Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001310
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00:08 From Arcadia, California, the Carter Report presents
00:11 "The Living Word" around the world. 00:18 Which is the best Bible translation for me to use, 00:23 welcome to our program this is the Carter Report, 00:25 my name is James Venegas. 00:26 We are dealing with Fresh Hot Potatoes from our viewers 00:29 and our special guest is Pastor John Carter. 00:37 We believe in the public proclamation 00:39 of all the mighty truths of God's saving 00:41 and transforming Word, around the world, 00:44 in Russia, Ukraine, India, Africa, 00:46 the Philippines, Australia, 00:48 America and the Isles of the Sea. 00:51 Millions have been powerfully touched 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 PO Box 1900, 01:06 Thousand Oaks, California, 91358 01:09 or to PO Box 861, Terrigal, NSW 2260, Australia. 01:17 Your gift will light a candle in a dark place. 01:19 Your gift will bring the Gospel of Christ to a lost soul. 01:23 Please, write today. 01:37 Pastor Carter, welcome back to our program, 01:39 Fresh Hot Potatoes from our viewers. 01:42 Questions for us to answer 01:43 especially curly ones, we like those. 01:45 We welcome you to our program. 01:46 Thank you. Let's talk about the Bible. 01:50 There are questions on the translations of the Bible. 01:55 Over such a period of time people start to distrust 01:58 the new modern translations, some are paraphrases. 02:01 The question that is sent in by Silvia 02:03 an email from Australia is, 02:05 which is the best Bible translation to use? 02:09 There is so much confusion, she says. 02:11 Good question, Silvia. It was Silvia? 02:14 It was Silvia from Australia. 02:16 Yeah, thank you, Silvia. 02:18 I love personally the King James Version. 02:22 I memorized much of it you know, 02:24 Who has believed our report? 02:25 And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? 02:28 Isaiah 53, it is translated of course in the 1600's. 02:35 Long time ago, 400 years ago. 02:38 And therefore some of the expressions 02:41 are rather quaint and they are really out of date. 02:48 That is why we need new translations. 02:52 The New King James Version has trying to improve 02:55 the old King James Version but hasn't done so. 02:59 It has improved the meaning but it has lost much of the beauty 03:05 and the glory of the King James Version. 03:10 The most important thing is to read the Bible 03:14 whatever the translation. 03:16 Our problem today is that we don't take time 03:19 for the reading of scripture. 03:20 I read from, mainly from the New International Version. 03:26 I think that's an excellent translation, the NIV. 03:29 This Bible is just about worn out 03:32 then you have the New American Translation, it's very good. 03:38 Most of the translations are good. 03:43 You should stay away from paraphrases or interpretations. 03:48 Now with that being contentious. 03:51 One church uses the clear word, 03:56 but it's not the word at all it's a commentary. 04:01 I have spoken to the author who was a very godly good scholar 04:05 and he never wrote it in the way that people use it. 04:08 It's a commentary on scripture, 04:11 it's more than a paraphrase 04:14 but we shouldn't use it for doctrine, 04:17 we should not use it for serious Bible study. 04:20 For our devotions its fine 04:23 but you need to get a good translation like the NIV, 04:26 New American Standard Bible and there are others. 04:31 And it's hard to beat the Old King James Version. 04:33 It's fine. Yes. 04:35 But you should get up a translation 04:38 that is a translation not a paraphrase. Yes, exactly. 04:42 And there is a flow on question 04:44 from another person, he is from India 04:46 I hope I pronounce her name correctly, Shantanu. 04:50 Shantanu Shantanu an email from India. 04:54 Shantanu says, what is the difference between 04:56 Thou and you in the Bible? 05:00 Should thou or you be used? 05:03 I understand that thou is a harsh word used 05:06 in the old English language, 05:08 please explain this for us on from the last question. 05:12 Thou was the way people spoken the days of the King James. 05:16 It's Victorian English and Queen Victoria 05:19 or Queen Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth rather. 05:23 The Elizabethan age the age of Shakespeare 05:25 it was all these and thous, we don't speak this way today. 05:31 If those people were living today, 05:34 they would say you and yours and so forth. 05:37 And so modern speaks translations 05:40 do not use the language of 400 years ago. 05:44 They use the language of today as it should be. 05:47 Isn't that what Jesus himself-- That's what Jesus did. 05:50 Jesus spoke in the language of His day. 05:53 He didn't speak in the language of hundreds of years B.C. 05:57 Yes, yes, now, let's go back to the word, 06:00 we have another Bible text top question, 06:04 comes from Barris an email again from the computer the internet. 06:08 How do you explains Colossians 2:16, 17? 06:13 Can we look that up? Yes. 06:14 Colossians 2:16, 17, an email from Barris 06:20 asking about your opinion 06:23 on this Bible text, Colossians 2:16, 17. 06:26 Barris is worrying about this. 06:29 I can understand this, Barris 06:31 because this text is used to prove 06:36 "that the seventh-day Sabbath is abolished." Okay. 06:40 So this is the text that is brought out to say, 06:43 the Ten Commandments are really done away this, 06:45 especially, the fourth one. 06:47 And let me read this, Let's hear. 06:49 "Therefore do not let anyone judge you 06:52 by what you eat or drink, 06:54 or with regard to a religious festival, 06:58 a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 07:01 These are a shadow of the things that were to come, 07:04 the reality, however, is found in Christ." 07:08 Now, the Bible says here, don't let anyone judge you 07:13 by what you eat or drink, 07:15 or with regard to a religious festival, 07:18 a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 07:22 Now, Pastor James, listen to this one. 07:25 That which proves too much proves nothing at all. Okay. 07:32 That which proves too much proves nothing at all. 07:36 If this text does away with the Sabbath 07:38 it also my friend, does away with eating and drinking. 07:45 Well, do you believe in eating and drinking? Yes. 07:48 And now, it wasn't Barris who asked this question? 07:50 It was Barris, yes. 07:51 And Barris, do you believe in eating and drinking? 07:53 Oh, yes, you do. Of course, you do. 07:55 Well, then you got no reason to give up the Sabbath. 07:58 What it is talking about 08:00 is the system of man made traditions 08:05 that governed these things. 08:07 Now I think I got a text here in the same chapter, 08:11 verse 8 says, "See to it that no one takes you captive 08:16 through hollow and deceptive philosophy, 08:21 which depends on human tradition and the basic principles 08:26 of this world rather than on Christ." 08:30 Back in these days, 08:32 there were influences that came into the church. 08:38 Human influences some of them were based upon Gnosticism 08:44 and they came and they perverted eating and drinking. 08:48 They perverted the Commandments of God 08:50 and they perverted the keeping of the Sabbath. 08:54 The great Dr. Samuele Bacchiocchi 08:57 takes the same view point in his book from Sabbath to Sunday 09:02 and he points out and he shows 09:04 yes, the Sabbath is mentioned here 09:06 but the Sabbath in the context of human traditions. 09:10 The human traditions our blessed Lord did away with. 09:15 He had nothing no time at all for human traditions 09:18 so he abolished human traditions 09:20 but Jesus went on eating and drinking 09:24 and keeping the Commandments of God 09:26 and observing the Seventh-day Sabbath. 09:29 And He certainly did. 09:30 And look I have another question from Aaron, 09:32 which is along the same lines. 09:34 Follow me on this it's a little lengthy but I will ask it. 09:37 I have heard the gospel 09:39 and have the conviction of the Holy Spirit 09:41 that I'm a sinner and need a Savior, 09:43 I confessed all my sins, asked Jesus to forgive my sins, 09:47 come into my life to be Lord of my life. 09:49 I'm now born again, Aaron says. 09:52 I have experienced God's power in my life 09:54 and I have completely turned from sin and serving the Lord. 09:56 Not afraid to die, he says. 09:59 I know my name is in the Lamb's Book of Life 10:01 but I'm attending services on Sunday and not Saturday. 10:06 Am I lost in sin? Will I not go to heaven? 10:11 Is Sabbath keeping a must to be saved? 10:14 I thought everything is symbols and types of Jesus 10:18 which is the true reality. 10:20 I came to Him and I found rest for my soul. 10:23 Is He not the Sabbath of the Lord? 10:26 I thought that sprit heart core or centre of the Sabbath is rest 10:31 and that rest is Jesus, I'm I wrong? Aaron asks. 10:34 Aaron, that's not a question that's a commentary. 10:38 That is a commentary. It's an excellent commentary. 10:40 That fly's well into the last question. 10:41 Aaron, there is a little saying, 10:44 "I would not work my soul to save. 10:47 For this my Lord has done. 10:50 But I would work like any slave, 10:52 for love of God's Dear Son." 10:55 I'm not saved by my works, but I'm not saved with outworks. 11:01 I'm saved by faith alone but a faith that is never alone. 11:06 I'm not saved by faith about just 11:10 I'm just saved only by faith. Yes, only by faith. 11:14 But the faith it saves me is demonstrated by works. 11:21 The faith that, James, it says the faith that saves me, 11:25 is demonstrated by works or else it is a false faith. 11:31 Now Aaron, I don't doubt your Christian experience, 11:34 not for one moment, you have come to Christ. 11:37 Your name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life. 11:39 Are you lost? No, no, no. 11:42 But there is a text in the Bible in 1 John 1:7, it says, 11:46 "If we walk in the light God gives us light." 11:51 You may not be baptized but one day God is going to show you 11:54 the truth about baptism 11:55 and you are going to walk in the light 11:57 and you are going to get baptized 11:59 and He is going to show other truths to you also. 12:01 Even though you are saved 12:04 He wants you to keep walking in the light of God's word. 12:09 And remember this, Jesus is our Lord, 12:14 our Savior and our example. 12:18 And Jesus was a Sabbath keeper, 12:21 the apostle Paul was a Sabbath keeper, 12:24 all the apostles were Sabbath keepers, 12:26 all the Bible writers were Sabbath keepers. 12:29 Did they do this in a legalistic way to earn salvation? 12:32 No, but because they loved Christ 12:35 and because the Sabbath represented the gospel, 12:40 they kept the Sabbath 12:41 as a demonstration of their faith in Christ. 12:44 And as we said sometime ago, Pastor James, 12:47 the Sabbath is the rest day, Genesis 2:1-3. 12:51 It is the rest day, that makes it the blessed day. 12:56 The Bible says, the God blessed the seventh-day 12:58 that makes it the best day. 13:01 But all the way through the Holy Scriptures 13:03 the Sabbath is-- wait for it, a test day. 13:07 It was a test day in the days of Jesus. 13:11 It was a test in the Old Testament. 13:14 It was a test in the days of Mosses. 13:17 It is a test in these last days 13:19 and the Bible says, Jesus said, 13:22 if you love Me keep My commandments. 13:25 Very good answer, 13:26 very good answer to a very good question. 13:27 Very good question. 13:28 We are going to come back with more questions in just a moment 13:31 but we will do that after this important message. 13:37 The Carter report is a self supporting ministry 13:40 with the global mission. 13:42 We believe that the most important thing 13:44 that we can do in this tremendous hour 13:46 is to tell people about the Lord Jesus Christ 13:50 because Jesus said, 13:51 "I am the way, the truth and the life." 13:54 We don't believe that this is business as usual. 13:58 We believe that we are living in the closing hours, 14:02 in the history of this world. 14:03 Bless your heart, friend. 14:05 Look at the signs that are being fulfilled almost every day. 14:08 The signs of the times are shouting at us, 14:12 and they're saying, "Jesus is coming soon." 14:15 I want you to be my partner in global mission. 14:19 I want you to be my partner in helping 14:21 to tell the world about the coming of Jesus. 14:24 I want you to be my partner in the preaching 14:27 of the distinctive truths of the Three Angels' messages. 14:32 Please check us out at the New Carter Report website, 14:37 www.cartereport.org. 14:39 We have a special section whereby you can ask questions 14:44 and I will give you the answers 14:46 from the living word of the living God. 14:49 That is the cartereport.org. 14:54 My friend, we want you to join us in the mission 14:58 to preach the gospel in China, in India, 15:02 in Australia, in Africa, in the United States of America. 15:07 Wherever people are lost and wherever people need to hear 15:12 the good news that Jesus saves. 15:15 Please check us out the new Carter Report website, 15:19 www.cartereport.org. 15:21 I want to hear from you today. 15:38 And welcome back to our Fresh Hot Potatoes program 15:41 with Pastor John Carter in the kitchen. 15:45 If we cooking potatoes, you are the cook. 15:47 We have got you in the hot seat 15:48 and we have some wonderful questions 15:50 coming in from our viewers and from our friends 15:52 on the internet, the email 15:54 and we love to receive these questions. 15:56 I have an interesting question for you. 15:58 It's a little bit different 15:59 but I think it will speak to a lot of viewers out there. 16:02 It's from Vanessa, she writes, I read in the Bible 16:05 that our sprit goes to God when we die 16:08 and an animal sprit goes to the earth. 16:12 What is that mean and what do you think God will do 16:15 with all the many animals that have died? 16:18 I think we might need to grab that in two parts. 16:20 Oh, I think so. 16:21 Vanessa, when it's says the spirit returns to God 16:24 it is referring to this vital life force 16:29 that God has placed within us that goes back to God. 16:33 But I have got a text here that-- 16:36 it's a thoughtful text so I'm gonna read it to you. 16:38 It's out of the Book of Ecclesiastes 16:42 and this text talks about 16:45 the breath of animals and the breath of man. 16:50 Let me-- give me a moment to find it. 16:52 Ecclesiastes 3:21 says, 16:58 "Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward 17:01 and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?" 17:04 So that's where she is getting it from? 17:06 Yeah, but it doesn't say what she is thinking. 17:08 It says, "Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward 17:12 and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?" 17:15 Now, it doesn't say it does go down into the earth, 17:17 it doesn't say that. 17:20 God has placed in every creature the breath of life. 17:24 In fact, the term "nephesh chayah" 17:27 which means a living soul is used in the Book of Genesis, 17:31 Genesis 1, not only for human beings, 17:33 its used for the Wales in the ocean. 17:37 The great sea creatures have got-- 17:39 they are--they have a "nephesh chayah." 17:44 Well, they are living souls. Yes, living souls. 17:47 Now, when a person dies 17:48 the Bible says, the breath of life. 17:51 This life force, this intangible thing 17:55 goes back to Almighty God 17:57 and the person sleeps in the grave until resurrection. 18:01 And then when Jesus comes, the dead are raised, 18:05 immortal and glorious, never to die again. 18:09 Yes, yes. You see? 18:11 Now, so we are assured 18:13 concerning the resurrection of God's people. 18:18 Now, I can't tell people what the Bible doesn't tell us. 18:21 We are not told in the Bible about animals. 18:24 I can't find a text in the Bible that says, 18:26 you pet poodle is gonna be resurrected. 18:29 But I can find a text that tells me that God loves people. 18:34 The Bible tells me that our Father is 18:37 full of an inexpressible love, it is so great. 18:41 It is incomprehensible and God loves you. 18:45 Vanessa, He loves you will all His heart. 18:47 I think Pastor James, I'm just thinking here. 18:52 I think our God is so great and our God is so good 18:58 that if this would enhance the world being 19:02 and the joy of His children in heaven 19:08 I think He would give them that which would help in that area. 19:12 May be a pet, can I give you a text? 19:16 Yeah, will there be animals in heaven? 19:18 I mean that-- Yeah, there will be animals. 19:19 That may be Vanessa's main concern here, you know. 19:22 Vanessa it's going to be like it was in the Garden of Eden. 19:27 But there won't be a chance of sin coming in. 19:30 It's going to be indescribable glorious 19:34 and there will be animals there 19:36 and they won't be eating each other or us. 19:40 Now, that is a great question, lot of animal lovers. 19:44 We are going to go little deeper. 19:45 We have an email from Matt, 19:48 he says the Mass, what is your take on the mass 19:53 that Catholics celebrate each week/day? 19:57 The Mass is not a satanic ritual like some claim, 20:00 the mass is not a repeat of the sacrifice 20:04 that Christ once offered. 20:06 The mass is to us 20:08 like the passover is to the Jewish people. 20:10 The passover is a memorial feast 20:13 so to us it's a memorial feast, the mass. 20:18 And then he goes on, that sacrifice is made present 20:21 in the last supper this is speaking that the-- 20:24 he is basically saying that the mass to them is a memorial. 20:27 It's a long question but that's the centre of what he says. 20:29 And his name is Matt? 20:30 His name is Matt and he's asking about mass. 20:32 Great question, Matt, great question. 20:34 However, Matt, you don't understand 20:36 the theology of your own church. 20:38 Pardon I'm telling you this, 20:40 because in Roman Catholic Theology 20:43 the mass is more than a memorial. 20:47 The Roman Catholic Church has a system of priests 20:50 and every priest must offer a sacrifice. 20:53 That's what the priesthood is about. 20:55 I'm a minister I'm not a priest. 20:57 I don't offer a sacrifice but the pope 21:01 and his legions of priests believe 21:04 that they are indecisive and they offer a sacrifice to God. 21:09 In Roman Catholic theology, the mass is a sacrifice 21:16 and Christ is offered up a thousand times 21:19 on the altars of Rome. Yes. 21:22 It is called an unbloody sacrifice. 21:27 The doctrine of Transubstantiation, 21:30 Pastor James, that you know about, 21:32 it teaches that the bread 21:35 is actually turned into the body of Christ 21:39 and the wine is turned into the blood of Christ. 21:41 That's the doctrine of Transubstantiation. 21:44 Where do I get this from? This is Roman Catholic theology. 21:48 Roman Catholics believe it is more-- 21:51 well, those at least who are skilled 21:54 in the teachings of the Catholic Church. 21:56 Perhaps the vast majority of Roman Catholics 21:58 are not aware of this. 22:00 But the Bible teaches that the Lord's Supper is a memorial. 22:07 We have the Lord's Supper we don't have the mass 22:09 because the mass is a sacrifice. 22:12 Let me read to you what the Bible says. 22:15 And this is the book that Hebrew 22:16 that talks about the priesthood of the Old Testament. 22:20 And there are no priests in the New Testament. 22:22 No, priest. There is one priest. 22:24 There is one. Christ. 22:25 Does the church need a priest today? Yes, Jesus. 22:30 "And by that will, we have been made holy 22:34 through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ 22:38 once for all." Once for all. 22:43 Hebrews 10:14, "Because by one sacrifice 22:48 He has made perfect forever those who are being made holy." 22:53 One sacrifice, the concept of extra sacrifices 23:00 goes against Holy Scripture, it is wrong, it is blasphemous. 23:07 And Matt is not aware of these things, Pastor James. 23:11 But he needs to check with his priest 23:13 or better still with the catechisms, 23:16 check with a good catechisms. 23:18 The mass is a sacrifice but there is only one. 23:23 It happened 2,000 years ago on Calvary. 23:26 Yes, good answer and a good question from Matt. 23:29 Thank you, thank you. 23:30 I have another very good question, 23:31 I am glad you passed me on that one. 23:35 I'm Glad you answered it on me. 23:37 Now, this is a question from Maggie would be the name. 23:43 Maggie. Maggie. 23:45 Hers is a little long but it's a good question too. 23:48 It says here about Seventh-day Adventists. 23:52 She says that the Adventists gospel 23:55 is so different from the biblical gospel. 23:59 It's easier to spot but the basis of the biblical gospel 24:03 is what God does on the cross. That's good. 24:06 And she says that the basis for the Adventist gospel 24:08 is what, is about the second coming. 24:12 Do you think she says, that SDA's would be ever-- 24:16 will be willing ever to rethink their gospel 24:19 and go back to the Bible alone and the cross? 24:22 God bless you Maggie, I have some good news for you. 24:25 Here it is, Pastor Venegas, 24:29 I have no doubt that there are Adventists 24:31 who got a wrong on the gospel. 24:33 I have got no doubt, I have met them. 24:35 I have met plenty of Baptists who got it wrong too 24:38 and Methodists, some Presbyterians 24:41 and Lutherans and Anglicans. 24:43 I have met many, many people in many, many churches 24:46 who got a wrong on the gospel. 24:50 But the Adventist church does not teach what Maggie is saying. 24:56 I have been an Adventist pastors I say in Australia 24:59 for donkey's years. That's for many years. 25:03 That's for a long, long time. 25:05 I know what the church, 25:07 the Adventist church officially teaches. 25:10 It may not be what every Adventist preacher preachers 25:14 it may not be what everybody in the church pew believes. 25:18 But I don't care, I'm going to telling you about that. 25:21 We believe, the Adventist church believes 25:24 that I'm saved by Christ alone. 25:28 The Adventist church teaches that on the cross 25:31 Christ made an atoning sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. 25:38 Once for all, we do believe that 25:42 we are saved by works, Christ's works. 25:48 We are not saved by our works 25:49 because that works are continually polluted by sin. 25:54 We are saved by the work of Christ in our place. 25:59 We believe that we are justified by faith, 26:02 we do not believe that justification make us righteous. 26:07 Now, some Seventh-day Adventists may believe that. 26:10 And preach it. And preach it. 26:11 and some Pentecostals believe it too and preach it 26:16 but this is not what we really believe. 26:19 They may preach it in certain parts of the world 26:22 more than in other parts of the world. 26:25 We believe--you can read this in our statements of faith. 26:30 Justification is a declaration from God 26:35 that declares that the sinner 26:38 on the basis of Christ merits is declared righteous. 26:43 Justification is a declaration, not a making. 26:47 The making is from the Council of Trent. 26:50 But after a person has been declared righteous 26:52 the Holy Spirit gets inside him 26:55 and starts to make him into a new person 26:59 and then starts to actually make him righteous, 27:03 makes him into a new person. 27:05 So the gospel that I believe is the gospel that Billy Graham 27:09 has taught, it is a gospel that is taught 27:13 by great Christians like Ellen White, H.M.S Richards, 27:18 George Vanaman, George Vanaman one of my dear friends 27:22 and I could go on and on and on. 27:25 So don't judge Maggie, the Adventist church 27:29 by the statements of a few heretics in our midst. 27:34 So in summary now the cross is central, 27:36 the reconciliation that Christ did for us is life, 27:39 death and resurrection, that is the gospel. 27:41 Yes. But we must say too 27:42 the Second Coming is the fulfillment of that combination. 27:45 The Second Coming you know-- 27:47 We hardly have a few minutes left, so-- 27:49 There is no much hope for us if we believe only in the cross 27:53 and don't believe in the coming of the Lord. 27:55 Yes. So that is the combination of what Christ did on the cross? 27:58 Yes it is and that's why we teach it. 27:59 And Pastor Carter, we thank you again for reminding us 28:02 with the basis of the true gospel and for being with us. 28:05 And we thank you also for watching the program. 28:07 Again we invite you to send your questions in 28:09 carterreport.org. It's very easy to find 28:15 please leave us your questions 28:16 and we will endeavor to answer them. 28:17 Thank you for watching and God bless you. |
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