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God and Guns In America Part 1

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00:01 Thousands of innocent people are shot to death
00:03 in America every year.
00:06 Is the gun to blame?
00:07 And is the solution
00:09 more governmental legislation and interference?
00:11 What is the root cause of hatred
00:13 that drives individuals to commit deeds of violence?
00:16 Is the gun the problem?
00:19 What causes our culture of violence?
00:22 Find out on the Carter Report.
00:27 Today we're talking about "Guns in America."
00:32 Guns in America,
00:34 is the solution to get rid of all of the guns.
00:38 It was Wednesday night very recently
00:42 and I was out walking in Thousand Oaks.
00:46 I guess I've gone walking in Thousand Oaks,
00:49 thousands of times,
00:50 'cause I've lived there for quite a few years.
00:53 Beverley and I've lived there for about 30 years.
00:56 We love Thousand Oaks.
00:58 So I'd come home from work
01:00 and I was sort of feeling a bit stressed out.
01:04 And after eating something I went for a walk.
01:07 I've been on that walk hundreds and hundreds of time.
01:12 So walking down this hill, all by myself I thought,
01:18 strange some of these things that happen to you.
01:22 And as I was walking alone,
01:26 I was overcome by a tremendous impression
01:28 that I was in danger.
01:32 This has never happened before to me in Thousand Oaks.
01:36 It's as so a voice said to me, almost audibly,
01:40 "Turn around and go home."
01:42 But I was going down this hill, I came to a little street,
01:45 I crossed over the street,
01:46 but the impression became stronger.
01:50 Turn around and go home.
01:52 And so with some resistance and feeling a little silly,
01:57 I turned around and got home.
01:59 Beverley said, "You're home early."
02:00 I said, "Well, just came home early."
02:04 Then after a bit I went to bed.
02:07 I emphasize,
02:09 Thousand Oaks
02:10 has been about the safest place in America.
02:15 We don't have really crime in Thousand Oaks,
02:17 we don't have killings.
02:19 It's on the border of Los Angeles
02:21 but in spite of that, it's tremendously safe.
02:25 The next morning Beverley said to me 'cause she got up first,
02:29 she said "There's been a massive shooting.
02:32 Thirteen people are dead."
02:35 A young white man,
02:38 obviously deranged, got his gun,
02:43 went and shot all of these young people.
02:48 I talked to my neighbor,
02:50 just a little while later and he said,
02:52 "We are grieving in our home, these were our friends,
02:56 we graduated together."
03:01 Then the big fires came,
03:05 we were blessed we didn't lose our home,
03:06 we could've lost our home.
03:08 We had the mass killing and then the fire started.
03:13 And on the Saturday afternoon,
03:15 Beverley and I saw the fire at the top of Mount Boney.
03:19 We've seen it there before, many years before we saw it...
03:22 Unless they get the fire out, the fires going to come down,
03:24 it's going to wipe us all out.
03:27 Thanks be to God,
03:29 they sent the big air tankers
03:30 and we were saved by the air tankers.
03:32 These tremendous pilots,
03:34 they must be some of the best in the world.
03:38 But as we were standing up next to the water tower,
03:40 watching the air tankers bomb the fires.
03:44 We were joined by some folks and they said,
03:47 "You see just down there?"
03:49 "Yeah, that's where I was walking."
03:53 "That's where the murderer was loading up his gun."
03:59 This just happened,
04:01 a little while just happened before them,
04:03 the mass murder.
04:09 So it's a strange thing
04:10 when you've lived in one of the safest places
04:13 in the world,
04:16 to wake up and find it's not so safe after all.
04:22 So far in the United States of America
04:25 there have been more than 300 mass killings
04:29 this year.
04:30 A mass killing I'm told is,
04:32 when you have three people or more.
04:37 Violence in America, what has gone wrong?
04:43 I'm not suggesting today
04:44 that I've got all the answers to all these problems,
04:48 but I'm going to go literally to the heart of the problem.
04:53 And I'm not going to please everybody
04:55 who is watching the telecast.
04:58 This is a polarizing subject,
05:00 but I think basically the answer is plain and simple,
05:06 if we only had the courage and the wisdom
05:12 to face the facts.
05:15 I'm going to turn to the old Bible,
05:17 I'm going to turn to Galatians 6:7,
05:21 the Book of Galatians 6:7,
05:26 and this is a very, very significant passage
05:32 because it teaches a tremendous truth.
05:36 Galatians Chapter 6,
05:39 I believe it is, and verse 7,
05:44 the Bible says, "Do not be deceived,
05:50 God is not mocked..."
05:51 You can't fool God,
05:53 "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked,
05:55 for whatever man sows,
05:58 that he will also reap."
06:03 We reap what we sow.
06:05 If we sow barley, we get barley.
06:09 If we sow oats, we get oats.
06:12 If we sow wheat, we get wheat.
06:16 If we sow love, we get love.
06:19 And if we sow hate, we get hate.
06:25 And sadly today,
06:28 there's a lot of hate in America.
06:33 There's a lot of hate speech.
06:38 I seem to think and many would agree with me,
06:40 I think you'd agree with me.
06:43 There's nothing really much worse
06:46 than a torrent of hate speech,
06:48 because hate speech just may push
06:52 an unbalanced person over the line.
06:59 When are we going to get smart
07:02 and realize that words matter?
07:07 Today in America we have a rise of anti-Semitism, how amazing.
07:13 How can a person claim to follow Christ
07:16 and be against the people of Christ?
07:20 I gave the talk once on the fact
07:21 that Jesus is a Jew.
07:23 I got a flood of hate mail, Jesus is not a Jew,
07:27 He's an Anglo like us, I'm telling you.
07:35 And so some person broke into a synagogue
07:38 while these Jewish people
07:40 are worshipping God and murdered them.
07:44 Now, my appeal today to you, my friends and my audience,
07:50 is this, it's for a kinder, gentler America.
07:56 No more hate speech, I can't change you,
07:58 you can't change me, but God can change me.
08:03 And that we stop the name calling.
08:05 We hear it all over Washington,
08:08 politicians calling their enemies
08:11 by awful names.
08:13 Why don't they realize
08:15 that usually we give up name calling
08:18 when we get out of school for little children?
08:22 Little kids call each other names,
08:26 but as you know some people grow older,
08:30 and some people grow up,
08:32 but some people just grow older and they never grow up.
08:37 Name calling is for babies.
08:41 Remember Louis Armstrong, Satchmo.
08:46 The great song he used to sing, "What a wonderful world."
08:52 It could be a wonderful world.
08:55 We mourn the passing
08:56 of the great President George Bush,
09:00 whom I have always admired.
09:03 He spoke about lighting a thousand points of light.
09:07 People laughed, wow, how silly.
09:10 Why not?
09:11 Thousand points of light.
09:13 Dr. Robert Schuller,
09:14 the Crystal Cathedral spoke about going out
09:19 and committing random acts,
09:22 not of violence but random acts of kindness.
09:27 Just do it.
09:29 That's somebody in on the freeway, be kind.
09:36 The question is, this is the questions,
09:39 it's a difficult one, but it's easy to answer.
09:40 Is this nation that we believe was raised up
09:43 in the providence of God
09:45 the great United States of America?
09:47 Is it actually more dangerous than other places?
09:52 And if so, why?
09:53 I want you to look at these places
09:55 that are we're going to put up now
09:57 on the television wall.
09:59 Gun related deaths per 100,000 per year
10:03 in affluent countries, Australia is1.04.
10:07 When we say America is the wealthiest country,
10:10 we're not talking about per capita.
10:12 Because there are lots of other countries,
10:14 where people per capita have got more money,
10:17 but we're talking about the gross domestic product,
10:19 GDP.
10:21 So America is number one.
10:23 Violent deaths with guns, one Austria 2.9, Canada 2.05,
10:28 Denmark 1.28, France 2.83, Germany 1,
10:33 Iceland 0.07, Ireland 0.80,
10:39 Iceland wasn't it 0.07, Ireland 0.8,
10:45 then if you look over here Italy 1.31,
10:50 Netherlands less than 1,
10:52 New Zealand just over 1 about the same as Australia,
10:55 Singapore look at this 0.025, Spain 0.62,
11:01 Sweden 1.47, United Kingdom 0.23,
11:05 people have come to me and they've said
11:07 "We're thinking of going to England,
11:09 is it safe to go to England?
11:13 They say, you know,
11:14 is it safe for us Americans to go to England.
11:16 The UK 0.23,
11:19 the United States of America 11.96.
11:24 This means that your chance of being killed
11:28 in the United States of America
11:30 with a gun is 50 times higher
11:33 than if you were living in England.
11:41 So the reason is, why, why?
11:46 Why? Why?
11:47 The violence.
11:49 Now look at developing countries,
11:51 Argentina 6.93.
11:54 Let me, let me point some of these things out.
11:57 Gun related deaths per 100,000 per year
12:00 in developing countries.
12:01 Argentina about 7,
12:02 Brazil very dangerous 21.9, Chile 2.4, pretty safe,
12:09 Colombia 18.65, very dangerous, Cuba 0.5,
12:14 one of the safest places on the face of the earth.
12:16 El Salvador can you believe it, 45.6, tremendously dangerous.
12:22 We've just, we've run a huge campaign there,
12:26 dangerous.
12:28 Guatemala 34, Jamaica 30, very dangerous,
12:31 Mexico 7.64,
12:36 and we talk about these Mexicans
12:38 being dangerous people,
12:42 Venezuela almost 60, and so some of these countries
12:47 are tremendously dangerous with the use of guns
12:52 and other ways of killing people.
12:56 But I would point out to you this fact,
12:59 that most dangerous countries
13:02 usually have a long history
13:07 of a corrupt church.
13:09 Bad religion pulls down the morals
13:13 and destroys the moral fiber.
13:17 That's what you've got in Latin America,
13:21 a corrupt church and corrupt governments,
13:25 like in Venezuela.
13:29 What you believe apparently does matter,
13:32 but here is the question.
13:35 Why should the wealthiest country compared
13:37 to other wealthy country be such a violent place?
13:45 Now I'm not suggesting to you
13:48 naively that there are simple answers
13:53 to this most profound of questions.
13:56 But why is America such a dangerous place.
14:02 Look at the text again, Galatians 6:7,
14:06 think of the text, read it, "Do not be deceived,"
14:10 don't be taken in, the Bible says,
14:14 "God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows
14:20 that he will also reap."
14:25 It is true,
14:26 it's unpalatable but it is true.
14:31 If you sow to the wind, you will certainly reap what?
14:37 The whirlwind.
14:39 If you say sow hate, you're gonna get hate.
14:43 If you sow violence, you're gonna get violence.
14:47 If you sow racism, you're gonna get racism.
14:50 If you sow anti-Semitism, you're going to get it.
14:55 If you sow white supremacy,
15:00 you're going to get it.
15:03 Whatever you sow, you're going to get it.
15:05 If you sow love, you're going to get it.
15:11 Now as I pondered this question,
15:13 and this is a profound and difficult question,
15:17 and I've spent many hours trying to,
15:21 in my own mind work out this mystery.
15:25 I love America,
15:27 been here now for 33 years this month.
15:33 Love America,
15:38 but why is it no longer safe at nighttime
15:42 to walk around Thousand Oaks.
15:46 Why the violence?
15:48 I want you to come now to John 12:35.
15:51 Open your Bible, turn to the text.
15:54 We supply Bibles in these meetings.
15:56 John 12:35.
16:02 John 12:35, now Jesus is talking here,
16:08 "Jesus said to them,
16:11 'A little while longer the light is with you.
16:15 Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you,
16:22 he who walks in darkness
16:23 does not know where he is going.'"
16:26 What I'm going to tell you now is rather scary.
16:30 Jesus said,
16:32 "If you've got light, walk in it.
16:37 Because if you don't walk in the light,
16:39 you know, what's gonna happen?
16:41 You gonna get darkness.
16:44 Don't forget this,
16:45 there is no darkness
16:49 so black as light
16:53 resisted and rejected.
16:58 So the more light that you have,
17:02 the greater the spiritual dynamic,
17:06 so Jesus said, "I'm giving you light."
17:10 So Jesus said, "Walk in the light,
17:15 lest darkness come upon you."
17:20 Now here's something I'm going to say
17:23 that'll make some people mad, so be it.
17:25 But I'm telling you what I believe,
17:28 and I still believe in freedom of speech.
17:33 Listen to this.
17:35 The problem is really not the gun at all,
17:41 because if you get rid of the guns,
17:44 people are gonna do it with something else.
17:50 And when I was a little boy growing up in Australia
17:52 that was and still is,
17:54 relatively speaking a very safe place.
17:59 There were still drunk drivers
18:01 and some people would say back in those days,
18:05 you know, we ought to get the cars
18:07 off the road, it's better when we had horses.
18:11 I'm not that old, folks.
18:15 You know, what my mother said?
18:17 My mother was right, had a lot of wisdom.
18:21 She said, "It's not the car, it's the nut behind the wheel."
18:28 Mm-hmm.
18:30 It's the nut behind the wheel, it is not the car.
18:36 Now this is totally politically incorrect
18:39 and you may hate me forever.
18:42 It's not the gun,
18:45 it's the nut behind the wheel.
18:48 Here's a little aside.
18:51 I realized that guns
18:53 should not be sold to criminals,
18:54 I know that.
18:55 That's crazy to sell guns to criminals, it's insanity.
19:01 All crazy people
19:02 who have a record of mental illness.
19:06 That seems to be a lot of people today.
19:10 But this is not the main problem.
19:11 Here it is.
19:13 This is gonna get so many people mad with me.
19:15 Here it is.
19:17 The problem is that the liberal media
19:23 and other parts of the media and others have developed
19:29 sometimes with the help of the government
19:32 a culture of violence.
19:37 We live in a culture of violence.
19:42 It's not the gun,
19:44 it's the person holding the gun.
19:47 The person who thinks problems can be solved with violence.
19:52 Now, I'm gonna take it further,
19:54 this will alienate the rest of you.
20:00 We have cultivated our culture
20:04 where we glorify killing and war.
20:10 Eisenhower, one of America's greatest president said this,
20:18 "If the joint military complex,
20:23 the industrial military complex gets in control of America,
20:29 there will never be a day when America is not sending
20:34 her sons and their daughters off
20:36 to be shot down on the battlefield."
20:40 So when you turn on television, we glorify war,
20:49 and children are brought up in a culture
20:52 where we glorify war,
20:54 and we think that problems can be solved with violence.
21:01 That's the problem, it's not the gun.
21:04 We've created a monster.
21:06 Now I was brought up with guns.
21:09 When I was a kid growing up in Australia,
21:14 some of my relatives owned farms.
21:16 My uncle Reggie had a great farm.
21:21 My sister's husband, her folks, they had farms, they had guns.
21:27 I was brought up around guns.
21:31 I learned to shoot with a gun,
21:35 but none of us were tempted to go and shoot somebody.
21:39 We were never tempted to go and get a gun
21:42 and to walk into a place in Thousand Oaks
21:46 and kill a bunch of people,
21:51 because I thought that the way to solve my problems
21:55 was with violence.
21:58 It's the nut behind the wheel.
22:01 Now I want you to come to John 3:3-7,
22:05 and I'm going to suggest to you,
22:07 my friends, today, I think this is the solution.
22:13 Some will say, "It won't work."
22:18 It will work, if we let it work.
22:22 John 3: 3-7,
22:28 "Jesus answered and said to him,
22:30 'Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again,
22:34 he cannot see the kingdom of God.'"
22:36 You got to be born again.
22:38 "Nicodemus said to Him,
22:39 'How can a man be born when he is old?
22:41 Can he enter a second time
22:42 into his mother's womb and be born?'"
22:45 He's a theology professor, knew nothing.
22:49 "Jesus answered, 'Most assuredly, I say to you,
22:51 unless one is born of water and the Spirit,
22:56 he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
22:58 That which is born of the flesh is flesh,
23:00 that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
23:03 Do not marvel that I said to you,
23:05 'You must be born again.'"
23:10 What on earth is Jesus talking about
23:12 and why don't preachers preach about these things anymore.
23:18 Not everybody talking about heaven
23:20 is going to heaven.
23:22 Jesus said, "You've got to be born again."
23:30 The Spirit of God has got to get down inside you,
23:35 and he's got to take the poison out of your heart.
23:42 One of the greatest preachers in the history
23:44 of the United States of America
23:46 was Dwight Moody.
23:48 He preached great deal in the city of Chicago.
23:52 He came from Chicago.
23:54 Moody told a tremendous story.
23:58 He told about a farmer who had a well,
24:02 and they discovered that the well had got poisoned.
24:05 We've done this graphic here, so you can see the well,
24:10 but down at the bottom is full of poison.
24:16 Poison in the well.
24:17 Moody tells about the farmer, he's got poison in the well.
24:22 You know what he did?
24:26 He went and white washed the pump.
24:30 He got a poison well and so what he does?
24:34 He white washes the pump.
24:38 That's what we're doing.
24:40 We've got poison in the well
24:43 and we're whitewashing the pump, I'm telling you.
24:47 Moody said, "It's no good to whitewash the pump,
24:51 you've got to get down in the well,
24:53 and it's got to be cleansed out.
24:57 You see, all these programs are here on television
25:01 from the politician, I sort of get tired,
25:04 I get sick to death of listening
25:06 to some of these politicians
25:08 because all they're telling me and telling America
25:11 is whitewash the pump.
25:15 You know, what we need to do?
25:17 Need to clean out the well.
25:21 Need to take the poison out, that's the solution.
25:28 What's the solution to a violent culture?
25:31 What's the solution to hate, and envy,
25:35 and resentment
25:37 and all of these negative emotions?
25:40 It's not another government program.
25:45 Jesus said, "You got to be born again."
25:48 When the Spirit of God comes inside a man,
25:52 God doesn't whitewash the pump, God changes the heart.
25:59 Today, we're talking about God and guns in America.
26:04 Why is this the most violent society?
26:07 We'll be back in a moment, please stay with us.
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