Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001306
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00:11 "The Living Word" around the world. 00:19 How should a Christian live in a socially, 00:22 racially divided society? 00:24 This is the Carter Report my name is James Venegas. 00:27 We have some more Fresh Hot Potatoes for you 00:29 with our special guest Pastor John Carter. 00:37 We believe in the public proclamation 00:39 of all the mighty truths of God saving and transforming word. 00:43 Around the world in Russia, Ukraine, India, 00:46 Africa the Philippines, Australia, 00:48 America and the Isles of the Sea, 00:51 millions had been powerfully touch by the Spirit of God 00:54 as the true gospel has been proclaimed. 00:57 Please be a part of the Carter Report team 00:59 by praying, giving and when God calls by going. 01:03 Please write today to P.O Box 1900 01:06 Thousands Oaks, California 91358 01:09 or to P.O. Box 861, Terrigal, NSW 2260, Australia. 01:16 Your gift will light a candle in a dark place. 01:20 Your gift will bring the gospel of Christ to a lost soul. 01:23 Please, write today. 01:37 Welcome back, you're with us 01:39 with Fresh Hot Potatoes with Pastor John Carter. 01:42 Pastor Carter, it's good to have you with us. 01:43 Thank you, delighted to be here. 01:45 We have many, many questions coming in, 01:48 pouring in from the internet our audience out there 01:51 and the very for provoking theological cultural questions. 01:55 We have the one straight of the bat here from Daniel, 01:59 who asks, how should a follower of Christ 02:01 live in a racially, culturally divided society? 02:05 What would you say to that? 02:06 A Christian in the words of Martin Luther King 02:12 should see people through their character, 02:16 not the pigmentation of their skin. 02:21 Racism, racism where by we cut people out of our society 02:28 because of the color of their skin 02:31 is an abomination in the eyes of the Lord. 02:34 Now I'm going to come over here, Pastor Venegas, 02:37 to a text in Galatians 02:40 and it's written by the great Apostle Paul. 02:44 You can't imagine Paul being a racist, can't you? 02:46 Galatians 3, now remember this, 02:51 racism is not confined to any one racial group. 02:56 Yes, yes, very true. 02:58 Some people say, well, you know, 03:00 it's on the province of this category of society. 03:04 No, no, no, you've got racists 03:07 with every different type of color that you can imagine. 03:10 Very true. 03:12 And you're only going to travel around the world as I have 03:14 and you find racist in every country 03:17 with every different color. Yes. 03:19 Now the Bible says, Galatians 3:26, 03:23 "You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus." 03:27 Then verse 28 says, "There is neither Jew nor Greek slave 03:33 nor free male nor female free. 03:37 You are all one in Christ Jesus. 03:39 If you belong to Christ then you're Abraham seed 03:43 and heirs according to the promise." 03:45 The Bible says, "In Christ, we are Abraham seed. 03:50 We are all spiritual Jews." Yes, yes. 03:55 Whether I'm white with an English background 03:58 or I'm brown or yellow or black or red I don't care. 04:05 If you belong to Christ, you are a child of God. 04:09 And a Christian should abhor racism in every situation. 04:17 So what we do when the media and trails, 04:21 court trials start to stir up 04:23 that sense of unfairness and justice? 04:26 How do we respond to that? 04:28 The media, the media is continually stirring. 04:31 I mean, how could they sell newspapers, 04:33 the newspaper people if they want story? 04:36 How could CNN or Fox or whatever 04:40 or the ABC or Channel 9 in Australia 04:43 how could they ever get ratings 04:45 unless they were stirring the pot? 04:49 A Christian owe to ignore all that stuff. 04:52 Ignore, okay. 04:53 Why should we be polluted by pollution? 04:57 Why should we allow people who have no knowledge 05:00 of the truth of God brainwash our minds. 05:06 We got to think for ourselves 05:08 and we owe to stay clear of all of these divisive issues. 05:13 Yes, yes. So stay clear. 05:15 I think so. Okay. 05:16 Unless there is a great injustice done. 05:19 Yes, but then what we do? 05:21 Do we--do we riot, do we-- 05:23 A Christian owe to stand on the side of justice. Okay. 05:27 But at the same time he should not be manipulated. 05:30 Yes. And the-- 05:31 Do we do it in an aggressive fashion? 05:33 No, I don't think so. Jesus didn't, did He? 05:35 No, He didn't. Neither did the apostles. 05:38 They may think, think about Jesus 05:40 He never preached a sermon against slavery. Yeah. 05:43 And yet the Bible in the New Testament 05:46 at least is against slavery. 05:49 Well, is it, is it because they Apostle Paul said, 05:54 be good to your slaves. Yeah. 05:55 But the Bible gave great principles and truths. 05:59 And when those great truths and principles were followed 06:02 slavery was done away with. Yes, yes. 06:06 And so the Bible is like the salt, the permeate. 06:12 It's like the yeast the ferments. 06:16 And the best way that we can reform society, my brother, 06:19 is not by marching on the streets 06:23 but it is by preaching the word of God 06:25 because this book is the great liberator of the human race. 06:30 And when this book is preached there is an end of racism. 06:35 And also of the putting down of women. 06:39 Well, speaking of putting down of women and all the same sex, 06:42 the things going on currently 06:44 how is marriage in the home faring? 06:48 Thanks to all of this media hype 06:50 and all of these decisions being made. 06:52 How important is marriage in the home still 06:54 and the role of women? 06:55 How does all that work now with all the changes going on? 06:59 Marriage is the bedrock of society. 07:04 If marriage goes, then society goes 07:08 and when society goes, the state goes. 07:11 If marriage goes in America, it is the end of America. 07:17 And anything that weakens marriage 07:21 weakens the United States of America. 07:24 How can people be so blind to these things? 07:28 No society can survive 07:31 if we destroy the relationship between men and women. 07:36 And what is happening today is this, 07:38 there is a great merging of the sexes. 07:41 And so people are telling us 07:42 that men and women are exactly the same. 07:46 That is nonsense. Okay. 07:50 As the French say, long live the difference. 07:53 Let me read you a text here in the Bible. 07:56 Let me read you a text from our Lord. 07:59 And when it comes down to the bottom line, 08:03 we got to see what the Bible teaches. 08:06 All the philosophers and all the television people, 08:10 they're not worth listening to on most things. 08:16 We got to go by the word of God. Absolutely. 08:19 Get it from the word of God, 08:20 Jesus said this in Matthew 19:4 and onwards, 08:26 "Haven't you read, he replied that 08:28 at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female' 08:35 and said 'for this reason a man will leave his father and mother 08:43 and be united to his wife and the two will become one flesh.'" 08:51 So what consequences are you saying currently 08:53 I mean, that one flesh is just not there anymore. 08:56 Well, it is with millions of people. 08:57 I mean, the vast majority of Americans 09:01 and Australians believe in this type of marriage. 09:06 They may not be allowed to have their say, 09:09 or they maybe drowned out by the liberals 09:12 and by the political people 09:15 and the televisions people who have their own agenda. 09:20 It is an amazing thing that these people get on television 09:24 they have their agenda and they push their agenda 09:27 and the voice of the majority is completely, 09:32 almost completely ignored. 09:34 But Jesus said, man and a woman 09:38 anything that destroys that relationship 09:40 will destroy society. 09:43 As it brought down in the Roman Empire 09:46 it will bring down any empire, James. 09:47 And are you're saying 09:48 any cultural consequences at the moment. 09:51 In one segment of our great society, 09:55 one segment, 73% of those individuals, 10:03 73% of those individuals do not have a father in their home. 10:09 Now in the--in the cities the figure is probably 100%. 10:14 But right across this great land of the United States of America 10:17 and its getting worst, getting worst, 10:19 it is now 73% of those families-- 10:25 That is an incredible figure. 10:26 Seventy three and this is a fact. 10:28 It's probably high now because it's rising all the time 10:30 but 73% had been forsaken by the father. 10:36 These men know how to beget but tragically they forget. 10:43 Beget, forget and so they forget their children 10:47 and they forget their wives they are dead beads. 10:50 So remind us again what is the biblical idea 10:52 for those of us living in such a fluid society? 10:55 One man, one woman, man and woman. 10:58 Yeah, absolutely. 10:59 Unless the Supreme Court says, polygamy is okay, 11:02 they may do this the next time. 11:04 But now of course the Bible says one man, one woman. 11:08 And in that segment of our great American society 11:12 with 73% of the homes 11:16 are without a father, wait till you hear this. 11:21 The young men who come out of those families 11:26 have 10 times the crime rate of the rest put together. 11:32 Ten times the crime rate 11:36 and 25% of them are either in prison now or on parole. 11:44 Those poor little kids who grew up into poor young men, 11:52 who got into these societies that glorified wise, 11:57 who is to blame? 12:00 Well, don't blame-- don't blame the church, 12:02 don't blame the government, 12:04 blame those irresponsible fathers 12:06 who walked out on their families. 12:10 Now, this politically incorrect, 12:12 but I challenge anybody to contradict these statistics. 12:17 Nobody can contradict these statistics. 12:20 The president has some what alluded to them. 12:24 He has some what spoken of this terrible condition. 12:29 And the only way that we can redeem the situation, 12:31 can it be redeemed? 12:32 Yes. How? 12:34 By return to biblical marriage, James, 12:37 Yes, yes, yes. Stability. 12:41 So what we are saying in issues of race and culture 12:44 and marriage and the home, going back to the Bible-- 12:46 Go back to the Bible. Is the way to save our country? 12:49 God is--God doesn't care about your color. 12:53 God is colorblind. 12:56 You know, God doesn't look upon you and say 13:00 will your ancestry came from such and such a place 13:03 and my ancestry came from such and such a place. 13:06 After all it said and done who cares. 13:08 It's not who your ancestors where its what you are today. 13:14 Yes, yes. 13:15 And so in the sight of God every person is born equal. 13:22 A Blackman, I preached to more black people 13:24 I guess than just about anybody around. 13:27 I preached a million of them. 13:29 Recently we did a series 13:30 for black people up in Papua New Guinea. 13:33 We had at the end, you know, 13:35 well over a hundred thousand people a night. 13:39 We saw the mighty Spirit of God poured out upon those people. 13:42 So, God loves black people. 13:46 He loves Anglos, He loves Hispanics, 13:49 He loves the Chinese. 13:50 You bet there are so many of them. 13:53 So it is not the color of your skin, 13:57 it is the content of your character. 14:00 Let's never forget it. 14:01 And that is what the Bible teaches. 14:03 And Pastor Carter, so many great questions coming in 14:05 we got some more to put to you in just a moment 14:08 but we will be back just after this important announcement. 14:14 The Carter Report is a self supporting ministry 14:18 with the global mission. 14:19 We believe that the most important thing 14:21 that we can do in this tremendous hour 14:24 is to tell people about the Lord Jesus Christ 14:27 because Jesus said, 14:29 "I am the way, the truth and the life." 14:32 We don't believe that this is business as usual. 14:36 We believe that we are living in the closing hours, 14:39 in the history of this world. 14:41 Bless your heart, friend. 14:42 Look at the signs that are being fulfilled almost every day. 14:46 The signs of the times are shouting at us, 14:49 and they're saying, "Jesus is coming soon." 14:53 I want you to be my partner in global mission. 14:56 I want you to be my partner in helping to tell the world 15:00 about the coming of Jesus. 15:02 I want you to be my partner in the preaching 15:05 of the distinctive truths of the Three Angels' messages. 15:10 Please check us out at the New Carter Report website, 15:15 www.cartereport.org 15:17 We have a special section whereby you can ask questions 15:22 and I will give you the answers 15:23 from the living word of the living God. 15:27 That is www. cartereport.org 15:32 My friend, we want you to join us in the mission 15:36 to preach the gospel in China, in India, 15:40 in Australia, in Africa, 15:42 in the United States of America. 15:45 Wherever people are lost and wherever people need to hear 15:49 the good news that Jesus saves. 15:53 Please check us out the new Carter Report website 15:56 www.cartereport.org 15:59 I want to hear from you today. 16:16 And welcome back, 16:17 to some more fresh hot potatoes with Pastor John Carter. 16:20 My name is James Venegas 16:22 and we have questions pouring in theological as well as cultural. 16:25 We have more questions to get straight into, 16:27 we can't waste any time. 16:29 The Sabbath, Pastor Carter, 16:31 the Jewish biblical Christian Sabbath 16:34 is it is too relevant in today world? 16:38 Is it something more than just a symbol, 16:40 is it something we should hear to Sabbath? 16:42 Pastor Venegas, at the very beginning of time 16:47 in the Book of Genesis, the Book of Beginnings 16:49 God gave two great institutions. 16:54 You know you are a pastor. I do. 16:55 Number one, what was number one? 16:58 Marriage. Marriage, yes. 16:59 Yeah, marriage. One man one woman. 17:03 And people can argue until cows come home, 17:06 it makes no difference. 17:08 It's the truth of God. 17:10 I don't care what they say in television, 17:12 they may say we don't believe this any more. 17:14 Well, that's obvious. 17:15 Look at the mess they got themselves into. 17:17 He gave marriage and then 17:19 He also gave the Sabbath. The Sabbath. 17:23 Now, I am gonna read it to you out of Genesis 2:1-3, 17:31 "Thus the heavens and the earth 17:34 were completed in all their vast array. 17:38 By the seventh day 17:39 God had finished the work He had been doing, 17:43 so on the seventh day He rested from all his work. 17:46 And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy 17:52 because on it He rested 17:54 from all the work of creating that zhe had done." 17:58 But made marriage, and He made the Sabbath. 18:02 So what you are saying is that 18:03 this is not a Jewish thing at all. 18:04 No, no, no, it was for the Jews that is for us too. 18:10 Jesus said the Sabbath was made for man. 18:13 Mark 2:27, 28, "The Sabbath was made for man." 18:16 And the last time I checked M-A-N doesn't spell J-E-W. 18:20 Exactly, exactly. 18:21 Now, the Jews are men but men are not necessarily Jews. 18:27 Correct, correct. 18:29 When it says the Sabbath was made for men, 18:30 when Jesus said it, He meant mankind. 18:34 Because the human race needs a time 18:38 when they can come apart from the rush of the crowds 18:44 and from the complexities of world and worship God. 18:50 And that's what Americans used to do this. 18:52 They on Sundays, almost everybody went to church. 18:57 Today almost nobody goes to church. 19:00 Yes, now, some people say 19:03 isn't it more about relationship rather than a day? 19:06 Well, why can't you have both? Why--why a day? 19:08 Well, it's really hard to have the relationship 19:10 unless you have a time of meditation. 19:13 You see, the Bible says Jesus said 19:15 "Seek first the kingdom of God." 19:17 Today we don't do this. No. 19:19 We seek first going to the isle of Macy's or somewhere else. 19:23 And so on the freeways people rushing, tearing. 19:27 Are people happier? No. 19:31 Crime is raging, we have international crisis a day. 19:39 Jesus said, "Come apart and rest awhile." 19:43 And Jesus was a Sabbath keeper. 19:46 And there is a great theologian 19:48 perhaps the greatest theologian of the 20th century. 19:52 Okay. Karl Barth. 19:54 Yes, Karl Barth. 19:57 And Karl Barth, he was certainly 19:59 was not a Seventh-day Adventist. No. 20:02 But Karl Barth quoted another writer 20:06 in his article on the Sabbath 20:09 and Karl Barth was a great defender of the Sabbath. 20:13 And Barth said this, he quoted this, 20:16 "When the Holy day becomes a day of man, 20:21 society and humanity wither away and the demons rule." 20:29 Society and humanity today are withering away in America. 20:35 I live in a street, James, of wonderful people 20:38 nobody goes to church. Yeah, yeah. 20:41 People don't go to church anymore. 20:43 You have some super churches 20:45 but most people are too busy to go to church 20:48 except for a funeral or wedding or Christmas. 20:52 And thus we have today a plague of crime and breakdown, 21:00 physical, mental, a breakdown of the home, 21:03 people don't know what to believe. 21:05 And so marriage is not going and the Sabbath is gone 21:10 and what is happening the demons are ruling. 21:12 Yeah, and so we become a very selfish society, 21:15 we forget from where we came. 21:17 Now another theological question that's come in from David. 21:20 He asks, "How do you see 21:23 End Time Prophecies being fulfilled?" 21:26 For those who don't know what End Time Prophecies are, 21:28 these are the predictions and warnings 21:30 of the Bible for our day. 21:32 How do you see them being fulfilling in your life time? 21:36 James, I have been studying this wonderful old book 21:39 for more than 50 years. 21:42 I believe it is the word of God. 21:46 The greatest challenge to 21st Christianity today, 21:51 I will tell you what it is, it's anti-intellectualism. 21:56 People have checked out with their minds 21:58 and they no longer study the word of God, 22:01 they checked out. 22:04 Most so called Christians are ignorant 22:08 of the teachings of the word of God. 22:10 That's why they say, 22:11 "Oh, same sex marriage, that's okay." 22:13 Oh, the Sabbath is abolish, "Oh, yeah, that's okay to do." 22:16 And then if somebody comes along say, 22:18 "Well, you know we can have multiple wives or husband." 22:21 Oh, yeah that's okay. 22:23 There is a vacuum of intellectual knowledge. 22:27 Now when you study the scriptures 22:30 the Bible tells us that certain events 22:32 will take place in the last times. 22:35 I'm convinced with all my soul 22:39 that we are living in the last closing moments 22:44 in the history of the human race. 22:47 I believe that the assult on the word of God is a sign. 22:51 I believe that the giving up of biblical marriage 22:57 or endorsing same sex marriage 23:00 I believe that's a sign of the times. 23:02 I believe that the war, the passive war 23:06 against the Commandments of God including Sabbath. 23:09 Now, I jotted down here from Matthew 24, May I? 23:14 Yes, absolutely. 23:16 Persecution of believers, we are going to see that, 23:20 we are going to see it in America. 23:23 Because Christians have certain believes 23:25 and they say, "No, we can't do this." 23:28 They are going to be persecuted. 23:29 Persecution of believers. 23:32 The Eventual union of church and states. 23:35 The setting up of theocracy to enforce man made religious laws. 23:41 Number 3, great natural and national disasters. 23:46 We shouldn't mess with God. 23:49 He's got an arsenal out there in the yellow stone, 23:53 if God lifts that bomb off it will wipe out America. 23:57 Look at the National Geographic on this one, the Yellowstone. 24:03 Religious apostacy, a falling away from the truth 24:06 whereby people become so secular 24:10 and so liberal that they no longer believe. 24:13 Number five, a war against the law of God. 24:18 You see it happening? Oh, absolutely, absolutely. 24:22 So these things that you've just mentioned 24:24 Religious Apostacy, war against the law. 24:26 We are seeing literally it happen before our very eyes. 24:29 Absolutely. 24:30 Even in my life time, 24:32 things are just have been turned on your head. 24:34 People have said to me, 24:36 more things have happened in the last 12 months. 24:40 They said, we never thought these things would ever happen 24:44 in this country that was based on the Bible. 24:47 I have been caution and warned against this. 24:49 A removal of God's protective hand, 24:54 talk about that in a moment. 24:55 Enforcement of man made religious laws, Revelation 13. 25:00 And everybody is being spied on today. 25:03 There is no place you can hide. 25:05 Continual wars in Jerusalem and Israel. 25:09 The flash point, the Bible says, "Wars to the end." 25:12 The gospel to the world 25:14 and the emergence of a faithful remnant. 25:19 Tell me more about the removal of God's protective hand. 25:21 Well, there is a preacher I enjoy here in North America 25:24 his name is Pastor Charles Stanley. 25:28 Oh, he's a Bible preacher not a philosopher, 25:32 and he believes in marriage 25:34 and he believes in the commandments. 25:36 I heard him say this, if we turn away from God as a nation. 25:41 He said God has had His hand over America. 25:45 He even said, we shouldn't have won the Second World War, 25:48 we weren't ready but God had His hand over us. 25:51 He said, God has His hand over this nation in a marvelous way. 25:56 America is raised up by God. 25:59 But Pastor Stanley said, 26:01 if we turn away from God and break His word. 26:07 Despise His word and change His laws 26:12 the hand of God will be removed. 26:16 And God will no longer protect us 26:19 and just as disasters came upon the children of Israel 26:22 so disasters will come upon us. 26:25 Now this is a good point-- Pretty scary enough. 26:28 Yeah, but many of evangelists preaches that, 26:32 that God is directly punishing 26:33 and He has in the Bible a couple of times 26:36 but mostly in the Bible 26:38 when His people aren't following His ways, 26:40 He seems to remove. Yes, He does. 26:42 Its different sort of statement that some put out 26:44 that God punished us on 9/11. 26:46 It's God's removal of His protection. 26:49 I think we've got to be careful, 26:54 unless we make self righteous, pontifical statements 26:58 and say well, God punish the people in New York. 27:03 Well, why didn't He punish the people in Los Angeles? 27:07 You know, isn't God impartial? 27:10 We need to be careful when we try to make specific statements 27:13 that God is punishing here and punishing there. 27:16 Your point is well taken. 27:18 What God does, He takes away the hand of protection. 27:21 Yes, yes. 27:22 And we are going to see as people interfere 27:25 more and more with the word of God, 27:27 we are going to see the hand removed more and more. 27:30 And this is going to bring abou, Pastor Venegas, 27:33 in such a time of trouble 27:35 that the government and the great church 27:38 they're going to all get together 27:40 and then they go to setup their own little worldwide theocracy. 27:44 This is spoken of in the Book of Revelation 27:46 and then they're going to try to bring about the blessing of God 27:49 by enforcing their own religious laws. 27:51 Yes, yes. 27:53 The scene, the stage is being set. 27:56 Absolutely. 27:57 Now, this isn't said for us to be afraid 28:00 but to be warned and to be ready 28:01 to see what is going on around us. 28:03 Pastor Carter, it's been a pleasure again, today to-- 28:06 My pleasure to be here. 28:07 Answer some of these question, they are great questions. 28:09 They are coming in from the internet, 28:10 from our viewing audience out there. 28:12 We do encourage you to send more questions in 28:14 via our website carterreport.org, that is O-R-G. 28:18 We are want to hear the questions, 28:19 bring them here and answer them for you. 28:21 Thank you, Pastor Carter, for your time. 28:22 My pleasure, thank you. 28:24 We will see you next time. 28:25 God bless you and God bless you. |
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