Participants: John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001626A
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00:04 The Carter Report presents Plain Talk with John Carter.
00:17 Welcome today to Plain Talk. 00:19 Today I'm talking about 00:21 some of the most interesting questions 00:23 that's ever been asked. 00:25 We've got thousands of people around the world, 00:26 who watch our television programs 00:28 and these thousands of people send in thousands of questions. 00:34 They range from the impossible to the absurd, 00:37 to the practical to the impractical, 00:40 but they're all really good questions. 00:42 And we're very glad 00:43 that you are a part of our audience today. 00:45 This is Plain Talk and here is the first question. 00:51 Does God still heal the sick? 00:54 Does God still heal the sick? 00:56 Well, God's an almighty God, isn't he? 00:59 Our God can do anything he wants to do. 01:02 And of course, 01:03 God can heal the sick and on occasions, 01:06 God does step into a timeframe and into where we are, 01:13 and puts his finger upon somebody 01:16 and he actually works a miracle. 01:17 So I do believe that God does heal the sick. 01:20 Would you come over here though to Exodus 15, 01:23 which I think is a key text 01:26 that most people really don't look at. 01:28 Exodus 15:26, if you got it. 01:33 Just want to welcome the audience today, 01:35 because you are as always a superb audience 01:39 here in our studio in Moorpark, in California. 01:43 Exodus, what did I say, 15:26, there it is, God said, 01:50 "If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God 01:55 and do what is right in his sight, 01:57 give ear to his commandments 01:59 and keep all his statutes, 02:02 I will put none of the diseases on you 02:05 which I have brought on the Egyptians." 02:07 What does it say folks? 02:08 "For I am the Lord who heals you." 02:15 I've seen God work miracles. 02:17 I have. 02:18 You say, lot of healings, no. 02:21 I'm not a faith healer or anything like that 02:24 but I have seen that God has on occasions 02:27 stepped in and God has worked a miracle. 02:30 But this text says, that if we obey God's word, 02:34 He's going to put none of these awful diseases upon us 02:38 that you find in the world. 02:41 Now, gonna tell you something, you folks listening. 02:46 In the Bible 02:47 you've got some amazing health laws. 02:51 I'm telling you. 02:53 Have you heard of the sad diet? 02:55 S-A-D, the sad diet, 02:59 is that's what most folks in this part of the world 03:02 enjoy the sad diet, 03:04 it's called the Standard American Diet 03:09 and it's the reason why people are so sick. 03:13 Why we've got so much diabetes and heart disease and cancer. 03:19 But the Bible says 03:21 if we obey God's law and follow the health laws 03:26 that are taught in the Bible, 03:28 we're going to live longer and we're going to feel better 03:33 and we're gonna be blessed in everyway. 03:37 Now, I was watching PBS, 03:40 Public Broadcasting few months back, 03:42 and I heard a doctor 03:44 by the name of Dr. Joel Fuhrman, 03:46 he's a Jewish doctor. 03:49 Well, he sort of stunned me 03:51 because he was so, so, 03:53 so very good and he spoke about the super micronutrients 04:01 that we don't get in white bread 04:02 and all the rest of this terrible food. 04:05 And he spoke about why people are dying, 04:08 you know, 04:10 with all of these terrible diseases. 04:12 Now, I'm gonna tell you, my American friends, something 04:15 and I hope you gonna love me just the same after I tell you. 04:18 So you're ready for this? 04:20 Now I'm telling the Australians this too, 04:21 and I'm telling the people in England, telling, 04:23 but I'm talking especially to the Americans. 04:27 The Standard American Diet, 04:30 you're ready for this, want me to say, 04:32 I think it's great just like the government tells me. 04:35 The Standard American Diet 04:38 is the quickest way to a cemetery 04:41 that I know. 04:43 Now the Bible tells me that there's another sort of diet 04:46 and that is whole foods, 04:48 not talking about the shop over here either. 04:51 But it's fresh fruits, and vegetables, and nuts, 04:56 and grains, and more than this, 04:59 it's also exercising 05:01 and it's having a good attitude, 05:03 it's having... 05:05 You got to keep your attitude right. 05:06 You've got to have an attitude of gratitude. 05:11 And if you have an attitude of gratitude 05:13 and if you're thankful to God 05:15 and if you get out of bed in the morning 05:17 and, you know, there's a God who loves me. 05:21 And God has got a plan for my life 05:24 and one day after this life, which is great, 05:27 but one day I'm going to go on living for eternity 05:31 and I'm going to follow the commandments of God, 05:34 you are going to be blessed 05:37 and that is the greatest healing 05:40 that God can give to you 05:41 and it's a healing that the world needs. 05:46 Do you believe in evolution? 05:48 Do I believe in evolution? 05:52 I've given some talks, 05:54 I've interviewed some scientists 05:55 and people have asked me the question, 05:57 ''Do you believe in evolution?' 06:00 ' What sort of evolution do you mean? 06:03 There's micro evolution and there's macro evolution. 06:07 You know the difference. 06:08 I believe in micro evolution. 06:10 Every person who is educated, 06:14 and even people who aren't educated 06:16 believe in micro evolution. 06:21 A virus mutates 06:24 and so you get a cure to kill this wretched thing 06:28 but it mutates, so it's mutating all the time. 06:31 It's not becoming a different life form, 06:35 it is still the same basic virus 06:38 but micro evolution is changing a little bit 06:43 so that it becomes impervious to our attacks. 06:47 Okay. 06:49 But then there is macro evolution 06:50 and I don't believe it. 06:53 Macro evolution says that, 06:55 we have come from an animal ancestry. 07:01 Now, I just want to talk about this a little bit 07:04 because I don't believe in this. 07:06 I don't believe in Darwinism. 07:10 Charles Darwin, 07:11 you all know of Charles Darwin, he was a brilliant Englishman. 07:17 He said that after his death, in the geologic column, 07:22 I just want to try to think of the words he said, he said, 07:26 'they would discover a myriad form 07:29 of transitional life-forms.' 07:32 So that if you looked at 07:34 the different layers in the geologic column 07:37 which is similar all around the world, 07:39 he said, they would discover millions 07:44 and millions of transitional life-forms 07:47 that showed how this life-form 07:49 was transformed into this life-form 07:52 and this one was transformed, so forth. 07:57 After more than 150 years, my friends, 08:02 the transitional life-forms have not been found. 08:07 How do I know? 08:09 Are you a scientist, you're saying? 08:10 Well, who are you? 08:12 Well, one of the greatest evolutionists in the world 08:15 was Stephen J. Gould. 08:20 He said the fact 08:21 that they had not discovered the transitional life-forms, 08:25 was the dirty little secret of pale anthropologists. 08:32 So after more than 150 years, 08:35 Darwinism is dead. 08:40 And there had been other scientists 08:41 beside Stephen J. Gould, for instance, 08:44 let me tell me you about Professor Leakey. 08:48 Have you heard of Professor Leakey? 08:49 He found Lucy down in Africa, you know the story? 08:54 You know, 08:55 there was this funny little creature 08:57 and he said, Leakey said, 09:00 that the human race came from Lucy. 09:04 And all of the, all of the, not all of them 09:07 but most of the scientists and all of the evolutionists, 09:11 hurrah, hurrah, here is the proof of Darwinism. 09:16 But before he died Professor Leakey went on PBF, 09:21 and I have the statements and he said, 09:25 ''All that I said about her being our ancestor was wrong." 09:31 He said it's not true at all. 09:33 We are not descended from Lucy, he said, 09:36 ''It seems in my research..." Now listen to this concept. 09:42 Leakey said, ''It seems in my research 09:45 that the human race appeared recently and suddenly 09:50 as a new and distinct species.' 09:55 ' Now I believe that, say I believe that, 09:58 because that's exactly what the Bible says. 10:00 The Bible teaches 10:02 that the human race did not evolve. 10:04 The human race was made in the very image of God. 10:08 And therefore every person is distinct and glorious. 10:12 That is why I believe a little baby 10:14 before it's born is distinct and glorious 10:18 and worth more than all the money in the world. 10:23 I believe that every human being is precious, 10:27 because we did not come down from the trees, 10:30 we came down from the stars, we came down from God, 10:34 we were made in the image of God. 10:36 Why is it so hard to say sorry? 10:40 Do you find it hard to say sorry? 10:42 Why is it so hard to say sorry? 10:46 Well, 10:49 that's a tough question, isn't that? 10:52 Would you come over here to Luke 15. 10:55 We'll see what our Lord Jesus had to say about saying sorry. 10:59 I know with some people, 11:00 they'd rather die than say sorry. 11:04 Luke 15:17 and onwards. 11:07 This is the story of a runaway prodigal boy. 11:11 Luke 15 in the Bible, 11:13 Luke 15:17 and onwards, it says, 11:16 "But when he came to himself," 11:17 this is the boy who cleared out, you know, 11:19 took his father's money, went away. 11:22 "When he came to himself, he said, 11:23 'How many of my father's hired servants 11:25 have bread enough and to spare and I perish with hunger! 11:29 I will arise and go to my father, 11:31 will say to him, Father, 11:32 I've sinned against heaven and before you, 11:34 and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. 11:37 Make me like one of your hired servants." 11:39 ' But look at verse 17, it says, 11:41 but when he...what does it say, my audience? 11:44 What does it tell me when he came to himself? 11:46 That's the hard part. 11:49 Hard part is to come to yourself. 11:51 What does it mean to come to yourself? 11:54 Where you see yourself as God sees you. 11:57 You come to yourself. 11:59 The human heart, 12:01 and I'm talking about people in the church also, 12:06 you know, lot of people in the church, 12:09 you got tons of religion 12:10 but they don't have a lot of Christ. 12:13 They've got to come to themselves too. 12:16 How the human heart by itself, this human brain, 12:22 made up of trillions of cells, this human heart, 12:27 this human mind in itself is very proud. 12:32 We're born proud. 12:34 You don't have to go to the seminary 12:35 to become proud. 12:38 You don't have to go to the theological school 12:40 to become a Pharisee. 12:42 We are born 12:44 with a black blot of atom in our veins 12:46 and we are born Pharisees. 12:50 I remember once a lady saying to me 12:53 'cause I was giving the family a little bit of counseling, 12:56 not that I'm a great counselor. 12:57 But she said to me, 12:59 "I've been married to my husband here for 30 years 13:04 and I've never heard him say, sorry." 13:09 I think they're getting a divorce, no wonder. 13:12 I mean he was sort of a pain, wasn't he? 13:15 He couldn't bring himself, he couldn't come to himself 13:19 and squeeze it out and say, 13:22 ''Look, I've been a real dope. 13:27 I'm sorry, I messed up." 13:31 It's because of the pride that is in the human heart. 13:35 Let me tell you something. 13:37 Unless we can learn to say sorry to God, 13:40 and say sorry to our spouses and sorry to our churches 13:46 and sorry to our children 13:48 and everybody else that we have sinned, 13:50 we're not going to heaven. 13:54 Now some people think everybody goes to heaven. 13:56 I don't believe that at all, I don't believe that nonsense, 13:58 it's all propaganda. 14:01 Don't believe that propaganda. 14:02 Don't believe that political small talk. 14:05 I believe in God's plain talk. 14:07 Jesus said, "Unless you repent, you will all likewise perish." 14:12 So repentance is not because I've been caught with my hand 14:17 in the cookie jar. 14:22 That was like Esau. 14:24 I repent because I'm sorry. 14:29 I actually have a feeling inside 14:32 and I feel sorry and I'm remorseful. 14:37 When I do this, God can bless me, 14:42 and my family will accept me and love me 14:46 and I will become a better human being. 14:51 And I'll be easier to get along with. 14:55 Should churches get involved in real estate ventures? 14:58 Boy, you're asking me these tough questions? 15:00 I don't why you're asking me all these tough questions. 15:03 The last question was easy. 15:05 Should churches get involved in real estate ventures? 15:07 Let me give you a text. 15:09 Come over here to 1 Corinthians 9:14, 15:12 1 Corinthians 9:14, 15:17 well I guess everybody at some time 15:19 has to get involved in a real estate venture, 15:21 but shouldn't be the main line. 15:24 Shouldn't be the main line 15:26 and it shouldn't even be a side line. 15:28 It should be a thing that you do 15:30 when you can't do anything else. 15:33 Like buying a house or selling your house 15:34 or something like that, 15:36 shouldn't be what you're trying to do in your life. 15:39 1 Corinthians, what did I say, chapter 9:14, 15:42 "Even so the Lord has commanded 15:44 that those who preach the gospel 15:46 should live from the gospel." 15:49 Now, I know of ministers 15:52 who've got secondary jobs, 15:56 so they turn up at church on Wednesday night 15:58 and they turn up at church in the weekend, 16:00 but during the week 16:01 they're doing all sorts of other stuff. 16:04 They're selling cars, they're doing real estate, 16:07 they ought to be fired. 16:10 They really are ought to be called in by the president 16:14 of the conference or whoever he is and say, 16:18 like the Donald says, "You are fired." 16:23 I know of one church organization that not long ago 16:28 lost $42 million 16:33 in a real estate venture that went bust. 16:38 Think where that, and they said, 16:40 we don't have any money for evangelism. 16:44 No, they said, we don't have any money 16:46 to go preaching the gospel 16:47 but we're gonna put in a strip mall, 16:50 we're gonna do all this sort of stuff, 16:51 we're gonna make money. 16:53 They didn't have the blessing of God. 16:56 I think the curse of God was upon their project. 16:58 They lost $42 or $44 million, how do I know? 17:03 Because one of the people who was on the inside 17:06 told it to me, when he thought he was dying. 17:11 I believe that the... 17:12 At now, sometimes the church has to do some real estate. 17:15 You got to buy buildings, you got to buy a land, 17:18 let's be realistic, you got to build hospitals, 17:21 but I'm talking about going out on a venture 17:24 to take God's money and try to make money 17:27 out of God's money. 17:29 It's a sin. 17:31 The Bible says those who preach the gospel 17:34 should live of a gospel. 17:36 Now, people have said to me at the Carter Report, 17:39 I've had some wonderful and wealthy people come to me 17:43 and they've said, Pastor Carter, 17:45 how come that you seem to get money to do things, 17:51 because we do. 17:55 It's because God blesses us. 17:58 When you preach the gospel, 18:01 people will start sending you money, 18:04 that's what happens. 18:06 Money comes in through the mail. 18:08 We're going to go to Cuba, 18:10 it's gonna cost us a heap of money. 18:13 We're gonna go to Ukraine. 18:16 We've been running big campaigns everywhere 18:18 and people say, well, I guess the church pays for it. 18:22 You're kidding, like your sense of humor, no, of course not. 18:26 We don't get a Brass razoo. 18:28 In Australia that means nothing. 18:31 We don't get anything from the church. 18:35 But that God blesses you when you do God's work. 18:39 Do we have times of trial when our faith is tested? 18:42 You better believe it. 18:44 I've had times when I've thought, 18:45 I don't know how I'm gonna pay 18:47 the wages this next week, you know. 18:49 You don't have enough money in the bank. 18:52 But whenever it comes to the crunch, 18:54 God blesses us and the money comes. 18:57 I believe that those who preach the gospel 19:00 should live of the gospel. 19:02 And the reason that we don't have more evangelism 19:05 is because people don't have enough faith in God. 19:08 That's the reason. 19:10 Not because it doesn't work. 19:11 It's because they don't have enough faith in God, 19:14 so I don't believe that it's a general rule, 19:17 churches or conferences 19:21 or whatever ought to be fooling around with real estate. 19:27 I believe they ought to be out preaching the gospel of Christ. 19:30 Can you say amen? 19:31 Yeah, say it again, amen. 19:34 Thank you. 19:35 How can I beat depression? 19:38 How can I beat depression? 19:40 Now that's not a good question. 19:42 That's super, super good question. 19:47 Lot of people suffer with depression. 19:49 When I would go to Russia, 19:51 I ran the first big evangelistic public campaign, 19:55 as a foreigner in the Soviet Union. 19:58 I started this campaign when communism was still ruling. 20:02 I was over there in Moscow. 20:04 I was the first, by the grace of God to do it. 20:07 Somebody said the first silly enough to try, 20:11 but when I met the Russian people, 20:17 I found them to be the most depressed people I'd ever met. 20:20 Now Americans by nature, 20:23 at least seem to be upbeat 20:25 and candeo and happy and like... 20:29 you know, when they go out and they eat they're all happy. 20:33 We ought to be happy. 20:35 But when I went to Russia and have 10,000 people 20:37 in an audience, nobody would look at me. 20:41 It's like preaching in some churches. 20:45 I preached in churches 20:47 where people don't want to look at you either, 20:48 they have their heads down. 20:51 Now I've preached in churches like that, 20:53 it's like preaching in a cemetery. 20:57 And when I would preach to the Russians, 20:59 they wouldn't have eye contact with me. 21:02 They're terribly depressed. 21:03 One night I said in Nizhny Novgorod or old city of Gorky, 21:07 put up your hands if you suffer from depression. 21:10 Here, 10,000 hands and even including children. 21:13 Russia is a depressed society. 21:16 It was depressed because of atheism. 21:20 And don't give me any talk about atheism being good. 21:22 Atheism is a curse. 21:25 Atheism tore the heart out of Russia, 21:30 murdered millions of people 21:32 and turned everybody into a depressive alcoholic. 21:36 That's why the Russians are great drinkers. 21:43 Now you know why the Russians drank? 21:46 They're totally depressed. 21:49 They got more alcoholics in Russia 21:50 than any other part of the world, 21:52 that's because of atheism which caused depression. 21:56 Now come to a text here and you may wonder 21:58 why I'm gonna read you this text. 22:01 Come over here to Ephesians 4:26, 22:05 you folks doing okay. 22:07 You really are a good audience, you know. 22:10 We're just going to enjoy our company together. 22:15 Ephesians 4:26, 22:17 now you may wonder why I read you this text 22:19 when we're talking about depression. 22:21 That's in the New Testament, 22:23 my friends, Mathew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans, 22:26 Corinthians, Keep going, Galatians, 22:28 Ephesians 4:26, 22:31 "Be angry, and do not sin, 22:36 do not let the sin go down on your wrath. 22:39 Now the Bible says, look at me, 22:42 Bible says it's all right to be angry. 22:46 You see something which is bad, 22:49 you see pair of files getting away 22:51 with it or something like that, it's right to be angry. 22:56 It's right to be angry against injustice 23:00 and all of those things, but it's crazy to stay angry. 23:06 The angry do not sin, 23:08 don't let the sun go down on your wrath. 23:10 Look at me, 23:12 probably the major cause of depression 23:16 is unresolved anger. 23:21 You may have reason to be angry, 23:23 I have been angry in my life and sometimes, 23:27 I've held on to it. 23:30 It's a dumb thing to do. 23:31 Anger will make you depressed. 23:35 You got to get rid of your anger. 23:38 You got to go and see the person. 23:40 You got to let it out. 23:42 You got to forgive, forgive, forgive. 23:47 Now I'm gonna tell you a book, recommended to you. 23:53 Let me think. 23:54 Here it is, Happiness is a Choice by Minirth, Meier, 23:59 two Christian psychologists, 24:02 Happiness is a Choice 24:06 and it tells you how to overcome depression. 24:09 Every person who is depressed can get over depression 24:12 once they learn the secret. 24:15 What are the cultural wars all about? 24:18 The cultural wars. 24:19 Well, it's going on all around us. 24:24 Particularly here in America, 24:26 which was basically 24:28 a Judeo-Christian civilization, a culture. 24:33 It was based on a concept, 24:35 there's a God and the Bible is true, you see. 24:39 And that human life is sacred. 24:42 That's what it's based on. 24:44 It's based on morality. 24:46 One man, one woman 24:49 but through the teachings 24:50 of some of the great German philosophers 24:53 and other philosophers, the universities, 24:57 the American universities, 24:59 the British and the Australian and so forth 25:02 have been permeated with the doctrines of niche 25:06 Neo-Darwinism and other philosophers. 25:09 I can give you their names 25:11 and this has set up a war against God and the Bible. 25:18 You see it on television, 25:20 television people are the spokesman 25:22 on the whole for this, this cultural war. 25:26 It has brought about tens of millions of abortions. 25:31 It's brought about so many killings in the streets 25:34 where human life doesn't count. 25:37 Now America is at the crossroads 25:42 and unless America changes her path, 25:45 America will go down. 25:47 What is it needed? 25:48 And this is true with rest of the nations in the world, 25:50 we need to turn to God 25:53 and we need to get back to the faith of our fathers 25:57 that is found in the Bible. 25:59 Amen. 26:01 Can you say amen? 26:02 Amen and amen. 26:17 Hello, friend. 26:18 I'm John Carter in Havana, Cuba. 26:22 I'm standing here in Revolutionary Square. 26:26 This great square is dedicated 26:28 to the great communist revolution 26:30 under Fidel that came to this country back 50, 26:34 60 years ago. 26:36 This place is still undergoing a revolution. 26:40 We've come to check out the reality of the situation. 26:45 Freedom of speech is not allowed here still. 26:48 Preaching the gospel 26:49 out of doors is not allowed here, 26:52 still whatever you hear about reconciliation, 26:55 nothing has really changed. 26:58 We've been told, we cannot run public campaigns 27:03 in Cuba in any part of this world. 27:07 We can run meetings in churches, that's allowed. 27:10 So what are we going to do? 27:12 We're going to support the people of God 27:14 in this part of the world. 27:15 We're going to step through those doors 27:17 as God opens those doors. 27:20 We're not going to come and cause a commotion 27:25 and cause trouble to the people of God. 27:28 We will work diligently 27:30 and as wise as serpents 27:34 and as harmless as doves. 27:36 Stand with us in the preaching of the gospel, wherever it is, 27:41 stand with us. 27:42 Write to me, P.O. 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