Welcome to the Carter Report 00:00:01.40\00:00:02.77 at the Sir John Guise Stadium in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 00:00:02.80\00:00:06.10 More than 100,000 souls are in attendance 00:00:06.13\00:00:09.52 and John Carter is preaching the word of God. 00:00:09.55\00:00:12.19 The great congregation sits motionless. 00:00:12.22\00:00:14.49 They are spellbound not by the oratory of the speaker, 00:00:14.52\00:00:18.00 but by the Spirit of God as He bears witness to His word. 00:00:18.03\00:00:21.83 An atmosphere of divine solemnity 00:00:21.86\00:00:24.71 mingled with a holy joy pervades the stadium 00:00:24.74\00:00:28.00 and spills out to the thousands gathered outside, 00:00:28.03\00:00:31.62 night by night in weather fare and foul. 00:00:31.65\00:00:34.57 The old warrior preaches 00:00:34.60\00:00:36.22 on tens of thousands come to Christ. 00:00:36.25\00:00:39.17 Thousands are baptized in the sea at Ela Beach 00:00:39.20\00:00:42.48 and still more pressed forward to publicly confess Christ. 00:00:42.51\00:00:46.74 Now this is your opportunity 00:00:46.77\00:00:49.09 to be a part of what many have called a new Pentecost. 00:00:49.12\00:00:52.85 Welcome to the Carter Report 00:00:52.88\00:00:54.94 at the Sir John Guise Stadium in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 00:00:54.97\00:00:59.46 Now I've been to Russia 42 times, 00:01:04.04\00:01:10.32 I've spoken to more atheists, 00:01:10.35\00:01:12.91 I guess than any person living on the planet. 00:01:12.94\00:01:17.02 You heard what I've said? 00:01:17.05\00:01:18.42 I have spoken to the KGB on two occasions. 00:01:18.45\00:01:23.35 I've spoken to millions and millions of atheists. 00:01:23.38\00:01:29.65 When I went to Russia, I discovered 00:01:29.68\00:01:33.11 what atheism had done to the soul of the people. 00:01:33.14\00:01:37.17 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, perhaps the greatest Christian 00:01:37.20\00:01:41.20 of the 20th century said, "We forgot God 00:01:41.23\00:01:45.46 and all of these awful things came upon us." 00:01:45.49\00:01:49.78 During the time when the people forsook 00:01:49.81\00:01:53.05 the Bible and gave up Christ. 00:01:53.08\00:01:57.38 During that time that lasted around 70 years, 00:01:57.41\00:02:00.97 the atheist put to death in the Soviet Union 00:02:01.00\00:02:04.72 between 50 million and 70 million people. 00:02:04.75\00:02:09.53 When I went to Russia, 00:02:09.56\00:02:11.56 I discovered incredible poverty. 00:02:11.59\00:02:14.81 I discovered incredible alcoholism. 00:02:14.84\00:02:18.13 I discovered almost 00:02:18.16\00:02:19.64 every second person was a drunk. 00:02:19.67\00:02:23.36 I discovered little orphans everywhere. 00:02:23.39\00:02:25.48 Little orphans would come up 00:02:25.51\00:02:26.88 to me when I was on the train going across Siberia. 00:02:26.91\00:02:29.75 When the train would come into the station 00:02:29.78\00:02:31.51 when it was 40 degrees below, 00:02:31.54\00:02:33.78 minus 40, heaps of little children 00:02:33.81\00:02:36.77 would come up to me and they would put out their hands 00:02:36.80\00:02:39.75 because they were freezing 00:02:39.78\00:02:41.57 because their parents were drunk. 00:02:41.60\00:02:46.53 Atheism tore 00:02:46.56\00:02:49.71 the soul out of Russia. 00:02:49.74\00:02:54.91 When the atheist were ruling, when they got rid of God 00:02:54.94\00:02:58.28 and when they got rid of Christ, 00:02:58.31\00:03:00.73 they brought upon Russia a time of horror 00:03:00.76\00:03:05.95 and the people became poor and the people became sick. 00:03:05.98\00:03:12.62 It was like a living hell. 00:03:12.65\00:03:17.70 Some years ago, the Carter Report 00:03:17.73\00:03:20.38 produced an award winning documentary. 00:03:20.41\00:03:23.98 It received Three Angels awards 00:03:24.01\00:03:26.69 and two Tele awards in Hollywood. 00:03:26.72\00:03:30.15 I'm going to show you 00:03:30.18\00:03:31.61 a four minutes segment from this video. 00:03:31.64\00:03:34.79 Some of the video is not good 00:03:34.82\00:03:38.55 because it's from Soviet footage and it's many years old. 00:03:38.58\00:03:43.30 But you'll get the picture. 00:03:43.33\00:03:44.70 This is the award winning video. 00:03:44.73\00:03:47.21 "Victory at Kiev." 00:03:47.24\00:03:48.72 A four minute segment on what atheism 00:03:48.75\00:03:52.19 did to the soul of the Russian people? 00:03:52.22\00:03:54.59 Look at that. 00:03:54.62\00:03:58.82 It is a city that's had more than 00:03:58.85\00:04:00.45 its share of trouble and suffering. 00:04:00.48\00:04:02.18 Hundreds of thousands of brave Ukrainians 00:04:02.21\00:04:04.15 died defending Kiev against the onslaughts 00:04:04.18\00:04:06.40 of Nazi storm troopers. 00:04:06.43\00:04:08.33 More than 100,000 perhaps, 00:04:08.36\00:04:10.37 even 300,000 Jews were murdered at this Keiv site 00:04:10.40\00:04:13.76 by the German forces that occupied 00:04:13.79\00:04:15.49 Ukraine from 1941 to 1944. 00:04:15.52\00:04:19.06 Even more Ukrainians were slaughtered by the Communists 00:04:19.09\00:04:21.76 who carried out a reign of terror 00:04:21.79\00:04:23.40 against intellectuals and dissidents. 00:04:23.43\00:04:25.58 This peaceful forest just outside 00:04:25.61\00:04:27.26 the city's boundaries is the resting place 00:04:27.29\00:04:29.54 for a multitude of victims whose only crime was the desire 00:04:29.57\00:04:32.95 for political and religious freedom. 00:04:32.98\00:04:35.27 Tens of thousands were transported here, 00:04:35.30\00:04:37.27 made to kneel and then shot 00:04:37.30\00:04:39.34 in the back of the neck by the Communists. 00:04:39.37\00:04:42.90 During 1932 and 1933, 00:04:42.93\00:04:45.66 8 million Ukrainians died of starvation. 00:04:45.69\00:04:48.93 This genocide occurred when the Marxist government 00:04:48.96\00:04:51.38 in Moscow decreed that the bountiful harvest 00:04:51.41\00:04:53.91 of the Ukraine were to be sent to Russia. 00:04:53.94\00:04:56.60 A number equivalent to the population 00:04:56.63\00:04:58.85 of the New York City perished because they were forbidden 00:04:58.88\00:05:01.99 to eat the food, the bread and the potatoes 00:05:02.02\00:05:04.83 that they have produced with their own hands 00:05:04.86\00:05:07.22 on their own lands. 00:05:07.25\00:05:09.09 Stalin was living like in czar in the Kremlin, 00:05:09.12\00:05:11.41 remarked that it was impossible to avoid breaking eggs 00:05:11.44\00:05:14.71 when making an omelet. 00:05:14.74\00:05:16.33 He further observed that the death 00:05:16.36\00:05:17.95 of a million people was just a statistic. 00:05:17.98\00:05:21.56 For 70 years the godless Marxist 00:05:21.59\00:05:24.64 carried out a war of terrorism 00:05:24.67\00:05:26.35 against all who professed faith in God. 00:05:26.38\00:05:28.87 Millions were sent to prison where they were beaten, 00:05:28.90\00:05:31.65 frozen, interrogated, tortured and starved. 00:05:31.68\00:05:34.69 The soil of the former Soviet Union 00:05:34.72\00:05:36.39 is drenched with the blood of a great multitude 00:05:36.42\00:05:39.06 of martyrs who did not count their lives 00:05:39.09\00:05:41.57 dear unto themselves. 00:05:41.60\00:05:43.25 More recently communist incompetency 00:05:43.28\00:05:45.42 combined with the callous disregard for human life 00:05:45.45\00:05:48.10 caused the deaths of at least a 125,000 persons. 00:05:48.13\00:05:52.24 Just 60 miles from Kiev 00:05:52.27\00:05:54.23 is the city of Chernobyl-- beside a fort carelessly 00:05:54.26\00:05:58.60 constructed maintain nuclear reactors. 00:05:58.63\00:06:01.32 On April 26, 1986 at 01:23 AM a meltdown occurred. 00:06:01.35\00:06:06.99 The great concrete containment shield 00:06:07.02\00:06:08.85 over reactor number 4 was blasted into fragments. 00:06:08.88\00:06:12.26 A cloud of radioactive gas many times more deadly 00:06:12.29\00:06:14.92 than that of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 00:06:14.95\00:06:17.26 exploded into the atmosphere. 00:06:17.29\00:06:19.78 Workers were in inadequate protective clothing 00:06:19.81\00:06:22.28 were ordered by the communists authorities 00:06:22.31\00:06:24.24 into the area of greatest contamination. 00:06:24.27\00:06:27.42 Armed with shovels and brooms these people 00:06:27.45\00:06:29.90 who had been promised a workers paradise waged war 00:06:29.93\00:06:33.30 against chunking fragments of Uranium 00:06:33.33\00:06:35.06 that were scattered like monstrous autumn leaves 00:06:35.09\00:06:37.66 over an apocalyptic landscape. 00:06:37.69\00:06:40.15 They died in agony a few hours or days later. 00:06:40.18\00:06:43.42 It's estimated that at least a 125,000 died 00:06:43.45\00:06:47.06 as a direct result of the meltdown, 00:06:47.09\00:06:49.71 others still suffered without hope or compensation. 00:06:49.74\00:06:53.49 These children in Kiev are victims 00:06:53.52\00:06:55.95 of the worst nuclear accident in history. 00:06:55.98\00:06:58.38 They live in orphanages with a minimum of medical care. 00:06:58.41\00:07:01.78 All this suffering has prepared the soul of the Ukrainian 00:07:01.81\00:07:05.14 for the gospel of Jesus Christ 00:07:05.17\00:07:06.98 that alone gives light in darkness and hope in despair. 00:07:07.01\00:07:12.75 John Carter an Australian pastor and evangelist 00:07:12.78\00:07:15.80 went to Kiev during January 1995. 00:07:15.83\00:07:19.43 It was his mission to explore the possibilities 00:07:19.46\00:07:21.59 of conducting a citywide crusade. 00:07:21.62\00:07:24.18 He had in March of 1991 00:07:24.21\00:07:26.26 conducted the first evangelistic series of meetings 00:07:26.29\00:07:28.91 in the Soviet Union, when he proclaimed 00:07:28.94\00:07:31.13 God's word at the Palace of Culture in Moscow. 00:07:31.16\00:07:34.71 Subsequent Carter Report meetings in Nizhni Novgorod, 00:07:34.74\00:07:37.73 Russia resulted in more than 5,000 baptisms. 00:07:37.76\00:07:42.13 The baptism in June of 1992 00:07:42.16\00:07:44.99 when 2,530 precious Russian souls confessing Christ 00:07:45.02\00:07:49.65 were baptized in the Volga River 00:07:49.68\00:07:52.15 was an historic occasion. 00:07:52.18\00:07:54.32 At that time, it was the largest baptism 00:07:54.35\00:07:56.41 since 988, when Prince Vladimir 00:07:56.44\00:07:58.99 It's sort of an amazing story, isn't it? 00:08:04.76\00:08:07.17 It's an amazing story. 00:08:07.20\00:08:12.91 Now I open my heart to you. 00:08:12.94\00:08:15.43 I'm a plain speaking man but nothing to hide. 00:08:15.46\00:08:20.53 My message is this. 00:08:20.56\00:08:22.57 The happiest people in this world 00:08:22.60\00:08:25.63 are not the atheist. 00:08:25.66\00:08:28.19 They're not the nonbelievers. 00:08:28.22\00:08:30.68 They're not the scoffers. 00:08:30.71\00:08:33.57 The happiest people are those who have faith in God, 00:08:33.60\00:08:38.45 in Jesus Christ our Lord 00:08:38.48\00:08:41.16 and who keep the commandments of God. 00:08:41.19\00:08:46.89 Now, I'm going to tell you about two Russians. 00:08:46.92\00:08:51.20 The first person is-- 00:08:51.23\00:08:56.01 This man-- when I went to Russia 00:08:56.04\00:08:59.32 I didn't know who he was, never met him. 00:08:59.35\00:09:02.41 This man was the leader of the Russian mafia. 00:09:02.44\00:09:07.24 Can you believe it? 00:09:07.27\00:09:09.50 The leader of the Russian mafia, 00:09:09.53\00:09:12.17 but no joy, no peace, no happiness, only fear. 00:09:12.20\00:09:17.75 Somehow with the miracle of God-- 00:09:17.78\00:09:21.38 he got some of our videos. 00:09:21.41\00:09:24.01 It's amazing all I can say is that God is great. 00:09:24.04\00:09:27.17 He got some of our videos and he looked through 00:09:27.20\00:09:29.57 the videos and this man who had an army of 400 mafia members, 00:09:29.60\00:09:35.83 400 mafia members with machine guns. 00:09:35.86\00:09:42.29 And as he heard about Christ, the ways of truth and the life. 00:09:42.32\00:09:49.00 As he heard about the great truth 00:09:49.03\00:09:50.93 that I talked about last night 00:09:50.96\00:09:52.45 that Christ died for our sins on the cross. 00:09:52.48\00:09:58.70 You know what happened? 00:09:58.73\00:10:00.94 God touched his heart, his life was changed. 00:10:00.97\00:10:07.69 He is now a teacher of the truths 00:10:07.72\00:10:09.70 that you're hearing here tonight. 00:10:09.73\00:10:11.55 And he has got peace and joy and happiness. 00:10:11.58\00:10:15.62 The leader of the Russian mafia, 00:10:15.65\00:10:19.19 he had a friend his name is-- 00:10:19.22\00:10:25.16 Oh, God bless you. 00:10:25.19\00:10:27.76 When you look at him close, there's a scar down his face 00:10:27.79\00:10:31.75 where a bullet went right down through 00:10:31.78\00:10:34.03 the jaw bone out through his mouth. 00:10:34.06\00:10:37.04 His body is covered with scars. 00:10:37.07\00:10:39.92 Today they are preachers of the gospel of Christ. 00:10:39.95\00:10:46.73 You say to me, you don't understand us 00:10:46.76\00:10:49.40 here in Port Moresby. 00:10:49.43\00:10:52.99 I do understand you. 00:10:53.02\00:10:54.39 I understand you. 00:10:54.42\00:10:55.79 I know you. 00:10:55.82\00:10:57.19 I feel for you. 00:10:57.22\00:10:58.63 I feel the pain of some of you. 00:10:58.66\00:11:01.37 I know your struggles. 00:11:01.40\00:11:03.40 I know the cries of your hearts. 00:11:03.43\00:11:05.89 And I want you to know Jesus is the way, 00:11:05.92\00:11:09.15 the truth and the life. 00:11:09.18\00:11:10.55 And the happiest people are the people who turn to Christ 00:11:10.58\00:11:14.62 and whose lives are changed by the power of God. 00:11:14.65\00:11:19.21 So I'm saying to you tonight, come to Christ. 00:11:19.24\00:11:22.17 I'm saying to the young people, come to Christ. 00:11:22.20\00:11:24.51 You think you're having a great time outside of Christ. 00:11:24.54\00:11:27.17 You can't be happy. 00:11:27.20\00:11:28.81 You can't have peace. 00:11:28.84\00:11:30.21 You can't have joy until you know Jesus. 00:11:30.24\00:11:33.29 Jesus said "I have come that they may have life 00:11:33.32\00:11:37.59 and that they may have it" as it says 00:11:37.62\00:11:40.09 in the King James Version "more abundantly." 00:11:40.12\00:11:43.89 I can give a testimony tonight 00:11:43.92\00:11:47.71 that I have been teaching these truths 00:11:47.74\00:11:50.21 for 50 years without a break. 00:11:50.24\00:11:52.94 I have spoken to millions and millions of people. 00:11:52.97\00:11:57.19 I do it not because I'm paid to do it. 00:11:57.22\00:12:01.39 I'm no longer a young man. 00:12:01.42\00:12:04.35 I do it because I see how God 00:12:04.38\00:12:09.21 can bring joy and happiness and peace 00:12:09.24\00:12:12.93 and prosperity to people who will believe. 00:12:12.96\00:12:17.18 And I've come to Port Morseby to say to you, 00:12:17.21\00:12:20.08 believe in the Christ who died for you my beloved friend. 00:12:20.11\00:12:24.43 I besiege you, believe in him. 00:12:24.46\00:12:29.95 Now there's a man, I have been to many places. 00:12:29.98\00:12:35.16 I've been to China-- spoken in China, 00:12:35.19\00:12:40.34 all through Europe. 00:12:40.37\00:12:42.13 Russia, Ukraine, Siberia, 00:12:42.16\00:12:45.25 I've spoken outdoors in Siberia. 00:12:45.28\00:12:48.08 I have been at on Lake Baikal, 00:12:48.11\00:12:49.90 when it's been minus 40 degrees. 00:12:49.93\00:12:52.65 I've been to so many, many places. 00:12:52.68\00:12:54.80 I've spoken across the United States of America 00:12:54.83\00:12:57.95 down in Australia in the Sydney Opera House. 00:12:57.98\00:13:00.66 I've never spoken to a group quite as good 00:13:00.69\00:13:03.52 as the group in Port Moresby. 00:13:03.55\00:13:06.13 But listen, I've been to many places 00:13:06.16\00:13:09.71 but there is a man here tonight, 00:13:09.74\00:13:11.41 he's been to places I haven't been to. 00:13:11.44\00:13:16.45 When he was the young man, he was tremendously famous 00:13:16.48\00:13:22.99 by the time I think he turned 19. 00:13:23.02\00:13:26.12 Everybody was talking about him in the United States. 00:13:26.15\00:13:30.20 They called him Willie G. 00:13:30.23\00:13:33.92 Some called him little Willie. 00:13:33.95\00:13:41.05 He was so popular that he went to the very top 00:13:41.08\00:13:44.90 of the music world but he hadn't gone to the place 00:13:44.93\00:13:49.29 where God wanted him to go. 00:13:49.32\00:13:52.73 And I'm going to ask him to come now 00:13:52.76\00:13:54.36 and tell you the story of his involvement with the gangs. 00:13:54.39\00:13:59.54 My friend, please welcome from Los Angeles, 00:13:59.57\00:14:03.88 a true soldier of Christ, Pastor Willie Garcia. 00:14:03.91\00:14:11.42 Pastor Garcia, we are on it. 00:14:11.45\00:14:14.38 I want to tell you not only do we love you but we like you. 00:14:14.41\00:14:19.35 God bless you, Pastor Carter. 00:14:19.38\00:14:20.95 This is just a tremendous honor 00:14:20.98\00:14:23.81 for me to be here in Port Moresby, 00:14:23.84\00:14:25.98 Papua New Guinea with you, and this beautiful people, 00:14:26.01\00:14:29.04 and to be able to just share with them how Jesus Christ 00:14:29.07\00:14:32.03 got a hold in my heart 00:14:32.06\00:14:33.44 and pulled me out of the depths of hell. 00:14:33.47\00:14:35.80 Tell me this--you say they're beautiful people. 00:14:35.83\00:14:39.95 I reckon they're about the most beautiful people 00:14:39.98\00:14:42.83 I have ever met. When you come here, each evening 00:14:42.86\00:14:44.95 and look at over an audience 00:14:44.98\00:14:46.35 that is often more than a 100,000. 00:14:46.38\00:14:49.57 If we have an audience here of 80,000 some nights 00:14:49.60\00:14:52.56 we say boy, not much of a crowd tonight. 00:14:52.59\00:14:56.93 But listen, once in Los Angeles which is a city, 00:14:56.96\00:15:02.74 a huge city, the population of Los Angeles 00:15:02.77\00:15:05.36 is more than three times all of Papua New Guinea. 00:15:05.39\00:15:08.66 It's crammed into a relatively small place. 00:15:08.69\00:15:12.02 It's a place of we're gonna put some of these pictures 00:15:12.05\00:15:15.64 on the screen so we get homesick for a little while. 00:15:15.67\00:15:18.75 It's a place of skyscrapers. 00:15:18.78\00:15:22.69 And that it's a place of beautiful homes 00:15:22.72\00:15:25.83 like Beverly Hills and there it got a place-- 00:15:25.86\00:15:29.23 It's a place of mountains 00:15:29.26\00:15:31.12 and there it is have a look at this Willie, there it is. 00:15:31.15\00:15:34.00 There's L.A.--wow, look at these freeways. 00:15:34.03\00:15:40.66 Aren't you glad to be out of that for a little bit? 00:15:40.69\00:15:42.63 Yes, for a while. 00:15:42.66\00:15:44.03 I love Los Angeles but I'm glad to be here. 00:15:44.06\00:15:46.34 I drive those freeways usually once a day 00:15:46.37\00:15:49.34 and they're goodness to me it's an experience. 00:15:49.37\00:15:52.41 I'm blessed that I'm still alive. 00:15:52.44\00:15:54.76 Tell me, about your involvement 00:15:54.79\00:15:57.72 in gangs as a young man. 00:15:57.75\00:16:00.23 Actually, I was pulled out 00:16:00.26\00:16:03.68 of the gangs as a young man. 00:16:03.71\00:16:05.68 I started in the entertainment industry 00:16:05.71\00:16:08.42 when I was 9 years old. 00:16:08.45\00:16:10.09 Nine years age, nine years of age. 00:16:10.12\00:16:12.22 Nine years of age, but I grew up 00:16:12.25\00:16:14.10 in a very notorious neighborhood called 38 Street. 00:16:14.13\00:16:18.16 And movies had been made regarding 00:16:18.19\00:16:21.15 the sleepy lagoon incident. 00:16:21.18\00:16:23.22 A tremendous movie 00:16:23.25\00:16:24.62 some I would say-- a little over 30 years ago 00:16:24.65\00:16:28.23 called Zoot Suit was made and it was a portrayal 00:16:28.26\00:16:33.19 of the gangs from the area 00:16:33.22\00:16:36.13 that I grew up in as a young man. 00:16:36.16\00:16:38.10 Tell me, you mentioned this to me the other day. 00:16:38.13\00:16:42.34 There're places I couldn't go and you couldn't go 00:16:42.37\00:16:46.32 because they're so dangerous. 00:16:46.35\00:16:47.77 Tell us about some of these 00:16:47.80\00:16:50.01 dangerous places in Los Angeles. 00:16:50.04\00:16:52.27 There are three notorious gangs, prominent gangs. 00:16:52.30\00:16:57.35 There's a lot of others but three, 00:16:57.38\00:16:59.33 the Bloods, the Crips and 18th Street. 00:16:59.36\00:17:03.36 And they have branches if you will of their gangs 00:17:03.39\00:17:08.37 that are spread out throughout the Los Angeles area. 00:17:08.40\00:17:12.97 I met several gang members when I was doing 00:17:13.00\00:17:16.41 Bible studies for the California Youth Authority. 00:17:16.44\00:17:19.41 When I first got saved, a young man and myself, 00:17:19.44\00:17:23.17 we would go to the youth authorities 00:17:23.20\00:17:24.76 and to the prisons and do Bible studies. 00:17:24.79\00:17:27.08 And we met a lot of these young guys. 00:17:27.11\00:17:28.54 So when they got out of jail, 00:17:28.57\00:17:30.92 we wanted to follow up on them. 00:17:30.95\00:17:33.12 And when we would go to the Ramona Gardens 00:17:33.15\00:17:35.12 or the Estrada Courts or the Pueblo Del Rio, 00:17:35.15\00:17:38.06 these are projects there in the Los Angeles area. 00:17:38.09\00:17:42.70 It was a frightening experience because we were besieged upon 00:17:42.73\00:17:48.03 by these gang members. 00:17:48.06\00:17:50.05 We were looked at as outsiders 00:17:50.08\00:17:52.82 but when we mentioned the name, they backed off. 00:17:52.85\00:17:57.63 When you mentioned the name, tell us about this? 00:17:57.66\00:18:00.03 When we mentioned the name of the individual 00:18:00.06\00:18:02.36 we were seeking, they backed off. 00:18:02.39\00:18:05.53 And they went and they got him 00:18:05.56\00:18:07.12 and brought him and he gave us the okay. 00:18:07.15\00:18:10.78 He said, these guys are all right. 00:18:10.81\00:18:12.62 They ministered to me while I was in jail. 00:18:12.65\00:18:15.83 And they opened the doors for us. 00:18:15.86\00:18:18.34 We found an opening 00:18:18.37\00:18:19.82 how we could get into the neighborhoods 00:18:19.85\00:18:21.93 and start to reach these gang members 00:18:21.96\00:18:24.80 who are living hopeless lives of desperation, 00:18:24.83\00:18:29.05 because they sensed themselves, 00:18:29.08\00:18:30.65 they feel like they're outsiders that nobody cares for them. 00:18:30.68\00:18:34.06 This is the way they have lived for generations. 00:18:34.09\00:18:37.57 And we go with the gospel of Jesus Christ 00:18:37.60\00:18:40.40 and we go with the intent of breaking the curse 00:18:40.43\00:18:43.60 of generations over their lives. 00:18:43.63\00:18:46.58 Jesus in the 9th Chapter of John, 00:18:46.61\00:18:49.21 the disciples approached Him and they said Rabbi, 00:18:49.24\00:18:52.16 who sin this man or his parents that he was born blind. 00:18:52.19\00:18:56.62 And Jesus said, "Neither this man 00:18:56.65\00:18:59.20 nor his parents but that the works of God 00:18:59.23\00:19:02.60 should be revealed in him." 00:19:02.63\00:19:05.50 And so this is the message that we take to them 00:19:05.53\00:19:08.00 that they've been living blind, 00:19:08.03\00:19:10.53 every thief that you've mentioned here tonight. 00:19:10.56\00:19:14.33 I was a victim of all my life 00:19:14.36\00:19:18.91 but you didn't mentioned success. 00:19:18.94\00:19:21.86 Success was the biggest thief that I experienced in my life 00:19:21.89\00:19:27.13 and when it couldn't fill the hole in my heart 00:19:27.16\00:19:29.90 that's when I turned to immorality and drugs 00:19:29.93\00:19:33.54 and alcohol and promiscuity and everything 00:19:33.57\00:19:37.00 that the world offers. 00:19:37.03\00:19:38.93 All we're searching but never 00:19:38.96\00:19:40.36 able to come to the knowledge of the truth 00:19:40.39\00:19:42.74 and that's the way these young gang members are. 00:19:42.77\00:19:45.74 And they are grooming each other. 00:19:45.77\00:19:47.62 That's all they've ever known, 00:19:47.65\00:19:49.10 their fathers, their uncles, 00:19:49.13\00:19:50.68 their brothers, their cousins. 00:19:50.71\00:19:52.67 This is a lifestyle that they've lived 00:19:52.70\00:19:54.86 and so they've lived a hopeless until someone 00:19:54.89\00:19:57.75 is able to bring a message to them. 00:19:57.78\00:19:59.92 And we just ask them simply, are you alive? 00:19:59.95\00:20:04.50 And they would, of course, I'm alive, you know. 00:20:04.53\00:20:07.06 I say, well, then there is hope for you. 00:20:07.09\00:20:10.26 Solomon said, "To him that is joined to the living." 00:20:10.29\00:20:13.83 In Ecclesiastics 9:4, "there is hope." 00:20:13.86\00:20:17.42 It is better to be a live dog than a dead lion. 00:20:17.45\00:20:23.18 Pastor Willie, of course there are-- 00:20:23.21\00:20:27.76 there's crime also in Port Moresby. 00:20:27.79\00:20:30.79 There are young people who are caught up 00:20:30.82\00:20:32.62 with drugs-- same is in Los Angeles, 00:20:32.65\00:20:36.71 the gangs of New York same is in Mexico 00:20:36.74\00:20:40.30 where they have this dreadful, dreadful crime way 00:20:40.33\00:20:45.01 with all the drugs and the gangs and killings and the guns. 00:20:45.04\00:20:50.64 I want you to look out there and tell the young people 00:20:50.67\00:20:54.37 here tonight as well as their parents 00:20:54.40\00:20:58.96 tell them what you think about Christ. 00:20:58.99\00:21:02.87 And give them a message from your own heart. 00:21:02.90\00:21:06.77 Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to me. 00:21:06.80\00:21:11.95 That's what I was longing for all of my life. 00:21:11.98\00:21:15.81 I thank God for an older brother who told me, 00:21:15.84\00:21:20.96 you have a gift, you don't have to stand on the corner. 00:21:20.99\00:21:25.33 You don't have to hang out with those guys. 00:21:25.36\00:21:28.04 You don't wanna be like me. 00:21:28.07\00:21:30.02 You don't want to be like them. 00:21:30.05\00:21:31.74 You have a gift, you want to do something with your life. 00:21:31.77\00:21:35.95 Listen, everything that you're searching for is in Christ. 00:21:35.98\00:21:40.58 I believe with all my heart 00:21:40.61\00:21:43.04 that when God created you and I, 00:21:43.07\00:21:46.05 He created us intentionally to be miserable without Him. 00:21:46.08\00:21:51.28 He made absolutely sure 00:21:51.31\00:21:52.75 that nothing or no one to take His place in our lives. 00:21:52.78\00:21:59.68 One of the things that I hear the most from individuals 00:21:59.71\00:22:03.65 that I ministered to that God brings in my path 00:22:03.68\00:22:06.00 is they tell me I want to change Brother Willie, 00:22:06.03\00:22:08.88 but I don't know how. 00:22:08.91\00:22:12.50 And so they look for change in beetle nut 00:22:12.53\00:22:16.79 or Jack Daniel's or Jose Cuervo or heroine 00:22:16.82\00:22:21.49 or cocaine or an illicit affair and they're still left 00:22:21.52\00:22:28.14 unfulfilled because God never created 00:22:28.17\00:22:31.29 those things to fulfill or satisfy. 00:22:31.32\00:22:34.32 Only Jesus can satisfy the longing of your soul. 00:22:34.35\00:22:40.03 And my friend, you'll never know 00:22:40.06\00:22:44.79 what I'm talking about unless you're willing tonight 00:22:44.82\00:22:49.18 to taste and see for yourself. 00:22:49.21\00:22:53.11 You can't live of a doctor Carter's 00:22:53.14\00:22:55.62 experience or my experience. 00:22:55.65\00:22:58.36 The good news tonight is that God has an experience for you. 00:22:58.39\00:23:02.80 He wants to touch you deeper and more intimately 00:23:02.83\00:23:06.24 than you have ever experienced Him before in your Life. 00:23:06.27\00:23:09.72 This goes beyond change. Yeah. 00:23:09.75\00:23:14.77 Only Jesus can transform you. 00:23:14.80\00:23:19.42 That's what you need in your life. 00:23:19.45\00:23:21.87 Not just a change you need to be transformed 00:23:21.90\00:23:26.38 by the power of the risen Christ. 00:23:26.41\00:23:29.80 Tonight, you're listening, and you're looking to a man 00:23:29.83\00:23:33.51 that 32 years 4 months and 16 days ago 00:23:33.54\00:23:39.02 said yes to the gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:23:39.05\00:23:45.44 And I'm thoroughly convinced that no one 00:23:45.47\00:23:48.48 in this precious place of Papua New Guinea 00:23:48.51\00:23:52.31 will ever be the same or anyone viewing this telecast, 00:23:52.34\00:23:56.25 you'll never be the same. 00:23:56.28\00:23:58.12 No one remains the same after they've been exposed 00:23:58.15\00:24:01.52 to the gospel of Jesus Christ, 00:24:01.55\00:24:03.28 because the word of God is alive, 00:24:03.31\00:24:05.69 it's powerful, it's sharper than two edged sword. 00:24:05.72\00:24:09.62 It penetrates to the division of the soul. 00:24:09.65\00:24:12.37 The spirit in the joints and the marrow 00:24:12.40\00:24:15.06 and as a discerner of the thoughts 00:24:15.09\00:24:17.88 and the intents of the heart. 00:24:17.91\00:24:21.07 My friends, God know 00:24:21.10\00:24:22.47 what's tracing through our minds tonight. 00:24:22.50\00:24:26.96 He knows the burdens that you carry around 00:24:26.99\00:24:29.67 in your heart tonight. 00:24:29.70\00:24:32.66 And I want you to know that there is a willingness 00:24:32.69\00:24:35.04 always on the part of God 00:24:35.07\00:24:37.50 to enter into the human condition, 00:24:37.53\00:24:40.54 into the human situation and transform it forever. 00:24:40.57\00:24:45.93 There is nothing temporary about Christ 00:24:45.96\00:24:49.28 and what He is capable of doing in your life 00:24:49.31\00:24:52.98 if you will just give Him permission, tonight. 00:24:53.01\00:24:56.08 Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. 00:24:56.11\00:25:01.08 Hallelujah, thank God. 00:25:01.11\00:25:04.33 Thank God, thank God, Stay here with me. 00:25:04.36\00:25:11.14 We're going to put up a text on the screen 00:25:11.17\00:25:12.94 I'm going to jump down a little bit my friends 00:25:12.97\00:25:15.44 down there in the operating room. 00:25:15.47\00:25:17.79 We're gonna come through. 00:25:17.82\00:25:19.51 Well, I'm gonna read this 00:25:19.54\00:25:20.98 and then we gonna jump a little further. 00:25:21.01\00:25:22.58 Look at this text Willie, "Seek the Lord 00:25:22.61\00:25:24.80 while he may be found, call on him while he is near." 00:25:24.83\00:25:28.23 Is he near tonight folks? 00:25:28.26\00:25:30.22 "Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. 00:25:30.25\00:25:34.00 Let him turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, 00:25:34.03\00:25:36.82 and to our God," for he will what folks, tell me. 00:25:36.85\00:25:40.32 "Freely pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, 00:25:40.35\00:25:44.18 neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. 00:25:44.21\00:25:47.09 'As the heavens are higher than the earth, 00:25:47.12\00:25:49.17 so are my ways higher than your ways 00:25:49.20\00:25:51.57 and my thoughts than your thoughts. 00:25:51.60\00:25:54.44 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven 00:25:54.47\00:25:57.14 and do not return to it without watering the earth. 00:25:57.17\00:26:00.03 And making it bud and flourish, 00:26:00.06\00:26:02.43 so that it yields seed for sower and bread for the eater, 00:26:02.46\00:26:06.51 so is my word that goes out from my mouth. 00:26:06.54\00:26:09.33 It will not return to me empty, 00:26:09.36\00:26:12.92 but will accomplish what I desire and achieve 00:26:12.95\00:26:16.32 the purpose for which I sent it. 00:26:16.35\00:26:19.53 You will go in joy and be led forth in peace, 00:26:19.56\00:26:22.53 the mountains and the hills will burst in song before you, 00:26:22.56\00:26:28.12 and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. 00:26:28.15\00:26:32.77 Instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree, 00:26:32.80\00:26:35.65 and instead of the brier the myrtle will grow. 00:26:35.68\00:26:39.30 This will be for the Lords renown, 00:26:39.33\00:26:42.26 for an everlasting sign, which will not be destroyed."' 00:26:42.29\00:26:47.23 Pastor Willie, God can do it. 00:26:47.26\00:26:49.25 Yes, He can, yes, He can. 00:26:49.28\00:26:51.26 "I'm crucified with Christ nevertheless I live. 00:26:51.29\00:26:55.73 Yet, not I but Christ lives in me and the light 00:26:55.76\00:26:59.48 that I now live in the flesh, 00:26:59.51\00:27:01.00 I live by the faith of the son of God 00:27:01.03\00:27:04.23 who loved me and gave himself for me." 00:27:04.26\00:27:08.77 Hallelujah, can you say hallelujah. 00:27:08.80\00:27:12.82 Let me hear you say hallelujah. 00:27:12.85\00:27:15.32 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 00:27:15.35\00:27:18.41 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 00:27:18.44\00:27:20.93 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 00:27:20.96\00:27:22.34 Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. 00:27:22.37\00:27:25.43 Now listen, we're gonna have another text. 00:27:25.46\00:27:28.52 I like you so much and I think 00:27:28.55\00:27:30.33 we're gonna do this together. 00:27:30.36\00:27:31.73 Now, we're gonna stay together for while. 00:27:31.76\00:27:33.69 We're going to put up the greatest text in the Bible, 00:27:33.72\00:27:38.86 Pastor G. Okay, 00:27:38.89\00:27:42.39 "For God so loved the world." 00:27:42.42\00:27:47.48 Hey, how about you folks saying it with me. 00:27:47.51\00:27:49.50 Is that possible? 00:27:49.53\00:27:51.14 "For God so loved the world 00:27:51.17\00:27:55.00 that he gave his one and only Son, 00:27:55.03\00:27:58.35 that whoever believes in him shall not perish 00:27:58.38\00:28:02.14 but have everlasting life." 00:28:02.17\00:28:04.54 Now Pastor Garcia, I'm gonna tell the folks 00:28:04.57\00:28:07.83 here story, okay. 00:28:07.86\00:28:10.53 So, I'm gonna tell them story 00:28:10.56\00:28:12.07 and you can just encourage me along a little bit. 00:28:12.10\00:28:14.45 If you think I'm sort of slacking or something or, 00:28:14.48\00:28:17.96 you know, stumbling, you can just push me along 00:28:17.99\00:28:20.67 a little bit and get me going, all right. 00:28:20.70\00:28:22.80 You're ready for the story. 00:28:22.83\00:28:25.91 It was in London, it was a cold, cold night. 00:28:25.94\00:28:28.69 There was a little bit snowfall. 00:28:28.72\00:28:31.06 And there was a homeless little boy. 00:28:31.09\00:28:34.27 Just there he is. a little guy like this, 00:28:34.30\00:28:36.41 a homeless, little boy, well, that little boy 00:28:36.44\00:28:39.23 was in America but this one is gonna do fine. 00:28:39.26\00:28:41.21 We're gonna say he was in England. 00:28:41.24\00:28:42.61 That's just fine. 00:28:42.64\00:28:44.01 A homeless little boy, had nowhere to sleep that night, 00:28:44.04\00:28:47.32 Pastor Garcia, and nowhere to go. 00:28:47.35\00:28:50.18 That's why little kids get into drugs. 00:28:50.21\00:28:53.01 That's why they get into gangs when they grow up 00:28:53.04\00:28:55.00 because their parents are in drugs, 00:28:55.03\00:28:57.91 they're drinking, they're chewing beetle nut, 00:28:57.94\00:29:00.81 all other sorts of drugs and they and these drugs 00:29:00.84\00:29:05.32 so cloud their minds, they can't think straight. 00:29:05.35\00:29:07.92 That's what happens to people. 00:29:07.95\00:29:09.50 Anyhow, this little boy was sort of freezing 00:29:09.53\00:29:14.53 and a policeman came along and said, 00:29:14.56\00:29:17.40 little boy go home. 00:29:17.43\00:29:19.25 He said, sir I ain't got a home. 00:29:19.28\00:29:21.36 Oh, he said, yeah of course you must have a home, 00:29:21.39\00:29:22.87 go home to your mommy. 00:29:22.90\00:29:24.27 He said, I ain't got a mommy. 00:29:24.30\00:29:26.34 Well, he said, go home to your daddy. 00:29:26.37\00:29:28.08 He said, I ain't got a daddy. 00:29:28.11\00:29:31.36 Now, this big policeman, 00:29:31.39\00:29:32.76 this bobby as they call them in England was a Christian. 00:29:32.79\00:29:36.56 Now he said boy, I want you go to certain house. 00:29:36.59\00:29:39.75 Oh, little boy said, there were rich people there. 00:29:39.78\00:29:42.78 Oh, he said, I've got a friend there, 00:29:42.81\00:29:44.35 I want you to go a certain house. 00:29:44.38\00:29:47.27 And I want you to go and knock on the door 00:29:47.30\00:29:49.17 and when the person comes out I want you to say, 00:29:49.20\00:29:53.31 John 316 told me to come. 00:29:53.34\00:29:58.66 You folks still listening? 00:29:58.69\00:30:01.01 John 316-- is this a story. 00:30:01.04\00:30:03.86 Yeah, it is. 00:30:03.89\00:30:05.26 All right you better; better enjoy this story 00:30:05.29\00:30:07.33 because if you don't enjoy this story I'm done for. 00:30:07.36\00:30:10.75 So he said, the little boy went to the door, 00:30:10.78\00:30:13.67 big house, big house, knocked on the door 00:30:13.70\00:30:18.01 and out came a big man. 00:30:18.04\00:30:21.04 He said, what do you want boy. 00:30:21.07\00:30:23.60 And he said, please sir, John 316 told me to come. 00:30:23.63\00:30:29.40 Oh, said the man. 00:30:29.43\00:30:31.39 John 316 told you to come. Yes, sir. 00:30:31.42\00:30:35.35 He said, well you come in boy there's John 316 00:30:35.38\00:30:38.97 and I've been friends for a long time. 00:30:39.00\00:30:42.98 So the little boy came in. 00:30:43.01\00:30:45.35 He was freezing. 00:30:45.38\00:30:47.66 Now these good folks here don't know 00:30:47.69\00:30:49.06 what it's like to be freezing 00:30:49.09\00:30:50.99 but if you're unlucky enough to be born in London, 00:30:51.02\00:30:53.87 you're freezing most of the time. 00:30:53.90\00:30:55.52 So anyhow this is little boy he was ragged 00:30:55.55\00:30:58.73 and he goes inside freezing. 00:30:58.76\00:31:03.14 And the man says, boy come 00:31:03.17\00:31:05.75 stand over here next to this big fire. 00:31:05.78\00:31:08.28 Because I'm going to go and get some things ready for you. 00:31:08.31\00:31:11.74 So the little boy comes in. 00:31:11.77\00:31:13.47 He comes and backs up to this big fire. 00:31:13.50\00:31:18.00 And as he stands next to this big fire. 00:31:18.03\00:31:20.49 He says to himself, Pastor Garcia, he says, 00:31:20.52\00:31:25.71 "I don't know who this John 316 is." 00:31:25.74\00:31:30.14 But he sure can make a cold boy warm. 00:31:30.17\00:31:36.42 Cold boy warm and after a while a big lady 00:31:36.45\00:31:43.45 comes in the sort of big soft comfortable, ample lady. 00:31:43.48\00:31:50.77 And she comes in and she says, 00:31:50.80\00:31:53.71 well now boy, it's time for you to have a bath. 00:31:53.74\00:32:00.37 Oh, he said, "I've never had a bath." 00:32:00.40\00:32:02.62 Well, this is going to be a new experience for you boy 00:32:02.65\00:32:05.70 because John 316 says you got to have a bath. 00:32:05.73\00:32:09.84 So she takes him and the man-- well she went out of the room 00:32:09.87\00:32:14.35 so he wasn't embarrassed. 00:32:14.38\00:32:15.81 And there is a big bathtub full of hot soapy water. 00:32:15.84\00:32:21.25 And so the man takes the cloths off the little boy 00:32:21.28\00:32:24.57 and some of the cloths are sort of struck to his skin. 00:32:24.60\00:32:27.86 You know, get the cloths off and he puts the boy 00:32:27.89\00:32:32.79 in this big soapy tub and the man 00:32:32.82\00:32:36.95 starts to scrub him all over. 00:32:36.98\00:32:39.36 He scrubs his head, he scrubs his toe. 00:32:39.39\00:32:41.96 He scrubs his back, he scrubs his front. 00:32:41.99\00:32:44.71 He scrubs his legs, he scrubs his arms. 00:32:44.74\00:32:47.67 He scrubs his face, scrubs him everywhere. 00:32:47.70\00:32:50.48 He scrubs, scrubs, scrubs. 00:32:50.51\00:32:53.91 When he finished scrubbing him, 00:32:53.94\00:32:55.46 he goes and he says, boy now you just get out 00:32:55.49\00:32:58.34 there and get a towel and there 00:32:58.37\00:32:59.74 were this big hot beautiful towels. 00:32:59.77\00:33:02.46 He said, now boy you get out there and dry yourself up. 00:33:02.49\00:33:06.29 So the boy gets out. 00:33:06.32\00:33:08.60 He thinks to himself, I still don't know 00:33:08.63\00:33:12.32 who this John 316 is but he sure 00:33:12.35\00:33:17.31 can make a dirty boy clean. 00:33:17.34\00:33:21.19 Yes, yes. Dirty boy clean. 00:33:21.22\00:33:24.27 Cold boy warm. 00:33:24.30\00:33:26.91 Dirty boy clean. Yes. 00:33:26.94\00:33:29.78 Well, anyhow the man comes in with some pajamas. 00:33:29.81\00:33:33.38 He didn't know if they were. 00:33:33.41\00:33:35.68 He puts on these pajamas. 00:33:35.71\00:33:38.04 Boy is nice and clean, he is warm and takes him 00:33:38.07\00:33:40.54 into the kitchen that's the best place to eat. 00:33:40.57\00:33:42.94 There is a huge big table and it's covered with food. 00:33:42.97\00:33:47.68 Oh, the food. 00:33:47.71\00:33:52.11 It's as good as the food 00:33:52.14\00:33:53.63 they serve me here in Papua New Guinea. Wow! 00:33:53.66\00:33:57.50 So notice this. 00:33:57.53\00:33:58.90 All this great food. 00:33:58.93\00:34:01.87 The little boy have never seen food like this. 00:34:01.90\00:34:03.71 This is Irish Jew and all that sort of stuff. 00:34:03.74\00:34:06.19 So the man gives him big plate of this food 00:34:06.22\00:34:09.19 and hot bread with butter. 00:34:09.22\00:34:14.48 Mmm Let's do this again. 00:34:14.51\00:34:17.60 Mmm Oh, you got it. 00:34:17.63\00:34:20.17 That's the way. 00:34:20.20\00:34:21.57 So the little boy eats all of this stew 00:34:21.60\00:34:24.74 and then the man said, you want some more boy. 00:34:24.77\00:34:27.07 Yes sir. So he has some stew 00:34:27.10\00:34:29.84 and then he never had this before. 00:34:29.87\00:34:33.31 He had white stuff... ice-cream, 00:34:33.34\00:34:39.29 Mmm Little more. 00:34:39.32\00:34:42.08 Mmm Yeah, that's bit better. 00:34:42.11\00:34:44.38 So he has some ice-cream and some fruit 00:34:44.41\00:34:51.35 and after his little tummy is bursting out, 00:34:51.38\00:34:54.54 he says to himself. 00:34:54.57\00:34:59.05 Still don't know who John 316 is. 00:34:59.08\00:35:02.96 But he sure can make an empty boy full, 00:35:02.99\00:35:09.00 an empty boy full. 00:35:09.03\00:35:12.07 And then after he has eaten, he is warm, he is full, 00:35:12.10\00:35:15.46 the big lady, beautiful big lady, 00:35:15.49\00:35:19.51 the real mother who is great to hug little boys. 00:35:19.54\00:35:22.54 She comes in and she says now bedtime for you. 00:35:22.57\00:35:26.55 She takes him into this beautiful bedroom 00:35:26.58\00:35:28.81 he'd never been in the bedroom before 00:35:28.84\00:35:30.43 and puts him in the bed he'd never been in before. 00:35:30.46\00:35:33.43 There were crisp white sheets. 00:35:33.46\00:35:36.77 And what the British call a big eider down. 00:35:36.80\00:35:40.06 You know, he snuggled into it. 00:35:40.09\00:35:45.62 And the little boy gets into bed. 00:35:45.65\00:35:47.71 He'd never been in bed before Pastor Garcia 00:35:47.74\00:35:53.72 and as he snuggles into bed and as he goes to sleep he says. 00:35:53.75\00:36:00.71 I still don't know who John 316 is. 00:36:00.74\00:36:05.90 But he sure can give 00:36:05.93\00:36:09.42 a tired boy rest. 00:36:09.45\00:36:14.27 Yes. Now, I want you to come over here with me. 00:36:14.30\00:36:21.44 John 316 did it for Pastor Garcia 00:36:21.47\00:36:26.08 on the streets of Los Angeles. 00:36:26.11\00:36:30.01 I've said some pretty tough things tonight. 00:36:30.04\00:36:32.21 I said because I love you. 00:36:32.24\00:36:35.60 But John 316 is the solution to the all of our problems. 00:36:35.63\00:36:41.62 John 316 can make 00:36:41.65\00:36:44.89 cold people warm. 00:36:44.92\00:36:49.82 John 316 can make 00:36:49.85\00:36:53.63 dirty people clean. 00:36:53.66\00:36:59.38 John 316 can make empty people full. 00:36:59.41\00:37:07.34 And John 316 can give 00:37:07.37\00:37:11.28 tired people rest. 00:37:11.31\00:37:15.84 I recommend to you tonight the wonderful gospel 00:37:15.87\00:37:21.70 of John 316. 00:37:21.73\00:37:28.49 And we're going to pray about. 00:37:28.52\00:37:31.95 Aren't you blessed here tonight? 00:37:31.98\00:37:34.84 And we've talked about the thieves. 00:37:34.87\00:37:36.62 I tell you I'm opposed to the thieves. 00:37:36.65\00:37:40.88 But tonight we're not just gonna leave 00:37:40.91\00:37:42.58 with it talking about thieves. 00:37:42.61\00:37:44.71 We're introducing the Savior. 00:37:44.74\00:37:48.65 Who can make us warm and clean and full and give us rest. 00:37:48.68\00:37:56.62 We're going to pray together. 00:37:56.65\00:37:59.25 We're going to close our eyes. 00:37:59.28\00:38:02.18 We're going to talk to the Lord in prayer. 00:38:02.21\00:38:05.56 And as we talk to the Lord in prayer-- 00:38:05.59\00:38:07.15 just have a look at that screen there friend. 00:38:07.18\00:38:11.23 Look at this Brother Willie. 00:38:11.26\00:38:13.62 He is the Christ for everybody, isn't He? 00:38:13.65\00:38:16.95 He is the Christ for everybody. 00:38:16.98\00:38:18.45 He is the Christ for black people 00:38:18.48\00:38:20.28 and white people and brown people 00:38:20.31\00:38:22.29 and everybody in between. 00:38:22.32\00:38:26.18 He is the way the truth and the life. 00:38:26.21\00:38:29.54 And He has come so that we will have life 00:38:29.57\00:38:33.36 and have it more abundantly. 00:38:33.39\00:38:36.05 Let us stand up as we pray. 00:38:36.08\00:38:39.85 Every one of us standing for prayer. 00:38:39.88\00:38:41.64 We don't sit down in the presence of the King. 00:38:41.67\00:38:45.27 But when we're praying to the King we stand up. 00:38:45.30\00:38:50.16 Are you glad that you're here tonight? Yes. 00:38:50.19\00:38:54.63 What we're going to do we're going to bow our heads. 00:38:54.66\00:38:59.22 We're going to close our eyes 00:38:59.25\00:39:02.12 and we're going to open our hearts. 00:39:02.15\00:39:04.68 And my appeal to you tonight is to accept 00:39:04.71\00:39:07.41 the Christ of John 3:16. 00:39:07.44\00:39:11.73 I want you now to bow your heads. 00:39:11.76\00:39:13.44 Nobody move please 00:39:13.47\00:39:14.84 in the presence of God, no movement. 00:39:14.87\00:39:18.61 No movement in the presence of almighty God. 00:39:18.64\00:39:24.84 Our Father in heaven, we thank You Tonight 00:39:24.87\00:39:28.10 that You've been here. 00:39:28.13\00:39:31.01 We thank You that Jesus is the way, 00:39:31.04\00:39:33.07 the truth and the life. 00:39:33.10\00:39:36.34 He is the solution to every human problem. 00:39:36.37\00:39:40.49 That when Christ comes into the life 00:39:40.52\00:39:42.22 He doesn't simply modify it, but He transforms the life. 00:39:42.25\00:39:47.71 He takes cold people and He makes them warm inside. 00:39:47.74\00:39:53.99 He takes people who are dirty with sin. 00:39:54.02\00:39:58.19 And He washes away the sin with His own blood 00:39:58.22\00:40:00.61 and He makes them clean. 00:40:00.64\00:40:04.13 We thank You tonight that this transforming Christ 00:40:04.16\00:40:08.96 can take us when we're empty desperately empty inside. 00:40:08.99\00:40:14.53 And He can fill us up with peace and joy and happiness. 00:40:14.56\00:40:20.27 And we thank you tonight that the God the Christ of John 3:16 00:40:20.30\00:40:26.25 can give people who are weary with sin 00:40:26.28\00:40:29.68 and weary with the struggle and weary with the world, 00:40:29.71\00:40:33.89 He can give them rest. 00:40:33.92\00:40:37.73 That's why we are praying here tonight. 00:40:37.76\00:40:39.99 How many will raise their hand and say, 00:40:40.02\00:40:41.95 oh I want John 316 in my life? 00:40:41.98\00:40:45.67 Would you rise you hand tonight if that's your prayer. 00:40:45.70\00:40:48.72 Oh, God tonight I want John 316, 00:40:48.75\00:40:51.99 I want to be clean, I want to be warm. 00:40:52.02\00:40:55.48 I want to be full. 00:40:55.51\00:40:57.85 I need him tonight. 00:40:57.88\00:41:00.12 I need to be filled with him. 00:41:00.15\00:41:02.02 I want his rest tonight. 00:41:02.05\00:41:03.73 I can't go home tonight Lord until you give me John 316. 00:41:03.76\00:41:08.32 Raise your hands my people. 00:41:08.35\00:41:11.22 Oh, my Father, take these upraised hands, 00:41:11.25\00:41:16.04 take these upraised hearts because tonight 00:41:16.07\00:41:20.51 we are accepting John 316 into our lives. 00:41:20.54\00:41:25.09 We're accepting Christ. 00:41:25.12\00:41:28.05 The way the truth and the life 00:41:28.08\00:41:30.06 who came to give us the more abundant way of living. 00:41:30.09\00:41:34.91 Oh, Christ come into our hearts tonight, 00:41:34.94\00:41:37.17 transform us tonight. 00:41:37.20\00:41:39.62 Change us tonight. 00:41:39.65\00:41:41.54 Make us into new people tonight. 00:41:41.57\00:41:44.11 Make us into the very children of God 00:41:44.14\00:41:46.94 who reflect the image of the Savior. 00:41:46.97\00:41:50.76 So Father, we're raising our hands and our hearts. 00:41:50.79\00:41:57.43 We thank You for saving us. 00:41:57.46\00:42:00.33 I feel moved tonight I didn't know 00:42:07.51\00:42:10.48 what I was gonna do with this stage. 00:42:10.51\00:42:14.34 But I feel tonight that there may be some people 00:42:14.37\00:42:16.59 here who need prayer. 00:42:16.62\00:42:20.19 You need, you really need prayer 00:42:20.22\00:42:21.66 and you need the touch of God upon your lives. 00:42:21.69\00:42:25.06 This is little different to last night. 00:42:25.09\00:42:27.35 This is saying to people who say. 00:42:27.38\00:42:30.18 Oh, I need prayer tonight, I need prayer. 00:42:30.21\00:42:33.86 I've got problems, I need prayer. 00:42:33.89\00:42:36.38 Would you like to come down to the front now for prayer? 00:42:36.41\00:42:40.01 We're gonna have a little music. 00:42:40.04\00:42:41.68 Bob you can play, but those who need prayer, 00:42:41.71\00:42:46.96 they need the touch of this Christ. 00:42:46.99\00:42:50.47 I want to pray for you. 00:42:50.50\00:42:52.48 I want to pray the Spirit of God upon you, 00:42:52.51\00:42:54.77 that God will touch you. 00:42:54.80\00:42:56.61 I don't care where you are but I want you to come tonight. 00:42:56.64\00:43:02.18 You've heard Pastor Garcia's testimony. 00:43:02.21\00:43:04.53 If it worked for him on the streets of Los Angeles 00:43:04.56\00:43:08.39 with all the gang members, it can work for you tonight. 00:43:08.42\00:43:13.44 Just as I'm without one plea-- I've come. 00:43:13.47\00:43:15.93 Look at them coming Pastor Garcia. 00:43:15.96\00:43:18.87 But you're coming for prayer. 00:43:18.90\00:43:22.07 And we're going to pray the blessing of God upon you. 00:43:22.10\00:43:24.62 If you need a blessing tonight my friend. 00:43:24.65\00:43:28.02 If your heart is crying out and you're saying oh God 00:43:28.05\00:43:31.19 I need a blessing. 00:43:31.22\00:43:33.09 And I want all my friends and security people 00:43:33.12\00:43:35.53 to move back a little bit. 00:43:35.56\00:43:37.34 Let the people come, let them come to Jesus. 00:43:37.37\00:43:42.52 Let them come for prayer. 00:43:42.55\00:43:44.87 Let them have the touch of God. 00:43:44.90\00:43:48.12 There may be a mother here 00:43:48.15\00:43:49.52 who is worried about her daughter 00:43:49.55\00:43:51.63 and you need prayer for your daughter. 00:43:51.66\00:43:53.23 Come and represent your daughter 00:43:53.26\00:43:56.61 and let me pray for your daughter. 00:43:56.64\00:44:00.07 And there may be a father here who is worried, 00:44:00.10\00:44:02.18 sick about his wife or worried about his children. 00:44:02.21\00:44:07.05 Let me pray for them tonight. 00:44:07.08\00:44:10.36 Even if your children can't come tonight 00:44:10.39\00:44:12.22 come and represent your children. 00:44:12.25\00:44:15.23 And let us pray tonight for your children. 00:44:15.26\00:44:18.07 for lost boys and lost girls. 00:44:18.10\00:44:21.74 Oh, we don't want anybody missing tonight 00:44:21.77\00:44:23.85 I feel desperate tonight that every person 00:44:23.88\00:44:26.93 is gong to be blessed and every person 00:44:26.96\00:44:28.94 is going to be saved. 00:44:28.97\00:44:31.03 And every person is going to be transformed 00:44:31.06\00:44:33.76 by the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:44:33.79\00:44:37.49 Remember, Jesus said, 00:44:37.52\00:44:39.74 "I've come that they may have life inhibit to the full." 00:44:39.77\00:44:44.45 And the Bible tells us, "If we turn to God 00:44:44.48\00:44:47.10 he will forgive our sins." 00:44:47.13\00:44:50.21 My friend look at Pastor Garcia, 00:44:50.24\00:44:54.51 little Willie famous singer 00:44:54.54\00:44:57.59 around the world... 00:44:57.62\00:45:02.05 famous when he was 6 or 7. 00:45:02.08\00:45:06.04 Delivered, from the gangs of Los Angeles. 00:45:06.07\00:45:11.14 A hundred thousand young men in gangs 00:45:11.17\00:45:14.31 with guns and drugs and they're filled 00:45:14.34\00:45:18.99 with fear and hatred. 00:45:19.02\00:45:22.47 And Pastor Garcia told you tonight for those gang members. 00:45:22.50\00:45:28.08 There is a solution it's the solution 00:45:28.11\00:45:31.03 that I need-- it's what you need. 00:45:31.06\00:45:33.18 It is the living Christ in the heart. 00:45:33.21\00:45:37.05 So my friends come tonight. 00:45:37.08\00:45:40.70 I'm appealing tonight, 00:45:40.73\00:45:44.03 please listen to me. 00:45:44.06\00:45:48.73 For the mother who is worried about her daughter-- 00:45:48.76\00:45:54.01 may be she is million miles from God from come her tonight. 00:45:54.04\00:45:59.47 Come represent your daughter. 00:45:59.50\00:46:03.55 Father, come represent your son. 00:46:03.58\00:46:07.43 Husband come represent your wife if she is not here tonight. 00:46:07.46\00:46:13.37 I don't care who it is but come tonight. 00:46:13.40\00:46:18.56 There may be somebody here tonight 00:46:18.59\00:46:19.96 who is struggling with drugs, 00:46:19.99\00:46:22.98 alcohol all of these terrible things. 00:46:23.01\00:46:27.29 I want you to know, our Christ is stronger than any drugs. 00:46:27.32\00:46:33.70 He can give us victory over our sins. 00:46:33.73\00:46:37.07 He can deliver us. 00:46:37.10\00:46:38.64 He can make us into new people. 00:46:38.67\00:46:43.84 I'm just so glad to be here tonight. 00:46:43.87\00:46:45.40 I feel the presence 00:46:45.43\00:46:46.80 of the Spirit of God in this place. 00:46:46.83\00:46:50.41 Can you say something to these people, Pastor Garcia? 00:46:50.44\00:46:53.37 Say them, gives them a word 00:46:53.40\00:46:55.06 from God tonight. 00:46:55.09\00:46:57.79 Hallelujah, I'm so grateful 00:46:57.82\00:47:02.10 that you've responded and recognized 00:47:02.13\00:47:04.40 that this is your hour of visitation. 00:47:04.43\00:47:07.35 God has not abandoned you, 00:47:07.38\00:47:08.77 God has not forgotten about you. 00:47:08.80\00:47:11.15 He knows every detail of your life. 00:47:11.18\00:47:14.85 He wants to do a miracle in your life, 00:47:14.88\00:47:17.61 would you give him permission. 00:47:17.64\00:47:19.23 Would you let God do the miracle 00:47:19.26\00:47:21.45 that you need tonight in your life. 00:47:21.48\00:47:25.79 Would you just open your heart tonight? 00:47:25.82\00:47:30.00 Open your heart tonight and say Lord I'm yours. 00:47:30.03\00:47:35.66 I need you, be my Lord, be my Savior, 00:47:35.69\00:47:43.04 my healer, my deliverer, my soon coming king. 00:47:43.07\00:47:50.08 Amen. Hallelujah. 00:47:50.11\00:47:54.82 Pastor Garcia, they're still coming over her. 00:47:54.85\00:47:56.67 There are so many people coming 00:47:56.70\00:47:58.08 way back in this audience. 00:47:58.11\00:47:59.82 I don't know how many are here tonight-- 00:47:59.85\00:48:01.59 more than I could ever count. 00:48:01.62\00:48:04.39 People are coming and right up to here. 00:48:04.42\00:48:07.27 Right up to the stage they coming and they're coming. 00:48:07.30\00:48:13.33 You know the words of that hymn that Bob Bradbury is playing, 00:48:13.36\00:48:17.72 "Just as I am, with that one plea, 00:48:17.75\00:48:21.21 but that thy blood was shed for me, 00:48:21.24\00:48:24.63 and that thou bidst become to thee, 00:48:24.66\00:48:28.12 O Lamb of God, I come, I come just as I'm. 00:48:28.15\00:48:33.10 I come with all my sins. 00:48:33.30\00:48:35.47 I come with all my mistakes. 00:48:35.50\00:48:38.36 I come with all my failings. 00:48:38.39\00:48:41.01 I come with my drug problem. 00:48:41.04\00:48:44.13 I come with my adulteries. 00:48:44.16\00:48:46.97 I come with my crimes and my sins and whatever it is. 00:48:47.00\00:48:49.89 I come as I'm. 00:48:49.92\00:48:51.52 And then when I come I don't stay as I am, 00:48:51.55\00:48:54.58 because Christ changes me. 00:48:54.61\00:48:57.25 He changes me inside. 00:48:57.28\00:49:00.40 Look at me. 00:49:00.43\00:49:03.50 Inside us, we're the same as you are. 00:49:03.53\00:49:09.86 We know your feelings. 00:49:09.89\00:49:11.50 We know your pain. 00:49:11.53\00:49:13.24 We know your struggles. 00:49:13.27\00:49:14.80 We know your suffering. 00:49:14.83\00:49:19.40 We know something else that what Christ did for us, 00:49:19.43\00:49:25.44 He can do for you. 00:49:25.47\00:49:29.86 We going to have a prayer in a moment 00:49:29.89\00:49:31.27 for there're people coming 00:49:31.30\00:49:32.67 and I don't want to stop appealing, 00:49:32.70\00:49:35.32 while somebody is still trying to get down. 00:49:35.35\00:49:37.71 Some people have to walk about half a mile to get here. 00:49:37.74\00:49:42.50 There's still hundreds of people coming. 00:49:42.53\00:49:48.05 But we're going to pray for you tonight. 00:49:48.08\00:49:51.67 We're going to bring you to God. 00:49:51.70\00:49:54.85 And as you take the living Christ 00:49:54.88\00:49:56.82 into your life tonight by faith, 00:49:56.85\00:49:59.77 He will radically change you. 00:49:59.80\00:50:03.41 He'll turn you inside out. 00:50:03.44\00:50:05.82 He'll make you into a new person. 00:50:05.85\00:50:08.96 Now we're gonna have prayer together. 00:50:15.48\00:50:23.11 We're gonna have prayer and the music is going to stop 00:50:23.14\00:50:26.92 and we're just gonna pray together. 00:50:26.95\00:50:29.06 Isn't it beautiful here? 00:50:36.31\00:50:40.06 Here we're in God's cathedral. 00:50:40.09\00:50:44.47 I want to say that the person 00:50:44.50\00:50:45.88 in the bleaches way down there at the end. 00:50:45.91\00:50:50.61 God seek you tonight. 00:50:50.64\00:50:53.15 He loves you. 00:50:53.18\00:50:55.11 He's got a plan and a purpose for you. 00:50:55.14\00:50:58.69 I want to say to the people way back there near the road, 00:50:58.72\00:51:03.19 I can't see you but God can. 00:51:03.22\00:51:06.75 He knows what you're thinking. 00:51:06.78\00:51:09.33 He loves you. 00:51:09.36\00:51:10.96 He cares for you. 00:51:10.99\00:51:13.01 And as you take him into your heart tonight 00:51:13.04\00:51:15.49 your life's gonna be changed forever. 00:51:15.52\00:51:19.26 I want to say to the people over there 00:51:19.29\00:51:20.90 who would love to come down but can't. 00:51:20.93\00:51:24.10 God knows everything about you. 00:51:24.13\00:51:27.15 Everything you've done. 00:51:27.18\00:51:30.04 What you're thinking now and he loves you 00:51:30.07\00:51:35.60 and John 316 can work for you tonight. 00:51:35.63\00:51:40.84 Every person here-- we're going to pray 00:51:40.87\00:51:44.53 for these people here. 00:51:44.56\00:51:45.93 But this prayer is going to include 00:51:45.96\00:51:48.15 everybody in this vast arena. 00:51:48.18\00:51:51.93 Nobody is left out. 00:51:51.96\00:51:55.34 So can we bow our heads? 00:51:55.37\00:52:00.41 This is a special prayer. 00:52:00.44\00:52:07.81 Dear Father God. 00:52:07.84\00:52:12.54 We're so glad we're here tonight. 00:52:12.57\00:52:16.06 We thank you for John 3:16, that "God so loved the world 00:52:16.09\00:52:22.55 that He gave his only Son, so that whoever believes in him 00:52:22.58\00:52:26.63 shall not perish but have everlasting life." 00:52:26.66\00:52:32.84 I want to thank you for Pastor Garcia's testimony. 00:52:32.87\00:52:37.42 From the streets of Los Angeles, 00:52:37.45\00:52:41.71 this desperate pockets of sin and crime in this vast city, 00:52:41.74\00:52:48.93 where it's not safe for people to go, 00:52:48.96\00:52:52.21 where young men kill each other. 00:52:52.24\00:52:54.30 Thank you for bringing Garcia here tonight 00:52:54.33\00:52:57.21 not only to sing to us, but to tell us that Jesus 00:52:57.24\00:53:02.01 saves because Jesus saved him. 00:53:02.04\00:53:08.08 Tonight, dear Father, 00:53:08.11\00:53:12.89 bless the lost boys and girls. 00:53:12.92\00:53:16.46 Bless the sons and the daughters who don't know You. 00:53:16.49\00:53:22.75 Bless the fathers and the mothers 00:53:22.78\00:53:24.62 who are struggling and who are worried and who are concerned. 00:53:24.65\00:53:30.08 Put Your spirit upon these people here tonight. 00:53:30.11\00:53:32.68 My Father, I pray put Your spirit upon them 00:53:32.71\00:53:36.84 tonight my Father I pray and heal them. 00:53:36.87\00:53:42.12 Wash them in the blood of Christ. 00:53:42.15\00:53:45.17 Save them forever, forever and ever and ever 00:53:45.20\00:53:49.22 and right their name. 00:53:49.25\00:53:51.34 All their names in the book of life 00:53:51.37\00:53:53.92 I besiege you tonight dear Lord. 00:53:53.95\00:53:58.16 In the name of Jesus tonight we bind the strong man. 00:53:58.19\00:54:04.72 We bind the evil spirits in Jesus name. 00:54:04.75\00:54:10.37 Not in our name but in the name of the power of Jesus 00:54:10.40\00:54:15.79 we bind those spirits that have been 00:54:15.82\00:54:17.94 afflicting your people here. 00:54:17.97\00:54:21.43 And in the name of Jesus, we say to these people, 00:54:21.46\00:54:25.67 be healed, be forgiven, be saved. 00:54:25.70\00:54:30.67 Come into their hearts right now Lord. 00:54:33.80\00:54:37.31 This vast congregation and what is that Lord 00:54:37.34\00:54:40.45 I don't know, hundred thousand, I don't know. 00:54:40.48\00:54:43.64 But every person here tonight Lord, 00:54:43.67\00:54:45.75 fill them with the Holy Spirit. 00:54:45.78\00:54:48.74 And change their lives dynamically, 00:54:48.77\00:54:52.90 dramatically, absolutely for Your glory 00:54:52.93\00:54:57.57 and for their good. 00:54:57.60\00:55:01.04 Fill them with Your peace and take them home 00:55:01.07\00:55:06.35 with joy knowing that every person 00:55:06.38\00:55:10.13 here tonight is now a child of God. 00:55:10.16\00:55:15.52 And he's going to home with Jesus when he comes. 00:55:15.55\00:55:18.97 Bless them dear Lord. 00:55:19.00\00:55:20.94 Bless them, bless them. 00:55:20.97\00:55:25.68 We thank You. We worship You. 00:55:25.71\00:55:27.60 We praise You. 00:55:27.63\00:55:29.00 We give you glory. 00:55:29.03\00:55:30.40 And we commit them into your hands in Jesus' 00:55:30.43\00:55:34.87 holy and mighty name, 00:55:34.90\00:55:38.80 amen, amen. 00:55:43.58\00:55:46.47 The Spirit of God today is moving. 00:55:49.27\00:55:52.03 He is moving wherever human hearts sense their need. 00:55:52.06\00:55:54.95 He's moving whenever and wherever souls 00:55:54.98\00:55:57.72 reach out to Him. 00:55:57.75\00:55:59.12 He is moving because these are not ordinary times. 00:55:59.15\00:56:02.57 He is moving through the proclamation 00:56:02.60\00:56:04.70 of His living word. 00:56:04.73\00:56:06.47 During the Port Moresby meetings, 00:56:06.50\00:56:08.34 the Spirit of God was powerfully present. 00:56:08.37\00:56:11.50 One evening as Pastor John Carter 00:56:11.53\00:56:13.21 spoke about the Holy Spirit and his work to redeem souls, 00:56:13.24\00:56:16.46 a huge white bird flew low over the audience. 00:56:16.49\00:56:19.84 The congregation of more than 100,000 witnessed 00:56:19.87\00:56:22.79 the sight and believed that God had sent them a sign. 00:56:22.82\00:56:26.56 Tens of thousands poured forward 00:56:26.59\00:56:29.40 to accept Christ as Lord and Savior. 00:56:29.43\00:56:31.71 God today is calling you as you view this program 00:56:31.74\00:56:35.27 to come to Him in faith. 00:56:35.30\00:56:37.05 The work of the Holy Spirit is not restricted 00:56:37.08\00:56:39.27 to any one place on earth. 00:56:39.30\00:56:41.11 Wherever you are, He is there. 00:56:41.14\00:56:43.83 God loves you. 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