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Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001846A
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00:01 Thousands of innocent people
00:02 are shot to death in America every year. 00:06 Is the gun to blame? 00:07 And is the solution more governmental legislation 00:10 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? 00:18 What causes our culture of violence? 00:22 Find out on the Carter Report. 00:28 Welcome back. 00:29 We're talking about "Guns in America, 00:33 God and Guns in America." 00:38 It's a fact, this is in the western world, 00:41 in the so called enlightened world, 00:45 the most violent culture. 00:50 Mass killings has become... 00:52 Mass killings have become almost the norm 00:56 rather than the exception. 00:58 And the reason we're trying to explore, 01:01 why, what's the reason? 01:04 Now there's a text in the Old Testament 01:06 that gives me a clue. 01:07 A few moments ago, we talked about 01:09 the necessity of man being changed within. 01:13 My contention today is it's not so much the gun, 01:17 it's the violent culture that we have created. 01:20 Now, some of you will disagree with this, 01:23 but I want you to bear with me. 01:24 I want you to come over here to the Old Testament 01:26 to the Book of Daniel 4:33 and 34. 01:33 It talks about a man by the name of Nebuchadnezzar, 01:36 who was the great potentate 01:38 of the mighty kingdom of the Babylonians. 01:41 "That very hour the word was fulfilled 01:44 concerning Nebuchadnezzar." 01:46 He's the mighty king. 01:49 "He was driven from men and ate grass like oxen; 01:52 his body was wet with the dew of heaven 01:55 till his hair had grown like eagles' feathers, 01:59 his nails like birds' claws." 02:01 He went mad. 02:04 "And at the end of the time, 02:05 I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, 02:08 and my understanding returned to me, 02:12 and I blessed the Most High 02:13 and praised and honored Him who lives forever, 02:18 for His dominion is an everlasting dominion, 02:21 and His kingdom is from generation 02:23 to generation." 02:24 It's an historical fact 02:27 that this man Nebuchadnezzar went crazy. 02:33 He was crazy for seven years. 02:37 And in the Bible, Nebuchadnezzar, 02:39 when he's crazy, 02:42 he's symbolic of the kingdoms of this world. 02:46 Did you know this? 02:47 He represents the kingdoms of this world who go crazy. 02:55 Now, there's a lot of craziness today in the world 02:57 and a lot of craziness in America. 03:00 And the Bible says, 03:02 "His sanity was restored when he turned to God." 03:06 He turned to God. 03:11 And I'm suggesting today 03:13 that the solution to the problem, 03:16 the real solution 03:19 is when we get our sanity back 03:22 and we turn to God. 03:25 I was running a series of meetings in Australia. 03:28 And young man, he seemed young in those days. 03:33 He must have been about 30 years of age. 03:35 I thought, he was very young man. 03:37 He came to the meetings. 03:39 He had a name in town for being just a ruffian, 03:45 used to beat up his wife, always drunk, 03:49 beating up people. 03:51 Everybody had given up on Ray, including his wife, except God. 03:57 And he came to the meetings and he gave his life to Christ. 04:01 This is absolutely true story. 04:03 People said, "What's happened to Ray?" 04:07 We talked about cleaning out the well 04:09 in the last segment of the program. 04:12 God didn't paint the pump, didn't whitewash it, 04:15 God changed his heart. 04:17 Now, my friend, when God gets inside a person, 04:22 God takes out the poison. 04:25 I'm suggesting today this. 04:28 Something has gone terribly wrong 04:31 in the heart of America, 04:34 and we need to address a real problem. 04:39 No more of pontificating, no more political solutions. 04:45 Our problem is spiritual. 04:47 We need to clean out the well and stop whitewashing the pump. 04:52 And if you miss the first segment, 04:54 you need to see it. 04:56 Most Americans, including me, 04:59 think that we are on the wrong track. 05:03 And most Americans are coming to the opinion 05:06 that I formed, many years ago, 05:08 that our solution is not to be found in politics. 05:12 We need more than political speeches. 05:16 Would you please notice these deciding factors, 05:19 these factors that are deciding our destiny? 05:26 America has had great spiritual opportunities, 05:32 great opportunities to walk in the light. 05:35 I listen to the liberals on television, 05:39 and they seem to be putting down 05:40 America's heritage all the time, 05:45 and telling the people lies. 05:51 Have you heard of this man, William Bradford? 05:54 He was one of the first governors. 05:56 He says, said this, 05:58 "They left that goodly and pleasant city 06:00 which had been their resting place 06:02 near 12 years, 06:03 but they knew that they were pilgrims 06:05 and looked not much on those things, 06:07 but lift up their eyes to heavens, 06:10 their dearest country, and quieted their spirits." 06:16 The people who founded America were a worshiping people, 06:22 a Bible reading people, a Christ loving people, 06:27 a law-abiding people. 06:29 1774, 06:33 the first act of America's first Congress. 06:37 In 1774, what was it, 06:41 it was to ask minister to open with prayer 06:44 and to lead Congress 06:45 in the reading of four chapters of the Bible. 06:48 And the liberals tell me, "No, these people back there, 06:50 all atheists, all socialists." 06:53 Oh, that's a lie. 06:57 Washington said these words. 06:59 "It is impossible to rightly govern a nation 07:03 without God and the Bible." 07:07 This is what Washington said, 07:08 he said, "You can't govern America 07:11 without God and the Bible." 07:13 Now I put it to you. 07:15 If you get rid of God, 07:16 and if you get rid of the Bible, 07:18 you're going to have anarchy, 07:20 and you're going to have lawlessness, crime. 07:27 And that's what we seem to be doing. 07:31 In 1787, Benjamin Franklin... 07:35 I've heard people on television 07:37 tell me that Franklin was an atheist. 07:41 They say this idea about America 07:43 having this great heritage of Christianity, 07:45 and all the rest are, "All lies." 07:47 No, they're the liars. They're the liars. 07:51 1787, Benjamin Franklin declared, 07:56 "God governs in the affairs of men. 07:59 And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground 08:01 without his notice," 08:02 they are the words of Jesus, 08:05 "is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? 08:11 Without His concurring aid, 08:13 we shall succeed in this political building 08:19 no better than the builders of Babel." 08:22 So kick God out of the schools and the government. 08:27 Benjamin Franklin said, 08:29 "We're going to have the tower of Babel." 08:33 And that's what's happening in America. 08:37 Now, I'm aware that 08:39 other countries have had great spiritual opportunities, 08:42 especially Great Britain, 08:44 Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany. 08:49 These are the countries 08:51 that had the great Protestant Reformation. 08:53 But no country has had more opportunities 08:58 to walk in the light, 08:59 no country more than America. 09:03 And some say 09:05 that God shed His grace upon America 09:09 because she was raised up 09:10 to defend the truths of the Bible. 09:16 You can't say that about Russia or China. 09:20 God shed His grace on thee. 09:22 America has had great light. 09:26 But many today in this God blessed nation 09:29 are rejecting the God of our fathers 09:33 and embracing a culture that is pagan to the core. 09:40 And remember the text we had at the start of this program. 09:44 Whatever a man sows that shall he also reap. 09:48 There's a great ignorance 09:49 of our Bible based American heritage. 09:54 We are not just another nation. 09:56 I believe, with all my soul, 10:03 in the belief of American exceptionalism. 10:07 I do not believe that we were raised up 10:10 to be just another nation. 10:13 I believe that we were raised up 10:16 to be a shining city on a hill. 10:19 I believe that. 10:22 I want you to think for a bit 10:24 of the influence of secular education. 10:30 Secular education where God is left out, 10:34 and where macro evolution is taught, 10:39 that we have come from the swamps, 10:42 and that man is the product, 10:45 notice it, of time plus matter plus chance. 10:50 It's taught in every secular university. 10:53 We are simply 10:57 a cosmic accident. 11:01 Man is simply the blind product 11:05 of random choices. 11:09 There's no eternal mind. There is no God. 11:17 This is called neo-Darwinism. 11:22 The Bible is a myth, and there's no personal God. 11:26 And the Bible is garbage. 11:30 The most influential philosopher 11:32 who shapes the minds 11:34 of millions of American young people and Christians 11:39 are oblivious to this. 11:43 But the philosopher who has the greatest influence 11:46 over the minds of millions of American young people 11:50 is Frederick Nietzsche. 11:53 Ever heard of him? 11:55 You should know about him. 11:57 He's the person who is training your young people today. 12:02 He said this, 12:03 "Christianity is called the religion of pity. 12:07 Pity stands opposed to the tonic emotions 12:10 which heighten our vitality. 12:12 It has a depressing effect. 12:15 We are deprived of strength when we feel pity. 12:19 That loss of strength 12:21 which suffering as such inflicts on life 12:23 is still further increased and multiplied by pity. 12:28 Pity makes suffering contagious." 12:31 Does nobody realize today in America 12:35 that Nietzsche was the philosopher 12:38 who paved the way for Hitler 12:42 and the Nazis? 12:45 People say, no way, I can't believe it. 12:47 This man, Hitler 12:48 slept with a copy of the antichrist 12:51 under his pillow. 12:54 God is dead. 12:58 And this is the stuff that is brainwashing 13:01 the minds of millions of young people today 13:05 around the world and in America. 13:09 It's the philosophy that might is right. 13:12 It is the religion of the tower of Babel. 13:16 It is the brainwashing of America's youth. 13:20 The death of hope 13:22 always leads to the hope for death. 13:25 And we need a restoration 13:27 of the face of the Pilgrim Fathers. 13:30 Unless you have that faith restored, 13:32 there is nothing ahead of us, 13:38 but hell and uncertainty. 13:42 During the World War II, 13:44 the young German soldiers 13:46 who went to the Russian front 13:53 suffered terrible traumas 13:55 to their minds and their bodies. 13:58 And they discovered this, 14:00 that the young German soldiers 14:02 that got minor wounds on the Russian front, 14:06 scratch, they recovered. 14:10 No, that's what you would think. 14:13 Those you got a scratch, they recover. No. 14:16 They died. 14:20 But the ones who got major wounds 14:22 on the Russian front, 14:23 they recovered 14:25 when those with the scratch died. 14:26 You know why? 14:29 Because if you got a major wound, 14:31 it meant you were going home. 14:35 "Hey, they're gonna put me on a plane. 14:37 I'm going to be back with mom and dad." 14:39 Those with major wounds lived, 14:42 those with scratches died, 14:46 because those with major wounds had hope. 14:50 And if you've got hope, you can face anything. 14:54 But if there's no God, 14:56 you have no rationale to have hope. 15:00 And the death of God leads to the death of hope. 15:09 And the death of hope leads to suicides. 15:13 Last year, suicides were the highest 15:15 in American history for at least 50 years. 15:19 They say, "We have a booming and a marvelous economy," 15:23 and people are taking their lives. 15:26 And now young men are walking into places 15:29 such as in Thousand Oaks, 15:30 and they're killing people, why? 15:40 I want you to look at this text, 15:41 Jeremiah 29:11. 15:43 Jeremiah 29:11, 15:45 "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, 15:47 says the Lord, 15:48 thoughts of peace and not of evil, 15:50 to give you a future and a hope." 15:52 What I'm proclaiming here today is this. 15:55 Look at me. Let me tell you. 15:57 If this Word is true, 16:00 then there is a God who loves us, 16:03 and a Christ who died on the cross 16:06 to save us, 16:07 and there is a heaven, and there is life after death. 16:13 And if you have that, then you have in your soul, 16:18 a reason to live. 16:23 Our liberal culture 16:24 and the rejection of traditional American values, 16:27 let me comment on it. 16:29 Not everything that comes from Hollywood and the media 16:32 is bad, 16:34 just most of it. 16:36 Now there's an excellent program 16:37 that was put out by American media, 16:40 I believe it's called Blue Bloods. 16:43 It's about the police commissioner 16:44 in New York City 16:46 and his marvelous Roman Catholic family. 16:49 And you see them on Sunday nights, 16:51 eating together and saying grace, 16:53 and they go to church. 16:56 And they're old fashioned Americans. 16:59 So not everything that Hollywood does is bad, 17:02 but America is drowning in a sea of violence, 17:07 sex, and greed. 17:10 That's our religion now. 17:15 If you're not too easily offended, 17:16 you should go and see the movie, 17:18 The Wolf of Wall Street. 17:21 It talks about raw American capitalism, 17:26 greed, greed, greed, 17:28 and you grind the person down into the ground. 17:31 And the more you can take off people, 17:33 the better. 17:36 That, of course, is the religion of Nietzsche. 17:40 That's the religion of the antichrist. 17:42 Now, don't laugh. 17:44 Remember, Little House on the Prairie? 17:49 The Huxtable with Bill Cosby, 17:53 whatever he has done or had done 17:55 does not obliterate the fact 17:57 that his show was a good show on American values. 18:01 Leave it to Beaver, 18:03 now the liberals are falling off their seats. 18:06 It's a Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart. 18:10 Who would believe that garbage? 18:14 So what have we got in its place? 18:16 Killing, murder, filthy language. 18:20 If you look at many modern movies, 18:22 they're full of filthy language, 18:25 especially the F word. 18:27 You know why? 18:28 Because their acting ability is so low 18:32 that they've got to shock you with something artificial. 18:36 They've got to have so many special effects, 18:38 millions and billions they spend on special effects, 18:42 because they can no longer act. 18:44 They can only swear. 18:48 Religion of Babel. 18:50 Now liberals mock. 18:53 But the old, strong, decent, God-fearing America 18:56 was the best place in the world, 18:59 a better place. 19:00 Time will not allow me to speak about the war in the Bible. 19:04 When I was growing up in Australia, 19:06 I was brought up in a culture that believed the Bible. 19:12 I remember, as a little boy, 19:13 going with my family to the Pound Family. 19:17 They had about ten children, 19:19 they sat around the big kitchen table. 19:21 Old Mr. Pound, he was on that old... 19:24 He sat up at the end of the table 19:27 and he read from the Holy Scriptures, 19:29 and they prayed together. 19:32 You think they were going out and shooting up people? 19:35 Did they have guns? Actually, they did. 19:38 Yes, they did. 19:40 Then we have the war on the Sabbath. 19:43 Look at Isaiah 58:13 and 14. 19:46 "If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, 19:48 from doing your pleasure on My holy day, 19:51 and call the Sabbath a delight, 19:53 the holy day of the Lord honorable, 19:55 and shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, 19:57 not finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words, 20:01 then you shall delight yourself in the Lord, 20:04 and I will cause you to ride on the high heels of the earth, 20:07 and feed you with a heritage of Jacob your father. 20:10 The mouth of the Lord has spoken." 20:15 The Sabbath, 20:17 what will I say about the Sabbath 20:19 as far as guns is concerned? 20:23 Karl Barth, 20:25 the greatest theologian of the 20th century 20:28 and the great enemy of Hitler loved these words. 20:33 You'll find this in his writings, 20:35 "When the holy day becomes the day of man, 20:38 society and humanity wither away 20:41 and the demons rule." 20:45 Hey, what's wrong with us? 20:48 Why can't we get smart? 20:50 You give up the Bible, you give up God, 20:52 and you give up the Sabbath. 20:56 And he said, "The demons rule." 20:58 They're ruling today in America. 21:01 We need to return to the Bible 21:03 and worshipping together on the Lord's Day. 21:06 We need to go to church. 21:09 People say it's boring. 21:12 Well, just sit there and read your Bible. 21:15 But you give up going to church 21:18 as a family day at your own peril. 21:22 Then we have the war on Christian marriage, 21:24 Jewish marriage, Muslim marriage, 21:28 one man and one woman. 21:31 Boy, that's a strange concept. 21:33 Matthew 19:4 and 5, 21:36 "He answered and said to them, 21:38 'Have you not read 21:39 that he who made them at the beginning 21:41 made them male and female,' 21:43 and said, 'For this reason, 21:45 a man shall leave his father and mother, 21:47 and be joined to his wife, 21:49 and the two shall become one flesh.'" 21:51 People say that, "I don't believe that." 21:53 Well, you can argue. 21:55 You're just arguing with Jesus. 21:58 The bedrock of society, mums and dads. 22:04 You have security, love, discipline, and happiness. 22:07 This one segment of American society 22:11 where more than 70 percent of the mothers are single, 22:17 and much more in the inner cities, 22:20 and the kids are killing each other. 22:24 When will we wake up to ourselves? 22:26 Where are the fathers? 22:29 They've skipped town, deadbeats, 22:34 they leave their children in poverty and insecurity. 22:37 And the gangs become their new families. 22:40 And thousands of young men are being killed every year. 22:47 Don Lemon of CNN said this, 22:50 "More than 72 percent of the children 22:54 in the African-American community 22:56 are born out of wedlock. 22:58 That means absent fathers." 23:00 And Don Lemon is an African-American, 23:06 but he's a courageous one. 23:07 I guess they'll call him a racist 23:11 because he's saying, 23:13 "We need to have mums and dads." 23:17 I don't care whether it's the black family, 23:20 or the white family, or the brown family, 23:23 or the yellow family, 23:26 we need moms and dads. 23:29 Why are we afraid of the truth? 23:32 Why do we cry racism? 23:35 And it's just the truth. 23:37 It's not racism, it's human nature. 23:40 We're all the same inside, 23:42 whether we're black or we're white. 23:44 The solution is this. 23:47 We recognize that we've been selling to the wind, 23:51 we wake up to ourselves 23:53 that we return to the values that made America great, 23:57 God, Christ, Church, 24:01 the Sabbath, the Bible, and marriage. 24:06 It's not getting rid of guns, 24:08 but getting rid of hate, anger, revenge, resentment. 24:12 That's why Jesus said, "You've got to be born again." 24:16 That's the solution. 24:18 Look at Ezekiel 36:25 and 26, 24:21 "Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, 24:24 and you shall be clean. 24:26 I will cleanse you from all your filthiness 24:28 and from all your idols. 24:30 I will give you a new heart 24:33 and put a new spirit within you. 24:35 I will take away the hardest stone 24:37 out of your flesh 24:39 and give you a heart of flesh." 24:42 That's the solution. 24:44 You know what it is? 24:48 God can change us, and God can renew us. 24:54 I've seen God do it in Russia. 24:55 I've seen Him do it with the leaders of the mafia. 24:59 This man standing here had an army of 400, 25:05 used to go around, shooting people. 25:10 And he came to Christ. 25:15 Christ didn't whitewash the pump, 25:19 He gave him a new heart. 25:22 So what's the solution to the violence in America? 25:27 More regulations from the government, 25:30 more speeches from the politicians, 25:34 more lectures? 25:37 No. 25:39 What we need is to come to Jesus, 25:45 and be born again. 25:48 When we come to Jesus, 25:51 when we are born again, 25:54 we become different people. 25:58 So remember this, God loves you. 26:01 Christ can renew you. Find a good church. 26:05 There are some. 26:07 Read your Bible every day. 26:13 And love your neighbor as yourself. 26:18 Amen. 26:19 Amen and Amen. 26:26 There's only one thing 26:28 that really counts in this lifetime, 26:30 your relationship to Christ. 26:33 And then if you have a right relationship 26:35 with Christ, 26:37 you want to tell people about Christ. 26:40 That's why Jesus said, "Go into all the world, 26:42 and preach the gospel to every creature." 26:46 By the grace of God, we're going to do that, 26:49 we are doing that. 26:51 That is why we're going back to Cuba, 26:53 to this communist land, 26:55 to preach Christ. 26:58 We're accepting an invitation to go to the vast, 27:02 huge city of Manila, the capital of the Philippines, 27:06 been there before, 27:08 but by the grace of God, we're going back. 27:11 Please support us. 27:13 Please stand with us 27:16 in the preaching of the everlasting gospel. 27:18 You say, "How do you do it? 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