Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR100021
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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, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 00:16 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 00:39 anointed meetings were convinced 00:41 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 believed. 00:48 The message you're about to hear and see 00:51 will not leave you the same person. 00:53 Welcome to the Carter Report at the Sir John Guise Stadium, 00:57 Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 01:03 Jesus said "Do not let your hearts be troubled." 01:10 By nature we worry, we fret, we get depressed, 01:16 we get cast down. 01:18 We are afraid of that which is high 01:20 and that which is low. 01:23 But Jesus said "Do not let your hearts be troubled. 01:28 Trust in God, trust also in me. 01:33 In my Father's house--" that's paradise, 01:37 "are many rooms, if it were not so, 01:41 I would have told you. 01:42 I am going there to prepare a place for you. 01:49 And if I go and prepare a place for you, 01:53 I will come back 01:57 and take you to be with me 01:59 that you also may be where I am." 02:05 Going to come over here to the blackboard. 02:08 I want us to get a camera, come with me over here, 02:11 because I am going to come over here to the blackboard 02:14 and I am going to write up something 02:16 which is good because it's true. 02:18 Jesus said "I" Hey, you got a camera here, 02:25 I am going, oh, I'll put a few dots there. 02:30 I am going to prepare. 02:35 We got 40 feet of blackboard but it's not enough, 02:37 so I've got to make this little, little smaller, 02:41 I've got to abbreviate. 02:42 I go to prepare a place. 02:50 He said, "I am going there to prepare a place for you." 02:57 He said, I am going there to prepare a place 03:00 for my beloved children in PNG 03:04 and in Los Angeles and in New York City 03:08 and right across Australia and around the world, 03:12 I am going home to glory 03:14 to prepare a place for My children. 03:19 And then He said. 03:20 Going to do a little more writing now, 03:22 I like it over here, what a beautiful breeze. 03:26 I am going there to prepare a place for you 03:28 and then Jesus said "I will--" 03:33 Oh, look at this, 03:35 I will come-not very neat, 03:40 isn't, but it's okay. 03:42 I will come back and I am going to take you to be 03:47 with me in paradise, look over here, 03:50 I am going to prepare a place for you 03:57 and then Jesus said, I will come back 04:02 and I am going to take you to a place so glorious 04:06 and so wonderful, it is beyond description. 04:13 I wonder tonight, now I am going to change mode. 04:17 I've been in preaching mode, 04:18 but I am just gonna change gear here, 04:20 watch me as I change gear. 04:23 Change gear, did you see that? 04:26 I've been in preaching mode you see, 04:28 but now what I am going to do, 04:29 I'm just gonna go into teaching mode. 04:34 When I'm in teaching mode, I'm a little more subdue, 04:38 but maybe I'll jump out a gear. 04:40 I wonder what sort of place 04:44 Jesus is preparing for His people. 04:50 Paul the evangelist says in the Bible 04:53 that "God will finish His work 04:54 and cut it short in righteousness." 04:57 The Prophet Joel says, 04:58 "God will pour out His spirit in the last days, 05:01 and signs and wonders will follow." 05:03 The Carter Report believes that we are now in the end times 05:07 and His spirit is moving mightily. 05:10 During the Port Moresby campaign, 05:12 we testified that we saw the power of God revealed. 05:16 More than one hunderd thousand God hungry souls 05:18 could not get enough of the word of the Lord 05:21 as at creation the Spirit of God 05:24 moved upon the face of the waters 05:26 and God brought cosmos out of chaos. 05:30 Souls were recreated in the image of the creator. 05:33 Instead of hate, there was love. 05:36 Instead of despair, there was hope. 05:38 Instead of sorrow, there was joy. 05:40 And in the place of death, God gave life. 05:44 One night, as John Carter preached 05:46 on the person and work of the Holy Spirit 05:48 the image of a white bird was flashed on the screens. 05:51 That moment a great white bird flew low 05:55 over the astonished congregation. 05:57 Cries of joy filled the air as the audience recognized 06:00 that God had visited His people. 06:03 A mighty surge of Pentecostal power 06:05 swept the audience of 120,000 souls 06:09 and everyone present felt the warm 06:11 comforting presence of God. 06:14 The Carter Report team invites you, my dear viewer, 06:17 to be a partner in this work. 06:19 Soldiers of the cross are wanted. 06:22 Faith partners are needed. 06:24 Write to us now here at the Carter Report, 06:27 PO Box 1900, Thousand Oaks, CA 91358 06:32 or in Australia, at PO Box 861, 06:37 Terrigal, NSW 2260. 06:40 You may also contact us online at cartereport.org 06:44 or email us at info@cartereport.org. 06:52 and 16, 06:58 It tells us the sort of place 07:01 that Jesus is preparing for His people. 07:08 "For he was looking forward to the city with foundations". 07:12 This is talking about Abraham, 07:15 "Whose architect and builder is God." 07:20 He's looking forward towards city, 07:23 that's going to be built by God. 07:26 "Instead, they were longing for a better country--" 07:32 Heaven is called a country. 07:37 "A heavenly one. 07:38 Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, 07:43 for He has prepared--" what does it say, say it. 07:49 He's prepared what? "He's prepared a city for them." 07:56 How amazing. 07:59 You wouldn't believe this, our lesson weren't inspired, 08:03 you wouldn't believe this 08:04 unless it was a part of the word of God. 08:08 Jesus said "I am going to go and prepare a place. 08:13 And then the Bible tells us, 08:15 He is preparing for His people, glory, Hallelujah. 08:21 He is preparing a city. 08:26 I wonder, what is that city like? 08:30 We're told in scripture Revelation 21:15-18, 08:37 Revelation 21, 08:39 actually describes the city of God. 08:46 "The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold 08:50 to measure the city, its gates and its walls. 08:56 The city was laid out like a square, 08:59 as long as it was wide." 09:02 He measured the city with the rod 09:04 and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length." 09:11 That's I believe 1,500 miles 09:18 or about 2,500 kilometers. 09:22 "And as wide and high as it is long." 09:27 This is almost incomprehensible. 09:31 "He measured its wall and it was 144 cubits thick, 09:37 by man's measurement, which the angel was using. 09:43 The wall--" Now listen to this and try to imagine this. 09:47 "The wall was made of jasper, 09:51 and the city 09:56 of pure gold, 10:01 as pure as glass." 10:08 This filled my mind 10:13 with an expectation of glory. 10:20 A city that is made of gold 10:25 and a city that is vast bigger 10:28 than all the cities in the world. 10:34 Now people ask me, 10:36 are we to take all of this literally? 10:41 Let me tell you something 10:42 as I get back into teaching mode. 10:47 God is telling us that this city is greater 10:52 and grander than we can imagine. 10:58 It is a vast, vast city. 11:02 And you know why God tells me, 11:04 it is such a vast, vast city. 11:07 You know why? 11:10 Because there is room for every one of us to go there, 11:15 if we want to go there. 11:20 You see, some person may say, 11:22 you know, I am not a great consequence, 11:25 and so may be God doesn't have a place for me in glory, 11:30 My friend, He is making heaven so wonderful, 11:33 He is making the city so magnificent, 11:37 so grand and so big, 11:42 that there is room for every person. 11:46 There is room for you and there is room for me. 11:52 Now there is something which is quite extraordinary 11:56 and quite astounding 11:59 and this is revealed by the prophet 12:01 in Revelation 21:10 and then 2. 12:08 And we're going to put that text up on the screen. 12:11 And may I say to all the people who were baptized today, 12:15 we have a new Bible for you 12:17 and you are going to get it next Saturday, a new Bible. 12:21 But look, look here now at the screen. 12:24 "And he carried me away in the Spirit 12:27 to a mountain great and high, 12:30 and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, 12:35 coming down out of heaven from God." 12:39 It's going to come down from paradise. 12:43 It's going to come down past the cheering galaxies 12:48 and all the angels are going to cheer 12:51 and they are going to shout hallelujah, hallelujah, 12:55 the city of God is coming down to Earth. Look. 13:02 "I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem 13:05 coming down out of heaven from God, 13:08 prepared as a bride 13:11 beautifully dressed for her husband." 13:16 Then I think about this, 13:21 and my mind just can't take it all in. 13:27 Look at the screen, the vastness of the universe. 13:35 Here is this little speck of cosmic dust, 13:38 but this little speck of cosmic dust 13:42 is worth more than the universe put together 13:46 because on this planet God came down 13:50 and Christ died for our sins on the cross 13:56 and therefore it is this place that is going to see 14:01 the coming of the Holy City 14:04 as it comes down past the cheering galaxies 14:09 and is going to come down and rest on this planet. 14:14 Listen, when that happens my friend, 14:17 it is going to come down from the third heaven. 14:20 It's going to come from a part or way out beyond our universe. 14:26 It's going to come passed our cheering galaxies. 14:30 It is going to come down and land on planet Earth 14:33 where Jesus died and when that happens at last 14:39 we shall have heaven on Earth. 14:45 God is going to make a new Earth. 14:50 Did you hear this? 14:52 God is going to make a new world, a new Earth 14:58 and this is going to be the home of God's people, hallelujah. 15:05 We are going to look at a text here, 15:07 Mathew 5:5 and our blessed Lord is talking, 15:13 so listen, "Blessed are the meek." 15:17 He didn't say, "Blessed are the weak." 15:20 Jesus here is describing His children 15:24 and He calls them the meek, but they are not the weak. 15:27 He says "Blessed are the meek, 15:30 for they shall inherit the earth." 15:33 Not this earth with all its sin and crime, 15:37 but a new world that is perfect. 15:44 And there's room for you. 15:49 God's people are going to live 15:52 not on some rosy-tinted cloud, 15:57 but God's people are going to inherit a new 16:02 and a perfect and a wonderful world 16:06 and Jesus is coming back soon 16:09 and heaven soon is going to be a glorious reality, 16:14 this is the word of the Lord. 16:18 Now I want you to look at Revelation 21:1. 16:23 Look at the text, Revelation 21:1, 16:28 "Then I saw a new heaven 16:32 and a new Earth for the first heaven" 16:36 filled with its smog and bacteria and filth. 16:41 "For the first heaven and the first earth 16:43 had passed away." This whole world is going to go. 16:50 Don't love it too much my friend, 16:53 don't love that beautiful house you have got too much, 16:57 because it's going to go when Jesus comes 16:59 and the Bible says "Then I saw a new heaven 17:03 and a new earth for the first heaven 17:07 and the first earth had passed away, 17:09 and there was no longer any sea." 17:11 And so we are going to have a new Earth 17:14 and if you turn now in the Bible 17:16 to 2 Peter 3:10 and 13 17:21 and we are going to take it off the screen 17:24 and we got here tonight a vast, vast audience. 17:29 When the lights were on, 17:31 the audience goes as far as the eye can see 17:36 and they have come because the white dove 17:39 of the Spirit of God is here tonight. 17:43 So look at this text. 17:46 "But the day of the Lord will come like a thief--" 17:49 Unexpected, a thief doesn't tell you when he is coming. 17:54 "But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. 17:58 The heavens will disappear with a roar. 18:04 The elements will be destroyed by fire 18:07 and the Earth and everything in it will be laid bare. 18:14 But in keeping with his promise 18:16 we are looking forward to a new heaven 18:20 and a new earth, the home of righteousness." 18:27 Listen, this whole world 18:32 is doomed to destruction. 18:36 When Jesus comes back, 18:39 there's going to be a mighty earthquake. 18:42 We talked about it last night 18:44 when I spoke about the millennium. 18:47 But the Bible tells me that the day is going to come 18:52 when God is going to get rid of sin 18:56 and Satan and sinners 19:00 who are in rebellion 19:02 against His holy name and law, 19:06 God is just, and justice cannot sleep forever. 19:12 The judgment day is coming and you better believe it, 19:15 because it is the word of God. 19:20 But the Bible tells me, look at the screen. 19:24 God will make a new Earth for His people. 19:32 God has prepared a home for you 19:37 in this beautiful new Earth. 19:41 Why is it so hard to get people to become citizens of the Earth 19:49 when it's made new, why is it so hard? 19:52 You would think people would run down the front 19:56 and say I wanted to be baptized, do it now. 20:00 I want to come to Christ now. 20:07 God wants you to be the citizen of a new world. 20:12 What will it be like when heaven on Earth becomes a reality? 20:18 What will it be like? 20:21 The Bible tells us that we will be real people, 20:25 we will not be spirits. 20:27 We will be real people with real bodies. 20:32 I can sense the Holy Spirit is here tonight. 20:37 We are going to turn to Philippians 3. 20:41 We are going notice verse 20 and 21, Philippians 3. 20:47 The Bible says, Philippians 3:20 and 21, 20:54 "But our citizenship is in heaven." 20:58 Well, it's great to be a citizen of PNG. 21:01 It's great to be citizen of Australia or America, 21:05 but I want to tell you there is a better country, that's heaven. 21:10 And the Bible tells us "our citizenship is in heaven. 21:16 And we eagerly await a Savior from there, 21:20 the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power 21:24 that enables him to bring everything under his control, 21:29 will transform our lowly bodies 21:34 so that they will be like his glorious body." 21:38 I am not going to be 21:41 a disembodied spirit the Bible says, 21:46 I am going to have a body like Jesus had. 21:53 I wonder, what sort of body did Jesus had? 21:59 You know, after the resurrection, 22:04 our Lord Jesus appeared to the disciples, 22:10 my great team have got it already for me, 22:12 I just turn around, 22:14 by the time I come back its right there. 22:17 What a super team. 22:19 Here we got it Luke 24, 22:21 "While they were still talking about this, 22:24 Jesus himself stood among them 22:27 and said to them, 'Peace be with you.'" 22:30 That's what He says to you tonight. 22:32 Peace be with you. 22:35 "They were startled and frightened, 22:38 thinking they saw a ghost. 22:42 He said to them, 'Why are you troubled, 22:45 and why do doubts rise in your minds? 22:49 Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself. 22:55 Touch me and see, 22:57 a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see I have." 23:04 He was not a ghost, he was not a spirit, 23:07 he was a man with flesh and bones. 23:12 "When he had said this, 23:14 he showed them his hands and feet. 23:19 And while they still did not believe it 23:23 because of joy and amazement, he asked them, 23:27 'Do you have anything here to eat?' 23:31 They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 23:36 and he took it and ate it in their presence." 23:43 Listen, Jesus had a real body, 23:49 He could eat and He could drink. 23:54 He was not a spirit, He was a real person. 23:59 And the Bible tells me when I am resurrected or translated, 24:06 I will not be a spirit, 24:09 but I will have the same sort of body that Jesus had. 24:15 And when I go to paradise and when I go to heaven, 24:20 I am going to be a real, real person. 24:28 The good news is this, 24:31 that God's people will never get sick, 24:34 tired, depressed, anxious, lonely or die. 24:44 We've told this in Revelation 21:4-5, 24:49 think of it, never get sick, never get old, 24:55 never get arthritis, never get cancer, 25:00 never get lonely, never die. 25:04 "He will wipe every tear from their eyes. 25:09 There will be no more death or mourning or crime or pain, 25:17 for the old order of things has passed away.' 25:22 He who is seated on the throne said, 25:25 'I am making everything new!' 25:30 Then he said, 'Write this down, 25:33 for these words are trustworthy and true.'" 25:38 Look at me, God's people in this wonderful new world 25:46 will never be lonely again, never depressed, 25:53 never poor, everybody is going to be wealthy. 25:57 They will never get sick, 26:00 they will never have heart disease, 26:05 they will never have a heartache, 26:07 they will never have cancer, they won't get old, 26:11 they will have eternal youth. 26:20 Would you not like to go to heaven my friend? 26:24 Oh, the glory of that place. 26:29 Jesus died so that you and I might live 26:36 in this wonderful new world with Christ Himself. 26:42 Sometimes when I speak about this in America 26:46 or Australia or some other country, 26:49 people who are cynics by nature 26:51 may say that so much pie in the sky 26:55 and the sweet pie in by, we want our pie now. 27:02 But I remind them that for thousands of years 27:06 mankind has been trying to get his pie now, 27:11 but if you stand watching the dearest on Earth, 27:14 lowered into the open grave, I ask you the question. 27:19 Where now is your heaven on Earth? 27:25 There is no heaven on Earth until Jesus returns. 27:32 Does away with Satan and sin 27:35 and makes a beautiful new world. 27:40 Yes, in that better world we will be real people 27:47 and we will do real things. 27:50 I read about this in Isaiah 65:21-22, 17. 28:00 I am going to read it to you. 28:04 I want you to use your imagination 28:09 and think tonight you're in heaven. 28:13 "They will build houses and dwell in them." Real people. 28:23 "They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 28:28 No longer will they build houses and others live inthem" 28:33 that happens when you build a house and you die. 28:37 "or plant and others eat. 28:40 For as the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people 28:47 my chosen ones will long enjoy the works of their hands." 28:54 "Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. 29:01 The former things will not be remembered, 29:04 nor will they come to mind." 29:07 And people have said to me, 29:10 what say if I get to heaven and a loved one is not there. 29:18 A husband says, what say if I get to this glorious place 29:22 and my wife is not there. 29:24 A mother says, what say if I get to this place 29:28 and all God forbid, my children have turned away from God 29:32 and they are not there. 29:34 How could I enjoy heaven? 29:38 The Bible says, the former things 29:42 shall not be remembered. 29:45 God will wipe away every tear from their eyes, 29:49 the tears will come. 29:51 When a person gets there, he will look for his loved one 29:54 and oh, if the loved one isn't there 29:57 hot, salty tears will come, 30:01 but Jesus Himself with a nails scarred hand 30:05 will wipe away the tears from their eyes. 30:11 Then he will take away the memory 30:18 and they will remember it no more. 30:24 I am going to tell you a little story. 30:28 When I talk about this sometimes 30:31 people who are little cynical say, it's too good to be true, 30:35 because they do not understand that God is so great 30:39 and because I haven't seen the glory of another world, 30:44 they say it could not be true, 30:46 it could not be true, I cannot believe it. 30:52 Many years ago some Christians 30:55 in the back blocks of Abyssinia in Africa, 31:02 sends some delegates to a general conference in America. 31:07 Now these people were not like you 31:09 and they weren't like me, 31:10 they had never seen big buildings 31:13 or anything like this. 31:15 They came from the back blocks of one of the most 31:18 primitive civilizations at that time in the world. 31:23 They went to America and they saw the skyscrapers 31:27 and they saw the elevators, all the lifts, 31:30 they saw the marvels and the wonders 31:34 and they were dazed and amazed. 31:40 And when they got back to the back blocks of Abyssinia 31:43 in their little village, their church got together 31:47 on a Saturday night and they said 31:49 we want to hear your stories 31:51 because we know you must have 31:53 some wonderful stories to tell us. 31:58 Well, one delegate got up and he said, 32:00 the Americans are funny people, they are not like us, 32:05 they don't build one hut by itself, 32:09 but they one hut up against a hut, 32:12 up against another hut, up against another hut, 32:16 the rooms of a house. 32:19 Oh, one of the elders the church elders got up 32:21 and he said, that can't be so 32:23 because if one hut caught in fire, 32:27 all the other huts would catch in fire, 32:29 we can't believe that. 32:31 Well, another delegate who had been to America 32:34 got up and he said, well not only 32:36 do the Americans put one hut up against a hut, 32:40 up against another hut and so forth 32:43 but they put one hut on top of a hut 32:46 goes up high in the sky. 32:50 Another church elder got up and he said with a frown, 32:54 this cannot be true 32:57 because how would you get from the bottom hut to the top hut. 33:04 Well, another delegate got up and he said, 33:08 well, over there in America they've got a little hut 33:13 that runs up and down and takes you there. 33:19 Now this is true. 33:22 Those church people who had never seen anything 33:26 past enact that night, they passed a resolution 33:31 that in future when they send delegates 33:34 to the General Conference in America, 33:36 they would choose men and women who didn't tell lies. 33:47 What did they know? 33:50 They hadn't seen it, therefore they couldn't believe it. 33:58 I want you to know something tonight. 34:00 The great God who made the stars 34:03 can do a few things that you and I cannot understand. 34:09 And the great God who made the stars 34:12 and the God who made the universe 34:14 has told us He is going to do these things 34:18 and it is going to be better, and bigger, and more magnificent 34:25 than the human mind can comprehend or realize. 34:29 This is the word of the Lord. 34:36 Listen to me. 34:41 Now I come to the best part of it. 34:45 Look over here. 34:48 Jesus said, I go to prepare a place for you. 34:54 He is preparing the place now for us in paradise. 35:00 You've got a mansion there my brother, my sister 35:04 and you've got your name on it. 35:06 Don't disappoint Him by not turning up. 35:12 I go to prepare a place for you 35:15 and then He said, "I will come again." 35:22 The best part is this, that Jesus my Lord wants us there. 35:31 He said it, John 3:16 "For God so loved the world 35:36 that he gave his only Son, 35:40 so that whoever believes in him shall not perish" 35:43 if we don't believe in Him, we will perish. 35:46 But God so loved the world that he gave his only Son 35:50 so that whoever believes in him 35:53 shall not perish but shall have everlasting life, 35:58 shall go to heaven and will live for a billion, 36:01 billion years will never, never die, this is the truth. 36:05 Jesus died for me, Jesus died for you. 36:10 Jesus made an atonement with His own blood on the cross. 36:14 I beseech you tonight, 36:16 believe in the Christ who died for you. 36:22 He wants you there. 36:26 Then in John 17:24, He talks about heaven. 36:34 John 17:24, look at the text. 36:40 "Father, I want those you have given me to be with me 36:45 where I am, and to see my glory, 36:48 the glory you have given me because you loved 36:52 me before the creation of the world." 36:55 And before the world was made He had you on his mind. 37:03 Before the world was made, before the universe was made, 37:07 billions of years ago the universe was made 37:11 and before the universe was made He thought of you. 37:20 You think of this. 37:22 You in PNG, in this stadium tonight 37:26 before He made the world he saw you, 37:31 He thought about you, He loved you. 37:37 He said to His Father, "Father, I want these people 37:41 you have given to Me to be with Me in glory. 37:46 I want them to be there because I died for them. 37:50 Can't you see it? He loves you. 37:59 There's another text we should look at tonight, 38:06 so that none of us will dare to presume on the grace of God. 38:11 That text is Revelation 22:12-17 38:16 so that none of us presume on the grace of God, 38:20 so none of us will continue to live lawless and godless lives. 38:27 Look at this text, He wants me there, 38:30 but now notice this text. 38:33 "Behold, I am coming soon. 38:36 My reward is with me, 38:38 and I will give to everyone according to what he has done, 38:41 I am the Alpha and the Omega, 38:44 the First and the Last, 38:46 the Beginning and the End. 38:48 Blessed are those who wash their robes, 38:51 that they may have the right to the tree of life 38:53 and may go through the gates into the city. 38:58 Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts" 39:07 who believe in the demons and worship the demons, 39:11 the people who are tied up with the occult, 39:14 they are outside the city. 39:16 "The sexually immoral" the adulterer or the fornicator, 39:21 the sexual pervert outside the city. 39:25 "The murderers, the idolaters 39:28 and everyone who loves 39:30 and practices falsehood," the liar. 39:38 These words are written as a warning to us, 39:41 so that none of us will presume on the grace of God. 39:44 We do not teach in these meetings 39:47 a gospel of cheap grace. 39:49 We teach the gospel that saves us from sin. 39:54 "I, Jesus, have sent my angel 39:58 to give you this testimony for the churches. 40:01 I am the Root and the Offspring of David, 40:04 and the bright Morning Star.' 40:06 The Spirit and the bride say, 'Come!' 40:11 and let him who hears say, 'Come!' 40:15 Whoever is thirsty, let him come, 40:18 and whoever wishes, 40:20 let him take the free gift of the water of life." 40:24 My friend you cannot earn it, you cannot buy it, 40:28 you cannot work for it, you cannot atone for it. 40:32 It is the gift of God. 40:34 It is free tonight if you will come 40:37 and if you'll take the gift. 40:42 And as you take the gift you take paradise. 40:51 Listen to me, last time 40:55 perhaps I will ever see your faces again. 41:00 The last time I will ever see you faces. 41:02 Who knows if I shall ever see you again? 41:08 There may be somebody here tonight who says, 41:12 I am too weak, I can't be a Christian, 41:19 I am too weak, you don't know me. 41:23 It's all right for you. 41:26 But you don't understand the burden I bear, 41:29 you don't understand the struggles I go through. 41:36 I am going to tell you a story about the Battle of Gettysburg. 41:41 There were two opposing generals both good men, 41:45 General Meade versus General Lee. 41:50 This was during the time of the American Civil War 41:55 and the issue was slavery 41:58 and Abraham Lincoln said slavery is an abomination 42:02 in the name of God when he said, 42:06 then he said, when I think how people can keep slaves. 42:10 He said I fear for those people because God is just 42:15 and justice cannot sleep forever. 42:18 He said, we must let the slaves go free, 42:23 said Abraham Lincoln that man of God, 42:25 the president of the United States of America. 42:29 But the south said, "No, 42:31 we are going to retain our slaves" 42:35 and America split in two, 42:39 hundreds of thousands of young men died 42:43 to do away with slavery, glory be to God. 42:52 Well, the Battle of Gettysburg 42:54 was probably the climax of the American civil war. 42:57 Brother was fighting brother, 43:00 the north against the south. 43:05 Thousands of tens of thousands 43:07 of young men were dying everyday. 43:13 Then there came the third day, 43:16 it's called Pickett's Charge because it was then 43:22 that the south made their bid of victory. 43:27 The cream of the south came out 43:30 and under the flag of the confederacy 43:33 they marched up cemetery hill, 43:38 they marched up every man, a big man, 43:41 every man, a strong man, every man, a brave man, 43:48 fighting for something that was wrong. 43:53 On the third day, 12,000 southerners, 44:00 Pickett's Charge. 44:03 And as they came up cemetery hill, 44:07 the North let them come 44:10 up the top where the soldiers of the union 44:16 holding up all glory the stars and the stripes. 44:23 And as those men from the South marched up the hill, 44:29 the North let them come closer and closer 44:33 and then they opened fire 44:39 and the ground was stained with the blood 44:43 of thousands of young men. 44:52 At that point, the South was broken. 44:58 President Lincoln sent a message to his General. 45:04 He said, pursue the enemy, break his power. 45:12 Now is your opportunity to end the war and stop the bloodshed. 45:19 Then he said three words in the telegram, 45:22 pursue, pursue, pursue. 45:33 But the union soldiers couldn't, they were totally exhausted. 45:41 And that night the moon looked down from a heavens 45:46 upon a scene of unparallel slaughter, 45:52 tens of thousands of corpses, 45:56 thousands and thousands of horses with their legs broken 46:04 and thousands, tens of thousands of young men 46:08 still alive with their legs blown off 46:12 or their arms blown off, 46:15 moaning and crying, no nurses, 46:20 crying and crying oh, God, 46:25 both sides mixed together the North and the South. 46:33 And then something amazing happened, 46:36 an old Quaker farmer was seen 46:39 going across the field of Gettysburg. 46:43 I've been to Gettysburg, I've stood there 46:47 and I've thought of that terrible, terrible day, 46:50 but I thought also the old Quaker farmer. 46:54 The old Quaker farmer was looking for his boy 46:59 and as he would go along, 47:01 he would lift up the lantern and he'd shined the lantern 47:04 and he cry out John Hartman, 47:10 thy father seeketh thee. 47:15 But he couldn't find his boy, 47:19 but then the other soldiers took up the cry, 47:21 John Hartman, where are you John? 47:24 Where are you John? 47:27 Your father is seeking you John 47:29 and one poor soldier cried out, 47:31 would took off that where my father seeking me. 47:38 So the old father kept going 47:40 across the bloody field of Gettysburg, 47:44 lifting up the lantern and crying out John Hartman, 47:50 thy father seeketh thee, where are thou John? 47:57 And then after a time of fruitless search 48:00 and the cries of the other soldiers 48:03 John Hartman your daddy is here, 48:06 John Hartman your daddy is here. 48:11 A poor wounded soldier pulled himself up on an elbow 48:21 and he cried out father, father, father, I am here. 48:31 And the old Quaker farmer with his white long locks 48:37 went over and put down the lantern 48:44 and lifted up his boy and carried him home. 48:54 Tonight, across the bloody field of human conflict, 49:02 there comes a light. 49:09 And when you look at the hand that holds that lantern, 49:13 you'll find it's unlike any other hand. 49:18 It's a hand of a man who has been crucified 49:26 and he cries out John Hartman, 49:32 thy father seeketh thee, 49:35 Mary, Tom, Bill, Moses. 49:45 Whatever your name put it there tonight. 49:50 Your father is seeking you. 49:55 He is been seeking you for so long, 49:59 some of you have been running away from him. 50:05 He is seeking you tonight 50:10 and I want you to know tonight 50:13 if you'll simply just look up to Him and say, hear Father. 50:22 He will stop, He will stoop down. 50:30 He will lift you up in those strong, strong arms 50:41 and He will carry you home to glory. 50:44 I have a message for you tonight. 50:48 Your Father is seeking you tonight over there. 50:52 He is seeking you down here tonight, 50:55 people way up the back, He is in this meeting tonight. 51:01 How many tonight will raise a hand 51:04 and say, "Oh, my Father, here I am, 51:11 lift me up, I am too weak, 51:16 I am a wounded soldier tonight Lord. 51:20 So I am asking you tonight Lord to do that which I cannot do. 51:26 Lift me up precious Lord and carry me home. 51:33 Can you raise your hand tonight if that is your prayer? 51:39 Lift me up precious Lord, carry me home. 51:46 Let us close our eyes. 51:49 Let us bow our heads in the presence of God. 51:58 Oh, our Father, we thank You tonight that You are seeking us. 52:05 We thank You tonight that You come across 52:08 the battlefield stained with the blood of billions. 52:14 And you carry the lamp of truth 52:18 and you cry out, my boy, my girl. 52:24 I am seeking you as we are praying here tonight 52:30 and this is the last time how I shall miss You. 52:37 I would like tonight those who are baptized 52:40 to come down in the front now. 52:42 I want to have my final prayer with you. 52:45 So can you all come those of you who were baptized. 52:52 And I want those 52:53 who would like to be baptized to join them. 52:58 This is our last opportunity, at least in these meetings. 53:05 So those who are baptized this morning in the ocean. 53:10 What a fine group you are, thousands baptized this morning. 53:15 But those who would like to be baptized 53:17 at some time in the future I want you to come with them 53:24 and may be tonight if you don't know Jesus as your Savior, 53:31 I am going to invite you to come also. 53:35 Oh, so many people tonight it's a vast, vast crowd. 53:40 I think these are the biggest crowds 53:42 in the history of the nation. 53:45 So many coming over here, there's still room for you, 53:49 those who are coming to Christ 53:51 for the first time, come tonight. 53:54 Those who were baptized this morning come, 53:57 those who would like to be baptized you keep coming 54:02 andthe rest are going to wait. 54:04 We never had an altar call quite like this one. 54:09 This is an amazing response, 54:13 because the Spirit of the Lord is here. 54:15 Can I see the hands of those here 54:18 who saw the white dove? 54:21 Goodness, you all saw the white dove, 54:24 put up your hands high. 54:26 Now I want to say this for television. 54:29 I want the television camera to hear this. 54:32 A white dove, a huge bird, 54:35 a huge white dove has come into this place twice 54:39 when we've been talking about the Holy Spirit. 54:42 When the dove came first a few people saw it 54:45 but some people said, "No, it couldn't be true." 54:48 But tonight you all saw the white dove. 54:52 What about out in the audience? 54:53 Raise your hand if yousaw the white dove. 54:56 You saw the white dove tonight, it's amazing. Yes. 55:01 You know what this is my friend? 55:03 It is a sign from the Holy Spirit. 55:08 It is a sign for the people of PNG from the Holy Spirit 55:12 that you and I are to follow the word of God 55:14 and to follow Jesus 55:16 and to be baptized and to keep his holy truth. 55:20 I believe in a God of miracles, what about you? 55:25 Don't you believe in miracles? 55:27 Yes, I believe in a God who works miracles. 55:32 Now people are coming still from over there. 55:35 And they are coming from over the hill, 55:37 I think from the other projector. 55:39 This is absolutely incredible and amazing. 55:44 They are pouring down everywhere so keep coming 55:47 because we don't want to miss a single soul tonight. 55:52 There's room at the cross for you tonight. 55:58 We're gonna meet in God's kingdom. 56:02 Now we are going to wait for those people to come 56:03 because we have thousands and thousands 56:07 of people coming forward tonight 56:09 and they are standing out here, 56:11 they are trying to come down in the isles. 56:13 And this is the power of the Holy Spirit 56:16 who is here tonight. 56:18 I can sense the presence of the Spirit of God, 56:21 He is bearing witness to His word, 56:24 and we say thank you God, thank you Jesus. 56:31 The Spirit of God today is moving. 56:33 He is moving wherever human hearts sense their need. 56:36 He's moving whenever and wherever souls reach out to Him. 56:40 He is moving because these are not ordinary times. 56:44 He is moving through 56:45 the proclamation of His living word. 56:48 During the Port Moresby meetings, 56:50 the Spirit of God was powerfully present. 56:53 One evening as Pastor John Carter 56:54 spoke about the Holy Spirit and his work to redeem souls, 56:58 a huge white bird flew low over the audience. 57:01 The congregation of more than 100,000 witnessed the sight 57:05 and believed that God had sent them a sign. 57:08 Tens of thousands poured forward 57:11 to accept Christ as Lord and Savior. 57:13 God today is calling you as you view this program 57:17 to come to Him in faith. 57:18 The work of the Holy Spirit 57:20 is not restricted to any one place on earth. 57:22 Wherever you are, He is there. God loves you. 57:26 He has a plan for you and a glorious future. 57:32 Thank you for joining us today. 57:34 To become a faith partner with Pastor John Carter 57:36 and to receive our monthly newsletter, 57:39 write to us here at the Carter Report, 57:41 PO Box 1900 Thousand Oaks, CA, 91358. 57:47 Or in Australia at PO Box 861, Terrigal, NSW, 2260. |
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