Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR100007
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00:01 Some of the largest crowds,
00:02 in the history of Christianity attended "The Carter Report" 00:05 in the Sir John Guise Stadium, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 00:10 Who were these people? 00:11 Well, they were earnest seekers for truth, 00:14 with hearts strangely warmed by the love of God. 00:18 They came hungry for God 00:20 and they listened to His word with a holy awe, 00:23 mingled with a divine excitement. 00:26 When the invitation to accept Christ 00:27 as Lord and Savior was given, thousands surged forward. 00:31 The fervency and devotion of these seekers 00:34 displayed the miracle-working 00:36 power of the Holy Spirit in their lives. 00:39 You are now invited to join this mighty congregation 00:43 as Pastor John Carter forthrightly proclaims a message 00:46 hot from the heart of God. 00:48 Welcome to "The Carter Report" 00:50 in the Sir John Guise National Stadium, 00:53 Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 01:02 We pray tonight your blessing 01:03 upon the great nation of Papua New Guinea. 01:08 We pray your blessing upon our neighbors Indonesia, 01:14 South Korea, and the Philippines. 01:18 We mention these specifically tonight, 01:21 because their ambassadors 01:24 are gracing our presence here tonight 01:27 in this vast auditorium. 01:29 And so we pray that you will bless them 01:32 and bless their countries. 01:34 We are raising our hands to heaven tonight, 01:37 because we need you. 01:39 We know our Father that our hearts cannot rest 01:42 until they rest in You. 01:45 And so tonight recognizing our need 01:50 we open up our hearts to You 01:52 and pray that the spirit of the self-fix system created 01:57 God will come into our hearts and take away our sins, 02:02 and our fears, our anxieties, 02:05 even our hates, and our angers. 02:09 And instead give us your divine peace, 02:12 your love, your grace, and your mercy. 02:17 So bless these beloved people here tonight. 02:20 And we say this prayer 02:23 in the precious name of Jesus Christ, 02:28 our Lord and our Savior 02:31 and for His sake and all the people said. 02:35 Amen and amen. 02:40 I just know that We are going to have a great meeting tonight, 02:43 but remember this, 02:45 the meetings that are coming up 02:46 for the greatest meetings you shall ever get to, 02:48 is it necessary to be baptized to be saved? 02:51 What happens to my baby if it dies unbaptized? 02:54 Tomorrow night. 02:55 Then on Friday night, 02:57 We are going to talk about where are the dead, 02:59 what is the soul, what is the spirit, 03:01 how many people are in hell tonight, 03:04 how many people are in purgatory? 03:06 I know the number. 03:07 I'll tell you on Friday night. 03:09 And then on Saturday night as Pastor Huch has said, 03:12 it is going to be a blockbuster. 03:15 We are going to have two blockbuster programs. 03:18 Antichrist in action, number one. 03:21 And number two, the strange twisted world of the occult 03:28 who are the spirits in Spiritism? 03:33 You don't want to miss this. 03:37 Paul, the evangelist says in the Bible 03:40 that "God will finish His work 03:41 and cut it short in righteousness." 03:44 The prophet Joel says, 03:45 "God will pour out His Spirit in the last days. 03:48 And signs and wonders will follow." 03:50 The Carter Report believes 03:51 that we are now in the end times. 03:54 And His Spirit is moving mightily. 03:57 During the Port Moresby campaign, 03:58 we testified that we saw the power of God revealed. 04:02 God-hungry souls 04:05 could not get enough of the Word of the Lord. 04:08 As at creation, the Spirit of God 04:11 moved upon the face of the waters 04:13 and God brought cosmos out of chaos. 04:17 Souls were recreated in the image of the Creator. 04:20 Instead of hate there was love. 04:23 Instead of despair there was hope. 04:25 Instead of sorrow there was joy, 04:27 and in the place of death God gave life. 04:30 One night as John Carter preached on the person 04:33 and work of the Holy Spirit, 04:35 the image of a white bird was flashed on the screens 04:38 at that moment a great white bird flew low 04:42 over the astonished congregation. 04:44 Cries of joy filled the air as the audience recognized 04:47 that God had visited His people. 04:49 A might surge of Pentecostal powers 04:52 swept the audience of 120,000 souls. 04:56 And everyone present 04:57 felt the warm comforting presence of God. 05:01 The Carter Report team invites you, my dear viewer, 05:04 to be a partner in this work. 05:06 Soldiers of the cross are wanted. 05:09 Faith partners are needed. 05:11 Write to us now here at the Carter Report 05:14 P.O. Box 1900 Thousand Oaks, California 91358 05:19 or in Australia at P.O. Box 861 Terrigal, NSW 2260. 05:27 You may also contact us online at cartereport.org 05:31 or email us at info@carterreport.org. 05:39 Okay, sit back and get ready for the program. 05:42 You folks, ready? 05:44 Now listen, don't we have an understanding, 05:46 when we talk that you are going to talk back to me 05:49 or am I going to do all the talking 05:52 or is anybody going to talk back to me? 05:53 Are you folks ready tonight? Yes. 05:57 Oh, now this is getting much better. 05:58 We just kind of do that a little better, 06:00 because if we got a 100,000 people here, 06:03 I don't want to say, are you folks ready? 06:05 And you say, yes. 06:07 I want you to hit it. Now, okay. 06:09 One, two, three, 06:10 are you folks ready tonight? Yes. 06:18 Now, folks, I am not a young man anymore, you know. 06:23 You got to deal gently with me. 06:26 You know, I don't want you folks 06:28 just blowing me off the state here. 06:30 So when I ask you again, now you just do it, 06:33 just the way you did tonight, 06:35 because that's what I want from you. 06:39 Okay, here's the topic. 06:42 The Secrets of Health. 06:44 Who wants to be healthy, 06:46 long life, peace, and prosperity? 06:50 How can a person live life to the full? 06:53 Listen to me. 06:55 There are people who've come to me around the world 06:57 and I say why is it that some people 07:00 or some bodies of people or some groups of people 07:04 seemed to be blessed and they are healthy, 07:07 they live longer, and some nations in the world 07:11 they have got a life expectancy of only 30 or 40 years. 07:15 And they say, "Why is it that there is such a big difference?" 07:21 Well, my friend, some people have learned the secrets. 07:25 They have learned the secrets 07:27 that we are going to talk about tonight, 07:28 the secrets of health, long life, 07:30 peace, and prosperity. 07:33 Now every person here knows tonight 07:36 that I am a believer in the one true God. 07:40 I am a believer in the great Creator God. 07:44 And I am also believer in His Son, 07:48 the Lord Jesus Christ who came down to this world 07:52 to seek and to save that which was lost. 07:56 I am going to take my old Bible 07:58 and I am going to turn over here to John 10:10 08:04 and I am turning, 08:05 you know, there is a little breeze blowing up here 08:07 and it blows me around a little bit, 08:09 but not as much as what you folks did 08:11 a few moments ago. 08:12 But so I am turning over here to John Chapter 10. 08:16 We are going to run it up on the screen. 08:17 I am going to stand here and read it 08:19 and you can take it off the screen. 08:21 Here's my Bible, here it goes. 08:24 "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy, 08:31 I have come that they may have life, 08:34 and have it to the full." 08:38 Going to come over here to the blackboard 08:41 and I am going to write up 08:42 something that I want you to see. 08:44 I am going to write this up, 08:46 so it will be reinforced in your mind. 08:50 Jesus Christ said, "I have come so that you may have life." 08:58 Have a look at this word. 09:01 It is a magnificent word that you may have life 09:06 and that you may have it to the full. 09:12 God does not want us to live a confined, narrow, 09:20 miserable, literal existence. 09:23 God wants you to have peace, and power, 09:26 and lots of love, and lots of prosperity. 09:31 Now I am going to turn to another text now, 09:34 going to turn to another text. 09:36 I am going to come over here to John 14:5, 6. 09:40 Now I am going to come out here on the runway, 09:43 this is where I take off here. 09:45 And I am going to read this text to you. 09:47 Here you read it too. 09:48 "Thomas said to him, 09:50 'Lord, we don't know where you are going, 09:53 so how can we know the way?' 09:56 Jesus answered, 09:59 'I am the way and the truth and the life. 10:05 No one comes to the Father except through me.'" 10:11 I am going to come now and I am going to put this up 10:14 somewhere on the blackboard here. 10:16 Jesus said and these are not the words 10:19 of just an ordinary man Jesus, said, 10:23 "I am the way, 10:31 the truth." 10:33 If you want to find the truth then you better find Jesus. 10:38 "I am the way, the truth, and the life." 10:44 Listen to me, my beloved friend, if you get to know Jesus Christ, 10:49 the Son of God, you are going to find life to the full, 10:54 and you are going to find the way, 10:56 and you are going to find the truth, 11:00 and you are going to find the life. 11:04 I want you to know today, I want you to know the way. 11:09 I want you to know what to say 11:11 when you think about these things. 11:13 Because Jesus said, "I am the way, 11:17 the truth, and the life." 11:20 Listen, I don't want to offend anybody, 11:22 but Jesus didn't say the church is the way. 11:26 Or some people say, 11:27 well, I am just going to trust in the church. 11:29 You better not trust too much 11:31 because churches make lots of mistakes. 11:34 Down through history churches made 11:36 lots and lots of mistakes. 11:37 The church is not the way, Jesus is the way. 11:41 Somebody says to me tonight, I don't want to offend anybody. 11:44 The person says to me tonight, 11:45 but the priest, my priest is the way. 11:48 My friend, the priest is not the way. 11:51 Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. 11:55 I want you to know this. 11:57 Jesus is the way. 11:58 Somebody says in a Protestant church. 12:00 Well, I am trusting in my pastor. 12:02 My pastor is going to get me home to the kingdom of God, 12:05 so I am going to trust in the church, 12:07 and I am going to trust in the priest, 12:09 I am going to trust in the pastor. 12:11 I want to tell you, folks, something tonight, 12:12 you better learn, we all better learn to trust in Jesus 12:17 who is the way, and the truth, and the life. 12:22 Hear what I am saying? 12:23 Now I like to hear from you, that sounds good. 12:26 I am glad you are agreeing with me. 12:31 Have you heard of the great reformation? 12:36 Well, I am going to talk about that later on, 12:38 as we go along tonight. 12:40 But the great reformers had a saying. 12:43 You don't have to remember this, but it would be good if you did. 12:49 They quoted the Latin Sola Christus. 12:53 You would say what on earth does that mean? 12:54 Sola Christus, only Christ. 12:58 Sola Scriptura, only Scripture. 13:01 Only Christ, only Scripture. 13:05 I want to tell you, folks, something 13:06 when you come into these meetings. 13:08 You are not going to find out what my church believes. 13:10 I am not here to tell you what my church believes, 13:13 I am not here to tell you what the priest believes, 13:15 I am not here tell you what my denomination believes. 13:18 I am here to lead you to Jesus 13:20 who is the way, and the truth, and the life. 13:26 And when you find Jesus, my friend, 13:29 you are going to find peace, and power, 13:32 and you are going to have long life, 13:34 and you are going to have prosperity, happiness. 13:37 Listen to me. 13:39 I am sort of steamed up here tonight. 13:41 It's just sort of ready to jump out of me. 13:43 Happiness, health, long life, 13:46 peace, and prosperity are found in Jesus Christ, 13:51 the eternal Son of the Almighty God. 13:54 Hallelujah, praise the Lord. 14:00 Now there are many thieves. 14:05 Did you know there are many thieves? 14:09 Hey, you folks, out there, are you listening to me? 14:11 All of you folks standing out there, 14:14 and you folks over there in the bleachers, 14:16 you folks half a mile away, 14:17 and you folks in the parking lot, 14:19 a mile away, I want you to listen. 14:22 There are many thieves who steal, kill, and destroy. 14:28 Jesus said, "The thief comes only to steal, 14:34 and to kill, and to destroy. 14:37 That's what Jesus said. 14:39 Jesus said, the thieves have been coming 14:42 and they have been stealing, 14:44 and they have been taking away from us life. 14:48 They have been taking away from us our peace, 14:51 and our joy, and our happiness, 14:54 and they have been leaving us spiritual paupers. 15:01 I am going to say some things that might offend some of you. 15:03 I don't want to offend you, 15:06 but I am here tonight not to run a popularity contest. 15:13 I am here tonight by the grace of God, 15:15 not to try to please you, but to please God by preaching 15:20 and teaching the truth. 15:22 So help me, God. 15:26 I am going to talk about some of the thieves 15:28 that are among us. 15:31 There's a thief that is called drugs. 15:38 Did you know there's a war going on south of the border, 15:42 only a couple of 100 miles 15:44 from where I live in the United States? 15:47 Every year in this dreadful war 15:50 which is being fought over drugs, 15:53 more than 10,000 people are murdered every year. 15:59 They even cut people's heads off. 16:03 Cut off their heads 16:04 and they roll their heads across the streets, 16:09 because of the insatiable demand for drugs. 16:16 A friend of mine, Javier Piraneque 16:18 should be a picture. 16:19 Today, it's hard to believe of the criminals who were caught 16:27 and they had accumulated a mass of 22 billion dollars 16:35 through the blood of men and women. 16:40 Twenty two-- I saw the picture. 16:43 Javier showed me the picture of all of these bank notes. 16:49 Twenty two billion dollars worth of-- 16:55 twenty two billion dollars worth of blood. 17:00 And there is another thief in this part of the world. 17:05 Now here I am going to get close to some of you. 17:07 And I don't want to offend you. 17:10 But it's taking away the blessing of God. 17:13 It's hurting you. 17:14 It's destroying your life. 17:16 It is called the betel nut. 17:25 You think it's funny? 17:27 You really think it's funny? 17:30 I want to tell you it's a poisonous drug. 17:40 And what it is doing, it is destroying people's lives 17:45 and as they chew it. 17:47 The devil is laughing at them. 17:51 Oh, they think they are smart. 17:54 And once they start they can't stop. 17:57 But I want to tell you Jesus can take away 18:01 the curse of the drugs out of your life 18:04 including betel nut and marijuana, 18:09 and opium, and cocaine, 18:12 and all of these dreadful drugs. 18:17 There's a thief that is called promiscuity. 18:22 I want to talk to the young people. 18:25 In the western world, 18:27 it's becoming almost the thing that most people do 18:31 and that is to sleep around. 18:34 And they sleep around, 18:36 and they have no sense of faithfulness 18:41 to a single partner 18:43 and that is why AIDS in some part of the world 18:48 is almost out of control. 18:51 Because people are breaking the holy law of God 18:56 and they say, why are we so miserable, 18:59 why aren't we happy, why doesn't God bless me? 19:03 The people say it's because you won't let God bless you, 19:07 because of promiscuity. 19:09 What about dishonesty? 19:11 What a thief is dishonesty? 19:14 I think of the year 2008 19:16 when we had the tremendous worldwide financial crisis. 19:21 You know why it started? 19:23 Would you like to know? 19:24 It is because of some of the great banks 19:28 in the United States of America, and some of banks in London, 19:33 and some of the banks in Germany. 19:37 And they were stealing, 19:40 and they were lying to the people. 19:43 And therefore in the United States of America 19:46 commencing at Wall Street millions and millions 19:51 and billions of decent people lost their homes. 19:57 It's because of dishonesty, and lying, 20:01 and cheating, and stealing. 20:04 Why don't people come out and talk about these things? 20:08 Why don't we say to some of those banks, 20:10 you have been stealing from the people? 20:12 And you have been lying to the people? 20:16 I think of evil spirits how they must be laughing. 20:22 It is believed in many parts of the world 20:24 that the dead can come back and they can talk to the living, 20:29 and the living can talk to the dead 20:31 that's what they believe. 20:32 And in the United States of America 20:34 there a television programs where there are occult masters 20:41 and they introduce living people to their dead loved ones. 20:47 My friend, it is demonism, it is stealing. 20:51 It is stealing the souls of the people. 20:55 I think if crime-- I have had people say to me, 20:59 but poverty causes crime. 21:01 There maybe some truth in this, 21:03 but I want you to know it's only partially true, 21:06 because it's not so much a case that poverty causes crime, 21:10 but crime causes poverty. 21:17 The happiest people are the people 21:20 who keep the commandments of God. 21:24 I think of violence in our cities, 21:27 I think of the gangs in the United States of America. 21:32 Pastor Willie G works with the gang members. 21:36 There are more than a 100,000 gang members 21:41 in the United States of America. 21:44 Would you like to know why these gangs exist? 21:49 Because for many of those young people 21:53 it's the only family they have ever known. 22:00 You want to know a dirty little secret? 22:03 There are men, yeah, there's millions of them. 22:08 And they get women pregnant. 22:12 You don't have to be that smart to do that. 22:15 They get women pregnant 22:18 and then they walk out on the woman. 22:21 And the woman has to bring up the children. 22:24 And sometimes you have got a woman 22:26 and she is got six children with six different fathers. 22:32 And what happens to the children. 22:35 These children in the great cities of America, 22:38 they get into gang. 22:43 I want to tell you, folks, something tonight. 22:50 Sex was made 22:55 for loving people in the context of marriage. 23:03 And if you beget, 23:05 you must not forget 23:08 that you have brought a little child into the world. 23:13 They call these fathers who have children 23:16 and then walk away, they call them deadbeat dads. 23:26 If you want to be happy and if you want to have joy, 23:31 ladies and gentlemen, obey the laws of marriage 23:36 and obey the laws of God. 23:42 Lying, it's a thief. 23:48 Lying. 23:53 A man is as good as his word. 23:59 Today we expect that people at least 24:03 where I come from Los Angeles 24:05 we expect that many people are going to lie to us. 24:10 The Bible says, 24:12 "In the kingdom of God there will be no liars." 24:20 It's a thief. 24:22 It robs us of our peace. 24:25 It robs us of our joy. 24:28 And when a leader gets up and says something 24:30 the people have the right to believe, 24:33 he's going to tell the truth. 24:34 Listen to me. 24:37 A generation ago, 24:38 there was a great President of the United States. 24:44 He was loved by the people. 24:47 But then he went on television, 24:48 because an incident arose 24:50 and he lied to the American people. 24:55 The greatest sin that you can do 24:58 if you are the President of the United States 25:00 is to lie to the American people, 25:05 because the American people will forgive anything, 25:08 but they will not forgive a liar. 25:13 What happened was this? 25:16 When the news got out 25:17 that their President had been lying to them. 25:21 Congress and the Senate met together 25:24 and they said he's got to go, he's got to go. 25:28 And while he was the President, he was forced to walk away 25:33 from the White House, because he was a liar. 25:42 Listen, lying is a thief. 25:48 It steals from the people. 25:50 It steals from our souls. 25:54 I am telling you tonight. 25:56 Racism. 25:58 I know I am saying some things tonight 26:00 maybe they are going to offend some people, 26:04 but they are not going to offend people 26:05 who want to follow Christ. 26:10 Going to talk about racism. 26:14 In America and other countries 26:17 there is the phenomenon of white elitism. 26:24 Like the Klu Klux Klan 26:27 that is banned in the United States of America. 26:31 And I want you to know I hate racism. 26:40 Listen to me, 26:43 in America there has been white racism 26:49 where white people didn't want to associate with black people. 26:53 Don't they realize that Jesus was not a white man? 27:01 Jesus wasn't a white man with blue eyes and blonde hair. 27:07 Jesus was a man from the Middle East, 27:10 He was man for black people, and white people, 27:12 and brown people, and yellow people. 27:14 Jesus is the universal man. 27:20 Now I am going to go a little further. 27:22 And I know I am not going to offend any person here tonight 27:27 who wants to follow Christ. 27:30 But then there's tribalism. 27:32 I haven't seen any of it in this part of the world. 27:38 But I think of Rwanda. 27:44 There were two tribes of black people. 27:51 One tribe killed 800,000 of their brothers, 27:58 because they belong to another tribe. 28:01 Oh, God, have mercy on us. 28:06 Listen, it is not the pigmentation of your skin. 28:15 Martin Luther King said, 28:17 he said, "I pray," said Martin Luther King 28:22 "that people will not be judged by the color of their skin, 28:27 but by the content of their character." 28:34 You see, man looks on the outward appearance, 28:39 but the Lord looks on the heart. 28:43 I want you to know it doesn't matter 28:46 whether you are black, whether you are brown, 28:49 whether you are yellow, hether you are white 28:51 I want you to know we are all the children of the one God 28:56 and we are brothers and sisters 28:59 and therefore we are called to love each other. 29:05 And when you got people who are called by God 29:10 and they love each other whether they are white, 29:13 or black, or brown, or yellow 29:16 they will have life to the full, 29:19 because they will be following Jesus 29:22 who is the way, the truth, and the life. 29:26 And I say to you tonight, 29:28 God help us to be the followers of Christ. 29:33 I am talking about the some of the thieves. 29:35 I am talking about some of the thieves. 29:37 There There is a thief that is called alcohol. 29:43 The Bible says, "Wine is a mocker. 29:47 Strong drink is raging." 29:51 I admire my Muslim friends, because a part of their religion 29:56 is they do not drink alcohol. 30:04 I will tell you a story. 30:07 Years ago, in the United States of America, 30:10 there was a young man sentenced to death 30:13 to die in the electric chair? 30:16 What a death. 30:21 And a friend of mine went to see him. 30:24 This was years ago. 30:25 He started to talk to this young man 30:28 in his cell on death row and he said, 30:33 "My boy, why would you ever kill your mother?" 30:39 This boy of 24 years of age had murdered his own mother. 30:46 What a sin? 30:51 He said, "Tell me about it." 30:53 He said, "Well, I came home late at night. 30:56 I have been drinking. 30:58 My mother came out of the bedroom 31:01 and she started to nag me. 31:04 She started to preach to me. 31:06 She started to lecture me." 31:08 And he said, "I couldn't think for myself, 31:13 my mind had been stolen by the thief, 31:16 I didn't want to do it. 31:18 I didn't know what I was doing." 31:20 And he said, "I went to the counter 31:23 and I got the bread knife and I came over 31:27 and I stabbed my mother over and over again." 31:35 Then my friend said to him, 31:39 "Boy, who gave you your first drink?" 31:48 He said, "My mother gave me my first drink. 31:57 My mother taught me to drink and I killed her." 32:07 You know, I am dedicated to teaching the truth. 32:12 I am not dedicated to pleasing people. 32:14 What I want more than anything else 32:16 is to get you people home to the kingdom of God. 32:21 And I want you to come to know Christ. 32:23 I want you to have Christ in your life. 32:25 I want us to have our lives transformed by the power 32:30 and the grace of God, because Jesus is the way, 32:34 the truth, and the life. 32:36 I think of lawlessness that seems to fill the streets 32:41 of some of the great American cities 32:43 stealing, cheating, lying, 32:46 taking that which is not our own. 32:48 I think of a thief that is called adultery 32:58 where men and women hop from one bed to another. 33:07 And I wonder 33:08 why they are so emotionally torn into a million pieces. 33:15 He going from Mary 33:20 to Susie 33:24 to Beverly to Joann 33:28 and it goes on 33:29 and the women are hopping into bed with other men. 33:35 And I wonder why they are psychologically sick. 33:43 Jesus said, "I have come that they may have life 33:46 and have it to the full." 33:48 I am not here tonight 33:49 to try to get you to give up anything. 33:51 I am here tonight to get you to accept someone. 33:55 And when we accept someone He will come into out hearts 33:59 and He will change our lives. 34:01 He will make us better people. 34:04 I am going to say something that's very sensitive. 34:07 This program is going to be seen on American television. 34:10 So I am going to stick my neck out. 34:15 A lot of people in America and Australia 34:19 are not going to like what I am going to say. 34:23 The President of the United States recently 34:26 with the backing of the NAACP 34:30 said, "It was great for men to marry men, 34:36 and women to marry women. 34:40 They call it gay marriage." 34:46 But I want to tell the President of the United States 34:50 and everybody else that the Bible teaches 34:55 that a marriage is not between a man and a man, 34:58 and a woman and a woman. 34:59 A marriage is between a man and a woman, 35:04 Jesus said so. 35:06 Jesus said so. 35:08 Jesus said, "In the beginning we made them male and female." 35:12 And if you come to this meeting 35:14 and if you keep coming to this meeting 35:16 and if you follow these truths you are going to find 35:18 that I am going to tell you a man ought to marry a woman 35:22 and a woman ought to marry a man. 35:25 And we are opposed to gay marriage. 35:27 We are not opposed to homosexuals. 35:29 We love them. 35:31 We are not opposed to gay people. 35:32 We are not opposed to lesbians. 35:34 Jesus died for them, 35:36 but we are here to tell you tonight 35:38 that marriage is between a man and a woman, 35:42 and between a woman and a man, so help us God. 35:48 You know, in some parts of the world, 35:52 AIDS is almost out of control. 35:55 In some countries that I have visited 35:57 they say to me, 35:59 be careful that you don't have an accident 36:01 that you go to hospital 36:02 and you got to have a blood transfusion, 36:04 because 28% of the people in this certain country 36:08 are carrying the AIDS. 36:11 They are carrying this terrible virus 36:13 and there's no cure for it. 36:16 And if this virus gets inside you, 36:19 sooner or later you are going to come down with AIDS. 36:25 Listen to me, 36:27 Jesus loves everybody, loves homosexuals, 36:33 He loves heterosexuals, He loves lesbians, 36:37 He loves me, He loves you, 36:41 He loves the Muslims, He loves the Hindus, 36:45 He loves the Roman Catholics, He loves the Baptists, 36:49 He loves the Pentecostals, He loves the Adventists, 36:52 He loves the Lutherans, Jesus loves people. 36:58 And Jesus came to this world 37:03 because these thieves are everywhere. 37:07 These thieves are stealing from us 37:10 and they are killing us. 37:12 And why am I talking of this tonight 37:14 because I want you to be happy, I want you to have peace, 37:18 I want you to have joy, 37:20 I want you to have a great life now, 37:22 and then I want you to have a magnificent life 37:27 in the kingdom of God when Jesus comes. 37:30 Listen to me, 37:33 the happiest people in the world, 37:36 never forget this young people. 37:39 I have seen a lot the happiest people 37:43 in this world are those who follow God's ways 37:46 and keep His commandments. 37:49 And I am going to turn to Isaiah 48:18, 19 37:54 and I want you to look at these tremendous words. 37:57 Look at these words. 37:59 "If only you had paid attention to my commands, 38:02 your peace would have been like a river, 38:05 your well-being like the waves of the sea. 38:09 Your descendants would have been like the sand, 38:12 your children like its numberless grains, 38:15 their names would never be blotted out 38:17 nor destroyed from before me." 38:20 I want you to visualize tonight. 38:23 Can I get you to do this? 38:25 This is a different meeting 38:26 because I am sort of getting close to you. 38:29 I am talking about things a lot of people say, 38:32 we should not talk about. 38:35 But I am not here tonight, because I am running for offers. 38:38 I am not here tonight to be popular with you. 38:40 I am here tonight to get you into the kingdom of God. 38:44 Listen, my friend, the Bible says, 38:47 "If you follow Jesus, and if you keep His commandments 38:52 your peace is going to be like a river." 38:56 It's going to be sweet, it's going to be refreshing, 39:02 it's going to give you life. 39:05 Your children, your descendents 39:07 are going to be like the grains of the sand on the sea shore. 39:13 God is going to bless you. 39:15 People are going to say, what happened to that person, 39:18 what happened to that man who came to the Carter Report 39:21 in Port Moresby. 39:22 He looks so good. 39:25 Look at his wife, she looks so happy, 39:27 she looks even more beautiful, her skin is even nicer. 39:34 They are going to say, what happened to these people 39:37 they have something they never had before. 39:41 They have my friend, the living Christ 39:44 and His commandments. 39:47 I am going to tell you something now, 39:49 some of you know about it, but lots of you don't. 39:53 I am going to tell the story of the great reformation 39:57 that swept over Europe hundreds of years ago. 40:01 We call it by that name 'The Reformation.' 40:06 And listen to me as I tell you this, 40:08 because as these truths get into your hearts tonight 40:13 you are going to be a changed people 40:15 and you are going to be a blessed people, 40:17 you are going to be a wealthier people, 40:19 you are going to be a prosperous people. 40:21 Listen, there was a man by the name of Martin Luther. 40:26 Martin Luther was a Roman Catholic priest, 40:28 one of the most sincere people 40:30 who has ever lived on this planet. 40:33 Martin Luther started to study the Scriptures 40:35 and he became disgusted 40:37 with some of the corruptions of the church, 40:40 because the church is made up of people 40:42 like you and me, people who make mistakes. 40:44 And Martin Luther started to teach the Bible. 40:48 He started to teach about Christ. 40:50 And wherever his teachings went, 40:52 it was like a great river flowing, 40:54 because people started to feel better. 40:57 They started to look better, they started to live longer, 41:01 they started to become more prosperous. 41:03 And the marvelous thing is this wherever the teachings 41:07 of that great Protestant reformation went 41:11 it brought healing, and joy, 41:14 and prosperity, and longevity, 41:17 and the people were caught up on clouds almost to heaven. 41:22 It was a net of Almighty God. 41:26 Where the Bible went like a great flowing stream 41:30 in the desert it brought life, and health, and healing. 41:36 Listen, I am going to make a promise to you. 41:40 I raise my hand before God. 41:45 I am going to tell you this story in a moment 41:46 at a US news want you to keep it there. 41:51 Young people, old people, boys and girls, 41:57 if you will follow Christ, the crucified Christ, 42:02 the resurrected Christ. 42:04 If you will read His word, if you will obey His word 42:14 you are going to be a people marveled at. 42:19 They will say, "What happened to the people in Port Moresby? 42:26 They have become healthier, they are living longer, 42:30 they are becoming wealthier, 42:33 they are a marvel to the world 42:36 it is because they have discovered the secret of life." 42:43 Listen, there's a magazine in the United States 42:47 it is not a religious magazine and it is anything 42:50 but a religious magazine. 42:51 It is called the "US News & World Report." 42:56 There is an edition on the best hospitals 42:58 in the United States of America. 43:01 But we are not going to talk about the best hospitals 43:03 in the United States of America. 43:05 It also--listen, 43:09 it talks that those places in the world 43:16 where the people are the happiest, and healthiest. 43:25 The people with the greatest prosperity 43:30 and this magazine that is not a Christian magazine said, 43:37 "They are the countries that follow Christ." 43:46 They say, "They are the countries 43:48 that respect the Bible. 43:54 Listen to me, 44:00 when the great river of the reformation 44:04 flooded out to the world, some nations accepted, 44:10 some rejected. 44:12 The nations that rejected went down into poverty, 44:18 and crime, and drugs, 44:21 and smuggling, and murders. 44:28 But the countries that worshipped Christ 44:34 even though, they had many problems and many sins, 44:39 they became the most blessed countries in the world. 44:48 The prophet said, 44:50 "Oh, that you would hearken to my commandments, 44:52 then your peace would have been like a river, 44:56 and your righteousness as the waves of the sea." 45:01 I want to say to the man sitting back there 45:04 who's been having an adulterous relationship. 45:07 That is destroying you. 45:10 It is pulling you down. 45:12 I want to say to the woman 45:14 who is living a promiscuous life. 45:16 You are going from man to man. 45:18 You know, why you are doing this, 45:20 my dear friend, it is because you are so empty inside. 45:24 It is because you are not happy, 45:26 you are bored, you are bored. 45:29 I want to say to the people here the men and the women 45:31 who are on drugs. 45:34 You take those drugs because you need those drugs. 45:38 You take those drugs because you are not strong. 45:41 You take those drugs because you lack power. 45:44 I want to say to you tonight get on to Jesus, 45:48 get the power that comes from Jesus 45:51 and if you get the power that comes from Jesus 45:54 you will not want your alcohol, 45:56 you will not want your betel nut, 45:59 you will not want your marijuana, 46:01 you will not want those drugs, 46:03 because you will be turned on to Jesus. 46:09 Listen here it is Papua New Guinea. 46:13 Here it is the best advice 46:15 and the best news you have ever had. 46:18 This is the truth. 46:19 The most prosperous countries, 46:22 the most prosperous people 46:24 are those who honor Christ and the Bible. 46:28 That is the report of "US News & World Report." 46:32 It is the truth. 46:34 Now I have been to Russia 42 times. 46:42 I love the Russian people, 46:44 I would like to think that the Russian-- 46:47 look at my beautiful friends. 46:50 I was in (indistinct) some little time ago. 46:54 They are happy people. 46:57 I found in the Solomon's the happiest people 47:00 are the people who know Christ. 47:04 When I came to PNG I have only been here for one week. 47:08 I have found some of the most beautiful, 47:10 some of the most loving people anywhere in the world. 47:15 I said to my wife, "I don't want to go home 47:19 because I love these people." 47:24 And I want you to know this. 47:27 You can tell the difference between 47:29 somebody who believes in Jesus and somebody who doesn't. 47:34 A person who believes in Jesus 47:37 and who keeps the commandments of God has got a smile. 47:42 A person who believes in Jesus 47:45 and keeps the commandments of God is faithful to his wife. 47:49 The wife is faithful to the husband. 47:52 There is no gay marriage or any of those things 47:55 that are so contrary to the Word of God. 48:02 Now I have been to Russia 42 times. 48:08 I have spoken to more atheists. 48:11 I guess, than any person living on the planet. 48:15 Hear what I said? 48:16 I have spoken to the KGB on two occasions. 48:21 I have spoken to millions and millions of atheists. 48:28 When I went to Russia, 48:30 I discovered what atheism had done to the soul of the people. 48:35 Alexander Solzhenitsyn perhaps, 48:38 the greatest Christian of the 20th century said, 48:41 "We forgot God and all these awful things came upon us." 48:48 During the time when the people forsook the Bible 48:52 and gave up Christ, 48:55 during that time that lasted around 70 years, 48:59 the atheists put to death in the Soviet Union 49:02 between 50 million and 70 million people. 49:07 When I went to Russia, 49:09 I discovered incredible poverty, 49:12 I discovered incredible alcoholism, 49:16 I discovered almost every second person was a drunk, 49:21 I discovered little orphans everywhere, 49:23 little orphans would come up to me, 49:25 whenever I was on the train going across Siberia. 49:27 When the train would come into the station, 49:29 when it was 40 degrees below, minus 40, 49:33 heaps of little children would come up to me 49:36 and they would put out their hands 49:37 because they were freezing, 49:39 because their parents were drunk. 49:44 Atheism tore the soul out of Russia. 49:53 When the atheists were ruling, when they got rid of God, 49:56 and when they got rid of Christ they brought upon Russia 50:01 a time of horror and the people became poor 50:06 and the people became sick. 50:10 It was like a living hell. 50:19 I open my heart you, I am a plain speaking man, 50:23 but nothing to hide. 50:26 My message is this. 50:28 The happiest people in this world are not the atheists. 50:33 They are not the nonbelievers, they are not the scoffers. 50:39 The happiest people are those who have faith in God, 50:44 in Jesus Christ our Lord, 50:47 and who keep the commandments of God. 50:54 You say to me, you don't understand us 50:56 here in Port Moresby. 51:00 I do understand you. 51:01 I understand you, I know you, I feel for you, 51:05 I feel the pain of some of you, I know your struggles, 51:10 I know the cries of your hearts, 51:13 and I want you to know Jesus is the way, 51:16 the truth, and the life. 51:17 And the happiest people are the people who turn to Christ. 51:22 And whose lives are changed by the power of God. 51:26 Though Though I am saying to you tonight, come to Christ. 51:29 I am saying to the young people come to Christ. 51:32 You think you are having a great time outside of Christ? 51:34 You can't be happy, you can't have peace, 51:37 you can't have joy until, you know, Jesus. 51:40 Jesus said, "I have come that they may have life, 51:45 and that they may have it," 51:46 as it says in the King James Version, 51:48 "more abundantly." 51:51 I can give a testimony tonight 51:55 that I have been teaching these truths 51:57 for 50 years without a break. 52:00 I have spoken to millions and millions of people. 52:04 I do it not because I am paid to do it. 52:08 I am no longer a young man. 52:11 I do it because I see how God can bring joy, 52:17 and happiness, and peace, 52:20 and prosperity to people who will believe. 52:24 And I have come to Port Moresby to say to you 52:27 believe in the Christ who died for you, my beloved friends. 52:32 I beseech you believe in Him. 52:39 There's a man-- I have been to many places. 52:42 I have been to China, spoken in China. 52:47 All through Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Siberia. 52:52 I have spoken outdoors in Siberia. 52:55 I have been out on Lake Baikal, when it's been minus 40 degrees. 53:00 I have been to so many, many places. 53:02 I have spoken across the United States of America, 53:05 down in Australia in the Sydney Opera House. 53:08 I have never spoken to a group quite as good 53:11 as the group in Port Moresby. 53:13 But listen, I have been to many places. 53:17 But there is a man here tonight 53:18 who has been to places I have not been to. 53:23 When he was the young man, 53:28 he was tremendously famous by the time I think he turned 19. 53:33 Everybody was talking about him in the United States. 53:37 They called him Willie G. 53:47 Good afternoon. 53:48 My name is Debbie Blencowe. 53:50 I am a teacher 53:52 at Carr Memorial Adventist Primary School. 53:55 I enjoy coming to this meeting 53:57 from the time when the time the program started. 54:02 And it has touched my life as well as my students life. 54:06 Especially when I go back to the class, 54:09 the kids talk about what they have heard. 54:12 And they say the story that touches most was 54:15 the John 3:16 story. They really enjoyed. 54:18 I come from Gulf and I am married, 54:22 I have got three kids, and I have got a grandchild. 54:26 Thank you, Pastor Carter, for your program. 54:28 It has changed my life completely. 54:30 Thank you. 54:33 Yeah, my name is Margaret. 54:35 Well, I come from Anson Bay. 54:39 I have been coming until two weeks now. 54:42 And I am interested and I feel that 54:44 this message is really touching me 54:47 and I was born as a Catholic. 54:50 And then when I joined in Seventh-day Adventist 54:52 I can see so many good things. 54:54 I said, "Lord." 54:55 He has the plan for me. 54:57 So I came this way. 54:59 I have been struggling all through the years. 55:01 But I thank the good Lord that I am in the truth now, 55:04 so that's a list which I can give. 55:06 Thank you. 55:10 My name is Robin. 55:11 And my father's name is Taloppa. 55:15 I come from Southern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea. 55:20 I am from one of the primary schools teaching in NCD. 55:24 And I as I observe and come through the week, 55:30 during the two weeks I really enjoyed meeting. 55:33 It's really amazing. 55:34 Though I am an Adventist, 55:36 but I even gone through some of the discovers like this. 55:39 It's really brilliant for me. 55:43 I was really excited throughout the week. 55:46 And I am really blessed. 55:48 God has come this far to tell me some of the amazing discoveries 55:52 that I haven't gone through. 55:54 And I am really blessed 55:56 and I also interviewed some of the secondary school teachers 56:00 and they told me that after the meeting they said, 56:04 they will go back and become Adventist, 56:07 because they were in the wrong faults, 56:09 so they said, they want to become an Adventist. 56:11 So I am really excited. 56:14 John Carter has come with the anointing 56:17 and really blessed us and we really enjoyed the programs 56:21 that we have gone through. 56:25 Who were these people attending the Carter Report 56:28 at the Sir John Guise Stadium, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 56:31 Well, they come from all walks of life. 56:34 In this great congregation of more than 100,000 56:37 we we find doctors, lawyers, 56:39 politicians, ambassadors, carpenters, students, 56:42 teachers, believers, and unbelievers. 56:45 There are husbands and wives with their families. 56:48 There are the rich and the poor, the powerful and the weak. 56:53 They are being told that Christ alone is the way, 56:56 the truth, and the life. 56:58 They are hearing the words of life 57:00 and their hearts have been strangely warmed. 57:02 Sometimes they feel that their hearts will burst 57:06 and they feel compelled to hurry down to the front 57:08 to publicly confess the Savior. 57:11 They are shown in the Scriptures 57:12 that God commands men everywhere to repent and be baptized. 57:17 They respond with a holy devotion 57:19 and a passionate intensity. 57:22 Will you not join them? 57:26 Thank you for joining us today. 57:28 To become a faith partner with Pastor John Carter 57:30 and to receive our monthly newsletter, 57:32 write to us here at the Carter Report, 57:35 PO Box 1900 Thousand Oaks, CA, 91358. 57:40 Or in Australia at PO Box 861, Terrigal, NSW, 2260. 57:47 You may also contact us online at cartereport.org. 57:51 Remember, Jesus said, "You will know the truth, 57:53 and the truth will set you free." |
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