Carter Report, The

How to Study the Bible, Part 1

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Participants: Pr. John Carter

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00:08 From Arcadia, California
00:09 the Carter Report presents
00:12 "The Living Word" around the world.
01:12 Lord, I run to You
01:21 No one else will do
01:29 Lord, in trouble times
01:34 I will run straight to You
01:38 Though my heart and flesh may fail
01:43 Your my very present help
01:47 My tower of strength
01:52 My portion evermore
01:58 Lord, I run to You
02:06 No one else will do
02:15 Lord, You said
02:17 we'd face trouble, pain, and fears
02:24 But to be of good cheer
02:28 Lord, to be of good cheer
02:32 For You have overcome
02:37 You have overcome the world
02:44 And I lift mine eyes up
02:49 to the mountains
02:53 Where does my help come from
02:58 It comes from You, Lord
03:02 You are the maker
03:06 of earth and heaven
03:10 And there is nothing that is too hard for You
03:17 Oh Lord,
03:19 I lift mine eyes up
03:24 to the mountains Where does,
03:27 where does my help come from
03:32 It comes from You, oh Lord
03:36 You are the maker
03:40 of earth and heaven
03:44 And there is nothing that is too hard for You
03:57 Nothing is too hard for You, God
04:02 Nothing is impossible for God
04:06 we know You can do all things
04:10 Yes, yes, yes,yes
04:14 So Lord, we run to You
04:23 And no one else will do
04:32 Lord, You said we'd face
04:37 Trouble, pain, and fears
04:43 Oh, but to be
04:45 Of good cheer Lord
04:52 To be of good cheer
04:58 For You have overcome
05:06 You have overcome the world
05:18 So Lord, we run to You
05:36 Our topic today is how to study and understand the Bible.
05:39 I could have called it the Bible in the Outhouse.
05:43 How the Bible was put out in an outhouse or bit of it
05:49 and a person's soul was saved
05:52 that's the sermon today.
05:54 The amazing story of how prisoner
05:56 in a communist prison was saved by finding
06:00 a bit of scripture in a bucket of human excrement.
06:06 The Bible is unlike any other book in the world.
06:12 It has withstood campaigns for its destruction.
06:18 It is not an ordinary book because it has the power of God.
06:21 Explain this to me if you can.
06:23 I preached in Russia, I have been to Russia 42 times.
06:27 I was there at the height of communism
06:30 and when communism fell-- tell this, explain this to me
06:35 how you're gonna have a vast audience of communist, atheist,
06:39 people like Richard Dawkins, KGB
06:43 at 6 o'clock in the evening with their eyes downcast.
06:47 No belief in God and after the Word of God
06:50 has been preached in the power of the Holy Spirit at 7 o'clock
06:54 you can have 10,000 people
06:56 in that great auditorium praising God.
06:58 Explain that to me.
07:00 I will tell you what it is.
07:01 It is the power of God.
07:03 We're going to talk today about how
07:05 ordinary people like you and me
07:07 can understand its powerful message.
07:10 Today we're going to discover secrets of divine
07:13 secrets of health and prosperity and wisdom.
07:18 Example, how to chose the right husband
07:21 or the right wife, secrets of successful living.
07:25 Please take your Bible
07:26 and turn with me to the Book of Hebrews.
07:29 Hebrews 4:12, 13,
07:33 Hebrews 4:12, 13,
07:37 I want every person to turn to the text
07:40 because we are turning to the living word
07:43 of the living God.
07:44 Hebrews 4:12, 13.
07:48 Are you ready to go, folks?
07:50 Tell me are you ready to go?
07:52 "For the word of God is living and active."
07:55 This is not a dead word. This is a living word.
08:00 It is living and active.
08:02 "Sharper than any double- edged sword,
08:05 it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit,
08:09 joints and marrows, it judges the thoughts
08:12 and attitudes of the heart.
08:14 Nothing in all creation is hidden from God sight
08:18 everything is uncovered and laid bare
08:21 before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account."
08:24 The Bible tells me, God tells me that
08:27 His word is living and powerful and active.
08:33 And if you and I can get the Word of God into our hearts
08:36 we are going to get the power of God in our souls.
08:40 Listen, not gonna talk about this much now
08:44 because I don't have time.
08:46 I don't believe in the attitude of faith in faith.
08:53 I believe that we ought to have faith in the truth.
08:56 I don't believe that we ought to believe the Bible
08:59 just because we want to believe the Bible.
09:02 But in more than 50 years of ministry
09:04 involved with archeology and astronomy
09:07 I have come to the conclusion
09:09 that the Bible is historically accurate.
09:14 And astronomy shows the power of the God
09:17 who made the world and who gave us the scriptures.
09:20 This is not a case of saying to you just believe
09:24 and check your minds in at the door.
09:26 We're talking today about evidence
09:28 why you can believe in the Word of God.
09:32 And the Bible tells us that
09:33 the Word of God is active and powerful.
09:39 It is the living Word of God.
09:42 It is living and powerful.
09:44 It has God's life and nobody can kill it.
09:47 In Ukraine some years ago I stood in a tremendous theatre
09:53 packed out with thousands and thousands of people
09:57 and I stood on the very spot and I preached from this Bible,
10:02 this Bible, the Word of God.
10:06 And I stood on the very spot
10:10 where Chairman Chris Chafe the leader of the Soviet Union
10:13 has stood and made the deliberate announcement
10:17 he said within 20 years
10:19 the name of Christ will not be known in the world.
10:24 He said we have a great experiment and
10:28 we are going to get rid of God in the Soviet Union
10:32 and then we'll get rid of God in the world.
10:36 The Chris Chafe has gone but God is still there.
10:39 And the Word of God was being preached in the very place
10:42 where he said "we're going to get rid of the Word of God."
10:45 I want you to know the Word of God is powerful.
10:49 It contains the power that made the universe.
10:55 There are 200 billion suns in our galaxy
10:59 and 200 billion plus galaxies in the universe.
11:04 And the Bible says "by the word of the Lord
11:08 were the heavens made."
11:10 How big is God?
11:12 You think you got a problem, my friend.
11:15 You think something is too big for you.
11:17 I want you to know that the Word of God is mighty and powerful
11:23 if we could only get this word
11:25 into our souls and into our hearts.
11:29 I'm going to read you a little story
11:33 out of our latest magazine that is called Ebenezer
11:39 and if you'll write to me we'll try to send you a copy
11:42 if we've still got them.
11:45 "Never Alone.
11:46 He found salvation in a bucket of human excrement.
11:49 Here's how it happened.
11:51 A Christian in Vietnam was imprisoned by the communist
11:54 because he was not ashamed of his faith in Christ.
11:58 He was beaten, starved and locked up in a filthy cage.
12:03 The atheist kept him away for days on end,
12:07 have roped fastened to the roof rafters
12:09 was tied around his neck
12:11 so that he was forced to stand on his toes.
12:15 As he would collapse into unconsciousness
12:17 the rope would bite into his neck jerk him awake.
12:23 All the while his captors asked him where is your God,
12:28 why didn't He answer His servant's prayers.
12:31 Give up your foolish ideas they shouted
12:34 and we will let you go.'
12:37 Finally, beaten and broken with hope almost gone
12:42 he was sent to work in the stinking outhouses.
12:47 His job was to carry huge buckets of human excrement.
12:51 In his weakening condition, he found it almost impossible
12:54 to hoist the heavy buckets on to this shoulder.
12:57 He staggered beneath the load.
13:00 The foul smelling stuff sloshed over him
13:04 and in his heart he asked
13:08 'If God loves me, why doesn't he help me?'
13:11 " You think you got a problem, friend?
13:15 "Then one day he saw a floating on top of
13:17 one of the buckets a small piece of paper.
13:22 It was a page from His Bible, His Bible.
13:27 The camp commandant has confiscated
13:31 his precious little holy book
13:33 and later used it as toilet paper.
13:37 Quickly the prisoners scooped cooped it up
13:40 and hid it beneath his rotten clothing.
13:44 That evening late at night when all was quite
13:46 he read the words 'never will I leave you,
13:52 never will I forsake you.'
13:55 Hebrews 13:5.
13:56 God had spoken.
13:58 How could he doubt again?
14:00 Within a few weeks, a new camp commandant
14:03 was appointed and the Christian was released."
14:08 I want you to know
14:12 a word of scripture is more powerful and pertinent
14:19 than every word in ordinary magazine.
14:26 It is living it is powerful.
14:29 God's word is more powerful than man's word.
14:35 Often in history
14:37 people who tried to get rid of the Bible
14:41 in the Dark Ages you can read about this in the encyclopedia.
14:44 They destroyed the printing presses,
14:46 they burned the printers.
14:51 During an awful time in Europe
14:54 it was a crime to own a Bible, it was a crime to read a Bible.
15:00 Millions died because they read the Bible.
15:04 They were sent to the stake and they were put on the rack.
15:10 The devil has tried the 100s of years
15:15 to get the rid of the Bible but he can't do it.
15:22 I think of the communist and atheist
15:25 in Russia and China.
15:30 I have stood in a building,
15:35 the same building where I spoke
15:36 where Chris Chafe had spoken but I spoke
15:39 I went downstairs to the communist dungeons
15:45 were tens of thousands were tortured for their faith
15:50 and the blood oozed its way out between the great stones
15:56 and ran down the streets of Kiev.
16:00 I have been to places in Siberia.
16:03 I tell you in the name of God
16:07 where millions have died for their faith,
16:10 butchered for their faith.
16:15 But communism has gone
16:17 but Christ is still alive in Russia.
16:22 It is the living word of the living God.
16:25 Listen "The word of God is living and active.
16:29 Sharper than any double-edged sword"
16:32 like the Roman used.
16:33 "It penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit,
16:37 joints and marrows,
16:39 it judges the thoughts and the attitudes of the heart."
16:42 You can't get away from it.
16:45 "Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight.
16:48 Everything is uncovered and laid bare
16:51 before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account."
16:55 Hebrews Chapter 4.
16:58 Let me talk a little bit with you my friends
17:02 in this beautiful church
17:04 on a great benefits of prayerfully
17:08 with an open honest heart studying the scriptures.
17:12 Listen carefully because this is gonna help you.
17:17 Wherever the Word of God goes
17:20 it brings prosperity cleanliness,
17:25 health and freedom.
17:29 It'll do the same for you if you let it.
17:32 Come over here to 2 Timothy 3:15 and onwards.
17:37 Dear hearts and general people,
17:39 2 Timothy 3:15
17:43 "And how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures,
17:47 which are able to make you wise for salvation
17:50 through faith in Christ Jesus.
17:52 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching,
17:57 rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
18:00 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped
18:03 for every good work."
18:05 Come down to 2 Timothy 4:1 and onwards.
18:09 "In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus
18:13 who will judge the living and the dead
18:15 and in view of His appearing and His kingdom
18:19 I give you this charge, preach the word,
18:23 be prepared in season and out of season,
18:26 correct, rebuke and encourage
18:28 with patience and careful instruction."
18:33 Look at me, the Bible says that the word of God
18:40 the Bible is God-breathed.
18:45 It says something similar about the stars.
18:48 It says, He spoke, He has done,
18:51 He spoke the universe into existence.
18:55 We are not the results of a cosmic accident.
18:58 God spoke and a universe appeared
19:05 and the Bible tells me that when God gave us the scriptures
19:08 He took frail human beings
19:11 and He breathes the word of God into them.
19:15 The book that we are holding into our hands
19:17 is completely unique it is God-breathed.
19:21 Come over here with me to 1 Peter Chapter 1.
19:24 We are a Bible reading, Bible believing church here.
19:28 1 Peter 1:23 and onwards.
19:32 1 Peter 1:23 "For you have been born again,
19:37 not a perishable seed, but of imperishable,
19:40 through the living and enduring word of God."
19:43 The living and enduring word of God
19:45 you can't get rid of the word of God.
19:48 For 'All men are like grass,
19:50 and all their glory is like the flowers of field,
19:54 the grass withers and the flowers fall,
19:57 but the word of the Lord stands forever.'
20:01 And this is the word that was preached to you."
20:07 The Bible tells us that a person is born again
20:15 through the Word of God.
20:19 When we come into this world in the normal way
20:22 we come in with our sinful human natures.
20:27 But the Bible tells me when I come to Christ
20:31 and when I receive the word of the living God
20:35 a tremendous change takes place in my life
20:40 and I'm born again.
20:44 The old person dies you say
20:48 you don't know what my life is like.
20:51 I do know that God can change any life.
20:56 God can change our lives, He can take a drunkard
20:59 and He can make him sober.
21:03 He can take a blasphemer and give Him a sweet
21:08 and holy tongue.
21:09 Would you come over here to Matthew 4:1-4?
21:13 And those of who are watching right across this great country
21:17 on this great network I want you to listen to this.
21:20 May be go get your Bible Matthew 4:1 and onwards
21:24 "Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert
21:29 to be tempted by the devil.
21:33 After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
21:36 The tempter came to him and said 'If you are the Son of God,
21:39 tell these stones to become bread.'
21:41 Jesus answered, 'It is written.'
21:44 " It is written.
21:46 "Man does not live on bread alone
21:50 but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."
21:57 Listen in our hearts there is hunger.
22:01 Saint Augustine said, our souls were made for God
22:04 and they cannot rest until they rest in Him.
22:07 But when you take Christ into your life
22:09 and you take the Word of God into your life
22:12 the Bible tells us we are fed and we are changed.
22:18 Let me give you some forgotten history.
22:23 After Christ came the Dark Ages
22:26 the Bible was buried in an unknown language,
22:33 the world became filled
22:34 talking particularly about your superstition poverty,
22:38 ignorance, great spiritual darkness.
22:42 The Word of God was chained in the cathedrals.
22:48 Then came Bible preachers, Martin Luther
22:54 who translated the Bible into the tongue of his own people,
22:58 over there in England Wycliffe Tyndale
23:02 and then in 1611
23:05 we had the birth of the King James Version.
23:11 Like a mighty army, like a mighty wave,
23:17 it was a mighty wave of spiritual power
23:23 unleashed by God filled with the Holy Spirit
23:29 soaked in the Word of God that rolled around the world.
23:35 Listen, the nations that accepted
23:39 the teachings of the Bible we call it the reformation,
23:42 became the most prosperous at enlightened nations
23:46 on the face of the earth and they got liberty.
23:51 The chains were broken those that rejected the gospel and
23:57 the Word of God became places of darkness, poverty,
24:01 disease, ignorance, superstition,
24:04 death and no liberty.
24:06 Bondage, bondage.
24:09 We sometimes ask the question what made America great
24:17 because America has been great.
24:20 What made America great?
24:22 And many today are forgetting
24:25 the secret of America's success.
24:29 Not her armaments, not her great banks
24:35 but what made America great?
24:39 The founding fathers and the people
24:42 who came to this country came driven by the Spirit of God
24:47 and the preaching of the Word of God.
24:51 One president spoke of America
24:54 as a shining city on a hill.
24:57 America became the greatest nation in the world
25:02 not because of atheism
25:06 and not because of communism and not because of Marxism
25:13 I tell you
25:17 but because of the Word of God.
25:25 And I'm going to continue this in our next program
25:31 when I'm going to tell you
25:34 how you can choose the right wife.
25:46 Hello friend, I'm John Carter in Columbia.
25:50 Behind me is the great city of Bogota
25:53 the capital of this amazing country.
25:57 This city is a city of more than eight million souls.
26:04 It's up more
26:05 than eight thousand feet in the Andes.
26:09 And we've come here today with one purpose in mind,
26:12 to preach the everlasting gospel
26:15 of our Lord Jesus Christ.
26:17 We're here because we have a commission from God.
26:21 Jesus said "Go into all of the world
26:25 and preach the everlasting gospel,
26:28 baptizing them in the name of a Father
26:30 and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit."
26:33 The people here need the gospel of Christ.
26:38 And I'm asking you today come with us
26:40 if not body but come with us in spirit.
26:44 This is been a very, very dangerous city.
26:47 A very dangerous part of the world
26:50 but we believe that we are safe
26:52 when we are in the hands of God.
26:55 Therefore, I'm beseeching you in the name of Christ
26:59 and in the names of these eight million plus inhabitants
27:04 in the city of Bogota to come
27:07 and help us to preach the Word of God.
27:10 Please, support the preaching
27:12 of the Word of God in Columbia.
27:14 Please write to me John Carter,
27:16 Post Office Box 1900, Thousand Oaks California 91358.
27:22 In Australia write to me at the address
27:25 Terrigal, New South Wales, Australia.
27:29 Jesus said "Work while it is day
27:33 the night is coming when no man can work."
27:36 Please write to me today.
27:38 Thank you and God bless you.
27:59 I stand amazed in the presence
28:07 Of Jesus the Nazarene
28:13 And wonder how He could love me
28:20 A sinner, condemned, unclean
28:26 Singing how marvelous!
28:31 How wonderful!
28:34 And my song shall ever be
28:41 How marvelous!
28:44 How wonderful!
28:48 Is my Savior's love
28:52 for me!


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