Good morning, good morning GYC.
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How are you guys
doing this morning?
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It is good to be
here with each one of you.
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Um, you know, as we're here
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studying the theme of the cross,
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I wanted to share
with you guys a quote
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before we get into our meetings.
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It's found in the
Bible commentary's volume 6,
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it says, "As the
sinner sees Jesus as he is
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an all-compassionate Savior,
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hope and assurance
take possession of his sole.
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The helpless sole is
caste without any reservation
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upon Jesus.
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None can bear away
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from the vision of Christ Jesus
crucified a lingering doubt.
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Unbelief is gone."
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And that's my
prayer for each one of us
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here this morning
that as we see Jesus,
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we will not have
any unbelief left.
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So let's bow our heads.
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If those coming in could just
pause for a moment as we pray.
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Let's bow our heads.
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Father in heaven,
Lord, we thank You so much
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that You have given
Your Son to die for us.
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That you have made
the most incredible
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and magnificent sacrifice
in the history of the eternal,
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everything, Lord.
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And God, we just invite
Your presence to be with us
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Lord, we pray that
Your spirit will guide us
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and he will keep us,
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and Lord bless
the speaker later on,
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and I just pray that the message
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that You will give him
will be empowered to our hearts.
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We love you Lord
in Jesus' name, amen.
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I also have the
distinctive privilege
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to introduce to you
our speaker this morning,
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Christian Berdahl.
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You know, when I
asked him earlier,
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"What would you like
me to say about him."
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This was his answer.
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"I am sinner, saved by grace
through fate in Jesus Christ."
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Amen. Amen.
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Isn't that a beautiful answer
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but, you know, I had
to say a little bit more
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because I say it's a
distinct privilege for me
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to introduce him
because it really is.
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Several years back
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when I wasn't exactly
in a close walk with God,
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God use Christian in
such a powerful way in my life
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and I don't even
think he realizes
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how much he did for me
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and or God did
through him for me.
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And so, I know you
guys will be blessed today
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as he shares his testimony
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which incidentally
later on this year in March,
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Happy New Year by the
way, it is a New Year.
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But later on this year in March,
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he will be releasing a video
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that actually goes
through his testimony,
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a documentary type
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where he's actually
going to the different places
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and people that
you'll hear about today.
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So now you are gonna
be hearing about it today
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so then later on
this year, you can go
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and actually see
all the different places
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and the people
that he talked about.
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So that will be really cool,
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but I know that you
guys will be blessed
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and I just pray
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that God will
work in a special way
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in each one of your lives
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as I know He's already
doing since you are here,
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so God bless and
have a fantastic day.
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Amid the countless blessings
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The Lord has given me
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The light of truth and goodness
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The Holy Spirit's peace
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I see the many sorrows
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That his children must endure
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So much hurt I long to heal
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How can I
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Change the world?
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There are hands I cannot hold
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Hearts I cannot comfort
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Tears that only
miracles can stay
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So let me love
and serve and teach
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Those who come within my reach
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For miracles
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Begin that way
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The Savior walked in Galilee
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Unknown in many lands
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Yet touching every nation
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By the labor of his hands
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Giving light to all the world
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By teaching but the few
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He is my example in the work
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That I must do
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There are hands I cannot hold
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Hearts I cannot comfort
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Tears that only
miracles can stay
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So let me love
and serve and teach
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Those who come within my reach
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For miracles
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Begin that way
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I will bear the
burden of my neighbor
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In his need
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I will share my Savior's love
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In every kindly deed
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He will magnify my efforts
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And I'll understand at last
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That by these
small and simple things
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Are great things
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Brought to pass
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There are hands I cannot hold
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Hearts I cannot comfort
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Tears that only
miracles can stay
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So let me love
and serve and teach
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Those who come
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Within my reach
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For miracles
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Begin that way
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Miracles begin that way.
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Amen. Amen.
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Good morning. Good morning!
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Thank you, young people,
for that beautiful music, amen?
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That is music
that glorifies God.
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If you know
anything about our ministry,
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you know that music is
one of my little hot buttons.
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Before we begin, I would
like to have a word of prayer.
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Let's pray together.
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Gracious heavenly
Father, we've come before You,
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our knees bowed,
and hearts bowed,
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and we ask Father that
You would bless us now,
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as we go through this testimony
of how amazing You are.
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Lord, you said
if I be lifted up,
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I'll draw all men unto me
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and so this testimony
is not about me, Father,
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it's about You.
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And we want to meet You
at the foot of the cross
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this morning, so please, Lord,
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bless us with the Holy
Spirit now in Jesus' name, amen.
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No matter what
you've gone through,
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no matter what
you're going through,
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and no matter what
you will go through,
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if you are the
surrendered child of God,
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you will get through it.
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And that's good
news this morning,
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because I know a lot of us
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are going through
trials and tribulations.
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Anybody here trial laden?
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Wow! Only ten of
you. Wow! Really?
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If there is only
ten of us having trials,
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then we're probably
not doing something right
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in our Christian walk.
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I told a brother last
night, he said, how are you?
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I said I'm blessed,
but I'm trail laden.
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And he said, then you
must be doing something right.
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'Cause, friends,
when we come to Jesus,
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when we meet Jesus at
the foot of the cross,
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the devil puts
his crosshairs on you.
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And he hates you,
because you love God,
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and he hates you,
because God loves you,
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and that's the only
reason that he hates you.
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What he wants to do is
to dive into God's heart,
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and he wants
just to tear it apart,
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and he does that
every single time
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that we surrender to
the devil and not Christ,
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the devil takes a little piece
of God's heart if you will,
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because he's taking each one us.
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And today, I don't want to
be that person, how about you?
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I want to be the man.
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Maybe you want to
be the man or the woman
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that stands for God
even though the heavens fall.
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That is what I want.
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You might say but
I'm going through stuff
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you don't understand Christian.
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I'm going through some things
that are so hard right now,
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I can't make it through this.
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With God on your side
and you surrender to Him,
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you can make it through.
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I stand here as living proof
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you can get
through a lot of junk.
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And by the time I'm done with
this testimony this morning,
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you're gonna see
that that's true.
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Without God, you're right,
you can't make it through.
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With God, you will,
not maybe, not sort of,
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not maybe some day
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but today right now with
God, you can make it through.
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I don't know what it
is you're going through
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but God knows
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and that's the one that really
needs to know about it, Amen.
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1 Corinthians 10:11,
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if you have
your swords with you,
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you may start wielding them now.
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1 Corinthians 10:11
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"There hath no
temptation taken you
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but such as is common to man."
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So in other words,
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there is nothing that you
are gonna go through that,
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probably somebody
else already hasn't.
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But God is faithful,
who will not suffer you
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to be tempted
above that you are able.
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In other words,
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God is so good at
helping us through our problems,
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no matter what problem we have,
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he is going to
help us through it.
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God is what?
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Faithful, who
will not suffer you
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to be tempted
above that you are able.
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But with the temptation,
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we'll also make a way to
escape that you may be what?
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Say it loud, able to bear it.
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So if God is
saying you can bear it,
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if God is saying that
you can get through this,
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then maybe you are
the one that's wrong.
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'Cause God said
it and I believe it
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and that settles it
for Christian Berdahl.
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If we are the
surrendered children of God,
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notice there is
a key phrase there,
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not proclaiming just
to be a child of God,
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but if we are
truly coming to God
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and saying not my
will but Your will be done.
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If we're truly surrendered,
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then there is power in
the word of God for us.
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If you've given you
life to Jesus Christ,
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I hope you have.
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If you haven't, this
will be a great weekend
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to get on your knees and
ask the Lord to do for you,
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what He's done for
many of us in this room.
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He'll never allow us,
so if we're surrendered
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and we've given
our life to Christ,
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Christ will never allow,
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God will never allow
anything to come to us
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that our measure of
faith cannot handle.
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So maybe you have
little faith right now.
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Well, God's not gonna
send out of balance huge trials
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that you can't handle.
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Maybe your faith is grown.
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You're gonna get
some bigger trials.
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In fact, friends, when
you become a Christian,
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trust me you are
going to have trials
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and you're gonna have issues.
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But don't fool
yourself into thinking
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that the world
doesn't have problems.
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I used to be in the world,
I was not raised a Christian,
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and so, I understand
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what it's like to
be fully in the world
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and it wasn't trouble free,
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I had just as many
problems but I had no helper.
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But now as a Christian,
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I have an ever
present help in Jesus Christ.
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Praise the Lord,
that is so amazing to me,
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that God has given
His only begotten Son
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that whosoever believeth
in Him should not perish
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but have everlasting life.
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And while we are
here on this planet,
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we're gonna have trials.
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And it really becomes a choice
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to say well, are we
gonna be big boys and big girls
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and just say, okay,
we're gonna have trials,
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stop whining and
complaining about it
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and let's go forward
in spite of those trials.
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That was a great,
perfect place for a hearty amen.
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I know you are not awake yet.
Last night was a late night.
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In fact lot of
people wanted to stay up
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until the stroke of midnight
just to say Happy New Year,
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and by the way Happy New Year.
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In fact, I hope and pray
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that this is the most
connected year of your life
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with Jesus Christ,
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because if you are the
most connected in 2015,
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then you are gonna be
the most successful for God.
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Most surrendered,
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the greatest servant
than you've ever been.
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What an opportunity?
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It's just, we cleaned the slate.
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Maybe you've been a heathen
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and a mess this whole past year.
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Maybe the whole past decade.
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Well, today is a new day
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and today we must
choose whom we will serve.
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I want to live my life for Jesus
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and I know that I can
live a life to glorify Him,
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because He's promised this.
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And this is only gonna happen
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if we meet Jesus
Christ at the cross.
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Are you daily
meeting Christ at the cross?
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Or are you waiting and
you are only meeting Him
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on every seventh day?
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It doesn't work, friends.
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I want to encourage you
to be seven day Adventists,
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not just the
seventh day Adventists.
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Revelation 12:11,
let's turn there together.
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Revelation 12:11.
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Before we read that, I
just want to declare to you
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because this is a
testimony I'm supposed to give
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and this testimony,
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my testimony is I
believe God can fix me,
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I believe God can save me.
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In fact I believe God
can fix this universe,
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what do you think?
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I believe God
can fix this planet,
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what do you think?
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I believe He
can fix this church,
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He can fix His
people, He can fix this guy,
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and He can fix you.
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Revelation 12:11 and
they, whose that referring to,
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the church and they us,
young people and old people,
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and they
overcame him, who's that?
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The devil, that's right
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and the church
overcame the devil
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by the blood of the Lamb.
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Who is that
referring to? Jesus Christ.
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And we overcome the
devil by the blood of the Lamb
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and by the word of their what?
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Testimony.
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Well, I don't have
a testimony Christian.
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Yes you do,
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because the
overcomers have a testimony.
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At the end of time,
every single one of us
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are gonna have a testimony.
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Yeah, but mine's
not crazy like yours
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and we'll get into
the craziness of mine
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in just a minute.
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I was raised in
a Christian home,
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I was raised--
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I married a Christian
man, we have Christian children
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and we love Lord and
never left the faith,
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praise God, that's
the best testimony ever.
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You don't have to go
and become a scoundrel
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and a drunk and doing
drugs so you have a testimony,
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Jesus brought me
out of it, ha-ha.
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I had a young man
come up to me and say,
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maybe I should go in the world
so I have a better testimony.
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Have mercy, he is right.
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I said, let's
back up, what did you,
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did you just said
what I thought you said.
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I said, do you
realize how scary that is.
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I said brother,
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you're not
guaranteed you're coming back.
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Why?
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Because you're
making the choice,
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you're on the driver's seat now,
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and you may stay
off the interstate
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that leads to heaven.
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And they overcame him
by the blood of the Lamb
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and by the word
of their testimony
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and they love not
their lives unto the death.
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Man that is a committed people.
Is that you this morning?
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Amen. Amen, praise the Lord.
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Over the years,
I've been privileged
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to go literally
around the world now,
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and to sing and to preach,
but the thing that I love most
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is to actually
give my testimony.
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And as Mark mentioned,
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we are now gonna
release a three hour version,
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we're trying to edit it
down more of my testimony
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with full on
interviews with my brothers,
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and my father, and my mother,
it's gonna be, it's already,
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I sit there and I'm editing
it and I'm just like bowling
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'cause obviously
it hits me the most.
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But I love to give my testimony,
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because, friends, this is
how part of how we overcome.
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In other words, you
have, when you testify,
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you don't just
testify to a mirror,
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you have to testify to people.
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And so, if you're
testifying we're witnessing,
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therefore we're laboring for God
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and they overcame him
by the blood of the Lamb,
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their connection
to Christ, right?
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And by the word
of their testimony
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and they love not
their lives unto the death.
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In other words,
we're gonna go out
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and we're gonna share them
the message of Jesus Christ
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and what He's done in our lives,
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no matter what
happens to us, even if we die.
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The worst thing that
somebody can do to us
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is kill us, that's all.
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In fact I think my time just
jumped down only 28 minutes,
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I better hurry up.
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I was not always
raised in a Christian home.
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My mother was 16 years old,
when she got pregnant with me.
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My father was 18 years old.
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What my mother didn't know
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was that my father had
started using prescription drugs
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stealing it from
medicine cabinets
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when he was only 12 years old,
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and he was a
full on daily drinker
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by the time he was a
sophomore in high school.
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And so they two meet up
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and nine months
later, here I am.
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My mother finds out she
is pregnant one week later,
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they got married.
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Sixteen, eighteen,
living on their own,
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married one week later.
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Even my conception
was a stressful situation.
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I did not come into the
world with everybody going, yay.
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I came into the world
with everyone going, oh, no,
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what are these young
kids gonna do with this baby.
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Unfortunately that stress
would be continued in our lives
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for many years.
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My brother, my two
brothers were born,
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Aaron and Brandon
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and my father
David was not around
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to do the
things he needed to do,
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he wasn't taking care of us.
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He wasn't paying the
bills and when you are drunk,
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serious drunk and
you're deep in drugs,
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you don't really think
you better get up early
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and go to work.
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And so by the time
I was seven years old,
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we had moved 13
times from house to house
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even across the
country and back,
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'cause when you don't pay
the rent, they kick you out.
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My mother finally
got tired of all of these
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and when I was seven years
old, she said, you know what?
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I can't handle this anymore,
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I can't handle
you're not coming home,
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you are not paying the bills,
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you are not
taking care of the family
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and on coming home
one night from a party
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he was drunk and
swerving all over the road
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and my mother saying
pull over, pull over,
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we were all in the car with
him and he will not pull over
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'cause he's just blitzed
and finally they get home,
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we all get home safely
and she says it's over,
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I'm divorcing you.
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So at seven years old
and my brothers were four,
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and two we left.
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My mother had to
start her life over.
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She had to get a job
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and she had to
start working in the world
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and so she put us in day care.
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And a very
traumatic event happened
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after my dad had left,
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they told us one
day we're leaving
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and so they told us
that they're divorcing.
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One of my earliest
memories with my dad
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was in the foyer
of my ant's house
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and I was standing there
and I was holding his ankles
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and he literally had to
peal me of off his ankles,
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as he walked out of our life.
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And he would be in and
out kind of for a while
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then eventually
just disappeared totally
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for 20 something years.
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My mother gets a new
job, she puts us in day care
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and at day care
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one of the most traumatic
events happened in my life.
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The baby-sitter's older son
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was molesting about six
of us little boys each day
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as we went down for nap time.
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And that went on for some time,
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and I remember this being
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one of the biggest
secrets that I kept,
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probably the first
big secret that I kept
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and I didn't tell anybody.
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In fact I didn't
even tell my mother
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until I was an adult.
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I wish, I would
have told somebody.
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I wish I would have told--
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even if I was in my teens,
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it would have
been healthy for me
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to tell somebody
and then talk it out.
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And if somebody has
done something to you
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sexually or
inappropriately, friends,
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you need to go
and talk to somebody.
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You know what?
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We are not gonna keep these
secret anymore in our homes
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and in the church
and in the conferences.
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If we are having
issues, we need to talk it out,
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because if we don't,
it's going to ruin you.
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Trust me, I was
messed up for a lot of years.
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It's never okay for someone
to make a sexual advance on you
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until you are married
and is that marriage night.
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Amen. Amen.
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And so my mother
didn't know this,
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I tell her when I was an adult
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and frankly she just starts
breaking down and start crying.
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I wish I would
have said something
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because, friends, I don't know
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how many other
children that happened to,
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and I live with that.
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It's not just for
us to save and help us,
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it could be to
protect someone else.
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It's a good thing to talk,
but talk to somebody you trust.
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Talk to somebody that has
some tools that can help you.
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My mother got
remarried about a year later,
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she got
remarried and unfortunately
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this man turned out to
be our worst nightmare.
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This man, he
was, from the day one,
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he was very heavy
handed, he was an authoritarian,
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he took over the discipline
and he was very heavy handed
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and unfortunately
this heavy handedness
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turned into
outright criminal abuse
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and he was abusing all of us.
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All three of us
boys and my mother
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mentally,
emotionally, physically,
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and these games that he
would play were just horrific
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and he would, he just
twisted our little minds
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and I was
referred to as a cuss word
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and my brothers had another
cuss word that was their names
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and we were just these horrible
little creatures in his eyes,
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and this went on and
on and on for 10 years
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until I was a
sophomore in high school.
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I've been
whipped, I've been beaten,
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I've been tied up, I
was hit so hard in the head
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after a long day
of stacking firewood
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and cutting firewood, I got
hit in the head so hard by him,
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I had grand mal seizure
and wound up in the hospital.
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So we're not just
talking, oh, bad boy,
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we're talking the real deal.
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I started this
message by saying,
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no matter what
you're going through,
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you can get through it.
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By the way the
message is entitled
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from Broken to Breakthrough,
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'cause the
breakthrough is coming.
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Amen. Amen.
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So unfortunately, we
boys became very violent,
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I was terrible to my brothers.
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I would just beat them up
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and they would
try to beat me back
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but I was the bigger
brother and then they grew up
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and passed me and they
became like freight trains,
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and I'm like, hey, never
mind but, the reality was my...
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I still had the
mental edge though, right.
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So they said they stood
in line, I say basically
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'cause they're big,
what happened to you Chris?
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I said, well, I stood
in line twice for brains
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and you guys stood in
line twice for muscles I guess.
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And so, what happens is
my mom remarries this guy,
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he is very abusive, we
go through this for 10 years
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and I got to the point
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to where I started fantasizing
about killing myself,
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I did attempt to
take my life one time.
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I have a scar to reveal that.
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My brother rested
the knife out of my hand,
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it was just a mess.
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We were violent kids
living in a violent home
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and we were lying to everybody
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acting like everything was okay.
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It was the huge facade.
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Another secret we have to keep,
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act like everything is
okay when it's absolute mess.
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My mom was being beaten
over and over and over again,
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she had to wear
certain kind of clothes
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just to cover the
bruising on her body.
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He never hit my body,
unless it was whipping me
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or switching me
with the belt or whatever
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but it would hit our
heads and he would grab our hair
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and just shake us
violently like this,
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like little rag doll,
and there were many times,
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I don't know how many but
many times I would wake up,
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laying there in the hall
and go what just happened
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because I would be blacked out.
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And so, I don't want to
glorify the devil anymore,
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I just want to tell
you, we had a bad situation,
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my mother finally
put a plan together,
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I don't know how she woke up,
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but I went to child protective
services at my high school
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and before you know what?
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I've got a plan and
I sit down with my mom,
00:27:31.15\00:27:33.31
I sit down with
my dad and I say,
00:27:33.35\00:27:34.68
I've been talking to
some people at school
00:27:34.72\00:27:36.55
and the beatings are gonna stop,
00:27:36.58\00:27:38.35
you're not gonna touch
one more hair on our head
00:27:38.39\00:27:40.56
and it's not like I
stood up there and went,
00:27:40.59\00:27:41.96
listen man, I was
just like, you know,
00:27:41.99\00:27:44.23
telling him this, my
knees mould one to the other,
00:27:44.26\00:27:46.90
you know, when I was
sitting and going, Lord, Lord,
00:27:46.93\00:27:49.43
I didn't cried to
God, I wish I would have,
00:27:49.46\00:27:51.03
but nobody ever talked
to me about Jesus Christ.
00:27:51.07\00:27:54.20
I never knew anything about it.
00:27:54.24\00:27:57.21
In America, to not
know anything about Jesus,
00:27:57.24\00:27:59.61
that almost astounds me
but I am one of those guys,
00:27:59.64\00:28:03.38
and now I'm here
today, that's amazing.
00:28:03.41\00:28:05.98
So basically what
happens is that we leave,
00:28:06.01\00:28:08.92
my mom makes a plan of
escape and we get out of there.
00:28:08.95\00:28:11.72
We had a police standby,
00:28:11.75\00:28:13.42
we got all the guns and
ammunition out of the house
00:28:13.46\00:28:15.26
because this guy
was a little whoo-whoo,
00:28:15.29\00:28:16.86
and we didn't want
anything tragic to happen
00:28:16.89\00:28:20.16
and so we escaped.
00:28:20.20\00:28:21.53
Praise God, we got out of that.
00:28:21.56\00:28:23.53
We escaped and we moved
to a new little town name
00:28:23.57\00:28:26.00
called Lodi, California.
00:28:26.03\00:28:27.94
And as I'm there, I
just reinvent myself,
00:28:27.97\00:28:30.04
I said, you
know, I'm just gonna,
00:28:30.07\00:28:31.41
I'm not gonna deal with
this, and let this defined me,
00:28:31.44\00:28:34.18
I didn't said all those
words, but for some reason
00:28:34.21\00:28:35.78
I just went forward
00:28:35.81\00:28:37.15
and I didn't care
about all the abuse.
00:28:37.18\00:28:38.51
I didn't care
about the molestations
00:28:38.55\00:28:40.65
and I say molestations
00:28:40.68\00:28:42.38
because when my dad,
when I was 10 years old,
00:28:42.42\00:28:44.29
for my 10 ten year old birthday,
00:28:44.32\00:28:46.52
I had my first beer with him
00:28:46.55\00:28:49.52
and he had rented some
pornographic movies that night
00:28:49.56\00:28:53.06
and we little, three
little boys sat there
00:28:53.09\00:28:54.50
and watch pornographic movies.
00:28:54.53\00:28:56.23
Why?
00:28:56.26\00:28:57.60
Because the guy
was out of his mind,
00:28:57.63\00:28:58.97
drunk and on drugs
00:28:59.00\00:29:00.54
and that night he molested
me and my middle brother.
00:29:00.57\00:29:05.31
Friends, tribulations,
I get it, Jesus Christ,
00:29:05.34\00:29:10.45
praise God for him
00:29:10.48\00:29:11.85
and he can get
us through anything.
00:29:11.88\00:29:15.52
And so, as I go forward
to this new high school,
00:29:15.55\00:29:19.12
I get involved in theatre arts,
00:29:19.15\00:29:20.76
I just wanted
to recreate myself,
00:29:20.79\00:29:22.56
and so I got
involved in theatre arts.
00:29:22.59\00:29:24.23
I got a lead
role in my first play.
00:29:24.26\00:29:26.43
It was singing,
dancing and acting
00:29:26.46\00:29:28.40
and the creativity
just like burst out of me
00:29:28.43\00:29:31.77
from being so oppressed as kids.
00:29:31.80\00:29:34.50
I didn't even know what to
do with the freedom totally.
00:29:34.54\00:29:36.81
We were so
controlled by this man
00:29:36.84\00:29:38.84
but now all of sudden, I'm free,
00:29:38.87\00:29:41.51
I didn't tell
anybody about my past,
00:29:41.54\00:29:44.31
we just left because
my mom got a divorce,
00:29:44.35\00:29:45.98
that's all I ever told anybody.
00:29:46.01\00:29:48.32
My brothers decided to go
down the path of their father.
00:29:48.35\00:29:53.36
Drugs and alcohol.
00:29:53.39\00:29:55.06
Both of them, my
youngest brother Brandon
00:29:55.09\00:29:56.99
starts drinking and doing
drugs when he's 12 years old.
00:29:57.03\00:30:01.16
My middle brother fourteen
00:30:01.20\00:30:02.93
when they
started, when he started,
00:30:02.96\00:30:05.23
eventually their lives
would spin out of control.
00:30:05.27\00:30:09.17
My bio dad was
in out of our lives,
00:30:09.20\00:30:10.81
as he dug deeper
into his addiction
00:30:10.84\00:30:13.81
and
unfortunately would have those
00:30:13.84\00:30:15.18
black out kind of weekends
00:30:15.21\00:30:16.54
and that was one of the weekends
00:30:16.58\00:30:17.91
where he did what he did to us.
00:30:17.95\00:30:19.91
So I began doing crazy things
00:30:19.95\00:30:21.65
to try to basically
just kind of hurt myself.
00:30:21.68\00:30:24.62
At certain points
00:30:24.65\00:30:25.99
I would go forward
with this new kind of guy,
00:30:26.02\00:30:27.96
but other times
00:30:27.99\00:30:29.32
I was just still like
this trapped kind of guy.
00:30:29.36\00:30:31.36
Something was going on in my
mind, I didn't understand it.
00:30:31.39\00:30:33.56
Something was
going down in my emotions
00:30:33.60\00:30:35.00
but I didn't understand
but I just kind of put it away,
00:30:35.03\00:30:36.93
tucked it away,
pushed it down and said,
00:30:36.97\00:30:38.73
hi, I'm Chris Berdahl,
00:30:38.77\00:30:41.37
really on the
inside, I was a mess.
00:30:41.40\00:30:43.14
Somehow, someway
00:30:46.14\00:30:48.51
I was able to navigate
through my high school years
00:30:48.54\00:30:51.11
and unfortunately
00:30:51.15\00:30:53.25
my brothers didn't
navigate very well.
00:30:53.28\00:30:55.18
By the time my
brother was in his--
00:30:55.22\00:30:57.35
My youngest brother
was in his sophomore year,
00:30:57.39\00:30:59.05
he was already
now in drug rehab.
00:30:59.09\00:31:00.92
My parents paying
for him to get in there.
00:31:00.96\00:31:03.02
My mom, I said parents
00:31:03.06\00:31:04.39
'cause my mom
remarried to the third guy
00:31:04.43\00:31:06.93
but he was a
gem and he is a gem,
00:31:06.96\00:31:08.53
and they've been married now
for over 20 years, praise God.
00:31:08.73\00:31:11.67
Third times the charm we say.
00:31:11.70\00:31:15.07
Eventually I get involved
deeper and deeper into theater
00:31:15.10\00:31:19.67
and I go through high school
00:31:19.71\00:31:21.04
win awards at
theater arts competitions
00:31:21.08\00:31:23.01
and earning this lead roles
and enjoying what's going on
00:31:23.11\00:31:26.61
and then finally I
graduate high school
00:31:26.65\00:31:30.42
and I go off to junior college,
00:31:30.45\00:31:31.95
and there I started
studying communications,
00:31:31.99\00:31:33.72
my dream was to go
into TV production.
00:31:33.76\00:31:36.52
And so eventually, as I
dropped off the theatre,
00:31:36.56\00:31:39.79
I did get into vaudeville
theatre which is kind of fun,
00:31:39.83\00:31:42.23
and then I also go
into a professional theatre
00:31:42.26\00:31:44.53
for a while.
00:31:44.57\00:31:45.90
And I was going to
school, doing theater
00:31:45.93\00:31:48.00
and had a full time
job during the same time.
00:31:48.04\00:31:49.74
I don't even know when I slept.
00:31:49.77\00:31:51.11
I think back and go,
how is that possible?
00:31:51.14\00:31:52.47
I'm 45 now I go, I
could never do that,
00:31:52.51\00:31:54.51
but I was able to
do it when I was 20.
00:31:54.54\00:31:56.88
So eventually I
dropped off the theater
00:31:56.91\00:32:00.52
and I dove
deeper into production,
00:32:00.55\00:32:02.52
and I started a
company with two other friends
00:32:02.82\00:32:05.09
and we built three
different companies,
00:32:05.12\00:32:07.69
three different businesses
and we were widely successful,
00:32:07.72\00:32:10.13
it was going great.
00:32:10.16\00:32:11.49
And at 24 years old
I eventually discovered
00:32:11.53\00:32:15.23
that one of my
business partners,
00:32:15.26\00:32:16.83
the other one had left,
one of my business partners
00:32:16.87\00:32:19.50
had embezzled our
companies into the ground.
00:32:19.53\00:32:22.74
So at 24 years
old, I lose everything,
00:32:22.77\00:32:26.74
everything, everything
I had worked so hard for,
00:32:26.78\00:32:29.11
lost my businesses,
we had 32 employees.
00:32:29.14\00:32:32.48
I was making money not
like millions of dollars
00:32:32.51\00:32:35.05
but I was on my
way and I lost it all,
00:32:35.08\00:32:38.85
and then God gets
a hold of my heart.
00:32:38.89\00:32:41.39
God starts to get a hold,
I got to really advance this,
00:32:42.22\00:32:44.49
I got 15 minutes
left, Lord have mercy.
00:32:44.53\00:32:46.66
So, and I think I'm on page
2 of 20 or something like that.
00:32:46.70\00:32:51.90
If you want, go on
our website in March
00:32:51.93\00:32:55.74
and you'll be
able to watch testimony
00:32:55.77\00:32:57.11
or you can pick up your
own and watch it in your home.
00:32:57.14\00:33:00.08
So anyway what happens is
00:33:00.11\00:33:02.64
I lose everything, I get deeper,
00:33:02.68\00:33:04.58
I have six figure bankruptcy
00:33:04.61\00:33:06.68
and now my credit's
ruined, I'm failing,
00:33:06.72\00:33:10.09
all the programming
of how I be a failure
00:33:10.12\00:33:12.22
and I was a loser,
00:33:12.25\00:33:13.59
all that came
back alive in my mind
00:33:13.62\00:33:15.92
and I had all these
emotional things going on,
00:33:15.96\00:33:18.09
it was just a mess,
00:33:18.13\00:33:19.69
yet I decided let's get
back into TV production,
00:33:19.73\00:33:23.16
because by this time, I had
already worked in production
00:33:23.20\00:33:25.73
and I was
continuing to grow my skills.
00:33:25.77\00:33:28.20
I started off
as a tape operator,
00:33:28.24\00:33:29.77
went to a
cameraman, then to a director,
00:33:29.80\00:33:31.67
and then a producer and writer
and I was only 24 years old
00:33:31.71\00:33:34.54
and I was loving it,
00:33:34.58\00:33:35.94
so I decided, you know, what?
00:33:35.98\00:33:37.31
I'm not gonna let
that hold me down,
00:33:37.35\00:33:38.81
I'm going forward.
00:33:38.85\00:33:40.18
And so, I just went forward
just out of sheer tenacity,
00:33:40.22\00:33:42.88
even though I had a
rough terrible childhood,
00:33:42.92\00:33:44.99
it did strengthen me,
00:33:45.02\00:33:46.62
it did give me a thicker skin,
00:33:46.65\00:33:48.66
and I was like, I'm
just going to go forward.
00:33:48.69\00:33:50.56
So I went forward,
00:33:50.59\00:33:51.93
and I was trying
to rebuild my life,
00:33:51.96\00:33:54.03
and I get a phone
call from a producer,
00:33:54.06\00:33:58.13
and he said,
Christian, I've got a job,
00:33:58.17\00:34:00.04
it's four days long
00:34:00.07\00:34:01.40
and I would like to see
if you want to take this,
00:34:01.44\00:34:03.10
you'll be director, we'll
give you some camera people,
00:34:03.14\00:34:05.44
here's what it
pays, do you want the job?
00:34:05.47\00:34:06.81
I said sure, and
I said what is it?
00:34:06.84\00:34:09.51
He said it's a camp meeting.
00:34:09.54\00:34:10.88
I said what's the camp meeting
00:34:10.91\00:34:12.25
because I don't know
meaning about camping.
00:34:12.28\00:34:13.62
I said, great,
00:34:13.65\00:34:14.98
I grew up camping, awesome.
00:34:15.02\00:34:16.72
So I took the job
00:34:16.75\00:34:19.05
and I find myself going
to great festival grounds
00:34:19.09\00:34:21.76
in Lodi, California
00:34:21.79\00:34:23.12
looking for this
guy name Danny Vierra.
00:34:23.16\00:34:25.09
And Danny was
running this camp meeting.
00:34:25.13\00:34:27.63
And as I show up,
there's motor homes,
00:34:27.66\00:34:29.53
you know, camping, right.
00:34:29.56\00:34:30.90
There's tents, camping,
00:34:30.93\00:34:32.27
ladies in dresses
with hiking boots,
00:34:32.30\00:34:34.77
kind of weird
but camping, right.
00:34:34.80\00:34:37.57
By the way that's a
major fashion violation.
00:34:37.61\00:34:39.54
The Lord has to reel
me in, reel me in Lord,
00:34:46.55\00:34:49.88
come back Christian, come back.
00:34:49.92\00:34:51.32
So, I'm looking for
this guy named Danny
00:34:51.35\00:34:54.62
and he tells me so, we
are here for, you know,
00:34:55.12\00:34:59.33
your camp meeting
and where can we set up,
00:34:59.36\00:35:01.43
talking about cameras
and maybe camera angles
00:35:01.46\00:35:03.63
and I said do you need
like a hand held camcorder,
00:35:03.67\00:35:06.70
you know, and stuff like that
for your remote demonstration
00:35:06.74\00:35:09.27
or something and he says
what are you talking about.
00:35:09.30\00:35:11.74
I'm thinking like
they're gonna, you know,
00:35:11.77\00:35:13.38
demo high altitude cooks
stoves or something, you know,
00:35:13.41\00:35:16.08
and he's like
can't, oh, no-no-no
00:35:16.11\00:35:18.55
these are religious
meeting that people camp at.
00:35:18.58\00:35:20.78
Oh,
00:35:23.52\00:35:26.72
my production
career is this low now,
00:35:26.76\00:35:30.99
and so I've seen
there for four days
00:35:31.03\00:35:33.23
and there is all
these different preachers
00:35:33.83\00:35:35.26
someone talking
about American prophesy
00:35:35.30\00:35:37.17
and Jesus Christ, I'm just like,
00:35:37.20\00:35:39.80
and I literally
started to see Jesus
00:35:39.83\00:35:43.44
through the eye of the camera.
00:35:43.47\00:35:46.64
And I see Danny up there,
00:35:46.68\00:35:48.01
I don't have enough
time to get in all this
00:35:48.04\00:35:49.38
but he's is, this
buffed guy, he's tan,
00:35:49.41\00:35:51.15
he's got a beautiful family
00:35:51.18\00:35:52.51
and he's talking
about Daniel, Daniel's diet,
00:35:52.55\00:35:54.92
and he say give pulse,
00:35:54.95\00:35:56.35
Daniel ate pulse
and I'm like pulse?
00:35:56.38\00:35:58.69
That's creepy.
00:35:58.72\00:36:01.69
I mean like there's
vampires in the Bible, what?
00:36:01.72\00:36:04.63
I don't understand
00:36:04.66\00:36:05.99
and he's like no,
and I finally figure out,
00:36:06.03\00:36:07.86
he is talking
about food, so anyway,
00:36:07.90\00:36:09.70
my brain was just bent.
00:36:09.73\00:36:13.80
Less than 12 minutes.
00:36:13.84\00:36:16.37
Danny and I began a
little bit of a friendship,
00:36:16.40\00:36:18.04
eventually I meet
this young lady named Cobi
00:36:18.07\00:36:20.31
and Cobi is who
I married to today,
00:36:20.34\00:36:22.51
which is really exciting.
00:36:22.54\00:36:24.18
My face always lights up
00:36:24.21\00:36:25.55
when I say her
name or think about her,
00:36:25.58\00:36:27.22
so if I'm ever sad
I just think of Cobi.
00:36:27.25\00:36:30.52
So anyway,
00:36:30.55\00:36:31.89
I wind up
moving to Santa Barbara
00:36:31.92\00:36:34.09
to go to film school
00:36:34.12\00:36:35.46
and so I got involved
with high end production there
00:36:35.49\00:36:37.86
working for
Nickelodeon and PBS and ESPN,
00:36:37.89\00:36:40.20
professional sports
and all kinds of things,
00:36:40.23\00:36:42.26
commercial production and
my resume started growing,
00:36:42.30\00:36:45.67
and I decided not
to go to film school,
00:36:45.70\00:36:47.84
because we had to move
away eventually from there
00:36:47.87\00:36:49.77
'cause I got Cobi pregnant.
00:36:49.80\00:36:52.07
Starting to fall a
little bit in my mom's footsteps
00:36:52.11\00:36:55.24
and unfortunately we
lost the baby at five months
00:36:55.28\00:36:58.95
and that was very
traumatic for my dear wife
00:36:58.98\00:37:01.48
and we moved to be
closer to her family in Arizona,
00:37:01.52\00:37:04.69
and I could not
find a job in production,
00:37:04.72\00:37:06.59
long story short, I find myself
going back out to California
00:37:06.62\00:37:09.92
and I had an overwhelming
desire to go and see my friend,
00:37:09.96\00:37:12.79
Danny Vierra.
00:37:12.83\00:37:14.66
And he is the guy
running the camp meaning, right?
00:37:14.70\00:37:16.87
Well, he runs a ministry
00:37:16.90\00:37:18.50
and so we are seeing, I went
there and hey man, how are you?
00:37:18.53\00:37:20.30
Hey, what are you doing?
00:37:20.34\00:37:21.67
And he always hugged me
and gave kiss on the cheek,
00:37:21.70\00:37:23.17
you know, you know, but
okay, so I don't mind it now
00:37:23.20\00:37:28.18
but you know
'cause I get it, right?
00:37:28.21\00:37:29.64
The Bible talks
about greeting one another
00:37:29.68\00:37:31.11
with a holy kiss, right?
00:37:31.15\00:37:33.38
So anyway,
00:37:33.42\00:37:35.22
three days later,
after we're talking
00:37:35.25\00:37:36.89
I can't tell you the whole story
00:37:36.92\00:37:38.25
but we wind up
coming to an agreement
00:37:38.29\00:37:40.29
for me to work at his
ministry, a heathen guy
00:37:40.32\00:37:43.12
working for a
Seventh-day Adventist ministry,
00:37:43.16\00:37:46.43
because I could
do some production,
00:37:46.46\00:37:47.80
and I can do some office
work and I could do some design
00:37:47.83\00:37:50.17
and that type of thing,
00:37:50.20\00:37:51.53
he's like I can
really use a guy like you
00:37:51.57\00:37:52.90
and I was just
fed up of my life.
00:37:52.93\00:37:54.57
Everything was not going right
00:37:54.60\00:37:56.44
and finally I
go to work for God,
00:37:56.47\00:37:58.67
that God works miracles,
00:37:58.71\00:38:01.14
Cobi and I've been separated
for about 6 months now,
00:38:01.41\00:38:03.61
she is still in Arizona,
Gods puts us back together
00:38:03.65\00:38:06.11
and I got to eventually lead,
00:38:06.15\00:38:08.35
I came to Christ,
Danny led me to Christ
00:38:08.38\00:38:11.15
through the Bible
and Spirit of Prophecy,
00:38:11.19\00:38:12.89
he baptized me,
00:38:12.92\00:38:14.26
the crazy pulse guy is
the one that baptizes me,
00:38:14.29\00:38:19.16
isn't that cool?
00:38:19.19\00:38:20.53
That's awesome,
I love you brother.
00:38:20.56\00:38:24.87
And so eventually
00:38:24.90\00:38:28.47
Cobi and I are now
on the phone talking,
00:38:28.50\00:38:30.44
I'm witnessing to her, I
fell in love with the Bible,
00:38:30.47\00:38:32.67
the Spirit of
Prophecy, Steps to Christ
00:38:32.71\00:38:34.38
and Desire of Ages
radically changed my life.
00:38:34.41\00:38:38.41
And so, I started
00:38:38.45\00:38:40.12
witnessing to her
and before you know it,
00:38:40.15\00:38:41.85
he brings, God
brings her back into my life
00:38:41.88\00:38:44.05
and she accepts the
truth, we studied out,
00:38:44.42\00:38:47.79
she gives her heart to Jesus,
00:38:47.82\00:38:49.16
I got to lead the woman
that would become my wife
00:38:49.19\00:38:52.96
to Jesus Christ, that's amazing,
00:38:52.99\00:38:57.13
and God started
performing surgery on my heart
00:38:57.17\00:39:00.34
and He had changed
so much of my thinking,
00:39:01.00\00:39:02.47
He started to help me
with all these emotions
00:39:02.50\00:39:04.51
and all these emotional baggage
00:39:04.54\00:39:05.87
and it started kind of
coming off of my shoulders
00:39:05.91\00:39:08.14
and I just became more free.
00:39:08.18\00:39:09.84
I was freed geographically
before when we moved,
00:39:09.88\00:39:14.15
but now I was starting
to become freed spiritually
00:39:14.18\00:39:16.58
and freed emotionally.
00:39:16.62\00:39:18.25
And Cobi saw a difference,
00:39:18.29\00:39:19.65
and she wanted
what I had a hold off.
00:39:19.69\00:39:22.82
And I said, it's Jesus,
00:39:22.86\00:39:24.56
I have a hold of
Jesus, not like you've heard,
00:39:24.59\00:39:26.96
but He is real
and He is tangible
00:39:27.00\00:39:29.16
and He really helps and
she's like this is awesome,
00:39:29.20\00:39:31.07
I wanted too.
00:39:31.10\00:39:32.83
Before, you know, we're married.
00:39:32.87\00:39:34.60
Guess who married
us? The crazy guy.
00:39:34.64\00:39:37.91
So the joke is,
00:39:41.04\00:39:44.45
he led me to
Christ, he baptized me,
00:39:44.48\00:39:46.78
he married me, we
hope he doesn't bury me.
00:39:46.82\00:39:48.72
But I needed a miracle, friends,
00:39:55.22\00:39:56.62
I needed huge miracles.
00:39:56.66\00:39:58.16
My brothers were spinning
off into drugs and alcohol,
00:39:58.19\00:40:00.96
deeper than ever before.
00:40:01.00\00:40:02.90
My biological father
is nowhere to be found.
00:40:02.93\00:40:04.83
I knew where he was
00:40:04.87\00:40:06.20
but he had
nothing to do in my life
00:40:06.23\00:40:08.20
and he was just gone.
00:40:08.24\00:40:09.57
I needed a new heart
and I found Ezekiel 36:26,
00:40:09.60\00:40:12.64
"A new heart will I give you,
00:40:12.67\00:40:15.24
and a new spirit
will I put within you
00:40:15.28\00:40:17.45
and I will take away the
stony heart out of your flesh,
00:40:17.48\00:40:19.98
and I will give
you a heart of flesh."
00:40:20.02\00:40:22.48
Not maybe, you go to
God, you don't have to go,
00:40:22.52\00:40:25.02
okay, please
give me a new heart.
00:40:25.05\00:40:27.29
No, He's like done.
00:40:27.32\00:40:30.79
I will give you new heart now
00:40:30.83\00:40:33.19
and I will mould and shape
you for the rest of your life.
00:40:33.23\00:40:37.70
Thank you Lord,
may I have another?
00:40:37.73\00:40:42.00
Psalm 91:4
00:40:42.04\00:40:43.51
"And He shall cover
thee with his feathers,
00:40:43.54\00:40:44.94
and under his
wings shalt thou trust:
00:40:44.97\00:40:47.14
his truth shall be
thy shield and buckler."
00:40:47.18\00:40:49.41
When, Psalm 27:10,
00:40:49.44\00:40:51.31
"When my father and my
mother forsake me and they had,
00:40:51.35\00:40:54.58
the Lord will take me up."
00:40:54.62\00:40:57.02
It's amazing, I
finally discover,
00:40:57.05\00:40:58.75
I have a father in heaven
who doesn't want to molest me,
00:40:58.79\00:41:01.39
who doesn't want to beat me,
00:41:01.42\00:41:02.76
but has every awesome
possibility in store for me.
00:41:02.79\00:41:08.13
Amazing.
00:41:08.16\00:41:09.60
So I had gone
through certain things
00:41:09.63\00:41:11.50
that bondage wise that I,
00:41:11.53\00:41:13.70
it took a while to overcome,
00:41:13.74\00:41:16.10
other things really
fell off pretty quickly
00:41:16.14\00:41:18.21
and some wrong thinking,
00:41:18.24\00:41:19.91
but the thing that was hardest
for me was the forgiveness.
00:41:19.94\00:41:23.38
Truly forgive.
00:41:23.41\00:41:24.75
People will always
come to me and say,
00:41:24.78\00:41:26.11
if your's really
gonna be a son of Jesus
00:41:26.15\00:41:27.68
and a child of Jesus, you
have to forgive everybody,
00:41:27.72\00:41:29.88
you have forgive him completely,
00:41:29.92\00:41:31.39
and I didn't understand
what that meant for a long time.
00:41:31.42\00:41:34.56
So eventually I did
sit down with my mom
00:41:34.59\00:41:37.23
because I had a lot
of resentment build up
00:41:37.26\00:41:38.76
that she kept us in
that horrible situation
00:41:38.79\00:41:40.80
for almost 10
years, and we sat down,
00:41:40.83\00:41:44.13
and we had our
crying, we headed out and,
00:41:44.17\00:41:46.60
you know what, I'm
very close with my mom,
00:41:46.63\00:41:48.37
closer I've ever been
00:41:48.40\00:41:49.77
and we have a
beautiful relationship, amen.
00:41:49.80\00:41:52.74
But, and then I also forgave her
00:41:52.77\00:41:55.61
and I also forgave
my evil stepfather,
00:41:55.64\00:41:57.78
the one that was beating us
00:41:57.81\00:41:59.15
and tearing us
down for that decade
00:41:59.18\00:42:00.58
and I forgave him.
00:42:00.62\00:42:01.95
God finally brought me to--
00:42:01.98\00:42:03.32
Now that one took longer,
God brought me to a place,
00:42:03.35\00:42:06.09
do I honestly forgive that man
00:42:06.12\00:42:07.76
because God gave us
something very special
00:42:07.79\00:42:09.89
and He wants to
give it to you too,
00:42:09.92\00:42:11.26
a different
perspective of things.
00:42:11.29\00:42:13.93
He wants you to see
them through His holy eyes,
00:42:13.96\00:42:18.23
their fallen
children making bad decisions
00:42:18.27\00:42:21.17
and is impacting other
people, that was my life.
00:42:21.20\00:42:24.44
It doesn't excuse what happened,
00:42:24.47\00:42:26.07
don't misunderstand
me, but it does explain it.
00:42:26.11\00:42:29.31
Do you understand?
00:42:29.34\00:42:30.85
Doesn't excuse it
but it explains it,
00:42:30.88\00:42:34.32
and God gave me forgiveness
for my biological father.
00:42:34.35\00:42:38.45
That was actually
the hardestone for me
00:42:38.49\00:42:40.52
'cause after he
got clean and sober
00:42:40.56\00:42:42.02
which he's been clean
and sober now for 20 years,
00:42:42.06\00:42:43.89
he still not in my
life for that 20 years.
00:42:43.93\00:42:47.83
What's wrong here?
00:42:47.86\00:42:49.20
Now you're sober, right thinking
00:42:49.23\00:42:50.57
but now the guilt
of all of his decision,
00:42:50.60\00:42:53.23
the guilt of
everything that he had done
00:42:53.27\00:42:55.20
is controlling him and
he is oppressed by this,
00:42:55.24\00:42:59.91
and so he is out of
my life for a long time.
00:42:59.94\00:43:03.28
Eventually,
00:43:03.31\00:43:05.71
I do forgive him
completely in my heart
00:43:05.75\00:43:07.38
and I just say,
Lord, I give him to you.
00:43:07.42\00:43:09.32
My brother start
to come to the Lord.
00:43:09.35\00:43:11.82
Brandon finds
sobriety eight years ago.
00:43:11.85\00:43:16.09
He is now married.
00:43:16.12\00:43:17.46
He is now a Christian,
00:43:17.49\00:43:18.83
and he has given his
heart to Jesus Christ
00:43:18.86\00:43:20.20
and now he goes
back into the prison
00:43:20.23\00:43:21.56
'cause they, both my brothers
00:43:21.60\00:43:22.93
got involved in
drug manufacturing,
00:43:22.96\00:43:24.30
drug trafficking, and prison,
00:43:24.33\00:43:27.14
so my brother Brandon
now goes back into the prison
00:43:27.17\00:43:29.54
witnessing to those
who he was once like.
00:43:29.57\00:43:33.44
My brother
Aaron, drug trafficking,
00:43:33.48\00:43:35.71
prison, three
different prison terms,
00:43:35.74\00:43:37.85
he winds up
finding Jesus one day.
00:43:37.88\00:43:40.95
And by the way,
come by our booth 707
00:43:40.98\00:43:43.59
and we have a
little seven minute loop
00:43:43.62\00:43:45.95
and you can see the
interviews of my mom
00:43:45.99\00:43:47.89
and with my brothers
and just come and watch,
00:43:47.92\00:43:50.13
we're having a
constant loop all weekend.
00:43:50.16\00:43:52.69
It's so powerful
what God has done,
00:43:52.73\00:43:55.53
not only in my life,
00:43:55.56\00:43:56.90
not only in my wife's
life, in my children's life
00:43:56.93\00:43:59.37
but also in my brother's
life, in my mother's life.
00:43:59.40\00:44:02.54
God is like good with healing
00:44:02.57\00:44:04.31
and fixing everybody by the way.
00:44:04.34\00:44:08.38
So now my brother, you'll see,
00:44:08.41\00:44:10.45
he is wearing a black
hat that says S-O-T-C,
00:44:10.48\00:44:12.85
Soldiers of the Cross.
00:44:12.88\00:44:14.25
He rides his Harley Davidson,
00:44:14.28\00:44:15.62
they go and they
witness to inner-city kids
00:44:15.65\00:44:17.22
about drugs and
all those kinds of.
00:44:17.25\00:44:18.59
It's so awesome how
God will use anyone of us.
00:44:18.62\00:44:22.66
Do you want to be used by God?
00:44:22.69\00:44:25.13
Then simply
surrender and say, Lord,
00:44:25.16\00:44:27.16
not my will but
Your will be done.
00:44:27.20\00:44:29.56
My mother continues to grow
00:44:29.60\00:44:32.53
and she suffers for
many years with my brothers,
00:44:32.57\00:44:35.77
but she starts
working with salvation army
00:44:35.80\00:44:40.44
in a battered women shelter.
00:44:40.48\00:44:42.58
You see, all of
these things in our lives,
00:44:42.61\00:44:45.25
yes, they were horrible
00:44:45.28\00:44:46.95
but with God, they
can all be used for good.
00:44:46.98\00:44:53.99
I don't know what's
going on in your life
00:44:54.02\00:44:56.06
but God does,
00:44:56.09\00:44:57.59
and don't let the devil
have you another moment.
00:44:57.63\00:44:59.89
So I work with Danny for
two and half years there,
00:45:01.66\00:45:05.43
learn the health
message, loved it, embraced it,
00:45:05.47\00:45:07.57
learned the
Seventh-day Adventist message,
00:45:07.60\00:45:08.94
from there we went
to another ministry
00:45:08.97\00:45:10.44
and did TV broadcasting
00:45:10.47\00:45:12.17
and evangelistic broadcasting
for many years there,
00:45:12.21\00:45:15.24
and then God calls us out
to start our own ministry.
00:45:15.28\00:45:17.55
Don't have time
to get into all that
00:45:17.58\00:45:19.08
but God calls us to
a ministry of singing,
00:45:19.11\00:45:22.18
of preaching and of
doing media production.
00:45:22.22\00:45:24.75
There's three things
that I probably love most
00:45:24.79\00:45:26.62
in this world and God goes,
00:45:26.65\00:45:28.12
will give you a
ministry just like that.
00:45:28.16\00:45:30.69
What is it that you love to do?
00:45:30.73\00:45:32.43
If it's something
God can't work with,
00:45:32.46\00:45:34.20
He will if you surrender to Him.
00:45:34.23\00:45:36.67
And so, eventually,
00:45:36.70\00:45:39.20
God works miracles
in my father's life,
00:45:39.23\00:45:44.34
my biological father's life.
00:45:44.37\00:45:46.61
And as we were getting
ready to go out to California
00:45:46.64\00:45:49.88
in the summer to go videotape
00:45:49.91\00:45:51.71
and interview all
of my family members,
00:45:51.75\00:45:53.88
I get a phone call
and my father-in-law
00:45:53.92\00:45:57.72
works in the ministry
with us and he says Christian,
00:45:57.75\00:46:01.02
there is somebody on the
phone, he says he knows you,
00:46:01.06\00:46:02.59
I can't remember
what is, I don't know,
00:46:02.62\00:46:03.96
what he said his name is, sorry
but he wants to talk to you,
00:46:03.99\00:46:05.99
he says it's very important.
00:46:06.03\00:46:07.36
I pick it up and he
goes, hi Christian, it's dad
00:46:07.40\00:46:13.57
and my heart
skipped to beat, friends,
00:46:13.60\00:46:16.84
and I went, hello.
00:46:16.87\00:46:19.97
I said why are you calling?
00:46:23.14\00:46:26.68
He says because I'm ready.
00:46:26.72\00:46:32.09
You're ready?
00:46:32.12\00:46:33.46
'Cause every time I'd go to him,
00:46:33.49\00:46:34.82
over and over and over and
say, friends, listen to me,
00:46:34.86\00:46:38.09
I would go to him over
and over and over again
00:46:38.13\00:46:40.73
and he would say, I'm not ready.
00:46:40.76\00:46:43.53
Now he says I'm
ready and we start talking
00:46:43.57\00:46:46.40
and then I fly
him out to meet us
00:46:46.57\00:46:49.00
because this man
is a converted man
00:46:49.04\00:46:50.41
and found Jesus Christ Himself
00:46:50.44\00:46:52.54
and now he wants a
relationship with us three boys
00:46:52.57\00:46:56.41
and so I fly him
out to California
00:46:56.44\00:46:58.05
and I interviewed him,
00:46:58.08\00:46:59.41
I haven't seen him
in almost 20 years,
00:46:59.45\00:47:01.78
and we're sitting
and talking face to face
00:47:01.82\00:47:03.42
and I'm interviewing
him, you can see it,
00:47:03.45\00:47:05.25
he's crying on the video,
00:47:05.29\00:47:07.02
it's just God is
amazing at fixing people.
00:47:07.06\00:47:11.86
My whole family is being fixed.
00:47:11.89\00:47:15.06
And if God can do this
for my family, friends,
00:47:15.10\00:47:17.73
He can do it for
you. I'm living proof.
00:47:17.77\00:47:23.27
I'm living proof that
God is alive and well.
00:47:23.30\00:47:27.54
None of this
would have been possible
00:47:30.75\00:47:32.28
if I had not met
Jesus at the cross.
00:47:32.31\00:47:38.12
"And they overcame him
by the blood of the Lamb,
00:47:38.15\00:47:40.16
and by the word
of their testimony,
00:47:40.19\00:47:41.56
and they loved not
their lives unto the death."
00:47:41.59\00:47:45.19
From Broken to Breakthrough.
This is my testimony.
00:47:45.23\00:47:50.27
Amen.
00:47:50.30\00:47:51.63