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00:01 I'm John Carter in Moscow...
00:02 Now in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. 00:04 I'm John Carter in Petra... 00:06 Reporting from India... 00:08 In Columbia... 00:09 I'm John Carter. 00:11 Today, on the Carter Report, John Carter talks about 00:14 same-sex marriage and the mark of the beast. 00:21 We give you an extraordinarily warm welcome today. 00:26 Australia has just become one of the Me Too nations. 00:33 Over in Australia, about 61% are saying "Me Too." 00:38 They've joined those countries that have declared themselves 00:41 in favor of same-sex unions. 00:46 About 61% of the people said yes. 00:49 They're now following 00:51 the example of the United States of America, 00:55 Canada, New Zealand, 00:57 Great Britain, France, and Germany, 01:00 and others that have repudiated thousands of years 01:05 of established custom and moral law 01:08 with their obvious shrug of the shoulders. 01:13 Today, I decided to answer a number of questions 01:15 that I think are of vital importance. 01:19 I do so, thankfully, not as a politician 01:24 but as a Christian who believes the Bible. 01:26 I don't ask you necessarily to agree with me 01:30 but to consider what may be 01:32 of great relevance to our peace, prosperity, 01:35 and our wellbeing. 01:38 May I say these words with real sincerity, 01:42 too often the LGBTQ community 01:47 has been treated badly by some people 01:51 who call themselves Christians, some churches, 01:55 and I think for many years by society in general. 02:00 I believe this has been wrong, and we should all say, 02:04 "I'm sorry," 02:06 because the way we have acted 02:08 has not represented the Spirit of Christ. 02:12 We should never forget we are all children of God. 02:17 Sadly, we belong to a fallen humanity, 02:22 and none of us is whole, 02:24 we all need God's amazing grace. 02:29 I want to say to every person, 02:32 I think our attitude ought to be, 02:34 we may disagree with you, 02:39 but in spite of our disagreements, 02:41 we love you 02:43 because Jesus, of course, loves us. 02:48 And Jesus, of course, 02:49 is called the friend of sinners. 02:54 And the topic today is a rather explosive topic, 03:00 same-sex marriage and the mark of the beast, 03:04 what have they possibly got in common. 03:08 We're going to start by sharing two texts, 03:10 the first one is found in Matthew 19:4 and onwards. 03:16 And this not from the church, this is from Jesus. 03:21 Matthew 19:4-6. 03:28 "And He answered," this is Jesus, 03:29 "said to them, 03:31 'Have you not read that He who made them 03:33 at the beginning made them male and female.'" 03:39 This is Jesus. 03:40 "He made them male and female." 03:43 "And said, 'For this reason 03:47 a man shall leave his father and his mother 03:52 and be joined to his wife.'" 03:55 "Male and female." 03:59 "'And the two shall become one flesh'? 04:01 so then they are no longer two but one flesh. 04:05 Therefore, what God has joined together, 04:09 let not man separate." 04:11 Don't be mad with me. 04:14 The Bible says, quoting the Lord Jesus Christ, 04:18 the Son of God, "In the beginning 04:21 He made them male and female." 04:25 And Jesus said 04:28 that a true marriage was between a man, 04:32 one man and one woman. 04:35 This is what the Bible says. 04:37 Now please listen to me, 04:41 and I say to my Aussie friends, give me please fair go. 04:47 Please listen to what I'm saying. 04:50 Now I want you to come now to Revelation 13:11, 16 04:57 which seems at the start to be totally irrelevant. 05:02 "Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. 05:07 He had two horns like a lamb, spoke like a dragon." 05:12 Here is an antichrist power that arises in the last days. 05:17 "He cases all, both small and great, 05:20 rich and poor, free and slave, 05:24 to receive a mark on their right hand 05:27 or on their foreheads, 05:29 and that no one may buy or sell 05:31 except one who has the mark 05:36 or the name of the beast or the number of his name." 05:42 What on earth has this got to do with our topic today? 05:47 Let me tell you briefly because I'm going to elaborate 05:50 as we go along. 05:53 In the last days, 05:54 people will become exceedingly intolerant, 06:01 and unless you see it their way, 06:07 you are going to be boycotted. 06:11 And I can show you that in the last days 06:13 the mark of the beast 06:15 is tied in with changing the Law of God. 06:21 More to come. 06:23 Now we're going to ask a number of questions 06:25 and hopefully give a clear answer. 06:28 Number one, do we have the right to choose? 06:32 Has God given us freedom of choice? 06:35 Do I have the right to engage in sexual activity 06:39 that is condemned in the Bible? 06:43 I would say, 06:44 "Yes, I do have the right to choose my own lifestyle 06:51 as long as my right 06:53 does not infringe upon your right." 06:58 But God has given to us the gift, 07:02 freedom of choice. 07:03 I want you to come to Genesis 3:1-10. 07:09 Genesis 3:1-10. 07:16 Would you please notice it in the Bible? 07:18 "Now the serpent," that's Satan, 07:21 "was more cunning than any beast of the field 07:24 which the Lord God had made. 07:25 And he said to the woman, 'Has God indeed said, 07:28 'You shall not eat of every tree the garden'?' 07:33 And the woman said to the serpent, 07:35 'We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden 07:38 but of the fruit of the tree 07:39 which is in the midst of the garden, 07:41 God has said, 'You shall not eat it, 07:45 nor shall you touch it, lest you die." 07:49 Then the serpent said to the woman, 07:52 'You will not surely die. 07:55 For God knows that in the day you eat of it, 07:58 your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, 08:03 knowing good and evil.' 08:05 So when the woman saw 08:07 that the tree was good for food, 08:09 that it was pleasant to the eyes, 08:12 and a tree desirable to make one wise, 08:16 she took of its fruit and ate. 08:20 She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. 08:26 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, 08:29 and they knew that they were naked, 08:32 and they sewed fig leaves together 08:34 and made themselves coverings. 08:37 And they heard the sound of the Lord God 08:39 walking in the garden in the cool of the day, 08:41 and Adam and his wife hid themselves 08:43 from the presence of the Lord God 08:45 among the trees of the garden. 08:49 Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, 08:52 'Where are you?' 08:54 So he said, 'I heard Your voice in the garden, 08:58 and I was afraid because I was naked, 09:01 and I hid myself.'" 09:04 The greatest teaching in the Bible 09:07 is that God loves people. 09:09 God is a God of Love. 09:13 Listen to me, 09:17 God gave us a dangerous gift, 09:24 choice, 09:26 the ability to choose good and evil. 09:32 You see, I could not love... 09:36 I would not have the capacity to respond to love 09:41 if I had been made a robot. 09:45 So God gave to us a dangerous gift, 09:50 it was choice, 09:53 we can choose good, and we can choose evil. 09:58 I'm going to tell you an amazing story. 10:01 It comes from one of the greatest authors of all time. 10:04 The Russian Dostoyevsky, 10:07 he talks about the Grand Inquisitor, 10:12 the scene is Spain, 10:13 the occasion the burning of 100 heretics 10:17 who dared to challenge the church. 10:20 And after the burning of the 100 heretics, 10:23 Christ arrives in the town in Spain, 10:29 walks around, 10:30 the people fall down before Him and they worship Him, 10:33 they say it's really Christ, He heals the sick, 10:37 raises the dead, He does miracles. 10:41 The people are worshipping Him, but the great inquisitor, 10:45 the Jesuit comes and says, 10:47 "Throw Him into prison, in the dungeon!" 10:50 He says to Christ, 10:52 "We will burn You tomorrow, Christ. 10:55 Why have You come back to trouble us?" 10:58 And all the people bowed down before the Grand Inquisitor. 11:05 That night the Grand Inquisitor comes and visits Christ 11:09 who is in the prison. 11:12 Christ is sitting there waiting His execution 11:15 the next day at the hands of the church. 11:19 And the Grand Inquisitor says, "Christ, why did You come back? 11:24 We worked so hard to make things good. 11:29 We were going good. 11:32 Why did You have to come back, Christ? 11:37 And by God, I'll burn You tomorrow." 11:41 Then he says this... 11:43 This is just a little quote from Dostoyevsky. 11:46 "We corrected Your great deed and founded it upon miracle, 11:50 mystery, and authority." 11:52 See, this is what people want, miracle, mystery, authority. 11:59 "And people were glad 12:00 that they had once been brought together 12:02 into a flock 12:04 and that at last from their hearts 12:05 had been removed 12:07 such a terrible gift, choice, 12:13 which had brought them so much torment. 12:16 Were we right, to teach an act thus, would you say? 12:19 Did we not love mankind, 12:22 when we so humbly admitted his helplessness, 12:27 lightning his burden with love, 12:30 and allowing his feeble nature even sin, 12:37 but with our permission? 12:41 Why have You come to get in our way now, Christ? 12:46 By God, I'll burn you tomorrow." 12:51 And Jesus says nothing. 12:53 And the Grand Inquisitor goes on and on and on, 12:56 and then says, 12:58 "And they shall have no secrets from us. 13:01 We shall permit them or forbid them 13:03 to live with their wives or paramours, 13:06 to have or not to have children, 13:08 all according to their degree of obedience. 13:13 And they will submit to us with cheerfulness and joy. 13:18 The most agonizing secrets of their consciences, 13:22 all, all will they bring to us, 13:24 we shall resolve it all, 13:27 and they will attend our decision with joy 13:30 because..." 13:31 Now listen, "it will deliver them 13:34 from the great anxiety 13:36 and fearsome present torments 13:40 of free and individual decision. 13:46 All will be happy." 13:49 "Christ, why did You come back?" 13:53 This is a tale told by Ivan to his brother 13:57 in the book The Brothers Karamazov, 14:03 one of the great masterpieces. 14:06 And because Christ is love, 14:09 He gave us a great and wonderful gift, 14:12 freedom of choice. 14:14 I can choose, I can't tell you what to do, 14:19 I can urge arguments upon you, 14:22 I can preach to you, 14:23 but I cannot forbid you to do this or that 14:28 because God doesn't even do that. 14:30 Freedom of choice, a very dangerous gift, 14:32 but without that gift, I am a mere robot 14:35 without the capacity to love. 14:37 The church, my friend, can preach, argue, and teach, 14:41 and it should, 14:43 but it cannot take from people 14:45 the right to choose their own destiny 14:47 even though that destiny may be, 14:49 in my opinion, evil. 14:54 So God is love, we can choose. 14:59 Number two question, 15:00 do people have the right of freedom of speech 15:02 and freedom of worship? 15:04 And there are people today from the liberal left 15:07 and the radical right who would tell me 15:10 you can only believe what I tell you 15:11 you can believe. 15:13 We're in an age of gross intolerance, 15:16 from the left and from the right. 15:18 Do people have the right of freedom of speech 15:20 and freedom of worship? 15:22 Come with me to Revelation 17:1-6 15:26 for a little bit of history. 15:29 Revelation 17, 15:31 "Then one of the seven angels 15:32 who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, 15:35 saying to me, 15:36 'Come, I will show you the judgment 15:37 of the great harlot which sits on many waters, 15:40 with whom the kings of the earth 15:41 committed fornication, 15:42 and the inhabitants of the earth 15:44 were made drunk and crazy 15:46 with the wine of her fornication.' 15:47 So he carried me away 15:49 in the Spirit into the wilderness. 15:50 And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast 15:54 which was full of names and blasphemy, 15:56 having seven heads and ten horns. 15:59 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, 16:01 and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, 16:04 having in her hand a golden cup 16:06 full of abominations and filthiness of fornication. 16:09 And on her forehead a name was written Mystery, 16:14 Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots, 16:17 and of the Abominations of the Earth. 16:19 I saw the woman, 16:21 drunk with the blood of the saints 16:23 and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. 16:26 And when I saw her, 16:27 I marveled with great amazement." 16:30 What is it talking about? 16:32 It is talking about the union of church 16:35 and state in the dark ages. 16:37 I spoke about this a little bit last week. 16:41 This is a description of the day 16:45 when the church and the state became one 16:47 and when the papacy ruled the world. 16:51 During the reign of Papal Rome, there was no freedom of speech 16:56 and no freedom of worship and no freedom of choice. 17:02 And most people were happy 17:04 because the burden of responsibility 17:06 had been taken from them. 17:09 During this time, 17:11 there was a terrible persecution of non-conformists, 17:14 Jews, Protestants, Muslims, 17:17 and non-conforming Catholics. 17:19 They were all persecuted by this dreadful system 17:22 that some people confuse with the church. 17:25 That organization that did these abominations 17:28 had nothing to do with Christ. 17:31 They were a counterfeit. 17:34 I believe in the separation of church and state 17:36 that all people have the right to argue, 17:40 teach, preach, 17:42 and advocate ideas that may be objectionable 17:45 to the majority. 17:49 This is guaranteed in the USA by the First Amendment. 17:54 This operates in the domain of public affairs, 17:58 public universities, not in private institutions. 18:04 If you work for the Ford Motor Company, 18:06 you cannot be advocating the sale of Chevy trucks. 18:11 So when it talks about freedom of speech, 18:13 it talks about freedom of speech 18:15 in the public domain, in universities 18:19 and all state institutions everywhere, 18:23 except where people are employed 18:25 by certain organizations. 18:29 Now we believe or every true American believes 18:34 in the freedom of preaching things 18:37 that may to some of us be totally objectionable. 18:41 I might even call what you're saying hate speech, 18:44 but you have the right to say it, 18:46 even though I object to it with all my soul. 18:50 I would remind and some say... 18:52 I don't like this because 18:55 you can only say those things that I think are acceptable. 19:00 That is an abominable idea, I tell you, 19:03 it is totally un-American, un-Christian, and unacceptable. 19:08 But today, people on the far-left 19:11 and the far-right 19:13 believe in freedom of speech for themselves 19:17 but not for the rest of us. 19:19 I would remind you, there was no freedom of speech 19:22 and no freedom of worship in Nazi Germany. 19:25 Didn't happen that long ago, 19:28 95 percent of the people went along with it. 19:31 You say, "No, it can't be true." 19:32 Yes, 95 percent. 19:34 So truth is not necessarily on the side of the majority, 19:39 and just because 61 percent, or 75 percent, 19:43 or 95 percent says something is true, 19:45 it doesn't make it right. 19:48 Don't forget this. 19:52 There was no freedom of speech and no freedom of worship 19:55 in Fascist Italy. 19:57 No freedom of speech and no freedom of worship 20:00 in Communist Russia. 20:01 I have been to Russia 49 and 50 times, 20:05 I went there 20:06 when the communists were ruling. 20:08 They were the far-left. 20:10 People say, "No, no..." 20:11 Yes, they were the far-left. 20:15 There was no freedom of speech and no freedom of worship 20:17 in communist China, not much there today. 20:20 No freedom of speech and no freedom of worship 20:22 in communist North Korea, zero, 20:26 or even in many American universities. 20:29 Can you believe it? 20:30 In many American universities... 20:35 where they have what they call free zones, and people say, 20:41 "You cannot say anything, 20:42 you cannot teach anything 20:44 that I may find offensive." 20:47 I would say to such young people 20:49 it is time for you to grow up 20:51 and realize that you're living in a real world 20:54 where many things you're going to discover 20:56 are offensive. 20:59 So I believe in the free exchange of ideas, 21:02 and I believe that you have the right to say to me 21:05 and to teach things that I dislike intensely. 21:11 So we believe in freedom of speech 21:13 and freedom of religion. 21:15 I do not believe in many religions, 21:18 but I believe that I must defend 21:20 the right of those people to practice their religions 21:25 to the last drop of my blood, 21:27 and I'm talking about the Muslim religion, 21:29 and I'm talking about the Hindus, and the Buddhists, 21:32 and the Catholics, and the Protestants, 21:34 and every person. 21:36 They may disagree with me, I may disagree with them, 21:38 but that's not the point. 21:41 There are two very intolerant groups 21:43 in the world today in America, 21:48 the far-right and the far-left. 21:50 But there's one good thing about America 21:52 that other countries don't have, 21:54 at least the far-left is balanced by the far-right. 22:00 But in some countries, even the country of my birth, 22:04 it seems to me that the far-left 22:08 is the power that is heard all the time 22:14 and people are afraid to disagree. 22:18 Remember, the Sadducees were the liberals 22:21 and the Pharisees were the conservatives, 22:23 and both put Christ on the cross. 22:28 Bad as each other, 22:29 so I say to you as an American, let freedom reign. 22:35 Now here's a very important question. 22:41 And I hope my homosexual friends 22:43 will be tolerant with me 22:44 and will believe in freedom of speech now. 22:48 Why are so many Christians like me 22:52 so opposed to the so-called same-sex marriage? 22:55 Why not be more loving? 22:58 Well, certainly, we should be more loving. 23:01 Martin Luther said these words, 23:03 "My conscience is captive to the Word of God. 23:07 So unless I'm convinced by reason 23:09 and the texts of the Bible, 23:11 I cannot and I will not recant." 23:14 So you see some of us have convictions, 23:18 some of us actually believe. 23:23 There are too many passages in the Bible that condemn sex 23:26 between men and men and women and women 23:30 for me to ignore what the Word of God says. 23:34 See this is my dilemma. 23:35 I want to fit in, I want to be friends with everybody, 23:40 I dislike quarrels. 23:44 But first and foremost, the Bible says, 23:46 "I shall worship the Lord your God 23:48 and Him only shall you serve." 23:50 Therefore, my first allegiance is not to the US Supreme Court 23:56 or to the Australian Parliament, 24:00 my first allegiance is to the Word of God. 24:03 And what am I going to do with this text? 24:06 I want you to come over here to Leviticus 20:13. 24:09 Leviticus 20:13. 24:12 Now some would say this is hate speech, 24:15 and it should be removed from the Bible. 24:19 Some people have said this, I've heard them say it 24:21 on American television, this is hate speech. 24:25 I would remind you, it is the Word of God. 24:30 Leviticus 20:13, here it is, 24:33 "If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, 24:40 both of them have committed an abomination. 24:44 They shall surely be put to death. 24:46 Their blood shall be upon them." 24:50 Now I can hear 1,000 objections, 24:53 you're saying we should put people... 24:54 No, no, no, what I'm saying is this, 24:58 in the Old Testament, you had a theocracy, 25:01 it was different to the New Testament system, 25:03 you were church and state, 25:05 religious law was civil law, and if you broke the Sabbath, 25:10 you were put to death, 25:11 if you cursed your father and your mother, 25:13 you were put to death, if you committed adultery, 25:17 you were put to death. 25:19 How many would be left today? 25:21 But if you did those things in the Old Testament, 25:23 the judgment came immediately and suddenly. 25:28 And this is not done today. 25:30 Thank God we leave it to the hands of a merciful God 25:33 and the Last Judgment, but the Bible does say, 25:38 "If a man lies with a man as a man lies with a woman, 25:42 that is an abomination." 25:46 So as a Christian, here is my dilemma, 25:50 am I to go along with the majority 25:52 and say I will fit in 25:57 or will I say with Martin Luther, 26:01 here I stand, 26:04 I can do none other." 26:08 Much more to come, 26:10 just moments away, stay with us. 26:25 Remember when common sense was common? 26:30 Life had clear choices, right was right. 26:33 Now right is wrong and wrong is right. 26:38 Spiritual vigilantes are riding in to divide 26:41 and conquer towns across America. 26:44 They're taking God's law into their own hands. 26:48 John Carter would like to give you a free copy 26:50 of Spiritual Vigilantes by Danny Shelton. 26:56 Read this book and you can counter attack 26:58 that counterfeit culture created by the PC police. 27:03 Fight the spiritual vigilantes with the truth. 27:07 This is a wake up call to Christians. 27:10 Copies are limited, 27:12 so call the number on the screen, 27:13 write to us, and order your free copy 27:16 of Spiritual Vigilantes by Danny Shelton. 27:27 In this series, John Carter will provide the answers 27:30 to life's most interesting questions. 27:32 Seven great signs of the apocalypse. 27:35 If the dead are unconscious, 27:37 who are the beings that pretend to be the dead? 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