Welcome to The Carter Report
at the Sir John Guise Stadium
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in Port Moresby,
Papua New Guinea.
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More than 100,000
souls are in attendance
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and John Carter is
preaching the word of God.
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The Great
congregation sits motionless.
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They are spellbound,
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not by the
oratory of the speaker
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but by the spirit of God as
He bares witness to His word.
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An atmosphere
of divine solemnity
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mingled with a holy
joy pervades the stadium
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and spills out to the thousands
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gathered outside.
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Night by night, in
weather fair and foul,
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the old warrior preaches on.
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Tens of
thousands come to Christ.
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Thousands are baptized
in the sea at Ela beach
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and still more press forward
to publicly confess Christ.
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Now this is your opportunity
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to be a part of what many
have called a new Pentecost.
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Welcome to the Carter Report
at the Sir John Guise Stadium
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in Port Moresby,
Papua New Guinea.
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The topic is
"Freedom from Guilt and Fear."
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You can even call it if you
wish "The Search for Happiness."
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All agree that
mankind has a problem
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that affects everything we do.
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But that's where
the agreement ends
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because different
ideas about the problem
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have been proposed by people
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of formidable
intellect like Karl Marx.
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Karl Marx said that the
problem of the human race
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could be solved
through economics and politics.
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He was a German Jew
who invented communism.
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I've read through his
book "The Communist Manifesto."
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He said, I'm giving
to the world a new gospel
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and even though Karl Marx
had a little bit of truth,
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he did not have
the truth of God.
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Then there was
Freud the great Dr. Freud,
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he said that our
problems are psychological.
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Especially because
of our sexual hang-ups,
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of course there's some
truth in what he said also.
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Our problem sometimes are
aggravated and brought about
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by psychological
disturbances in the personality.
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Then there was Charles
Darwin the brilliant Englishmen.
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He taught that life has
evolved and developed by chance,
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that's the theory of evolution.
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He taught that we've all
evolved from a common ancestor.
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We are related,
he said to the apes,
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to all of the
animals even to the flowers.
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We all came from the
same primordial source.
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His doctrine the
"Survival of the Fittest"
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that also contains some truths
in spite people like Nietzsche
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who in turn
inspired Adolf Hitler
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that monster of the Holocaust,
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of course that certainly
was not Darwin's intention.
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And then there
are the geneticists.
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They teach that the human race
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is simply the
product of our genes,
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really our destiny is fixed
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and we can do practically
nothing to change it.
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The criminal is
not really to blame
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'cause his conduct is
determined by his genes,
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his genetic makeup.
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And tonight I
recognized that there is truth
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in some of these
ideas and theories.
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But tonight, I
present a different view
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that does not deny some
of the elements of truth
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found in these other viewpoints.
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I am suggesting tonight
that there is a better way.
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And tonight I am presenting
the biblical viewpoint
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that says that our problem is
essentially a spiritual problem
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and that is why we
are running these meetings
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and that is why vast
crowds of people are coming
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into this vast outdoor stadium
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because their
needs are being met
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in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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You see, our needs
are far more complexed,
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far more difficult then--
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then can be solved
by human ingenuity,
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we need a divine physician.
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And I'm going to take my Bible.
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I've my Bible here
tonight, I hold it up
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because it is the
authority in these meetings
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and we're turning
over here to Romans 3:23
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and we're going to
put this up on the screen.
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The Bible says,
"For all have sinned
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and fall short of
the glory of God."
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Our problem is the sin problem.
Our problem is spiritual.
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The Bible says, every
one of us we've all sinned
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and we fall short
of the glory of God.
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And if you want to get
happiness and peace and joy,
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you've got to
come to grips with sin.
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The evidence of
sin is everywhere.
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This hate and anger, and lust,
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and lying, and bigotry,
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there is a wide racism
that I'm totally opposed
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to just as I am opposed
as you are to black racism,
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and brown racism,
and yellow racism,
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any type of racism
is a sin against God.
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It is a sin against
you. It is a sin against me.
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And then there is
intolerance, legalism, greed
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which is the sin of
wall street and main street
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and then there is violence.
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We see violence
today on our streets.
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You have violence here in PNG.
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And the reason we have
violence is because we have sin.
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And the Bible tells us
that sin is like a cancer
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that is gnawing at our vitals.
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And unless we can find--
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unless you and I can
find a solution to sin,
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we're going to die in our sin.
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But tonight we are here to
talk about the way to happiness.
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And I believe tonight
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that the spirit of the
living God is in this meeting.
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Let me tell you one of
the big symptoms of sin.
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"It is
restlessness" deep inside us
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without God
there is restlessness
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and it burns away in our souls.
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The great Roman
Catholic Theologian
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Saint Augustine said this.
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"Our souls were made for God."
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Did you know this?
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"Our souls were made for God
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and they cannot rest
until they rest in Him."
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That is why, my friend,
without God we are empty inside.
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This is not the
problem just for a white man.
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It's not just a
problem for the black man.
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It is the problem for
all men and all women.
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Without God we are restless
and we are empty inside.
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We know, we know that
there's something empty in us.
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It's a void, it's like a vacuum.
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It's like a black hole within
and it gobbles up our peace.
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And it doesn't
matter what we do,
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we can't get away from the
gnawing hunger in our souls
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and we try to fill it. We
try to fill it with drugs.
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Why do people take drugs?
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It is because
they are empty inside.
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Why is it in the
United States of America
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that millions of young people
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and older people
like to try drugs?
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It is because
they are empty inside.
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Remember our
souls were made for God
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and they cannot rest
until they rest in Him.
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What about you, friend?
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I want to ask you
tonight right here in PNG.
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Are you empty inside?
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We try to fill the void,
the black hole with drugs,
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alcohol, consumerism.
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I want more, more and more
stuff that's what people say.
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Politics, anything,
more things, illicit sex.
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People go from one
affair to another affair,
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they are never satisfied.
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They want more.
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And they do not realize
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that their problem
is not just sexual,
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their problem is
a spiritual problem,
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they are empty inside.
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And the Bible says,
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"All have
sinned" that means you.
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That means me.
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Every person here
tonight needs Christ.
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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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More than
100,000 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 on the person
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and work of the Holy
Spirit the image of a white bird
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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 recognizes
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that God had 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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Solders of the Cross are wanted.
Faith partners are needed.
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And there maybe some
person sitting out here tonight
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and as you hear me talking
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you will say, he's
talking to me tonight.
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I am talking to you tonight.
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But I'm talking
to everybody tonight.
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I'm talking to me tonight.
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The Bible says, "All have sinned
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and fall short of the glory
of God" that is our problem.
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And then when I turn
over here to Romans 6:23
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I come to these words.
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You can see, my friend,
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this is the most important
talk you are ever going to hear.
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The Bible says, "For
the wages of sin is death."
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Unless I can find Christ.
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Unless God can
come into my heart.
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Unless this emptiness,
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this void within me
can be filled with God.
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The Bible says,
"I am going to die
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and I'm going to die eternally."
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A number of years ago
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something awful
happened in Africa
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at the little village of Lassa.
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There was a
missionary doctor there.
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A Baptist doctor,
I love the Baptist.
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I love the Roman Catholics.
I love the Presbyterians.
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I love the atheist.
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And here we had a wonderful
Baptist missionary doctor
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and she was working for the
poor people in that village.
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And then she noticed
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that people were
coming in, in large number.
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And every one of
them after 4 days died.
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They would get a fever firstly
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and then would
get sores in the mouth
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and then sores at
the back of the throat
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and the fever would intensify
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and then they would get
these dreadful headaches.
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And then on the
4th day they would die.
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There seemed to be
absolutely no cure.
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Sin is like that.
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Every one of us here
tonight, has got sin.
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And only Christ, my
friend, can take away our sin
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and save us tonight.
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And if Christ
doesn't take away our sin,
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we're going to die eternally.
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And then one
day, this lady doctor
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was doing a postmortem
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on one of these poor
victims of the Lassa virus
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and as she was using the knife,
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the knife slipped
and she nicked a finger,
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she rushed over to the tap
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and she turned the tap on
and she scrubbed her finger
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with disinfectant and
she felt she will be okay,
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but a few day
later, she got a headache
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and then she got
the ulcers in her mouth
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and down the back of her throat
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and then she got
the terrible fever
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and the forth day, she died.
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The message got back to
the United States of America,
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there is something out
there in the jungles of Africa
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and there seems to be no cure.
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And so got some of the
tissue from the people who died
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and they send
it off to New York.
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And scientists worked on it
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and they took
all the precautions,
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but one by one a number
of leading scientists died
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because somehow this
thing was so formidable
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and there was no cure.
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They didn't tell anybody,
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but if this thing had got
out on the streets of New York,
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New York would have
been wiped off the map.
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Then as they
carried out research
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they send a team of
scientists over there
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to the little
village of Lassa in Africa.
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And they discovered this
thing was being transmitted
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by a creature as lowly
and innocuous as a little rat.
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And they found if
they got rid of the rats,
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they would get rid of the virus.
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But, my friend, there is
still no cure for this virus.
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And the Bible tells me
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that there is a
virus loose in PNG.
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It's loose right
around the world.
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It's loose in New York, and
in Sydney, and in Melbourne,
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and in Los Angeles and
that virus is called sin.
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It is deadly, it is incurable.
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But the good news is this,
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while there is no known
cure for the Lassa virus,
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there is a cure
for the virus of sin.
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And I want you to notice
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Romans 6:23 in the Bible.
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The word of God
Romans 6:23 says,
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"The wages of sin is
death," but then it says,
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"but the gift of
God is eternal life
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in Christ Jesus our Lord."
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I want you to know this
tonight. I want to talk to you.
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I don't care
who you are tonight.
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We are all sinners.
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And the evidence of our sin
is manifested in so many ways.
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But the Bible tells
me thank God, Hallelujah,
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there is a cure for
the deadly virus of sin.
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The Bible tells me
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that God became
a man, hallelujah.
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I want you to
notice Romans 5:6-8.
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Book of Romans written
by the great Apostle Paul.
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Romans 5, "You see" he said.
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"At just the right time,
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when we were still powerless
Christ died for the ungodly."
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You may say tonight,
I'm an ungodly person.
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Nobody cares about me.
"Christ died for the ungodly.
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Very rarely will anyone
die for a righteous man,
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though for a good man
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someone might
possibly dare to die.
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But God demonstrates
his own love for us in this
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while we were still sinners,
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Christ died for us."
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I want to tell you
tonight that the greatest news
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that this for our world
needs tonight is the good news
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that God loves us
and He gave His own son.
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The Bible tells us
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that God the Creator of
the universe became a man
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and He came down to this earth.
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I want you to
try to take this in,
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it's an incomprehensible truth.
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But the Bible teaches
that God, the great Creator.
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Look at that screen, would you.
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God the great Creator.
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The Almighty Yahweh Elohim,
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was born of the
blessed Virgin Mary.
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God became a man
and the Bible tells us
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He walked among us
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and He showed us
all that compassion
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and all that love
and the Bible tells us,
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He went to the cross
and paid for all of our sins
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with His own precious
blood "There is a cure.
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It is the blood of
Jesus Christ," listen.
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There's a text in the
Bible and it's the greatest text
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and I'm sure that
most of you know the text,
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but I'm going to
put it up on the screen.
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It's God message to
you tonight, look at it.
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"For God so loved the world."
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He so loved PNG.
He so loved the thief.
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He so loved the adulterer,
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the fornicator,
the liar, the cheat.
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The Bible says, "For
God so loved the world
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that he gave his
one and only Son,
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that whoever believes
in him shall not perish
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but have"
hallelujah "eternal life."
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Listen, just listen.
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Did you know this?
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If you had been the only sinner,
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God would have come
down and died for you.
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You say I can't
believe it. It is the truth.
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If there had been
only one lost soul
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and he lived in PNG,
God would have become a man
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and died on the cross
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for that one lost soul.
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I want you to know tonight
the heart of God loves you.
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You may say, God doesn't
care about me, that's not true.
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You may say, God
doesn't care about my family,
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that's not true.
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God knows all about you.
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Jesus said the
very hairs of your head
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are all numbered He says,
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"I have loved you
with an everlasting love."
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Listen to this.
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In Russia, where
I've been 42 times.
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The communist set up the Gaelic,
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a system of concentration camps
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right out of hell.
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Large number of
these concentration camps
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run by the
atheists and the communists.
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And in these camps
they use to torture people
00:24:10.78\00:24:14.32
particularly Christians,
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the atheists tortured them.
00:24:16.74\00:24:23.43
On one occasion
some communist guards
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were torturing a poor atheist
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and he was cursing
and he was blaspheming.
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And a Christian said,
I want you to do it to me
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and let this man go free.
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And the guard
said, "Are you crazy?
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Are you a born fool?"
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The Christian
said, if you torture me,
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I will cry because
the pain will be great
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but I'll ask God to bless you
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and the blessing will
go out into the world,
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but when you
torture an unbeliever
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the world becomes more poisoned.
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So those
Christians in the Gaelic
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would take the
curses upon themselves
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and they would be
tortured, that's what Jesus did.
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Jesus was tortured for you.
He went to the cross for you.
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He went through pain
and suffering for you.
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He bore the sin of the
world. It crushed his soul.
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It killed Him in a few hours.
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My friend, will you not
believe in Him, I ask you?
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Will this not soften
our hard stony hearts?
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Some of us here tonight
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I know have got
hard unyielding hearts.
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I want you to think,
how much He loves you.
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Bishop Fulton Sheen
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when he spoke about
the cross said these words.
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For one brief moment in time
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he was unfold on the cross
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like a wounded eagle.
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He went to the cross
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to pay the price of our sins.
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What really
happened on the cross?
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He was a strong young man.
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He was used to hard
work. He was not lazy.
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He was sun tender and muscular.
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He became a preacher
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then the tide of popular
opinion turned against Him.
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The religious leaders
handed Him over to the Romans.
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And then they took
Him and they tried Him,
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it was a kangaroo caught
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and then they put
Him on the Roman cross
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that was the
instrument of supreme torture.
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We read about this in
Matthew 27:35-46 and 50.
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And I'm to come
out here on my runway
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and I'm going to read the test
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because I want you to
see it with your own eyes.
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"When they had crucified him,
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they divided up his
clothes by casting lots.
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And sitting down, they
kept watch over him there.
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Above his head they placed
the written charge against him.
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This is Jesus,
the King of the Jews.
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Two robbers were
crucified with him,
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one on his right
and one on his left.
00:28:20.84\00:28:25.13
Those who passed by
hurled insults at him,
00:28:25.16\00:28:29.40
shaking their heads and saying,
00:28:29.43\00:28:32.81
'You who are going
to destroy the temple
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and build it in
three days, save yourself!
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Come down from the cross
if you are the Son of God!'
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In the same way
the chief priest,
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the teachers of the law
and the elders mocked him."
00:28:46.57\00:28:54.45
They cried out.
00:28:54.48\00:28:55.85
"He saved others but
he can't save himself!
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He's the King of Israel!
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Let him come down
now from the cross,
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and we will believe in him.
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He trusts in God.
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Let God rescue him
now if he wants him,
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for he said, I
am the Son of God.'
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In the same way the robbers
who were crucified with him
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also heaped insults on him.
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From the sixth hour
until the ninth hour
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darkness came over all the land.
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About the ninth hour
Jesus cried out in a loud voice,
00:29:33.43\00:29:38.43
'Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?'
00:29:38.46\00:29:43.75
which mean, 'My God, my God,
00:29:43.78\00:29:49.75
why have you forsaken me?"
00:29:49.78\00:29:54.23
And when Jesus had cried
out again in a loud voice,
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he gave up his
sprit." Listen to me.
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Most of us have no idea of
what the cross was all about.
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It was the supreme
instrument of torture.
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The person could hardly breathe.
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The pain was intense.
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The wounds were over powering.
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And the person
hanging on the cross.
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Who--I ask you tonight in PNG,
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I ask you in the name
of God, "Who was this man?"
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This man was God in the flesh.
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This was El Shaddai.
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This was Yahweh Elohim.
00:30:42.62\00:30:45.33
This was the almighty God
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who would come down from heaven
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and who was bearing our sins.
00:30:50.12\00:30:52.80
He was bearing our shame
00:30:52.83\00:30:55.27
and He was bearing it all
00:30:55.30\00:30:57.42
in His own body
on the tree, listen.
00:30:57.45\00:31:02.03
On the cross He cried out,
00:31:02.06\00:31:07.41
"My God, my God, why
have you forsaken me?"
00:31:07.44\00:31:13.67
You say to me,
00:31:13.70\00:31:15.07
but this is not the cry of
a man with peace in his heart.
00:31:15.10\00:31:19.99
This is not the
cry of a Christian
00:31:20.02\00:31:23.72
who is right with
God and who is dying.
00:31:23.75\00:31:27.46
This is not the
cry of a righteous man.
00:31:27.49\00:31:31.88
This is the cry
of a great sinner.
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On the cross Jesus,
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the sinless man took
all our sins upon Him.
00:31:45.32\00:31:53.12
And the Father judged
him for John Carter's sin.
00:31:53.15\00:31:58.34
He was judged on the cross
00:31:58.37\00:32:01.03
and He was judged
guilty, guilty, guilty God said.
00:32:01.06\00:32:07.80
God said let the
judgment fall upon My Son
00:32:07.83\00:32:13.83
and he could not
see His Father's face
00:32:13.86\00:32:17.99
and in agony He cried out
00:32:18.02\00:32:20.11
"My God, my God, why
have you forsaken me?"
00:32:20.14\00:32:27.67
He did not die as a Christian.
00:32:27.70\00:32:31.34
He died as a lost soul...
00:32:31.37\00:32:35.46
even though He
was the Son of God.
00:32:38.55\00:32:42.80
Who was this man?
00:32:42.83\00:32:45.14
This man was the
creator of the universe.
00:32:45.17\00:32:50.48
I'm going to come over
here to the blackboard.
00:32:53.78\00:32:57.31
We're gonna have a
camera come with me
00:32:57.34\00:32:59.88
and I'm going to put off
an illustration of the cross
00:32:59.91\00:33:04.50
and you will be able to see it
00:33:04.53\00:33:05.97
even though
you're sitting way back,
00:33:06.00\00:33:08.34
you will be able to see
it on the giant screens.
00:33:08.37\00:33:13.44
Here we have
the Cross of Christ.
00:33:13.47\00:33:18.98
Up here on this side we put
Christ, the sinless Son of God.
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And over here we
put "Us", you and me.
00:33:25.79\00:33:31.66
Christ was sinless.
00:33:31.69\00:33:35.83
He never committed a sin.
00:33:35.86\00:33:37.64
We are sinful.
00:33:37.67\00:33:43.54
I want you to know this.
00:33:43.57\00:33:44.94
He was sinless
and we are sinful.
00:33:44.97\00:33:49.11
He had perfect righteousness.
00:33:49.14\00:33:54.89
There was no sin in Him,
00:33:54.92\00:33:57.30
He was perfectly and
totally innocent and holy,
00:33:57.33\00:34:02.61
He was immaculate.
00:34:02.64\00:34:05.25
But over on this side
"Us" we are unrighteous.
00:34:05.28\00:34:11.63
The Bible says, there is
none righteous, no not one.
00:34:11.66\00:34:18.56
And Christ had
perfect peace and perfect joy
00:34:18.59\00:34:22.93
because He was right with God.
00:34:22.96\00:34:25.42
And Christ
enjoyed everlasting life
00:34:25.45\00:34:30.23
in communion
with His Holy Father
00:34:30.26\00:34:33.02
and because we are
sinful and unrighteous,
00:34:33.05\00:34:37.20
we will have eternal death
unless Christ will save us.
00:34:37.23\00:34:45.19
I want you to know tonight,
if you and I die in our sins.
00:34:45.22\00:34:51.97
If we die with
hate in our hearts.
00:34:52.00\00:34:55.41
If we die with malice.
00:34:55.44\00:34:57.90
If we die in our fornication.
00:34:57.93\00:35:00.85
The Bible tells us that we
will experience eternal death
00:35:00.88\00:35:05.24
and we will be raised in
the judgment of the unrighteous
00:35:05.27\00:35:10.24
and we will then taste
the hell of the last days
00:35:10.27\00:35:15.51
that is mentioned and
described in the Bible.
00:35:15.54\00:35:19.49
But now I want the
camera to come back with me
00:35:19.52\00:35:21.87
and I want you to
see what happened.
00:35:21.90\00:35:24.74
On the cross Jesus
Christ came and stood over here.
00:35:24.77\00:35:31.57
He took our place
00:35:31.60\00:35:33.12
and in the sight of a
holy and a righteous God
00:35:33.15\00:35:37.36
Christ became in the
sight of God sinful, unrighteous
00:35:37.39\00:35:43.01
and He tasted eternal death.
00:35:43.04\00:35:45.97
And that is why He cried out
00:35:46.00\00:35:48.25
with a heart that
was bursting with pain
00:35:48.28\00:35:51.15
"My God, my God, why
have you forsaken me?"
00:35:51.18\00:35:55.73
He felt a
doomed and a lost soul.
00:35:55.76\00:36:00.29
And Christ took all
of this upon Himself
00:36:00.32\00:36:04.04
because He loves you
and because He loves me.
00:36:04.07\00:36:08.34
And He did all of
this so that you and I, us,
00:36:08.37\00:36:13.02
we can be regarded by
God as sinless and righteous
00:36:13.05\00:36:17.96
and have eternal life
which is simply given to us
00:36:17.99\00:36:21.64
as a gift by the grace of God.
00:36:21.67\00:36:26.30
That is the glory
00:36:26.33\00:36:27.80
and that, my friend, is
the mystery of the cross.
00:36:27.83\00:36:32.40
And there is nothing
that compares on to it.
00:36:32.43\00:36:36.44
Now tonight I say
to you as you sit here,
00:36:36.47\00:36:40.38
you and I cannot
take this into our souls
00:36:40.41\00:36:43.90
unless the Holy Spirit
shows us that we are sinners.
00:36:43.93\00:36:49.08
We need to see
ourselves tonight as sinners,
00:36:49.11\00:36:52.30
but more than this
we need to seek Christ
00:36:52.33\00:36:55.25
dying for our sins on the cross.
00:36:55.28\00:36:58.67
And if we will see this tonight,
00:36:58.70\00:37:00.75
we will parse
from death unto life
00:37:00.78\00:37:04.08
and we will have
peace and joy and happiness,
00:37:04.11\00:37:07.89
this is the word of the Lord.
00:37:07.92\00:37:12.18
There was a Russian nobleman.
00:37:12.21\00:37:14.59
As you know I've told
you been to Russia 42 times.
00:37:14.62\00:37:19.13
And in the days of the Czars
there was a Russian nobleman
00:37:19.16\00:37:23.28
and he got himself
hopelessly enmeshed in debt.
00:37:23.31\00:37:29.90
One day he took
out a piece of paper
00:37:29.93\00:37:33.01
and he wrote down the
list of all of his debts,
00:37:33.04\00:37:36.70
all of his sins.
00:37:36.73\00:37:39.05
And then he wrote
across the bottom of the page,
00:37:39.08\00:37:41.86
who can pay all of my debts?
00:37:41.89\00:37:45.82
Who can pay all of my sins?
00:37:45.85\00:37:49.25
He fell across the table
00:37:49.28\00:37:52.30
and there was exposed all of
his debts for the world to see.
00:37:52.33\00:37:58.35
It just so happened
00:37:58.38\00:38:00.07
that the Czar came
to see him that day
00:38:00.10\00:38:02.66
because they were close friends
00:38:02.69\00:38:04.65
and the Czar or the
King of Russia came in
00:38:04.68\00:38:07.70
and he saw his friend frustrate
00:38:07.73\00:38:10.56
with exhaustion and
nervousness and despair.
00:38:10.59\00:38:14.92
And he read the
list of all the debts
00:38:14.95\00:38:18.74
and the Czar picked up
a pen and he wrote across,
00:38:18.77\00:38:22.39
write across
the whole lot of it.
00:38:22.42\00:38:23.96
"I Peter the great
will pay all of your debts
00:38:23.99\00:38:28.31
and the man was free."
00:38:28.34\00:38:31.14
And listen to me, I
want you to see this.
00:38:31.17\00:38:34.86
We are all hopelessly in debt.
00:38:34.89\00:38:37.29
We have sinned a million times.
00:38:37.32\00:38:40.10
And there is a list of all of
our crimes and all of our sins.
00:38:40.13\00:38:46.06
But I want you to
know when we say in despair
00:38:46.09\00:38:50.03
who will pay the
price of all of our debts?
00:38:50.06\00:38:53.64
Jesus Christ comes down
and He opens up His veins
00:38:53.67\00:38:58.56
and he dips the pen of life
in His own blood and He writes,
00:38:58.59\00:39:03.23
"I Jesus Christ will
pay all of your debts."
00:39:03.26\00:39:08.00
I want you to know tonight
this can happen to you tonight.
00:39:12.11\00:39:18.38
I don't care who you are.
00:39:18.41\00:39:20.24
You may have a heart
like a stone tonight.
00:39:20.27\00:39:23.03
You may have come
here to be entertained,
00:39:23.06\00:39:25.28
but tonight we are not
doing any entertaining.
00:39:25.31\00:39:28.88
We are here tonight to
preach the word of the Lord
00:39:28.91\00:39:33.02
and to see souls come to
salvation and find forgiveness.
00:39:33.05\00:39:39.64
One of the most amazing texts
00:39:39.67\00:39:42.80
is found in Romans 3:22-24.
00:39:42.83\00:39:48.99
It is written by
the great Saint Paul.
00:39:49.02\00:39:52.60
It is perhaps the most
difficult passage in the Bible.
00:39:52.63\00:39:58.43
As we talk about the Bible
00:39:58.46\00:40:01.59
we brought a small quantity of
Bibles from the United States.
00:40:01.62\00:40:06.03
Only 5000 Bibles, we could
fit no more in our container.
00:40:06.06\00:40:12.65
But we're going to have a
baptism this coming Sabbath
00:40:12.68\00:40:15.76
and we plan to give a Bible
to every person who is baptized.
00:40:15.79\00:40:19.46
And if we don't have enough
Bibles, we can get some more.
00:40:19.49\00:40:22.88
But I believe the
Bible is the word of God,
00:40:22.91\00:40:25.65
because the Bible
tells me the solution to sin.
00:40:25.68\00:40:29.79
And look at this
text here in Romans 3.
00:40:29.82\00:40:32.07
This is not easy to understand,
but you will understand it
00:40:32.10\00:40:37.27
because you have hearts for God.
00:40:37.30\00:40:40.08
I'm going to read it slow.
00:40:40.11\00:40:42.98
"This righteousness from God
00:40:43.01\00:40:47.30
comes through faith in
Jesus Christ to all who believe.
00:40:47.33\00:40:53.65
There is no
difference, for all have sinned
00:40:53.68\00:40:58.36
and fall short
of the glory of God,
00:40:58.39\00:41:01.93
and are justified
freely by his grace
00:41:01.96\00:41:05.92
through the redemption
that came by Christ Jesus."
00:41:05.95\00:41:11.57
Now that text tells me
that when we come to Christ,
00:41:11.60\00:41:16.27
we are justified
freely by His grace.
00:41:16.30\00:41:21.63
I want you to
think of these words
00:41:21.66\00:41:24.27
justified freely by His grace,
00:41:24.30\00:41:28.04
because most people
do not understand it,
00:41:28.07\00:41:32.45
but you will
understand it tonight.
00:41:32.48\00:41:34.50
It will make a tremendous
difference in your life.
00:41:34.53\00:41:38.93
The Bible says,
we are justified--
00:41:38.96\00:41:41.93
we're gonna have a camera come
over with me so you can see it.
00:41:41.96\00:41:45.95
The Bible says,
that we are justified
00:41:45.98\00:41:50.09
and I'm gonna write
up the word, "Justified."
00:41:50.12\00:41:56.38
Justified by His grace
00:41:56.41\00:42:00.63
or we can write here "Justify."
00:42:00.66\00:42:04.15
Justified, justify.
00:42:07.02\00:42:09.96
And the Bible tells me
in many, many other places,
00:42:09.99\00:42:13.66
my friend, you must see this.
00:42:13.69\00:42:16.68
This is the most important
talk you're ever going to hear
00:42:16.71\00:42:20.02
whether you're a
Seventh-day Adventist,
00:42:20.05\00:42:22.49
a Roman Catholic, a Baptist
00:42:22.52\00:42:25.20
or it doesn't
matter who you are.
00:42:25.23\00:42:26.99
This is the most important
talk you will ever hear,
00:42:27.02\00:42:31.55
because so many
of my beloved friends
00:42:31.58\00:42:34.07
do not
understand the great truth
00:42:34.10\00:42:35.88
that is
contained in these words.
00:42:35.91\00:42:37.75
The Bible says
00:42:37.78\00:42:39.33
that I'm justified
by the blood of Christ
00:42:39.36\00:42:42.78
and I'm justified
not by my own works
00:42:42.81\00:42:46.21
but I'm justified
by the grace of God.
00:42:46.24\00:42:49.30
The word justify
means and here it is "To"--
00:42:49.33\00:42:55.54
now can you see
that on the screen?
00:42:55.57\00:42:57.54
"To Declare Righteous."
00:42:57.57\00:43:04.34
It doesn't mean
to make righteous.
00:43:04.37\00:43:08.18
You say what's the difference?
00:43:08.21\00:43:09.73
Well, the difference
between heaven and hell.
00:43:09.76\00:43:13.13
Justify means to
declare righteous.
00:43:13.16\00:43:20.31
And listen to this.
00:43:20.34\00:43:22.99
You say this is heavy
theology, no this is the gospel.
00:43:23.02\00:43:27.42
The gospel is not good
advice, it is good news.
00:43:27.45\00:43:30.98
When I come to Christ even
though I am sinful unrighteous
00:43:31.01\00:43:36.64
and I deserve eternal death,
00:43:36.67\00:43:38.72
if I come in faith
and if I repent of my sins
00:43:38.75\00:43:43.67
God declares by His grace
through the blood of Christ
00:43:43.70\00:43:48.87
that I'm sinless, righteous
and I have eternal life.
00:43:48.90\00:43:55.68
This is the gift that
God gives to me tonight.
00:43:55.71\00:44:00.13
God declares that
because of the blood of Christ
00:44:00.16\00:44:05.22
I am now righteous.
00:44:05.25\00:44:08.45
I have a new standing
before the throne of God
00:44:08.48\00:44:13.02
and "I stand in
the sight of a Holy God
00:44:13.05\00:44:15.75
as though I had
never ever sinned."
00:44:15.78\00:44:21.04
Listen, how long does it take?
00:44:21.07\00:44:25.08
How much does it cost?
00:44:25.11\00:44:27.47
It costs nothing 'cause
it doesn't cost you anything
00:44:27.50\00:44:32.20
because glory hallelujah,
00:44:32.23\00:44:34.89
the price has been
paid by the blood of Christ.
00:44:34.92\00:44:41.59
I want you to
imagine something tonight.
00:44:41.62\00:44:46.00
Into this meeting there comes
a man or woman, let's say a man.
00:44:46.03\00:44:51.17
And this man is a thief.
00:44:51.20\00:44:54.26
He steals and he lies.
00:44:54.29\00:44:58.21
He's a robber.
00:44:58.24\00:45:01.55
May be he's done something
even as bad as commit murder.
00:45:01.58\00:45:06.43
He is a man who is
consumed with rage.
00:45:06.46\00:45:10.63
If you've got rage
00:45:10.66\00:45:12.03
it's because you
don't know Christ.
00:45:12.06\00:45:14.58
And here is this man
00:45:14.61\00:45:16.05
with an
overwhelming passion of anger
00:45:16.08\00:45:20.48
and he comes into
this meeting tonight
00:45:20.51\00:45:22.61
and as he is sitting here
00:45:22.64\00:45:25.76
the Spirit of God
talks to his heart,
00:45:25.79\00:45:28.42
you may be that man.
00:45:28.45\00:45:32.08
And as the Sprit of
God talks to his heart,
00:45:32.11\00:45:35.41
He says, John Carter
is talking to me, he is.
00:45:35.44\00:45:42.05
But it's not
really this person here,
00:45:42.08\00:45:44.40
it is the Spirit of
God through the word.
00:45:44.43\00:45:48.78
And that person starts to
see himself as he really is.
00:45:48.81\00:45:52.88
He stops pretending.
00:45:52.91\00:45:55.87
He stops justifying himself.
00:45:55.90\00:45:58.63
He stops saying, I'm as
good as the person next door
00:45:58.66\00:46:02.38
and he sees
Himself as a guilty sinner.
00:46:02.41\00:46:07.66
The Holy Spirit is
convicting Him of sin.
00:46:07.69\00:46:15.19
When I was in Manila,
00:46:15.22\00:46:17.27
I baptized some young men
who were murderers, assassins.
00:46:17.30\00:46:23.54
And I preached to
them a sermon like this
00:46:23.57\00:46:26.49
and as I preached the sermon
00:46:26.52\00:46:28.53
the Spirit of God
came into death row,
00:46:28.56\00:46:31.78
I was on death row.
00:46:31.81\00:46:34.06
And I appealed to them to
come to Christ and be baptized,
00:46:34.09\00:46:38.76
have their sins washed
away through the blood of Jesus.
00:46:38.79\00:46:42.51
They raised their hands
00:46:42.54\00:46:44.25
and I baptized them
that day before they died.
00:46:44.28\00:46:49.80
So there's a man who
comes in here tonight.
00:46:49.83\00:46:52.97
He's going down to hell.
00:46:53.00\00:46:56.11
If he dies tonight he's
going to die a lost soul
00:46:56.14\00:47:01.01
and he's going to come up in
the resurrection of the damned.
00:47:01.04\00:47:06.43
But tonight as I am preaching
in this ineffective poor way
00:47:06.46\00:47:11.81
with these lips of
clay and I'm saying
00:47:11.84\00:47:15.46
"Oh God, please
speak to that man's heart."
00:47:15.49\00:47:19.76
And as I'm talking the Spirit
of God speaks to his heart.
00:47:19.79\00:47:25.65
And he cries out, Lord,
have mercy, I'm a sinner.
00:47:25.68\00:47:32.61
And he comes and in faith
00:47:32.64\00:47:34.92
he kneels down at
the foot of the cross
00:47:34.95\00:47:38.06
and he says, "Jesus accept me,
00:47:38.09\00:47:42.66
I'm sorry, I repent of my
sins, I turn for my sins."
00:47:42.69\00:47:48.57
God says, because of Jesus
00:47:48.60\00:47:52.62
this man now stands before God
00:47:52.65\00:47:55.94
sinless,
righteous with eternal life
00:47:55.97\00:47:59.87
and he's going
to go home to glory
00:47:59.90\00:48:03.23
and live with Jesus
forever, this is the gospel.
00:48:03.26\00:48:08.46
I've given you some
great truths tonight.
00:48:13.35\00:48:17.37
Someone say they're abstract.
00:48:17.40\00:48:18.77
No, it's real.
00:48:18.80\00:48:22.88
But there's a story that I
love, perhaps the best of all.
00:48:22.91\00:48:27.23
This is the
story of the lost boy.
00:48:27.26\00:48:32.22
And it's found in Luke 15:11-24.
00:48:32.25\00:48:39.53
Luke 15.
00:48:39.56\00:48:43.10
Luke 15, "Jesus continued,
00:48:43.13\00:48:48.48
'There was a man
who had two sons.
00:48:48.51\00:48:52.07
The younger one
said to his father,
00:48:52.10\00:48:53.89
Father, give me my
share of the estate.
00:48:53.92\00:48:58.12
So he divided his
property between them.
00:48:58.15\00:49:02.04
Not long after that,
00:49:02.07\00:49:03.44
the younger son got
together all he had,
00:49:03.47\00:49:07.52
set off for a distant country
00:49:07.55\00:49:10.12
and there squandered
his wealth in wild living."
00:49:10.15\00:49:13.61
Some of us have been doing that.
00:49:13.64\00:49:16.74
"After he had spent everything
00:49:16.77\00:49:18.55
there was a severe
famine in that whole country,
00:49:18.58\00:49:21.58
and he began to be in need.
00:49:21.61\00:49:23.96
So he went and hired himself out
to a citizen of that country,
00:49:23.99\00:49:27.98
who sent him to his
fields to feed pigs."
00:49:28.01\00:49:32.46
This is what happens
00:49:32.49\00:49:35.91
when we go away
from the father's house.
00:49:35.94\00:49:40.36
"He longed to fill
his stomach with the pods
00:49:40.39\00:49:43.12
that the pigs were eating,
00:49:43.15\00:49:44.81
but no one gave him anything."
00:49:44.84\00:49:47.31
He was empty inside.
00:49:47.34\00:49:52.19
"When he came to his senses,
00:49:52.22\00:49:54.55
he said, how many of my father's
hired men have food to spare
00:49:54.58\00:49:59.50
and here I am starving to death!
00:49:59.53\00:50:02.44
I will set out and
go back to my father
00:50:02.47\00:50:05.51
and say to him, Father,
00:50:05.54\00:50:07.42
I have sinned against
heaven and against you.
00:50:07.45\00:50:10.96
I am no longer worthy
to be called your son,
00:50:10.99\00:50:14.61
make me like one
of your hired men.
00:50:14.64\00:50:17.07
So he got up and
went to his father.
00:50:17.10\00:50:20.37
But while he was
still a long way off
00:50:20.40\00:50:24.72
his father saw him and was
filled with compassion for him,
00:50:24.75\00:50:29.50
he ran to his son,
00:50:29.53\00:50:31.85
threw his arms around
his neck and kissed him.
00:50:31.88\00:50:39.40
The son said to him, Father,
00:50:39.43\00:50:44.26
I have sinned against
heaven and against you.
00:50:44.29\00:50:48.60
I am no longer worthy
to be called your son.
00:50:48.63\00:50:54.68
But the father
said to his servants,"
00:50:54.71\00:50:56.67
didn't let him finish
"Quick! Bring the best robe
00:50:56.70\00:51:00.59
and put it on him.
00:51:00.62\00:51:02.30
Put a ring on his
finger and sandals on his feet.
00:51:02.33\00:51:09.15
Bring the
fattened calf and kill it.
00:51:09.18\00:51:12.43
Let's have a
feast and celebrate.
00:51:12.46\00:51:15.48
For this son of mine was dead
00:51:15.51\00:51:18.95
and is alive again,
he was lost and is found.
00:51:18.98\00:51:24.84
So they began to celebrate."
00:51:24.87\00:51:28.23
Listen, here is a silly boy,
00:51:28.26\00:51:33.25
we're all silly boys.
00:51:33.28\00:51:37.70
And we think we can
do better without God,
00:51:37.73\00:51:40.67
so we leave, we
leave the father's house
00:51:40.70\00:51:43.95
and we end up in
a distant country
00:51:43.98\00:51:46.81
and that distant country
00:51:46.84\00:51:48.55
I tell you, I know
its name, it's sin.
00:51:48.58\00:51:53.73
And after this boy has
lived in the land of sin,
00:51:53.76\00:51:58.36
he spends everything,
he's got nothing left
00:51:58.39\00:52:02.18
and he is empty inside.
00:52:02.21\00:52:05.33
Then he comes for himself
00:52:09.39\00:52:11.72
or maybe he comes
along to this meeting,
00:52:11.75\00:52:16.20
maybe that boy is here
tonight, that man, that woman.
00:52:16.23\00:52:21.34
So he says, I'm going
to go back to my father.
00:52:21.37\00:52:26.86
So he sets out and
he has a speech made.
00:52:26.89\00:52:29.25
Father I've sinned
against heaven and against you.
00:52:29.28\00:52:32.10
I'm sorry, my father,
00:52:32.13\00:52:33.50
make me like one
of your hired hands.
00:52:33.53\00:52:35.95
But there's an old man
who has been missing his boy,
00:52:35.98\00:52:40.30
the Father has been missing you.
00:52:40.33\00:52:43.33
And the old man, this is God
and he's looking down the road
00:52:43.36\00:52:48.39
and he's lonely for his boy
00:52:48.42\00:52:50.66
and he's sees after
maybe months, years,
00:52:50.69\00:52:54.26
he sees the boy
coming and the boy is filthy,
00:52:54.29\00:52:58.80
he's got the filth of
the pig pin all over him.
00:52:58.83\00:53:02.94
This boy stinks, he reeks,
00:53:02.97\00:53:07.75
but the father the
prince runs to the boy
00:53:07.78\00:53:13.76
and he doesn't
kick him, he kisses him,
00:53:13.79\00:53:18.02
and he hugs him, and
he puts a robe around him
00:53:18.05\00:53:22.55
and he puts a ring on his finger
and he puts shoes on his feet
00:53:22.58\00:53:28.95
and he says,
rejoice, rejoice, rejoice,
00:53:28.98\00:53:32.20
my boy has come home.
00:53:32.23\00:53:33.92
Listen, don't you think
it's time for us to come home?
00:53:39.34\00:53:47.22
Christ has died for us.
00:53:47.25\00:53:49.08
This is not a
story this is the truth.
00:53:49.11\00:53:54.62
His righteousness He
will give to you tonight.
00:53:54.65\00:53:57.22
His forgiveness He
will give to you tonight.
00:53:57.25\00:53:59.92
He will take away your sin.
00:53:59.95\00:54:01.92
He will give you
the everlasting life.
00:54:01.95\00:54:04.94
He will justify you.
00:54:04.97\00:54:07.30
He will declare that you
are a child of God tonight
00:54:07.33\00:54:11.94
and when He is doing that
He will come into your heart
00:54:11.97\00:54:16.12
and He will
give you a new heart.
00:54:16.15\00:54:20.04
And into your
heart you will have peace
00:54:20.07\00:54:25.06
and joy and happiness
and the guilt will be gone,
00:54:25.09\00:54:30.64
the anger will be gone
00:54:30.67\00:54:34.73
and you will be on
your way to heaven.
00:54:34.76\00:54:41.07
Now we're going to do something.
Listen, I'm earnest tonight.
00:54:44.91\00:54:51.29
We're gonna talk on
the unpardonable sin.
00:54:51.32\00:54:53.58
Soon I'm gonna talk on
00:54:53.61\00:54:55.37
the next 1000
years on Bible prophecy,
00:54:55.40\00:54:57.75
but tonight I want
you just to come to Jesus
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as I come to Jesus as a sinner
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and say Lord, I
repent of my sins
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and I want you
to cover all my sins
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with your justifying blood.
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I'm gonna pray with you now
and I want you to quietly stand.
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I can feel that
God is here tonight,
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but I know that there
are people out here tonight
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in need to come to Jesus
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because the
Father is waiting for you
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and He wants you to come.
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We're gonna pray together
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and the Spirit of God is just
going to come into the meeting
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and God is going to bless
us and God is going to heal us
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and God is going
to make us whole.
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And when you walk out
of this meeting tonight
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you're going to be a new person.
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The old person is going to
stay here in this great stadium,
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but a new person is going
to walk out of here tonight.
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I want you now
please to bow your heads.
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Look at this
picture here on the screen.
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He's a modern boy
and he's coming home
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and Jesus is receiving him.
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Would you bow your
heads with me now, please?
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In the quietness of this place
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every head bowed
and every eye closed.
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Oh, God, help us now.
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My Father, tonight here
is a great, great audience.
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And tonight we've talked
about the true gospel of Christ.
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That God justifies the ungodly
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and declares that
the ungodly is righteous
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not because of his goodness
because he doesn't have any
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but because of
the Blood of Christ.
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Thank you for joining us today.
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and the truth
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