Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001213
|
00:08 From Arcadia, California, the carter report presents
00:11 "The Living Word" around the world. 00:18 The topic today is, "On the brink 00:22 the gathering storm and the power of God" revealed. 00:26 Today I am going to tell you about the little baby 00:29 that was dying in a hospital in Russia. 00:33 I felt quite certain the baby was going to die 00:36 before I left the country. That was three years ago. 00:39 I am going to tell you the story 00:41 of how the baby was healed in the program today. 00:48 Hello friend, I am John Carter. 00:50 I am here today to tell you the most amazing news. 00:53 I want to thank you firstly in Jesus name 00:57 for your magnificent support. 00:59 We are on our way to Port Moresby, 01:03 the capital of Papua New Guinea. 01:06 We are going to see the amazing power of God. 01:09 We are going there to preach the everlasting gospel. 01:13 I'll be preaching every night 01:15 outdoors in the national stadium. 01:18 The locals tell us we will have over 100,000, 01:22 people a night, some say, 150,000 people. 01:27 A few have said may be 200,000, 01:31 but I want you to know this, 01:32 we go in the name of Christ 01:34 to preach the gospel and to save souls. 01:38 And I am saying today, 01:40 I can't do this without your help. 01:43 I've got a raise 01:48 for this great campaign that is going to shake 01:52 an entire nation for God, please be my partner. 01:57 Write to me John Carter P.O. Box 1900 02:02 Thousands Oaks, California, 91358. 02:06 In Australia my Aussie friends, 02:09 please write to Terrigal. 02:11 The address is now appearing on the screen. 02:14 Please stand with me in this tremendous outreach 02:18 to the people of the Papua New Guinea. 02:22 We used to talk about "Mission Impossible." 02:27 All of a sudden it has become "Mission Possible." 02:32 This is an opportunity to reach 02:35 an entire nation for the Lord Jesus Christ. 02:38 Please write to me today and I want to say to you 02:42 from my heart to yours, thank you in Jesus name. 02:49 I've an article here from CNN 02:52 that has never been accused to being Christian. 02:58 All I had ever known up until I was 10 years old 03:01 was chaos in my home, writes this American. 03:05 I was the oldest of four children 03:07 and the atmosphere was volatile for all of us. 03:11 My father and mother were in constant conflict, 03:14 making divorce seem like the only possible outcome. 03:19 Having married young, they were still 03:21 trying to figure out how to make life work. 03:24 They often argued about how to handle finances, 03:28 especially when there was little money to go around. 03:32 I could have ended up a casualty of a broken family, 03:36 like so many of the kids around me 03:38 in the inner city of Baltimore. 03:41 But my life was forever changed the year I turned 10. 03:47 CNN reports. That was the year my dad turned to Jesus. 03:54 He'd been invited to visit 03:55 a nearby church for a special event. 03:59 While there, two men asked him 04:00 if he knew if he'd go to heaven when he died. 04:03 He said he wasn't sure. 04:05 The men explained Christ's sacrificial 04:10 and all-encompassing atonement. 04:13 For the first time, my dad understood 04:16 the path to salvation. 04:19 He didn't just accept God's salvation, 04:21 he immediately became fired up 04:22 about God and the Bible. 04:25 He became an instant evangelist. 04:28 If you are not fired about God, 04:29 because you don't know Him. 04:31 We got to much religion, but not enough godly. 04:36 He became an instant evangelist. 04:38 Whenever my dad wasn't working, 04:39 he'd take me along to pass out biblical tracts 04:42 on street corners or to visit the local prison. 04:47 I guess that's were a lot of his relatives were. 04:49 If I went downstairs to get a glass of water 04:51 late at night, I'd see Dad reading the Bible 04:55 or praying on his knees. 04:57 I want to tell you folks something, 04:58 if you're not reading your Bible everyday 05:00 and praying on your knees is because you don't know God. 05:04 That's the problem with their homes, 05:06 that's the problem with their churches. 05:09 You've to do that when my mom wasn't watching. 05:14 My mom didn't like my dad as a sinner, 05:17 and she liked him even less as a saint. 05:21 She did everything she could to make his life difficult. 05:26 But my father did everything he could to show her love. 05:30 When my mom would start with him, 05:32 he would stop what he was doing 05:34 and start praying for her on the spot. 05:37 One night, my mom came down the stairs 05:40 with tears in her eyes. 05:42 My dad was reading the Bible. 05:45 She told him that she could not understand 05:47 how the more she rejected him, 05:49 was unkind to him and tried to prove 05:51 that believing in God was wrong, 05:52 the kinder he was to her 05:55 and the more he invested in God's word. 05:58 "I want what you have," 05:59 she said, "because it must be real." 06:03 They got down on their knees 06:04 and my dad led, CNN says led my mom to Christ. 06:09 He led all of us kids to him too 06:11 and modeled the values of making God 06:12 the central focus in all that we did. 06:17 He held weekly Bible studies at our kitchen table 06:20 and instilled a love for church in his kids. 06:25 On the Wednesday nights that he had to work late, 06:30 I would walk four miles to get to our church. 06:33 Dad taught me to view all of life 06:35 through a spiritual lens. 06:38 You're not a good parent, 06:40 unless you teach your children to go to church. 06:43 You know what I'm saying. 06:46 I do, you know what I'm saying, 06:47 telling you the truth here. 06:50 If my dad had not exhibited the courage to change, 06:53 my home would have become another statistic. 06:56 I would have ended up a casualty, 06:58 and my own four children might have ended up casualties too. 07:01 It is common for children to end up as statistics 07:04 when men do not accept their God given responsibilities. 07:10 But an American men have walked away 07:11 from it and in Australia too. 07:15 Forty percent of our children go to sleep at night 07:18 with no dad at home, and the percentage is even higher 07:23 among minority groups and in the inner city. 07:29 Divorce is part of the problem, but many men 07:32 father children without helping to raise them. 07:37 They have become like the abominable snowman. 07:41 Their footprints are everywhere 07:44 but they are nowhere to be found. 07:47 Did big dads. 07:51 When fathers come home after a tough day at work, 07:53 they should come home to serve 07:55 like my father did, teaching lessons 07:58 around the dinning table 07:59 and leading the family in worship and in prayer. 08:03 For 35 years, my father had to lift 08:05 heavy boxes as a longshoreman. 08:08 But on Sunday mornings, even if he had to work 08:11 all the night before, he'd wake us up. 08:14 And I'd say, "But dad, I'm tired." 08:17 He'd say, "No, son. I'm the one who's tired. 08:21 But we are going to church. 08:25 Because for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." 08:33 I hope this somehow get through into the darken 08:36 chambers of our minds, because many of us 08:40 even in this church have build up a barrier 08:44 between ourselves and God. 08:47 And that's why our children 08:49 and a young people are in such a mess. 08:55 Because of deadbeat dad's and deadbeat moms. 08:59 The topic today is on the brink, the coming tempest, 09:05 "the gathering storm and the power of God." 09:09 Please take your Bibles turn over 09:11 here to Revelation Chapter 7 and pray today 09:15 that you will let God talk to you, 09:18 because I know I am talking to so many people 09:21 here in Los Angeles and it seems impossible 09:26 to get through to you because you have heard 09:28 it all before, but you don't bring your children 09:30 to Sabbath school, you don't even come to church sometime, 09:35 because you're so far from God. 09:38 Revelation 7:1 to 3 "After this I saw four angels standing 09:42 at the four corners of the earth, holding back 09:44 the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind 09:48 from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. 09:51 Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, 09:54 having the seal of the living God. 09:56 He called out in a loud voice to the four angels 09:59 who had been given power to harm the land and the sea, 10:02 "Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees 10:05 until we put a seal on the foreheads 10:08 of the servants of our God." 10:11 I want you to know this, you can believe it, 10:14 you can discount it, you can say 10:16 I am going to tune you out. 10:17 But I want you to know something, the angels 10:21 are holding back the winds of strife 10:26 and when God says to the angels let it go. 10:32 We're going to see the time of trouble 10:35 and the seven last plagues. 10:37 We are living in the time when God 10:41 is holding back, the winds of strife. 10:44 Verse 9 gives me hope "After this I looked 10:47 and there before me was a great multitudes 10:50 that no one could count, from every nation, 10:53 tribe, people and language, standing before the throne 10:57 and in front of the Lamb. 10:59 They were wearing white robes 11:01 and were holding palm branches in their hands. 11:05 And they cried out in a loud voice. 11:07 'Salvation belongs to our God, 11:10 who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.'" 11:15 Thus the Bible tells us, that in the last days 11:20 God will have people. 11:24 And that people is going to come from every nation 11:29 kindred tongue and people and sometimes 11:33 I think my fellow Americans 11:37 that we've had our opportunity. 11:41 And sometimes I think that as a people 11:44 we've turned our backs on God. 11:53 So listen carefully. 11:57 Now we talk about our times in the light 12:01 our Bible prophecy for a start. 12:04 I am going to give you 10 great signs 12:08 and the first great sign that I am going to talk 12:13 about is social unrest. 12:20 The Bible tells me in the last days men and woman 12:26 and the teaming multitudes of the cities 12:30 will experience uncertainty and unrest, 12:35 their hearts will fail them. 12:36 Come over here to Luke 21, Luke 21, I've got lot of text. 12:41 Please turn to the scriptures Luke 21 verse 25 and 26 12:47 and remember what God did for that man 12:50 and that woman, God can do for you. 12:54 Luke 21:25, 26, but he can't do it for you, 12:58 if you're going to sit here and harden your hearts. 13:01 And if the fathers are not going 13:03 to assume their responsibility. 13:06 I've noticed in our own church. 13:09 Here in America most of the men have abrogated 13:13 their responsibilities to their wives. 13:16 The wives are the ones who are spiritual leaders, 13:20 but not the husbands. 13:24 And as time, we got back to God at his time as men 13:28 we started to act like men, 13:34 and not woman. 13:37 Look at this text, "There will be signs 13:40 in the sun, moon and the stars. 13:42 On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity 13:46 at the roaring and tossing of the sea. 13:49 Men will faint from terror, apprehensive 13:52 of what is coming on the world, 13:55 for the heavenly bodies will be shaken." 13:56 I think of the situation in the world as I talk. 14:02 I think of the unrest, uncertainty in Europe 14:06 that the nation, the world is standing 14:10 on the brink of a great precipice. 14:16 But we've heard it so often that many of us have committed 14:19 the unpardonable sin by closing our hearts 14:22 to the spirit of God. 14:24 I think of Europe, I think of Middle East, I think of Iran, 14:28 I think of Syria, I think of Israel, 14:31 I think of the financial markets. 14:33 I think of one percent getting wealthier and wealthier, 14:38 and the middle class getting poorer and poorer. 14:41 And the Bible says, "Judgment is coming." 14:45 Did you know Winston Churchill 14:46 during the 1930s warned America 14:51 and warned Great Britain about the gathering storm, 14:54 he said the Nazis are getting ready to take over the world. 15:00 You know what half the commons did in parliament, 15:03 did in London, they laughed at him. 15:08 They stared at him. 15:10 They said, he has lost it, he is a fool. 15:19 When Chamberlain came back from talking to the Fuhrer, 15:22 Hitler, he said peace in our time. 15:26 We're going to have peace and the people cheered, 15:29 but the peace came in the form of pieces of bombs. 15:35 Soon London was burning and all of Europe 15:38 except Britain have been taken over by the storm troopers, 15:42 nobody believed him. 15:44 It's like people in the world today, you don't believe, 15:46 most of you don't believe. 15:48 Most of the people in the church don't believe. 15:50 They say, its never going to happen. 15:54 Sign number one, number two religious apostasy. 15:59 Second Thessalonians 2 and also Second Timothy 3 verse 1. 16:03 We're going to the second text. 16:05 Second Timothy Chapter 3 16:09 and verse 2 to 4. 16:15 Second Timothy Chapter 3 16:21 and verse 2 to 4. 16:24 "People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, 16:27 boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, 16:30 ungratefully, unholy without love, unforgiving slanderous, 16:35 without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 16:39 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure 16:43 rather than lovers of God" and if you come to Chapter 4 16:47 please, Chapter 4 and verse 3 16:50 "For the time will come when men 16:52 will not put up with sound doctrine. 16:54 Instead, to suit their own desires, 16:57 they will gather around them a great number of teachers 17:00 to say what their itching ears want to hear. 17:03 They'll turn away from the truth 17:06 and turn aside to myths." 17:10 It's a sign number 2 is Religious Apostasy. 17:18 The Bible says that the people of God, 17:23 people who called themselves believers will fall away 17:29 from the truth, and they will not believe the truth 17:33 or obey the truth, that is the time in which we live. 17:39 As Karl Barth quoted, this man who said 17:42 "When the holy day becomes the day of man, 17:47 humanity society and humanity 17:51 will wither away and the demons rule. 17:55 The demons are ruling today, one of the main reasons 17:58 the demons are ruling is because the world 18:02 is breaking the Sabbath. 18:04 We've given up the holy Sabbath. 18:07 Even Christians who used to keep Sunday, 18:10 no longer keeps even Sunday. 18:13 And preachers can't get out of church 18:15 quick enough to go and play golf. 18:19 Social unrest, number two religious apostasy, 18:23 number three sexual perversions 18:27 accepted by the state and by the church. 18:30 Come over here to Romans 1. 18:32 We're gonna put up all these text on the screen 18:35 and as you leave today you can get a copy of them 18:38 and if you want a copy, you can write to me 18:41 and I'll send you a copy of the signs and the text, 18:46 signs of the times. 18:47 Romans 1:26, "Because of this, God gave them over 18:52 to shameful lusts. 18:54 Even their women exchanged natural relations 18:56 for unnatural ones. 18:58 In the same way the men also abandoned 19:00 natural relations with women and were inflamed 19:03 with lust for one another. 19:04 Men committed indecent acts with other men, 19:07 and received in themselves 19:09 the due penalty for their perversion." 19:11 You say I don't like here this, 19:14 that's because you don't want to hear what God says. 19:17 So the third sign, let me write it up. 19:20 The third sign perversions. 19:26 Now when you leave the church today, 19:30 we're gonna give you the text from the Book of Genesis. 19:33 The Bible talks about the cities 19:35 of Sodom and Gomorrah. 19:37 It talks about Lot 19:40 and it talks about the sexual perversions 19:43 and it talks about the fire the came down 19:46 from heaven and consume them. 19:51 And I want you to know something, 19:53 judgment is coming to the world. 19:56 Today, there is no right and no wrong, 20:00 and they were things we once never spoke about. 20:03 But today, political leaders and spiritual leaders say, 20:10 that the sins of Sodom 20:13 are welcome in the church, not this church. 20:18 Because of these things judgment is coming. 20:22 Sign number four violence increasing. 20:25 Come over here to Genesis 6 and verse 11, Genesis 6. 20:31 And gentlemen on the projectors out 20:34 we give the main point, we can put up all the text. 20:37 We're gonna read them all, we'll put them all up. 20:39 Genesis 6 and verse 11, "Now the earth was corrupt in God's 20:46 sight and the earth was filled with violence." 20:52 Sign number four, the Bible talks 20:58 about increasing violence. 21:04 We're going to go to a place there to preach 21:06 the gospel and we're told you can't walk outside the door 21:12 of your hotel or else you will be killed. 21:17 Then I could take you to a place in Africa 21:21 where they've managed to kill 6 million people. 21:25 I could take you to the Sudan, I could take you to Syria, 21:29 I've been to most of these countries, 21:32 and we don't have to go far. 21:34 We can down to Mexico, where in the last few years 21:39 they have killed 50,000 people to supply us with the drugs 21:45 that we've got to have. 21:47 Says it's not our fault, yes it is. 21:50 If we turn to God and gave up the curse of drugs, 21:54 there would be no gang wars in Mexico. 21:58 The Mexicans are sending to us 22:01 that which to got to have. 22:07 What a judge is going to come upon us? 22:11 The Bible says Jesus said, 22:14 "As it was in the days of Noah, so it's going to be." 22:17 And the Bible says, "The flood came and took them all away." 22:23 You say well, I asked very strong yeah, a flood is coming. 22:28 There's going to be a flood of fire. 22:31 It's going to consume our cities. 22:34 It's going to consume the world. 22:36 It's going to consume everything that isn't covered 22:41 by the blood of Christ. 22:47 I can't understand why every person who professes 22:51 to believe these things is not out teaching these things 22:55 and talking about these things. 22:58 Sign number five, the remnant church asleep. 23:05 Would you come over here to Matthew 25, 23:07 you say, you shouldn't say that, well, Jesus said it folks. 23:11 Don't blame me. 23:12 Jesus said it, Matthew 25, He talks about the wise 23:17 and the foolish virgin, that's the church. 23:22 Matthew 25, you better come down to verse, 23:26 let see verse 1, "At the time the kingdom of God heaven 23:30 will be like ten virgins who took their lamps 23:32 and went out to meet the bridegroom. 23:34 Five of them were foolish and five of them were wise." 23:37 And verse 5 say, "The bridegroom was a long time 23:40 in coming, and they all became drowsy." 23:43 That's a whole lot of us. 23:44 That's why we are not doing evangelism, 23:48 because we're all drowsy and it says they all fell asleep. 23:56 The great sign today is religious apostasy, 24:03 that people say I don't care and churches 24:09 say we are here to maintain the status quo. 24:13 Thank God that Elder Neil Wilson 24:16 is the new leader of the church has said, 24:18 we need to evangelized the cities. 24:23 That's what Ellen White said 100 years ago. 24:25 That on the whole we have been asleep 24:30 and that is the sign of the times. 24:33 Sign number six, number six 24:36 I better put it up, number five. 24:40 Number five, the remnant, 24:46 God's church asleep. 24:49 You say you're insulting us but at least 24:52 I'm glad you're not sleeping right now, 24:55 not insulting anybody. 24:57 The Bible says in the church you got the good and the bad. 25:02 And the Bible says they all fell asleep. 25:08 Sign number six, the growing influence of the Vatican. 25:13 Oh dear. Revelation they said, there he goes again, 25:19 because the Bible does it. 25:21 And if you don't preach these things my friend 25:24 is because you're a part 25:27 of the great apostasy of the last days. 25:30 If you're afraid to preach the Bible. 25:33 Revelation 13 verse 3 verse 4 look at verse 4, 25:38 "Men worshipped the dragon because he had given authority 25:41 to the beast, and they also worshipped 25:43 the beast, they said "who is like the beast? 25:46 Who can make war against him? 25:49 Because he is so powerful 25:53 and so we got here sign number six, 25:57 the growing influence of the Vatican. 26:05 Now Elder Ted Wilson, 26:07 God bless him and may his pride increase. 26:12 Has said that we ought to distribute like the leaves 26:15 of autumn this book Great Controversy. 26:18 Let me read you some people say, 26:21 but we don't like what you're preaching, 26:22 well I guess you wouldn't like Great Controversy, would you? 26:26 You wouldn't like Great Controvery. 26:31 God's word has given warning of the impending danger, 26:35 let this be unheeded and the Palestine will learn 26:40 what the purposes of Rome really are. 26:47 When it is too late. 26:49 She is silently growing in power. 26:52 Her doctrines are exerting their influence 26:54 in legislative halls in the churches 26:58 and in the hearts of men. 27:01 She is parting up her lofty and massive structures 27:06 in the secret recesses of which her former 27:10 persecutions will be repeated. 27:14 Stealthily and unexpectedly she is strengthening 27:18 her forces to further her own ends when the time comes 27:23 for her to strike, never read it. 27:28 You never read this book. 27:30 And where you've been? 27:34 ""All that she desires is vantage ground, 27:36 and this is already being given her. 27:39 We shall soon see and feel what the purpose 27:42 of the Roman element is. 27:45 Whoever shall believe and obey the word of God 27:48 will thereby incur reproach and persecution." 27:53 Read the book, wake up. 27:58 Sign number seven, the world wide acceptance of spiritism. 28:05 Let me put it here on blackboard. 28:08 The world wide acceptance of spiritism. 28:14 And we want you to put the text up 28:16 the references on the screen. 28:19 Now Revelation 17 says, "That in the last days 28:27 deceiving demons will snare the whole wide world. 28:35 Sign number seven. 28:36 Do I need to remind you today that millions 28:41 believe that the dead are not dead, the dead are alive. 28:47 Even television shows today are devoted to spiritism. 28:53 And the most popular children's books 28:57 are about spirits and demons 29:01 and are promoted by some in churches. 29:05 And people say, what is wrong with these books. 29:09 The people are being brainwashed 29:11 into the acceptance of demonism. 29:15 Sign number eight, terrifying natural disasters. 29:19 Come over here to Luke 21, 29:23 Luke 21 verse 25 and 26, 29:28 "There will be signs in the sun, the moon and the stars. 29:32 On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity 29:36 at the roaring and tossing of the sea. 29:39 Men will faint from terror, apprehensive 29:42 of what is coming on the world, 29:44 for the heavenly bodies will be shaken. 29:46 At that time they will see the Son of man." 29:49 So sign number eight. 29:51 Terrifying natural disasters, 29:58 natural disasters, earthquakes, 30:03 Tsunamis, tornados, hurricanes, 30:08 natural disasters increasing 30:13 and all of these signs tells us, 30:16 we are on the Brink and judgment is coming. 30:21 Judgment is coming for the world and judgment 30:24 is coming for the church. 30:28 Sign number eight, in difference to and hatred 30:32 of the law of God. 30:34 Come over here to Revelation 12 and verse 17, 30:39 Revelation Chapter 12 and verse 17, 30:43 "Then the dragon was enraged at the woman the church, 30:47 and went off to make war 30:48 against the rest of her offspring- those who obey 30:52 God's commandments and hold to the faith of Jesus." 30:56 Sign number nine, 31:00 a hatred of the law of God, 31:05 ia hatred of the law of God about marriage, 31:11 a hatred of the law of God 31:15 about truth and honesty and decency. 31:21 Judgment is coming, the fire is coming. 31:26 And sign number10 is the gospel to the world. 31:31 Come over here to Matthew 24 and verse 14. 31:34 Sign number 10, 31:38 number 10, the gospel 31:43 the good news of Christ, his death, his attuning sacrifice, 31:50 justification through the blood of Christ, 31:53 the resurrection of Christ from the dead 31:56 and He is coming in power in great glory. 32:01 I want you to know this, you can't stop the tide 32:05 from coming in and you can't stop 32:07 the gospel from being preached. 32:09 But I want you tell you folks, 32:10 certainly I am gonna look in the camera, 32:12 give me a camera that I can talk to. 32:14 Okay, listen to me, the greatest handicapped 32:19 to the preaching of the word of God today 32:21 is the apathy that is found in the church, 32:25 that's the greatness, hold back out of any the church 32:31 will arise and evangelize, we would see the power 32:36 and the miracles of God. 32:42 Christ is coming and judgment is coming. 32:49 I've just come back from my 42nd visit 32:51 to Russia and Ukraine. 32:53 Why do you do it, 'cause God tells me to. 32:56 Why do you do it, because the Bible says, 32:58 that's what you ought to do. 33:02 How amazing, how amazing, when I went there, 33:07 I meet and I can't say there names, 33:09 we're gonna put their faces up on the screen, 33:12 but we're not gonna show this on television. 33:15 The leader of the Russian mafia, 33:18 we're not gonna show that on television. 33:19 I am not gonna say his name. 33:22 had 400 arm soldiers under him. 33:28 This man here, if you look at his eyes 33:29 there is a bullet mark that comes right down his face. 33:33 They all had let in their tummies from gang warfare, 33:39 but these men became evangelist for Christ 33:43 and I don't say boastfully but it's a truth, 33:46 because they looked at our videos. 33:49 You don't believe in evangelism, 33:51 what's wrong with you. 33:53 These people looked at out videos and the toughest men 33:58 in that part of the world. 34:00 They had been brought up as Muslims. 34:03 Now they are building a church in a great Muslim center. 34:07 And they got to raise $700,000 to build the church. 34:11 I said by the grace of God will help you. 34:13 I said, he gonna you do, I said, I don't know, 34:17 but God will help us, He always does. 34:20 Not everybody is hypothetic. 34:23 There are people to whom the spirit of God 34:25 can still get through. 34:28 What about you? 34:33 Then there's a persecuting prelate. 34:36 When we went to Kiev, to preach, 34:40 the prelate said John Carter will preach in the city 34:44 over my dead body which now lies on the footpath. 34:49 Don't laugh about things, now this, it's not funny. 34:52 The prelate said, never, never, never over my dead body. 34:57 He died a week before the campaign. 35:00 There were riots in the street. 35:02 There's a year 1995, they were going to bury 35:06 him in the state cathedral, 35:08 but the government said, no he is not worthy. 35:13 So he was cast out and he is buried on the footpath. 35:18 Don't fight the preaching of the gospel. 35:22 Are you listening to me? 35:25 I've people who will say well, I am going to fight 35:27 and I am gonna oppose it, just you be careful. 35:31 Don't mess with Christ. 35:34 Don't mess with gospel. 35:38 Don't mess with the Holy Spirit. 35:40 Whenever I go the Kiev, I go down there 35:43 and I think of the man who said, they shall not pass. 35:56 The sick healed, as God healed the sick, 36:00 sometimes he says yes, sometimes he says no 36:03 and sometimes he says wait a while. 36:07 When I was in Nizhny Novgorod three years ago, 36:12 I was taken to hospital that made me weak 36:17 because in that hospital, I had anointed Anna. 36:23 She had two babies. 36:27 And I stood beside the bed off Anna, 36:30 of which some of you folks could come, 36:34 you'll get some soul. 36:38 Instead of watching all the garbage 36:39 we watch here in American television 36:41 that destroys our brains, so we can't think. 36:47 And that's true with some of you. 36:49 You can't read your Bibles now because you can't concentrate 36:52 for more than 10 seconds. 36:54 You need a miracle. 36:55 You need a healing. 36:59 So I went to this place when into see Anna. 37:01 She couldn't speak. 37:02 She was dying. 37:04 In those days they were not enough medicines to save her. 37:10 She was bleeding everywhere. 37:13 I put my hands on her and prayed for her and as the sun 37:18 went down that Sabbath Anna died. 37:22 Three years ago a mother and her mother-in-law 37:28 came to me and said, Pastor Carter, 37:30 you're here in Russia come with us to the hospital. 37:35 So I went, when I went there it was the same 37:38 emergency room, same paint on the walls, same tiles. 37:43 They took me into the intensive care ward. 37:48 Now they took me to the door 37:49 and I said there is a little boy in there, his name is Antwan 37:54 and he is dying, and the mother said, 37:57 hold him before he dies. 38:02 So the dean and I wanted to go in, 38:05 but they said you can't go and all bushkan nurse, 38:08 that's the grandmother. 38:09 She went in got the poor little fellow 38:12 and brought him out. 38:14 Disconnected him from tubes and stuff. 38:18 We couldn't, I couldn't hold him in my arms, 38:20 but I put my hands on him, and I said to the nurses 38:24 and the doctors what's the prognosis. 38:27 They said, he will be dead very soon. 38:30 He will be dead very soon. 38:34 And so with some tears and weeping, 38:39 we put him in God's hands and anointed 38:43 him in the name of the Lord. 38:48 And three years later, I go back and the mother comes 38:52 to me and she says Slavo Bago, here is my little boy 38:57 three years old, he is running around. 38:59 He has been healed. He was healed. 39:04 Can I tell you there's one, there's some many reasons 39:06 why God doesn't heal the sick. 39:09 Sometimes it's not the will of God. 39:11 He's gonna heal us all in the resurrection you know. 39:14 That's when the great healing 39:15 is going to come in the resurrection. 39:18 But I think sometimes He does not heal us 39:21 because we violate the laws of God so much 39:27 and we will not repent of our sins 39:30 and we do not believe in God who can heal. 39:36 The gospel still the power of God. 39:41 That I know this congregation, I know you. 39:46 I know how worldly we are. 39:49 I know it. I know that most of you look at the same 39:52 television programs you go to the same movies, 39:55 you feed on the same stuff. 39:57 I know many of the fathers in the church. 39:59 I know you never lead your family in daily worship. 40:03 You don't read the Bible and I preached it to you for years 40:07 and it has done no good apparently, 40:10 because you're sinning against the Holy Ghost. 40:17 Oh the God would shake us up. 40:20 Sometimes God has to send sickness and disease 40:25 to get our attention. 40:26 Don't mess with Him my friend. 40:29 Listen to His voice. 40:31 Listen to His voice. 40:33 I've got in my pocket here something. 40:35 And I am gonna show some of the folks 40:36 that I spoke to in the churches 40:39 we've helped to build. 40:40 These are people in the church the 3ABN Church. 40:44 That was built through the vision of Danny Shelton 40:46 through the power of gospel. 40:48 And some of folks that we baptized 20 years ago, 40:52 20 years ago, atheist, communist, 40:55 you know the best way to overcome darkness 40:58 is by showing the light. 41:00 I don't believe in sending all of our bombers 41:03 and bombing them back to the dark ages. 41:06 I believe in preaching the gospel and saving their souls. 41:09 People say the greatest force in America is the US Army. 41:15 No its not. The greatest force in America 41:19 is the gospel of Christ. 41:23 Get it right. 41:26 They are crucifixed, made out of silver, 41:31 look at it I don't wear it. 41:34 It was given to me by a Colonel 41:38 who is in charge of teaching atheism 41:41 for the Soviet forces in Kiev. 41:46 He came to the meetings and he gave his life to Christ, 41:53 that is the trophy from a communist 41:57 and ex-communist atheist. 42:00 Atheism, people are scared about atheism. 42:03 I like the atheists. 42:05 You know why? 42:06 They talk more about God than the Christians. 42:09 All the time the atheist are talking about God. 42:12 Isn't that amazing to talk about 42:14 somebody who doesn't exist. 42:17 All they do is talk about God. 42:20 Their very name is atheist, 42:25 but this was given to me by the leading atheist 42:29 for the nation of Ukraine after I baptized him. 42:35 The gospel is being preached. 42:38 These choir members that you can see on the screen 42:42 are people who are baptized. 42:45 One of the men kneeling down with me there was an officer 42:50 in the Soviet Army an atheist. 42:55 Now if God can do it for people over there. 42:57 And I want you to know something these 42:59 we help to built these churches with their offerings. 43:05 And did you know by the grace of God 43:08 over there the 3ABN building 43:11 is the biggest Protestant building 43:13 in Russia done by laypeople. 43:17 Goodness, lay people aren't suppose to do that. 43:21 The church in Kiev is the biggest Protestant church 43:25 in the whole nation of Ukraine 43:31 and you help to do it. 43:34 You should take heart that you're part of something 43:37 bigger than you are. 43:39 His kingdom is advancing in spite of difference hatred, 43:45 opposition, and persecution. 43:49 His truth is marching on. 43:54 And now we go to Papua New Guinea. 43:59 It's going to be the biggest challenge. 44:03 Let's have some pictures from the Solomons, 44:06 because the people look the same. 44:10 Papua New Guinea has got some of the greatest saints 44:14 that I have ever met. 44:17 Nevertheless, it is filled with fear and tension 44:22 and it desperately needs not more politicians. 44:27 You know what amazes me in America? 44:30 You have to forgive me, that Americans 44:34 are so turned on by politics. 44:37 At every four years they turned on and a few months 44:41 after it they all turned off all dissolution. 44:45 Oh, it didn't turned out the way, oh, we thought he would. 44:48 Why don't you let Jesus turn you on? 44:51 Why don't you get involved in something 44:53 bigger than politics and all of that stuff? 44:57 Politics it's important, but on a scale of one to ten, 45:03 if the gospel is a ten, 45:05 politics doesn't make it to one. 45:10 This country a PNG is having its elections. 45:15 There will be riots, fighting and when we go, 45:19 we go on the name of the Lord 45:21 and we have been told. 45:24 Listen to this, when I talk to this camera. 45:28 We have been told that we can expect and the officials 45:33 of PNG have told me, we can expect 45:37 more than a 100,000 people a night. 45:42 Have you ever seen a crowd like that? 45:44 Now, you folks are looking at me blankly. 45:47 You don't understand what I am saying, do you? 45:50 You're in a different world, aren't you? 45:51 They say 150,000 may be some night 200,000 45:58 people who come to hear the gospel of Christ. 46:02 We're going to preach outdoors. 46:06 We're going to see tens of thousands 46:10 of people went to Christ 46:12 were taking a television crew with us. 46:15 You say how did you afford it? 46:17 Well, God help us through you. 46:20 We're gonna televise the entire series of meetings 46:23 and then we're going to put it on television 46:26 from coast to coast. 46:28 So that every person 46:30 in that nation is going to hear it. 46:32 We're going to see a mighty turning to God, 46:37 I say His truth 46:39 is marching on glory halleluiah. 46:46 You know when you take your kids, 46:47 at least when I used to after you've driven a few miles, 46:50 they'll say are we there yet. 46:54 Are we there yet? 46:58 Long days, are we there yet? 47:04 You should ask that question. 47:09 We're almost there. 47:11 You know what the next thing 47:12 in the history of this world is. 47:15 Remember the great vision of Daniel 2, 47:18 can't, don't have time to turn the text. 47:21 "Head of gold, chest of silver, 47:22 belly and thighs of bronze, 47:24 legs of iron, feet part of iron 47:26 and part of clay and you know that, 47:28 and then the great storm that comes. 47:30 I want you to notice this. 47:32 I want you to notice the great image of Daniel 2 47:37 that represents the kingdoms of this world 47:42 and it's coming on the screen here it is Babylon past, 47:48 Medo Persia, Greece and Rome and then you get down 47:54 my friend to the toes of time. 47:57 You come down to the very end of everything 48:02 and we're living not in the feet, but in the toes 48:06 and next great event in the history of the world. 48:14 It's coming of Christ. 48:21 Jesus said, do not let your hearts be troubled. 48:26 I will come again. He will. 48:31 Many years ago an old, old preacher back in Australia. 48:34 Pastor George Burnside, a great preacher. 48:37 If you could preach like him told the story 48:40 of a young woman who was given a job 48:43 in a big silk mill. 48:46 That silk was-this was many years ago that silk 48:51 was very hard to handle and the supervisor said, 48:58 if it start to tangle don't try to straighten it out, 49:03 he said call for me. 49:07 But he had only been gone for a little while and the silk 49:12 started to tangle and she thought in a foolishness 49:16 I cannot call for him now what will he think of me. 49:22 And so she tried to straighten it out like you and I do. 49:28 We try to straighten it out. 49:34 And in the end when there was a terrible mess, 49:37 she pushed the button and the supervisor came running 49:41 and he said to her, why didn't you call for me? 49:47 She said, sir I did my best. 49:56 He said, young lady the best thing you could have done 50:02 was to call for me. 50:08 And the best thing for you and for me to do is to try to stop 50:16 sorting out the mess and call for God. 50:23 The Bible says seeks the Lord while He may be found 50:29 call upon Him while He is near. 50:37 Amen. Let us kneel. 50:52 Before we pray are there some here today 50:53 who got special needs, would you raise your hand to God. 50:57 You got a special a need today, say Lord 51:00 I am calling on You in prayer. 51:03 Lower your hands. 51:05 I want all of fathers to look at me. 51:08 It's time for the fathers in this church, 51:11 in America to act like father and to be men. 51:19 It's time for us to be the priest of our home 51:26 and to lead our families in daily worship and father 51:31 if you're not doing that is because you're shirking 51:33 your responsibility. 51:38 It's time for us to read the Bible everyday to turn off 51:45 the garbage in television. 51:49 It's time for us to call on God in prayer. 51:53 Let us pray. 51:54 Our Father, Your word has spoken to us today. 52:02 You know that we're on the brink, 52:05 you know that the storm is coming. 52:08 We know that as a church we're asleep and selfish 52:15 and we want comfort and we want the maintenance 52:19 of the status quo and save easy jobs. 52:24 Help us to remember the words 52:27 must I would be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, 52:33 while others fought to win the prize 52:36 and sail through bloody seas. 52:39 Help us dear father to fight the good fight. 52:47 We need to be covered by the blood of Christ. 52:50 We need the gospel of Christ in their hearts. 52:53 We need our sins forgiven 52:57 and we need the word of God to live in us. 53:00 Help us to understand that the infilling of the spirit 53:03 and infilling of the word of God are the same, 53:05 you cannot have one without the other. 53:08 So infill us with the word and infill us with the spirit. 53:15 As we cry upon you in prayer today. 53:23 As we praying with our heads bowed and every eye closed, 53:26 how many of you will raise the hand and say God 53:30 changed my life today 53:36 for your glory make me the person 53:40 that you want me to be I am sorry for being 53:43 what I've been, make me what You would have me to be. 53:48 Would you raise your hand as you pray today. 53:52 Lord change my heart today make me holy Yours today. 53:59 Fill me with Your spirit and fill me with Your word. 54:05 Fill me with the love of God, because it is the love of God 54:10 that drives us on out into the hostile world 54:15 to proclaim the merits of Christ. 54:17 Bless this up raise hands today, is up raise hearts 54:21 bless our young people, put a fire unto them Lord. 54:26 Some of them have been brought up by parents 54:28 in this church who are utterly indifferent 54:30 lacks the days ago. 54:32 Help the parents to suffer to experience a spiritual 54:39 revolution in their lives and if that doesn't happen help 54:42 the children to independently seek God 54:46 while he may be found. 54:48 Bless the young people. 54:50 Bless the older people. 54:52 Bless the boys and the girls. 54:54 Bless us with the mighty turning to God 54:59 as we stand on the brink in this tremendous hour. 55:04 Thus we worship you and we thank you and we praise you 55:08 in Jesus name and for his sake and for his glory 55:13 amen, and amen, amen. 55:18 Hello friend, I am John Carter. 55:20 I am here today to tell you the most amazing news. 55:24 I want to thank you firstly in Jesus name 55:27 for your magnificent support. 55:29 We are on our way to Port Moresby, 55:33 the capital of Papua New Guinea. 55:36 We are going to see the amazing power of God. 55:39 We are going there to preach the everlasting gospel. 55:43 I'll be preaching every night outdoors 55:46 in the national stadium. 55:48 The locals tell us we will have over 100,000, 55:53 people a night, some say,150,000 people. 55:57 A few have said may be 200,000, 56:01 but I want you to know this, we go in the name of Christ 56:04 to preach the gospel and to save souls. 56:09 And I am saying today, I can't do this without your help. 56:13 I've got a raise right now $500,000 56:19 for this great campaign that is going to shake 56:22 an entire nation for God, please be my partner. 56:28 Write to me John Carter P.O. Box 1900 Thousands Oaks, 56:33 California, 91358. 56:36 In Australia my Aussie friends, 56:39 please write to Terrigal. 56:41 The address is now appearing on the screen. 56:44 Please stand with me in this tremendous outreach 56:49 to the people of the Papua New Guinea. 56:52 We used to talk about "Mission Impossible." 56:57 All of a sudden it has become "Mission Possible." 57:02 This is an opportunity to reach an entire nation 57:07 for the Lord Jesus Christ. 57:08 Please write to me today 57:11 and I want to say to you from my heart to yours, 57:14 thank you in Jesus name. 57:18 I wanna save the days, 57:22 the hours the minutes 57:27 Every moment of your life 57:30 The days, the hours, the minutes, 57:37 And it take all the scars, bruises in all 57:44 I want to say this 57:47 I want to say, Your day |
Revised 2014-12-17