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00:01 Welcome to a new Carter Report series,
00:03 The Game Changers. 00:05 These rare individuals appear once in a lifetime. 00:09 Like a blazing meteor across the night sky, 00:12 they change the course of history. 00:15 They show us the way forward. 00:18 Welcome to the Game Changers. 00:25 Welcome back, my friends. 00:27 We're talking today about the lady game changers. 00:31 Now no country in the world impresses me 00:34 quite like old Egypt, ancient Egypt 00:38 because that was the home of the great Pharaohs 00:41 and also the man 00:42 who could have become the Pharaoh. 00:44 Now we're just going to have a little continuity 00:47 from the last section, 00:48 and I want you to take your Bible, 00:50 and we're going to talk a little bit about 00:52 Jochebed and Miriam. 00:55 And we're going to go to the Book of Exodus 2:10. 00:59 Exodus 2:10. 01:05 Now just a continuation of what we're talking about 01:08 when we're speaking about these two amazing women, 01:12 Jochebed and Miriam. 01:15 As you all know, 01:16 Jochebed was the mother of Moses, 01:19 and what about Miriam, who is she? 01:22 She was his big sister, but on those days, 01:25 she was just a little girl. 01:27 Now Exodus... 01:30 2:10 says, 01:35 "And the child grew," this was Moses, 01:38 "and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter." 01:40 We think that was Queen Hatshepsut 01:43 who became one of the greatest Pharaohs 01:45 in the history of the Egyptian empire. 01:49 "And he became her son, so she called his name Moses, 01:53 saying, 'Because I drew him out of the water.' " 01:57 You know the story. 01:59 And Miriam is standing there, the little boy is in a basket 02:03 floating on the broad bosom of the Nile. 02:06 And Jochebed is hiding somewhere 02:09 because the decree is gone forth 02:11 that all the little baby boys have got to be put to death. 02:16 And this was a terrible thing. 02:19 And if this had happened, if there'd be no Moses, 02:24 there would have been no Israel, 02:28 no Ten Commandments, and no Messiah. 02:32 And so here, you got this little girl 02:34 by the name of Miriam, you think... 02:38 How old is she? 02:39 She's seven. 02:41 You want to trust the fate of the world 02:43 to a little seven-year-old girl? 02:46 Like my little granddaughter Amiley? 02:48 Well, maybe. 02:52 But let me tell you, folks, something, 02:55 this little girl had been taught the Word of God 03:00 by Jochebed. 03:03 She must have filled... 03:04 You know, if you don't train little children 03:06 in the truth of the Word of God by the time they're little, 03:11 it's almost getting too late to do it. 03:14 How great! 03:15 Roman Catholic friends say, "Give me a child 03:18 until he's seven years of age, 03:21 and he'll always stay with the church." 03:24 And so this beautiful, lovely little girl Miriam 03:29 is taught there's a God who loves her, 03:32 and she's taught to be obedient to her father and her mother 03:36 and to look out 03:37 for the other members of the family. 03:39 And so here, you've got little baby Moses, 03:43 and he's down on the broad bosom 03:46 of the Nile among the bulrushes. 03:51 It's amazing story. 03:53 And so Miriam finds the little baby boy 03:57 with Hatshepsut. 03:58 Hatshepsut opens up the little ark, 04:03 but Miriam is right there. 04:04 And she says to the beautiful princess, 04:08 "Hey, I'm just out for a walk today. 04:11 Can I help you in anyway, princess? 04:15 Shall I get someone to nurse this baby for you?" 04:19 And Hatshepsut says, "Yeah, get me a nurse." 04:23 And when the nurse comes along, I'm going to do something. 04:27 I'm going to pay her some wages. 04:31 So Jochebed is paid for doing what she wanted to do 04:36 more than anything else, bring up her child. 04:40 Did you know that the word Moses 04:44 is not only a Hebrew word, 04:46 it is also an Egyptian word. 04:50 As the great archaeologist, the great German archaeologist, 04:54 Dr. Siegfried Horn taught me so many years ago, 04:59 when she called him Moses, Hebrew means drawn out. 05:04 But the Egyptian word means born of. 05:09 And most likely, he was called happy Moses, 05:12 born of the river Nile. 05:14 All of the Pharaohs... 05:16 Now most people don't know this. 05:17 But most of the Pharaohs of this time period 05:21 have got Moses in their name. 05:25 Rameses, or Ahmoses, 05:28 Tutmoses, Kamoses, 05:32 that's what they were called. 05:34 This is the time of the Moses Kings. 05:38 And so Hatshepsut, the beautiful, 05:41 wonderful princess 05:43 who became the greatest ruler 05:47 of that time period in the history of the world. 05:51 I've gone to Egypt many times, 05:53 and I've seen the massive monuments 05:55 of Queen Hatshepsut. 05:56 I'm one of her fans. 06:00 And when I look at her magnificent stuff, 06:03 I say, "I'm walking in the footsteps 06:07 of some of the greatest people who've ever lived. 06:11 And here is this woman by the name of Jochebed, 06:14 and so she gets the little baby. 06:18 Folks, she doesn't have him for long. 06:21 I want you to look at Exodus 2:10. 06:24 Exodus 2:10, 06:28 the Bible says, 06:30 "And the child grew, 06:33 and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter." 06:35 Do you think this did something to our heart? 06:38 You know, this is your boy, 06:41 the son of your own body. 06:44 Now we think this boy is about 12 years of age. 06:47 "She brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, 06:50 and he became her son. 06:52 So she called his name Moses, saying, 06:57 'Because I drew him out of the water.' " 07:02 How old was this boy, Moses? 07:05 If we go according to the customs 07:07 of the Hebrew people, 07:09 he is probably about 12 years of age. 07:12 But she taught him. 07:14 I want to say to the mothers here today, 07:16 never, never, never, never give up hope. 07:20 Many people say, 07:22 "Think of the world in which we live, 07:23 they're evil." 07:24 Think of the evil on television. 07:27 And so we've got a name around the world. 07:29 Now, I want to tell you folks something 07:31 as one of those violent countries 07:34 on the face of the earth, 07:36 and we pride ourselves on being a-God-fearing people. 07:39 In God we trust! 07:42 And your chance of being killed here 07:43 in this country with a gun 07:47 is just about the highest of any country in the world, 07:50 at least in the western world, it's a dangerous country. 07:55 There's a big problem. 07:57 I think mothers and fathers 07:58 have abdicated their responsibilities 08:02 to the teachers with videogames, 08:06 the gods of this world. 08:07 She had him, folks, for 12 years, 08:11 not very long to have a boy. 08:15 What did she teach him? 08:17 I think, she said, "Moses, I want to tell you 08:19 where you came from. 08:21 You came from the hand of God. 08:23 You're not something nothing." 08:25 In our universities today, we teach young people, 08:29 the man, listen to this, is the product of time 08:33 plus matter plus chance, 08:36 that everything is the product of chance. 08:39 You're not here because God made you, 08:42 you're simply a cosmic accident." 08:44 No wonder we murder children in the schools. 08:50 Imagine, you send your kids to school, 08:52 you don't know if they're going to come home, 08:54 because some lunatic is going to go and kill them. 09:00 It's because they don't know where they came from, 09:03 they don't know why they're here, 09:04 they don't know where they're going. 09:06 If you think this talk is too strong, 09:08 it is because you are out of touch 09:11 with modern culture. 09:15 She taught him where he came from, 09:17 she taught him why he was here. 09:18 "Moses, God has got a job for you to do." 09:21 She taught him where he was going. 09:23 "You came from the hand of God, baby Moses, young man Moses. 09:28 And you've got a divine destiny. 09:30 You're not something nothing." 09:33 One of the greatest curses of social Darwinism 09:37 is the infernal doctrine of the survival of the fittest. 09:43 The strong win, the weak go to the wall. 09:47 We crush them under our feet. 09:49 This is often the talk of the banks 09:53 of the United States of America, 09:56 and the buses of Wall Street. 09:59 Nothing matters except might, and we're going to win. 10:06 But thank God, Moses had a decent mother. 10:11 She taught him the story of creation. 10:15 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 10:17 The greatest words ever spoken on human lips 10:21 are the words of Genesis 1:1. 10:23 "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." 10:27 I am a child of destiny. 10:31 I'm not a cosmic accident. 10:33 I'm not simply 10:35 a planetary eczema, 10:39 and not but potential fertilizer. 10:43 Don't believe that garbage. 10:45 It's taught in every university. 10:48 And then you got kids that are taught 10:51 these violent games, the violent movies, 10:53 the violent videos, 10:55 and these crazy people say to me, 11:00 "It doesn't matter what kids watch, 11:02 it doesn't change what they think." 11:04 That's absolute insanity. 11:07 It is lunacy. 11:10 Because the television people know 11:12 that television commercials have got the capacity 11:15 to motivate you to buy stuff. 11:18 That's what it's all based on. 11:20 And then they say, "Oh, now all the violent movies 11:23 and the terrible things, 11:24 that makes no difference at all." 11:27 Do they think we are as crazy as they are? 11:30 No, no, no. 11:32 She taught him the story of the Creator, 11:34 and it never left him. 11:36 "Train up a child in the way he should go." 11:41 When he grew up, 11:42 he might look like an Egyptian prince. 11:45 But in his heart, my friend, he was a child of God. 11:49 He was a Hebrew. 11:51 Remember this, 11:52 it's an old saying but it's true. 11:55 The hand that rocks the cradle 11:56 is the hand that rules the world. 11:58 I'm going to say something 12:00 that is totally, politically incorrect. 12:04 I really don't care. 12:08 Here it is. 12:10 The greatest profession in the world 12:13 is the profession of the mother with her kids. 12:19 You see? 12:20 And I hear people say, 12:21 "No, you can't be a real woman 12:26 unless you're doing this, this, this, and this." 12:31 And the ones who are doing this, this, this, and this, 12:34 generally are not taking care of their children. 12:39 You see? 12:40 So if you want to learn a lesson, 12:42 and if you got the courage to think, 12:43 you think of Jochebed. 12:45 The hand that rocks the cradle 12:47 is the hand that rules the world. 12:49 Twelve years she had him. 12:53 Jochebed and Miriam, seven-year-old girl 12:58 gave to the world Moses who gave us the Bible, 13:02 the Pentateuch, Genesis, Exodus, 13:04 Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, 13:06 gave us the Ten Commandments, 13:09 and gave us the people of Israel, 13:13 and they gave us the Messiah. 13:17 And Jesus gave us the gospel. 13:20 And without the gospel, 13:22 as the people say in Papua New Guinea, 13:25 "You're something nothing." 13:28 The gospel makes women real women, 13:30 and makes men real men. 13:33 Without these two heroes, 13:35 Moses could have ended up in the Cairo Museum. 13:37 I've been to the Cairo Museum. 13:39 I've been in the royal mummy room. 13:42 I've been there with a television crew. 13:44 I've discussed Hatshepsut in that class coffin 13:49 with the great Dr. Hawass. 13:52 I've looked down here 13:54 at my old friend Rameses the great. 13:57 I have seen Tutmoses III, the Pharaoh of the Exodus 14:03 who said, "I will not let Israel go." 14:07 And when I went into the Cairo Museum, 14:09 I thought to myself, 14:12 "If Jochebed hadn't been a good mother, 14:16 Moses would have ended up in this dump." 14:19 Yeah, it's a dump for dead bodies. 14:22 Who wants to be there? 14:24 It's got plenty of gold, but it's a dump. 14:27 Now we're going to talk about the first feminist. 14:30 Listening? 14:32 Vashti, we come to the land of Persia. 14:36 I've been there lots of times too, 14:38 one of the oldest civilizations. 14:40 Esther 1:10 to 12, Esther 1:10 to 12, 14:46 the land of Persia, "On the seventh day, 14:49 when the heart of the king was merry with wine," 14:52 in other words, he's drunk, "he commanded Mehuman Biztha, 14:57 Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas," 15:02 how was that, all these guys, 15:04 "seven eunuchs 15:06 who served in the presence of Kind Ahasuerus," 15:09 another name is Xerxes, Xerxes the great, 15:12 "to bring Queen Vashti before the king, 15:14 wearing her royal crown, in order to show her beauty 15:18 to the people and the officials, 15:20 for she was beautiful to behold. 15:23 But Queen Vashti refused to come 15:25 at the king's command brought by his eunuchs. 15:29 Therefore, the king," of course, he was furious. 15:32 Little pot soon hot. 15:34 "The king was furious 15:37 and his anger burned within him." 15:44 She used the power of no. 15:49 She said, "This is an unreasonable request. 15:53 You want to treat me like a priced cow 15:58 at the village fare." 16:01 She said, "I am not a priced cow." 16:05 And she said to the most powerful man 16:07 on the world, one word, no. 16:12 It's a good word. 16:14 The Bible teaches the equality of the sexes. 16:19 People say, "I don't believe that." 16:20 Well, come out of the dark ages, brother. 16:24 She said, "I will not summit to unreasonable sexes demands." 16:28 Vashti, queen of Persia became a lady game changer. 16:34 And I say, we used to say as a boy, "Bully for her. 16:40 Well done." 16:42 Now, she got kicked off the throne. 16:45 And a beautiful little girl by the name of Esther 16:49 became the queen. 16:50 Nobody knew, but she was a Jew. 16:56 The Jewish girl 16:57 who became queen of the Persian Empire 17:01 became one of the great game changers. 17:04 Now there was a terrible plot to annihilate the Jewish race. 17:09 Got to tell it to you, summarize it. 17:12 There was a good guy. 17:14 Now Esther is very beautiful. 17:17 There's a good guy. 17:19 I think it was Esther's cousin, and he's a Jew, 17:25 and his name is Mordecai. 17:29 As a boy, I used to call him Mordecayay. 17:31 But I think I might have been wrong. 17:33 Mordecai, 17:36 he's a good guy. 17:37 And there's a wicked man, 17:40 he's the very essence of evil, 17:42 very wicked man, 17:43 because he's got a program to wipe out the children of God 17:47 and potentially the Messiah. 17:51 He is wicked, Haman. 17:54 Now if you look at Esther 4:14 and 15. 18:00 Esther gets tied up in the intrigue of the court 18:03 because a decree has gone forth from Haman 18:07 singed by the king to wipe out the Jews 18:11 and potentially, the Messiah. 18:15 Now Mordecai sends this message to his relative, 18:18 this little girl on the court, now she's a queen. 18:21 "For if you remain completely silent at this time, 18:25 relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews 18:28 from another place, 18:30 but you and your father's house will perish." 18:32 Listen, evil prospers 18:37 because good men remain silent. 18:40 And so he says, "If you're going to be silent, 18:44 God will bring deliverance somewhere else 18:46 but you're going to die." 18:48 "'Yet who knows 18:50 whether you have come to the kingdom 18:53 for such a time as this?' 18:56 Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai, 18:59 'Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, 19:04 and fast for me, neither eat nor drink for three days, 19:08 night or day. 19:10 My maids and I will also fast. 19:15 So I will go to the king, which is against the law. 19:19 If I perish, I perish.'" 19:22 Now it was not a woman's world. 19:26 It's a man's world. 19:29 The king had so much power that if the queen, his queen, 19:35 his wife came in to see him uninvited, 19:39 she would put to death. 19:42 Can you believe it, man? 19:46 A king had so much power that if the wife turned up 19:50 unexpected, uninvited, he'd say, 19:53 "Off with my queen's head." 19:58 So the ladies didn't do too much talking 20:00 back in those days. 20:01 That shows you 20:03 the tremendous courage of Vashti. 20:05 "No, not going to do it." 20:09 You all need to learn that word, 20:10 no, not going to do it. 20:12 If it's wrong, I'm not going to do it. 20:15 People come along and say, "But, oh, you allow." 20:17 No, I'm not going to do it 'cause it's wrong. 20:24 And he says to her, "You come to the kingdom 20:26 for such a time as this." 20:28 This tells me there is a divine providence. 20:30 She wasn't there by accident. 20:32 Vashti didn't say no by accident, there's a plan. 20:37 And then she said, "I'm going to go, 20:39 and if I perish, I perish. 20:42 I will do the will of God." 20:47 So I want all you, ladies, to think about this. 20:52 Esther was a special woman 20:54 in the right place at the right time. 20:57 She had courage, she put a life on the line. 21:01 She was no wilting little flower. 21:05 She saved her people. 21:07 Without Esther, 21:09 there would have been no Messiah. 21:11 She was an amazing game changer 21:15 because she was in the hands of God, 21:18 and she had courage. 21:20 She had fire inside. 21:22 She had a fire in her belly, if I could say it, 21:26 the great game changer. 21:29 Another great game changer, as we thunder to the end, 21:34 was Ruth, 21:35 a refugee from Moab, 21:40 a country that most of the Jews hated. 21:45 Now the Bible tells us, it's a lady goes over there, 21:49 Naomi, husband dies, her two sons die, 21:54 and she's left with two daughters-in-law. 21:58 And so she said, "I've had no luck here. 22:01 I'm going to go back to my home. 22:03 I'm going back home." 22:04 And you read the story 22:05 in Ruth 22:07 1:14 to 17. 22:14 "Then they lifted up their voices and wept again. 22:17 And Orpah," one of the daughters, 22:19 "kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her. 22:22 And she said, 'Look, your sister-in-law 22:24 has gone back to her people and her gods, 22:27 return after your sister-in-law.' 22:29 But Ruth said, 'Entreat me not to leave you, 22:33 or to go back from following after you. 22:35 For wherever you go, I will go. 22:38 And wherever you lodge I will lodge. 22:40 Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. 22:45 Where you die, I will die. 22:46 And there I will be buried. 22:49 The Lord do so to me, and more also, 22:51 if anything but death parts you and me.'" 22:54 What a tremendous word from a woman who was a pagan. 22:58 She said, "I'm not going to go back to my gods." 23:02 And so they go to the land of Israel. 23:04 Here is a girl who's a foreigner. 23:07 She's a refugee. 23:12 When they get there, in the providence of God, 23:16 these are very wealthy, I add this, "good-looking man." 23:22 And his name is Boaz, 23:25 and he owns half of Israel. 23:30 And in this story, he is called the redeemer. 23:35 He's the redeemer. 23:37 And they're gleaning in the fields, 23:39 bringing in the harvest, and there's a law in Israel 23:42 that poor people can go along behind the harvesters, 23:45 and they can pick up 23:47 bit of wheat, bit of corn. 23:49 And so she goes down there, 23:52 and she's picking up a little bit of wheat. 23:56 This man comes along, and he says, 23:58 "Hello, there. 24:03 Hello, there." 24:04 He says, "Where do you come from?" 24:06 Oh, she said, "You wouldn't want to know." 24:08 She says, "I come from, 24:15 I come from a foreign land." 24:16 Now I can't read you the next text, 24:18 I got some other text here, 24:19 but I'm sort of running out of time. 24:23 But you know what happens? 24:25 The Bible tells us, 24:29 he notices her, she notices him. 24:35 And after a little courtship, they get married, 24:41 a foreign girl. 24:42 And she becomes the mother 24:46 of King David 24:50 who becomes the father of the Lord Jesus Christ. 24:53 Within the veins of the Lord Jesus Christ, 24:58 you have... 24:59 the blood of a gentile. 25:05 You know why? 25:08 Because God doesn't care. 25:10 She was a refugee from Moab 25:13 who achieved true greatness, 25:17 and she became the mother of David 25:20 who became the father of Jesus 25:23 who gave us the gospel, 25:25 who came and died for our sins, our refugee. 25:30 Lessons learned, listen. 25:33 Where there is great sin, there is great grace, 25:36 and nobody is perfect, only God. 25:41 Nothing is impossible with God. 25:43 And God has got a plan, and a time, 25:46 and a place for everyone. 25:48 And no one is more important 25:53 than the mother in the home, 25:55 the greatest career, to be a mother. 25:59 And remember, the hand that rocks the cradle 26:01 is the hand that rules the world. 26:04 And therefore, today, 26:07 we proudly salute 26:12 the lady game changers. 26:15 God bless them all. 26:18 Amen. 26:26 Jesus said, "All authority has been given to me 26:29 in heaven and on earth. 26:32 Go, therefore, and make disciples 26:34 of all the nations, 26:36 baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, 26:40 and of the Holy Spirit. 26:44 "John Carter Reports, we have seen God's power 26:47 as the Gospel of Christ has been proclaimed in Africa, 26:53 India, 26:55 Russia, 26:58 Ukraine, 27:01 Cuba, 27:04 El Salvador, and many other places. 27:07 We invite you to partner with us 27:10 in proclaiming Jesus Christ. 27:16 To God be the glory. 27:19 Great things He has done. 27:24 Write today to the Carter Report. 27:27 P.O. 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