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>> FROM ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA,
THE CARTER REPORT PRESENTS,
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"THE LIVING WORD
AROUND THE WORLD."
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>> YOU KNOW WHO AN OPTOMETRIST
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IS, DON'T YOU?
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HE'S A PERSON WHO
CHECKS OUT YOUR EYES.
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ONE OPTOMETRIST HAD A SIGN
OUTSIDE HIS PRACTICE OR HIS
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SHOP OR HIS BUSINESS.
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IT'S REALLY QUITE GOOD.
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IT SAID, "YOU CAN'T BE
OPTIMISTIC IF YOU'VE GOT
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MISTY OPTICS."
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FOLKS, THINK ABOUT
IT FOR A MINUTE, OKAY?
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YOU CAN'T BE WHAT?
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OPTIMISTIC.
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IF YOU GOT MISTY OPTICS.
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IN OTHER WORDS, YOU CAN'T
BE OPTIMISTIC IF YOU DON'T
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SEE CLEARLY.
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AND THAT'S THE
PROBLEM WITH MOST FOLKS,
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THEY DON'T SEE CLEARLY.
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WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT IT TODAY
AND HOW YOU CAN BE OPTIMISTIC
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IN SPITE OF FINANCIAL PROBLEMS.
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THE TOPIC TODAY IS A
GREAT TOPIC, "FOUR GREAT TRUTHS
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FOR HURTING PEOPLE
WHEN TIMES ARE TOUGH."
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STAY WITH US TODAY.
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BUT WOULD YOU PLEASE WELCOME
MY WIFE, BEVERLY LYNETTE CARTER
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WHO'S GONNA COME AND TALK TO US.
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[APPLAUDING]
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>> A FRIEND WAITING IN A
DOCTOR'S WAITING ROOM WAS
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READING SOME OF THE INFORMATIVE
POSTERS THAT THEY'D PLACED ON
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THE WALL, AND ONE STOOD OUT IN
PARTICULAR, SHE HAPPENED TO BE
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EXPECTING HER FIRST CHILD.
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AND THIS POSTER
SAID, "THE FIRST 2 MINUTES
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OF LIFE ARE VERY CRITICAL."
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AND SOME JOKER HAD SCRIBBLED
UNDERNEATH "THE LAST TWO
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ARE PRETTY DICEY AS WELL."
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AND I SAID TO HER, WELL,
THE NEXT TIME YOU GO, PERHAPS
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YOU CAN SCRIBBLE UNDERNEATH,
"WHAT COMES IN BETWEEN CAN ALSO
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BE VERY CHALLENGING."
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SOME OF THE GREATEST EXAMPLES
OF COURAGE, AND YOU KNOW
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COURAGE, I THINK IT LIFE
SHOULD BE SPELLED C-O-U-R-A-G-E,
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COURAGE, DON'T YOU?
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BECAUSE WE OFTEN NEED IT AS
WE TRAVEL OUR LIFE'S JOURNEY.
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IN THE BIBLE IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT, WE'VE--MOST OF US
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KNOW THE STORY OF
DANIEL AND HIS THREE FRIENDS.
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THEY WERE THRUST INTO A PAGAN
SOCIETY ENTIRELY ALIEN TO THEIR
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BACKGROUND AND BELIEFS.
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WE TODAY, FACE AN
INCREASINGLY SIMILAR WORLD.
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DANIEL AND HIS THREE FRIENDS
WITHSTOOD THE TEST OF THEIR
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FAITH BECAUSE THEY HAD DECIDED
IN THEIR YOUTH THAT THEIR TOP
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PRIORITY WAS NOT TO BE RICH
AND FAMOUS, BUT RATHER TO BE
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FAITHFUL TO THEIR GOD.
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THEN WE COME TO THE
NEW TESTAMENT, AND THERE'S
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NO BETTER EXAMPLE OF
COURAGE THAN THE APOSTLE PAUL.
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LET'S LOOK AT SOME WORDS FROM
HIS LETTER TO THE PHILIPPIANS.
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NOW SOME YEARS AGO WHEN WE
WERE LIVING IN TEXAS, I WAS HOME
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BY MYSELF AND I WAS
FEELING A LITTLE DISCOURAGED.
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I CAN'T EVEN
REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS ABOUT.
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BUT ANYWAY, I WENT INTO THE
BATHROOM, NOW IF YOU DON'T KNOW
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TEXAS, THE HOMES IN TEXAS
HAVE HUGE BATHROOMS AND THEY'RE
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VERY NICE TOO.
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SO FOR SOME REASON I WENT INTO
THE BATHROOM, SHUT THE DOOR,
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AND I READ THROUGH THE LETTER
TO THE PHILIPPIANS, ONLY FOUR
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VERSES SO IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG.
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AND AFTER READING IT OUT
LOUD, I WAS GREATLY ENCOURAGED.
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NOW THIS LETTER WAS WRITTEN BY
PAUL IN PRISON, AND SO WE COULD
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THINK, YOU KNOW HE
WOULD BE DISCOURAGED.
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BUT NO, THIS BOOK IS
FULL OF HOPE AND JOY.
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I'M JUST GOING TO
PICK OUT A FEW GEMS.
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AS I SAID, HE WAS IN PRISON.
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PAUL'S WORLD WAS CONTINUALLY
CHALLENGING AND YET, HE SAYS
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IN CHAPTER 4, "I HAVE
LEARNED TO BE CONTENT WHATEVER
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THE CIRCUMSTANCES.
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NOW HOW MANY PEOPLE, OR
CONTENTED PEOPLE, DO YOU KNOW?
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ARE YOU AND I CONTENT,
OR ARE WE DISCONTENTED?
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ARE WE ALWAYS CHASING THINGS?
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ARE WE FULL OF
ANXIETY OVER WORLD EVENTS?
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AND THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE
SHOULDN'T BE CONCERNED OVER
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THINGS, BUT NOT TO THE
POINT WHERE WE'RE DISCONTENTED
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WHICH LEADS TO DISCOURAGEMENT.
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WELL, LET'S LOOK AT
PAUL'S SECRET WEAPON
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AGAINST DISCONTENTMENT.
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IT'S FOUND IN CHAPTER 3:10
HE SAYS, "THAT I MAY KNOW HIM."
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IN ANOTHER VERSE HE TALKS
ABOUT "KNOWING CHRIST, MY LORD."
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NOT JUST GATHERING INFORMATION
ABOUT HIM, BUT HE ACTUALLY
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KNEW HIM.
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AND THE BETTER HE GOT TO
KNOW HIM, THE MORE HE LOVED HIM.
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HE GOES ON TO SAY,
"REJOICE IN THE LORD ALWAYS."
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REJOICE IN HIM AS OUR
CREATOR, OUR REDEEMER.
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REJOICE IN THE HOPE
OF THE SECOND COMING.
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REJOICE IN HIS PROMISE THAT HE
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WILL NEVER, NEVER LEAVE US.
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IN OTHER WORDS, PRAISE HIM
FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE, WHAT HE IS
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DOING AND WHAT HE
WILL DO IN THE FUTURE.
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IF YOU'RE WATCHING THIS
TELECAST AS A NEW CHRISTIAN
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OR YOU'RE A YOUNG CHRISTIAN
HERE IN OUR CHURCH, I WOULD
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ENCOURAGE YOU TO READ
PHILIPPIANS AND EPHESIANS OUT
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LOUD BECAUSE THEY HOLD THE BEST
PRESCRIPTION FOR PEACE OF MIND
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AND ENCOURAGEMENT THAT I KNOW.
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AND IN PAUL'S WORDS, MAY GOD'S
GRACE AND PEACE BE WITH YOU
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TODAY AND ALWAYS.
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[APPLAUDING]
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>> THE TOPIC TODAY IS
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"FOUR GREAT TRUTHS FOR HURTING
PEOPLE WHEN TIMES ARE TOUGH."
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I'VE NEVER, DURING 25
YEARS HERE IN THE UNITED STATES,
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SEEN SO MANY ANGRY AMERICANS.
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WHEN I WAS OVER IN AUSTRALIA
NOT LONG AGO, I'D NEVER SEEN
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SO MANY ANGRY AUSTRALIANS.
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PEOPLE SEEM TO BE MAD.
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PEOPLE ARE ANGRY WITH
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THE GOVERNMENT.
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CALIFORNIANS ARE ANGRY WITH
SACRAMENTO, AND SOME ARE EVEN
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ANGRY WITH THE GOVERNATOR.
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REPUBLICANS ARE ANGRY WITH THE
DEMOCRATS AND THE DEMOCRATS ARE
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ANGRY WITH THE REPUBLICANS
AND THE INDEPENDENTS ARE MAD
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AT EVERYONE.
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THERE'S A LOT OF ANGER
GOING AROUND, MY FRIEND.
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THERE'S ANGER FOR ANYBODY.
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MOST FOLKS ARE
ANGRY WITH THE BANKS.
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HAVE YOU BEEN
ANGRY WITH THE BANKS?
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MOST FOLKS ARE
HUFFING MAD WITH THE CEOs.
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THESE GUYS, EVEN THOUGH
WE'RE IN A GREAT RECESSION,
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PAID THEMSELVES MILLIONS
AND MILLIONS AND MILLIONS
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OF THESE FAT BONUSES.
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THE JURY AND THE JUDGE WERE MAD
WITH MADOFF, THEY WERE SO MAD
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WITH MADOFF.
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GOT A NICE RING TO
IT, FOLKS, DOESN'T IT?
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SO MAD WITH MADOFF THAT
THEY THREW HIM INTO PRISON,
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HOW LONG WAS IT?
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A HUNDRED FIFTY YEARS.
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HE'S GONNA BE
250 WHEN HE GETS OUT.
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HE'LL BE REALLY
MAD WHEN HE GETS OUT.
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PEOPLE ARE MAD WITH THE
HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM BECAUSE THIS
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IS THE WEALTHIEST NATION ON
THE FACE OF THE EARTH, AND THERE
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ARE TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
WHO GOT NO HEALTH CARE AT ALL
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AND LOTS OF OTHER FOLKS ARE
AS MAD AS HORNETS THAT THEY'RE
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GOING TO HAVE TO PAY THE BILLS.
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MANY FOLKS ARE MAD AT
THE FISCAL IRRESPONSIBILITY
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THAT HAS PRODUCED THE
LARGEST DEFICIT IN THE HISTORY
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OF THE HUMAN RACE.
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NOW SOME GUY WILL GET UP
IN WASHINGTON AND SAY, "WELL,
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WE'RE JUST GOING TO
SPEND ANOTHER $2 TRILLION,
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NEXT YEAR, ANOTHER $2 TRILLION."
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SOON IT'S GONNA BE $30 TRILLION.
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BUT LOTS OF PEOPLE
ARE MAD ABOUT THE DEFICIT.
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PEOPLE HERE IN SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA, LOTS OF THEM
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ARE MAD AT THE ILLEGALS.
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THEY SAY, "WE GOT A
BILLION ILLEGALS HERE."
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AND MANY OF THE ILLEGALS
ARE ANGRY WITH THE LEGALS.
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THERE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE ANY
SHORTAGE OF ANGER IN AMERICA.
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LISTEN TO THIS, IT IS
A FACT, NOT A PROMISE.
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IT IS A FACT.
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LET ME WRITE THIS
UP ON THE BLACKBOARD.
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ANGER, ANGER CAUSES,
YOU KNOW WHAT IT CAUSES?
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IT CAUSES DEPRESSION.
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THIS IS VERY, VERY HARD
FOR DEPRESSED PEOPLE TO ADMIT.
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THERE ARE OTHER REASONS FOR
DEPRESSION, BUT THE MAIN CAUSE
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FOR DEPRESSION IS ANGER.
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IF YOU DON'T DEAL WITH
YOUR ANGER, IT TURNS INSIDE YOU
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AND MAKES YOU DEPRESSED, AND
DEPRESSED PEOPLE ARE UNHAPPY,
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MISERABLE PEOPLE.
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THAT IS WHY THERE ARE SO
MANY MILLIONS AND MILLIONS AND
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MILLIONS OF PEOPLE POPPING
PILLS IN AMERICA, AUSTRALIA,
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AND THE
RUSSIANS ARE CATCHING ON.
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BECAUSE ANGER, UNLESS YOU
DEAL WITH IT PROPERLY, THE BIBLE
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SAYS BE ANGRY BUT DON'T SIN.
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DON'T LET THE SUN
GO DOWN ON YOUR WRATH.
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THE BIBLE TELLS ME, DOCTORS
CONFIRM IT, THAT ANGER IS
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THE MAIN CAUSE OF DEPRESSION.
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OUR TOPIC, HERE IT IS,
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FOUR GREAT TRUTHS FOR
HURTING, DEPRESSED, SAD PEOPLE
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WHEN TIMES ARE TOUGH.
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THE THEME TEXT IS JOHN 10:10.
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PLEASE TAKE YOUR BIBLES.
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THIS IS A BIBLE-READING,
BIBLE-BELIEVING CHURCH.
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ARE YOU GLAD YOU'RE IN
CHURCH HERE TODAY, I ASK YOU?
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YEAH, I'M GLAD TO
BE HERE IN CHURCH.
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IN FACT, I'M GLAD TO BE
ANYWHERE, BUT I'M GLAD TO BE
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HERE IN THIS GREAT CHURCH.
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AND IF YOU'RE IN THE
NEIGHBORHOOD, COME SEE US.
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IF YOU LIVE HERE IN SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA, COME SEE US.
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100 WEST DUARTE
ROAD, ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA.
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THIS IS A GREAT
BIBLE-READING CHURCH.
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NOW LET ME GET TO THIS TEXT.
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THE WORDS OF JESUS, JOHN 10:10,
JESUS SAID, "THE THIEF COMES
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ONLY TO STEAL AND TO
KILL AND TO DESTROY."
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SAY IT WITH ME, COME
ON, "I HAVE COME THAT THEY
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MAY HAVE," COME ON,
"HAVE LIFE, AND HAVE IT
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TO THE FULL."
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THE BEAUTIFUL KING JAMES
VERSION THAT I LOVE WITH ALL MY
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HEART SAYS, THAT THEY MAY
HAVE LIFE AND HAVE IT, YOU KNOW
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WHAT IT SAYS?
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MORE ABUNDANTLY.
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BUT YOU CAN'T HAVE ABUNDANT
LIFE IF YOU'RE DEPRESSED
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BECAUSE YOU'RE SO ANGRY.
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AND SO TODAY, THE TOPIC IS FOUR
GREAT, MARVELOUS, UPBEAT SAVING
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TRUTHS FOR HURTING PEOPLE
IN TIMES OF STRESS, WHEN TIMES
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ARE TOUGH.
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HERE IS THE FIRST
GREAT TRUTH, HERE IT COMES.
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GOD LOVES ME AND I AM NOT ALONE.
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THIS IS SO IMPORTANT, SO
GOOD, I'M GONNA WRITE IT UP HERE
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ON THE BLACKBOARD.
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GONNA PUT THIS UP HERE.
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GOD, SAY IT WITH ME, "GOD
LOVES ME AND I AM NOT ALONE."
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GOD LOVES ME AND I AM NOT ALONE.
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IF YOU'RE STRUGGLING, SOMETIMES
YOU FEEL DESPERATELY ALONE.
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I HAVE FELT ALONE.
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THAT'S BECAUSE I'VE FORGOTTEN
THE GREAT TRUTH THAT GOD LOVES
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ME, AND I'M NOT ALONE.
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I WANT YOU TO COME OVER
HERE TO THE STORY OF A GREAT MAN
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WHO FELT ALONE.
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1 KINGS 18 AND VERSE 44-45
AND THEN DOWN TO CHAPTER 19
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AND ONWARDS.
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"MEANWHILE, THE SKY GREW BLACK
WITH CLOUDS, THE WIND ROSE,
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A HEAVY RAIN CAME ON AND
AHAB RODE OFF TO JEZREEL."
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NOTICE THIS
WORD, AHAB, THIS MAN.
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"THE POWER OF THE LORD CAME
UPON ELIJAH AND, TUCKING HIS
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CLOAK INTO HIS BELT, HE
RAN AHEAD OF AHAB ALL THE WAY
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TO JEZREEL."
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BECAUSE HE HAD THE POWER OF THE
SPIRIT OF GOD RESTING UPON HIM.
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CHAPTER 19, "NOW AHAB TOLD
JEZEBEL EVERYTHING ELIJAH HAD
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DONE AND HOW HE HAD KILLED
ALL THE PROPHETS WITH THE SWORD.
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SO JEZEBEL SENT A MESSENGER
TO ELIJAH TO SAY, 'MAY THE GODS
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DEAL WITH ME, BE IT EVER
SO SEVERELY, IF BY THIS TIME
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TOMORROW I DO NOT MAKE YOUR
LIFE LIKE THAT OF ONE OF THEM.'"
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IN OTHER WORDS,
"I'M GONNA KILL YOU."
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"ELIJAH WAS AFRAID
AND RAN FOR HIS LIFE.
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WHEN HE CAME TO BEERSHEBA
IN JUDAH, HE LEFT HIS SERVANT
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THERE, WHILE HE HIMSELF WENT
A DAY'S JOURNEY INTO THE DESERT.
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HE CAME TO A BROOM TREE,
SAT DOWN UNDER IT AND PRAYED
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THAT HE MIGHT DIE."
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HAVE YOU EVER
PRAYED THAT YOU MIGHT DIE?
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"I'VE HAD
ENOUGH, LORD," HE SAID.
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HAVE YOU EVER SAID THAT?
00:14:58.46\00:15:00.66
I'VE HAD ENOUGH, LORD.
00:15:00.66\00:15:02.66
I'VE SAID THAT.
00:15:02.66\00:15:04.26
"'I HAVE HAD
ENOUGH, LORD,' HE SAID.
00:15:04.26\00:15:07.00
'TAKE MY LIFE; I AM NO
BETTER THAN MY ANCESTORS.'
00:15:07.00\00:15:09.66
THEN HE LAY DOWN UNDER
THE TREE AND FELL ASLEEP."
00:15:09.66\00:15:12.33
NERVOUS EXHAUSTION.
00:15:12.33\00:15:15.20
"ALL AT ONCE AN ANGEL TOUCHED
HIM AND SAID, 'GET UP AND EAT.'
00:15:15.20\00:15:20.53
HE DIDN'T PREACH TO HIM,
HE GAVE HIM SOMETHING TO EAT.
00:15:20.53\00:15:25.36
HE LOOKED AROUND, AND THERE
BY HIS HEAD WAS A CAKE OF BREAD
00:15:25.36\00:15:29.03
BAKED OVER HOT
COALS, AND A JAR OF WATER.
00:15:29.03\00:15:33.46
HE ATE AND DRANK
AND THEN LAY DOWN AGAIN.
00:15:33.46\00:15:36.66
THE ANGEL OF THE LORD CAME BACK
A SECOND TIME AND TOUCHED HIM
00:15:36.66\00:15:39.16
AND SAID, 'GET UP AND EAT,
FOR THE JOURNEY IS TOO MUCH
00:15:39.16\00:15:43.23
FOR YOU.' SO HE GOT
UP AND ATE AND DRANK.
00:15:43.23\00:15:48.00
STRENGTHENED BY THAT FOOD,
HE TRAVELED FORTY DAYS AND FORTY
00:15:48.00\00:15:51.70
NIGHTS UNTIL HE REACHED
HOREB, THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD,"
00:15:51.70\00:15:56.30
DOWN IN MOUNT SINAI.
00:15:56.30\00:15:57.83
"THEN HE WENT INTO A
CAVE AND SPENT THE NIGHT."
00:15:57.83\00:16:02.50
FEELING BLACK INSIDE, DEPRESSED.
00:16:02.50\00:16:06.66
"THE WORD OF THE LORD
CAME TO HIM: 'WHAT ARE YOU
00:16:06.66\00:16:10.00
DOING HERE, ELIJAH?'
HE REPLIED, 'I HAVE BEEN
00:16:10.00\00:16:15.20
VERY ZEALOUS FOR
THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.
00:16:15.20\00:16:17.60
THE ISRAELITES HAVE REJECTED
YOUR COVENANT, BROKEN DOWN YOUR
00:16:17.60\00:16:20.36
ALTARS, AND PUT YOUR PROPHETS
TO DEATH WITH THE SWORD.
00:16:20.36\00:16:25.03
I AM THE ONLY ONE
LEFT, AND NOW THEY ARE TRYING
00:16:25.03\00:16:28.46
TO KILL ME TOO.'
THE LORD SAID, 'GO OUT
00:16:28.46\00:16:31.73
AND STAND ON THE MOUNTAIN IN
THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, FOR
00:16:31.73\00:16:34.86
THE LORD IS ABOUT TO PASS BY.'
THEN A GREAT AND POWERFUL WIND
00:16:34.86\00:16:40.36
TORE THE MOUNTAINS APART
AND SHATTERED THE ROCKS BEFORE
00:16:40.36\00:16:43.26
THE LORD, BUT THE
LORD WAS NOT IN THE WIND.
00:16:43.26\00:16:50.90
AFTER THE WIND, THERE WAS
AN EARTHQUAKE, BUT THE LORD WAS
00:16:50.90\00:16:57.63
NOT IN THE EARTHQUAKE.
00:16:57.63\00:17:00.36
AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE CAME
A FIRE, BUT THE LORD WAS NOT
00:17:00.36\00:17:06.53
IN THE FIRE.
00:17:06.53\00:17:08.46
AND AFTER THE FIRE
CAME A GENTLE WHISPER.
00:17:08.46\00:17:13.70
WHEN ELIJAH HEARD IT, HE
PULLED HIS CLOAK OVER HIS FACE
00:17:13.70\00:17:17.86
AND WENT OUT AND STOOD
AT THE MOUTH OF THE CAVE.
00:17:17.86\00:17:23.03
THEN A VOICE SAID TO HIM, 'WHAT
ARE YOU DOING HERE, ELIJAH?'
00:17:23.03\00:17:31.06
HE REPLIED, 'I HAVE BEEN
VERY ZEALOUS FOR THE LORD
00:17:31.06\00:17:34.36
GOD ALMIGHTY.
00:17:34.36\00:17:36.26
THE ISRAELITES HAVE REJECTED
YOUR COVENANT, BROKEN DOWN YOUR
00:17:36.26\00:17:39.20
ALTARS, AND PUT YOUR PROPHETS
TO DEATH WITH THE SWORD.
00:17:39.20\00:17:44.16
I AM THE ONLY ONE
LEFT, AND NOW THEY ARE TRYING
00:17:44.16\00:17:46.53
TO KILL ME ALSO.'"
LOOK, IN THE MIDST OF HIS
00:17:46.53\00:17:55.60
DESPAIR WHEN TIMES WERE TOUGH,
GOD CALLED HIM BY NAME BECAUSE
00:17:55.60\00:18:03.86
WE ARE NEVER ALONE
BECAUSE GOD LOVES US.
00:18:03.86\00:18:09.30
AND THEN GOD HAD A
LITTLE TALK WITH THE PROPHET,
00:18:09.30\00:18:12.06
AND IF YOU NOTICE VERSE
18, HE TOLD HIM SOMETHING.
00:18:12.06\00:18:16.40
ELIJAH SAID, "I'M
THE ONLY PERSON LEFT.
00:18:16.40\00:18:18.70
THE REST IN THE
CHURCH HAVE ALL APOSTATIZED."
00:18:18.70\00:18:21.90
HE SAID VERSE 18, "YET I
RESERVE SEVEN THOUSAND IN
00:18:21.90\00:18:26.20
ISRAEL-ALL WHOSE KNEES
HAVE NOT BOWED DOWN TO BAAL
00:18:26.20\00:18:30.96
AND ALL WHOSE MOUTHS
HAVE NOT KISSED HIM."
00:18:30.96\00:18:35.03
LISTEN, MY HURTING FRIEND,
LISTEN, MY ANGRY, DEPRESSED
00:18:35.03\00:18:38.93
FRIEND, GOD SAID TO HIS
SERVANT THE PROPHET WHO FELT
00:18:43.03\00:18:50.86
THAT HE WANTED TO DIE.
00:18:50.86\00:18:52.86
HE SAID, "ACTUALLY
IT'S 7,000 TIMES BETTER
00:18:52.86\00:18:56.33
THAN WHAT YOU THINK."
00:18:56.33\00:18:59.06
HE SAID, "IT MIGHT NOT
LOOK GOOD, BUT IT'S 7,000 TIMES
00:18:59.06\00:19:03.63
BETTER THAN APPEARANCES."
00:19:03.63\00:19:06.46
I WANT YOU TO
KNOW THIS, MY FRIEND.
00:19:06.46\00:19:09.03
GOD LOVES ME AND HE LOVES YOU,
AND I AM NOT ALONE AND IT IS
00:19:09.03\00:19:17.70
7,000 TIMES BETTER
THAN WHAT WE CAN IMAGINE.
00:19:17.70\00:19:27.46
PEOPLE SOMETIMES EVEN
COME TO US BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE
00:19:27.46\00:19:30.36
HAVEN'T GOT A JET, AND
THEY COME TO US AND THEY
00:19:30.36\00:19:32.83
SAY, "YOU GO TO RUSSIA?
00:19:32.83\00:19:36.23
WHY DO YOU REALLY GO TO RUSSIA?
00:19:36.23\00:19:37.96
YOU'VE JUST COME BACK FROM THIS
GREAT CAMPAIGN IN VOLGOGRAD.
00:19:37.96\00:19:39.03
WHY DO YOU GO?"
00:19:39.03\00:19:41.73
IF I COULD SUM IT UP,
MY FRIEND, LET ME TELL YOU
00:19:43.46\00:19:46.70
WHAT IT IS.
00:19:46.70\00:19:47.83
WE GO TO RUSSIA TO TELL
PEOPLE GOD LOVES ME, AND I AM
00:19:47.83\00:19:49.73
NOT ALONE.
00:19:49.73\00:19:54.20
WE TAKE WITH US A TEAM
OF PROFESSIONALS AND A TEAM
00:19:57.70\00:20:00.96
OF VOLUNTEERS.
00:20:00.96\00:20:02.16
WE'VE TAKEN TO THESE COUNTRIES,
THESE FAR AWAY PLACES OVER THE
00:20:02.16\00:20:05.96
YEARS, MANY HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE.
00:20:05.96\00:20:08.50
AND A PERSON WHOM WE ALL
APPRECIATE AND LOVE IN THIS
00:20:08.50\00:20:11.30
CHURCH IS JAVIER PIRAINO,
AND I WANT YOU TODAY TO MAKE
00:20:11.30\00:20:17.53
JAVIER FEEL THAT HE'S
WANTED IN THIS CHURCH.
00:20:17.53\00:20:20.93
WOULD YOU PLEASE WELCOME
MY OLD FRIEND, JAVIER P. RINO.
00:20:20.93\00:20:29.26
JAVIER, I'M GLAD TO SEE YOU.
00:20:29.26\00:20:31.70
>> GLAD TO SEE YOU.
00:20:31.70\00:20:32.76
>> AND I WANT TO GIVE
YOU THE WARMEST WELCOME.
00:20:32.76\00:20:36.30
I CAN REMEMBER WHEN YOU USED TO
WORK FOR DELTA AIRLINES, AND WE
00:20:36.30\00:20:41.16
USED TO FLY DELTA BECAUSE
WE LOVE TO FLY AND IT SHOWS.
00:20:41.16\00:20:47.30
HOW MANY TIMES HAVE
YOU BEEN WITH US OVERSEAS?
00:20:47.30\00:20:48.90
>> I THINK IT'S 16 TIMES,
00:20:48.90\00:20:51.26
IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN.
00:20:52.70\00:20:55.10
>> SIXTEEN TIMES.
00:20:55.10\00:20:56.56
CAN YOU THINK OF
SOME OF THE PLACES?
00:20:56.56\00:20:58.70
>> WELL, IN UKRAINE
WE WENT TO ST. PETERSBURG
00:20:58.70\00:21:01.20
FOR THE CAMPAIGN.
00:21:01.20\00:21:02.83
BEFORE THE CAMPAIGN, I
WENT WITH YOU ALSO TO SET UP
00:21:02.83\00:21:05.10
FOR THE CAMPAIGN.
00:21:05.10\00:21:06.10
THEN WE WENT TO
KHARKOV, NOVOPETROSK,
00:21:06.10\00:21:09.23
ZAPOROZHYE, ODESSA,
AND IN RUSSIA, NIZHNY
00:21:09.23\00:21:13.53
WAS THE FIRST
TIME WE WENT TO RUSSIA.
00:21:13.53\00:21:16.23
THEN WE WENT TO MOSCOW ALSO.
00:21:16.23\00:21:19.93
THEN WE WENT TO KAZAN,
VOLGOGRAD THIS YEAR, IRKUTSK.
00:21:19.93\00:21:26.16
>> AND ONCE WE TRAVELED ON THE
MONGOLIAN EXPRESS, AND WE WENT
00:21:26.16\00:21:32.13
RIGHT THROUGH CHINA.
00:21:32.13\00:21:34.50
TELL ME THIS, BECAUSE I
WANT THE PEOPLE TO HEAR IT FROM
00:21:34.50\00:21:38.36
YOUR LIPS, WHY DO YOU GO?
00:21:38.36\00:21:42.06
>> BECAUSE THE PEOPLE NEED
THE WORD OF GOD AND THEY NEED
00:21:42.06\00:21:44.80
THE GOSPEL, IS
BASICALLY WHAT IT IS.
00:21:44.80\00:21:47.76
>> YOU HEARD THE GOSPEL WHEN?
00:21:47.76\00:21:49.70
>> IN 1990, I THINK IT WAS IN
THE SHRINE AUDITORIUM WHEN YOU
00:21:49.70\00:21:53.90
WERE PREACHING THE GOSPEL,
THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL IN
00:21:53.90\00:21:56.36
THE AUDITORIUM IN LOS ANGELES.
00:21:56.36\00:21:58.33
YOU CAME WITH US AND
YOU'VE JUST COME BACK, AND WE'RE
00:21:58.33\00:22:00.66
ALL FEELING
SLIGHTLY STILL JET-LAGGED.
00:22:00.66\00:22:03.70
TELL US ABOUT SOME OF
THE PEOPLE THAT YOU MET IN
00:22:03.70\00:22:06.50
THE GREAT CITY OF
VOLGOGRAD WHICH WAS ONCE CALLED
00:22:06.50\00:22:09.63
STALINGRAD.
00:22:09.63\00:22:11.63
>> IT WAS A LITTLE GUY 14 YEARS
OLD, HIS NAME IS EGOR, THAT HE
00:22:11.63\00:22:16.36
CAME JUST TO LOOK AT
US WHEN WE WERE ASSEMBLED,
00:22:16.36\00:22:20.33
AT ALL SYSTEM.
00:22:20.33\00:22:21.80
AND HE HELP US EVERY
DAY, AND HE BECAME BASICALLY
00:22:21.80\00:22:25.16
THE ENGINEER OF THE LIGHTING
AND WITHOUT ONE WORD OF ENGLISH.
00:22:25.16\00:22:30.66
I USED TO BE A TRANSLATOR
AND THEN FROM ME TO HIM AND HIM
00:22:30.66\00:22:35.03
TO THE SPOTS OPERATORS.
00:22:35.03\00:22:38.33
>> MOST FOLKS HAVE GOT NO IDEA
WHAT THESE CAMPAIGNS ARE LIKE.
00:22:38.33\00:22:42.10
THEY'RE REALLY LIKE
BIG BILLY GRAHAM CAMPAIGN.
00:22:42.10\00:22:45.53
TELL US WHAT THE SET UP
IS LIKE WITH A TINY CREW?
00:22:45.53\00:22:48.40
>> WELL, IT WAS HARD BECAUSE
THE TEMPERATURE WAS, I THINK,
00:22:48.40\00:22:51.16
WAS ABOUT OVER A HUNDRED AND
THERE WAS NO AIR-CONDITIONING
00:22:51.16\00:22:54.50
AND THERE'S NOTHING AVAILABLE.
00:22:54.50\00:22:56.70
AS A MATTER OF FACT, DANIEL
TOLD US THAT THEY NEEDED SOME
00:22:56.70\00:22:59.50
AIR-CONDITIONING BECAUSE
ONE OF THE PROJECTORS QUIT ON
00:22:59.50\00:23:02.70
HIM AND HE WAS WORRIED
ABOUT THE OTHER ONE WAS GONNA DO
00:23:02.70\00:23:05.30
THE SAME DURING THE CAMPAIGN.
00:23:05.30\00:23:06.36
SO WE ENDED UP BUYING TO
THE BIG MARKET, IF YOU REMEMBER,
00:23:06.36\00:23:10.40
THE EUROPA MARKET.
00:23:10.40\00:23:12.70
WE BROUGHT THREE
AIR-CONDITIONERS AND WE
00:23:12.70\00:23:14.56
PUT THEM IN THE
BACK OF THE PROJECTORS.
00:23:14.56\00:23:16.83
>> YOU'VE BEEN BACK
NOW FOR A WEEK OR SO.
00:23:16.83\00:23:19.00
YOU'VE GOT MANY
IMAGES, JAVIER IN YOUR MIND.
00:23:19.00\00:23:22.33
WHAT IS STILL RIGHT NOW YOUR
OVERWHELMING IMPRESSION OF WHAT
00:23:22.33\00:23:27.63
HAPPENED OVER THERE IN
VOLGOGRAD IN THIS GREAT RUSSIAN
00:23:27.63\00:23:31.83
CITY?
00:23:31.83\00:23:33.43
>> THE COMMITMENT OF THE PEOPLE
COMING TO THE MEETINGS AND ALSO
00:23:33.43\00:23:36.66
THE GREAT BAPTISMAL, THE FIRST
BAPTISMAL THAT WE WENT THROUGH,
00:23:36.66\00:23:39.76
AND IT WAS INCREDIBLE.
00:23:39.76\00:23:41.33
IT WAS SOMETHING THAT I
NEVER IMAGINED BEING THE CITY,
00:23:41.33\00:23:45.40
THE RICHEST CITY THAT WE
WERE SO WRONG IN THINKING
00:23:45.40\00:23:48.43
THOSE PEOPLE WERE POOR.
00:23:48.43\00:23:49.73
THE OTHER THING IS ALSO
THAT THE, LIKE I SAID, THE
00:23:49.73\00:23:52.60
COMMITMENT OF THE PEOPLE COMING
IN IN AN AUDITORIUM OF 105,
00:23:52.60\00:23:55.90
HUMIDITY PROBABLY 120 AND
SIT DOWN AND LISTEN TO YOU
00:23:55.90\00:24:00.06
FOR 45 MINUTES OR 50
MINUTES EVERY DAY AND GIVING
00:24:00.06\00:24:03.40
THEIR LIFE TO CHRIST.
00:24:03.40\00:24:04.90
>> JAVIER, YOU ARE A
BLESSING TO THIS CHURCH AND TO
00:24:04.90\00:24:07.70
THIS MINISTRY.
00:24:07.70\00:24:08.86
AND ON BEHALF OF THE CARTER
REPORT, I WANT TO THANK YOU
00:24:08.86\00:24:11.13
FOR WHAT YOU DO.
00:24:11.13\00:24:12.10
GOD BLESS YOU,
JAVIER, GOD BLESS YOU.
00:24:12.10\00:24:15.23
[APPLAUDING] I WANT YOU TO LOOK
00:24:15.23\00:24:18.46
AT THE BLACKBOARD AGAIN.
00:24:19.40\00:24:21.40
GOD LOVES US, AND
WE ARE NEVER ALONE.
00:24:21.40\00:24:25.73
I CAN REMEMBER MANY YEARS AGO,
TRAVELING THROUGH IRAN, WENT
00:24:25.73\00:24:31.10
DOWN TO THE SOUTH OF IRAN TO
A PLACE BY THE NAME OF ABADON,
00:24:31.10\00:24:36.00
THEN CROSSED OVER THE RIVER
EUPHRATES IN A LITTLE DINGY,
00:24:36.00\00:24:39.10
A LITTLE ROW BOAT AND CLIMBED
UP THE MUDDY SHORE AND WENT TO
00:24:39.10\00:24:42.86
THE TOWN OF BASRA THAT HAS
SEEN SOME TERRIBLE FIGHTING.
00:24:42.86\00:24:47.06
AND I WAS THERE WITH TWO
YOUNG MEN, WE WERE YOUNG MEN
00:24:47.13\00:24:50.56
IN THOSE DAYS.
00:24:50.56\00:24:51.86
AND IN THIS ARAB
CITY, WE SENSED A HOSTILITY.
00:24:51.86\00:24:59.56
IT WAS LATE IN THE DAY,
AND WE HAD NOWHERE TO STAY.
00:24:59.63\00:25:03.60
AND I CAN REMEMBER, 'CAUSE
I WAS THE LEADER OF THE GROUP,
00:25:03.60\00:25:06.06
GETTING THE GROUP TOGETHER
AND THERE ON THE MAIN STREET
00:25:06.06\00:25:09.20
OF BASRA, WE PRAYED
TO THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.
00:25:09.20\00:25:13.06
SAID, LORD, WE
GOT NOWHERE TO GO.
00:25:13.06\00:25:15.50
WE GOT NOWHERE TO STAY
AND NIGHT IS COMING ON.
00:25:15.50\00:25:19.50
THREE MEN DRESSED IN WHITE
ROBES, THEY WERE ARABS, MUSLIMS.
00:25:19.50\00:25:25.80
THEY CAME UP TO US AND
IMPECCABLE ENGLISH SAID,
00:25:25.80\00:25:29.50
"CAN WE HELP YOU?"
00:25:29.50\00:25:31.30
WE SAID, "WE GOT
NOWHERE TO STAY."
00:25:31.30\00:25:33.80
THEY SAID, "YOU
CAN'T STAY ON THE STREET
00:25:33.80\00:25:35.90
BECAUSE IT'S DANGEROUS."
00:25:35.90\00:25:37.40
THEY TOOK US TO THE ONLY
PLACE IN THE CITY OF BASRA WHERE
00:25:37.40\00:25:41.03
IT WAS SAFE FOR
FOREIGNERS TO STAY.
00:25:41.03\00:25:46.43
GOD ANSWERED PRAYER
LIKE THAT, JUST LIKE THAT.
00:25:46.43\00:25:51.90
GOD LOVES US, AND
WE ARE NEVER ALONE.
00:25:51.90\00:25:55.10
YEARS AGO, I WAS IN AFRICA
FOR A BIG CAMPAIGN IN HARARE,
00:25:55.10\00:26:00.23
ZIMBABWE.
00:26:00.23\00:26:01.46
I WAS INVITED OUT TO TALK
ON A TELEVISION STATION, AND SO
00:26:01.46\00:26:06.13
I WENT OUT TO SPEAK ON
THIS TELEVISION STATION.
00:26:06.13\00:26:10.40
BUT WHEN I GOT THERE, THINGS
HAD BEEN CHANGED COMPLETELY.
00:26:10.40\00:26:14.40
IT WAS A SETUP TO DO US GREAT
DAMAGE, AND THE MANAGER OF THE
00:26:14.40\00:26:21.33
STATION WAS A FORMER TERRORIST,
AND THIS WAS HIS OPPORTUNITY.
00:26:21.33\00:26:27.50
AND WHEN HE TOLD ME
THE CONDITIONS OF GOING
00:26:27.50\00:26:29.50
ON TELEVISION, I
SAID, "I CAN'T DO THIS.
00:26:29.50\00:26:32.30
THIS IS GOING TO INFLAME
THIS COUNTRY BECAUSE THIS WAS
00:26:32.30\00:26:36.50
A CAMPAIGN THAT WAS KNOWN
ALL OVER THAT PART OF THE WORLD.
00:26:36.50\00:26:40.40
I SAID, "I'M NOT GOING TO
GO ON AND ENGAGE IN ATTACKING
00:26:40.40\00:26:44.76
ANY RELIGION."
00:26:44.76\00:26:46.16
WELL, HE SAID, "WE WANT YOU TO."
00:26:46.16\00:26:47.23
I SAID, "NO, I'M
NOT GONNA DO IT."
00:26:47.23\00:26:49.23
SO HE BECAME ENRAGED.
00:26:49.23\00:26:52.03
I CAN STILL SEE
HIM IN HIS PEUGEOT CAR.
00:26:52.03\00:26:55.96
HE CALLED A BUNCH OF SOLDIERS,
AND I WAS MARCHED DOWN A BUSH
00:26:55.96\00:27:02.33
TRACK AS THE SUN WAS GOING DOWN
IN HARARE, ZIMBABWE WITH GUNS,
00:27:02.33\00:27:08.76
THE BUSINESS END, POINTING
TO ME, SURROUNDED BY ZIMBABWEAN
00:27:08.76\00:27:15.06
SOLDIERS WITH SUB MACHINE GUNS.
00:27:15.06\00:27:19.86
DID I FEEL FRIGHTENED?
00:27:19.86\00:27:22.76
NOT A BIT BECAUSE I BELIEVED
THAT GOD LOVED ME AND WE'RE
00:27:22.76\00:27:28.00
NEVER ALONE.
00:27:28.00\00:27:30.33
AND THIS MAN FOLLOWED
ALONG IN THE PEUGEOT CURSING
00:27:30.33\00:27:33.26
AND SWEARING AT ME.
00:27:33.26\00:27:35.93
THEN HE TURNED HIS CAR AROUND
LEAVING MY FATE IN THE HANDS OF
00:27:35.93\00:27:39.33
THESE 20 SOLDIERS.
00:27:39.33\00:27:42.63
AND AS WE WENT DOWN THIS JUNGLE
PATHWAY, AND COULD NO LONGER
00:27:42.63\00:27:48.60
HEARD HIM--COULD NO LONGER
HEAR HIM, ALL OF SUDDEN, THE
00:27:48.60\00:27:53.23
SOLDIERS PUT DOWN THEIR GUNS
AND THEY SAID, "PASTOR CARTER,
00:27:53.23\00:27:55.80
WE COME TO YOUR MEETINGS."
00:27:55.80\00:27:58.26
AND THEY SAID, "WE'RE SORRY
HE'S TREATED YOU LIKE THIS.
00:27:58.26\00:28:01.30
WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU DOWN
TO A MILITARY BASE, AND WE'RE
00:28:01.30\00:28:03.90
GONNA GET YOU TO
THE AUDITORIUM ON TIME."
00:28:03.90\00:28:07.36
I HAD A SENSE THAT I WAS
NOT ALONE BECAUSE GOD LOVES ME.
00:28:07.36\00:28:12.56
I WANT EVERY PERSON HERE
IN THIS CHURCH TODAY TO SAY IT
00:28:12.56\00:28:15.73
AND TO BELIEVE IT, "GOD
LOVES ME, AND I'M NOT ALONE."
00:28:15.73\00:28:21.16
AND IT IS THE TRUTH.
00:28:21.16\00:28:22.83
AND WHEN YOU BELIEVE THIS,
YOU CAN HAVE LIFE TO THE FULL.
00:28:22.83\00:28:27.93
THE SECOND GREAT TRUTH IS
THIS, THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST
00:28:27.93\00:28:30.93
WONDERFUL TRUTHS,
GOD HAS A PLAN FOR ME.
00:28:30.93\00:28:33.73
GOD HAS A PLAN FOR ME.
00:28:36.90\00:28:46.10
DO YOU THINK THAT WE ARE
HERE TODAY SIMPLY BECAUSE OF
00:28:46.10\00:28:50.40
HAPPEN-CHANCE?
00:28:50.40\00:28:53.96
GOD HAS A PLAN
FOR EVERY ONE OF US.
00:28:53.96\00:28:56.36
WE'RE GOING TO TURN
OVER HERE TO JEREMIAH 1:4-5.
00:28:56.36\00:28:59.86
I WANT YOU TO TURN TO THIS
WONDERFUL OLD TESTAMENT TEXT.
00:28:59.86\00:29:03.80
I'VE READ THIS
TEXT SO MANY TIMES.
00:29:03.80\00:29:06.90
JEREMIAH 1:4-5, "THE WORD
OF THE LORD CAME TO ME, SAYING
00:29:06.90\00:29:13.90
'BEFORE I FORMED YOU IN THE
WOMB I KNEW YOU BEFORE YOU WERE
00:29:13.90\00:29:21.03
BORN I SET YOU APART; I
APPOINTED YOU AS A PROPHET
00:29:21.03\00:29:27.83
TO THE NATIONS.' 'AH,
SOVEREIGN LORD,' I SAID,
00:29:27.83\00:29:31.63
'I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO
SPEAK; I AM ONLY A CHILD.'"
00:29:31.63\00:29:35.43
I WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT THIS.
00:29:35.43\00:29:36.93
LOOK AT ME.
00:29:36.93\00:29:39.50
BEFORE YOU WERE FORMED
00:29:36.93\00:29:39.50
IN THE WOMB, GOD SAW
YOU AND HAD A PLAN FOR YOU.
00:29:43.13\00:29:57.30
THE GREATEST SORROW IS
WHEN GOD HAS A PLAN FOR US
00:29:57.30\00:30:05.03
AND WE DON'T FULFILL IT.
00:30:05.03\00:30:09.40
BUT GOD LOVES ME.
00:30:09.40\00:30:10.63
I'M NEVER ALONE, AND GOD
HAS A PLAN FOR EVERY LIFE.
00:30:10.63\00:30:14.96
COME TO ROMANS 8:28, THAT EVERY
PERSON HERE WILL KNOW BY HEART.
00:30:14.96\00:30:21.60
PAUL SAYS, AND
HE HAD TOUGH TIMES.
00:30:21.60\00:30:23.93
HE KNEW WHAT IT WAS TO FIGHT
THE DEVIL AND EVERYBODY ELSE.
00:30:25.03\00:30:28.63
HE SAID, "AND WE KNOW THAT
IN ALL THINGS GOD WORKS FOR THE
00:30:28.63\00:30:32.33
GOOD OF THOSE WHO LOVE HIM,
WHO HAVE BEEN CALLED ACCORDING,"
00:30:32.33\00:30:36.26
FINISH IT WITH ME.
00:30:36.26\00:30:39.63
GOD HAS A PURPOSE FOR YOU.
00:30:39.63\00:30:44.46
NOW WE HAVE A CONGREGATION
THAT HAS OFTEN RENEWED
00:30:44.46\00:30:47.06
WITH NEW PEOPLE COMING.
00:30:48.50\00:30:49.80
WE'RE GLAD ABOUT THIS,
BUT NEW PEOPLE WHO COME INTO
00:30:49.80\00:30:52.76
THE CHURCH, OFTEN DON'T
KNOW THE HISTORY OF THIS CHURCH.
00:30:52.76\00:30:57.40
WE HAVEN'T ALWAYS
HAD THIS BUILDING.
00:30:57.40\00:30:59.83
WE SHOULDN'T HAVE THIS BUILDING.
00:30:59.83\00:31:02.23
WE CAN'T AFFORD THIS BUILDING.
00:31:02.23\00:31:06.13
WE WORSHIPED OVER IN GLENDALE
A RENTED FACILITY, THE UCC,
00:31:06.13\00:31:10.96
THE UNITED COMMUNITY CHURCH,
FOR 10 YEARS AND THINGS WERE
00:31:10.96\00:31:17.96
NOT GETTING GOOD FOR US.
00:31:17.96\00:31:21.83
AND I CAN REMEMBER
SAYING, GOD, PLEASE HELP US.
00:31:21.83\00:31:26.46
WE HAD NO MONEY
BECAUSE WE'D PUT OUR MONEY
00:31:26.46\00:31:29.43
INTO RUSSIAN EVANGELISM.
00:31:29.43\00:31:31.66
WE DIDN'T HAVE A BUILDING
FUND EXCEPT TO BUILD CHURCHES
00:31:31.66\00:31:34.26
IN RUSSIA.
00:31:34.26\00:31:36.53
AND ONE DAY A FLYER CAME
TO MY DESK AND SAID THERE WAS
00:31:36.53\00:31:40.50
A CHURCH FOR SALE IN PASADENA.
00:31:40.50\00:31:43.60
I WENT OVER TO
PASADENA NOT WITH A LOT OF HOPE
00:31:43.60\00:31:47.96
BECAUSE I HAD NO MONEY.
00:31:47.96\00:31:50.30
AND WHEN THE REALTOR CAME, HE
SAID, "OOPS, I FORGOT TO BRING
00:31:50.30\00:31:53.56
THE KEY."
00:31:53.56\00:31:55.56
HE SAID, "COME BACK TOMORROW."
00:31:55.56\00:31:57.16
I SAID, I CAN'T
COME BACK TOMORROW.
00:31:57.16\00:31:59.06
I DON'T HAVE TIME.
00:31:59.06\00:32:01.33
"OH," HE SAID, "LOOK, THERE
IS A PLACE FOR SALE IN ARCADIA,
00:32:01.33\00:32:06.96
BUT YOU WOULDN'T BE
INTERESTED, WOULD YOU?"
00:32:06.96\00:32:09.10
I SAID NO, BECAUSE IT'S
ANOTHER 15 MILES TO DRIVE ON TOP
00:32:09.10\00:32:14.93
OF 45 MILES ALREADY.
00:32:14.93\00:32:18.33
I SAID, NO.
00:32:18.33\00:32:21.03
BUT I SAID, LET'S GO LOOK.
00:32:21.03\00:32:24.06
AND HE BROUGHT US HERE.
00:32:21.03\00:32:24.06
I SAID, "HOW MUCH MONEY
DO WE NEED FOR A DEPOSIT?"
00:32:25.60\00:32:29.20
HE SAID, "$1.1 MILLION."
00:32:29.20\00:32:32.76
HE SAID, "WILL
THAT BE A PROBLEM?"
00:32:32.76\00:32:35.56
YOU KNOW WHAT I SAID?
00:32:35.56\00:32:37.46
NO, IT WON'T BE.
00:32:37.46\00:32:39.26
THEN WE WENT ON A
GREAT FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN.
00:32:39.26\00:32:41.33
MY FRIENDS KNOW THE STORY,
00:32:41.33\00:32:44.06
BUT SOME OF YOU
DON'T KNOW THE STORY.
00:32:45.66\00:32:49.46
HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TO PAY ALL
THE BILLS AND RAISE 1.1 MILLION
00:32:49.46\00:32:53.63
IN A FEW WEEKS?
00:32:53.63\00:33:00.43
BUT THE MONEY WAS COMING IN.
00:33:00.43\00:33:02.93
I'D NEVER SEEN THE
MAIL, SO MUCH MAIL.
00:33:02.93\00:33:06.13
THE PEOPLE ACROSS AMERICA,
THE MOST GENEROUS PEOPLE ON
00:33:06.13\00:33:09.40
THE FACE OF THE EARTH, WERE
SENDING MONEY, $100, $1,000.
00:33:09.40\00:33:14.96
ONE MAN SENT $200,000,
BUT WE STILL HAD TO GET A LOAN
00:33:14.96\00:33:21.43
FOR A VAST SUM OF MONEY.
00:33:21.43\00:33:23.43
WE GOT A BANK, WE WON'T TELL
YOU WHAT IT IS UNLESS YOU COME
00:33:23.43\00:33:26.60
AND SEE ME AFTER, THEN
I'LL GIVE YOU A WARNING.
00:33:26.60\00:33:29.46
BUT THIS BANK
SPECIALIZED IN CHURCH LOANS.
00:33:29.46\00:33:31.93
THEY TOLD ME
EVERYTHING IS SETTLED.
00:33:31.93\00:33:36.36
I WENT TO RUSSIA FOR A CAMPAIGN,
CAME BACK AND THE BANK,
00:33:36.36\00:33:40.73
WITHOUT A WORD, HAD SENT
BACK OUR APPLICATION AND WOULD
00:33:40.73\00:33:44.56
NOT EVEN TALK TO US.
00:33:44.56\00:33:47.33
AND WAS CLOSING, THE
SALE WAS CLOSING IN 2 WEEKS.
00:33:47.33\00:33:54.30
THEN A MAN CAME TO SEE ME
FROM BANCO POPULAR, A MAN FROM
00:33:54.30\00:34:01.36
CANADA, KEN WESBY.
00:34:01.36\00:34:05.70
HE STOOD THERE WITH ME
IN THIS CHURCH AND HE SAID,
00:34:05.70\00:34:10.33
"THIS IS MY CARD."
00:34:10.33\00:34:12.70
I TOOK HIS CARD.
00:34:12.70\00:34:15.30
IT WAS THE SEAT TICKET TO A
GREAT EVANGELISTIC CAMPAIGN.
00:34:15.30\00:34:21.60
HE SAID, "THAT'S
WHERE I FOUND CHRIST."
00:34:21.60\00:34:22.63
AND HE SAID, "I WANT TO HEAR
00:34:22.63\00:34:24.70
CHRIST PREACHED IN THIS CHURCH."
00:34:26.10\00:34:28.60
HE SAID, "YOU NEED
THESE MILLIONS AND IN 2 WEEKS,
00:34:28.60\00:34:31.06
HE SAID, "IT IS AN UTTER
IMPOSSIBILITY, BUT WE'LL DO IT,"
00:34:31.06\00:34:34.46
AND THE BANK DID IT.
00:34:34.46\00:34:37.46
CAN YOU SEE WHY
WE DO WHAT WE DO?
00:34:37.46\00:34:41.63
GOD LOVES ME, I'M NOT
ALONE AND GOD HAS A PLAN FOR ME.
00:34:41.63\00:34:46.90
GOD LEADS US IN THREE
WAYS, LISTEN CAREFULLY.
00:34:46.90\00:34:50.83
HE LEADS US THROUGH SCRIPTURE.
00:34:50.83\00:34:52.83
HE NEVER ASKS ME TO DO
ANYTHING THAT IS NOT ACCORDING
00:34:52.83\00:34:56.56
TO SCRIPTURE.
00:34:56.56\00:34:58.30
HE LEADS BY
PROVIDENCE, BY OPENING DOORS
00:34:58.30\00:35:01.56
AND BY CLOSING DOORS.
00:35:01.56\00:35:04.10
HE LEADS BY THE
COUNCIL OF GODLY, WISE PEOPLE.
00:35:04.10\00:35:07.63
THERE ARE NOT MANY LIKE THAT.
00:35:07.63\00:35:09.96
DON'T JUST LISTEN TO ANYBODY.
00:35:09.96\00:35:11.60
AND HE LEADS BY THE DEEP
CONVICTIONS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:35:11.60\00:35:17.43
I WARN YOU TODAY, DO NOT GET
THAT ORDER OF PRIORITIES WRONG
00:35:17.43\00:35:20.46
BECAUSE THERE ARE MILLIONS
00:35:20.46\00:35:23.46
OF PEOPLE WHO SAY,
"WELL, GOD HAS LED ME IN THIS."
00:35:24.43\00:35:29.43
NO, HE HASN'T LED YOU AT ALL.
00:35:29.43\00:35:31.86
AND THEY SAY, "BUT
THE LORD HAS TOLD ME."
00:35:31.86\00:35:34.93
NO, YOU'RE SIMPLY
LISTENING TO YOUR OWN DESIRES.
00:35:34.93\00:35:39.60
NUMBER--AND SOME OF YOU HERE
TODAY MAY BE IN THE WRONG JOB
00:35:39.60\00:35:45.63
BECAUSE YOU'RE
NOT LISTENING TO GOD.
00:35:45.63\00:35:48.33
HE LEADS ME THROUGH SCRIPTURE
BY OPENING DOORS AND BY CLOSING
00:35:48.33\00:35:52.90
DOORS, BY THE COUNSEL OF
GODLY PEOPLE AND THROUGH THE
00:35:52.90\00:35:58.40
CONVICTION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:35:58.40\00:36:01.43
AND IF YOU LET GOD
LEAD YOU, HE WILL LEAD YOU.
00:36:01.43\00:36:05.33
HERE'S THE THIRD GREAT TRUTH,
HERE IT IS FOR HURTING PEOPLE
00:36:05.33\00:36:07.20
WHO WANT TO FIND HOPE, GOD WILL
00:36:07.20\00:36:10.60
FORGIVE MY SINS IF I
HUMBLY CONFESS AND FORSAKE THEM.
00:36:12.76\00:36:17.20
LET ME WRITE THIS UP HERE ON
THE BLACKBOARD, SO THESE TRUTHS
00:36:17.20\00:36:20.26
WILL GO DOWN INTO THE
MOLECULES OF YOUR MIND.
00:36:20.26\00:36:23.46
GOD WILL FORGIVE MY
SINS, AND THERE IS AN "IF."
00:36:23.46\00:36:36.43
IF I HUMBLY CONFESS
THEM AND FORSAKE THEM.
00:36:36.43\00:36:43.40
AND WHEN A PERSON HAS HIS
SINS FORGIVEN, THEN HE HAS
00:36:43.40\00:36:48.26
A WONDERFUL PEACE.
00:36:48.26\00:36:51.26
I WANT TO TALK TO YOU
NOW ABOUT THE MOST WICKED MAN
00:36:51.26\00:36:53.83
WHO EVER LIVED.
00:36:53.83\00:36:54.83
I WANT YOU TO COME OVER
HERE TO 1 KINGS 21 AND VERSE 25
00:36:54.83\00:36:59.40
AND ONWARDS, THE MOST
WICKED MAN WHO EVER LIVED.
00:36:59.40\00:37:04.60
"THERE WAS NEVER A MAN LIKE
AHAB, WHO SOLD HIMSELF TO DO
00:37:04.60\00:37:09.10
EVIL IN THE EYES OF THE
LORD," HE WAS A CROOK, "URGED ON
00:37:09.10\00:37:15.03
BY JEZEBEL HIS WIFE."
00:37:15.03\00:37:17.70
BEHIND EVERY GOOD MAN, THERE IS
A GOOD WOMAN AND USUALLY BEHIND
00:37:17.70\00:37:24.10
EVERY EVIL MAN,
USUALLY THERE IS AN EVIL WOMAN.
00:37:24.10\00:37:29.10
AND JEZEBEL WAS AS
BAD AS YOU CAN GET.
00:37:29.10\00:37:33.60
VERSE 26, "HE BEHAVED IN
THE VILEST MANNER BY GOING AFTER
00:37:33.60\00:37:36.63
IDOLS, LIKE THE
AMORITES THE LORD DROVE OUT
00:37:36.63\00:37:39.86
BEFORE ISRAEL.
00:37:39.86\00:37:41.50
WHEN AHAB HEARD THESE
WORDS, THE WORDS OF THE PROPHET,
00:37:41.50\00:37:44.90
HE TORE HIS CLOTHES,
PUT ON SACKCLOTH AND FASTED.
00:37:44.90\00:37:49.70
HE LAY IN SACKCLOTH
AND WENT AROUND MEEKLY.
00:37:49.70\00:37:53.20
THEN THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME
TO ELIJAH THE TISHBITE: 'HAVE
00:37:53.20\00:37:56.36
YOU NOTICED HOW AHAB HAS
HUMBLED HIMSELF BEFORE ME?
00:37:56.36\00:38:00.53
BECAUSE HE HAS HUMBLED HIMSELF,
I WILL NOT BRING DISASTER IN
00:38:00.53\00:38:04.70
HIS DAY--" THIS IS STAGGERING.
00:38:04.70\00:38:11.06
DO YOU EVER GIVE UP ON PEOPLE?
00:38:04.70\00:38:11.06
I FEEL LIKE IT, ON OCCASION.
00:38:16.16\00:38:18.60
SO THAT'S PERSON'S A COMPLETE
FLAKE, DOESN'T GET BETTER,
00:38:18.60\00:38:22.40
JUST SEEMS TO GET WORSE.
00:38:22.40\00:38:24.46
DO YOU EVER GIVE UP ON YOURSELF?
00:38:24.46\00:38:26.66
YOU SAY SOMEONE'S SITTING HERE
TODAY AND YOU KNOW YOURSELF.
00:38:26.66\00:38:29.66
TWO PEOPLE KNOW YOU,
YOURSELF AND THE LORD.
00:38:29.66\00:38:32.63
HE KNOWS A MILLION TIMES
MORE ABOUT YOU, AND YOU FEEL
00:38:32.63\00:38:37.60
"I'M JUST A ROTTEN PERSON.
00:38:37.60\00:38:41.46
NOBODY KNOWS IT.
00:38:41.46\00:38:42.53
MY WIFE DOESN'T KNOW HOW ROTTEN
I AM, BUT I'M A ROTTEN PERSON."
00:38:42.53\00:38:47.56
THERE IS NO PERSON
TOO ROTTEN FOR GOD.
00:38:47.56\00:38:53.23
AND IF I COME TO CHRIST,
GOD WILL WILLINGLY FORGIVE
00:38:53.23\00:38:58.36
MY SINS IF I HUMBLY
CONFESS THEM AND FORSAKE THEM.
00:38:58.36\00:39:07.36
LOOK AT ME, YOU AND I CAN FACE
ANYTHING IF WE KNOW THAT OUR
00:39:07.36\00:39:14.26
SINS ARE FORGIVEN.
00:39:14.26\00:39:16.80
THERE'S NOTHING THAT GNAWS
AT THE HEART OF A MAN OR A WOMAN
00:39:16.80\00:39:23.56
MORE THAN THE CANCER OF SIN.
00:39:23.56\00:39:33.56
BUT GOD WILL FORGIVE MY SIN,
NOT IF I JUST PUT UP MY HAND
00:39:33.56\00:39:38.43
IN A MEETING, NO, NO, NO.
00:39:38.43\00:39:40.33
SOMETIMES PEOPLE GET IT WRONG,
BUT IF I HUMBLY CONFESS MY SINS
00:39:40.33\00:39:46.96
TO THE PEOPLE I HAVE SINNED
AGAINST AND REPENT OF MY SINS
00:39:46.96\00:39:53.80
TO GOD, GOD WILL TAKE AWAY
MY SIN, AND THEN I CAN START
00:39:53.80\00:40:07.66
TO LIVE LIFE TO THE FULL.
00:40:07.66\00:40:11.63
HERE IT IS, MY FRIEND, THE
FOURTH GREAT TRUTH FOR HURTING,
00:40:11.63\00:40:16.60
LONELY, LOST MEN AND
WOMEN DURING TIMES OF TOUGHNESS.
00:40:16.60\00:40:19.30
HERE'S THE FOURTH TRUTH.
00:40:21.43\00:40:23.46
GOD HAS PREPARED A WONDERFUL
FUTURE FOR YOU AND FOR ME.
00:40:23.46\00:40:27.86
LET ME WRITE IT UP
HERE ON THE BLACKBOARD,
00:40:27.86\00:40:30.40
AND THIS IS WHY IN THIS
CHURCH, WE HAVE SO MUCH HOPE.
00:40:30.40\00:40:36.26
GOD HAS PREPARED
A WONDERFUL FUTURE.
00:40:36.26\00:40:46.86
HE HAS PREPARED A HEAVEN FOR ME.
00:40:46.86\00:40:54.10
YOU THINK ONE DAY BEING WITH
JESUS IN PARADISE AND LIVING
00:40:54.10\00:41:02.73
FOR ETERNITY AND KNOW THAT
IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER AND IT
00:41:02.73\00:41:05.90
GOES ON FOR BILLIONS OF YEARS.
00:41:05.90\00:41:09.43
THAT IS ONE OF THE
GREAT ANTIDOTES TO ANGER AND
00:41:09.43\00:41:13.76
DEPRESSION THAT
WE CAN HAVE HOPE.
00:41:13.76\00:41:19.06
GOD HAS PREPARED A
WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL FUTURE.
00:41:19.06\00:41:23.33
WOULD YOU COME OVER
HERE TO 2 CORINTHIANS 4?
00:41:23.33\00:41:26.86
HOW TRAGIC THAT SOME PEOPLE
GIVE IT UP AND THEY GO BACK
00:41:26.86\00:41:30.63
TO THE WORLD WITH ALL ITS
SIN AND THEY MISS OUT ON GLORY.
00:41:30.63\00:41:34.90
2 CORINTHIANS 4, 2
CORINTHIANS 4:7 DOWN TO 9.
00:41:34.90\00:41:41.06
"BUT WE HAVE THIS TREASURE
IN JARS OF CLAY," THAT'S THESE
00:41:41.06\00:41:44.53
BODIES, "TO SHOW THAT
THIS ALL-SURPASSING POWER IS
00:41:44.53\00:41:48.13
FROM GOD AND NOT FROM US.
00:41:48.13\00:41:50.86
WE ARE HARD PRESSED ON
EVERY SIDE, BUT NOT CRUSHED;
00:41:50.86\00:41:54.16
PERPLEXED, BUT NOT IN DESPAIR;
PERSECUTED, BUT NOT ABANDONED;
00:41:54.16\00:42:00.63
STRUCK DOWN, BUT NOT DESTROYED."
00:42:00.63\00:42:04.30
YOU THINK YOU'VE HAD IT TOUGH?
00:42:04.30\00:42:06.33
LOOK AT ME, NONE OF US
HERE HAVE HAD IT TOUGH,
00:42:06.33\00:42:11.83
NOT IN COMPARISON.
00:42:11.83\00:42:14.76
HAS ANYBODY HERE BEEN
BEATEN WITH RODS 39 TIMES OVER
00:42:14.76\00:42:20.73
AND OVER?
00:42:20.73\00:42:23.96
PAUL SAID, "WE'RE
BEATEN UP, WE'RE NOT CAST DOWN.
00:42:23.96\00:42:30.00
VERSES 16-18,
"THEREFORE WE DO NOT LOSE HEART.
00:42:30.00\00:42:34.70
THOUGH OUTWARDLY WE ARE WASTING
AWAY, YET INWARDLY WE ARE BEING
00:42:34.70\00:42:39.63
RENEWED DAY BY DAY."
00:42:39.63\00:42:42.63
NOW THIS NEXT VERSE,
A BIT HARD TO BELIEVE.
00:42:42.63\00:42:45.26
"FOR OUR LIGHT," GETTING BEATEN
UP, BEING FLOGGED, "FOR OUR
00:42:45.26\00:42:51.60
LIGHT AND MOMENTARY TROUBLES
ARE ACHIEVING FOR US AN ETERNAL
00:42:51.60\00:43:00.10
GLORY THAT FAR
OUTWEIGHS THEM ALL.
00:43:00.10\00:43:04.43
SO WE FIX OUR EYES NOT ON WHAT
IS SEEN, BUT ON WHAT IS UNSEEN.
00:43:04.43\00:43:10.93
FOR WHAT IS SEEN IS TEMPORARY,
BUT WHAT IS UNSEEN IS ETERNAL."
00:43:10.93\00:43:12.83
I WANT TO SAY TO THE TELEVISION
00:43:12.83\00:43:19.60
AUDIENCE, LISTEN TO ME.
00:43:21.16\00:43:24.23
GOD IS PREPARING FOR
HIS BEAT UP CHILDREN,
00:43:24.23\00:43:31.10
A WONDERFUL FUTURE.
00:43:31.10\00:43:33.03
THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT
AN ETERNAL WAIT OF GLORY,
00:43:33.03\00:43:38.00
SO WE DO NOT LOSE HEART.
00:43:38.00\00:43:44.00
IN THIS CHURCH, WE HAVE MANY
WONDERFUL PEOPLE, AND TWO OF
00:43:44.00\00:43:49.23
THE MOST WONDERFUL PEOPLE THAT
I'VE KNOWN BECAUSE I'VE THEN
00:43:49.23\00:43:53.03
THEM FOR YEARS AND THEY'RE
CLOSE TO ME, AND I LOVE THEM
00:43:53.03\00:43:55.83
TO DEATH.
00:43:55.83\00:43:58.10
DONNA AND BLAKE WEXLER,
AND I WANT DONNA TO COME FIRST.
00:43:58.10\00:44:03.20
[APPLAUDING]
00:44:03.20\00:44:06.10
WE'RE ALL GOING THROUGH
00:44:10.20\00:44:10.26
A TOUGH TIME ECONOMICALLY.
00:44:11.33\00:44:13.93
HOW DO YOU, PERSONALLY, DONNA,
COPE WHEN TIMES ARE TOUGH?
00:44:13.93\00:44:20.00
>> THREE CIRCUMSTANCES COME
TO MY MIND WHEN I THINK OF TOUGH
00:44:20.00\00:44:23.20
TIMES, AND IN ALL THREE I
WAS CHALLENGED SPIRITUALLY
00:44:23.20\00:44:26.90
AND EMOTIONALLY.
00:44:28.66\00:44:30.30
THEY ALL REQUIRED THAT I
MAKE A DECISION THAT WOULD
00:44:30.30\00:44:33.43
CHANGE MY LIFE.
00:44:33.43\00:44:36.16
IN ONE CIRCUMSTANCE I HAD LOVED
ONES ADVISING ME TO GO AGAINST
00:44:36.16\00:44:40.33
GOD'S PRINCIPLES, AND IN
ANOTHER I HAD--IT WAS MY OWN
00:44:40.33\00:44:44.83
ATTITUDE AND FEELINGS
THAT CLASHED WITH GOD'S WILL.
00:44:44.83\00:44:48.66
AND THEN IN THE THIRD,
IT WAS AS IF I WAS ALONE.
00:44:48.66\00:44:51.60
I FELT AS IF GOD
WAS SILENT FOR A TIME.
00:44:51.60\00:44:54.83
I SPENT A LOT OF TIME IN PRAYER
CRYING TO GOD THAT HE WOULD
00:44:54.83\00:45:00.46
GIVE ME COMFORT AND STRENGTH
AND WISDOM, BUT MOST OF ALL
00:45:00.46\00:45:04.96
THAT HIS PURPOSE WOULD BE
IN MY HEART, AND NOT MY OWN.
00:45:04.96\00:45:10.93
IT WAS A PROCESS.
00:45:10.93\00:45:13.00
THERE WAS NOT AN OVERNIGHT
SOLUTION, BUT I HAD TO FORTIFY
00:45:13.00\00:45:16.76
MYSELF IN GOD'S WORD, NOT JUST
READING IT DAILY BUT AT TIMES
00:45:16.76\00:45:21.60
IT SEEMED LIKE MOMENT BY MOMENT.
00:45:21.60\00:45:25.60
IN TIME, GOD RESOLVED ALL
SITUATIONS ABOVE AND BEYOND
00:45:25.60\00:45:30.46
MY EXPECTATION AND WHAT I
COULD EVER HOPE FOR, AND IT WAS
00:45:30.46\00:45:34.43
REALLY THROUGH HIS WORD
AND THROUGH PRAYER THAT--
00:45:34.43\00:45:38.96
AND THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:45:38.96\00:45:40.66
>> DONNA, YOU'RE A VERY
BEAUTIFUL LADY, AND WE'RE PROUD
00:45:40.66\00:45:43.06
OF YOU.
00:45:43.06\00:45:44.13
YOU HAVE TWO BEAUTIFUL
CHILDREN AND A FINE HUSBAND.
00:45:44.13\00:45:48.03
THERE'S SYDNEY AND
THERE'S ALSO BENJAMIN.
00:45:48.03\00:45:50.73
NOT DOING TOO BAD, AM I?
00:45:50.73\00:45:52.50
>> YEAH.
00:45:52.50\00:45:53.60
>> SO DONNA, WE LOVE
YOU AND THANK YOU SO MUCH.
00:45:53.60\00:45:56.13
>> THANK YOU.
00:45:56.13\00:45:57.10
>> GOD BLESS YOU.
00:45:57.10\00:45:58.40
[APPLAUDING]
00:45:58.40\00:46:01.56
A MAN WITH A JEWISH BACKGROUND
IS NOW GOING TO COME, THAT'S
00:46:02.76\00:46:05.60
DONNA'S HUSBAND, BLAKE WEXLER,
AND I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF
00:46:05.60\00:46:08.80
BAPTIZING BLAKE.
00:46:08.80\00:46:10.70
GOODNESS ME,
YOU'RE DRESSED UP TODAY.
00:46:10.70\00:46:15.26
I THINK YOU'RE
TRYING TO UPSTAGE ME TODAY.
00:46:15.26\00:46:18.16
>> ALWAYS.
00:46:18.16\00:46:21.20
>> BLAKE, HOW DO YOU COPE?
00:46:21.26\00:46:24.56
HOW DO YOU KEEP
GOING WHEN TIMES ARE TOUGH?
00:46:24.56\00:46:28.10
>> YOU KNOW, I DON'T
DEAL WITH STRESS WELL.
00:46:28.10\00:46:30.50
FINANCIAL CHALLENGES DON'T
SIT WELL WITH ME, AS YOU MAY
00:46:30.50\00:46:34.30
IMAGINE, AND--
00:46:34.30\00:46:37.50
>> I JUST HAVE NO IDEA
WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
00:46:37.56\00:46:41.70
>> YEAH, I HAVE A
WONDERFUL SUPPORT SYSTEM.
00:46:41.70\00:46:43.53
I HAVE A GREAT FAMILY.
00:46:43.53\00:46:44.73
MY WIFE IS A WONDERFUL
CHRISTIAN, SHE KEEPS ME
00:46:44.73\00:46:47.66
ACCOUNTABLE.
00:46:47.66\00:46:48.83
SHE COMFORTS ME, BUT MY COMFORT
REALLY DOES COME FROM THE LORD.
00:46:48.83\00:46:52.16
IT HASN'T BEEN EASY.
00:46:52.16\00:46:53.63
I'VE HAD TO GROW IN THAT
KNOWLEDGE, AND I HAVE A LOT
00:46:53.63\00:46:57.66
OF ADVERSITY WITH MY
FAMILY AND WITH MY FRIENDS.
00:46:57.66\00:47:01.53
AND I THINK OF THE STORY OF THE
MAN WHO LOOKED AT HIS LIFE AS
00:47:01.53\00:47:06.06
FOOTSTEPS IN THE SAND, AND HE
LOOKED AT THE POINT OF HIS LIFE
00:47:06.06\00:47:09.73
WHEN HE WAS IN THE MOST
TURMOIL AND HE ASKED THE LORD,
00:47:09.73\00:47:12.70
"I ONLY SEE ONE SET
OF FOOTSTEPS, WHERE WERE
00:47:12.70\00:47:15.00
YOU, LORD?"
00:47:15.00\00:47:16.10
AND THE LORD RESPONDED, "IT WAS
THEN THAT I WAS CARRYING YOU."
00:47:16.10\00:47:19.26
AND I REMEMBER THAT, AND
I KNOW THAT HE CARRIES ME
00:47:19.26\00:47:22.73
AT THE TIMES WHEN I'M
IN THE MOST TURMOIL AND HE
00:47:22.73\00:47:25.30
CAN CARRY ALL OF US.
00:47:25.30\00:47:27.80
>> BLAKE, WE'RE PROUD TO HAVE
YOU AS A MEMBER OF THIS CHURCH.
00:47:27.80\00:47:31.06
GOD BLESS YOU, BLAKE.
00:47:31.06\00:47:31.96
>> THANK YOU.
00:47:31.96\00:47:32.83
>> THANK YOU, THANK YOU.
00:47:32.83\00:47:33.96
[APPLAUDING]
00:47:33.96\00:47:37.00
SO WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO NOW
IS JUST HAVE A LITTLE SUMMARY
00:47:38.70\00:47:41.26
'CAUSE I LIKE
TEACHING, YOU KNOW?
00:47:41.26\00:47:43.33
HERE'S THE FIRST POINT.
00:47:43.33\00:47:44.63
OKAY, HELP ME OUT.
00:47:44.63\00:47:46.76
JUST TELL ME--YOU
DON'T NEED TO HELP ME OUT.
00:47:46.76\00:47:50.43
NUMBER ONE, FOUR GREAT TRUTHS.
00:47:50.43\00:47:53.10
SAY IT WITH ME, "GOD LOVES ME.
00:47:53.10\00:47:56.50
I'M NOT ALONE.
00:47:56.50\00:47:58.53
GOD IS WITH ME.
00:47:58.53\00:48:01.10
I'M NOT LONELY.
00:48:01.10\00:48:02.60
HE'S WITH ME."
00:48:02.60\00:48:03.60
NUMBER TWO, "GOD
HAS A PLAN FOR MY LIFE."
00:48:03.60\00:48:09.13
ARE YOU DISCOVERING
GOD'S PLAN OR ARE YOU GOING
00:48:09.13\00:48:12.56
WITH YOUR OWN PLAN?
00:48:12.56\00:48:14.23
BUT GOD, SAW ME
BEFORE I WAS BORN.
00:48:14.23\00:48:18.70
HE SAW ME A BILLION YEARS AGO
AND I'M HERE TODAY BECAUSE I'VE
00:48:18.70\00:48:24.76
BEEN OBEDIENT
TO THE PLAN OF GOD.
00:48:24.76\00:48:26.90
GOD HAS A PLAN FOR ME.
00:48:26.90\00:48:29.33
AND NUMBER THREE, SAY IT.
00:48:29.33\00:48:32.56
"GOD WILL FORGIVE MY SIN IF I
HUMBLY CONFESS AND IF I CONFESS
00:48:32.56\00:48:42.66
MY SINS, REPENT OF MY SINS AND
FORSAKE MY SINS, THEN GOD WILL
00:48:42.66\00:48:47.76
JUST TAKE AWAY MY SINS."
00:48:47.76\00:48:49.40
AND NUMBER FOUR, GOD HAS
PREPARED A WONDERFUL FUTURE
00:48:49.40\00:48:56.96
FOR ME.
00:48:56.96\00:48:58.13
MY FRIEND, IF THIS TRUTH COMES
DOWN INTO YOUR SOUL, YOU WILL
00:48:58.13\00:49:05.66
BE ABLE TO COPE WITH ANYTHING.
00:49:05.66\00:49:12.13
AND JUST THINK, PLEASE
THINK ABOUT IT, USE A SANCTIFIED
00:49:12.13\00:49:17.40
IMAGINATION, ONE DAY WE
WILL BE HOME WHEN ALL MY TRIALS,
00:49:17.40\00:49:29.20
EVERYTHING, THEY'RE ALL GONE,
AND I AM SAFE ON THAT BEAUTIFUL
00:49:29.20\00:49:34.03
SHORE JUST TO BE NEAR THE
DEAR LORD I ADORE WILL, THROUGH
00:49:34.03\00:49:41.90
THE AGES BE, WHAT DOES IT SAY?
00:49:41.90\00:49:45.60
GLORY FOR ME.
00:49:45.60\00:49:46.96
WOULD YOU PLEASE, PLEASE
AFFIRM PASTOR J.P. O'CONNOR,
00:49:46.96\00:49:51.86
MY DEAR, DEAR FRIEND.
00:49:51.86\00:49:54.36
[APPLAUDING]
00:49:54.36\00:49:57.60
[MUSIC]
00:50:01.00\00:50:05.30
? WHEN ALL MY LABORS ?
? AND TRIALS ARE O'ER ?
00:50:17.90\00:50:24.66
? AND I AM SAFE ON
THAT ? ? BEAUTIFUL SHORE ?
00:50:24.66\00:50:30.83
? JUST TO BE NEAR THE DEAR ?
? LORD I ADORE WILL THROUGH ?
00:50:30.83\00:50:38.26
? THE AGES BE GLORY FOR
ME ? ? ALL THAT WILL BE ?
00:50:38.26\00:50:49.16
? GLORY FOR ME
? ? GLORY FOR ME ?
00:50:49.16\00:50:55.30
? GLORY FOR ME ? ?
WHEN BY HIS GRACE I SHALL ?
00:50:55.30\00:51:01.46
? LOOK ON HIS FACE ?
? THAT WILL BE GLORY ?
00:51:01.46\00:51:10.36
? BE GLORY FOR ME ?
00:51:10.36\00:51:16.16
? WHEN BY THE GIFTS ?
? OF HIS INFINITE GRACE ?
00:51:17.30\00:51:22.80
? I AM ACCORDED IN
HEAVEN ? ? A PLACE ?
00:51:22.80\00:51:28.76
? JUST TO BE THERE ? ?
AND TO LOOK ON HIS FACE ?
00:51:28.76\00:51:35.10
? WILL THROUGH THE
AGES ? ? BE GLORY FOR ME ?
00:51:35.10\00:51:44.03
? OH, THAT WILL
BE ? ? GLORY FOR ME ?
00:51:44.03\00:51:50.06
? GLORY FOR ME
? ? GLORY FOR ME ?
00:51:50.06\00:51:55.96
? WHEN BY HIS GRACE ? ?
I SHALL LOOK ON HIS FACE ?
00:51:55.96\00:52:03.93
? THAT WILL BE GLORY
? ? BE GLORY FOR ME ??
00:52:03.93\00:52:17.93
[APPLAUDING]
00:52:19.03\00:52:21.86
>> AND IT WILL BE.
00:52:23.76\00:52:25.26
IT WILL BE GLORY FOR ALL OF US.
00:52:25.26\00:52:27.43
LET US KNEEL AS WE PRAY.
00:52:27.43\00:52:31.10
WELL, HERE WE ARE, LORD, ON
OUR KNEES IN OUR CHURCH THAT YOU
00:52:35.10\00:52:38.23
GAVE TO US THAT WE COULDN'T
AFFORD, THAT YOU GAVE IT TO US
00:52:38.23\00:52:42.46
JUST THE SAME BECAUSE
THE PEOPLE OF GOD HAD FAITH.
00:52:42.46\00:52:49.53
WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO
THE DAY WHEN, BY THE GIFT OF HIS
00:52:49.53\00:52:53.60
INFINITE GRACE WHEN WE'RE GIVEN
THIS WONDERFUL PLACE IN GLORY,
00:52:53.60\00:53:01.30
AND WE'RE GOING TO LOOK ON HIS
FACE AND FRIENDS WILL BE THERE,
00:53:01.30\00:53:06.90
WE'VE KNOWN FOR SO LONG,
AND IT'S GOING TO BE GLORY,
00:53:06.90\00:53:14.16
GLORY FOR ME.
00:53:14.16\00:53:16.93
OUR FATHER, WE PRAY THAT THIS
POOR, FALTERING TALK TODAY WILL
00:53:16.93\00:53:25.46
BE TRANSLATED
INTO FLESH AND BONES.
00:53:25.46\00:53:30.53
MAY WE, IN OUR HEART OF
HEARTS, KNOW THAT GOD LOVES US
00:53:30.53\00:53:39.13
AND WE ARE NEVER ALONE?
00:53:39.13\00:53:42.50
MAY WE KNOW IN OUR HEART
OF HEARTS TODAY THAT GOD HAS
00:53:42.50\00:53:48.63
A PLAN FOR EVERY ONE OF US.
00:53:48.63\00:53:51.80
OPEN OUR EARS TO HEAR
YOUR VOICE, DIRECT OUR FEET
00:53:51.80\00:53:55.70
INTO YOUR PLAN.
00:53:55.70\00:53:58.43
OUR FATHER, TEACH US TO KNOW
TODAY THAT HOWEVER DESPERATE WE
00:53:58.43\00:54:04.70
ARE AS SINNERS AND EVEN
THOUGH WE MAY BE FULL OF PRIDE
00:54:04.70\00:54:08.76
AND LYING AND CHEATING AND
COWARDICE, EVERYTHING ELSE,
00:54:08.76\00:54:15.23
EVEN IF THERE'S AN AHAB HERE
TODAY OR A JEZEBEL, WHERE SIN
00:54:15.23\00:54:19.86
DID ABOUND, GRACE DID MUCH MORE
ABOUND AND MAY WE TODAY FIND
00:54:19.86\00:54:25.53
THE FORGIVENESS THAT
GOD WANTS TO GIVE US.
00:54:25.53\00:54:29.20
AND DEAR FATHER, LIGHT UP
OUR HEARTS TODAY WITH GLORY,
00:54:29.20\00:54:35.70
A BEAUTIFUL, WONDERFUL, RICH,
MEANINGFUL, SPLENDID FUTURE
00:54:35.70\00:54:42.20
WITH JESUS.
00:54:42.20\00:54:44.20
AS WE'RE PRAYING HERE IN CHURCH
TODAY, SHALL WE RAISE OUR HANDS
00:54:44.20\00:54:48.90
AND SAY, "GOD, I
WANT TO TAKE HOLD OF THESE
00:54:48.90\00:54:52.20
FOUR GREAT TRUTHS.
00:54:52.20\00:54:54.93
I WANT YOU TO WRITE THEM UPON
THE TABLETS OF MY HEART TODAY."
00:54:54.93\00:55:00.70
IF YOU CAN SAY THAT, WOULD YOU
RAISE YOUR HAND AND PRAY TODAY?
00:55:00.70\00:55:04.10
LORD, WRITE IT
ON MY HEART TODAY.
00:55:04.10\00:55:06.90
MAY I HAVE A REAL EXPERIENCE
TODAY WITH CHRIST WHEN WE'RE
00:55:06.90\00:55:12.00
TALKING HERE ABOUT
RELIGION, RELIGION, RELIGION.
00:55:12.00\00:55:15.63
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
JESUS, JESUS, JESUS.
00:55:15.63\00:55:20.16
DEAR FATHER, BLESSED
THESE UPRAISED HANDS AND THESE
00:55:20.16\00:55:22.60
UPRAISED HEARTS.
00:55:22.60\00:55:24.96
MAY NONE BE MISSING WHEN THE
GLORY'S ON HIS SON IN HEAVEN.
00:55:24.96\00:55:30.96
SO WE THANK YOU, WE WORSHIP
YOU, WE BLESS YOU AND WE PRAISE
00:55:30.96\00:55:34.93
YOU IN JESUS'
NAME, AMEN AND AMEN.
00:55:34.93\00:55:40.73
[MUSIC]
00:55:42.36\00:55:46.53
? YOU ARE THE POTTER
? ? AND I AM THE CLAY ?
00:55:56.66\00:56:08.06
? YOU ARE THE ARTIST ?
? AND I AM AS THE PAINT ?
00:56:08.06\00:56:19.86
? YOU ARE THE WRITER
? ? AND I AM YOUR SONG ?
00:56:19.86\00:56:32.23
? I WILL BE YOUR INSTRUMENT
? ? MY WHOLE LIFE LONG ?
00:56:32.23\00:56:47.90
? MOLD ME, CHANGE ME ?
00:56:50.73\00:56:50.80
? COLOR ME ? ?
IN SHADES OF YOU ?
00:56:58.36\00:57:10.56
? IN SHADES OF YOU ? ?
PLAY ME, SING THROUGH ME ?
00:57:10.56\00:57:24.30
? A MELODY ? ? SO
WHEN THEY LOOK AT ME ?
00:57:24.30\00:57:35.16
? THEY WILL ONLY
SEE ? ? WHO YOU ARE ?
00:57:35.16\00:57:46.10
? YOU ARE MY FATHER ?
? AND I AM YOUR CHILD ??
00:57:46.10\00:57:56.33