(MUSIC)
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>>TODAY'S SMART PHONES ARE A
VIRTUAL UNIVERSE OF INFORMATION
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THAT FITS IN THE
PALM OF YOUR HAND.
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IT'S A GOOD THING WE
HAVE OPPOSABLE THUMBS!
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WITH IT YOU CAN BUY YOUR
GROCERIES, TAKE CARE OF YOUR
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EXERCISE REGIME, WATCH A VIDEO,
LISTEN TO MUSIC, YOU CAN SURF
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THE INTERNATIONAL WORLD-WIDE
WEB, WHICH MAY NOT ALWAYS BE A
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GOOD THING. AND,
YOU KNOW, THERE IS MORE
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COMPUTER PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY
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AND POWER IN A LITTLE SMART
PHONE TODAY THAN WAS USED BY
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NASA TO PUT A MAN ON THE MOON.
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AND I ALMOST FORGOT, YOU CAN
ALSO USE THESE TO MAKE A PHONE
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CALL, BUT WHO DOES THAT ANYMORE?
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TODAY COMMUNICATION ISS
NOT IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.
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IT'S ALL ABOUT SHORT MESSAGE
SERVICING OR SMS TEXTING.
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THAT'S RIGHT, THERE ARE ABOUT
2.5 BILLION PEOPLE IN THE WORLD
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TODAY THAT ARE COMMUNICATING
WITH THEIR FELLOW HUMANS IN
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SHORT BYTES CALLED TEXTING.
THAT'S MORE DATA THAT IS BEING
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USED THAN THOSE WHO
ARE SURFING THE WEB OR EVEN
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PLAYING VIDEO GAMES.
AND, FRIENDS, NOWHERE IS THIS
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MORE TRUE THAN RIGHT
HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES.
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EVEN THOUGH THE PHILIPPINES HAS
ABOUT 100 MILLION PEOPLE, THEY
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ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LARGEST
NUMBER OF TEXT MESSAGES OF
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ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
THEY'RE THE TWELFTH-LARGEST
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COUNTRY, BUT THEY SEND 400
MILLION TEXT MESSAGES EVERY DAY.
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WOW, THAT'S A LOT
OF FINGER FATIGUE.
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EVEN THOUGH THE GREATEST
NUMBER OF TEXTERS IS HERE IN THE
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PHILIPPINES, THE RECORD FOR THE
FASTEST TEXTER IN THE WORLD IS
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FROM BRAZIL. A
YOUNG MAN BY THE NAME OF
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MARCEL FERNANDES FILHO - HE WAS
ABLE TO TEXT 25 VERY COMPLICATED
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WORDS IN A LITTLE
MORE THAN 18 SECONDS.
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WOW, IT TAKES ME LONGER THAN
THAT TO JUST SAY 'I LOVE YOU' TO
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MY WIFE AND
PRESS SEND. ALL THUMBS.
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ONE OF THE NEAT THINGS ABOUT
TEXTING IS YOU CAN TEXT JUST
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ABOUT ANYWHERE. IF
YOU'RE SURROUNDED WITH
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PEOPLE AND YOU WANT TO SEND
A PERSONAL MESSAGE, YOU TEXT.
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YOU'RE IN A CROWDED SUBWAY
OR AN AIRPORT, YOU CAN TEXT.
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IF YOU'RE SURROUNDED BY NOISE
OR NOSEY PEOPLE, YOU CAN TEXT -
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JUST DON'T TEXT
WHILE YOU'RE DRIVING.
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THAT'S WHAT'S SO WONDERFUL,
FRIENDS, YOU CAN ALWAYS TEXT GOD
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A MESSAGE OF
PRAYER FROM YOUR HEART.
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WHEN YOU'RE WONDERING
'WHAT SCHOOL DO I GO TO?'
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'WHAT JOB DO I TAKE?'
'WHO AM I SUPPOSED TO DATE THAT
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MAY BE A FUTURE LIFE PARTNER?'
YOUR PRAYERS DON'T HAVE TO BE
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LONG. THE SHORTEST
PRAYER IN THE BIBLE
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IS THREE WORDS - WHEN PETER
PRAYED, 'LORD SAVE ME.' AND
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JESUS ANSWERED HIS PRAYER.
IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW FAST YOU
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CAN TEXT WHEN YOU'RE TALKING
TO GOD, HE'LL KNOW WHAT YOU'RE
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ASKING FOR AND HEAR YOUR PRAYER
BEFORE YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO
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SAY 'AMEN' AND
PRESS THE SEND BUTTON.
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IN FACT, FRIENDS, YOU'LL BRING
JOY TO GOD WHEN YOU SEND HIM
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REGULAR MESSAGES
FROM YOUR HEART TO HIS.
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SO WHY DON'T YOU TALK
TO HIM RIGHT NOW? (MUSIC)
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>>THIS IS OUR HEROES OF
FAITH PROGRAM - STORIES OF
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SALVATION - WHERE WE'RE
TAKING SOME OF THE UNIQUE,
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HIGHLIGHT BIBLE STORIES
THAT HELP ILLUSTRATE THE
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PRINCIPLES OF
SALVATION. AND TONIGHT'S STORY,
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WASHED IN THE JORDAN
, IS DEALING WITH AN OLD
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TESTAMENT STORY AND
A CHARACTER THERE BY
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THE NAME OF NAAMAN.
NOW NAAMAN, WE THINK,
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IS VERY IMPORTANT TO
UNDERSTANDING SOME OF
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THESE BIBLE TRUTHS
BECAUSE JESUS REFERENCES NAAMAN.
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AND HE SAYS - AND
THIS IS LUKE 4, VERSES 24
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THROUGH 27 - HE SAYS,
"ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU,
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NO PROPHET IS
ACCEPTED IN HIS OWN COUNTRY.
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BUT I TELL YOU
TRULY...MANY LEPERS WERE
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IN ISRAEL IN THE DAYS
OF ELISHA THE PROPHET, AND
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NONE OF THEM WAS CLEANSED
EXCEPT NAAMAN THE SYRIAN."
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NOW THIS IS A STORY OF
A SYRIAN THAT WENT DOWN TO
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ISRAEL FOR HEALING,
WHICH IS VERY UNUSUAL BECAUSE
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THE SYRIANS, WITH THEIR
CAPITAL THERE IN DAMASCUS,
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AND THE PEOPLE OF
ISRAEL, HAVE BEEN AT WAR FOR
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THOUSANDS OF YEARS - AS IT
WAS THEN, IT STILL IS TODAY.
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JESUS REFERENCES THIS
NON-JEW, WHO IS CLEANSED
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FROM LEPROSY AND HE TELLS
US IT'S A SIGN OF SOMETHING.
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AND SO WE'RE GOING TO
GO TO THAT STORY OF NAAMAN.
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AND IF YOU TURN IN
YOUR BIBLES TO THE 2 BOOK OF
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KINGS - YOU'LL FIND -
YOU'VE GOT 1 AND 2 SAMUEL,
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1 AND 2 KINGS - 2
KINGS CHAPTER 5 AND WE'LL BE
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STARTING WITH THE FIRST VERSE.
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"NOW NAAMAN, COMMANDER
OF THE ARMY OF THE KING OF
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SYRIA, WAS A GREAT AND
HONORABLE MAN IN THE EYES
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OF HIS MASTER, BECAUSE
BY HIM THE LORD HAD GIVEN
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VICTORY TO SYRIA. HE
WAS ALSO A MIGHTY MAN
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OF VALOR," - I'M GOING TO
STOP RIGHT THERE AND LEAVE
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OUT THE LAST FEW
WORDS IN THAT VERSE.
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NOW, AT FIRST, WHEN
YOU LOOK AT THE ACCOUNT - A
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LITTLE NARRATIVE ABOUT
WHO NAAMAN IS, IT TELLS US
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THAT HE'S A VERY IMPORTANT MAN.
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HE IS THE GENERAL
FOR THE SYRIAN ARMY.
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SYRIA IS NORTH OF ISRAEL THERE.
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AND IT TELLS US THAT HE
WAS AN HONORABLE MAN - HE
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WAS A MAN OF HONOR -
HE WAS A MAN THAT HAD
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INTEGRITY. HE IS
A COURAGEOUS MAN,
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OBVIOUSLY, BECAUSE
HE'S THE GENERAL AND HE'S
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HONORABLE AND HE'S COURAGEOUS.
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IT TELLS US HE'S A
MAN THROUGH WHOM THE LORD
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COULD GIVE VICTORY - THE
LORD, NOT ONLY USES PEOPLE
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IN HIS OWN COUNTRY, THE
LORD WORKS WITH PEOPLE ALL
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OVER THE PLACE. AND
HERE, EVEN IN THE WARS
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THAT SYRIA WAS
FIGHTING WITH THE ASSYRIANS -
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DURING THIS TIME THE
KINGDOM OF ASSYRIA, BASED
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IN NINEVEH, WAS EXPANDING
INTO THE COUNTRY OF SYRIA,
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WHERE ITS CAPITAL -
DAMASCUS - AND THE LORD
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HAD USED NAAMAN THE
GENERAL TO FIGHT BACK THAT
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INVASION AND THEY GAINED
THEIR INDEPENDENCE AGAIN.
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AND IF YOU READ SOME OF
THE CHAPTERS JUST BEFORE
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THIS, YOU'LL FIND OUT
THAT KING AHAB HAD BEEN
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FIGHTING WITH SYRIA AND
SYRIA WITH ISRAEL AND THEY
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WERE JUST CONSTANTLY
IN ONGOING WAR WITH EACH
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OTHER, THOUGH THEY
DID STILL TRADE TOGETHER.
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IT'S KIND OF AN
INTERESTING RELATIONSHIP.
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THEY WERE AT WAR BUT
BETWEEN WARS THEY DID A
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LOT OF BUSINESS
TOGETHER. AND SO, IT SEEMS LIKES
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HE'S GOT IT MADE.
HE'S RICH, HE'S FAMOUS,
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HE'S GOT A GOOD
REPUTATION, PROBABLY HAS
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SERVANTS - OH WE KNOW
HE DOES, IT TELLS US SO.
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DO YOU THINK HE'S HAPPY?
THE LAST FEW WORDS CHANGE
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THE WHOLE PICTURE,
"BUT (HE WAS) A LEPER."
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WHAT PROFIT IS IT IF
YOU GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD AND
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YOU'RE UNDER A DEATH
PENALTY? SO NAAMAN WAS
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NOT VERY HAPPY BECAUSE
HE HAD A TERMINAL DISEASE.
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AND, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES
WE LOOK AROUND AND YOU CAN
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SEE THE TABLOIDS WITH
THE PEOPLE THAT ARE IN - YOU
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KNOW, THE WEALTHY CLASS
AND THE BEST DRESSED AND
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THE FAMOUS PEOPLE AND
WE'RE THINKING, 'AW, IF I
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COULD ONLY BE A LITTLE
BETTER LOOKING; IF I COULD
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HAVE A NICER HOME; IF I
COULD HAVE BETTER CLOTHES;
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IF I COULD HAVE MORE
POPULAR STATUS' - HERE
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HE'S HOBNOBBING WITH
THE KING OF THE COUNTRY.
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HE KNOWS ANYBODY THAT
IS IMPORTANT IN SYRIA, BUT
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WHAT GOOD IS IT WHEN IT
SAYS, 'BUT HE'S A LEPER'?
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BECAUSE HE'S DYING.
YOU KNOW, SO MANY PEOPLE
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IN THE WORLD THINK
HAPPINESS COMES FROM FAME
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AND FROM FORTUNE AND I
CAN TELL YOU THAT IT DOESN'T.
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I DON'T HAVE TIME TO
GO INTO THE DETAILS OF MY
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TESTIMONY, BUT I'LL
JUST SAY THIS QUICKLY, THAT I
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HAVE UNUSUAL
PARENTS. MY FATHER WAS A
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MULTIMILLIONAIRE. AT
ONE TIME HE OWNED TWO
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AIRLINES - HAD MONEY, JET
PLANES, ROLLS ROYCE, LIVED
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ON AN ISLAND, SERVANTS -
I MEAN - AND DRANK HIMSELF
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TO SLEEP EVERY
NIGHT. MY BROTHER WAS BORN
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WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS.
MY FATHER LOST HIS FIRST
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WIFE AND HIS FIRST
BABY IN A PLANE CRASH.
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AND SO, THE MONEY AND
THE TOYS - IT JUST HID A LOT
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OF SORROW. MY
MOTHER, ON THE OTHER
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HAND, SHE WAS IN SHOW BUSINESS.
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SHE USED TO WRITE SONGS
FOR ELVIS PRESLEY AND SHE
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WAS A FILM CRITIC IN
BEVERLY HILLS, AND SHE
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KNEW A LOT OF THE
FAMOUS ACTORS AND I'VE GOT
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PICTURES OF MOM WITH A
LOT OF, YOU KNOW, SYLVESTER
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STALLONE AND
CLINT EASTWOOD AND PAUL
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MCCARTNEY AND GEORGE
BURNS AND BOB HOPE - AND SHE
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KNEW ALL THOSE
PEOPLE. AND WE KNEW SOME OF
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THOSE PEOPLE GROWING UP.
SOME OF THEM WERE RICH AND
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FAMOUS AND THEY
KILLED THEMSELVES BECAUSE
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THEY WEREN'T HAPPY.
YOU SEE, LEPROSY WAS A
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DISEASE THAT IS A
SYMBOL FOR SIN, SEVERAL
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TIMES IN THE
BIBLE. LEPROSY IS HANSON'S
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DISEASE, IS WHAT
IT'S CALLED TODAY.
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IT AFFECTS THE NERVES
AND IT CAN CREATE LESIONS AND
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A PERSON CAN FORGET TO
BLINK AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY
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LOSE YOUR EYESIGHT AND
YOU - I'VE BEEN TO AFRICA AND
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INDIA WHERE I'VE SEEN
PEOPLE THAT STILL ARE AFFLICTED
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WITH LEPROSY AND
THEY'LL BE OUT BEGGING ON THE
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STREETS AND THEY DON'T
EVEN HAVE FINGERS TO HOLD
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THE MONEY. YOU
HAVE TO PRESS IT KIND
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OF IN THEIR PALM AND
THEY TOOK THE TWO CLUBS OF
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HANDS THAT THEY'VE
GOT LEFT AND THEY TRY TO
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PUT IT IN THEIR
BAG. IT'S VERY SAD.
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AND IT'S CONTAGIOUS.
SO WHEN YOU HAD LEPROSY,
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YOU WERE
ISOLATED FROM EVERYBODY.
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IN FACT, YOU CAN READ IN
THE LAW OF MOSES, IT WAS A
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PRETTY BAD STIGMA THAT
WENT WITH IT - LEVITICUS
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13:45, "NOW THE LEPER
ON WHOM THE SORE IS, HIS
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CLOTHES SHALL BE TORN
AND HIS HEAD BARE; AND HE
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SHALL COVER HIS MUSTACHE,
AND CRY, 'UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!'"
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HOW'D YOU LIKE TO WALK
AROUND HAVING TO ANNOUNCE
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YOUR APPROACH WHENEVER
YOU CAME AROUND HEALTHY PEOPLE
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AND SAY, 'BETTER STAY
BACK! UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!'?
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NOW THEY DIDN'T HAVE
THOSE SAME LAWS UP THERE IN
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DAMASCUS, WHERE
NAAMAN WAS, BUT THEY DID
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UNDERSTAND IT WAS
A CONTAGIOUS DISEASE.
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HE CAN'T EMBRACE HIS
WIFE AND HIS CHILDREN ANYMORE,
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HE'S GOT TO LIVE
IN AN ISOLATED ROOM.
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YOU KNOW, ISRAEL ACTUALLY
HAD A KING - KING UZZIAH -
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HE WAS STRICKEN WITH LEPROSY.
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LEPROSY COULD GET
THE POOREST PERSON TO THE
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RICHEST PERSON. NO
ONE IS IMMUNE FROM SIN.
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SIN, LIKE LEPROSY,
IT MAKES YOU LOSE YOUR
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SENSITIVITY - WHERE
YOU LOSE YOUR FEELING.
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YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT
OF PEOPLE THAT THEY HAVE A
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CONSCIENCE WHEN THEY'RE
YOUNG AND THEY'RE SENSITIVE
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AND THEY'RE INNOCENT
AND THEY KNOW SOME THINGS
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ARE WRONG. BUT
THROUGH HYPER-EXPOSURE, PRETTY
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SOON, THINGS THAT YOU
KNOW WERE WRONG, THROUGH BEING
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OVER-EXPOSED, THEY
DON'T BOTHER YOU ANYMORE.
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I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS A
KID AND I WAS AT HOME WITH
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MOM AND A COMMERCIAL
CAME ON TELEVISION AND IT WAS
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FOR THE PLAYTEX CROSS
YOUR HEART BRA AND IT WASN'T
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EVEN A WOMAN, IT WAS A
MANNEQUIN WEARING A BRA
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AND THEY DEMONSTRATED THE
CROSS-YOUR-HEART EFFECT OF
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THE BRA AND I WAS SO
EMBARRASSED - I WAS LIKE
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EIGHT OR SEVEN OR
SOMETHING LIKE THAT -
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YEARS OLD - AND I SAW
THIS AND I LOOKED AT MOM LIKE,
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'I KNOW I'M NOT
SUPPOSED TO BE SEEING THIS.' CAN
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YOU LOOK AT THE
COMMERCIALS TODAY - BUT,
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YOU KNOW, WE GET
TO WHERE, THROUGH
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OVER-EXPOSURE, PRETTY
SOON YOU LOSE YOUR SENSITIVITY.
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AND THAT'S WHAT SIN
DOES TO YOU, IS IT STARTS TO
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DESTROY YOUR CONSCIENCE.
SO PEOPLE CAN START DOING
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THINGS THAT JUST
AREN'T RIGHT AND YOU GET WHERE
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IT DOESN'T BOTHER YOU
ANYMORE. YOU CAN START
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GRIEVING AWAY THE HOLY
SPIRIT - AND ONE OF THE
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THINGS THE SPIRIT DOES IS
CONVICTION. AND IT'S REALLY
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DANGEROUS IF YOU GET TO
THE PLACE WHERE YOU CAN SIN
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AND YOU HAVE NO
CONVICTION ANYMORE.
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THAT'S WHAT LEPROSY
DOES, IT STARTS TO DESTROY YOUR
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CONSCIENCE, LITTLE BY
LITTLE, THROUGH EXPOSURE.
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YOU KNOW, ONE TIME A
MAN CAME TO JESUS - HE WAS
00:12:10.19\00:12:13.16
FULL OF LEPROSY - THE
GOSPEL OF LUKE TELLS US -
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AND EVERYBODY RAN
AWAY EXCEPT JESUS.
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AND THE MAN FELL DOWN
BEFORE JESUS AND HE SAID,
00:12:19.73\00:12:21.54
'LORD, IF YOU WANT TO,
YOU CAN MAKE ME CLEAN.' AND
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THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS
REACHED OUT AND TOUCHED
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HIM - WHICH YOU WERE
NEVER SUPPOSED TO DO.
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WHEN JESUS TOUCHED THE
LEPER, EITHER CHRIST WOULD
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BE CONTAMINATED AND THE
SIN WAS GOING TO FLOW FROM
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THE LEPER TO JESUS, OR
HEALING WAS GOING TO FLOW
00:12:35.18\00:12:37.82
FROM JESUS TO THE MAN,
BUT SOMEONE WOULD BE AFFECTED
00:12:37.82\00:12:41.92
BY THAT CONTACT. BUT
WHEN JESUS TOUCHED THE
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MAN HE SAID, 'I WILL,
BE THOU CLEAN.' AND HIS
00:12:44.69\00:12:48.73
LEPROSY WENT AWAY. >>AMEN.
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>>SEE, CHRIST
CAME TO CLEANSE LEPERS.
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HE DID IT MANY TIMES.
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AND ALL OF US ARE INFECTED
WITH THIS DEADLY DISEASE.
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CAN YOU ENJOY LIFE IF
YOU KNOW YOU'RE TERMINAL?
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IF YOU COULD - IF YOU
COULD WRITE A CHECK FOR A
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BILLION DOLLARS, AND
SOMEONE CAME TO YOU AND
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SAID, 'LOOK, I'M GOING TO
GIVE YOU A BILLION DOLLARS.
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MATTER OF FACT, I'M
GOING TO GIVE YOU AN ALL-
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EXPENSIVE -
ALL-EXPENSES-PAID VACATION.
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YOU CAN GO TO LAS
VEGAS. I'LL PAY FOR EVERYTHING.
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YOU'VE GOT A
BILLION-DOLLAR ACCOUNT.
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FOR SIX MONTHS YOU CAN
STAY IN THE BEST HOTEL -
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PRESIDENTIAL SUITE -
BEST ENTERTAINMENT, BEST FOOD,
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PROBABLY BUY SOME
FRIENDS FOR THAT KIND OF MONEY.
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BUT AT THE END OF SIX
MONTHS, YOU'VE GOT TO GO
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TO THE LAKE OF
FIRE. WOULD YOU ENJOY IT?
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HOW COULD - YOU KNOW,
DAY 1 GOES BY AND YOU THINK,
00:13:48.76\00:13:50.73
'OH SURE, I'M GOING TO
LIVE IT UP.' BUT OH MAN,
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YOU JUST KEEP THINKING -
JUST DOWN THE ROAD IS THAT
00:13:52.53\00:13:54.86
PUNISHMENT. IT'S ALL GOING
TO GO AWAY. IT'S TEMPORARY.
00:13:54.86\00:13:59.17
HOW ARE YOU GOING TO ENJOY IT?
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WELL, THAT'S REALLY HOW IT IS.
00:14:00.77\00:14:02.97
WHAT PROFIT IS IT IF YOU
GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD - AND
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ALL THE SINS IN THE
WORLD - IF YOU'RE TERMINAL?
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AND, YOU KNOW, IF YOU
DON'T HAVE ETERNAL LIFE, YOU ARE
00:14:08.01\00:14:10.08
TERMINAL. IT DOESN'T
MATTER WHAT YOUR POSITION IS.
00:14:10.08\00:14:13.65
IT DOESN'T MATTER
HOW FAMOUS YOU ARE.
00:14:13.65\00:14:14.82
IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW
GOOD LOOKING YOU ARE -
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I LOOKED AT
KAREN WHEN I SAID THAT.
00:14:17.65\00:14:18.92
(LAUGHTER) IT
DOESN'T MATTER WHICH KIND OF
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CLOTHES YOU WEAR, WHAT
KIND OF HOUSE YOU LIVE IN
00:14:21.09\00:14:24.46
- YOU KNOW, WITH GOD
THE ONLY THING THAT REALLY
00:14:24.46\00:14:27.60
MATTERS IS ARE YOU
HEALED AND DO YOU HAVE
00:14:27.60\00:14:30.53
EVERLASTING LIFE?
MY GRANDFATHER USED TO
00:14:30.53\00:14:33.57
SAY, 'IF YOU'VE GOT
HEALTH YOU'RE A RICH MAN.' AND
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THE OLDER I GET, THE
MORE I KNOW THAT'S TRUE.
00:14:36.77\00:14:40.74
'BUT HE WAS A LEPER'
AND HE WAS MISERABLE.
00:14:40.74\00:14:44.38
YOU THINK ALL THAT
STUFF MADE HIM HAPPY?
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THE ONLY THING HE
COULD THINK ABOUT WAS HE WAS
00:14:46.88\00:14:48.92
DYING. AND THEN THE STORY TAKES
00:14:48.92\00:14:51.89
AN INTERESTING TURN.
IT TELLS US - NOW THE
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SYRIANS HAD GONE OUT ON RAIDS.
00:14:55.32\00:14:57.43
THEY WERE CONSTANTLY
RAIDING THE BORDERS OF
00:14:57.43\00:14:59.09
ISRAEL AND VICE-VERSA.
AND THEY BROUGHT BACK
00:14:59.09\00:15:02.20
CAPTIVE A YOUNG GIRL
FROM THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
00:15:02.20\00:15:06.00
SHE WAS,
EVIDENTLY, SOLD AS A SLAVE.
00:15:06.00\00:15:08.94
AND "SHE WAITED
ON NAAMAN'S WIFE.
00:15:08.94\00:15:12.04
THEN SHE SAID TO HER
MISTRESS, 'IF ONLY MY
00:15:12.04\00:15:15.51
MASTER WERE WITH
THE PROPHET WHO IS IN
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SAMARIA!' " - THAT BEING
ELISHA - "'FOR HE WOULD HEAL
00:15:17.58\00:15:21.28
HIM OF HIS LEPROSY.'"
NOW I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT WAS
00:15:21.28\00:15:23.15
VERY NICE OF HER BECAUSE,
IF I WAS THAT LITTLE GIRL,
00:15:23.15\00:15:26.35
AND SOME RAMPAGING
SYRIANS CAME THROUGH MY FAMILY
00:15:26.35\00:15:30.56
FARM AND BEAT UP MY
PARENTS AND RANSACKED THE
00:15:30.56\00:15:32.83
HOUSE AND CARRIED ME
OFF AND THEN SOLD ME AS A
00:15:32.83\00:15:34.96
SLAVE, IF MY MASTER CAME
DOWN WITH LEPROSY I'D SAY,
00:15:34.96\00:15:38.77
'GOOD RIDDANCE!'
RIGHT? 'SERVES HIM RIGHT.'
00:15:38.77\00:15:43.57
I WOULD HAVE BEEN
PRAYING THEY ALL GOT LEPROSY.
00:15:43.57\00:15:47.01
IT'D BE EASY TO BE VINDICTIVE.
00:15:47.01\00:15:49.38
BUT MAYBE SHE REMEMBERED
THE STORY OF JOSEPH AND
00:15:49.38\00:15:53.38
SHE THOUGHT, 'LORD, I
DON'T KNOW WHY THIS IS
00:15:53.38\00:15:54.58
HAPPENING TO ME, BUT
MAYBE YOU'VE GOT A PLAN.'
00:15:54.58\00:15:57.42
AND SHE SEEKS GOOD.
IN FACT, THERE'S A VERSE
00:15:57.42\00:16:03.43
IN THE BIBLE WHERE
JEREMIAH FORETOLD THEY
00:16:03.43\00:16:05.69
MIGHT BE CARRIED OFF
CAPTIVE TO A FOREIGN LAND.
00:16:05.69\00:16:08.03
IT SAYS, IN JEREMIAH
29:7, "...SEEK THE PEACE OF THE
00:16:08.03\00:16:11.43
CITY WHERE I HAVE
CAUSED YOU TO BE CARRIED AWAY
00:16:11.43\00:16:13.60
CAPTIVE, AND PRAY TO
THE LORD FOR IT; FOR IN ITS
00:16:13.60\00:16:16.94
PEACE YOU WILL HAVE
PEACE." NO, THE BIBLE SAYS
00:16:16.94\00:16:20.08
LOVE YOUR ENEMIES.
DO YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT
00:16:20.08\00:16:22.38
JUST A NEW TESTAMENT CONCEPT.
00:16:22.38\00:16:24.75
EVEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,
THE PROPHET ELISHA ONCE
00:16:24.75\00:16:27.75
CAPTURED AN ENTIRE
ARMY AND THE KING OF ISRAEL
00:16:27.75\00:16:30.69
SAID, 'MAN OF GOD,
SHALL I KILL THEM ALL?'
00:16:30.69\00:16:33.62
HE SAID, 'NO, DON'T KILL THEM.
00:16:33.62\00:16:35.12
FEED THEM, GIVE THEM
SOMETHING TO DRINK, AND
00:16:35.12\00:16:36.59
SEND THEM HOME.' YOU
KNOW WHERE PAUL SAYS,
00:16:36.59\00:16:39.03
'GIVE FOOD TO YOUR
ENEMY. GIVE HIM SOMETHING
00:16:39.03\00:16:42.50
TO DRINK. AND IN
DOING THIS YOU'LL
00:16:42.50\00:16:43.90
HEAP COALS OF FIRE
ON HIS HEAD' - MEANING
00:16:43.90\00:16:45.93
CONVICTION. YOU DON'T OVERCOME
00:16:45.93\00:16:47.87
EVIL WITH EVIL. AND
SO SHE - SHE THINKS,
00:16:47.87\00:16:50.81
'WHAT CAN BE
DONE FOR MY MASTER?'
00:16:50.81\00:16:52.31
HER HEART GOES OUT
TO HIM AS A PERSON.
00:16:52.31\00:16:54.18
NAAMAN MIGHT HAVE
BEEN A GOOD MASTER, TOO.
00:16:54.18\00:16:56.98
AND SHE SAYS, 'YOU KNOW,
THE PROPHET ELISHA - IF HE
00:16:56.98\00:17:01.05
COULD GO TO THE PROPHET
ELISHA, HE WOULD HEAL HIM
00:17:01.05\00:17:03.59
OF HIS LEPROSY.'
I'LL TELL YOU RIGHT NOW
00:17:03.59\00:17:06.32
THAT THERE'S NO EXAMPLE
IN THE BIBLE OF ANYBODY GOING
00:17:06.32\00:17:10.29
TO ELISHA WITH A
PROBLEM THAT ISN'T HELPED.
00:17:10.29\00:17:14.03
EVERYBODY - AND THERE'S A
LOT OF STORIES - EVERYBODY
00:17:14.03\00:17:16.06
THAT COMES TO ELISHA
WITH A PROBLEM IS HELPED.
00:17:16.06\00:17:19.13
NOW I TOLD YOU THE NAME
JESUS IS YASHUA - THAT'S
00:17:19.13\00:17:23.84
'JEHOVAH IS SAVIOR' -
ELISHA'S NAME IS 'ELOHIM -
00:17:23.84\00:17:29.44
SHUA' - THAT'S THE
LONG DERIVATIVE OF IT -
00:17:29.44\00:17:32.38
IT'S SHORTENED TO ELISHA.
00:17:32.38\00:17:34.08
IT MEANS THE SAME
THING: 'GOD IS SAVIOR'.
00:17:34.08\00:17:37.29
SO HERE THIS LITTLE
GIRL IS SAYING, 'IF MY MASTER
00:17:37.29\00:17:40.16
WAS WITH THE PROPHET IN
ISRAEL, HE COULD HEAL HIS
00:17:40.16\00:17:43.83
LEPROSY.' WELL, YOU
KNOW, NORMALLY THE FAMILY WOULD
00:17:43.83\00:17:48.70
THINK, YOU KNOW, WHAT -
LITTLE KIDS - THEY DREAM.
00:17:48.70\00:17:53.03
THEY'VE GOT IMAGINATIONS.
THEY GET CARRIED AWAY.
00:17:53.03\00:17:55.74
I MEAN, HOW MUCH
COULD THAT REALLY HELP?
00:17:55.74\00:17:57.57
WHO WOULD TAKE THAT SERIOUSLY?
00:17:57.57\00:17:59.01
THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY
PHYSICIANS IN SYRIA THAT
00:17:59.01\00:18:01.24
COULD HELP WITH
LEPROSY, WHY WOULD THEY GO TO AN
00:18:01.24\00:18:03.51
ENEMY PROPHET?
BUT WHEN YOU'RE DYING,
00:18:03.51\00:18:08.25
PEOPLE ARE
DESPERATE. THERE ARE A LOT OF
00:18:08.25\00:18:12.72
MEDICINES AND CURES THAT
ARE SOLD OVER THE INTERNET
00:18:12.72\00:18:16.16
TO PEOPLE WHO ARE DESPERATE.
00:18:16.16\00:18:18.46
IT'S A
MULTI-BILLION-DOLLAR BUSINESS.
00:18:18.46\00:18:21.73
SHE HAD THIS SIMPLE
CHILD-LIKE FAITH AND
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BECAUSE SHE WAS SO
CONFIDENT - SHE DIDN'T SAY
00:18:24.87\00:18:27.77
'HE MIGHT' - SHE SAID,
'IF NAAMAN, MY MASTER, COULD
00:18:27.77\00:18:30.94
GO BE WITH ELISHA THE
PROPHET, HE WOULD RECOVER
00:18:30.94\00:18:34.38
HIM OF HIS LEPROSY.' SHE
HAD ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE HE
00:18:34.38\00:18:37.11
COULD DO THAT.
MAYBE SHE WAS THINKING
00:18:37.11\00:18:38.98
OF THE STORY IN THE
OLD TESTAMENT WHERE MIRIAM,
00:18:38.98\00:18:41.58
THE SISTER OF MOSES -
SHE WAS STRUCK WITH LEPROSY -
00:18:41.58\00:18:45.22
AND MOSES PRAYED FOR
HER AND AARON PRAYED FOR
00:18:45.22\00:18:47.96
HER AND SHE WAS HEALED.
SHE KNEW GOD COULD DO IT.
00:18:47.96\00:18:51.86
SOMETIMES WE NEED TO
HAVE CHILD-LIKE FAITH.
00:18:51.86\00:18:55.26
JESUS SAID UNLESS
YOU'RE CONVERTED AND YOU BECOME
00:18:55.26\00:18:56.90
AS A LITTLE CHILD YOU
CANNOT ENTER THE KINGDOM
00:18:56.90\00:18:59.47
OF HEAVEN. YOU
NEED TO BE ABLE TO
00:18:59.47\00:19:01.80
BELIEVE THAT GOD CAN
DO MIRACLES - EVEN HEALING
00:19:01.80\00:19:04.97
YOU FROM SOMETHING THAT
THE WORLD WOULD PRONOUNCE
00:19:04.97\00:19:07.61
TO BE INCURABLE. A
LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE
00:19:07.61\00:19:10.18
WORLD SAY, 'SIN IS
INCURABLE. NOTHING YOU CAN DO.
00:19:10.18\00:19:12.11
YOU'RE BORN THAT
WAY. YOU'RE STUCK WITH IT.
00:19:12.11\00:19:13.55
IT'S JUST - YOU'RE A
VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCES.'
00:19:13.55\00:19:16.92
AND THE WORLD IS
ALWAYS TELLING YOU THERE'S
00:19:16.92\00:19:19.09
NOTHING YOU CAN DO.
BUT GOD SAYS THAT ALL
00:19:19.09\00:19:21.59
THINGS ARE POSSIBLE
TO HIM THAT BELIEVES.
00:19:21.59\00:19:24.26
YOU CAN CHANGE.
'OH, BUT MY MOTHER
00:19:24.26\00:19:26.73
AND FATHER SMOKED. I
DON'T THINK I COULD EVER
00:19:26.73\00:19:28.13
QUIT.' I CAN DO ALL
THINGS THROUGH CHRIST.
00:19:28.13\00:19:31.30
'MY PARENTS - THEY
DRANK AND THEY BEAT ME SO I'M
00:19:31.30\00:19:33.84
DOOMED TO THE SAME KIND
OF LIFE.' YOU DON'T HAVE TO
00:19:33.84\00:19:36.04
BE A VICTIM IF
YOU DON'T WANT TO.
00:19:36.04\00:19:37.44
>>AMEN. >>YOU
CAN HAVE A NEW LIFE.
00:19:37.44\00:19:39.81
JESUS SAID, 'ALL THINGS
ARE POSSIBLE TO HIM THAT
00:19:39.81\00:19:42.51
BELIEVES.' SO IF
YOU'RE LOOKING FOR EXCUSES TO
00:19:42.51\00:19:45.21
CONTINUE BEING A
LEPROUS SLAVE, THEN GOD - I'M
00:19:45.21\00:19:49.58
SORRY, THE DEVIL
WILL GIVE YOU EXCUSES.
00:19:49.58\00:19:51.79
BUT IF YOU WANT TO BE
HEALED, GOD CAN HEAL YOU.
00:19:51.79\00:19:54.62
>>AMEN. >>SO HE'S - STARTS TO
00:19:54.62\00:19:56.79
LISTEN TO WHAT SHE
SAYS. AND SO HE GETS EXCITED.
00:19:56.79\00:20:02.73
AND MAYBE HIS WIFE -
IT WAS HIS WIFE'S LITTLE
00:20:02.73\00:20:05.73
SERVANT - MAYBE SHE
SAID, 'NAAMAN, MAYBE WE SHOULD
00:20:05.73\00:20:08.40
TRY IT. WE'VE
TRIED EVERYTHING ELSE.
00:20:08.40\00:20:10.21
THERE'LL BE HOPE.
IF YOU COULD BE HEALED,
00:20:10.21\00:20:12.14
WOULDN'T IT BE WORTH
IT?' AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:20:12.14\00:20:14.51
THE LITTLE GIRL'S RUMOR
MAKES ITS WAY ALL THE WAY
00:20:14.51\00:20:17.18
TO THE KING.
00:20:17.18\00:20:18.55
SO NAAMAN - VERSE 4 -
HE GOES IN AND HE TELLS HIS
00:20:18.55\00:20:20.88
MASTER - THE ONLY MASTER
ABOVE NAAMAN WAS THE KING
00:20:20.88\00:20:23.28
OF SYRIA - AND HE
SAID, "THUS AND THUS SAID THE
00:20:23.28\00:20:26.42
GIRL WHO IS FROM
THE LAND OF ISRAEL."
00:20:26.42\00:20:28.52
NOW YOU KNOW WHY THE
KING OF SYRIA IS TAKING THE
00:20:28.52\00:20:32.53
LITTLE GIRL'S MESSAGE
SERIOUSLY? BECAUSE ELISHA
00:20:32.53\00:20:37.17
THE PROPHET HAD
CAPTURED HIS ENTIRE ARMY.
00:20:37.17\00:20:40.57
BECAUSE THEY HAD HEARD
THAT ELISHA THE PROPHET
00:20:40.57\00:20:43.17
KNEW WHAT HE
SAID IN HIS WAR ROOM.
00:20:43.17\00:20:45.71
YOU READ THE EARLIER
CHAPTERS, YOU'RE GOING TO
00:20:45.71\00:20:47.54
FIND OUT THAT ELISHA THE
PROPHET HAD THE RESPECT OF
00:20:47.54\00:20:50.55
THE KING OF SYRIA.
IT WAS EVEN ELIJAH THE
00:20:50.55\00:20:55.18
PROPHET WHO FORETOLD WHO
THE NEXT KING OF SYRIA WAS
00:20:55.18\00:20:58.29
GOING TO BE, WHICH THEY
USUALLY DIDN'T DO ANYTHING
00:20:58.29\00:21:01.32
OTHER THAN TALK
ABOUT THEIR OWN KINGS.
00:21:01.32\00:21:03.96
AND SO, IF SHE SAYS
THAT HE CAN DO IT - AND SO HE
00:21:03.96\00:21:08.26
SAID, 'TELL YOU
WHAT, LET'S NOT GO EMPTY
00:21:08.26\00:21:10.07
HANDED.' VERSE 5 -
"THEN THE KING OF SYRIA SAID,
00:21:10.07\00:21:13.07
'GO NOW,'" - MAKE
PREPARATIONS TO GO - "'AND
00:21:13.07\00:21:15.94
I WILL SEND A LETTER TO
THE KING OF ISRAEL.'" - 'I
00:21:15.94\00:21:17.91
KNOW WE'RE AT WAR BUT
THIS IS A DIFFERENT AMBASSADOR
00:21:17.91\00:21:19.91
MISSION.' - "SO HE
DEPARTED AND TOOK WITH HIM
00:21:19.91\00:21:23.14
TEN TALENTS OF SILVER,
SIX THOUSAND SHEKELS OF GOLD,"
00:21:23.14\00:21:28.52
- SOUNDS LIKE THE MEDICAL
BILLS BACK THEN WERE ABOUT
00:21:28.52\00:21:31.45
LIKE THEY ARE TODAY, RIGHT?
00:21:31.45\00:21:32.85
(LAUGHTER) - "AND
TEN CHANGES OF CLOTHING.
00:21:32.85\00:21:37.29
THEN HE BROUGHT THE
LETTER TO THE KING OF ISRAEL,
00:21:37.29\00:21:39.59
WHICH SAID, 'NOW BE
ADVISED, WHEN THIS LETTER
00:21:39.59\00:21:42.23
COMES TO YOU, THAT I HAVE
SENT NAAMAN MY SERVANT'" -
00:21:42.23\00:21:44.53
YOU KNOW, THE GENERAL
THAT'S BEEN FIGHTING YOU -
00:21:44.53\00:21:47.24
"'I HAVE SENT NAAMAN MY
SERVANT TO YOU, THAT YOU
00:21:47.24\00:21:50.74
MAY HEAL HIM OF HIS
LEPROSY.'" NOW DID THE
00:21:50.74\00:21:53.68
LITTLE GIRL'S
MESSAGE SAY 'GO TO THE KING'?
00:21:53.68\00:21:56.28
>>NO. >>SOMETIMES WE GET MIXED
00:21:56.28\00:21:58.08
UP BETWEEN GOD
AND THE GOVERNMENT.
00:21:58.08\00:22:00.25
WE THINK THE
GOVERNMENT'S GOT AN ANSWER FOR
00:22:00.25\00:22:02.15
EVERYTHING. AND
SOMETIMES EVEN THE
00:22:02.15\00:22:04.92
CHURCH GETS MIXED UP -
WE START LOOKING FOR THE
00:22:04.92\00:22:07.46
POLICEMAN INSTEAD OF THE
PASTOR. WE START LOOKING FOR
00:22:07.46\00:22:10.29
POLITICIANS
INSTEAD OF THE PASTOR.
00:22:10.29\00:22:12.19
AND A LOT OF THINGS WE
TRY TO TAKE TO THE GOVERNMENT
00:22:12.19\00:22:14.66
TO SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS
AND REALLY, WE OUGHT TO TAKE
00:22:14.66\00:22:18.77
THESE PROBLEMS TO THE LORD.
00:22:18.77\00:22:20.10
THE LITTLE GIRL DIDN'T
SAY, 'GO SEE THE KING.'
00:22:20.10\00:22:23.10
SHE HAD NO
CONFIDENCE IN THE KING.
00:22:23.10\00:22:24.87
BY THE WAY, THIS KING,
AT THE TIME, IS THE SON OF
00:22:24.87\00:22:26.84
AHAB, WHO WAS A VERY
WICKED KING, AND HE WASN'T
00:22:26.84\00:22:29.18
ANY BETTER. SHE
SAID GO TO THE PROPHET.
00:22:29.18\00:22:32.51
"AND IT HAPPENED, WHEN
THE KING OF ISRAEL READ THE
00:22:32.51\00:22:35.48
LETTER," - AND HERE'S,
YOU KNOW - NAAMAN'S RIDDEN
00:22:35.48\00:22:37.32
DOWN - IT'S A PRETTY
GOOD JOURNEY TO COME DOWN FROM
00:22:37.32\00:22:40.12
DAMASCUS.
00:22:40.12\00:22:41.16
HE'S GOT A GUARD WITH
HIM BECAUSE HE'S CARRYING ALL
00:22:41.16\00:22:43.22
THIS MONEY, SO HE'S GOT
SOLDIERS WITH HIM AND AN
00:22:43.22\00:22:45.43
ENTOURAGE AND HE
THINKS, 'OH, HE'S LOOKING FOR AN
00:22:45.43\00:22:48.93
INCIDENT TO CAUSE
ANOTHER EXCUSE TO GO TO WAR WITH
00:22:48.93\00:22:52.60
US.' AND WHEN HE - THE
KING OF ISRAEL - READ THE
00:22:52.60\00:22:57.01
LETTER, "...HE TORE
HIS CLOTHES" - A SIGN OF
00:22:57.01\00:22:59.31
MOURNING - "AND SAID,
'AM I GOD, TO KILL AND MAKE
00:22:59.31\00:23:02.18
ALIVE, THAT THIS MAN
SENDS A MAN TO ME" - HIS OWN
00:23:02.18\00:23:05.51
GENERAL WHO'S BEEN
FIGHTING US - "TO HEAL HIM
00:23:05.51\00:23:08.25
OF HIS LEPROSY?
THEREFORE PLEASE CONSIDER,
00:23:08.25\00:23:10.25
AND SEE HOW HE
SEEKS A QUARREL WITH ME.'"
00:23:10.25\00:23:12.49
HE'S LOOKING TO
CAUSE AN INCIDENT.
00:23:12.49\00:23:15.36
THERE WAS QUITE A RUCKUS
IN THE PALACE AND I DON'T
00:23:15.36\00:23:19.53
KNOW IF IT WAS DIVINELY
REVEALED TO ELISHA OR IF
00:23:19.53\00:23:22.80
SOMEHOW WORD REACHED
HIM, BUT IT SAYS IN VERSE 8,
00:23:22.80\00:23:26.47
"...WHEN ELISHA THE MAN
OF GOD HEARD THAT THE KING OF
00:23:26.47\00:23:28.80
ISRAEL HAD TORN HIS
CLOTHES," - AND CARRIED ON
00:23:28.80\00:23:31.97
- "THAT HE SENT
TO THE KING, SAYING,
00:23:31.97\00:23:33.68
'WHY HAVE YOU TORN YOUR CLOTHES?
00:23:33.68\00:23:35.14
PLEASE LET HIM COME TO
ME, AND HE SHALL KNOW THAT
00:23:35.14\00:23:37.98
THERE IS A PROPHET IN
ISRAEL.'" GOD STILL HAS A
00:23:37.98\00:23:40.95
PROPHET. GOD STILL
SPEAKS. THERE'S STILL POWER.
00:23:40.95\00:23:45.05
'SEND HIM TO ME.'
JESUS SAID, 'COME UNTO ME.'
00:23:45.05\00:23:50.19
THAT'S THE GREAT
INVITATION - 'ALL YOU WHO
00:23:50.19\00:23:52.89
ARE WEARY AND HEAVY
LADEN.' ELISHA'S NAME,
00:23:52.89\00:23:56.16
VERY MUCH LIKE THE NAME
OF JESUS - 'COME TO ME.'
00:23:56.16\00:24:00.74
"THEN NAAMAN WENT WITH
HIS HORSES AND CHARIOT, AND HE
00:24:00.74\00:24:05.54
STOOD AT THE DOOR
OF ELISHA'S HOUSE."
00:24:05.54\00:24:07.94
NOW ELISHA'S HOUSE
WAS NOT THE PALACE.
00:24:07.94\00:24:09.94
SEE NAAMAN, WHEN HE
CAME FROM THE KING OF SYRIA,
00:24:09.94\00:24:12.81
HE'S A GENERAL, HE'S
USED TO DEALING WITH THE, YOU
00:24:12.81\00:24:15.18
KNOW, INTERNATIONAL
LEADERSHIP AND HE THOUGHT,
00:24:15.18\00:24:17.49
'WELL, I'LL GO SEE THE
KING.' AND HE WAS - YOU
00:24:17.49\00:24:20.06
KNOW - HAD THE ROYAL TREATMENT.
00:24:20.06\00:24:22.82
BUT NOW HE'S NOT AT THE PALACE.
00:24:22.82\00:24:24.33
NOW HE'S AT A POOR
HOUSE OF A HUMBLE PROPHET AND
00:24:24.33\00:24:28.06
THAT'S A LITTLE DEMEANING.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, IT'S
00:24:28.06\00:24:31.03
OUTSIDE THE CITY ON
A COUNTRY ROAD AND HE'S
00:24:31.03\00:24:35.04
STANDING THERE AND HIS
SOLDIERS COME AND KNOCK AT
00:24:35.04\00:24:37.04
THE DOORS, 'NAAMAN, THE
GENERAL OF SYRIA HAS COME
00:24:37.04\00:24:39.67
AND HE HAS A SPECIAL MESSAGE!'
00:24:39.67\00:24:41.21
AND IT SAYS ELISHA DOES
NOT EVEN COME OUT TO HIM.
00:24:41.21\00:24:46.98
ELISHA - VERSE 10 - HE
"...SENDS A MESSENGER TO
00:24:46.98\00:24:50.59
HIM, SAYING, 'GO AND WASH
IN THE JORDAN SEVEN TIMES,
00:24:50.59\00:24:55.79
AND YOUR FLESH SHALL BE
RESTORED TO YOU, AND YOU
00:24:55.79\00:24:58.73
SHALL BE CLEAN.'" WELL
WHEN NAAMAN HEARS THAT,
00:24:58.73\00:25:03.00
HE'S NOT JUST A
LITTLE BIT UPSET.
00:25:03.00\00:25:05.93
HE THOUGHT THAT HE WAS
GOING TO COME OUT AND AT
00:25:05.93\00:25:09.17
LEAST SEE HIM FACE TO FACE.
00:25:09.17\00:25:11.67
WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN
YOU COME AND YOU SAY, 'I'M
00:25:11.67\00:25:13.61
SICK.' AND THEY SAY YOU'RE
TOO SICK FOR THE DOCTOR TO
00:25:13.61\00:25:15.14
EVEN SEE YOU. AND SO,
THEY'RE INSULTED BY THIS.
00:25:15.14\00:25:20.38
AND FURTHERMORE, HE SAYS
'I WANT YOU TO GO WASH IN
00:25:20.38\00:25:23.92
THE JORDAN RIVER.' THE
JORDAN RIVER IS NOT A VERY
00:25:23.92\00:25:26.86
CLEAN RIVER. HOW MANY TIMES?
00:25:26.86\00:25:29.52
>>SEVEN.
00:25:29.52\00:25:30.56
>>'SEVEN TIMES AND YOUR
FLESH WILL BE RESTORED TO
00:25:30.56\00:25:33.13
YOU.' YOU KNOW, THE WAY
THAT'S WORDED - YOUR FLESH
00:25:33.13\00:25:35.20
RESTORED - SOMETIMES
WITH LEPROSY YOU ACTUALLY LOSE
00:25:35.20\00:25:37.50
YOUR DIGITS OR
YOUR NOSE OR SOMETHING.
00:25:37.50\00:25:39.80
THIS LEPROSY WAS ADVANCING.
00:25:39.80\00:25:43.24
NOW WHAT DOES IT USUALLY
IMPLY IF SOMEONE SENDS YOU
00:25:43.24\00:25:48.64
A MESSAGE AND SAYS
YOU NEED TO TAKE A BATH?
00:25:48.64\00:25:50.95
(LAUGHTER) NOW WHAT
DOES IT MEAN IF THEY TELL YOU
00:25:50.95\00:25:57.52
YOU NEED TO TAKE SEVEN BATHS?
00:25:57.52\00:26:00.76
WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN
THEY TELL YOU YOU NEED TO
00:26:00.76\00:26:04.43
TAKE SEVEN BATHS IN
A BROWN MUDDY RIVER?
00:26:04.43\00:26:09.26
ANY OF YOU HAVE
SIBLINGS GROWING UP?
00:26:09.26\00:26:12.27
AND YOUR PARENTS,
WANTING TO CONSERVE WATER, WOULD
00:26:12.27\00:26:14.24
JUST ROTATE YOU
ALL THROUGH ONE BATH?
00:26:14.24\00:26:17.41
I WON'T ASK YOU
TO SHOW YOUR HANDS.
00:26:17.41\00:26:20.21
DID ANY OF YOU ENJOY
BEING THE LAST IN THE TRAIN?
00:26:20.21\00:26:23.24
YOU WERE THE CABOOSE
AND YOU WERE THE LAST ONE IN
00:26:23.24\00:26:25.18
THAT WATER AND IT ALREADY
HAD A LINING AROUND THE -
00:26:25.18\00:26:27.05
A RING AROUND THE EDGE
OF THE TUB AND, FOR SOME
00:26:27.05\00:26:29.82
REASON, THEY ALWAYS PUT ME LAST.
00:26:29.82\00:26:32.25
I DON'T KNOW WHY.
MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE I WAS
00:26:32.25\00:26:33.56
THE DIRTIEST AND THEY
FIGURED NO ONE WANTED TO
00:26:33.56\00:26:35.46
GET INTO THE BATH AFTER
ME. SO IF YOU CAN STILL BE
00:26:35.46\00:26:40.46
CLEANSED BY DIRTY WATER,
YOU MUST REALLY BE DIRTY.
00:26:40.46\00:26:44.00
SEE WHERE I'M GOING?
CAN YOU UNDERSTAND WHY
00:26:44.00\00:26:46.40
NAAMAN IS A LITTLE
UPSET BY ALL OF THIS?
00:26:46.40\00:26:49.80
WHEN - FIRST OF ALL,
HE'S UPSET ELISHA DOESN'T SEE
00:26:49.80\00:26:52.71
HIM FACE TO FACE.
WHY? HE'S GOT LEPROSY.
00:26:52.71\00:26:56.54
THIS'LL COME UP AGAIN LATER.
00:26:56.54\00:27:01.82
HE'S SAYING, 'YOU NEED
TO GO WASH IN THE JORDAN
00:27:01.82\00:27:03.32
RIVER.' WHY THE JORDAN RIVER?
00:27:03.32\00:27:06.35
IT'S THE LOWEST
RIVER IN THE WORLD.
00:27:06.35\00:27:08.56
WHERE THE JORDAN RIVER
RUNS INTO THE DEAD SEA,
00:27:08.56\00:27:11.09
IT'S 1300 FEET BELOW SEA LEVEL.
00:27:11.09\00:27:13.63
THE JORDAN RIVER -
THE WORD 'JORDAN' MEANS
00:27:13.63\00:27:15.90
'DESCENDING' BECAUSE IT
GOES FROM WAY UP ABOVE THE
00:27:15.90\00:27:20.47
- IN THE MOUNTAINS OF
LEBANON AND IT RUNS DOWN
00:27:20.47\00:27:22.00
INTO THE - IT ACTUALLY
RUNS DOWN THROUGH - THE
00:27:22.00\00:27:24.81
JORDAN RUNS THROUGH TWO
SEAS - THE SEA OF GALILEE
00:27:24.81\00:27:27.88
BEING THE BIGGEST ONE
- THEN IT RUNS OUT OF THE
00:27:27.88\00:27:30.28
BOTTOM OF GALILEE
INTO THE DEAD SEA.
00:27:30.28\00:27:33.68
SOMETIMES YOU'VE GOT
ONE OCEAN THAT TAKES SEVERAL
00:27:33.68\00:27:36.55
RIVERS - THE JORDAN
RIVER IS A RIVER THAT SUPPLIES
00:27:36.55\00:27:39.02
THREE LAKES - BIG LAKES
- THEY CALL THEM SEAS, BUT
00:27:39.02\00:27:44.06
I'M IN MICHIGAN SO YOU
GUYS AREN'T IMPRESSED BY
00:27:44.06\00:27:46.33
THE SEA OF GALILEE.
(LAUGHTER) YOU'VE GOT SOME
00:27:46.33\00:27:47.96
BIG LAKES
AROUND YOU TOO. >>AMEN.
00:27:47.96\00:27:50.53
>>WHO ELSE WENT DOWN AND WAS
00:27:50.53\00:27:52.03
WASHED IN THE
JORDAN? DID JOHN THE BAPTIST
00:27:52.03\00:27:54.44
BAPTIZE PEOPLE
IN THE JORDAN RIVER?
00:27:54.44\00:27:56.87
DID JESUS GO DOWN
IN THE JORDAN RIVER?
00:27:56.87\00:28:00.38
HE DID. JORDAN REPRESENTS DEATH,
00:28:00.38\00:28:04.55
BURIAL, AND RESURRECTION.
IT'S A SYMBOL FOR BAPTISM.
00:28:04.55\00:28:09.22
YOU KNOW, WE TALKED
ABOUT RAHAB AND ABOUT HOW THAT
00:28:09.22\00:28:12.15
STORY HELPS US UNDERSTAND
THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS
00:28:12.15\00:28:14.52
AND THE CHURCH, RIGHT?
THE STORY OF NAAMAN HELPS
00:28:14.52\00:28:17.43
US UNDERSTAND WATER BAPTISM.
00:28:17.43\00:28:20.56
NOW JESUS SAID THERE'S
TWO KINDS OF BAPTISM: THERE'S
00:28:20.56\00:28:23.57
BAPTISM IN THE WATER
AND BAPTISM IN THE SPIRIT.
00:28:23.57\00:28:26.84
AND HE SAYS IN THE
GOSPEL OF JOHN CHAPTER 3,
00:28:26.84\00:28:29.80
"...UNLESS ONE IS BORN
OF THE WATER AND THE SPIRIT,
00:28:29.80\00:28:34.18
HE CANNOT ENTER
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN."
00:28:34.18\00:28:36.18
TONIGHT WE'RE GOING TO
TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
00:28:36.18\00:28:38.18
WATER BAPTISM AND
WHY THAT'S IMPORTANT.
00:28:38.18\00:28:41.22
BAPTISM, IN THE
BIBLE, IS AS IMPORTANT TO A
00:28:41.22\00:28:44.59
CHRISTIAN AS A
WEDDING IS TO A MARRIAGE.
00:28:44.59\00:28:48.86
BAPTISM REPRESENTS THE
MOMENT THAT YOU ACCEPT THE
00:28:48.86\00:28:52.13
CLEANSING THAT JESUS
HAS PROVIDED BY HIS LIFE.
00:28:52.13\00:28:55.80
IT'S A SYMBOL FOR - YOU'RE
LOWERED IN THE WATER - IT'S
00:28:55.80\00:28:59.23
LIKE A DEATH - A
BURIAL, A CLEANSING, AND A
00:28:59.23\00:29:02.67
RESURRECTION.
00:29:02.67\00:29:03.64
WHEN A BABY'S BORN IT
COMES OUT OF AN ENVELOPE
00:29:03.64\00:29:05.91
OF WATER AND IT
TAKES ITS FIRST BREATH.
00:29:05.91\00:29:08.31
AND WHEN A PERSON
BRIEFLY HOLDS THEIR BREATH WHEN
00:29:08.31\00:29:10.75
THEY'RE BAPTIZED BY
IMMERSION AND THEY COME UP
00:29:10.75\00:29:13.05
AND THEY BREATHE
AGAIN, IT'S LIKE A NEW LIFE -
00:29:13.05\00:29:15.45
IT'S LIKE A CLEANSING
- ALL OF THAT BEAUTIFUL
00:29:15.45\00:29:18.69
IMAGERY IS WOVEN INTO BAPTISM.
00:29:18.69\00:29:21.32
GOD GIVES US, IN THIS
CEREMONY, A STARTING POINT
00:29:21.32\00:29:26.53
FOR OUR CHRISTIANITY.
NOW THE H2O DOES NOT WASH
00:29:26.53\00:29:29.46
AWAY OUR SIN - IT'S
THE BLOOD OF JESUS THAT
00:29:29.46\00:29:32.63
WASHES AWAY OUR SIN. >>AMEN.
00:29:32.63\00:29:34.87
>>IT'S THE SAME KIND OF
WATER THAT COMES OUT OF A
00:29:34.87\00:29:36.71
TAP, WHEN YOU'RE
BAPTIZED. AND SOME PEOPLE IN THE
00:29:36.71\00:29:38.94
BIBLE WERE BAPTIZED IN
THE SEA, SOME IN A LAKE, SOME
00:29:38.94\00:29:41.98
ON A RIVER - THEY
WERE BAPTIZED BY IMMERSION.
00:29:41.98\00:29:45.68
THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT
JESUS WENT DOWN INTO THE
00:29:45.68\00:29:47.58
WATER AND HE CAME UP OUT
OF THE WATER AND JOHN THE
00:29:47.58\00:29:50.09
BAPTIST BAPTIZED AT
SALEM BECAUSE THERE WAS MUCH
00:29:50.09\00:29:53.05
WATER THERE. IF THEY BAPTIZED BY
00:29:53.05\00:29:55.22
POURING OR SPRINKLING,
YOU COULD DO IT WITH A WELL, A
00:29:55.22\00:29:57.63
SPRING A CANTEEN - BUT
THEY WERE IMMERSED BECAUSE
00:29:57.63\00:30:00.66
IT MEANS TO BE ENVELOPED
- TO BE COMPLETELY CLEANSED.
00:30:00.66\00:30:05.40
AND THE JORDAN - THE
JORDAN RIVER, LIKE I SAID,
00:30:05.40\00:30:09.74
IT REPRESENTS DEATH
BECAUSE WHEN YOU FOLLOW
00:30:09.74\00:30:12.57
JESUS, IT SAYS YOU TAKE
UP YOUR CROSS AND YOU FOLLOW
00:30:12.57\00:30:15.08
HIM. YOU'RE DEAD TO LIVING YOUR
00:30:15.08\00:30:17.55
OWN LIFE AND YOU'RE GOING
TO START LIVING A NEW LIFE.
00:30:17.55\00:30:21.05
AND THIS WAS A
STRUGGLE THAT NAAMAN WAS HAVING.
00:30:21.05\00:30:23.55
HE THOUGHT HIS
PROBLEM WAS LEPROSY.
00:30:23.55\00:30:25.55
HIS PROBLEM WAS HE
DIDN'T WANT TO SURRENDER TO GOD.
00:30:25.55\00:30:28.46
HE WAS STILL PREOCCUPIED
WITH THE THINGS OF THIS LIFE.
00:30:28.46\00:30:31.59
BAPTISM IS VERY
IMPORTANT TO GOD.
00:30:31.59\00:30:33.96
AND SOME PEOPLE SAY,
'OH, IT'S JUST A RELIGIOUS
00:30:33.96\00:30:34.86
CEREMONY.' I WOULD
THINK THAT IF JESUS MAKES
00:30:34.86\00:30:39.67
SOMETHING A PRIORITY,
IT SHOULD BE A PRIORITY FOR
00:30:39.67\00:30:41.94
US. DO YOU KNOW THE GOSPEL
00:30:41.94\00:30:43.97
STORIES BEGIN WITH
JOHN THE BAPTIST BAPTIZING?
00:30:43.97\00:30:47.51
THE GOSPEL STORIES END
WITH JESUS SAYING, 'GO YE
00:30:47.51\00:30:50.41
THEREFORE, TEACH ALL
NATIONS BAPTIZING THEM.'
00:30:50.41\00:30:54.02
AND SO IF YOU'RE SAYING,
'PASTOR DOUG, WHY ARE YOU
00:30:54.02\00:30:55.62
TALKING ABOUT THIS
DURING THE HEROES OF FAITH
00:30:55.62\00:30:57.75
PROGRAM?'
BECAUSE JESUS TOLD ME TO.
00:30:57.75\00:31:00.36
JESUS SAID, 'GO, TEACH,
AND BAPTIZE.' PEOPLE NEED
00:31:00.36\00:31:04.43
TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS BAPTISM?
00:31:04.43\00:31:06.66
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO
MAKE THAT COMMITMENT, TO BE
00:31:06.66\00:31:08.90
MARRIED TO THE LORD, TO
HAVE ALL YOUR SINS WASHED
00:31:08.90\00:31:11.30
AWAY, AND TO HAVE A
NEW BEGINNING - A NEW LIFE?
00:31:11.30\00:31:15.20
AND IT IS A
PRIORITY WITH THE LORD.
00:31:15.20\00:31:18.21
WELL, LET'S GET BACK
TO THE STORY OF NAAMAN.
00:31:18.21\00:31:20.01
I'LL SHARE A FEW MORE
THOUGHTS ABOUT BAPTISM
00:31:20.01\00:31:22.01
BEFORE WE'RE DONE
WITH OUR PRESENTATION.
00:31:22.01\00:31:25.01
WHEN ELISHA SAID,
'YOU MUST GO WASH IN THE
00:31:25.01\00:31:27.68
JORDAN.' HE THOUGHT
THERE MUST BE ANOTHER WAY TO DO
00:31:27.68\00:31:30.02
THIS. 'THAT'S RIDICULOUS!
I DON'T NEED TO FOLLOW
00:31:30.02\00:31:31.99
THIS ADVICE, SPECIFICALLY.
WHY CAN'T I GO BACK TO
00:31:31.99\00:31:36.22
DAMASCUS AND I'LL
WASH IN THE RIVERS THERE?
00:31:36.22\00:31:39.36
"ARE NOT THE ABANAH AND
THE PHARPAR, THE RIVERS OF
00:31:39.36\00:31:41.56
DAMASCUS, BETTER THAN
ALL THE WATERS OF ISRAEL?"
00:31:41.56\00:31:43.73
AND HE WAS RIGHT. HE
BEGAN TO RATIONALIZE.
00:31:43.73\00:31:46.63
HE SAID, 'I THOUGHT,
SURELY THE PROPHET WOULD
00:31:46.63\00:31:48.20
COME OUT TO ME AND
STRIKE HIS HAND OVER THE PLACE
00:31:48.20\00:31:50.34
AND CLEANSE THE LEPER.'
HE DOESN'T EVEN SAY 'CLEANSE
00:31:50.34\00:31:52.97
ME,' HE SAYS, 'CLEANSE
THE LEPER' LIKE HE'S SOMEWHERE
00:31:52.97\00:31:54.91
ELSE, YOU KNOW?
IT'S HARD TO ADMIT
00:31:54.91\00:31:57.71
THAT I HAVE A PROBLEM.
HE NEEDED TO SAY 'CLEANSE
00:31:57.71\00:32:01.42
ME.' IT'S EASY FOR US
TO SAY JESUS DIED FOR THE
00:32:01.42\00:32:04.05
SINS OF THE WORLD,
BUT IT'S A LITTLE MORE
00:32:04.05\00:32:05.75
PERSONAL WHEN YOU
SAY 'HE DIED FOR MY SINS.
00:32:05.75\00:32:08.79
HE SUFFERED ON THE
CROSS FOR MY PARTICULAR SINS.
00:32:08.79\00:32:11.79
EVERYTHING THAT
I'VE DONE IS WHAT HE WAS
00:32:11.79\00:32:13.76
EXPERIENCING.' AND SO
NAAMAN, HE GOT UPSET AND
00:32:13.76\00:32:19.37
IT SAYS HE TURNED AND
HE WENT AWAY IN A RAGE.
00:32:19.37\00:32:22.64
WHAT'S A RAGE MEAN?
ANGRY. HE WAS FURIOUS.
00:32:22.64\00:32:28.34
AND, YOU KNOW, YOU
USUALLY DON'T THINK VERY CLEARLY
00:32:28.34\00:32:30.45
WHEN YOU'RE
ANGRY. WHY WAS HE ANGRY?
00:32:30.45\00:32:34.65
BECAUSE HIS PRIDE WAS OFFENDED.
00:32:34.65\00:32:37.95
YOU SEE, NAAMAN THOUGHT
HIS PROBLEM WAS LEPROSY.
00:32:37.95\00:32:41.59
HIS PROBLEM WAS
PRIDE. HE WAS A RICH MAN.
00:32:41.59\00:32:44.99
HE WAS A POWERFUL MAN.
HE WAS A VICTORIOUS MAN -
00:32:44.99\00:32:48.73
AND ALL THAT
SUCCESS CAN GO TO YOUR HEAD.
00:32:48.73\00:32:50.63
HE WAS A GOOD MAN AND
GOD WANTED TO SAVE HIM, BUT
00:32:50.63\00:32:53.13
BEFORE HE COULD SAVE
HIM, HE HAD TO KNOW WHAT HIS
00:32:53.13\00:32:56.24
REAL PROBLEM
WAS. YOU KNOW WHAT LED
00:32:56.24\00:32:58.77
TO THE DEVIL'S FALL? PRIDE.
00:32:58.77\00:33:02.41
PRIDE IS ONE OF THE
HARDEST THINGS TO REACH.
00:33:02.41\00:33:04.85
SPIRITUAL PRIDE IS
ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT.
00:33:04.85\00:33:07.48
JESUS TALKED ABOUT EVEN
RELIGIOUS PEOPLE WHO PRAY
00:33:07.48\00:33:10.29
TO BE SEEN OF MEN.
THEY GIVE TO BE SEEN OF MEN.
00:33:10.29\00:33:13.72
THEY FAST TO BE SEEN OF MEN.
00:33:13.72\00:33:15.16
EVERYTHING THEY DO IS
BECAUSE THEY'RE THINKING
00:33:15.16\00:33:16.42
OTHERS ARE WATCHING
THEM AND IT'S NOT OUT OF LOVE
00:33:16.42\00:33:19.29
FOR GOD, IT'S OUT OF
TRYING TO GET ATTENTION.
00:33:19.29\00:33:22.23
IT'S ALL ABOUT
PRIDE - SPIRITUAL PRIDE.
00:33:22.23\00:33:27.30
SO HE WENT STORMING OFF
AND HE GOES GALLOPING HOME
00:33:27.30\00:33:31.64
- HE STARTS OUT GALLOPING
BUT IT'S A LONG WAY TO GET
00:33:31.64\00:33:35.51
BACK TO DAMASCUS, AND
EVENTUALLY HIS ENTOURAGE
00:33:35.51\00:33:39.15
CATCHES UP WITH
HIM. NOW GOD IS GOOD.
00:33:39.15\00:33:42.15
YOU KNOW, IN ORDER FOR
HIM TO GO BACK TO DAMASCUS, HE
00:33:42.15\00:33:46.22
HAD TO GO BY THE JORDAN RIVER.
00:33:46.22\00:33:47.62
HE HAD TO SPEND ALL THAT
TIME LOOKING AT THE JORDAN
00:33:47.62\00:33:50.26
RIVER, HEARING ELISHA'S
SERVANT GEHAZI SAY, 'WASH
00:33:50.26\00:33:53.96
SEVEN TIMES AND YOU
WILL BE CLEAN AND YOUR FLESH
00:33:53.96\00:33:57.00
WILL COME TO YOU AGAIN.'
AND HE KEPT LOOKING AT IT.
00:33:57.00\00:34:00.80
SEE, GOD IS GOOD. HE
TRIES TO STAND IN OUR
00:34:00.80\00:34:04.24
WAY AS AN OBSTACLE
TO OUR DESTRUCTION.
00:34:04.24\00:34:07.78
WE'VE BEEN HEARING A
LOT, DURING THESE MEETINGS,
00:34:07.78\00:34:11.01
ABOUT THE FLOODING
THAT WAS GOING ON IN SOUTH
00:34:11.01\00:34:14.38
CAROLINA - THEY CALLED
IT A 500-YEAR FLOOD AND
00:34:14.38\00:34:17.95
SEVERAL PEOPLE HAVE
DIED AND A LOT OF BRIDGES ARE
00:34:17.95\00:34:20.52
STILL OUT RIGHT NOW
AND ROADS ARE CLOSED.
00:34:20.52\00:34:24.03
I HEARD, YEARS AGO, A
STORY ABOUT A TERRIBLE
00:34:24.03\00:34:26.76
FLOOD IN ANOTHER STATE
AND THIS MAN - THIS PASTOR WAS
00:34:26.76\00:34:31.67
ACTUALLY DRIVING DOWN THE
ROAD AND IT WAS DARK - YOU
00:34:31.67\00:34:37.44
EVER HAVE YOUR WINDSHIELD
WIPERS ON SO FAST IT JUST
00:34:37.44\00:34:39.61
- THEY'RE SLAPPING BACK
AND FORTH BUT THEY STILL
00:34:39.61\00:34:41.18
CAN'T CLEAR THE WINDSHIELD
BECAUSE IT'S POURING -
00:34:41.18\00:34:43.18
JUST DRIVING RAIN? AND
HE WAS GOING FAIRLY SLOW.
00:34:43.18\00:34:48.45
HE HAD HIS LIGHTS ON
HIGH BEAM AND HE THOUGHT, AT
00:34:48.45\00:34:50.22
FIRST, HE SAW A DEER
OUT IN THE ROAD, THEN HE
00:34:50.22\00:34:52.92
REALIZED IT WAS A MAN AND
THE MAN LOOKED LIKE HE WAS
00:34:52.92\00:34:55.89
DRUNK. AND HE SAID, 'OH NO, MAN,
00:34:55.89\00:34:58.76
HERE I AM OUT HERE IN
THIS COUNTRY ROAD AND THERE'S
00:34:58.76\00:35:00.80
A DRUNK GUY OUT THERE
AND I'M NOT GOING TO PICK HIM
00:35:00.80\00:35:03.00
UP BECAUSE HE LOOKS
LIKE HE'S STAGGERING AROUND.'
00:35:03.00\00:35:05.60
AND HE SAW HIM WAVING
HIS ARMS AND HE THOUGHT, 'OH,
00:35:05.60\00:35:08.84
HOW CAN I GET AROUND
HIM?' AND HE KIND OF SHIFTED OFF
00:35:08.84\00:35:10.84
INTO THE LEFT LANE AND
THEN THE DRUNK MAN WENT
00:35:10.84\00:35:12.84
OFF INTO THE LEFT LANE
AND HE'S WAVING HIS ARMS
00:35:12.84\00:35:15.81
AND HE FALLS DOWN.
AND HE SAYS, 'OH, MAYBE IF
00:35:15.81\00:35:18.61
I GET OVER IN THE RIGHT
LANE.' HE SAID, 'I DON'T
00:35:18.61\00:35:20.12
KNOW WHAT - THIS GUY'S
ON DRUGS OR SOMETHING.' HE
00:35:20.12\00:35:21.75
GOES OFF IN THE RIGHT
LANE, THE GUY GETS BACK UP
00:35:21.75\00:35:23.39
AND HE GOES OFF
INTO THE RIGHT LANE.
00:35:23.39\00:35:26.29
AND HE THOUGHT, 'MAYBE
I'LL GUN MY CAR NOW' - AS
00:35:26.29\00:35:28.69
HE GOT REALLY CLOSE HE
SAID, 'I'M GOING TO SWING
00:35:28.69\00:35:30.29
AROUND HIM.' AND THE
MAN CHANGED LANES AGAIN AND
00:35:30.29\00:35:33.76
THE - HE TRIED TO GUN
HIS CAR AND WHAT HE THOUGHT
00:35:33.76\00:35:38.57
WAS A DRUNK MAN JUMPED
IN FRONT OF HIS CAR AND HE
00:35:38.57\00:35:40.64
SLAMMED ON HIS BRAKES AND
STOPPED JUST BEFORE HE RAN
00:35:40.64\00:35:42.94
THIS MAN OVER. AND NOW HE'S BOTH
00:35:42.94\00:35:45.64
ANGRY AND HE'S SCARED.
HE JUMPS OUT OF HIS CAR IN
00:35:45.64\00:35:48.38
THE RAIN AND SAYS,
'ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?
00:35:48.38\00:35:49.94
I COULD HAVE KILLED
YOU.' AND THE MAN WAS SOBBING
00:35:49.94\00:35:52.91
AND SAID, 'THE BRIDGE
IS OUT! THE BRIDGE IS OUT!'
00:35:52.91\00:35:56.08
HE SAID, 'I STOOD THERE
AND I'VE WATCHED SEVERAL
00:35:56.08\00:35:58.39
CARS DRIVE OFF INTO THE RIVER.
00:35:58.39\00:36:00.06
I COULDN'T WATCH
ANOTHER ONE PERISH.' AND, YOU
00:36:00.06\00:36:05.29
KNOW, JESUS, HE STANDS
IN OUR WAY WITH THE CROSS AS
00:36:05.29\00:36:08.06
AN OBSTACLE TO OUR DESTRUCTION.
00:36:08.06\00:36:10.37
HE'S TRYING TO DO
EVERYTHING HE CAN TO SAVE US.
00:36:10.37\00:36:12.47
AND YOU WOULD THINK THAT
WHEN NAAMAN SAID, 'WELL,'
00:36:12.47\00:36:14.17
- HE GOT MAD AND HE RODE
AWAY IN A FURY, GOD WOULD
00:36:14.17\00:36:19.04
HAVE SAID, 'ALRIGHT, I
GAVE YOU YOUR CHANCE.' HE
00:36:19.04\00:36:21.88
GAVE HIM A MESSAGE
THROUGH THE LITTLE GIRL AND GAVE
00:36:21.88\00:36:24.48
HIM A MESSAGE OF SALVATION
THROUGH ELISHA'S SERVANT,
00:36:24.48\00:36:27.85
AND NOW, AS HE'S RIDING
BY THE JORDAN, HE'S TRYING
00:36:27.85\00:36:31.79
NOT TO LOOK, BUT EVERY
NOW AND AGAIN HE HAD TO GO
00:36:31.79\00:36:34.12
OVER AND LOOK AT
IT. HE'S IN HIS CHARIOT.
00:36:34.12\00:36:37.33
EVENTUALLY HIS SOLDIERS
START CATCHING UP TO HIM.
00:36:37.33\00:36:39.69
THE BIBLE SAYS, 'HIS
SERVANTS DREW NEAR.' THEY
00:36:39.69\00:36:42.40
HAD BEEN KEEPING THEIR
DISTANCE BECAUSE HE'S GOT
00:36:42.40\00:36:44.33
LEPROSY. BUT NOW
THEY TAKE A RISK.
00:36:44.33\00:36:47.07
THERE'S NO ONE AROUND
AND THEY GET UP AND THEY RIDE
00:36:47.07\00:36:48.54
ALONG SIDE OF HIM AND
THEY ASK HIM A QUESTION - VERSE
00:36:48.54\00:36:52.21
13 - I'M IN 2 KINGS
5, VERSE 13, "AND HIS
00:36:52.21\00:36:55.38
SERVANTS CAME NEAR AND
SPOKE TO HIM, AND SAID,
00:36:55.38\00:36:58.05
'MY FATHER,'" - THAT'S A
TERM OF RESPECT - ''IF THE
00:36:58.05\00:37:01.82
PROPHET HAD TOLD YOU TO
DO SOMETHING GREAT, WOULD YOU
00:37:01.82\00:37:04.92
NOT HAVE DONE IT?'
" - NOW THAT'S TRUE!
00:37:04.92\00:37:09.29
IF ELISHA HAD SAID TO
HIM, 'LOOK, I WANT YOU TO - I
00:37:09.29\00:37:13.03
WANT YOU TO GO AND
CONQUER 3,000 ASSYRIANS.'
00:37:13.03\00:37:16.60
HE WOULD HAVE DONE THAT.
00:37:16.60\00:37:18.23
OR IF HE HAD SAID, 'I
WANT YOU TO GO CLIMB A
00:37:18.23\00:37:19.43
MOUNTAIN.' YOU KNOW, ONE
TIME KING SAUL SAID, 'YOU
00:37:19.43\00:37:21.97
WANT TO MARRY MY
DAUGHTER, YOU NEED TO GO KILL A
00:37:21.97\00:37:24.24
HUNDRED PHILISTINES.'
AND HE SAID, 'OH, I'LL KILL
00:37:24.24\00:37:28.54
200.' MEN LIKE
THOSE THINGS, YOU KNOW?
00:37:28.54\00:37:30.85
WE LIKE TO -
GIVE US A CHALLENGE.
00:37:30.85\00:37:33.55
MAKE US FEEL
LIKE WE'VE EARNED IT.
00:37:33.55\00:37:36.08
BUT HE DIDN'T LIKE THE
IDEA THAT - WASH AND BE
00:37:36.08\00:37:40.29
CLEAN? THAT'S TOO EASY.
00:37:40.29\00:37:41.79
SALVATION - IT'S
GOT TO BE DIFFICULT.
00:37:41.79\00:37:43.66
WE'VE GOT TO EARN IT.
WE'VE GOT TO WORK OUR WAY.
00:37:43.66\00:37:45.39
WHAT CAN I DO? HE
SAYS, 'WASH AND BE
00:37:45.39\00:37:48.10
CLEAN.' IT SEEMS TOO SIMPLE.
00:37:48.10\00:37:50.93
SO THEY RIDE UP AND THEY
SAY, 'WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO
00:37:50.93\00:37:53.00
LOSE? HUMBLE YOURSELF.' NOW YOU
00:37:53.00\00:37:55.10
NOTICE WHAT THE LORD IS DOING?
00:37:55.10\00:37:56.81
THIS IS THE THIRD TIME
NOW NAAMAN IS GETTING A
00:37:56.81\00:37:58.71
MESSAGE. IT PROBABLY WAS GOING
00:37:58.71\00:38:00.81
TO BE THE LAST MESSAGE
BECAUSE ONCE HE WENT HOME
00:38:00.81\00:38:03.81
- ONCE HE LEFT THE
JORDAN VALLEY HE WOULD HAVE
00:38:03.81\00:38:06.18
GONE UP TO DAMASCUS -
HE COULDN'T EMBRACE HIS
00:38:06.18\00:38:10.99
CHILDREN OR HIS WIFE.
HE'D STILL BE UNCLEAN.
00:38:10.99\00:38:14.72
HE WAS JUST GOING HOME TO DIE.
00:38:14.72\00:38:17.23
FINALLY HE REALIZED,
BEFORE HE GOT TO THE LAST
00:38:17.23\00:38:19.29
FORK IN THE ROAD WHERE
HE WOULD BE LEAVING THE
00:38:19.29\00:38:21.43
JORDAN RIVER, 'WHAT
HAVE I GOT TO LOSE?'
00:38:21.43\00:38:24.30
HIS SERVANTS ARE
PLEADING WITH HIM, 'TRY IT.
00:38:24.30\00:38:26.43
HUMBLE YOURSELF. TRY IT.
00:38:26.43\00:38:29.57
WHAT'S THE
WORST THAT CAN HAPPEN?
00:38:29.57\00:38:31.37
YOU GET WET AND YOU'RE
GOING TO GO HOME AND DIE
00:38:31.37\00:38:32.97
ANYWAY. WHY NOT
DO WHAT HE SAYS?'
00:38:32.97\00:38:36.38
THE BIBLE SAYS, 'TASTE
AND SEE THAT THE LORD IS
00:38:36.38\00:38:38.48
GOOD.' SO MANY PEOPLE
TURN THEIR BACK ON THE LORD AND
00:38:38.48\00:38:40.62
THEY DON'T TRY IT.
YOU KNOW, WHEN I CAME TO
00:38:40.62\00:38:42.78
JESUS, I WAS VERY HONEST.
I SAID, LORD, I DON'T EVEN
00:38:42.78\00:38:45.39
KNOW HOW TO PRAY, BUT
I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING ELSE AND
00:38:45.39\00:38:48.82
IF YOU'RE REALLY THERE,
WILL YOU PLEASE SHOW ME?'
00:38:48.82\00:38:51.33
I WAS OPEN, BUT I WAS
TESTING AND GOD KNEW IT.
00:38:51.33\00:38:55.06
I SAID, 'I'M GOING TO
SEE IF YOU'RE REALLY THERE.
00:38:55.06\00:38:56.77
YOU'VE GOT TO LET
ME KNOW.' AND GOD DID.
00:38:56.77\00:38:59.43
ALL YOU'VE GOT TO DO IS
OPEN THE DOOR AND GIVE HIM
00:38:59.43\00:39:01.17
A CHANCE. HE IS
DESPERATE TO SAVE YOU.
00:39:01.17\00:39:04.17
SO NAAMAN HAD TO GET OFF
HIS HIGH HORSE AND HE GOT
00:39:04.17\00:39:08.81
DOWN ON THE BANK AND
HE LOOKED AT THE SWAMPY
00:39:08.81\00:39:11.75
WATERS OF THE JORDAN
RIVER AND HE HAD TO PEEL OFF HIS
00:39:11.75\00:39:16.89
GLITTERING ARMOR AND
HE PROBABLY HAD SOME ROBE
00:39:16.89\00:39:20.82
UNDERNEATH THAT BECAUSE
YOUR ARMOR WILL CHAFE IF
00:39:20.82\00:39:22.76
YOU DON'T WEAR
CLOTH UNDERNEATH IT.
00:39:22.76\00:39:25.79
AND HE TAKES OFF HIS
CLOTH AND, YOU KNOW, HE'S - THE
00:39:25.79\00:39:28.96
LESIONS AND THE
EVIDENCE OF HIS LEPROSY IS
00:39:28.96\00:39:31.43
EVERYWHERE. AND HE'S - HE'S
THINKING THAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT
00:39:31.43\00:39:35.64
BEING CLEANSED FROM
LEPROSY, BUT REALLY,
00:39:35.64\00:39:38.01
EVERYTHING HE'S GOING
THROUGH IS DEALING WITH
00:39:38.01\00:39:39.84
HUMBLING HIMSELF AND,
AS HE HUMBLES HIMSELF, HE'S
00:39:39.84\00:39:43.31
PREPARING HIMSELF TO
BE CLEANSED FROM SIN.
00:39:43.31\00:39:47.22
YOU KNOW, TO BE SAVED
FROM YOUR SIN YOU MUST HUMBLE
00:39:47.22\00:39:50.29
YOURSELF. IF WE WOULD HUMBLE
00:39:50.29\00:39:53.42
OURSELVES BEFORE THE
LORD. YOU GO THROUGH THE BIBLE
00:39:53.42\00:39:56.89
AND YOU CAN SEE TIME
AND TIME AGAIN JUDGMENT WAS
00:39:56.89\00:39:59.66
COMING, BUT IF THE
PEOPLE HUMBLED THEMSELVES BEFORE
00:39:59.66\00:40:02.83
THE LORD - IF YOU'RE
GOING TO COME TO THE LORD YOU
00:40:02.83\00:40:05.80
NEED TO REPENT OF YOUR
SIN. THE BIBLE SAYS, 'REPENT
00:40:05.80\00:40:08.74
AND BE
BAPTIZED.' REPENTANCE MEANS
00:40:08.74\00:40:12.41
EXPRESSING THAT YOU ARE GUILTY.
00:40:12.41\00:40:14.94
NOT ONLY IS REPENTANCE
BEING SORRY IN YOUR HEART,
00:40:14.94\00:40:17.58
BUT IT'S ALSO REPRESENTING
A CONFESSION OF SIN.
00:40:17.58\00:40:21.75
REPENTANCE AND CONFESSION
IS, SORT OF, THE VERBAL
00:40:21.75\00:40:23.82
PART. CONFESS TO THE LORD -
00:40:23.82\00:40:25.62
'LORD, I KNOW I'VE DONE
A LOT OF THINGS WRONG.' YOU
00:40:25.62\00:40:28.39
MIGHT SAY, 'DOUG, I
CAN'T REMEMBER EVERYTHING I'VE
00:40:28.39\00:40:30.16
EVER DONE WRONG.'
DON'T WORRY, NOBODY CAN.
00:40:30.16\00:40:33.73
YOU MIGHT START WITH
THE CATEGORY OF THE TEN
00:40:33.73\00:40:35.63
COMMANDMENTS. HAVE YOU STOLEN?
00:40:35.63\00:40:40.04
HAVE YOU ROBBED GOD OF HIS TIME?
00:40:40.04\00:40:41.40
HAVE YOU LIED? HAVE YOU THOUGHT
00:40:41.40\00:40:44.54
IMPURE THOUGHTS?
HAVE YOU GOSSIPED?
00:40:44.54\00:40:49.21
BEARING FALSE WITNESS -
IT COULD ALL BE - FIT IN
00:40:49.21\00:40:53.52
THERE SOMEHOW.
CONFESS THOSE SINS AND
00:40:53.52\00:40:56.25
THEN HUMBLE YOURSELF
AND SAY, 'LORD, YOU'VE
00:40:56.25\00:40:58.29
PROMISED IN YOUR WORD
THAT IF I CONFESS MY SINS YOU
00:40:58.29\00:41:01.72
ARE FAITHFUL AND JUST
TO FORGIVE MY SINS AND TO
00:41:01.72\00:41:05.19
CLEANSE ME FROM
ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:41:05.19\00:41:08.40
AND THE PROMISE IS THAT
IF YOU DO THAT, HE CLEANSES
00:41:08.40\00:41:11.50
YOU FROM HOW MUCH?
FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:41:11.50\00:41:15.94
AND IF YOU'VE
BEEN CLEANSED FROM ALL
00:41:15.94\00:41:17.01
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, WHAT
DOES THAT MAKE YOU BEFORE GOD?
00:41:17.01\00:41:20.71
>>YOU'RE PURE
IN THE EYES OF GOD.
00:41:20.71\00:41:25.15
THAT MEANS THAT WHEN
GOD LOOKS ON YOU, YOU ARE
00:41:25.15\00:41:27.65
SINLESS NOW.
'REPENT AND BE BAPTIZED
00:41:27.65\00:41:31.25
AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE
THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.'
00:41:31.25\00:41:33.86
- THIS IS ACTS CHAPTER 2
- 'FOR THE PROMISE IS UNTO
00:41:33.86\00:41:35.82
YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN
AND AS MANY AS THE LORD GOD
00:41:35.82\00:41:39.13
WILL CALL.' HE
MAKES THAT PROMISE TO YOU.
00:41:39.13\00:41:43.00
AND SO HE GOT DOWN IN
THE WATER AND IT MUST HAVE
00:41:43.00\00:41:47.67
BEEN A LITTLE BIT
HUMBLING FOR HIM - ALL THE
00:41:47.67\00:41:50.11
MOSQUITOS WENT
SWARMING AWAY - THE LITTLE WATER
00:41:50.11\00:41:53.04
BUGS - AND HE HAD TO
SPREAD ASIDE THE MOSS
00:41:53.04\00:41:59.28
GROWING ON TOP OF THE
WATER AND HE FOUND - HE
00:41:59.28\00:42:01.52
HAD TO WALK OUT WHERE IT
WAS DEEP ENOUGH TO PLUNGE
00:42:01.52\00:42:03.55
HIMSELF. AND HE
GOT OUT THERE AND
00:42:03.55\00:42:05.92
HE SAID, 'ALRIGHT'
- PLUNGES HIMSELF ONCE
00:42:05.92\00:42:09.46
AND HE COMES UP.
STILL HAS HIS LEPROSY.
00:42:09.46\00:42:14.23
AND HE SAYS, 'LOOK
GUYS, THIS IS ABSURD.
00:42:14.23\00:42:16.00
HOW EMBARRASSING. WHAT
IN THE WORLD AM I DOING?
00:42:16.00\00:42:18.10
THIS IS THE CRAZIEST THING.
00:42:18.10\00:42:19.07
NO ONE'S EVER BEEN
CLEANSED LIKE THIS BEFORE.
00:42:19.07\00:42:21.34
THERE'S NO RECORD OF
ANYONE GOING DOWN IN THE
00:42:21.34\00:42:22.97
JORDAN AND BEING
CLEANSED BEFORE.' AND THEY SAID,
00:42:22.97\00:42:25.74
'MASTER, DON'T QUIT
YET. HE SAID SEVEN TIMES.
00:42:25.74\00:42:28.64
YOU'VE GONE ONCE.' HE
GOES DOWN IN A SECOND TIME.
00:42:28.64\00:42:33.65
SAME EFFECT. MATTER OF
FACT, HIS SORES ARE STINGING AT
00:42:33.65\00:42:36.25
THIS POINT. THIRD
TIME. FOURTH TIME.
00:42:36.25\00:42:42.52
EVERY TIME HE GOES
DOWN, SOMETHING'S HAPPENING IN
00:42:42.52\00:42:44.09
HIS HEART AND
THAT'S WHAT GOD IS AFTER.
00:42:44.09\00:42:47.30
GOD WANTS US TO OBEY,
SPECIFICALLY, WHAT HE SAYS.
00:42:47.30\00:42:51.17
FIFTH TIME. SIXTH TIME.
00:42:51.17\00:42:54.47
THE BIBLE SAYS, WHEN
HE HAD GONE DOWN AND HE
00:42:54.47\00:42:57.97
DIPPED HIMSELF "ACCORDING
TO THE SAYING OF THE MAN
00:42:57.97\00:43:00.24
OF GOD;" - AFTER SEVEN
TIMES - "AND HIS FLESH WAS
00:43:00.24\00:43:04.48
RESTORED" - DO YOU
THINK HE FELT ANYTHING?
00:43:04.48\00:43:08.72
HE CAME UP OUT OF THE
WATER THAT SEVENTH TIME -
00:43:08.72\00:43:11.89
HE MIGHT HAVE FELT
TOES AND FINGERS - DIGITS -
00:43:11.89\00:43:14.02
POPPING BACK INTO
PLACE - WHO KNOWS?
00:43:14.02\00:43:16.79
HE MUST HAVE
FELT SOME ELECTRICITY.
00:43:16.79\00:43:19.16
PEOPLE SAY, 'YOU KNOW, I
DIDN'T FEEL ANYTHING WHEN
00:43:19.16\00:43:20.96
I GOT BAPTIZED.'
WELL, IF YOU'VE GOT FAITH,
00:43:20.96\00:43:22.46
YOU'LL HAVE FEELING.
00:43:22.46\00:43:23.77
WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS
IF YOU BELIEVE YOUR SINS ARE
00:43:23.77\00:43:25.43
FORGIVEN, YOU OUGHT
TO FEEL GOOD ABOUT THAT.
00:43:25.43\00:43:28.30
BUT FIRST MUST COME THE FAITH.
00:43:28.30\00:43:30.41
AND NAAMAN FINALLY HAD
THE FAITH TO DO WHAT GOD SAID.
00:43:30.41\00:43:33.41
AND HE WENT DOWN THE
SEVENTH TIME AND HE CAME
00:43:33.41\00:43:35.04
BACK UP AGAIN AND
SOMETHING CAME OVER HIS
00:43:35.04\00:43:37.95
BODY - SOME RUSH - HE
MUST HAVE FELT SOMETHING.
00:43:37.95\00:43:40.45
THEY SAY YOUR SKIN IS THE
BIGGEST ORGAN IN THE BODY.
00:43:40.45\00:43:43.35
HE MUST HAVE FELT SOMETHING.
00:43:43.35\00:43:44.55
YOU'VE GOT MORE NERVES
ON YOUR - I'VE GOT - YOUR
00:43:44.55\00:43:47.36
LITTLE NERVE ENDINGS
ATTACHED TO EVERY LITTLE
00:43:47.36\00:43:49.89
HAIR IN YOUR BODY AND
ALL THAT HEALING THAT TOOK
00:43:49.89\00:43:54.23
PLACE - HE HAD
TO FEEL SOMETHING.
00:43:54.23\00:43:55.93
HE CAME UP AND, NOT
ONLY WAS HIS LEPROSY GONE, IT
00:43:55.93\00:43:58.87
SAYS HIS FLESH WAS RESTORED.
00:43:58.87\00:44:00.57
BUT NOT JUST LIKE ANY
KIND OF FLESH, BUT LIKE THAT OF
00:44:00.57\00:44:03.71
WHAT? A LITTLE CHILD.
00:44:03.71\00:44:06.31
YOU KNOW THE STORY. A
LITTLE CHILD. YOU KNOW WHAT IT
00:44:06.31\00:44:09.18
MEANS WHEN YOU'RE BAPTIZED
AND YOU COME TO JESUS AND
00:44:09.18\00:44:11.38
YOU'RE WASHED FROM YOUR SIN?
00:44:11.38\00:44:12.75
CHRIST SAID, 'UNLESS YOU
ARE BORN AGAIN, YOU CANNOT
00:44:12.75\00:44:16.82
ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
00:44:16.82\00:44:18.72
IT'S A SYMBOL OF A NEW
BIRTH - A NEW BEGINNING.
00:44:18.72\00:44:23.46
HOW MANY OF YOU WISH THAT
YOU COULD GO BACK AND BE A
00:44:23.46\00:44:27.46
CHILD AGAIN EXCEPT
KNOWING WHAT YOU KNOW NOW?
00:44:27.46\00:44:30.93
(LAUGHTER) IF I HAD TO GO
BACK AND JUST MAKE ALL THE
00:44:30.93\00:44:34.07
DUMB MISTAKES I'VE MADE
AND I WAS JUST AS IGNORANT
00:44:34.07\00:44:36.14
AGAIN AS I WAS BACK THEN,
IT WOULDN'T DO YOU ANY GOOD.
00:44:36.14\00:44:39.57
WHO KNOWS, I'D
JUST MAKE NEW MISTAKES.
00:44:39.57\00:44:41.74
MY FATHER USED TO SAY,
'YOUTH IS WASTED ON THE
00:44:41.74\00:44:45.28
YOUNG.' BECAUSE WHEN
YOU'RE YOUNG AND HEALTHY
00:44:45.28\00:44:48.68
AND YOU'VE GOT ALL THAT
ENERGY, YOU HAVE NO IDEA
00:44:48.68\00:44:50.32
WHAT'S GOING ON.
AND FINALLY WHEN YOU GET
00:44:50.32\00:44:52.95
OLD ENOUGH TO STAY OUT OF
TROUBLE, YOU START GETTING
00:44:52.95\00:44:56.26
ALL THE ACHES AND PAINS.
I THINK JAMES DOBSON SAYS,
00:44:56.26\00:44:58.69
'ONCE YOUR FACE CLEARS UP
YOUR BODY STARTS TO FAIL.'
00:44:58.69\00:45:04.43
I THINK HE WORDED IT
DIFFERENT, BUT THAT'S THE
00:45:04.43\00:45:06.87
- THAT'S THE IDEA OF IT ALL.
00:45:06.87\00:45:08.47
OH NO, HE SAID, 'ONCE
YOUR FACE CLEARS UP YOUR MIND
00:45:08.47\00:45:10.64
GETS FUZZY.'
(LAUGHTER) THAT'S WHAT IT IS.
00:45:10.64\00:45:14.58
BUT WHEN YOU'RE WASHED
FROM YOUR SIN - BAPTISM
00:45:14.58\00:45:18.25
REPRESENTS A CLEANSING
WHERE YOU GET A WHOLE NEW
00:45:18.25\00:45:21.48
BEGINNING AND YOU
BECOME LIKE A LITTLE CHILD.
00:45:21.48\00:45:23.85
I ALWAYS HAVE THIS PICTURE
OF NAAMAN - HE COMES UP ON
00:45:23.85\00:45:26.49
THE SHORE AND HE'S SO
EXCITED, HE IS JUMPING UP
00:45:26.49\00:45:29.32
AND DOWN AND THE BIRDS
ARE FLYING AWAY FROM THE RIVER
00:45:29.32\00:45:32.23
AND HE IS SHOUTING
AND HE IS SINGING AND THE
00:45:32.23\00:45:34.56
SOLDIERS - ARE THEY
HAPPY? THEY'RE JUMPING UP AND
00:45:34.56\00:45:37.27
DOWN AND THEY'RE
REJOICING BECAUSE HE WAS DEAD
00:45:37.27\00:45:39.87
AND NOW HE'S ALIVE. HE WAS LOST
00:45:39.87\00:45:42.77
AND HE'S FOUND. HE
WAS SICK AND HE'S WELL.
00:45:42.77\00:45:44.51
HE'S EXPERIENCED
COMP - HAVE YOU EVER KNOWN
00:45:44.51\00:45:46.98
SOMEBODY THAT WAS
FACING WHAT COULD BE A TERMINAL
00:45:46.98\00:45:49.28
ILLNESS AND THEY MAYBE
BATTLED IT FOR YEARS AND
00:45:49.28\00:45:53.42
THEN THEY COME TO
CHURCH TO A PRAYER MEETING OR
00:45:53.42\00:45:55.12
THEY E-MAIL YOU AND THEY
SAY, 'I HAD THE LAST TEST
00:45:55.12\00:46:00.76
AND I'M CLEAR FROM ALL
CANCER.' ARE THEY HAPPY?
00:46:00.76\00:46:05.56
AFTER HAVING
SOMETHING LIKE THAT LOOMING OVER
00:46:05.56\00:46:07.40
THEM - THEN TO BE DECLARED
'YOU'RE HEALED.' BUT, YOU
00:46:07.40\00:46:11.27
KNOW, EVEN A PERSON WHO'S
STRUGGLING WITH A TERMINAL
00:46:11.27\00:46:13.60
DISEASE, WHEN THEY'RE
HEALED, ARE ONLY HEALED
00:46:13.60\00:46:16.04
TEMPORARILY. MY
FATHER - MY BROTHER,
00:46:16.04\00:46:20.48
I TOLD YOU, WAS - HE WAS
BORN WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS
00:46:20.48\00:46:24.31
AND SO IT'S - IT, ULTIMATELY,
IS TERMINAL. AND HE LIVED TO 35
00:46:24.31\00:46:28.45
AND HE WAS MY OLDER
BROTHER. WE STRUGGLED
00:46:28.45\00:46:32.49
WATCHING HIM SUFFER,
FOR YEARS, TO BREATHE.
00:46:32.49\00:46:36.02
AND I REMEMBER I WAS
OUT WALKING WITH HIM ONE DAY
00:46:36.02\00:46:38.49
AND HE'D WALK A LITTLE
BIT AND TRY AND RUN AND CLEAR
00:46:38.49\00:46:40.80
OUT HIS LUNGS AND THEN
HE'D COUGH AND HE'D SAY,
00:46:40.80\00:46:42.63
'DOUG, YOU'RE
LUCKY. HE SAID, 'I'D GIVE
00:46:42.63\00:46:46.84
EVERYTHING I HAVE IF I
COULD HAVE YOUR LUNGS.'
00:46:46.84\00:46:50.71
MY BROTHER WAS GOOD.
HE STAYED AT HOME AND HE
00:46:50.71\00:46:52.87
TRIED TO HELP WORK FOR
DAD AND I WAS THE BLACK SHEEP
00:46:52.87\00:46:55.04
THAT WENT OFF AND GOT
INTO ALL KINDS OF TROUBLE.
00:46:55.04\00:46:57.28
AND HE SAID - HE SAID,
'DOUG, LIFE ISN'T FAIR.
00:46:57.28\00:47:01.82
HE SAID, 'I'M
SMART. I'M GOOD LOOKING.
00:47:01.82\00:47:07.12
AND I'M SICK.' HE
SAID, 'AND YOU'RE HEALTHY BUT
00:47:07.12\00:47:10.83
YOU'RE STUPID.' (LAUGHTER)
HE SAID, 'LIFE JUST ISN'T
00:47:10.83\00:47:14.30
FAIR.' (LAUGHTER) BUT HE
SAID, 'I'D GIVE EVERYTHING
00:47:14.30\00:47:18.60
THAT I HAVE IF I COULD
HAVE YOUR LUNGS AND LIVE A
00:47:18.60\00:47:21.34
LITTLE MORE OF THIS
LIFE.' JUST A LITTLE MORE.
00:47:21.34\00:47:24.94
BECAUSE EVEN - ANYBODY
WHO IS HEALED FROM ANY DISEASE
00:47:24.94\00:47:28.04
IN THIS LIFE - DO YOU
REALIZE YOUR HEALING IS
00:47:28.04\00:47:29.64
TEMPORARY? THAT
WE'RE ALL TERMINAL?
00:47:29.64\00:47:34.22
AND SO NAAMAN'S REALLY
HAPPY SO HE COULD GO HOME
00:47:34.22\00:47:36.48
AND ENJOY HIS LIFE
FOR A LITTLE WHILE LONGER,
00:47:36.48\00:47:39.25
BUT HOW LONG WOULD IT
LAST? BUT WHEN YOU'RE WASHED IN
00:47:39.25\00:47:43.09
THE JORDAN LIKE JESUS
WAS, THAT WATER WASHES
00:47:43.09\00:47:47.20
AWAY YOUR SIN. IT
IS A HEALING AND A
00:47:47.20\00:47:50.13
CLEANSING THAT GOD IS
PROVIDING FOR YOU THAT
00:47:50.13\00:47:52.60
WILL LAST FOREVER.
>>WHO WOULDN'T WANT THAT?
00:47:52.60\00:47:56.77
GOD IS OFFERING
THAT TO EACH ONE OF US.
00:47:56.77\00:47:59.74
AND THAT'S WHAT
BAPTISM IS A SYMBOL OF.
00:47:59.74\00:48:02.04
IT'S A CLEANSING FROM
SIN. NOW WHY WAS JESUS
00:48:02.04\00:48:05.51
BAPTIZED? TO WASH AWAY HIS SIN?
00:48:05.51\00:48:11.05
OR WAS IT AN
EXAMPLE FOR YOU AND ME?
00:48:11.05\00:48:13.29
>>AN EXAMPLE.
00:48:13.29\00:48:14.29
>>YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING
THAT JESUS EXPERIENCED AT
00:48:14.29\00:48:16.49
HIS BAPTISM IS WHAT GOD IS
OFFERING US IF WE FOLLOW HIM.
00:48:16.49\00:48:21.70
THE BIBLE SAYS CHRIST
CAME UP OUT OF THE WATER.
00:48:21.70\00:48:23.80
MATTHEW CHAPTER 3:16 AND
17 - LET ME READ IT TO YOU
00:48:23.80\00:48:26.13
REAL QUICK. "WHEN HE HAD BEEN
00:48:26.13\00:48:28.34
BAPTIZED, JESUS CAME
UP IMMEDIATELY FROM THE
00:48:28.34\00:48:30.41
WATER; AND BEHOLD,
THE HEAVENS WERE OPENED TO
00:48:30.41\00:48:32.81
HIM, AND HE SAW THE
SPIRIT OF GOD DESCENDING LIKE A
00:48:32.81\00:48:35.61
DOVE AND ALIGHTING UPON HIM.
00:48:35.61\00:48:37.48
AND SUDDENLY A VOICE CAME
FROM HEAVEN, SAYING, "THIS
00:48:37.48\00:48:39.88
IS MY BELOVED SON, IN
WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED."
00:48:39.88\00:48:42.68
JESUS WAS BAPTIZED SO
WE COULD KNOW WHAT WE MIGHT
00:48:42.68\00:48:45.75
EXPERIENCE IF WE ARE BORN AGAIN.
00:48:45.75\00:48:49.36
THE HEAVENS WERE OPENED.
00:48:49.36\00:48:51.63
THE HEAVENS WILL
BE OPENED FOR YOU.
00:48:51.63\00:48:54.00
WHEN YOU'RE BAPTIZED
YOU'VE COMMITTED YOUR LIFE
00:48:54.00\00:48:55.43
TO GOD AND YOU
HAVE NEW PRIVILEGES.
00:48:55.43\00:48:59.13
IT'S LIKE MARRIAGE -
THERE'S NEW RELATIONSHIP -
00:48:59.13\00:49:01.54
NEW PRIVILEGES IN
THAT RELATIONSHIP.
00:49:01.54\00:49:03.91
THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES DOWN.
00:49:03.91\00:49:05.94
GOD PROMISES HIS
SPIRIT. IT COMES LIKE A DOVE.
00:49:05.94\00:49:09.01
WHAT DOES A DOVE REPRESENT?
00:49:09.01\00:49:10.31
>>HOLY SPIRIT.
>>PEACE COMES INTO YOUR
00:49:10.31\00:49:11.95
LIFE BECAUSE YOU KNOW
THAT YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN.
00:49:11.95\00:49:14.28
YOU HEAR A VOICE - YOU
NOT ONLY SEE THE DOVE COMING,
00:49:14.28\00:49:17.22
YOU HEAR A VOICE FROM
HEAVEN AND IT SAYS, 'YOU
00:49:17.22\00:49:19.79
ARE NOW MY BELOVED
SON.' THERE'S ADOPTION THAT
00:49:19.79\00:49:22.39
TAKES PLACE. YOU'RE MY SON.
00:49:22.39\00:49:23.32
YOU'RE MY DAUGHTER.'
HE SAYS, 'AND I'M WELL
00:49:23.32\00:49:25.86
PLEASED WITH YOU.' WHAT
GOD SAID TO JESUS, HE SAYS
00:49:25.86\00:49:28.86
TO US. 'I AM PLEASED WITH YOU.
00:49:28.86\00:49:31.40
I AM LOOKING AT YOU NOW
LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SINNED.
00:49:31.40\00:49:33.47
YOU NOW HAVE THE GIFT OF
EVERLASTING LIFE.' CHRIST
00:49:33.47\00:49:37.01
ALSO BEGAN A LIFE
OF MINISTRY AT BAPTISM.
00:49:37.01\00:49:39.71
JESUS SAID, 'UNLESS
YOU'RE BORN OF THE WATER AND THE
00:49:39.71\00:49:43.28
SPIRIT, YOU CANNOT' -
HE DIDN'T SAY IT'LL BE
00:49:43.28\00:49:45.35
DIFFICULT - 'UNLESS
YOU'RE BORN OF THE WATER AND THE
00:49:45.35\00:49:47.82
SPIRIT, YOU CANNOT
ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.'
00:49:47.82\00:49:50.82
GOSPEL OF MARK, HE
SAYS, 'GO THEREFORE AND TEACH
00:49:50.82\00:49:54.46
ALL NATIONS BAPTIZING
THEM.' 'WHOEVER BELIEVES
00:49:54.46\00:49:56.89
AND IS BAPTIZED' - MARK
CHAPTER 16 - 'WILL BE SAVED.
00:49:56.89\00:50:01.40
WHOEVER BELIEVES NOT
WILL BE LOST.' THIS IS A VERY
00:50:01.40\00:50:05.17
IMPORTANT
SUBJECT. YOU CAN BE WASHED.
00:50:05.17\00:50:09.14
SOME OF YOU MAYBE
HAVEN'T MADE THAT DECISION.
00:50:09.14\00:50:11.37
SOME MAYBE MADE
THAT DECISION AND HAVE
00:50:11.37\00:50:13.54
WANDERED FROM THE
LORD AND THEY MIGHT WANT TO
00:50:13.54\00:50:15.01
PRAY ABOUT,
'SHOULD I BE REBAPTIZED?'
00:50:15.01\00:50:18.28
YOU KNOW, THE STORY OF
NAAMAN IS A BEAUTIFUL STORY.
00:50:18.28\00:50:20.35
HERE YOU'VE GOT THIS MAN
WHO HAD EVERYTHING BUT HE
00:50:20.35\00:50:23.45
WAS DYING. HE WAS READY TO LOSE
00:50:23.45\00:50:26.55
EVERYTHING IF HE
COULD JUST HAVE LIFE.
00:50:26.55\00:50:28.52
HE WAS READY TO GIVE
AWAY A KING'S RANSOM IF HE
00:50:28.52\00:50:30.43
COULD JUST BE HEALED.
AND, YOU KNOW, GOD GAVE
00:50:30.43\00:50:33.36
HIS SON SO THAT
YOU COULD BE CLEANSED.
00:50:33.36\00:50:36.60
I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS
SUCH AN INTERESTING PICTURE.
00:50:36.60\00:50:38.80
(SOFT PIANO MUSIC)
NAAMAN IS HERE - HE'S THIS
00:50:38.80\00:50:40.54
SOLDIER BUT IT SAYS HIS
FLESH WAS RESTORED LIKE A
00:50:40.54\00:50:44.44
LITTLE CHILD. I
CAN JUST PICTURE THE
00:50:44.44\00:50:46.44
OTHER SOLDIERS
COMING UP TO HIM AND SAYING,
00:50:46.44\00:50:48.54
'MASTER, CONGRATULATIONS!
YOU'VE BEEN HEALED.
00:50:48.54\00:50:50.58
CAN I PINCH YOUR CHEEK?'
00:50:50.58\00:50:51.75
(LAUGHTER) A
SOLDIER WITH BABY SKIN.
00:50:51.75\00:50:56.65
ISN'T THAT KIND OF
WHAT A CHRISTIAN IS?
00:50:56.65\00:50:59.32
THE LORD WASHES AWAY
OUR SIN, BUT WE'RE IN GOD'S
00:50:59.32\00:51:01.86
ARMY, BUT WE'RE
LIKE LITTLE CHILDREN.
00:51:01.86\00:51:04.99
WE'VE GOT THAT CHILD-LIKE
FAITH. IT STARTS OUT WITH A
00:51:04.99\00:51:07.03
LITTLE CHILD
GIVING HIM A MESSAGE.
00:51:07.03\00:51:09.26
THEN THE MESSAGE
COMES FROM ELISHA'S SERVANT.
00:51:09.26\00:51:11.63
AND THEN THE MESSAGE
COMES FROM HIS OWN SERVANTS.
00:51:11.63\00:51:14.30
YOU KNOW, NAAMAN WAS SO
HAPPY, HE COULD HAVE GONE
00:51:14.30\00:51:16.37
BACK TO DAMASCUS BUT
YOU KNOW WHAT HE DID?
00:51:16.37\00:51:18.74
HE WENT BACK TO
ELISHA TO THANK HIM.
00:51:18.74\00:51:22.31
AND NOW ELISHA COMES
OUT TO SEE HIM FACE TO FACE.
00:51:22.31\00:51:26.05
JESUS CAN'T SEE US FACE
TO FACE - GOD IN HIS GLORY -
00:51:26.05\00:51:29.72
BECAUSE WE'VE GOT SIN.
00:51:29.72\00:51:31.09
BUT HE WANTS TO WASH US
FROM OUR SIN BECAUSE HE IS
00:51:31.09\00:51:32.99
COMING SOON AND WE WANT
TO BE ABLE TO BEHOLD HIM FACE
00:51:32.99\00:51:36.06
TO FACE. AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:51:36.06\00:51:37.69
>>YOU KNOW THE WHOLE
BIBLE IS ABOUT OUR BEING
00:51:37.69\00:51:40.20
SEPARATED FROM GOD
BECAUSE OF SIN AND THEN WE'RE
00:51:40.20\00:51:44.53
RESTORED TO GOD. AND
REVELATION SAYS, 'AND
00:51:44.53\00:51:46.94
WE WILL SEE HIS FACE.'
ELISHA CAME OUT TO HIM.
00:51:46.94\00:51:51.47
HE TRIED TO PAY
FOR HIS CLEANSING.
00:51:51.47\00:51:53.51
HE SAID, 'OH TAKE
SOMETHING.' HE SAID, 'I'M
00:51:53.51\00:51:55.38
NOT GOING TO TAKE
ANYTHING.' HE URGED HIM.
00:51:55.38\00:51:57.25
HE SAID, 'I'M NOT
TAKING ANYTHING.' WHY?
00:51:57.25\00:51:59.68
BECAUSE THAT CLEANSING
FROM LEPROSY IS A SYMBOL
00:51:59.68\00:52:03.12
FOR YOU AND ME TODAY OF
CLEANSING FROM SIN AND YOU
00:52:03.12\00:52:05.65
CANNOT BUY IT.
YOU CAN'T BUY IT WITH
00:52:05.65\00:52:07.96
SILVER AND YOU
CAN'T BUY IT WITH GOLD.
00:52:07.96\00:52:09.92
IT IS A GIFT OF GOD.
IT'S A GIFT THAT'S BEEN
00:52:09.92\00:52:12.19
PURCHASED AT A PRICE
THAT YOU COULD NEVER AFFORD.
00:52:12.19\00:52:15.33
GOD'S SON PAID THAT
YOU MIGHT BE CLEANSED FROM
00:52:15.33\00:52:18.23
YOUR LEPROSY. WE'VE ALL SINNED.
00:52:18.23\00:52:22.34
WE'RE ALL UNDER
THAT DEATH SENTENCE.
00:52:22.34\00:52:25.04
AND JESUS IS OFFERING US
A CHANCE TO HAVE NEW LIFE
00:52:25.04\00:52:27.98
AND TO BE CLEANSED.
HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD
00:52:27.98\00:52:29.91
LIKE TO SAY, 'I
WANT THAT CLEANSING.
00:52:29.91\00:52:31.48
I WANT THAT NEW LIFE.
I WANT THAT HEALING THAT
00:52:31.48\00:52:33.58
WILL LAST
FOREVER.'? LET'S ASK HIM.
00:52:33.58\00:52:37.29
DEAR FATHER, WE'RE SO
THANKFUL FOR THE GOOD NEWS
00:52:37.29\00:52:40.12
OF JESUS' CLEANSING
AND I PRAY MANY WHO ARE
00:52:40.12\00:52:43.09
LISTENING WILL TAKE THAT
STEP AND CHOOSE TO FOLLOW
00:52:43.09\00:52:45.73
AND PREPARE FOR
BAPTISM AND GO ALL THE WAY.
00:52:45.73\00:52:48.63
FILL THEM WITH YOUR SPIRIT.
00:52:48.63\00:52:50.13
WE THANK YOU FOR THE
PROMISE AND ASK THIS ALL
00:52:50.13\00:52:52.67
IN JESUS' NAME. AMEN.
00:52:52.67\00:52:55.90
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>>I'D HAVE TO SAY THAT I
HAD A WONDERFUL CHILDHOOD.
00:53:38.71\00:53:40.98
GROWING UP, I WENT TO A PRIVATE
SCHOOL UP UNTIL THE SEVENTH
00:53:40.98\00:53:44.52
GRADE - UNTIL JUNIOR HIGH. I
BELIEVE IT WAS AT THAT POINT,
00:53:44.52\00:53:47.39
IN JUNIOR HIGH, THAT
MY LIFE BEGAN TO CHANGE.
00:53:47.39\00:53:52.26
GOING FROM A CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
TO A PUBLIC SCHOOL WAS A BIG
00:53:52.26\00:53:55.70
DIFFERENCE. THERE
WAS A LOT OF SECULAR
00:53:55.70\00:53:58.87
INFLUENCE - PEER PRESSURE -
AND, FOR ME, IT WAS THE MUSIC.
00:53:58.87\00:54:05.17
I STARTED LISTENING
TO HEAVY METAL MUSIC.
00:54:05.17\00:54:07.04
EVERY CONCERT THAT WOULD
COME TO TOWN I WAS THERE.
00:54:07.04\00:54:09.34
IT HAD A PROFOUND EFFECT ON
ME. I STARTED USING MARIJUANA,
00:54:09.34\00:54:14.48
PROBABLY AT THE AGE OF 14.
I STARTED DRINKING - USING A
00:54:14.48\00:54:19.35
LOT OF COCAINE AND THAT
LED TO METHAMPHETAMINE AND THAT
00:54:19.35\00:54:22.86
COMPLETELY CHANGED MY LIFE.
I DROPPED OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL MY
00:54:22.86\00:54:27.10
SOPHOMORE YEAR AND WENT TO WORK.
00:54:27.10\00:54:30.90
I WOULD GET OFF OF WORK AND WE'D
GO INTO THE BAR UNTIL 2:00 IN
00:54:30.90\00:54:34.10
THE MORNING AND I'D GET BACK
UP AT 5:00 AND I'D GO BACK AT IT
00:54:34.10\00:54:37.87
AGAIN - SIX, SEVEN DAYS A
WEEK. AT THE AGE OF 20, I LOST
00:54:37.87\00:54:44.85
MY DAD TO A HEART ATTACK. I
DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO HANDLE THE
00:54:44.85\00:54:48.78
LOSS SO I TRIED TO MASK MY
PAIN WITH ALCOHOL AND DRUGS.
00:54:48.78\00:54:54.06
I GOT THREE DUIS IN
ONE YEAR. I WAS ARRESTED.
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THEY GAVE ME ONE YEAR IN THE
COUNTY JAIL AND THE MOMENT I GOT
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OUT I WENT BACK TO DOING
THE SAME THING, HANGING WITH THE
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SAME PEOPLE - THE SAME CROWD.
I WAS INVOLVED IN A HIT-AND-RUN
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MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT AND I
WAS CHARGED WITH A FELONY DUI.
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EVEN THOUGH AT THE TIME OF
THE ACCIDENT I WAS NOT UNDER THE
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INFLUENCE, I STILL HAD
METHAMPHETAMINE IN MY SYSTEM.
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AT MY SENTENCING DATE I LEFT
THE COURTROOM AND I DIDN'T COME
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BACK. AND THAT LEFT
ME WITH A FELONY WARRANT.
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AND I HAD FALLEN ASLEEP AT
A PARK AND I WOKE UP TO A PARK
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RANGER KNOCKING ON MY WINDOW.
I KNEW THAT I WAS WANTED AND I
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KNEW THAT I WAS NOT GOING TO
JUST TURN MYSELF IN. I TURNED TO
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HIM AND I MADE THE COMMENT,
'NOT TODAY.' AND I TOOK OFF.
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I LED FIVE DIFFERENT AGENCIES
ON ABOUT A 35-MINUTE CHASE AND I
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REALIZED AT ONE POINT THAT
I WASN'T GOING TO GET AWAY AND
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THIS WAS GOING TO END UP EITHER
ME KILLING SOMEBODY OR MYSELF.
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AND SO I MADE A
DECISION TO PULL OVER.
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AT THAT POINT,
EVERYTHING THAT I HAD, I LOST.
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I WAS SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS
IN STATE PRISON AND IT WAS THERE
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THAT GOD GOT AHOLD OF
ME. AND IT WAS THROUGH
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AMAZING FACTS MINISTRIES.
I REMEMBER LISTENING ON MY
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RADIO TO PASTOR DOUG
BATCHELOR. I WANTED TO GET
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TO KNOW THE BIBLE.
I WANTED TO KNOW GOD.
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AND SO MY AUNT MARILYN SENT ME
THE AMAZING FACTS STUDY GUIDES
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AND IT WAS THERE THAT MY
RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST BEGAN.
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I HAD CALLED HOME AND I KNEW MY
MOTHER WASN'T DOING WELL, BUT I
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DIDN'T REALIZE THAT SHE
HAD CANCER. SHE HAD ABOUT A
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30-PERCENT CHANCE OF
MAKING IT THROUGH HER SURGERY.
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SHE HAD TOLD THE DOCTORS THAT
SHE WAS NOT GOING TO HAVE CHEMO
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AND SHE WAS NOT
GOING TO HAVE RADIATION.
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THAT, IF HER GOD WAS
GOING TO SAVE HER, THEN HE WOULD
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SAVE HER. I
REMEMBER HANGING UP THE PHONE
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TO WHAT I THOUGHT WAS MY
LAST CONVERSATION WITH MY MOM.
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I TURNED AROUND, I GOT DOWN ON
MY KNEES, AND I PRAYED TO GOD.
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I SAID, 'GOD, IF YOU'RE
THERE, PLEASE SAVE MY MOTHER.
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WHEREVER YOU LEAD ME IN LIFE,
WHATEVER YOU WANT ME TO DO, I AM
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YOURS.' AND I HAD A FEELING OF
SUCH PEACE, THAT I KNEW THAT MY
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MOTHER WAS GOING TO BE OKAY
AND THAT MY LIFE WAS GOING TO
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CHANGE. THERE ARE
NO WORDS THAT I CAN
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ADEQUATELY EXPRESS TO AMAZING
FACTS AND PASTOR DOUG - TO SAY,
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'THANK YOU' TO ALL THOSE
PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT THE MINISTRY.
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I AM A PRODUCT OF YOUR SUPPORT.
MY LIFE IS CHANGED BECAUSE OF
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THIS THIS MINISTRY AND I THANK
YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART.
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(MUSIC)
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