Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR100005
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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. 00:12 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 bears 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 fare 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 pressed forward to publicly confess Christ. 00:46 Now this is your opportunity to be a part of 00:49 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. 01:17 As the mountains surround Jerusalem 01:24 So the Lord surrounds His people 01:32 As the mountains surround Jerusalem 01:39 So the Lord surrounds His people 01:46 Surround us, Lord 01:54 Surround us, O Lord 02:02 We need to be in Your presence 02:09 Surround us, O Lord 02:20 Be there trust in the Lord 02:22 Shall be like Zion 02:27 As the mountains surround Jerusalem 02:34 So the Lord surrounds His people 02:42 As the mountains surround Jerusalem 02:49 So the Lord surrounds His people 02:56 Surround us, Lord 03:04 Surround us, O Lord 03:12 We need to be in Your presence 03:18 Surround us, O Lord 03:27 Surround us Surround us, O Lord 03:34 Surround us, O Lord 03:42 We need to be in Your presence 03:49 Surround us, O Lord 03:57 Surround us 03:59 O surround us, Lord 04:04 Surround us, O Lord 04:11 We need to be in Your presence 04:19 Surround us 04:23 Surround us, Lord 04:27 We need to be in Your presence 04:32 Surround us, O Lord 04:43 Surround us, Lord 04:50 Thank you Lord 04:54 For You never fail in love 04:57 Surround us, keep us 05:09 Surround us, Lord 05:14 Surround us, Lord 05:17 in heaven the praises of your people. 05:21 Hallelujah. 05:24 You're mine 05:27 You're worthy 05:31 Surround us, Lord 05:45 Who are these people attending the Carter Report 05:48 at the Sir John Guise Stadium, Port Moresby, New Papua Guinea? 05:51 Well, they come from all walks of life. 05:54 In this great congregation of more than 100,000, 05:57 we find doctors, lawyers, politicians, ambassadors, 06:01 carpenters, students, teachers, believers and unbelievers. 06:05 There are husbands and wives with their families. 06:08 There are the rich and the poor, the powerful and the weak. 06:13 They are being told that Christ alone is the way, 06:16 the truth and the life. 06:18 They are hearing the words of life 06:19 and their hearts are being strangely warmed. 06:22 Sometimes they feel that their hearts will burst 06:26 and they feel compel to hurry down to the front 06:28 to publicly confess the Savior. 06:31 They are shown in the scriptures 06:32 that God commands men everywhere to repent and be baptized. 06:37 They respond with the holy devotion 06:39 and a passionate intensity. 06:41 Will you not join them? 06:47 I have sense tonight 06:49 that the Spirit of the Lord is in this place. 06:54 I believe this tonight that God is going to come 06:58 and visit us with the presence of the Holy Spirit. 07:03 And I believe that God is going to move here tonight 07:06 as He has never done before. 07:08 The topic tonight is an amazing topic, 07:11 "The Man Who Wrote His Own Life Story 07:16 before He Was Born." 07:19 Who was Jesus? 07:23 Seems impossible. 07:25 How can a man write his own life story 07:28 before he was born, you see. 07:31 It's an absurdity, except, except, except, 07:35 except if he were God. 07:41 Now we're going to answer the question, who was Jesus? 07:45 Was He just a good man or was He the God man? 07:52 I'm going to tell you a story my friend of roaring camp. 07:57 That was a famous camp many, many years ago 08:00 in the great United States of America. 08:03 It happened in California. 08:06 They discovered gold up there in the hills. 08:11 And when the miners went there, 08:13 they were so intent upon becoming wealthy 08:17 and getting gold that they forgot everything. 08:21 And soon they did generated almost into animals. 08:28 Fighting, killing, stealing, then they came a coach rolling 08:35 down from the hills a Wells Fargo coach. 08:39 And as it rolled down the hill it got out of control 08:45 and it came tumbling down the hill. 08:47 The driver of the coach was killed 08:49 and in the coach there was a man 08:53 and his wife and a little tiny baby. 09:00 Everybody was killed except the little baby who is thrown out. 09:08 The miners heard about it and they went out 09:10 and they found the man and his wife dead. 09:13 They found the driver dead and they found 09:16 the little baby very much alive. 09:21 And so they carried the little baby 09:22 back to roaring camp, roaring camp 09:26 because the people were roaring all the time 09:29 like wild animals, like animals roaring, fighting. 09:37 When they took the little baby back 09:39 they had a committee meeting. 09:42 When we don't know what to do we have a committee meeting 09:45 So they had a committee meeting 09:47 and they said what are we gonna do with this little baby, 09:51 because those men those miners hadn't had a bath. 09:56 They hadn't had a shave. 09:58 They hadn't cleaned their clothes for months and months. 10:02 And so finally they picked out a miner 10:06 who seemed to be the least offensive, 10:09 the least obnoxious 10:12 and they said you're going to be 10:14 the baby's father and the baby's mother. 10:19 And so he didn't want to do it but they gave him the baby. 10:24 And he took the baby back to his filthy hut. 10:29 He was this beautiful, beautiful child. 10:33 His clothes were clean, the baby was perfect. 10:38 But when he went inside the hut, 10:40 it was quite apparent 10:41 that everything there was not perfect. 10:44 The bed was filthy. 10:46 There were dirty dishes lying in the sink. 10:50 He said what I've got to do. 10:52 I've got to start to clean up my filthy hut, my cabin. 10:57 So he started to clean it up and then he looked at the mirror 11:02 that he hadn't looked at for months 11:04 may be a year or two and he saw how filthy he was. 11:11 And so he did something that almost killed him. 11:13 He went down to the creek and he had a bath. 11:17 And he washed himself up. He found some soap. 11:22 And he cleaned up the bed. 11:24 He washed the bed and he washed everything. 11:27 He washed the hut 11:30 because of a beautiful little baby who had come. 11:36 When the other miners saw that he got clean 11:40 they started to clean up themselves. 11:42 They started to make an amazing discovery. 11:46 They discovered that soap was made to take the dirt off. 11:50 So they cleaned up 11:51 and after they cleaned up they discovered 11:53 that-- you see this camp had no women at all. 11:56 That's what happens to men when you don't have any women. 12:00 God gave us women. We couldn't live without women. 12:04 In fact we wouldn't be here without women. 12:07 But this man, he said, he looked around 12:09 and they saw they had poverty. 12:11 How they had gone down so low 12:14 that they started to clean up because of a little baby 12:20 who had come from far away. 12:23 They named that little baby "The Luck." 12:29 There's no such thing as luck 12:31 but they named the baby "The Luck." 12:34 Because he brought them luck. He turned their lives around. 12:45 Two thousand years ago, 12:49 little baby boy came into this world. 12:55 And He is being changing lives ever since. 12:59 Wherever He goes, He cleans people inside, outside. 13:07 He takes away the crime and the roaring 13:12 and the hatred and the violence. 13:21 Because there's nobody like Him. 13:25 And we're going to discover tonight 13:29 that He is the man who wrote his own life story 13:33 before he was born. 13:37 Jesus who became a carpenter 13:41 was born of a Jewish peasant girl in 5 6 or 7 BC. 13:48 He lived before He was born. What? 13:53 Yes, He lived before He was born. 13:56 I'm going to take my Bible 13:59 which is the New International Version 14:02 and I'm going to turn to John 17:3-5. 14:07 I tell you tonight my friend, 14:09 this is the greatest meeting so far. 14:12 We will not have a meeting that will surpass this meeting. 14:16 John 17:3-5 the Bible says-- I'm going to read it here 14:24 and you can read it on the screens. 14:27 "Now, this is eternal life that they may know you, 14:31 the only true God, 14:33 and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 14:37 I have brought you glory on earth 14:39 by completing the work you gave me to do. 14:43 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence 14:47 with the glory I had with you before the world began." 14:55 My friend, billions of years ago, 14:59 billions of years ago 15:01 before the creation of the cosmos Christ was there. 15:09 The Christ whom we serve 15:10 in this meeting tonight is not just a man. 15:14 He is a man 15:15 but He is also the almighty Creator 15:19 and the Son of God. 15:23 And the Bible says, Jesus says, 15:27 I was there before the world was made, 15:31 before the stars were made. 15:34 And it was Jesus who inspired the prophets of the Bible. 15:39 He inspired the prophets of the Old Testament. 15:44 And the prophets of the Old Testament 15:47 predicted all the great and marvelous 15:51 and major events in the life of Jesus Christ. 15:57 And thus through the prophets of the Old Testament 16:01 Jesus Christ the great Creator 16:04 wrote His own life story before He was born. 16:08 My friend He is completely distinct. 16:14 There's nobody else like Him. 16:16 And tonight what we are going to do, 16:18 we are going to notice some amazing prophecies 16:21 that prove that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, 16:26 the Son of God and our coming King. 16:29 Number one it was predicted 16:32 hundreds of years before He came to this earth 16:36 that He would be born in a certain little town. 16:40 And I'm going to turn to Micah 5:2, 16:45 I have got it here in my Bible. 16:47 But what I'm going to do I'm going to come out here 16:51 and I'm going to read it with you off the great screen. 16:54 We've got this here because we want you to see it 16:57 with your own eyes. 16:59 "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, 17:03 though you are small among the clans of Judah, 17:07 out of you will come for me 17:10 one who will be ruler over Israel, 17:13 whose origins are from of old." 17:16 The King James Version says from the days of eternity 17:21 billions and billions and billions of years ago 17:25 He was there. 17:29 Bible says that this Almighty God would come down 17:34 and He'll be born in the little town of Bethlehem. 17:38 But His parents you see up there on the screen 17:40 they lived in Nazareth 17:43 and Mary was pregnant and about to have a child. 17:47 And they had to go back to their own hometown 17:50 and that was Bethlehem. 17:51 And so, look at the screen 17:54 they started on the perilous journey 17:57 when would the baby be born. 18:00 May be the baby would come too soon but baby came... 18:06 at the right time in the right place. 18:10 Jesus was born in Bethlehem according to the Word of God, 18:16 according, to this prediction that goes back 18:19 hundreds and hundreds of years before the coming of Christ. 18:24 It is an amazing story, 18:27 but every word of it my friend is true. 18:30 Number two, here is the second great truth, 18:34 the second great prediction. 18:37 His conception, his conception was completely unique. 18:44 I turn in the Bible tonight to the Prophet Isaiah 18:47 and I'm going back 2700 years. 18:51 Hundreds of years, before Jesus was born. 18:55 Isaiah 7:14 and I want you to notice it with your own eyes. 19:01 I want you to see it my beloved friends 19:04 hear the word of the Lord. 19:07 "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. 19:11 The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, 19:16 and will call him Immanuel." And that means God with us. 19:23 History, tells us, 19:25 that Joseph was engaged to this beautiful young peasant girl, 19:31 her name was Mary. 19:35 And the Bible tells us 19:37 that before they were married he discovered, 19:42 he discovered to his chagrin that she was pregnant 19:48 and therefore he was going to put her away. 19:54 But God sent down from glory an angel 19:58 and the angel said Joseph don't be afraid 20:01 to take this girl as your wife 20:05 because that which is conceived in her womb is not from you, 20:12 it is from the Holy Spirit. 20:16 And we call this the virgin birth. 20:19 People say to me, they say to me 20:22 do you really believe in the virgin birth? 20:24 They say it's impossible. 20:25 Listen, please I think that the great God 20:31 who made the stars can do a few things 20:33 that you and I can't understand. 20:37 It's like you know, 20:38 a little ant from Port Moresby comes along 20:42 and climbs up into one of our television cameras 20:45 and he starts to talk about the television camera. 20:48 He goes home to his wife tonight and he says, you know, 20:51 they've got television cameras down there in this big stadium 20:54 and he starts to discuss the television cameras. 20:57 What does an ant know about the television station? 21:00 What does an ant know about the television cameras? 21:02 What does an ant know about anything? 21:05 Now the Bible tells me, 21:07 that the Almighty God can do a few things 21:09 that human ants can't comprehend and they cannot understand. 21:15 Now we are going to come to this great prophecy, 21:18 number three. 21:19 It was predicted-- listen to this. 21:23 The very year when He would commence 21:26 His mission and His destiny. 21:29 This prophecy comes from about 2,500 years ago 21:34 and it comes from the great city of Babylon. 21:39 And I'm going to turn now 21:40 and we're going to get it on the screen 21:43 but right here in my Bible, here it is. 21:47 Right here, I want you to see it in Daniel 9, 21:52 and its verse-- I think its verse 24 21:55 but we're going to put this up on the screen 21:58 and I want you to see it once again. 22:02 Now this goes back about 2,500 years ago. 22:06 We're going to do now some mathematics, 22:08 it's not hard. 22:10 I can understand it, its plain to me 22:12 and if it's plain to me 22:14 it's going to be plain to you too. 22:15 It says, "Seventy 'seven'" 22:18 of 490, 490 days, seventy weeks. 22:25 "are decreed for your people." 22:27 they were the Jews "and your holy city" 22:30 Jerusalem "to finish transgression, 22:33 to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, 22:37 to bring in everlasting righteousness, 22:40 to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy." 22:46 Now listen, "Know and understand this 22:52 from the issuing of the decree to restore 22:57 and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, 23:02 the ruler, that's the Messiah comes, 23:05 there will be seven 'sevens' and sixty-two 'sevens'" 23:09 And we're gonna leave it there. I could read on. 23:12 But it says, "That from a certain decree." 23:16 I'm going to come over here to the blackboard 23:19 and I want you to come with me 23:21 and I'm going to do a little bit of mathematics 23:24 here on the blackboard. 23:26 The Bible tells us 23:28 when the great Messiah would come. 23:32 The Bible says, it would be a period of 483 days. 23:40 And when God gave the Bible prophecies 23:43 He did in symbolism and a day equals a year. 23:48 And these 483 days represent 483 years. 23:55 And the Bible says, it would be 23:57 from the decree to restore and to build Jerusalem. 24:01 Now, listen to me real good. 24:04 Jerusalem had been overthrown and along came a king 24:09 by the name of Artaxerxes Longimanus 24:14 and in the year, look at this in the year 457. 24:21 This is exciting, 457 BC he made a decree 24:27 that Jerusalem should be restored. 24:29 And the Bible says, add 483 years on to that 24:34 and if you do that it brings you through to the year 27AD. 24:41 Now, this was written 2,500 years ago. 24:45 If somebody is going to say to me tonight, 24:47 oh, what on earth happened in 27A.D? 24:51 What on earth happened 483 years 24:56 after the decree of Artaxerxes Longimanus? 24:59 I'm going to tell you. 25:02 Jesus, the Son of God was in the carpenter shop 25:10 and as He worked away at the carpenter shop 25:14 He heard the voice of God and the clock of heaven struck 25:20 and the clock of heaven said, 25:23 it is now-- the time is fulfilled. 25:29 The kingdom of heaven is at hand 25:32 and Jesus put down His tools 25:36 and He went down to the Jordan River 25:38 and He went and He saw a man by the name of John the Baptist 25:43 and He said John, I want you to baptize me 25:48 because God has now anointed me 25:52 and God has called me with my mission. 25:56 And as Jesus came up out of the water, 26:01 Jesus said, the time is fulfilled 26:05 and the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 26:12 Nobody else, the date is certain 26:16 we know that Jesus was baptized in 27AD. 26:20 Because according, to Jewish recting 26:22 the 15th year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar is 27AD. 26:31 I'm not guessing tonight. I'm not speculating. 26:35 I'm not telling you a fairy story. 26:37 I'm not here to entertain you. 26:39 I'm here to tell you tonight 26:40 that Jesus is the almighty Son of God 26:44 because He fulfills the prophecies of the Bible. 26:50 He is the God man who wrote His own life story 26:56 before He was born this is the word of Lord. 27:02 Prophecy number four, He was rejected, for a start, 27:08 "He was very popular." 27:10 And then the tide of popular opinion turned against Him. 27:14 The religious leaders turned against Him. 27:20 If you turn to Isaiah 53:3 27:25 and that was written 2,700 years ago, 27:31 you read these words. 27:33 "He was despised and rejected by men." 27:36 You just imagine if God comes down as a man 27:40 and what happens they'll reject him. 27:43 "He was despised and rejected by man, 27:46 a man of sorrows and familiar with sufferings. 27:50 Like one from whom man hide their faces 27:53 He was despised and we esteemed him not." 27:57 He came to his own people. 28:00 The people who prophesied to be the people of God. 28:03 The people who were the custodians 28:06 of the Holy Scriptures 28:07 the people who were the custodians 28:10 of the holy law of God. 28:11 You know, what they did they reject Him 28:14 and finally they put Him on a cross. 28:20 Every word, every word of the prophecy came to pass. 28:26 There is only one person who fulfills 28:29 the specifications of the prophecy 28:31 and that is the man Christ Jesus, nobody else. 28:37 Prophecy number five, the Bible says, 28:41 He would be betrayed by a friend. 28:46 Can you believe it? 28:48 The Bible says, we're gonna see this here it is. 28:52 Psalms 41:9, "Even my close friend whom I trusted." 28:58 What was his name? Judas. 29:03 "He who shared my bread 29:05 has lifted up his heel against me." 29:10 Jesus did everything for Judas. He loved him. He cared for him. 29:15 He shared his own food with him. 29:17 But the Bible says that the Messiah 29:20 would be betrayed by His own close friend 29:24 and Jesus was betrayed by Judas--Judas Iscariot. 29:32 Number six, thousands of years, 29:36 hundreds of years before He was born, 29:39 it was predicted by the Spirit of Christ 29:42 that the Messiah would be sold for 30 pieces of silver. 29:50 The God who made the universe, God who made the stars. 29:55 What a time we had the other night 29:57 when we showed the glory of the heavens. 29:59 "And the Lord said to me" 30:01 look on the screens Zachariah 11:13 30:03 "'Throw it to the potter' -the handsome price 30:07 at which they priced me. 30:09 So I took the thirty pieces of silver 30:12 and threw them into the house of the Lord to the potter." 30:17 History tells us the story, Judas Iscariot sold Jesus 30:24 to the Jewish hierarchy for 30 pieces of silver. 30:32 Every word of the prophecy came to pass 30:37 and when Jesus was finally taken and arrested. 30:43 Judas was overcome with remorse and he took the 30 pieces 30:48 and he came running and he ran into the temple 30:53 and he threw the 30 pieces of silver down. 31:00 Every word I tell you, every word 31:06 of the prophecy came to pass. 31:09 Jesus is the only person my friend, 31:12 who fulfills the specifications of the prophecies? 31:17 Prophecy number seven, He would be accused 31:21 by false witnesses that's exactly what happened. 31:26 Psalm 35:11 says, Psalms 35:11, 31:33 "Ruthless or false witnesses." 31:37 In the King James Version it says false witnesses. 31:42 There's no sin worse than the sin of betraying a friend. 31:48 There is no sin worse than the sin where a person 31:53 becomes a pathological liar. 31:58 There will be no liars in the kingdom of God. 32:01 Only the blood of Jesus can save a liar. 32:06 By cutting in the lying away from his life. 32:09 "Ruthless witnesses come forward, 32:11 they question me on things I know nothing about." 32:17 When Jesus stood before the Roman Governor, 32:21 the hierarchy cursed at Him and they brought him 32:25 lying witnesses it was a kangaroo caught 32:30 and they bought in the lying witnesses and one man said well, 32:35 he said he's going to rebuild the temple and so many days. 32:39 He is going to do this. 32:40 He is going to that-- they made up lies. 32:48 Jesus is the man who wrote His own life story 32:54 before He was born. 32:57 Prophecy number eight, He was silent when accused. 33:02 Isaiah the prophet one of the greatest 33:05 of all the prophets if not the greatest. 33:06 Isaiah 53:7 gave this prediction about Jesus. 33:14 "He was oppressed" this is God in human flesh. 33:20 "He was oppressed and afflicted yet he did not open his mouth, 33:28 he was led like the lamb to the slaughter, 33:31 and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, 33:35 so he did not open his mouth." 33:40 When he stood before the hierarchy 33:43 and they kicked Him and they whipped Him 33:46 and they spat on His face. 33:48 And when the Roman soldiers tore out His beard 33:54 they were amazed because He stood 33:57 there with a God like divinity 34:00 with a God like dignity. 34:06 And He was silent, so silent 34:10 that the Roman governor Pilate that cowardly man 34:16 insult the Lord by washing his hands. 34:21 The Roman Governor Pilate and he said don't you know, 34:25 I have the power to relish you or crucify you. 34:30 Jesus said you could have no power against Me 34:34 unless it was given to you from above. 34:38 He was silent when He was accused. 34:41 He was silent when He was beaten. 34:44 Jesus my friend is the only person in all the world 34:48 who can fulfill these prophecies. 34:51 Prophecy number nine, He was struck and spat upon. 34:56 I want you to think about this. 34:59 I know in a vast audience like this 35:01 there will be many, many people 35:03 who do not really believe in Jesus. 35:06 You say to me tonight why should I believe in Jesus? 35:09 I want to tell you why because Jesus believes in you. 35:17 I would tell you why you ought to believe in Him 35:19 because He went through hell, because He loves you. 35:25 What more can He do? 35:30 The Bible says we're gonna read the text, 35:34 He was struck and spat upon. 35:38 Isaiah 15:6 and I want you to read it with me. 35:45 "I offered my back to those who beat me." 35:49 This is talking about the creative God 35:52 who came down to this world. 35:53 "I offered my back to those who beat me, 35:56 my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard. 36:02 I did not hide my face 36:05 from mocking and spitting." 36:10 When he stood in the presence of the Roman Governor Pilate 36:14 and in the presence of the Jewish hierarchy 36:18 who hated Him because 36:20 He is threatened their power base. 36:23 They were a bunch of corrupt religious rulers. 36:30 And then the Roman soldiers started to beat Him 36:35 and when the whip went around His face, 36:41 the lumps of lips and bone that caught in his beard 36:46 and had ripped out his beard. 36:51 Who is this man? 36:55 This is Christ. 36:57 This is God. 37:00 Why He is going through this? 37:02 To save us. 37:04 We who are so hard in our hearts 37:07 and so sinful in our ways. 37:14 Thousands of years before He came down, 37:19 He wrote his own life story before He was born. 37:26 It was predicted this is the tenth prophecy 37:30 that He would be crucified. 37:37 And in the Book of Psalms written a thousand of years 37:41 before He was born in Bethlehem 37:45 we read these words Psalm 22:16. 37:52 Psalm 22:16, "A band of evil men 38:00 has encircled me, they have pierced 38:03 my hands and my feet." 38:09 When those words were written my beloved friends, 38:12 crucifixion was unknown. 38:16 They didn't crucified people back in those days. 38:22 But the Roman soldiers at the instigation 38:26 of the religious hierarchy took this Son of God 38:31 and they laid Him on a cross, a wooden cross. 38:39 It was the worst of suffering and as He hung up on the cross 38:44 the sin of the world of Port Moresby, 38:48 and Sydney, and Melbourne, and New York, 38:50 and Los Angeles, the sin of all of us is laid on Him. 38:55 For one brief moment in time 39:00 He was unfold on the cross 39:04 like a wounded eagle. Why? 39:10 Because He loves you so. 39:12 Will you not come to Him? 39:14 Will you not believe in Him? 39:17 Will you not follow Him? 39:22 If there had been only one lost soul, 39:26 He would have gone through that for that one lost soul. 39:30 Who is this man they crucified? 39:36 Jesus, the Son of Man, the Son of God, 39:43 the Creator of the universe, and He went through 39:48 that because He loves us. 39:57 Who was this man? 39:59 More than a man. 40:01 It was predicted He be crucified with criminals. 40:05 Prophecy number 11, Isaiah 53:12. 40:15 "Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, 40:19 he will divide the spoils with the strong, 40:23 because he poured out his life unto death, 40:26 he was numbered with the transgressors. 40:30 For He bore the sin of many 40:31 and made intercession for the transgressors." 40:35 He was crucified between two thieves 40:43 so that you and I might know that we are never alone 40:48 that He came to die for sinners. 40:55 Somebody may say tonight in this great audience, 40:57 the vast audience, probably a 100,000 people in tonight. 41:01 You may say, 41:06 what shall I do to accept Him. 41:13 Believe in Him, believe in Him. 41:17 Prophecy number 12 written by Isaiah 41:19 700 years before He was born. 41:22 Isaiah 53:5-6 that He would be our substitute. 41:28 He would come and He would take our place 41:31 that He was pierced. 41:33 Think of the words my friend 41:35 you're never going to be the same after this meeting. 41:36 "But he was pierced for our transgressions, 41:40 he was crushed for our iniquities, 41:43 the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, 41:46 and by his wounds we are healed." 41:52 More than a hundred years ago in the great city of London, 41:56 every morning you would see 41:57 on the mighty bosom of the Thames River 42:00 a little boat that stank it was called the sludge vessel. 42:04 All the sewage of that great city 42:07 was put inside the sludge vessel and it went out 42:11 into the Atlantic and it got rid of this sludge. 42:17 The sludge and the filth and the sin the evil, 42:22 the lying, the stealing, the crime, the blasphemy, 42:27 the commandment breaking, all of those sins, 42:30 our pride, our religious self righteousness 42:34 was put upon Him. 42:38 He was sinless. 42:40 He was holy. 42:42 He was God in human flesh but He bore our sin. 42:46 He has already bore your sin. 42:48 You don't have to pay the price for you sins, 42:52 He has already paid the price for you sins. 42:55 He paid it. 42:59 Prophecy number 13, it was predicted 43:03 that the people would cast lots for his clothing. 43:07 Can you believe it? 43:08 Cast lots for his clothing, His beautiful robe. 43:13 Psalm 22:18 written 3000 years ago 43:17 the prophet inspired by the spirit of Christ said 43:21 "They divide my garments among them 43:23 and cast lots for my clothing." 43:26 As he hung up on the cross, the Roman soldiers sat down 43:31 and they gambled over the only thing 43:34 that he possessed in this world and that was His robe. 43:40 They didn't tear it, they gambled for it. 43:46 It is written. 43:50 It was predicted thousand years before He died 43:55 that not one of his bones would be broken. 43:59 Psalm 34:20 written by King David 44:03 who was also a prophet. 44:05 You read these words, Psalm 34:20 44:09 hear the word of the Lord. 44:11 "He protects all his bones, not one of them will be broken." 44:17 Jesus was crucified on the Friday. 44:21 And before the Sabbath came in, 44:24 this is what happened. 44:27 They came to look at those men the three men, 44:30 the two criminals and the Christ. 44:35 And they had a custom they would not leave the bodies up 44:38 there on the Sabbath because they believed in keeping 44:41 the Sabbath while they crucified the man 44:43 who'd given them the Sabbath. 44:47 And so what they did was this the Roman soldiers 44:50 went around and they broke the legs of the thieves 44:53 and they took those men down and they left them lying 44:57 on the ground under the cross and when the sun went down 45:01 on the Sabbath Saturday sunset they would put up 45:04 those men again and they may live 45:07 on those crosses in hell for a week. 45:13 It was a terrible death. 45:17 A terrible death, there was no death like crucifixion. 45:21 So when they came to Jesus, they discovered 45:25 that He was dead already. 45:30 And a soldier took a spear and thrust it in His side 45:33 and out came blood and water. 45:35 He died of a broken heart. 45:37 His great heart ruptured. 45:42 But they did not break his legs 45:46 exactly as it had been predicted by the Prophet David 45:51 a thousand years before the Christ died. 45:55 It was predicted that He would be buried with the rich. 46:01 The Prophet Isaiah 2,700 years ago, 46:05 700 years I tell you before He was born. 46:10 Isaiah 53:9 made this fascinating prediction. 46:17 "He was assigned a grave with the wicked 46:20 and with the rich in his death, though he had no violence, 46:25 nor was any deceit in his mouth." 46:28 He died with the wicked, He died with the thieves 46:32 but after He died some rich people came along 46:36 and they said let us take Him. 46:40 Let us take Him because we love Him 46:46 and a rich man gave Christ his own tomb 46:50 and He was buried in the tomb of a rich man 46:55 because of the Bible prophecy my friend. 46:58 Listen to me, I appeal to you. 47:02 There is nobody else in all of the world, 47:05 there is nobody else in all of creation 47:08 who fulfills the specifications of this prophecy 47:13 and all of these prophecies. 47:15 I'm here tonight to bear the testimony to the truth 47:19 that Jesus Christ is the Almighty Son of God. 47:25 He is the Messiah, He is our Lord 47:29 and He is our coming King 47:32 and tonight I'd say, hallelujah. 47:38 Thank God for Jesus. 47:40 My friend, He is the man who wrote His own life story 47:43 before He was born it was predicted-- 47:46 now here we come hallelujah. 47:49 It was predicted in Psalm 16:10-11 47:54 "That he wouldn't stay in the grave 47:56 but that He would get up out that grave." 47:59 It was predicted that death could not hold Him in the grave. 48:05 It was predicted He would come up. 48:08 Look at the text Psalm 16 48:11 and Jesus inspired these prophecies. 48:15 "Because you will not abandon me to the grave, 48:20 nor will you let your Holy One see decay. 48:24 You have made known to me the path of life. 48:28 You will fill me with joy in your presence, 48:32 with eternal pleasures at your right hand." 48:35 Listen, my friend. 48:38 They put him in the tomb 48:41 and the Roman soldiers put a seal on the tomb. 48:45 They said we have got rid of that troublemaker 48:47 and people have been saying that for thousands of years. 48:50 We've got rid of that troublemaker, 48:52 Jesus and they put a big stone on the mouth of the tomb 48:57 and then they seal the tomb. 49:00 They sealed it with a mighty seal of mighty Rome 49:06 but you wait for it. 49:09 On Sunday morning there was a tremendous earthquake. 49:16 And a mighty angel came down from the courts of glory 49:24 and all that tomb all the tomb was shaking 49:28 and all of a sudden that stone rolled away 49:33 and Jesus got up out of the sleep of death 49:38 and Jesus walked to the mouth of that tomb 49:42 and Jesus cried out, 49:44 I'm the resurrection and the life. 49:52 Listen my friends, Jesus is alive. 50:00 We don't serve a dead Christ. 50:03 We serve a living Christ. 50:05 And I want you to know tonight 50:07 I can feel His presence in this place. 50:45 Through the valley of the shadow 50:49 Through the mountains of His faith 50:54 The shepherd boy 50:56 of Judah love to save 51:03 In his words of adoration 51:07 And his simple songs of praise 51:12 He glorified Jehovah 51:16 as His King 51:22 A giant slayer 51:27 A Psalm sayer 51:31 For the God of Jacob set upon 51:40 A joy bringer 51:45 A Psalm sayer 51:48 A man after God's own heart 52:02 The boy became a ruler 52:06 Anointed for the throne 52:11 And though you sinned 52:13 He never turned away 52:20 The Lord forgave his servant 52:24 He smiled upon his servant 52:30 For the God of David 52:32 is a God of grace 52:39 To the giant slayer 52:43 The Psalm sayer 52:47 For the God of Jacob set upon 52:54 Oh, love A joy bringer 53:01 A psalm singer, yeah, yeah. 53:04 God called him a man 53:07 after his own heart 53:17 And from His seed will come a Savior 53:22 A light unto the nations 53:26 He'll be And from His land 53:32 would come a ruler 53:36 The king of our salvation 53:40 Jesus Christ is He 53:52 Make me a giant slayer 54:01 A Psalm singer 54:05 For the God of Jacob 54:08 sent upon to the Jesus 54:15 A joy bringer 54:19 A Psalm singer 54:22 God make me your man 54:24 after your own heart 54:31 Lord make me your man 54:34 after your own heart 54:41 Oh, man after 54:47 your own heart 55:02 Paul the evangelist says in the Bible, 55:05 that "God will finish His work 55:06 and cut it short in righteousness." 55:09 The Prophet Joel says, "God will pour out His spirit 55:11 in the last days, and signs and wonders will follow." 55:15 The Carter Report believes that we are now in the end times 55:19 and His spirit is moving mightily. 55:21 During the Port Moresby campaign we testify 55:24 that we saw the power of God revealed. 55:27 God hungry souls 55:30 could not get enough of the word of the Lord 55:33 as at creation the Spirit of God moved upon 55:36 the face of the waters and God brought cosmos out of chaos. 55:41 Souls were recreated in the image of the Creator. 55:45 Instead of hate there was love. 55:47 Instead of despair there was hope. 55:49 Instead of sorrow there was joy. 55:52 And in the place of death God gave life. 55:55 One night as John Carter preached on the person in work 55:58 at the Holy Spirit the image of a white bird 56:01 was flashed on the screens. 56:03 That moment a great white bird 56:05 flew low over the astonish congregation. 56:08 Cries of joy filled the air as the audience recognized 56:12 that God had visited His people. 56:14 A mighty surge of Pentecostal power swept the audience 56:18 of 120,000 souls and everyone present 56:22 felt the warm comforting presence of God. 56:26 The Carter Report team invites you my dear viewer 56:28 to be a partner in this work. 56:31 Soldiers of the cross are wanted. 56:33 Faith partners are needed. 56:35 Write to us now, here at the Carter Report, 56:38 PO Box 1900, Thousand Oaks, California 91358 56:44 or in Australia at PO Box 861, Terrigal, NSW 2260. 56:52 You may also contact us online at cartereport.org 56:56 or email us at info@cartereport.org. 57:04 Thank you, for joining us today. 57:05 To become a faith partner with Pastor John Carter 57:08 and to receive our monthly newsletter, 57:10 write to us here at the Carter Report 57:13 P.O. Box 1900, Thousand Oaks CA 91358 57:19 or in Australia at P.O. Box 861, 57:23 Terrigal, NSW 2260. 57:28 That address again is P.O. Box 1900, 57:31 Thousand Oaks, CA 91358 57:35 or in Australia at P.O. Box 861, 57:39 Terrigal, NSW 2260. 57:43 You may also contact us online 57:45 at carterreprot.org. 57:47 Remember Jesus said, "You'll know the truth 57:50 and the truth will set you free." |
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