about three or four years ago I was in the nation of Guyana how many of you
know where Guyana is that's more than I would have thought I won't ask you to
tell me where it is but I was in Guyana helping to conduct an election and I got
very ill and so I had a young female medical doctor from Johns Hopkins
University who went down there with me to take care of me in a place that didn't
have good doctors she thought anyway she told me I needed to go home and I wasn't
about to abandon the election process so I said no I'm not going and so she
finally sent me to a hospital in Georgetown which is the capital of the
country and a
doctor there convinced me by other arguments that I should go home he said
if I stayed in Guyana I was gonna make 200 Guyana's sick because I had a
terrible disease it was quite contagious he told me and I had to go home so I
went back to Atlanta to Emory University where I get my medical treatment most of
it and they did an examination on me and found that I had cancer in my liver and
they removed a good part of my liver and then I thought I was all okay and then
they did a brain scan and the doctors when I was on the way home from the
hospital to Plains to resume my normal life the doctor called me on the phone
and said they found four cancers in my brain so I assumed naturally that I was going to die very quickly
And I obviously prayed about it.
I didn't ask God to let me live, but I just asked God to give me proper attitude toward death.
And I found that I was absolutely and completely at ease with death.
It didn't really matter to me whether I died or lived,
except I was going to miss my family and miss the work at the Carter Center
and miss teaching in Sunday school sometimes and so forth, all those delightful things.
So anyway, that's what happened.
So I have, since that time, been absolutely confident
that my Christian faith includes complete confidence in life after death.
So I'm going to live again.
After I die, I don't know what form I'll take or anything,
but I have confidence that there is a God, that He's all-powerful,
that He keeps His promises and He promises life after death.
And also, I'm...
a Christian, and I believe in Jesus Christ having been raised from the dead.
And if Jesus Christ was, Jesus told us that we could also be raised from the dead.
So you see, that's what I've gone through.
So the thing I want to convince all of you is,
if you have any doubt about life after death, forget the doubts
and ask God to let you have complete faith that you're going to live again after death
if you believe in Jesus Christ.
And that is a basic tenet of the religion of Christianity.
And it's encompassed by Catholicism and by Protestantism
and by all the different kinds of Christianity.
So if God does exist, and I presume that every one of you believes that God does exist,
does that mean that there's life after death?
Yes.
And if you are a Christian, is there life after death?
The answer is yes.
There's no question about it.
And for those who have doubted in the past, like I have, almost all my life,
just be reassured that you have a wonderful, eternal life to look forward to.
Thank you.
Thank you.