Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR100018
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00:01 The following presentation was made by John Carter
00:03 to a crowd of more than 100,000 souls. 00:06 This message is one of a truth filled series 00:09 that was delivered in the power of God's Holy Spirit 00:12 at the Sir John Guise Stadium, 00:14 Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 00:17 One night as the evangelist spoke about the Holy Spirit, 00:20 a giant white bird flew low over the vast audience. 00:24 And the people rejoiced that God had visited His people. 00:28 Crowd surged forward to accept Christ as Lord and Savior. 00:32 A few days later thousands were baptized 00:35 in the sea at Ela Beach. 00:37 All who attended these Holy Spirit anointed meetings 00:40 were convinced that God's word is true 00:43 and His gospel is still the power of God 00:46 for the salvation of all who believe. 00:48 The message you're about to hear and see 00:51 will not leave you the same person. 00:54 Welcome to the Carter Report at the Sir John Guise Stadium, 00:57 Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 01:02 Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. 01:04 How are you doing this evening? 01:07 Isn't this is a beautiful night tonight 01:10 and you're looking beautiful too. 01:11 It's just great to have you here this evening. 01:14 Now we are going to do something 01:15 just a little, little different right now. 01:19 People have come to me around the world 01:22 right here and they say, "How can I live longer? 01:27 How can I be stronger? 01:30 How can I be full of whim 01:33 and to avoid cancer and heart disease 01:37 and all of these awful sicknesses? 01:39 Now, what we're going to do just for a few minutes, 01:42 we're going to put some material up here on the screen. 01:45 You know, I've just got a super theme down here 01:49 and they're going to stop 01:51 putting this up on the screen now. 01:53 And we're going to talk about 01:54 some of the amazing secrets of health. 01:57 We're gonna call this "How Can I Be Healthy?" 02:03 And I want to tell my team, I'm just gonna stay out here, 02:06 I'm not gonna use any notes, 02:08 and so they'll have to run with it, 02:10 and I'll just run with them. 02:11 How about that? All right? 02:13 So we're just gonna get them to put it up on the screen. 02:17 The first thing, if you want to be healthy is, 02:20 "Believe in Jesus." 02:23 Let me tell you why? 02:25 If you believe in Jesus, you're going to have peace. 02:29 There is a text. 02:31 I think, it's John 15, I think I got it here. 02:35 Oh, John 16. I wasn't too far off. John 16:33. 02:40 "I have told you these things, 02:42 so that in me you may have peace. 02:45 In this world you will have trouble. 02:49 But take heart! I have overcome the world." 02:54 There is nothing that will destroy a man or a woman 02:59 quicker than a sense of anger and hatred and guilt. 03:07 You see, lots of anger on the roads, don't you? 03:10 Somebody is driving around the road 03:12 and maybe somebody cuts him off 03:14 and that person gets real mad 03:16 and they want to fight each other. 03:19 This is not good for people's health. 03:22 It puts up their blood pressure, it's bad for the heart, 03:25 but if you know Jesus as your Lord and your Savior, 03:30 you're going to have a marvelous peace 03:35 and that peace is good for your body 03:38 and that peace is good for your soul. 03:41 And here comes the next point. "Eat with wisdom." 03:48 What on earth does this mean to eat with wisdom? 03:53 Can't you just eat anything you want to? 03:56 Now, folks, I've been doing this work as I told you 03:59 since I was a young man out of college. 04:03 I've been doing this work now for more than 50 years. 04:09 And I've got the peace of God in my heart 04:11 because I believe in Jesus. 04:13 But by the grace of God, I try to follow the great truths 04:18 that are taught in the Bible concerning what to eat. 04:22 If you practice these, you're going to cut down 04:25 your chance of getting cancer 04:27 and heart disease in a remarkable way. 04:30 Now look at this, then God said. 04:32 This is back in Genesis 1:29. 04:36 "God said, 'I give you every seed-bearing plant 04:40 on the face of the whole earth 04:43 and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. 04:49 They will be yours for food.'" 04:51 The Bible tells us, if you want to be healthy, 04:54 try to eat a lot of fruit and eat nuts as well. 05:00 And then the Bible a little bit later on said, 05:03 "Eat the green leafy vegetables." 05:06 We now know research that has been carried out 05:10 in some of the greatest hospitals 05:13 and universities in the world tell us 05:16 that if you eat those foods, 05:19 those foods are going to help to stop cancer 05:24 getting a hold on your body. 05:27 And the Bible tells us these things 05:30 because God wants you to be happy, 05:33 God wants you to be healthy 05:34 because God loves you and God loves me. 05:38 So eat with wisdom. 05:40 And it says here, number three, "Eat clean foods." 05:47 What on earth does that mean eat clean foods? 05:53 Well, there is a text in the Book of Leviticus 11. 05:57 I'm going to read this slow to you, 05:59 but I want you all to think about this. 06:02 "Say to the Israelites, 'Of all the animals 06:06 that live on the land, these are the ones you may eat. 06:12 You may eat any animal that has a split hoof 06:15 completely divided and that chews the cud.'" 06:20 What sort of animal is that? 06:23 Well, that's a cow, that's a sheep, and that's a goat. 06:29 But the Bible says, 06:31 "The animals that don't do those things are unclean to you 06:36 because they will cause you to get disease." 06:42 "These are some that only chew the cud 06:44 or only have a split hoof, but you must not eat them. 06:48 The camel, who would want to eat a camel anyhow. 06:51 "The camel, though it chews the cud, 06:54 does not have a split hoof. 06:57 It is ceremonially unclean to you. 07:01 'The coney,' that's like a little rabbit, 07:04 "though it chews the cud, does not have a split hoof. 07:07 It is unclean for you. 07:09 The rabbit, though it chews the cud, 07:11 does not have a split hoof. 07:14 It is unclean for you. 07:16 And the pig, all though it has a split hoof completely divided, 07:22 does not chew the cud. 07:24 It is unclean for you. 07:27 You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses. 07:32 They are unclean for you." 07:34 Because these animals help cause disease. 07:38 "Of all the creatures living in the water of the sea 07:41 and the streams you may eat any that have fins and scales. 07:47 But all creatures in the seas or streams 07:52 that do not have fins and scales-whether among 07:56 all the swarming things or among all the other 07:59 living creatures in the water-you are to detest.'" 08:06 I'm going to tell you something 08:08 that the smartest people in the world now realized. 08:14 If you and I follow the great truths 08:17 that are taught in the Bible, we are going to live longer, 08:21 we are going to feel better, 08:24 and we're not going to have the cancers, 08:26 and the heart disease, and everything else 08:29 that unbelievers suffer from. 08:32 Now I know that Christians also get sick. 08:36 I know this. 08:37 But if you follow the health laws of the Bible, 08:40 you're going to be healthier, you're going to be stronger, 08:43 you're going to look younger, 08:45 and you're going to have a tremendous inner vitality. 08:50 Now here's the next point. 08:53 Now I can't give you the text on this one, 08:56 but I put this in here just for your interest. 08:59 "Avoid lots of starchy foods." 09:03 If you eat a lot of starchy foods. 09:06 I know what I'm talking about because I study a lot 09:09 and I use this matter up here between my ears 09:14 and I know if I eat a lot of starchy food, 09:18 a little while after I've eaten the starchy food, 09:21 I feel as though I want to go to sleep. 09:27 And so we now know from the United States of America, 09:31 from Australia and from the great universities 09:34 that the health laws of the Bible are absolutely true 09:40 and God has given us these health laws because He loves us. 09:43 Now we're going to go to something else. 09:46 Your body--or what does the Bible say about the body? 09:52 Well, there is a text in the Book of Corinthians, 09:55 it says, "Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple 10:02 and that God's Spirit lives in you? 10:06 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him, 10:13 for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple." 10:17 Now look at me for a moment, please. 10:20 The Bible tells me. This is not my idea. 10:24 This is the teaching of God's word. 10:26 The Bible says, "This body is sacred. 10:31 It is the temple for the Holy Spirit." 10:34 And the Bible says, "You ought to take care of the temple." 10:39 And the Bible says, "If you defile the temple of God--" 10:43 The Bible says, "If you destroy the temple of God, 10:48 God will destroy you." 10:52 That is why, my friend, I don't smoke cigarettes. 10:58 We now know that millions of people around the world. 11:03 You say, million? Yeah, millions. 11:06 Millions and millions of people around the world die every year 11:11 because they smoke tobacco. 11:15 Tobacco defiles the temple of God. 11:19 And God wants you to keep your temple for the Holy Spirit. 11:25 Now I'm going to say something 11:27 that I don't want to offend anybody, 11:30 but I'm going to say it because I love you. 11:34 A Christian because he knows 11:36 that the body is the temple of God 11:39 will not put into that body 11:41 anything that's going to defile it. 11:44 Such as, drugs. 11:48 One of the greatest problems today in the world 11:51 and in America, in Australia, in Russia 11:54 right around the world is the misuse of drugs. 12:00 Taking marijuana, even taking some of those terribly awful 12:06 hard drugs that defiled the temple of God 12:10 and that sends the mind absolutely crazy. 12:14 Now I'm going to say something here tonight 12:16 and I don't want you to be offended 12:19 just because betel nut is legal, 12:22 it doesn't make it right. 12:25 Betel nut is a drug that defiles the body, the temple of God. 12:33 And I want you to know tonight, God tells us these things, 12:37 not so that we'll have to give up anything that is good, 12:40 but God wants you to live longer, look better, 12:45 feel fitter and just beyond top of the world 12:50 and filled with peace, and filled with joy, 12:54 and filled with happiness. 12:56 And I tell you this tonight 12:57 because God loves you and so do I. 13:08 Now, hey, how old do you think I am? 13:16 I'll tell you. 13:17 Do you wanna know how old I am? 13:20 Hey, will you tell me how old you are then? 13:23 I want every person here tonight to tell me how old he is, 13:26 how old are you? 13:28 Well, there is someone down here is 7. 13:31 Okay, do you think I'm doing okay? 13:35 Do you think I'm--when I'm running these lectures, 13:37 do you think I'm doing okay that I've got energy? 13:40 Yeah! Okay, I am 73. 13:47 And I've been--I've been doing this work for 50 years. 13:52 And I want to tell you something else. 13:54 Are you ready for this? Yeah! 13:56 All right, you need to exercise. 14:00 Everyday I walk and run 3 or 4 miles, 14:05 that's about 6 to 7 or 8 kilometers. 14:10 I do it religiously. 14:12 I'm up early in the morning and here in PNG, 14:15 I'm staying at Pacific Adventist University and I exercise there. 14:21 And back in the United States, I've got a big elliptical 14:25 and I work that for 30 minutes a day. 14:28 I burn up about--I burn up about 400 calories doing this, 14:34 and then I exercise also by going for walks and by running. 14:40 Listen to me, if you exercise, 14:45 it's going to help you to avoid cancer. 14:47 We know--we know this for a fact. 14:49 If you exercise, it's going to make your hearts strong. 14:52 If you exercise, it's going to give you energy. 14:56 And the best people in the world today, 14:58 the best minds, the best scholars, 15:03 the smartest people are the people 15:06 who obey the Commandments of God 15:09 and who follow the Lord Jesus Christ. 15:13 So I want you to know this tonight. 15:15 If you come--because you come to these meetings, 15:19 if you will put into practice, 15:21 what you've heard in these meetings, 15:23 you're going to be the most successful people in PNG. 15:28 You're going to be the head. 15:30 You're going to be the most successful, 15:32 the most healthy, the most prosperous 15:35 and the wealthiest people in all of PNG 15:39 because God is going to bless you 15:42 because you obey His commandments. 15:46 This is just the truth. 15:49 Now, ladies and gentlemen, would you please welcome tonight 15:53 that wonderful Christian gentleman, the great singer 15:56 from the United States of America, 15:58 Pastor Willie Garcia? 16:20 I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord 16:37 I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord 16:56 Plans to prosper you 17:04 Plans never to harm you 17:12 Plans to give you a hope and a future 17:20 These are the plans These are the plans 17:28 These are the plans that I have for you 17:41 Thank you, Jesus 17:49 I know the plans I know the plans 17:54 I have for you Oh yeah 17:59 Declares the Lord 18:02 Oh, I know the plans 18:07 I know the plans 18:10 That's God's word I have for you 18:15 Declares the Lord Declares the Lord 18:23 Plans to prosper you 18:31 That's God's word, that's God's word 18:34 Plans never to harm you 18:39 And He's promised us, He never fail 18:41 He'll never let us die 18:44 Plans to give you 18:47 A hope and a future A hope and a future 18:50 'Cause these are the plans These are the plans 18:52 These are the plans These are the plans 18:57 These are the plans that I have for you 19:43 Plans to prosper you 19:49 That's God's word, that's God's word 19:51 Plans never to harm you 19:55 And He's promised us, He never fail 19:58 He'll never let you die Plans to give you 20:04 A hope and a future A hope and a future 20:06 'Cause these are the plans These are the plans 20:09 These are the plans These are the plans 20:13 These are the plans 20:18 That's God's word These are the plans 20:21 Every promises yea and amen 20:24 These are the plans 20:25 These are the plans that I have for you 20:39 Thank You, Lord 20:44 Thank You that You are a restorer of Your people 20:49 These are the plans, God's plans 21:05 Are you folks ready for a great meeting tonight? 21:08 Let me hear it. Yes! 21:10 God is good. All the time! 21:13 All the time. God is good. 21:15 Maranatha. Jesus is coming! 21:18 Jesus is coming. Maranatha! 21:21 Hallelujah. Praise the Lord! 21:24 Hey, you are just a super great audience. 21:27 Now let me tell you this right from my heart. 21:31 This meeting tonight is not important, it is beyond that. 21:38 I'm going to talk about 21:40 how to have freedom from guilt, and fear, and sin? 21:45 How you can know that you are saved 21:50 and you have passed from death unto life? 21:53 How you can know for certainty that you're going to go a home 21:58 with Jesus to paradise? 22:00 And so I want to say tonight, I'm just so glad you're here 22:04 because this meeting is going to touch your heart. 22:08 People's lives are going to be changed tonight. 22:12 And tonight, I believe the Spirit of God 22:14 is going to come into this meeting 22:16 and God is going to bless this meeting 22:19 with His tremendous power. 22:21 Can you say amen to that my friend? 22:24 Amen! Now we have with us tonight 22:27 a great leader of the Christian Church in PNG. 22:33 He is an old friend. He is a warrior of the cross. 22:38 Please, welcome Pastor Tony Kemo. 22:50 I want to complement you tonight, Pastor Kemo. 22:53 Oh, what a magnificent audience 22:56 as the Queen of Sheba said to Solomon, 22:58 "The half was not told." 23:01 I've never spoken the sweeter, 23:04 nicer people than the people here in Port Moresby, 23:08 and we have had huge magnificent wonderful crowds. 23:13 And I want to thank you for inviting us to PNG 23:17 because you were the person who got everything going 23:21 and I want you to know that we are deeply grateful 23:24 from our hearts to you, and we thank you tonight. 23:29 Now we want you to stand 23:30 and we're going to have the prayer. 23:37 "Our gracious and loving Father in Heaven, 23:43 we bow before your awesome presence, 23:46 acknowledging Your majesty and Your greatness. 23:52 We want to praise You and thank You that Jesus Christ 23:58 is the same yesterday, today and forever. 24:03 We praise You and thank You 24:05 for the wonderful country that we have. 24:09 Our government allows the freedom 24:13 of worship and fellowship. 24:15 The freedom of speech that Your word can be proclaim 24:20 by Your anointed servant to reach the hearts of every person 24:26 who is here tonight in this vast auditorium. 24:32 We thank You, Heavenly Father, 24:36 that You have given us a wonderful health 24:39 and because of that good health 24:42 that we can travel from far and near 24:45 to come to meet with You, and meet with Your servant 24:52 who is anointed by God the Holy Spirit 24:56 to proclaim Your words of love that will drove everyone 25:01 to the Lord Jesus Christ tonight. 25:05 In our earnest plea tonight is Heavenly Father 25:10 as the word of God reaches out, 25:14 God the Holy Spirit who is already at work 25:19 will touch the lives of the people and change them 25:24 into Your own image, so that everyone 25:28 as they move away from this meeting place tonight 25:32 that they will know that they are never the same again 25:35 because You've touched them with Your love 25:39 and You have touched them with Your power that changed them 25:43 to be obedience to do Your will. 25:46 Thank You, Heavenly Father, for listening to us. 25:49 May You bless this vast audience tonight 25:53 and as Your word touch each one of them, 25:58 they will go away knowing that they have found Jesus 26:02 in this meeting place. 26:05 Thank You for listening to us in Your wonderful name, amen. Amen. 26:12 Paul, the evangelist says in the Bible 26:15 that "God will finish His work 26:16 and cut it short in righteousness." 26:19 The prophet Joel says, "God will pour out His Spirit 26:21 in the last days, and signs and wonders will follow." 26:25 The Carter Report believes that we are now in the end times 26:28 and His Spirit is moving mightily. 26:31 During the Port Moresby campaign, 26:33 we testify that we saw the power of God revealed. 26:37 God-hungry souls 26:40 could not get enough of the word of the Lord. 26:43 As at creation, the Spirit of God moved upon 26:46 the face of the waters and God brought cosmos out of chaos. 26:51 Souls were recreated in the image of the Creator. 26:55 Instead of hate, there was love. 26:57 Instead of despair, there was hope. 26:59 Instead of sorrow, there was joy. 27:01 And in the place of death, God gave life. 27:05 One night, as John Carter preached on the person 27:08 and work of the Holy Spirit, the image of a white bird 27:11 was flashed on the screens. 27:13 At that moment, a great white bird 27:15 flew low over the astonished congregation. 27:18 Cries of joy filled the air, as the audience recognized 27:22 that God had visited His people. 27:24 A mighty surge of Pentecostal power swept the audience 27:28 of 120,000 souls and everyone present 27:32 felt the warmth comforting presence of God. 27:36 The Carter Report team invites you, 27:37 my dear viewer, to be a partner in this work. 27:40 Soldiers of the cross are wanted. 27:43 Faith partners are needed. 27:45 Write to us now, here at the Carter Report, 27:48 PO Box 1900, Thousand Oaks, California 91358 27:54 or in Australia at PO Box 861, Terrigal, NSW 2260. 28:02 You may also contact us online at cartereport.org 28:06 or email us at info@cartereport.org. 28:14 I want you to know this tonight, I want to talk to you, 28:17 I don't care who you are tonight, 28:19 we are all sinners. 28:25 And the evidence of our sin is manifested in so many ways, 28:32 but the Bible tells me, "Thank God, hallelujah. 28:36 There is a cure for the deadly virus of sin." 28:42 The Bible tells me that God 28:46 became a man, hallelujah. 28:51 I want you to notice Romans 5:6-8. 28:58 Book of Romans written by the great Apostle Paul. 29:04 Romans 5, "You see, he said. 29:08 At just the right time, when we were still powerless, 29:13 Christ died for the ungodly." 29:15 You may say tonight, "I've been ungodly person, 29:19 nobody cares about me." 29:20 Christ died for the ungodly. 29:23 "Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, 29:29 though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 29:36 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this, 29:39 while we were still sinners, 29:44 Christ died for us." 29:48 I want to tell you tonight that the greatest news 29:51 that this poor all world needs tonight is the good news 29:56 that God love us and He gave His own Son. 30:00 The Bible tells us that God, 30:03 the Creator of the universe became a man 30:07 and He came down to this earth. 30:12 I want you to try to take this in. 30:14 It's an incomprehensible truth, 30:17 but the Bible teaches the God, the great Creator. 30:22 Look at that screen, would you? 30:26 God the great Creator, the Almighty Yahweh, 30:33 Elohim was born of the blessed Virgin Mary. 30:40 God became a man. 30:42 And the Bible tells us, "He walked among us 30:46 and He showed us all that compassion and all that love." 30:49 And the Bible tells us, "He went to the cross 30:54 and paid for all of our sins with His own precious blood." 30:58 There is a cure. 31:01 It is the blood of Jesus Christ. 31:04 Listen...there is a text in the Bible, 31:10 and it's a greatest text, and I'm sure that most 31:13 of you know the text, but I am going 31:17 to put it up on the screen. 31:20 It's God's message to you tonight. 31:23 Look at it. "For God so loved the world." 31:27 He so loved PNG. 31:30 He so loved the thief. 31:32 He so loved the adulterer, the fornicator, 31:36 the liar, the cheat. 31:38 The Bible says, "For God so loved the world 31:44 that he gave his one and only Son, 31:49 that whoever believes in him shall not perish 31:53 but have, hallelujah, eternal life." 31:58 Listen, just listen. 32:03 Did you know this? 32:07 If you had been the only sinner, 32:11 God would have come down and died for you. 32:16 You say I can't believe it. 32:18 It is the truth. 32:20 If there had been only one 32:24 lost soul and he lived in PNG, 32:29 God would have become a man and died on the cross 32:34 for that one lost soul. 32:40 I want you to know tonight the heart of God loves you. 32:48 You may say, God doesn't care about me, that's not true. 32:52 You may say, God doesn't care about 32:54 my family, that's not true. 32:55 God knows all about you. 32:58 Jesus said the very hairs of your head 33:02 are all numbered He says, "I have loved you 33:07 with an everlasting love." 33:10 Listen to this. 33:13 In Russia, where I've been 42 times. 33:19 The communist set up the Gaelic, 33:23 a system of concentration camps 33:29 right out of hell. 33:33 Large number of these concentration camps 33:37 run by the atheists and the communists. 33:42 And in these camps they use to torture people 33:46 particularly Christians, 33:49 the atheists tortured them. 33:55 On one occasion some communist guards were torturing 34:00 a poor atheist and he was cursing 34:04 and he was blaspheming. 34:08 And a Christian said, I want you to do it to me 34:13 and let this man go free. 34:17 And the guard said, "Are you crazy? 34:21 Are you a born fool?" 34:27 The Christian said, if you torture me, 34:32 I will cry because the pain will be great 34:36 but I'll ask God to bless you and the blessing 34:41 will go out into the world, but when you torture 34:45 an unbeliever the world becomes more poisoned. 34:51 So those Christians in the Gaelic 34:54 would take the curses upon themselves 34:58 and they would be tortured, that's what Jesus did. 35:06 Jesus was tortured for you. 35:09 He went to the cross for you. 35:12 He went through pain and suffering for you. 35:16 He bore the sin of the world. 35:20 It crushed his soul. 35:23 It killed Him in a few hours. 35:25 My friend, will you not believe in Him, I ask you? 35:31 Will this not soften our hard stony hearts? 35:35 Some of us here tonight 35:37 I know have got hard unyielding hearts. 35:43 I want you to think, how much He loves you. 35:49 Bishop Fulton Sheen when he spoke about 35:52 the cross said these words. 35:56 For one brief moment in time he was unfold 36:04 on the cross like a wounded eagle. 36:13 He went to the cross 36:15 to pay the price of our sins. 36:22 What really happened on the cross? 36:27 He was a strong young man. 36:30 He was used to hard work. 36:32 He was not lazy. 36:35 He was sun tender and muscular. 36:41 He became a preacher 36:43 then the tide of popular opinion turned against Him. 36:47 The religious leaders handed Him over to the Romans. 36:54 And then they took Him and they tried Him, 36:58 it was a kangaroo caught and then 37:01 they put Him on the Roman cross. 37:04 Who was this man? 37:09 This man was God in flesh. 37:12 This was El Shaddai, this was Yahweh Elohim, 37:16 this was the Almighty God who would come down from heaven 37:21 and who was bearing our sins, He was bearing our shame 37:26 and He was wearing it all in His own body on the tree. 37:30 Listen, on the cross He cried out. 37:39 "My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? 37:45 You say to me, but this is not the cry of a man 37:49 with peace in his heart. 37:51 This is not the cry of a Christian 37:55 who is right with God and who is dying. 37:59 This is not the cry of a righteous man. 38:03 This is the cry of a great sinner. 38:12 On the cross Jesus, the sinless man 38:19 took all our sins upon Him. 38:24 And the Father judged him for John Carter's sin. 38:29 He was judged on the cross and He was judged 38:35 guilty, guilty, guilty God said. 38:39 God said let the judgment fall upon My Son 38:45 and he could not see His Father's face 38:49 and in agony He cried out "My God, my God, 38:54 why have you forsaken me?" 38:59 He did not die as a Christian. 39:03 He died as a lost soul... 39:10 even though He was the Son of God. 39:14 Who was this man? 39:16 This man was the creator of the universe. 39:25 I'm going to come over here to the blackboard. 39:29 We're gonna have a camera come with me 39:31 and I'm going to put off an illustration of the cross 39:35 and you will be able to see it even though 39:38 you're sitting way back, you will be able to see it 39:41 on the giant screens. 39:45 Here we have the Cross of Christ. 39:50 Up here on this side we put Christ, 39:55 the sinless Son of God. 39:57 And over here we put "Us", you and me. 40:03 Christ was sinless. 40:07 He never committed a sin. 40:09 We are sinful. 40:15 I want you to know this. 40:16 He was sinless and we are sinful. 40:20 He had perfect righteousness. 40:26 There was no sin in Him, He was perfectly 40:30 and totally innocent and holy, He was immaculate. 40:37 But over on this side "Us" we are unrighteous. 40:43 The Bible says, "There is none righteous no not one." 40:50 And Christ had perfect peace and perfect joy 40:54 because He was right with God. 40:56 And Christ enjoyed everlasting life in communion 41:02 with His Holy Father, and because we are sinful 41:07 and unrighteous, we will have eternal death 41:12 unless Christ will save us. 41:16 I want you to know tonight, if you and I die in our sins, 41:23 if we die with hate in our hearts, 41:27 if we die with malice, if we die in our fornication, 41:32 the Bible tells us that we will experience eternal death 41:36 and we will be raised in the judgment of the unrighteous 41:42 and we will then taste the hell of the last stage 41:47 that is mentioned and described in the Bible. 41:51 But now I want to come here to come back with me 41:53 and I want you see what happened. 41:56 On the cross, Jesus Christ came and stood over here, 42:03 He took our place and in the side of a holy 42:07 and a righteous God, Christ became 42:10 in the side of God, sinful, unrighteous 42:14 and he tasted eternal death. 42:17 That is why He cried out with the heart 42:20 that was bursting with pain. 42:23 "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" 42:27 He felt a doomed and a lost soul. 42:31 And Christ took all of this upon Himself because He loves you, 42:37 and because He loves me. 42:40 And He did all of this, so that you and I, us, 42:44 we can be regarded by God as sinless and righteous 42:49 and have eternal life which is simply given to us 42:53 as a gift by the grace of God. 42:58 That is the glory and that, my friend, 43:01 is the mystery of the cross. 43:04 And there is nothing that compares on to it. 43:07 Now tonight I say to you as you sit here, 43:12 you and I cannot take this into our souls 43:15 unless the Holy Spirit shows us that we are sinners. 43:20 We need to see ourselves tonight as sinners, 43:24 but more than this we need to see Christ, 43:26 dying for our sins on the cross. 43:30 And if we will see this tonight, 43:32 we will parse from death unto life 43:35 and we will have peace and joy and happiness. 43:39 This is the word of the Lord. 43:43 The good news that Christ says, 43:45 "If we come to Him with all our sins just as we are, 43:50 He will accept us, He will forgive us, 43:54 He will renew us, He'll turn us into the children of God." 44:01 500 years ago in Germany, a miner and his wife, 44:06 had a little baby boy, his name was Martin Luther. 44:13 When he grew up, he became an earnest 44:17 Roman Catholic, but he never read the Bible, 44:21 he didn't have the Bible. 44:23 And one day he was caught out in a storm 44:26 and there was a tremendous burst of lightening 44:30 and he was knocked to the ground and in the fear 44:35 that whirled up in his heart, Martin Luther cried out to Lord. 44:38 "I will become a monk." 44:45 So he became an Augustinian monk. 44:51 And he prayed a lot and he did penance. 44:54 And sometimes he would whip his back 44:57 until the blood was flowing. 45:00 He was trying to get right with God. 45:03 He was trying to become a righteous person. 45:06 Have you tried that? 45:10 Martin Luther, the great Roman Catholic scholar 45:14 had no peace with God and he tried to find peace 45:18 with God through penance, with the whip and the lash. 45:25 And then he was sent as a monk down to the City of Rome 45:31 out of petition to see the pope. 45:35 And what he saw in Rome, shook him to the core. 45:40 He saw corruption. 45:44 He said, "I thought I was going to go to heaven 45:48 when I went to Rome." 45:52 And he saw the sale of indulgences 45:57 and he saw the relics. 45:59 They said, "This is the bone of this saint, 46:02 this is the bone of that saint." 46:04 And so they had all of the holy bones. 46:09 And as Martin Luther visited these so called holy places. 46:15 And my friend, he was an earnest, good, 46:19 Roman Catholic monk, a priest. 46:24 He went and he kissed the feet of Saint Peter. 46:29 He looked at all the beautiful statues, 46:33 the idols, and he looked at the crosses, 46:37 and then he climbed up 46:39 the Scala Sancta, the holy stair. 46:43 And as Martin Luther, the earnest 46:46 Roman Catholic priest was climbing up the Scala Sancta, 46:50 a voice spoke to his soul 46:53 and the voice said, "They just shall live by faith. 47:01 And he got up and he said, "I wonder could it be so. 47:07 I don't need to do penance. 47:09 I don't need to crawl on my knees. 47:12 I don't need to do works of righteousness 47:15 in order to be saved, 47:17 maybe I need to go and study my Bible more." 47:24 Back in the University in Wittenberg, 47:27 he started to read the Holy Bible, 47:32 and he came upon Romans 1:16 and 17. 47:39 I want you to get this text in your heart tonight. 47:44 My friend, I am desperate tonight for your souls. 47:50 I want you to come to Christ tonight. 47:52 I want you to be justified by faith. 47:56 I want you to find salvation tonight. 47:59 I want you to know 48:00 that the blood of Jesus cleanses from all sin. 48:05 This is the text he read. 48:07 "I am not ashamed of the gospel. 48:10 I am not ashamed to the gospel. 48:12 I am not ashamed of the gospel, 48:14 because it is the power of God 48:17 for the salvation of everyone who believes, 48:20 first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 48:24 For in the gospel a righteousness 48:27 from God is revealed, 48:29 a righteousness that is by faith 48:32 from first to last, just as it is written, 48:37 'The righteous will live by faith.'" 48:42 And Martin Luther saw it. 48:50 He went along to his confessor. He saw it. 48:55 The Bible talks about the righteousness by God, 49:00 the righteousness of God. 49:03 He saw it, but it didn't give him peace. 49:08 He went along to the wonderful priest 49:11 who heard his confession and he said, "I have a problem." 49:17 And the priest said, "What is your problem?" 49:19 He said, "I hate God." 49:24 "Martin, this is blasphemy. 49:26 You cannot hate God. We must love God." 49:29 He said, "I hate God." 49:30 He said, "Why do you hate God?" 49:32 He said, "Because I am a sinner and God is righteous. 49:38 And therefore because I'm a sinner 49:41 and God who is righteous, God must hate me. 49:47 And if He hates me, I hate Him. 49:50 And this is my unpardonable sin. 50:00 So he whipped his back bit more and the blood flowed 50:06 and he continued to read the Bible. 50:09 And then he saw it differently, 50:13 he had a revelation from the throne of God. 50:16 And you can have this revelation tonight 50:18 in this meeting glory, hallelujah. 50:21 Jesus come now, reveal Yourself to these people. 50:27 He had a revelation. 50:29 He discovered that when the Bible talks 50:32 about the righteousness of God in these verses, 50:37 it is not to condemn us, it is to save us, 50:41 it is the righteousness that comes from Jesus 50:47 and because Jesus died for our sins 50:52 and because He paid the price, 50:55 Jesus who was the righteous one gives us His righteousness 51:02 as a free gift and you can have it tonight. 51:06 It is yours tonight, if you will only believe. 51:12 My friend, believe tonight. 51:18 And thus who started the mighty reformation 51:22 that swift around the world. 51:27 And the countries that accepted 51:29 the gospel of righteousness by faith 51:33 became the most prosperous nations, 51:37 they became the best nations, 51:40 they became the healthiest nations, 51:44 they became the nations where everybody wanted to live. 51:51 Listen, if you will surely believe in Christ 52:03 and if you and I will truly give our sins to Christ, 52:09 He'll take our sins and He'll give us 52:13 His righteousness as a gift. 52:18 His blood will cover all of our sins. 52:22 And tonight we will parse from death unto life 52:28 and our names will be written in the Book of Life. 52:35 I have a great conviction tonight 52:37 that the Spirit of God is here. 52:40 I can feel Him here. I can sense He is here. 52:45 And I'm going to say tonight, 52:47 if you want your life to be covered with the blood of Jesus, 52:52 if you want to be saved tonight and parse from death unto life, 52:57 I am going to ask you just to come down to front here 52:59 because I need to pray for you. 53:02 This is the most important thing you can do tonight, 53:05 to have your life under the blood of Jesus. 53:07 I'm going to ask you to come now. 53:11 I'm going to ask the people in the bleachers to come, 53:14 people far back. 53:17 Tonight, God is offering you salvation. 53:23 He is offering you a new life. 53:27 He is offering you forgiveness. 53:30 Maybe somebody has come in here tonight, 53:33 that person has done some terrible crimes. 53:37 You know what those crimes are? 53:39 Maybe nobody else knows, but you know. 53:43 But tonight you're going to come 53:46 and you're going to believe in Jesus, 53:49 and your sins are gonna be washed away. 53:53 And as you come tonight, I don't know who you are, 53:55 but I want to tell you, 53:57 on Saturday morning, on the Sabbath morning, 53:59 we're going to have a baptism down in the river. 54:02 You ought to be in that baptism. 54:04 Everybody who has heard this great truth, you need to come. 54:10 I'm just God's poor instrument of truth, 54:13 but God has called me here tonight. 54:16 And I'm here tonight because I have a message 54:20 from the word of God for you. 54:23 And if tonight, you feel that you need 54:26 to have your sins washed away in the blood of Christ, 54:31 I'm asking you to come. 54:34 And tonight we don't come because we're good. 54:38 We don't come because we're righteous, 54:40 because the Bible says, 54:42 "There is none righteous, no not one." 54:45 We come because we need a Savior. 54:49 We come because we're sinners. 54:52 We come because we're unclean. 54:56 There is no good thing in us, 54:58 but we come tonight 55:00 because we want to be washed in the blood of Christ. 55:05 Tonight, I want you to get up out of that seat 55:08 and I want you to come down, 55:10 and I'm going to wait for you just another minute or two. 55:14 But we have thousands of people have come down here tonight 55:17 and we've come down here tonight 55:20 because we're believing in Jesus 55:23 and we're having our sins washed away 55:27 and we're going home to glory. 55:33 Who are these people attending the Carter Report 55:35 at the Sir John Guise Stadium, Port Moresby, New Papua Guinea? 55:39 Well, they come from all walks of life. 55:41 In this great congregation of more than 100,000, 55:45 we find doctors, lawyers, politicians, ambassadors, 55:49 carpenters, students, teachers, believers and unbelievers. 55:53 There are husbands and wives with their families. 55:56 There are the rich and the poor, the powerful and the weak. 56:00 They are being told that Christ alone is the way, 56:03 the truth and the life. 56:05 They are hearing the words of life 56:07 and their hearts are being strangely warmed. 56:10 Sometimes they feel that their hearts will burst 56:13 and they feel compel to hurry down to the front 56:16 to publicly confess the Savior. 56:18 They are shown in the scriptures 56:20 that God commands men everywhere to repent and be baptized. 56:24 They respond with the holy devotion 56:27 and a passionate intensity. 56:29 Will you not join them? 56:35 Thank you for joining us today. 56:37 To become a faith partner with Pastor John Carter 56:40 and to receive our monthly newsletter, 56:42 write to us here at the Carter Report, 56:44 PO Box 1900, Thousand Oaks, California, 91358. 56:51 or in Australia at PO Box 861, Terrigal, NSW 2260. 56:58 That address again is PO Box 1900, 57:02 Thousand Oaks, California, 91358 57:06 or in Australia at PO Box 861, Terrigal, NSW 2260. 57:14 You may also contact us online at carterreport.org. 57:19 Remember Jesus said, "You will know the truth 57:22 and the truth will set you free." |
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