Participants: Christopher Hudson (Host)
Series Code: FRC
Program Code: FRC000025
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00:44 Hi, you're now with The Forerunner Chronicles
00:47 and right now, we're out in LA, out in Warner Brothers Studios 00:52 in Angus Jones' Trailer... 00:55 Angus Jones of Two and a Half Men 00:57 and he's got a pretty awesome testimony to share with us, 01:02 and as I said this before, this is really... 01:05 I accept this brother... as my brother for real 01:07 because he's accepted the 7th day 01:11 as God's holy Sabbath day and just a whole lot more than 01:15 what I've just told you. 01:16 Thanks for doing this testimony with me, first of all. 01:18 Thanks man, for having me it's awesome... 01:21 Definitely... And... 01:23 All right, just tell everybody a little bit about things... 01:25 let them know. 01:26 Well... I'm Angus... 01:28 I was born in Austin, Texas, 01:31 and when I was about four, 01:35 four or so... 01:36 my family... my family and I 01:39 moved out here to California 01:41 because my dad was going to start working for his uncle 01:44 and being in California, 01:47 my mom just decided, 01:49 "Hey, let's go and try and do the 'acting thing'" 01:51 and it was one of those things that was totally random 01:57 it wasn't anything that... 01:59 I was like, "I wanted to be an actor" 02:01 I was four and a half, I didn't know... anything... 02:03 and I hadn't taken any acting classes 02:07 or anything like that, we just went to some auditions, 02:11 some auditions for commercials, and I ended up getting 02:14 the first few commercials that I auditioned for 02:18 and that just kind of continued to go from there, 02:22 and I was doing commercials and I started doing movies 02:25 and when I was nine, 02:27 I was offered the job here on Two and a Half Men 02:29 and all the time... 02:35 like when I first started going to school, 02:38 when I first moved to Ontario, I actually... 02:41 Ontario, California... Right... 02:42 I actually lived down the street from a church 02:45 and that's like the pre-school that I went to 02:47 the pre-school at that church 02:49 and then when I moved up to Kindergarten, 02:53 I went to Upland Christian School 02:56 a Non-denominational Christian School, 02:58 I think it's called Non-denominational... 03:01 and that was always something 03:03 that was important to my parents 03:05 that I was at a regular school while at the same time, 03:09 doing some acting, I guess, their idea originally was just 03:15 putting some money away for College, 03:17 and things like that, and so... what I would do was, 03:26 the teachers at my school 03:27 would send the work to my teachers on Set 03:30 and then whenever I'd go back to school, 03:33 I'd be right on with the students, 03:34 basically, being a regular kid with really an irregular job 03:39 and, if you want to call it a job, 03:44 we can talk about that later, 03:45 and so, about, 03:52 going to a Christian School it was always, 03:56 every year you get to take a Bible Class 04:00 more or less, 04:02 you kind of reiterate a lot of the same stuff 04:06 over the years, and I knew basic stuff 04:11 stories of Jesus, I knew, really, basics... 04:14 and we would do Bible verses and all sorts of stuff like that 04:18 and when I was in Kindergarten, 04:20 I remember, saying the prayer to accept Jesus into my heart 04:23 during the weekly chapel service at our school 04:25 but, God and the Bible and Christianity 04:31 was always just something that was at my school. 04:33 We didn't go to church on Sundays... very rarely... 04:36 if it was Easter, we would go with the family, 04:38 Right... and we didn't 04:40 pray before dinner 04:41 we didn't read the Bible at home together 04:44 it was just... I had Bible Class at School. 04:46 Right... and before my Junior year 04:49 in High School, one of my cousins, Jordan, 04:52 introduced me into weed, I started smoking weed, 04:57 and when... just like through all my Junior year 05:03 it was just like... that was... 05:06 my time became more spent on being with friends, 05:09 and as not dealing with family issues as much as I could 05:16 and devoting my time to video games, friends and music, 05:24 and then, the summer of my Senior year, 05:34 I started doing "acid" 05:38 that was pretty much the stereotypical... 05:41 like this drug can change the world, 05:43 like if this was legal... like people... 05:45 everyone would be different, 05:46 Right... I was that guy. 05:47 I was, kind of, being a little bit material 05:50 I liked... I got a nice car, I had so many speeding tickets, 05:55 thank God that I've never done an accident, 05:57 I bought some stuff 05:59 so that I could have a cool recording set up in my room, 06:02 and I like taking photos doing all this... 06:07 kind of artsy stuff, 06:09 and just kind of doing things, just like... I don't know... 06:16 and I just... I was unaware of it, 06:19 but I was just kind of on a downward trend, 06:24 just like... just kind of doing like... 06:28 I don't know... living for myself, 06:31 really not concerning myself with family, 06:35 with anything outside of... what was helping me out. 06:39 I wasn't using, what I had been given 06:42 to help others... really... to an extent, 06:44 I did kind of like the stereo... 06:47 I'll say stereotypical on this one, 06:49 stereotypical-like celebrity... 06:51 throw some money at a cause 06:53 and they give you some kind of recognition, 06:55 Yeah... yeah... it's bad... 06:57 and that's... I mean... I would help out... 07:01 I did some stuff for St. Jude's... 07:04 Children's Hospital... and things like that, 07:07 but they never... it never really... 07:09 it never really felt important to me, 07:11 and I always... just like... 07:12 it was always one of those things that was almost... 07:14 it was a little bit foreign to me, 07:17 I don't know how to describe it other than that. 07:21 December 27th of this last year, I was... 07:27 a friend of mine and I were talking 07:29 about future plans for like... 07:32 business ideas we had 07:34 and things we were going to... 07:36 things we thought we were going to do. 07:38 What you're saying... talking about maybe... 07:40 doing some types of things with artists and things like that? 07:42 Yeah... it was going to be some kind of artists' group 07:46 it's somewhere... we didn't really know 07:48 we had a lot of ideas... Right... 07:51 but we were just talking about 07:53 like what was going to be like... 07:56 what was going to be the slogan 07:58 or what would we write on it if we were going to have clothes 08:00 what would our theme... kind of be... stuff like that... 08:03 Right... and I had said that, 08:06 God is definitely a part of this 08:09 and it was like... kind of hit me real well... I was like, 08:12 "No... no... God is the center of all this, 08:15 God is the reason for all this. " 08:17 And right when I had said that, I just had this feeling, 08:23 this feeling of warmth, 08:27 acceptance, love, 08:28 I can't even... it's one of those things 08:30 the best way I can describe it is... 08:32 it's being hugged by your most person ever 08:36 but their hug... like they're able to hug 08:40 every single part of your being, 08:42 and it was just one of those things 08:44 I was like... I told... 08:46 I sat there and I told him... and I was like, 08:47 "Man, I just feel like I accepted God, 08:49 I feel like I just accepted God in my life... " 08:52 and I was like... kind of... I guess like... 08:56 one of the steps toward my change of lifestyle, 09:00 of life... and my cousin, Jordan, 09:05 the same cousin that I first started smoking weed with, 09:08 he had been woken up by God 09:10 in almost a similar fashion that I had been... 09:14 a few months before, 09:16 so I had been talking to him recently 09:17 about when it came to God and the celebrity, 09:22 the Angus Jones celebrity, 09:23 like, would it be possible to create a celebrity status 09:29 that made God appealing to people, 09:34 Right... and we were just discussing that 09:37 and so... 09:41 that was kind of during that January... 09:43 that was kind of where I was... more in my mind, 09:46 what I was thinking about... 09:47 So you guys could see in which direction 09:49 you were going to go with everything at this point. 09:52 Yeah... yeah... then, September, not September... 09:54 January 22nd, it was a Saturday night, 09:58 another friend of mine, John Peña and I 10:02 were actually in this room talking... and... 10:05 at that time I didn't know 10:08 whether or not I was going to do this show, 10:09 or... if I was 10:11 if I was going to go to college, 10:13 or if I was going to do neither, 10:14 and I had asked him what he thought about doing the show, 10:18 if he would do it if he was in my position, 10:20 he said, simply, 10:21 simply for the money 10:23 he would... he would do it 10:25 because his family was struggling 10:27 and it's just like... 10:29 Well basically, he pretty much told you to compromise. 10:33 Yeah... he said, basically he would do it, 10:38 he would do it because... because of the money, 10:41 because of the situation that he was in with his family. 10:43 Right... My friend John, you know, 10:45 he was the friend that... his family was struggling 10:49 they were in a position to maybe lose their house 10:53 their vehicles, things... it was a... 10:55 his family was going through some hard times, 10:58 and he said, simply for the money, 10:59 he would do that 11:01 because he would be able to help out his family 11:03 in a very serious way, 11:05 and that hit me 11:07 in an interesting way 11:09 because, you know, my friend, John is... 11:10 he's an extremely talented guitarist, 11:13 but he doesn't even have an Amp to play his electric guitar with 11:18 so it was just... kind of... I was like... 11:20 "Wow, look at me, I'm sitting here in this room, 11:22 I have dusty equipment, 11:25 and I have very nice things just sitting around 11:29 like they're food or whatever like it is nothing, 11:33 like it's nothing... and... that just kind of made me 11:39 like... just like... wow! I'm really a loser, 11:42 and then I told John... 11:44 we were talking about the concepts of... 11:47 if I was to do the show again, 11:51 I could try and be a witness for God, 11:54 almost through... through just kind of being... 11:58 being in the public eye. 12:00 I was like a celebrity almost, like, you know... 12:03 Right... I could still be... who I was... 12:05 who I was in a sense... 12:07 But still continuing to be like "Jake on Two and a half Men" 12:11 now a servant of Jesus Christ. Exactly. 12:13 Yeah, exactly, and so he was asking me these questions, 12:16 he's like, "Well, if you're going to do that, how about... " 12:18 he was just asking me questions about my life. 12:20 I was just like... "Well yeah, I'll have to change that... 12:22 well, yeah, I have to change that... 12:24 well, yeah, I'll have to change that, 12:26 well, yeah... I have to... " 12:27 it was just like... one thing after another... 12:30 he was asking me these questions that were just... you know... 12:33 he wasn't trying to take me apart 12:36 but it was breaking me down, and you know, I realized... 12:41 I realized that it couldn't, it wasn't my friend, John Peña, 12:46 talking like... it wasn't... 12:47 he wasn't the one thinking of the questions, 12:51 it wasn't him... it had to have been God, 12:54 the Holy Spirit, or something talking through him... 12:58 to let me know that the position that I was in 13:01 was not where I needed to be, 13:03 for where... God wanted me to be. 13:06 Amen... 13:07 And, I was like, all right... 13:09 I woke up the next day and I was like, 13:11 "All right God, what can we do today, 13:13 show me what I need to do, how to do it, 13:16 who I can help, who I can tell, whom I can tell about you?" 13:21 And I did some research on the internet, 13:24 and I came to "Do's and Don'ts" and things like that 13:28 and I went to school the next week and had an excellent week, 13:31 I was everybody's friend, 13:35 I was just trying to do what I can 13:42 do what I could for any... I was doing better... 13:46 focusing on my schoolwork, 13:47 especially Bible class and stuff like that, 13:49 focusing on my study, 13:50 and then basically, the next weekend, 13:55 I was in the same exact position, 13:58 I was in the same exact sins 14:02 that I was in the weekend before 14:04 and it was just like... one of those things... 14:06 like, God spoke to me last weekend 14:10 and I'm here in the same exact position 14:14 I was the person like... God told me personally 14:18 basically that He wanted me to get it together 14:23 and I've 14:25 I've already failed, I've already fallen, 14:27 you know, it was just one of those things 14:29 that really frustrated me, 14:32 I figured that there was... that I couldn't... 14:39 that was unacceptable for me, it was bad news, 14:45 and so, after that... 14:47 I started to really start to get into reading the Bible 14:53 and decided to look for a church to start going to 14:58 because I went to a Christian school, 14:59 I knew a lot of people 15:03 whose families went to church every Sunday so... 15:06 every Sunday, I was going to three of four churches 15:08 and I was just looking for the right church 15:13 I heard some awesome sermons 15:15 and got some good learning and stuff 15:18 but... I just don't... I don't know... 15:20 there wasn't anything that was sticking out to me 15:25 and then a friend of mine, a friend of mine at school 15:30 had told me about... he said a friend of his... 15:33 and this friend was the friend 15:36 that couldn't go out on Friday nights... 15:37 Right... and things like that 15:39 and we never knew why... and he told me... 15:43 he told about a friend of his' church 15:46 that was... that I was looking to go to a church 15:49 with an all-Black congregation and kind of a... 15:53 I guess you could say... 15:55 I was looking for a Black-gospel theme 15:57 I don't know... I like Black people... 15:59 and I'm not afraid to say it, 16:04 and, you know, I say "Black" 16:09 I say Black because like... I have a friend, 16:11 a friend of mine... he was a Bible Worker 16:13 and he's Black, and he says to me, 16:15 "I'm not African American, 16:16 I was not born in Africa, I am Black... " 16:19 he says that to me... 16:20 and so, I'm now... I'm not afraid, well, you know, 16:24 Black people rock... 16:25 You're good... don't worry about that... 16:27 I have to make sure 16:28 because you know... I know don't know... 16:30 I know some people take things personally... 16:33 and I mean no offense at all... whatsoever... 16:35 Right... So, anyone... you... 16:37 Angus, it's good... Angus, it's good... 16:39 you're good, you're good Bro... you're good... 16:41 you got to pass... you're good, you're good. 16:43 So, I was looking to go and this friend of a friend 16:51 who I met once, his name was Moses... 16:53 Right... told me about this church 16:55 and it was on Saturday and I was like... 16:57 all right... and I... the first day I went there, 16:59 I went by myself, and I... the message... 17:03 like I walked in and I sat down kind of at the back... 17:08 and the message that the pastor was preaching that day 17:12 was tailor-made for me, 17:15 everything about the message was me... was my life... 17:19 what I needed to do... like the answers... 17:21 everything was me... and it was just like... 17:24 and it was then like... that was the church... 17:26 that was my church... and then you know, 17:29 I started the Bible work at the church. 17:33 Nelson Jones started... and that's funny... 17:37 Nelson Jones was a Bible worker and I'm Angus Jones... 17:39 he started... he came over one day randomly... 17:45 just out of the blue... he came over and he was like, 17:47 "Do you want a Bible Study?" and I was like, "Sure" 17:49 and I think that day he showed me 17:51 what the Bible taught about health 17:54 and I was just like, 17:55 "Wow! this is really awesome, this is really interesting, 18:02 this seems so much more appropriate 18:05 and it's right from the Bible" like, it was just... 18:07 it was really interesting... I just kept learning 18:10 the basic 18:13 the basic messages of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, 18:16 and every single time I was learning all this new stuff, 18:21 I just loved it, it was like... it was so great to 18:23 it was so clear too, 18:27 it didn't seem like I was being 18:29 tricked... you know, of course, all my family... 18:31 Right... not all my family 18:33 but some of my family, they were like, 18:34 "he's going to that SDA Church those cults, 18:36 it's another cult, no, no, no, no... " 18:38 they were trying to tell me to get out of there 18:40 but I wasn't... 18:41 I didn't feel like I was being fooled, 18:45 and I just like... 18:46 I could study it for myself, 18:49 and it was there in the Bible, there was no... 18:52 That's what's most important, it's right there in the Bible. 18:56 It's there... and there's no evidence for the opposing views 19:00 Hmmm... hmmm... and that's, you know, 19:03 there was no way of getting around it, 19:07 and it was awesome, it felt right, 19:10 applying it to my life, starting to observe the Sabbath 19:15 like... the Sabbath is great! it's just like, 19:18 I know that it's been an extreme blessing in my life 19:21 and I'm so thankful for it. Amen... 19:24 I've been keeping the Sabbath to a certain degree 19:27 not properly... probably... but now, I'm a hundred percent 19:32 like sundown Friday to sundown Saturday, 19:36 I make sure to keep it to the point 19:41 because it's an absolute... 19:43 it's been an absolute blessing in my life... 19:46 so just learning the truth, that's one of those things, 19:50 that I've... it's changed my life thoroughly 19:56 and just given me like a whole new... 19:59 just every single day, 20:02 no matter what happens in the day, 20:04 it's just a great day, you know, because 20:07 I get to be a part of what God is doing in this world 20:11 which is just crazy that the Creator of the Universe 20:15 even is concerned... 20:18 I'm allowed to be a part of the work. 20:22 Recently I started taking a... 20:24 I took kind of an all-inclusive evangelism class, 20:29 "The End Times" like these ministries put on, 20:33 and I just finished that recently 20:36 and that was super awesome 20:38 I started to learn the Sanctuary message 20:39 and I've been learning the prophecy 20:42 and the prophecy messages and everything 20:46 and of course, I was hipped to your videos, 20:51 I think even before I got into the church, 20:55 the first video that I saw was the video about ASAP Rocky 21:00 and the effects of that music's genre and things like that 21:05 and I've been watching the videos 21:09 from Forerunner Chronicles, 21:12 I love watching Forerunner Chronicles 21:14 all the information... it's so great 21:16 and it's just... 21:18 your videos have, no doubt, been a blessing to me 21:22 and it's wild you know, it's funny, I sent you... 21:25 I sent you an e-mail just a couple of weeks ago 21:27 just thinking... just so I could get your opinion 21:29 on a few things, and then, 21:31 Mike Johnson says that you called him 21:35 just to get a hold of me, and now you're here... 21:37 Praise God, praise God for that. 21:39 Yeah, God is good, God is good, like... 21:41 things like that... like that's... 21:44 that's literally like... 21:46 people see me... people see me and they're like, 21:48 "Whoa, you're changed!" 21:50 like... I see this guy and I'm like, 21:52 "Wow! man of God, Forerunner, right here, I can touch him, 21:57 I can hug him... Awww... nah... 21:58 no, no, like seriously... Thanks Bro... 22:01 Yeah, God is great like... 22:02 it's just... it's like one of those things that's... 22:04 I like that... that's what I like... 22:09 People say, "It's just entertainment. " 22:12 The fact that it's entertainment it's... 22:15 do some research on the effects of television in your brain 22:21 and I promise you... you'll have a decision to make 22:25 when it comes to television, 22:27 and especially with what you watch on television, 22:29 it's bad news... it's bad news... 22:32 so, that's coming... 22:34 I don't know if it means any more... coming from me, 22:37 but, you might not have heard it otherwise. 22:41 So, just watch out, watch out, because the... 22:44 a lot of people don't like to think about 22:47 how deceptive the enemy is. 22:49 He's been doing this 22:52 for a lot longer than any of us have been around 22:54 so, we can't play around, 22:57 there's no playing around when it comes to eternity. 23:02 Like Christ's work in your life 23:05 and try and be a filter for His love because 23:11 otherwise... for myself, if I'm not doing His work, 23:19 I really... I don't want to... I might as well just die now, 23:23 I might as well... you know, God could take me now, 23:26 God could... even if I... you know... 23:28 if I'm not doing... if I'm doing more harm than good 23:32 or if I'm doing any harm, 23:34 I don't want to be here, 23:36 I don't want to contribute to the enemy's plan 23:39 and it's just... it's one of those things 23:45 like we can... if we're lukewarm 23:49 and if we are behaving like the Laodiceans, 23:53 it's going to cause a lot more harm 23:57 because people will see us and be like... 24:00 "Oh, I can be a Christian and be on a show like 24:03 Two and a half Men. " You can't... 24:05 you cannot be a true God-fearing person 24:07 and be on a television show like that. 24:10 I know... I can't. 24:14 I'm not okay with... 24:16 what I'm learning with what the Bible says 24:17 and being on that television show so, you know, just... 24:22 it's... you go all or nothing. 24:24 If I'm not ready right now, I'm ready "to be ready" 24:26 Amen... I like that... amen. So yeah... 24:31 amen... that's the real deal... that's the real deal... 24:37 I'm proud of you Bro, God bless you. 24:45 I hope that whoever gets to see this, 24:51 you know, whatever I've said, it might touch them 24:59 meaning... whatever I said 25:00 that is not... what God would have me say, 25:03 would be discounted and not discounted against Him 25:08 so, you know, because by no means I'm perfect 25:14 and so, not yet anyway, Amen... 25:18 and, so yeah, that's one thing I'd say. 25:24 You want to add something. 25:29 If there's anything that you could say to everybody out there 25:37 here's a last opportunity to say one word 25:42 of encouragement or exhortation, what would it be? 25:51 The name of the game right now is compromise... 26:00 meet in the middle... to get things done 26:03 that's the name of the game right now, 26:06 and according to the Bible, when that happens, 26:12 we're no longer standing for anything, 26:18 we are no longer on the right... on the side of the truth 26:24 because a little leaven, leaventh the whole lump, 26:28 and so, you're either hot or you're cold 26:33 and that's where we're in almost a period of the Laodicean Church 26:40 we really... we need to pick our side now, 26:44 you need to pick your side, 26:45 you need to be a 100 percent on that 26:47 you need to be a 100 percent... or nothing, 26:51 if you're going to be for the world, 26:52 be for the world, don't try... 26:54 you're doing so much harm being half in and half out, 26:58 you're harming yourself and harming those others 27:00 who might actually want to know the truth. 27:05 So, choose you this day whom you will follow. 27:11 The Bible says in James chapter 4 and verse 4, 27:18 "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, 27:20 know ye not that the friendship of the world 27:22 is enmity with God? whosoever therefore shall 27:24 be the friend of the world, is the enemy of God. " 27:27 And what I really appreciate about Angus is that 27:29 he's identifying with the fact that, 27:32 you cannot be a friend of the world 27:34 he's either going to serve God or serve this world 27:37 and he's taken his stand, 27:39 and you're going to see that... more so 27:42 even as the days go forth because I'm thoroughly convicted 27:46 that I'm with the brother 27:48 that the Spirit of God is clearly leading 27:50 and you're going to see that in the very near future, 27:53 he's taking his stand on the right, 27:55 he's walked away from it, 27:57 you need to make a decision, what are you going to do? 28:00 This is your opportunity. 28:02 As always... this is The Forerunner... 28:05 this is Angus as well... 28:07 and whether you like it or not, the truth is the truth. |
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