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00:01 I'm John Carter in Moscow.
00:02 I'm 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, we have the man 00:13 who is called the Adventist maverick. 00:16 He's a historian, a philosopher, 00:18 a university professor, and a theologian. 00:21 His 50 books have influenced millions. 00:24 His name is George Knight. 00:32 Welcome back to The Carter Report. 00:34 Our special guest today is Dr George Knight. 00:38 George, we are honored and delighted 00:40 to have you with us here today. 00:41 Well, I'm really glad to be here, John. 00:43 We just enjoyed what you said in the last segment 00:46 and we're looking forward to this segment. 00:49 You wrote a book called... 00:51 I read it, I thought it was great. 00:54 You're a prolific writer. 00:55 Somebody told me, you are the best-read author 00:59 in the Adventist Church after Ellen White. 01:02 That is saying something. 01:04 I'm not sure it's true, but it sounds good. 01:06 I think it is true. 01:08 You wrote a book called 01:09 The Pharisee's Guide to Complete Holiness. 01:14 What was all that about? 01:16 Who were these Pharisees? 01:18 Well, actually, John... 01:19 And why do the Pharisees... 01:21 Why do we resonate a bit with the Pharisees? 01:23 I was coming out of my own past experience, 01:26 a lot of my writing is to help me figure out... 01:31 Where you've been. Where I've been. 01:33 And where you're going? 01:34 And where I need to go. And why you're here. 01:36 And help guys like you figure it out too. 01:38 Oh, thank you. 01:41 You know, because there's a Pharisee 01:43 within the skin of each one of us. 01:44 Oh, we're born Pharisees. 01:46 Yeah. 01:47 You don't have to go to the seminary 01:48 to be trained to be a Pharisee. 01:50 It's true, isn't it? That's true. 01:52 We come at it naturally. 01:53 Yeah, it's born within us. 01:55 Yes, of course. 01:57 And really, you know, John, naturally, 02:01 we don't want to go to heaven if we didn't help God out. 02:04 This is right. Yeah. 02:06 I mean we got to do 02:08 something good for God, don't we? 02:09 Of course, yes. Yeah. 02:11 And that's how come, 02:13 and I start off with the problem of sin 02:15 because the Pharisee has to break sin down 02:18 into little steps. 02:19 And so when you get a little step on, 02:22 you know, you're closer, and closer, and closer. 02:23 Yeah, a name for every sin. Yeah. 02:25 And if you overcome all of those, 02:27 then you're perfect. 02:29 Yeah. Is that right? 02:30 How'd you guess? 02:31 Well, I've tried it. 02:33 Yeah, it's got a long history to it. 02:35 Yes. 02:37 So anyway, I wanted to start out 02:40 'cause Paul starts out with the problem of sin 02:42 in the Book of Romans. 02:43 Of course. 02:45 And you know, Romans is really the greatest book in the Bible, 02:47 well, except for some of the other ones, 02:48 but it's one of my favorite. 02:50 Good, glad, and merry tidings that makes a man's heart 02:53 to sing for joy and his feet to dance. 02:56 Who said that? It's me. 02:59 Glad I got you on something. 03:01 That was Tyndale. 03:02 Tyndale said, "Good, glad, 03:04 and merry tidings that makes a man's heart 03:05 to sing for joy and his feet to dance." 03:08 So I figured out, you know, 03:10 we got a whole lot of Pharisees, 03:12 they're not just Jews, 03:14 they're all different varieties. 03:15 We're born Pharisees. 03:17 You don't even have to be a Christian to be a Pharisee. 03:18 No. 03:19 I mean a church member. 03:21 Yeah. 03:22 So I came across 03:24 the radical concept that sin is love. 03:28 Well, that one gets just for a little bit, doesn't that? 03:30 Sin is love. 03:32 Now just think about it for a minute. 03:34 Did Eve sin when she took the apple 03:38 or whatever the fruit was or before? 03:40 Before. 03:41 Yes, she had to. 03:43 Something happened in her heart and head, 03:45 and after her heart went wrong, 03:48 she reached out and took the fruit. 03:50 What happened in there? 03:52 "I'm more important than God, I can rule my own life. 03:55 My authority is more important than His life... 03:58 His authority. 03:59 So I'm going to do what I want," 04:02 is just self centeredness making... 04:06 Well, loving yourself 04:08 at the very center of our universe 04:11 and all other problems come out of that. 04:14 And, you know, some people call this the new theology. 04:17 I call it the new theology, the Sermon on the Mount. 04:21 What did Jesus say in Matthew 15:18? 04:25 "That out of the heart..." 04:26 Proceeds. 04:28 So in the New Testament, 04:30 Jesus never talks about salvation 04:34 is becoming better and better and better. 04:38 He talks about it as a death 04:40 and the resurrection to a new way of life, 04:42 getting a new heart, and getting a new mind, 04:49 and getting a new record in heaven. 04:51 You're justified, declared righteous. 04:55 And with this new heart, 04:58 out of it comes a new way of life. 05:03 And that's the second great revelation 05:07 that sin and law are the same thing. 05:10 Say it again, George. 05:13 That sin... 05:14 See, we don't want any heresy at The Carter Report. 05:18 Sin and what? 05:19 Sin and law are the same thing. 05:22 Now, remember now. 05:23 Sin is loving myself more than God, 05:26 loving myself more than other people 05:29 so I can abuse God, I can abuse you 05:32 because I'm the most important thing in the world, 05:34 egocentricity. 05:36 And I'm proud of it. 05:39 Some people think that the law 05:43 is the Ten Commandments. 05:45 I hate to tell people, 05:47 but the Ten Commandments are not eternal, 05:50 they're not universal. 05:52 They were created for this earth. 05:54 The Sabbath for example, it was created for this earth. 05:57 Yeah, to us. 05:58 Yeah, and then you think God didn't tell the angels, 06:02 "Thou shalt not commit adultery." 06:03 Probably not. 06:05 I don't think they were even equipped for what Jesus said. 06:08 "And honor thy Father," no, no, no. 06:11 There's a little book in my library, two of them. 06:13 One is called the Spiritual Gifts. 06:14 And one is called Selected Messages 06:16 that the principles of the law existed 06:18 throughout the whole eternity, 06:20 but when people fell, when Adam and Eve felled, 06:22 they had to be negativized, 06:25 they had to be reworded for fallen humanity. 06:29 And when Jesus was asked, "What's the law all about? 06:32 What's the great commandment?" 06:33 Love. 06:35 Love your God with all your heart, 06:37 all your mind, and all your soul. 06:38 And your neighbor as yourself. 06:40 And love your neighbor as yourself. 06:41 And Paul in Galatians 5:14 says, 06:44 "The law can be summed up in one word, love." 06:47 And then the real clincher is Romans 13:8-10. 06:53 "The law can be summed up in one word," 06:55 and then he ties it to the Ten Commandments. 06:58 And He ties it that, you know, 07:00 "Thou shall, you know, treat your neighbor right." 07:02 He lists five of the commandments 07:04 right there. 07:05 And so what we have 07:07 is we have, sin is love. 07:11 It's loving yourself more than God, 07:14 more than your neighbor. 07:15 The law is love. 07:19 Loving God supremely, and loving your neighbor. 07:23 And what the Ten Commandments do 07:25 is tell us four ways how we can love God better, 07:29 and eight ways... 07:31 Excuse me, six ways 07:32 how we can love our neighbor better. 07:34 And so getting converted 07:38 is actually getting your love refocused. 07:41 And love is the very heart 07:44 of what Christianity is all about. 07:45 So this is really what God would have us to understand. 07:51 Yes. 07:53 It's not just joining a church. 07:54 It's not just joining a church. 07:56 It's not lifestyle issues. 07:57 And it's not checking off the list. 08:00 I've done all these things, so I'm almost there. 08:04 Now doctrine is important. Yes, it is. 08:06 But if you can have all the doctrines... 08:08 And go to hell. 08:09 And still will be lost. 08:11 You can be a vegan. 08:13 You know, I once met a vegan that was meaner than the devil. 08:16 I mean, you can do all this lifestyle stuff, 08:19 you can have all the doctrine and still be lost. 08:22 At the heart of Christianity is the love of God. 08:26 And after that, 08:30 then everything else has meaning. 08:33 And when it seemed within that... 08:35 I used to teach young preachers 08:36 'cause I discovered my own evangelism. 08:39 If you can preach a sermon 08:42 based upon the cross of Christ and the love of God, 08:46 you don't have a Christian sermon. 08:48 Absolutely. 08:49 And I don't care what it is. 08:51 Tell me about the church, the nature of the church. 08:55 What is the church, George? 08:57 Well, there are several views. 08:59 Tell me your view? 09:01 Well, I'm going to tell you, 09:02 I want to tell you one or two views first. 09:04 Some people see the church as a structure, you know. 09:09 Some structures are built from the top down 09:12 and the guy at the top using control of everything. 09:15 But the Greek... 09:17 It sounds a little bit like us, doesn't it? 09:19 I mean sometimes. 09:21 Not in our best moments. 09:22 No, we don't understand the nature of the church. 09:26 The Greek word is ecclesia. 09:29 Hebrew word is qahal, 09:31 and it means those that are called out. 09:34 It's those that had been called 09:36 from what the Bible calls the world 09:39 from secularism to find Jesus. 09:42 And it's the fellowship of the saints. 09:45 Now, you know, the saints really need to be organized 09:50 and so they form a local congregation. 09:53 But you can see it reading already in Paul, 09:55 and Timothy, and Titus in there that, 09:58 you know, they had supervising pastors. 10:00 And so they created some organizations. 10:03 And so like in our denomination, 10:06 the local churches get together, 10:08 they elect officers, 10:10 and then the various churches elect somebody for, let's say, 10:14 a conference like an Oregon Conference, 10:17 and then they can get regional and stuff like that. 10:20 But authority is always in Christianity. 10:24 It's always from the fellowship of the saints. 10:29 And the people at the top are not masters, 10:32 they're servants. 10:33 Well, that's how it ought to be. 10:35 Well, that's how, yeah, definitely. 10:37 Now, that's the biblical picture. 10:38 Yes, of course. 10:40 I can see, you got a hook out there. 10:41 That's how it ought to be. No, no. Never, George. Never. 10:44 Well, I'm going to be very frank with you. 10:47 Lord Acton had a great saying, 10:50 "Power corrupts, absolute power tends 10:53 to corrupt the absolute one." 10:55 And, you know, when you have authority, 10:57 when you have responsibility, it's easy to think that, 11:00 "Well, I'm more important because I have a position," 11:03 not from the biblical perspective. 11:07 "The greatest," Jesus said, "shall be your servant." 11:11 And so you know, 11:13 we have a hard time with these things. 11:14 And even I personally, I rescued an institution, 11:18 and after five years of being the chief administrator, 11:20 I felt I owned the place. 11:22 It's human nature. 11:24 It's human nature. 11:25 But you know what? 11:26 That's what God's trying to work out of us. 11:28 Of course. Yeah. 11:30 So the church is not really 11:34 an institution, is it? 11:36 Not from the biblical perspective. 11:38 We're talking about from the biblical perspective. 11:40 From a sociological perspective, 11:42 it is an institution. 11:44 From religious perspective, 11:45 it's the fellowship of the saints, 11:47 those who have been called out from the world. 11:49 It's the ecclesia. 11:50 Yes. 11:52 And that's what really counts. 11:53 And what holds the church together is mutual trust... 11:57 And love. And love. 11:59 And based upon biblical truth. 12:03 And not too much dictatorship. 12:08 I don't think that Jesus would have gone 12:12 for too much dictatorship. 12:14 No, I don't think so, 12:15 seems to be the very opposite of the Kingdom of God. 12:17 No, you do not have a church if you don't have mutual trust, 12:23 the love of God, 12:25 and based upon clear scriptural principles. 12:29 So you can't coerce people to do something which is... 12:34 anything. 12:35 And certainly, you can't coerce people 12:37 to do things that are unbiblical. 12:39 Well, you can force people to be compliant... 12:42 And conformist. 12:44 But you can't force them to have Christian unity. 12:48 Now one little old lady said at one time that 12:50 that only comes from Christ like forbearance. 12:54 She said in that same passage that you can pass resolution, 12:59 after resolution, after resolution, 13:02 and you will never get unity, 13:05 only with Christ like forbearance 13:08 and care for one another. 13:11 Then all of us including church leaders 13:15 ought to think about these things very carefully, 13:18 the very nature of the church. 13:20 That's right. 13:21 The basis of the Kingdom of God. 13:23 And what it means to be... 13:26 You know, some churches call him president, 13:28 some people call him bishops. 13:30 What it means to hold office? 13:33 And that is to serve the body. 13:34 Yeah. 13:39 We comfort ourselves by a statement 13:41 from a very important person in the Adventist Church, 13:46 Ellen White that when it appears 13:50 as though the church is going to fall, 13:52 it doesn't fall, and the church goes through to glory. 13:56 And so some people say 13:58 with great enthusiasm and confidence, 14:03 "Whatever really happens, 14:05 it's predestined to go through to glory. 14:08 The whole caboodle everything, 14:10 everything's going to go through to glory. 14:12 This is biblical. 14:14 Well, I think it's a misconception of the church. 14:17 I think it must be. 14:19 I think if you really... 14:20 John, you and I have studied these things our entire life. 14:24 Which is not that long. 14:26 Well, it's been a long time for you, brother. 14:30 When it comes right down to it, 14:33 what the Bible calls the latter rain 14:37 and the pouring out of the spirit at the last days, 14:41 things are going to happen that we haven't seen happen 14:44 since Pentecost. 14:46 My guess is that when the final events come true 14:51 and they really get to be fulfilled, 14:54 there's going to be millions of people 14:56 trying to rush into the church. 14:58 "Those people are right after all." 15:00 And there's going to be millions 15:02 trying to escape. 15:03 And there's going to be so much action 15:06 that the administrators on the bean counters 15:08 won't be able to count it. 15:12 It's going to implode and explode at the same time. 15:15 What's going to go through is the church of God... 15:18 The people of God. 15:19 The people of God in the biblical experience. 15:22 There's not going to be anybody that can sit 15:24 on top of this thing and say, "Wow, look it. 15:27 Now we've got 200 million, we only had 20 million." 15:30 So we're not talking about the church as a... 15:34 We're talking about the biblical church. 15:36 Well, not the sociological church. 15:38 I've read where you've said the church is the visible 15:42 and the invisible church. 15:43 That's right. 15:45 So we're basically talking about the invisible church. 15:48 And you know what the problem with the invisible church is? 15:52 Nobody can count them. 15:53 Yes. Yeah. 15:55 And their names are written in heaven, aren't they? 15:58 Yeah. Yeah. 16:00 You know what I used to say? 16:02 Trouble with Adventism all started when they learned 16:04 how to count. 16:06 They count everything. 16:07 But you know what? 16:09 You can't count the most important thing. 16:11 I can't quantify your spirituality. 16:13 I can't quantify how you love Jesus. 16:15 You can't quantify love. 16:17 Yeah, I can't quantify love. 16:19 I can't tell you who belongs 16:21 to the heavenly invisible church. 16:23 But I probably can tell you 16:25 who belongs as a member of the local congregation 16:30 of this or that denomination. 16:33 Is it not true and we know this is true... 16:36 By the way, John, the invisible church 16:40 has members in every what we call the denomination. 16:44 Of course, yeah, yeah. Yeah. 16:46 Ellen White said that, didn't she? 16:47 She said the most were in the Catholic Church. 16:50 Yeah. 16:52 You know, we have to remember this. 16:54 You know, we may have what we call a remnant message. 16:58 You know, Revelation 14, the Three Angels' Messages, 17:02 that's a message to be given 17:03 right before the coming of Jesus. 17:05 I wished 1000 denominations were preaching it. 17:07 Absolutely. 17:08 I happen to be where I am 17:09 because I only know one denomination that is. 17:11 Me too. 17:12 Is it not true that the children of Israel, 17:15 the Jewish people, 17:17 they were the remnant people in their day. 17:18 Oh, yeah. Yeah. 17:20 And they were proud of it. 17:21 And they thought that God couldn't bring 17:23 about the Messiah without them. 17:27 Without their keeping the law. 17:29 But not only keeping the law, 17:32 but He couldn't do without them. 17:33 Yes, of course. 17:35 They were important. 17:36 Yeah, and they were perfectionists. 17:37 Yeah. 17:39 And they believe that the prophecies taught 17:42 that they had to go through to glory. 17:45 That's right. 17:46 Could there be a parallel 17:49 between those people and some of us today? 17:52 I believe that the parallel is frightening. 17:56 And just get me a couple of illustrations here. 18:01 Well, I'll just give you one. 18:03 Yeah. 18:05 Well, I'll give you two. All right. 18:07 John the Baptist looked at those Jews and he said, 18:11 "God can make rocks out of Jews." 18:15 I mean... 18:17 He said it. He said it. 18:18 Yeah, yeah. 18:19 I mean, He can take Jews, you know... 18:21 Anyway, my guess is that God had to bypass them, 18:25 He could bypass us 18:26 if we do not stay faithful to Him. 18:29 So you don't believe in predestination, do you? 18:33 I believe in predestination that God chose Israel, 18:38 and God has predestined those 18:39 who accepted Jesus Christ by faith. 18:42 That is Roman's predestination. 18:45 What I'm trying to say is, some have the idea that, 18:48 "Here is the church and the church is predestined 18:53 to go through to glory, 18:55 this is talking about the institutions 18:57 and everything that belongs to it. 19:00 That's a million miles from the truth. 19:02 Yeah. 19:03 Well, you know, what got me off 19:05 on this and I was a seminary student. 19:07 I read in little book called "The Selected Messages." 19:10 You know, we've always talked about the final days, 19:12 it'll go like fire through the stubble, 19:15 just go like a plague... 19:17 And the stubble too. Yeah, yeah. 19:18 You know what? 19:20 Nobody reads the context. 19:22 He says, "The angels will be finishing the work 19:26 and we're going to be wondering what's happening." 19:29 God has a million ways to finish 19:33 the work of the gospel on this earth. 19:35 Okay. 19:37 What is the mission of the church? 19:39 I'm talking especially about the Adventist church. 19:44 Okay. 19:45 And we could make it broader to include other religions. 19:48 But what is the mission of the church 19:51 as portrayed in the Bible? 19:54 To help people know Jesus. 19:58 That's the primary mission of the church. 20:01 I would like to suggest that the church has 20:03 an eschatological mission. 20:05 Tell me about that. 20:06 Well, that's spelled out in Revelation. 20:08 I'll be more comfortable I think with that. 20:11 Tell me about 20:13 the eschatological mission of Revelation. 20:16 Is that Revelation 14:6-12? 20:20 Yes, and then verse 14, 20:21 you got Jesus coming in the cloud of heaven. 20:22 Yes, indeed. 20:24 So we are looking at the last message 20:26 to be preached on the earth. 20:27 And it starts out with the everlasting gospel. 20:31 That's the first part. 20:34 Revelation 14:6. Yeah. 20:36 Every other teaching of Revelation 14 is in there. 20:41 I'm just going to open it up, John. 20:42 Are you going to read it to us? I'm going to read it, yeah. 20:44 What's the translation? 20:45 This is the Revised Standard. 20:48 "Then I saw another angel flying 20:50 in mid-heaven with an eternal gospel," 20:53 that's how come, because the gospel is foundational. 20:56 And it's eternal. And it's eternal. 20:58 It's not a new gospel. 20:59 It never changes, never changes. 21:00 Some people think, in the last days. 21:02 It's not dispensational. 21:03 Some people think, in the last days, 21:05 it's a different sort of gospel. 21:06 And it's going to be 21:07 a different sort of last generation. 21:09 And some people think that of the Old Testament too. 21:11 They were saved by work. 21:12 No, they weren't saved by works. 21:13 Abraham says, "Father, 21:15 He will save by grace through faith." 21:16 It's the everlasting gospel. 21:18 "So to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth 21:20 to every nation, and tongue, and tribe, and people," 21:23 I mean this is going to be a worldwide mission, 21:26 "and he said with a loud voice, 21:27 'Fear God and give glory to Him, 21:29 for the hour of His judgment has come.'" 21:31 Now some people have really got it messed up here. 21:34 The judgment is not against us. 21:36 No, it's for us. The judgment is for us. 21:38 There's nothing to fear in the judgment. 21:41 One of these days, I want to write a book 21:43 called "Judgment is Gospel." 21:44 How many books have you written? 21:46 Fifty and I've edited another 48. 21:49 So about 100. 21:50 So you're going to write another book? 21:51 Yes, why not. 21:53 Until I croak. 21:55 But listen to this, John. 21:57 It gets better. 21:58 "For the hour of His judgment is coming." 22:00 Remember, unless you're knocking off banks 22:03 and abusing people, 22:04 you're going to love the judgment. 22:05 I mean, all the way through it, the judgment... 22:08 The judge... It's a vindication. 22:09 "So loved the world that He gave His only Son." 22:11 Yeah. 22:13 "And worship Him who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, 22:14 and the fountains of waters." 22:16 Wait a minute, where did that come from? 22:17 Oh, that's the fourth commandment. 22:19 Fourth commandment, but that's good enough 22:20 for Jews to keep the Sabbath, right? 22:21 Yes, it is. 22:23 Yeah, but where did the fourth commandment come from? 22:25 Genesis 2. 22:27 God gave the Sabbath to all mankind, 22:32 and that's what Jesus says in Mark 2: 27 and 28, 22:37 that the Sabbath was made for the Jews. 22:40 Now made for man, human beings. 22:44 Anyway, at the end of time, the Sabbath would be important. 22:47 And then you come to a second danger of falling, 22:49 falling as Babylon, Babylon is confusion. 22:52 And, you know, what the confusion is? 22:53 Tell me. 22:55 Confusing the words of men and women 22:59 with the words of God. 23:00 Of course. 23:02 Every teaching, everything that I believe... 23:04 That's the essence of Babylon. 23:06 Must come out of scripture. 23:07 And if it's not taught clearly in scripture, 23:09 it is not a doctrine. 23:11 And I've got to ask you this 23:12 before you go further into this exegesis 23:15 because I can feel an exegesis coming. 23:17 Oh, yeah. 23:18 I could go for about two hours on this, John. 23:20 I'm sure you could, just for one verse. 23:22 What are you most grateful for? 23:25 I'm grateful for Jesus 23:29 who came and thought enough of somebody like me and you 23:35 to give His life that I might have life eternal. 23:39 That's it. 23:41 What about your wife? 23:43 Are you grateful for her? 23:44 Oh, yeah. 23:46 But she's included in the package. 23:49 When God's love gets in our heart, 23:52 it overflows to other people. 23:54 And you've had a great ministry. 23:55 You've had a great life. 23:56 You have a great life. 23:58 Yeah. 23:59 John McCain said, 24:01 when he looked back over his life, 24:02 he had no regrets. 24:03 You know what, John? 24:05 I can look back and say the same thing. 24:06 But I have one thing, plants grow best in manure. 24:11 And I've been up to my armpits in it for 77 years. 24:14 That's telling you something. 24:15 Yeah and I'm tired of growing, 24:17 I'm looking forward to getting home. 24:21 Okay. Okay. 24:22 I wouldn't want to live another life, 24:25 but I wouldn't want to live... 24:26 But you've been blessed and you blessed 24:28 so many people, George. 24:29 But only because of what we go through, John. 24:31 Yeah, we support your ministry 1000 percent, 24:34 and we have a great empathy with you, 24:38 this ministry, we believe in you. 24:39 Thank you. We believe in what you teach. 24:42 We believe in your books. 24:43 We believe even in your philosophy. 24:48 Are you hopeful? I am very hopeful. 24:52 You know, I preach funeral sermons in a red shirt. 24:57 That seems to be slightly inappropriate. 25:00 Because a funeral for a Christian 25:03 ought to be a time of rejoicing. 25:05 The next thing they know, 25:07 they're going to see Jesus coming in the clouds of heaven. 25:09 Yeah, I can understand that. 25:10 You see, before I met Jesus, you know what I had? 25:13 Beer. 25:15 And the problem was, I always had to wake up. 25:19 Now I've got this hope and I love 1 Thessalonians 4, 25:23 "We have this hope that Jesus is coming." 25:26 So you've got the hope of glory that the Lord is going to come. 25:30 Amen. 25:31 George, I want to say to you today. 25:34 It hasn't been a privilege, it's been a super privilege. 25:38 Then good to be here, John. 25:39 And a pleasure to have you with us. 25:40 What you say resonates in my heart. 25:45 I'm going to fuel my team member 25:47 sitting back there in the studio. 25:48 They're all saying amen, and they're laughing, 25:50 and they're having a good time 25:52 because not only do our folks 25:56 love you, they like you. 25:59 Oh, that's good. 26:02 And may I say to the audience, 26:04 it's been a privilege today to have you with us. 26:06 Thank you, George. You're welcome. 26:07 Thank you. 26:09 Write to me at the Carter Report. 26:10 Till next time, God bless you and thank you. 26:18 There is only one thing 26:20 that really counts in this lifetime, 26:22 your relationship to Christ. 26:25 And then if you have a right relationship with Christ, 26:29 you want to tell people about Christ. 26:32 That's why Jesus said, "Go into all the world 26:34 and preach the gospel to every creature." 26:38 By the grace of God, we're going to do that, 26:41 we are doing that. 26:43 That is why we're going back to Cuba, 26:45 to this communist land to preach Christ. 26:50 We're accepting an invitation to go to the vast, 26:54 huge city of Manila, the capital of the Philippines. 26:58 Been there before, 27:00 but by the grace of God, we're going back. 27:03 Please support us. 27:05 Please stand with us 27:07 in the preaching of the everlasting gospel. 27:10 You say, "How do you do it? 27:12 Who pays the bills?" 27:13 We do. 27:15 "Do you get any help, 27:16 financial help from the church?" 27:18 No, my friend, we don't. 27:20 But we get a lot of help from God and from His children. 27:24 Please support us 27:26 in the preaching of the everlasting gospel. 27:29 It's the most important work in all the world. 27:32 Everything else is almost trivia. 27:35 So would you please write to me? 27:39 John Carter, P.O. 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