Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001120
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00:08 From Arcadia, California, the Carter Report Presents,
00:11 "The Living Word" around the world. 00:18 Today, we have some special, 00:20 special guest from the Solomon Islands. 00:23 Pastor and Mrs. Wayne Boehm, 00:26 Brady and also their other son Jacob. 00:31 You folks are gonna forget that, 00:33 didn't you? But I didn't. 00:36 These folks come originally from Australia 00:38 but the real missionaries working for God 00:43 in the Solomon Islands. 00:44 We were in the Solomon's few months ago, 00:47 and they we saw the power and the glory of God. 00:51 And they're going tell you the amazing story 00:55 and also what's happened since we left. 00:58 So, you gonna meet them real missionaries today 01:01 from the Solomon Islands. 01:04 I want to say to all the viewers today 01:05 who are watching this telecast. 01:08 How much I appreciate your magnificent support 01:12 that great campaign in Honiara 01:15 of the Solomon Islands 01:16 would never have happened without your support. 01:19 I wanna thank all the people in Australia 01:21 you roused to the occasion magnificently. 01:25 As well as my marvelous friends 01:27 across this great country of the United States of America 01:31 from Great Britain at around the world. 01:34 I want to say this to you. 01:37 If you would like to be on our mailing list 01:39 and there's no obligation, please write to me 01:44 at the addresses now appearing on the screen. 01:47 Post Office Box 1900 Thousand Oaks, California 91358, 01:52 and also to the address in Terrigal, 01:56 New South Wales, Australia. 01:58 I'd like you to become 02:00 one of my special friends and supporters 02:04 and the greatest work in all the world, 02:07 the preaching of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. 02:11 Today, we have some really good music. 02:15 We have Christia and Joel, they're going to come now 02:20 and bring us some music 02:21 from the front of God. 02:23 Would you please welcome them today? 02:42 Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine 02:52 O what a foretaste of glory divine 03:02 Heir of salvation, purchase of God 03:12 Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood. 03:22 This is my story, this is my song 03:31 Praising my Savior, all the day long 03:41 This is my story, this is my song 03:51 Praising my Savior, all the day long 04:06 Perfect submission, perfect delight 04:15 Visions of rapture now burst on my sight 04:25 Angels descending bring from above 04:35 Echoes of mercy, whispers of love 04:44 This is my story, this is my song 04:54 Praising my Savior, all the day long 05:04 This is my story, this is my song 05:13 Praising my Savior, all the day long. 05:28 Perfect submission, all is at rest 05:38 I in my Savior am happy and blest 05:47 Watching and waiting, looking above 05:57 Filled with His goodness, lost in His love 06:06 This is my story, this is my song 06:16 Praising my Savior, all the day long 06:26 This is my story, this is my song 06:35 Praising my Savior, all the day long all the day long 07:00 I give you today the warmest welcome. 07:03 My friends in Australia, 07:05 my friends across United States, 07:07 my friends in Great Britain, Russia 07:10 even Saudi Arabia, because I know you are watching. 07:13 So we wanna give you today 07:15 an extraordinary warm welcome. 07:19 Now folks, we have some dinky-di missionaries with us. 07:27 I want you to know, they're faired income 07:30 and they're true blue. 07:34 You folks no reactions from all you, 07:36 you folks sitting here, haven't got a clue 07:39 what I am talking about. 07:40 But I can tell you the folks in Sydney know 07:42 what I am talking about. 07:45 We have Pastor and Mrs. Wayne Boehm 07:47 with us today. 07:50 Brady and Jacob, and there are great missionary family. 07:57 Some people think they're missionaries 07:59 when they go overseas 08:01 and they just sit behind big desk, 08:07 where it's all nice and air-condition. 08:09 But I've been to the Solomon Islands 08:12 and folks I tell you quite candidly 08:15 it's not a place that I would choose to live. 08:18 But they're choosing to live there 08:20 and I can tell you why? 08:22 I won't tell you much now 08:24 because it's a part of the interview 08:27 because I offer them job here. 08:31 And they just said to me without, 08:34 you know, second guessing it, 08:38 God has called us to work in the Solomon Islands 08:42 with this malaria. 08:45 And it's, its hot, and it's steamy 08:51 and some times it is dangerous. 08:55 Who or what is a missionary? 08:59 A missionary is a person on a mission. 09:02 Are you a missionary? 09:06 I bless your heart, I'm a missionary. 09:08 I'm a person on a mission. 09:11 I'm a missionary to the United States of America. 09:16 Folks, a missionary is a person who has a mission. 09:21 Now, the word missionary today is no longer 09:25 respected like it used to be 09:28 because of that ideology 09:31 which is called political correctness. 09:34 People associate missionaries with colonialism, so be it. 09:39 Jesus was a missionary 09:41 and all the great saints of the Bible. 09:44 All of them were missionaries. 09:45 Come over here to First Corinthians Chapter 12 09:48 and I'm going to give you a little bit of theology 09:50 that may shake you up a little bit, 09:52 I sincerely hope it will. 09:55 First Corinthians Chapter 12 and I wanna say 09:59 this to all of my friends in the ministry 10:02 who are watching this program. 10:04 I wanna say to you I guarantee-- 10:06 well I shouldn't say that, 10:07 but I don't think that possibly 10:10 you've studied this text. 10:12 I think possibly, you've never got 10:15 the implications of this text. 10:17 So, please have look at this. 10:19 First Corinthians Chapter 12 10:21 verse 27 and onwards, have you got it. 10:25 "Now you are the body of Christ," 10:26 this is the church "each one of you is a part of it." 10:30 You never guess it, would you with some folks. 10:33 You never guess it, you never guess 10:35 they were part of the church. 10:37 I say to people, what would the church be like 10:40 if everybody was like you brother. 10:43 If everybody was like you sister 10:46 and you came to church at half past eleven, 10:48 what would the church be like. 10:51 What would be the church-- 10:52 what would the church be like, if everybody gave 10:55 the same amount in offerings that you give. 10:59 You'll say possibly there wouldn't be a church. 11:02 But notice what he says here. 11:05 "Now you are the body of Christ, 11:07 and each one of you is a part of it. 11:11 And in the church God," 11:14 Now notice the word God because 11:16 God is in charge of the church not a bunch of people. 11:23 "And in the church God is appointed 11:24 first of all apostles, second prophets, 11:30 third teachers, then workers of miracles, 11:35 also those having gifts of healing, 11:40 those able to help others, 11:42 those with gifts of administration, 11:48 and those speaking in different kinds of tongues." 11:52 Now, this is not heresy I ask you. 11:57 Are you and I prepared to lay aside our traditions 12:03 and follow the Bible, that's the question? 12:07 Some people say, we don't have any tradition, 12:09 so this will test you. 12:12 The Bible says number seven, 12:15 administrators people say no, no you've got wrong 12:18 number one administrators, no number seven. 12:23 Administrators are important, tremendously important, 12:26 because the administrators are the people 12:30 who hold it together. 12:35 But firstly the Bible and Bill Hybels 12:38 here in the United States says in the church 12:40 not all leaders are administrators, 12:43 and not all administrators are leaders, 12:45 don't forget it administrator. 12:50 Now, the Bible says God has set in the church 12:52 first of all, apostles. 12:57 Now, I'm a little bit rusty on my Greek, 13:02 but whenever I have an opportunity to show 13:04 that I once knew Greek I take the opportunity. 13:10 Now, if I get it wrong and if you're watching 13:12 on television and you see it, you gonna write to me. 13:15 I will get Suzy now to give it to me. 13:21 Apostolo, I think that's the word. 13:27 Apostolo, it means to send. 13:34 A modern speech translation says that this verse 13:38 should not be translated apostles though it should be. 13:43 But what it really means 13:45 in today's languages a missionary. 13:49 So, that translation says 13:51 God has put first in the church missionaries. 13:55 In other words the greatest gift 13:57 that you can have is to be a missionary, 14:02 a person who was send forth by God to preach the gospel. 14:09 Now verse 29 says "Are all apostles?" No 14:13 "Are all prophets? No 14:14 "Are all teachers?" No 14:15 "Do all work miracles? Do all have gifts of healing? 14:18 Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? 14:21 But eagerly desire the greater gifts..." 14:27 Bible tells me, that they are greater and lesser gifts. 14:31 The greatest gift my friend is to be an apostle, 14:36 a missionary send forth to preach the word of God. 14:40 Well, it's logical. 14:42 The most important work 14:43 in all the world is leading souls to Christ. 14:47 The most important work 14:48 in the all the world is to preach the Bible 14:51 and to preach the gospel of Christ. 14:56 Now, some of you folks know. 14:59 I'm now been preaching full time for 50 years, 15:08 50 years this month, 15:11 50 years without a break, 15:13 people say I can believe, you seem to go on forever. 15:17 Listen to me people say well why don't you retire, 15:22 because my friend either I'm not paying to do what I do. 15:28 I would do it whether I were paid or not, 15:33 because I have a calling from God. 15:37 I know of some ministers who say, 15:39 oh, I only got another five years 15:42 and I'm on sustentation. 15:44 You are on it now brother. 15:47 You've never been called. 15:52 Now the Boehm's, I can tell you have been called. 15:56 What is the mission? 15:57 It is in today's world a controversy of concept. 16:01 It is politically incorrect 16:03 in today's liberal secular world 16:06 even controversial in today's church 16:10 were people do not want to be disturbed. 16:13 But you know the old saying. 16:16 I'm here by the grace of God to comfort the afflicted 16:22 and to afflict the comfortable. 16:26 And there are too many in the church 16:29 who want to live a life of indolence and ease, 16:33 because they have never been born again. 16:39 You're on the church roll, 16:40 but down here on this earth 16:42 but they're not on the roll in heaven. 16:44 And my friend, if you have to make a choice 16:47 you better have your name on the roll in heaven. 16:51 Now, let me read you a few text about the mission. 16:54 And I'm going to fly and then we're gonna get 16:57 the Boehm's to come here, God bless them. 16:59 We're so glad to have them here. 17:02 Come over here to Ephesians 2 verses 1 to 8 17:05 and I want you to notice these text and pray to God 17:08 and I say to all my ministerial friends 17:11 and I say to my beloved friends in administration. 17:17 I say to the world church, 17:19 please let us ask God to help us to understand. 17:24 Because I feel that 17:25 many, many people don't understand this. 17:28 First one "As for you, 17:29 you were dead in your transgressions and sins." 17:32 If you are not saved by Christ, 17:35 the Bible says you're dead. 17:38 Now people say I don't believe that, 17:39 I've had heaps of people come to me and say, 17:41 no a person is saved 17:44 if he is sincere in what he believes. 17:48 I've heard this a thousand times. 17:51 A person is saved because he sincere. 17:55 If he is a Hindu and sincere, he is saved. 17:59 If he is a Muslim and sincere, he is saved. 18:05 I want to tell you, you and I cannot be saved 18:08 apart from the Lord Jesus Christ. 18:10 And the Bible tells me that without Christ, we are dead. 18:17 That's what the Bible says, 18:18 people say I don't wanna believe this. 18:19 That's because you don't want 18:21 me to distribute your comfort zone, I plan to do so. 18:26 "...in which you used to live 18:27 when you followed the ways of this world 18:29 and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, 18:32 the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 18:36 All of us also lived among them at one time, 18:39 gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature 18:42 and following its desires and thoughts. 18:44 Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath." 18:50 Somebody came to my great friend 18:52 Pastor Lloyd Grolimund, 18:54 he has taken over my great church 18:57 still haven't got over that Lloyd. 19:00 And they said to him layoff the preaching 19:02 and go over to Africa and feed the starving millions 19:06 and the Australian government 19:08 will give you some money, they'll subsidize you. 19:12 He said I plan to keep on preaching. 19:15 The man said, a member of the church 19:17 no, no, no, it's more important to feed people. 19:20 My friend you gonna-- I believe in feeding people, 19:23 I fed more people 19:24 than perhaps anybody in this church. 19:29 What's the use of feeding people 19:31 and filling up they bellies, if they go to hell. 19:37 If you wanna save people then you bring them Christ 19:42 and feed them at the same time, 19:44 but never give up preaching the gospel. 19:48 The Bible says "...we were by nature objects of wrath." 19:52 Without Christ we are lost and doomed 19:55 and damned objects of wrath. 19:57 You say, I don't like that word, well I never wrote it. 20:01 Verse 8 "For it is by grace you have been saved, 20:04 through faith--and that not from yourselves, 20:06 it is the gift of God..." 20:08 I'm save by the grace of God and I accepted by faith. 20:14 And then verse 12 it describes the world. 20:21 "... remember that at that time 20:23 you were separate from Christ, 20:25 excluded from citizenship in Israel 20:28 and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, 20:31 without hope and without God in the world." 20:34 I've had people look me in the eye and say 20:36 I don't believe that. 20:39 Well, I believe the Bible 20:42 and the Bible says that the people 20:44 and I don't care who they are 20:46 any person outside of Christ is without hope 20:50 and without God in the world and object of wrath. 20:56 And old friend of mine of many, many years 20:58 said to me some years ago, He heard me preach 21:01 and he didn't like what I preached. 21:03 He said you believe this 21:05 because you are an evangelist. 21:09 I said no my friend, I'm an evangelist 21:12 because I believe this, 21:15 that's the difference. 21:17 He said, oh no, you just believe it 21:19 because that's what you do, my friend come alive. 21:26 I'm an evangelist because I believe this text, 21:31 otherwise I be sitting over in Terranora, 21:35 watching my beautiful grass grow. 21:38 Or sitting on the beach at Coolangatta 21:42 whistling to the seagulls, I believe it. 21:46 Look at Acts Chapter 4 and verse 12 that is why 21:49 we run evangelistic campaigns around the world. 21:53 People say we don't understand why you do it. 21:55 Well, it's because you don't understand the gospel. 21:59 Acts 4 verse 12 "Salvation is found in no one else, 22:02 for there is no other name under heaven given to men 22:06 by which we must be saved." It is Jesus only. 22:11 We're not gonna turn up this text 22:13 but its found in Acts 16 and verse 30 to 34. 22:17 Those of you who are taking notes the question is asked. 22:20 "What must I do to be saved." What does it say? 22:26 What Paul said, "Belief on the Lord Jesus Christ 22:32 and you will be saved". 22:35 I'm saved when I come to Christ 22:39 and I believe on His name. 22:43 And so I am saved. 22:44 And so when I run an evangelistic campaign 22:47 my great driving force is to get men and women 22:53 to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. 22:57 Come over here to the words of our blessed Lord, Luke 24. 23:02 Matthew, Mark, Luke Chapter 24 verse 45 23:06 "Then he opened their minds 23:08 so they could understand the Scriptures." 23:10 That's what we need. 23:12 We need God to open our minds, 23:14 that's, may it's what you need my friend. 23:18 So he opened their minds, 23:19 he's talking to church here, 23:21 to the church members, the disciples. 23:22 "He told them 'This is what it is written, 23:24 The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead 23:27 and on the third day, on the third day 23:30 and repentance and forgiveness of sins 23:32 will be preached in his name to all nations, 23:35 beginning at Jerusalem. 23:37 You are witnesses of these things." 23:39 The Bible tells me it is. Look at me. 23:45 It is the purpose of the church, 23:49 that the message of Christ 23:52 is a message of a crucified Christ. 23:56 The message of a risen Christ. 23:59 The message of a soon coming Christ. 24:02 This message will be preached to the world 24:06 and people will repent at their sins and come to God. 24:10 People say, that doesn't sound like the church today, 24:13 no its not, at least in this part of the world. 24:17 The church is not called to be 24:22 cozy semi-sophisticated club 24:27 of people who don't wanna be disturb, 24:30 it is called to be missionaries. 24:38 And that is why, some people find it incomprehensible. 24:42 They say why, why he is going off to Russia again, 24:44 I say yeah that will be number 41 times, 24:50 41st time when I go next. 24:52 This is why we have gone to Russia 24:56 and seen thousands and thousands 24:59 even hundreds of thousands come to Christ 25:02 while we gone to Ukraine, its not over yet over there. 25:07 Why we've gone to Ukraine and the Philippines, 25:11 and Africa, and India, and the Solomon Islands, 25:15 these, look at these crowds, they say 25:18 it doesn't work anymore, 25:20 it doesn't work for them, does it? Look at India. 25:27 India, the Solomon Islands 25:31 and would happen here in America and in Australia 25:36 if we put our money where it ought to go 25:38 into the preaching of the gospel of Christ 25:42 and if we had faith in God. 25:44 So, many people say and that is why 25:46 we hired the Sydney Opera House 25:49 and ran meetings there every Saturday afternoon 25:53 often in the evenings for five months. 25:56 People said, it couldn't happen. 26:01 How do those people expect to be saved 26:04 when they don't have any faith? 26:05 Our leader is an apostle, 26:09 an apostle is not called to stop it happening, 26:15 he is called to make it happen, never forget it. 26:20 Our leader gets it done, 26:22 he doesn't give you a million reasons 26:24 why it doesn't have any money. 26:27 Jesus was talking to Peter and the disciples 26:30 and He said these words 26:31 "I give you the keys of the kingdom." 26:34 Whatever you bind on earth will bound in heaven, 26:37 whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." 26:40 On other occasion our blessed Lord said 26:42 "You've taken away the key of knowledge." 26:46 What are these keys? The key is the gospel. 26:53 It is the knowledge of the gospel 26:56 that opens the door to paradise. 27:02 And as I preach you today 27:03 I tell you in the name of God, 27:05 I have the keys of the kingdom. 27:08 And if you've been called by God and everybody has, 27:11 if you've been called to be a missionary. 27:15 Now what are you doing with the keys. 27:18 I wanna be a Bible Christian. 27:21 If you believe this great truth, 27:23 then I'm telling today 27:26 and if you hope share it you are a missionary. 27:33 And today it is my honor 27:36 because I consider it an honor 27:40 to have with us some real missionaries. 27:46 Would you please welcome 27:50 from the Solomon Islands 27:52 Pastor & Mrs. Boehm, Jacob and Brady. 28:05 Nice to see you. Nice to see you. 28:10 How you're doing partner? 28:12 Good to see you. I'm gonna use this microphone. 28:18 You see these two men over here, 28:20 they are the assistant mangers 28:23 of the Great Solomon Islands campaign, 28:27 I'm telling you. 28:30 I put him on the payroll, 28:32 these two men are the assistant mangers 28:37 and I told them while they're here 28:39 there in charge of everything they can see. 28:43 In charge of the television, 28:46 my assistant mangers, but too bad for you guys 28:50 it's a Sabbath, because today you're not gonna get paid. 28:53 Now, Pastor Boehm, 28:58 tell me a little bit about the Solomon Islands. 29:03 Solomon Islands is located four-- 29:05 about four hours of the coast of Australia 29:07 north east it's hot and it's humid. 29:14 How did you like living in the Solomons? 29:16 It's hot and it's humid. 29:20 It's a great place to live. 29:22 We have great friends there that we've met this year end. 29:25 And as I said to them before I left. 29:27 It's a place now that it was spot I met before 29:30 and now this family, church family today. 29:33 Mrs. Boehm, where were you folks living 29:36 before you went to the Sol. 29:38 Now, you were a member of my church at Wahroonga, 29:42 isn't that right? 29:44 Weren't they good days, now wait on. 29:46 Where were you living before you called to the Solomons. 29:49 We were in Tasmania right down the bottom of Australia. 29:53 And of course the further south you go in Australia, 29:55 its just a hotter it gets, is that right. 29:58 No, it was cold, very, very cold. 30:00 So, you got snow down there on occasions 30:04 and but you called to go to the Solomons. 30:08 Now, were the Solomons always civilized? 30:16 Hasn't always been the case. 30:18 Back in the 1800s, early 1900s full of heathenism, 30:23 occult worship, devil worship, cannibalism. 30:27 So it's been a real transformation 30:29 that's taken place over the last 100 years. 30:31 Tell me about the cannibalism? 30:34 Did these folks-- and we had, you know, 30:38 vast numbers of them come to the meetings 30:40 and I thought are beautiful people they are, 30:43 but their ancestors only back a few years 30:46 were eating people? 30:47 I was reading through the diaries of my grandfather 30:50 a number of-- back twelve months ago, 30:52 and he was recounting stories 30:53 where they would go into a particular villages 30:55 and they would oil off the calf muscles of them 30:59 as they walked in 31:01 because that was the best part to eat. 31:05 I am not so sure, I am going to accept 31:07 your invitation and go back. 31:10 That was one hundred years ago. 31:13 You're refereeing to Pastor Eric Boehm. 31:15 And ladies and gentlemen, 31:17 I was the pastor of a church in Australia 31:20 called the Gospel Church. 31:23 And while I ran a campaign there, 31:25 and a person who came to that campaign 31:28 and was like a father to me, 31:30 was Pastor Eric Boehm, your grandfather. 31:36 What job did he have back some years ago? 31:39 My grandfather was President 31:41 of the Bismarck Solomon Union Mission, 31:43 which took into account the Solomon Islands. 31:48 So you're really walking in his footsteps? Yeah. 31:50 How do you feel about that? 31:52 Incredible honor to be working there in that position, 31:55 and we hear stories now 31:56 of what my grandfather did in that particular place. 32:00 People he met, people that they knew him, 32:02 it's a real joy to be working there. 32:04 I've met lots and lots of people 32:06 down through the years, millions I guess. 32:09 I don't think I've met a better family 32:11 than the Boehm family; your grandfather and his wife, 32:16 I ran this campaign. 32:19 We had four sessions a day, most days. 32:22 He came to every meeting 32:24 and he was there for me and supported me. 32:27 Now, Carol, you come 32:29 from the great Wahroonga Church 32:33 where I used to be the pastor, yeah. 32:36 Now Lloyd Grolimund is the pastor. 32:39 In the church we have Ray and Lola Anderson. 32:42 You were an Anderson? That's right. 32:43 Okay. Tell us about your grandfather. 32:47 Pastor J. D. Anderson and his wife Guinevere, 32:49 they were over in the Solomon Islands as well. 32:52 He was President for the Solomon Islands 32:55 many, many years ago. 32:57 So I grew up with stories of crocodiles in villages 33:01 and miracles of God working among these villages 33:03 and to go and spend time with these people 33:06 that they love so dearly is such an incredible honor. 33:10 It's an honor for us to have you here, 33:11 I can tell you this. 33:15 When we got off a plane, as you know, 33:18 I was sort of born in a suit. 33:22 So when I got off the plain in the Solomons, 33:24 I was dressed up in a dark suit. 33:26 You said that it's not gonna last too long. 33:32 We found it very hot. 33:34 We got in our exercise at 7 in the morning 33:37 because after 8 O'clock the heat beats down upon you. 33:41 You feel it's gonna drive you into the ground. 33:46 There are mosquitoes and there is malaria, 33:49 and if you get malaria, you get very sick. 33:53 Do you take-- we took malarial tablets 33:55 because we're there for only couple of weeks. 33:57 Do you take malarial tablets? 33:59 We started on it but we kept forgetting them, 34:02 so we've all come off them now. 34:05 So really we don't want to make this melodramatic. 34:10 When you become a missionary in these places, 34:16 you put you life in a hazardous situation, 34:20 so you really got to trust God. 34:22 And this young man here, Brady, 34:24 he is going to-- then we're gonna get on 34:26 to what we say we're gonna talk about. 34:28 So, Brady, I want to come over here, buddy. 34:31 Brady, you've been there for almost a year 34:35 and the people over there speak a type of English 34:39 that is called Pidgin, 34:40 they can understand the English I'm speaking. 34:44 Have you learned Pidgin? 34:46 And can you say something to me in Pidgin? 34:54 Hmm! Well, listen. Can you say it again 34:56 and just give me a little time to put this together, 34:59 and say it loud into the microphone 35:01 and that I want all folks here to concentrate 35:03 on what this man is saying, 35:05 the assistant manager of the Honiara Campaign. 35:07 Yes, he is assistant manager. 35:15 Okay, what is that mean? 35:17 Thank you for--I'm very happy to meet you 35:19 and thank you for inviting me to your church. 35:23 Well, that's really sweet. I'm glad that you are here. 35:27 Now Pastor Boehm, tell us about the meetings. 35:32 We went into this place 35:34 and you got a team of Solomon Islanders 35:36 and they didn't do a good job. 35:40 I say this, we've run campaigns around the world. 35:43 We've never worked with such a great team. 35:47 We're personally proud of you 35:49 because you put together such an amazing team. 35:53 I want to say to the folks watching in Australia, 35:55 you ought to support these people, 35:58 you ought to send them offerings, 36:00 you ought to support them 36:01 because they're ambassadors for Christ, 36:03 they're real missionaries. 36:05 So we--you hired for us 36:08 and we paid the cost this great outdoor setting, 36:11 the National Stadium. 36:13 And then we had to build these great screens 36:17 and put up towers for the projectors 36:20 that we flew out to Solomons air cargo, 36:24 $30,000 to fly that stuff out, 36:27 and so you put all--got all these stuff going. 36:31 Tell us about the meetings from your prospective. 36:37 As you know, I only just arrived there in the Solomons. 36:40 You gave me the description 36:41 of what you needed and wanted. 36:44 And I began thinking, 36:45 "Well, Lord, how we gonna do this?" 36:47 Big screens, how we gonna put this together but-- 36:50 Thirty foot screens. Yeah, its huge screens. 36:53 Nothing like Honiara had seen before. 36:56 And so we started bringing this team of people together 36:58 and the Lord has really blessed us 37:00 with a fantastic team over there, 37:02 we've builders, carpenters, handyman, 37:06 and they started building all of these things 37:08 according to the designs that had been given. 37:10 And it wasn't too long 37:12 that the things started to go up 37:13 and take shape and were they ready for your arrival. 37:18 Tell us about from your prospective, Carol, 37:21 who was baptized during my stay? 37:24 What church was again, Wahroonga Church? 37:25 That's right. Now, tell us 37:28 from your prospective about the meetings. 37:31 It blew our mind, Pastor Carter, 37:33 we just were not prepared. 37:34 You could not prepare yourself 37:35 for what we went through. 37:37 We knew there would be big crowds. 37:39 We knew that the screens we saw, 37:42 the screens going up and things on that 37:43 so that alone was exciting enough, 37:45 but to turn up there and see-- 37:49 I've never seen 30,000 people come 37:51 to hear the word of God before. 37:52 I've never seen responses to altar calls 37:56 and it just completely and it was life changing for us, 38:00 not only them, for us as well. 38:02 Tell us about the altar calls from your prospective. 38:04 You are the president of the mission there, 38:07 not only an administrator but an apostle. 38:11 Tell us about the altar calls 38:15 when I invited the people to come down to front. 38:18 That was extraordinary to witness, 38:19 they were just start off with trickle of people 38:22 start to coming down the front 38:23 and then that trickle started into a flood of people 38:26 that they came through of 1,000, 38:28 2,000, 3,000, 4,000 people, 38:30 they would come down to the front. 38:32 It was interesting one night, 38:33 there was I was standing up back of the soccer field, 38:37 and I witnessed there was four young men 38:40 that were responding or were in a line 38:45 and as they-you made the appeal 38:48 for them to come forward, it was a long way down 38:50 the back of the soccer stadium, 38:51 so they didn't come down to the front 38:53 but there was one of them that put the hand up 38:55 and responded to the call 38:57 and I watched the other three boys 38:59 as they watched their friend commit his life to the Lord. 39:05 And there was a little bit of ribbing, 39:06 there was little bit of, you know, 39:08 jiving as to what took place, 39:10 but this young man continued to have his hand raised 39:13 in the commitment to follow Jesus, 39:14 and it just gave that was one so small story 39:17 what I saw of those thousands 39:19 that they came forward each night 39:20 to commit their lives to Christ. 39:22 I've never spoken to such a good audience 39:26 or better audience I should say this. 39:28 The people were totally attentive. 39:35 You couldn't hear sound even the cry of a baby, 39:37 and there must have been thousands of babies. 39:40 Carol, do you remember the night 39:42 when I preached down there was a double session, 39:45 we had two sessions that night. 39:47 And the first one was on "State of the Dead" 39:50 and the second meeting was on "Spiritism". 39:54 Remember that meeting? What happened? 39:56 Well, you warned us at the beginning 39:57 of that meeting to be ready for anything. 40:01 We knew that there was spiritual beings not happy 40:04 that you were about to preach the message 40:05 that you are presenting and so we were, 40:08 we batten down the hatches 40:09 reading for pretty much anything, 40:11 but out of all the nights rain came half way through 40:15 and people started moving, 40:17 started standing as the rain came. 40:19 But you encouraged them, you know, 40:21 this is just temporary, 40:22 this is someone who is not happy 40:24 to hear this message and so they stayed, 40:26 and I've never seen 33,000 people 40:30 stood there in the rain 40:31 and listened to that really powerful message. 40:35 That was the power of God. 40:37 I remember, after the Saul was saying, 40:41 Sharon saying, I announced, 40:44 now the second part of the program 40:45 is on "Spiritism" and then the rain started to hit. 40:48 And I got, I got soaking wet 40:51 and there was water everywhere. 40:54 Somebody told me later 40:55 that may be 50 to 100 people got up and left, 40:58 mothers, but never left the place all together; 41:01 they went where they could get some shelter. 41:03 But the rest of the people sat there, 41:08 never moved and we got soaking wet together. 41:13 It was a demonstration of the power of God 41:16 and when we had that altar call 41:17 that was our greatest altar call. 41:19 We had about 10,000 people come forward 41:21 for Christ to renounce the works of darkness. 41:27 Now, Jacob, you were the, 41:30 one of my assistant managers. 41:31 I had few managers 41:33 Pastor Hacker was a main manager. 41:36 And then you guys were the assistant managers. 41:40 What did you do? 41:41 Well, I would help assist Daniel 41:44 and Carlos in the PowerPoints. 41:46 I would come and met with them 41:48 and you at about 2.30 each afternoon, 41:50 and we would set them up 41:52 and make sure they're all running properly. 41:53 When we arrived at the stadium, 41:55 I would take the covers of the projectors 41:58 and then start them up and then I would help 42:00 run the PowerPoints during that program 42:04 and then I would packed them up at the end of the day. 42:07 I never think these guys don't know a lot about computers. 42:11 This young guy here, he knows 42:13 even more than I do about computers folks. 42:16 No. An absolutely, absolute wiz 42:20 with Daniel and Carlos working the joint projectors 42:24 on the computers and that was his job. 42:27 Now Brady, I didn't check up on you so much 42:29 but what you were doing? 42:31 Every night, after the singers would come out, 42:33 I would get out all the microphones out so, 42:36 when you would walk on, 42:37 you wouldn't chip over any microphones. 42:40 So you were the guy who kept me on my feet, 42:42 really, weren't you? 42:43 Yeah. Well, you earned your wages, 42:46 and remember while you guys are here 42:48 the assistant-- we make you 42:50 the managers of this whole program. 42:52 You are in charge of the Carter Report, 42:55 also raising the money. 42:56 Now since we have left, what's happened people say, 43:03 you know, you run these big campaigns 43:05 but when you go on everything fizzles 43:07 and it dies but let's back up, 43:11 what about the baptism? Tell us about the baptism 43:14 because one day I went 43:17 outside my air condition room 43:22 on the mission compound 43:23 and one of our pastors came over 43:25 and he said, we're gonna have the baptism 43:28 in this river which is only a few hundred yards away, 43:31 and there are crocodiles in that river. 43:33 I said, not a problem to me 43:34 'cause I never go on the water, 43:36 I stand on the shore and I, 43:38 you know, put my arm up and everybody follows me. 43:40 But tell us about the baptism, 43:43 we had a great Sabbath morning meeting. 43:45 Tell us about the Sabbath morning meeting, 43:47 and then tell us about the baptism, 43:49 when you baptized your son. 43:52 We had the Sabbath meeting 43:54 about twelve--ten to twelve thousand people 43:56 for the morning service. 43:57 How many in church? 43:58 Ten to twelve thousand. 44:00 And then from there we had a great time of worship. 44:02 Betikama choir, a hundred voice choirs 44:04 sang a great song. Beautiful, beautiful moved us. 44:08 Some of our folks actually stood up, you know. 44:10 We were really blessed. 44:12 And from the program we headed down to the Lunga river, 44:15 and the Lunga river we've driven over 44:16 that many times and that's where our local car washes. 44:20 And from that point, we--just the crowds 44:23 went to the banks, the rivers, the shores, 44:26 everywhere they could find a position 44:29 and then we conducted the baptism 44:30 of 524 precious saints. 44:32 And they have been baptism since then. 44:35 There is a passage in the book of Acts 44:36 that you haven't referred to this morning. 44:38 And it says, "And the Lord added to their number daily 44:41 those who are being saved." and that is continue 44:43 to take place after the campaign. 44:45 We've had baptisms right around the Islands. 44:48 We had people they were hold up 44:49 their mobile phones to the speaker towers and-- 44:52 Listen to this. Listen to this. 44:54 Some people from far away Islands, 44:56 they traveled may be two, three, four days to arrive 44:59 and left their family at their home village. 45:02 And so they would record 45:04 the message on the mobile phone 45:06 and they send that back to their own village. 45:09 In fact, there was one particular occasion 45:10 where you were talking on heaven 45:12 and apostle actually heard this. 45:14 You were talking on heaven and you took a short pause 45:17 during the--to take a breath, 45:19 and there was another voice that came in and said, 45:23 there is nothing there. 45:24 And this was Satan using this medium 45:27 to try and discourage, try to destroy the message 45:30 that you've been speaking on that night. 45:32 And that was something that was being record 45:34 to play to the villagers back home. 45:37 So extraordinary what people were doing, 45:39 not only traveling to get to the meetings 45:41 and listen to the program 45:43 but what they would do to send the message back home. 45:46 And so now the message in the baptisms 45:48 sort of continue to happens 45:49 since the particular program. 45:51 There are villagers that are ringing me 45:54 and saying, pastor, we now in Adventist Church, 45:57 we want to be included in all the things 45:59 that the church does. 46:01 And so that passage in the book of Acts 46:03 is truly a passage that describes 46:06 what is still taking place in the Solomon Islands. 46:10 This is extraordinary. 46:18 I was told, I heard it on the grapevine 46:21 that some witch doctors have been baptized? 46:25 There was a baptism about two, three Sabbaths ago, 46:28 and we had one of our lay members come 46:30 and share with us the story of village area 46:33 that we had originally been sent from 46:36 because of the devil priest over there 46:39 and the devil priest is too focused 46:41 on heathenism practices, 46:44 ancestor worship, and so forth. 46:47 And these two devil priests had a lot of control 46:50 and sway within the local village. 46:52 And just recently, we were invited 46:53 to go back into that village 46:54 and there was a baptism of sixty precious souls 46:58 and two of them were these former devil priests. 47:01 Hallelujah. Praise God. Praise God. Hallelujah. 47:06 Now I want to say to the folks 47:09 who are watching this telecast in Australia, 47:11 around the world, we got to do something folks. 47:16 We can't just hear this and talk about this, 47:19 but we need to pray for the outpouring 47:22 of the spirit of God upon our own homeland churches. 47:26 But I'm asking you to send me offerings 47:30 for the Solomon Islands because you want to build 47:34 by the grace of God- And radio station. 47:37 You got faith brother, you ought to be on our team. 47:41 Now folks, we want to build 47:43 a radio station in the Solomon Islands. 47:46 I'm going to tell you a story, you know, 47:47 we've got pretty and nice here, haven't we? 47:49 We know, we've got a beautiful church. 47:51 It's a great country. 47:53 I offer you folks a job. 47:56 I say, come over, be part of our team 48:00 and you turn me down cold, why? 48:05 I've been up to your home. 48:07 There is an air conditioner on the wall, 48:09 inside it's terribly hot as I could soar on there. 48:14 And the air conditioner is not running. 48:16 I said to them, why haven't you got 48:18 the air conditioner on? 48:19 They said, we can't effort to run it. 48:22 We want to put that money into saving souls. 48:27 Why didn't you accept their invitation? 48:33 Very good question. Look, God call us 48:37 to the Solomon's Hill Tennis when it's time to leave 48:40 and it's just not yet. 48:44 Folks, these people are soldiers of the Christ 48:50 and they have seen the power of God. 48:54 And I want to say 48:55 to the people around the world, 48:57 the best thing we could have done this year 49:01 was to go to the Solomon Islands 49:04 because that place glory be to Jesus 49:07 will never be the same again. 49:10 Thank you, Jesus. Praise God. God bless you. 49:14 Thank you. We're proud of you. 49:16 Thank you assistant manager. 49:19 Thank you senior assistant manager. 49:20 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 49:27 I could have told you other stories. 49:30 I could have got Pastor Boehm to tell you 49:32 how the witch doctors 49:34 would go down to the ocean, 49:40 and the witch doctors would call the crocodiles. 49:44 They would call the sharks, 49:46 and they would call the great snakes 49:48 to come down from the mountains. 49:50 Here the devil is too faced, 49:55 over there he is barefaced. 49:58 Remember the night when I was preaching, 50:02 I'll never forget it when I felt a hand here. 50:06 Hand here in my shoulder. 50:08 I was sure it was one of my team members 50:11 come to warn me about something. 50:14 Those countries you quickly come to the realization 50:17 that we wrestle not against flesh and blood 50:20 that we are in the midst of the great controversy 50:23 between Christ and Satan. 50:26 On one occasion, the Apostle Paul 50:28 was talking to the king Agrippa, 50:31 and after he described his work 50:33 and why he was true to the truth of the Messiah 50:39 and how he'd been persecuted by the unbelievers. 50:43 The Apostle Paul said, I was not disobedient 50:50 to the heavenly vision 50:53 May God help us not to be disobedient 50:57 to the heavenly vision but to be missionaries? 51:02 I've gone to the valleys 51:03 of the Waldenses in the North of Italy. 51:09 I've gone to those places there were once drenched 51:13 in the blood of the saints of God. 51:17 In the Waldenses, who are people, 51:19 who stood out against the great apostasy 51:23 of the Dark Ages, had a saying, 51:25 and they wrote it up in their churches, 51:27 "I've seen it" written in their language 51:30 over the pulpits of their churches. 51:33 Listen to it, never forget it. 51:37 "Ye shall be missionaries 51:43 or ye shall be nothing." 51:50 Think about it. 51:51 "Ye shall be missionaries 51:55 or ye shall be nothing." 51:58 I said you in the name of the Christ 52:00 to send me to preach by the grace of God 52:06 become an apostle for Christ, 52:10 and be a missionary for Jesus sake. 52:17 I want you to kneel as we pray. 52:28 Where you blessed here today folks? Amen. Amen. 52:35 Dear, Father, we thank you 52:38 for the blessed gospel of Christ. 52:41 How blind most of us are. 52:45 We read out Bibles for we've scales on our eyes. 52:51 We don't want anyone even you God 52:54 to disturb us in our comfort zone, 52:58 but we thank you today, 53:00 there are people like Pastor & Mrs. Boehm 53:02 and those two fine young men 53:05 who are missionaries for Christ. 53:08 In the place where they can get malaria, 53:12 where their lives can be taken through violence, 53:17 but they are there because God has called them. 53:19 We pray today that You'll bless Pastor & Mrs. Boehm. 53:23 Bless Brady and bless Jacob. 53:26 Put Your arms around this family 53:29 and keep them from all harm. 53:32 And dear, Father, speak to the people 53:35 who are watching this telecast 53:36 that somehow You'll get into their hearts, 53:41 and that they will decide to become missionaries. 53:45 People with the mission and may they support 53:47 this great work with their offerings, 53:51 so souls can be saved. 53:53 And Father, we pray Your blessing upon our church. 54:00 Open our eyes dear Lord. 54:03 Fill us with the spirit of God. 54:07 And might it be that we will say with the Apostle Paul, 54:11 I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision. 54:18 And so our Father today on our knees, 54:21 we pray for the covering of the blood of Christ. 54:26 Bless the work of God in the Solomons. 54:29 Bless the work of God around the world, 54:32 in the United States and Australia 54:35 and bless us here today, 54:36 cover us with the blood of Jesus 54:39 and put Your spirit in our hearts 54:42 and change our lives that we will live 54:45 from hence forth for the glory of God. 54:49 So we worship You, we bless You, 54:51 we praise You, we thank You, 54:54 we give You glory in Jesus' name, 54:59 amen, and amen. Amen and amen. 55:05 The Carter report is a self supporting ministry 55:09 with the global mission. 55:10 We believe that the most important thing 55:12 that we can do in this tremendous hour 55:15 is to tell people about the Lord Jesus Christ 55:18 because Jesus said, "I am the way, 55:21 the truth and life." 55:23 We do not believe that this is business as usual. 55:27 We believe that we are living in the closing hours, 55:30 in the history of this world. 55:32 Bless your heart friend. 55:33 Look at the signs 55:35 that are being fulfilled almost everyday. 55:37 The signs of times are shouting at us, 55:40 and they're saying, Jesus is coming soon. 55:44 I want you to be my partner in global mission. 55:47 I want you to be my partner in helping 55:50 to tell the world about the coming of Jesus. 55:53 I want you to be my partner in the preaching 55:56 of the distinctive truths of the Three Angels' messages. 56:01 Please check us out 56:03 at the New Carter Report website, cartereport.org. 56:08 We have a special section 56:10 whereby you can ask questions 56:13 and I will give you the answers 56:15 from the living word of the living God 56:18 that is the cartereport.org. 56:23 My friend, we want you 56:25 to join us in the mission to preach the gospel 56:28 in China, in India, in Australia, in Africa, 56:34 in the United States of America 56:36 wherever people are lost 56:38 and wherever people need to hear the good news 56:42 that Jesus saves. 56:45 Please check us out; 56:46 the new carter report website; cartereport.org. 56:51 I want to hear from you today. |
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