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Hey, welcome everybody to
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and our new television
series, Country Wisdom.
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- Let's set the tone
for this new series of ours.
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It's found in Proverbs four.
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Let your eyes
look directly forward
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and your gaze be
straight before you.
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Ponder the path of your feet
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and then all your
ways will be sure.
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- Join us now
for Country Wisdom.
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Well at least __
It's a beautiful day.
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- Beautiful day. It's hot.
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- Well, it is that, you know,
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it's kind of
blessings and cursings right,
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but it's the same
way in today's episode.
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There's blessings and cursings.
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The cursings are, well,
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you're going to find
out about that shortly.
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We're in a war Memorial
in a tiny California County
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that have given, I haven't
even counted up the names.
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This wall, another
wall on the other side,
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people giving
their lives and war.
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I think about some very
interesting things, you know,
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as a little kid,
I'm quite a bit old,
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I grew up thinking
Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia,
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this terrible
country, those terrible people
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and then one year we
went over to film those people
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and it was kind of amazing.
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The people were really nice.
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I mean, I had grown up being
told how bad the people were.
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It's not the people, I don't
think, it's the governments,
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but there is something
down underneath sinister lurking
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that you're going to be
telling us about in a moment.
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A billion people have
died in wars around the world
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I'm told.
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- And I know why we
have that kind of history.
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Men put in cages because of war.
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They seem to go
together don't they?
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War and slavery.
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You might naturally
think of our Civil War
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when those two words are
put together war and slavery.
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It's my first thought.
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But that war,
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the effects of which
we're still feeling today,
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just look at the headlines.
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That wasn't the
war that began slavery.
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That wasn't the first war.
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Those two things both
started a long time ago
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in heaven of all places.
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Scripture tells us
there was war in heaven
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because slowly little by little
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Satan who had been
one of the top angels,
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he began slowly
feeding little doubts
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into the other
inhabitants of heaven.
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Slowly making them ask questions
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that had never
occurred to them before,
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putting little seeds
of doubt about whether God
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was really good or not, whether
he was really fair or not.
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And before they knew it,
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the first little
chains of slavery
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were being wrapped
around their minds.
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And before they knew it,
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a third of them no longer
made the decision to serve God.
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They had a new master.
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Our whole world is
still under slavery
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because he claims
this world is his own.
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We are his slaves.
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And you know
the really sad part?
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Most of us don't even
know that we're slaves.
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- You know Janice you are
so right on about the devil
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and his deceptions.
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- And my point is that same
devil that started all of that
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that was slowly
deceiving and drawing away.
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Angels in heaven
brought that down here
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to even more
gullible characters like us
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who don't realize
we're being sucked in.
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- That's right
and it's all mental.
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Much of it is mental.
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We talk about the real war
that the devil yanks us into,
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but it begins in a mental area.
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Let me give you an example.
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You hear many
people, Stockholm syndrome.
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- Yes, I know that phrase.
- Stockholm Sweden in 1973,
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I believe it was, a guy
had just gotten out of jail,
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needed some
pocket change, right?
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He wanders into a bank
with his gun, herds everybody
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including tellers and
anybody who was in there
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to make deposits into the vault.
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He holds them captive.
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He's getting his money,
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but all of a
sudden the police show up.
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Now there's a huge standoff
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and the standoff goes for
one day, two days, three days.
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A really weird
thing begins to happen
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because the people in there
start liking the bank robber
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- The one who
stuck them in the vault?
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- The one who
stuck them in the vault.
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At one point, he lets one lady.
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She really she's scared
of all, she's claustrophobic,
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he ties a rope on her and
he lets your wander out 30 feet
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out around so she can
feel a little more at ease
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and she so appreciated that,
that the captor had done that.
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Later on, when
he's finally captured,
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she tells the police
how wonderful he was,
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that he'd done that.
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- He was so kind to
her. - He was so kind to her.
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- By letting her
wander on a leash.
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- In other case, when the
police finally got to the point,
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they think they're
going to capture the man,
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everybody in the
vault, shades him
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and covers kind of and
puts up this protection
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so that the
police won't hurt him.
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They were actually
angry at the police.
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Stockholm
syndrome, it begins mentally
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that we begin
identifying with our captor
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we begin thinking our
captor's the good guy.
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- And thinking that the
ones who were there to save you
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are the enemy. -
Exactly, exactly.
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You nailed it.
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Another situation I can remember
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as a young man was Patty Hearst.
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You know, the Patty Hearst,
heir of the Patty Hearst fortune
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or the horse
fortune I should say.
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- When I was a kid,
I remember seeing this
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play out on the news.
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- Yeah, the Symbionese
Liberation Army captured her
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and held her for ransom,
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but someplace along the
way, the next scene you see,
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and you can find it still
in newspapers and things today.
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She's in there with her sub
machine gun, robbing a bank.
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She ends up, they
bring up this defense
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of Stockholm
syndrome in her trial.
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Well it didn't work.
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She actually went to jail.
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- I'd forgotten that.
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- Totally alters the
mental capacity of people.
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They don't understand it,
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but they
identify with the captors.
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Now, here we are in the
situation down here on earth.
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You talked about it in heaven.
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The devil was so angry with God
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because he wanted all
the power for himself.
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He knew he could
be better than God.
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He just knew it.
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He convinces, as you said,
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a third of the
angels to follow him.
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Now they're
kicked out of heaven.
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They all come down here
to planet earth and think,
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this is a good place
for our realm, right?
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This is a good
place for us to control.
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Well, God had just
created Adam and Eve,
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the first
wonderful, beautiful couple.
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He comes to them,
he appears to them,
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and in his mind games,
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he convinces them
basically to follow him.
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- To switch
sides. - To switch sides.
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Adam had been the
Prince of planet earth.
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God had given him the whole
thing, given Eve everything.
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And they turn it over to him.
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Turn it over to the devil
and said, basically, you know,
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well, we'll accept
your version of the truth.
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- They chose a
new master. - Exactly.
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They chose a new master.
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It's sad, but it's very true.
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- It's a
powerful image. Isn't it?
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Not just of war
and what it does to us
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emotionally and mentally.
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That could be an image
of people's lives today.
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People who aren't
experiencing any kind of war
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in the country
they're living in,
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but who are experiencing
it in their own homes.
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Stockholm syndrome,
isn't just for hostages
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and kidnapping victims.
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It happens every day in
millions of people's homes.
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People who have so
slowly gotten sucked in
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to domestic
violence, to domestic abuse,
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that they no longer
even recognize that they are
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hostages. There's a
term called, trauma bonding.
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It was a new one to me,
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but it's what happens
in a relationship when
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through coercion, through
manipulation, through threats,
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through physical
violence sometimes,
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but not always that a
victim is slowly made more
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and more
dependent on their captor.
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Slowly begin to believe
they can't live without them.
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That everything goes
wrong really is their fault.
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If they were just
better, if they did more,
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if they worked harder
that everything would be better
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because it isn't
this person's fault.
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They quit recognizing
who the real enemy is.
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And even the abuser, most
often male, but not always.
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It is hardly
just a women's issue
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but as a woman, I
think I really feel for it
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because I've known people.
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I've had friends have friends
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who are in situations
like that who are trapped.
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Sometimes they simply
don't know how to escape.
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Sometimes they don't
recognize that they need to,
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but the abuser,
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it is so easy for
someone like me to view them as
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they're the bad
guy, they're the ones
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who are the cause of all this.
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But there's another
abuser just behind the veil
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because as this world seems
to get more and more chaotic,
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I see people working
harder and harder to get control
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of someone, of something.
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My life isn't in
control, I will control yours.
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And it might not be
that conscious of thought.
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We are so often not aware
of how we're being coerced
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and manipulated by the enemy.
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By the one who
invented all of this,
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the one who invented
lies, who invented chains,
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who invented slavery
and everything it leads to.
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We're no longer even in
charge of our own thoughts
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because we've chosen a
master who doesn't allow that,
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but that can be changed if
you're in a situation like that.
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If you recognize that you are
causing a situation like that,
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if you don't
recognize who you're serving,
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who is really the one
making you feel that rage,
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making you think it's
their fault, making you lie
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and cheat and
manipulate just to get your way,
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whether it's in your
family or in your business,
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something that is
constantly making you feel like,
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I'm powerful.
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I have the upper hand here.
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I'm the one in charge
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because the enemy certainly
doesn't want you to recognize
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that you're not in charge.
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None of us are in charge.
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The only thing we are in
charge of is our decision
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of who we're going to serve.
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You know, there's
legislation against slavery,
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there's legislation
against domestic violence.
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Does it get rid of the problem?
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Do you know it's estimated
today, today, worldwide,
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that there are
upwards of 30 million slaves
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in one form or another,
whether it's human trafficking,
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whether it's someone who
has been lured out of their own
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country with the
promise of a better life,
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working in this
business, in this home.
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And when they get there,
they discover they're a slave.
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Their passport is
taken, they're trapped.
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We're all trapped and you
can't legislate against that
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because you can't
legislate morality.
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All you can do is
choose a new master
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and make that choice today.
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Scientists tell us that humans
have  four basic needs for
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survival: food,
water, air, and shelter
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But beyond mere survival,
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we also need to know
that someone cares about us.
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And there is Someone who cares-
Someone who is always there
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- And you know, he
has done such a good job
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across the planet of
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well, putting
things in people's minds
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that just like he did
in heaven, that I'm better,
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I'm better than
you, I'm better than you,
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I'm better than
all these other people.
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I'm so far superior.
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I was working in one country.
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This dear lady, she came,
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she came to me every day and
it was kind of weird, you know,
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I had on my slippers
and she would come up to me
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and she'd get down
and want to touch my toes
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and kiss my feet.
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Well, that just, I
didn't want to do that at all,
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but that's kind of
what. - I can understand.
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- That's what they show to
people they think are higher up
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and everybody
else at the compound
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and in the location
thought that was just fine.
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You know that she
should treat me that way.
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- They approved of
her paying homage to you?
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- Oh, absolutely because
she's just a lowly nothing.
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And one day I went out,
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I noticed she had
nothing on her feet.
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She had no
money to get anything.
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And I went to the store and
I found her a pair of slippers
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and the day she showed up,
she came up, she was gonna,
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she was gonna come
up and grab my feet
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and I grabbed her and I
lifted her up and I said,
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no, you stand here.
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You stay, stay here.
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- What did she think?
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Was she afraid of
you? - Oh yeah, she was
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but I got down and I
pulled out of the bag
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and I put slippers on her feet
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and it was like this revelation
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and everybody around
the standby this time
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we had a crowd of,
I dunno 30, 40, 50.
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- Oh, did they have
tears in their eyes?
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- No, it was anger and
later on, they took me aside
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and they said, you
know, you, you come on,
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you shouldn't be doing that.
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You, you shouldn't
be doing that at all.
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- You were being kind.
- Oh yeah, absolutely kind
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but in their minds,
and this is, this is,
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I got to tell
you, unfortunately,
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this is people who
profess to know Jesus Christ.
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The devil has been
so good at creating
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a situation in the world that
he has brainwashed everybody
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in this situation of slavery.
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We are all slaves to
all of this kind of stuff.
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But I gotta tell you, I
think about Jesus Christ,
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my King, that
got down on his feet
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and he washed the feet of others
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to try and touch their hearts.
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- He was the example.
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That's what we should be like.
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So I'm still not understanding
why they didn't approve
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of you being so
kind to this other woman.
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- Because
they're so brainwashed.
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Absolutely brainwashed.
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- They thought you
were lowering yourself?
00:17:18.57\00:17:20.87
- Oh, absolutely.
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Think about this, Janice.
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You shared what happened in
heaven with the devil in heaven.
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The angels of heaven had
never been separated from God.
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Everything was absolutely bliss.
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Everything was
absolutely perfect.
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And yet one third
of those angels left
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with the devil to
come here to play on Earth.
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One third, who had always
been next to the love of God
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who knew his
character absolutely loved him.
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And you go, come on.
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- It's mind boggling
that you could be with God,
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that you could
have known perfection
00:17:52.37\00:17:54.77
and ever thought that
there was something better.
00:17:54.77\00:17:56.74
- Yeah. Yeah.
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Well, I just,
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you can't hardly explain
when Jesus came to earth here,
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he was the King of the universe.
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And he said, I really want
to show you what God's like.
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It took so much to get the
brainwashing out of everybody's
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mind that he came to talk to
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that that was one of his acts.
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He got down on his knees
and began washing their feet
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because they
were too hardhearted.
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They were in a
dinner situation who said,
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that one should do it.
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No, that one
should do it over there.
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I'm not gonna
wash somebody's feet
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why I walk next to the master.
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- Because that's
what servants do.
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- That's what servants do
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and Jesus took off his
outer garment, got a towel,
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a bowl of water, and
began washing their feet.
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And you know, at that moment
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it began touching and
changing hearts of others
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and that's what
needs to happen to us.
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We need to have
that happen tomorrow.
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- We do, because I catch myself.
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This might be news to
you, but I'm not perfect.
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(Janice chuckling)
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Who would have guessed, right?
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I catch myself with a
thought about someone or
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not liking the way I
think someone just treated me
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or just dismissed a thought
of mine in a meeting, you know,
00:19:05.44\00:19:08.41
whatever we have
that sinful core of us
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that is always comparing
ourselves to the people around
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us and kind of wanting
to make sure that they know
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that they're not that great.
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- Let me give you
an example of, well,
00:19:21.46\00:19:24.83
all the way back
in the Garden of Eden,
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when the devil came and
he tricked Adam and Eve,
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Adam was the
prince of this world.
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God had given this
world to Adam and to Eve
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and they gave it
all away to the devil
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and said no, no, we believe
you, we don't believe God.
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At that moment, he was
the prince of this world.
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He is to this day.
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So basically when
we're born, as you said,
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or one of us said
earlier, it's in our genes.
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It's in our genes.
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Sin, this slavery
thing has got a hold of us.
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We can't get out of it
unless God gives us away.
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Adam and Eve were stuck in
that garden without getting out
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until Jesus came to
them and said, look,
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I want you to see that little
lamb that's grazing nearby.
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He took a knife and
he slit their throat.
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He said, this is what,
00:20:06.80\00:20:07.90
- Can you imagine
how horrifying it was?
00:20:07.90\00:20:09.24
First time they've
ever seen an animal die.
00:20:09.24\00:20:12.41
- Exactly.
00:20:12.41\00:20:14.31
- And then to have the
realization that it was what I
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did, it was my thoughts, my
actions that did that to that
00:20:17.65\00:20:21.38
lamb. - He said Adam and
Eve, this is what you deserve.
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But he said, one day
in the history of man,
00:20:25.02\00:20:27.26
I will come and I
will die like that lamb,
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because I can do that.
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It's in my power to be able
to do that for you to save you
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because you can't get
out of this mess on your own.
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- We would have had no choice.
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We would have been
slaves for forever.
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- Yeah. - Can I
look something up?
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- Sure. - There's
00:20:43.87\00:20:45.11
a verse that I'd like to find
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that I think
00:20:48.08\00:20:49.58
here, Romans 6:22.
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This is the best news.
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But now you've
been set free from sin
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and are the slaves of God.
00:20:59.82\00:21:02.82
Your gain is a life
fully dedicated to him,
00:21:04.16\00:21:08.06
and the result is eternal life.
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And then it goes on to say,
for sin pays its wage - Death.
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We've all heard that.
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The wages of sin is death.
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- People have to understand
on this world, we make a wage.
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We get paid but it's
the wrong kind of payment
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because the end is simply death,
00:21:24.38\00:21:26.18
total eternal
separation from God from life.
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God just pulls the
plug and that's it.
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But then there's
more to that, isn't there?
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- Oh, there is.
00:21:33.76\00:21:34.66
You interrupted me. - Sorry.
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- But God's free
gift is eternal life
00:21:38.39\00:21:41.93
in union with
Christ Jesus our Lord.
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So the wage of sin is death,
00:21:45.17\00:21:50.14
but what God gives us is free.
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We don't have to work for it.
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In fact, we can't.
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How hard would you have to work
to earn something like that?
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- Yeah, we can't. - No.
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- You absolutely
can't and furthermore,
00:22:01.38\00:22:03.52
we just can't get
out of the mindset.
00:22:03.52\00:22:05.85
It is that Stockholm syndrome.
00:22:05.85\00:22:07.56
We are in love with her captors.
00:22:07.56\00:22:09.19
- We either don't even
recognize that we have a captor
00:22:11.03\00:22:14.96
or we are in love with
our captor and think, yeah,
00:22:14.96\00:22:19.27
this is a much better life.
00:22:19.27\00:22:20.64
I don't want, you
know, God's so restricting.
00:22:20.64\00:22:23.94
Satan has made it so
that we actually believe
00:22:25.27\00:22:29.08
that it's God who's
taking away our freedoms
00:22:29.08\00:22:32.01
and our liberties.
00:22:32.01\00:22:33.11
He's keeping us from having fun.
00:22:33.11\00:22:34.92
- Yeah
00:22:34.92\00:22:36.38
Great point.
00:22:36.38\00:22:37.69
- It's Satan who
offers total freedom.
00:22:37.69\00:22:39.25
You can make your own decisions,
you can do what you want
00:22:39.25\00:22:41.62
and that is the
way to have life.
00:22:41.62\00:22:44.29
- I'm gonna
read a scripture too,
00:22:44.29\00:22:45.39
because it's in the
same area it's found
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in Matthew chapter 11, starting
in verse 28, Jesus said,
00:22:47.23\00:22:51.37
come unto me all who
labor and are heavy laden.
00:22:51.37\00:22:54.44
Anybody heavy
laden in this world?
00:22:54.44\00:22:55.94
You know, are you heavy laden?
00:22:55.94\00:22:57.81
Oh, yeah?
00:22:57.81\00:22:59.31
And I will give you rest.
00:22:59.31\00:23:01.38
This is the God of the universe
saying I will give you rest.
00:23:01.38\00:23:04.25
I got a feeling that right now,
00:23:04.25\00:23:06.11
there's very few people that
have any rest in this world,
00:23:06.11\00:23:08.28
things that are going on.
00:23:08.28\00:23:10.19
Then he says, take my
yoke on you and learn on me.
00:23:10.19\00:23:12.42
That was, you know,
00:23:12.42\00:23:13.79
as you saw the
animals going into the field,
00:23:13.79\00:23:15.16
they've got a yoke
and they work together.
00:23:15.16\00:23:17.16
Well, this is
kind of funny though.
00:23:17.16\00:23:18.53
God says, take my yoke
upon you and learn of me,
00:23:18.53\00:23:21.33
for I am meek
and lowly of heart,
00:23:21.33\00:23:23.73
and you shall find
rest to your souls.
00:23:23.73\00:23:26.10
When you work together with God,
00:23:26.10\00:23:28.47
changes
everything, changes everything.
00:23:28.47\00:23:30.91
In the last part
of the verse says,
00:23:30.91\00:23:32.47
for my yoke is easy
and my burden is light.
00:23:32.47\00:23:35.81
My yoke is easy
and my burden is light.
00:23:36.91\00:23:38.38
What a God that we serve
00:23:38.38\00:23:40.58
and God wants
everybody to experience that.
00:23:40.58\00:23:42.58
To get out of the
clutches of the devil,
00:23:42.58\00:23:44.92
to not be
wounded anymore, to not,
00:23:44.92\00:23:47.26
not be slaves to sin any longer.
00:23:47.26\00:23:50.03
(light music)
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You know
Janice, I can't help it.
00:24:10.78\00:24:12.01
I look at that sculpture,
00:24:12.01\00:24:13.35
and the arms spread
out wide to the skies.
00:24:13.35\00:24:16.08
Jesus said in scripture,
he's coming back again.
00:24:16.08\00:24:18.72
He's coming to take us home
00:24:18.72\00:24:20.42
and those that love him,
00:24:20.42\00:24:21.79
we will stand there
and say, this is our God.
00:24:21.79\00:24:23.99
We have waited for
him and he shall save us.
00:24:23.99\00:24:26.26
And that's what God wants to do.
00:24:26.26\00:24:28.13
He wants to save us out of
this world of sin and slavery.
00:24:28.13\00:24:31.27
- Indeed.
00:24:31.27\00:24:33.10
- Now I've got a quick
story I want to share with you
00:24:33.10\00:24:34.70
because I think it represents.
- I love your stories.
00:24:34.70\00:24:36.50
- I think it represents
really what God does for us.
00:24:36.50\00:24:39.54
It was Janine and I were
working in another country
00:24:39.54\00:24:42.54
and quite a
backward country, really.
00:24:42.54\00:24:45.31
One day I came home from work
00:24:45.31\00:24:46.88
and Janine has
got dinner prepared
00:24:46.88\00:24:48.78
and we sit down to dinner
and she's got tears in her eyes.
00:24:48.78\00:24:52.09
Honey, she says,
they're going to sell Bidica.
00:24:52.09\00:24:54.69
- Who is Bidica?
00:24:54.69\00:24:56.02
- Bidica's this sweet
little, 10 year old girl.
00:24:56.02\00:24:57.59
She was nine.
00:24:57.59\00:24:59.09
And I asked her, I said, well,
00:24:59.09\00:25:00.46
she turned 10 years old today
00:25:00.46\00:25:02.30
and now they can
legally sell her.
00:25:02.30\00:25:03.83
I said you've got to be
kidding me, they can sell her?
00:25:03.83\00:25:06.74
Yeah, she said, the
family can't afford to keep her
00:25:06.74\00:25:08.84
so they can sell her as
a slave or a prostitute.
00:25:08.84\00:25:12.27
And I just, I just couldn't
believe it my heart was breaking
00:25:12.27\00:25:15.71
and we talked about it,
00:25:15.71\00:25:17.01
everybody at the
dinner table that night
00:25:17.01\00:25:18.85
one of the other
folks who we're with
00:25:18.85\00:25:21.45
begin talking
and one of the guys
00:25:21.45\00:25:23.22
that had come with me
on many mission trips said,
00:25:23.22\00:25:25.25
well, why don't you buy her?
00:25:25.25\00:25:26.72
And funny, I never
thought about buying somebody.
00:25:28.26\00:25:29.59
- No, who would? - But you know,
00:25:29.59\00:25:31.79
we worked on it and we were
able to buy that little girl
00:25:31.79\00:25:35.23
and we saved her.
00:25:35.23\00:25:36.70
You can't even imagine what,
but we got her into school,
00:25:38.57\00:25:40.87
got her a new life, set
her free in Jesus Christ.
00:25:40.87\00:25:43.87
We actually then were
able to help the family
00:25:43.87\00:25:45.91
so they didn't have to
sell their other children too.
00:25:45.91\00:25:48.84
But I think that's
what Jesus has done for us.
00:25:48.84\00:25:52.31
He came down
here, he died for us,
00:25:52.31\00:25:54.15
he shed his blood to
purchase us, to set us free.
00:25:54.15\00:25:57.59
- And we belonged
to him to start with.
00:25:57.59\00:25:59.52
He was buying back something
that had been stolen from him.
00:25:59.52\00:26:02.62
- Yeah, yeah.
00:26:02.62\00:26:04.33
We've got to understand
that we're living lives
00:26:04.33\00:26:07.76
here on the
earth with the devil.
00:26:07.76\00:26:10.53
He's holding his hand.
00:26:10.53\00:26:11.70
- You know, there's
a verse Galatians 5:1.
00:26:13.00\00:26:16.17
And I think this
the way I heard it
00:26:16.17\00:26:18.61
was from the Good
News Bible but it says,
00:26:18.61\00:26:21.78
and this is
appropriate for all of us,
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it says
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he has given us freedom.
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Freedom is what we have.
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Christ has set us free.
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That's present tense.
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That's not just some future
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promise that he
will set us free.
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He has set us free.
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And it goes on to say,
so stand as free people.
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Do not allow yourselves
to be taken back as slaves.
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- Amen, amen.
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I mean, what you
said, present tense.
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He that has the
son has eternal life.
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Not may have, might
have, some day going to have.
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He has what you said,
present tense right now.
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Grab a hold of Jesus Christ.
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Friends, look, the
devil's got us all captive
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but we don't have to remain
captive with Jesus Christ.
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He said, come unto me all
who labor and are heavy laden,
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I will give you rest.
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Please, today.
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Janice and I are urging you.
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This is an opportunity
to be set free in Christ
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in a way you can't imagine.
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Give your life to him right now.
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Get down on your knees
wherever you are, it's easy.
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Just get on
your knees, say Lord,
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or where you're
sitting. or if you can't stand,
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sit, whatever,
wherever you are say,
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Lord, please take my life.
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I can't give it to you.
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You just take it and
God will answer that prayer.
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He will change you,
he will set you free.
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Please do it right now.
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