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00:01 The Carter Report presents "Living Victoriously".
00:06 Secrets of Success from Prime Minister Daniel
00:08 of Babylon City
00:10 with your host John Carter.
00:25 We're glad to see you today.
00:27 But we want to give you the most wonderful welcome,
00:30 the warmest welcome.
00:32 Our topic today is "Living Victoriously".
00:36 This in fact is the first of a new series.
00:40 Twelve parts in the series "Living Victoriously"
00:44 why you and I can be always victors
00:49 and never victims.
00:51 Hear a lot of people who talk today
00:53 and they consider that they're victims
00:54 because of their race, or their color,
00:57 or their background, or because of their economics.
01:01 But we're going to discover in this series
01:03 that we are victors and never victims.
01:09 I want to start today by telling you
01:10 a really terrific story.
01:13 A man who travels with us on occasions
01:15 is Dr. John Hammond from Australia.
01:17 His parents were extraordinary people.
01:23 Dr. Brian Hammond was a doctor.
01:26 Not just an ordinary doctor, he was just a great doctor.
01:30 He was sent as a missionary doctor
01:33 to the little place of Penang
01:36 in Malaya,
01:38 or Malaysia we call it today.
01:41 He was a regular GP,
01:43 but he had a vision to go higher
01:45 and bigger and better.
01:49 So he studied up to 20 hours a day.
01:52 And he wanted to sit for the exams
01:54 and let me, just want to get this right
01:56 so I'm not telling you something that isn't accurate.
01:59 He wanted to sit for the Royal College of Surgeons
02:05 in Edinburgh
02:07 and in these days that was about as,
02:10 as good as you can imagine the Royal College of Surgeons
02:15 in Scotland in Edinburgh,
02:17 he studied, and he studied and he studied
02:20 and just before the final exams,
02:22 he received this notice.
02:27 It was going to be on Saturday.
02:31 And this man was a Sabbath keeper.
02:33 Have you seen the movie "Chariots of Fire?"
02:36 This was over Sabbath keeping.
02:39 Dr. Hammond was a Sabbath keeper,
02:42 he kept the true Sabbath of the Bible.
02:45 And so he went to the people in Edinburgh
02:48 at the university
02:50 of the Royal College for surgeons
02:52 and he said, "Can I take it another day?
02:55 Can somebody supervise me
02:58 and then I take it another day?"
02:59 And they said, "No."
03:02 That means no.
03:04 "If you don't sit on Saturday, you're out."
03:11 And so Saturday came
03:14 and went,
03:16 he didn't sit for the exam.
03:18 And he said to his wife and his family,
03:21 "Well, we just have to pack up and go back to Australia
03:23 because it's not going to work out."
03:27 Then he got a phone call from Glasgow,
03:30 the Royal College of Surgeons in Glasgow.
03:34 They said, "Dr. Hammond,
03:36 if you can get here on Tuesday,
03:40 you can take the exam."
03:44 John told me, they drove like crazy.
03:48 And the doctor was studying 20 hours a day,
03:51 he's studying in the car.
03:55 Got to Glasgow, did the course
03:58 and he passed first time,
04:01 quite astounding first time he passed,
04:05 and then when he got home,
04:07 he got another phone call, it was from Dublin.
04:11 And they said, "We've heard about your situation
04:13 that you wouldn't sit for this exam on Saturday
04:15 because of your religious convictions."
04:18 The people said in Dublin,
04:20 "If you come across
04:21 to the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin
04:24 and get here by such and such a day,
04:27 you can sit for the exam."
04:30 And so they got on a boat
04:32 and they went to Ireland and he sat for the exam.
04:36 And he passed at first time.
04:38 He was a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
04:42 in Glasgow and in Dublin.
04:46 That he had a dream in his soul,
04:49 if I could only become a member,
04:52 a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
04:58 in England at that time it was very best in the world.
05:07 And so he went to England,
05:09 400 doctors went with him,
05:13 400 doctors set for the examination.
05:18 Thirty two passed.
05:21 Not necessarily on the first go
05:23 but after multiple tries, 32 passed
05:26 but three passed on the first attempt.
05:31 He was one of the three.
05:35 I just want you to know this
05:37 that if you, and I want to say this
05:39 to any of the young people who are watching here today.
05:42 If you and I will purpose in our hearts
05:46 that we will put God first,
05:49 God is going to make us ten times better.
05:54 I want you to know this.
05:56 And we will never, never, never be victims,
06:00 we will always be victors.
06:04 Now this is the first of a 12 part series.
06:08 We're going to talk today about secrets of success
06:11 from the prime minister, not of Great Britain,
06:14 but the prime minister of Babylon.
06:17 The most amazing city, the most influential city
06:22 in the history of the human race.
06:26 And the star of the show is really a young man
06:29 by the name of Daniel, a Jewish captive of war
06:34 whose writings tell us how to live victoriously.
06:38 This is 12 part series, and some of the programs
06:42 are going to be about these subjects
06:47 that I'm going to put up on the screen.
06:51 Twelve part series,
06:54 let me just give you some of them.
06:57 How to be 10 times better in every way, that's today.
07:00 Number two, you have a wonderful future
07:03 in a tremendous, a wonderful new world.
07:07 Saved from death
07:08 and how you can get the big promotion.
07:12 It doesn't depend upon your boss,
07:14 it depends upon somebody else.
07:16 Recovery from mental illness
07:20 and financial disaster.
07:23 Conquering death and waking up in glory.
07:26 And so, today we're going to tell you
07:28 how you can be 10 times better in every way.
07:32 God has a plan for you, my friend,
07:35 sitting here today in our studio in California.
07:38 A plan that is bigger
07:39 and better than you can imagine.
07:42 He wants you to experience a life
07:44 that is 10 times better than anybody else around you.
07:48 We are never called to failure.
07:50 We are always called to victory.
07:54 The setting is the old city of Babylon,
07:58 the hero is Daniel, the Jew,
08:02 one of the great characters in the story,
08:05 is a young fellow by the name of Nebuchadnezzar.
08:12 We're going to discover secrets of success
08:16 from the prime minister of Babylon.
08:20 He was a prisoner of war and ended up the prime minister
08:24 or like the president of the United States.
08:28 Now source material is the Book of Daniel.
08:32 It consists of 12 amazing chapters,
08:35 all containing exciting and extraordinary stories,
08:40 stories about wild animals,
08:44 cruel tyrants, fiery furnaces,
08:49 a crazy king,
08:52 a prince of peace,
08:55 supernatural visitors from other worlds
08:59 and a new world.
09:01 Now, I want you sitting here today
09:04 in our studio to take the Bible
09:06 and turn to the Book of Daniel 12:1-2, my friend.
09:12 Daniel 12:1-2, 10 times better,
09:18 you can be 10 times better.
09:21 "In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah.
09:26 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
09:28 came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
09:32 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand,
09:36 with some of the articles of the house of God.
09:40 These were the golden vessels
09:42 which he carried into the land of Shinar
09:44 to the house of his god,
09:45 and he brought the articles
09:47 in the treasure house of his god."
09:52 The Bible tells the story how Jerusalem was besieged.
09:57 And eventually the city was completely destroyed.
10:01 And Nebuchadnezzar
10:03 who was a just a young guy himself like Daniel
10:07 and we're going to discover three young men also.
10:12 Nebuchadnezzar whose name is written down
10:14 actually in these inscriptions
10:16 that I have taken pictures of in the British Museum,
10:20 this is the Nebuchadnezzar stela.
10:22 Nebuchadnezzar got a big bunch of young Jews.
10:27 I don't know how many,
10:28 maybe a hundred or more, I don't know,
10:31 but he brought them over to the land of Babylon.
10:34 And he brought them there
10:35 because he was going to teach them the wisdom,
10:37 and the signs,
10:39 and the understanding of the Chaldeans
10:42 or the Babylonian people.
10:43 And one of those young people was Daniel.
10:49 If you look at verses 3 to 6 please in this chapter.
10:54 "Then the king instructed Ashpenaz,
10:57 the master of his eunuchs,
10:59 to bring some of the children of Israel
11:01 and some of the king's descendants
11:03 and some of the nobles..."
11:05 These are the best.
11:07 "Young men in whom there was no blemish,
11:11 these young men were not eunuchs,
11:13 but good-looking,
11:14 gifted in all wisdom, possessing knowledge
11:17 and quick to understand,
11:20 who had ability to serve in the king's palace,
11:23 and whom they might teach the language
11:25 and the literature of the Chaldeans
11:28 or the Babylonians."
11:29 And if you read on, it says,
11:31 "And the king appointed for them a daily provision
11:33 of the king's delicacies
11:35 and of the wine which he drank,
11:38 and three years of training for them,
11:40 so that at the end of that time
11:41 they might serve before the king.
11:44 Now among those of the sons of Judah were, here they are,
11:48 Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah."
11:55 And when you read these stories,
11:58 you think of old folks.
12:01 You think of folks of God,
12:03 wrinkles and got gray hair or white hair.
12:09 Do you know how old they were?
12:13 On this occasion,
12:16 the best scholarship seems to indicate
12:19 that Daniel, Hananiah,
12:21 Mishael, and Azariah were young guys
12:24 of 16, 17, or 18 years of age.
12:29 A long, long way from home
12:32 and they are in the king's palace.
12:39 Life is full of tests
12:40 and they're going to get a tremendous test.
12:44 Because the king says,
12:45 "I'm going to take these young men
12:48 and I'm going to train these young Jews
12:51 so that they can be the very best
12:54 in the city of Babylon."
12:57 And they're going to get the very best.
13:00 They're going to get the best food,
13:03 they're going to get the best accommodation.
13:06 Everything is going to be the very best for them.
13:10 And I want you to know something,
13:12 want all the young people
13:14 watching this program to listen.
13:17 If you go, if you want to be 10 times better,
13:20 you've got to make up your mind first and foremost
13:24 that you're not going to be a conformist.
13:29 Dr. Hammond was not a conformist.
13:33 Tremendous pressure upon him,
13:34 you know, he'd gone from Australia to Scotland.
13:38 Everything was on the line
13:41 but he purposed in his heart,
13:43 he wasn't going to be a conformist.
13:45 The greatest people in this world
13:47 who are 10 times better are not sniveling conformists.
13:55 And when you're in a foreign country
13:57 and you're long way from mom and dad,
14:02 and you're in the camp of the enemy,
14:04 there is tremendous pressure to say,
14:07 I'm just going to go along with it.
14:09 I'm going to take my exams
14:12 exactly when they tell me to take my exams.
14:18 But the Bible tells me that God's non-conformist
14:22 always end up 10 times better.
14:25 Now I'm going to read on
14:27 a little bit further now please.
14:29 This is the great test for 7-21 this long passage,
14:33 7-21.
14:35 "To them the chief of the eunuchs gave names:
14:37 he gave Daniel the name Belteshazzar,
14:40 to Hananiah, Shadrach, to Mishael, Meshach,
14:43 and to, what does it say,
14:46 Azariah, yes, Abed-Nego.
14:50 We call them usually today
14:51 Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego,
14:53 they are the Babylonians names.
14:55 Verse 8 is one of the great text
14:57 in the ancient language.
14:59 "But Daniel purposed in his heart,"
15:02 deep down inside.
15:04 This young guy of 16 or 17 said,
15:07 "I'm going to be true, I'm going to do what is right,
15:09 he purposed in his heart."
15:12 "That he would not defile himself
15:14 with the portion of the king's delicacies,
15:17 nor with the wine which he drank,
15:19 therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs
15:22 that he might not defile himself."
15:23 What was wrong with eating this stuff?
15:28 Well, firstly, most likely
15:31 it had been dedicated to the Babylonian gods.
15:35 Therefore eating this stuff would imply subservience
15:41 to the gods of the Babylonians.
15:43 So this young guy, thousand miles from home,
15:46 long way from mom and dad,
15:49 deep down inside he says,
15:51 "I am not going to defile myself.
15:56 And also talked about delicacies,
16:00 the food was rich,
16:02 the wine was intoxicating.
16:07 Think how easy it is to conform
16:12 when the pressure is on you
16:14 and you're a long way from home,
16:16 when you're working in Hollywood.
16:21 When you're working in LA, and everybody is doing it,
16:25 just to go with the crowd.
16:27 But this young guy of 16 years of age
16:30 purposed in his heart, you know the song,
16:32 "All God wants is a few good men."
16:37 Some of the greatest acts in the history of the world
16:40 have been done by young men
16:43 who purposed in their hearts.
16:46 This is a terrific story, it's a story of courage.
16:49 I was given a book by Beverly the other day on John Glenn.
16:54 It said, he was a guy had the right stuff.
16:57 I just admire John Glenn.
17:00 I admire those young men, they had terrific courage,
17:04 they were not conformers, they had backbones,
17:08 the right stuff they said about them.
17:12 Daniel had the right stuff.
17:15 Now verse 9, "Now God had brought Daniel
17:18 into the favor and goodwill of the chief of the eunuchs.
17:20 The chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel,
17:22 'I fear my lord the king,
17:23 who has appointed your food and drink.
17:25 For why should he see your faces
17:27 looking worse than the young men
17:28 who are of your age?
17:30 Then you would endanger my head before the king."
17:34 So Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the eunuchs
17:36 had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
17:39 "Please test your servants for ten days,
17:43 let them give us vegetables to eat
17:45 and water to drink."
17:48 Vegetables to eat and water to drink.
17:52 "Then let our appearance be examined before you,
17:55 and the appearance of the young men
17:56 who eat the portion of the king's delicacies,
17:59 and as you see fit,
18:01 so deal with your servants."
18:03 So he consented with them in this matter,
18:05 and tested them ten days.
18:08 And at the end of ten days their features appeared better
18:11 and fatter in flesh than all the young men
18:14 who ate the portion of the king's delicacies.
18:17 Thus the steward took away their portion of delicacies
18:20 and the wine that they were to drink,
18:23 and gave them vegetables.
18:26 Did you know somebody said, "Great eater and great drinkers
18:28 are seldom great at anything else."
18:31 And so here young guys getting the most simple food.
18:35 Verse 17, "As for these four young men,
18:39 God gave them knowledge
18:40 and skill in all literature and wisdom,
18:43 and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams."
18:48 And I want you to get this into your mind.
18:49 Here it is.
18:51 "Now at the end of the days, when the king had said
18:53 that they should be brought in,
18:55 the chief of the eunuchs brought them in
18:57 before Nebuchadnezzar."
18:58 He says to young guy himself.
19:00 "Then the king interviewed them,
19:03 and among them of all none was found
19:06 like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
19:10 therefore they served before the king.
19:13 And in all matters of wisdom and understanding
19:16 about which the king examined them, he found them..."
19:20 What does it say?
19:21 "He found them ten times better
19:25 than all the magicians and astrologers
19:28 who were in all his realm."
19:30 And the next verse is not the throwaway verse,
19:33 it's really a punch line, it says,
19:35 "Thus Daniel continued until the first year of King Cyrus."
19:42 If my memory is working today that's about 70 years later.
19:48 Later on in the story
19:50 we're going to consider next week,
19:52 Daniel actually becomes the prime minister
19:56 for crying out loud.
19:58 He becomes the prime minister.
20:00 He becomes like the president
20:02 of the United States of America.
20:05 Becomes the prime minister of Great Britain,
20:08 just a, just a young guy.
20:11 And he brings in these other young guys
20:13 who stand around him.
20:15 He is the chief counselor to the greatest king
20:19 of the ancient world.
20:24 Now,
20:27 these young men,
20:29 the Bible says were 10 times better,
20:31 I've sometimes wondered
20:32 what happened to all the other young men.
20:36 So the king, you know, he brought over
20:38 from the land of Israel
20:40 all of these young guys,
20:41 he brought them all over from Jerusalem.
20:48 There was a little, little group of guys,
20:51 little group of Jews,
20:54 who purposed in their hearts,
20:57 they were a minority.
20:58 I want every person watching today,
21:00 every person watching the television program,
21:03 I want you to know this,
21:04 truth is usually not backed by the majority.
21:10 You know what I'm saying?
21:11 Now people say,
21:13 now I'm going to say something else to you.
21:16 I believe in democracy.
21:19 Winston Churchill said
21:20 and I'm a fan of Winston Churchill,
21:22 he said, "The very worst system in all the world
21:26 is the system of democracy."
21:30 Except all the others.
21:33 He said, it's the worst, except all the others
21:36 because the others are worst.
21:38 But you know what democracy does?
21:42 I'm not arguing about this, it's true.
21:45 Democracy puts in the person
21:49 that the vast majority, all the majority wants.
21:52 Doesn't mean it puts in a good person.
21:55 So you know, people say all we got democracy there
21:58 for the person who selected,
21:59 he's got to be the greatest.
22:01 No, no.
22:02 Did you know Hitler was elected with the democracy?
22:08 He got in with about 95% vote.
22:12 And so truth is not always
22:16 on the side of the big crowd.
22:22 Just want you to know this.
22:25 The people who are 10 times better
22:29 have learned to stand up
22:34 for what's right by themselves.
22:37 Now that's not easy.
22:43 That is tough, that is difficult
22:47 but that sorts out the men from the boys.
22:52 Four young guys
22:55 away from mommy and daddy.
22:59 Yeah, away from all their friends,
23:03 stuck over in a big, bad city like Los Angeles.
23:09 Tremendous pressure upon them
23:12 and they're purposed in their hearts,
23:16 no, we're not going to do it,
23:18 we are not going to worship the gods of the Babylonians,
23:23 not going to do this stuff.
23:24 We're not going to read the, eat this food
23:27 that is going to rot our brains,
23:29 we're not gonna do this.
23:32 Now I want you to know something else.
23:35 They were 10 times better
23:38 not because of what they put in their stomachs.
23:42 That helped a bit.
23:44 They were 10 times better
23:46 because God blessed them,
23:50 God made them 10 times better.
23:53 It wasn't because they were vegetarians,
23:56 because I know vegetarians who are not 10 times better.
24:03 They were better because God blessed them.
24:06 Now, this program is divided into two sections
24:11 and this section is going to end in a couple of minutes.
24:15 But I'm going to, what I'm going to do now,
24:18 I'm going to show you
24:19 a little bit about Desmond Doss,
24:21 and then I'm going to pick it up
24:22 and tell the story more fully in the next program.
24:26 But Desmond Doss was a young American.
24:34 What courage?
24:38 What courage?
24:39 Just a young guy,
24:43 he joined the army
24:45 when he could have got out of joining the army,
24:47 he could have got out joining the army,
24:49 but he was a patriot.
24:51 Desmond Doss was not a coward.
24:54 They said, we can give you an exemption,
24:58 but he went in the army as a medic
25:01 because he wouldn't carry a gun.
25:04 Now I'm not asking you to believe everything
25:06 that he believed.
25:08 I happen to sympathize with his beliefs.
25:11 He also believed in the keeping of the Bible Sabbath
25:15 like Dr. Hammond.
25:17 This was the guy
25:18 who got the congressional medal of honor.
25:21 Okinawa, a hell place,
25:24 a hell place, a hell place,
25:26 didn't get any worse.
25:28 Rescued their 75 young men.
25:32 At the end of it, the people who were fighting him,
25:35 and who were hating him, and persecuting him,
25:38 and turning their boots at him
25:39 when he was trying to say his prayers at night,
25:42 they wouldn't go into battle unless he went with them.
25:46 A young guy who never carried a gun.
25:49 You know why?
25:55 God made him 10 times better.
25:58 God will make you 10 times better,
26:01 if you purposed in your heart that you will follow Christ,
26:05 so help us God more in a moment.
26:21 We should never say something is impossible
26:23 because Jesus said,
26:25 "With God, all things are possible."
26:28 It seems impossible to think that a group of Americans,
26:33 Australians could come here to Castro's communist Cuba
26:38 and preach the gospel.
26:41 We're here with the permission of the Cuban government.
26:43 We've got special visas so we can preach here.
26:48 I've had the privilege of preaching
26:50 in the most difficult places, Moscow,
26:53 all across Russia, all around Ukraine,
26:56 dangerous places in Africa,
26:58 but this is one of the biggest miracles of all.
27:01 Here we are, a Carter Report team,
27:04 just a little team.
27:07 But we're here by the grace of God,
27:10 because with God all things are possible.
27:14 But God works through people,
27:16 He's working glory be to God we believe through us,
27:20 but He's also working my friend through you,
27:24 because of your prayers and your support, your gifts,
27:28 these people, many of them
27:30 are hearing the true gospel of Christ for the first time.
27:35 So my heart is full of thanks to God
27:38 and to you today.
27:40 Would you please drop me a line?
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