Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001311
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00:08 From Arcadia, California, the Carter report presents
00:11 "The Living Word" around the world. 00:18 Did we all come from Adam? 00:21 Or the prehistoric Lucy? 00:23 Welcome to the Carter Report. My name is James Venegas. 00:26 We have more Fresh Hot Potatoes questions for you. 00:30 Our special guest is Pastor John Carter. 00:35 Jesus said, "Go into all the world 00:38 and make disciples of all nations, 00:40 baptizing them in the name of the Father, 00:42 Son, and Holy Spirit." 00:44 The Carter Report team has therefore accepted 00:47 the challenge of worldwide evangelism. 00:50 Million in Russia, Ukraine, the Philippines, 00:53 Africa, India, Australia, the United States, 00:57 and the Isles of the Sea 00:58 have heard the good news of Christ. 01:01 As John Carter has proclaimed God's Living Word. 01:04 You are invited to be a part of the Carter team by praying 01:08 and by giving and when God calls by going. 01:12 Write a note now to Pastor John Carter. 01:15 PO Box 1900, 01:17 Thousand Oaks, California 91358 01:21 or to PO Box 861, 01:24 Terrigal, NSW 2260, Australia. 01:29 Jesus said, "With God all things are possible." 01:37 Welcome to our Fresh Hot Potato program. 01:40 We are very privileged to have 01:41 the distinguish Pastor John Carter with us. 01:43 Welcome along, Pastor Carter. Thank you. 01:45 We have questions for you again from our viewers, 01:48 very good questions 01:49 and from the developing world as well. Yes. 01:52 I want to read a question 01:53 to start things off from Malcolm, 01:55 who is from Papua New Guinea. Recently we were out there. 01:59 He says, he resides in Lae city. 02:02 He talks about how there are 02:03 many different provinces in Papua New Guinea. 02:06 And it got him wondering where they all originated from, 02:09 they are all different pigmentations, 02:11 different cultures there. 02:13 He says that these people are Bougainvillians 02:16 and they are the blackest people on earth according to him. 02:20 And their culture is very ancient. 02:22 His question is, why is so many different races 02:26 and where did we come from? 02:27 Is it Adam 02:28 or is it the prehistoric Lucy of evolution? 02:32 I'm not a paleontologist of course, 02:37 I'm not an authority on the races 02:38 in Papua New Guinea, 02:40 we were there not very long ago, 02:41 we had these vast crowds of people. 02:44 We finished with 150,000 people a night, 02:48 more than 100,000 every night. 02:49 So, we know a little bit about the people there. 02:52 They are wonderful people. 02:55 Why some of them this man is saying 02:56 from where do they come from, he said? 02:59 From Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. 03:00 Yeah, Bougainville this is a very very black. Yes. 03:04 Yes, derivation of those races 03:09 specifically I don't know. 03:12 I do know that the Bible teaches 03:14 and I believe the Bible, 03:16 I believe we came from a common ancestry. 03:19 And I believe that those black black people 03:23 are my brothers. 03:26 Because we came from the same origin, 03:29 we came from a couple, Adam and Eve. 03:33 I believe that story. 03:35 Now, where do you stand on the issue of evolution? 03:39 Now, they tell us about this Lucy 03:43 who is dated very far back. 03:46 Is Lucy perhaps our common ancestor? 03:51 I don't think so, and I'll tell you why. 03:54 The best signs now say she wasn't. 03:58 Lucy was a, they say an ape like creature. 04:04 Like a Hominid, like a human type of creature. 04:10 That is extremely debatable, 04:12 I think she was just a like a monkey. 04:16 But she was discovered over there in East-Africa 04:19 and she was discovered by the great professor 04:22 I'm thinking now, Professor Leakey. 04:25 Leakey, yeah. I think it was Leakey. 04:29 He said that she was the ancestor of the human race, 04:33 and that we all go back through this little ape 04:36 like creature that was found 04:38 in this desert area in East-Africa. 04:43 Now, here is a bombshell. 04:45 On PBS before he died number of years ago. 04:47 The great professor who discovered Lucy said, 04:52 I was wrong. 04:55 He said she is not our ancestor. 04:58 What she is we do not know, 05:01 but he said and this caused pandemonium 05:05 in the scientific world. 05:07 But, Leakey was tremendously honest man. 05:11 He said the latest investigation leads me to believe, 05:16 that she was not the originator of the human race. 05:20 And she is got nothing to do with human beings. 05:22 Now, Pastor James, he said something else, 05:26 he said the amazing thing is 05:29 we can't find an ancestor for Homo sapiens. 05:33 And it appears that Homo sapiens, 05:36 human beings appeared suddenly 05:40 and distinctly upon the human field, 05:44 upon the world. 05:46 He said they were not there, then all of a sudden 05:49 we have a vast number of Homo sapiens. 05:54 Now, this is the very opposite of the doctrine of evolution. 05:58 Now, tell me about missing link. 06:02 What can you tell me about that? 06:03 Missing link, so a transitional forms of life. 06:08 Now, remember I'm a scholar of the Bible. 06:11 I don't claim to be a scientist 06:13 but I just do a little bit of reading. 06:17 Certainly do. 06:19 And we should not become 06:21 so alit that we think that all knowledge is, 06:25 this is for this type of person, 06:27 this is for this sort of person. 06:28 No, no, God has given us a mind 06:30 where by we can investigate. 06:33 The great Charles Darwin writing 150-160 years ago said 06:40 that he believed that there would be found 06:44 a vast number of transitional life forms. 06:48 You see as the evolutionary process went ahead, 06:51 it have this life form of a millions of years 06:56 becoming this life form. 06:58 And in the end from Ordeal of Swamp, 07:02 and a single cell creature 07:04 you would have human beings after billions of years. 07:08 And so he said we expect to find a myriad, 07:14 he said astronomical number of transitional forms. 07:19 Now, this is something 07:22 that ardent evolutionist will not tell you. 07:26 This is something that Richard Dawkins 07:28 would never disclose for an audience. 07:31 But after more than 150 years, 07:35 this vast number of transitional life forms, 07:38 this vast number is still missing. 07:43 Now, they have some circle transitional life forms. 07:46 But, they are very rare and they are debatable. 07:50 An honest paleontologist and evolutionist, 07:55 when they are pressed they will say this. 07:59 The prediction of the great Charles Darwin 08:02 that they would come a myriad of transitional life forms 08:06 this prediction has failed to come to place. Yes. 08:11 And therefore I cannot believe in Darwinian Theory, 08:16 I don't believe it is true, 08:18 I do not believe in Neo-Darwinism. 08:21 And there is another reason, can I give it to you. 08:23 Yeah, please. 08:25 Darwin said there is something that kept him awake 08:29 and that was the human mind. 08:32 He said we believe that this human mind, 08:36 whereby we think through the mysteries of life. 08:39 It evolves from the lowest creature 08:43 that you can imagine. 08:45 It evolved from the lowest and the basest animal 08:50 and that evolved from the lowest single cell creature 08:55 in this primordial soup. Yes. 09:00 But he said this is the problem. 09:03 We believe in evolution 09:07 and we believe this all happened by blind chance. 09:11 This is his argument. 09:12 We believe that every thing happened 09:15 by uncoordinated blind chance without God. 09:22 He said then how can we trust this mechanism 09:27 that came by blind chance, 09:29 how can we trust it to think these thoughts, 09:32 to work at our origin. That's a great question. 09:36 Very good, very good question. 09:37 And as time has gone by, honest people 09:42 and there's heaps of honest marvelous scientists, 09:45 it is wrong for us to think 09:47 that all these scientists are dishonest, 09:50 no that's not true. 09:51 That's a terrible statement to say, 09:54 but heaps of scientists are saying, 09:57 well, maybe, maybe 10:00 we have believed in ideas 10:05 that may not be really true at all. 10:09 And so do I believe in the theory of-- 10:13 this is what Dawkins teaches, 10:15 like Richard Dawkins, the great atheist, 10:18 he believes in time, plus matter, 10:21 plus chance. Yes, yes. 10:23 So if you have enough time 10:25 and enough matter and enough chance, 10:28 you will have people. Don't believe that nonsense. 10:31 In other words if you have enough hydrogen molecules 10:36 that's how it started hydrogen molecules. 10:38 And you leave them alone for enough number of years, 10:42 that will end up people. 10:45 Oh, I can't believe that, I cannot believe this, 10:50 I believe the evidence is in from astronomy particularly 10:56 that shows that there is a great creator God. 11:01 So, you are saying that it's like a circular argument really 11:04 because how can we even come up with that theory 11:07 if we are--if we don't have the capacity. 11:10 Now, I just wanted to answer Malcolm's question 11:14 here with the races. 11:15 Some people think that darker pigmentation 11:17 is perhaps a lower race. 11:19 What difference does it mean to you to know that 11:21 we come from a creator God? 11:25 If we come, Pastor James, from a creator God, 11:29 it means that every person is a child of God, 11:33 distinct and glorious. 11:36 When I was in Russia, years ago now, 11:39 back in 92 during the collapse of the Soviet Empire. 11:43 I was there when it happened. 11:44 I was there in '91. I saw it all happen. 11:50 I would tell those vast audiences 11:52 you are not an animal, you are not a machine, 11:57 you are a child of God. 11:59 Communism taught people 12:00 that there is a native say in Papua New Guinea. 12:04 Something nothing. 12:07 The communist taught people 12:09 that at the most they were an animal. 12:12 They are simply a machine 12:13 and thus they were worth nothing. 12:16 That's they trampled them into the dust 12:18 and they taught to them and did unspeakable things. 12:22 I tell them no, you are a child of God, 12:25 I saw them come forward in campaigns 12:27 by the hundreds of the thousands, 12:28 even millions weeping and crying, 12:32 discovering that there was a God who loved them. 12:35 That's why I message also to Richard Dawkins, 12:39 he may not love God, but God loves him. 12:41 Absolutely. 12:42 And so we are saying to Malcolm 12:43 that race does not matter what color of the pigmentation. 12:46 It makes no difference. 12:47 It makes no difference, we come from one creator God 12:49 and from one common ancestor 12:51 and that is Adam and his wife Eve. 12:54 There is excellent evidence today 12:58 from science that traces back. 13:01 Now, I'm not going to get into this too much 13:03 because we don't have time. 13:04 But even scientists who don't believe in the Bible 13:08 or God believe that the human race Homo sapiens 13:12 appeared relatively recently. 13:16 Relatively recently and came from a couple. 13:21 Wow, again confirming the truths of the Bible. 13:25 We thank you Malcolm for that question. 13:27 Thank you for that great answer, 13:28 Pastor Carter, tapping into that knowledge of yours. 13:30 We will be back after these few moments message 13:35 from our sponsors and then we will be back 13:37 with some more questions. Thank you. 13:41 Hello friend, I am John Carter in Colombia. 13:46 Behind me is the great city of Bogota, 13:48 the capital of this amazing country. 13:53 This city is a city of more than 8 million souls. 13:59 It's up more than 8,000 feet in the Andes. 14:04 And we've come here today with one purpose in mind 14:08 to preach the everlasting gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. 14:13 We are here because we have a commission from God. 14:17 Jesus said, "Go into all the world 14:20 and preach the everlasting gospel, 14:23 baptizing them in the name of the Father, 14:26 and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." 14:29 The people here need the gospel of Christ. 14:33 And I am asking you today come with us, 14:36 if not in body but come with us in spirit. 14:40 This has been a very, very dangerous city. 14:43 A very dangerous part of the world, 14:45 but we believe that we are safe 14:48 when we are in the hands of God. 14:51 Therefore I am beseeching you in the name of Christ 14:54 and in the names of these 8 million plus inhabitants 14:59 in the city of Bogota to come 15:03 and help us to preach the word of God. 15:05 Please support the preaching of the word of God in Columbia. 15:09 Please write to me, John Carter, 15:11 PO Box 1900, 15:14 Thousand Oaks, California, 91358. 15:18 In Australia, write to me at the address, 15:21 Terrigal, New South Wales, Australia. 15:25 Jesus said, "Work while it is day, 15:28 the night is coming when no man can work." 15:32 Please write to me today. 15:34 Thank you and God bless you. 15:43 And welcome back to our program 15:44 Fresh Hot Potatoes with Pastor John Carter. 15:47 Welcome back, Pastor Carter. Thank you. 15:49 We have been answering some questions 15:50 from the islands from Papua New Guinea. 15:52 And I have another one for you. 15:54 It's totally different to the last one, 15:56 not as deep, but just as important. 15:59 It is a question from Leonard via email, 16:02 they have, they are very hooked up over there. 16:05 Yes, they are. Very big on facebook. 16:07 In Papua New Guinea, tradition says that 16:09 a man must pay his wife a bride price. 16:13 10 to 40,000 kina, depending on the demand, 16:19 is this biblical? Leonard asks us. 16:23 I don't read anything in the Bible about bride prices, 16:28 but there are customs not unlike this in the Bible. 16:33 You'll read in the Bible 16:34 that a marriage back in those patriarchal days 16:39 was accompanied by much tradition and splendor. 16:45 You will read where when the girl went to marry Isaac, 16:50 the handmaids went with her. 16:54 And so they put money into the pot 16:57 and but it can be quite different in the islands. 17:01 Where it can almost be 17:04 a little bit of commercial exploitation. 17:08 Now for a poor person in the islands 40,000 kina 17:13 that's $20,000. 17:15 I think that can may be a little bit of exploitation. 17:19 But I'm not an authority on island customs. 17:22 And that's important to be said, 17:24 we cannot comment on a different custom 17:26 but we certainly can comment that what the Bible teaches. 17:30 Another good question from another person from the islands. 17:34 This time from the Solomon Islands. 17:37 I'm a Seventh-day Adventist living in the Solomon Islands. 17:40 I'm so interested in the reports 17:42 and a book that I have read about 17:44 the evangelistic work that you do so. 17:45 This person is Lindale, she has read the book. 17:49 Thank you for allowing the Lord 17:52 to let you visit the Solomon Islands 17:55 and also everywhere else where you have visited. 17:58 I say I'm a Christian but I live the opposite life. 18:02 How can I become a much better person 18:04 and live for Jesus everyday? 18:06 I want to read more books about your evangelism also, 18:09 but she is really looking for that genuine Christian life, 18:13 what can she do? 18:14 She can read a Bible, I love the Solomon Islands. 18:18 One of the highlights in my life 18:20 when we went to the Solomon's, we'd vast crowds of people. 18:24 And they are just the nicest people, 18:25 you are going to find anywhere under God's blues sky. 18:29 She is facing a problem 18:30 which is not unique to the Solomon Islands. 18:34 People say, how can I live the Christian life. 18:37 The world is so hard, temptations are so great. 18:43 Before I come to Christ, Pastor Venegas, 18:46 I've got one nature the Bible says 18:48 that's the carnal sinful nature. 18:51 But I have tried come to Christ, I have a second nature. 18:55 It is a spiritual nature and the nature 18:58 that I feed the most is the nature 19:03 that is going to win the battle. 19:06 Now, if I've got two dogs 19:08 and they're both exactly the same size 19:11 and those dogs fight. 19:13 Which dog will win? Neither. 19:17 But if I starve one dog and I feed the other dog, 19:21 which dog is going to win? The strong one. 19:25 And so if you want to carnal nature to succeed, 19:28 then feed it pornography, violence, 19:34 all of those carnal things, 19:38 but if you want the spiritual nature 19:40 to succeed and she does, 19:42 you must feed it on the word of God. 19:46 And if you feed the spiritual nature on the word of God. 19:49 If you read your Bible every day, 19:51 if you go to church and if you start a prayer life, 19:55 the spiritual nature is going to win 19:57 and you will be a strong happy vibrant Christian. 20:01 Yes, yes. 20:02 And there is a lot to be said to 20:04 for receiving the Holy Spirit into one's life. 20:06 And this is how you receive the Holy Spirit. 20:08 Did you know in the scriptures receiving the word of God 20:12 is the same as receiving the Holy Spirit. 20:16 Now this is something people overlook, 20:18 but when the Bible talks about receiving the Holy Spirit, 20:21 you can't receive the Holy Spirit 20:23 apart from the word. 20:25 And you can't receive the word apart from the Holy Spirit. 20:28 And so, they go together. 20:32 I have a completely different question here from Ingrid, 20:36 she is not from the islands I don't think, 20:37 she may well be. Probably from Germany. 20:39 Ingrid, yeah or anywhere else in the world 20:42 but she has sent an email and she asks, 20:45 what about being cremated? Is that Christian? 20:51 Does the Bible say anything about it. 20:54 I thought I should not please 20:55 let me know what you think, 20:57 very important question for Ingrid. 20:59 Now, when she says about being cremated, is it okay? 21:04 It's okay once you are dead. Yes. 21:07 But you know, Ingrid you don't want to get cremated 21:10 before you have to get cremated. 21:12 Let me-- That's a given. 21:13 That's a given, isn't it? Yes. 21:14 Yeah. Well-- What does the Bible say? 21:17 Well, the Bible doesn't actually say cremation, 21:20 but let me read you a text that may just be a little help, 21:24 that's in Revelation 20 it says, 21:28 The dead were judged out of the Book of Life 21:32 they were judged according to what they had done 21:34 as recorded in the books, 21:36 the sea gave up the dead that were in it, 21:40 and Death and Hades the grave gave up the dead 21:43 that were in them and each person was judged 21:46 according to what he had done." And that's in Revelation 20. 21:50 It says, Pastor Venegas, 21:52 it says, the sea gave up the dead. 21:56 Now a person who has been lost at sea, 21:58 say a hundred years ago, 21:59 a thousand years ago is nothing, nothing left is there. 22:03 He is been eaten by the fishes and everything else 22:06 but God is not dependent upon the old body. 22:10 God knows all about us. 22:12 He knows everything about us, 22:14 it is recorded in a tremendous computer, 22:18 that is the mind of God. 22:20 And so we are recorded in the mind of God 22:24 and if you and I should die today, 22:26 God knows everything about every molecule 22:30 and whether we have been lost at sea 22:32 or whether we have been cremated 22:34 or whether we have been buried, 22:36 it makes no difference to God. 22:38 He will bring us forth new living, 22:42 wonderful, joyful, new creations. 22:45 Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. 22:47 Your position is really it doesn't make a difference. 22:49 No, no. Makes no difference. 22:50 I had an old missionary friend, his name was Keith, 22:53 he is just a great guy, Australian very down to earth. 22:57 And he said to me, you know, John, he said this years ago, 23:00 he said I don't care how they bury me. 23:02 He said if you are around, I don't care 23:04 if you nail me up in a banana box. 23:07 I said Keith, we are not going to nail you up in a banana box. 23:10 He said, but it doesn't matter and Beverley said to my dad 23:15 when we stood looking down at his father's grave 23:19 in the little town of Esk in Queensland Australia. 23:23 My father was standing there in a very pensive mood 23:26 and Beverley said to him dad, 23:30 he said, we all gonna come here one day. 23:32 She said, dad, it doesn't matter 23:35 how you go down but how you come up. 23:38 Amen. Hallelujah. 23:39 And we are going to come up in the resurrection, 23:41 how we're going to come up new people 23:43 and so I don't care whether I'm cremated, 23:45 whether I'm buried, whether I'm even lost at sea. 23:49 I'm coming up, I will rise again. 23:52 Amen. Because of Christ. 23:54 Very good, very good answer 23:55 and again great questions coming in. 23:57 I have a completely different theological question. 24:00 We don't have a lot of time, 24:02 but Rovina emails in a question saying, 24:05 your understanding of Daniel's prophetic day and timeline? 24:09 She would be interested to know what you have to say about 24:12 Daniel's prophetic day and timeline. 24:14 That's a big question? 24:16 It's a vast question, I don't know if I'm equal to it. 24:20 There are four major lines of prophecy in Daniel. 24:23 Daniel 2, Daniel 7, Daniel 8 24:26 and then you really have Daniel 9 to 12. 24:30 They all cover basically the same ground. 24:33 They start in the days of Babylon 24:35 and they come down to the last days. 24:39 Daniel 2 is the great image. 24:40 Daniel 7, the four beast, the lion and you know the bear, 24:44 the leopard and then the monster and the ten horns. 24:47 And in Daniel 8, you have the Ram 24:49 and he goat, then you have the 2,300 days. 24:53 And then in Daniel 9 you have the 70 weeks 24:56 and the 69 weeks and that culminates 24:58 of course in the end of time 25:01 as we read in Daniel 12. 25:04 The great message of the Book of Daniel is this. 25:09 Whatever evil may do, Christ is the Lord of history 25:15 and He would triumph over evil and He will set up His kingdom. 25:20 And the kingdom will be given to the people 25:22 of the saints of the most high. 25:25 I have a burning passion in my soul 25:30 that Christ is coming soon 25:32 and the kingdom of God is going to be set up. 25:35 And that is why we live. 25:37 This is why we breathe 25:39 and that is why we preach the gospel. 25:42 Our final question for this program is this 25:46 and it comes from Vincet. 25:49 It's a good question too and it's a good on to finish on. 25:51 I have been watching your programs lately 25:53 and I see that you take great pains 25:55 trying to point out 25:56 that salvation is through Jesus alone. 25:59 I try to understand this, I know that I can't save myself, 26:03 but I want to know how do you know 26:05 that you are doing God's will and not your own 26:07 and how do you know that God is really talking to you 26:10 and it's not just yourself? 26:13 So how do you balance this idea of-- 26:14 Pastor Venegas, a super question. 26:18 This man has got so much truth in this question, 26:22 we do try to point out that we are saved by grace. 26:25 We can never make it home by ourselves, 26:27 amazing grace, how sweet the sound. 26:29 That saved a wretch like me. 26:31 I once was lost but now I'm found. 26:33 I was blind but now I see. 26:37 There is something that he must learn 26:39 and we must all learn more and more 26:41 and that is not to trust our feeling and our emotions. 26:45 And many people say well, you know, 26:47 I feel that this is what I ought to do, 26:49 but that may be your hormones are working. 26:52 You can't go by your feelings, it may be 26:55 because you had a bad night or a good night 26:58 or because of something someone said to you. 27:01 You must not go by your feelings, 27:04 you must go by your trust in God. 27:08 We must obey God whether we feel like it or not. 27:14 And if we desire to do the will of God, 27:18 He will lead us through certain steps. 27:21 Number one, He will lead us according to the word of God. 27:24 He never leads us to break the commandments. 27:28 Number two, He will open doors and close doors, 27:32 as we say to God, please show me 27:34 what I should do. 27:35 It seems to be your will, 27:37 then He will open a door or close a door. 27:39 And we shouldn't be rushing God. 27:43 He leads us through the counsel of Godly friends. 27:46 Be careful here because there are many people 27:49 who are quick to give counsel, 27:50 but they are the last people you should listen to. 27:53 You should listen to, listen, wise people whom you can trust, 27:59 they are few and far between but there are some. 28:02 And finally He leads through 28:04 the movings of the spirit of God. 28:06 That is for last because those movings 28:08 may be confused with your feelings. 28:11 But when you have all these pointers together, 28:15 you can know that you are walking 28:18 in the way of God's will. 28:19 Trust in the Lord with all your heart 28:21 and lean not on your own understanding. Yes. 28:22 Thank you, Pastor Carter, for your time. 28:24 It's been great to have you with us. 28:25 Thank you. Thank you for watching also. 28:27 Don't forget those questions, cartereport.org. 28:30 Send them in and we will endeavor 28:31 to answer them for you. God bless you. |
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