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presentation is brought to you
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by the friends of the
Amazing Facts Ministry.
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- After losing his godly mother,
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when he was
just seven years old,
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John began to hang
out with the wrong crowd.
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Disturbed by his delinquency,
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his father, a sea captain,
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began taking him
along on ocean voyages,
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but John's life soon spiraled
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into increasingly bad behavior.
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After being pressed
into the British Royal Navy,
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John gave up on God entirely.
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He adopted atheism and he
loved tormenting Christians
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with his blasphemy.
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Consumed with anger and hate,
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the rebel's life overflowed
with misery and despair.
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Eventually he signed on as
a crew member on a slave ship,
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but through a
strange turn of Providence,
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John became a slave himself.
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When finally rescued,
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John continued in
his reckless lifestyle
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of cursing,
fighting and drinking,
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but all of this
dramatically changed
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during a terrifying storm at sea
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when John Newton, the
author of the best loved hymn,
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"Amazing Grace," finally
acknowledged his need of Christ.
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John Newton's
dramatic and famous conversion
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certainly isn't unique.
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I personally know of
thousands of remarkable accounts
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of people from all ages
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who've experienced
total transformation
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through the incredible power,
love, and grace of Christ,
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myself included.
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I invite you now to join me
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as I share my own
personal testimony,
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and I pray that
you'll be blessed.
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Everybody in life
wants to be happy.
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And many people in the
world think that happiness
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comes from either
physical pleasure,
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or, "If I could
be wealthy enough,"
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or, "If I could be more
beautiful or more popular
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than I'd have real happiness."
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And so many
people go through life
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dissatisfied
with what they do have
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wanting something else,
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and I've learned that happiness
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does not come from those things.
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Now I'll start by
giving you a little background,
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tell you about
my parents briefly.
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Mother and father were as
opposite as you could get.
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My mother grew up
Jewish background,
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but she wasn't practicing.
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My father grew up
with a Baptist background,
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but he pretty much became
an atheist after World War II.
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He was a pilot,
captain in the air force
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and flew in Europe
during World War II,
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but he became very successful.
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He started buying
army surplus planes
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and built it into an
airline delivering cargo,
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then delivering passengers,
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and at one time he
owned two airlines.
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He knew a lot of very
wealthy, powerful people
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like Howard Hughes and
others in that business,
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and he grew into
a multi-millionaire.
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Started in LA, moved
the business to Miami,
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had a company called Batch Air.
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Now, here he is,
this is wife number four,
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meeting Pope John Paul II.
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If you got
enough money, you can...
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He met presidents and
he knew a lot of people.
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He was a philanthropist,
gave a lot of money away,
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but that's not where
happiness comes from.
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My dad used to drink
himself to sleep every night.
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He was so stressed.
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Jesus said, "A man's
life does not consist
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in the abundance of
things he possesses."
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The Lord tells
us, "Do not lay up
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treasures on
earth for yourself."
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In our garage,
we had Rolls-Royce.
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This is not my dad's Rolls.
I just grabbed one online.
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He had a white
Rolls-Royce, a Maserati,
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stepmother had a
Jaguar, Ferraris,
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I mean, they had all the toys.
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Had fighting, coldness,
unhappiness in the family,
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and I thought,
"What's the purpose of life?
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Nobody seems to be happy."
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"Thieves break
through and steal.
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Rust and moth
corrupt," the Bible tells us.
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So that's dad's side.
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Mom, I don't know how
they ever got married.
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He was a
Republican. She was a Democrat.
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He was a redneck from Oklahoma.
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She was a hippie
from New York City.
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That's maybe why they divorced
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when I was three years of age.
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It didn't last that long.
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But mom was very talented.
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She did not have much formal
education, but she could sing,
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she could write.
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She was an attractive lady.
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And she started
writing songs for Elvis Presley
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when she was still a teenager,
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and recorded two
or three with Elvis.
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But she had songs that were
in movies like "Stagecoach,"
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and she knew
people like Frank Sinatra,
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and Andy Williams
recorded her songs,
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and she wrote some standards.
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She was an actress.
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If you've ever seen the
movie, "The Ten Commandments,"
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mom had a really
little part in that movie.
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And I'd tell the kids, I
said, "There goes grandma."
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That was it. (audience laughing)
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But she did some acting in a
couple of movies in Hollywood.
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At that time she
started having kids,
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and so she gave that up
and she became a film critic.
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And I'm condensing her
whole life very quickly,
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but she was the
president of the Film Critics
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in Hollywood and Beverly Hills.
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And in that position,
it's a very powerful position
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because she knew
everybody in Hollywood.
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If a movie came out,
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and they spend millions
of dollars on these movies,
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if the film
critic gave a bad review,
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then their income went down,
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and so they were always
afraid of the power of her.
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She was a film critic
on "Good Morning America,"
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and replaced Rona Barrett.
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And I just threw
in a few pictures.
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I could just sit here all day
and show you pictures of mom.
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But like here's
mom with Muhammad Ali,
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with Sir Paul McCartney,
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Sylvester
Stallone, Natalie Wood.
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Some people think she looked
a little bit like Natalie Wood.
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Roger Moore, he was
one of the James Bonds,
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Sally Field, who's still alive.
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There's mom with Clint
Eastwood, and Paul Newman,
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and Benji the Dog.
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I dunno if
anyone remembers that.
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So I just show you
these to let you know
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that when I was with mom...
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Now dad, I was born
in Burbank, California.
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Dad and mom split.
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He ended up moving his
business to Miami Beach.
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Mom moved to New York City.
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My brother and I moved around
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through these different places.
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When she died,
she was all alone.
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And we saw growing up these
people that had lots of money
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and they had lots
of influence and fame,
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and we knew some of
them, that good looking,
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wealthy, healthy,
miserable, killed themselves.
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And I used to think, "Why?
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Does life have any purpose?"
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And so that was the
thing that struck me.
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Then I decided
I'm just going to,
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I'm going to try and
have all the fun I can.
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I saw this
commercial where it said,
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"You only go
around once in life.
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get all the gusto you can."
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I thought, "All right, well,
I'm going to die having fun.
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I'm going to just
have as much fun as I can
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and just go out
enjoying myself."
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And I started to
live a very reckless life.
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I began using drugs.
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I started smoking when I was 13,
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'cause mom and dad both smoked
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and I'd just
take their cigarettes.
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Then mom used to smoke pot.
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And one night she
said, "Now well Doug,
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I know that
you're going to end up
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being exposed to
this out on the streets."
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And she said, "I'd just as
soon you did it here at home."
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So she started
to smoke pot with me
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two or three times
a week, or hashish,
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and we'd eat ice
cream and watch TV.
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But you know, and
so when I was with mom,
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I began to use drugs at home,
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and then when I was
with dad in Florida...
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This is actually
a Google Earth photo
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of the island that dad lived on.
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It's still there today,
Sunset Island Number One,
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and he had that house
on the top of the picture,
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right on the
water with the dock,
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and had security
guards that kept you
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from going on the island.
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Had a butler, a maid.
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Dad had a bar in the
house bigger than some bars
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you might find in a city.
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So whenever I
wanted to go drink,
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my friends and I would
go drink all we wanted.
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And so I learned
how to drink with dad.
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And he never
realized it was missing
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because the
butler kept replacing it
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thinking dad was
just drinking more.
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And so my friends and I
would often party during the day
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and I started drinking.
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And by the way,
all drugs are bad,
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but more of my friends have
died from alcohol than anything.
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And I just mention that
because I encounter Christians
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every now and then that think
drinking a little bit is okay.
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I'll tell you friends,
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one outta seven people that
drinks becomes an alcoholic,
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and it's just caused all
kinds of misery in our society.
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Christians shouldn't
drink anything, any alcohol.
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But then I started getting
into more and more trouble.
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I ran away from home the
first time when I was 13.
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Went up to the hills.
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I always felt
drawn to the hills.
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Ran away the last
time when I was 15.
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Dad said, "I don't
know what to do with you."
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I was just getting into trouble
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with the police and drugs,
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and I'm condensing the story.
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I left home.
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This is actually a picture
from when I was 16 years old,
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a passport picture, and
just started hitchhiking.
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I went from Florida to Maine.
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I had lied on my
driver's license,
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I'm born in 57.
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I turned the seven into a
two on my learner's permit.
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I used that permit to get one
that said I was born in 1952,
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which made me old enough to
buy alcohol and to get a job.
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So I moved to Boston with
some very undesirable friends
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and we began to break
into homes and to steal,
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steal cars, steal televisions,
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and it was getting a
little more heavy duty.
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And I had a part-time
job as a security guard
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during that time.
(audience chuckling)
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I know, it's really bizarre.
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And I never stole from
the people I was guarding,
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'cause I thought,
"Well, they're paying me.
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They trust me.
That wouldn't be right."
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But I had a friend
who was a security guard
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and he knew about my day job.
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See, I'd guard places at night,
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I'd steal during the day
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'cause if you walk
out of someone's apartment
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with a TV during the day,
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they think you're moving.
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You do it at night,
you look suspicious.
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My friend, he found out
about what my day job was
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and he said, "Doug, your
karma's going to get you."
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I said, "You
going to turn me in?"
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He said, "No, no, your
karma's going to get you."
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I said, "What's karma?"
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He said, "Whatever
you do, it comes back."
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I said, "Ah, there's no God.
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There's no such thing."
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He said, "You'll see."
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And I started watching.
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You know, that principle
is actually in the Bible
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where it says, "Do unto others
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as you would
have them do unto you.
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And with what measure you mete,
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it'll be measured back to you."
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You call it on the street,
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"What goes
around, comes around."
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I said, "Nah, there's no God."
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He said, "You'll find out."
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I don't know if he was praying
for me or what was happening,
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but not too long after that,
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I woke up in my
apartment in Boston
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and my door was
open and my TV was gone,
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and my radio, and
you should have seen,
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I was so indignant, I
called the police and said,
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"You gotta track
down these thieves.
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What's happening
to our neighborhood?"
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(audience laughing)
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And I started watching,
and everything I did backfired.
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I would steal something,
and my friends were all thieves,
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they'd steal it from me.
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Or I'd steal something
while I was drinking or high,
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and then I'd
forget where I hid it
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and I'd wake up
and I couldn't find it.
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Or I'd risk my
life to steal something,
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and it was broken.
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I'd steal a
stereo and plug it in,
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it didn't even work.
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And you know what finally
convinced me was a small thing.
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I didn't just quit
stealing cold turkey.
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I tried to taper off,
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'cause I noticed that
I went to someone's house
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and I stole a box of
Krusteaz Instant Pancake Mix.
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And I did it because I
was very health conscious.
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I'm drinking and
using drugs and smoking,
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but I only wanted
whole wheat pancake mix
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because I was
very health conscious.
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(audience laughing)
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And so I stole this
person's pancake mix,
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and it cost $1.19.
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The blue stamp of the
price was on the top of the box.
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That very same day,
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some friends
went through my place
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and they took my jar of
Tang Instant Breakfast Drink.
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Anyone remember that?
- [Audience Member] Yeah.
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- And I had a brand new jar,
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and there on top of the
jar it was stamped $1.19.
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and I looked at the pancake mix,
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my friends had
drunk my whole jar.
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It was gone, and there
was an empty jar with a lid
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and I thought,
"Crime doesn't pay.
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There must be a God."
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Once I realized there was a God,
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I thought, "Wow, I
better start searching."
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Don't go anywhere, friends.
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In just a moment we'll return
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I wasn't
interested in Christianity
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because I said, "Aw,
they're all hypocrites."
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I was looking at Christians.
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Friends, if you want to
find out what a Christian is,
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don't look at
Christians, look at Christ.
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- [Audience] Amen. -
People will let you down.
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Jesus will never let you down.
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- [Audience] Amen.
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- And I said, "Oh,
the Protestants in Ireland
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are blowing up the Catholics,
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and the Catholics are
killing the Protestants,
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and they all
say they love Jesus.
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He says, 'Love your enemies,'
00:14:01.57\00:14:02.87
and they're trying
to kill each other.
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They're all hypocrites."
00:14:04.24\00:14:05.54
And this is back
during the Beatles era.
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So I started getting
into Eastern religions.
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I was just searching
through the whole gamut.
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I got into Hinduism, and
Buddhism, and I was meditating,
00:14:11.88\00:14:16.89
got into the spiritual
science of DNA, shakti,
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transcendental meditation.
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Tried to mix it a
little with the Jewish Kabbalah
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and some of the
Rosicrucian teachings.
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And I just made
this big old potluck stew
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of all these different
religions trying to find God.
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Had gone to Catholic school,
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but I was so confused.
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And it was during this time
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my father flew up to Boston.
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He said, "Doug, you've
gotta go back to school."
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He said, "Your brother's sick."
00:14:49.58\00:14:50.89
He said, "I've
got these companies."
00:14:50.92\00:14:52.22
He said, "You're just
throwing your life away.
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You must get an education."
00:14:53.59\00:14:55.39
And he said, "I found a school
I think will make you happy."
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I said, "I'm not going
back to military school."
00:14:57.99\00:14:59.53
Back then they had no girls.
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Since then they
actually have girls
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at New York
Military Academy now.
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They had none back then.
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I said, "I'm not going
back to an all boy school."
00:15:05.33\00:15:07.00
And he said, "I found a school.
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It's actually two boats
that sail around the world.
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It's called
'Flint School Abroad.'"
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He says, "There's
girls on the boat."
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And he said,
"You'll go water skiing.
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You'll see all the
world. You'll have adventures."
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I thought, "Well, all right."
00:15:22.02\00:15:23.35
So right from there he
flew me to Genoa, Italy.
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And I'm at the
school, they were in Naples,
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and put me on this boat,
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and I found out I'd
been tricked a little bit.
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This is actually
from the website,
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a picture of the school,
the two ships that we sailed on.
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It was a school for the children
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of wealthy
politicians and millionaires
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that had gotten
involved in drugs or some cult
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to get them out
of their environment
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and to try and straighten
them out through isolation.
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Very expensive,
very sophisticated.
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And they teach atheism.
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They
indoctrinate you with atheism.
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They show you films of Darwin.
00:16:01.12\00:16:02.99
You're always
reading Ayn Rand books.
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I mean it was...
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And now I'm very religious.
00:16:06.26\00:16:08.10
Now I'm meditating
trying to find God in my DNA.
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I was playing my
flute down in my cabin.
00:16:12.03\00:16:14.37
And I sort of rebelled.
00:16:14.40\00:16:15.70
I got into a lot of trouble.
00:16:15.74\00:16:17.04
One thing I learned though
00:16:17.07\00:16:18.37
that I thought
was very interesting,
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is even though
now everyone on board
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claimed to be an atheist,
00:16:21.44\00:16:22.78
we were sailing
from Northern Africa
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over to Spain
just before Christmas,
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and we
encountered a terrible storm.
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And I know on a
map the Mediterranean
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doesn't look very big,
but if you get out in the
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middle of it in a
storm, it looks very big.
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And the waves got
to be 25, 30 feet.
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And the bow of the ship
was going through the waves,
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and parts of the wave
would roll across the boat
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and things were
washing overboard.
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The wind picked up.
00:16:48.90\00:16:50.21
It was like a
hurricane and the sail ripped
00:16:50.24\00:16:52.11
and the boat's
rocking back and forth.
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So you go below deck
and everybody's bunks
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and books and things
were all tossed helter-skelter
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in the bottom of the ship.
00:17:00.25\00:17:01.58
And everybody was seasick.
00:17:01.62\00:17:03.62
And the captain was seasick.
00:17:04.45\00:17:06.92
And the water was very cold,
00:17:07.99\00:17:09.39
and the captain said,
00:17:09.42\00:17:10.73
"Look, if you
get blown overboard,
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we need to let you know,
00:17:12.26\00:17:13.56
you have to be very careful
00:17:13.60\00:17:14.86
because we can't
turn around and get you.
00:17:14.93\00:17:16.53
We will mark the spot.
00:17:16.56\00:17:18.00
But in this storm, if we
turn around we'll capsize."
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I mean, it was that scary.
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What do you think
atheists do in a storm
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when they think
they're going to die?
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Nobody needed any lessons.
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And everybody knew what to say.
00:17:29.84\00:17:31.45
So, and I was praying too.
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And they're all making promises.
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People know what to confess
when they're about to die.
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They don't need any...
00:17:37.59\00:17:38.89
They know what's wrong.
00:17:38.92\00:17:40.69
Well, about this time,
00:17:40.72\00:17:45.26
when they gave us
Christmas break, I took off.
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I said, "I'm never going
back to this school again."
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I went home.
00:17:51.07\00:17:52.37
I sold everything
I had to my brother,
00:17:52.40\00:17:53.70
and I took off and I
started hitch hiking from Miami,
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Florida, to California.
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My grandparents lived
in Desert Hot Springs.
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And I had found a cave
when I was 15 years old
00:18:00.71\00:18:03.18
hitchhiking around the country.
00:18:03.21\00:18:04.55
Found a cave and I thought,
00:18:04.58\00:18:05.88
"I'm going to go
move back up in that cave.
00:18:05.91\00:18:07.82
I'm going to now
find God in nature."
00:18:07.85\00:18:10.02
And so I did that.
00:18:10.99\00:18:12.32
On my way across, I got
stuck hitchhiking in Oklahoma.
00:18:13.69\00:18:17.56
Now this is Christmas
time and it was freezing cold.
00:18:17.59\00:18:22.10
And I had come from
Florida and I wasn't thinking,
00:18:22.13\00:18:24.27
and I've got this
thin windbreaker jacket
00:18:24.30\00:18:27.70
and no warm clothes,
00:18:27.74\00:18:29.34
and the weather
is below freezing
00:18:29.37\00:18:30.94
and I'm out on the
interstate begging for a ride.
00:18:30.97\00:18:34.01
And I thought I was
going to die out there.
00:18:34.04\00:18:35.54
And I spent hours out there
and nobody would pick me up.
00:18:35.58\00:18:39.35
I was hungover from
drinking and playing pool.
00:18:39.38\00:18:42.88
The day before,
00:18:42.92\00:18:44.22
I'd lost all my
money in making silly bets.
00:18:44.25\00:18:47.89
And I became very desperate.
00:18:47.92\00:18:49.22
I was a pretty rotten person.
00:18:49.26\00:18:52.39
I said, "Lord," I prayed.
00:18:52.43\00:18:55.53
I said, "Will
You please help me?"
00:18:55.56\00:18:56.87
I didn't even know how to pray,
00:18:56.90\00:18:58.20
I prayed the simple prayer.
00:18:58.23\00:18:59.53
I asked God for four things.
00:18:59.57\00:19:01.60
I said, "Will You
please help me get a ride
00:19:01.64\00:19:04.27
to where I'm going?"
00:19:04.31\00:19:05.61
I still had like
1500 miles to go.
00:19:05.64\00:19:07.21
"Will You please help me
get some food, I'm hungry."
00:19:08.61\00:19:12.41
I said, "Please help me
get some money. I'm broke."
00:19:12.45\00:19:15.38
And I said, "Please give me
a ride with someone normal."
00:19:15.42\00:19:18.22
Because
hitchhiking, I kept getting
00:19:18.25\00:19:19.92
picked up by crazy people,
or they had ulterior motives,
00:19:19.95\00:19:23.32
or they were drunk and
nearly scared me half to death.
00:19:23.36\00:19:26.06
As soon as I finished praying,
00:19:27.03\00:19:28.33
the next vehicle
stopped and picked me up,
00:19:28.36\00:19:31.17
took me 1500 miles to
the door of Palm Springs
00:19:31.20\00:19:34.94
of where I was going.
00:19:34.97\00:19:36.57
Fed me all the way
out. I didn't ask him to.
00:19:36.60\00:19:40.08
He gave me $40 when he dropped
me off that I didn't ask for.
00:19:40.11\00:19:43.91
I also did not ask
for him to preach to me
00:19:43.95\00:19:46.01
all the way from
Oklahoma (audience laughing)
00:19:46.05\00:19:47.82
to Palm Springs, California.
00:19:47.85\00:19:50.22
This guy was a
born again Christian.
00:19:50.25\00:19:51.62
So when I prayed
for a ride, God said,
00:19:51.65\00:19:53.05
"I'm waiting for
the right ride, Doug."
00:19:53.09\00:19:55.76
This guy picked me up
and he's just very nice.
00:19:55.79\00:19:57.79
Whenever we
stopped to eat, he said,
00:19:57.83\00:19:59.13
"Let me buy your food."
00:19:59.16\00:20:00.50
I had to listen to him
or jump out of the car.
00:20:01.33\00:20:03.53
And so, you know,
I pick up hitchhikers
00:20:04.57\00:20:05.87
and I witness to 'em now.
00:20:05.90\00:20:07.20
I still do that.
00:20:07.24\00:20:08.54
And I find it helps if you wait
until you're doing about 65,
00:20:08.57\00:20:11.31
and then you make
your gospel presentation.
00:20:11.34\00:20:13.21
(audience laughing)
00:20:13.24\00:20:14.54
And then you
turn and look at them
00:20:14.58\00:20:15.88
and then you accelerate and say,
00:20:15.91\00:20:17.21
"Would you like
to accept Jesus?"
00:20:17.25\00:20:18.55
(audience laughing)
00:20:18.58\00:20:20.55
No, I do, I still
pick up hitchhikers.
00:20:20.58\00:20:21.88
I don't do that, though.
00:20:21.92\00:20:23.25
So this time now I was going
to find God through nature.
00:20:25.95\00:20:28.16
And this is some
pictures that my brother
00:20:28.19\00:20:29.89
actually took of when I was...
00:20:29.92\00:20:31.49
I'm 17 years old at this point.
00:20:31.53\00:20:33.73
And I went up to the cave and...
00:20:33.76\00:20:37.10
I found a cave that was,
00:20:39.07\00:20:40.37
it was several thousand
feet above Palm Springs.
00:20:40.40\00:20:44.41
And then you go
back down in this valley
00:20:44.44\00:20:46.17
and right by the
cave there was water.
00:20:46.21\00:20:49.21
The mountain was 11,000
feet. It's Mount San Jacinto.
00:20:49.24\00:20:51.98
There's
actually a picture of it.
00:20:52.01\00:20:53.72
I think it's the
next picture there.
00:20:53.75\00:20:55.32
So water always
came down by the cave.
00:20:55.35\00:20:58.95
And it's a very isolated spot
00:20:58.99\00:21:00.89
even though you're
in Southern California.
00:21:00.92\00:21:02.32
And I lived in the cave,
I never wore any clothes.
00:21:02.36\00:21:05.53
It was warm.
00:21:05.56\00:21:06.96
And I thought, "I'm
going to find God in nature."
00:21:07.00\00:21:08.76
And I even had a Bible argument,
"Adam and Eve were naked.
00:21:08.80\00:21:11.17
This is God's plan."
00:21:11.20\00:21:12.87
Now I went to
town, I put clothes on,
00:21:12.90\00:21:14.20
'cause you don't last very long
00:21:14.24\00:21:15.54
walking around
like that in town.
00:21:15.57\00:21:16.94
But one time I did
go to town and I forgot,
00:21:16.97\00:21:18.94
but that's another story.
00:21:18.97\00:21:20.28
(audience laughing)
00:21:20.31\00:21:21.88
So I would
panhandle, I'd play the flute,
00:21:21.91\00:21:24.21
and I'd dig
around in the dumpster.
00:21:24.25\00:21:26.38
Now think about this.
00:21:27.55\00:21:28.88
When my grandparents found
out and they told my father,
00:21:30.25\00:21:33.15
they said, "Doug
is getting his food
00:21:33.19\00:21:35.12
out of the garbage
behind the market."
00:21:35.16\00:21:37.73
My father worked so hard
so that we would not be poor
00:21:37.76\00:21:40.50
like he was
during the Depression.
00:21:40.53\00:21:42.23
His father died
when he was seven,
00:21:43.50\00:21:45.03
and he and his
brothers had to work so hard
00:21:45.07\00:21:46.94
to fight off
poverty, and he thought,
00:21:46.97\00:21:49.14
"I never want my
kids to do that."
00:21:49.17\00:21:50.87
They said, "Doug
is getting his food
00:21:50.91\00:21:52.21
out of the garbage can."
00:21:52.24\00:21:53.78
How do you think
that made him feel?
00:21:53.81\00:21:56.21
That just broke him.
00:21:56.24\00:21:57.58
How do you think
your Heavenly Father feels
00:21:58.58\00:22:00.18
when He gives His
Son to save you from sin,
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and we go to the
devil's dumpster for happiness?
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That breaks His heart.
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It's not going to satisfy you.
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Well, the miracle that
I didn't share with you...
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Oh, by the way,
here's a picture.
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I'm in my cave
with my cat, Stranger.
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I found one picture
where I had my clothes on.
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Thought I'd share that with you.
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(audience laughing)
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The miracle is in my cave,
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somebody had left
a Bible in the cave.
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When I moved into the cave,
other people had camped there.
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There was soot on the ceiling,
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and there was
some old sleeping bags,
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and pots and pans, and a Bible.
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Well, I didn't pay
much attention to it,
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but after about six months,
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I thought, "I'm
going to read the Bible
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so I can argue with Christians."
00:22:37.75\00:22:39.89
'Cause I kept
meeting these Christians,
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and I thought
they were so ignorant.
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I said, "No, you're just...
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I believe in reincarnation."
00:22:44.59\00:22:45.89
And they were just...
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I said, "Bible's been changed.
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You can't believe the Bible.
It's fables and fairy tales."
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So I said, "I'm
going to read the Bible
00:22:53.80\00:22:55.10
so I can argue with them,"
00:22:55.14\00:22:56.54
'cause I felt ignorant.
00:22:56.57\00:22:57.87
They'd say,
"Are you born again?"
00:22:57.91\00:22:59.37
I thought, "What do they mean?"
00:22:59.41\00:23:00.78
"Are you washed in the blood?"
00:23:00.81\00:23:02.04
And I thought, "That was gory.
What are they talking about?"
00:23:02.08\00:23:04.31
So I began to read the Bible,
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and I got bogged
down in the Old Testament.
00:23:06.65\00:23:09.58
Someone said, "Doug, you need
to go to the New Testament."
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So I went to the New Testament,
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and I read Matthew, Mark.
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I read about Jesus,
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Every day I'd make banana bread
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from the day-old
bananas I got from the market,
00:23:19.83\00:23:22.73
and I'd eat banana
bread and I'd read the Bible.
00:23:22.76\00:23:25.17
And I kept saying,
"This can't be true.
00:23:26.33\00:23:28.24
No, this can't be true."
00:23:28.27\00:23:29.74
But a voice kept
telling me, "This is the truth.
00:23:29.77\00:23:31.64
And just the
teachings of Jesus."
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I finally came to the
same conclusion as C.S. Lewis.
00:23:34.01\00:23:36.98
He says, "You really,
when you encounter Jesus,
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you've only got three options.
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He's either a liar, He's
a lunatic, or He's Lord."
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- [Audience Member] Amen.
00:23:46.42\00:23:47.72
- And I said,
"Well, He's not crazy,
00:23:47.76\00:23:49.06
'cause He said the
most profound things
00:23:49.09\00:23:50.39
I've ever heard.
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He's not a liar because He
could've lied to save His life."
00:23:51.76\00:23:54.93
Everything He said
resonated with truth.
00:23:54.96\00:23:57.63
"My only option is this
man was telling the truth
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that God became a man
to save us from our sins."
00:24:01.10\00:24:05.04
And then I knew what that meant
00:24:05.07\00:24:06.37
is that I needed
to ask Him to save me.
00:24:06.41\00:24:09.64
And while I was only 17,
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I had a pretty
good record of sin.
00:24:12.45\00:24:14.15
And so up there in
the cave I got on my knees
00:24:15.35\00:24:16.95
and I said, "Lord, I'm a mess.
00:24:16.99\00:24:19.22
But if You would forgive me
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and give me some
purpose for living."
00:24:21.19\00:24:22.96
I was a number
one first class zero.
00:24:22.99\00:24:26.03
I was running
around in the mountains,
00:24:26.06\00:24:27.86
eating out of garbage cans,
00:24:27.93\00:24:29.20
using drugs, drinking, stealing,
00:24:29.23\00:24:31.00
thought I was spiritual,
00:24:31.03\00:24:32.73
long hair and a beard.
00:24:34.14\00:24:35.60
I mean I was just a big zero.
00:24:35.64\00:24:37.54
I said, "Lord, if You give
me some purpose for living,"
00:24:37.57\00:24:41.01
and He came into my heart
and began to transform me,
00:24:41.04\00:24:45.31
and I felt so happy,
I felt a peace and a joy
00:24:45.35\00:24:47.98
that now every time
someone came by my cave hiking,
00:24:48.02\00:24:50.79
I started giving Bible studies.
00:24:50.82\00:24:52.62
First Bible
studies, I had no clothes on.
00:24:52.65\00:24:55.06
(audience chuckling)
00:24:55.09\00:24:56.59
But they didn't have
any clothes on either.
00:24:56.62\00:24:58.26
So you know, the Lord
meets us where we're at.
00:24:58.29\00:25:00.60
I think, God, He's very patient.
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I was absolutely sincere,
00:25:04.17\00:25:05.60
and I was giving
Bible studies to people.
00:25:05.63\00:25:07.60
And then I said,
"Lord, maybe You don't want me
00:25:07.64\00:25:09.04
to live in a cave forever."
00:25:09.07\00:25:10.51
I said, "I want to
tell people about You,
00:25:10.54\00:25:12.11
but I don't know how
that's going to happen."
00:25:12.14\00:25:13.64
I said, "I'm in a cave, but
I feel this desire to tell."
00:25:13.68\00:25:15.71
I said, "Lord, if You want me
00:25:15.74\00:25:17.05
to tell other people about You,
00:25:17.08\00:25:18.51
You've gotta work this out."
00:25:18.55\00:25:20.05
So a quick story.
00:25:20.08\00:25:21.38
After I prayed
that prayer and I said,
00:25:21.42\00:25:22.78
"Lord, if You want me to
tell other people about You,
00:25:22.82\00:25:24.95
I dunno how I'm going
to do it, I'm a hermit."
00:25:24.99\00:25:27.49
I go down to town and
I call my mother collect.
00:25:27.52\00:25:29.96
I used to check
in and she'd say,
00:25:29.99\00:25:31.49
"Just tell me you're
alive once every couple weeks."
00:25:31.53\00:25:34.10
So I called mom. She
said, "I'm glad you called."
00:25:34.10\00:25:36.56
She said, "Are you going
to be at your cave next week?"
00:25:36.60\00:25:38.73
I said, "Yeah."
00:25:38.77\00:25:40.20
She said, "I'm
going to come visit you."
00:25:40.24\00:25:42.20
I said, "What?" I said,
"You can't get up there."
00:25:42.24\00:25:43.54
She said, "No, no.
00:25:43.57\00:25:44.87
I'm bringing a film
crew with a helicopter.
00:25:44.91\00:25:46.74
They want to interview you.
00:25:47.64\00:25:49.04
They think it's interesting
that a millionaire's son
00:25:49.08\00:25:51.01
is living in a cave."
00:25:51.05\00:25:53.11
And ABC, I'm sorry,
NBC rented a helicopter
00:25:54.25\00:25:58.39
and a film crew.
00:25:58.42\00:25:59.72
They flew me up to the cave.
00:25:59.75\00:26:01.22
This was actually that
day in front of the cave.
00:26:01.26\00:26:03.22
They flew mom in
with a helicopter.
00:26:03.26\00:26:05.19
This is Bill Applegate.
00:26:05.23\00:26:06.73
It was on national
television three times.
00:26:06.76\00:26:08.86
And they said, "Why
are you doing this?"
00:26:08.90\00:26:10.30
I was able to
share a quick testimony.
00:26:10.33\00:26:12.33
Right after I said, "Lord,
if You want me to tell anyone,
00:26:13.77\00:26:15.54
I don't know how I'm
going to tell anyone.
00:26:15.57\00:26:16.87
I live in a cave,"
00:26:16.91\00:26:18.21
he sends a film crew to my cave.
00:26:18.24\00:26:20.54
(audience laughing)
00:26:20.58\00:26:22.64
That's when I started
thinking, "Maybe He will give me
00:26:22.68\00:26:25.21
an opportunity to
tell other people."
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