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Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001923A
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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 There's a battle going on. 00:31 And John Carter wants to stop the killings. 00:37 It seems we just don't know 00:40 where another killing is going to take place. 00:44 We've been overseas for three months. 00:47 We get back, 00:48 there's another terrible killing 00:51 on an El Paso, 00:53 22 people are brutally murdered, 00:56 senseless killing. 00:59 And then just a virtually few hours after that, 01:03 there was a killing in Dayton, Ohio. 01:07 One killing that received very little 01:09 coverage was the killing in Orange County. 01:14 Did you hear about this killing? 01:16 That wasn't done with a gun. 01:19 Done with a knife. 01:22 And a man murdered, stabbed to death four people. 01:27 Orange County. 01:29 It's down the road from us here. 01:30 We're just a few miles from Thousand Oaks. 01:33 That's where we've lived for many years. 01:36 And you will know the terrible killing, 01:38 the mass killing that happened in Thousand Oaks. 01:41 Among these young people 01:42 who just graduated from college. 01:48 This is a fact we don't like to talk about. 01:50 I don't like to think about it. 01:55 I'm grandfather. 01:57 I've got children. 01:59 They go to American schools obviously, in San Francisco, 02:03 I'm concerned for my grandchildren. 02:05 Did you know this? 02:07 Your chance of being shot to death 02:12 here in this great country 02:15 is 100 times more than 02:17 if you lived in Great Britain. 02:21 Did you know that? 02:23 A hundred times more, this, 02:24 we have become the most dangerous country, 02:28 not in the world, 02:32 but in the first world. 02:36 In the Western world, 02:37 we are the most dangerous country. 02:40 The topic is "Stop The Killings." 02:44 I guess that's very, very optimistic 02:46 to have a topic like this Stop The Killings. 02:53 I'm going to suggest to you today, 02:58 this is completely politically incorrect 03:01 what I'm going to say today. 03:04 I'm going to say that the solution is basically 03:08 very, very simple. 03:12 But the problem is, it's not very, very easy. 03:18 It's very, very difficult. 03:22 But if we were serious, 03:26 I believe we could stop the killings. 03:29 Well, at least we could stop a lot of the killings. 03:34 This is not a political talk 03:36 is going to be shown on secular stations across America 03:40 and satellite around the world down into Australia. 03:44 Other places too. 03:48 But I want to just to say to you up top, 03:50 this is not a political talk. 03:54 Personally, I've had it up to here, pardon my saying, 03:59 no, I've had it up to here, listening to the same old, 04:03 same old, same old on CNN and the other networks. 04:08 I've had it up to here, same old stuff. 04:15 I believe that 04:16 what we've been doing in America, 04:19 we've been putting a band-aid on a bleeding cancer. 04:28 Now you're not gonna hear this talk on CNN 04:31 and you won't even hear it on Fox News. 04:36 And so I lay it out to you, I open up my heart, 04:39 I'm not going to apologize to you. 04:42 I'm not running for office. 04:44 I don't have to please anybody except God. 04:50 And Beverley, it's my wife. 04:54 I want to start with a couple of texts in the Bible. 04:57 Wanna come to Matthew 3:7, 8, 10. 05:01 And it'll be good if you would return to the text, 05:04 It'll do you a lot of good. 05:06 Matthew 3:7, 05:08 "But when he saw 05:10 many of the Pharisees and Sadducees 05:12 coming to his baptism," this is John the Baptist. 05:15 "He said to them, 'Brood of vipers! 05:17 Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" 05:19 Hardly a politician, 05:21 he calls the religious leaders a bunch of vipers, 05:24 bunch of snakes. 05:26 And then if you come to verse 8, 05:30 "Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance." 05:33 And then if you come to verse 10, 05:38 "And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees." 05:43 Get that. 05:45 "Therefore every tree 05:46 which does not bear good fruit is cut down 05:48 and thrown into the fire." 05:50 John the Baptist said, 05:52 "The axe is going to be laid to the root of the trees." 05:57 We haven't had the courage to lay the axe 06:00 to the root of the trees. 06:03 We talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, 06:07 and policemen are dying. 06:10 Thousands of young people in America 06:13 shoot each other to death every year. 06:16 Nobody talks about it because you can't, 06:19 because we want band-aids. 06:22 The Bible says, "The ax is laid to the root of the tree." 06:25 Now come over to the Old Testament to Isaiah 06:28 48:18-19, 06:31 if you don't mind. 06:33 Isaiah 48:18-19. 06:35 And do something which is good for you. 06:39 Turn to the texts, look at them. 06:41 "Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! 06:44 Then your peace would have been like a river, 06:47 and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. 06:50 Your descendants also would have been like the sand, 06:54 and the offspring of your body like the grains of sand," 06:57 no shooting. 06:59 "His name would not have been cut off nor destroyed 07:01 from before Me." 07:03 The Bible says, "There is a relationship 07:06 between keeping the commandments of God 07:10 and peace." 07:11 And the biggest problem is this. 07:14 Now the ax is laid at the root of the tree, 07:16 America has got away from God and the commandments. 07:24 So the solution quite frankly is quite simple. 07:29 Very recent Time magazine had this as the cover. 07:33 Would you please look at this Time magazine, 07:38 253 mass shootings, 07:44 not in the last 50 years, 07:47 we're two-thirds of the way through the year. 07:52 Two hundred and fifty-three mass shootings Time says, 07:58 "Enough." 08:00 But, of course, it's just talk, isn't it? 08:03 It won't be enough. 08:06 Probably as I'm standing here, 08:08 there's going to be another mass shooting 08:09 somewhere in America. 08:14 This is a far cry 08:16 from the words of the song that we love. 08:18 O beautiful spacious skies, 08:23 for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties, 08:28 above the fruited plain! 08:30 America! America! 08:32 God shed His grace on thee, 08:34 and crown thy good with brotherhood 08:38 from sea to shining sea. 08:41 Oh, beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years, 08:47 thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears! 08:53 I guess the person hadn't gone to Baltimore for a while. 08:59 America! America! 09:02 God shed His grace on thee. 09:06 And crown thy good with brotherhood 09:09 from sea to shining sea. 09:12 And every patriot canon should say amen, you see. 09:20 Baltimore is one city. 09:25 Young people just killing themselves. 09:29 And then there are other cities beside Baltimore, 09:33 Detroit, goodness. 09:36 Chicago. 09:39 There's a hate fest every weekend, 09:41 young men are shot to death. 09:43 This doesn't happen in other countries. 09:46 Not at least in the First World. 09:49 It happens in America. 09:52 St. Louis, Washington DC, the capital, 09:56 New Orleans 09:58 and you can go on and on and on. 10:03 God shed His grace on thee. 10:06 I would suggest this to you. 10:09 We need more than money 10:11 and more than another social program. 10:15 Hey, let's get more money poured into this... 10:19 They've been doing that for the last 50 years 10:23 and more people are dying. 10:25 All of our programs that you read about, 10:28 that you hear from the politicians, 10:31 these programs are useless band-aids. 10:36 Oh, you need a band-aid on occasions, 10:39 but not to cover cancer. 10:43 What I'm going to say now, 10:44 you won't hear on CNN and you won't hear it anywhere, 10:47 I think except in some spiritual centers. 10:52 Billy Graham said it. 10:55 Here it is. 10:56 "In the Bible, 10:58 great national disasters 11:01 were always preceded by spiritual rebellion." 11:07 Always, always. 11:10 When Israel sinned, 11:12 God removed His hand of protection and allowed... 11:16 He didn't send the Philistines. 11:18 He allowed the Philistines, the Ammonites, the Syrians, 11:23 the Assyrians, the Babylonians, and the Romans to harass 11:29 and destroy God's professing people. 11:32 They will be the people of God. 11:36 Now, let me tell you this, as Charles Stanley said, 11:40 and he was right, he said, 11:42 "We should not have won the World War II." 11:47 Oh, no, but where the guy, no, we don't know. 11:49 We weren't ready. 11:52 The Germans had the greatest war machine 11:54 in the history of the world. 11:58 We won the World War II 12:02 because the hand of God was over America. 12:08 You seen the movie on Midway? 12:12 Just a total miracle. 12:16 God had His hand over His people. 12:20 God does not send disaster. 12:23 You know what He does? 12:25 He moves His hand. 12:29 Look at Galatians 6:7-8. 12:33 Galatians 6:7-8. 12:37 The greatest, almost the greatest man 12:40 has ever lived besides Christ said these words. 12:43 "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked, 12:49 for whatever a man sows that he will also reap." 12:54 You get what you sow, if you sow wheat, 12:56 you're gonna wheat, if you sow tares 12:58 you're gonna get tares. 12:59 "But he who sows that his flesh 13:01 will of the flesh reap corruption, 13:03 but he who sows to the Spirit 13:05 will of the Spirit reap everlasting life." 13:08 This is a principle you can't get away from. 13:13 The great friend I think it was, 13:14 I think it was Huxley, who said this. 13:19 He said at the end of each day, God calls for the ledger book, 13:24 goes through the ledger book and He... 13:30 points out and dolls out 13:34 and dishes out what we've earned. 13:40 You can't get away from, 13:41 whatever a man shows that shall he reap. 13:45 There was a man I'm told walking through penitentiary 13:48 a number of years ago. 13:49 And the prisoners there 13:51 were selling burlap bags. 13:57 Some people call them Hessian bag. 13:59 They're sowing up these burlap bags, 14:02 and the man said nonchalantly sowing, 14:06 one of the prisoners smarter than the rest said, 14:09 "No reaping." 14:12 Why because we're reaping. 14:16 And so there's a law, you can't get away from it. 14:21 Going to church is not gonna get you away from it. 14:24 Being pious is not gonna get you away from it, 14:26 being bad is not gonna save you from it. 14:29 Whatever you sow, you're going to reap. 14:34 It's a law that nothing can change. 14:38 Listen to these truths. 14:41 I'm suggesting today 14:44 we're reaping what we have sown. 14:49 God raised up America to do a special work, 14:52 to be a special place, 14:55 to be a haven especially 14:57 for the victims of religious persecution. 15:00 Does anybody still remember the Pilgrim Fathers, 15:05 and why they came to America? 15:08 I've heard some people, 15:10 I would say very ignorant people say, 15:13 "Oh, America was raised up 15:15 as an atheistic place, no church." 15:19 No go. No, no. 15:22 That's terrible, terrible ignorance. 15:25 The thing that you and I have to battle today in America 15:29 more than anything else is ignorance. 15:37 That's why Wesley I think said, 15:40 "A reading people will be a knowing people." 15:45 Remember the words of Emma Lazarus, 15:48 "Give me your tired, your poor, 15:50 your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, 15:55 the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. 16:00 Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, 16:04 I lift my lamp besides the golden door." 16:09 Now some of you will know 16:11 that originally I believe in that, 16:13 I believe in that philosophy because I'm a Christian. 16:18 But this was written originally 16:20 for the victims of religious persecution. 16:24 People came to America to get away from a corrupt, 16:30 persecuting church. 16:32 That's the fact. 16:34 So they came here 16:37 so that they could breathe free. 16:40 They could either worship God or not worship God 16:42 according to the dictates of their conscience. 16:45 America became a beacon of hope around the world. 16:50 Freedom from the persecution of church and state. 16:53 A lot of people say, we need to get church 16:55 and state together again. 16:56 Once you do that, you have Antichrist. 17:01 They came here to get away 17:02 from the persecution of church and state, 17:05 freedom to experience life, liberty, what does it say? 17:08 Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 17:15 The Declaration of Independence, 17:16 one of the greatest documents 17:18 in the history of the human race says, 17:20 "We hold these truths to be self-evident," 17:22 there are some things you don't have to prove, 17:26 "that all men are created equal." 17:28 That means everybody, "We are all created equal 17:32 that they are endowed by their Creator." 17:36 If there is no God, there is no man. 17:41 And if you believe that there is no God, 17:45 then there is nothing at all, there is no law. 17:49 And there is no life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 17:55 I say once again, today we are dealing 17:57 with a tremendous onslaught of ignorance, 18:03 "that they are endowed by their Creator 18:05 with certain unalienable rights," 18:08 we say inalienable, 18:09 but they said "unalienable rights 18:12 that among these are life, liberty, 18:14 and the pursuit of happiness." 18:16 Listen to this. 18:17 This is important, because you can't make a mistake here. 18:20 God wanted America to become 18:22 the greatest country in the world. 18:26 As the American people followed the ways of God, 18:33 but America was not to become a theocracy. 18:36 You know what a theocracy is? 18:39 It comes from the Greek word Theos which means God. 18:42 A theocracy is where you have a union of church and state, 18:46 and many people in America today 18:48 say hallelujah, this is what we want. 18:51 We are going to bring back the laws of the Bible, 18:53 and we will have the Senate and the Congress 18:56 enforce the laws of the Bible. 18:58 Well, if you do that, you have Antichrist 19:00 because that's what Antichrist is. 19:03 Antichrist is a combination of church and state. 19:07 Look at Revelation 17:3, 4, and 6. 19:13 Revelation 17, "So he carried me 19:15 away in the Spirit into the wilderness, 19:17 and I saw a woman," 19:19 that's the symbol of the church, 19:20 "sitting on a scarlet beast," that's the state, 19:23 "which was full of names of blasphemy, 19:25 having seven heads and ten horns. 19:27 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, 19:30 and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, 19:34 having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations 19:38 and the filthiness of her fornication. 19:41 I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, 19:44 persecuting, 19:46 and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. 19:48 And when I saw her, 19:49 I marveled with great amazement." 19:51 That describes Europe in the Dark Ages. 19:57 That's why America, God bless you, 20:00 that's why America was founded 20:04 to get away from the apostate church. 20:10 Whenever you have the union of church and state, 20:13 you have persecution. 20:17 America was founded by people 20:19 who wanted to be 20:21 breathing free air 20:23 and to worship God. 20:26 They wanted a church 20:29 without a pope and a state without a king, 20:35 freedom. 20:38 That's why Americans have become a great people. 20:42 But you can't legislate morality, 20:46 you can't make people good. 20:49 Some people that got big lobbies now 20:52 in Washington religious lobbies, 20:54 trying to get the Senate and the Congress to pass laws, 21:01 religious laws to make people good, 21:04 but you can't make people good. 21:06 God makes people good. 21:09 You see? 21:11 You better get this because as I say, 21:14 we're drowning in a delude, 21:15 in a flood of gross ignorance 21:18 and many people who claim to be Americans today 21:21 have no idea about what America means. 21:26 America was founded by people getting away 21:28 from the apostate church. 21:32 But while I do not believe in a theocracy, 21:38 and while I believe this is the essence of Antichrist, 21:46 it was God's plan 21:47 that Americans would be a righteous blessed nation 21:51 because of something that happened in their hearts, 21:55 not something that happened in Washington. 22:00 It was God's plan that in their hearts 22:02 would be enshrined two great laws. 22:05 We've gotten away from that. 22:07 A lot of politicians who say they're Christians, 22:11 a lot of Christians who say they're Christians 22:15 have gotten away from the two great laws. 22:21 If you have these great laws, you wouldn't have killings. 22:24 Matthew 22:36-39, the words of Jesus, 22:28 Matthew 22:36-39, "Teacher, 22:32 which is the great commandment in the law?" 22:35 Jesus said to him, 22:37 'You shall love the Lord your God, 22:40 with all your heart, with all your soul, 22:43 and with all your mind.'" 22:46 This is the first and great commandment 22:49 and the second is like it, 22:52 "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 22:58 Who does? 23:00 It was the plan of God 23:02 that America 23:06 would be people by a righteous, 23:10 God fearing people who read their Bibles, 23:15 and who had the law of God enshrined in their hearts. 23:21 Love God with all your heart, all your soul. 23:24 Most people say that's easy. 23:27 Second part is more difficult. 23:29 You should love your neighbor as yourself. 23:30 That means no racism. 23:33 A lot of racism today in America. 23:36 I say it to our great shame, 23:38 a lot of racism in America today. 23:41 A lot of hate speech. 23:45 The Bible says no hate speech, because our religion, 23:49 our politics, our sexual orientation. 23:52 I'm going to say some things about human sexuality today, 23:57 but I want to tell you something. 24:01 Hate speech is evil 24:07 not because it's not legal, it is legal. 24:11 It's guaranteed by the First Amendment. 24:15 But hate speech goes entirely 24:18 against the commandment that says, 24:20 "You shall love your neighbor 24:23 as yourself." 24:28 And no striving after wealth to the detriment of the poor. 24:33 No poor wages. 24:35 Love your neighbor as yourself. 24:41 Now a question we need to ask ourselves 24:42 as we sit here today 24:44 in this beautiful air-conditioned studio 24:45 in Southern California is this. 24:47 Is America a better place today 24:49 because of all the tweets that are going around America? 24:54 The internet gave people the liberty 24:58 to be who they really are with a sense of anonymity... 25:08 and they brought out the dirt. 25:12 Is America a better place today 25:16 because of the tweets? 25:18 We are told in the scriptures, 25:21 "The righteousness exalts a nation." 25:24 This is a tremendous text that is found in the Bible, 25:28 in the Book of Proverbs, righteousness exalts a nation. 25:31 You can't have a great nation 25:35 without inner righteousness. 25:38 Now, this is something for everybody. 25:43 We have a great saying here, make America great again. 25:47 And million say yes, yes, yes, make America great again. 25:51 But listen, America can't be great again, 25:54 until America is righteous again 25:59 and when America is righteous again, 26:05 America will be great again, 26:09 and we'll be back straight after this break. 26:29 Hello, friend. 26:30 I'm John Carter. 26:31 Behind me is the great city of Manila, 26:35 the capital of the Philippines. 26:37 Did you know, this is quite amazing. 26:39 There are more people living in this area 26:42 than in New York City. 26:44 And Christ died for these people. 26:46 We came here, oh, long time ago back in 1984. 26:52 What's that, 34, 35 years ago, 26:55 and we came here with a team of young people 26:58 and we came to the PICC. 27:01 It is our intent to come here, 27:03 hire the biggest hall that's available, 27:05 the greatest outdoor stadium, whatever it takes. 27:10 You've got more than 20 million souls out here. 27:15 And I say it again. 27:16 These are people for whom Christ died. 27:19 I'm asking you to pray 27:20 for the people of the Philippines. 27:22 Please pray for the people here in Metro Manila. 27:26 And please write to me, John Carter, P.O. 27:29 Box 1900, Thousand Oaks, California 91358. 27:34 In Australia, write to me at Terrigal, 27:37 at the address that is now showing on the screen. 27:42 We're back in Manila, 27:44 and we're back with a message from God, 27:47 that message is, Christ died for you. 27:52 And Christ is coming again soon. 27:58 Please support us. 27:59 Write to me today, P.O. 28:01 Box 1900, Thousand Oaks, California. 28:04 And also write to me at Terrigal in Australia. 28:08 Thank you for your support. 28:11 And God bless you. 28:27 For a copy of today's program, please contact us at P.O. 28:31 Box 1900, Thousand Oaks, California 91358. 28:37 Or in Australia, contact us at P.O. 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