Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001625A
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00:04 The Carter report presents Plain Talk with John Carter.
00:17 Welcome back to 'Plain Talk.' 00:19 We have a great audience here today 00:21 in our studio in Moorpark. 00:24 Alan Deleon is asking the questions 00:26 that you have sent to us. 00:29 We have thousands of questions, 00:30 I just can't get through the whole lot of them, 00:33 but I'm trying today to deal with the great questions 00:37 that have come from your minds. 00:39 And these are penetrating questions. 00:42 And the next question is: 00:45 "Is it a sin to kill an unborn baby?" 00:48 Wow. 00:50 A lot of people ask me this question 00:52 is, "Is it a sin to kill 00:57 a little unborn baby?" 01:01 I want you to come over here to Jeremiah 1 in the Bible. 01:05 Come over here to Jeremiah 1. 01:07 Now, I'm a father and a grandpa, 01:10 and I just love children. 01:13 Jeremiah 1:4,5. 01:15 And when you get grandkids, you know, they're... 01:18 some would say they'll just get inside your heart, don't they? 01:22 Jeremiah 1. 01:24 They get inside your soul and I know that too, 01:27 that's why they can work you over. 01:30 That's why when I go overseas, I'm buying little, 01:33 buying stuff for them all the time. 01:35 I was in Switzerland, 01:37 I got my little grand daughter, Amily, 01:39 beautiful Swiss dress, really, really cute and expensive. 01:45 And then I went out, 01:47 when I went out to Australia the other day 01:48 I got little Leon, grandson, 01:51 I got him a Harley Davidson leather jacket. 01:56 I got myself one too. 01:57 But I got him, I used to have a Harley Davidson, 02:00 use to ride a bike. 02:01 Yeah, don't get mad with me, I use to ride a big Harley. 02:04 But I bought my little grandson Leon 02:07 a proper leather bikers coat. 02:13 He hasn't got it yet. 02:14 Okay, look at Jeremiah 1:4,5, 02:18 "Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 02:20 'Before I formed you in the womb 02:22 hey, I knew you, before you were born 02:27 I sanctified you, 02:29 I ordained you as a prophet to the nations.' 02:33 " Jeremiah says, that even before he was born 02:40 when he was in his mother's womb. 02:44 God knew about him, 02:47 God had a plan for him, God loved him. 02:51 And what I'm going to say now, 02:54 lot of people are not going to like, 02:56 but my conscious is bound by the word of God. 03:00 I believe in defending the weak, and the poor, 03:07 and I believe in the sacredness of human life. 03:10 Now what I'm saying is not to make people 03:13 had abortions, or feeling rotten, 03:16 or anything like this. 03:18 But I'm saying it because I believe 03:21 that human life, the human life in the womb is sacred. 03:29 In America, around the world, but being led by America 03:33 we have today a social revolution. 03:39 Most people got no idea where it came from. 03:42 Would you like to know where it came from? 03:44 I'll tell you. 03:46 Well, back in the 19th century 03:48 there was a brilliant Englishman, 03:50 his name was Charles Darwin. 03:52 He was going to become a minister, 03:54 a minister of the Church of England. 03:56 But he came to the place 03:58 where he completely gave up on God, 04:00 and he was a person 04:01 who came up with the notion of evolution. 04:07 And when this idea was pressed to its logical conclusion, 04:14 it meant that human beings 04:16 were really not much different to the animals. 04:19 And this had a tendency 04:21 to down grade the worse of a human soul. 04:25 And so when you get social Darwinism, 04:28 it means the survival of the fittest. 04:33 And what is a little baby in a womb anyhow is a nuisance? 04:37 And then later on they came to man, 04:39 not an Englishman, 04:41 but one of the greatest philosophers of all time 04:44 that has influenced American universities 04:47 and politicians, possibly more than any other person, 04:51 his name was Nietzsche. 04:54 Heard of him? 04:55 I don't recommend his books, but Nietzsche thought the idea 04:59 that God was dead, God was irrelevant. 05:03 And he thought the idea that might, might was right. 05:09 And that all of those things that were weak and in our way 05:16 needed to be got rid off. 05:19 Hitler slept with the copy of Nietzsche's book, 05:24 'The Antichrist' under his pillow. 05:28 And this, the ideas of Nietzsche, 05:31 and social Darwinism, 05:34 they have permeated our society. 05:39 And therefore, the weak and the unborn 05:43 have been considered to be expendable. 05:47 And therefore, in America 05:49 more than a million unborn babies 05:52 are killed every year. 05:56 I want to say this, I believe 06:00 that a human soul is precious in the sight of God, 06:05 and I believe that the unborn baby 06:09 has the potential to become an Einstein, 06:16 a Billy Graham, a Ben Carson, 06:21 a great doctor. 06:23 So I believe in protecting 06:26 the rights of the weakest among us, unborn babies. 06:32 "What do you think of communism?" 06:35 What do I think of communism? 06:37 Well, I don't think much of it at all. 06:40 But, you know, the Bible is not a political book, 06:46 and this is not a republican book. 06:49 This is not the book of Democratic party, 06:52 this is not the book of a Socialism. 06:56 The Bible is a book about God and spirituality, 07:00 it is not a book about politics. 07:04 But I guess I know is much better communism 07:07 as most folks. 07:10 I've been to Russia now, 07:12 Russia and Ukraine 46 times and had shows. 07:19 Run huge of Evangelistic campaigns for communists. 07:23 I'm the only protestant minister 07:24 who has run meetings for the KGB, 07:26 and I've seen what communism does. 07:29 And communism, when I was purely atheistic, Marxism, 07:33 and communism is based on the teachings of Karl Marx, 07:38 he was a Germen Jew. 07:41 And Karl Marx said, the old gospel has failed, 07:44 we got to have a new gospel, 07:47 and so he taught the idea of communism. 07:53 Communism destroyed millions and millions of lives. 07:58 But sometimes people quotes to Bible to support it. 08:01 Now come over here to Book of Acts, please, 08:03 Chapter 4:34, 35. 08:07 Acts 4:34, 35, 08:12 this is quoted to support communism, 08:15 but the Bible is completely non political. 08:20 "Nor was there anyone among them who lacked, 08:24 for all who were possessors of lands or houses sold them, 08:30 and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold, 08:33 and laid them at the apostles' feet, 08:35 and they distributed to each as everyone had need." 08:40 Now the Bible teaches 08:42 that we should take care of the poor, 08:46 those who cannot work, not those who will not work. 08:50 the Bible says, if a person will not work 08:52 nor they should eat. 08:54 It's a different thing. 08:55 And when a person is genuinely poor, 08:59 because of health or just bad circumstances 09:03 we should rally around that person. 09:05 And that's exactly what the people did here 09:07 in the days of the apostles. 09:11 But this was the far cry from Marxism. 09:17 Marxism set up, they said, a classless society. 09:23 It wasn't classless, 09:25 you had a hierarchy of very wealthy people 09:29 and most people, the vast majority of the people 09:31 were dreadfully poor. 09:34 I've been there, I've helped them, 09:35 I've preached to them, 09:37 but I've helped them with money and food, all of those things. 09:43 Communism in Russia, 09:45 atheistic communism put to death, 09:48 wait till you hear this, between 50, 60, 09:52 and 70 million people. 09:56 Have mercy, I've been in cemeteries 09:59 were there are tons of thousands of people, 10:01 who were tortured to death. 10:05 I've been in forest with the people 10:07 who were shot in the backs of their necks. 10:10 I've been in buildings with people who were tortured 10:13 and the blood oozed out of the stones. 10:17 Down into the streets that was in Kiev, 10:20 where Khrushchev spoke. 10:22 I spoke at the very place were Khrushchev said, 10:25 "Christ is dead and the church is going to be next." 10:29 So, the Bible is not a political book, 10:34 but what I've seen of communism and it's in tolerance, 10:38 I dislike immensely. 10:42 "Do you believe in original sin?" 10:45 Do I believe in original sin? 10:50 Well, let's think about what do people mean by original sin. 10:55 If you mean do I believe that the sin of Adam and Eve 11:00 influence the whole human race? 11:02 Well, who doesn't believe that. 11:04 So, if you come over here 11:06 to a text in the Book of Romans, 11:08 my friend, 11:09 over here to Romans 5:12. 11:15 Romans 5:12, now we should go by the Bible, 11:21 because it's the word of God. 11:22 If you got it, Book of Romans, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, 11:25 Acts, Romans, written by Paul. 11:30 "Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, 11:36 and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, 11:41 because all sinned." 11:44 Now, you can't argue with the text of the Bible. 11:47 The Bible says that through the sin of Adam, 11:52 death spread to all men. 11:56 Adam was made in the very image of God 11:59 and Eve was made in the image of Adam. 12:02 But Adam was made in a sinless condition, 12:05 he had a sinless human nature. 12:08 And God made him, destined him to live for ever. 12:12 But when Adam sin, 12:13 as the father of the human race, 12:16 he brought sin in to the whole world. 12:20 And even though we are responsible 12:23 for our own individual sins, 12:27 and we pay the price 12:28 of the transgression of the Lord of God. 12:31 Sin originally goes back to the Garden of Eden. 12:37 And so I certainly believed in that original sin, 12:39 which brought a curse up on the world. 12:41 I also believed in the work of Christ, 12:44 because Christ came and overcame everything 12:48 that Satan had done 12:50 and everything that Adam had done. 12:53 And so that when Adam lost everything, 12:56 then Jesus came and saved everything. 13:01 "Please explain Colossians 2:16?" 13:05 Please explain Colossians 2:16. 13:08 Well, let's see what the text is. 13:09 I think I know what it says. 13:11 Come over here toward New Testament, Colossians, 13:16 over towards the close of the Bible, 13:18 over towards the close. 13:20 Colossians 2:16, 13:25 over towards the end of the book. 13:27 Colossians 2:16, 13:30 please explain this text, the person says. 13:32 This is a very common question and it's a very good one. 13:37 "So let no one judge you in food or in drink, 13:40 or regarding a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths, 13:45 " and the next verse says, 13:47 "Which are a shadow of things to come, 13:49 but the substance is of Christ." 13:52 Now, let me tell you what the person 13:54 who is asking the question is getting here. 13:58 This text seems to be against the Sabbath, 14:03 and therefore 14:04 one of the viewpoint of some as this, 14:07 this is a text that tells us 14:09 that you don't need keep the Sabbath anymore. 14:14 This in itself would be 14:15 a tremendous problem of that was so, 14:18 because the Sabbath, you know, is the fourth commandment. 14:22 And every Christian 14:23 believes in the keeping of the Ten Commandments. 14:27 And so that which proves too much proves nothing at all. 14:33 Do you get that? 14:34 That which proves to much proves nothing at all. 14:36 Now, if this text does away with the Sabbath 14:42 then I would do away the Ten Commandments, 14:44 and nobody would want to believe this. 14:48 Now what is a text talking about? 14:51 Now, my friends, listen, try to remember this, 14:55 a text without a context is a pretext. 15:01 Can you remember this? 15:02 What is it? 15:04 A text without a context is a pretext, 15:07 therefore we are to look at the context of Colossians 2, 15:13 right? 15:14 And come now to Colossians 2:8. 15:18 Colossians 2:8, this gives you the context. 15:25 "Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy 15:29 and empty deceit, according to the..." 15:32 What? 15:34 "Tradition of man, 15:35 according to the basic principles of the world, 15:38 and not according to Christ." 15:41 Now look at me, 15:43 the people back there in Colossians 2:16 15:48 were keeping the seventh day Sabbath 15:50 that the Bible teaches 15:52 according to the traditions of man, 15:56 according to human philosophies. 15:59 Now if you come down and the Bible is supposed 16:03 to human traditions. 16:04 Now come down verse 22, 16:08 "Which all concern things which perish with the using, 16:12 using according to the commandments 16:15 and doctrines of man?" 16:17 Look at me, when Jesus came, 16:23 Jesus kept the seven day Sabbath, 16:26 the Bible teaches this. 16:28 Jesus our Lord risked his life and his mission 16:32 to show the importance of the Sabbath. 16:36 But Jesus was totally opposed to the traditions 16:41 and the commandments of man. 16:43 And Jesus said in one passage, I think it is Mark 7, he said, 16:47 you do away with the commandments of God 16:49 through your human traditions. 16:53 You see. 16:55 And the people in the days of the Colossian, 16:57 church were keeping the Sabbath according to the traditions 17:02 and the commandments of man. 17:05 So, Colossians 2: 6 is no more oppose 17:09 to the true keeping of the seventh day Sabbath 17:12 then Colossians 2:16 is opposed to eating and drinking. 17:18 It is not opposed to the commandments of God, 17:21 it is opposed to false traditions of man. 17:27 It's as plain as that. 17:30 "Is same sex okay?" 17:35 No, its not. 17:38 You know, you want a simple answer? 17:40 No, its not. 17:42 Am I bigoted? No, I'm not. 17:45 Do I believe in tolerance for all people? 17:47 Yes, I do. 17:48 People can make there own choice, 17:51 they can choose 17:52 were they're going to spend time in eternity. 17:55 But I want to share you 17:56 what the Bible teaches about this. 17:58 Is same sex marriage okay? 17:59 Come over here to Matthew 19: 4-6. 18:04 Mathew 19:4-6. 18:08 Now a lot of people were sending this question in, 18:11 because, you know, in America today, 18:14 the Supreme Court went against the Lord of God. 18:18 The Supreme Court tried to over throw the word of God 18:22 and thousands of years of traditional marriage. 18:26 And I don't go along with the Supreme Court. 18:29 The Supreme Court was completely wrong. 18:31 Matthew 19. 18:32 You say, you're telling me that you think 18:35 the government can be wrong? 18:36 Of course I do. 18:39 My conscience is not bound according by the supreme court. 18:43 The Supreme Court makes mistakes. 18:46 And when the Supreme Court went against 18:49 the marriage relationship taught in the Bible 18:52 it went against God. 18:55 And the Supreme Court ought to watch out for itself 18:58 because God is going to judge the Supreme Court. 19:01 God knows me. 19:03 And coming here to Matthew 19:4 and onwards, 19:07 "And He Jesus answered and said to them, 19:09 'Have you not read that 19:10 He who made them at the beginning made them...' 19:13 " What does it say, folks? 19:15 "Male and female." 19:17 Yeah, it didn't say male and male, 19:19 didn't say female and female. 19:22 "And said, for this reason 19:24 a man shall leave his father and mother 19:27 and be joined to his wife." 19:29 Now other father, okay, the mother. 19:32 And there is a man here that's a son. 19:34 And so, the son leaves his father and his mother, 19:38 and he is joined to who? 19:40 To his wife. 19:41 "And the two shall become one flesh? 19:45 So then, they are no longer two, but one flash. 19:47 Therefore, what God has joined together, 19:51 let not man separate." 19:54 Now, what's happening today in America and around, 19:59 and America is leading this charge. 20:03 America, a nation that used to be a God-fearing nation 20:07 is leading a charge against God and against the scriptures. 20:15 The Bible teaches, now let say this, 20:18 lets makes this very plain, 20:20 because I believe we should love everybody. 20:24 But there is a new intolerance in the land today, 20:27 that you are not allowed to say what you believed, 20:31 and you no longer... 20:32 the people would try to stop us from preaching the word of God. 20:37 And I believe he's going to come to the place 20:40 where people are going to be locked up 20:42 because they preach the word of God. 20:44 It's going to come to this. 20:46 Even Dr. Billy Graham says, the Christians can expect 20:50 to be prosecuted by their own government. 20:55 Now, folks, you and I've got to come to the place 20:57 were we're going to say, 20:58 I'm going to either stand with the Bible 21:00 or else I'm going to go away with the crowd. 21:04 But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. 21:08 So the Bible says, in the beginning, 21:09 God made the male and female. 21:12 And you may ask the question, does God love homosexual, 21:15 lesbians, transgender? 21:17 Of course, he does. 21:20 Christ loves them as much he loves the Heterosexual. 21:24 Christ died for the homosexual. 21:29 I have went to know some of these wonderful people, 21:32 and I say wonderful people, because some of them a kind, 21:36 and gentle, courteous. 21:39 And so we're talking here about personalities, 21:43 we're talking about principles, we're talking about the truth. 21:47 So it says in the beginning, God made the male and female. 21:50 Now somebody, you know, 21:51 I'm going to have people write to me 21:53 and they're gonna mad with me, but don't get mad with me 21:56 get mad with the God who gave the Bible, because God said it. 22:02 But we have a war today in America 22:05 and it's a war against the Judeo-Christian culture. 22:10 There's an attempt to overthrow everything 22:13 that America stood for. 22:15 Now, I'm gonna give you something 22:16 and I found this just the other day. 22:19 This is from the ABC news source, 22:23 American broadcast, May 19, 2016. 22:27 Now, I'm amazed that the ABC is spreading this, 22:32 but it's true. 22:34 "Gay and bisexual men are more than 57 times 22:39 more likely to be Diagnose with HIV 22:42 then other man in the USA." 22:46 The chance of getting HIV and then AID, 57 times higher. 22:52 "There're more than 1.2 million people in the USA 22:56 living with HIV, 23:01 who were not aware that they're carrying the virus." 23:05 And if you are in a gay relationship, 23:10 man with man, 23:13 your chance of getting this is 57 times higher. 23:17 I say if you love that community, 23:20 share the truth with them. 23:24 I believe that in the beginning God made them male and female, 23:29 there is no such thing as same-sex marriage. 23:34 That is in oxymoron, it is a contradiction. 23:39 A marriage in the Bible and in traditional morality 23:45 is between a man and a woman, and that is the truth. 23:50 So help us, God. Amen! 23:55 "If my church condones same-sex marriage, 23:58 what should I do?" 24:00 Well, I can't tell you what you ought to do, 24:02 but I know what I'd do. 24:04 I leave that church, I get up and I leave it. 24:07 Come over here to 2 Corinthians 6. 24:10 I'd go find another church. 24:12 2 Corinthians 6:17,18, I'm not telling you what to do, 24:16 but I'm telling you what I do. 24:19 "Therefore 'Come out from among them 24:21 And be separate, says the Lord. 24:23 Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you. 24:27 I will be a Father to you, 24:29 And you shall be my sons and daughters, 24:31 Says the Lord Almighty.' 24:34 " Now, I'm just gonna tell you my feelings, 24:38 I want to go to a church that believes in the Bible. 24:42 If I was a member of a church 24:44 that didn't believed in the Bible, 24:46 I would just leave the church. 24:49 If I was going to a church and I had a Pastor, 24:51 a minister and he didn't preach from the Bible 24:54 and he didn't believe the Bible, 24:57 I wouldn't go to his church. 24:59 There're plenty of other churches 25:00 that have got God fearing pastors. 25:03 I would do what God told Lot, and Mrs. Lot, 25:08 and the family to do. 25:11 They were living in a city by the name of Sodom, 25:16 and this city became full of all types 25:19 of sexual crimes and perversions. 25:24 You know what God said? 25:27 You know the story? 25:29 God said, you better get out of that city, 25:33 because he said, I'm going to destroy this place. 25:38 And people, they don't like to read this. 25:40 Well, I'm sorry, it's the truth. 25:44 Are we prepared to follow the truth? 25:48 And so Sodom and his family were told 25:52 to get out of that city. 25:54 If I was in church that was practicing those sins 25:58 I would get out of that place 26:00 because God would have a better place for me to be. 26:04 I believe the time has come 26:07 when we should stand up for the God's word, 26:10 we should stand up for the God of the Bible, 26:12 and we should stand up for Jesus, 26:15 and we should stand up for the commandments of God. 26:19 Amen! 28:26 For a copy of today's program, 28:28 please contact us at P.O. 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