Come let us reason together.
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"Though your sins be as
scarlet, they shall be as wool."
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Though your sins
be dark and black,
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they can be cleaned
through Jesus Christ.
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This is the prison laundry.
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Lives are cleaned in cells
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as clothes are
cleared in this laundry.
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It's all about cleaning
from the inside to the out.
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Clothes are washed
and cleaned outside to in.
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Lives are washed and
cleaned inside to out.
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I'm free indeed.
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We are in cell block B.
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We are on, I
think the fourth tier.
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The gentlemen behind me
are all in single cells,
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they've all received
their Christmas Behind Bars,
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a package as we had a chance
to talk to any number of them.
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I just talk to a young
man, I suspect early mid 30s.
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He has got 75
years he is looking at,
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but he is happy, he is joyous,
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he is talking about
the goodness of the Lord.
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He got sometime shaved off
and he is thanking God for that.
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And he says
though I'm in prison,
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my heart is
free, my head is free.
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My brother has given
his heart to the Lord,
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left drugs and become a pastor.
And now we have become closer,
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so I get one visit
from a brother who loves me
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and I know that
the Lord loves me,
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that's the spirit
here in places like this.
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They appreciate
what's happening,
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they appreciate the
gifts that they are given.
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They appreciate the fact
that somebody cares enough
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to come and say
hello to pray with them,
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to hold their hand, to
tell them they are not worthless
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but that they have great
value in the eyes of Jesus.
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God bless you guys very, very
much, very, very, very much.
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There is no words to
express the gratitude
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that I feel in my
heart personally you know,
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and I know
there are many others,
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I'm not the only one but for me
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it means more than me to me
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then I can put in the
words, it really does.
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This tray is provided
for everyone of these inmates
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in this housing location,
they can't walk out to chow,
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they can't get fresh air.
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They are locked in
here 23 hours a day,
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day by day and the only hope
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that they are able to receive
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is a gift package
from Christmas Behind Bars.
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For this gift package
only comes once a year,
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but I know that my
brothers in this lockup unit
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appreciate these
perhaps more than those people
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out there in the population
in the populated area.
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So they get their
meals here three times a day,
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put through their
little food slot right here
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and that's how they get fed
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and that's - that's the
only interaction they have
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during this time of
lock up here on this unit,
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so it's a tremendous blessing
that they allow us to come here
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and allow them to
get these gift packages
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because some facilities
don't allow the lock up people
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to get a package.
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And in my point of
view, these are the people,
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these are my brothers
and they, they deserve
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and they need a
word of encouragement
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and clear down in
the bottom of the bag
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every one of these
has a devotional book.
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This book was donated by Three
Angels Broadcasting Network
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that they can begin
to read and understand
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the prophecies of
Daniel in Revelation.
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In every bag there
is a different book
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and so that's a great blessing,
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we want to say thank
you for your sponsorship.
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At the age of three
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I was a-- I was child
abused by my stepfather
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and I started
going to foster homes,
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probably right
before I turned four,
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and I have been in
several foster homes,
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five or six foster
homes and two group homes.
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It was challenging.
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There was a time
when I felt like,
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you know, no one
really wanted me,
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especially coming
up as a kid, immature,
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not really
knowing what's going on.
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In my teenage years,
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I had the normal teenage
problems as far as stress,
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of course with the added shaky
background that I came from,
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it drew some anger problems.
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I had a temper when I was a kid,
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I got introduced to drugs.
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When I got introduced to drugs,
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that's where the
down experiment started,
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I started going--I started
doing things to get drugs
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and that's what
landed me here in prison
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because of
burglary that went bad.
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You know, I'll
be honest with you.
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When I was doing
burglaries and I was on drugs,
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I still believe in God,
and I still believe in Jesus.
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And things got so
tight for me one day,
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and I cursed out God.
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I rejected Him out
loud, yelling, screaming
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and I turned away from Him
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and two weeks later I
caught in murder case.
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My wife didn't know about it.
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I'd completely lay the
blame with myself, completely.
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Like I said earlier,
I knew right from wrong.
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And I knew--all
though I didn't know
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how to handle doing right at
that time because of the drugs.
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Because now that I got
it more centered on myself,
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I know what to stay away from,
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so I won't get to
that point, you know,
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I know the steps
to take right now.
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Then I didn't
know the steps to take.
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I just kind of just--I
was just like, man, you know,
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I know what is
right, I know what is wrong,
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but actually I used to do wrong
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and I didn't--I was
cloudy in my head, man,
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I didn't have a
idea what, you know,
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what I really should be doing.
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When I came to prison, I
got an account letter here
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and I still had some bad habits
even on the account letter
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and I was listening to the word
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and everything
seems so familiar to me,
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because of coming up
in my first foster home.
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Everything is like
okay, did you know this.
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So I started reading more,
studying more, praying more.
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I didn't have no
visitors at the time
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for like two and a half years.
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It seemed like every
one just went away from me.
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And as I'm reading the
Bible and studying the Bible,
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I'm realizing
that my only foundation
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can't be in-- it
cannot be in man.
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My foundation
has to be spiritually
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and has to be in God,
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because I knew He
was with me all the way,
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even when I was doing wrong,
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you know, I
knew God was with me.
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How many know that
Jesus said in the word,
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nevertheless not my
will, see not the will of man.
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See, man want it easy.
See, man don't want to suffer.
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See, but He said,
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nevertheless not my will
not the will of his flesh,
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but thy will be done. Amen.
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The will of the
divine one. Hallelujah .
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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I will do Your will
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O Lord I will do Your will
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How many feel
like that this morning?
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I will do Your will
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O Lord
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I will do Your will
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If the Lord
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If the Lord
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If the Lord want somebody
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Want somebody
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Here am I, O Lord.
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I will do Your will
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I will do Your will
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Whatever you want
this morning, Lord.
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I will do Your will
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I will do Your will
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O Lord
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I will do Your will
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If the Lord If the Lord
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If my God want
somebody Want somebody
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If my God needs somebody
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I'm not ashamed Its heaven here
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O Lord O Lord
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I will do Your will
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I want to
testify just a little bit
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It may get rough
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It's going to
get rough sometime,
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but you tell God
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I will do Your will
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It won't only get rough
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There may be storms
running all through your life
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but you tell God
I will do Your will
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See if the Lord holds somebody
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If the Lord If the
Lord needs somebody
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If the Lord got to have somebody
You should not be ashamed
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To tell the Lord
this morning Here am I
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Here am I
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O Lord O Lord
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I will do Your will
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Listen.
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You may get tired
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We all get tired
sometime but you tell God
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I will do Your will.
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You may be the last
person down here on earth
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in your little
family But tell God
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I will do Your will
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See, if Lord, if God got
to have somebody this morning
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If the Lord
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If God needs to have
somebody this morning
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If He calls out
somebody this morning
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You should be at the front
of the line with your hands up
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telling him He's my He's my Lord
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O Lord O Lord
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I will do Your will
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And sometime you just got
to steal away and tell him
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That's right. I
will do Your will
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Whatever you want,
Lord Whatever you need
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I will do your will
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I'm down here in
the world of sin, Lord
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But I will do Your
will I will do Your will
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There might be
trouble all around, Lord
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But I will do Your
will I will do Your will
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There may be
storm I'm in the ferry
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But I will do Your
will I will do Your will
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I may be talking
about I may be persecuted
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But I will do Your
will I will do Your will
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I may be called
everything But a child of God
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But I will do Your
will I will do Your will
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They may not like me They
may not want to speak to me
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But I... I will do Your will
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If you want me to stop
If you want me to preach
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Whatever you want me
to do, Lord If the Lord
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If my God wants somebody
If my God needs somebody
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If my God want to
have somebody this morning
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I will stay and tell the world
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Here am I Here am I
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O Lord O Lord O Lord
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I will do Your will
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Hallelujah Hallelujah
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Hallelujah
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Leading and
direction in the choir
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has taught me to
be more responsible.
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There is a spirit that I
feel, when the choir sings.
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I heard choirs coming
up in my first foster home.
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And there was always
that sprit that I felt in it
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and I always wanted to say Lord,
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I want You to use me to
send that spirit right there,
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so direction in the choir,
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it teaches me responsibility
to help assuming that spirit.
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The new days uses a leadership
positively versus the old days
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I was very, very
negative and selfish.
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We have a lot of rough
times behind the scenes
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but you know it
makes it all worth it.
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You know it gives
us strength to know
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that we can minister to someone.
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You know, Bible
says, we know not the hour,
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seasons come, seasons go,
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we wake up, we go to sleep
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but you never know when
Christ is going to come.
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Perhaps one of the most
powerful texts is in Revelation.
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We read it just
a little while ago,
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Revelation 22:12, Jesus said,
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"And behold, I
am coming quickly,
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suddenly and My
reward is with Me,
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to give to everyone
according to his work."
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The hour is late. Amen.
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Remembering a story
years ago about the little boy
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who used to like to
listen to stay awake
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and listen to the
church clock chime
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and he would count the chimes
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and at 12 o'clock
he would go to sleep
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and he really
should have been to sleep
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long before then but he would,
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he does want to hear the chimes.
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And one night he counted to
12 and it chimed one more time,
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it chimed 13 times. So
he ran into his daddy's room
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and he said, daddy, daddy,
the clock chimed 13 times.
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It's later than
it's ever been before.
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And that's the statement for us.
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It's later than
it's ever been before.
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One day soon and
very soon Jesus is coming,
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So what I say to you
who sit in this house.
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I say to the world, the question
is asked in the old song,
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are you ready for Jesus to come?
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There is a song we used to
sing that ask the question,
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do you love God
more than anything,
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do you love God?
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Do you love God more
than your car or home?
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Do you love God
more than your family?
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Do you love God
more than all you own?
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Do you love
God? Well, if you do,
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just let the whole world
know that's all He asked of you.
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Live for Him and if you
live for Him and die in Him,
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Jesus says, you
will live to ever.
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Don't you forever?
Don't you want that promise,
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to live for ever with Jesus?
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Let me have you to
do a quick exercise,
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close your eyes real
fast, think about heaven.
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Now open your
eyes and look at me.
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I just asked you to do something
which is really unfair,
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because you have nothing
to compare heaven to, Amen.
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The Bible says,
"Eye hath not seen,
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ear have not heard, neither has
it entered into the heart of God
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the things that
he's prepared for them."
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So we are much more comfortable
thinking about the things
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that won't be in heaven, Amen.
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We don't really know
what's going to be there,
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so we got to look at heaven
in terms of what won't be there,
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no more prisons. Amen.
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No more
prisoners, no more sickness,
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no more pain, no more doctors,
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no more diseases, no more AIDS,
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no more cancer,
no more arthritis,
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no more
rheumatism, no more glasses...
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or contact lenses,
or cataract surgery,
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no more arthritis,
no more rheumatism,
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no more
wheelchairs, no more canes,
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no more crutches,
no more false teeth,
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no more bad breath.
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All of that would be gone.
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No more taxis, no more rent,
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no more mortgage payments.
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You want to go to someplace,
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you don't[] call a cab, just
fly to where you want to go.
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I think about that sometimes
when I lay on my bed at night.
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How heaven is going to
be and I wanted to be there.
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And most of all I
really, really, really
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want to see Jesus. Amen.
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I got a million
questions to ask Him.
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He has got a million answers.
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And I don't know how He's going
to make time for my million
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and your million but
since we got for ever to do it,
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we ain't got to
worry about that. Amen.
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So, those who are sitting here
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and those of
you who are watching
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by the hundreds of
thousands, your television set
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or your computer screen or
listening on radio for 3ABN.
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Make a commitment now.
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Come what may,
I'm going to see Jesus
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and I'm going to
see Him in peace.
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You know I said something,
when I was pastoring New York,
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my last church was 2,142 members
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and I preached 117 funerals
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in seven years of
pastoring that church
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and in every
funeral I said to them,
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to the family what I'm
going to say to you now.
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Death in Christ
is not a bad thing.
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Better to die in Jesus
than to live without Him,
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because if you live
with Jesus and die in Jesus,
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you will live for ever more.
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The Bible says in
your haste to get,
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get wisdom and
the fear of the Lord
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is the beginning of wisdom.
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And all wisdom, all
power is wrapped up in Jesus.
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You guys have been
an unparalleled blessing
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to me and my crew.
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And you will be a blessing
to the millions of people
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who will see this broadcast.
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Thank you for
giving your lives to Jesus
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and giving us of your
time, your talent and your love.
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Stay on God's side.
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And one day we're going
to walk through the gates
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and into the city.
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Oh yeah, one more thing
that will not be in heaven,
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there will be no more
party, no more goodbyes,
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no more sadness
and no more sorrow.
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Shall we pray, Father God,
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we look forward to the
day when Jesus will come,
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when the eyes of
the blind will be open,
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when there will
be no more sickness,
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no more sadness, no
more death, no more pain,
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only life and joy and
eternal peace in Christ.
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Father, keep us.
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Let nothing
separate us from you,
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until the day we walk with
Christ Jesus through the gates
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and into the heavenly
holy city, that's our home.
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We are just pilgrims here.
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This is just a stopping place
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as it were a
hotel on the way home.
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Soon Lord, we got to pack
our bags and make that journey.
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Keep us Lord, and walk
with us everyday of our lives.
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Oh, we love You, we praise You,
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and we thank You
in Jesus' name. Amen.
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Scott, how long you have
been locked up this time around?
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This clinic, I have
been locked up a year.
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So that isn't like real long,
I mean a lot of people feel
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like they can do one year,
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five years no
big deal, no worries.
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Right, right.
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But locked up is
a feeling of what?
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Its empty, it's
lonely, it's desolate.
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It's something that--I
reached a stage in my life
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at age 52 that, you know,
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this ain't easy
no more you know.
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I did time when I was
25, I did time when I was 35.
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Now I'm 52 and I'm back again.
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It's the emptiness that leaves
you right in and you don't--
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I can't take it
like I used to anymore.
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I can't lie at myself and laugh
about it and joke about it.
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It just doesn't happen anymore.
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Because it hurts. It hurts.
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It's internal all the
way to the core, amen.
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It hurts, it hurts.
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I ran from God, I
ran away from God,
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I ran away from this charge.
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These charges were
given to me in ten years ago,
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when I ran away I
ran down South to Mobile,
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Alabama when I got down there
I was living under a fake name
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and when I went to a
church, I just showed up
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because I didn't
had nothing better to do
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and was just trying to
get out of myself there
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I got there early and
there was this little guy there
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with the guitar and an
amplifier may be a musician
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and I just wanted to
see what was going on,
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so I go over to see
what's happening and he said,
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well, my base player
idn't showed up and I said,
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well, I can play
guitar, can you play base.
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And I got up and I played
based guitar with this guy
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and I found out that he
wasn't even from that church
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and that church
didn't allow guitar
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and they were mad at him for
bringing guitars in the church
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and I was prophesied
over by some minister
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that he know me and told me
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I was going to be
some kind of evangels,
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and I did even know what
evangelism was at that point.
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That was the beginning on it.
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So, you were on the run.
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And you wanted to
try this stay low,
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so you went to the church.
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Yeah, lying
everybody, tell them,
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tell them my name
was Nelson not Scott.
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Nobody knew who I was.
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Well, you know what,
Christ wants to give us all
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a new identity,
amen, a new identity.
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And the Bible says
that he has a new name
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for each and every one of us.
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So like Paul was
Saul, God had a new name
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and a new purpose,
amen? That's right.
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I want to talk to you
just a little bit, bro,
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about the Bible that you
have been hustling high and low
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to get Bibles
tattered, torn, old or new.
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Can you tell me about the Bible
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that was presented
to you that all can see.
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Yeah, in fact if you guys--
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you guys went in
for the other one,
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but I read a scripture out of
the Bible that was given to me
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by Brother Vega at RDC
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and I was mad
when I got that Bible.
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It was a paper bag Bible
and I was watching these guys
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getting these nice black shining
with gold lettering all on
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and I just had to
have one of those bibles,
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I was mad, I
get stuck with this.
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But you know something,
it's a one year Bible,
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and it's got a
scripture reading for everyday
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and I have been
faithfully reading that Bible,
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ever since I've been down here
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and it has been
a blessing to me.
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I got just what I needed.
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I got just what I
needed from that Bible.
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And I think moreover the
thing that I can most identify
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with more than anything else,
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one of the best people
in the Bible has been Paul,
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because of what Paul did because
Paul went after the church
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and he said in one
scripture, I'm like you.
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I can't remember
the chapter and verse.
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He says, it's a true
saying that Jesus Christ
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came to save
sinners of which I'm chief
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because he was chief
because he murdered the church,
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because he went
after the church.
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He had, he had a
bunch of warrants
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for the arrest of people
in Damascus to bring him back
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and stand from and
stoned him and kill him
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and Jesus knocked
him off his donkey
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and blinded him and said,
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look now you are
not going to do this,
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you are going to be
my man, you are my man.
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But he still had a
choice in the equation.
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God didn't come and forcedly
take him and change him,
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yet through the circumstances
like Jonah cried out to God
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in the belly of the whale
because of his adversities,
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so because of Paul
situation he was willing.
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He was willing to do that.
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And Gods bring us
through these situations
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and through these trails,
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He helps our willingness to
stay refocus to get refocused.
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What would you
say to our sponsors
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that provided that tattered,
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torn cheap paper
bag Bible to you?
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I'd say keep up the good work
because of having that Bible,
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you know, I can say this out
of what I have read, you know.
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When I was a
child I spoke as a child
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and I acted as a child.
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I was bought up and
caught up by the world,
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all the smoke and
whistles, bells and mirrors
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that Satan puts
out there in our body,
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every bit of it I want
to be rock and roll star
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but you know what I didn't come
to patty cake for Jesus anymore,
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I'm not coming to play
church I'm going to praise Him
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with all I got and
I'm going to go hard,
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I'm going hard after it
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and I'm going to
give him all that I had.
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I'm gonna bring it for Him
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and that's and I just
want to say thank you all
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for providing that
Bible and giving us a chance
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to have the word
in prison. Thank you.
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But, brother, brother
our pallet of Bibles is empty
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we just passed out on 700
last Saturday a few days ago
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and now we need more
Bibles and we do have a sponsor
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for every new Bible that we buy,
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there is a sponsor
willing to buy another Bible
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to put with it, so praise God.
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Hopefully there
would be more new Bibles
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instead of the
tattered, torn Bibles
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but that was specific for you.
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But I want you to
know something brother,
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my desire is we're
passing out 8,000 Bibles a year
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once a months 700 Bibles.
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My desire is that every brother
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that goes to the
diagnostic centre
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gets him a pair of shower shoes
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or gets him one of
those itchy wool blankets,
00:27:58.95\00:28:01.09
you have an opportunity to
go over and pick up a Bible.
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Please, please
keep us in your prayers
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God bless you brother.
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Thank you for
sharing that over. Bless you.
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If you would like to
sponsor or learn more
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about the Christmas
Behind Bars Outreach Ministries,
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please contact us at
Christmas Behind Bars.
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P.O Box 474
Bluffton, Indiana 46714
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