Welcome to 3ABN's
Fall Camp Meeting,
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Homecoming 2009.
Featuring inspired messages
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from your 3ABN Family.
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Along with uplifting
Christian music all to prepare
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your heart for the
coming of the Lord.
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Its my privilege now to
introduce my sister Tammy
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and she is going to be
singing a beautiful song.
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"More than wonderful," right?
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Okay, thank you Tammy.
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You look pretty this morning.
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Thank you. How am I doing?
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Real good. Pretty
good as a brother. Alright.
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Can you think of
anything else you want to say?
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Well, that's enough right now.
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Well, I got him
going, let's just you know..
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That's, that's
enough for now but I do
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appreciate you
and appreciate Bruce
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and your dedication
to this ministry and
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most of all your
dedication to the Lord.
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Thank you, I
appreciate you and love you too.
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He promised us that
He would be a counselor
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A Mighty God and
the Prince of Peace
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He promised us that
He would be a Father
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And love us with a
love that would not cease.
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I tried Him and I
found His promises are true
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He is everything He
said that He would be.
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The finest words I
know could not begin to tell
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Just what Jesus
really means to me.
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For He's more wonderful
than my mind can conceive
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He's more wonderful
than my heart can believe
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He goes beyond my highest
hopes and fondest dreams.
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He's everything that
my soul ever longed for
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He is Everything He's
promised and so much more
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He is more than
amazing, more than marvelous,
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more than
miraculous could ever be
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He's more than wonderful,
that's what Jesus is to me.
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I stand amazed when I
think the King of glory
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would come to live
within the heart of man.
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And I marvel just to
know He really loves me
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When I think of who
He is, and who I am.
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For He is more wonderful
than my mind can conceive
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He's more wonderful
than my heart can believe
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He goes beyond my highest
hopes and fondest dreams.
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He's everything that
my soul ever longed for
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He is everything He's
promised and so much more
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He is more than
amazing, more than marvelous,
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More than
miraculous could ever be
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He is more than wonderful,
that's what Jesus is to me.
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He's everything that
my soul ever longed for
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He is everything He's
promised and so much more
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He is More than
amazing, more than marvelous,
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More than
miraculous could ever be
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He's more than
wonderful, more than wonderful,
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that's what
Jesus is to me, to me.
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Amen, thank you Tammy.
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I would like to
introduce our speaker,
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which though you don't
know him most of you do,
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maybe some of
our viewing audience
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are not familiar
with Elder Jim Gilley.
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And I just want to say
that I love Jim and Camilla
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and their family
and what a blessing
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they have been and
if you appreciate them
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I would like to
hear a hearty Amen
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for them right now. Amen!
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And they have been in
ministry for many many years.
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I won't spend a lot
of time on the background
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but Jim's heart and his love
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and Camilla's for evangelism
is for the saving of souls.
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They have also, he
spent many years in business.
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He is a great administrator
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and I just
praise the Lord that God
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has brought him
here on his timing.
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He has asked me to
sing a song this morning
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and the song that I
will attempt to do with God's
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help is one that always
brings back and moves me
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with compassion
because when the Lord
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impressed in 1984
to build a station
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that would reach the world
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with an undiluted
three angels messages.
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One that would
counteract the counterfeit.
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We used to go out,
we just had a shell of
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a building put up
and we would go out
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every Sabbath by
faith we didn't have money
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coming in that we knew
of, never knew for sure.
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We by faith said the
Lord is going to turn this
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building into something
that's winning souls for him.
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So we would go out
and just be concrete
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and rough shell,
you could still see the
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2X4s on the inside and
look up and see the roof.
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But we would go out
every Sabbath when we were home
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hold hands with
a group of family
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and people from local church
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and area and once in
while visitors coming by
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and we would sing
this song "holy ground."
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I feel like today
3ABN is still holy ground.
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As I walked through the
door I sensed his presence
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And I knew this was the
place where love abounds
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For this is the
temple Jehovah God abides in
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we are standing in your
presence Lord On holy ground
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We are standing on holy ground
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And I know that
there are angels all around
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Let us praise, Let
us praise our Jesus now
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we are standing in his
presence on holy ground.
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In his presence
there is joy beyond measure
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And at his feet peace
of mind can still be found
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We need that don't we.
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If you have a need,
our God has the answer
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Reach out and
claim it for child you
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are standing On holy ground
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We are standing on holy ground
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Thank you Jesus.
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And I know, sing it
with me you know it.
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There are angels all around.
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Let's shake the rafters.
Let us praise Jesus now,
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we are standing in his presence
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On holy ground.
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Why don't we stand on
our feet and sing this.
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We are standing on holy ground
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And I know there
are angels all around
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Let us praise, let
us praise Jesus now,
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we are standing in his presence
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we are standing in his presence
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we are standing in his presence
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On holy ground
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How many of you
feel that today you feel
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the Holy Spirit here today?
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God bless you can be seated.
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We are standing in his presence
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and this is truly holy ground.
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My first time here at
3ABN I was at the worship,
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where I met the staff
and they sang that song
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and I had some loafers on,
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I usually wear loafers
and I could not stay in them.
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I slipped them off
and stood bare footed
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on holy ground
and I believe that God
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that has used this
holy ground to reach
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as many souls as he
has ever reached any
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other way throughout
all of this world's history.
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And I believe that
with all of my heart.
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Shall we bow our heads and pray.
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Father in heaven lay
some soul upon my heart
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and love that soul through me.
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And may we humbly
do our part to win
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that soul for thee. Amen.
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Father we pray today
that Jesus will be uplifted
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in every way, in his
name we ask it. Amen.
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You have your Bibles,
turn with me to Joshua
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and you can keep your
Bibles opened in Joshua,
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if you have
them, because we may be
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looking at some
other text but we will
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come back from
time time to the book
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of Joshua, which is
our main text for today.
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And we are going to
begin reading with verse 5,
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Joshua the first
chapter and verse 5.
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No man shall be
able to stand before
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you all the days of your life.
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These are the words
of God Jehovah to Joshua
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right after the death of Moses.
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He says, as I was with Moses
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so I will be with you.
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I will not leave
you nor forsake you.
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Be strong and have good courage,
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for to this people
you should divide as an
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inheritance the
land which I swore
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to the fathers to give them.
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Only be strong and
very courageous that you
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may observe to do
according to all the law
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which Moses, my
servant commanded you.
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Do not turn from
it, to the right hand
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or to the left hand
that you may prosper
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wherever you go.
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Verse 8, the book of
the law shall not depart
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from your mouth but you
shall meditate in it day
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and night that
you may observe to do
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according to all
that is written in it.
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For then you will
make your way prosperous
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and then you will
have good success.
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Have I not commanded you?
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Be strong and of good courage.
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Do not be afraid nor be dismayed
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for the Lord your God is
with you wherever you go.
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We had just gone to
the North American division
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a few months before.
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I had gone there
as Vice President,
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Camilla and I
have been serving in
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Arkansas,
Louisiana, we I've been
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the conference President.
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Been an unfortunate situation,
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the condominium in
which we were living
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and it was, there
were three town houses
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that were connected together.
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The man in the
middle had a fire.
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He burned
everything in his place,
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which didn't bother
us too bad but then it
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burned our place
and our neighbor on
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the other side which
bothered us tremendously
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and it bothered us
when he lost his too,
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I'm only kidding.
But he did set the fire,
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accidental, but he and
his inebriated condition.
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It would not have
happened had he been sober.
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Lets put it that way.
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It was a horrible situation.
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You know God
works sometimes miracles
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out of things like that.
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We saw so many
miracles take place.
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We did by the way; we
salvaged a few things.
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We salvaged some clothes
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and we sent them
to the cleaners to get
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the smoke smell out.
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And then when
Camilla went to pick them up,
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they said well we
don't do the cleaning here,
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we do it over at our other plant
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and they said that plant burned.
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So we were not
supposed to have those clothes.
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I'm assured of that.
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Shortly after that the
North American division
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called us to come and
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for me to serve
as Vice President.
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Well, I told Elder
Schneider I will be
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one of the cheapest
moves you've ever had because
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we don't have anything to move.
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I salvaged one
chair, other things that we
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salvaged were
somewhere else usually they were
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in storage or at my office.
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And so we went to North America
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and we immediately
enjoyed working with
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Pastor Don Schneider,
such a tremendous man.
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If you ever have the opportunity
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to work with Don
Schneider you do it
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because he is such a
wonderful Christian man.
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And we were there a few months
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and they told us we
want you to go to Bermuda
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for the weekend and
we want you to conduct
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the constituency meeting there.
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Now I had never been to Bermuda
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and they said
since you have never been
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we want you to go.
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See they didn't
tell me how hard you work
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when you go out like
that and I pretty well
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knew it wouldn't
be just real easy but
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this was a real assignment.
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When you got there, we got there
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on Thursday
evening, Thursday afternoon
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and we had a few
minutes to look around.
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Friday, we were
pretty busy and Friday night
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we spoke, Sabbath
morning we spoke at least once
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and then Sabbath afternoon,
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Sabbath evening whisper time
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and then the
meeting actually began that
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Saturday night and
for the constituency
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and then all day Sunday.
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By the way you know
preaching is not easy,
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it's hard. I heard a
preacher say that's right.
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Sometimes the
people of congregation said
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listening to us it's
not easy either you know.
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And particularly sometimes,
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but you know I
was tired when we got
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through with that meeting.
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I was really tired and
there have been sort of
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a hurricane, sort of
flooding over the island
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and they had
canceled some flights
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and they called us and they said
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now we are going
to be flying tomorrow
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but we did cancel
some flights today
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and you can stay an
extra day if you would like,
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we really need your seat
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and I looked at Camilla
and she said lets go home
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and I said lets go home.
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I have learned to
say the same thing
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that my wife says.
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So we got on the
plane on the next morning
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and we flew to the New York city
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but because of the
weather our plane was late
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and we missed our connection
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from JFK down to Baltimore.
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Now that leg of the
trip was on one of these
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little prop planes.
So it was one of those
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commuter aircraft and it was not
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we missed the first one,
00:21:02.43\00:21:04.00
the second one was canceled,
00:21:04.00\00:21:06.10
something
happened to the third one.
00:21:06.60\00:21:08.60
And then it was almost midnight
00:21:09.30\00:21:12.10
and they said for a
little while we are going
00:21:12.30\00:21:14.73
to bus you down there.
00:21:14.73\00:21:16.56
We could already
made it down there twice
00:21:17.06\00:21:18.93
in buses if we had gone earlier.
00:21:18.93\00:21:20.66
But, now they said
we are going to bus you,
00:21:21.33\00:21:24.40
then they said no we
have another flight going.
00:21:24.40\00:21:26.73
So, we got on that plane
00:21:26.73\00:21:27.83
and went out to the runway
00:21:28.36\00:21:29.56
before we did
that. I told Camilla,
00:21:29.56\00:21:31.46
I said you know our daughter Amy
00:21:31.46\00:21:33.00
lives in the East Village.
00:21:34.03\00:21:35.40
They said that we
can spend the night if
00:21:35.86\00:21:38.13
we want, they will
take us out first thing
00:21:38.13\00:21:40.86
in the morning and why don't we
00:21:40.86\00:21:43.30
go see Amy, be a free trip.
00:21:43.30\00:21:45.33
She said lets go home.
00:21:46.76\00:21:48.16
So we started for
home, got on that last plane.
00:21:51.36\00:21:55.36
Went out to the
runway sat there,
00:21:55.90\00:21:58.10
it had been storming,
00:21:58.10\00:21:59.50
raining and then it
quit and it cleared up.
00:22:00.06\00:22:06.06
And all of a sudden was
a beautiful clear night.
00:22:06.66\00:22:12.46
We sat on the
runway for a long time
00:22:14.03\00:22:15.73
before we were
cleared to take off.
00:22:15.73\00:22:18.16
By the time we took
off it was after midnight,
00:22:18.73\00:22:21.46
we were already
in a whole new day
00:22:22.70\00:22:24.50
and as we flew out
early morning September 11th.
00:22:26.70\00:22:32.96
We flew between
the Statue of Liberty
00:22:34.80\00:22:38.03
and the Twin Towers.
00:22:39.20\00:22:40.46
Camilla was kind of dozing,
00:22:42.20\00:22:44.93
she had the window
seat and I was looking out
00:22:44.93\00:22:48.06
and I never
really honestly liked
00:22:48.66\00:22:51.16
the Twin Towers.
00:22:51.36\00:22:52.73
I was totally loyal to
the Empire State Building.
00:22:53.26\00:22:59.13
When I was growing up
the Empire State Building
00:23:00.76\00:23:03.10
was the tallest
building in the world
00:23:03.10\00:23:05.36
and it really it
was so symmetrical.
00:23:05.60\00:23:08.53
It was right there in
the middle of Manhattan
00:23:08.53\00:23:10.66
and all the
other buildings kind of
00:23:10.66\00:23:12.40
look like they
were bowing down to it
00:23:12.40\00:23:14.36
and then all of a
sudden these two ugly modern
00:23:14.36\00:23:17.83
looking towers
went up down at the end
00:23:17.83\00:23:20.50
in Manhattan and
it ruined the skyline
00:23:20.50\00:23:24.10
of the New York city, I thought.
00:23:24.10\00:23:25.70
You know something.
00:23:27.73\00:23:28.73
That night I
nudged her and I said look
00:23:29.70\00:23:32.33
at there those
towers are beautiful,
00:23:32.33\00:23:37.20
beautiful and they
glistened in the night.
00:23:38.70\00:23:44.00
And it was the last night
00:23:45.56\00:23:47.16
anyone ever saw them.
00:23:48.23\00:23:49.76
That next
morning, a phone call came,
00:23:50.73\00:23:54.60
turn on the television
00:23:55.43\00:23:56.66
and we did about the
time to see that second plane
00:23:57.46\00:24:02.26
hit whether it
was recorded or live
00:24:02.26\00:24:04.53
I never quite
understood but we saw it.
00:24:04.53\00:24:08.36
And I said to Camilla,
00:24:09.23\00:24:10.80
life will never be the
same again. I promise you,
00:24:12.20\00:24:18.00
it will never
be like it has been
00:24:18.60\00:24:21.33
and it has not so far has it.
00:24:22.00\00:24:24.50
When you look at all
the different impacts
00:24:24.76\00:24:26.70
that this has had, the economy
00:24:26.70\00:24:28.86
and the world wide
political situation
00:24:28.86\00:24:31.76
and all of the different things
00:24:31.76\00:24:33.23
that came out of 9/11.
00:24:33.23\00:24:35.73
My friend it has
really been a dramatic time.
00:24:36.20\00:24:39.53
We spent a lot
of time in New York,
00:24:39.53\00:24:42.60
of course
immediately concerned about
00:24:42.60\00:24:44.23
our daughter who was teaching
00:24:44.23\00:24:46.13
off in the South Bronx
00:24:46.13\00:24:48.00
and there was no
transportation home.
00:24:48.00\00:24:50.33
She had to walk, I
think it was like 8 miles
00:24:50.33\00:24:54.90
carrying her shoes.
00:24:56.73\00:24:58.66
Because they were,
had lost their comfort,
00:24:59.86\00:25:02.90
walking back, she was
almost within the shadows
00:25:04.50\00:25:08.90
of those Twin
Towers where she lived
00:25:08.90\00:25:10.70
in the East Village.
00:25:10.70\00:25:11.66
Inside of the line
that they had drawn
00:25:12.53\00:25:15.43
that only those who
lived inside could go inside,
00:25:16.03\00:25:19.46
and there she
was. She was going back
00:25:20.90\00:25:24.93
because her dog was there,
00:25:25.96\00:25:27.63
her little dog was
back at that apartment.
00:25:28.80\00:25:31.66
You know we were concerned,
00:25:32.86\00:25:34.80
we couldn't reach her.
00:25:35.46\00:25:36.80
Cell phone service
was out and there was just
00:25:36.80\00:25:40.00
really no way to be in touch.
00:25:40.00\00:25:41.73
Concerned about
not only her safety
00:25:42.83\00:25:47.30
which we always are but
how is she handling this?
00:25:47.30\00:25:51.30
The concern was strong.
00:25:51.66\00:25:55.66
Then we heard
about the one night
00:25:56.26\00:25:58.13
there nearest in
Washington DC and
00:25:58.13\00:26:00.20
then the plane that
crashed down in Pennsylvania
00:26:00.70\00:26:02.93
and we knew that we were at war,
00:26:04.20\00:26:08.06
whether we really
as a nation wanted
00:26:09.23\00:26:12.50
to be at war or not.
00:26:12.50\00:26:14.93
What a time? You know
we are living in a day
00:26:16.66\00:26:19.66
when things of
this nature are going
00:26:19.66\00:26:22.90
to become common in time.
00:26:22.90\00:26:25.13
We are living in a time
when things are failing,
00:26:25.83\00:26:28.26
we listened last
night as John talked about
00:26:28.26\00:26:30.76
the financial world and
all the different crisis
00:26:30.76\00:26:33.30
of the financial world
and every once in a while
00:26:33.30\00:26:35.46
we get a little ray
of hope that maybe things
00:26:35.46\00:26:37.90
are going to be better.
00:26:37.90\00:26:39.16
But, we know deep
with in our hearts folks
00:26:39.16\00:26:42.60
that we are
headed for trouble times.
00:26:43.40\00:26:47.10
We are headed for a
time that's gonna to test
00:26:48.26\00:26:51.90
every single one of us.
00:26:52.33\00:26:55.93
I really enjoy
hearing Julia tell about
00:26:57.30\00:26:59.80
the work in Russia and we spend
00:27:00.06\00:27:02.33
a lot of time in
the former Soviet Union.
00:27:02.33\00:27:04.33
Camilla and I did,
some of it before 1991
00:27:04.33\00:27:07.66
or in the 1991 region
before communism fell.
00:27:07.66\00:27:11.43
And we have seen
first hand so much
00:27:12.16\00:27:15.60
of what happened as
a result of the fall of
00:27:16.10\00:27:19.00
the communism and the
impact that it had upon
00:27:19.00\00:27:21.80
the citizens of the country.
00:27:21.80\00:27:23.36
And I remember it very
specifically, one lady,
00:27:23.36\00:27:26.16
she was a
doctor, had just retired.
00:27:27.50\00:27:30.86
Had her retirement
for the rest of her life
00:27:31.96\00:27:35.60
and then the
retirement system failed.
00:27:37.00\00:27:41.20
There was no check in the mail.
00:27:42.40\00:27:45.76
You folks think about it,
00:27:47.56\00:27:49.10
how would that hit you?
00:27:50.30\00:27:51.83
You worked all your life,
00:27:53.23\00:27:54.66
you contributed to
the social security,
00:27:55.33\00:27:57.30
you put your money there.
00:27:57.30\00:27:58.96
I remember when I got
my social security card
00:27:58.96\00:28:01.26
I was like 12 years
old and I went down because
00:28:01.26\00:28:04.23
I had a little job as a janitor
00:28:04.23\00:28:07.73
and they said you have to
00:28:08.63\00:28:09.76
have a social security card.
00:28:09.76\00:28:10.93
So, I went down to
the social security office
00:28:10.93\00:28:12.80
to get a social security card.
00:28:12.80\00:28:14.36
Got the card and the
lady told me clearly,
00:28:14.93\00:28:18.93
she said every
time you work they take
00:28:18.93\00:28:22.80
some money out and
they put it in a box.
00:28:22.80\00:28:26.30
I remember, your money,
00:28:29.06\00:28:31.90
boy blessed her
heart. Who had ever told
00:28:34.60\00:28:36.46
her that I wonder,
00:28:36.46\00:28:37.56
does she really
thought she was telling
00:28:38.90\00:28:41.43
and that money is
yours for retirement.
00:28:41.43\00:28:45.33
And I started working,
12 years old as a janitor
00:28:45.86\00:28:50.00
few weeks later they fired me.
00:28:51.33\00:28:52.80
But, you know you win
some and you lose some right.
00:28:52.80\00:28:57.73
But, at least I had a
social security card now.
00:28:59.83\00:29:03.30
But, what happens if
the check quits coming.
00:29:05.56\00:29:09.66
I remember this
doctor, she had no income now
00:29:10.23\00:29:14.13
and she had this little
place out in the country
00:29:15.56\00:29:19.90
but that's all she had,
00:29:21.03\00:29:22.40
just a small plotted land
00:29:22.40\00:29:23.96
and I said to
her, how are you going
00:29:25.10\00:29:28.36
to make it? She
said I don't know.
00:29:28.36\00:29:30.03
Now I preached on tithing
00:29:30.03\00:29:31.93
and I had talked
about how if people
00:29:33.46\00:29:36.06
would tithe that God
would honor their faith
00:29:36.06\00:29:38.86
and I believe it with all
of my heart I believe that.
00:29:38.86\00:29:41.90
Some of those
people had a very difficult
00:29:42.60\00:29:44.63
time accepting
that, in fact I would say
00:29:44.63\00:29:47.00
that most of those who
had not been Seventh-Day
00:29:47.00\00:29:50.63
Adventists for a long
time or who were not yet
00:29:50.63\00:29:53.56
Adventists could
not accept that at all.
00:29:54.16\00:29:56.90
But, this lady
did and she came to me
00:29:57.70\00:30:01.60
and she said I
don't know how but I am
00:30:02.33\00:30:04.40
going to be true to God
and I am going to tithe.
00:30:04.40\00:30:07.30
Went back there the next year,
00:30:08.30\00:30:10.00
said how are you doing?
She said I am doing well.
00:30:10.00\00:30:12.70
Next year how are you
doing? I am doing fine.
00:30:12.70\00:30:15.66
And then she told me
she said I prayed to God,
00:30:17.30\00:30:21.46
so I am going to start,
00:30:21.46\00:30:22.80
she said my
daughter lost her job
00:30:26.10\00:30:27.06
we had my granddaughter,
00:30:27.06\00:30:28.10
my daughter and myself
with no income whatsoever.
00:30:28.10\00:30:31.53
No way to make
it, no savings nothing
00:30:32.66\00:30:35.10
and she said I had, I prayed
00:30:36.26\00:30:39.06
and said Lord give me
a way of making ends meet
00:30:39.06\00:30:45.06
and she said a
thought came to me
00:30:45.96\00:30:47.43
I believe it came from God,
00:30:47.43\00:30:48.93
he said grow
flowers, in that little land,
00:30:48.93\00:30:53.80
now one of the most
beautiful customs of
00:30:54.63\00:30:56.66
the people in
Ukraine is giving of flowers,
00:30:56.66\00:31:00.20
if they go to eat
with somebody or go to see
00:31:01.70\00:31:04.90
somebody they take them flowers,
00:31:04.90\00:31:07.73
its beautiful when you
preach there they bring
00:31:08.36\00:31:10.90
you flowers and
they give them to you,
00:31:10.90\00:31:14.43
you know the first
time that they brought me
00:31:15.00\00:31:17.30
flowers I honestly I
wasn't accustomed to that.
00:31:17.30\00:31:20.80
You took flowers to
women but you didn't
00:31:21.63\00:31:23.70
bring flowers
to an ugly old guy,
00:31:23.70\00:31:26.10
I mean you know and what are you
00:31:26.10\00:31:29.50
supposed to do with them.
00:31:29.50\00:31:30.93
You know and they
bring all these flowers
00:31:31.86\00:31:36.16
but I soon began to
see, it was a gesture of love
00:31:37.83\00:31:41.06
and what you did
you would be preaching
00:31:42.03\00:31:43.53
and somebody
bring you some flowers
00:31:43.53\00:31:45.06
so you take them and you
hold them for a little bit
00:31:45.06\00:31:47.50
you don't have to
hold them forever,
00:31:47.50\00:31:49.10
but you treat
those flowers with love
00:31:49.10\00:31:51.70
and respect because they were
00:31:51.70\00:31:53.30
given out of love and respect.
00:31:53.30\00:31:55.93
And then I would lay
them on usually a chair
00:31:56.83\00:32:00.50
and then others
would come and you put them
00:32:01.30\00:32:04.46
on a chair and you
know the amazing thing as
00:32:04.46\00:32:07.80
she said I don't care
how bad the economy gets
00:32:07.80\00:32:11.23
people still buy
flowers, she said my daughter,
00:32:12.10\00:32:16.90
my granddaughter and
I have made more money
00:32:17.30\00:32:21.30
than I ever made as a physician,
00:32:22.30\00:32:24.03
physicians aren't
paid like physicians are
00:32:25.80\00:32:29.26
here in the country,
they are all the same
00:32:29.26\00:32:32.43
as just about
anyone else but she said
00:32:32.43\00:32:36.33
I am doing better.
God honored her faith
00:32:36.33\00:32:41.70
and you know
that's what God does,
00:32:42.53\00:32:44.00
he honors faith and
that is what he was telling
00:32:44.00\00:32:47.33
Joshua I will honor your faith,
00:32:47.33\00:32:51.00
I will honor it, I promise you
00:32:52.20\00:32:55.66
that I will honor faith.
00:32:56.30\00:32:59.06
There is something
else that he honors
00:32:59.33\00:33:01.33
and that is courage
he tells us be courageous
00:33:01.33\00:33:04.20
when you look at
Joshua, Joshua had many
00:33:04.20\00:33:06.83
reasons to be
afraid and God mentions
00:33:06.83\00:33:09.46
three times here
right off four times total,
00:33:09.46\00:33:13.86
be strong and
be of good courage,
00:33:14.10\00:33:17.80
why because Joshua was afraid,
00:33:19.10\00:33:22.26
you know God
doesn't tell him fear not
00:33:23.56\00:33:25.36
if you are not afraid,
00:33:25.36\00:33:26.33
but fear is an
emotion that God understands
00:33:26.33\00:33:30.26
but God will not
and cannot work in fear.
00:33:30.26\00:33:33.40
Because fear focuses on
self and fear focuses on Satan,
00:33:34.20\00:33:40.03
faith focuses on God
and focuses away from self.
00:33:40.90\00:33:48.20
Moses is dead and
you know something God
00:33:48.20\00:33:51.90
many times he
wants to remove from us
00:33:51.90\00:33:54.50
anything that we
are depended upon,
00:33:54.50\00:33:56.50
Joshua was depended upon Moses,
00:33:57.13\00:33:58.80
he had been the
second man to Moses.
00:33:59.50\00:34:01.16
God had spoken
directly to Moses,
00:34:01.46\00:34:03.86
God had given so much
to Moses as revelation
00:34:05.00\00:34:09.70
and now Joshua is being told
00:34:10.80\00:34:14.46
you are now to be the leader.
00:34:14.83\00:34:16.90
Now they had been
here before there are
00:34:18.10\00:34:20.30
standing in a
raging river, you know
00:34:20.30\00:34:21.83
God doesn't ask them
to go when the river is
00:34:21.83\00:34:24.30
low he asked him to
go when its actually
00:34:24.30\00:34:27.43
at flood level,
all the water is coming
00:34:27.43\00:34:31.36
out of the North
and there's very, once
00:34:31.36\00:34:34.03
or twice in the whole year
00:34:34.03\00:34:36.33
when it is at flood level,
00:34:36.33\00:34:37.90
God doesn't always
ask us to do something
00:34:39.46\00:34:42.23
when its easy, it
was not going to be easy
00:34:42.53\00:34:45.73
to walk across the Jordan,
00:34:45.73\00:34:46.93
there were times when
it would have been easy
00:34:46.93\00:34:48.96
to walk across it.
00:34:48.96\00:34:50.20
But, now it was at
it's most difficult,
00:34:51.50\00:34:54.56
not only that but
the children had been
00:34:55.20\00:34:57.36
there before,
they had been there and
00:34:57.36\00:35:00.53
failed and God
knows that they are there
00:35:00.53\00:35:06.70
and Joshua knows
they can fail again.
00:35:07.23\00:35:09.96
They can simply turn around,
00:35:10.80\00:35:12.70
they can rebel,
they can say we are not
00:35:12.70\00:35:14.33
strong enough, we
cannot go forward,
00:35:14.33\00:35:16.80
he has got a whole
brand new generation
00:35:16.80\00:35:18.73
now that have come
along and he is the
00:35:18.73\00:35:21.40
only one who harkens back,
00:35:21.40\00:35:24.50
he and Caleb, back
to the old generation.
00:35:24.50\00:35:27.66
Because they had
shown their faith before
00:35:29.20\00:35:32.86
they were ready to go
before you remember that,
00:35:32.86\00:35:35.13
but you see and they have reason
00:35:36.43\00:35:40.43
to be afraid
because they are giants
00:35:40.86\00:35:44.76
across in that land
there are always giants
00:35:44.76\00:35:47.43
where ever you go
they are always giants
00:35:48.40\00:35:51.03
and I will tell you something,
00:35:52.56\00:35:53.86
God tells us that
he will be with us,
00:35:53.86\00:35:58.36
Philippians 1st chapter
Verse 6, being confident of
00:35:58.36\00:36:01.66
this very thing, that
he who has begun a good
00:36:01.66\00:36:05.20
work in you will complete it
00:36:05.20\00:36:07.56
under the day of Jesus Christ.
00:36:07.56\00:36:09.40
Some of you are thinking about
00:36:09.40\00:36:11.00
the times that are to come,
00:36:11.00\00:36:12.70
things that are going
to happen on this earth.
00:36:12.70\00:36:14.93
How am I going to
be able to stand it,
00:36:14.93\00:36:17.06
the very same way that
you handle these things
00:36:17.06\00:36:20.56
that you face everyday.
00:36:20.56\00:36:21.86
By trusting in
Jesus Christ. Amen.
00:36:21.86\00:36:25.66
By putting your faith in him,
00:36:25.93\00:36:29.43
now there are four
things that he says
00:36:30.30\00:36:33.46
here that he is going to give us
00:36:33.46\00:36:34.46
one of them is faith. Secondly,
00:36:34.46\00:36:37.33
courage, he tells
us how to have it.
00:36:37.93\00:36:40.03
Thirdly, he talks
to us about obedience,
00:36:41.00\00:36:44.23
because obedience
and Bible study he says
00:36:44.23\00:36:47.70
here are the things
in dependence upon him,
00:36:47.70\00:36:50.73
are those things
that give us courage
00:36:50.73\00:36:54.20
and faith. Amen.
Its not something,
00:36:54.20\00:36:57.06
courage is not something
you build up on your own,
00:36:57.06\00:36:59.63
if you look at the
real word confidence,
00:37:00.93\00:37:04.86
you look at that
word it comes from
00:37:05.46\00:37:08.46
in the Latin 'Con'
which means altogether,
00:37:08.46\00:37:11.53
and 'fidere'
which is where we get
00:37:11.53\00:37:14.00
the 'fidence' part,
'fidera' which means
00:37:14.00\00:37:16.63
faith or trust. So
it is altogether faith
00:37:16.63\00:37:20.40
and trust, not in
ourselves but in God.
00:37:20.40\00:37:25.63
And trusting in him,
00:37:26.60\00:37:28.10
World War 2, some
of you can remember
00:37:28.10\00:37:32.33
World War 2, some
of you remember it
00:37:32.33\00:37:35.26
better than others
because some of you
00:37:35.26\00:37:37.96
were actually
involved in the battle,
00:37:37.96\00:37:40.86
I was talking to
someone this week,
00:37:40.86\00:37:43.03
Charlie Clark and he
was involved in World War 2.
00:37:43.03\00:37:48.93
And London was being bombed,
00:37:49.80\00:37:53.90
those people were knowing
00:37:55.40\00:37:59.33
that any moment a
bomb can hit their home,
00:37:59.66\00:38:03.20
it could hit
them and they could be
00:38:04.90\00:38:07.16
damaged as they
went down the street,
00:38:07.16\00:38:08.76
they had to run
for bomb shelters,
00:38:08.76\00:38:10.56
run to get down into the subways
00:38:10.56\00:38:14.33
and so forth to
try to find protection,
00:38:14.33\00:38:16.43
there was a clock there.
And the clock is still there,
00:38:18.23\00:38:21.46
it's called Big
Ben, Benjamin Hal was
00:38:22.30\00:38:26.53
the director of public
works when it was built
00:38:27.00\00:38:29.83
and he was so
much wanted that clock,
00:38:29.83\00:38:32.43
that clock has something
like 13 tons of metal in it
00:38:32.43\00:38:37.56
it's like a giant
hammer that goes against
00:38:38.56\00:38:42.60
that bell and he wanted it,
00:38:42.60\00:38:45.90
he wanted it so
badly that the crown
00:38:45.90\00:38:49.26
named it after
him, Benjamin Hal was
00:38:49.26\00:38:52.70
his name and
they named it Big Ben.
00:38:52.70\00:38:55.80
You know the text,
the him that you hear
00:38:57.73\00:39:03.26
chimed every hour on the hour,
00:39:03.26\00:39:05.13
is a him entitled full of him,
00:39:06.50\00:39:10.80
full of God. The
words to that him goes so
00:39:13.63\00:39:18.13
hour by hour,
which is a great song
00:39:18.13\00:39:23.86
for a clock that
chimes on the hour isn't it.
00:39:24.23\00:39:26.90
So, hour by hour
be thou my guide,
00:39:27.10\00:39:31.63
kept by thy power
no step will slide,
00:39:32.70\00:39:36.96
hour by hour be thou my guide.
00:39:36.96\00:39:43.30
And every hour the
Londoners of that day
00:39:44.30\00:39:48.50
would listen to
Big Ben and be reminded
00:39:48.90\00:39:53.93
that God was with them,
they were trusting in him,
00:39:54.40\00:39:58.70
putting their confidence in him
00:39:59.90\00:40:03.00
which is where all of
us must put our confidence,
00:40:04.06\00:40:11.33
you know this text is so clear
00:40:11.60\00:40:14.76
it says no man
will be able to stand
00:40:15.60\00:40:17.40
before you, in
other words no trouble,
00:40:17.40\00:40:19.36
no problem,
nothing that you face
00:40:19.36\00:40:21.93
if you trust in him
and most of us have had
00:40:21.93\00:40:26.80
plenty of opportunity
to put our trust totally
00:40:27.46\00:40:33.10
and completely in the Lord.
00:40:33.10\00:40:34.90
So, I will be with
you, I will not leave you
00:40:35.23\00:40:38.06
nor forsake you.
Now that should give
00:40:38.06\00:40:41.50
each others faith,
00:40:41.50\00:40:43.10
he says I am not
going to leave you,
00:40:44.06\00:40:45.53
you are not going
to be by yourself,
00:40:46.13\00:40:47.86
I will be with you
all the way no matter
00:40:48.33\00:40:51.43
what you're facing I
am going to be with you.
00:40:51.43\00:40:53.96
That my friend
should give us complete
00:40:55.30\00:40:59.90
faith in him shouldn't it. Amen.
00:40:59.90\00:41:02.06
And then he say be strong
00:41:02.26\00:41:04.10
and of good
courage for this people
00:41:05.40\00:41:08.53
you shall divide as
an inheritance the land
00:41:08.53\00:41:11.90
which I swore to
their fathers be strong
00:41:11.90\00:41:15.73
and very courageous.
00:41:16.03\00:41:18.43
I, sometimes, we get
the idea that confidence
00:41:19.36\00:41:23.63
is something we
build up inside of us,
00:41:23.63\00:41:26.30
we got to get rid of that.
00:41:27.03\00:41:28.56
I remember one time I was flying
00:41:28.83\00:41:30.23
across country
and right behind me
00:41:30.23\00:41:33.10
was a major
league baseball player,
00:41:34.40\00:41:36.10
he was sitting
between his two attorneys
00:41:36.10\00:41:40.26
and he was sitting there,
00:41:41.16\00:41:42.63
they were on
their way to Los Angeles
00:41:42.63\00:41:44.90
to renegotiate his contract,
00:41:44.90\00:41:47.46
he had a little card in his hand
00:41:48.00\00:41:50.30
and he was telling
them about all of his great
00:41:50.30\00:41:52.86
accomplishments in sports.
00:41:52.86\00:41:54.33
He would tell them
how many hits he had,
00:41:55.70\00:41:57.40
he would tell them
all these different things
00:41:57.40\00:41:59.10
and how valuable
he was to the team
00:41:59.10\00:42:01.36
and finally when I
heard so much I was
00:42:02.40\00:42:06.10
wishing for headphones,
you know to drown it out.
00:42:06.10\00:42:09.43
I knew who he was and frankly
00:42:11.00\00:42:13.30
I never thought he was
that good to be honest.
00:42:13.30\00:42:15.53
And finally he got
up to go to the restroom
00:42:18.20\00:42:21.33
and he had been
drinking a lot of coffee
00:42:22.43\00:42:24.56
and he was pretty
jittery pretty nervous guy
00:42:25.60\00:42:28.13
I think maybe even
without the coffee.
00:42:28.13\00:42:30.40
He got up to go to the restroom
00:42:31.33\00:42:32.56
and when he did I
heard the one attorney say
00:42:32.56\00:42:34.86
to the other,
man I will be so glad
00:42:34.86\00:42:37.66
when we get to LA,
I am sick of hearing
00:42:37.66\00:42:39.76
this guy brag about himself.
00:42:39.76\00:42:41.46
And I was sitting
alone in the seats
00:42:43.63\00:42:45.76
in front of him, I
had my stuff kind of out,
00:42:45.76\00:42:48.90
I've been working
and I have raised up
00:42:48.90\00:42:51.73
and looked back over
and said and I will be too.
00:42:51.73\00:42:54.70
You see that's
not confidence folks,
00:42:57.06\00:42:59.70
that's something
else but it's certainly
00:43:00.60\00:43:03.00
not confidence, not
the kind of confidence
00:43:03.00\00:43:05.26
that God wants us to have.
00:43:05.26\00:43:07.00
We were never
intended to be depended
00:43:07.00\00:43:10.43
upon ourselves,
we are to be totally
00:43:10.43\00:43:13.53
in connection with
him and depended upon him
00:43:13.53\00:43:16.60
to be strong and courageous,
00:43:16.83\00:43:18.86
because he is who he is. Amen.
00:43:18.86\00:43:22.20
To be strong and
courageous because
00:43:22.56\00:43:24.93
he is the one who
will see us through.
00:43:24.93\00:43:29.03
As a ministry,
Danny, I will tell you,
00:43:30.16\00:43:33.00
Danny's had battles from the day
00:43:33.00\00:43:35.03
this ministry began.
00:43:35.03\00:43:36.53
But, when I got
here a lot of this was
00:43:37.36\00:43:39.20
brand new to me,
00:43:39.43\00:43:40.50
I mean I've been
through a lot of battles
00:43:41.00\00:43:42.60
in my life believe
me, but I have never been
00:43:42.60\00:43:45.90
anywhere where so much
is totally depended upon
00:43:46.40\00:43:51.63
the Lord Jesus
Christ as we are here,
00:43:51.63\00:43:53.70
completely. Folks,
we won't even be around
00:43:54.43\00:43:57.40
two months from
now without the help of
00:43:57.40\00:43:59.86
the Lord and without
your standing with us.
00:43:59.86\00:44:01.80
It's that way all
the time and has been,
00:44:02.23\00:44:04.93
Danny tells me from day one.
00:44:04.93\00:44:06.90
The Lord has never
just filled the coffers
00:44:07.53\00:44:10.13
and said hey
there is plenty here now
00:44:10.13\00:44:12.50
you can just sit back and relax,
00:44:12.50\00:44:14.46
it's never been that way.
We live for month to month,
00:44:14.70\00:44:18.36
faith in him, depending upon him
00:44:18.90\00:44:22.46
and certainly not
upon ourselves. Amen.
00:44:22.80\00:44:26.80
At all and he
says I will be with you
00:44:27.46\00:44:30.60
I will never
leave you and then the
00:44:30.60\00:44:33.60
next part of it,
he says only be strong
00:44:33.60\00:44:36.13
that you may
observe to do according to
00:44:36.13\00:44:39.66
all the law,
which Moses my servant
00:44:39.66\00:44:41.86
commanded you, you
know the amazing thing
00:44:41.86\00:44:44.30
is that somehow
the devil has done
00:44:44.30\00:44:48.26
everything that he
can to confuse people
00:44:48.26\00:44:51.03
about obedience, he
either says you don't
00:44:51.03\00:44:56.10
need to obey at
all and even makes
00:44:56.10\00:44:59.20
obedience legalism and says oh!
00:44:59.20\00:45:01.96
This is wrong,
you shouldn't do that
00:45:01.96\00:45:03.70
or on the other
hand he makes someone
00:45:04.00\00:45:06.43
so legalistic that
they think that somehow
00:45:06.43\00:45:09.20
by be having
obedience and observing
00:45:09.20\00:45:12.20
what God has told them to do,
00:45:12.20\00:45:13.76
that somehow
they're going to earn their
00:45:13.76\00:45:15.30
own salvation and
develop themselves in some way.
00:45:15.30\00:45:19.20
So the devil
doesn't care which way
00:45:20.30\00:45:21.86
he gets you off, he
just wants to get you off,
00:45:21.86\00:45:25.90
he just wants to
get us in the ditch on
00:45:26.83\00:45:28.70
one side or a ditch
on the other but let me
00:45:28.70\00:45:31.26
tell you I think we
are spending more time
00:45:31.26\00:45:33.60
in the ditch and
saying that God doesn't
00:45:33.60\00:45:35.56
want us to be, observe
his law and be obedient
00:45:35.56\00:45:39.46
to him more time here
then we are over there now.
00:45:39.46\00:45:44.16
So, one ditch or the other,
00:45:44.16\00:45:46.20
it seems to be one
ditch more than the other now.
00:45:46.53\00:45:49.06
But, he still wants
us to understand truth,
00:45:50.63\00:45:55.56
God does. You know my children,
00:45:55.56\00:45:58.73
I have got two, my
oldest two children
00:45:58.73\00:46:01.66
are here and they
have always told me
00:46:01.66\00:46:03.90
they were more
obedient than the other,
00:46:03.90\00:46:05.53
the younger two,
they say because you
00:46:05.53\00:46:09.63
punished us more,
you disciplined us more
00:46:09.63\00:46:12.70
and sometimes I've said to them
00:46:13.63\00:46:15.43
please forgive me
for being so rough on you
00:46:15.43\00:46:18.30
and they said oh
no, that was right,
00:46:18.30\00:46:21.50
it was the other
two that weren't rough
00:46:21.50\00:46:23.50
enough on you know.
00:46:23.50\00:46:24.76
But, never once
when those children were
00:46:28.80\00:46:32.46
obedient did I ever say
you know you are a legalist
00:46:32.46\00:46:36.46
because they were
obeying out of love,
00:46:39.00\00:46:42.36
and respect and
love go together.
00:46:44.36\00:46:46.90
You know if we love the Lord,
00:46:47.60\00:46:49.13
he says you are going
to obey me and he says
00:46:49.13\00:46:51.53
if you obey its
going to be so much
00:46:51.80\00:46:54.80
to your benefit to obey.
00:46:54.80\00:46:58.26
Now that doesn't
mean that you earn
00:46:58.26\00:47:00.06
your way to heaven
through obedience. No,
00:47:00.06\00:47:02.20
that's not it at all,
but this love response
00:47:03.53\00:47:09.03
that we have
causes us to want to be
00:47:09.23\00:47:13.76
in harmony with our Lord
00:47:13.76\00:47:16.46
and with our savior
and then he tells us
00:47:16.96\00:47:19.30
the way to do this
is through Bible study,
00:47:19.30\00:47:22.60
it says this book of the law
00:47:22.93\00:47:24.33
shall not depart from your mouth
00:47:25.26\00:47:27.56
but you shall
meditate in it day and night,
00:47:27.56\00:47:30.90
that you may observe
to do according to all
00:47:31.40\00:47:35.23
that is written in it for then
00:47:35.23\00:47:38.13
you will make
your way prosperous
00:47:38.13\00:47:40.10
and then you will
have good success,
00:47:40.70\00:47:44.43
meditate upon the word,
take a text during the day
00:47:45.00\00:47:48.86
take it with you all day long,
00:47:48.86\00:47:50.56
memorize that,
think about that text,
00:47:51.06\00:47:53.40
let that text be your
theme text for the day.
00:47:53.40\00:47:55.83
Meditate upon it,
you know they talk
00:47:55.83\00:47:58.03
about mediation
today and this type of
00:47:58.03\00:48:01.36
mediation that
the world talks about
00:48:01.36\00:48:03.10
you don't want to
get involved with at all,
00:48:03.10\00:48:04.80
where you just kick
your mind into neutral
00:48:04.80\00:48:06.90
and lie there and
mediate. That's not it,
00:48:06.90\00:48:09.10
but God says
meditate upon my word
00:48:09.10\00:48:11.80
and if we
mediate upon his words,
00:48:12.00\00:48:15.30
nothing is more
powerful than that,
00:48:15.83\00:48:19.30
because thy word
have I hid in my heart
00:48:19.90\00:48:23.00
that I might not
sin against thee.
00:48:23.66\00:48:27.50
You see we can
depend upon our God,
00:48:28.53\00:48:31.10
we can't always depend upon
00:48:32.16\00:48:33.70
things of this world.
00:48:33.70\00:48:35.00
First Corinthians
the 13th chapter says,
00:48:35.70\00:48:38.50
where there are
prophecies they will fail
00:48:38.50\00:48:40.20
everything else
is going to fail,
00:48:41.56\00:48:43.23
but then it tells
us love never fails
00:48:44.50\00:48:48.23
and God is love
and he loves you,
00:48:48.96\00:48:53.10
he cares for you and
you can depend upon him,
00:48:53.10\00:48:57.23
I was down at a day church in
00:48:58.00\00:49:00.26
Chattanooga,
Tennessee years ago.
00:49:00.26\00:49:02.60
I had gone to visit that church,
00:49:04.70\00:49:06.50
it was a church on
another denomination,
00:49:06.50\00:49:08.06
on a college
campus there, but so many
00:49:08.06\00:49:10.43
people have told
me you just need to go
00:49:10.43\00:49:12.30
and and get
acquainted with that church
00:49:12.30\00:49:14.76
and wonderful folks there.
00:49:15.00\00:49:16.60
And I went also
it was an assignment,
00:49:16.80\00:49:20.33
it was at the
seminary and there is an
00:49:20.33\00:49:22.50
assignment they
would ask us to visit
00:49:22.50\00:49:24.23
different churches
and make some notes
00:49:24.23\00:49:26.83
on that church, at
the end of the service
00:49:26.83\00:49:29.53
that day they
introduced a man by
00:49:29.53\00:49:32.90
the name of C.F.
Yagle and they said
00:49:32.90\00:49:36.60
that he was there
and that it was his
00:49:37.10\00:49:40.13
93rd birthday and
they sang happy birthday
00:49:40.13\00:49:44.63
to him and then they
mentioned that he had
00:49:44.63\00:49:48.86
written the
song, no one ever cared
00:49:48.86\00:49:51.13
for me like Jesus I went down
00:49:51.13\00:49:55.06
and I waited and I said
tell me about that song,
00:49:55.06\00:50:00.56
I waited till
everybody else left
00:50:00.56\00:50:01.86
and there were a
lot of people down
00:50:02.20\00:50:03.30
there but I
didn't have any place to
00:50:03.30\00:50:06.06
have to be at a certain time,
00:50:06.06\00:50:07.80
and soon just the two
of us were standing there.
00:50:09.00\00:50:11.46
And I said I love that song,
00:50:12.60\00:50:14.00
but I just wondered
is there any particular
00:50:14.90\00:50:17.46
story behind that,
why you wrote that song,
00:50:17.46\00:50:21.60
he said I was a minister
in Florida, my wife left me,
00:50:22.43\00:50:27.93
it was hard
during the depression,
00:50:29.53\00:50:31.26
he said the
church couldn't pay me
00:50:31.26\00:50:34.46
a salary anymore,
every once in a while
00:50:34.46\00:50:36.56
somebody would
bring us a dozen eggs
00:50:36.56\00:50:38.30
or some vegetables or something,
00:50:38.30\00:50:40.43
but that's all we
were receiving but
00:50:40.43\00:50:41.76
I kept preaching
and she finally said
00:50:41.76\00:50:45.10
I cant handle this anymore
00:50:45.10\00:50:46.50
and she said I hear
there is work in California
00:50:48.10\00:50:50.93
and I'm headed for California.
00:50:50.93\00:50:52.66
And I'll call you when
I get there and she left,
00:50:55.06\00:50:58.46
she called him she
said you've got to give up
00:50:59.30\00:51:01.06
this preaching
thing, its too uncertain
00:51:01.06\00:51:03.83
and she said there are jobs here
00:51:05.53\00:51:08.26
you can get one so easily
00:51:08.56\00:51:10.16
and if you'll come she
said I'll care for you,
00:51:12.13\00:51:15.00
if you come we can
continue our marriage.
00:51:16.16\00:51:18.96
He said but I
can't, I can't leave
00:51:20.03\00:51:23.43
because God has called me,
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she said well I
am not coming back,
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but if you come
I do care for you.
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He said I hung up the
phone went to the piano,
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he said I sat down
and I began to play
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and then he said
the words came to me
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she said she cares,
but no one ever cared
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for me like Jesus. Amen.
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And I wrote that
song I said did she ever
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come back and with
tears flowing down his cheeks,
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he looked at me and he said no,
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she never came back
but no one ever cared
00:52:03.40\00:52:09.00
for me like Jesus. Amen.
00:52:09.00\00:52:13.03
I would love to tell
you what I think of Jesus,
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Since I found in Him a
friend so strong and true.
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I would tell you how He's
changed my life completely.
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He did something that
no other friend could do.
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No one ever cared
for me like Jesus.
00:53:00.66\00:53:12.26
There's no other
friend so kind as He.
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No one else could take
the sin and darkness from me.
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O, how much He cares for me.
00:53:37.56\00:53:45.46
how much He cares
for me. He cares for me
00:53:45.46\00:53:53.83
Every day He comes to
me with full assurance.
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Now more and more I
understand His words of love
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But, I'll never know
just why He came to save me,
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Till someday I see
His blessed face above.
00:54:29.90\00:54:38.76
No one ever cared
for me quite like Jesus.
00:54:40.26\00:54:51.43
There's no other
friend so kind as He.
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No one else could take
the sin and darkness from me.
00:55:04.10\00:55:15.53
O, how much He cares for me.
00:55:17.20\00:55:30.20
O, how much He cares for me.
00:55:30.90\00:55:56.23
Amen. Thank you John.
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No one ever cared for
you or for me like Jesus.
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Amen. We must
put our full complete
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confidence in him.
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Be strong, be courageous for the
00:56:10.53\00:56:12.56
crises is ahead,
only through him.
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We are not
heroes, we are not brave
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but he is and we
must trust in him,
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shall we pray. Father in heaven,
00:56:25.20\00:56:27.10
just thank you
today that we do have
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the assurance of
life eternal through
00:56:30.50\00:56:32.90
Jesus Christ that
we can seek eternity
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and not in this moment because
00:56:36.16\00:56:40.46
we have our trust in Jesus.
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O, Father I just pray
that you bless each one
00:56:43.90\00:56:47.20
that's here and
those that are watching by
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television and
listening by radio,
00:56:50.53\00:56:52.90
bless them Father we pray,
00:56:53.80\00:56:55.56
help them to put their faith
00:56:56.10\00:56:57.76
and confidence in you
00:56:57.76\00:57:00.66
and trust only in you Father,
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in Jesus name. Amen.
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