Some of the largest crowds
in the history of Christianity
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attended the Carter Report
in the Sir John Guise Stadium,
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Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
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Who were these people?
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Well, they were
earnest seekers for truth
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with hearts strangely
warmed by the love of God.
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They came hungry for God.
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And they listened to
His Word with a holy awe,
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mingled with a
divine excitement.
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When the invitation to
accept Christ as Lord and Savior
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was given,
thousands surged forward.
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The fervency and
devotion of these seekers
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displayed the
miracle working power
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of the Holy
Spirit in their lives.
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You are now invited to
join this mighty congregation
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as Pastor John Carter
forthrightly proclaims
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the message hot
from the heart of God.
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Welcome to the Carter Report
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in the Sir John
Guise National Stadium,
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Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
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There are two things
that you cannot avoid.
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You cannot avoid
paying your taxes
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and you cannot avoid death.
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I want you to know
that the Bible teaches
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the great truths
about, "Life After Death."
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And one day by the grace of God,
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I am planning to
live for a thousand years
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and then a billion years
and then a trillion years.
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I am planning to live
a life that has no end
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when Jesus Christ comes.
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So I believe in
life after death.
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I'm gonna turn to
a text in my Bible
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and in these lectures I use
the New International Version
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which is a great translation.
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I'm gonna turn to
1 Thessalonians 4:16
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and I want you to notice
the text up on the screen.
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The Bible says--
can you see it there?
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The Bible says, "For the
Lord Himself will come down
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from heaven,
with a loud command,
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with the voice of the archangel
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and with the
trumpet call of God,
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and the dead in
Christ will rise first."
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The Bible teaches the
truth about the judgment day.
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The Bible teaches
that the righteous
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are going to be
raised by everlasting life.
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And the Bible teaches
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that the wicked
are going to be raised
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to meet God in judgment.
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But the Bible teaches
when Jesus Christ comes back,
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He's going to come
back with the shout,
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with the voice of the archangel
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and the dead in Christ are going
to get up out of their tombs
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and they're
going to live forever.
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And I want to ask you tonight.
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Don't you want to
live forever, my friend?
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Don't you want to live forever?
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Don't you want to
be eternally young?
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Don't you want to
have eternal peace and joy
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and a life that is commensurate
with the life of Almighty God.
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I believe in life after death.
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Now listen to me.
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Our authority--I'm
holding up our authority.
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I want to make
this ever so plain,
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I don't want to
offend any person,
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but our authority in these
meetings is not the church.
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Hear what I said?
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Our authority is not
the Roman Catholic Church.
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It is not the Baptist Church.
It is not the Methodist Church.
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It is not the
Pentecostal Church.
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It is not the
Seventh Day Adventist Church.
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Our authority in these meetings
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is the living
Word of the living God.
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Our authority is the Bible.
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Paul, the
evangelist says in the Bible
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that "God will finish His work
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and cut it short
in righteousness."
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The prophet Joel says,
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"God will pour out His
Spirit in the last days,
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and signs and
wonders will follow."
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The Carter Report believes
that we are now in the end times
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and His Spirit
is moving mightily.
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During the Port
Moresby campaign,
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we testified that we saw
the power of God revealed.
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God-hungry souls
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could not get enough
of the Word of the Lord.
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As at creation,
the Spirit of God
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moved upon the
face of the waters
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and God brought
cosmos out of chaos.
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Souls were recreated in
the image of the Creator.
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Instead of hate, there was love.
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Instead of
despair, there was hope.
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Instead of
sorrow, there was joy.
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And in the place of
death, God gave life.
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One night as
John Carter preached
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on the person and
work of the Holy Spirit
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the image of a white bird
was flashed on the screens.
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That moment, a
great white bird flew low
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over the
astonished congregation.
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Cries of joy filled the
air as the audience recognized
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that God visited His people.
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A mighty surge
of Pentecostal power
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swept the
audience of 120,000 souls
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and everyone
present felt the warm,
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comforting presence of God.
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The Carter Report team
invites you, my dear viewer,
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to be a partner in this work.
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Soldiers of the
cross are wanted.
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Faith partners are needed.
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Write to us now here
at The Carter Report,
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P.O. Box 1900,
Thousand Oaks, CA 91358
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or in Australia at P.O.
Box 861, Terrigal, NSW 2260.
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You may also contact us
online at cartereport.org
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or email us at
info@cartereport.org
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This meeting will change lives.
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We are
challenging myths, legends
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and traditions in
the name of the Lord
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and in their place discovering
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a great truth of hope
and life and goodness.
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This program tonight is going
to take a very simple format.
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It's the most
effective way of teaching.
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And tonight I'm teaching.
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I'm not preaching. I'm teaching.
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We are going to ask
questions of the Bible.
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We are going to go
to the Holy Word of God
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and we are going to
ask questions of the Bible.
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And as we ask
questions of the Bible,
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we will read the answers
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from the living
Word of the living God.
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Here is the first
question. Listen carefully.
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Does man have an immortal soul?
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I'm perfectly aware that
almost every religion teaches
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that man has an immortal soul.
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What does the Bible say?
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I'm going to turn in the Bible
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to 1 Timothy 6:14-16.
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Does man have an immortal
soul? Look at the screen.
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"To keep this
command without spot
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or blame until the appearing
of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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which God will bring
about in his own time-God,
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the blessed and only Ruler,
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the King of kings
and Lord of lords,
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who alone is immortal
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and who lives in
unapproachable light,
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whom no one has seen or can see.
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To Him be honor and
might forever. Amen."
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The Bible teaches that
God alone has immortality.
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It seems very plain to me
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that if God
alone has immortality,
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I do not have an immortal soul.
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This is the Word of God.
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God alone, the
Bible says, is immortal.
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But the Bible
teaches that I am mortal.
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I need Christ.
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I think I should come
over here to the blackboard.
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And I think I
should write this up
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because it is one of
the great key truths.
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The Bible says, God--we're
gonna get a camera in here
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so you can see
this way down the back.
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"God alone," that
means "By Himself."
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"God alone is immortal."
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If I had immortality,
innately, my friend,
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I would be God Himself
because the Bible says,
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"God alone has immortality."
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Before I come to
the next question
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which is almost superfluous,
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is man mortal or immortal?
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And we're going to
put a text up, Job 4:17.
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Want you to notice
the text in the Bible,
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"Can a mortal be
more righteous than God?
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Can a man be more
pure than his Maker?"
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The Bible tells
me that Almighty God
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has immortality
but we are mortal.
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Listen to me.
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The time is coming
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when the greatest
man is going to die.
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And he's going
to go back to dust.
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And one day he is going to stand
in the judgment and meet God.
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Therefore, the Bible
says, "Be careful how you live."
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Because the Bible tells me,
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there is a record
kept of every life.
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You and I can
cheat and we can steal
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and we can hide
things from other people
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but we can hide
nothing from Almighty God.
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Tonight, He is looking
down upon this vast audience
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of 100,000 people
and He says, "I am God.
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You are mortal
and I am immortal."
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These are the
words of the Creator.
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Now we come to
the next question.
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When will man become immortal?
When will we become immortal?
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If I am naturally mortal,
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when do I get the
gift of immortality?
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I'm going to take
my Bible, here it is.
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And I wish I could
give everyone of you here
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a copy of this Bible.
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1 Corinthians 15:51-54
and I'm going to stand here
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and I'm going to read it
out of the Holy Word of God.
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And we're going to put
the text up on the screen
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so you can see the
texts with your own eyes.
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1 Corinthians 15:51,
listen to the Word of the Lord,
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my beloved friends, in PNG.
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"Listen, I tell you a mystery.
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We will not all sleep,
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but we will all be
changed--in a flash,
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in the twinkling of an
eye, at the last trumpet.
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For the trumpet will
sound, the dead will be raised
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imperishable, and
we will be changed.
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For the perishable must clothe
itself with the imperishable,
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and the mortal with
immortality." Hallelujah.
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"When the perishable has been
clothed with the imperishable,
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and the mortal with
immortality, then the saying
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that is written will come true,
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'Death has been
swallowed up in victory.'"
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The Bible tells me that
we, the children of God,
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are going to get
immortality when Jesus returns.
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So I want a
camera to come over here.
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I'm going to get it close.
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The Bible says, "Immortality
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is given to the people of God
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when Jesus comes at the
second coming of Christ."
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That is not the
teaching of my church.
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That is the very teaching
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of the very Word
of the living God.
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Now listen to me.
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As you know, I've
been to Russia 42 times.
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I remember on one occasion
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we ran a great
series of meetings
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like these in the
city of Nizhni Novgorod.
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Hundreds of thousands of
people attended the series.
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Even the KGB came to the series.
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The Spirit of God came
down upon those meetings.
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And God blessed those meetings.
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We had a tremendous choir.
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We had this
tremendous, magnificent choir.
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And the choir leader
was a beautiful Russian girl
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and her name was Anna.
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So we had this
magnificent series of meetings
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and we had a tremendous baptism.
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We're going to have a baptism
here and you ought to be in it.
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We had this baptism
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and thousands of
people were baptized.
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Communists and
atheists were baptized
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in the Volga River. Hallelujah.
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But when I went
back in the winter time,
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when the snows of
Russia were falling
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and kissing the
face of Northern Russia,
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I discovered that
Anna was in hospital.
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There was a
knocking on my hotel door.
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Alexander, one of my
Russian friends went to the door
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and he brought in three men,
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all so strained and worried.
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One was a
doctor, one was a pastor
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and one was Anna's husband.
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And through the
translator they said to me,
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"Pastor Carter,
come to the hospital
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because Anna has given birth
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to two little baby
girls and she's dying."
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It was so cold.
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The snow was so thick
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and I went to the hospital.
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These were in the days
when Russia was so, so poor.
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The economy had collapsed
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because of
atheism and communism.
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And so they did me up
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in the hospital
garments, special shoes.
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You know what they put on you
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when you go into
the intensive care ward.
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And I went into the
intensive care ward.
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And there was
this beautiful girl,
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lying beneath a
sheet, a white sheet
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and a young Russian
doctor trying to help her.
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She was bleeding from the mouth
and the ears and elsewhere.
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And I said, "What can be done?"
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They said, "We
have no medicines.
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If we only had some medicines."
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And so I took her hand,
she was entirely unconscious.
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I took her hand
and I prayed for Anna
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who'd given birth to
two little baby girls.
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One little baby
girl had already died
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but the other one
was named Anna also.
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And she was alive.
So I prayed for her.
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When you pray to
God, my beloved friends,
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sometimes God says,
"Yes," sometimes He says, "No,"
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and sometimes He
says, "Wait a bit."
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That evening as the
sun was going down--
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the sun went down about quarter
to 4:00 in the afternoon.
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It got pitch
black. Snowing heavily.
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The telephone rang and Alexander
said to me, "Anna has died."
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I was asked to take the funeral.
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This was after the
collapse of communism
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that had destroyed
the country entirely
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and murdered 70
million innocent people.
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Anna was buried in a
little cardboard coffin.
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They could not put
her in a wooden coffin.
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They didn't have the money.
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They had to break the ground
open because it was frozen.
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I went up to this
vast Russian cemetery.
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The trees were
naked against the sky.
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The wind was moaning.
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Beverley and I
stood there on the ice
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and together we with a group
of about 200 Russian believers,
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we praised the Lord.
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And we read from the Bible.
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And after we had prayed together
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and after we had
read from the Bible,
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Anna in the cardboard
box with a little baby girl
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at her breast was
lowered into--was lowered into--
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she was lowered
into the frozen ground,
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into the heart of mother Russia.
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As I stood there, I said
to those Russian survivors
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of the communist
holocaust, I said to them,
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"This is not the end of Anna.
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This not the end
of our choir leader.
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Anna is going to be
raised from the dead.
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Anna, hallelujah, is
going to live again."
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I want you to know something.
We're going to see Anna again.
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I'm going to see her again
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with her
beautiful long black hair.
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I'm going to
see her little baby.
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We're going to see
our loved ones again
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if we truly repent of our
sins and if we turn to God
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and if we give
our lives to Christ.
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The Bible says "The
Lord Himself shall descend
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from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of the Archangel,
00:21:07.20\00:21:10.94
with the trumpet call of God
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and the dead in Christ
are going to be raised first."
00:21:12.64\00:21:15.66
You ask me, "Why have
you come to Port Moresby?"
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I have come here, my
friend, in the name of the God
00:21:19.19\00:21:23.39
who sent me to preach His word,
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to tell you that
Jesus is coming soon.
00:21:26.03\00:21:30.10
And you and I can live
for eternity. Hallelujah.
00:21:30.13\00:21:35.97
You and I can live for
eternity in the kingdom of God.
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You and I can
live and go on living
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forever and ever and ever.
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Amen and amen.
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Now we're going
to ask the question,
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here's another question.
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Now you may
think I get stirred up
00:21:52.78\00:21:54.15
when I talk about
these things, I do.
00:21:54.18\00:21:57.92
I've seen so much suffering.
I've seen so many deaths.
00:21:57.95\00:22:04.04
I've seen so much poverty.
I've seen so much hunger.
00:22:04.07\00:22:07.97
And I'm longing, my
friend, for a better world.
00:22:08.00\00:22:13.84
And one day we're
going to have a better world
00:22:13.87\00:22:16.71
when our Lord
Jesus Christ comes.
00:22:16.74\00:22:19.75
And they must-see old graves
00:22:19.78\00:22:22.97
where the pilgrims sleep shall
be opened as wide as before.
00:22:23.00\00:22:29.23
And the millions that
sleep in the mighty deep
00:22:29.26\00:22:33.98
shall live on
this earth once more.
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He's coming, He's
coming soon I know.
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This is the Word of the Lord.
00:22:40.64\00:22:44.19
Now we ask the
question, what is the soul?
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And we're going to
turn to Genesis 2:7
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and we're going to put
this text up on the screen.
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And it's going to
tell you what is the soul.
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Are you ready?
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I'm coming out here,
gonna look at the text.
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We're gonna read it together.
00:23:01.37\00:23:03.91
You're ready to
read it? Look at this.
00:23:03.94\00:23:05.92
This is the Word
of God, my friend.
00:23:05.95\00:23:08.23
The Word of God will save us,
not the tradition of the church.
00:23:08.26\00:23:11.89
If you are following
the tradition of the church,
00:23:11.92\00:23:14.42
you are in the gravest danger.
00:23:14.45\00:23:16.77
I want you
tonight not to follow me.
00:23:16.80\00:23:19.32
I don't want you
to follow John Carter.
00:23:19.35\00:23:21.32
I want you to
follow Jesus Christ.
00:23:21.35\00:23:23.71
Now look at this
text, "And the Lord God
00:23:23.74\00:23:28.08
formed man of the
dust of the ground."
00:23:28.11\00:23:32.85
You know what we're
made of? We are made of dust.
00:23:32.88\00:23:38.98
Chemically speaking,
00:23:39.01\00:23:40.83
every person is
worth about three kina.
00:23:40.86\00:23:46.24
We're just made of
the dust of the ground
00:23:46.27\00:23:50.34
and some of the minerals.
00:23:50.37\00:23:51.89
The Bible says "The Lord God
00:23:51.92\00:23:53.89
formed man of the
dust of the ground
00:23:53.92\00:23:57.06
and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life,
00:23:57.09\00:24:02.35
and man became a living soul."
00:24:02.38\00:24:07.65
Listen, the Bible
says God caused the man.
00:24:07.68\00:24:15.65
There he was. He was
lying there just dust.
00:24:15.68\00:24:22.69
God had fashioned
him with His own fingers.
00:24:22.72\00:24:26.38
You think of this.
00:24:26.41\00:24:27.78
God with His own
fingers got together the dust
00:24:27.81\00:24:32.04
and He fashioned a
man out of that dust
00:24:32.07\00:24:36.26
and He called him Adam.
00:24:36.29\00:24:39.91
And then Almighty God
breathed into his nostrils
00:24:39.94\00:24:45.64
the breath of life and the Bible
says "He became a living soul."
00:24:45.67\00:24:52.29
Now look at this
on the blackboard.
00:24:52.32\00:24:55.44
The Bible says, "The
Lord God formed man"--
00:24:55.47\00:24:59.54
I'm gonna put
this on the screen--
00:24:59.57\00:25:01.05
"of the dust of the earth
00:25:01.08\00:25:04.72
and He breathed
into that dusty body
00:25:04.75\00:25:08.76
the breath of life and
man became a living soul."
00:25:08.79\00:25:16.24
It doesn't say God took a body
and put a soul in that body.
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No, no, no. It doesn't say that.
00:25:22.27\00:25:26.02
You say, "Well, that's
what I've been taught."
00:25:26.05\00:25:27.89
Well, I'm not
here to argue with you.
00:25:27.92\00:25:31.48
I'm simply here to tell
you what the Bible says.
00:25:31.51\00:25:35.11
The Lord God
formed man of the dust
00:25:35.14\00:25:37.93
and breathed in his
nostrils the breath of life
00:25:37.96\00:25:41.63
and Adam became a living soul.
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Listen now, would
you like to see a soul?
00:25:47.56\00:25:53.68
Well, I reckon tonight
it would be a good thing
00:25:53.71\00:25:55.83
if I could
actually show you a soul.
00:25:55.86\00:25:59.45
When I talk about
this, some people think
00:25:59.48\00:26:02.17
I'm going to have
a little glass bottle
00:26:02.20\00:26:05.02
and I've got a soul inside it.
00:26:05.05\00:26:08.16
So when I say, "I'm going
to show you a soul tonight,"
00:26:08.19\00:26:12.97
they wonder
what I'm going to do.
00:26:13.00\00:26:15.45
Now my wife, Beverley is going
to bring out a little soul.
00:26:15.48\00:26:21.31
And I'm going to ask
that-- oh, here she comes.
00:26:21.34\00:26:25.63
Would you welcome them tonight?
00:26:25.66\00:26:28.29
Here comes Vagi.
This is my wife, Beverley.
00:26:28.32\00:26:35.48
And Vagi's husband is Steve
00:26:35.51\00:26:38.42
and he's working
one of the cameras.
00:26:38.45\00:26:40.93
And this--come
on, come on out here.
00:26:40.96\00:26:44.58
I'll take care of you,
okay. You come out here.
00:26:44.61\00:26:49.58
Isn't she cute? We
can't drop her, you know.
00:26:49.61\00:26:52.90
Steve will get
after me and be so mad.
00:26:52.93\00:26:55.85
Okay, here she comes.
00:26:55.88\00:26:58.78
Can we just--we'll just
tilt her head up a little bit.
00:26:58.81\00:27:02.38
Oh, oh, there she is.
00:27:02.41\00:27:06.34
She was born
last Saturday night.
00:27:06.37\00:27:11.11
And-- when?
00:27:11.14\00:27:13.40
Oh, she was born
Saturday morning.
00:27:13.43\00:27:16.57
And Steve was with the
meeting on Friday night.
00:27:16.60\00:27:19.86
He should have been with you.
00:27:19.89\00:27:21.65
Yeah. There she is.
00:27:21.68\00:27:24.56
Ladies and gentlemen,
00:27:24.59\00:27:28.73
this little girl
doesn't have a soul.
00:27:28.76\00:27:33.27
This little girl is a soul.
00:27:33.30\00:27:37.09
And these beautiful people--
00:27:37.12\00:27:42.41
this lady used to have
her own television program.
00:27:42.44\00:27:45.05
Now she got five children.
00:27:45.08\00:27:47.02
This dear little soul--
00:27:47.05\00:27:50.27
hey, can we get a
camera in close here?
00:27:50.30\00:27:52.89
Hey, she is absolutely gorgeous.
00:27:52.92\00:27:55.75
I've got a beautiful
little granddaughter, you know?
00:27:55.78\00:27:59.21
And it's a toss up which
one is the most gorgeous.
00:27:59.24\00:28:05.01
Let's get this
down a little bit.
00:28:05.04\00:28:07.08
Turn around so the
light can get on her.
00:28:07.11\00:28:09.13
There she is.
Look, she got a hat on.
00:28:09.16\00:28:10.93
Oh, look at this. Can
you see her on the screen?
00:28:10.96\00:28:15.72
There she is.
00:28:15.75\00:28:17.73
Ladies and gentlemen,
00:28:17.76\00:28:19.13
I introduce to you a
brand new soul.There she is.
00:28:19.16\00:28:24.25
Now, I have been given--
00:28:24.28\00:28:27.16
Beverley and I have been given--
00:28:27.19\00:28:30.35
we've been given a great honor.
00:28:30.38\00:28:35.21
We've been asked
to name this baby.
00:28:35.24\00:28:38.78
And the parents don't
know the name we've worked out.
00:28:38.81\00:28:41.90
That's a huge risk,
isn't it? That's a huge risk.
00:28:41.93\00:28:45.06
So we've got a
suggestion to make
00:28:45.09\00:28:47.16
so you don't
have to name this baby
00:28:47.19\00:28:48.97
what you've asked
us to name this baby.
00:28:49.00\00:28:51.46
But we thought because this
baby happened about the time
00:28:51.49\00:28:55.39
when these meetings were running
00:28:55.42\00:28:56.79
or when these
meetings were running
00:28:56.82\00:28:58.92
and these meetings
are all about God's grace,
00:28:58.95\00:29:02.34
God's mercy, God's
love, God's forgiveness
00:29:02.37\00:29:07.53
and there's a wonderful hymn
00:29:07.56\00:29:09.19
we sing back in the
United States, in Australia.
00:29:09.22\00:29:11.79
I'm sure you sing it here.
00:29:11.82\00:29:13.36
"Amazing grace,
how sweet the sound
00:29:13.39\00:29:16.56
that saved a wretch like me.
00:29:16.59\00:29:19.01
I once was lost,
but now I'm found.
00:29:19.04\00:29:23.42
I was blind, but now I see."
00:29:23.45\00:29:26.12
Grace is the most wonderful
name for our little baby girl.
00:29:26.15\00:29:33.14
And we'd like to name
00:29:33.17\00:29:35.91
this beautiful
little girl from PNG,
00:29:35.94\00:29:42.52
we'd like to name her
00:29:42.55\00:29:44.54
in the name of the Father,
the Son and the Holy Spirit
00:29:44.57\00:29:48.23
we'd like to name this
beautiful little soul Grace.
00:29:48.26\00:29:55.46
Grace. God bless you. Thank you.
00:29:55.49\00:29:58.91
You're a beautiful
mother with a beautiful smile
00:29:58.94\00:30:01.93
and a beautiful
gorgeous little baby.
00:30:01.96\00:30:05.78
Now be careful.
00:30:05.81\00:30:07.18
Beverley, be careful
getting her down the stairs.
00:30:07.21\00:30:09.53
We don't want Grace to fall down
the stairs tonight, you know.
00:30:09.56\00:30:13.74
Goodness me. What
would Steve do to me.
00:30:13.77\00:30:18.62
Here they go.
00:30:18.65\00:30:20.02
Okay, now here's
the next question.
00:30:20.05\00:30:23.19
The next question, we're gonna
ask is this, can the soul die?
00:30:23.22\00:30:27.91
Many people believe
that the soul cannot die.
00:30:27.94\00:30:31.43
And that's why they teach
the immortality of the soul.
00:30:31.46\00:30:34.07
But if you turn over here
00:30:34.10\00:30:35.47
it tells us about the soul.
00:30:35.50\00:30:39.09
It says, "For every
living soul belongs to me,
00:30:39.12\00:30:42.55
the father as well as the
son-- both alike belong to me.
00:30:42.58\00:30:46.45
The soul who sins is the
one who is going to die."
00:30:46.48\00:30:51.08
So the Bible teaches
that the soul can die.
00:30:51.11\00:30:54.53
The idea that man
has an immortal soul
00:30:54.56\00:30:56.86
even though it's
taught by all the churches
00:30:56.89\00:30:58.79
or by many of the churches is
not taught in the Word of God.
00:30:58.82\00:31:02.66
As one wise man observed
the immortality of the soul
00:31:02.69\00:31:06.35
is taught by all of the
world's great religions.
00:31:06.38\00:31:09.65
It was taught by the Egyptians,
00:31:09.68\00:31:11.42
by the
Babylonians, by the Greeks.
00:31:11.45\00:31:13.60
It's taught by many of
the great churches today.
00:31:13.63\00:31:16.17
It's taught by the Hindus.
00:31:16.20\00:31:17.75
It's taught by
many, many religions
00:31:17.78\00:31:19.89
except one great religion
00:31:19.92\00:31:21.61
and that is the
religion of the Bible.
00:31:21.64\00:31:25.01
And we ask the question now.
00:31:25.04\00:31:26.41
Where did the 'immortality
of the soul' come from?
00:31:26.44\00:31:29.01
If so many people believe
in the immortality of the soul,
00:31:29.04\00:31:31.58
where did it come from?
00:31:31.61\00:31:32.98
We turn over here
now to Genesis 3:1-5
00:31:33.01\00:31:37.30
and it tells us the
origin of the doctrine
00:31:37.33\00:31:39.57
of the immortality of the soul.
00:31:39.60\00:31:41.29
Genesis 3:1-5, look
at it on the screen,
00:31:41.32\00:31:46.30
my friend, every one of you.
00:31:46.33\00:31:47.85
The Bible says, "Now
the serpent was more crafty
00:31:47.88\00:31:50.99
than any of the wild
animals the Lord God had made."
00:31:51.02\00:31:53.29
Now that serpent was the devil.
00:31:53.32\00:31:55.99
"He said to the
woman, 'Did God really say,
00:31:56.02\00:31:58.01
You must not eat from
any tree in the garden?'
00:31:58.04\00:32:01.80
The woman said to the serpent,
00:32:01.83\00:32:03.20
'We may eat fruit from
the trees in the garden,
00:32:03.23\00:32:06.69
but God did say, You must
not eat fruit from the tree
00:32:06.72\00:32:09.86
that is in the
middle of the garden,
00:32:09.89\00:32:11.34
and you must not
touch it, or you will die.'
00:32:11.37\00:32:15.63
'You will not surely die,'
the serpent said to the woman.
00:32:15.66\00:32:18.26
'For God knows that when you eat
of it your eyes will be opened,
00:32:18.29\00:32:23.23
and you will be like
God, knowing good and evil.'
00:32:23.26\00:32:25.60
"Now this is very important.
00:32:25.63\00:32:27.52
God said to our first parents,
00:32:27.55\00:32:29.12
"If you sin, if you
take the forbidden fruit,"
00:32:29.15\00:32:32.28
the Bible says, God
said, "you're going to die."
00:32:32.31\00:32:34.92
But the old devil came
along and he said to Eve,
00:32:34.95\00:32:37.23
"Well, you're going to eat
it and you're not going to die."
00:32:37.26\00:32:40.85
This was the first
sermon that was ever preached
00:32:40.88\00:32:43.40
on the doctrine of the
immortality of the soul.
00:32:43.43\00:32:46.85
The doctrine of the
immortality of the soul
00:32:46.88\00:32:48.77
does not come from the Bible.
00:32:48.80\00:32:50.22
It comes from the great liar
00:32:50.25\00:32:52.08
who said to our
first parents Adam and Eve,
00:32:52.11\00:32:55.31
"If you sin, you
will not surely die."
00:32:55.34\00:32:58.68
And thus, it passed
into all the great religions.
00:32:58.71\00:33:01.80
The immortality of the
soul is the devil's lie.
00:33:01.83\00:33:06.14
I want you to hear this.
00:33:06.17\00:33:07.54
The immortality of the
soul is simply the devil's lie.
00:33:07.57\00:33:12.14
Now we ask the question,
where do we go at death?
00:33:12.17\00:33:16.81
We're going to turn
now to Acts 2:29, 34.
00:33:16.84\00:33:20.82
Where does a person go at death?
00:33:20.85\00:33:22.83
Does he go to hell?
Does he go to purgatory?
00:33:22.86\00:33:25.76
Does he go to heaven?
00:33:25.79\00:33:27.16
Look at this, "Brothers,
I can tell you confidently
00:33:27.19\00:33:29.72
that the patriarch
David died and was buried
00:33:29.75\00:33:33.08
and his tomb is
here to this day."
00:33:33.11\00:33:35.39
So David died, he's buried.
00:33:35.42\00:33:37.65
And then the Bible
says, look at this,
00:33:37.68\00:33:39.91
"David did not
ascend to heaven."
00:33:39.94\00:33:42.27
Bless your heart.
00:33:42.30\00:33:43.67
"David did not ascend
to heaven and yet he said,
00:33:43.70\00:33:45.44
"The Lord said to my
Lord, sit at my right hand."
00:33:45.47\00:33:49.65
Now many of the churches tell me
and many of my friends tell me
00:33:49.68\00:33:52.74
that David, the man who
wrote the Book of Psalms,
00:33:52.77\00:33:54.93
the man who was a friend of God,
a man after God's own heart,
00:33:54.96\00:33:58.59
they say, David
is up there in glory.
00:33:58.62\00:34:02.07
But the Bible says David
did not ascend to heaven.
00:34:02.10\00:34:05.57
The Bible tells
me that King David,
00:34:05.60\00:34:07.91
this great prophet
of God is not in heaven
00:34:07.94\00:34:10.49
but he is sleeping in the grave,
awaiting the resurrection.
00:34:10.52\00:34:14.77
Now we're gonna turn
over now to John Chapter 11
00:34:14.80\00:34:17.65
and we're gonna start
at verse 38 and onwards.
00:34:17.68\00:34:20.62
I think we're gonna read
verse 38, 39, 41, 43 and 44.
00:34:20.65\00:34:26.26
And this tells us where
a person goes when he dies.
00:34:26.29\00:34:30.28
Now listen to this
and if you get this
00:34:30.31\00:34:32.69
your eyes are going to be opened
00:34:32.72\00:34:34.21
and you're
going to be liberated.
00:34:34.24\00:34:36.13
"Jesus, once more
deeply moved, came to the tomb.
00:34:36.16\00:34:40.36
It was a cave with a
stone laid across the entrance.
00:34:40.39\00:34:43.94
So here's the man who has died
and Jesus comes to the tomb.
00:34:43.97\00:34:47.32
'Take away the stone,' He said.
00:34:47.35\00:34:49.18
'But, Lord,' said Martha,
the sister of the dead man,
00:34:49.21\00:34:53.07
'by this time
there is a bad odor,
00:34:53.10\00:34:54.97
for he has been
there for four days.'
00:34:55.00\00:34:57.23
Here's a man who's
been dead for 4 days.
00:34:57.26\00:34:59.65
'So they took away the stone.
00:34:59.68\00:35:01.37
Then Jesus looked up and said,
00:35:01.40\00:35:02.87
'Father, I thank you
that you have heard me.'
00:35:02.90\00:35:06.18
When he had said this
Jesus called in a loud voice,
00:35:06.21\00:35:09.75
'Lazarus, come out!'
00:35:09.78\00:35:13.21
The dead man came out,
00:35:13.24\00:35:14.62
his hands and feet
wrapped with strips of linen,
00:35:14.65\00:35:17.46
and a cloth around his face."
00:35:17.49\00:35:20.03
And the Bible says,
"Jesus said to them,
00:35:20.06\00:35:22.08
'Take off the grave
clothes and let him go.'"
00:35:22.11\00:35:26.46
Now listen to me.
00:35:26.49\00:35:28.00
I appeal to you on the
authority of the Word of God,
00:35:28.03\00:35:31.69
not on the
authority of the church.
00:35:31.72\00:35:34.40
Here's a man who's
been dead for 4 days.
00:35:34.43\00:35:36.35
He's in the tomb.
He's not in heaven.
00:35:36.38\00:35:38.96
He's not in hell.
He's not in purgatory.
00:35:38.99\00:35:41.83
He is in the tomb.
00:35:41.86\00:35:44.83
And Jesus goes to the tomb
and Jesus is the Prince of life.
00:35:44.86\00:35:49.35
And Jesus goes to
the tomb and He says,
00:35:49.38\00:35:51.84
"Take away the stone."
00:35:51.87\00:35:53.24
And they say, "No,
Lord, there'll be an odor.
00:35:53.27\00:35:55.21
He's been there for 4
days. You can't do it."
00:35:55.24\00:35:58.60
And Jesus said, "Didn't I
tell you that if you believed,
00:35:58.63\00:36:03.35
if you
believed, if you believed,
00:36:03.38\00:36:05.94
you would see the glory of God"
00:36:05.97\00:36:09.40
I say this to you
tonight, if you will believe,
00:36:09.43\00:36:12.07
my friends in PNG, you
will see the glory of God.
00:36:12.10\00:36:17.17
If you believe,
but you got to believe
00:36:17.20\00:36:21.08
and it's within you to believe.
00:36:21.11\00:36:22.99
If you will look up
to God and so Jesus said,
00:36:23.02\00:36:26.13
"If you believe,
you'll see the glory of God."
00:36:26.16\00:36:28.36
And they take away the stone
00:36:28.39\00:36:30.32
and Jesus goes to
the mouth of the tomb
00:36:30.35\00:36:33.59
and He says,
"Lazarus, come out!"
00:36:33.62\00:36:38.10
And the dead man comes out.
00:36:38.13\00:36:40.70
And Jesus said "Take the grave
clothes off him and let him go."
00:36:40.73\00:36:46.08
Listen, where was Lazarus?
00:36:46.11\00:36:50.68
Well, if Lazarus was in heaven,
00:36:50.71\00:36:52.81
Jesus didn't help
him out a bit, did He?
00:36:52.84\00:36:55.69
He should have
left him in heaven.
00:36:55.72\00:36:58.40
And he was a friend of Jesus.
00:36:58.43\00:37:00.74
Look, where do we go
at death? On the screen.
00:37:00.77\00:37:03.60
We sleep in our graves at death.
00:37:03.63\00:37:07.45
And we sleep in
the grave like Lazarus
00:37:07.48\00:37:11.21
until Jesus comes in
power and great glory.
00:37:11.24\00:37:18.15
Therefore, the Bible teaches
00:37:18.18\00:37:21.71
the dead are
sleeping in the grave.
00:37:21.74\00:37:26.91
Now we're going to turn to
another text, John 5:28-29.
00:37:26.94\00:37:31.84
Are you folks following me?
00:37:31.87\00:37:33.32
John 5:28-29, Jesus says,
"Do not be amazed at this."
00:37:33.35\00:37:40.39
Some people say, "I
can't believe this."
00:37:40.42\00:37:42.77
Well, Jesus says,
"Have some faith."
00:37:42.80\00:37:45.95
Jesus says,
"Don't be amazed at this,
00:37:45.98\00:37:48.88
for a time is coming when all
who are in their graves," where?
00:37:48.91\00:37:55.19
In purgatory? In
hell? In heaven? No.
00:37:55.22\00:37:59.44
Jesus said, "These people,"
I'm going to read it again,
00:37:59.47\00:38:04.11
"Do not be amazed at
this for a time is coming
00:38:04.14\00:38:06.40
when all who are in their
graves will hear His voice
00:38:06.43\00:38:12.54
and come out, those who have
done good will rise to live,
00:38:12.57\00:38:16.19
and those who have done
evil will rise to be condemned."
00:38:16.22\00:38:20.86
Look at me.
00:38:20.89\00:38:22.62
This is sort of
amazing. Look over here.
00:38:22.65\00:38:24.78
Look at this
picture on the screen.
00:38:24.81\00:38:27.11
Absolutely
incredible. I believe this.
00:38:27.14\00:38:30.50
This is burning in my soul.
00:38:30.53\00:38:32.85
I'm not taught to--
I'm not paid to teach this.
00:38:32.88\00:38:36.23
I'm not in this for money.
00:38:36.26\00:38:39.27
God has called me
to preach His word.
00:38:39.30\00:38:42.15
And I can feel tonight
00:38:42.18\00:38:43.72
the anointing of the
Spirit of God upon me.
00:38:43.75\00:38:46.94
And I want to
say to you tonight,
00:38:46.97\00:38:48.50
the day is going to come
00:38:48.53\00:38:50.01
when Christ is going to come
back in power and great glory
00:38:50.04\00:38:54.54
and He's going to
raise His children.
00:38:54.57\00:38:58.95
And the Bible says
there are two resurrections.
00:38:58.98\00:39:02.00
Did you know that?
00:39:02.03\00:39:03.40
There's a
resurrection of the righteous
00:39:03.43\00:39:05.07
and there's a
resurrection of a wicked.
00:39:05.10\00:39:07.33
The Bible says we
are going to be judged
00:39:07.36\00:39:10.77
according to our
works because our works show
00:39:10.80\00:39:14.12
what sort of people we are.
00:39:14.15\00:39:17.31
The Bible says
those who've done evil
00:39:17.34\00:39:22.39
are going to be
raised to judgment.
00:39:22.42\00:39:26.08
And the Bible
says the righteous,
00:39:26.11\00:39:28.88
those who've turned to Christ,
00:39:28.91\00:39:32.22
repented of their sins and
kept the commandments of God,
00:39:32.25\00:39:36.71
those people are
going to be raised
00:39:36.74\00:39:40.10
and they're going to
live for all eternity.
00:39:40.13\00:39:45.13
Hallelujah, praise
God. Thank you, Jesus.
00:39:45.16\00:39:49.70
Sometime ago, my
dear mother died.
00:39:49.73\00:39:53.68
I loved her so much.
00:39:53.71\00:39:55.09
She was 97 when she died.
00:39:55.12\00:39:59.18
Ninety seven,
God had blessed her.
00:39:59.21\00:40:04.30
But she can't live
forever in this life.
00:40:04.33\00:40:06.77
She died, but one day I am
going to see my mother again
00:40:06.80\00:40:11.43
and she's going
to be a young girl
00:40:11.46\00:40:13.90
running down the
streets of glory.
00:40:13.93\00:40:17.12
Listen, some years
back, I lost my father.
00:40:17.15\00:40:21.63
My father had
been an unbeliever,
00:40:21.66\00:40:23.64
didn't believe in
God, didn't go to church.
00:40:23.67\00:40:26.34
But then he came
to one of my meetings
00:40:26.37\00:40:29.50
and my father, hallelujah,
gave his life to Christ.
00:40:29.53\00:40:36.31
When I had an appeal,
00:40:36.34\00:40:38.20
my father came forward and
he gave his life to Christ.
00:40:38.23\00:40:42.36
My father was baptized.
00:40:42.39\00:40:44.33
My father became a true
believer who loved Jesus.
00:40:44.36\00:40:50.01
And whose life was
transformed by the power of God.
00:40:50.04\00:40:55.49
Tonight, we are not
talking about a dead religion.
00:40:55.52\00:40:59.81
We are talking
about the power of God
00:40:59.84\00:41:02.78
to change your
life and to change mine.
00:41:02.81\00:41:07.05
The Bible says the day is coming
00:41:07.08\00:41:10.56
when the dead are going to
hear the voice of the son of God
00:41:10.59\00:41:15.46
and the dead are going
to walk out of their tombs.
00:41:15.49\00:41:19.20
What a tremendous,
what an amazing truth.
00:41:19.23\00:41:23.03
I want you to see it tonight.
00:41:23.06\00:41:26.93
And if you
understand this tonight,
00:41:26.96\00:41:28.55
you'll understand the
meaning tomorrow night
00:41:28.58\00:41:30.61
when I speak on
demons and sprits.
00:41:30.64\00:41:36.06
The next question is
this, are the dead conscious?
00:41:36.09\00:41:42.51
Millions of people,
billions of people believe
00:41:42.54\00:41:46.16
that the dead are conscious
and they're all around us.
00:41:46.19\00:41:50.52
And they believe that the
living can talk to the dead
00:41:50.55\00:41:53.59
and the dead can
talk to the living.
00:41:53.62\00:41:56.69
That is the devil's lie.
00:41:56.72\00:42:00.78
Are the dead conscious?
00:42:00.81\00:42:02.55
I'm turning in the
Bible, John 11:1 and 11-14
00:42:02.58\00:42:09.12
and this talks about the
man who was the friend of Jesus,
00:42:09.15\00:42:15.51
the man whom Jesus
raised from the dead.
00:42:15.54\00:42:18.75
"Now a man named
Lazarus was sick.
00:42:18.78\00:42:22.94
He was from Bethany, the village
of Mary and her sister Martha.
00:42:22.97\00:42:30.57
After he"-- so here's a man,
00:42:30.60\00:42:33.04
he's a friend of
Jesus and he dies.
00:42:33.07\00:42:37.08
He gets sick and he dies.
00:42:37.11\00:42:40.08
Bad things
happen to good people.
00:42:40.11\00:42:44.89
"After he said this,
he went on to tell them,
00:42:44.92\00:42:48.27
'Our friend Lazarus
has fallen asleep.'"
00:42:48.30\00:42:53.55
He's fallen asleep.
He has fallen asleep.
00:42:53.58\00:42:59.53
"'But I am going
there to wake him up.'
00:42:59.56\00:43:04.19
His disciples replied 'Lord,
00:43:04.22\00:43:05.72
if he sleeps, he
will get better.'
00:43:05.75\00:43:10.11
Jesus had been
speaking of his death,
00:43:10.14\00:43:13.60
but His disciples
thought he meant natural sleep.
00:43:13.63\00:43:19.23
So then he told them
plainly, 'Lazarus is dead.'''
00:43:19.26\00:43:27.96
Lazarus is sleeping.
00:43:27.99\00:43:30.11
Lazarus is dead.
00:43:30.14\00:43:32.47
I want you to know our loved
ones are not in pain tonight.
00:43:32.50\00:43:37.44
They are not in hell tonight.
00:43:37.47\00:43:39.97
They are not in
purgatory tonight.
00:43:40.00\00:43:42.82
The dead are
peacefully sleeping.
00:43:42.85\00:43:48.09
My mother is sleeping.
00:43:48.12\00:43:51.24
She is unconscious.
My father is sleeping.
00:43:51.27\00:43:55.76
Saint Paul is sleeping.
00:43:55.79\00:43:58.58
David is sleeping.
00:43:58.61\00:44:00.66
None of the saints, my
friend, are home in heaven.
00:44:00.69\00:44:07.99
They are sleeping
awaiting the coming of Jesus.
00:44:08.02\00:44:14.96
You know we put up on the screen
00:44:14.99\00:44:16.36
a moment ago,
it was appropriate.
00:44:16.39\00:44:17.76
We put up the flames of hell.
00:44:17.79\00:44:19.93
Some people are taught that
their loved ones are in hell.
00:44:22.91\00:44:30.29
They're told to pay money to get
their loved ones out of hell.
00:44:30.32\00:44:36.00
I want you to know our loved
ones tonight are not suffering.
00:44:36.03\00:44:42.41
They are in the arms of God.
00:44:42.44\00:44:46.79
They're sleeping.
00:44:46.82\00:44:49.90
Jesus said Lazarus is sleeping.
00:44:49.93\00:44:52.77
Lazarus is dead.
00:44:52.80\00:44:54.40
When I turn to the
Book of Ecclesiastes
00:44:54.43\00:44:58.02
it tells me how
much the dead know.
00:44:58.05\00:45:02.52
The book of Ecclesiastes
00:45:02.55\00:45:05.43
and I'm going to for the
record tell you the verse.
00:45:05.46\00:45:10.80
Ecclesiastes 9:5-6,
00:45:10.83\00:45:16.06
Ecclesiastes 9:5-6,
that's in the Old Testament.
00:45:16.09\00:45:21.03
We take texts from the old
and we take them from the new.
00:45:21.06\00:45:26.44
"For the living
know that they will die."
00:45:26.47\00:45:29.70
Every person here, I
don't care who you are.
00:45:29.73\00:45:33.19
I don't care
how wealthy you are.
00:45:33.22\00:45:35.30
I don't care how
important you are.
00:45:35.33\00:45:37.98
We are simply animated
mud on the way to dust.
00:45:38.01\00:45:42.77
Did you hear that?
00:45:42.80\00:45:44.17
You and I are
animated mud on the way to dust
00:45:44.20\00:45:48.35
but for the grace of God.
00:45:48.38\00:45:50.29
What counts is what
God sees inside our hearts.
00:45:54.21\00:45:58.71
"For the living
know that they will die."
00:45:58.74\00:46:00.78
I know that. I
know I'm going to die.
00:46:00.81\00:46:04.10
You're going to die, too.
00:46:04.13\00:46:05.50
"For the living
know that they will die,
00:46:05.53\00:46:07.34
but the dead know nothing.
00:46:07.37\00:46:12.37
They have no further reward,
00:46:12.40\00:46:14.56
and even the memory
of them is forgotten.
00:46:14.59\00:46:17.83
Their love, their hate
00:46:17.86\00:46:20.23
and their jealousy
have long since vanished.
00:46:20.26\00:46:24.07
Never again will they
have a part in anything
00:46:24.10\00:46:26.46
that happens under the sun."
00:46:26.49\00:46:29.56
Until Jesus comes.
00:46:29.59\00:46:31.92
But the Bible says a
dead person can't love.
00:46:31.95\00:46:35.17
A dead person can't hate.
00:46:35.20\00:46:37.99
I want you to know tonight
00:46:38.02\00:46:40.77
that the dead are in the hands
00:46:40.80\00:46:44.89
of a merciful and a loving God.
00:46:44.92\00:46:50.07
I want you to know
there's no pain in death.
00:46:50.10\00:46:52.99
We don't have to
be afraid of death
00:46:53.02\00:46:55.01
if we're right with Christ.
00:46:55.04\00:46:57.31
But I want you to
know that the day is coming
00:46:57.34\00:47:00.10
when the sky is going to be
filled with the angels of God.
00:47:00.13\00:47:03.91
Every person
here in Port Moresby
00:47:03.94\00:47:06.00
is going to see
Christ when He comes back.
00:47:06.03\00:47:08.16
You won't be able to run
away and hide in the hills.
00:47:08.19\00:47:12.04
Every person in Sydney
00:47:12.07\00:47:13.44
is going to see
Christ when He comes back.
00:47:13.47\00:47:15.46
Every person in Los
Angeles where I live,
00:47:15.49\00:47:18.48
every person is going to
see Christ when He comes back.
00:47:18.51\00:47:21.26
Every person is
going to see Him.
00:47:21.29\00:47:24.49
But the dead, the Biblesays,
00:47:24.52\00:47:26.79
are sleeping and
they're unconscious
00:47:26.82\00:47:29.81
and they're peaceful.
00:47:29.84\00:47:31.60
And when Jesus comes back,
00:47:31.63\00:47:33.74
He's going to come
back with the shout
00:47:33.77\00:47:35.89
and with the
trumpet call of God,
00:47:35.92\00:47:37.80
the shout of the archangel
00:47:37.83\00:47:40.04
and the trumpet
is going to sound
00:47:40.07\00:47:42.86
and the dead are going
to be raised incorruptible.
00:47:42.89\00:47:47.43
Now listen,
everybody here tonight,
00:47:47.46\00:47:52.32
I guess most folks will
say, maybe everybody will say,
00:47:52.35\00:47:56.38
"You have proved
it from the Bible
00:47:56.41\00:47:58.09
and that settles it with me."
00:47:58.12\00:48:00.54
I believed that people of PNG
are a Bible-believing people,
00:48:00.57\00:48:04.94
a God-fearing people.
00:48:04.97\00:48:06.85
But people say to
me and rightly so,
00:48:10.42\00:48:14.19
"What about the dying thief?
00:48:14.22\00:48:19.48
Did he not go to be with
Christ the very day he died?"
00:48:19.51\00:48:26.19
You know how our blessed Lord
00:48:26.22\00:48:28.04
was hung on the cross
between two criminals.
00:48:28.07\00:48:32.91
They were thieves.
00:48:32.94\00:48:35.44
They cursed at our blessed
Lord until one turned to Christ
00:48:35.47\00:48:41.22
because he saw he
was more than a man.
00:48:41.25\00:48:43.95
He saw he was God.
00:48:43.98\00:48:45.80
And he said, "Lord, remember me
00:48:45.83\00:48:48.04
when You come
into Your kingdom."
00:48:48.07\00:48:50.62
Now we're going to put
up that text on the screen
00:48:50.65\00:48:53.48
because you need to see it
00:48:53.51\00:48:55.70
so you can get
the answer to this.
00:48:55.73\00:48:57.93
The text is Luke 23:39-43,
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Luke 23:39-43
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and I would have
you, my beloved friend,
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notice the text
and notice it well.
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"One of the criminals who hung
there hurled insults at Him,
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'Aren't you the
Christ? Save Yourself and us!'
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But the other
criminal rebuked him.
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'Don't you fear God,'
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he said, 'since you are
under the same sentence?
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We are punished justly,
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for we are getting
what our deeds deserve.
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But this man has
done nothing wrong.'
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Then he said,
'Jesus, remember me
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when You come
into Your kingdom.'
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Jesus answered him,
'I tell you the truth,
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today you will be
with Me in paradise.'"
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Now just listen, just listen
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because you need to see this.
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Here is Jesus
who's about to die.
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The dying thief calls Him Lord.
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The dying thief with great faith
sees in Christ more than a man.
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He sees in this man
the very Son of God.
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What about you?
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And he cries out
"Jesus, remember me
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when You come
into Your kingdom."
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And Jesus shouts
back like a trumpet.
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He says "Truly I say unto you
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today you will be
with Me in paradise."
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And so people say, "This
proves that the dying thief
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that Friday night went
with Jesus to paradise."
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But he didn't. What? He didn't.
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I've told you the Bible says
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that the dead
sleep in the grave.
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Then how do we
understand this text?
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Well, we're going
to turn to John 20:17.
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John 20:17
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and this is the day
of the resurrection.
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Look at this text.
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Jesus is talking to Mary.
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Oh, this is a great story.
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Jesus was raised and
Mary had come to the tomb
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and she thought
Jesus was the gardener.
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She was crying so much.
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The tears, the hot soggy tears
were pouring down her cheeks.
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Her eyes were
blinded with sorrow.
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She could not recognize Him.
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And then Jesus talked to her.
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She said to Him, "If
you've take Him away,
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tell me where you've taken
Him and I will go and get Him."
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And then Jesus said to her
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"Maria, Mary."
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He said it in the
old beautiful way.
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"Mary, Maria."
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And she recognized His voice
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and she cried out,
"It's my Lord. It's my Lord,"
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and she fell down and
she grabbed hold of Him.
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He said these words, "Maria."
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"Jesus said, 'Do
not hold on to Me,
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for I have not yet
returned to the Father.'"
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Hey, did you see that?
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On the Sunday, He
hadn't gone to heaven, yet.
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"For I have not yet
returned to the Father.
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Go instead to My
brothers and tell them,
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'I am returning to My
Father and your Father,
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to My God and your God.'
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"Listen, on the Sunday Jesus
had not gone to the Father.
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He'd been sleeping in the tomb.
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If Jesus had not gone
to the Father's house,
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neither had the thief,
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then how do we explain the text?
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Listen to me carefully.
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The words of the
Bible are inspired.
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The thoughts of
the Bible are inspired
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and placed there in the words.
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But listen.
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In the original languages
there are no punctuation marks.
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No periods, no
full stops, no commas.
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They're replaced
there by the translators.
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And most of the translators
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believed in the
immortality of the soul.
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The text therefore
can be read in two ways
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and the Bible must
interpret the right way.
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The first way,
"Truly I say unto you,
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today you'll be
with Me in paradise."
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Truly I say unto you, today
you'll be with Me in paradise.
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Or the correct way,
"Truly I say unto you,
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today, I say it to you
today as I hang on the cross.
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Today, I say to you,
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you will be with Me in
paradise when I come again."
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Listen, look at me.
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The thief is not in paradise.
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The thief is sleeping,
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but one day when Jesus comes
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the thief is going to
be with Christ in paradise
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with the rest of God's children.
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This is the Word of the Lord.
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I wonder tonight if you can say
the prayer of that dying thief,
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"Lord, remember me when
You come into Your kingdom."
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If you and I will open up
our hearts tonight to Christ
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and say "Lord, remember me
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when You come
into Your kingdom,"
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He will say to us tonight,
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"Truly, truly, I say unto you,
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I say it
tonight in Port Moresby,
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you will be with
Me in paradise." Amen.
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The Spirit of
God today is moving.
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He is moving wherever
human hearts sense their need.
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He is moving whenever and
wherever souls reach out to Him.
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He is moving because
these are not ordinary times.
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He is moving through the
proclamation of His living Word.
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During the Port
Moresby meetings,
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the Spirit of God
was powerfully present.
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One evening as
Pastor John Carter
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spoke about the Holy Spirit
and His work to redeem souls
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a huge white bird
flew low over the audience.
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The congregation of more
than 100,000 witnessed the sight
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and believed that
God had set them aside.
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Tens of thousands poured forward
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to accept Christ
as Lord and Savior.
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God today is calling you
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as you view this
program to come to Him in faith.
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The work of the Holy
Spirit is not restricted
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to any one place on earth.
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Wherever you are, He
is there. God loves you.
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He has a plan for you
and a glorious future.
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