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Program Code: CR002101S
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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. 00:37 Hi, friend. 00:38 I'm John Carter. 00:40 How are you doing today? 00:42 I'm doing fine. 00:44 Today is my birthday. 00:48 It's my birthday. 00:50 I don't know if I should tell you 00:51 how old I am, 00:53 but I'm getting up there. 00:54 Let me give you just a little clue. 00:58 We've been in this work now, 01:00 Beverley and me for 59 years. 01:05 And I didn't start when I was two years old. 01:08 And so, you know, I'm certainly getting up, 01:11 but today is a great day. 01:14 I've been tremendously blessed. 01:15 I feel, I feel terrific. 01:19 I know this is COVID time. 01:20 And our hearts go out to all those people 01:22 who are suffering with COVID 01:25 and as the results of COVID, 01:27 but in spite of it all, 01:29 and even though we can't be in our television studio, 01:32 we're right here today, 01:34 and we have a message, 01:35 we're talking about plain truth, 01:39 honest answers, 01:41 that's what people are wanting today. 01:43 There's so much confusion out there. 01:46 People just don't know what to think. 01:48 They don't know what to believe, 01:50 but by the grace of God, 01:51 today, we're going to talk about present truth, 01:56 truth that is relevant to you and to me. 02:01 And by the grace of God, 02:02 we're going to be talking about honest answers. 02:05 So we've got lots and lots of questions 02:07 that come in from our marvelous friends, 02:10 our viewers on television, 02:12 on 3ABN and on the other networks. 02:15 And so here is the first question. 02:17 By the grace of God, 02:19 I'm going to be giving you today 02:22 honest answers. 02:24 Here's Wayne. 02:26 Rosemary from Topeka, Kansas wrote, 02:28 "I'm an 86-year-old woman. 02:30 I think I've committed the unpardonable sin. 02:33 Some years ago, I drove my family away. 02:36 I told them to stay away. 02:38 We are now talking again, 02:40 but I feel that I have sinned against the Holy Spirit. 02:43 Is there hope for this foolish old woman? 02:46 Oh, you're not... You're not foolish old woman. 02:50 I think you're probably... 02:51 Well, I shouldn't say probably. 02:53 I'm sure you're a very beautiful lady, 02:56 86 years of age. 03:00 Hey, that's even older than me. 03:05 So I've got empathy for you my dear. 03:08 You're 86, 03:09 but I'm coming up the road behind you. 03:12 I hope you're feeling as good as I'm feeling here today. 03:16 Have you committed the unpardonable sin? 03:18 No, you haven't. 03:20 This is the honest truth. 03:22 You haven't committed the unpardonable sin, 03:24 and I can prove it to you out of the Holy Bible. 03:29 Can I read you a text? 03:31 And I want to say to Wayne, thank you, Wayne. 03:34 Wayne Hackett for being with us today, 03:37 even though you're not here in the studio, 03:39 you've got all these questions 03:41 and you're reading these questions 03:43 that have come in from our beautiful viewers. 03:46 Now, I want to tell this beautiful 86-year-old lady, 03:50 why she has not committed the unpardonable sin. 03:54 Jesus said this, "And so I tell you," 03:56 this is, let me see. 03:57 Matthew 12:31-32. 04:03 I'm gonna read it to you out of the Bible. 04:04 "And so I tell you," this is Jesus talking. 04:07 You can believe what Jesus says. 04:09 "So I tell you, 04:10 every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven, man." 04:14 Hey, that's great news. 04:16 God will forgive the sin of adultery, 04:18 fornication, even murder. 04:20 Hey, David committed just about all of those things. 04:23 "Every sin will be forgiven men, 04:26 but the blasphemy against the Spirit 04:29 will not be forgiven." 04:31 That's the unpardonable sin. 04:33 When you sin against the Holy Spirit, 04:35 Jesus says, 04:37 "Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of man 04:40 will be forgiven, 04:42 but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit 04:45 will not be forgiven, 04:47 either in this age or in the age to come." 04:53 Jesus said, I want you to hear this, 04:56 86-year-old beautiful lady. 05:00 Want you to hear this. 05:01 Jesus said, 05:03 "Every sin will be forgiven 05:05 if we confess that sin to God, 05:08 and if we repent of that sin." 05:11 Will God forgive fornication? Yes, He will. 05:13 Will He forgive murder? Yes, He will. 05:16 Will He forgive adultery? 05:17 Yes, He will. 05:19 Will He forgive lying? 05:21 Yes, He will. 05:24 But there's a condition 05:26 we've got to repent of our sins, 05:27 we've got to come to Christ. 05:29 We've got to come to God 05:31 and we've got to repent of our sins. 05:38 Now, this is where the Holy Spirit comes in. 05:40 Jesus says, 05:42 "If you sin against the Holy Spirit, 05:45 you'll never be forgiven." 05:47 I'm going to tell you a story 05:48 that goes back many, many years. 05:50 Beverley and I just been married 05:52 for a little while. 05:54 We were staying in a town in Australia, wait for it, 05:57 the name of the town was Wagga Wagga 06:00 and we were staying right next to a train track. 06:04 The Southern Aurora used to go past midnight. 06:07 We'd be sleeping peacefully like babies. 06:11 And then at 12 o'clock, 06:12 we would be shaken out of our sleep. 06:16 Almost scared out of our skins 06:18 by the roar of the Southern Aurora. 06:22 This train woke us up. 06:25 Woke up the second night and the third night, 06:28 the fourth night... 06:30 Well, heard but, no just went back to sleep, 06:33 the fifth night, oh, you're a bit of... 06:36 The sixth night, 06:37 the seventh night we slept through it. 06:41 You see, we can become sensitized. 06:46 You get this? 06:47 We can become sensitized. 06:50 We can build calluses, not only on our hands, 06:53 but on our hearts. 06:57 When the Holy Spirit comes and talks to us, 06:59 we should say, 07:01 "Yes, I'm going to repent of this sin 07:02 and I'm going to do it now." 07:05 But if you keep saying no to the Holy Spirit, 07:09 you will get calluses on your soul, 07:12 your ears will become hardened. 07:16 And you won't hear the voice of the Spirit of God. 07:18 Therefore, you will not repent of your sins. 07:22 And when you do not repent of your sins, 07:25 this leads to the state that is called in the Bible, 07:29 the unpardonable sin. 07:32 Now this 86-year-old lady who wrote this question 07:35 hasn't committed the unpardonable sin 07:37 because she's got a guilty conscience, 07:40 which is the evidence 07:42 that the Holy Spirit is talking to her soul. 07:45 So my 86-year-old dear, just realize this. 07:50 God loves you. 07:51 Jesus died for you. 07:53 And the Holy Spirit is talking to you. 07:55 Now I'm gonna come over here a bit further 07:57 if you folks to be patient with me. 07:59 Ephesians 4:18-19, 08:05 we're talking here today, 08:07 the honest truth. 08:09 It says, 08:10 "They are darkened in their understanding 08:13 and separated from the life of God 08:15 because of the ignorance that is in them 08:18 due to the hardening of their hearts." 08:24 Oh, wow! 08:27 Then it says, 08:28 "Having lost all sensitivity, 08:30 they have given themselves over to sensuality 08:33 as to indulgent in every kind of impurity 08:36 with a continual lust for more, 08:40 it says, they've lost all sensitivity." 08:43 Their hearts have become hard. 08:46 The Southern Aurora is roaring down the track. 08:51 They can't hear it anymore. 08:53 They've heard it so often. 08:55 They've said no, no, no. 08:58 And every time a person says no to God, 09:02 it's easier to say no the next time. 09:06 And if a person keeps saying no, no, no, no, no, 09:09 he will build calluses on his soul, 09:13 his spiritual ears will become deaf. 09:17 That's the most dangerous condition a person can get into 09:22 when he loses all sensitivity. 09:25 But 86-year-old lady, what should you do? 09:29 Repent of your sin. 09:31 Tell God, you're sorry. 09:33 And realize that Jesus died for you. 09:37 And that God loves you and accept this free salvation 09:43 and be saved in the kingdom. 09:48 Great question. 09:50 Now here's another great question 09:54 from Wayne Hackett. 09:58 Bob from Flint, Michigan wants to know, 10:01 "Should Christians be involved in politics? 10:03 My pastor openly supports the Republican Party 10:06 from the pulpit. 10:08 Where do you stand?" 10:11 I was sort of afraid somebody was going to ask that awkward, 10:16 embarrassing question 10:19 that I didn't want to talk about. 10:24 Should a Christian be involved in politics? 10:27 Why not? 10:29 A Christian can be involved in any legitimate activity, 10:33 any lawful activity. 10:36 You've heard of William Wilberforce, 10:39 the great British reformer 10:41 who led to the emancipation of so many slaves 10:46 who stopped the slave trade in the British Empire 10:49 while he was a member of parliament. 10:52 We need good people in parliament 10:55 and in the Senate and in the Congress. 10:59 People who fear God trusting God 11:02 and who have a sense of right and wrong. 11:05 So a Christian can be involved in politics, absolutely. 11:09 Now, the person has had the impertinence 11:16 to ask me, 11:17 do I belong to a political party. 11:21 And I'm going to confess in public, 11:23 yes, I belong to a party. 11:25 I belong to a party. 11:29 I belong to Christ's party, not a political party. 11:33 I don't care what party you belong to, 11:35 but this is my choice. 11:40 I don't belong to any political party. 11:44 I am fiercely an independent. 11:47 I love people who are Republicans. 11:49 I love people who are Democrats. 11:52 I love people who, well, don't belong to anything. 11:58 God loves people. 11:59 I want you to know this, God loves you and so do I. 12:05 Hear this? God loves you. 12:07 There are good people wherever you go. 12:09 And there are bad people wherever you go. 12:12 We ought to judge people 12:14 on who they are and what they are. 12:18 You know why people originally came to America? 12:21 They came to get away from that church state system 12:25 that had been such a curse in Europe 12:28 for hundreds and hundreds of years. 12:31 When the church got involved in politics, 12:34 the Dark Ages, 12:35 when the church joined to the state, 12:37 that became the very essence 12:40 and the very heart of Antichrist. 12:43 And I read your text here out of the Apocalypse. 12:46 That's Revelation 17, 12:48 "One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls 12:51 came and said to me, 12:52 'Come, I will show you the punishment 12:54 of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters." 12:58 In the Bible, in the prophecies, 13:00 you got two women. 13:02 A good woman represents good church. 13:05 A bad woman represents the bad church. 13:09 And the bad church is the Antichrist. 13:13 You want to know what the essence and the heart 13:16 and the soul of Antichrist is? 13:18 Well, hang in there. 13:21 Says, "The great prostitute, who sits on many waters. 13:25 With her, the kings of the earth 13:27 committed adultery, 13:28 not literally, but an unholy alliance, 13:32 and the inhabitants of the earth 13:33 when were intoxicated 13:35 with the wine of her adulteries." 13:39 That got so mixed up, 13:41 did this church so mixed up in political power 13:44 that they became so crazy that they were drunk. 13:48 They couldn't think straight. 13:50 Have you met people like this? 13:52 They can't think straight. 13:55 A verse 3 Revelation 17 says, 13:58 "Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a desert. 14:02 There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast." 14:06 The beast is the state. 14:09 "The beast was covered with blasphemous names 14:12 and had seven heads and ten horns." 14:14 This is the great Roman beast. 14:19 "The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, 14:23 was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls." 14:26 She got lots of money. 14:28 She held a golden cup in her hand 14:30 filled with abominable things 14:33 and the filth of her adulteries." 14:35 Wow! 14:38 "This title was written on her forehead mystery: 14:41 Babylon the great, the mother of prostitutes 14:45 and the abominations of the earth. 14:47 I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints. 14:52 The blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus." 14:56 When I saw her it says, 14:58 he wandered with great amazement. 15:01 The beast is the state. 15:05 The woman, this prostitute here is the apostate church. 15:11 And here you've got a system of church 15:13 and state and they join together 15:18 to persecute people 15:21 and to enforce religious laws. 15:25 That is the heart and the soul of Antichrist. 15:31 The great pioneers 15:32 who established the United States of America 15:35 believed in what I'm talking about today. 15:38 This is the honest truth. 15:43 You're giving me honest questions. 15:44 I'm trying to give you honest answers. 15:46 So help me, God. 15:48 That, my friend, 15:50 I believe is the honest truth. 15:54 Now is my buddy Wayne Hackett, another question. 16:01 Cheryl from Denver, Colorado 16:03 is concerned that COVID-19 has become politicized. 16:07 Do you think it's a hoax? 16:09 What is your attitude to science? 16:11 What political party do you belong to? 16:15 Oh, goodness, me. 16:16 I wish you folks would ask me easy questions on my birthday. 16:22 I think you owe it to me. 16:23 I've been doing this work. 16:24 Beverley and I have been in this work of evangelism 16:27 and teaching the truth 16:28 and trying to win souls to Christ. 16:30 We've been doing this for 59 years. 16:33 So at least on my birthday, 16:35 you should be asking me some very easy questions, 16:39 but actually you are, 16:41 this is a great question 16:42 that Wayne has brought from one of our friends. 16:47 What do I know about COVID-19? 16:48 Well, I'm not a scientist. 16:50 I'm not a doctor, 16:53 but I do know that 16:54 in the United States of America, 16:55 where I've lived for 35 years, 16:58 more than half a million 17:00 precious American friends have died. 17:03 I have a dear friend who died of COVID 17:05 just a week or two ago. 17:07 A dear friend who died of COVID. 17:10 I've got a daughter who is an intensive care nurse, 17:14 who is working in San Francisco, 17:15 trying to save people who are dying of COVID-19. 17:19 Don't tell me it's a hoax. 17:21 It's not a hoax. 17:23 She's married to a man who's an anesthesiologist. 17:25 His job is to put this breathing apparatus 17:28 down the throat, into the lungs. 17:31 Of course, there's tremendous tension. 17:33 Working terribly hard, 17:35 long hours and seeing people die. 17:40 As I said, just a few days ago, 17:42 a dear friend of mine died of COVID-19. 17:44 It was not a hoax. 17:47 I've had other friends, one of the elders of my church, 17:52 he was retired and moved up North. 17:54 You wouldn't meet a better man. 17:56 He's just a great man. 17:59 His name was Fernando. 18:03 Fernando. 18:04 He died of COVID-19. 18:07 It's not a hoax. 18:09 Do I believe in science? 18:11 I believe in genuine science. 18:15 Now, of course, there's some bogus science. 18:20 I don't believe in the theory of evolution 18:23 that we've all come from a primordial swamp. 18:27 And we all came from a single amoeba, 18:32 some cell or something like this 18:34 billions of years. 18:35 I don't believe this, I believe in truth. 18:39 I believe in true science. 18:42 I believe in going where the evidence goes. 18:47 Now Jesus said this and listen carefully. 18:51 Jesus said, 18:52 "You'll know the truth 18:53 and the truth will make you free." 18:55 It is a tragedy 18:57 that politics gets in the way of truth 19:00 and COVID-19 has become politicized. 19:03 That's a tragedy, 19:07 'cause the most important thing we can do is 19:09 to try to save souls and to try to save lives. 19:16 And I want you to know, 19:20 if you've got COVID or if you've got a loved one, 19:22 who's got COVID 19:23 or if you've got a loved one who has died from COVID. 19:27 I want you to know 19:30 that we have our loving heavenly Father 19:33 who gave His Son Jesus to die for us. 19:36 I want you to know this, 19:38 it's going to be better one day, 19:41 we're gonna beat this thing. 19:44 And one day, my friend, one day, 19:48 there's gonna be a new world, 19:50 no sickness, no sorrow, no death 19:54 or any of those things. 19:57 The great news of the Bible is this. 19:59 Jesus is coming. 20:03 David belongs to a church in Sydney 20:05 that once had more than 1000 members, 20:08 but now is down to 150. 20:11 He wants to know 20:12 what is happening to the church 20:14 in today's secular society? 20:18 Well, I love Sydney. 20:22 One of my favorite cities in the world. 20:24 Let me tell you something. 20:26 One of the biggest churches in the world 20:28 is in secular Sydney, 20:30 where tens of thousands of people come together 20:33 every weekend to worship God, 20:36 because they're just full of love for God. 20:40 And this is in secular Sydney. 20:45 Never count the church out 20:48 because if you belong 20:49 to the true church of the living God 20:51 that worships Jesus 20:53 and follows the Bible, 20:55 your church is never going to die. 20:59 But if I belong to a church 21:00 that used to have a thousand members or more, 21:03 and I'm down to 150, 21:05 I would start to think 21:06 maybe there's something wrong 21:07 with what's going on inside that church, 21:10 because the Bible talks about evangelism. 21:13 Some people say we hate the very word evangelism. 21:16 Well, that's the reason 21:18 why your church is dying, my friend, 21:19 because you hate evangelism. 21:21 You know what evangelism means? 21:23 Evangelism means, now wait for this, 21:26 evangelism means 21:27 the preaching of the Gospel of Christ. 21:31 How can you hate that? 21:33 And the most successful churches in the world today 21:36 believe in evangelism. 21:38 They go out and they preach the gospel. 21:40 They're preaching it on television, 21:41 they're preaching it in halls. 21:43 They're preaching it everywhere. 21:44 They're having small groups, 21:46 but they have a passion in their souls, 21:48 they've got a fire in their bellies 21:51 and those churches are growing. 21:52 Jesus said this, 21:54 I'm gonna see if I can find this text. 21:56 Matthew 16:18. 22:03 Are you ready for this? Here it comes. 22:06 All right, verse 18. 22:07 Jesus said, 22:09 "But I tell you that you are Peter, 22:11 and on this rock I will build my church, 22:13 and the gates of Hades will not overcome it." 22:19 The gates of hell, 22:21 the legions of evil angels, 22:28 dictators, 22:30 wicked politicians, Hitlers, 22:35 I don't care. 22:36 They will never defeat the church of God 22:40 because the true church of God is built upon the rock. 22:44 And the rock is Jesus Christ Himself. 22:48 And the true church at last will triumph 22:51 and God's people will go home to glory. 22:56 That's the honest truth. 23:00 Mary from New Zealand has a few questions. 23:03 "What do you think of Pope Francis? 23:06 What do you think about the Australian cardinal 23:08 who was found guilty of pedophilia 23:10 and locked up in Victoria? 23:12 What do you think 23:14 of the Pope's recent pronouncement 23:15 on homosexual unions? 23:19 Well, now that's a big question. 23:20 I just hope I can remember it all. 23:23 There's a series of questions. 23:25 What do I think of Pope Francis? 23:27 Well, I don't know Pope Francis. 23:29 I can tell you a few things about Pope Francis, 23:32 but I don't want to be judgmental. 23:35 Many of my friends think 23:36 he's just the nicest sort of guy, 23:39 he's graded, 23:41 you know, shaking hands and kissing babies. 23:43 And they say, he's a very nice person. 23:46 The pope is a Jesuit, of course. 23:50 The Jesuits are just great intellectuals 23:54 with a tremendous mission. 23:56 And this is a pope with a mission. 24:00 Some would say with some legitimacy 24:04 I think that Pope Francis is pushing a band wagon 24:09 that is called liberalism. 24:13 Others would say just trying to make things 24:16 more accessible to people to come into the church. 24:22 Now, of course, for more than a thousand years, 24:24 the Catholic Church has been a very conservative 24:27 and a rather cold state organization, 24:30 very exclusive. 24:32 If you weren't a Roman Catholic, 24:34 you are gonna go to hell, 24:36 then came along good Pope John 24:37 and he started to call us Protestants, 24:39 separated brethren. 24:41 Well, that was nice. 24:42 And Pope Francis has come a little bit further. 24:45 And Pope Francis now is reaching out 24:47 and he's making tremendous stirs, 24:49 the conservatives in his own church 24:51 are fighting him fiercely. 24:55 He seems to be making rather liberal statements 24:58 about gay marriage and other things like this, 25:01 though his own church is totally opposed, 25:04 of course, to gay marriage, 25:07 even though the Roman Catholic Church 25:09 had lots and lots and lots of problems with priests 25:13 who have been pedophiles 25:15 and all other types of sexual deviance. 25:19 But this is a pope 25:20 who is trying to show that the Roman Catholic Church 25:23 has got a smiling face. 25:27 And therefore he is teaching some ideas 25:30 that I think are not taught in the Bible. 25:34 I believe that Pope Francis, 25:36 even though he seems to be a very nice man 25:40 would do better 25:42 if he were to preach from the Bible 25:45 and to show us exactly 25:47 what the commandments of God require, 25:49 and if he were to preach the Gospel of Christ, 25:54 but I don't want to be critical of Pope Francis. 25:59 I think we've all got enough mistakes in our own lives 26:03 and enough of our own private sins. 26:07 But I believe that what is needed today, 26:10 the biggest need today in the Christian Church 26:12 is for people to teach the honest truth. 26:29 Jesus said, 26:31 "All authority has been given to Me 26:33 in heaven and on earth. 26:35 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, 26:39 baptizing them in the name of the Father 26:42 and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." 26:47 John Carter reports, 26:49 "We have seen God's power as the Gospel of Christ 26:52 has been proclaimed in Africa, 26:56 India, 26:58 Russia, 27:01 Ukraine, 27:04 Cuba, 27:07 El Salvador, and many other places. 27:10 We invite you to partner with us 27:14 in proclaiming Jesus Christ." 27:19 To God be the glory, 27:22 great things He has done. 27:27 Write today to the Carter Report, 27:30 P.O. 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