnesses.
00:31:37.86\00:31:42.42
There's no sin worse than
the sin of betraying a friend.
00:31:42.45\00:31:48.50
There is no sin worse
than the sin where a person
00:31:48.53\00:31:53.49
becomes a pathological liar.
00:31:53.52\00:31:58.73
There will be no
liars in the kingdom of God.
00:31:58.76\00:32:01.15
Only the blood of
Jesus can save a liar.
00:32:01.18\00:32:06.36
By cutting in the
lying away from his life.
00:32:06.39\00:32:09.52
"Ruthless
witnesses come forward,
00:32:09.55\00:32:11.85
they question me on
things I know nothing about."
00:32:11.88\00:32:17.33
When Jesus stood
before the Roman Governor,
00:32:17.36\00:32:21.44
the hierarchy cursed at
Him and they brought him
00:32:21.47\00:32:25.43
lying witnesses it
was a kangaroo caught
00:32:25.46\00:32:30.70
and they bought in the lying
witnesses and one man said well,
00:32:30.73\00:32:35.32
he said he's going to rebuild
the temple and so many days.
00:32:35.35\00:32:38.98
He is going to do this.
00:32:39.01\00:32:40.38
He is going to
that-- they made up lies.
00:32:40.41\00:32:43.89
Jesus is the man who
wrote His own life story
00:32:48.70\00:32:54.28
before He was born.
00:32:54.31\00:32:57.31
Prophecy number eight,
He was silent when accused.
00:32:57.34\00:33:02.47
Isaiah the prophet
one of the greatest
00:33:02.50\00:33:05.05
of all the prophets
if not the greatest.
00:33:05.08\00:33:06.93
Isaiah 53:7 gave this
prediction about Jesus.
00:33:06.96\00:33:14.88
"He was oppressed"
this is God in human flesh.
00:33:14.91\00:33:20.24
"He was oppressed and afflicted
yet he did not open his mouth,
00:33:20.27\00:33:28.10
he was led like the
lamb to the slaughter,
00:33:28.13\00:33:31.18
and as a sheep before
her shearers is silent,
00:33:31.21\00:33:35.07
so he did not open his mouth."
00:33:35.10\00:33:40.64
When he stood
before the hierarchy
00:33:40.67\00:33:43.92
and they kicked Him
and they whipped Him
00:33:43.95\00:33:46.40
and they spat on His face.
00:33:46.43\00:33:48.69
And when the Roman
soldiers tore out His beard
00:33:48.72\00:33:54.20
they were
amazed because He stood
00:33:54.23\00:33:57.17
there with a God like divinity
00:33:57.20\00:34:00.92
with a God like dignity.
00:34:00.95\00:34:06.57
And He was silent, so silent
00:34:06.60\00:34:10.95
that the Roman governor
Pilate that cowardly man
00:34:10.98\00:34:16.65
insult the Lord
by washing his hands.
00:34:16.68\00:34:21.93
The Roman Governor Pilate
and he said don't you know,
00:34:21.96\00:34:25.71
I have the power to
relish you or crucify you.
00:34:25.74\00:34:30.39
Jesus said you could
have no power against Me
00:34:30.42\00:34:34.39
unless it was
given to you from above.
00:34:34.42\00:34:38.15
He was silent
when He was accused.
00:34:38.18\00:34:41.53
He was silent
when He was beaten.
00:34:41.56\00:34:44.79
Jesus my friend is the
only person in all the world
00:34:44.82\00:34:48.10
who can fulfill
these prophecies.
00:34:48.13\00:34:51.37
Prophecy number nine, He
was struck and spat upon.
00:34:51.40\00:34:56.46
I want you to think about this.
00:34:56.49\00:34:59.67
I know in a vast
audience like this
00:34:59.70\00:35:01.92
there will be many, many people
00:35:01.95\00:35:03.47
who do not
really believe in Jesus.
00:35:03.50\00:35:06.63
You say to me tonight why
should I believe in Jesus?
00:35:06.66\00:35:09.93
I want to tell you why
because Jesus believes in you.
00:35:09.96\00:35:16.99
I would tell you why
you ought to believe in Him
00:35:17.02\00:35:19.39
because He went through
hell, because He loves you.
00:35:19.42\00:35:25.57
What more can He do?
00:35:25.60\00:35:30.42
The Bible says
we're gonna read the text,
00:35:30.45\00:35:34.61
He was struck and spat upon.
00:35:34.64\00:35:38.65
Isaiah 15:6 and I want
you to read it with me.
00:35:38.68\00:35:45.92
"I offered my back
to those who beat me."
00:35:45.95\00:35:49.39
This is talking
about the creative God
00:35:49.42\00:35:52.09
who came down to this world.
00:35:52.12\00:35:53.79
"I offered my back
to those who beat me,
00:35:53.82\00:35:56.86
my cheeks to those
who pulled out my beard.
00:35:56.89\00:36:02.65
I did not hide my face
00:36:02.68\00:36:05.58
from mocking and spitting."
00:36:05.61\00:36:10.75
When he stood in the presence
of the Roman Governor Pilate
00:36:10.78\00:36:14.46
and in the presence
of the Jewish hierarchy
00:36:14.49\00:36:18.13
who hated Him because
00:36:18.16\00:36:20.57
He is threatened
their power base.
00:36:20.60\00:36:23.77
They were a bunch of
corrupt religious rulers.
00:36:23.80\00:36:30.58
And then the Roman
soldiers started to beat Him
00:36:30.61\00:36:35.56
and when the whip
went around His face,
00:36:35.59\00:36:40.98
the lumps of lips and
bone that caught in his beard
00:36:41.01\00:36:46.71
and had ripped out his beard.
00:36:46.74\00:36:51.81
Who is this man?
00:36:51.84\00:36:55.10
This is Christ.
00:36:55.13\00:36:57.28
This is God.
00:36:57.31\00:37:00.34
Why He is going through this?
00:37:00.37\00:37:02.01
To save us.
00:37:02.04\00:37:04.72
We who are so hard in our hearts
00:37:04.75\00:37:07.51
and so sinful in our ways.
00:37:07.54\00:37:14.82
Thousands of years
before He came down,
00:37:14.85\00:37:19.35
He wrote his own life
story before He was born.
00:37:19.38\00:37:26.20
It was predicted
this is the tenth prophecy
00:37:26.23\00:37:30.17
that He would be crucified.
00:37:30.20\00:37:37.63
And in the Book of Psalms
written a thousand of years
00:37:37.66\00:37:41.44
before He was born in Bethlehem
00:37:41.47\00:37:45.91
we read these words Psalm 22:16.
00:37:45.94\00:37:52.26
Psalm 22:16, "A band of evil men
00:37:52.29\00:38:00.21
has encircled
me, they have pierced
00:38:00.24\00:38:03.93
my hands and my feet."
00:38:03.96\00:38:09.87
When those words were
written my beloved friends,
00:38:09.90\00:38:12.96
crucifixion was unknown.
00:38:12.99\00:38:16.14
They didn't crucified
people back in those days.
00:38:16.17\00:38:22.84
But the Roman
soldiers at the instigation
00:38:22.87\00:38:26.02
of the religious
hierarchy took this Son of God
00:38:26.05\00:38:30.99
and they laid Him on
a cross, a wooden cross.
00:38:31.02\00:38:36.34
It was the worst of suffering
and as He hung up on the cross
00:38:39.59\00:38:44.51
the sin of the
world of Port Moresby,
00:38:44.54\00:38:48.39
and Sydney, and
Melbourne, and New York,
00:38:48.42\00:38:50.63
and Los Angeles, the sin
of all of us is laid on Him.
00:38:50.66\00:38:55.78
For one brief moment in time
00:38:55.81\00:39:00.49
He was unfold on the cross
00:39:00.52\00:39:04.20
like a wounded eagle. Why?
00:39:04.23\00:39:10.01
Because He loves you so.
00:39:10.04\00:39:12.68
Will you not come to Him?
00:39:12.71\00:39:14.52
Will you not believe in Him?
00:39:14.55\00:39:17.09
Will you not follow Him?
00:39:17.12\00:39:22.25
If there had been
only one lost soul,
00:39:22.28\00:39:26.90
He would have gone through
that for that one lost soul.
00:39:26.93\00:39:30.60
Who is this man they crucified?
00:39:30.63\00:39:36.67
Jesus, the Son of
Man, the Son of God,
00:39:36.70\00:39:43.32
the Creator of the
universe, and He went through
00:39:43.35\00:39:48.19
that because He loves us.
00:39:48.22\00:39:51.93
Who was this man?
00:39:57.14\00:39:59.59
More than a man.
00:39:59.62\00:40:01.83
It was predicted He be
crucified with criminals.
00:40:01.86\00:40:05.71
Prophecy number
11, Isaiah 53:12.
00:40:05.74\00:40:12.51
"Therefore I will give
him a portion among the great,
00:40:15.23\00:40:19.67
he will divide the
spoils with the strong,
00:40:19.70\00:40:23.17
because he poured
out his life unto death,
00:40:23.20\00:40:26.86
he was numbered
with the transgressors.
00:40:26.89\00:40:30.25
For He bore the sin of many
00:40:30.28\00:40:31.65
and made intercession
for the transgressors."
00:40:31.68\00:40:35.55
He was crucified
between two thieves
00:40:35.58\00:40:39.34
so that you and I might
know that we are never alone
00:40:43.78\00:40:48.32
that He came to die for sinners.
00:40:48.35\00:40:55.01
Somebody may say
tonight in this great audience,
00:40:55.04\00:40:57.88
the vast audience, probably
a 100,000 people in tonight.
00:40:57.91\00:41:01.59
You may say,
00:41:01.62\00:41:06.12
what shall I do to accept Him.
00:41:06.15\00:41:13.83
Believe in Him, believe in Him.
00:41:13.86\00:41:17.06
Prophecy number
12 written by Isaiah
00:41:17.09\00:41:19.68
700 years before He was born.
00:41:19.71\00:41:22.17
Isaiah 53:5-6 that He
would be our substitute.
00:41:22.20\00:41:27.98
He would come and
He would take our place
00:41:28.01\00:41:31.56
that He was pierced.
00:41:31.59\00:41:33.89
Think of the words my friend
00:41:33.92\00:41:35.29
you're never going to be
the same after this meeting.
00:41:35.32\00:41:36.85
"But he was pierced
for our transgressions,
00:41:36.88\00:41:40.39
he was crushed
for our iniquities,
00:41:40.42\00:41:43.55
the punishment that
brought us peace was upon him,
00:41:43.58\00:41:46.29
and by his
wounds we are healed."
00:41:46.32\00:41:52.80
More than a hundred years
ago in the great city of London,
00:41:52.83\00:41:56.52
every morning you would see
00:41:56.55\00:41:57.92
on the mighty
bosom of the Thames River
00:41:57.95\00:42:00.23
a little boat that stank it
was called the sludge vessel.
00:42:00.26\00:42:04.95
All the sewage
of that great city
00:42:04.98\00:42:07.71
was put inside the
sludge vessel and it went out
00:42:07.74\00:42:11.92
into the Atlantic and
it got rid of this sludge.
00:42:11.95\00:42:17.76
The sludge and the
filth and the sin the evil,
00:42:17.79\00:42:22.03
the lying, the stealing,
the crime, the blasphemy,
00:42:22.06\00:42:27.16
the commandment
breaking, all of those sins,
00:42:27.19\00:42:30.44
our pride, our
religious self righteousness
00:42:30.47\00:42:34.68
was put upon Him.
00:42:34.71\00:42:38.41
He was sinless.
00:42:38.44\00:42:40.14
He was holy.
00:42:40.17\00:42:42.08
He was God in human
flesh but He bore our sin.
00:42:42.11\00:42:46.52
He has already bore your sin.
00:42:46.55\00:42:48.55
You don't have to pay
the price for you sins,
00:42:48.58\00:42:52.05
He has already paid
the price for you sins.
00:42:52.08\00:42:55.21
He paid it.
00:42:55.24\00:42:59.69
Prophecy number
13, it was predicted
00:42:59.72\00:43:03.17
that the people would
cast lots for his clothing.
00:43:03.20\00:43:07.06
Can you believe it?
00:43:07.09\00:43:08.46
Cast lots for his
clothing, His beautiful robe.
00:43:08.49\00:43:13.01
Psalm 22:18
written 3000 years ago
00:43:13.04\00:43:17.49
the prophet inspired by
the spirit of Christ said
00:43:17.52\00:43:21.56
"They divide my
garments among them
00:43:21.59\00:43:23.27
and cast lots for my clothing."
00:43:23.30\00:43:26.74
As he hung up on the cross,
the Roman soldiers sat down
00:43:26.77\00:43:31.61
and they gambled
over the only thing
00:43:31.64\00:43:34.39
that he possessed in this
world and that was His robe.
00:43:34.42\00:43:40.60
They didn't tear
it, they gambled for it.
00:43:40.63\00:43:46.07
It is written.
00:43:46.10\00:43:50.83
It was predicted
thousand years before He died
00:43:50.86\00:43:55.03
that not one of his
bones would be broken.
00:43:55.06\00:43:59.58
Psalm 34:20
written by King David
00:43:59.61\00:44:03.45
who was also a prophet.
00:44:03.48\00:44:05.06
You read these
words, Psalm 34:20
00:44:05.09\00:44:09.03
hear the word of the Lord.
00:44:09.06\00:44:11.74
"He protects all his bones,
not one of them will be broken."
00:44:11.77\00:44:17.61
Jesus was
crucified on the Friday.
00:44:17.64\00:44:21.73
And before the Sabbath came in,
00:44:21.76\00:44:23.97
this is what happened.
00:44:24.00\00:44:27.69
They came to look at
those men the three men,
00:44:27.72\00:44:30.91
the two
criminals and the Christ.
00:44:30.94\00:44:35.15
And they had a custom they
would not leave the bodies up
00:44:35.18\00:44:38.35
there on the Sabbath
because they believed in keeping
00:44:38.38\00:44:41.20
the Sabbath while
they crucified the man
00:44:41.23\00:44:43.62
who'd given them the Sabbath.
00:44:43.65\00:44:47.07
And so what they did
was this the Roman soldiers
00:44:47.10\00:44:50.30
went around and they
broke the legs of the thieves
00:44:50.33\00:44:53.47
and they took those men
down and they left them lying
00:44:53.50\00:44:57.09
on the ground under the
cross and when the sun went down
00:44:57.12\00:45:01.21
on the Sabbath Saturday
sunset they would put up
00:45:01.24\00:45:04.96
those men again
and they may live
00:45:04.99\00:45:07.21
on those crosses
in hell for a week.
00:45:07.24\00:45:13.88
It was a terrible death.
00:45:13.91\00:45:17.74
A terrible death, there
was no death like crucifixion.
00:45:17.77\00:45:21.80
So when they came to
Jesus, they discovered
00:45:21.83\00:45:25.83
that He was dead already.
00:45:25.86\00:45:30.35
And a soldier took a
spear and thrust it in His side
00:45:30.38\00:45:33.61
and out came blood and water.
00:45:33.64\00:45:35.94
He died of a broken heart.
00:45:35.97\00:45:37.70
His great heart ruptured.
00:45:37.73\00:45:42.37
But they did not break his legs
00:45:42.40\00:45:46.23
exactly as it had been
predicted by the Prophet David
00:45:46.26\00:45:51.04
a thousand years
before the Christ died.
00:45:51.07\00:45:55.21
It was predicted that He
would be buried with the rich.
00:45:55.24\00:46:01.40
The Prophet
Isaiah 2,700 years ago,
00:46:01.43\00:46:05.27
700 years I tell
you before He was born.
00:46:05.30\00:46:10.25
Isaiah 53:9 made this
fascinating prediction.
00:46:10.28\00:46:17.66
"He was assigned a
grave with the wicked
00:46:17.69\00:46:20.48
and with the rich in his death,
though he had no violence,
00:46:20.51\00:46:25.25
nor was any
deceit in his mouth."
00:46:25.28\00:46:28.49
He died with the
wicked, He died with the thieves
00:46:28.52\00:46:32.20
but after He died
some rich people came along
00:46:32.23\00:46:36.12
and they said let us take Him.
00:46:36.15\00:46:40.00
Let us take Him
because we love Him
00:46:40.03\00:46:46.22
and a rich man
gave Christ his own tomb
00:46:46.25\00:46:50.48
and He was buried in
the tomb of a rich man
00:46:50.51\00:46:55.30
because of the
Bible prophecy my friend.
00:46:55.33\00:46:58.74
Listen to me, I appeal to you.
00:46:58.77\00:47:02.33
There is nobody
else in all of the world,
00:47:02.36\00:47:05.28
there is nobody
else in all of creation
00:47:05.31\00:47:08.63
who fulfills the
specifications of this prophecy
00:47:08.66\00:47:13.64
and all of these prophecies.
00:47:13.67\00:47:15.69
I'm here tonight to bear
the testimony to the truth
00:47:15.72\00:47:19.69
that Jesus Christ is
the Almighty Son of God.
00:47:19.72\00:47:25.14
He is the
Messiah, He is our Lord
00:47:25.17\00:47:29.44
and He is our coming King
00:47:29.47\00:47:32.36
and tonight I'd say, hallelujah.
00:47:32.39\00:47:38.19
Thank God for Jesus.
00:47:38.22\00:47:40.36
My friend, He is the man
who wrote His own life story
00:47:40.39\00:47:43.88
before He was
born it was predicted--
00:47:43.91\00:47:46.81
now here we come hallelujah.
00:47:46.84\00:47:48.98
It was predicted
in Psalm 16:10-11
00:47:49.01\00:47:54.19
"That he
wouldn't stay in the grave
00:47:54.22\00:47:56.94
but that He would
get up out that grave."
00:47:56.97\00:47:59.32
It was predicted that death
could not hold Him in the grave.
00:47:59.35\00:48:05.09
It was predicted
He would come up.
00:48:05.12\00:48:07.99
Look at the text Psalm 16
00:48:08.02\00:48:11.82
and Jesus
inspired these prophecies.
00:48:11.85\00:48:15.48
"Because you will not
abandon me to the grave,
00:48:15.51\00:48:20.70
nor will you let
your Holy One see decay.
00:48:20.73\00:48:24.83
You have made known
to me the path of life.
00:48:24.86\00:48:28.09
You will fill me
with joy in your presence,
00:48:28.12\00:48:32.46
with eternal
pleasures at your right hand."
00:48:32.49\00:48:35.30
Listen, my friend.
00:48:35.33\00:48:38.00
They put him in the tomb
00:48:38.03\00:48:41.29
and the Roman soldiers
put a seal on the tomb.
00:48:41.32\00:48:45.29
They said we have got
rid of that troublemaker
00:48:45.32\00:48:47.42
and people have been saying
that for thousands of years.
00:48:47.45\00:48:50.59
We've got rid of
that troublemaker,
00:48:50.62\00:48:52.21
Jesus and they put a big
stone on the mouth of the tomb
00:48:52.24\00:48:57.34
and then they seal the tomb.
00:48:57.37\00:49:00.25
They sealed it with a
mighty seal of mighty Rome
00:49:00.28\00:49:06.76
but you wait for it.
00:49:06.79\00:49:09.51
On Sunday morning there
was a tremendous earthquake.
00:49:09.54\00:49:16.30
And a mighty angel came
down from the courts of glory
00:49:16.33\00:49:24.15
and all that tomb
all the tomb was shaking
00:49:24.18\00:49:28.53
and all of a sudden
that stone rolled away
00:49:28.56\00:49:33.45
and Jesus got up out
of the sleep of death
00:49:33.48\00:49:38.12
and Jesus walked to
the mouth of that tomb
00:49:38.15\00:49:42.04
and Jesus cried out,
00:49:42.07\00:49:44.57
I'm the
resurrection and the life.
00:49:44.60\00:49:49.95
Listen my
friends, Jesus is alive.
00:49:52.76\00:50:00.12
We don't serve a dead Christ.
00:50:00.15\00:50:03.14
We serve a living Christ.
00:50:03.17\00:50:05.17
And I want you to know tonight
00:50:05.20\00:50:07.15
I can feel His
presence in this place.
00:50:07.18\00:50:10.11
Through the valley of the shadow
00:50:45.26\00:50:49.49
Through the
mountains of His faith
00:50:49.52\00:50:54.43
The shepherd boy
00:50:54.46\00:50:56.72
of Judah love to save
00:50:56.75\00:51:03.15
In his words of adoration
00:51:03.18\00:51:07.68
And his simple songs of praise
00:51:07.71\00:51:12.56
He glorified Jehovah
00:51:12.59\00:51:16.55
as His King
00:51:16.58\00:51:22.50
A giant slayer
00:51:22.53\00:51:27.14
A Psalm sayer
00:51:27.17\00:51:31.26
For the God of Jacob set upon
00:51:31.29\00:51:35.03
A joy bringer
00:51:40.77\00:51:45.26
A Psalm sayer
00:51:45.29\00:51:48.73
A man after God's own heart
00:51:48.76\00:51:56.44
The boy became a ruler
00:52:02.27\00:52:06.83
Anointed for the throne
00:52:06.86\00:52:11.11
And though you sinned
00:52:11.14\00:52:13.32
He never turned away
00:52:13.35\00:52:20.01
The Lord forgave his servant
00:52:20.04\00:52:24.51
He smiled upon his servant
00:52:24.54\00:52:30.00
For the God of David
00:52:30.03\00:52:32.00
is a God of grace
00:52:32.03\00:52:38.99
To the giant slayer
00:52:39.02\00:52:43.74
The Psalm sayer
00:52:43.77\00:52:47.92
For the God of Jacob set upon
00:52:47.95\00:52:54.64
Oh, love A joy bringer
00:52:54.67\00:53:01.58
A psalm singer, yeah, yeah.
00:53:01.61\00:53:04.79
God called him a man
00:53:04.82\00:53:07.29
after his own heart
00:53:07.32\00:53:11.42
And from His seed
will come a Savior
00:53:17.88\00:53:22.69
A light unto the nations
00:53:22.72\00:53:26.89
He'll be And from His land
00:53:26.92\00:53:32.54
would come a ruler
00:53:32.57\00:53:36.26
The king of our salvation
00:53:36.29\00:53:40.80
Jesus Christ is He
00:53:40.83\00:53:46.07
Make me a giant slayer
00:53:52.80\00:53:57.93
A Psalm singer
00:54:01.70\00:54:05.73
For the God of Jacob
00:54:05.76\00:54:08.86
sent upon to the Jesus
00:54:08.89\00:54:15.07
A joy bringer
00:54:15.10\00:54:19.49
A Psalm singer
00:54:19.52\00:54:22.57
God make me your man
00:54:22.60\00:54:24.84
after your own heart
00:54:24.87\00:54:31.26
Lord make me your man
00:54:31.29\00:54:34.92
after your own heart
00:54:34.95\00:54:41.00
Oh, man after
00:54:41.03\00:54:47.04
your own heart
00:54:47.07\00:54:52.36
Paul the
evangelist says in the Bible,
00:55:02.48\00:55:05.11
that "God will finish His work
00:55:05.14\00:55:06.60
and cut it short
in righteousness."
00:55:06.63\00:55:09.16
The Prophet Joel says,
"God will pour out His spirit
00:55:09.19\00:55:11.86
in the last days, and
signs and wonders will follow."
00:55:11.89\00:55:15.03
The Carter Report believes
that we are now in the end times
00:55:15.06\00:55:19.22
and His spirit
is moving mightily.
00:55:19.25\00:55:21.80
During the Port
Moresby campaign we testify
00:55:21.83\00:55:24.87
that we saw the
power of God revealed.
00:55:24.90\00:55:27.85
God hungry souls
00:55:27.88\00:55:30.45
could not get enough
of the word of the Lord
00:55:30.48\00:55:33.22
as at creation the
Spirit of God moved upon
00:55:33.25\00:55:36.80
the face of the waters and
God brought cosmos out of chaos.
00:55:36.83\00:55:41.80
Souls were recreated in
the image of the Creator.
00:55:41.83\00:55:45.61
Instead of hate there was love.
00:55:45.64\00:55:47.68
Instead of
despair there was hope.
00:55:47.71\00:55:49.78
Instead of sorrow there was joy.
00:55:49.81\00:55:52.18
And in the place of
death God gave life.
00:55:52.21\00:55:55.66
One night as John Carter
preached on the person in work
00:55:55.69\00:55:58.75
at the Holy Spirit
the image of a white bird
00:55:58.78\00:56:01.45
was flashed on the screens.
00:56:01.48\00:56:03.55
That moment a great white bird
00:56:03.58\00:56:05.73
flew low over the
astonish congregation.
00:56:05.76\00:56:08.91
Cries of joy filled the
air as the audience recognized
00:56:08.94\00:56:12.53
that God had visited His people.
00:56:12.56\00:56:14.64
A mighty surge of Pentecostal
power swept the audience
00:56:14.67\00:56:18.22
of 120,000 souls
and everyone present
00:56:18.25\00:56:22.46
felt the warm
comforting presence of God.
00:56:22.49\00:56:25.98
The Carter Report team
invites you my dear viewer
00:56:26.01\00:56:28.81
to be a partner in this work.
00:56:28.84\00:56:31.07
Soldiers of the
cross are wanted.
00:56:31.10\00:56:33.77
Faith partners are needed.
00:56:33.80\00:56:35.88
Write to us now,
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00:56:35.91\00:56:38.87
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00:56:38.90\00:56:44.38
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00:56:44.41\00:56:52.24
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00:56:52.27\00:56:56.26
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00:56:56.29\00:57:01.04
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00:57:04.15\00:57:05.84
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00:57:45.14\00:57:47.93
Remember Jesus said,
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00:57:47.96\00:57:50.88
and the truth
will set you free."
00:57:50.91\00:57:53.28