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I say very sincerely. I regret that I have to be negative just here and let no one charge us this evening with mud slinging very easy to make a charge like that. That after all, a statement of conviction is not mudslinging. I say two will not

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allow any man or any company of people to claim that she is in their grasp entirely. There is no monopoly of the truth. Rome claims that she's the only creature and thereby I suggest to you thereby she claims to a monopoly of the truth. She says

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she has unbroken succession from the ecclesia of Apostolic Times. Amy Gruner reminds us in his recent book, the misunderstanding of the church that he forgets that she has a rival who was the very best right can dispute its pretension, namely the Greek Orthodox church. It's incontestable.

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He says that this church has grown uninterruptedly out of the primitive church of Apostolic Times. I'm quoting that it has become separated from Rome means simply of course, from its own point of view that Rome has separated from it. Uh I hear the voice of external

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apology. There seems to be some dispute has anyone a monopoly of the two in Dr Rumble's booklet. Why you should be a Catholic. There's a chart which is published in other publications of the Roman Catholic church. And there, as you know, there's the main stem, she

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claims that she's the main stem. And from her, there has diverted, for instance, the Greek Orthodox church and all the other denominations. Again. Rua reminds us the Roman Catholic church has diverged from traditional Catholicism by a revolutionary process. Then he has the impudence to claim or

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to state that in the beginning when all Christians were subject to the Catholic church, it's not the truth. I notice further for instance that there's a claim laid that Rome is the true church and the 11th justification which Dr Rumble presents is ecclesiastical miracle and makes

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the statement that God grants the privilege of miracles to the Roman Catholic church, which is one thing to all other forms of religion. That's a lot. First of all, I find it that according to his statement, miracles refers to miracles of healing. And apparently the truth

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of this thing according to Rome is contained in what happens at Lourdes. And since 1855 God has performed it, stated over 3000 genuine miracles. My friend, I dare to say that every protestant minister in this building tonight can point to somebody with whom he's had association

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to his own church who has been healed miraculously by God. Not what I say and there are many men who will testify to the fact that we have not been able to do anything more and unruly, what has happened? Have they all been Roman Catholic? Hasn't

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the church of God, the reformed church prayed the prayer of faith. Haven't there been people healed in our days? I believe that we who profess to be Protestants need to examine the matter of divine healing. That's not heresy. I believe that every man who's in the

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Christian ministry who's within my hearing tonight would fully assent to the fact God does heal not by the stupid means that some people claim don't misunderstand me. There was no priest, there was no mass said when Rickenbacker and his friends were adrift in their two Roth

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in the Pacific Whitaker was an agnostic when the plane came down. He states today that he's a believer and he's been up and down the United States telling his story. He told the story after he got back to the United States of how God had saved

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them, how they prayed for water and God sent the rain, how they prayed for food and God gave them the fish. God gave them the bird and how did it happen? It happened because a few men, not professional ministers, not priests of religion. A few men

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who are in desperate need found that they had one thing in their possession, which was the most priceless thing they had even beyond their food. It was a copy of the New Testament. And with the New Testament, they read from God's own word and they prayed

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their simple prayer and God heard them, there is no monopoly of the truth. Yeah, no human being has the right to state that I have all the truth that God has entrusted me with the whole revelation and all others are wrong. Am I prepared to accept

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the statement that God is present in a Wafer? And I prepared to listen to external authority that says that by blessing the Wafer, it's transformed from the material into the actual body of Christ. External authority says it is. So I say I want the truth. I'm

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not prepared to accept any external authority. External authority says I must make confession of my sins to the priest that he has power to grant me absolution. I'm not satisfied. That is true. Where can I find truth? How may I find truth? I ask a second

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question. How may I find truth? Why do I want to find truth? That seems to me a very important question. Some people apparently want the truth so that they can monopolize it in a to claim power. And if there's one thing wrong with the Church of

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Rome, it is lusting for power, I can bear out what my friend Mr Judge said a little while ago concerning what happened in Quebec, I was in Canada just two years ago and in the province of Quebec members of my own denomination were not only persecuted

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but severely injured my members of the Roman Catholic faith because they preach in the open air. Why do I want truth? I say there are some apparently who want to claim that they have a monopoly of the truth because they want to state we are the

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people who are in authority. What we say is final. Why do I want to find truth? Why do you want to find truth? Can you answer that question? I can only be personal here. I want to find truth because my heart cries out for it. I

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want freedom for my sin and shame. I want deliverance from the bondage of sin. I want spiritual freedom. I want an authority over my life. That will be an authority to which I can say. Yes, gladly, I surrender my life gladly, I give myself to thee.

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Where do I find Him? How can I find God in my reason? No man's mind can never satisfy my heart. Can I find truth in the church? No, its pomp and ceremony leaves me cold. Why you can give me the most beautiful building and the most

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beautiful choir and the most beautiful organ and the finest preacher and the largest congregation. I'm not necessarily going to be satisfied. These things that I can see and feel and hear are not necessarily the things that will satisfy the longing of my heart. And I say,

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is there something, is there something lasting? Is there something positive? Is there something that I can grasp? And I start to read the New Testament and I read a word like this, the word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory, the

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glory. This is the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth. Race and truth came by Jesus Christ. And I say now, I think I'm finding it truth. I want truth, Jesus Christ full of grace and truth. And then as I read, I suddenly

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discovered the figure is rising up out of the book. And I hear him saying I am the way the truth and the life. And I say now I have it. Now I hear the voice of authority. Now I hear one who can satisfy my soul. And

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from this blessed book, I see him, I hear him and please God. If I'm earnestly seeking, I come and in the words of the hymn writer, I came to Jesus as I was weary and worn and sad, I found in him a resting place and has

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made me glad I found him out through the book. And remember beloved that the thing that freed me was not the book. It was the price of the book. But directly, I find the Christ of the book, I discover this, that he speaks to me again

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and again through it. And I come to that place where I say why this is the authority is the infallible guide to my faith and practice thing on which I read the word of the living God. And I want to say to you tonight, who with

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me make our protest at this moment against what we feel to be error. Let me say to you tonight, the thing we need to do is to be positive, of course, and to be positive, I suggest to you that the need of the world is the

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release of this method book. Am I right? I'll be perfectly frank with you. Thank God your attendance here tonight. I know there are a lot of people who would be here if they could. I think one of the troubles with us as Protestants is that we

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have a lot of Protestants who are anti Catholic, but they're not Protestants. I stand with my brethren in protest. But I believe the answer not only to Roman Catholicism, but the answer to communism, the answer to Muhammadanism, the answer to paganism is a positive message and

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let this book loose in the world and we who profess to be Protestants. Let's read the book, let's learn the book. Let's preach the book. Let's get the book to the people after all. What happened in the reformation, the lasting merit of the reformers. There is

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a writer was to recognize the scriptures and the power of the scriptures. The great importance of the word of Jesus Christ as the source of life of the Christian community, a Waldensian pastor who is a friend of mine with whom I had fellowship a few months

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ago has sovereign imprisonment 13 times for the sake of his faith in Italy. Let's not forget Italy's annoyance. Let's not forget our brethren there who suffer still for the faith. I can tell you one of these stories and other stories from personal experience. But let's remember

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that our Waldensian brethren through the centuries have been people of the book and therefore there, wherever they went, they kindled amongst the people. The desire to read the Bible wick, we must preach God's word and proclaim the gospel according to the scriptures, John Huss and his

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followers in Bohemia. The Bible was their ultimate authority. I noticed in the press that the Roman Catholic bishop who preached a couple of days ago urged the loyalty of the Roman Catholic church to go out and to proclaim their faith to the people of the land.

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By the love of the tragedy. Is this that the Roman Catholic layman can't lead a soul to Jesus Christ. No, I OK. Can he leave the soul to Jesus Christ? Hear tonight and say my friend, all you have to do is to confess your kids, believe

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in Jesus Christ as your risen savior, go out and take the book and be guided in your, in your life and in your faith by the book. Am I right? The glory, the glory of our faith is this that you my friend. If you're a believer

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in the Lord Jesus Christ, you have the right of access to this book, you have the right to give this book to your friends. You have right to pray over this book. You have the right to speak your friend concerning Jesus Christ. You have the right

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to win your friend for Jesus Christ. And the protestant army can win a failure for Christ if it wakes up. And I say again it through the word of the living God, let the Bible loose in your own heart, learn it by heart, quote it, write

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it, give it to your friends, give copies of it to your friends. The world is in desperate need tonight and only God can save us from catastrophe. And we can only be used by God as we know the book and as we preach the book and

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above all, as we present the Christ of the book, two men were walking over the starred battlefield during the first World War, they were climbing likely. And as they walked together, talking, the one man put his hand on the arm of the other did stop and

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he pointed up the hill. He said, look all around devastating, not a thing standing but right on the top, there was a cop, it was a crucifix, it was impressed. But there in the dim light all that could be seen wisely crop. The man said to

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his friend, the plus one. And that's the answer to the world's need tonight. The cross of Jesus Christ. By then I wonder if you come to that cross? I said I wanted to be positive and I believe this is the best answer to Rome. The best

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answer I repeat to communism. The best answer to Muhammadanism. The best answer to any other is in the world, the cross of Jesus Christ. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth will draw all men unto me. And if you haven't been to the

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cross friend, I'm afraid, I'm afraid that you have no place in his kingdom. I register my protest at what's being taught in this city at this moment. What being displayed before the mind of the public. I spent little time in speaking about it. But you've heard

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already. But I say this to you in conclusion, rise up o men of God have done with lesser things. Give heart and soul and mind and strength to serve the king of kings live by the cross of Christ. Pray where his feet of trod as brothers

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of the son of man. Rise up. Oh my God and my beloved. You who belong to the reformed churches, many of the denominations have called their members to a great campaign of evangelism. I believe in revival. And I believe what our churches need is a touch

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of the living God and please God, we shall see real revival. And if we experience revival, we shall not be concerned about what's happening for revival of sweep the land. And instead of during the Congress, I hit a great defense. Instead of during the Congress, the

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parties being held and gambling being engaged in by people who are professionally with the group, the bars will be empty and the young people will be brought up in an atmosphere of purity, an atmosphere which is truly Christian at a price. Our father in heaven. In

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this moment, we remember the thou art love and we would ask you to fill our hearts a flesh with thy divine love. We pray that thou help us to love those who oppose us all the support for those who persecuted that our father. We pray tonight

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that we may have a passion for the truth to that end by Jesus Christ, be crowned as Lord in our lives tonight. And may our convictions be such that we should gladly suffer and die if need be for the sake of Him who loved us and

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gave himself for us, wilt thou baptize this land with the power of the Holy Ghost. Our God revived our work in the midst of the years. We defeat thee and granted this army of men and women, young adults may go out into this community determined to

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let loose the word of the living God determined to uplift the cross of Christ. And we believe that I will honor and thou will save me. It is because of the incomparable name of Jesus Christ, the Son of

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God because we have been it with God through Jesus Christ, his son because he has imparted to us divine grace because we have been brought into the fellowship of his living church because we recognize that he is the son of God, the only Savior of the

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soul and the sole sovereign of the saved society, which is called the church. It is because of these things and all that are implied in these things that we have gathered in this church tonight. Just over 12 months ago, I was in the city of Berlin

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among a company of evangelical Christians, some from behind the iron curtain and come from behind an ecclesiastical curtain. So they were from Italy, they were from Spain and they were from Portugal as well as from various parts of Western Germany and the Soviet controlled portions of

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Germany. And as I stood with them and joined in singing, I in my tongue and they in the tongue wherein they were born, the great hymn of the Reformation written by Martin Luther. A safe Shall hold our God is till there was an emotion and a

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thrill through my spirit that I think I have really experienced in all my Christian life. One has to trig in the footsteps of those who suffered for their faith in Christ. One has to stand in such spots where I have stood in Britain and on the

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continent of Europe, we not two or three or two or three score or two or 300 but several thousands of people paid with their lives for their faith in Jesus Christ. One has to be in such places to feel humbled and subdued and somewhat disgusted with

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oneself and disappointed with one's fellows in this free land of Australia that we take so much for granted. We as Christian believers who are called evangelicals called Protestants should never even open the covers of the word of God without remembering that the privilege that is ours

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to open that sacred book and to read there in the truths of God that this privilege was brought for, for us at a very great pride coming back to this land, having traveled through lands where there is suffering and intimidation and persecution because people believe and

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express the belief that you and I believe and so rarely express our belief outside of our church and outside of our Christian organizations, experiencing these things makes one somewhat disturbed that we in this great land of Australia, we evangelicals, we Protestants are not more definite and

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explicit and clear in our witness than we are those people who imagine that these meetings to be a negative kind of thing, just a protest against something that somebody else is doing that we dislike and therefore we're annoyed about it have completely misinterpreted this series of

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meetings. This series of meetings is nothing left and nothing else than a witness to Jesus Christ, the Son of God. It is that we might come to the word of God and hearing that word of God expounded or explained to us may go out to translate

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into action, the principles of the Christian faith. It is for that purpose. That is the supreme purpose of this gathering of people together night by night. In these series of meetings, the principles that came into light in the ages that we call the dark ages came

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by way of what we call the Protestant reformation. These principles were no break of continuity with the genuine church of all ages. The Protestant reformation stands in lineal continuity of the best episodic success all the ages. The one way to prove and the quickest way to

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prove whether a line is straight or crooked is to put a rule alongside that line. And the one way to test alleged Christian doctrine and Christian practice is to put the one rule alongside it. And that rule is the word of God. That is the case.

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Our honored friend, art Beacon Hammond, whose leadership and help in the evangelical life of Australia, not alone of Sydney, we all appreciate said in this church the other night, I was not present but saw the report of it that the doctrine of transubstantiation did not become

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an article of faith with the Roman Catholic church until after the ninth century. That of course, is an exact statement from an exact scholar. But had it come into the stream of Christian testimony in the first century of the Christian church, it would then have been

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what it is now a monstrous manmade myth without the ghost of a shadow of substance, of authority in the word of God for that manmade myth. And we in exalting Jesus Christ and in proclaiming the evangelical faith as contained in the word of God must of

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necessity, putting that rule of scripture alongside any statements alleged to the Christian statement come back from such examination saying if they speak not according to this word, it is because the truth is not in them for any person or any institution to dare to declare that

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it has the authority of God to come between the soul of God, the soul and God is an outrageous impertinence and a defamation of the crown rights of Jesus Christ. Every individual's coal has right of direct and immediate access to God through faith in Jesus Christ

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and no such and no d man and no prescription proclaimed as authoritative by an ecclesiastical system of whatever kind or whatever name has any right to say to any soul only through me and only in this way, can you come to God? There is no mediator

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between God and Man, save Jesus Christ, the undated sovereignty of Jesus Christ makes it forever impossible for his saving grace to be manipulated by any system. One is our Pontiff and his name is Jesus, the only possible savior of the soul and the sole head of

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the church. I'm sure it is in the hearts of all in this assembly tonight as it is in mine, in the hearts of thousands and tens of thousands of protestant believers throughout Australia that this week of witness will not finish with this meeting, but it will

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go on to live who have been touched and influenced.