Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001520A
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00:04 The Carter Report presents Plain Talk with John Carter.
00:16 Hello, friend. I'm John Carter. 00:19 Welcome today to the Carter Report. 00:22 This is a brand new program, is called Plain Talk. 00:27 Now, I don't know why, 00:29 but people say I give plain talk. 00:32 And so I'm going to give some more plain talk today. 00:35 And I'm going to be answering questions 00:37 that have come in around the world. 00:40 Welcome, my friend to Plain Talk. 00:46 Hi, I'm John Carter. 00:48 My wife, Beverley and I were watching 00:49 television the other night, 00:51 watching the news, American News. 00:53 They told us that the church 00:55 in North America is actually shrinking. 00:58 They said that atheism is the fastest growing 01:00 religious movement today in North America. 01:03 And people are saying, 01:04 "What on earth can we do to save the church." 01:07 Well, of course, Christ died for the church, 01:09 He saved the church. 01:10 But what I mean is, "How can we keep the church 01:13 as a vibrant force in the world today 01:15 in Australia, in America, and in Europe 01:18 and in the rest of the world?" 01:19 Let me tell you a little story. 01:21 John Wesley was one of the greatest preachers 01:23 that the English speaking world has ever heard. 01:26 John Wesley came upon the scene of the, 01:28 of the church in England a few hundred years ago, 01:31 when the church was dying like the church today, 01:34 it was a shrinking church. 01:36 But the people in the church were in the state of denial. 01:39 They refused to accept the reality 01:41 that the church was dying. 01:43 John Wesley did something 01:45 that other people said couldn't be done. 01:47 He revived the church through public evangelism. 01:51 Did you hear that? He started to preach Christ. 01:54 He preached the Bible 01:55 and he preached out of doors and indoors 01:58 and the church was saved. 02:00 Not only did he save a lot of souls, 02:02 the souls of sinners, 02:04 he saved the souls of the saints. 02:08 Please join me, my friend, in evangelism, 02:13 it's what Jesus did. 02:16 Write to me John Cater, Post Office Box 1900, 02:19 Thousand Oaks, California. 02:21 In Australia, write to me at the address 02:24 on the screen at Terrigal, in New South Wales. 02:28 Join me, my friend, in preaching Christ. 02:32 Join me in public evangelism around the world. 02:37 Thank you in Jesus' name. 02:47 Why is it that many Adventist college students 02:51 are in favor of same sex marriage? 02:53 Well, I've been told it is so. 02:55 It came out in some magazine articles that were sent to me. 03:00 So I think, it may be true 03:02 but this is the trend today in America, 03:07 in Australia, and around the world, 03:10 with the exception, of course, of Russia. 03:14 I guess, it is because 03:16 they want to be politically correct, 03:18 and they don't want to offend people. 03:22 The best motive I can give is that, 03:24 I guess, they've got friends who are homosexuals, 03:28 and they're nice people. 03:30 And they say, "Well, you know, 03:31 why can't we all be... all can't be same. 03:35 " There could be another reason of course, 03:37 and that is they don't understand 03:39 what the Bible says. 03:41 They may be, they do, but you know, 03:42 I don't know their hearts, 03:44 I don't know their, their abilities. 03:46 But let me read you a text, if I can find it here today. 03:49 As we are giving some plain talk, and. 03:53 I'm so glad that you've joined me today for this plain talk. 03:57 I'm going to the Book of Romans Chapter 1. 04:01 And it says, verse 26, 04:05 "They worshiped and served created things 04:07 rather than the Creator who is forever praised." 04:11 Now, here it comes. 04:15 "Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. 04:18 Even their women exchanged 04:21 natural relations for unnatural ones. 04:25 In the same way 04:27 the man also abandoned natural relations with women 04:31 and were inflamed with lust for one another. 04:34 Men committed indecent acts with other men, 04:38 and received in themselves 04:40 the due penalty for their perversion." 04:48 I don't need to apologize for the Bible, do I? 04:51 Some people say, 04:53 "You've got to be a bigot to read that text." 04:55 Well, I'm sorry, my friend, I never wrote the Bible. 04:59 The last time I checked, this was the Word of God. 05:04 Now, you got the right to your opinion. 05:07 You've got the right to disagree with me. 05:10 But let me tell you something, 05:12 I've got the right to believe the Bible, 05:14 and I've got the right to have my own convictions. 05:18 And I've got the right to follow Jesus Christ. 05:21 And Jesus said, "In the beginning, 05:24 God made them male and female. 05:29 There is no such thing as gay marriage. 05:34 And does God love homosexuals? Absolutely. 05:38 Do homosexuals have the right to their opinion? 05:40 Absolutely. 05:41 Do they have the right to do what they want to do? 05:44 Yeah, God gave them the ability to choose. 05:47 And this is plain talk, 05:48 so they've got those privileges. 05:52 God gave it to them, the right of freedom of speech. 05:55 But I want to tell everybody today, 05:57 I've got the right to freedom of speech also. 06:01 I've got the right to give some plain talk. 06:04 And I'd like to say to all the young people 06:06 who are watching the television program, 06:09 stop trying to be politically correct, 06:12 and be God correct. 06:14 And become intelligently informed, 06:17 and get to know what the Bible teaches. 06:21 Why do believers not call God by his right name 'Yahweh'? 06:26 That is true. 06:27 The, the name of the Almighty God 06:30 is Y-A-H-W-E-H. 06:33 And we say it's Yahweh. 06:35 In the King James version, it is translated Jehova 06:41 which is not the, the best way of saying it. 06:45 Well, people say, "No, no, no. That's, that's how we say it. 06:48 well, let's have some plain talk here. 06:51 And let me read you a text out of the Bible 06:53 Exodus 3:13, ready? 06:58 "Moses said to God, 07:00 'Suppose I go to the Israelites to say to them, 07:02 The God of your fathers has sent me to you, 07:04 and they ask me, what is his name? 07:07 And what shall I tell them?' 07:08 God said to Moses, 'I am who I am. 07:12 This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 07:14 I am has sent me to you.' 07:17 God also said to Moses, 'Say that Israelites, 07:20 The Lord or Yahweh, the Jehova, 07:24 the God of your fathers, 07:25 the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac 07:26 and the God of Jacob has sent me to you..."' 07:30 Now, listen carefully. 07:32 I'm gonna tell you, in the Old Testament, 07:35 the name of God was so revered, 07:39 so honored, and so respected, 07:42 that those people didn't like to use his name. 07:45 It was such a dreadful name, 07:49 that means it filled them with dread, with awe 07:52 and reverence to the Almighty God. 07:56 And when the Rabbis, 07:57 when they were copying the scriptures, 07:59 when they came to that name, 'Yahweh', 08:02 they would wash their hands 08:04 and take a fresh pen, fresh ink. 08:08 Boy! We've come a long way from that, 08:10 when you hear people today blaspheming the name of God, 08:13 it's a wonder, God doesn't strike them down. 08:16 And when you come through to the New Testament, 08:19 you find that Jesus doesn't use the word 08:21 'Yahweh' at all. 08:23 He spoke about God and he called him My Father. 08:27 My Father, he said. 08:29 "You want to know how to pray," he said, 08:30 "Pray this way, Our father, who is in heaven." 08:35 And so you don't have to be using the name 'Yahweh'. 08:38 You can say Our Father, 08:40 My Father, that's what Jesus said. 08:43 And then, in other parts of the New Testament, 08:45 because it's written in Greek, 08:47 it doesn't use the word 'Yahweh', 08:49 but it uses the word, Lord, Kyrios means master. 08:54 But the most important thing, my friend, 08:56 is that you follow Him and that you obey his Word. 09:00 That's plain talk. How can I study the Bible? 09:05 I'm a new believer living in New York 09:07 where it's not really easy to be a Christian? 09:10 Yeah, it's not easy to be a Christian 09:11 in Los Angeles either. 09:13 Is it easy to be a Christian anywhere? 09:15 Tell me where it's easy to be a Christian. 09:17 It's not easy to be a Christian. 09:20 Jesus said, is it Matthew Chapter 4, 09:25 I think in the Bible. 09:28 Matthew 4, Jesus said, "It is written, 09:32 'Man shall not live by bread alone, 09:35 but by every word that precedes out of the mouth of God.''' 09:38 You're going to die spiritually, 09:41 physically, every way. 09:44 Want to know what's wrong with the human race? 09:46 The problem with the human race is that they're dying 09:49 because they're not feeding on the Word of God. 09:52 This is the Word of God. 09:54 And what I'm going to tell you is plain talk, 09:56 and it's tough talk. 09:58 Here it is. 10:00 It's not always easy to read the Bible. 10:02 And the main reason people don't read the Bible 10:05 is because they're lazy 10:07 and because they don't discipline themselves. 10:09 If you want to become strong, 10:12 if you want to become a new person, 10:14 start with the gospels, 10:16 the most important part of the Bible. 10:18 Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, 10:20 you say that's the most important part. 10:21 Of course it is. It's a part about Jesus. 10:25 It's where you have the actual words of Jesus, 10:28 the most important part. 10:30 Most important part of the Bible 10:31 is not the book of chronicles, it's not the genealogies. 10:35 It's Matthew, Mark Luke, and John. 10:38 Start to read the gospels. 10:40 Read the Bible for 30 minutes a day. 10:43 Oh, you say, "It's hard." 10:46 Hey, do you want to be helped 10:48 or don't you want to be helped? 10:50 If you want to be helped, 10:51 you've got to discipline yourself 10:53 and say, "I know, it's gonna be tough, 10:55 but I'm going to discipline myself. 10:58 And I'm going to read the Bible for 30 minutes a day. 11:02 And I'm going to read it prayerfully. 11:04 And I'm going to concentrate." 11:06 And if you do that, my friend, 11:09 a miracle is going to happen in your life. 11:16 Where is the land of Nod, 11:18 mentioned in the Book of Genesis? 11:21 Oh, that is a tough one, isn't it? 11:24 Let me see if I can help you with this one. 11:29 I'm not absolutely certain I can, 11:31 but I think I can point you in the right direction. 11:35 I'm going to come over here, 11:37 in my Bible to the Book of Genesis. 11:39 Now, do I believe in the Book of Genesis? 11:41 Absolutely. Do I believe, it's inspired? 11:44 Absolutely. 11:46 Do I believe, it's the Word of God? 11:47 Yes, I do. 11:50 Now, it says Genesis 4:16, 11:54 "So Cain went out from the Lord's presence 11:58 and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden." 12:03 So the land of Nod was east of Eden. 12:09 Now, if we come to Genesis 2 and verses 8 and onwards, 12:15 it gives us a clue as to where Eden was. 12:19 It says, "Now the Lord God had planted a garden 12:22 in the east, in Eden, 12:23 there he put the man he had formed." 12:26 And verse 10 says, 12:27 "A river watering the garden flowed from Eden, 12:30 separated into four headwaters. 12:33 The name of the first is Pishon, 12:35 it winds through the entire land of Havilah, 12:37 where there is gold. 12:39 The gold of that land is good, 12:40 aromatic resin and onyx are also there. 12:44 The name of the second river is the Gihon, 12:47 it winds through the entire land of Cush." 12:50 So that's down towards Iran, Egypt. 12:53 "The name of the third river is the Tigris, 12:55 it runs along the east side of Ashur." 12:57 That's what we'd call Iraq today. 13:00 "And the fourth river is Euphrates." 13:04 That sort of the area of the Middle East, 13:09 that's wear Adam lived, that's wear Adam died, 13:14 and that's where the second Adam came. 13:16 And that's where he died also. 13:20 So we're talking basically east of the Middle East. 13:25 I can't be definite about this, but this gives us just an idea. 13:32 But the interesting truth is, 13:34 is that Adam sinned and died in that part of the world. 13:40 And Jesus came to that part of the world, 13:43 and he overcame the devil. 13:45 And he died on the cross for our sins. 13:49 If you believe in Him, you'll be saved. 13:53 That's plain talk. 13:57 God has His time and His place for everything. 14:03 And the time and the place now 14:05 is Latin America, including Cuba. 14:10 Time Magazine talks about 14:12 the second Protestant Reformation 14:15 and describes how hundreds of thousands, 14:18 even millions of Latinos 14:21 are coming to the Gospel of Christ. 14:25 I'm not an armchair theologian. 14:28 I'm speaking according to experience. 14:30 I've seen it with my own eyes. 14:34 Recently, we went down to El Salvador. 14:38 There I spoke in the largest football stadium 14:41 in Central America, with the biggest crowd 14:44 that, that football stadium had ever, ever seen. 14:48 They came not to see a football match, 14:51 but to hear about the blood of Christ. 14:54 Millions are coming 14:56 to our knowledge of God in Latin America. 15:00 Doors are opening in Cuba. 15:04 Who knows, we may be going to Cuba soon. 15:07 As the doors open by the grace of God, 15:11 we are going to step through those doors. 15:14 And we want you to step through those doors with us 15:18 and be part of our team for such a time as this. 15:22 Please write to me friend, don't put it off. 15:25 Write to me John Carter, Post Office Box 1900, 15:30 Thousand Oaks, California, 91358. 15:34 In Australia, write to me at Terrigal, New South Wales. 15:39 Be part of the second Reformation. 15:43 Join us and see the miracles of God. 15:48 Amen. 15:58 Who or what were the hominids? Are they our ancestors? 16:03 What about the Neanderthals? 16:05 Well, the hominids were ape like creatures 16:09 that lived a long time ago. 16:11 And they are not our ancestors. 16:15 We came from the very hand of God. 16:19 I got a magazine here. 16:21 I just want to share it with you, 16:23 it's called Ebenezer Magazine. 16:27 And I wrote an article in Ebenezer Magazine entitled, 16:32 The Bible and Science. 16:34 But you can get this if you write to us, 16:37 and especially if you support our work in evangelism. 16:41 Now, let me see if I can find this article. 16:43 Yes. 16:45 Professor Leaky was a famous, famous paleontologist. 16:51 He discovered a creature in Africa, by the name of Lucy. 16:55 And he said Lucy is our direct ancestor. 16:59 We came from this monkey like creature, 17:03 by the name of Lucy. 17:06 But before he died, Professor Leaky 17:08 had this to say, now, this is sort of amazing. 17:11 This is on page 43 of Ebenezer. 17:14 "If pressed about man's ancestry, 17:17 I would have to unequivocally say 17:19 that all we have is a huge question mark. 17:23 To date, there has been nothing found 17:25 to truthfully purport, 17:28 as a transitional species to man, including Lucy... 17:32 If further pressed, I would have to say 17:34 that there is more evidence to suggest 17:39 an abrupt arrival of man 17:41 rather than a gradual process of evolution." 17:47 Now, he sounds like he believes the Bible. 17:50 Of course, he didn't believe the Bible. 17:52 He was an evolutionist 17:54 and he was an atheistic evolutionist. 17:57 He may have thought there was an unseen power, 17:59 I'm not absolutely certain. 18:01 But he says, "Lucy was not our ancestor." 18:05 I know where we came from, the Bible says, 18:08 "We came from the first couple, Adam and Eve. 18:13 In fact, today's scientists are saying 18:14 that the whole of the human race 18:16 can be traced back to a single couple 18:20 who lived somewhere in Africa or the Middle East. 18:23 Man came from the hand of God. 18:26 Now the Neanderthals, well, they were not hominids. 18:31 They were a distinct part, I believe, of the human race. 18:36 They're no longer living, but the-- 18:40 These people, the Neanderthals were exactly what I said. 18:44 They were people. 18:46 And years ago, thousands of years ago, 18:49 they disappeared, they were wiped out. 18:52 Maybe Homo Sapiens destroyed them. 18:55 I don't know. 18:56 But the Neanderthals were certainly not hominids. 18:59 And the hominids were not the ancestors 19:02 of the human race. 19:03 We came from the hand of God, that's the truth. 19:07 What is theistic evolution? 19:09 And are you a theistic evolutionist? 19:13 Am I a theistic evolutionist? I'm not an evolutionist. 19:17 And I'm not a theistic evolutionist. 19:20 I believe in the Bible. 19:23 And I believe in the Book of Genesis. 19:27 I believe that we were made by the hand of God. 19:31 Now, what is a theistic evolutionist? 19:34 A theistic evolutionist 19:36 is a person who believes in God, 19:38 but a person who believes in neo-Darwinism. 19:41 A theistic evolutionist is a person 19:44 who believes that the human race arose 19:47 not by chance, but by God. 19:51 And then through the process of gradual changes, 19:55 evolved into Homo sapiens 19:57 and all the species, we see around us. 20:01 Now, are there some wonderful Christians 20:04 who are theistic evolutionist? 20:06 Absolutely. 20:09 John Stott, the famous British theologian, 20:13 Francis Collins who has being called 20:17 the greatest scientist in the world. 20:19 He was the person who was in charge 20:21 of the Human Genome Project. 20:25 A person who wrote the book, what's the name of it? 20:28 The Language of God. He believes in God. 20:34 He trusts in Christ for salvation. 20:36 He believes that we're lost without Christ. 20:39 He's a Christian, but he is an evolutionist. 20:44 I believe in micro-evolution. 20:46 Hey, you know the difference, don't you? 20:48 Don't be confused on this. Micro and Macro. 20:52 Macro is where you have human beings coming from 20:58 another species entirely, a great step. 21:02 And that we all came back, we're all related, 21:04 we all go back to some primordial cell in some ocean, 21:10 billions of years ago. 21:11 No, no, no. That's evolution. 21:15 I do not believe in evolution, 21:17 and I will tell you why I don't believe in evolution. 21:19 I don't believe in evolution because I think, it's wrong. 21:23 And I've got a ton of evidence, 21:25 why I don't believe in evolution, 21:27 that's plain talk. 21:30 How old do you believe the universe is? 21:34 Well, really, it doesn't matter what I believe at all, does it? 21:37 People say, "How old do you think the universe is?" 21:39 Well, I am not an astronomer and I'm not a scientist. 21:44 I'm a preacher of the gospel. 21:46 I'm a pastor. I'm an evangelist. 21:50 But God has given me a brain 21:52 that still seems to be working okay. 21:57 And I believe, there is such a thing 22:00 as true scientific discoveries. 22:05 I think every astronomer in the world today, 22:09 any qualified astronomer, 22:12 believes that the universe itself 22:15 was born in a flash of light and energy 22:19 13.82 billion years ago. 22:24 Or somebody, who doesn't understand 22:26 these things would cry out, 22:27 "Oh, no, no, John Carter, that's evolution. 22:30 No, we've got nothing to do with evolution. 22:34 In fact, this belief, now that the universe 22:38 had a beginning, in relatively recent times, 22:42 is about the strongest argument against evolution. 22:46 And people who say the creation of the universe 22:49 13.82 billion years ago, 22:52 shows that a person believes in evolution, 22:54 just doesn't know. 22:56 Just hasn't studied it. 22:58 Now, astronomers will tell you 23:00 and I've studied this a fair bit. 23:01 I'll tell you that the universe is expanding, 23:04 almost now at the speed of light. 23:07 And by calculating the expansion right, 23:10 going out like a giant cracker, 23:12 they can work back to the very beginning. 23:16 And there was a time, not so many decades ago, 23:21 when no scientists believe 23:22 that the universe had an abrupt beginning. 23:26 Einstein, Hubble, the whole lot of them believed 23:28 in the theory that is called the steady state. 23:32 They believed in the eternity of matter. 23:35 And then they discovered 23:36 that the universe had a beginning, 23:39 which is exactly what the Bible says, 23:41 in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 23:46 Now, an intelligent Christian 23:50 will believe in the words of the Bible. 23:54 And he'll also believe in valid scientific discoveries. 24:02 What should I do 24:03 if I have reason to believe that a church member 24:05 or official is guilty of child abuse? 24:10 Well, now, we know what's happened 24:13 in the Roman Catholic Church. 24:16 We know what's happened in United States of America. 24:19 We know what's happened in Ireland. 24:21 We know about the dreadful cover up. 24:26 I mean, words fail me. 24:30 The hundreds of thousands of children 24:32 that have been molested by clergyman. 24:36 What a disgrace? What an abomination? 24:40 And what happened for many, many years... 24:42 And I think Pope Francis 24:43 is trying to rectify this somewhat. 24:47 He's been a bit slow 24:49 but I think he's trying to rectify it somewhat. 24:52 You know, why the previous pope resigned. 24:54 Don't you. 24:55 Because he couldn't get a handle 24:57 on this tremendous scandal. 25:03 The Catholic Church and other organizations 25:05 what they would do, they're engaged in a cover up. 25:08 Protestant churches have done the same too, 25:10 but not as bad as the Catholic Church. 25:13 And so they would cover it up 25:15 and they'd send the priest to another parish. 25:18 And he'd abuse a bunch of other kids 25:21 and then he'd get caught, and they'd pass him on. 25:25 A lot of those priests today are in prison. 25:29 And the people who covered up, if they are not in prison, 25:32 they ought to be in prison. 25:33 If you think that a person is abusing a child 25:36 in your church, you need to report it 25:41 to the state authorities and to the church authorities. 25:46 You ought to report it to both authorities, 25:49 to the government. 25:51 Don't be part of a cover up, that's a dreadful sin. 25:55 And report it to the church authorities too. 25:58 And that person who has engaged in pedophilia 26:02 needs to be fired by the church 26:05 and sent to prison for a long, long, long time. 26:12 We must defend our children. 26:16 In Matthew 24:34, 26:20 Jesus talks about a "generation" 26:21 that will see the coming of Christ. 26:24 Can you please explain what Christ is talking about? 26:28 I wish, I could read Matthew 24. 26:30 We're going to run out of time in this segment 26:32 before we go to a message. 26:34 But Matthew 24 is a dual prophecy. 26:37 It talks about the destruction of Jerusalem 26:39 that happened in 70 AD and that, wait for this, 26:44 this was a type of the end of the world. 26:48 What happened in 70 AD to Jerusalem 26:51 and to the Jewish people 26:53 is going to be repeated on a worldwide scale. 26:58 That's the truth. 27:00 Abomination of desolation is going to come and stand 27:03 in the Holy place again. 27:04 There's going to be a time of trouble such as never was. 27:08 As there was a generation in the days of Jesus 27:12 that saw the destruction of the Jewish nation in 70 AD, 27:18 so there is going to be a final generation of believers 27:23 who are going to see the end of the world, 27:26 the great tribulation, the great time of trouble, 27:30 the persecution, the abomination of desolation. 27:34 And they're going to see the end of this world 27:37 as we understand it. 27:39 And they are going to see the coming of the Lord. 27:43 There will be a final generation. 27:49 Now, the good news is this that even though 27:51 the world is seeing a dreadful miss, 27:54 some would say it's becoming like hell, 27:56 Jesus is going to come. 27:59 And Jesus is going to have His people, 28:02 and there's going to be a resurrection. 28:05 And the saints of God are going to be victorious. 28:08 And the saints of God are going to go home to glory. 28:13 That's the truth. 28:15 And it's the plain truth. 28:23 For a copy of today's program, 28:25 please contact us at P.O. 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