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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 Join us with Questions and Answers 00:32 with Pastor John Carter. 00:36 Hi, friend. I'm John Carter. 00:39 Welcome to the Carter Report. 00:41 We have an empty studio here today because of COVID-19, 00:45 which is raging across America. 00:48 But we're carrying on 00:50 because we've got a message to teach and to preach. 00:54 Today, I'm going to answer 00:55 some of the questions you've been sending to me 00:57 and we are honored to have 00:59 a very special person today in our studio, 01:03 Wayne Hackett, 01:04 you will hear his voice 01:06 right across these great United States of America. 01:09 And so, Wayne, we're glad to have you with us today. 01:12 And we're glad to have you, dear friend, with us. 01:15 We're so glad that you joined us. 01:18 Wayne, the first question, my brother. 01:21 Is there hope for wicked people? 01:23 Well, I sure hope so. 01:27 Because the Bible tells us that God justifies the ungodly. 01:32 You read that... 01:33 Let me think now, that's in Romans Chapter 4. 01:36 It says that God justifies the ungodly. 01:40 And so ultimately, we are all sinners 01:44 and we are all ungodly. 01:47 And we all need the redemptive power of Christ. 01:50 We need the blood of Christ. 01:52 Let me talk just a moment 01:53 about some of the most ungodly people. 01:56 There was Nebuchadnezzar. 01:59 What a scoundrel was Nebuchadnezzar! 02:02 He was one of the world's greatest egotist. 02:05 He was going to make Babylon the greatest kingdom 02:09 that the world had ever seen. 02:11 And he said, "There's no this great Babylon 02:13 that I have built." 02:15 God brought him low, 02:16 but then he became a born-again trusting child of God. 02:22 If God can save Nebuchadnezzar, brother, He can save you. 02:26 What about Saul of Tarsus? 02:28 The person who wrote 02:30 just about half of the New Testament, 02:32 the great theologian of the Bible, 02:35 the great Apostle Paul, Saul of Tarsus, 02:38 who had his hands 02:41 dripping with the blood of the saints. 02:45 If God can save Saul, He can save you and me. 02:49 What about Peter the fisherman? 02:53 Peter the fisherman who was full of self-confidence 02:56 and ended up denying a Lord of glories, 02:59 said, "I don't know the Man." 03:02 But Jesus saved him. 03:04 If He saved him, He can save you 03:06 just as He saved King David. 03:08 Heard of King David? 03:10 David was an adulterer. 03:14 You know, he'd be in good company today, 03:16 wouldn't he, 03:17 because there are plenty of adulterers 03:19 in adulteresses. 03:21 So He saved David, you know, 03:24 He saved this man who was a great sinner. 03:27 So great a sinner 03:28 that he murdered Uriah the Hittite. 03:31 So if God can save those people, 03:33 He can save you. 03:35 He can save me, 03:36 just like He saved my friend Ildar 03:40 over there in Russia. 03:42 A man who is a leader of the mafia. 03:45 We've got his picture up here, 03:47 but we've got to camouflage 03:48 so that you can never see his face. 03:52 But he was a man who had a gang, not a gang. 03:56 He had an army under him, 03:58 400 or 500 men armed to the teeth. 04:02 He told me of some of the things 04:04 that he has done, 04:05 but God saved him. 04:07 He came to Christ, 04:09 and he was saved by the blood of Christ. 04:12 I'm here today to tell you 04:13 that no person is too bad for God 04:17 because with sin did abound, 04:21 grace did much more abound. 04:23 Thank you, Wayne. 04:25 Is there a heaven? 04:27 Well, as I said before, I certainly hope so. 04:30 Yes, there is. 04:31 Of course there's a heaven. 04:34 We were made by the Almighty God. 04:36 We believe in the great act of creation. 04:39 Don't you believe this? 04:41 We believe in the Almighty God who created the universe. 04:46 And we believe that this Almighty God 04:49 became a man 04:50 and came down in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ. 04:57 How amazing is this. 04:59 And there was the man 05:01 hanging on the cross beside Him, 05:04 and he repented and he said, "Lord, remember me, 05:09 when You come into Your kingdom." 05:11 This was the power of God at work. 05:14 This was grace at work. 05:16 And Jesus said, "Truly I say to you, today, 05:20 you shall be with Me in paradise." 05:24 Jesus believed in paradise. 05:27 He believed in a father's house by the grace of God. 05:31 I'm going to go there, will you come with me? 05:34 Yes, my friend. 05:36 There is a heaven. 05:40 How do you cope 05:41 when things seem so dark around you? 05:44 When loved ones and friends 05:46 are suffering and dying of COVID-19? 05:49 It's tough. 05:51 Of course it's tough. 05:53 If people say, "You know, what's happening 05:55 doesn't concern me at all," 05:57 they've got to have hearts of avine. 06:00 But if you've got a heart of flesh, 06:02 you're going to feel concerned 06:03 for the tens of thousands of people 06:07 right here in this part of the world 06:09 who are dying all around us. 06:14 You know, sometimes I almost feel overwhelmed 06:17 by the sorrow and the suffering 06:19 that these people are going through, 06:22 the tens of thousands of Americans, 06:25 but, my friend, I'll tell you what I do. 06:28 By the grace of God, 06:30 I take hold of an unseen power 06:35 because I refuse to give 06:38 into doubt and to despair. 06:42 And that is why I like to talk hope. 06:46 I like to talk faith 06:47 and I take hold of the power of God. 06:51 Look at Acts 2:25. 06:54 And you should memorize these texts. 06:56 Don't be a lazy Christian. 06:59 Acts 2, "For David says concerning Him, 07:04 'I foresaw the Lord always before my face, 07:09 For He is at my right hand, 07:12 that I may not be shaken.'" 07:16 And if I get a vision of Christ, 07:20 the Almighty God, 07:22 and if I can see Him in my mind's eye, 07:25 I tell you, my friend, nothing is going to shake me. 07:31 And there's something else that I do too. 07:33 I do this quite often now. 07:35 I turn over here to the book of Romans 07:40 by the great St. Paul, and I read these texts. 07:46 I commend them to you. 07:49 Romans 8:28 07:53 and we know that all things work together for good 07:58 to those who love God, 07:59 to those who are the called according to His purpose. 08:04 I am not alone. I am not forsaken. 08:08 And God has a plan and a purpose for my life. 08:12 He's got a plan and a purpose for you too. 08:15 Read your Bible and discover it. 08:18 And then I look at verse 31, 08:25 "What then shall we say to these things? 08:27 If God is for us, who can be against us?" 08:33 Then we're going to come to, I think, verse, here it is. 08:38 Verse 37, 08:40 "What then shall we say to these things? 08:42 If God is for us, who can be against us? 08:45 Yet in all these things, 08:47 we are more than conquerors 08:50 through Him who loved us." 08:54 And that just... 08:55 Listen to this, 08:56 this is almost too good to be true, 08:58 "For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, 09:01 nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, 09:07 nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, 09:10 nor any other created thing shall be able to separate us 09:14 from the love of God, 09:15 which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." 09:21 Just amazing. Nothing can separate you. 09:24 Not COVID-19, not death, not cancer, not sickness. 09:31 None of those things can separate us 09:34 from the love of God. 09:35 So we are never, never alone. 09:38 We are never forsaken. 09:43 How bad is this pandemic? 09:47 Wayne, it's bad. 09:51 Dr. Fauci is one of the world's greatest scientists. 09:57 He's tremendously popular 10:01 among the medical fraternity 10:04 here in the United States. 10:07 And he said just a day or two back 10:10 that this had become his worst nightmare. 10:16 And he said we were in the midst 10:18 of a perfect storm. 10:21 And people are telling you something different, my friend. 10:25 It's because as I used to say, they've got an axe to grind. 10:31 And they don't want you to know the facts. 10:35 Now it is killing tens of thousands 10:38 here in the USA 10:40 where the disease is almost out of control. 10:46 Would you please look at this, 10:48 look at the graph going back to March, 10:51 and then after April, 10:53 and then it came down a bit in May and in June. 10:57 Did you know that there are some countries 11:00 that have the same type of lifestyle 11:02 that we have 11:04 that are doing 100 times better. 11:07 You say, "No, I can't believe it. 11:09 Can't believe that." 11:10 Yes, there are some countries 11:12 that have a per capita, a death rate, 11:16 only 1% of what we've got here. 11:18 And if you look over here at the graph, my friend, 11:23 look, look at it there. 11:24 It is going up like a rocket. 11:31 And so we need to take it seriously. 11:36 We can multiply the official infection rate 11:39 by at least 10 I am told, maybe 20. 11:44 Probably more than 30 million are infected here. 11:48 Maybe double that number. 11:50 It appears to be getting worse. 11:53 LA is not going to open their schools, 11:59 but I want you to know that, as a Christian, 12:02 I have my faith in God. 12:05 And I believe that God is working 12:08 old things for my good and for His glory, 12:13 therefore, I shall not despair. 12:18 But I shall live in hope. 12:21 Wayne. 12:22 Are you afraid? 12:25 Am I afraid? 12:29 No, I'm not afraid because I trust in God. 12:32 Am I concerned? 12:33 Of course I am. 12:34 If I were not concerned, 12:38 I would be in denial of reality. 12:45 Some people say, "Oh, no, no, nothing, 12:48 my friend, I refuse to deny reality." 12:52 That's a psychological condition 12:54 when we're in a state of denial, 12:57 but I'm trusting in Jesus because I believe the gospel. 13:02 So I'm not afraid. 13:03 No, I'm not. 13:04 I'm not scared. 13:06 I'm trusting in Jesus. 13:07 Here's a text 1 John 5:11 and 12. 13:11 1 John 5:11 and 12. 13:14 This is the testimony that God has given to us. 13:17 What does it say? 13:19 Eternal life. 13:21 And this life is in His Son, "He who has the Son has life, 13:25 he who does not have the Son of God 13:27 does not have life." 13:29 If you have Christ. 13:31 Now I'm not talking just about religion. 13:34 Too much religion in the world, don't you think? 13:37 You know, this manmade stuff, which is all a lot of sham, 13:41 you know, just a lot of hot air. 13:44 But I'm talking about the real stuff. 13:47 I'm talking about the real McCoy. 13:49 I'm talking about, as I'd say in Australia, 13:53 that would just dinky-di. 13:57 We're talking about the genuine product. 13:59 Are you listening to me? 14:01 And if you have Christ, but more importantly, 14:04 if Christ has you, and are you trusting in Christ, 14:08 and if you've gone to Christ, 14:10 and you have confessed your sins, 14:12 you have repented of your sins. 14:15 And if you have received the gift of everlasting life, 14:19 you will not be afraid. 14:21 Listen to this, 14:23 the worst the devil can do to us 14:25 is to give us a little sleep. 14:27 But Christ is coming in the morning, 14:30 and just as Christ raised Lazarus from the dead, 14:35 so He's going to raise His saints from the dead, 14:39 and we are going to live forever 14:43 with Christ in paradise. 14:45 If that doesn't make you feel like jumping over the moon, 14:49 you ought to check your pulse. 14:51 That's the greatest news that Christ is alive 14:54 and Christ is coming back. 14:58 Can we stop this terrible pandemic? 15:01 Wayne, you're asking some great questions, 15:03 you know, I don't know if I'm capable of answering 15:05 all these great questions. 15:07 But let me give you a run through 15:10 if you don't mind 15:12 'cause this is pretty important. 15:15 I believe we can stop this pandemic 15:17 because some countries have done remarkably well. 15:20 They've done far better than we have. 15:23 And there must be a reason. 15:25 And I think it's because 15:28 even though the doctors are doing a fantastic job, 15:31 and the nurses are doing a fantastic job, 15:34 I think some of us as individuals 15:37 are letting down the team side. 15:40 Some countries, I say it again, 15:42 some countries that are as rich as America 15:46 have done much better than we 15:48 in controlling the deadly virus. 15:51 That's a bitter pill to swallow, 15:53 but you and I better swallow it. 15:55 One country I know very well has had up to now per capita, 16:00 a death rate, a hundred times less than here in America. 16:06 So we must... 16:08 We've got great doctors. 16:10 We've got great scientists. 16:12 But you see, 16:14 the coronavirus doesn't belong 16:16 to any particular political party. 16:21 No, no, no. 16:23 It doesn't read the news bulletins, 16:26 and it is not brainwashed. 16:28 Okay, what can we do? 16:32 Here it is. 16:33 "Love your neighbor as yourself." 16:37 That's what it says in the Old Testament. 16:41 And that's what Jesus said 16:43 you got to love your neighbor as yourself. 16:46 Just have a look at this if you can better look at this. 16:50 I mean, this is totally disgusting. 16:53 Here is a person. 16:56 I'm going to bring it here, here it is, here it is, 16:59 here it is. 17:00 He's holding up a sign and he says, 17:03 "Selfish and proud." 17:05 Hey, you know what he needs? 17:08 He needs to be born again. 17:10 He needs to become a Christian. 17:12 I'm talking about not just a church guy. 17:15 I'm talking about a Christian. 17:16 He says, "I'm selfish, and I'm proud, 17:20 and I'll do what I like. 17:22 And if you don't like it, too bad for you." 17:25 Jesus said, 17:27 "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 17:30 Listen. 17:32 If we obey these words, we will beat the pandemic. 17:35 That is a promise, that is the truth, 17:38 that is the sure word today. 17:40 If you obey those words, 17:43 together we will beat the pandemic 17:46 if we love our neighbors as ourselves. 17:49 The problem is today 17:50 here in this great land of the United States of America 17:52 is that we've got away from Christ 17:55 and we've got away from the Bible 17:56 and has come after tremendous dumbing down 18:00 and people are talking about religion 18:01 and they know nothing about God. 18:04 Think of the nurses and the doctors, 18:08 the great heroes. 18:09 Has America got heroes? 18:11 Yeah, terrific heroes. 18:13 You want to see the great heroes? 18:14 Go to the hospitals. 18:16 They're the great heroes. 18:17 These are the people who are putting their lives 18:19 on the line. 18:20 You know what we need in this country? 18:22 Well, we got the Statue of Liberty 18:24 over in New York. 18:26 But, you know, in San Francisco or Los Angeles, 18:29 on the Western coast, 18:32 we need the statue of responsibility. 18:37 Are you still listening? 18:40 America's got the Statue of Liberty, 18:43 we need it all, and I'm all for that. 18:45 But we need not only the Statue of Liberty, 18:48 we need the statue of responsibility. 18:54 But some of us have become lawless, 18:57 and there's a spirit of lawlessness 18:59 in the land today, lawlessness, 19:03 "I do just what I want to do." 19:07 Jesus said, 19:08 "You shall love your neighbors as yourself." 19:10 Jesus said these words. 19:13 And if we obey His words, we will beat this pandemic. 19:16 It's not about me but about my neighbors, 19:20 my family, my friends, my parents, 19:23 the man with the big sign. 19:24 "I'm selfish, I'm proud," 19:27 hey, go to God. 19:30 Talk to God about this one. 19:32 We need to think of the nurses, the doctors, 19:35 the essential workers. 19:39 And of course, if we do this, 19:44 we're going to wear a mask. 19:46 "Oh, no, that's against my freedom!" 19:49 Hey, what about your responsibility, 19:53 the Statue of Liberty 19:54 and the statue of responsibility? 19:57 It's not just about you, brother. 20:00 "I'm selfish, I'm proud." 20:02 Well, don't expect to go to heaven 20:03 if you're selfish and you're proud. 20:04 "You know, I can go to heaven do anything." 20:06 No, you can't. 20:10 Jesus said, "Love your neighbor." 20:13 And if you don't like wearing a mask, 20:15 just remember this, 20:17 it's easier to wear a mask than to wear a respirator. 20:22 Hear this? 20:24 If you won't wear a mask, recognize this, 20:27 it's a lot easier to wear a mask 20:29 than to wear a respirator. 20:32 Practice safe distancing. 20:34 COVID-19 apparently is spread by aerosols. 20:38 It's spread through talking, 20:40 especially singing and shouting. 20:44 Some people say, you know, "I'm a Christian, 20:46 I can do what I like 20:48 and God is going to take care of me." 20:52 That's not faith. That's presumption. 20:54 A lot of people like, 20:56 "Well, what do you mean?" 20:57 "If I'm under the blood of Jesus, 20:59 I can do what I like." 21:01 My friend, you don't really understand 21:02 what Christianity is all about. 21:06 There's a great old hymn, "Trust and Obey." 21:08 We need to trust God 21:09 and then we need to be responsible 21:12 and we need to obey God. 21:14 Is this too strong for you? 21:17 Because I'm not going to water it down. 21:19 I'm getting tired of these terrible news reports 21:22 where people are dying. 21:24 We need to keep away from parties, 21:26 yeah, and from congregations, and from gatherings. 21:31 "Oh, my living..." 21:33 No, your responsibility, 21:36 and stay home if you're over 65. 21:40 The older you are, the higher the mortality rate. 21:44 But did you hear the 103-year-old lady 21:47 who survived? 21:48 She never gave up hope. 21:52 So while you're alive, there's hope, you see? 21:58 So don't give up hope. 21:59 Talk hope. Don't get depressed. 22:02 Read the words of scripture. 22:04 Practice what you say you believe. 22:07 Wash your hands frequently 22:08 because the coronavirus hates hot soapy water. 22:14 And be filled with positive thoughts. 22:17 Oh, let me talk about this. 22:18 Be hopeful, be joyful. 22:21 Nothing can separate me from the love of God. 22:24 Listen, I'm gonna tell you a story. 22:28 The German soldiers on the Russian front, 22:34 some of them, these German soldiers 22:36 received awful wounds 22:38 that would normally kill a person, 22:41 and some received minor wounds. 22:43 But you know what happened? 22:45 The ones who had received the minor wounds 22:48 were the ones who were dying like flies, 22:51 but the ones with the major wound survived. 22:54 Why did they survive? 22:55 Because if you got a major wound, 23:00 you are going to go home to your family. 23:04 People with major wounds, got hope, 23:08 and hope saved the soldiers. 23:12 I'm here to talk hope. 23:14 This thing is not going to beat us. 23:17 You hear what I'm saying? 23:19 This thing ain't going to beat us, 23:23 pardon the English. 23:24 It is not going to beat us 23:27 because we're going to talk hope. 23:29 We're going to talk faith. 23:31 We're going to believe that was God. 23:34 We shall overcome one day and by the grace of God, 23:39 we are going to beat this demon from hell 23:43 and we are going to keep hope alive. 23:48 What has been the greatest motivation 23:50 in your life? 23:57 The greatest motivation in my life. 24:02 The greatest motivation in my life has been a sense... 24:07 And I want to say this to everybody today, 24:10 I say it 'cause I love you and I care for you 24:13 and God loves you. 24:15 The greatest motivation has been the realization 24:20 that Almighty God knows me. 24:24 He knows John Carter, yeah. 24:26 He said even the hairs on your head, 24:29 all those hairs, they are counted. 24:31 I've got a few more these days 24:32 seeing I've been in splendid isolation. 24:36 I can't go to a hairdresser. 24:38 Who cares, this is growing. 24:40 I'm saving money on getting my haircut. 24:44 God knows about me. 24:46 And God has got a purpose for my life. 24:51 Are you listening to me? 24:53 God has got a purpose for your life. 24:55 You're not just something nothing. 24:57 You are a child of God. 25:01 I think I've got a text here. 25:02 I'm going to read it to you. 25:04 It's out of the Book of Hebrews. 25:06 I just love this. 25:07 Hebrews 13:5 and 6. 25:12 "For He Himself has said," this is God talking, 25:16 "'I will never leave you nor forsake you.' 25:20 So we may boldly say, 'The LORD is my helper, 25:24 I will not fear. 25:26 What can man do to me?' " 25:27 I will not fear 25:29 what the coronavirus can do to me 25:32 because God knows me, God sees me. 25:37 He counts the hairs on my head, He knows my family. 25:40 He knows everything about me. 25:42 Christ died for me. 25:46 He has a plan and a purpose for me. 25:49 He has a plan and a purpose for you. 25:52 Believe it, my brother, my sister. 25:56 And by the grace of God, 25:57 with this hope burning in our hearts, 26:02 here's the promise. 26:03 Here is the Word of the Lord for you today, by God's grace, 26:09 we shall overcome 26:13 and we shall be victorious. 26:18 In Jesus' mighty name, amen. 26:26 To our police, 26:29 to those who serve and protect us with mercy, 26:32 love, dignity, compassion, and honor, 26:37 may God bless you. 26:39 Each day there is no task that is too large, 26:42 no task too small. 26:45 You take the slings and arrows 26:47 that come your way with courage. 26:50 The badge you wear 26:51 makes you part of a bigger team. 26:53 But we know you are each unique in God's eyes. 26:57 You are individual human beings of a police force. 27:02 The greatest force is God's love. 27:05 There is no one 27:06 who has not experienced that love 27:08 when you come to their aid. 27:10 We are grateful. 27:11 We know you need our help. 27:13 Working together, we can live in harmony. 27:16 We pray for the safety of our homes, 27:18 for our neighbors, 27:20 and for the police that protect and serve our community. 27:27 The reviews 27:28 for the John Carter biography are in 27:30 and this is what they say. 27:32 "Anyone who reads this fascinating book 27:34 and has not moved 27:35 should check to see if they still have a pulse." 27:40 "I believe this book about God's miracles 27:42 in Russia and Ukraine 27:43 will burn the flame in your heart." 27:46 "This could prove 27:48 to be one of the most important books 27:49 ever written about public evangelism. 27:51 Make sure you get a copy." 27:55 "I believe this book about John Carter's life 27:57 will help readers 27:58 grasp a vision for their lives." 28:06 For a donation of $100 or more, 28:09 a signed copy of the John Carter biography 28:11 can be yours 28:13 by writing to us at the address on the screen 28:15 or visit our website. 28:29 For a copy of today's program, 28:31 please contact us at P.O. 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