Happy Sabbath.
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Would you like to go to
the mission field with me?
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Can you say, amen?
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Let's go the mission
field and share little bit--
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I have with me Kelli
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who is going to be
talking about a special ministry
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in the Atlantic
area called Free.
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Is there anything
free in this world?
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No.
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No. Well, tell us F-R-E-E mean.
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FREE is Friends of Refugees
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providing
Education and Empowerment.
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And where are you targeting?
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We are targeting Clarkston
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which is close
to Atlanta, Georgia
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where there are currently
10,000 refugees residing.
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And what kind of refugees,
where are they largely from?
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There's actually
too many to name.
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There's 69 different languages
spoken in the Clarkston area.
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A lot of the Adventist
people that we are helping
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are from Congo and Burma.
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Amen, you have a
video two minutes
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so just get us into this
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and help us how it
feel for why we are here.
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Let's roll that.
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Well, before we come
back to Clarkston we have a--
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we're gonna go to Burma
what was Burma now Myanmar
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and I want to
introduce to you Jazmine
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who has a fantastic experience
but it will really be a--
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it really pulls on your
heart when you think about it.
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Your family was in Burma
and the predominant religion
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in Burmese, in
the Burma is what?
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Buddhist.
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That's the Buddhist religion.
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Now some years
ago they decided that
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their country be better
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if they didn't have any
Christians, is that right?
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And what happened?
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Actually the army began
to come into the villages
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and actually where
its killing people,
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killing Christians
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and one day I
understand your parents
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and your grandparents
heard the shooting coming
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in the nearby villages
and what they have to do?
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They have to run away
to, to save their life.
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To save their life.
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And the safety for their lives,
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for the Waldensians people
may not know was the mountains
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but for your
people it was the jungle.
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Yes.
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Now the story
gets more interesting.
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So there was mommy and daddy
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and there was
grandma and grandpa
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and they are
fleeing to the jungle
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and where did you
come into the picture?
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Was your mother
pregnant at that time?
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Momma was
pregnant, my brother and I.
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She was.
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So she is there in the
jungle, they are fleeing,
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they have nothing with
them that they can carry
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and momma
starts to go into labor
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and she has her baby.
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But it wasn't you.
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He was my brother first.
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Your brother first.
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You mean he came out first
and then you surprised them
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and came out also, twins.
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She was so little, she told me
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because her
brother took all the space.
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And she was so little
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they didn't think
she would make it.
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They didn't have food,
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they have to take
leaves to wrap them in,
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leaves to catch
water to feed them.
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So they were in the
jungle one month, two months.
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No, three years.
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One year?
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Three years
hiding in the jungle,
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finally the door opens,
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somehow they make their
way clear to Thailand by foot
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and at last they are
in the UN refugee came.
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Yes.
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Was it like heaven?
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No.
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Did you have enough food?
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We would have enough food
either, no, not enough water,
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not enough cloth
to cover our self.
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Just hardly exist.
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But anyway, one
month, two months, one year?
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No, its 13 years.
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How many?
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Thirteen years.
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Thirteen years
in a refugee camp.
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Can you imagine this, folks?
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Finally the time
comes and the door opens,
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they come to Georgia.
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That was a miracle.
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She is 16 by that
time, not a word of English
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and they are dropped
into Clarkston, Georgia
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among 2,500 refugees
with three months free rent
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and then Niang,
you pick it from here.
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You were eight years old
when you came to America.
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Yes.
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And you landed in Clarkston.
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What was that like?
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When we first got here
everything is different.
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We don't speak any English
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so it was hard and the
government supported us
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for three months
after that we are on our own
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and a lot of parents don't get
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or find jobs
after the three months
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so we don't have
like enough food or cloths
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and our basic necessities.
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And when we go to
school we don't understand
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what the teacher is teaching
and we don't have any friends.
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It was hard.
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So and they
bullied, they are isolated,
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they are struggling
and but they are praying.
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These are
Adventist families praying
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and one day your daddy saw--
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We pray everyday and
night that with hope and faith
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that God was some day
show us an Adventist church
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and that we will be able
to go to Adventist school.
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So one day my dad
saw an Adventist van
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in our
neighborhood and he asked them
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to take us for the next Sabbath.
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So we started attending church.
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Amen, and that was
the Adventist connection,
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that was free.
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Right there Kelli on the spot.
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We are out of time
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but praise the
Lord you were there.
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Your burden for these
girls was to get them where?
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Into Adventist education.
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We have 17 now,
we are bringing on,
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rock it down on faith
and ten more this year
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and we have 42
Adventist children
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that are back end to come
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to Adventist
education to leave the gangs
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and the drugs and the
violence that filtrate
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the public school
system in their area.
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If you want to learn more about
this beautiful refugee work
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you could come to the
exhibits this afternoon
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and this evening to number 7135.
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I hate to
mention this in passive
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but Kelli this is
your 40th birthday,
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I heard that you had a cruise
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you could have gone
on but this is here life.
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Can we all say, amen?
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Thank you so much. Thank you.
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God bless you.
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Okay.
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Next I have with me
representing our mission work
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far and near, Jud Wickwire.
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We're so glad that
you are here with us today
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representing
Adventist World Aviation.
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And back in the mid
1990s the Adventist church
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I understand found it
necessary to pull back
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from its aviation program,
not entirely but in part.
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Elder Folkenberg
was president then
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and he
encouraged Adventist pilots
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don't give up,
go self supporting
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but we need Adventist missions.
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Is that correct?
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That's correct and we
had to change the ways
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that we reach the people
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and provided
airplanes to the mission field
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because that was
still an ongoing need.
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So how does a
bush pilot from Canada
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in British Columbia
going to camp meeting at Hope
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get into
Adventist World Aviation?
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Well, the short
answer is a free lunch.
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Free lunch?
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That's two words of
true story, a free lunch.
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We getting a lot of
trouble with those-- no way.
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My wife and I were
at a camp meeting there
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and we-- its midweek
and saw poster that said
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there was a free
lunch for pilots,
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it said 12 o'clock
and we looked at our watch
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and that's how close we
were to missing the call.
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Is that right?
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You went to that
lunch, what did you hear?
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Well, we heard about
Adventist World Aviation
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which we never heard of before,
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heard about the
need for mission pilots
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and it was a long term service,
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it was five
years that was required
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and self supporting and honestly
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that was discouraging
thing for us at the time.
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Yeah, so many of us
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we don't know how to get
into self supporting work
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but when God calls He
provides for, doesn't He?
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Yes, He certainly does.
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Over for some
reason God touched my heart
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and a couple months later
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I just said, well, I just gonna
send in a resume of our family
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to Adventist World
Aviation just see what they say
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and the answer was immediate.
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They came back and said
we've been praying for a family
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and they have a--
they showed me the list
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of what they were praying for
and it was an impossible list.
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Not because it was
such difficult requirements
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but just an odd
collection of skills
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and our family met
that requirement exactly.
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Of course. Isn't God good?
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That was back in
2005. That was 2005.
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So you had to
commit five years--
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Five years of service.
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And you had to figure
how to support yourself?
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And the time required
to develop that support.
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That's a great
ministry, a great mission.
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It was. To take it on.
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You have to believe
it, you have to do it.
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Yes.
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Now, did you
network with anybody?
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I know you are working
in Glasgow, Philippines
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but particularly we are
gonna be talking about Guyana.
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Guyana is where we
were call to serve.
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And there was a
family there already?
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Another family
there, LaBore family
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that were serving.
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What was their name?
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LaBore. LaBore.
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Serving there,
LaBore. That was critical.
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There were on
boots on the ground
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already to join them.
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We've got some
slides, can we roll those
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and tell us just quickly
how this work progressions.
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Often in the
communities we would go to
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religion was not the
first thing they wanted to hear
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so we would bring in
supplies and do medical work.
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And the next picture
just shows some of the mining
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that goes on in
many of the communities
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and a lot of outsiders come in
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with the intent of
exploring the recourses.
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They will promise
the community's services
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and things that
were are good for them
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but really their ultimate goal
is to exploit the resources.
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Hence, we had to prove
that our intentions were pure
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and that we only
wanted to help the people
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and just demonstrate
the love of Jesus to them.
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And in this next
picture here you can see that
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we would pick up patients,
this patient was carried
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from miles through the
jungle to meet the airplane
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to be carried
out for medical care.
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Okay, well, dental work?
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Dental work was a key component
to touching the most people.
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Almost everyone suffers
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from some form of
tooth decay and pain.
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It's almost
chronic for most people
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and so dental care was
one of the greatest needs
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we could bring to the people.
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Well, do you have
video that we can actually
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see some of your
flying in there and--
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We have a particularly
story about a community
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called Baramita
that really demonstrates
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how just taking our time
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and
demonstrating the love of Jesus
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through our
actions made a difference.
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Two minutes,
let's see this video.
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We're in the
village today of Baramita
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and Baramita is a
project that we are working on.
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We began here just
doing medical evacuations
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and brining in
supplies for the villages.
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Initially we were told that,
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you know, we
could not talk about
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our religion here
anything like that.
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They said, you know what,
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you can come here
and you can fly us up
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but we don't want anything
to do with the religion.
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While the other day that a
Tachau got very, very sick.
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Tachau means chief or
captain or leader of a village.
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Jud Wickwire gets a call
for an emergency medevac.
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And this morning
he lost consciousness.
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So we called the
hospital an hour ago
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and said they can come up so.
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Patients are flown to
the hospital in Georgetown
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where they can receive
a higher level of care.
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Now that the
Tachau is in the plane
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Jed offers a word of prayer
and asks for a safe flight
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and healer to the Tachau.
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As Jed taxis and
takes off towards Georgetown
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nothing is
visible but jungle only.
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It would have been impossible
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to get this patient
out of the jungle in time
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had it not been
for the aircraft.
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Jed was able to medevac him out
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and it turns out he had
appendicitis and had ruptured.
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We got him into the hospital
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and he needed an
emergency appendectomy.
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So certainly left too long
he certainly would have died
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if left in that
community without being cured.
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Now that we've been
doing flying for them
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and some health seminars
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they begged us to
come and live there
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and we even started a
building a house there.
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A year and half later they said
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we want you to come
here and live among us
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and to, you know, teach
them about what we know.
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And so they actually
gave us a piece of land
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and they build the
house that's behind me here
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and that house has been built
specifically for Bible workers
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and medical workers to stay at
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as we minister to the
people here in Baramita.
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Its actually see the gospel
has done to someone's life.
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Amen.
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You know, I think one
of my favorite pictures
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that I saw, I don't know if
they still have it available
00:16:02.49\00:16:04.72
but was the plane
and a return flight.
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How is that so important?
00:16:08.92\00:16:10.68
Taking patients
back to their homes
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after they have
had medical treatment
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is a service that was
never provided before.
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And I know one
of the first flights
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that I made back
into that village
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I took in two-- three mothers
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and their
children had been waiting
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for three months to go home
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after giving
birth to newborn babies.
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Three months with
their families waiting.
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They either find their way out,
00:16:30.68\00:16:32.35
out of very hard
travel and much time
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or they fly out
in this magic machine
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and I trip you for
back at the village wonder
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if they'll ever come home again.
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What a privilege it
must be as you land there
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and bring home their loved ones.
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Yes, it is. It
is very rewarding.
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If people want to learn
more about your ministry
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they can come
over the exhibit today.
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Our exhibit's stall 2310.
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Can't promise you a free lunch
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but certainly a
rewarding ministry
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if you want to get involved.
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Come and talk to Jud there at--
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7310. 310.
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Okay, thank you.
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God bless you.
Thank you so much.
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I'd like to invite
you to turn in your Bibles
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to Philippians Chapter
4, Philippians Chapter 4
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and in here we
find an amazing promise
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that if everyone at ASI
would thoroughly believe
00:17:22.59\00:17:25.95
and act accordingly
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we would turn the
world upside down.
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This is Acts Chapter 4 and
we are looking at verse 13.
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I suppose you know it by heart.
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Acts 4:13, the
apostle Paul writes.
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"I can do all
things through Christ
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that strengthens me."
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Can you?
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Yes, you can if you believe it.
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A frightening
place this world of ours
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The frantic pace
of changing powr's
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Where no one
plays familiar roles
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But in these
days one promise holds
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I can ride the morning winds
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And You are there
00:19:05.15\00:19:07.59
I can sail the widest seas
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And you are there
00:19:17.62\00:19:21.11
I can find the darkest night
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And you are there
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O Lord
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I can never
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Be lost from You
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Please search me now
00:20:05.65\00:20:07.66
And know my heart
00:20:07.69\00:20:10.72
Then show me how to do my part
00:20:10.75\00:20:14.83
To walk the way You'd have me go
00:20:14.86\00:20:18.59
And if I stray Lord I still know
00:20:18.62\00:20:24.05
I can ride the morning winds
00:20:27.21\00:20:33.01
And You are there
00:20:33.04\00:20:38.89
I can sail the widest seas
00:20:38.92\00:20:45.19
And You are there
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You are there
00:20:48.88\00:20:52.20
I can find the darkest night
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And You are there
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O Lord
00:21:03.36\00:21:07.08
I can never
00:21:07.11\00:21:11.18
I can never
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I can never
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I can never
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I can never be lost
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Never be lost
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from You
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Amen.
00:21:52.64\00:21:58.63
The Lord is pleased
00:21:58.66\00:22:00.63
when He can find an individual
00:22:00.66\00:22:02.08
that He can use
and the individual
00:22:02.11\00:22:04.69
were about to listen to has
been used mightily of the Lord.
00:22:04.72\00:22:09.12
I assume the Lord is pleased.
00:22:09.15\00:22:11.16
I want you to
welcome Pastor C.D. Brooks.
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Amen.
00:22:13.58\00:22:18.48
Thank you.
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Want to say good
morning to everyone.
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And may God bless you as
He has blessed me already.
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I'm very honored to be
here on this particular day
00:22:33.88\00:22:39.06
and because of my
sincere admiration
00:22:39.09\00:22:44.49
for ASI what it
has done, what it does,
00:22:44.52\00:22:51.56
what it
contributes, what it stands for.
00:22:51.59\00:22:55.21
I consider this a
high privilege today.
00:22:55.24\00:23:00.41
God was gracious to call
me from dentistry to ministry.
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And I'm so thankful that He did.
00:23:08.16\00:23:12.44
And so I'm overwhelmed
with I with a whole idea
00:23:12.47\00:23:16.06
I thought God was
calling me to impossibilities
00:23:16.09\00:23:22.46
and I needed an anchor.
00:23:22.49\00:23:25.84
I needed something
to under guard my faith
00:23:25.87\00:23:29.64
and I found it soon
in my personal study
00:23:29.67\00:23:33.13
Christ's Object Lessons,
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"All of His
biddings are enablings."
00:23:36.03\00:23:42.72
All Gods biddings are enablings.
00:23:42.75\00:23:48.96
There was a time
when this world was lost
00:23:48.99\00:23:53.21
through the sins of our fathers.
00:23:53.24\00:23:57.15
Heaven took into consideration,
a plan of redemption
00:23:57.18\00:24:04.43
which involved also
the cost of redemption.
00:24:04.46\00:24:11.71
God who owns the
cattle upon a thousand hills
00:24:11.74\00:24:16.62
He doesn't count
His cattle by head,
00:24:16.65\00:24:20.56
or by hills.
00:24:20.59\00:24:25.04
The gold is mine,
the silver is mine.
00:24:25.07\00:24:27.64
He doesn't really need us.
00:24:27.67\00:24:31.10
But to fight
greed and selfishness
00:24:31.13\00:24:34.58
and other such immoralities
00:24:34.61\00:24:38.26
God has willed
that we have a part
00:24:38.29\00:24:42.10
in His work
including a financial part
00:24:42.13\00:24:48.16
as He seeks to
salvage from humanity
00:24:48.19\00:24:52.18
and build up the population
of His entire universe.
00:24:52.21\00:24:58.48
Love, decided on a
mission to this earth.
00:24:58.51\00:25:03.85
Love was
committed to that mission
00:25:03.88\00:25:06.62
before the fall ever occurred
00:25:06.65\00:25:11.42
God had decided,
God had determined
00:25:11.45\00:25:16.55
I will put enmity
between thee and the woman
00:25:16.58\00:25:20.05
thy seed in hers
a Messiah is coming
00:25:20.08\00:25:23.82
who will bruise your head.
00:25:23.85\00:25:25.88
Now Satan is listening to this
and then he got the promise,
00:25:25.91\00:25:31.30
I'm going to sin
someone born of a woman.
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Now I want you to imagine
00:25:36.46\00:25:38.41
Eve gets pregnant first time
00:25:38.44\00:25:45.20
and the devil is
watching everyday.
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The child is born he
fastens his eyes on Cain.
00:25:49.08\00:25:55.90
Could this be Messiah?
00:25:55.93\00:26:00.04
Well, he was wrong.
00:26:00.07\00:26:01.52
When he saw Cain's attitude,
00:26:01.55\00:26:04.12
his desire to as he pleased
in spite of what God said
00:26:04.15\00:26:08.16
even the devil
decided he is not the one.
00:26:08.19\00:26:13.29
But then came Abel
00:26:13.32\00:26:16.20
who wanted always to
follow the Word of God,
00:26:16.23\00:26:18.58
to it as God said.
00:26:18.61\00:26:20.74
Not according to his own opinion
00:26:20.77\00:26:22.43
but according to the word of God
00:26:22.46\00:26:25.11
and he offered a blood
sacrifice on an unshared altar
00:26:25.14\00:26:30.32
and the devil
worried and he inspired Cain
00:26:30.35\00:26:35.25
and Cain killed his own brother.
00:26:35.28\00:26:41.17
Still Satan wondered
was he the promised one?
00:26:41.20\00:26:47.30
Hundreds of years passed
00:26:47.33\00:26:49.99
Satan remained
confused about some things
00:26:50.02\00:26:54.06
yet his kingdom outnumbered
00:26:54.09\00:26:57.00
the kingdom of God
a scores of thousands.
00:26:57.03\00:27:04.15
He seemed to have had more
00:27:04.18\00:27:07.45
in his forces
than God did in His.
00:27:07.48\00:27:12.26
Down the
centuries until lowest time
00:27:12.29\00:27:15.97
Satan drove the world
mad with pleasures of sin
00:27:16.00\00:27:21.29
and sex and every
other debasing element
00:27:21.32\00:27:25.66
Satan was doing his
program always wondering
00:27:25.69\00:27:31.22
where is this Messiah fella.
00:27:31.25\00:27:35.04
And then he heard
God speaking to Noah
00:27:35.07\00:27:39.08
through Noah's own testimony.
00:27:39.11\00:27:42.31
Build an ark for the
salvation of man and beast.
00:27:42.34\00:27:48.53
Build an ark
and preach salvation
00:27:48.56\00:27:52.66
and here was the man
willing to do what God says.
00:27:52.69\00:27:55.05
For 120 years he preached
his eschatological messages
00:27:55.08\00:28:02.16
to the sport of the unbelievers
the hearts made of stone.
00:28:02.19\00:28:08.79
And finally it was finished.
00:28:08.82\00:28:11.56
Methuselah, which mans
"when he dies it shall come."
00:28:11.59\00:28:16.68
Methuselah was the living
sign and his death occurred.
00:28:16.71\00:28:21.21
It's got to be close now.
00:28:21.24\00:28:23.27
It's got to be close now.
00:28:23.30\00:28:26.42
And one day while
they were in festivities
00:28:26.45\00:28:29.05
and mocking and
laughing and deriding
00:28:29.08\00:28:33.70
an unusual sight--
animals a very description.
00:28:33.73\00:28:38.26
I have spoken about
this business before
00:28:38.29\00:28:41.35
and it seems to
me that if I looked
00:28:41.38\00:28:45.27
and saw a lion
walking down the street
00:28:45.30\00:28:50.84
with a cat it seems to me
00:28:50.87\00:28:55.93
if a wolf was leading
sheep I would be impressed
00:28:55.96\00:29:01.98
but sight set
answers and they gave them
00:29:02.01\00:29:06.22
and the people
continued in that rebellion
00:29:06.25\00:29:08.59
until the door was
shut that no man can open.
00:29:08.62\00:29:13.50
Noah had predicted and
no one had ever seen that
00:29:13.53\00:29:17.44
but now they hear it
00:29:17.47\00:29:19.06
like drive breeze on a
summer threshing floor.
00:29:19.09\00:29:22.58
They hear the rattle of
rain as it strikes the earth.
00:29:22.61\00:29:28.01
Dark thunder herds,
thunder heads build up.
00:29:28.04\00:29:34.23
It is being fulfilled.
00:29:34.26\00:29:37.79
They knocked on the door
on the sides of the ark Noah,
00:29:37.82\00:29:41.82
we believe you now.
00:29:41.85\00:29:45.51
We will come in
if you, if you let us
00:29:45.54\00:29:49.38
but it was out
of the hands of Noah
00:29:49.41\00:29:54.95
and the raids
came, the battle rain,
00:29:54.98\00:29:58.02
shatter rain,
waters of the deluge.
00:29:58.05\00:30:01.25
The plates of the
earth were jostled about,
00:30:01.28\00:30:06.74
the stones, the
skeleton structure of earth
00:30:06.77\00:30:12.23
was changed and
moved and broken.
00:30:12.26\00:30:17.06
It was too late and
the Lord's servant says
00:30:17.09\00:30:19.94
Satan himself feared for
his own life at that time.
00:30:19.97\00:30:26.97
One this is sure the
patriarchal age was over,
00:30:27.00\00:30:30.85
no more 900 plus year
old giants in the land.
00:30:30.88\00:30:38.61
One man was a calculated
and they do everything
00:30:38.64\00:30:40.82
with those
foolish things anymore.
00:30:40.85\00:30:43.70
That man figured
it out and he said,
00:30:43.73\00:30:45.73
there was an 81 declension,
00:30:45.76\00:30:48.40
81 percent
declension in the lifespan.
00:30:48.43\00:30:53.69
Eighty one percent
declension in the lifespan
00:30:53.72\00:30:58.30
and it seriously
affected the growth,
00:30:58.33\00:31:01.83
the height and
the weight of man.
00:31:01.86\00:31:08.62
God trying to
save man inexplicably
00:31:08.65\00:31:14.82
absolute, hard,
00:31:14.85\00:31:17.37
unwilling to
listen, unwilling to do
00:31:17.40\00:31:21.19
and then the
earth was repopulated.
00:31:21.22\00:31:23.33
There came a man
on the scene of action
00:31:23.36\00:31:25.57
whose name was Abraham.
00:31:25.60\00:31:28.42
And God called him one
day and said get thee out
00:31:28.45\00:31:31.25
from thy father's house,
from your kindred to a land
00:31:31.28\00:31:33.92
that I will
afterwards show you all.
00:31:33.95\00:31:37.26
No wonder He's called
the Father of the faithful.
00:31:37.29\00:31:40.35
Anybody would go
if they knew exactly
00:31:40.38\00:31:42.51
where they were going
00:31:42.54\00:31:43.79
and so our land
flowing with milk and honey
00:31:43.82\00:31:46.38
but it takes faith to
go when you don't know
00:31:46.41\00:31:48.84
where you are going
00:31:48.87\00:31:51.63
when God said I'll
show you all later.
00:31:51.66\00:31:56.00
Abraham bid
goodbye to his people
00:31:56.03\00:32:01.11
and struck out
with his possessions
00:32:01.14\00:32:04.49
as a stranger in a strange land.
00:32:04.52\00:32:09.71
The plan of redemption
00:32:09.74\00:32:12.22
had been brought to his
attention through a covenant
00:32:12.25\00:32:14.58
God made with
him a blood covenant.
00:32:14.61\00:32:19.11
He also understand
the 400 year bondage
00:32:19.14\00:32:24.46
of His people in Egypt land.
00:32:24.49\00:32:29.11
Joseph had been
the hero of Egypt.
00:32:29.14\00:32:32.48
I never will forget
when I went to Egypt
00:32:32.51\00:32:34.43
for the first time
the smiles that curled
00:32:34.46\00:32:37.64
across my hosts
as I called Egypt
00:32:37.67\00:32:43.00
the greenery of the world.
00:32:43.03\00:32:47.25
But then Bible says
00:32:47.28\00:32:49.35
there came a pharaoh
that knew not Joseph.
00:32:49.38\00:32:53.69
They had been
driven down into the--
00:32:53.72\00:32:56.84
in fact, it's a strange country.
00:32:56.87\00:32:59.60
You go down north and up south.
00:32:59.63\00:33:06.67
And there was down there a man
00:33:06.70\00:33:08.45
with hatred
seeding in his heart,
00:33:08.48\00:33:11.22
a pharaoh that knew not Joseph.
00:33:11.25\00:33:14.41
He began his march down north
00:33:14.44\00:33:20.21
and he drove the
Hyksos out of power
00:33:20.24\00:33:23.85
and out of land into
the Fertile Crescent.
00:33:23.88\00:33:30.29
A pharaoh that knew not Joseph.
00:33:30.32\00:33:35.08
But somehow Satan inspired him
00:33:35.11\00:33:37.47
with a fear and an awe
of a king called Messiah
00:33:37.50\00:33:42.35
who would be born
among these very people.
00:33:42.38\00:33:45.72
Stirred him up so
much that he ordered
00:33:45.75\00:33:48.80
the slaughter of new born babes
00:33:48.83\00:33:53.44
and everybody in the Jewish race
00:33:53.47\00:33:58.01
who had one of
those was trying best
00:33:58.04\00:34:03.97
to preserve him that was born
00:34:04.00\00:34:08.23
to a couple Amram
and Yoshebel a son.
00:34:08.26\00:34:15.74
Mother had prepared an
ark, pitched it with tar,
00:34:15.77\00:34:18.80
set it afloat on the
Nile trying to keep him alive.
00:34:18.83\00:34:25.18
Somebody knew,
especially the devil
00:34:25.21\00:34:27.96
that this one
would be dangerous.
00:34:27.99\00:34:31.57
This one could be the deliverer.
00:34:31.60\00:34:36.22
This one going up
could seize power.
00:34:36.25\00:34:40.22
And Satan knew what
the power of God could do.
00:34:40.25\00:34:45.59
God had made this covenant
00:34:45.62\00:34:46.83
with Abraham and Moses
00:34:46.86\00:34:51.73
was a part of the
consideration of that covenant.
00:34:51.76\00:34:55.35
That covenant flew down stream
00:34:55.38\00:34:59.64
and it did not change.
00:34:59.67\00:35:01.36
Isaac and Jacob were involved.
00:35:01.39\00:35:05.71
It's wonderful
to meet or realize
00:35:05.74\00:35:08.91
that even though this
beautiful boy was born
00:35:08.94\00:35:11.83
and his named
would be called Moses
00:35:11.86\00:35:14.07
and he didn't understand
his role God understood it
00:35:14.10\00:35:19.36
and the promise flew
down the streams of time
00:35:19.39\00:35:22.43
not to be changed at
all but to be accepted
00:35:22.46\00:35:25.77
and believed by his own people.
00:35:25.80\00:35:28.63
it would not
fade in to a oblivion
00:35:28.66\00:35:32.34
and it did not pertained
frank led to Israel alone
00:35:32.37\00:35:36.16
to the exclusion of
other people every where.
00:35:36.19\00:35:39.65
Israel set free would
become God's, witness says.
00:35:39.68\00:35:46.49
Israel set free
would become examples
00:35:46.52\00:35:50.01
to the rest of the world,
00:35:50.04\00:35:51.66
the pagan's through
which they would pass.
00:35:51.69\00:35:55.18
Israel would say
something to them
00:35:55.21\00:35:57.89
that they had never heard before
00:35:57.92\00:36:00.37
that there is a God who cares
00:36:00.40\00:36:02.51
and He offer salvation through
the blood of His own son.
00:36:02.54\00:36:07.17
Nobody else could
teach that lesson like Israel
00:36:07.20\00:36:11.42
and Moses was
chosen to confront pharaoh.
00:36:11.45\00:36:15.12
He said to pharaoh
thus save the Lord,
00:36:15.15\00:36:19.46
let my people go.
00:36:19.49\00:36:22.24
Pharaoh was incredulous.
00:36:22.27\00:36:24.29
He asked a sensible question,
00:36:24.32\00:36:26.48
who is God that I
should let the people go?
00:36:26.51\00:36:31.40
He laughed at the idea.
00:36:31.43\00:36:34.27
Why, he thought
to himself no God
00:36:34.30\00:36:37.11
that I don't know, I
worship this one and that one
00:36:37.14\00:36:39.70
but this one I never heard of.
00:36:39.73\00:36:41.53
He is not going
to order me around,
00:36:41.56\00:36:45.44
said the pharaoh and
God would have to teach it.
00:36:45.47\00:36:49.97
Now there are many who
feel so badly towards pharaoh.
00:36:50.00\00:36:54.21
Do you know Israel
asked the same question
00:36:54.24\00:36:57.05
when Moses went to them,
00:36:57.08\00:36:58.18
they wanted to know who is God?
00:36:58.21\00:37:00.09
Moses had to get the
answer from God, I'm that I'm.
00:37:00.12\00:37:04.18
What does that mean?
00:37:04.21\00:37:05.45
I'm whatever you need.
00:37:05.48\00:37:09.94
If you are hungry
I'm the bread of life.
00:37:09.97\00:37:12.04
If you are thirsty
I'm the water of life
00:37:12.07\00:37:14.58
but more than that if
your soul hungers for truth
00:37:14.61\00:37:18.02
I am the truth.
00:37:18.05\00:37:22.21
He went back and told Laman,
00:37:22.24\00:37:24.44
they never quite
seemed to have gotten that
00:37:24.47\00:37:27.39
but they at least
were willing to listen.
00:37:27.42\00:37:32.10
And so God sent ten plagues.
00:37:32.13\00:37:35.43
Ten, yeah, I
think the first three
00:37:35.46\00:37:38.37
had to teach
Israel but the last seven
00:37:38.40\00:37:44.37
were experienced by
the Egyptians alone.
00:37:44.40\00:37:51.91
And that just were
needed for this trip.
00:37:51.94\00:37:56.43
I think God
looked over his plans
00:37:56.46\00:37:59.00
and said I need ASI on this one.
00:37:59.03\00:38:05.48
They had to have
code for the sanctuary,
00:38:05.51\00:38:11.54
for the ark, for the candelabra.
00:38:11.57\00:38:16.04
They had to have
gold and silver and brass.
00:38:16.07\00:38:22.40
These were slaves
00:38:22.43\00:38:23.65
where were they going to get it?
00:38:23.68\00:38:26.05
That's a little episode that
00:38:26.08\00:38:27.69
perhaps we haven't always caught
00:38:27.72\00:38:30.91
but when the time
came the people of Egypt
00:38:30.94\00:38:34.75
had been so
terrorized and flat-out beaten
00:38:34.78\00:38:39.08
that they came out with
loads of gold and silver
00:38:39.11\00:38:42.82
and gave that to the Israelites.
00:38:42.85\00:38:45.04
Pleaded with them to take it,
00:38:45.07\00:38:46.72
maybe you cannot please
your God and call him off
00:38:46.75\00:38:51.99
and they made them
rich, instantly rich.
00:38:52.02\00:38:57.65
These Egyptians, God saw beyond,
00:38:57.68\00:39:04.23
God saw the
sanctuary being developed.
00:39:04.26\00:39:06.77
He saw the implements.
00:39:06.80\00:39:08.37
This could not be shoddy,
this would represent God.
00:39:08.40\00:39:15.24
So they brought
enough gold, even gems
00:39:15.27\00:39:18.70
for the high priests
garments, god providing.
00:39:18.73\00:39:23.81
I read somewhere that the
trip should have taken 11 days,
00:39:23.84\00:39:27.45
11 days from Egypt to and Canaan
00:39:27.48\00:39:30.83
but because of
murmuring and resistance
00:39:30.86\00:39:36.52
it turned into a
40 year nightmare.
00:39:36.55\00:39:42.58
There were times when
God seemed to be on age.
00:39:42.61\00:39:46.26
Imagine God saying to Moses,
a creature leave me alone.
00:39:46.29\00:39:51.60
Why in the world would
God speak to a man like that
00:39:51.63\00:39:55.33
as though the man
controls the moment?
00:39:55.36\00:39:57.02
Leave me alone that I might know
00:39:57.05\00:40:00.04
what to do with these people.
00:40:00.07\00:40:02.95
Moses hung in there
pleading for their Savior.
00:40:02.98\00:40:10.82
Leave me alone,
00:40:10.85\00:40:13.26
and he even offered
himself to thy rested.
00:40:13.29\00:40:16.57
Now, that's Christ job.
00:40:16.60\00:40:19.24
What was this
he couldn't do that
00:40:19.27\00:40:20.45
but he could
become a type of that
00:40:20.48\00:40:24.31
and he did
become a type of that.
00:40:24.34\00:40:27.66
The wrath of God subsided
until there was the roar,
00:40:27.69\00:40:32.39
the low rumble of
thunder on the horizon
00:40:32.42\00:40:37.26
and God said I will forgive.
00:40:37.29\00:40:41.51
A long and tedious and
hard and unnecessary journey
00:40:41.54\00:40:47.65
should have
taken 11 days instead
00:40:47.68\00:40:51.52
it took quite a bit longer.
00:40:51.55\00:40:55.14
It took quite a bit longer.
00:40:55.17\00:40:59.95
Ladies and gentlemen,
00:40:59.98\00:41:01.33
God has already, always that is
00:41:01.36\00:41:04.68
God has always needed
finances and financers.
00:41:04.71\00:41:10.36
People who are willing
to carry His work forward.
00:41:10.39\00:41:15.27
For God had to
defeat selfishness
00:41:15.30\00:41:17.67
and greed in the
hearts of His own people.
00:41:17.70\00:41:21.45
Even when Israel
was allowed to go back
00:41:21.48\00:41:23.90
after the second captivity
00:41:23.93\00:41:25.70
and rebuild the
walls of Jerusalem
00:41:25.73\00:41:28.54
the Medes and the
Persians handled the finances.
00:41:28.57\00:41:32.90
God always needed
someone who could do that.
00:41:32.93\00:41:37.72
And then along came Jesus
00:41:37.75\00:41:40.97
as a babe born in a
manger, poor heritage.
00:41:41.00\00:41:47.18
There is Jesus then
came an urgent message
00:41:47.21\00:41:51.01
Josephise take the mother
and child and flew into Egypt.
00:41:51.04\00:41:55.88
Now who could just do that
in the middle of the night?
00:41:55.91\00:42:01.03
Maybe if you had time you
could find a father-in-law
00:42:01.06\00:42:04.64
or somebody who could led
you, loaned you the money.
00:42:04.67\00:42:12.00
But to be told to leave now
00:42:12.03\00:42:15.06
without consideration of
where he would get the funds
00:42:15.09\00:42:17.99
to finance such a trip.
00:42:18.02\00:42:19.41
You couldn't go that far
00:42:19.44\00:42:22.85
without finances.
00:42:22.88\00:42:27.69
And I have
wondered how could he do it?
00:42:27.72\00:42:30.71
Well, I discovered an answer.
00:42:30.74\00:42:34.44
Three wise men
came to visit the child
00:42:34.47\00:42:39.83
and I can imagine
God impressed them
00:42:39.86\00:42:42.22
don't go empty handed
but take with your gold,
00:42:42.25\00:42:47.13
and myrrh and frankincense
and they brought these gifts
00:42:47.16\00:42:52.43
and laid them at
the feet of the babe.
00:42:52.46\00:42:56.49
Now you've got the money
to finance your trip to Egypt.
00:42:56.52\00:43:01.27
My wife and I have been
to the area called Matariya
00:43:01.30\00:43:05.16
they say that's the place
where the holy family stayed
00:43:05.19\00:43:08.64
until God bid them return
00:43:08.67\00:43:12.12
to their own land and they did.
00:43:12.15\00:43:17.58
Matariya, the
Savior of the world
00:43:17.61\00:43:20.53
escaping to a remote
village with His parents
00:43:20.56\00:43:24.95
but the finances
were supplied by God.
00:43:24.98\00:43:28.73
Christ was that
babe, the preeminent one,
00:43:28.76\00:43:32.93
the conquering
king, indeed God himself
00:43:32.96\00:43:38.78
the Lord Jesus Christ
00:43:38.81\00:43:42.29
soon a reputation
would develop around Him
00:43:42.32\00:43:45.12
and soon men here and
there from every where
00:43:45.15\00:43:50.02
would get to know
the plan of salvation.
00:43:50.05\00:43:53.23
For before the foundations
of the earth were laid
00:43:53.26\00:43:56.78
God and Christ were
committed to the cross.
00:43:56.81\00:44:02.38
Christ was seen
as a triumphed one.
00:44:02.41\00:44:06.16
After years of powerful
perfect prayerful ministry
00:44:06.19\00:44:10.18
busy all day from here to there
00:44:10.21\00:44:13.35
healing the sick,
opening the eyes of the blind,
00:44:13.38\00:44:16.39
doing exactly what
He should have done
00:44:16.42\00:44:20.73
He knew that His time on earth
00:44:20.76\00:44:23.25
for now was growing quite short
00:44:23.28\00:44:28.15
and He would have
to tell His disciples
00:44:28.18\00:44:32.02
about their assignment.
00:44:32.05\00:44:34.85
Now who in the world
hearing the words back there
00:44:34.88\00:44:39.88
a despise small group,
00:44:39.91\00:44:42.56
who in the world
could have imagined
00:44:42.59\00:44:45.24
growth and
prosperity and progress
00:44:45.27\00:44:48.81
such as Christ envisioned.
00:44:48.84\00:44:51.15
Go into all the
world, teach all nations,
00:44:51.18\00:44:54.84
baptizing them in
the name of the Father
00:44:54.87\00:44:57.14
and of the Son
and of the Holy Ghost
00:44:57.17\00:44:59.72
and don't worry
about extra clothing,
00:44:59.75\00:45:03.84
don't worry
about piles of money,
00:45:03.87\00:45:08.22
forget about
script, I would compare that
00:45:08.25\00:45:10.95
to credit cards of today,
00:45:10.98\00:45:15.77
Bank of America cards.
00:45:15.80\00:45:19.62
Than Lord how are
we going to do it?
00:45:19.65\00:45:23.15
How are we going to handle this?
00:45:23.18\00:45:27.51
You know, it's almost inevitable
00:45:27.54\00:45:30.05
that if you follow a
line of Adventist preachers
00:45:30.08\00:45:33.96
by the time you get there
00:45:33.99\00:45:35.45
they will have
ploughed the earth well.
00:45:35.48\00:45:40.21
Last night I
listened to a powerful,
00:45:40.24\00:45:43.63
beautiful sermon
about a character
00:45:43.66\00:45:45.96
who shows up in
my message today.
00:45:45.99\00:45:49.15
A man who was fabulously rich,
00:45:49.18\00:45:52.65
a man who had the top education
00:45:52.68\00:45:57.13
in all the land of Israel,
00:45:57.16\00:46:00.90
a man who had the
last word in the Sanhedrin,
00:46:00.93\00:46:07.27
a man who had more
money than he could ever use
00:46:07.30\00:46:11.56
that man's name was Nicodemus
00:46:11.59\00:46:14.52
about whom we heard so
delightfully last night.
00:46:14.55\00:46:18.96
He slipped over by
night and I heard Dr. Kim
00:46:18.99\00:46:23.03
talking about the fact
that Jesus and Nicodemus
00:46:23.06\00:46:28.41
must inevitably meet
00:46:28.44\00:46:30.70
but Nicodemus
might have been a coward,
00:46:30.73\00:46:32.59
he might have been afraid.
00:46:32.62\00:46:34.12
I read all those
various and various
00:46:34.15\00:46:37.37
and differing ideas about him.
00:46:37.40\00:46:40.53
He would come
slipping over after dark.
00:46:40.56\00:46:44.81
Now was he a moral coward?
00:46:44.84\00:46:46.63
I don't picture
him as that altogether
00:46:46.66\00:46:49.86
but he certainly didn't
have complete understanding
00:46:49.89\00:46:52.54
when he did it.
00:46:52.57\00:46:54.65
Fearful of his fellow Sanhedrin,
00:46:54.68\00:46:56.76
maybe so I don't know
00:46:56.79\00:46:58.24
and what difference did it make.
00:46:58.27\00:47:01.03
He had the last
word in Jerusalem.
00:47:01.06\00:47:04.05
Maybe after dark could have been
00:47:04.08\00:47:06.71
the best time for him and Jesus.
00:47:06.74\00:47:09.58
He had some
protracted discussions
00:47:09.61\00:47:12.39
and he couldn't
just receive them
00:47:12.42\00:47:14.49
as Christ passed by.
00:47:14.52\00:47:16.55
They needed to study the angels
00:47:16.58\00:47:19.96
so he went by night
to see the young teacher.
00:47:19.99\00:47:25.97
The young teacher,
00:47:26.00\00:47:27.06
he called him a
teacher said from God.
00:47:27.09\00:47:31.14
He went by to see Him,
Nicodemus the master of Israel
00:47:31.17\00:47:35.84
gave John an account
of their meeting together
00:47:35.87\00:47:40.93
and there are few other times
00:47:40.96\00:47:42.36
his name mentioned
in the various texts.
00:47:42.39\00:47:47.01
"God so loved the world,
00:47:47.04\00:47:50.70
that He gave His
only begotten Son."
00:47:50.73\00:47:53.44
That most famous off quoted text
00:47:53.47\00:47:57.79
John 3:16 was
delivered to Nicodemus.
00:47:57.82\00:48:02.11
But he heard
much more than that.
00:48:02.14\00:48:04.81
He was a moral man,
00:48:04.84\00:48:07.94
he was busy with
temple and temple sacrifices
00:48:07.97\00:48:12.50
and their meanings
as he talked to others
00:48:12.53\00:48:17.13
and now the young
teacher says to him,
00:48:17.16\00:48:19.30
you must be born again.
00:48:19.33\00:48:21.93
Oh, that could wake him up.
00:48:21.96\00:48:24.23
You're talking to me?
00:48:24.26\00:48:25.96
That is what you
have to say to me.
00:48:25.99\00:48:29.46
Not only that but
I have this to say,
00:48:29.49\00:48:33.35
if I be lifted up from
there I will draw all men.
00:48:33.38\00:48:39.51
All men?
00:48:39.54\00:48:41.80
Israel, Nicodemus country
had become a narrow prejudice,
00:48:41.83\00:48:46.26
little split up nation
with confusing traditions
00:48:46.29\00:48:51.35
getting hardly anything
done that God willed for them.
00:48:51.38\00:48:56.19
Nicodemus was aware of it
00:48:56.22\00:48:58.79
and wondered
what to do about it.
00:48:58.82\00:49:01.14
But Ellen White says,
00:49:01.17\00:49:02.73
at the best time
Nicodemus came to Christ.
00:49:02.76\00:49:07.53
At the best time for him
00:49:07.56\00:49:09.75
and for the church
Nicodemus came to Christ.
00:49:09.78\00:49:14.87
He had a close
friend another rich man,
00:49:14.90\00:49:18.09
Joseph of Arimathea.
00:49:18.12\00:49:20.29
Joseph had prepared for a tomb
for himself and for his family.
00:49:20.32\00:49:27.88
You know, when the
vulnerable H.M.S. Richards Sr.
00:49:27.91\00:49:32.51
and I were having a
conversation one day
00:49:32.54\00:49:34.98
and he began to
describe this grief sight.
00:49:35.01\00:49:39.86
And H.M.S. Richards Sr.
wept as he talked to me.
00:49:39.89\00:49:44.79
He said Brooks,
don't fail to go there.
00:49:44.82\00:49:48.82
Don't fail to go there.
00:49:48.85\00:49:51.82
We not only didn't
fail the first time
00:49:51.85\00:49:55.09
but we came back to that
spot to film Breath of Life.
00:49:55.12\00:50:00.39
Richards wept in that garden
00:50:00.42\00:50:04.35
which still has its vine press
00:50:04.38\00:50:07.27
which does not
fit the descriptions
00:50:07.30\00:50:09.49
or the descriptions of
the tomb inside Jerusalem
00:50:09.52\00:50:14.88
does not fit, this one fits.
00:50:14.91\00:50:18.78
And he told me to
look for three crosses
00:50:18.81\00:50:20.65
on the back wall,
Byzantine crosses.
00:50:20.68\00:50:24.76
He told me the
meaning of that, Richards did.
00:50:24.79\00:50:29.59
What an experience.
00:50:29.62\00:50:32.07
But then became poor,
00:50:32.10\00:50:37.04
Jesus became poor
00:50:37.07\00:50:41.72
and yet the Bible had predicted
00:50:41.75\00:50:43.14
He would be
buried amongst the rich.
00:50:43.17\00:50:46.03
We heard that last night.
00:50:46.06\00:50:48.43
Richards said Brooks,
00:50:48.46\00:50:49.49
when you look in the tomb itself
00:50:49.52\00:50:52.51
you will see that one
end of it has been extended
00:50:52.54\00:50:57.10
that's because
Jesus was a tall man
00:50:57.13\00:51:01.32
and they had to
work on it in a hurry.
00:51:01.35\00:51:05.43
He said and if you
find the caretaker alone
00:51:05.46\00:51:11.84
ask him to do for
you what he did for me.
00:51:11.87\00:51:16.69
I was anxious
to see what it was.
00:51:16.72\00:51:19.57
I asked the caretaker he
knew H.M.S. Richards well
00:51:19.60\00:51:24.26
and he went to
the front of the tomb
00:51:24.29\00:51:27.41
and he looked out
00:51:27.44\00:51:28.82
and he didn't see
anyone else coming
00:51:28.85\00:51:31.34
and he unlocked the bars
00:51:31.37\00:51:34.00
and I went in and
laid down in the tomb
00:51:34.03\00:51:39.95
where we believe the Son
of God spent a little time.
00:51:39.98\00:51:47.10
Nicodemus and
Joseph of Arimathea begged
00:51:47.13\00:51:49.87
for the body of Jesus.
00:51:49.90\00:51:51.26
In those days bodies like those
00:51:51.29\00:51:53.34
and the two thieves
there were like throwaways.
00:51:53.37\00:51:57.12
If any family was interested
00:51:57.15\00:51:58.74
they could buy the
body, buy the body.
00:51:58.77\00:52:04.60
But when these two
influential rich man showed up
00:52:04.63\00:52:08.63
Pilate who had made
a mess of everything
00:52:08.66\00:52:11.25
signed a death
warrant and Nicodemus
00:52:11.28\00:52:17.49
and Joseph took
the body of Christ.
00:52:17.52\00:52:20.06
Washed it, clothed it partially
00:52:20.09\00:52:23.52
and perfumed partially.
00:52:23.55\00:52:29.64
Does that sound like
a man scared to be seen?
00:52:29.67\00:52:34.17
No, I don't think so.
00:52:34.20\00:52:36.82
He did dread the hostility
of the Jew says Desire of Ages
00:52:36.85\00:52:40.58
who held Him in such high esteem
00:52:40.61\00:52:45.43
but they were courageous men.
00:52:45.46\00:52:48.11
Joseph surrendered his own tomb,
00:52:48.14\00:52:52.16
the Sanhedrin found out about it
00:52:52.19\00:52:55.65
and they did douche the Lord.
00:52:55.68\00:52:58.74
He will bring
calamities upon Israel.
00:52:58.77\00:53:02.84
In John 3 he
didn't call Jesus Messiah
00:53:02.87\00:53:05.83
but Rabi, that's what He was
00:53:05.86\00:53:08.72
and he didn't indicate
00:53:08.75\00:53:09.78
which he though
was above the other
00:53:09.81\00:53:12.41
but he called him Lord later on.
00:53:12.44\00:53:17.21
He then founded
heart to associate Christ
00:53:17.24\00:53:20.96
and his end to Messiah
00:53:20.99\00:53:24.65
by referring to
a snake on a pole.
00:53:24.68\00:53:29.33
The Bible said cursed is the man
00:53:29.36\00:53:33.10
who would hang on a tree.
00:53:33.13\00:53:35.62
He had to deal with
that but he dealt with it
00:53:35.65\00:53:38.57
under the guidance
of the Holy Spirit.
00:53:38.60\00:53:42.66
He looked for the Messiah
and he expected Him to come
00:53:42.69\00:53:45.99
with rich powerful
gestures before the people.
00:53:46.02\00:53:50.67
He expected Him to come
with glory surrounded him.
00:53:50.70\00:53:54.48
He expected a big celebration
but he is boarded to a separate
00:53:54.51\00:53:58.89
and wilderness
wrapped around aboard.
00:53:58.92\00:54:03.13
Cursed the man
who dies that way.
00:54:03.16\00:54:09.41
Nicodemus, Ellen White says
00:54:09.44\00:54:10.96
in Desire of Ages
became as firm as a rock.
00:54:10.99\00:54:14.79
He was rich man but
he was as firm as a rock.
00:54:14.82\00:54:21.05
Don't worry about financing
00:54:21.08\00:54:23.65
the ministry and
evangelism of the disciples,
00:54:23.68\00:54:28.13
I've got your
back said the rich man
00:54:28.16\00:54:31.20
and he spent his money.
00:54:31.23\00:54:33.62
He spent his
money and became poor.
00:54:33.65\00:54:36.27
Desire of Ages says,
00:54:36.30\00:54:37.51
he became poor
yet he faltered not.
00:54:37.54\00:54:41.53
All of this began with a
night conference in a garden
00:54:41.56\00:54:46.58
when Jesus said to him
you must be born again.
00:54:46.61\00:54:51.32
I'm bound by the
tyranny of the clock.
00:54:51.35\00:54:55.70
I did want to say this however.
00:54:55.73\00:54:59.53
I believe that before
you had your first meeting,
00:54:59.56\00:55:03.37
I believe that
before you stepped out
00:55:03.40\00:55:06.79
by faith to accomplish
00:55:06.82\00:55:08.05
what God has allowed
you to accomplish ASI,
00:55:08.08\00:55:11.43
I believe you were
conceived in the mind of God
00:55:11.46\00:55:15.06
and I believe that He chose you
00:55:15.09\00:55:16.97
and He chose these attitudes
and that's why you are here.
00:55:17.00\00:55:20.25
That's what I believe.
00:55:20.28\00:55:22.84
And therefore ASI
defines me to a large measure.
00:55:22.87\00:55:28.41
I'm going to skip over
some things I would have said.
00:55:28.44\00:55:31.56
I want to tell you about a
large evangelistic campaign
00:55:31.59\00:55:35.39
in one of the beautiful
islands of the Caribbean.
00:55:35.42\00:55:38.34
We put our people into teams
00:55:38.37\00:55:40.39
and my brother
five years older than I
00:55:40.42\00:55:42.70
whom I had the
privilege of baptizing
00:55:42.73\00:55:44.86
he and his partner
had a lady on their list,
00:55:44.89\00:55:49.13
I want to see her one day.
00:55:49.16\00:55:50.62
She always seems
solemn and quiet.
00:55:50.65\00:55:53.39
And on this
particular day her husband
00:55:53.42\00:55:55.93
was chopping down
the grass with a machete
00:55:55.96\00:56:00.03
and when they
approached he wanted to know
00:56:00.06\00:56:01.85
what do you want?
00:56:01.88\00:56:03.44
And they told him
they had come to see her,
00:56:03.47\00:56:05.23
she had been
coming to our meeting.
00:56:05.26\00:56:06.90
He said listen,
I told that woman
00:56:06.93\00:56:09.04
if she were
baptized in this church
00:56:09.07\00:56:11.56
I was gonna kill her.
00:56:11.59\00:56:12.83
That's his own wife.
00:56:12.86\00:56:14.85
And as he spoke she
came out on the porch.
00:56:14.88\00:56:17.58
Didn't say a word for a
while, did not tell you she said
00:56:17.61\00:56:22.75
and the woman said but I must.
00:56:22.78\00:56:26.90
On the day of
baptism thousands were there
00:56:26.93\00:56:29.68
because all these people
normally go to the beach,
00:56:29.71\00:56:32.80
saw what was
happening and gathered around.
00:56:32.83\00:56:35.34
And we had a
rather large baptism too
00:56:35.37\00:56:38.38
and that woman was in the group
to be baptized with a robe on.
00:56:38.41\00:56:42.52
Ten men in the sea,
00:56:42.55\00:56:44.33
ten associates
out there with them
00:56:44.36\00:56:47.13
and ten deacons
bringing the candidates
00:56:47.16\00:56:49.82
and ten leading them all,
00:56:49.85\00:56:51.49
we had a assistant
and he was clicking
00:56:51.52\00:56:54.44
when suddenly my brother looked
00:56:54.47\00:56:56.82
and here comes that
man apparently in a rage.
00:56:56.85\00:57:00.46
And as he came he saw her,
00:57:00.49\00:57:05.79
they moved up close to her sides
00:57:05.82\00:57:09.26
and he said to his
wife, didn't I tell you
00:57:09.29\00:57:14.24
that if you join this
thing I was going to kill you?
00:57:14.27\00:57:17.83
And she said that
same two words, but I must.
00:57:17.86\00:57:23.18
You mean to tell
me I'm gonna kill you
00:57:23.21\00:57:26.73
and yet you're gonna join this?
00:57:26.76\00:57:30.12
I must.
00:57:30.15\00:57:33.25
He reached out and
grabbed her shoulders,
00:57:33.28\00:57:35.67
the man moved in closer
00:57:35.70\00:57:37.68
but then they
couldn't understand
00:57:37.71\00:57:38.77
what he was doing.
00:57:38.80\00:57:39.86
He was sliding his
hands down her arms
00:57:39.89\00:57:43.10
as he knelt on the ground
00:57:43.13\00:57:46.19
and he said, all my
life I've been looking
00:57:46.22\00:57:50.13
for religion worth dying for.
00:57:50.16\00:57:53.12
Hey, this one
is worth dying for.
00:57:53.15\00:57:57.33
Ellen White says,
that God will show you
00:57:57.36\00:58:00.75
when you should sell
your house and your land
00:58:00.78\00:58:05.12
and finances
work around the world.
00:58:05.15\00:58:07.85
An old man told me
in Cleveland, Ohio,
00:58:07.88\00:58:10.80
that people are
gonna have to come down
00:58:10.83\00:58:12.57
and leave those expensive
technological inventions,
00:58:12.60\00:58:16.45
leave those large
television screens,
00:58:16.48\00:58:20.19
leave all of
that that they cherish
00:58:20.22\00:58:23.94
and He will come
out the front door
00:58:23.97\00:58:25.74
and He will take
that as key to lock it
00:58:25.77\00:58:27.92
and He will dawn on
Him no need locking it,
00:58:27.95\00:58:30.11
I'm not coming back here.
00:58:30.14\00:58:31.75
You'll throw the key down,
00:58:31.78\00:58:33.29
you're off to a new
quarters in Christ Jesus.
00:58:33.32\00:58:41.02
Please, stand with
me and sing our song
00:59:00.23\00:59:03.29
of commitment,
"Soldiers of Christ arise."
00:59:03.32\00:59:09.36
Soldiers of Christ arise
00:59:09.39\00:59:13.89
And put your armor on
00:59:13.92\00:59:18.65
Strong in the
strength which God supplies
00:59:18.68\00:59:23.72
Thru His eternal Son
00:59:23.75\00:59:28.76
Strong in the Lord of hosts
00:59:28.79\00:59:33.94
And in His mighty power
00:59:33.97\00:59:39.04
Who in the
strength of Jesus trusts
00:59:39.07\00:59:44.04
Is more than conqueror
00:59:44.07\00:59:50.02
Stand then in His great might
00:59:50.05\00:59:54.82
With all His strength endued
00:59:54.85\00:59:59.77
But take, to arm
you for the fight
00:59:59.80\01:00:04.57
The panoply of God
01:00:04.60\01:00:10.20
That, having all things done
01:00:10.23\01:00:14.67
And all your conflicts past
01:00:14.70\01:00:20.27
Ye may o'ercome
thro' Christ alone
01:00:20.30\01:00:25.69
And stand complete at last
01:00:25.72\01:00:32.37
From strength to strength go on
01:00:32.40\01:00:37.21
Wrestle, and fight and pray
01:00:37.24\01:00:42.43
Tread all the
powers of darkness down
01:00:42.46\01:00:47.44
And win the well fought day
01:00:47.47\01:00:52.76
Still let the Spirit cry
01:00:52.79\01:00:58.25
In all his soldiers, "Come!"
01:00:58.28\01:01:03.35
Till Christ the
Lord who reigns on high
01:01:03.38\01:01:08.98
Shall take the conquerors home
01:01:09.01\01:01:14.91