Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001217
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00:08 From Arcadia, California, the Carter report presents
00:11 "The living word around the world." 00:18 When God looks down and sees you here tonight, 00:21 he says, "I love you." 00:25 You may say, nobody, nobody loves me. 00:27 A little girl said once at a party. 00:30 She said, "nobody don't ever love me." 00:32 I'm here to tell you tonight God loves you, I love you. 00:38 God loves you. 00:40 You may feel a million miles from God tonight. 00:43 I want you to know tonight that God is here 00:47 by the presence of the Holy Spirit tonight. 00:50 He's here tonight and the message 00:52 of the blood of God is I love you. 00:59 The topic today is 01:01 "I have seen with these eyes a new Pentecost." 01:07 I read--I meet lots and lots of people in the church who say, 01:11 one day we're going to have the latter rain. 01:15 One day we're going to have Pentecost. 01:17 I want to tell you I have seen the latter rain 01:22 and I have seen a new Pentecost. 01:25 By the grace of God in Papua New Guinea-- 01:30 I want to say this to the people up there in the mountains, 01:33 outside of PNG, you who are watching this telecast, 01:38 because you get a clear signal up there in the mountains. 01:42 I want to say to you, 01:43 what a privilege it is to know you. 01:46 What a privilege it was to go to your village and to meet you. 01:50 I want to say to all the people in Papua New Guinea 01:53 who are watching the telecast, 01:55 what a tremendous time we had together in Port Moresby 02:00 with more than 100,000 souls a night. 02:06 And on the last night well over 120,000, probably 130,000 plus 02:12 souls a night who came out to hear the word of God. 02:17 Did you know this? 02:19 This is the largest crowd in the history of our church 02:24 at least in the English speaking world. 02:30 Who are these people attending the Carter Report 02:33 at the Sir John Guise Stadium, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea? 02:36 Well, they come from all walks of life. 02:39 In this great congregation of more than 100,000, 02:42 we find doctors, lawyers, politicians, ambassadors, 02:46 carpenters, students, teachers, believers, and unbelievers. 02:50 There are husbands and wives with their families. 02:53 There are the rich and the poor. The powerful and the weak. 02:57 They are being told that 02:59 Christ alone is the way, the truth and the life. 03:03 They are hearing the words of life 03:04 and their hearts are being strangely warmed. 03:07 Sometimes they feel that their hearts will burst 03:10 and they feel compelled to hurry down to the front 03:13 to publicly confess the Savior. 03:15 They are shown in the scriptures that God commands men 03:18 everywhere to repent and be baptized. 03:22 They respond with a Holy devotion 03:24 and a passionate intensity. 03:26 Will you not join them? 03:31 I want you to take your Bibles and turn to 03:33 the Prophet Joel Chapter 2, that's in the Old Testament. 03:39 "And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. 03:43 Your sons and your daughters will prophesy." 03:48 Now ladies here are going to get the baptism of the Holy Sprit 03:53 the same as the men because there are no 03:55 second class citizens in the kingdom of God. 03:58 You hear that, ladies? 04:01 Your sons and your daughters will prophesy, 04:05 your old men will dream dreams, 04:07 your young men will see visions." 04:09 I don't know what category I'm in there. 04:13 "I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, 04:16 blood and fire and billows of smoke. 04:19 The sun will be turned to darkness 04:22 and the moon to blood before the coming 04:25 of the great and dreadful day of the Lord." 04:27 And look at me, the Bible says in the last days 04:30 the Holy Spirit is going to be poured out upon God's people. 04:35 Let me ask you something and I want you to come alive. 04:38 Do you believe we are living in the last days? Yes. 04:43 If we are living in the last days then we should expect 04:46 the fulfillment of this prophesy. 04:49 Now I'm going to ask Beverly to come up now. 04:52 And she is an eyewitness of what God did. 04:57 And I want to say this as Beverly comes. Listen to me. 05:02 I'm overwhelmingly convinced 05:04 that in a campaign like this we give glory to God. 05:08 People never did this. This was the work of God. 05:12 So I want to say glory be to the Father 05:15 and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 05:18 and let the glory of man be laid in the dust, amen. 05:24 Papua New Guinea is not one of the most well-known 05:27 nations in the world, so I want to give you 05:28 just a quick little background. 05:31 It's-- Now someone said, 05:33 "Did you just come back from Africa?" 05:35 Because there is a nation called Guinea 05:37 on the west coast of Africa, but we didn't go there. 05:40 Instead we went to Australia and then north to Australia. 05:44 And as you can see, Cape York 05:48 at the top of Australia there. 05:50 It's very close to Papua New Guinea, 05:53 which most people call PNG 05:55 and that's what I'm going to call it. 05:56 Now the western side is run by the Indonesian government. 06:03 And the right-hand side was run by the Australian government 06:07 until PNG received full independence back in 1975. 06:12 Let's quickly come to 2012. What did I see? 06:17 Well, from my vantage point as manager on the stage, 06:22 I saw the thousands and thousands of people 06:25 coming in night by night filling up the stadium. 06:28 Now where did they come from? 06:31 Well, most of them came from Port Moresby itself, 06:34 of course, and the surrounding area, 06:37 but thousands came from other places. 06:40 Now the middle of PNG is very mountainous with lush jungle. 06:45 And the highest mountain there is nearly 15,000 feet. 06:49 And there are no significant cross country roads 06:52 to come down to the capital Port Moresby. 06:55 So how did they get there? 06:57 Here along the coast you will see 06:59 that they came down by boat. 07:01 Some came by planes, those that had airports. 07:04 People came from Goroka, Mount Hagen, Madang, Wewak, 07:08 Lae and then some even came from New Ireland over here. 07:13 And then Bougainville and also Rabaul, New Britain. 07:16 So they came from all over. 07:18 And the amazing thing was that they stopped, 07:21 they stayed there for the whole two weeks. 07:25 Now what did I see? 07:26 I saw a wonderful desire to hear God's word, a determination. 07:34 Now on the third night, Pastor John Kosmeier, 07:36 former Australian Missionary that worked in PNG, 07:41 invited me to go through the crowd 07:43 after the meeting had started. 07:44 Now the lights were dim 07:46 because of the pictures on the screen. 07:48 And we had to pick our way up through the crowd. 07:50 Now perhaps I should just back up a little. 07:53 The bleaches around the stadium, they were packed. 07:56 So the majority of the people were sitting on the ground 07:59 in the arena itself on blankets and mats. 08:02 And the ushers had tried to keep path-- 08:05 pass through the arena, but it was impossible. 08:09 But we did pick our way up through the crowd 08:11 trying not to step on people or to trip over people. 08:15 And that was so gracious to let us through. 08:18 We had a policemen accompany us. 08:20 And we walked to the back and then we were going to go 08:23 down the other side, but then when we got 08:25 to the back, we discovered that 08:26 we couldn't get down the other side 08:28 because they were packed so closely together. 08:30 And so we back track down the same way as we had gone up. 08:35 Now I've seen many crowds 08:38 over our 50 years of evangelism, but this was the largest. 08:42 It had taken us or it took us 08:45 longer than 10 minutes to walk up and back. 08:48 What did I see? 08:50 Once again, thousands of people 08:52 with a hunger to hear God's word. 08:55 Now most of the people we interviewed 08:57 were hearing Bible teachings for the first time. 09:00 And I think their feelings could be summed up 09:02 based on the words of young man who wrote 09:05 "I'm excited to learn about God and the Bible. 09:09 It's helped me to meet Jesus for the first time 09:12 and it's helping me to deal with 09:14 some of the hard things I'm facing." 09:17 What did I see on the last Sabbath morning there? 09:20 I saw a tremendous baptism with nearly 3,000 souls baptized. 09:25 And I also saw once again 09:27 the great truth of Hebrews 4 that says, 09:29 "God's word is living and it's powerful enough 09:33 to change the lives of people." 09:36 And all I can say is thank you, Lord, and halleluiah. Amen. 09:45 You'll be interesting in knowing that 09:49 in most evangelistic campaigns, 09:51 most of the people are church members. 09:54 You know that. And you have some visitors. 09:57 There most of the people were visitors 10:00 with some church members. 10:03 I think it's true to say that 10:04 this is one of the largest secular crowds 10:07 ever to attend evangelistic meetings 10:11 anywhere at anytime in the world. 10:15 Now two very valuable and beloved 10:18 church members of this church here 10:21 and team members Javier and Susan Piraino, 10:24 please welcome them today. 10:33 How are you my friends? Very well, thank you. 10:35 How are you? Thank you. 10:38 I want you all to know that I'm here today 10:41 one--is the number of reasons, of course, 10:44 but Javier fed me because he was the chef. 10:47 So welcome, Javier. 10:50 And a great chef, folks, really good. 10:54 Lots of Pour-Pour and other good foods. 10:56 Now, Suzy, what were your impressions? 10:59 Well, you know, Pastor Carter, 11:01 we've been on many campaigns with you, 11:02 but I believe that this was the most significant 11:06 and the most inspiring for me personally. 11:09 To be able to witness the crowds coming night after night, 11:12 one of my responsibilities was to take photographs. 11:15 So I was able to climb the towers 11:18 and climb the speaker towers 11:19 and I tried to climb wherever I could 11:21 to get the best vantage point and to get the best pictures. 11:24 And when we started, we started with about 70,000, I thought. 11:28 This is incredible. Yeah. 11:30 But as we continue to go night after night, 11:32 it just continued to grow and I thought, 11:34 "Wow, how much more--how many 11:36 more people could actually come." 11:37 But as--as we know they say that 11:39 we could have at least 140,000, so that almost doubles 11:43 in the two weeks that we were there. 11:45 But just being able to witness the people, 11:47 the excitement, the love that they had, 11:50 they were listening so intently night after night. 11:53 And to see all the types of people that were coming 11:56 because there wasn't just people from the low lands. 11:59 We had university students. We had ambassadors coming. 12:02 We had ministers of government coming. 12:05 So as you can see the word of God 12:07 was inspiring all sorts of people to come. 12:10 And I just got an email yesterday from Rachel, 12:13 who was-- she supported us, 12:15 she gave us cars to drive around in 12:17 and her son Wellington was a student at the PNG 12:22 or one of the universities there. 12:24 And she was so grateful because he is a law student, 12:28 fourth year in law and he just was baptized 12:30 during the campaign and his sister. 12:33 And so she is asking how soon can they get the DVD series? 12:36 Because they want to share it with so many other people 12:38 that still want to know 12:40 what you preached and what you taught. 12:42 So this was just amazing to be 12:44 part of and I thank you for that. 12:46 Susan, Glory to be the God and thank you. 12:47 Now, Javier, from your heart my old friend. 12:51 Well, as you know, Pastor Carter, 12:53 you came back well and safe 12:58 with all the food that we cooked there. 13:00 All the food was provided by the university very much. 13:04 And the biggest miracle to me that is in my mind 13:08 is the night there was the rain and we pray about it. 13:11 And--and to me it was the best meeting of the whole campaign. 13:15 And you preach just looking at the screens 13:17 and you went along that, you know, 13:20 and you say, the God give you, they put a mantle in you 13:24 and I think is--is, that is correct. 13:26 You know, and the other thing that impress me the most is that 13:30 that night after night we used to get there about 5:00, 5:15 13:34 and there were already 35,000, 45,000 people 13:37 sitting on the area waiting for us. 13:39 You know, and that's something that, 13:43 you know, we need to-- we need to learn from them. 13:46 And you know, we--when here 13:48 we come to church at 12:00, 12:15, 13:51 you know, and thinking about lunch. 13:53 Yeah. You know, so over there people waiting for us. 13:57 Actually they welcome us every day. 14:00 And by the time you came to preach, 14:02 there was 100,000, 120,000 people 14:04 sitting down already on the bleacher. 14:06 So it was a great experience and a great opportunity. 14:09 And we thank you very much for taking us. Amen. 14:11 I want to thank you both for coming. 14:13 You are super team members. God bless you. 14:17 And God loves you and so do I. 14:18 Thank you. Thank you, thank you. 14:26 Preaching outdoors is not like 14:28 preaching in a nice little church or a nice big church. 14:36 The rain comes, the wind comes, 14:39 but if you're a soldier, you don't run away. 14:43 On the Friday night, it was crucial the meeting went ahead. 14:47 On Thursday night, I'd had a call for baptism. 14:50 And thousands of people had responded, 14:52 raise their hands, come down the front. 14:56 But on the Friday night, when we got down there, 14:58 the heavens opened up. And it came down hard. 15:03 The guys ran around 15:05 putting sheets over the-- over the equipment. 15:08 David was one of the stars of the show. 15:10 He said, "The show goes on, 15:12 we're gonna keep the cameras running in the rain. 15:15 We're gonna put tarpaulins over the cameras. 15:17 So they put tarpaulins over the cameras 15:20 and this Bible has got wet so many times, 15:26 but the rain was coming down so hard 15:30 on the stage that I did what Javier said. 15:34 I said to Daniel. Daniel, turn the projectors on 15:39 because we turn the projectors off, we thought they'd blow. 15:42 So we said, "Well, they're going to blow, let them blow. 15:45 So we're gonna put them in the hands of God. 15:47 So we turn on the projectors, we had the PA system running, 15:50 we had our own lights own, all our own power on. 15:53 And I went out and I preached in the rain. 15:56 Let me tell you, folks, something. 15:57 I guess we had 120,000, 130,000 people there. 16:03 I guess in America, how many would get up 16:05 and go home if they thought it was going to rain? 16:08 How many? Many. Pretty sad, isn't it? 16:12 And Bob says down in front, well most of us, 16:13 most folks would get up in America. 16:15 Most folks in Australia would get up and go home. 16:18 You know why? We don't have courage. 16:22 We've become a weak people. We're no longer a strong people. 16:28 As we've got away from the word of God in America 16:31 and that's the crisis of America. 16:33 We know America is under tremendous crisis. 16:37 America is under crisis 16:39 because America has gotten away from God. 16:41 That's the problem. 16:43 And politics, no, don't make me laugh. 16:45 Politics will not save America. 16:47 America needs to return to the God of our Fathers. Amen. 16:51 But as I preach there, you know, 16:52 many folks got up and walked out. Not a soul. 16:56 They sat there 120, 130 plus thousand souls. 17:00 They got sopping wet. 17:03 And the spirit of God came down upon me again. 17:07 I felt I'm not an emotional person, 17:10 but as I like some people, I don't go by my feelings. 17:14 I'm here today not because I feel like it. 17:16 I'm here today because the word of God tells me to be here. 17:20 But as I was preaching, I was completely sensitive 17:23 to the fact that God had taken over the meeting. 17:26 And that night we had another alter call 17:28 thousands of people came down to front 17:31 and that prepared for baptism, 17:33 the next day, the devil tried to stop it. 17:36 Now who were these people? 17:39 Well, they were doctors there and lawyers. 17:44 They're rich-- I can tell you 17:45 a great story about a lawyer. 17:47 The minister of finance had his lawyer come, 17:49 and man was oddly opposed to everything I preached. 17:53 He came from a certain church 17:55 that says to change the Commandments of God. 17:58 And the lawyer sat there and he was as mad as a hornet. 18:02 But I went to the Filipino Embassy 18:05 for reception on the Sunday after the final Saturday night. 18:09 And the Minister of Finance was there. 18:10 He said, "You certainly made my attorney really mad." 18:15 I said, "Is that so?" 18:16 He said, "Yeah, he got baptized yesterday." 18:21 So we had, we had the rich and the poor. 18:25 We had families with their children. 18:28 We had ambassadors. 18:30 The ambassador from the Philippines 18:32 was there every night. 18:33 In fact, he helped with the baptism. 18:35 He baptized people. 18:37 He's also an Adventist minister, "glory be to God." 18:40 The ambassador from the South Korea was there. 18:43 And you can see them up there on the screen. 18:45 They came because the meeting-- and here they're raising 18:50 their hands to follow Jesus, you see. 18:54 And don't tell me that God is dead, my friend. 18:57 They were beautiful people 18:58 who were closer to God than most of us 19:01 because they have more faith in us. 19:04 One of the pastors said to me on the last Saturday night 19:08 when it looked like rain again 19:10 and even though I'd survived everything else, I thought, 19:13 "Lord, don't let it rain now. Don't let it rain now." 19:18 He came to me. A black pastor, he put his hand on my shoulder. 19:21 He said, "Pastor, have faith in God." 19:26 He said, "Have faith." I said, "I've got faith." 19:29 He said, "Have a little more." 19:32 I say to you have faith. Have a little more. 19:36 A person who was one of our soldiers 19:38 was Daniel Burgos. 19:40 I'm just so proud of Daniel. 19:43 He came over and he was a good soldier of the Cross, 19:48 and he helped to win the battle. 19:50 And Daniel is going to come down 19:52 because right now he's up the back, 19:55 doing the visuals with the computers, 19:57 but I want you to welcome one of our soldiers, Daniel Burgos. 20:08 Glad to see you, Daniel. 20:10 It's glad to be seen. Tell me. 20:15 And don't you start playing to the audience now. 20:17 You just do what I told you to do. 20:18 Now tell me, tell me, 20:21 tell me from your heart, your impressions. 20:28 Well, as you know, I've been going to these meetings 20:31 since Odessa back in 2003. 20:34 And my impression each and every time 20:36 I've gone to these has been during alter call. 20:40 And right after you've preached the gospels to these people, 20:44 regardless of where they're at and where they're from, 20:48 the amazing thing is when they raise 20:50 their hands and give their lives to Christ. 20:53 And what impresses me the most is that I am able to 20:58 live once again vicariously through them. 21:02 And I see their faces and I look at them and I say wow, 21:05 I know exactly what they're feeling, 21:08 what they're experiencing. 21:10 And no amount of money can buy that. 21:14 And the beauty of it is that 21:17 it reinforces my faith once again. 21:21 And it's like accepting Christ all over again 21:24 when you see their faces. 21:26 You--you just can't explain it in words, 21:28 I mean, you have to be 21:30 a born again Christian to really understand. 21:33 And the other thing that amazes me 21:35 is how a Ragtag Team like ourself, 21:38 a small team can accomplish this. 21:40 And I found out what it is, it's not us at all. 21:44 It's without the-- without the grace of God 21:48 and the power of His spirit, none of this is possible. 21:51 And this experience helped me realize 21:57 and remember the power of God, because the power of God is in 22:00 the preaching of the gospel and that's being done here. 22:03 And people's lives are being changed. 22:05 And I'm a witness to that. 22:07 And this time around, I'm a witness 22:09 to the thousands and thousands of people that came. 22:12 And I saw their lives changed. 22:15 And that is a miracle, tens of thousands of miracles 22:19 in one place, and that's amazing. 22:21 Proud of you, Daniel. God bless you. 22:23 You did a great job. God bless you, my friend. 22:33 To the members of our church, highly esteemed, 22:37 Jose and Elsa Sulgatti. 22:40 Would you please welcome them today? 22:48 I think I could say, 22:50 and I'm absolutely certain about this. 22:56 If you had not come, my friend, 22:59 we would not have open on time. 23:01 Because, you know, when we got there, we had the devil 23:07 and everybody else sort of fighting us. 23:11 We couldn't get the screens up. 23:17 We just had obstructionism. 23:19 But you came and you are one of the greatest builders 23:23 on the planet and you were of great value. 23:27 And you did my make up, so I won't comment on that 23:29 because this is a television program. 23:31 Now, Mrs. Sulgatti, 23:33 tell me from your heart, your impressions. 23:37 Pastor Carter, I have the best memories of the campaign. 23:41 I felt the power of the Holy Spirit 23:44 working through you. All right. 23:47 And I could see the change 23:50 in the lives of the people when they meet Jesus. 23:55 I saw the blessings of the Lord upon us. 24:01 That's why I so thankful to the Lord. 24:03 Because through the change of the people, 24:06 through their eyes, feel of peace and hope, 24:12 my eyes can see the love and the power in the glory of God. 24:17 I thankful to God because 24:19 He allows me to belong to this ministry. 24:22 The Carter report Ministry that he is preaching the word 24:27 and the glory of God for the whole world. 24:32 Thank you, Pastor Carter. Thank you so much. 24:35 Mrs. Sulgatti, it was a pleasure having you. 24:38 And a pleasure having you, my Brother Jose. 24:42 And, Brother Jose, you're an elder of this church, 24:44 tell me from your heart your feelings. 24:48 The first thing I want to tell you, 24:51 glory be to God. Yeah. 24:53 Because my eyes saw His glory. 24:59 Every night I saw beautiful theme 25:03 from the Holy Spirit working through those people. 25:06 You know, incredible. 25:08 Your work, Pastor Carter were fantastic 25:11 because your--the Holy Spirit was with you, 25:13 honestly from my heart. 25:16 I know they're seeing, 25:17 I very proud belong to the church 25:20 because this church has a vision. 25:23 Not only vision, has mission, for that reason 25:26 I am ready continue with this church. 25:29 God bless you, Brother Jose. Thank you. 25:32 God bless you, Sister Elsa. Thank you. 25:41 You cannot go through this experience and be the same. 25:46 Now, you know, sometimes 25:51 in this part of the world-- I'm gonna be honest with you. 25:54 You feel as though you're talking just to the air. 25:59 You do. Because people have heard it over and over 26:03 and it doesn't seem to make any difference to them. 26:06 But I want to tell you folks something. 26:08 If you see what these people have seen, 26:11 you know that there is a personal God 26:13 and you know, there's a real devil, 26:16 and you know that Jesus is Lord over all. Amen. 26:20 And we have seen the Power of God. 26:23 A very valued member of our team was our pastor. 26:29 Pastor James Venegas. Would you please welcome him? 26:37 I'm so glad, Pastor Venegas, that you came with us. 26:40 Tell me from your heart, from your soul, your experience. 26:46 Well, for me this was the first time 26:47 I've ever seen anything like it. 26:49 The closest I've ever come have been mission stories 26:51 and things like that, mission spotlights. 26:53 To be a part of it, there's so many things 26:55 that I'd never imagine. 26:57 Just the sheer scale of what you do, really blew me away. 27:01 This is nothing less than a size of a rock concert, really. 27:05 The staging, the lighting, the cameras, 27:07 all of the work that goes into it. 27:09 The other thing that really impressed me 27:11 was the fact that it's a real battle zone, 27:13 the devil is really trying to thwart every step of the way, 27:16 from getting access to the place, 27:18 from equipment not working, from things going wrong. 27:21 It's a real battle zone. 27:23 The devil really doesn't want-- It is. 27:25 To happen what was about to happen. 27:28 But then the flip side of that, 27:30 I was in the control area of the projection computers. 27:35 We got to see people close and personal. 27:38 I could hear their reactions as you were preaching. 27:41 When you were telling a sad story 27:42 that communally would go tsk, tsk, tsk. 27:45 You could hear the gasping. You could hear the clapping. 27:47 You could-- you could feel 27:49 the people just really taking in the message. 27:52 And of course like Daniel said, we were in the midst of it 27:54 when people responded in the alter call 27:57 as they were streaming I don't know, 27:58 10, 15, 20, 30 minutes alter calls. 28:02 People just streaming. 28:03 And I was watching to the back of the auditorium, 28:05 they just kept coming. Yeah. 28:07 Out of the bleaches, out of the very back, 28:09 they kept streaming and we were praying, 28:10 our team was praying as you were preaching. 28:13 And we were just so moved. 28:14 I was in tears because all of the work 28:17 and the challenges and then to see 28:18 the fruits of that was emotionally overwhelming. 28:22 Just to see the spirit working. 28:24 And then of course, the final--the final day, 28:26 the big privilege for me was the mass baptism. 28:30 Never seen anything like it. 28:31 I think for about a mile, maybe not that much. 28:34 The pastors lined up. And I was one of those pastors 28:37 and I've never, never been in that situation. 28:40 Maybe 75-70 people that we baptized individually. 28:44 Some are saying that we might have baptized 100 people. 28:47 I can hear you from a distance. 28:48 You would say the-the message and we would raise our hands. 28:52 I would quickly just introduce myself to the people. 28:54 We had about 30 seconds. 28:56 Then all of us as pastors would raise our hands 28:58 and we would repeat the lines 29:00 and then we would baptize unanimously. 29:03 It was really impressive to be in the-- 29:05 I didn't want to get out of the water. 29:07 I--I could've baptized for--for hours and hours on. 29:09 And such was the reward for me as a pastor. 29:12 And they weren't thousands of people to me 29:14 they were individuals. That's right. 29:15 And I got to see the individuals. 29:17 A man came out to me one day and he just hugged me 29:19 and he was just crying and crying and he wouldn't stop. 29:22 Never got to ask him why. 29:23 Because there were so many peoples, 29:25 but that they were individuals. 29:26 This was not just a cooperate thing, 29:27 real people making real decisions 29:29 through the power of the Holy Spirit. 29:31 You were big blessing. And we thank you for coming. 29:35 God bless you. And thank you for the privilege. God bless you. 29:36 Thank you for the privilege. Thank you. 29:47 Let me talk a little bit about the baptism. 29:52 It was difficult getting down to Ela Beach 29:55 because of the vast crowd. 29:59 I found it hard to get there. 30:00 They had to get me a police escort to get there. 30:05 When I got there, they had prepared a truck, 30:08 perched precariously on a rock over the sea. 30:13 We got up on the back of the truck. 30:16 But the baptism was so vast and went for so far, 30:21 as pastor Venegas has already told you, 30:23 it was hard to see the pastors. 30:28 It was hard to see the people getting baptized. 30:33 There were 50 pastors. 30:36 There were pastors from Australia, 30:38 they were the local pastors. 30:41 Pastor Lee Rice, the union president, 30:44 the theological faculty from Pacific Adventist University 30:48 which is a credit to the name of the church, 30:51 an outstanding university. 30:54 And as we baptized and as we were finishing 30:57 the baptism, others arrived late. 31:02 And the people started to cry out, let them come, 31:07 let them come, let them come, let them come, 31:11 and they came out into the water and were baptized. 31:16 On the last Saturday night, we had a last call for baptism. 31:23 It was an emotional meeting 31:25 because the people didn't want us to leave. 31:30 In our churches in Australia and in America, 31:33 most people are looking at their watches 31:37 and if the preacher goes over 12 o'clock, they're offended. 31:42 That's for one or two reasons, 31:44 maybe the preacher is boring, that's a possibility. 31:49 Or number two, they think more of their stomachs 31:53 than they think of their souls. 31:56 So it could be either or. 31:59 But the people there had one big complaint, 32:02 our meeting started with music at 6 o'clock 32:05 and I would be preaching about quarter past seven 32:08 and I would finish at quarter past eight. 32:10 And sometimes have an altar call until quarter to nine. 32:14 And the people officially protested, 32:16 they said, "the meetings are too short." 32:21 You know why? They were being fed and they love God. 32:25 I want to say that when I went there, 32:27 I felt I was standing on the shoulders of the pioneers, 32:31 men who were ten feet tall. 32:33 I was told the story of a young couple 32:36 who came almost a 100 years ago 32:38 from Australia, Pastor and Mrs. Carr. 32:43 They were told the only place 32:45 where they could work was up in the hills. 32:48 And so they went up the Kokoda trail 32:50 made famous by the warfare with the Japanese that came later. 32:56 They went up the Kokoda trail 32:58 which is a high mountain on the backs of mules. 33:03 They were in their 20s. 33:05 And when they went up to this place, 33:07 they founded a little church there at Bisia-tabu 33:12 and these people watch our television program. 33:16 They are the saints of God. 33:21 It was in this place that they had after 8 years, 33:25 after 8 years--Oh, I wish you could have heard the choir, 33:30 conducted by an old Solomon Islander preacher. 33:35 But I wish you could have gone with me to the place 33:38 where they had the first baptism. 33:41 It took 8 years to win one person 33:46 because the people up there were cannibals. 33:53 And I think of how they took with them a young missionary, 33:57 young man from Fiji. 34:00 And the chief up there at Bisia-tabu, 34:03 he said, "whatever you were told, the true story is 34:07 that we killed him. We killed him." 34:12 And many, many years later we buried, 34:14 we went and dug up his remains and we buried him in this spot. 34:19 And we told the people from Fiji to come. 34:21 This is an interesting story. 34:24 We were met by these people as they used to be. 34:30 But something quite unusual happened. 34:34 They were hiding in the bushes waiting for us to come. 34:39 But a busload of Japanese went ahead of us. 34:43 They thought the Japanese bus was our bus. 34:48 And so they rushed out and they confronted the Japanese, 34:53 who've decided never, never to go to PNG again. 34:59 But up there, this young couple went 35:01 and this is where they founded the work of God. 35:07 And let me tell you something else, this was nostalgic for us 35:13 because this is where 4,000 young Australian men 35:16 died fighting the enemy. 35:19 The Japanese came down the Owen Stanley track 35:23 and they came down to take over 35:25 Port Moresby to invade Australia. 35:28 And up there, 4,000 young Australian boys 35:33 in their late teens, their early 20s, 35:36 fought the Japanese and died in the jungle. 35:40 This is a poem there that's been placed there 35:43 by the Australian government about the "Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels." 35:50 When you say this in America 35:52 and in some places in the world, they think it's racist. 35:57 The term "Fuzzy Wuzzy" in PNG is a badge of honor. 36:02 Because the fuzzy wuzzies were the natives, 36:05 some of them unbelievers 36:07 who carried the Australian soldiers back, 36:10 shot all to pieces. 36:13 So they've actually built with the Australian government, 36:16 a memorial to the fuzzy wuzzies. 36:20 And many of those fuzzy wuzzies were Adventist Christians. 36:24 And they were Adventist Christians 36:26 because of pastor and Mrs. Carr. 36:29 I say to the young people in this church, 36:32 "what's wrong with you, what's wrong with all of us?" 36:36 They went in their early 20s, 36:38 on the backs of mules suffering from malaria 36:42 going into the land where they would 36:45 eat their enemies and ate their own dead. 36:51 "Many a mother in Australia When the busy day is done, 36:54 Sends a prayer to the Almighty For the keeping of her son. 36:58 Asking that an angel guide him And bring him safely back 37:02 Now we see those prayers 37:04 are answered On the Owen Stanley track. 37:07 Though they haven't any halos 37:09 Only holes slashed through the ear 37:11 And their faces marked with tattoos 37:13 And with scratch pins in their hair 37:16 Bringing back the badly wounded 37:18 Just as steady as a horse, 37:21 Using leaves to keep the rain off 37:24 And as gentle as a nurse 37:26 Slow and careful in bad places On the awful mountain track 37:31 And the look upon their faces 37:32 Makes us think that Christ was black 37:35 Not a move to hurt the carried As they treat him like a saint 37:39 It's a picture worth recording that an artist's yet to paint. 37:45 Many a lot will see his mother and the husbands, 37:47 weans and wives, just because the fuzzy wuzzies 37:52 carried them to save their lives 37:54 from mortar or machine gun fire 37:57 or chance surprise attacks 38:00 To the safety and the care of doctors 38:02 At the bottom of the track Many the mothers in Australia 38:07 When they offer up a prayer, Mention these impromptu angels 38:13 With their fuzzy wuzzy hair." 38:16 We had the privilege 38:18 of preaching to the fuzzy wuzzies, 38:21 the sons and the grandsons and the granddaughters 38:26 of those original fuzzy wuzzy angels 38:29 who carried out soldiers back. 38:32 The campaign had a national influence, 38:35 went far beyond the borders of the campaign. 38:41 The prime minister asked to meet with me 38:44 and the deputy prime minister 38:46 and my team too, and the cabinet. 38:51 It was my privilege to talk to them 38:53 and then to pray with them. 38:54 I put my arms around them 38:56 and prayed that God would lead them and guide them 38:59 and help them to help the people of their own nation. 39:02 One night, 12 newly elected parliamentarians 39:06 came to the meetings 39:08 and we brought them up the front here, 39:10 they are standing for the altar call. 39:12 Then after the meeting they came up the front. 39:15 It was my privilege with my team to lay hands on them 39:19 and to pray that God would help them 39:20 to keep the commandments of God 39:22 so they could obey the laws of men. 39:25 We prayed that the spirit of God would fill them. 39:28 The prime minister said to me, 39:31 "Pastor Carter, I want to thank you 39:33 on behalf of the Papua New Guinea nation 39:37 because you have blessed the whole nation." 39:41 We say that God blessed the whole nation. 39:44 At their previous election, 39:46 many people were killed in fighting. 39:50 They did the actual counting for the new election 39:52 at the stadium where we were having the meetings. 39:56 In a building on the campus of the stadium, 39:59 they counted the votes. 40:02 We were not allowed into the stadium 40:04 on the Sunday we want-- when we wanted to get in. 40:07 My team couldn't get in because there was a riot 40:10 taking place in the stadium over the counting of the votes. 40:15 And the police said to David who was one of the soldiers 40:18 and one of the heroes of the campaign, 40:20 you can't come in with your team you may be killed. 40:25 But they got in the next day and when the meeting started, 40:29 the spirit of God came down upon this whole place. 40:33 And there was peace in the nation. 40:36 No fighting, no bloodshed, 40:39 no war and he said, "You blessed the whole nation." 40:46 I would remind you of this, it could happen anywhere. 40:50 The Bible says, "If my people who are called by my name 40:53 will humble themselves and turn from their wicked way." 40:58 Our biggest sin, my friend, 41:00 in the church today is the sin of unbelief. 41:06 That we do not believe in the greatness of God. 41:08 But those who believe see the miracles of God. 41:12 Elijah said, "I hear the sound of abundance of rain." 41:20 And I say to you today, 41:22 "I hear the sound of abundance of rain. 41:26 I have seen Pentecost, I have seen the latter rain." 41:32 Now I'm going to show you, 41:36 it's a little clip from the last altar call on the last night. 41:46 Oh, so many people He denied, it's a vast, vast crowd. 41:51 I think these are the biggest crowds 41:53 in the history of the nation. 41:56 So many coming over here, there's still room for you. 42:00 Those who are coming to the Christ 42:02 for the first time, come tonight. 42:05 Those who were baptized this morning, come. 42:09 Those who'd like to be baptized, you keep coming. 42:13 Now the rest are going to wait. 42:16 We've never had an altar call quite like this one. 42:20 This is an amazing response 42:24 because the spirit of the Lord is here. 42:26 Can I see the hands of those here, who saw the white dove? 42:32 Goodness. You all saw the white dove. 42:35 Put up your hands higher. 42:37 Now I wanna say this for television. 42:41 I want the television camera to hear this. 42:44 A white dove, a huge bird, 42:47 a huge white dove has come into this place twice 42:50 when we'd been talking about the Holy Spirit. 42:53 When the dove came first, a few people saw it 42:56 but some people said, "No, it couldn't be true." 42:59 But tonight, you all saw the white dove. 43:03 What about in the-- out in the audience? 43:04 Raise your hand if you saw the white dove. 43:07 You saw the white dove tonight. It's amazing. 43:11 Yes, you know what this is, my friend? 43:15 It is a sign from the Holy Spirit. 43:19 It is a sign for the people of PNG from the Holy Spirit 43:23 that you and I are to follow the word of God 43:25 and to follow Jesus and to be baptized 43:29 and to keep His Holy truth. 43:31 I believe in a God of miracles, what about you? 43:37 Don't you believe in miracles? 43:38 Yes, I believe in a God who works miracles. 43:43 And people are coming still from over there 43:46 and they are coming from over the hill. 43:48 I think from the other projector. 43:50 This is absolutely incredible and amazing. 43:55 They're pouring down everywhere so keep coming 43:58 because we don't want to miss a single soul tonight. 44:03 There's room at the cross for you tonight. 44:09 And as you come here tonight, you're saying to God, 44:13 "My father in heaven, 44:15 I'm accepting Christ as my Lord and my savior." 44:20 Others are saying, "I was baptized this morning 44:23 and I've come down here because 44:25 I'm going to continue to follow Christ. 44:28 I'll be at church next Sabbath. 44:30 I'm going to get a Bible 44:32 and I'm going to meet you, John Carter, in paradise." 44:37 We're gonna meet together by the grace of God. 44:41 So this--this is not going to be a goodbye, 44:44 this is just going to be, "well, I'll see you later." 44:49 We're gonna meet in God's kingdom. 44:53 Now we're gonna wait for those people to come 44:55 because we have thousands and thousands of people 44:59 coming forward tonight. 45:01 They're standing out here, 45:02 they're trying to come down in the aisles. 45:05 And this is the power 45:06 of the Holy Spirit who is here tonight. 45:09 I can sense the presence of the spirit of God, 45:12 He is bearing witness to His word. 45:15 And we say, "thank you, God, thank you, Jesus." 45:20 And there are still some coming, and let me make it plain to you. 45:25 This is a call for those who were baptized morning. 45:29 Number two, those who would like to be baptized, 45:33 weren't baptized this morning, and number three, 45:36 for those in this vast audience who've never accepted 45:39 Christ before, you're coming forward. 45:42 Can I see the hands of those in this vast audience, 45:46 you weren't baptized this morning, 45:49 but you would like to be baptized, 45:50 as Jesus was, some time in the future. 45:53 Can you put up your hands? 45:56 Goodness, there's a thousand hands here, over here. 46:01 Now you understand what I'm saying. 46:03 You'd like to be baptized. 46:05 Is that what you're putting your hands up for? 46:08 You got it, yeah. 46:09 Let me see the hands of those 46:11 who'd like to be baptized, as Jesus was. 46:14 Yes, it's a huge number of people, 46:17 put your hands down. 46:18 Let me see the hands of those who were baptized this morning. 46:22 Well, that's a huge number too, it's a huge number. 46:26 God is doing a mighty work here in Port Moresby. 46:33 This is the mighty, overwhelming power of God at work tonight. 46:42 I want to say, today, 46:46 from my heart, my thanks to my team. 46:49 David Carter, great job, David. Harold and Glenda Harker. 46:54 Harold was the campaign manager, an old soldier of the cross. 46:58 Susan and Javier Piraino. 47:01 John and Beth Kosmeier from Australia. 47:04 Donn Beagle, great job on the sound. 47:08 Don Sforcina from Tumbulgum Church 47:11 in North New South Wales Conference. 47:13 God bless you for ever, Don, great job. 47:16 Bob Ludwig, great sound. 47:18 James Venegas, the pastor of the church. 47:21 Carlos Leon, tremendous job on the computers. 47:26 Rick Eisleben, the director of television. 47:30 Bart Parr, cameraman. 47:31 Jose and Elsa Sulgatti, super team. 47:36 Eteuati Feau, came from 47:37 North New South Wales Conference, a young minister. 47:40 Rick Layson, Lee Yarbrough, Wayne Hackett, what a blessing. 47:45 Pastor Willie Garcia and last but not least Daniel Burgos. 47:50 To that team, I say, "Thank you, in Jesus' name." 47:58 And now we invite you to be a part of the great audience 48:02 that packed the Sir John Guise Stadium 48:05 in Papua, New Guinea, 48:06 as Pastor John Carter preaches the word of God. 48:10 Witness thousands as they come forward 48:13 to accept Christ as their Lord and savior. 48:23 We're going from text to text, we're building a case for truth. 48:27 Now we ask the question of the Bible. 48:30 You see, I'm not telling you how a church interprets the Bible. 48:34 I'm not here tonight to tell you 48:35 what my church believes about the Bible. 48:38 I'm not here to tell you 48:39 what the Roman Catholics believe, I love them. 48:41 I'm not here to tell you 48:42 what the Baptists believe, I love them. 48:44 I'm not here o tell you 48:45 what the Methodists believe, I love them. 48:47 I'm not here to tell you 48:48 what the Adventists believe, I love them. 48:50 I'm here to tell you what the word of God says. 48:53 You get it, my friend? 48:55 So we're talking tonight from the Bible. Okay. 49:01 One night, I said to a vast audience, 49:03 "How many people in this vast audience, 49:05 how many suffer here from depression?" 49:08 You know what? 49:10 Everybody put up his hand, even children. 49:16 Atheism tore the heart out of Russia. 49:21 It blotted out the sun, and the people were told, 49:26 "You are not human beings, 49:28 you are animals, you are machines. 49:31 And there is no God, 49:34 and there's no heaven and there's no Christ." 49:42 I'm going to tell you something. 49:44 In Kiev, I spoke at the very place 49:48 were Kyrpychov told the people 49:51 that the name of Christ would be blotted from Russia 49:55 and Ukraine and around the world. 49:58 Kyrpychov said, "Atheism is going to win, Christ is dead." 50:06 But I want to tell you folks something, 50:08 Kyrpychov is dead and Christ is alive. 50:13 Did you hear this? 50:14 Kyrpychov is dead, Lenin is dead, 50:17 Stalin is dead, but Jesus is alive 50:20 and He's coming back in power and great glory, 50:24 hallelujah, praise God. 50:28 You get down, my friend, 50:30 you keep coming down, Babylon, Medio Persia. 50:34 Then you come down to Greece, 50:36 and then you come down to the legs of Rome. 50:40 Then you come to the break up of the Roman Empire 50:43 into the kingdoms and the states of Europe. 50:45 We are living in the toes, the stone is coming. 50:50 Well, believe truly in Christ, 50:53 and ask him to come into your heart. 50:58 Something wonderful is going to happen to you. 51:01 A miracle will happen in your life, 51:05 you will become a new person, 51:09 a child of God, a citizen of the kingdom. 51:17 And when Jesus comes, He will say to you, 51:21 He will look at you and He will say, 51:24 "My son and my daughter, 51:27 it is now time for you to come home." 51:34 The creator of the universe, 51:37 He has the solution for every human problem. 51:42 He has the solution to my problem 51:46 and He's got the solution for your problem tonight. 51:50 And the purpose of this meeting is to get us to reach out 51:54 and touch the great creator of the universe. 51:58 Listen to me, listen to this. 52:01 And this is going to get bit heavy, 52:04 but I want to tell you something. 52:07 When I was boy going to the college in Australia, 52:10 I was so poor in those days, 52:15 I didn't know how I was going to pay my school fees. 52:19 I'm sure we've got students here tonight 52:21 and some of you are poor. 52:25 But no poorer than I was. 52:27 I was a poor student, 52:29 I didn't know how to pay my school fees. 52:34 And one night I went out and I looked up at the stars. 52:38 I was discouraged, I was depressed, 52:41 I was beaten up, and I went out and I looked up at stars. 52:46 And as I opened my heart up to the God who made the stars, 52:51 there came a tremendous peace in my heart. 52:55 And I knew that God was alive 52:58 and the God who made that stars would take care of me. 53:03 I want you to know tonight. 53:04 If you can learn in this meeting, 53:06 if you can learn to trust the God who made the stars, 53:11 you are going to have a tremendous peace 53:15 and you're going to have a tremendous power 53:18 and a tremendous joy. 53:20 Bless these upraised hearts, put your spirit into us tonight. 53:25 Take away our sins, take away our fears, 53:29 take away our worries, take away our concerns, 53:32 take away our hates, 53:34 and fill us with your joy and your peace and your love, 53:39 and grant to every person here tonight, 53:42 who has a hand raised 53:44 in an earnest supplication to Almighty God. 53:48 We pray, grant to every person here tonight, 53:51 the gift of everlasting life. 53:53 And we pray this prayer 53:55 in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, 54:00 our Lord and savior and for His sake, Amen and Amen. 54:08 "A band of evil men has encircled me. 54:12 They have pierced my hands and my feet." 54:20 When those words were written, 54:21 my beloved friends, crucifixion was unknown. 54:26 They didn't crucify people back in those days. 54:33 But the Roman soldiers at the instigation 54:36 of the religious hierarchy took the son of God 54:41 and they laid him on a cross, a wooden cross. 54:50 It was the worst of suffering. 54:52 And as He hung upon the cross, the sin of the world, 54:57 of Port Moresby and Sydney and Melbourne 55:00 and New York and Los Angeles, 55:02 the sin of all of us, was laid on him. 55:06 For one brief moment in time, 55:10 He was unfurled on the cross like a wounded eagle. 55:18 Why? Because he loves you so. 55:23 Will you not come to Him, will you not believe in Him, 55:27 will you not follow Him? 55:31 So I want you to come by faith tonight. 55:35 And there are still hundreds of people coming, 55:39 we're gonna wait for you. 55:42 I'm so glad to be here tonight, aren't you? 55:47 Can't you tell tonight that God is here, my friend? 55:51 Surely the presence of the Lord is in this place, 55:54 I can feel Him here tonight. 55:58 Souls are coming to Christ and souls are being saved. 56:06 Augustine said, "Our souls were made for God 56:10 and they cannot rest until they rest in him." 56:13 Within every heart, 56:14 there is void that only God can fill. 56:17 This is why so many came to the Carter Report meetings 56:20 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 56:23 The crowds were greater 56:24 than those attending the Olympic Games in London. 56:28 They came because every one is a winner when Christ is Lord. 56:33 If you, my dear friend, 56:34 would like to be a faith partner with us 56:36 in this extraordinary work, 56:38 or if you'd like to receive a DVD of today's message, 56:42 please write to John Carter at P.O. Box 1900, 56:46 Thousand Oaks, California, 91358 56:49 or in Australia, at P.O. 861, Terrigal, NSW 2260. 56:57 You may also contact us online at cartereport.org. 57:01 Please include your gift to help light 57:04 God's candle in dark places. 57:23 I know the plans, 57:28 I have for you, Declares the Lord 57:41 I know the plans, 57:45 I have for you, Declares the Lord |
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