Hi, I'm C.A. Murray
and this is Free Indeed,
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a different kind of ministry.
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The men and women
that you will meet
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in this particular
program have found Jesus
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in very trying circumstances.
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They are going to
tell you their story,
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their own personal
journey of their walk of faith.
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We haven't changed their music
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and we haven't
changed their words
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because it's their
personal testimony.
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It's their walk of
faith with Jesus Christ.
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So you're gonna
meet some people,
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some men and women who've made
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some mistakes in their lives,
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but they're trying to change
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that through the
power of Jesus Christ.
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You will meet men
and women who've found
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as we have found that
freedom is not really,
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doesn't have much to
do with where you are.
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It is more what you are.
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You'll find as they
have found that in Jesus,
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you can indeed be free indeed.
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It's hard to imagine
spending hours, later on months,
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years, most of your
life in something like this
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and yet that's the reality
for far too many individuals.
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Today's program was recorded
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at the Putnamville
Correctional Facility
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and we want to thank
the administrators, guards,
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staff, and the inmate for
sharing their lives with us.
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On today's program,
we're going to meet Kyle,
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and Shawn, and Thomas,
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and Creig and
we're going to hear
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just a little from
our buddy, Lemuel Vega
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of Christmas Behind Bars.
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When we think about
the inmate population
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is very easy to see them as
just one mass of individuals,
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one gang of people, and--
yet the truth is every story
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is an individual
story, every testimony,
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an individual testimony.
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These people are here
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because they made
individual decisions.
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Now they are making new
decision, right decisions,
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correct
decisions for Jesus Christ.
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You're going to hear
here a very beautiful song
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called "breathe" and--
you're going to experience
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something that's
going to bless you. Stay by.
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Is it possible to have
true freedom in prison?
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Yes. Is it? Yes. I
want to share with you
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that I pray that this
program will encourage you
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and inspire you to take the--
true freedom that you found
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in these
undesirable circumstances
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out to the-- street with you.
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It is possible,
it is attainable,
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prison didn't change my life.
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I'm sorry to say, I
struggled with drug addiction
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for the next 12 years of my life
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and it was until 13 years
ago that I got down in my knees
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in a hospital room,
sick, and ready to die.
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And today if you're sick
and tired of the circumstances
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that sin has brought in
your life, we've signed up
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for the death sentence.
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We was born
with unmanageability.
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And we said yes,
we like it or did we.
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No, you don't like it,
but yet you tried to numb
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the consequences and
things, the shame and the pain
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and the guilt of
sin in our world today,
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we tried to check out and--
think that it is not a reality.
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But when we come to
places like this since that sin
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and reality is here and
this is not what you want.
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I know it's not what you want.
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And God has
provided-- how many of you know
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about the Christmas
Behind Bars program?
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Let me ask you a question,
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how many of you have
received gift packages
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from the county jail
only, county jail only.
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How many of you received
packages from county jail only?
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How many of you
received packages from RDC only.
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Wow, that's amazing.
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Is that amazing that God
has provided an opportunity
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for these grocery sacks to
go into the diagnostic center.
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Do you remember going
through the diagnostic center,
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it was like they can't
give you the time and day,
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because they're busy.
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It's not a very nice place
to be in the diagnostic center.
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I want to tell
you that God provided
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such an awesome
opportunity last night
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that we were at
the diagnostic center
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not just to give brown paper
sacks, but to do this program
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in the west part in RDC.
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To let the world know--
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to let the world know
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that there is hope
in this time of need.
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Our world is reeling
from the consequences of sin.
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How many of you
here this afternoon
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want something different
than were you at tonight. Amen.
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And I will tell you that
we're going to come to the Lord
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in prayer and ask
that as Jesus ascended
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unto the right hand of
God, we're going to come
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to the throne room of--
God boldly, because He cared
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for the sparrow that you
throw some bread crumbs to.
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You got compassion
today for the sparrow
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on the walk you
throw a few bread crumbs.
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At least, I did.
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And then you get to see
the-- little birds come and eat.
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God careth for the sparrow.
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How much more does
He careth for humanity?
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Amen. Amen. Let--let us pray.
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Our dear heavenly
Father, we come boldly,
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petitioning Your
gracing, and your mercy.
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Father petitioning the--
transforming power through
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Your Holy Spirit that our
lives may be changed, Father.
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That we can go forth
from these prison houses,
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new people, Father.
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Father, productive
members of society not only,
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but to be that loving kind
dad, to be that good husband,
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to be that kind
caring individual
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that you want to
impute into our life,
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Father righteousness,
Father that we can overcome
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temptation, that
sin would not so easily
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be set us ever again, because
Your blood is sufficient,
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Your grace is
sufficient, and we pray
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that You'll come into
this place and that Your angels
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that excel in strength,
Father, would guard this prison,
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would send the
evilness on its way
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that these men may contemplate
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as they hear truth and
that they maybe willing
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to surrender their will
unto the as you knock it,
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as they hear it
through Your voice
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that they would answer
the call under salvation
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as our prayer and our desire
in Jesus name we pray, amen.
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Amen. I would like
to introduce to you
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some hardworking people.
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People that have
given up their state pay,
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they have given up
their time at Pen products
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to come out, to work, whatever.
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I know at Plainfield,
there were-- the musicians
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did not get paid to
come out and practice
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and I'm sure that
these men have put forth
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a lot of effort to
make this possible.
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So we are going to hear
some wonderful selections
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from your own.
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The name of this
song is called "breathe,"
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it reminds me that everything
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that comes from
my heavenly Father.
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This is the air I breathe
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This is the air I breathe
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Your holy presence
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Living in me
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It's a blessing to be
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on the same very
part of prison ministry,
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the only thing I have
ever done in my entire life
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even before becoming
Christian was playing music
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and now it is so much more
clear I'm doing it for purpose
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and I'm giving
something back to God,
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it feels great that-- I
will be turning 24 years
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old this week
and I'm the happiest
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I've ever been in my entire life
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and for me to be able
to say that from prisons
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is pretty amazing and a
lot of people in the streets
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they can't even say that,
there's no doubt in my mind
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its because-- I have been saved
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and then I'm being
able to do something
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to give back to God
and to share my testimony
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with others is
just an amazing thing.
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I'm lost without you, Jesus.
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It's has been a great experience
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being on worship team
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and being a part
of the services here.
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Although I was always
little scared and nervous,
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I knew that was a
devil trying to keep me
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from doing
something that I know Jesus
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would want me to do, so.
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That's what made me get
up here and just have faith
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and do what the
Lord would have me to do
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and the more I
do, the easier it gets
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and I can tell by that
in the way people react
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like in church services and
so forth and I pray throughout
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the world when people
see this that Jesus Christ
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can change anyone's
life and that the power
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that He gives you
through the Holy Spirit
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will give you the courage,
the strength to do anything.
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So, yeah, I was a
little nervous at first,
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but not so much
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to where I couldn't
get up here, you know.
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When 3ABN came into
this prison facility,
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I wasn't quite
sure how widespread
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God's evangelistic
and missionaries and stuff
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are being spread throughout
the world and you guys came
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in and said that--
you know you guys air
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from millions of
people all around the world.
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It just really touched my heart
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and you guys
were able to come here
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and want to hear our testimony,
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want to hear from
prisoners, least of all people
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and I just thought it
was amazing since then,
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you know, it's
also an encouragement
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because I know
that-- you know God's word
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has been spread throughout
the world and I'm not alone
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and it's just
an amazing blessing
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that have you guys come in here
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and give us an
opportunity to share
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our stories to the world.
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I'm desperate for you
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I'm lost without you
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Amen. Amen.
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I would like the
testimonies that are shared here
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to be a message of hope
for those people in the world.
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I would like the
world to know the victims,
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perhaps I would like the world
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to know that reads
the headlines everyday
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about the scandalous
things, the criminals have done
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or supposedly have done that
there is hope for their lives.
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But they need to focus also
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because when you point a finger,
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you have got a few
pointing back towards you.
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So, we need to personally
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keep our focus on Jesus Christ
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and what He has
done for humanity
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and then we'll love our brother.
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We'll love our name.
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And so the testimonies
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that are shared here
is my desire to go across
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the airways around the world
to share hope with humanity.
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What Jesus is doing
not only in these places,
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but promising those people
free by society standards,
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what He will do in
and through their lives.
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Today we are privileged
to have, Mr. Creig Allen.
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Creig, this is your,
how many time in jail?
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This is my fifth time in jail.
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Fifth time in
prison, that is like huge,
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people think that
its revolving door,
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but it is not, is
it? No, sir, it's not.
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Is there hope for you to leave
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this prison and not come back?
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Yes, sir, there is.
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Would you share with
us what that hope maybe?
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That hope is God,
God in Jesus Christ.
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And how do we come
to the knowledge of God?
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How do we find that personal
relationship with Jesus?
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Seek Him, open your
heart, open your mind,
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be sincere and seek
God and you'll find Him.
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Now you've got a special
message to the young people.
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The people out
there in the neighborhood
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that they doesn't maybe
have stability in their home.
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What would that message be
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to the young
people in the world today?
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That would be to first
allow yourself to be renewed
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and transformed by God's love.
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When you open your
heart and your mind to God,
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He'll change you.
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That was one of
my biggest problems
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trying to change
myself and each time
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that I tried to
change myself I failed.
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This time, I know forth
fact that I'm going to succeed
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because I have given God my life
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and He is transforming, He
is real, take it for granted,
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don't take if for granted,
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I mean really,
really sincerely seek Him
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and when you
find Him, believe me,
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He will do
everything that you already
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tried to do and more.
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He will do it for us.
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Yes. But yet we
have a part to play
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in this relationship with Jesus.
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Yes, sir. Is it a
once saved, always saved,
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or is it daily
relationship for you?
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Well, it's once
saved, you're saved,
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but it's always
daily, it's a renewal.
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A continual. Yes,
sir. Renewing of our minds
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that our minds
may be transformed.
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Yes, sir. In
closing what message of hope
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would you share with those
still suffering with drugs,
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or alcohol, or the sin problem.
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I would simply
say, don't give up,
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don't give up hope,
don't give up faith.
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Set your eyes on
God and stay steadfast
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no matter what happens,
because if you trust in Him,
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He will take care of everything.
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We live in troublous times,
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I believe that He is coming soon
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and He is calling His people
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to a higher, more
noble calling, amen.
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Amen. Thank you
very, very much brother
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and God bless you.
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Before we read
God's word, let's talk
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to God for just a second.
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Heavenly Father,
Your word is truly a lamp
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unto our feet and a
light unto our path.
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Shine that light
before us, so that we may see
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and walk in Your
footsteps in Jesus name, amen.
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Second Kings, Chapter 6,
just two versus, 28 and 29.
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The Bible says "Then
the king said to her.
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What is troubling you?
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And she answered,
this woman said to me
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'Give your son, that
we may eat him today."
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I said this was a
strange text of scripture.
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"And we will
eat my son tomorrow.
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So we boiled my son and ate him.
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And I said to
her on the next day,
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'Give your son
that we may eat him.
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But she has hidden her son."
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Very strange, strange scripture.
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It's a desperate situation.
But in desperate times,
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people do desperate things.
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Now every thing
you read in the Bible
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is not commended by the Bible.
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You see the Bible shows the--
good, the bad, and the ugly.
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Many times it
puts that in there,
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so you don't
fall into that trap.
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But this is a desperate time.
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It's--it's a time of famine.
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All the food has been
eaten and all the grass
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has been eaten and all
the plants have been eaten,
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so people now
are beginning to eat
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strange things, strange animals.
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Now eating
animals is not strange,
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but the kind of
animals they were eating
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and the parts of the
animals that they were eating.
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I'll say again
brethren, desperate times
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call for desperate measures.
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And these were desperate times.
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The situation was desperate.
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The problem is when you make
decisions out of desperation,
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usually the bad decision.
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Come on.
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How many of you
ever made a bad decision?
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Mm-hmm. Now, I'm
not talking about
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wearing brown
shoes or a black tuxedo.
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I'm talking about bad decisions.
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Made a bad decision
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was that a Mesus
decision or a Jesus decision.
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You see every decision you
make falls in two categories.
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Every decision, one
is a me and us decision,
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Mesus or Jesus.
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Every decision, is
it a Mesus or Jesus
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and every, every bad
decision is a Mesus decision,
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is for me and my posse,
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me and my crew
as a Mesus decision
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or a Jesus decision and everyone
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of those bad decisions,
you know has a Mesus decision.
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I got a good friend,
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he is about to get
married for the fourth time.
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In fact by now, I
think he is married.
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And I asked him how did
you think this one is going
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to take and you had
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three tries at it
and failed every time.
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He said, 'cause
this is a Jesus decision.
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That first three
was a Mesus decision.
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I did that for me,
this one I'm doing for God.
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So, I know this one is
going to be a good decision.
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One of the good things about
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giving your life to Jesus
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is that it keeps you from
making desperate decisions.
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When you turned
your life over to Jesus,
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it keeps you from
making desperate decisions.
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When--when you get to
the point in your life,
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when you feel its all on you.
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Ever been at that
point, at that position.
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You know I-- I
got me into this hole
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and I got to get me out.
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See that's the
point of desperation.
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I got in, I got to get out.
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But Jesus is knocking
on the door of your life
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trying to tell you is
not about you anymore,
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because the same hole you're in,
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if you just look
over your shoulder,
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I'm in that hole with you.
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So what you had to do is
turn over to Jesus and say,
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listen Jesus how you going
to get us out of this mess.
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Because everything that
touches you, touches Jesus,
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everything that
troubles you, troubles Jesus,
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everything that
bothers you, bothers Jesus.
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And listen everybody that
disturbs you, disturbs Jesus.
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Which is why you don't
have to lay awake nights
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trying to get even with foe,
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how to deal,
think about revenge,
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because God's got your back.
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The Bible says,
when--when you do right
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and folk do you wrong, hello.
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There he can cause a
fire on their own head.
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When they repay
your good with evil,
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God says I'm writing it down.
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So, you don't
have to worry about.
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All right, I'll
take care of that.
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Uh-uh, God's going
to take care of that.
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Vengeance is mine sayeth, hello,
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He's got your back,
once you are his child
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and so you don't have to
worry about being desperate,
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because God's going
to take care of you.
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And no matter what hole
you crawl into or fall into,
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you got enough brains to ask,
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Jesus has enough
love to answer, amen.
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You just got to trust in God.
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You just got to trust in God.
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Now, the cute little
story about little boy
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just three years of age.
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Going to church and
he had little saying
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to do in front of the
whole church and he was nervous.
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Just three words,
trust in God, trust in God
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and so since he was
so afraid he forget it,
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he had written on
little piece of paper
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sitting in back of daddy's
car driving to the church.
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Trust in God, trust
in God, trust in God
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and it was kind
of a warm spring day
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and so daddy
rolled down the window
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to get little air in
the car and a gust of wind
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blew in the car, snatched
the little piece of paper
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and blew it out the--
window and little boy said,
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daddy, daddy, stop the car.
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My trust in God
just flew out the window.
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Now you laugh, but how
is that in our own lives.
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Little trouble come
along, somebody get on your case
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and your trusting
God flies out the window
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and you get desperate
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and you make desperate decisions
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and desperate
decisions are bad decisions.
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Being in Jesus keeps you
from desperate decisions.
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That mean your life
is going to be easy.
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John 16:33, Jesus
said I have--I have spoken
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these things unto
you because in the world
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ye shall have tribulation,
but be of good cheer;
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for I have
overcome the world, amen.
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Brethren, its
either Mesus or Jesus,
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the choice is yours.
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Christ died to give
you control of your life.
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You commit your life to
Him, He gives you control.
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Religion is easy, is
commitment and control.
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You commit to Jesus,
He gives you control.
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So you don't
have to be desperate,
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because with you in
Christ, you got control
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and the Bible says, you've
got a future in him, amen.
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Amen. God bless you.
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How many of you today
would be willing to trade
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in the Mesus
for Jesus, for real?
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How many of you
today are willing
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to not let our trust in Jesus
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fly out the window
and it's by God's grace
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that He will empower us to
daily live in service for Him.
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But we must remember
each and every morning,
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each and every evening to say
Lord, thank you for this day.
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Father I messed up today
and what's going to happen
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is the flavor of
Christ is going to continue
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to be a continual thought
in your mind and in your life.
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It may start as
hard to open the Bible,
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I'm going to have worship, okay,
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and then off to work you go.
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But as you grow in
wisdom and stature with favor
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in with God and man,
it becomes continually
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second nature, a
love relationship,
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and it's not like okay,
Lord now I need Your help
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is to continual
relationship with our Creator.
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So brothers, this
is not scientific,
00:25:14.38\00:25:17.46
this is personal what
He has done in our lives
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that we want to share with you
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and you know what's
going to happen in your lives,
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you are going to
become missionaries,
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because you're gonna want
to share with the downtrodden
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in our world today.
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How many of you
would like to recommit,
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rededicate or the
first time ask Jesus
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to be your Lord and Savior.
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This is not a once saved,
this is not an altar call,
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but how many of you
would like to rededicate
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and ask God to
be able to use you
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as a vessel that was
once broken, to mend you,
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repair you that He is the--
potter and we are the clay.
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I would like to
ask two volunteers
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to come up and close with
prayer, the one over here.
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There's one brother
that would be willing
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to close with prayer.
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There's one, the one
right here come up brother.
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Dear heavenly Father, we
come in the name of Jesus
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and we just ask that You
can give us the strength to pray
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for what you want and to
whom we come across trials
00:26:25.92\00:26:30.03
and we want to do
some we know its wrong
00:26:30.04\00:26:32.34
just to have faith in
You and you know when trials
00:26:32.35\00:26:35.36
come we can just cast a care
upon you and believe and trust
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in You for what
you want above all else
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that we can just for--just
for one just have that leap
00:26:42.78\00:26:46.76
of faith and that's what we want
00:26:46.77\00:26:48.95
and that our
lives will be changed.
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We will just have the faith
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and we pray that
in Jesus name, amen.
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Heavenly Father,
we come before you
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in the name of Jesus.
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Father, I plead the blood of
Jesus over this congregation,
00:27:01.72\00:27:04.92
over this ministry,
and over your entire word.
00:27:04.93\00:27:07.84
I pray Father that you
watch with Your holy word
00:27:07.85\00:27:11.15
as it goes out
into these vessels.
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Heavenly Father,
let you word be planted
00:27:13.32\00:27:15.54
into the good soul of our heart
00:27:15.55\00:27:17.65
and let it be Your
Spirit Father, that brings forth
00:27:17.66\00:27:20.65
a harvest in due time.
00:27:20.66\00:27:21.99
Heavenly Father, I
pray for this ministry
00:27:22.00\00:27:24.50
and I ask that
You open doors Father
00:27:24.51\00:27:27.26
that no man can shut
and that you take them
00:27:27.27\00:27:30.13
on a journey that only
Jesus can take them too.
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Heavenly Father, I
plead the blood of Jesus
00:27:33.35\00:27:35.62
over our families
and our loved ones
00:27:35.63\00:27:37.49
and over this
ministry and over Your word
00:27:37.50\00:27:39.83
and I ask that You protect
us from seen and unseen danger.
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Father let us
continue to grow in Your word.
00:27:43.67\00:27:46.56
Help us to be transformed
00:27:46.57\00:27:48.47
within the renewing of
our mind, help us to be most
00:27:48.48\00:27:51.67
submissive to You in your will,
00:27:51.68\00:27:53.88
in Jesus name I pray Father
00:27:53.89\00:27:56.19
and as that You lead
us and guide us, amen.
00:27:56.20\00:27:58.87
Oh, well, there is too
much freedom going on out there,
00:28:01.27\00:28:04.72
so close, but yet so far away
00:28:04.73\00:28:09.46
like the brother
may I seek today.
00:28:09.47\00:28:11.00
They can be out there
00:28:11.01\00:28:12.76
free of restraints
but not free. Yeah.
00:28:12.77\00:28:15.20
And that's the truth.
00:28:15.21\00:28:17.70
That's the truth.
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