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00:02 I'm John Carter in Moscow.
00:04 In Havana, Cuba. 00:07 Now in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. 00:10 I'm John Carter in Petra. 00:13 Right here in Communist China. 00:16 Reporting from India. 00:18 Hi, I'm John Carter in the Solomon Islands. 00:21 I'm John Carter in Soweto. 00:24 From El Salvador. 00:26 I'm John Carter in Sydney, Australia. 00:29 John Carter informs us about 00:31 "The Jesuits and the True Gospel." 00:36 This is a continuation of the talk 00:38 on "The Jesuits and the True Gospel." 00:44 In the last segment, 00:45 we spoke about 00:47 how a person can be right with God. 00:51 How much in a goodness do I have to have? 00:55 Now the Jesuits would teach this, 00:57 now try to get this into your mind. 00:59 It's not easy. 01:01 The Jesuits teach that a person is saved by grace alone. 01:05 Is that good? 01:06 Yeah, by Christ alone, 01:08 by faith, 01:10 plus the works of love 01:13 wrought in the heart by the Holy Spirit. 01:17 And the Protestant reformers said, 01:19 "No, no, no." 01:21 They said, "Christ alone, scripture alone, 01:24 grace alone, and faith alone." 01:27 Because when you say, faith, 01:29 plus the works of love 01:32 wrought in the heart by the Holy Spirit, 01:35 you bring in a subjective element. 01:41 Let me explain this to you. 01:45 This is not easy, but all of a sudden, 01:47 you're going to see it, 01:48 and the light is going to become 01:50 very, very, very plain. 01:56 I've seen many people die. 01:59 And some people die 02:00 with great faith and great peace. 02:03 And some people die fearing the flame. 02:09 How do I know? I've seen it. 02:11 I've seen people dying in fear 02:14 because some of those people are afraid of going into hell, 02:19 or going into purgatory. 02:23 And so if you believe the idea of the Jesuit, 02:27 as taught at the Council of Trent, 02:29 "Saved by Christ through grace 02:32 by faith plus the works of love wrought in the heart." 02:35 They're saying, 02:37 "But I don't have enough goodness." 02:39 Now, I'm going to go into purgatory 02:42 for millions and millions of years, 02:44 and I'm going to be, I'm going to be screaming. 02:49 So Martin Luther came along and he said, 02:51 "No, no, no, Christ alone, scripture alone, 02:54 grace alone, faith alone." 02:57 Because once I truly believe in Christ, 03:01 His righteousness covers my sins. 03:08 And there's no need of purgatory. 03:11 And I'm right with God right now. 03:14 Let me tell you a story. 03:18 A person whom I have always admired 03:22 was Mother Teresa. 03:25 Mother Teresa was trained in Jesuit theology. 03:29 Did you know this? 03:31 Trained in Jesuit theology. 03:32 She was taught, you know, grace alone, plus faith, 03:37 plus the works of love 03:39 wrought in the heart by the Holy Spirit. 03:41 Mother Teresa after she died, 03:45 they found her letters. 03:48 Don't misunderstand me, 03:49 I think she was a great lady with a heart for people. 03:52 But she says, 03:54 she could never see the face of a God of love. 03:58 And she never had a moments of peace 04:00 in all her life. 04:02 And she was filled with so much dread 04:05 that she thought on numerous occasions 04:07 of becoming an atheist. 04:12 Never good enough. 04:15 Maybe one day, I'm going to make it like some of you, 04:18 but never good enough. 04:20 Look at Galatians again. 04:21 Galatians 2:20-21. 04:25 Look at this again, 04:27 and let these words sink down into the mind. 04:30 "I have been crucified with Christ," when? 04:33 "On the cross." 04:35 Later on, I must crucify myself in my sins, by God's grace, 04:40 but we're not talking about that. 04:42 "I have been crucified with Christ. 04:44 It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. 04:48 And the life which I now live in the flesh 04:50 I live by faith in the Son of God, 04:52 who loved me and gave Himself for me. 04:55 I do not set aside the grace of God, 04:58 for if righteousness comes through the law, 05:01 then Christ died in vain." 05:08 If I can be saved by my attainment 05:12 even with the help of the Holy Spirit, 05:15 Christ has died in vain. 05:19 I am not saved by attainment. 05:23 I am not saved by my attainment. 05:26 I am saved, listen, 05:27 by His atonement, not my attainment, 05:32 His atonement. 05:35 There was a Negro spiritual, beautiful, it said, 05:38 "Were you there when they crucified my Lord?" 05:44 And the answer is, 05:46 "Yes, I was there. 05:49 When He hung on the cross, 05:52 I was there legally in Him." 05:55 And that is why if I died 05:58 when Christ died for my sins, 06:03 the law cannot condemn a dead man. 06:06 Have you ever thought about this? 06:08 The law can only condemn living people. 06:11 You say but I know I didn't die. 06:15 Come over here. 06:17 Would you please to 2 Corinthians 5:14. 06:21 And quite likely, you've never read this text, 06:24 2 Corinthians 5:14. 06:30 Here it is. 06:31 This is amazing. 06:33 Now think about this, please. 06:36 "For the love of Christ compels us, 06:38 because we judge thus," 06:40 listen to this. 06:42 What does it say? 06:43 "That if One died for all," 06:45 what does it say? 06:47 Now, what does it say? 06:49 It says, if one died for all, 06:51 then all died legally when Christ died, 06:55 bearing the wrath of God, 06:57 I died on the cross. 07:03 And therefore, if I died on the cross... 07:09 the law cannot condemn me. 07:11 There's no condemnation. 07:14 Christ on the cross legally 07:17 bore my sin and tasted God's wrath. 07:20 If you don't understand God's wrath, 07:22 you can never understand the Gospel of God. 07:26 And that is why the moral influence theory 07:29 is a travesty. 07:31 And it is an abominable doctrine, 07:35 not believed by any mainstream church. 07:38 My church does not believe it. 07:40 Look at Galatians 3:11-13. 07:43 Galatians 3:11, 07:45 "But that no one is justified by the law 07:48 in the sight of God is evident, 07:49 for 'the just shall live by faith.' 07:51 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, 07:55 having become a curse for us, for it is written, 07:59 'Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.' " 08:03 People say, "That's a terrible text." 08:07 It says cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree 08:11 and it is talking about Christ 08:14 bearing the sin of the human race. 08:17 God is a righteous God. 08:20 God loves the sinner, 08:22 but God hates the sin. 08:26 Can you understand this? 08:27 God is not an old funny benevolent grandfather. 08:31 One man said to me, 08:33 "Oh, my God is a big teddy bear." 08:37 How superficial can you get? 08:41 God is a God of wrath. 08:43 And on the cross God takes his own medicine. 08:48 Because God react against sin, 08:52 the sinner must be punished 08:55 to the last drop of blood. 08:58 And so God doesn't send an angel. 09:01 God comes in the person of His own Son. 09:05 Hallelujah. 09:06 Hanging on the cross 09:08 was Yahweh Elohim in human form, 09:12 what's wrong with us? 09:15 Why are we so superficial? 09:17 We are so superficial 09:19 because we can no longer read scripture. 09:24 But hanging on the cross 09:26 was Yahweh Elohim and the wrath of God 09:30 was directed against Christ. 09:36 Why do you think He cried out, My God, My God? 09:39 Jesus did not die 09:41 as a joyful Christian. 09:45 Yes, He did. 09:47 No, no, no, 09:48 Jesus did not die 09:52 as a joyful Christian. 09:54 He died under the curse of the law. 09:57 Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. 10:00 When he hung on the tree, 10:02 the wrath of God was directed against His Son. 10:08 That's why He cried out, "My God, 10:10 My God. 10:13 Why have You forsaken me?" 10:15 Come now to Romans 3:25. 10:18 Romans 3, 10:19 the greatest book in the Bible 10:20 on this subject is the Book of Romans. 10:22 Tyndale, the English reformer called it 10:25 "Good glad and merry tidings 10:26 that makes a man's heart to sing for joy 10:28 and his feet to dance." 10:30 Romans 3:25, 10:33 now this is a difficult text. 10:35 This is the high point of scripture. 10:38 Some would say 10:39 this is the most important part of the Bible. 10:42 It is difficult. 10:43 And because most of us are very superficial, 10:47 we don't read it. 10:48 But look at it now. 10:50 Romans Chapter 3, 10:51 my dear friends, verse 25, 10:53 "Whom God set forth as a propitiation," 10:58 because God is wrath, 11:00 "by his blood, through faith, 11:04 to demonstrate His righteousness." 11:05 God has to be righteous. 11:07 God just can't say, oh, that's okay. 11:09 That's okay. 11:12 "To demonstrate His righteousness, 11:13 because in His forbearance 11:15 God had passed over the sins 11:17 that were previously committed." 11:22 And so we have this saying, 11:27 she took her own medicine. 11:30 God took His own medicine. 11:33 He bore my sin, 11:35 He was punished in my place. 11:36 That's why he cried out, 11:38 My God, My God. 11:41 Go back to the last presentation, 11:43 when I spoke about Robert Carter, 11:46 when he let all the slaves go free. 11:49 He said, "You are free." 11:51 When Christ hung on the cross, 11:56 cursed for us, curseth. 11:59 Cursed is everyone that hangs on a tree. 12:02 He shouted out all across creation. 12:05 Let freedom ring. 12:07 Let freedom ring that the slaves go. 12:12 The problem is, 12:13 most people don't believe it. 12:15 And that's why they still act as slaves. 12:20 They have the slave mentality. 12:23 Now we're going to read again, 12:25 Romans 3, 12:27 the most difficult and the most important text 12:29 in the Bible, Romans 3:23-25. 12:33 And read it sometime 12:35 in a easy to understand translation. 12:39 Romans 3, 12:40 "For all have sinned," past tense, 12:42 "and fall short of the glory of God," 12:44 that's now, "being justified," 12:47 declared righteous, 12:49 "freely by his grace through the redemption 12:52 that is in Christ Jesus, 12:54 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, 12:59 through faith, 13:01 to demonstrate His righteousness," 13:02 God has to be righteous, 13:04 "because in His forbearance 13:06 God had passed over the sins 13:08 that were previously committed." 13:13 Now, this is not a throwaway text. 13:18 Now, I'm going to put up some big words on the screen 13:22 and say a few words about the big words. 13:27 Sin. 13:31 Sin is breaking the law of God. 13:34 It is anything that fall short of the glory of God. 13:38 It is lack of faith and lack of love. 13:41 Jesus said, "Love your neighbor as yourself. 13:44 If you don't do that, 13:46 you're guilty of sin." 13:49 So who is ready for the judgment 13:51 on the basis of works? 13:55 Nobody I would think. 13:57 Justified. 13:58 Justified does not mean ever in scripture, 14:02 to make righteous. 14:05 So the Church of Rome has justification as a process. 14:10 And as you go along, 14:12 you're justified a little bit more, 14:15 and then you go into purgatory, 14:17 and at the end of purgatory, 14:19 you're totally justified 14:21 because only sinless people go to heaven. 14:26 The Jesuits, great scholars, 14:29 a total perfectionists 14:33 like some people I know. 14:38 Where do they get it from? 14:40 Well, I don't know. 14:42 But the Jesuits say amen to them. 14:45 Justified, 14:46 declared righteous not made righteous. 14:48 Grace, the mercy of God. 14:52 I don't deserve it. 14:55 When I get home to glory, it'll be by grace, 14:59 it won't because I am a perfect person 15:04 but because Christ died for me. 15:06 So you see, I am saved by works. 15:10 I am saved by works. 15:12 But they're not mine. 15:14 They're His. 15:15 You see. 15:17 Grace, redemption. 15:19 Robert Carter last week, the descendant of John Carter. 15:22 He said, "You're all redeemed. 15:24 You can all go home. 15:26 You're all free." 15:27 That's what Christ said on the cross. 15:29 I have paid for you. 15:31 Propitiation. 15:33 Very difficult word. 15:35 But the best scholarship says, it means something like this. 15:39 God has wrath against sin, 15:42 not against the person, 15:44 but against sin. 15:46 And therefore, 15:47 there is a price to be paid 15:52 to propitiate the wrath of God. 15:55 And this is through the atonement, 15:58 which is by blood, 16:01 Christ blood that we accept by faith 16:05 and it says it's to show God's righteousness. 16:08 What does this mean, 16:10 to show God's righteousness? 16:15 You got to think about this 16:16 because most of us are so superficial. 16:19 God is righteousness. 16:23 God is righteous. 16:26 God is totally righteous. 16:28 God, you know, what God demands of us. 16:34 Total perfection. 16:37 From the moment I'm conceived until the moment I die, 16:40 perfect righteousness, 16:43 perfect love, perfect obedience, 16:47 perfect faith 16:49 because God is righteous. 16:53 God demands of you and me a state of 100% perfection. 17:05 But we don't have it, 17:08 we're sinners. 17:10 And some of us are so sinful, 17:12 we don't know how sinful we are. 17:15 Some of us are so deluded 17:18 that we think we're good. 17:22 But you know what happens? 17:23 God says, I demand complete perfection, 17:26 because I'm righteous. 17:28 Here is My Son. 17:34 And He is my substitute. 17:37 He comes and stands in my place. 17:40 He dies my death, 17:44 to give me as a gift. 17:47 He's 100% perfect righteousness. 17:51 And so someone comes into the studio today, 17:54 and he is a sinner like all of us, 17:58 but he's never known it before. 18:00 And most likely he is a religious sinner. 18:03 That is the very worst type. 18:05 Because I'm not joking, 18:07 know what religious sinner is a pain 18:09 to be around 18:11 because he is so self righteous. 18:14 It stinks. 18:16 It does. 18:18 He's always criticizing people, always putting people down. 18:21 Only way he can go up, 18:23 is by putting somebody else down. 18:25 Have you met people like that? 18:27 Yeah. Yeah, of course you have. 18:31 Well, this person comes in here 18:32 and today he sees himself as a sinner. 18:36 And he cries out for mercy. 18:40 And God immediately gives him mercy 18:43 and shows him grace, 18:45 as the person is a penitent. 18:46 He's saying, "Lord, I'm sorry." 18:48 I've been such a pain all my life, 18:51 such a rotten husband, such a rotten father, 18:53 such a terrible church elder. 18:59 And God says, 19:00 not because of your penitence, 19:02 but because of My Son, 19:05 I declare 19:06 that you are as righteous as Jesus. 19:10 Amen. 19:14 It's a declaration. 19:17 It's a declaration, 19:20 and it happens in a moment. 19:27 The Jesuits and the purpose of Jesuit 19:30 came into existence 19:32 to destroy Protestantism and democracy. 19:35 And they came up with the counterfeit theology. 19:38 Remember Mother Teresa? 19:40 After her death, 19:41 they found her letters written to her confessor. 19:44 Her letters full of fear, 19:47 depression, purgatory, 19:49 no assurance. 19:50 She said, "I've never seen the face of a loving God 19:53 for one moment in my life." 19:56 Like some people I know. 20:00 But justify means to declare righteous. 20:04 She never got it, but you can. 20:06 Romans 4:3-7. 20:08 Look at this. 20:10 Romans Chapter 4. 20:12 "What does the Scripture say? 20:14 'Abraham believed God, 20:15 it was accounted to him for righteousness.' 20:19 But to him who does not work for salvation, 20:22 but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly," 20:25 you want to be justified, 20:27 or recognize you're ungodly. 20:29 Oh, 20:30 "his faith is accounted for righteousness, 20:34 just as David also describes the blessedness of the man 20:37 to whom God imputes righteousness 20:39 apart from works. 20:41 'Blessed are those 20:42 whose lawless deeds are forgiven, 20:44 and whose sins are covered.'" 20:46 It is an accounting. 20:49 God gives it to you, 20:51 and you don't have it. 20:54 Today, many Roman Catholic scholars 20:56 have accepted Martin Luther's gospel, 21:01 that God justifies the ungodly. 21:04 It doesn't say that God justifies the righteous, 21:08 but the ungodly. 21:09 And if you think you're a really good person, 21:13 this is not for you. 21:17 It's for the person who knows he's ungodly. 21:22 He's such a person easy to live with? 21:24 Here he is. 21:26 He's not trying to put you down, 21:28 because he knows he's ungodly. 21:31 So there's hope for all, the dying thief was ungodly. 21:34 Mary Magdalene was ungodly. 21:36 Peter was ungodly. 21:38 Paul was ungodly. 21:39 The colonel I baptized in Kiev, who was the teacher of atheism, 21:42 he was ungodly. 21:44 Sergei the mafia man in Nizhny Novgorod, 21:46 he was ungodly. 21:48 You and me are the ungodly. 21:52 There's no place for pride and arrogance. 21:55 Right with God right now free, forgiven, justified. 22:03 And it's a gift that transforms. 22:06 It's a transforming gift. 22:08 Well, I've got to tell you this 22:10 or if somebody's gonna go ahead and say, 22:11 oh, all that's cheap grace, can't believe that. 22:14 Can't believe the good news. 22:15 I want to be miserable for the rest of my life. 22:18 Look at Roman 6:14-16. 22:21 Romans 6:14, 22:24 "The sin shall not have dominion over you, 22:28 for you are not under law but under grace. 22:32 What then? 22:33 Shall we sin because we are not under law 22:35 but under grace? 22:36 Certainly not! 22:37 Do you not know that 22:39 to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, 22:42 you are that one's slaves 22:44 whom you obey, 22:45 whether of sin leading to death, 22:47 or of obedience 22:49 leading to righteousness?" 22:53 When you come to Christ, 22:55 He changes you. 22:58 Listen, you don't need 23:01 to be good to be saved, 23:04 but you do need to be saved to be good. 23:09 We come like the lepers just as I am. 23:12 But we don't stay just as I am. 23:16 Imagine the lepers 23:18 that came in Jesus day ever seen leprosy? 23:20 I have. 23:22 Filthy, rotting, decaying, smelling, stinking, dying. 23:28 That's the sinner outside of Christ, 23:31 the self righteous Pharisee, stinks to God. 23:36 But it comes to Christ. 23:39 He touches Christ and he saved by grace through faith. 23:42 Think of a man 23:44 who came in the days of Jesus. 23:48 We say he's John. 23:49 He's married to Mary. 23:51 This is a leprosarium over in Louisiana years ago, 23:56 leprosy in America. 23:58 So this man, he is covered in leprosy, 24:02 one of my great stories. 24:05 And he finds his way to Christ. 24:08 And he puts out his hands, 24:10 and he's stinking, he's filthy, 24:12 and Christ touches him. 24:15 And when Christ touches him, 24:18 he's a new person. 24:20 Imagine what his wife says. 24:23 You're new person. 24:25 You went away stinking and filthy. 24:28 Listen. 24:32 I come just as I am. 24:37 But I don't stay just as I am. 24:41 Otherwise, it's cheap grace. 24:44 Transformed by grace divine. 24:48 Not the root but the fruit. 24:50 I love Wesley. 24:53 "He left his Father's throne above, so free, 24:56 so infinite His grace. 24:58 Emptied Himself of all about love, 25:00 and bled for Adam's helpless race, 25:03 'Tis mercy all, immense and free. 25:05 For, O my God, it found out me. 25:08 'Tis mercy all, immense and free. 25:10 For, O my God, it found out me. 25:13 Long my imprisoned spirit lay fast bound in sin 25:19 and nature's night. 25:20 Thine eye diffused a quickening ray, 25:23 I woke, 25:24 the dungeon flamed with light. 25:27 My chains fell off, 25:30 my heart was free, 25:32 I rose, went forth, and followed Thee. 25:37 My chains fell off, my heart was free, 25:40 I rose, went forth and followed Thee. 25:44 No condemnation now I dread Jesus, 25:48 and all in Him, is mine. 25:50 Alive in Him, my living Head, 25:53 and clothed in righteousness Divine. 25:57 Bold I approach the eternal throne, 26:01 and claim the crown, through Christ my own. 26:05 Bold I approach the eternal throne, 26:09 and claim the crown, through Christ my own." 26:14 Little wonder. 26:15 He said, amazing love... 26:22 how can it be? 26:28 There's only one thing 26:29 that really counts in this lifetime, 26:32 your relationship to Christ. 26:34 And then if you have a right relationship 26:36 with Christ, 26:38 you want to tell people about Christ. 26:41 That's why Jesus said, 26:42 "Go into all the world 26:44 and preach the gospel to every creature." 26:47 By the grace of God, we're going to do that, 26:50 we are doing that. 26:52 That is why we're going back to Cuba, 26:55 to this communist land, 26:57 to preach Christ. 26:59 We're accepting an invitation to go to the vast, 27:03 huge city of Manila, the capital of the Philippines. 27:07 Been there before, but by the grace of God, 27:11 we're going back. 27:13 Please support us. 27:14 And please stand with us 27:17 in the preaching of the everlasting gospel. 27:20 You say, "How do you do it? 27:21 Who pays the bills?" 27:23 We do. 27:24 "Do you get any help, 27:25 financial help from the church?" 27:27 No, my friend, we don't. 27:29 But we get a lot of help from God 27:32 and from His children. 27:33 Please support us 27:35 in the preaching of the everlasting gospel. 27:38 It's the most important work in all the world. 27:41 Everything else is almost trivia. 27:44 So would you please write to me? 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