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The Inside Story, Part 2

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00:08 "The Carter Report" presents,
00:10 The Living Word around the world.
00:16 Hello, friend, I'm John Carter.
00:19 Welcome today to the Carter Report.
00:21 The topic is "The Inside Story."
00:26 We've had the privilege of traveling the world,
00:28 preaching the gospel.
00:30 We've seen hundreds of thousands of people
00:34 steeped in darkness, superstition, heathenism,
00:38 come to the knowledge of Christ,
00:40 come to the knowledge of the light.
00:42 We've got two team members here with us today,
00:45 Susan Piraino and Alan De Leon.
00:48 They've got some tremendous stories,
00:51 hot from the heart of God to share with you today.
00:54 Welcome, my friend, to the Carter Report.
01:13 You can have all the silver
01:18 You can have all the gold
01:21 Just give me Jesus
01:27 You can have all the wisdom
01:32 This earth can hold
01:35 Just give me Jesus
01:38 Give me Jesus when I'm lonely
01:42 And I've nowhere to go
01:45 Give me Jesus
01:46 He's the only One who loves me so
01:51 Give me Jesus
01:54 Because Jesus is all I need
02:07 You can have all the spotlights
02:10 You can have all the fame
02:14 Just give me Jesus
02:20 You can have all the success
02:24 Have your well-known name
02:28 Just give me Jesus
02:31 Give me Jesus, Jesus When I'm lonely
02:34 And I've nowhere to go
02:38 Give me Jesus He's the only
02:42 One who loves me so Give me Jesus
02:47 because Jesus is all I need
02:54 He's been my closest friend when no one seemed to care
03:00 Hi, friend, I'm John Carter.
03:02 Welcome today to the Carter Report.
03:04 Two special guests are with me today
03:07 here in the Carter Report Studio.
03:09 Susan Piraino, welcome today, Susan.
03:12 Thank you, Pastor Carter.
03:13 Alan De Leon, welcome today, Alan.
03:16 Thank you so much, Pastor Carter.
03:18 You're two super team members and we love you to death
03:21 and you've made a great contribution
03:22 to the cause of God.
03:24 You've traveled with me now overseas.
03:27 Alan, recently you went down to where?
03:30 El Salvador.
03:31 We were setting up in the stadium,
03:33 the Cuscatlan Stadium.
03:34 This is the largest venue that they do have
03:36 available in El Salvador.
03:37 Did you know, it's the largest one in Inter America?
03:40 Yes, as well.
03:42 Yes, I mean, we're talking here about a big stadium.
03:46 And of course, Susan, we only had a few people come.
03:49 We had a packed house.
03:51 Praise God. Yeah.
03:52 And it was wonderful to see--
03:54 Bigger than the crowds often for football matches.
03:56 That's correct and, you know, I-- at the same time
03:58 they were having some big concert across the nation,
04:02 but it didn't--
04:03 I never knew this.
04:05 It didn't seem to affect us at all
04:06 because we were to capacity so...
04:09 Why did people come in El Salvador, Alan,
04:13 to the biggest football stadium in Central America?
04:16 What was the pulling power? Tell me, please.
04:19 I definitely feel like it was the Holy Spirit at work.
04:22 Just through all the small
04:23 sponsored Carter Report campaigns
04:26 that were--
04:27 that took place throughout the country
04:28 in the months before, the anticipation was building
04:32 and the venue itself just drew all of these people here.
04:36 But the organization of all the members there,
04:39 the local churches, all the pastors as well,
04:41 they did a tremendous job, just to drag all of the people,
04:44 not necessarily drag, but they enticed them to come,
04:48 because the Holy Spirit
04:49 really was working in all of these areas.
04:50 Yeah, they were just breaking their necks
04:52 to get in, these people.
04:53 Right.
04:55 You know, they wanted to be there,
04:56 because this was something.
04:57 Susan, what impressed you the most?
04:59 You were there. Yes.
05:01 Yes, we were there and we were able to meet
05:04 with a lot of the local people.
05:05 We were able to talk to them.
05:07 We were able to mix a bit, as you might think,
05:10 because before we can't,
05:11 because there were language barriers.
05:12 But this time we were able to meet
05:14 and people were just telling us that they were so excited
05:16 because they never realized
05:18 that the-- the gospel or the message of Christ
05:21 would attract so many people and this stadium would be full.
05:25 And usually the stadium--
05:27 a lot of people didn't have an opportunity to go there,
05:29 they couldn't afford to enter the stadium.
05:31 So...
05:33 Now tell me about the vice-president who came.
05:36 The vice-president, the young lady, I don't know.
05:38 Were you able to see her? Very charming.
05:39 Yes, very.
05:41 She had some of her family. Yes.
05:43 And she came and she was up in the special boxes
05:46 that they have, private boxes and she was up there
05:50 and she just was eating up everything
05:53 that she was hearing about the gospel and the Bible.
05:56 Well, I met a party
05:58 and that included the Mayor of San Salvador.
06:01 Correct.
06:02 And she was the--
06:03 a person who'd serve the country
06:05 as the vice-president for a number of years.
06:07 She said this,
06:08 "I want to thank you and your team for coming,
06:11 because these messages are just
06:14 what our nation needs at this time."
06:16 And it's what's needed around the world at this time.
06:19 And she said, "We need to hear the gospel."
06:21 Think of the suffering, my friends,
06:24 that this country has gone through.
06:26 You know, the tens of thousands of people who've been murdered.
06:30 Right.
06:31 Now, think of the gangs
06:32 and then think of the natural disasters,
06:34 the earthquakes and--
06:35 Oh, right. And the terrible famines.
06:37 Even volcanoes. And the volcanoes.
06:39 There was a lot of negativity
06:41 surrounding the area at that time,
06:42 and I believe that we were able to go and provide relief
06:45 and much needed love to the people.
06:49 Alan, when we drove around the city, though,
06:51 did you see people with guns?
06:53 Yes. Lot of guns?
06:55 There was definitely a lot of people who had guns.
06:56 Shotguns. Yeah, that's right.
06:58 Yes, very big guns.
06:59 Everywhere you went.
07:00 Yes, it did seem like that.
07:02 A lot of people had some type of firearm with them.
07:06 Obviously, the security team that we had with us also,
07:09 but there was never really a sense that
07:11 we were gonna be attacked.
07:13 We never felt unsafe
07:15 and we just felt this calming sense
07:18 that we could go and get the work done
07:19 and not feel nervous at all.
07:22 And what was amazing,
07:24 in the meeting, it seemed so peaceful.
07:25 Right.
07:27 You know, I'd walk out there every night,
07:29 a huge crowd of people.
07:30 Sometimes walk out in
07:31 pitch blackness with spotlights.
07:33 Yeah.
07:34 I was in the safest place in the world.
07:36 That's right. You know why?
07:38 'Cause the Lord had His hands over you.
07:40 God wanted us to be there. That's right.
07:42 And none of us were in a place
07:44 where we were afraid for one moment.
07:47 I mean, where do you go in a stadium
07:49 where there's 55,000-60,000 people
07:50 and there's not some kind of problem?
07:52 You know, where there's
07:54 fighting breaking out or anything
07:55 and we never had any sort of news of any problems
07:58 within the stadium.
08:00 The Bible tells us this that the gospel
08:02 is the power of God unto salvation
08:05 to everyone who believes,
08:07 to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
08:10 So the gospel is the power of God.
08:12 And if you have the gospel in your heart,
08:15 you got the power of God and you don't have to be afraid
08:19 because Jesus said,
08:21 "I'll never leave you nor forsake you."
08:22 Amen. That's correct.
08:24 Now we specialize in going to dangerous places.
08:27 We sure have.
08:29 Susan, you didn't go at that time,
08:31 Alan, because you've only
08:33 just been with us for a short time.
08:34 Yes.
08:36 Tell me about PNG and Port Moresby.
08:39 Yeah, I wish Alan would've been able to be with us then
08:41 because that was a different experience
08:43 in terms of the people.
08:45 And as you said, I think it's listed
08:48 as one of the most dangerous places in the world.
08:50 It's supposed to be the most dangerous city.
08:52 Right and-- Port Moresby.
08:54 But, you know, once again, I never felt afraid.
08:58 I never felt that I needed to be worried about my safety.
09:02 There always seemed to be a sense of calm and just--
09:07 there was nothing to be worried about
09:08 while you were in the stadium.
09:11 Now some nights
09:12 and as we got towards the close of the meetings,
09:15 how many people were sitting out there in the stadium?
09:18 Goodness, I think we had over 150,000 people.
09:22 And you're right, and have you heard that there were--
09:26 Other, other venues. Yes.
09:28 I think there were two other venues
09:29 outside of the stadium itself.
09:31 Yes.
09:32 Because obviously we couldn't see.
09:33 It is kind of far away,
09:35 but there were two separate areas
09:37 where the people were also congregating
09:39 because they could hear the message from there.
09:42 It's amazing.
09:43 And they said a lot of these groups
09:44 were a lot of the gangs
09:46 and the, and the different gangs
09:48 and lot of different groups and gangs in PNG
09:51 and so the gangs kind of were in their area together
09:54 but they were all listening to the gospel,
09:56 which was pretty amazing if you think about it.
09:58 Alan, today you're going to discover this
10:02 that some of the biggest opposition we get,
10:04 to this work, is not out there in the wicked bad world,
10:08 it's inside the church.
10:11 And people come to me--
10:12 some of my peers come to me and they say,
10:14 "John, don't you realize that this is out of date?
10:19 We don't do it any more."
10:21 I have a message for them.
10:23 Listen, my friend, the church in the western world,
10:27 the best church growth, experts say, is a dying church.
10:33 And you know why they don't do it?
10:34 Because it's a lot of hard work.
10:36 It's terrible lot of hard work and it costs a lot of money.
10:40 Right. Exactly.
10:41 But we do it and I would tell the people out there
10:44 who are watching the television program,
10:46 I'll tell you why we do it.
10:47 We do it because the Bible commands it.
10:49 That's right.
10:50 You say, "No, no, no, you got it wrong,
10:52 the Bible doesn't command it."
10:54 Jesus said something like this,
10:55 "Go into all the world, and do this and do that."
11:00 He said, "Preach."
11:01 What did he say, Susie?
11:03 He said, "Go into all the world
11:04 and preach the everlasting gospel."
11:05 Yes. And so what does that mean?
11:07 Does that mean we stay home
11:08 and we just go to church and talk to each other?
11:10 No. It says, "Go out."
11:12 So it means sometimes
11:14 you got to leave your comfort zone.
11:15 And we all have that responsibility
11:17 as Christians to be able to do that
11:18 to any capacity that we have.
11:21 Susie, tell the people about the night of the white dove.
11:25 Because the white dove came on, I'm told, on three occasions.
11:29 Correct.
11:31 And a person who was up there
11:32 sent me a little video that he took with his iPhone.
11:37 Yeah, that was amazing.
11:38 Tell us about that.
11:40 Well, he wrote in, just recently actually--
11:41 Yes, he did.
11:43 And said that he would come and he had his iPhone on,
11:47 because he wanted to record the music.
11:49 So it was going on. He just left it on.
11:52 And unbeknownst to him,
11:54 it was on when he heard the crowd sort of roar,
11:56 because when it flew over the stadium,
11:58 the crowd sort of roared
12:00 and he actually captured it on his phone
12:02 and he sent us the link to the little video
12:06 that he actually recorded of the dove,
12:08 which was pretty amazing.
12:09 Did you know the dove came at the time of the baptism,
12:14 out in the ocean
12:16 when thousands of people were baptized out in the ocean.
12:19 It came on two different nights to the meetings.
12:21 Correct.
12:23 Alan, the amazing thing is this,
12:25 listen to this.
12:26 All of the locals say,
12:28 they had never seen that white dove before
12:31 in the history of PNG.
12:34 Which made it all the more impressive
12:35 that it was there.
12:37 They believed that this was a visitation of God
12:41 to tell them that surely
12:42 the presence of the Lord is in this place.
12:45 And it was an impressive email, even to read.
12:47 I remember receiving that
12:49 and going through all the information,
12:50 clicking on the link
12:52 and watching the video for myself.
12:54 It was just amazing to see that
12:56 that one person who decided to write to us
12:59 that information actually had all the video,
13:03 and you could see it, plain and clear,
13:06 and I just had to bring it to you.
13:07 It was actually really exciting to see.
13:08 So we believe, it's in our souls
13:12 that we are living in the day of God's power.
13:14 Definitely.
13:16 We believe that the power of the gospel
13:18 is unequalled in the world.
13:20 The problem is we hold on to it ourselves
13:23 and we don't let it go into the world.
13:25 That's right.
13:26 But when the gospel is preached
13:27 with the presence of the Holy Spirit,
13:30 the white dove comes.
13:32 You know, that's a powerful thing to know
13:34 that, you know, here God is, you know, showing us His power
13:39 and saying, you know, "Here I am.
13:42 You've stepped out. You've gone.
13:43 You've done what I've asked you to do
13:44 and now I'll show you that I'm there with you."
13:46 And that's what the pow-- the dove showed to us,
13:49 and He was there.
13:51 You're watching the Carter Report,
13:52 I'm John Carter.
13:54 Stay with us, we'll back in just a moment
13:57 with other stories from the inside.
14:03 God has His time and His place for everything.
14:08 And the time and the place now is Latin America,
14:13 including Cuba.
14:15 Time Magazine talks about
14:17 the Second Protestant Reformation
14:20 and describes how hundreds of thousands,
14:24 even millions of Latinos are coming to the gospel of Christ.
14:30 I'm not an armchair theologian.
14:33 I'm speaking according to experience.
14:36 I've seen it with my own eyes.
14:39 Recently we went down to El Salvador.
14:43 There I spoke in the largest football stadium
14:47 in Central America with the biggest crowd
14:50 that that football stadium had ever, ever seen.
14:53 They came, not to see a football match,
14:56 but to hear about the blood of Christ.
15:00 Millions are coming to a knowledge of God
15:04 in Latin America.
15:06 Doors are opening in Cuba.
15:09 Who knows? We may be going to Cuba soon.
15:13 As the doors open by the grace of God,
15:16 we are going to step through those doors
15:19 and we want you to step through those doors with us
15:24 and be part of our team for such a time as this.
15:28 Please write to me, friend, don't put it off.
15:31 Write to me, John Carter, Post Office Box 1900,
15:35 Thousand Oaks, California, 91358.
15:39 In Australia, write to me at Terrigal, New South Wales.
15:45 Be part of the Second Reformation.
15:48 Join us and see the miracles of God.
15:53 Amen.
16:03 You're watching the Carter Report.
16:05 I'm John Carter.
16:07 Welcome back to this great program,
16:09 The Inside Story.
16:11 Susie? Yes.
16:12 Some people think we're sort of crazy,
16:15 because we do evangelism.
16:17 Alan, you're a new member of the team.
16:19 You've been with us to El Salvador.
16:22 We hope that soon we'll be going to where?
16:25 Cuba. Cuba.
16:26 Cuba, yes. Hear that, my friend? Cuba.
16:30 We've got our eyes on Cuba.
16:33 Cuba is opening up.
16:35 We like going to new places.
16:37 That's right. And tough places.
16:38 That's right and that would be tough.
16:40 I would be waiting. Don't you think?
16:41 Oh, it's gonna be amazing going to Cuba.
16:43 Yeah, it's gonna be amazing.
16:45 We're gonna see the power of God in Cuba.
16:47 Praise God.
16:48 I feel like the people are ready.
16:50 Absolutely.
16:51 Susie, why do you do this work?
16:53 Why do I do it?
16:54 Yeah, 'cause people say, "Why do evangelism?
16:56 Nobody does evangelism anymore."
16:59 People will write to me, "Why do evangelism?"
17:00 Why do you do it?
17:01 Because I love the Lord
17:03 and I've seen what He can do in my life personally
17:05 and I would love to see that,
17:08 give that opportunity to everybody out there.
17:10 Now here's a tough one.
17:12 What's the biblical basis for public evangelism?
17:17 Well, it's God's word and it's the great commission.
17:20 You know, in Mathew I think it's 28, where He says,
17:22 "Go into all the world and preach."
17:25 I mean, it's pretty plain, isn't it?
17:26 Preach.
17:28 He doesn't say, "Go into the world and make friends
17:29 or go into the world and, you know,
17:31 share that-- share something."
17:33 But he says, "Preach."
17:34 And when you preach, what does that do?
17:36 It allows God's word to be spread among His people
17:39 and it's not a responsibility that falls on a select few,
17:42 but everyone.
17:43 Do you believe, Alan,
17:45 that there is a biblical-theological basis
17:49 for public and private evangelism?
17:53 Definitely.
17:54 It allows your life to be influenced by God
17:56 in a very serious and very personal way
17:59 and in turn that allows you
18:01 to affect others for God's greater purpose
18:03 and it allows you to be a light,
18:06 a beacon of reflecting Jesus' personality
18:10 in all things that you do.
18:11 And it allows you to affect others
18:14 and I believe that's just an amazing thing to experience.
18:16 Alan, Susan, let me share with you a little heresy.
18:21 It's a heresy in the eyes of the unbelieving.
18:25 Not only the unbelieving, but sincere, good people
18:29 who do not really understand the truth of the Bible.
18:33 The Bible teaches that without Christ we're lost.
18:38 That's right.
18:39 I believe that with all my heart.
18:40 You believe that? Yes, indeed.
18:42 Why would you believe such a heresy?
18:44 Because I hear some preachers who tell me,
18:46 "All you've got to do is be sincere."
18:50 Well, if that were the case
18:52 then why would be bothered to preach the gospel?
18:54 If we're just good people and just go around--
18:56 Well, that's what they say,
18:57 they say, "There's no need to preach the gospel."
18:59 Then there was no need for Jesus to die on the cross,
19:01 was there?
19:03 Can you think of any text in the Bible that tells me
19:06 that we're lost without Christ, Jesus Christ?
19:10 There's a text that says that exactly,
19:13 "We're lost without Christ."
19:15 I can't think of the particular--
19:16 You're thinking of Ephesians 2. Yes.
19:20 I think it says--
19:21 It says that pretty much straightforward.
19:23 It says-- We are--
19:26 "Without hope and without God in the world."
19:28 That's right. That's Ephesians 2.
19:31 And isn't that-- that's as plain as can be,
19:33 "Without hope and without God in the world."
19:35 That's Ephesians 2. Did you hear that, friend?
19:37 That's Ephesians 2.
19:39 You may not get that on the church manual,
19:41 but you'll get it in the Bible.
19:42 I think the church manual would support it too.
19:44 Ephesians 2 says
19:46 that people without Christ are without God
19:50 and without hope in the world
19:52 and that is why we go into all the world to preach the gospel.
19:55 Don't believe the heresy
19:58 that every person is saved without Christ.
20:01 No.
20:03 Can you think of what Jesus said, Alan?
20:05 You know, I'm putting you folks on the spot.
20:07 Oh, well, I would say
20:09 it's to go out into the world and preach, preach His gospel
20:12 and that's just the great commission
20:13 as you mentioned before.
20:15 It's something that all of us have the ability to do.
20:18 There are only select people
20:19 that us as Christians have the ability to reach
20:22 through our personal interactions with them,
20:24 through relationships
20:25 and it's our responsibility to teach
20:28 as many people as possible about the love of God
20:31 and it's not so much to advance but it's to help and improve
20:35 the lives of others that we come across.
20:37 You know, Jesus said, these are His words.
20:40 Jesus said, "I am the way.
20:42 I am the truth.
20:44 I am the life."
20:46 Not the religion of some other person,
20:49 not some other prophet.
20:51 No, Jesus is the way, the truth--
20:55 And the life. And the life.
20:56 That's the end of case.
20:57 Can I tell you a little story?
21:00 I went out to Australia
21:01 some time ago back to my homeland.
21:04 I was picked up at the airport by a taxi driver
21:07 who started to tell me
21:09 the good news about the Islamic faith.
21:13 I got it all the way to my hotel.
21:15 He did it engagingly, lovingly, he said,
21:19 "I want to see you in the kingdom of God."
21:22 He said, "I believe in one God and Mohammad is his prophet."
21:27 Then he gave me CDs, DVDs.
21:30 He hugged me.
21:33 I never met a single Christian in Australia
21:37 who tried to win me to Christ.
21:39 That's an unfortunate--
21:40 And that is why the Muslim faith is roaring ahead
21:43 and the Christian church,
21:45 my friend, in the western world is marching backwards
21:49 and that is why there needs to be a change in our thinking.
21:53 Definitely. Right. Don't you think?
21:55 He obviously had a passion, didn't he?
21:56 Yeah, he had a passion.
21:57 Because he believed that he was onto something.
22:00 Now, Susie and Alan,
22:06 you both went to El Salvador.
22:09 Alan, you've just joined our team.
22:10 You're gonna go to other places.
22:12 We hope Cuba.
22:13 Yes, certainly, and we're excited
22:15 and we're really hoping that God opens the doors for us
22:17 to go there.
22:18 But think of the toughness of the place we went to,
22:20 the land of more than a billion souls
22:23 and a hundred million gods.
22:25 India. India. India.
22:27 What happened in India?
22:28 That was a different place altogether.
22:30 I mean, talk about lots of gods
22:32 and the worship of many, many gods
22:35 and boy, confusion and just people that--
22:38 and people are looking to worship something.
22:40 And, you know,
22:42 when you're presenting the gospel of Jesus Christ
22:44 then there's no need for other gods.
22:46 You have the only God you need
22:48 and we saw the impact that this ministry
22:52 that the Carter Report made in India
22:54 in sharing the gospel
22:55 and thousands upon thousands coming night after night,
22:58 and once again we heard it's not gonna work here
23:00 and people won't come.
23:01 No, impossible.
23:02 It can't be done. Won't be done.
23:04 No one's gonna come. No, no, no.
23:05 And we saw the opposite.
23:07 We've seen that every single time.
23:08 So we know that God has His hand upon the work
23:10 that we're doing here.
23:12 The tough question towards you, Alan, now.
23:14 These campaigns costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.
23:16 People say that's too much.
23:18 That's a terrible thing to say.
23:20 Definitely.
23:21 How much is a soul worth?
23:22 But who pays the bills for these campaigns?
23:24 El Salvador, India, where David goes to work.
23:27 David has a passion for India, Papua New Guinea, The Solomon.
23:31 Who pays the bills? Well, we do.
23:35 Being able to work here and see firsthand
23:37 everything that moves in and out of this ministry,
23:40 you'd be surprised to witness all the money
23:42 that we do have to spend on these types of things.
23:46 A lot of people seem to see the final product of what we do
23:50 and they think it just kind of all comes together magically.
23:53 But there is a lot of work
23:55 and a lot of time and a lot of money
23:56 that goes into putting all of this together
23:58 and having it done professionally,
24:00 which is very important and I believe that
24:03 that all culminates into winning souls for Christ.
24:06 Now, Alan and Susan, when you went to El Salvador,
24:12 and, Susan, when you went to Russia and India
24:15 and David was in charge of the preparation.
24:19 Preparing for the meetings,
24:20 is that a big deal or is it easy?
24:22 Tell me about that.
24:23 It's a lot of work that goes unseen.
24:26 You arrive and you expect
24:28 a certain amount of work to be done
24:30 and you expect your progress to be smooth
24:32 or you're hoping it's smooth.
24:34 But there are many challenges
24:36 and a lot of things that you can't prepare for.
24:37 What would you compare it unto?
24:40 Any big rock concert, any big stadium show,
24:43 anything that involves a lot of moving pieces
24:46 'cause that's exactly what happens.
24:47 Now more people come to these campaigns
24:49 than go to a general conference.
24:51 Yes, and there's-- Many, many times.
24:53 And there's thousands of people there and you want to make sure
24:55 that the program is delivered in a way
24:57 that attracts them and engages them as well.
25:01 How many people, often, at the meeting, Susan?
25:04 Oh, in El Salvador we had every night it was packed.
25:08 So and every place we've been to--
25:10 Now we're talking about tens of thousands
25:12 or hundreds of thousands of people.
25:13 Exactly.
25:14 And a tremendous job
25:16 that my team does with local people,
25:20 building a huge stage.
25:21 Building the stage, the sound,
25:23 everything, the whole environment,
25:25 the entire setup
25:26 and normally we have three days to do this in.
25:29 So you're looking at a huge setup,
25:31 which is-- it means round the clock working
25:33 for teams of people to be able
25:35 to have this done in a timely manner.
25:37 Why do people do this and why do people support us
25:41 and why do they send offerings?
25:42 Why do people do this?
25:43 Because they see the difference that we're making,
25:45 I see.
25:47 Yeah, they can see in the work that we're doing
25:48 that we're affecting lives.
25:50 And if it wasn't productive, I believe that those stadiums
25:53 wouldn't be as full as they were.
25:55 They're packed to the rafters with people who're just hungry
25:57 to hear the gospel.
25:59 And seeing souls saved and we've seen it in Australia
26:04 at the Opera House, The Dallas Brooks.
26:06 We've seen it downtown at the Shrine.
26:09 We've seen it in Africa. We've seen it in India.
26:13 We've seen it in Russia and Ukraine
26:15 and the isles of the sea.
26:17 So nobody tell me it doesn't work.
26:20 If it doesn't work, it's because you and I don't work.
26:23 But it's time for us to work.
26:24 That's right.
26:26 We have a big job to do still
26:27 and God is opening the doors for us
26:29 and we're praying now that he's opened the doors for us
26:31 to go to Cuba.
26:32 Time is running out. Tell me about Cuba, fast.
26:34 Well, Cuba, as you know, has been closed
26:36 and campaigns have not existed there.
26:39 I preached there, though. You preached at a church.
26:41 But this time we hope to go to a public venue.
26:43 Yes.
26:44 And open to the general public. Yes.
26:46 And that I think would have
26:48 such a dramatic impact on the population there,
26:50 it would be incredible.
26:52 All the people are there waiting
26:53 and I believe that we can have a tremendous effect
26:55 just because of the isolation
26:57 that they've experienced for so many years.
26:58 Okay, I've got to wind this up.
26:59 Tell me quickly, Alan, are you pleased,
27:02 are you glad that you're a part of an organization
27:05 that believes in evangelism?
27:06 Tremendously.
27:08 I believe that it affects my life personally
27:09 and by allowing me to affect others
27:11 and it's a great blessing.
27:12 I'm just so thankful to be able to do that.
27:14 Susan, you've been with me now for 22 years.
27:19 As I said, I didn't know you're 22 years, okay,
27:21 but has it been a blessing to you?
27:23 The biggest blessing in my life
27:24 and God has turned my life around through this ministry
27:27 and I'm eternally grateful and I pray that
27:29 we can give that opportunity to many others.
27:31 Thank you.
27:32 You've been two super really good guests.
27:35 And I want to thank you
27:36 for being a part of our program today.
27:38 You've been watching the Carter Report
27:40 with Susan Piraino, Alan De Leon.
27:44 We believe in Christ.
27:45 We believe in the preaching of the gospel.
27:48 We believe in the Word of God.
27:50 This is in our souls.
27:53 And we ask you in the name of Jesus
27:56 support the preaching of Christ.
27:59 This is not a secondary work.
28:01 This is the most important work in all of the world.
28:05 Stand with us.
28:06 Write to me please.
28:08 John Carter, Post Office Box 1900,
28:10 Thousand Oaks, California.
28:12 In Australia write to me, Terrigal.
28:14 You can contact us online.
28:17 But remember that Jesus said,
28:19 "Go into all the world, preach the gospel.
28:23 He who believes and is baptized will be saved."
28:27 Believe it.
28:29 It is the Word of God.
28:30 God bless you.


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