Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001507A
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00:10 The Living Word around the world. 00:16 Hello, friend, I'm John Carter. 00:19 Welcome today to the Carter Report. 00:22 Our ministry it's only a little ministry, 00:25 that has a vision as big as the world 00:29 and that is preaching the everlasting gospel 00:32 in some of the toughest places in the world. 00:35 We've had the privilege of going 42 times 00:39 to the old Soviet Union, 00:41 that bastion of atheism and communism. 00:45 And more recently 00:47 we've gone down south of the border, 00:50 down to El Salvador 00:52 and there we've seen tens of thousands of souls 00:56 accept the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:58 I have two special guests today, 01:00 Susan Piraino and Alan De Leon. 01:04 Welcome today, my friend, to the Carter Report. 01:24 You can have all the silver 01:29 You can have all the gold 01:32 Just give me Jesus 01:38 You can have all the wisdom this earth can hold 01:46 Just give me Jesus 01:49 Give me Jesus 01:51 When I'm lonely 01:53 And I've nowhere to go 01:56 Give me Jesus 01:58 He's the only one who loved me so 02:03 Give me Jesus because 02:07 Jesus is all I need 02:18 You can have all the spotlight 02:22 You call have all the fame 02:25 Just give me Jesus 02:31 You can have all the success 02:35 Have your well known name 02:39 Just give me Jesus 02:42 Give me Jesus 02:44 When I'm lonely 02:45 And I've nowhere to go 02:49 Give me Jesus 02:51 He's the only one who loved me so 02:56 Give me Jesus because 03:00 Jesus is all I need 03:05 He is my closest friend when no one seem to care 03:11 Welcome to the Carter Report. 03:13 I'm John Carter. 03:15 Susan Piraino, we're delighted to have you with us today. 03:19 Glad to be here today, Pastor Carter. 03:21 Alan De Leon, we are glad to have you with us today. 03:24 Thank you very much, Pastor Carter. 03:25 You're both members of the Carter Report team. 03:28 Yes. Yes. 03:29 Recently Alan, you went with us to what country? 03:33 We went to El Salvador 03:34 and it was an amazing life changing experience. 03:37 Having the opportunity to go and witness to people, 03:40 who were hungry to hear the word of God, was life changing. 03:44 And watching them learn and begin to understand 03:47 and put together why we do the things that we do, 03:50 it's all right there 03:52 and I got to witness it in person. 03:53 Tell me about El Salvador? 03:55 I was so impressed just by the people 03:58 and the organization in general. 04:00 Arriving there and seeing the team work 04:02 of all the local pastors, 04:04 including all the local pathfinders as well, 04:07 just organizing all the people, done in such a organized, 04:11 well mannered sense 04:13 and that itself just blew me away 04:15 and the fact that they were willing 04:17 and ready to hear our word. 04:19 And it is a land that has suffered 04:21 incredible suffering, has it not? 04:23 Yes, it has. 04:24 During the days of the gangs 04:26 and the fighting with the militia, 04:28 more than 70,000 people put to death by hit squads 04:34 and awful happenings in El Salvador. 04:38 Terrible earthquakes and famines and pestilences 04:42 and we discovered they were the people 04:44 who are hungry for God. 04:46 Yes. Indeed. 04:47 Susan, what were your impressions of El Salvador? 04:51 This inter-American country, what does it mean El Salvador? 04:55 El Salvador means the savior and so... 04:58 So it's a Roman Catholic country? 04:59 Yes, very much so. 05:01 And it was exciting for me because this is the first time 05:04 that the Carter Report has gone into Latin America 05:07 and I was excited to be able to now communicate with the people 05:12 because normally Russia, Ukraine, 05:13 we always have to have translators 05:15 and so since we speak Spanish, 05:17 it was so nice to be able to just talk 05:19 directly to the people. 05:21 What did you see in El Salvador that moved in your heart 05:25 and touched your soul? 05:26 Well, there were a lot of things actually 05:28 that touched my soul. 05:30 One of the most important is, 05:31 when you see the people being baptized 05:33 and we saw thousands being baptized 05:36 and just the fact that they were coming 05:38 and they were with the translation 05:41 they were able to hear the gospel, the true gospel. 05:44 That was, that was wonderful 05:46 to be able to see in Latin America. 05:48 It's a very difficult thing to hear the true gospel. 05:50 Now once upon a time in Latin America, 05:54 people like us couldn't go there and preach. 05:56 Right, right. 05:58 So where were the meetings held, Alan? 06:00 Uh, those meetings were held in a large stadium, 06:02 Estadio Cuscatlan, one of the largest stadiums... 06:05 Say it again. Estadio Cuscatlan. 06:07 You say it better than me. 06:08 Yeah. 06:09 Well, thankfully we got to utilize 06:11 our Spanish skills being down there 06:13 and it was just great having to hear 06:16 by the people themselves from them uh, 06:18 what they were experiencing, how they were feeling, 06:21 getting to speak to them one on one 06:22 and just to witness with them, uh, it was tremendous. 06:26 And to let our viewers know, 06:28 that's the biggest football stadium in inter-America. 06:34 And the place was it half filled, 06:36 quarter filled or... Packed. 06:38 It was packed. Yeah, packed to the doors. 06:39 That was exciting to see it, to see it start filling up. 06:43 Did you know that, 06:45 one of the leaders of another denomination said, 06:49 "If they get a hundred people in there, 06:51 I'll eat my hat." 06:53 He's got a lot of hats to eat. 06:55 We've heard that a few times I think, haven't we? 06:57 Yes. 06:59 And so we saw the great power of God 07:01 and we saw tens of thousands of people 07:05 packed the biggest football stadium in Central America. 07:08 Yes, indeed. 07:10 Susan, for how many years 07:11 have you been with the Carter Report? 07:13 I have been with the Carter Report 07:14 now for 22 years. 07:16 Uh, what about you, Alan? 07:17 I've only been working for the Carter Report 07:19 for about a year and half. 07:21 So, 22 years and about a year and half. 07:24 Susan, you've done a special work 07:26 with the Carter Report ministry. 07:29 You've traveled to Russia and Ukraine 07:32 and Siberia and Solomon Islands. 07:35 Give me some others. 07:36 Uh, South Africa to PNG, Papua New Guinea, 07:41 of course El Salvador, India, we went to... 07:44 Of course, let's not forget India. 07:45 Hong Kong, China, we went through China. 07:49 So I've been through, every year 07:51 that we've run a campaign, 07:52 I've had the privilege of being part of the team. 07:54 So how did you become a Christian? 07:56 Were you brought up in the church? 07:58 I was brought up in the church 07:59 but I left as soon as I had the ability to choose not to go. 08:04 Why did you leave the church? 08:05 Well, I didn't see a purpose 08:07 and I have never really heard the gospel. 08:09 And what turned you around as a young ex-Christian? 08:16 What turned me around was that I got married, 08:19 had children and now I was, 08:22 in my heart there was a burden for my children. 08:24 So, I needed to come closer to the Lord, 08:27 and I didn't know how to. 08:29 And so you went along to a series of meetings? 08:31 My mother invited me to the Shrine Auditorium, 08:34 in which you were holding a campaign there in 1990... 08:37 And then tell us, Alan, 08:39 do you know anything about the Shrine? 08:40 Uh, I know that it was in downtown, 08:42 LA and that it used to... 08:43 Big theater downtown LA. 08:45 Exactly, yes, and that used to host 08:47 the Academy awards I believe. 08:48 Yes, you're right. 08:50 And it was a pretty famous venue 08:51 for a long, long time in LA. 08:53 And do you know about the seats? 08:55 I believe it's somewhere around... 08:56 I think it was over 6,000. 08:58 Exactly, yeah. 6,600. 09:00 Yeah, it's a big venue and it's famous. 09:02 When you say the Shrine Auditorium, 09:05 every one knew what you are talking about. 09:06 And by the grace of God, it was packed four times over. 09:09 That was that impressed me the most, 09:11 which is to see the people. 09:12 So it was a great evangelistic series 09:14 that most people said it wouldn't work. 09:16 They said nobody would go to the Shrine Auditorium 09:18 to hear the preaching of the gospel 09:20 at downtown Los Angeles. 09:22 People just don't do that in Los Angeles. 09:25 But we saw it was packed four times over. 09:27 And when you came into the meetings, 09:29 an evangelistic series of meetings, 09:31 such as we've had in Russia, Ukraine, Johannesburg, 09:35 Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, India, 09:39 you came into a meeting that is similar to what we do today? 09:43 Correct, and... 09:44 So what happened to you, there? 09:46 Well, first of all, I was intrigued 09:48 by the information you were sharing, 09:50 the history, archeology, 09:52 I had never heard that and then tying it in with the Bible. 09:55 It was just, for me it was eye opening 09:58 and I was able to put all the pieces together. 10:01 Now, what you know, 10:03 people are going to hear this stuff though. 10:04 They can hear astronomy and we specialize in that 10:07 and archeology and prophecy, 10:10 you are going to hear these things 10:12 but that it just becomes an exercise of academia 10:17 and intellectual thing. 10:19 What touched your heart? 10:21 When you talked about Jesus Christ and the gospel 10:24 and the fact that I didn't have to do anything, 10:27 that He had done it already for me 10:29 'cause I grew up thinking I had to be in a certain a way 10:31 before Christ would even accept me 10:33 and so um, I heard that Christ accepted me 10:37 no matter what condition I was in 10:39 and that changed it all for me. 10:41 And then there was an altar call. 10:44 Alan, have you seen an altar call 10:46 in some of the big campaigns? 10:48 Yes, I've seen them all in video 10:49 and I was lucky enough to witness it 10:51 firsthand in El Salvador. 10:52 Tell me about the altar call in El Salvador, please. 10:56 You can start to feel 10:57 the energy building in the stadium. 11:00 Uh, as soon as you start to make that appeal 11:03 you get a sense in there and being 11:06 and well, I was actually very thankful 11:07 to be in the middle of all of that 11:09 and you start to see the people come down in droves 11:11 from all over the stadium. 11:13 And they're just moving like water 11:14 straight through to the front. 11:16 And the energy just builds and the anticipation, 11:19 the people are rushing to get to the front 11:21 and witnessing that and feeling that energy, 11:24 is just something that is almost indescribable. 11:27 It's amazing, isn't it? 11:29 It certainly is. It is, it really is. 11:30 Is it the work of man? 11:31 No. Definitely not. 11:33 No, it's the work of God. I can give you testimony today. 11:35 On occasions, when we have been having an altar call, 11:40 I have felt in a very definite way 11:44 and presence of the Holy Spirit. 11:47 I'm not just talking talk here. 11:50 I'm talking about a flooding of warm power. 11:55 I can sense that He is there. 11:58 I can sense the personal presence 12:01 of the third person of the Godhead 12:03 and I have felt that presence in Russia 12:07 and Ukraine and in India. 12:09 Susan, tell us about the altar call in India? 12:13 Were you there for that? Oh, yes, indeed. 12:15 Um, that was amazing because we had uh, 12:18 I think it was like 35,000 people. 12:20 Hindus and Muslims? 12:21 Hindus and Muslims and you were preaching 12:23 and like Alan said, 12:24 there comes like a stillness and silence over the crowd. 12:27 Even though it is filled with children 12:29 and little kids running and there was no running. 12:31 They were all listening. Yes. 12:33 So you know, that's the power of the Holy Spirit. 12:35 And then all of a sudden it was like a wave of murmuring 12:39 that came from the crowd. 12:41 And you could hear it build from the back 12:43 towards the front of the stadium. 12:46 And it was, it was sort of chilling to witness that 12:49 and to see all of these people sort of mesmerized 12:52 by what they were listening to and to hear the gospel. 12:56 And the Holy Spirit was drawing them 12:58 with chords of love 13:00 and we saw at least 10,000 people, 13:03 Hindus and Muslims move down the front 13:08 in this land of India 13:10 because of the preaching of what? 13:12 The gospel. 13:13 What is the gospel? 13:14 It's the power of God. 13:16 It's the everlasting message. 13:17 What's the gospel to you, Alan, tell me? 13:19 It's the love that God has for us 13:21 and Him explaining to us 13:24 that we don't need to be anything more 13:27 than just His children to be accepted and loved by Him. 13:29 And Christ died for us. 13:32 We preach Christ crucified. 13:34 We do not set just, we don't preach 13:36 just a set of orthodox doctrines. 13:39 We believe in doctrine 13:41 because doctrine simply means teaching 13:44 but we believe in the preaching of the Cross of Christ 13:48 and we believe that the preaching 13:50 of the blood of Christ is the power of God 13:53 for the salvation of men and women. 13:55 That's why it's called the good news 13:57 'cause it's really Good news, isn't it? 13:59 It's the good news of God. That's right. 14:01 And we're going to be back after this brief message. 14:07 I'm talking to Susan Piraino and Alan De Leon 14:12 and we're talking about the power of God 14:14 around the world to save lives. 14:17 You're tuned to the Carter Report. 14:19 Stay with us. 14:23 God has His time and His place for everything. 14:28 And the time and the place now 14:31 is Latin America, including Cuba. 14:35 Time Magazine talks about 14:37 the Second Protestant Reformation 14:40 and describes how hundreds of thousands, 14:44 even millions of Latinos 14:46 are coming to the gospel of Christ. 14:50 I'm not an armchair theologian. 14:53 I'm speaking according to experience. 14:56 I've seen it with my own eyes. 14:59 Recently, we went down to El Salvador. 15:03 There I spoke in the largest football stadium 15:07 in Central America with the biggest crowd 15:10 that that football stadium had ever, ever seen. 15:13 They came not to see a football match, 15:16 but to hear about the blood of Christ. 15:20 Millions are coming to a knowledge of God 15:23 in Latin America. 15:26 Doors are opening in Cuba. 15:29 Who knows, we may be going to Cuba soon. 15:33 As the doors open by the grace of God, 15:36 we are going to step through those doors. 15:39 And we want you to step through those doors with us 15:43 and be part of our team for such a time as this. 15:48 Please write to me, friend. 15:49 Don't put it off. 15:51 Write to me, John Carter, Post Office Box 1900, 15:55 Thousand Oaks, California, 91358. 15:59 In Australia, write to me at Terrigal, New South Wales. 16:04 Be part of the Second Reformation, 16:08 join us and see the miracles of God. 16:13 Amen. 16:23 Welcome back to the Carter Report. 16:26 Today we're talking about 16:27 the power of the blood of Jesus. 16:29 We're talking about the power of the preaching of the gospel 16:32 and how we have seen millions of people 16:35 come to a knowledge of God 16:37 when the gospel is preached 16:39 with the power of the Holy Spirit. 16:40 We have with us Susan Piraino, Alan De Leon. 16:44 Alan, tell me did we have 16:47 a security problem in the meetings? 16:49 Were we afraid of being shot down by gangs? 16:53 No, not at all. 16:55 I was-- I felt very welcomed there during the meetings, 16:58 all the people were just very friendly. 17:00 They wanted to come up to us and ask us questions, 17:03 personal questions in regards to us, 17:05 how we were working for the Carter Report 17:08 but there was never a moment 17:09 where I felt like I was in danger 17:11 or any of the members for that matter. 17:13 The safest place to be 17:15 is in the place where God wants you to be. 17:18 Because the will of God will never take you 17:21 where the grace of God cannot keep you. 17:22 That's correct. 17:24 And if you are in the right place, 17:25 you don't have to be worried about getting shot. 17:28 Right. 17:29 I've walked out hundred of times 17:31 in pitch darkness with spotlights on me. 17:34 I mean, that makes you a target, doesn't it? 17:36 Sometimes with a white suit on 17:39 and you walk out 17:40 and you are in a dangerous country 17:41 like Papua New Guinea, and they say that, 17:46 Port Moresby, I maybe somebody would correct me 17:50 but I read recently that, 17:52 that is the most dangerous city in the world. 17:56 I saw that. 17:57 And you can walk out on a stage in the most dangerous city 18:01 in the world and you are safe. 18:04 Susan, back to El Salvador, do you know how many buses? 18:09 Yes, there were 700 buses that were hired. 18:13 I think we started of saying they were going to hire 500 18:17 and then it grew to 600. 18:18 Guess who was paying for these buses? 18:20 We were. 18:21 So they, because they brought people 18:24 from all over the country. 18:25 Yes, all over. 18:27 It wasn't just a thing in the capital city. 18:29 These buses came from all over the country. 18:31 So they were bringing people from every 18:34 north, south, east and west. 18:35 So there were 700 buses. 18:37 I'm told 700 plus because as the need arose, 18:42 they just went out and hired more buses. 18:44 I've never seen 700 buses before. 18:47 Right. I had neither. 18:48 That's a huge number of buses. 18:50 They told me, pardon my saying this, 18:53 they told me, well, 18:55 those Latinos down there 18:57 won't pay and organize anything. 18:59 Oh, yeah, it'll be a mess. 19:00 And they said it is going to be a mess, 19:02 you just got to recognize that. 19:04 But we saw such great organization 19:06 by this whole team of people working, working really hard 19:11 and they put together wouldn't you say, uh... 19:14 Every one involved in the program 19:15 had their own specific rule 19:17 and everybody participated with full responsibility 19:20 and we were able to have a very smooth program 19:23 because of all that organization. 19:24 I've never seen such good organization. 19:26 I hadn't either. 19:27 I haven't seen it in America, in the church, 19:30 I haven't seen it in Australia. 19:31 I didn't know there were 700 buses in El Salvador 19:34 I didn't know there were 700 buses. 19:38 Okay, 700 buses, 19:41 can you tell me about 19:42 where the people were seated from those buses? 19:46 I think it was 750 or something buses, 19:48 but we'll say 700. 19:51 Where were the people allocated? 19:53 Do you know about this? 19:54 I do know that all the people had specific sections 19:56 and that it was divided by their region 19:59 and their particular home church. 20:00 Can you believe this? Yeah. 20:01 It was amazing and I believe that 20:03 each particular church had their own set of pathfinders 20:07 that would lead them to their particular section 20:09 in the stadium to sit. 20:10 They had flags to point people on the right direction. 20:14 And specific pathfinders are wearing specific colors 20:17 in coordination with what church they were with. 20:20 So, that type of organization 20:22 was really, really impressive to see. 20:24 I saw some people are holding up signs, 553, 649. 20:29 They were some of the regions I think they got, 20:31 they got divided into regions 20:33 and what they did was the regions 20:35 that were further away, 20:37 were the ones that they put closest to the exits. 20:40 So when we finished, they'd be the first ones out, 20:42 first ones on the bus to start their truck. 20:44 Sometimes three to four hours back to where they came from. 20:48 And remember, the skeptics, skeptic 20:52 who said to our friends down there, 20:54 the organizers of this great campaign 20:56 for the Carter Report, they said, 20:58 "I'd be surprised if you got a hundred people in there." 21:01 Right. 21:02 "You're not going to have any people come. 21:04 You folks, you're just not going to have a crowd." 21:06 I'm told we had the biggest crowd 21:09 in the history of the stadium. 21:11 The stadium was over flowing with people. 21:13 And then when they had a football match after we left, 21:16 did you know what happened then? 21:18 Yeah, I understood that 21:19 there was a football match schedule for that Sunday 21:22 and the crowd was not even half for the big, 21:27 and it was an international game. 21:29 Let's, uh, some folks told me it was around 10,000 21:34 for the glory of God. 21:37 Amen. 21:39 What brought the people, do you think? 21:40 That was the power of the Holy Spirit 21:42 bringing the people influencing them 21:44 through the preaching of the local pastors 21:46 and just the buzz that was created by this large venue 21:51 and the organization of it all 21:53 just played a huge part in that. 21:54 Now, Susan, you are 21:56 the product of public evangelism. 21:58 You came to Christ 22:00 in the Shrine Auditorium downtown, Los Angeles. 22:03 We know, looking back to the people, 22:06 back there said it won't happen. 22:08 If they, they are not going to come, 22:10 when they came, they said, 22:12 well, they are not going to stay. 22:14 After they were baptized, they said, 22:15 well, they're all going to be apostatized. 22:17 How long ago was that for you? 22:19 That was 1990. 22:21 Goodness, 15, 20 some odd years ago, 25... 22:26 Can I whisper it to you, 22:28 that's a quarter of the century that you have... 22:29 25 years ago. 22:31 And you're still going. 22:32 I'm still going. You still believe. 22:34 Still believe and still want to be a part of the work 22:37 that's making a difference in the world. 22:39 What do you think about public evangelism, Alan? 22:41 Now you are a young person. 22:42 You've been with the ministry for a bit over a year. 22:45 We appreciate you ever so much. 22:48 After going to El Salvador, 22:51 say something that maybe will touch the hearts 22:54 of the young people 22:55 who are watching this television program 22:57 because many of them have been told 22:59 the days of evangelism have finished. 23:02 It's kaput. 23:03 Well, I think growing up in the church 23:05 for young people for the most part, 23:07 they are taken by, 23:09 against their will by their parents 23:11 and they are just not necessarily, 23:13 well, they are spoon-fed tit bits of information 23:16 and going to these types of evangelical meetings, 23:20 hearing the Bible tied into history, science, 23:24 it all, it gives our young people 23:26 tools to defend themselves when they do go to university 23:29 or out in the secular world 23:31 to be able to prove with actual facts, 23:35 facts that a lot of people try to use against them, 23:38 that the Bible is very much real. 23:40 It's very much powerful and it's more relevant 23:42 now I believe than ever for young people. 23:44 Would you agree with this statement 23:46 that we have faith in the Bible as the word of God 23:51 because we believe that it is based upon evidence? 23:54 Exactly, yes. 23:55 We don't believe in faith in faith. 23:57 Do you understand what I'm saying, Susan? 23:59 We don't believe in faith in faith. 24:02 We believe in the evidence and Jesus spoke about this. 24:06 Jesus said, "You will know the truth 24:09 and the truth will make you free." 24:11 Jesus said 24:12 I'm not asking you to just to believe in a foolish way. 24:16 But I'm going to give you evidence 24:18 and you can build your faith upon the evidence. 24:21 We believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 24:24 not because we feel like believing, 24:26 well, because we want to believe. 24:28 We believe because of the overwhelming evidence. 24:33 Alan, do you want to go again? 24:36 Oh, I'd love to go at the drop of a hat. 24:38 I feel like it would just be a tremendous experience 24:41 to be able to go out there and participate 24:43 and use your hands to just work and witness to the people, 24:48 to affect them in a way that will last for eternity 24:51 and to be able to witness to someone 24:54 and to see them come to Jesus in such a powerful, real way, 25:00 I believe it's one of the biggest blessings 25:01 that you can have. 25:02 Susan, cast your mind back. 25:05 It was only a few months ago, but visualize, 25:10 tell the audience about the people who came. 25:14 What was the audience like? 25:16 Well, I think we covered the whole spectrum, 25:19 from the vendor in the street 25:22 to the Vice President of the nation. 25:24 I mean, she actually attended. 25:27 We saw her there several nights 25:29 and she came to thank you 25:31 I believe for coming to her country 25:33 and for the message 25:35 that you were bringing to the people 25:36 and then I met a young girl by the name of Carla, 25:40 do you remember Carla, 25:41 she was the physician, she was a doctor? 25:43 Tell us about Carla, the physician. 25:45 Carla had started attending some of the meetings 25:48 and it was her first time to hear the gospel as well. 25:52 And so she was excited and then 25:54 when she saw that the culmination 25:55 was in the stadium and she came 25:58 and she saw the impact 26:00 that this message was having in the nation, 26:02 she said, this was the best thing 26:04 that she's ever heard 26:05 and she gave her life to Christ. 26:07 Carla told me, I met Carla too. 26:10 She came to the hotel. Yes. 26:12 And Carla told me she was attending 26:14 one of the preliminary meetings in San Salvador. 26:18 Correct. 26:19 We sponsored as you know about 90 campaigns 26:22 before big campaigns. 26:23 That's right. 26:24 So there were 90 smaller campaigns 26:26 running right across the nation 26:28 and she came along, well, she didn't come along, 26:31 she was walking down the street 26:33 and she went past one of the places 26:35 where the meetings... 26:37 Were taking place. 26:38 Yeah, and she heard some music. 26:39 That's right. 26:41 And she'd just gone through a dreadful divorce 26:42 and she was hurting. 26:44 She was very sad and depressed, 26:47 she told me and she heard this uplifting music coming. 26:49 So she decided to walk in and see what was going on. 26:52 And it was one of the meetings, preliminary meetings 26:55 and they were preaching about the gospel 26:58 and she heard Jesus mentioned and so she was drawn in. 27:02 She said, "I was literally drawn in to listen." 27:06 Doesn't this tell us that there is a God in heaven? 27:10 Of course it does. Absolutely. 27:11 Doesn't it tell us, in this age of unbelief, 27:15 there is a God in heaven who still cares for people? 27:18 Yes. 27:19 And He saw Carla just as He sees you today. 27:24 And the Good news of the Bible is that God loves you 27:28 and Christ died for you and He has a plan 27:31 and a purpose for you, my friend. 27:34 I want you to know today that God is interested in you 27:37 and that God loves you and He wants you to come to Him 27:42 and He wants to come into your heart today. 27:45 Please write to me today. 27:46 John Carter, Post Office Box 1900, 27:49 Thousand Oaks, California, 27:51 Write to me in Australia at Terrigal. 27:54 Please support this great work. 27:58 We do this great work 28:00 because our eyes have seen the coming of the Lord. 28:03 We have seen the power of God. 28:06 We are not armchair theologians. 28:09 We believe that God is alive 28:12 and our message to you today is very simple. 28:15 Dear friend, believe in the God who believes in you. 28:19 Good-bye for now. |
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