Hello and welcome
to the divine service -
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church service - here
at the 3ABN Fall Homecoming
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2018. Our theme
is Covenant Identity.
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What an incredible blessing!
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My own heart has been convicted
and stirred and challenged
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as I've heard the messages
and read from the Word of God
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and shared with our
brothers and sisters.
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Haven't we been having
a wonderful Camp Meeting?
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Amen!
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What a blessing!
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Yeah, it's a blessing to
worship together, isn't it?
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In Spirit and in truth.
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You know, sometimes... I
don't know how it is for you
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but in my own life
sometimes for a week or two
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I get something that's
kind of stuck in my head.
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And what's been
going in my head this week
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is singleness of mind.
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And that is being
focused on Jesus Christ.
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Right? The Author and
Finisher of our faith.
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It's easy to get distracted.
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When Jill and I came home
last night it was rather late
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and our little cat
was already in the garage.
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So when the garage door opened
up where do you think she went?
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Outside. Well, I said:
"Here kitty, kitty, kitty. "
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She wasn't going to... No,
she wasn't listening to me.
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Her singleness
of mind was outside.
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So I got her
little bag of treats
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and I rattled them around.
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She sat in the yard
and just looked at me.
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I said: "Here kitty,
kitty, kitty, kitty. "
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It wasn't until I opened
the bag and started dumping them
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on the sidewalk last night
that she got singleness of mind
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for her treats, and
right for the treats she went.
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Singleness of mind: that's
what we want on the Word of God.
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And what a
blessing Camp Meeting is!
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And what would Camp Meeting?
Camp Meeting wouldn't be right
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without music,
right? And song service.
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So Tim, we're going to sing
a powerful song this morning.
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Yeah! All right!
Let's do it, Tim.
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Amen! Praise the Lord!
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Don't you want to
sing when Tim plays? Amen!
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And I can't even sing...
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But I love to make a joyful
noise when Tim plays the piano!
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Praise the Lord! And
in heaven, Pastor Murray,
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Amen! I'm going to sing.
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Praise the Lord. And I'm going
to sing better than I do now!
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So thank you
Jesus. We are so delighted
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that you have joined us at home
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as well as our 3ABN family here.
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One of my favorite
scriptures is Isaiah 43.
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God speaking... He
says: "Behold, I will do
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a new thing.
Shall you not know it?
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Now it shall spring forth.
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I will make a
road in the wilderness
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and rivers in the desert. "
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So no matter where
you come this morning
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in your own heart and
experience and walk with God
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He wants to do a new thing.
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He wants to do a new thing in
your walk, in your experience.
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In your home; in your marriage.
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In your family; in your witness.
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And I know God's
going to do that today.
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Mr. Bruce Fjarli is the
chairman of 3ABN's board.
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Good morning
brothers and sisters.
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Good morning! It's nice
to have a day off, isn't it?
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I don't know why anyone
would want to not enjoy Sabbath.
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What a blessing
the Lord gave us!
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His commandments are
such a blessing to keep.
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Amen. Why wouldn't you
want to keep the commandments?
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There's nothing
good about breaking them.
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I'd like to ask you
to bow your heads with me
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as we seek the Lord in prayer.
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Father, we need Your Spirit.
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We are sinful
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and You wash our sins away.
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Lord, give us
singleness of mind. Yes.
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May we come to You every day
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and submit and
commit ourselves to You
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anew every morning
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and go through the day mindful
of our actions and our thoughts.
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May we stay in tune with You.
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May we be filled
with Your Holy Spirit.
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May we be changed by You
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that we will be vessels
that will shine to other people
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and they will
be attracted to You
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and Your gracious love.
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Father, I want to
lift up Brother Danny.
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Yes... thank you.
Lord, I want to say thank you
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for the successful surgery,
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for the successful recovery.
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Thank you. Thank you that
he's able to stand before us
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this morning and before You
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and give his testimony
about Your undying love
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and Your unwavering faith
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that's brought this
ministry to where it is,
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that's brought
him to where he is.
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Bless our hearts; bless
him with Your Word, Lord.
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And I ask that You
would forgive all of our sins
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at this moment if we so desire.
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Bless us now as we
finish out this Sabbath day.
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We love You and
we praise Your name
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and we look forward to
spending eternity with You.
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In Jesus' holy name, Amen. Amen.
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Thank you all so much.
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I want to invite out
right now Brother David
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and Sister Beverly Ortiz.
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We had the
privilege... I'm not sure...
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have you even met
them yet, Sweetheart?
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I said "Hello" to them. OK.
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So he has met
them. I had the privilege
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and then I shared the
story with Greg of meeting them
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here at the 3ABN Camp Meeting.
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They have an amazing testimony
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and we want to share
just a bit with you right now.
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This is Beverly and David Ortiz.
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And we don't have a lot of time
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but tell us,
David... You had a diagnosis
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um, first part of this year.
And what was that diagnosis?
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Good morning. Yeah, on
January 19th of this year
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I woke up and I had a
lump on the side of my neck.
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Out of the blue. I
didn't have it the night before.
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I didn't notice it
the evening before.
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Four weeks later that
lump was tested. I was positive
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for squamous cell carcinoma
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involving my tongue and
my lymph nodes in my neck.
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That's a scary thing.
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Now we won't take time
to get into all of that
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but you were not raised in
a Seventh-day Adventist home.
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And you kind of had a
thing against the Sabbath.
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Could we say that? Absolutely.
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Beverly, you were
raised a SDA, is that right?
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Yes I was.
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OK. But when you married
David you kind of walked away
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from it? Before that
I was telling Shelley
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that it was kind of like
Pastor Lomacang yesterday
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when he talked about the clouds.
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And I forgot who was on
the other side of those clouds
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to get me through.
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So you went
through some hard times
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and kind of walked away from
God at that moment. Yes, yes.
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OK... so you're
diagnosed with cancer.
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Yes. And then you went...
There was a certain moment
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a few months later when
God kind of got through to you
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and you gave your heart to Him.
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Actually, it was not long
after that I just kind of...
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I knew Jesus spoke to me and
the Holy Spirit spoke with me
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that I
rededicated my life to Christ.
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And I was sitting on the edge of
the bed, again, not long after
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that and 3ABN was on and
John Lomacang was preaching.
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I asked my wife, I said:
"Have you seen this channel
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before? " And she says: "Yeah,
that's an Adventist channel
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3ABN. " And I said:
"Uh-oh, she's going to make me
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go to church on Saturday. "
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So again, a few weeks later,
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I was watching a
program. It was April 6th
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9:30 in the evening.
I was in my lounge chair
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and Beverly was sitting next
to me. It was Pr. Stephen Bohr
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was with Pr. Shelton and Yvonne.
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It was Hidden Sabbath Truth.
I think that was the name of it.
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And I knew Beverly was thinking
we should change the channel
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because I'm going
to start something.
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But anyway, I
just really kept quiet
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and I was watching
it and watching it.
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About 9:30 I went like this:
I slapped my hands together,
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I looked at Beverly,
and I said: "I got it! "
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And she says: "You got what? "
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And I said: "The Sabbath;
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it makes perfect sense to me. "
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And for the next two hours
the Holy Spirit anointed me
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with words and
thought that I never thought
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and wouldn't
shut up for two hours.
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So that was a Friday night,
Sabbath, and then the next
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morning we had contacted
a church for an anointing
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the day of my
birthday. So it was my birthday,
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it was the first
Sabbath I observed,
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into a new church. It
was the Ellicott City Church
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in Ellicott City, Maryland.
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And we... I was
anointed that morning.
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And so Beverly, how did
you even find this church then?
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He found it on the Internet.
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The Internet. Television, yeah:
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it's a wonderful thing.
And once all that came down
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during last Camp Meeting, again
we were sitting there watching
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and I don't remember who
it was. Maybe it was the music
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or maybe I don't remember.
But I just looked at Beverly
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and I said: "I want
to go to Camp Meeting.
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Would you like to
go? " She said: "Great! "
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I said: "I just want
to go and meet everyone:
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Danny Shelton, John
Lomacang, all the pastors here,
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yourself, and just look
at you and say thank you.
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I was a life that was changed. "
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I praise God.
All the glory to God.
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Amen! This is a
testimony to you all, too.
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You think about this:
this is what 3ABN is all about,
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isn't it? Amen! You
think about the prayers
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that you all have put for
this ministry for so many years.
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The donations. It's souls
for the kingdom of Jesus Christ.
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This is inspiring!
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So we get what we call
"good letters" into the office
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but when you can
meet people face to face
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we just want to go over there
and give them a big bear hug.
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I don't know if I
can do that on TV.
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But tell us about then
your diagnosis still...
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where you are with your
cancer. So, yeah, I'm about
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four months post treatment.
My PET scan that I had
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after treatment there was
no evidence of disease found.
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Really fast...
Along with that, too,
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just for those
others out there listening
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I was an individual
prior to my diagnosis
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who was drinking an
enormous amount of alcohol.
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And once I got diagnosis
and rededicated my life
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God anointed me, healed
me, took that away from me.
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I do not have one
desire to pick that up again.
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There has been no depression;
there has been no nothing
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after that... no
side effects at all.
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Thank Jesus!
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We want to have a
prayer for David and Beverly.
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How many of you will covenant
to pray for them at home?
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You're part of
the family of God.
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This is all your family
here, too. That's right.
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Holy Father, we come
before You in the name of Jesus.
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Thank you for David;
thank you for Beverly.
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Thank you for their testimony;
thank you for their story...
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Your story. Thank you
that You still lead us
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out of darkness into
this marvelous light.
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We give You
praise for Your Word.
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We give You praise
for Your healing power!
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We give You praise for
deliverance from addiction.
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We give You praise
for the truth in Your Word
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and for the Ortiz's
willingness to step forward
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in the truth they have learned.
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We thank you in the precious and
holy name of Jesus, Amen. Amen!
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Thank you so much.
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I'd like to invite
Brian and Diane Hamilton out.
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This is a powerful couple
for the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Brian has been our CFO
for how many years, Brian?
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Over ten years. Over ten years!
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And his wife works in Planned
Giving and Trust Services.
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And we'll let you
do the offering appeal.
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Seems kind of
fitting, doesn't it? The CFO!
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Yeah it is. Maybe it's just a
coincidence we're both involved
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in the financing...
financial area of 3ABN.
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And I'm glad that Greg
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sort of
announced why we're here.
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We don't want you
to have any confusion.
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This is an offering appeal.
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This is what this is about.
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Now I'm going to
ask that you multitask.
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Now you ladies... you
multitask all the time
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so that's no problem for you.
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But for you guys I know
this will be a challenge.
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But I'm going to
ask you to multitask.
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I want you to
reach into your wallets.
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You ladies, I want you to
dig into those bottomless purses
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of yours. I know all about them.
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My wife has one.
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Whenever I need something
all I have to do is ask
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and she'll find it in there, OK?
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So while you're digging
for your cash or your checkbook
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I want you to
listen at the same time.
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That's the
multitask that I'm asking for.
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Those of you who are on
air watching by television,
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listening by radio, you are
not exempt from this appeal.
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We want you to feel
a part of this appeal
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today for 3ABN. OK?
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So don't feel like
you're exempt or excluded.
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We want you to feel included.
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Diane and I first
want to say a thank you.
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From the bottom of our
hearts we say thank you
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for the 34 years of
consistent and faithful
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financial support of 3ABN.
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We covet your prayers; we
love to have you pray for us.
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But I want to be
perfectly honest with you.
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Straightforward with you.
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You can pray till
the cows come home
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but if you don't mix
some works with your faith -
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in other words, get
the checkbook out and write
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as you pray - 3ABN
would never have existed
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or would cease to exist
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without the mixture of
both prayer and the works.
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So from the bottom of
our heart we say thank you,
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thank you, thank you. Thank
you for what you have done,
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thank you for
what you are doing,
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thank you for what you will do.
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Diane and I want to
share with you today
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the reasons why -
at least three of them.
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Danny didn't give me
the whole service, so
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just three
reasons why Diane and I
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count it a privilege, not
just a privilege of blessing
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to not only give our
life in service here at 3ABN
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but also financially
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systematically support 3ABN.
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So Diane,
what's the first reason
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that we have for why we
financially support 3ABN?
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Would you share that?
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Well, it is a
privilege to work in a ministry
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that spreads the
gospel around the world.
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Every nook and
cranny, on the mountaintop,
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in the valleys, behind the bars,
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and the secret places,
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the open places, on the road
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as people are driving down
the road to work or wherever,
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in the kitchen
while people are working
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preparing meals,
it's just a privilege
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and then all of you are family.
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And all of these
places... And we've never met
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but we'll get to meet in heaven.
So it's just a real privilege
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to work in a ministry
that is so around the world.
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So it is a blessing to
be a part of a ministry
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that is involved in
sharing the everlasting gospel
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in all of its beauty and wonder.
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Second reason why Diane
and I count it a privilege
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to not only give
of our life forces...
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You know we all have
sort of like a lithium battery
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that God has given us,
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and every day we take a little
bit of the charge out of that
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battery and we
share it in service.
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But in addition to that
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every pay period Diane
and I take out our checkbook
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and we share a
financial gift with 3ABN.
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Systematically every pay period.
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Two hundred and
sixty-some pay periods so far.
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And why do we do that?
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3ABN - the leadership of 3ABN -
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understands the hour
in which we live. Amen!
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We live in a very
solemn and awesome time
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in earth's history.
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And it has been the practice
of the leadership of 3ABN
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to design the programming
and structure the programming
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where we keep before the
world the hour in which we live.
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What other peoples
on the face of the earth
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understand "And the hour
of His judgment HAS COME? "
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Only Seventh-day
Adventists are the only
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people group in all
the world that know that.
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Who understands
who the dragon is?
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The beast? The false prophet?
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The image of the beast? 666?
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And all the solemn warnings
of the three angels' messages
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other than
Seventh-day Adventists?
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And this ministry
lovingly, tactfully,
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but consistently
and unabashedly shares
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the three angels' messages
of Revelation chapter 14
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around the world. And
we count it a privilege
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to support such a ministry.
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The last reason, the third rea-
son, that we'll share with you
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this morning as
to why Diane and I
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count it a privilege
to be able to be a part
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of this ministry
both in our service
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and in our giving is
because this ministry
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is not ashamed to
hold up before the world
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God's Ten Commandment law.
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It is maligned by the world.
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Even the Christian world today
feels it's been nailed to some
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tree and is no
longer binding or important
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and they have set it aside.
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But this ministry holds
it proudly before the world.
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The Psalmist says:
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"Oh, how I love Thy
law; it is my meditation
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all the day long. " And so 3ABN
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shares the beauty of
God's holy law with the world.
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I have here a book: Ten
Commandments Twice Removed.
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3ABN puts its
money where its mouth is.
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One million... one
million of these books
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are being
printed and within weeks
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will be sent to the
good people of Alabama
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who are
deciding in a public vote
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whether to embrace
God's law and display it
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within their state
or reject God's law
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and not display it.
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Now, I realize that
Seventh- day Adventists and 3ABN
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understand the importance of
separation of church and state.
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We stand fast with this idea of
separation of church and state
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that has given us the
freedom to share the gospel.
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All other places where those
two have been brought together
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persecution
follows. We understand that.
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But I don't see anything wrong
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with displaying
God's law anywhere
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within the country. Amen!
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Is that a bad thing?
No! That's a good thing.
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In case you were wondering
if we should be afraid to share
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God's law or
embarrassed to share God's law
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I would have you get out
your Great Controversy book.
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Dust it off.
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Turn to page 639 in
the Great Controversy
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and let me just share a
few words from that page.
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"The clouds sweep back,
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the starry heavens are seen.
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Unspeakable glory is contrast
with the black and angry
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firmament on either side.
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The glory of the celestial city
streams from the gates ajar.
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Then there
appears against the sky
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a hand holding two
tables folded together.
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Says the prophet:
'The heavens shall declare
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His righteousness. '
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The holy law, God's
righteousness that was
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proclaimed on Mt. Sinai
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now revealed to men
as the rule of justice
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and judgment. The
hand opens the tables
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and there are seen the
precepts of the Decalogue
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traced with pen of fire.
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The words are so plain
that all can read them.
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Memory is aroused.
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The darkness of
superstition and heresy is swept
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from every mind. God's
ten words, comprehensive,
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authoritative, are
presented to the view
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of all the
inhabitants of the world. "
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Should we be
ashamed to uphold God's law?
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Absolutely not.
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So Diane and I are
privileged to partner with 3ABN
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both in service and in finance
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because 3ABN shares
the everlasting gospel,
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3ABN proclaims the
three angels' messages,
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3ABN upholds the law of God.
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And we invite you to join
us for those very reasons.
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Let's pray.
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Father in heaven,
again we thank you
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for the opportunity to be living
at this time in earth's history
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and in giving the Great
Commission and the final warning
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to earth's inhabitants
before You come, Jesus.
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Help us to be faithful.
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Be faithful in not
only how we live our lives:
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faithful in proclamation
and faithful in our finances.
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In Jesus' name
we pray, Amen. Amen.
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Sing that chorus with
me: I Cast My Care Upon You.
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I cast my care upon You;
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I lay all of my burdens
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down at Your feet.
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And any time I don't know
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what to do
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I will cast
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all my cares upon You.
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Amen! We just want to say
thank you so much Bro. Tim.
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Every time he plays it's a
worship experience, isn't it?
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We just want to say
thank you, too, for your gifts
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to the ministry of 3ABN.
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It's making a
difference in the world!
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Encouraging like I said
earlier to hear the testimonies
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that David and Beverly were able
to share with us this morning
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and they're
happening all over the world.
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We're privileged
today to have the sermon...
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the sermon brought
to us by Danny Shelton.
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He doesn't need an
introduction, does he?
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You know, it's a blessing I
have to say for Jill and myself
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to work under him, to
work with him in the ministry
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of 3ABN. How you
see him on the stage
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is how he is behind the stage.
He is just a genuine person
00:30:05.97\00:30:09.17
that loves the
Lord Jesus Christ.
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And in his heart has been
the vision for over 30 years
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to spread the three angels'
messages around the world.
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Isn't that a privilege and
a blessing to be participating
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together - isn't that?
with that mission and that goal?
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I appreciate Danny because
he is a person that gives also.
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To Jill and myself we
consider him a mentor.
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Great wisdom! And
you know, in television
00:30:32.09\00:30:35.23
it's kind of interesting
because you can get praise
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and you can also get criticism.
00:30:37.80\00:30:39.93
And Danny has just told
Jill and myself and many others
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"Just stay like this;
don't go up and don't go down.
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Just stay
even-keeled. Look to Jesus
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as your Author and
Finisher of your faith. "
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Fantastic focus
for each one of us
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to remember, isn't it?
It's Jesus who should be our
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goal and our focal point.
00:30:59.39\00:31:00.96
Before he brings us the
message today on faithfulness
00:31:01.09\00:31:04.13
I think it's very
fitting that his daughter,
00:31:04.33\00:31:06.70
Melody Shelton Firestone,
will be bringing a beautiful
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song to us with
Tim at the piano.
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My Redeemer is
Faithful and True.
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Thank you, Melody.
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As I look back
00:31:30.62\00:31:33.39
on the road that I traveled
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I see so many times
00:31:38.16\00:31:41.50
He carried me through.
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And if there's one thing
00:31:46.13\00:31:49.70
that I've learned in my life:
00:31:49.90\00:31:52.97
my Redeemer
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is faithful and true...
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my Redeemer
00:32:00.85\00:32:03.89
is faithful and true.
00:32:04.09\00:32:08.76
My Redeemer
00:32:08.96\00:32:11.36
is faithful and true!
00:32:11.56\00:32:16.20
Everything He has said
00:32:16.60\00:32:19.67
He will do.
00:32:19.87\00:32:23.71
Every morning
00:32:23.91\00:32:26.31
His mercies are new!
00:32:26.51\00:32:31.65
My Redeemer
00:32:32.05\00:32:34.42
is faithful and true.
00:32:34.82\00:32:40.26
My heart rejoices
00:32:44.69\00:32:47.76
when I read the promise
00:32:47.96\00:32:50.80
"There is a place
00:32:51.57\00:32:54.30
I'm preparing for you. "
00:32:54.50\00:32:58.37
And I know
someday I will see my Lord
00:32:58.77\00:33:03.35
face to face
00:33:03.55\00:33:05.08
'cause my Redeemer
00:33:05.28\00:33:07.85
is faithful and true...
00:33:08.05\00:33:12.39
my Redeemer
00:33:12.79\00:33:15.29
is faithful and true.
00:33:15.69\00:33:20.30
My Redeemer
00:33:20.50\00:33:22.80
is faithful and true!
00:33:23.00\00:33:27.34
Everything He has said
00:33:27.90\00:33:31.07
He will do!
00:33:31.27\00:33:34.94
Every morning
00:33:35.34\00:33:37.45
His mercies are new...
00:33:37.65\00:33:42.55
my Redeemer
00:33:42.75\00:33:45.02
is faithful and true.
00:33:45.42\00:33:50.26
And in every situation
00:33:50.66\00:33:54.93
He has proved His love for me;
00:33:55.13\00:33:59.13
when I lack the understanding
00:33:59.53\00:34:03.94
He gives more grace to me.
00:34:04.34\00:34:10.18
My Redeemer
00:34:10.38\00:34:13.65
is faithful and true.
00:34:14.05\00:34:18.35
Everything He has said
00:34:18.82\00:34:22.16
He will do.
00:34:22.56\00:34:26.23
Every morning
00:34:26.63\00:34:28.73
His mercies are new!
00:34:28.93\00:34:34.50
My Redeemer
00:34:34.90\00:34:37.61
is faithful and true...
00:34:38.21\00:34:44.05
my Redeemer
00:34:44.45\00:34:48.12
is faithful and
00:34:48.52\00:34:52.59
true.
00:34:52.99\00:34:58.96
Amen! Thank you, Melody.
00:35:05.03\00:35:07.14
Thank you, Tim.
00:35:07.54\00:35:08.87
Wow! Havin' Tim Parton here and
00:35:09.70\00:35:12.14
Melody and the rest of
them is such a blessing.
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Isn't it a blessing?
Amen! And praise the Lord.
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Excuse me while I get my...
I've gone... For an old man
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I'm using new technology.
00:35:22.52\00:35:24.12
So I'm learning to use the
00:35:24.52\00:35:27.86
technology. I figure
we do it on television
00:35:28.06\00:35:31.96
why not learn it. So
I've actually got me an iPad
00:35:32.16\00:35:34.43
which is sometimes better.
I just don't want it to fall
00:35:34.63\00:35:36.56
out of here. I
think we're OK now.
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How's everybody
doin' this morning?
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Amen. All right...
we feel blessed? Amen!
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All right.
Everybody love Jesus? Amen!
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All right. One of
our pastors used to say:
00:35:46.71\00:35:49.11
"You all love
Jesus? " They'd say yes.
00:35:49.31\00:35:51.31
He'd say: "Well why don't
you let your face know it? "
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Didn't look like it.
But that's not the case
00:35:54.58\00:35:56.38
at 3ABN Camp Meeting.
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You all look
happy... you really do.
00:35:58.25\00:36:00.36
And you came here. It's
not like you HAD to be here.
00:36:00.76\00:36:03.43
Many of you came...
Anybody come from more than
00:36:03.63\00:36:05.86
300 miles? Look at the
hands going up out here, folks.
00:36:06.06\00:36:10.20
Anybody more than 500?
00:36:10.40\00:36:12.03
Look at this! All right.
00:36:12.23\00:36:14.17
Anybody come a thousand miles?
00:36:14.37\00:36:16.04
There's some. All right,
we've got more than 1,000 miles.
00:36:17.14\00:36:19.84
I'm not going to go
any farther than that.
00:36:20.08\00:36:21.58
But what a
blessing. Thank you so much
00:36:21.78\00:36:23.78
for your love, your prayers,
your financial support of 3ABN.
00:36:23.98\00:36:27.78
I'm especially
thankful to be here today.
00:36:27.98\00:36:30.39
Some of you know
about nine weeks or so ago
00:36:30.59\00:36:33.46
I had a
quadruple-bypass surgery.
00:36:33.66\00:36:35.69
And so it's only
been the last few weeks
00:36:36.09\00:36:39.09
that you really consider
yourself gettin' up and able
00:36:39.29\00:36:42.10
to do things. But God
has blessed abundantly.
00:36:42.30\00:36:44.90
And you know what?
Had I not made it through
00:36:45.30\00:36:48.37
I still would have been
happy in the Lord, right?
00:36:48.57\00:36:51.07
'Cause you can die
happy, too... right?
00:36:51.27\00:36:52.77
So it's not important
how long we live here.
00:36:53.27\00:36:55.21
It's important that when we die
that we're ready to meet Jesus.
00:36:55.41\00:36:58.65
Amen! I've thought
about it for years.
00:36:58.85\00:37:01.75
"I wonder what will
happen... " 'Cause all of us
00:37:01.95\00:37:04.79
if we have a chance to
know it will we worry about it.
00:37:04.99\00:37:08.29
Will we? So of course I prayed
and ready to go under the knife
00:37:08.49\00:37:12.13
but I was amazed at
the peace that I had
00:37:12.33\00:37:15.36
and I said: "Thank you, Lord. "
00:37:15.76\00:37:17.17
Not in myself
and my character...
00:37:17.57\00:37:20.44
my peace was in
God that He loves me.
00:37:20.64\00:37:23.27
I confess my sins;
"He is faithful and just
00:37:23.51\00:37:25.91
to forgive me of my
sins and to cleanse me
00:37:26.11\00:37:28.98
from some of the un-
righteousness. " ALL! All of it.
00:37:29.18\00:37:31.51
You're awake and
you're ready to go.
00:37:31.71\00:37:33.52
One of the things
that I don't enjoy doing...
00:37:33.92\00:37:36.35
I'll tell you
things I love to do...
00:37:36.55\00:37:38.22
but one of the
things I don't enjoy doing
00:37:38.42\00:37:40.26
is I don't enjoy... Well,
I shouldn't say it like that.
00:37:40.46\00:37:44.83
But it's true:
every Camp Meeting
00:37:45.03\00:37:47.10
I do the church service.
00:37:47.40\00:37:50.20
But for some reason...
Now I travel around the world
00:37:50.40\00:37:52.97
and I've spoken to
crowds from 10 people
00:37:53.17\00:37:55.87
to 40 or 50 thousand.
00:37:56.07\00:37:58.11
And I don't get nervous...
that doesn't bother me.
00:37:58.31\00:38:00.28
But when I come to Camp Meeting
00:38:00.68\00:38:02.84
and I feel like I
have to make notes
00:38:03.04\00:38:04.95
and read my notes I'm
not a preacher like that.
00:38:05.15\00:38:08.22
I'm a talker. I'm not
a preacher, I'm a talker.
00:38:08.42\00:38:10.99
So I can usually go up...
00:38:11.12\00:38:12.79
I've met some of you;
I've been to your churches.
00:38:12.99\00:38:14.42
I can talk an hour... I can
talk two hours without a note.
00:38:14.62\00:38:17.86
Now I do that
because of the experience.
00:38:18.26\00:38:20.30
When you get old and
you've been traveling 34 years
00:38:20.50\00:38:23.37
and you see
miracle after miracle
00:38:23.57\00:38:25.63
now it's what do
I not get to say...
00:38:25.83\00:38:27.84
what do I have to leave
out not what am I going to say.
00:38:28.04\00:38:31.04
But the other day I
was in West Frankfort.
00:38:31.54\00:38:33.88
I was driving back and I said,
00:38:34.08\00:38:35.71
thought about: "OK, I
need to have my sermon
00:38:35.91\00:38:38.85
ready for Camp Meeting. "
00:38:39.05\00:38:42.42
And I said: "Lord, You know
I don't like to preach sermons;
00:38:42.82\00:38:46.86
I'm not a preacher. " And
it's just like this thought
00:38:47.06\00:38:50.43
came in... I hope it
wasn't me just helped Him...
00:38:50.63\00:38:52.63
but this thought
came into my mind:
00:38:52.83\00:38:54.93
"Well don't preach a
sermon. Just tell them about
00:38:55.43\00:38:58.73
how faithful I am. " Amen!
00:38:59.13\00:39:02.94
"Just tell them
about My faithfulness. "
00:39:03.14\00:39:05.21
And I said: "Now
THAT I can get into;
00:39:05.61\00:39:08.01
THAT I like...
that I have seen. "
00:39:08.21\00:39:11.21
Because I have found
out that God is faithful.
00:39:11.41\00:39:14.75
He's always there
on time when I need Him
00:39:14.95\00:39:18.89
and He never fails.
00:39:19.09\00:39:20.49
Now before this talk is over...
00:39:20.89\00:39:23.36
I'll intimidate
myself if I say sermon
00:39:23.56\00:39:26.03
so I'll say this talk...
00:39:26.23\00:39:27.60
so by the time this talk is over
I want you all to be able to say
00:39:27.80\00:39:31.83
that with me. They're
going to put it up on the screen
00:39:32.03\00:39:33.97
from time to time
that God is faithful.
00:39:34.17\00:39:36.91
He's? What's it
say? He's on time,
00:39:38.01\00:39:42.34
when we need Him,
and He never fails!
00:39:42.54\00:39:45.31
Now: God is always there.
00:39:45.71\00:39:48.12
Why did I put on
time, when we need Him?
00:39:48.32\00:39:50.69
'Cause it always seems
like God is always there
00:39:50.89\00:39:53.39
when we need Him on time.
00:39:53.59\00:39:55.26
But I thought about it: "No,
'cause we don't know when we
00:39:55.66\00:39:57.99
need Him. " So... God
is always there on time.
00:39:58.19\00:40:02.96
It may not look
like it to me or you,
00:40:03.16\00:40:04.80
but He's there on
time, when we need Him.
00:40:05.00\00:40:07.47
Amen! AND He never
fails! Isn't that wonderful?
00:40:07.67\00:40:11.24
Amen! I can tell you
that after thirty-four years
00:40:11.44\00:40:14.28
and this next month -
here in November actually -
00:40:14.44\00:40:17.48
will be 34 years since
the Lord impressed me to build
00:40:17.68\00:40:20.62
a television station
that will reach the world
00:40:20.82\00:40:22.82
with an undiluted
three angels' messages...
00:40:23.02\00:40:25.59
one that would
counteract the counterfeit.
00:40:25.79\00:40:28.02
Now, I had no idea
what that meant at the time.
00:40:28.42\00:40:31.13
I really didn't. I'm
from this little area.
00:40:31.53\00:40:33.80
Those of you that are
here: it's a little country area
00:40:34.00\00:40:36.10
as you noticed. T-ville doesn't
even have a stoplight, right?
00:40:36.30\00:40:39.07
They've just got
one little stop sign
00:40:39.27\00:40:40.94
depending which way you come in
00:40:41.14\00:40:42.77
on the main highway.
It's a small country area,
00:40:42.97\00:40:45.17
coal-mining community.
00:40:45.37\00:40:47.21
So I don't have a
background in television.
00:40:47.41\00:40:49.38
Kenny doesn't have a
background in television.
00:40:49.58\00:40:51.81
But the Lord impressed to
build a television station
00:40:52.21\00:40:54.62
to reach the world.
And I knew it was God!
00:40:54.82\00:40:59.55
Because you get
certain things that come to you
00:40:59.75\00:41:02.32
that's not you. I
had never thought about
00:41:02.52\00:41:04.66
undiluted three angels'
messages, one that would
00:41:04.86\00:41:07.40
counteract the counterfeit.
00:41:07.60\00:41:08.93
I wasn't concerned about
that. I could argue with you
00:41:08.96\00:41:11.63
about the Sabbath
and the state of the dead
00:41:11.83\00:41:13.74
and all those things,
but I wasn't constant.
00:41:13.94\00:41:15.87
I had to study the three...
I thought: "I need to really
00:41:16.07\00:41:18.31
study the three angels' messages
00:41:18.51\00:41:20.01
to see what it is I'm
gettin' ready to do. "
00:41:20.21\00:41:22.11
Right? So I knew this
was God and it wasn't me.
00:41:22.51\00:41:26.82
And so to build a
television network
00:41:27.02\00:41:29.85
that would reach the world with
an undiluted 3 angels' messages.
00:41:30.09\00:41:32.95
But you know what? I
was so sure it was God
00:41:33.36\00:41:35.92
I can tell you to this
day I've never doubted it.
00:41:36.12\00:41:39.76
And I can tell you that no
matter what I've gone through
00:41:40.20\00:41:42.90
up and down... A lot
of it I bring on myself,
00:41:43.10\00:41:45.10
a lot of it the devil's mad...
00:41:45.30\00:41:47.24
I've never once
doubted that God's in charge
00:41:47.64\00:41:51.31
and He's going to
supply every need. Amen!
00:41:51.51\00:41:53.71
So I said the other day
- this may sound silly -
00:41:53.91\00:41:56.48
I said: "I need to
do a self-examination. "
00:41:56.68\00:41:58.81
"Why is it that I've
never been discouraged
00:41:59.21\00:42:04.29
in thirty-four years? "
00:42:04.42\00:42:06.76
'Cause we've not always had
everything we felt we needed.
00:42:06.96\00:42:10.16
Everything's not
always gone good for me.
00:42:10.46\00:42:12.99
2004 I went
through a lot of things.
00:42:13.60\00:42:16.50
I even said: "You know
what? I'm going to resign
00:42:16.70\00:42:19.33
because it looks bad; it's
not good for the ministry...
00:42:19.53\00:42:22.27
I need to resign.
" I was set on it.
00:42:22.47\00:42:24.34
Went to a board
meeting to resign.
00:42:24.54\00:42:26.78
I said: "I'm not...
This just doesn't look good
00:42:26.98\00:42:31.25
whether it's my fault or not. "
00:42:31.45\00:42:33.45
Of course I didn't
think it was mine, but maybe
00:42:33.65\00:42:35.55
a certain amount is I'm sure.
00:42:35.75\00:42:38.05
"But I'm going to
resign. " But you know what?
00:42:38.25\00:42:40.16
It's like the Lord impressed me
not to. It's like He said to me:
00:42:40.36\00:42:45.16
"You keep your eyes
focused on the mission.
00:42:45.36\00:42:49.53
The mission is to take an
undiluted three angels'...
00:42:50.07\00:42:52.57
If you do that,
I'll always be there
00:42:52.77\00:42:55.80
on time, when you need
Me, and I'll never fail you.
00:42:56.00\00:43:00.28
So never give up. " So
I want to tell you today
00:43:00.48\00:43:03.11
never give up. No
matter how discouraged you get,
00:43:03.35\00:43:06.45
no matter what
people say about you...
00:43:06.65\00:43:08.75
Greg mentioned in the opening
and I've told him this a lot.
00:43:08.95\00:43:12.05
I said: "When
you're in a fishbowl... "
00:43:12.25\00:43:13.76
and quite a few of us
here are in fishbowls...
00:43:13.96\00:43:16.66
"the people really...
they're gonna be after you. "
00:43:16.86\00:43:21.53
Or as Wintley Phipps
says "If you're a bird...
00:43:21.73\00:43:24.30
you know, an eagle up there
people are shooting at you. "
00:43:24.50\00:43:26.74
So when you're in a
fishbowl that's part of it.
00:43:27.14\00:43:29.00
Public life... So there
are people who will write
00:43:29.20\00:43:32.24
or I'll meet and they'll
say: "Oh, you are so wonderful;
00:43:32.44\00:43:35.78
you're so filled
with the Holy Spirit. "
00:43:35.98\00:43:37.55
"You're my favorite
this and that and you...
00:43:37.75\00:43:39.71
oh, you're so wonderful. "
00:43:39.91\00:43:41.28
And I can't take
any of that to heart.
00:43:41.68\00:43:43.59
We give God the
credit for anything that goes
00:43:43.99\00:43:47.36
but then I also go places
and they write and they hate me.
00:43:47.56\00:43:50.63
I've had people come here to
3ABN with the express purpose
00:43:50.83\00:43:54.56
of killing me. And they've
ended up in jail for a while.
00:43:54.76\00:43:58.63
And then they get
out and they leave and
00:43:58.83\00:44:00.17
then they come back
later because "the Lord
00:44:00.24\00:44:02.77
told them to kill me. "
00:44:02.97\00:44:04.31
That's the
truth... that's the truth.
00:44:04.37\00:44:06.27
People come here... so they
either love you or hate you.
00:44:07.18\00:44:10.15
That's basically, if
you're doing the Lord's work,
00:44:10.55\00:44:12.85
people are either going
to love you or hate you.
00:44:13.25\00:44:15.05
But what I tell Greg and Jill
is: "Don't pay any attention
00:44:15.25\00:44:18.09
to any of that. The
devil will flatter you. "
00:44:18.29\00:44:20.66
The devil will flatter
you, and people used to say,
00:44:21.06\00:44:24.56
one lady said: "I
just can see a halo
00:44:24.76\00:44:27.23
when you're sitting
there over your head. "
00:44:27.43\00:44:28.76
I said: "You need a new TV! "
00:44:28.86\00:44:30.40
There's no halo there.
00:44:30.80\00:44:33.94
And so people want
to... they really want
00:44:34.34\00:44:38.31
to look at somebody
and say: "Boy, this... "
00:44:38.71\00:44:40.81
But you know what? You
can't take any of that seriously
00:44:41.21\00:44:43.68
because if you do
you're going to get caught up
00:44:43.88\00:44:45.95
in the devil's field.
You're going to lose track
00:44:46.15\00:44:48.58
of your mission. The
mission is to take an undiluted
00:44:48.78\00:44:51.82
three angels' messages,
one that would counteract
00:44:52.02\00:44:54.36
the counterfeit
into all the world.
00:44:54.56\00:44:55.89
And I want to tell you some-
thing: I can say as far as 3ABN
00:44:55.99\00:44:59.83
and our board
we've run a good race.
00:45:00.03\00:45:02.06
We've fought a good fight.
I don't say that in myself
00:45:02.26\00:45:04.60
but we have stuck
true to the mission
00:45:05.00\00:45:07.54
of an undiluted
three angels' messages
00:45:07.74\00:45:10.11
and taken it to the
world and God has honored that.
00:45:10.31\00:45:13.61
Amen! God has always been there.
00:45:13.81\00:45:15.48
He's been faithful.
He's on time when we need Him
00:45:15.68\00:45:18.45
and He's never failed.
00:45:18.65\00:45:20.32
He will do that in your life.
00:45:20.52\00:45:21.85
I promise you He
will do that in your life.
00:45:21.88\00:45:24.29
We just had a board
meeting the other day.
00:45:24.65\00:45:26.79
After thirty-four years
totally dependent on faith...
00:45:27.29\00:45:31.73
We don't get money from
the church and we shouldn't.
00:45:31.93\00:45:33.93
We're a separate 501C3, an inde-
pendent or supporting ministry
00:45:34.13\00:45:38.57
of the church.
Everything we have is paid for.
00:45:38.77\00:45:41.20
We have zero
long-term debt. Amen!
00:45:41.40\00:45:43.84
Now we rarely have
any money in the bank
00:45:44.04\00:45:45.71
unless it's set aside for some-
thing that's going to be used.
00:45:45.91\00:45:48.68
But can you imagine
after thirty-four years
00:45:49.08\00:45:50.98
this is not a little operation.
00:45:51.18\00:45:52.98
Well it might be to some
of you but most of you here
00:45:53.75\00:45:56.05
you've taken some tours
around: it's a pretty good-sized
00:45:56.25\00:45:59.25
facility. You see a
lot of people around here.
00:45:59.45\00:46:01.99
We're on a lot of satellites;
we're on a lot of cable sta...
00:46:02.19\00:46:05.29
We're on
literally around the world.
00:46:05.49\00:46:07.96
It's not... It takes
millions and millions
00:46:08.16\00:46:10.27
and millions of dollars.
Somehow we never get too much.
00:46:10.47\00:46:13.74
That'd be a nice
feeling to say: "Oh, wow!
00:46:13.94\00:46:15.97
We can just put
millions in the bank
00:46:16.17\00:46:17.54
and not worry about it. "
But we always have enough.
00:46:17.74\00:46:20.51
There've been times
in the last several years
00:46:21.01\00:46:23.45
that we get down...
that we did go in debt.
00:46:23.65\00:46:26.11
But you know what? We refocused
and God brought us back out.
00:46:26.51\00:46:30.49
Amen! He's always there.
00:46:30.69\00:46:32.12
He's faithful! He's
always there on time
00:46:32.32\00:46:35.19
when we need Him
and He will never fail.
00:46:35.39\00:46:37.69
That's exactly...
When we believe that...
00:46:37.89\00:46:40.20
When you actually believe that
00:46:40.60\00:46:43.50
you will be
amazed... you will be a giant
00:46:43.70\00:46:46.47
in the work of the Lord.
00:46:47.70\00:46:49.14
Not to give you the credit
00:46:49.64\00:46:51.24
but to give God the credit.
00:46:51.44\00:46:52.77
When you believe
what you're teaching...
00:46:52.94\00:46:55.04
We tell people all
this stuff all the time,
00:46:56.14\00:46:58.15
but when you believe it
and you don't get discouraged
00:46:58.35\00:47:01.62
and you don't
"Oh, well, woe is me!
00:47:01.82\00:47:03.49
If I didn't have any bad
luck I'd have no luck at all. "
00:47:03.69\00:47:06.42
You know: "Oh, this is terrible.
People don't treat me right
00:47:06.62\00:47:09.72
and I don't... " When you
can say that "God is faithful,
00:47:09.92\00:47:13.90
He's always there,
on time, when I need Him
00:47:15.13\00:47:17.93
and He'll never fail"
your whole life will change.
00:47:18.13\00:47:20.74
So I've asked them to put it
up on the screen several times.
00:47:21.34\00:47:24.01
I don't care when they do it.
00:47:24.21\00:47:25.54
I want you to think about that.
00:47:25.57\00:47:26.91
You can change it
however you want to, to fit you.
00:47:27.01\00:47:29.98
But I have seen God time
and time and time again...
00:47:30.18\00:47:33.42
And I wanted to recount... I
don't have time to go through.
00:47:33.62\00:47:36.55
I mean, we have
miracle after miracle.
00:47:36.79\00:47:38.49
But I want to read a few
scriptures just right in a row
00:47:38.69\00:47:41.79
and you write them down
00:47:41.99\00:47:43.36
'cause we're not going to
just stay on them too long.
00:47:43.76\00:47:46.09
But I want to
put some scriptures
00:47:46.29\00:47:47.63
just in the beginning
00:47:47.73\00:47:49.06
and I'm going to
read them to you.
00:47:49.10\00:47:50.47
The first one is I Corinthians.
If you have your Bibles
00:47:50.50\00:47:53.13
or your iPads like
I've got or your phone,
00:47:53.34\00:47:56.04
go to I Corinthians 10:13.
00:47:56.24\00:47:59.64
I Corinthians 10:13.
00:47:59.94\00:48:02.34
This is gonna be fun,
folks. This is fun because
00:48:03.45\00:48:06.11
it is such a... so great to know
00:48:06.31\00:48:09.58
God loves you;
He cares about you.
00:48:09.78\00:48:11.75
He's always there; He's
made a plan of salvation
00:48:11.95\00:48:15.26
and no one will miss out on
heaven that really wants to go.
00:48:15.46\00:48:20.00
Nobody! It's
such a great message
00:48:20.40\00:48:23.90
and I praise the
Lord for it. All right.
00:48:24.10\00:48:26.13
I mean, that's some great news.
00:48:47.26\00:48:49.59
That we will never be
tempted more than we can...
00:48:50.53\00:48:53.43
Some of you are old
enough. Do you remember the
00:48:53.63\00:48:55.13
comedian Flip Wilson?
00:48:55.33\00:48:56.97
Everything that happened he
said "The devil made me do it. "
00:48:57.47\00:49:00.24
Right? Well... we
found out that's a lie.
00:49:00.54\00:49:03.44
This says the devil
can't make you do anything!
00:49:03.64\00:49:05.91
Right? Because you'll never
be tempted more than you can
00:49:06.11\00:49:09.31
endure. And so to me
what a great promise.
00:49:09.51\00:49:13.72
The Lord says: "I'll
make a way of escape. "
00:49:13.92\00:49:16.18
So if we really want to
we don't have to be overtaken
00:49:16.38\00:49:19.39
by the devil. It's a
great great scripture.
00:49:19.59\00:49:22.12
I want you to go to
Philippians now... 1:6.
00:49:22.32\00:49:24.76
Philippians 1:6. Give you
just a second to turn to it.
00:49:25.73\00:49:29.23
Philippians 1:6:
00:49:30.70\00:49:32.20
That's more good news:
what God starts He finishes!
00:49:41.54\00:49:44.25
Isn't that
great? Think about it.
00:49:44.41\00:49:46.05
Be confident; be confident.
We don't have to go around like
00:49:46.25\00:49:50.49
"Oh boy, I don't know. Things
just aren't going right. "
00:49:50.69\00:49:53.96
This says: "Be
confident of this very thing:
00:49:54.16\00:49:57.86
that which God's
begun He will finish. "
00:49:58.06\00:50:00.33
In our case, He raised 3ABN
so we have no reason to doubt.
00:50:00.53\00:50:04.60
We don't have to say: "Oh
boy, if you guys don't send
00:50:05.00\00:50:07.24
the money we're going
to turn the lights out
00:50:07.44\00:50:08.77
and we're going to shut down. "
00:50:08.90\00:50:10.24
No, we're going to do
whatever we have to do.
00:50:10.34\00:50:12.24
But I have found
out if we're faithful
00:50:12.44\00:50:14.41
to God and we're
faithful to the mission
00:50:14.81\00:50:17.28
that He's given us as
Seventh-day Adventist Christians
00:50:17.48\00:50:20.02
and you, too...
whatever Christian you are,
00:50:20.22\00:50:23.15
whatever denomination you are.
00:50:23.39\00:50:24.72
I think God has people in
all churches, don't you? Amen!
00:50:24.85\00:50:27.36
But I think God has
always had present truth
00:50:27.56\00:50:29.56
and today Seventh-day
Adventists have present truth
00:50:29.76\00:50:32.26
that needs to get to
a lost and dying world.
00:50:32.56\00:50:34.83
To whom much is
given much is required, and
00:50:35.03\00:50:37.37
if we fail to do it
the blood is on our hands.
00:50:37.57\00:50:39.87
Amen! God could save
everybody on His own.
00:50:40.07\00:50:42.27
He doesn't need us, but He
allows us to be in His work
00:50:42.47\00:50:45.61
so we don't get too selfish.
00:50:45.81\00:50:47.28
'Cause if I don't love my
neighbor enough to witness
00:50:47.48\00:50:51.08
to him I'm not
fit for heaven. Right?
00:50:51.28\00:50:53.72
So God says: "I'm
going to entrust you
00:50:53.92\00:50:56.22
with being a
witness to your neighbors.
00:50:56.62\00:50:58.95
Then I'm going to supply
all of your every need. "
00:50:59.15\00:51:02.09
He says... I John 1:9.
You can say this from memory.
00:51:02.79\00:51:06.83
Now folks, this
is some great stuff!
00:51:16.81\00:51:18.91
This is some great stuff.
00:51:19.11\00:51:20.48
We ought to be
tremendously excited about it.
00:51:20.58\00:51:23.58
So what it says...
This is what it did to me:
00:51:23.98\00:51:26.61
it tells me that God hears and
understands a repentant heart.
00:51:26.82\00:51:31.29
There's no sin too
big and none too small
00:51:31.49\00:51:33.66
that He doesn't hear us.
00:51:34.52\00:51:36.19
I mean, God is amazing.
00:51:36.39\00:51:38.03
He knows when we're
looking for truth before we do.
00:51:38.43\00:51:41.93
Think about that
if that's not deep.
00:51:42.86\00:51:45.07
God knows when
we're looking for truth
00:51:45.47\00:51:48.27
long before we know it
00:51:48.47\00:51:50.34
so He's going to
provide a way... but He does it
00:51:50.54\00:51:52.94
through His people, and
that's why we want to do.
00:51:53.14\00:51:56.01
One more scripture or two.
00:51:56.21\00:51:57.55
II Timothy 2:13.
00:51:57.65\00:51:59.68
II Timothy 2:13.
00:52:00.22\00:52:02.28
Now this is a great
scripture but a lot of people
00:52:12.66\00:52:15.00
say: "Wow, that sounds
like I don't even have to have
00:52:15.40\00:52:18.10
a lot of faith. " No
it doesn't. It doesn't say
00:52:18.30\00:52:20.17
God's going to
bless us in our sin.
00:52:20.37\00:52:22.27
He doesn't bless us in our sins,
00:52:22.47\00:52:24.01
but He's going to be
faithful even when we're not.
00:52:24.21\00:52:26.71
And how do I mean?
Because when we're away from Him
00:52:27.51\00:52:31.05
doing our own way
00:52:31.45\00:52:33.11
and all of a sudden we
finally... the Holy Spirit,
00:52:33.31\00:52:35.75
we listen to It, we repent,
00:52:35.95\00:52:38.19
we already read it...
what's He going to do?
00:52:38.39\00:52:40.06
He's going to be
faithful and just to forgive us
00:52:40.26\00:52:43.06
from our sins -
Amen! when we come to Him.
00:52:43.26\00:52:45.33
Folks, we have so much...
so much to be thankful for.
00:52:45.53\00:52:48.40
Deuteronomy 31:6.
00:52:48.80\00:52:50.97
Deuteronomy 31:6.
00:52:51.53\00:52:53.17
Now is that a great promise?
00:53:10.89\00:53:12.35
Amen! He will not
leave you nor forsake you.
00:53:12.55\00:53:15.62
Folks, this ought to
change our whole lives
00:53:15.82\00:53:18.56
and our attitude about
being Christians in the closing
00:53:18.76\00:53:21.93
moments of earth's history
00:53:22.13\00:53:23.47
that "He will never
leave us nor forsake us. "
00:53:23.70\00:53:26.84
Then the last one we're
going to do is Romans 8:38-39.
00:53:27.04\00:53:31.07
Romans 8... Somebody
said: "I love that one! "
00:53:31.91\00:53:33.98
Thank you... so do I.
00:53:34.18\00:53:35.51
Isn't that an
incredible scripture?
00:54:01.30\00:54:03.27
I mean, to me this
is absolutely amazing
00:54:03.51\00:54:06.27
and I praise God for that.
00:54:06.47\00:54:07.81
What I wanted to do
is I wanted to quickly
00:54:07.94\00:54:10.05
recount some of the
things where I have seen
00:54:10.45\00:54:14.05
here at 3ABN...
and thanks to you...
00:54:14.35\00:54:16.79
because without you... without
your love and your prayers
00:54:16.99\00:54:19.62
and financial support 3ABN
would not be on the air today.
00:54:19.82\00:54:25.06
Every year is a struggle.
00:54:25.26\00:54:27.33
Every year is a struggle.
00:54:27.83\00:54:29.23
Financially it's a struggle.
00:54:29.73\00:54:31.30
All kinds of other struggles.
00:54:31.50\00:54:33.07
People either love
the truth or they hate it.
00:54:33.47\00:54:36.34
So we see tremendous opposition.
00:54:36.94\00:54:38.81
Sometimes it's from within.
00:54:39.01\00:54:40.58
Sometimes it's from within.
Do I need to say that again?
00:54:42.21\00:54:44.98
It's not always on the outside.
00:54:45.48\00:54:47.32
Sometimes the greatest
opposition is from within.
00:54:47.82\00:54:51.35
So I'll let you think
about that in your own life.
00:54:51.55\00:54:53.59
But as I started thinking back
00:54:53.99\00:54:56.02
"Tell the folks about My faith-
fulness; that I am faithful. "
00:54:56.22\00:54:59.36
And I thought about when
Kenny and I first went out.
00:54:59.56\00:55:02.36
We got the
property from Mrs. Summers.
00:55:02.56\00:55:04.27
It's a mile or
two north of here.
00:55:04.40\00:55:05.73
If you didn't visit the uplink,
I hope you can before you leave.
00:55:05.90\00:55:08.40
We still see that 9 or 10 meter
dish about 30' in diameter...
00:55:08.80\00:55:12.87
the first one out there.
00:55:13.07\00:55:15.11
But we needed to build a road.
00:55:15.31\00:55:17.15
And it was about 1,400
feet if I remember right.
00:55:17.35\00:55:20.32
And so Kenny
rented a road grader
00:55:20.72\00:55:23.72
from one of the local folk
around here, and we started
00:55:24.12\00:55:26.99
building the road. Now,
we bought diesel fuel...
00:55:27.19\00:55:30.13
Kenny, where are
you? Raise your hand.
00:55:30.33\00:55:32.56
Raise your hand if
I'm telling the truth.
00:55:32.76\00:55:34.73
If I'm telling the
truth. If I'm not, don't.
00:55:35.53\00:55:37.77
But I am telling the truth.
00:55:37.97\00:55:39.30
We bought diesel
fuel 5 gallons at a time.
00:55:39.37\00:55:42.67
Five gallons at a time because
that's really all the money
00:55:43.51\00:55:45.87
we had. We
didn't have any money.
00:55:46.07\00:55:47.41
So we bought diesel fuel
and so he graded the road
00:55:47.71\00:55:51.21
all the way down. But we
didn't have any money for
00:55:51.41\00:55:53.82
the driveway. What
are we going to do?
00:55:54.02\00:55:56.25
So we prayed about it.
"Well Lord, we've done our part.
00:55:56.45\00:55:58.69
That's all we know how to do. "
00:55:58.89\00:56:00.26
I go to the mail
about two days later:
00:56:00.69\00:56:03.12
there's only two checks in the
mail. Now we're not a ministry
00:56:03.32\00:56:06.29
that's on the air. We
don't have a building.
00:56:06.49\00:56:08.43
We have nothing but a donated
little 2 acres of property.
00:56:08.63\00:56:11.73
And we rented a road grader
00:56:11.93\00:56:16.40
and so now we've messed up dirt.
00:56:16.60\00:56:19.67
You know, now we have
dirt. Got rid of the grass.
00:56:19.87\00:56:21.91
Just have dirt sitting
there. Now this is in the Fall
00:56:22.11\00:56:24.55
of the year so it's gonna rain
and it's gonna be a mud pile
00:56:24.75\00:56:27.85
if we don't get a road in there.
00:56:28.05\00:56:29.62
But we needed a road.
But I go... We get a bid
00:56:30.02\00:56:33.09
from Ralph Sprague
who... his house is 100 feet
00:56:33.29\00:56:36.29
probably on this
end of the building
00:56:36.49\00:56:38.33
that used to have
the gravel company.
00:56:38.53\00:56:40.73
And so we call Ralph. He said:
"Well, it's going to cost you
00:56:40.93\00:56:43.13
$6,000. We prayed about it.
00:56:43.37\00:56:45.57
"Lord, we've done our part.
We don't have any more money. "
00:56:45.77\00:56:47.67
Two days later I go to
West Frankfort post office.
00:56:48.17\00:56:51.27
P.O. Box 582 I think
is what it used to be.
00:56:51.77\00:56:54.68
Opened and saw there
were two letters in it.
00:56:54.88\00:56:58.01
Now we were telling
people mouth to mouth what we
00:56:58.21\00:57:00.52
were going to be
doing. Word to word, you know,
00:57:00.72\00:57:02.95
telling everybody we knew.
00:57:03.15\00:57:04.85
I even got a little
Commodore 64 computer
00:57:05.05\00:57:07.66
and started typing
out a little newsletter.
00:57:07.86\00:57:10.73
We didn't really have a
mailing list, but we handed it
00:57:10.93\00:57:13.90
to everybody we'd meet.
00:57:14.10\00:57:15.56
There were 2 letters
in the mail. One of them
00:57:15.76\00:57:18.10
I opened up was $2,000
00:57:18.30\00:57:20.34
from a lady in Wisconsin
or northern, by Chicago
00:57:21.40\00:57:25.34
Wisconsin
border. The second letter
00:57:25.54\00:57:27.91
was from San Diego,
California, for $4,000.
00:57:28.11\00:57:31.18
Six thousand dollars!
00:57:31.38\00:57:32.75
God is always there, on
time, when you need Him,
00:57:32.95\00:57:35.72
right? And He never fails you.
00:57:35.92\00:57:38.12
Then we needed...
So we built the road
00:57:38.52\00:57:40.79
and now we started the building.
00:57:40.99\00:57:42.32
So we rented a...
worked out a deal - Kenny did -
00:57:42.36\00:57:45.29
with a contractor in the
area here, a construction guy.
00:57:45.49\00:57:48.76
So now we got a backhoe and
we started digging the footings.
00:57:48.96\00:57:51.60
So we're digging
all the footings.
00:57:52.00\00:57:53.54
Some people call and they
say: "We're from Tennessee;
00:57:53.94\00:57:56.24
we're headed to
Wisconsin. We heard two guys
00:57:56.44\00:57:58.84
are building an
Adventist television station. "
00:57:59.04\00:58:01.31
We said: "Yes. " "Can we come? "
00:58:01.51\00:58:02.91
We said: "Sure! "
They came up to visit us
00:58:03.11\00:58:05.05
and they sat for 3 or 4 days
on the tailgate of their car.
00:58:05.45\00:58:09.58
They had a station
wagon and let it down
00:58:09.78\00:58:11.45
and would watch us and say:
00:58:11.65\00:58:13.02
"Well, you're digging the
footings but do you have money
00:58:13.22\00:58:15.02
to finish... to
put the building up? "
00:58:15.22\00:58:17.06
"No. " "Well what if it rains? "
00:58:17.26\00:58:19.29
"What if the rains come and
you? " I said: "Well I guess
00:58:19.69\00:58:22.13
we'll have a flood and
we'll have a little river. "
00:58:22.33\00:58:25.30
"But how're you gonna do
it? What's it going to cost? "
00:58:25.70\00:58:28.20
We figured it up. The
shell of the building's $50,000.
00:58:28.40\00:58:31.14
So we said:
"Well, about $50,000. "
00:58:31.54\00:58:33.91
Now these folks... by looking
at them, by listening to them,
00:58:34.11\00:58:36.88
watching the way
they ate and what they ate
00:58:37.08\00:58:39.75
and how they dressed we
didn't think they had any money
00:58:39.95\00:58:43.12
to give. The day they
left, a few days later,
00:58:43.32\00:58:46.05
they said: "We've been thinking
about this and praying about it.
00:58:46.25\00:58:48.42
We want to give you $50,000. "
00:58:48.62\00:58:50.43
Just what we needed.
00:58:50.83\00:58:52.16
Now we found out later
they didn't have the money.
00:58:52.36\00:58:54.53
At the time they went home and
literally mortgaged their home.
00:58:54.93\00:58:59.23
But within six months
they came back and said
00:58:59.43\00:59:02.97
"Well we invested
in some real estate
00:59:03.17\00:59:04.94
and sold it, and we
made that $50,000 back. "
00:59:05.14\00:59:07.61
God gave it back to them.
00:59:08.01\00:59:09.64
I think about... then we
needed a big satellite dish.
00:59:10.05\00:59:13.52
So... a ten meter
dish, nearly $400,000.
00:59:13.72\00:59:16.89
We didn't have
the money for that.
00:59:17.29\00:59:18.62
But we're saying: "God,
we're going to go forward
00:59:18.82\00:59:21.02
no matter what. " We
didn't have the money
00:59:21.22\00:59:23.09
so we talked to a satellite
company. And we talked them
00:59:23.29\00:59:26.53
into saying: "Well as
you do it a little at a time
00:59:26.73\00:59:30.20
we'll pay you a little at a time
but it'll be paid by the end. "
00:59:30.40\00:59:33.27
And the guy
finally said to us...
00:59:33.47\00:59:35.00
You know, for the satellite
company, Scientific Atlanta,
00:59:35.20\00:59:38.84
Georgia's like: "Well, I don't
know. We don't normally do this
00:59:39.04\00:59:43.01
but we're going to
trust you on this one. "
00:59:43.45\00:59:45.55
And every step of the
way the money was there.
00:59:45.75\00:59:48.92
We'd go to the
mailbox... People we didn't know
00:59:49.12\00:59:51.15
or had never seen sent
just the right amount of money
00:59:51.35\00:59:54.19
to build that
$400,000 satellite dish.
00:59:54.39\00:59:57.63
So we get this dish up.
00:59:57.76\00:59:59.09
We finally... The
money continues to come in.
00:59:59.13\01:00:00.96
We go on the air
01:00:01.16\01:00:02.50
and we see miracle
after miracle after miracle.
01:00:02.53\01:00:05.57
How can you doubt
that God is there?
01:00:05.77\01:00:09.20
Right? How could we
ever doubt that God is there?
01:00:09.40\01:00:12.81
That He's
faithful? He's always there!
01:00:13.01\01:00:15.64
He's there for you in
your life. You may not know it,
01:00:15.84\01:00:18.41
you may not recognize it,
01:00:18.61\01:00:20.12
but I want you to after today,
01:00:20.32\01:00:22.18
Read that up
there for me please:
01:00:22.38\01:00:24.49
Now that should give us
some consolation, right?
01:00:31.33\01:00:33.90
That should give us
some great consolation.
01:00:34.10\01:00:36.23
God is part-time
there? He's ALWAYS there,
01:00:36.43\01:00:40.77
sometimes He's on
time, He's ALWAYS on time,
01:00:40.97\01:00:44.21
when we need Him,
and He never fails!
01:00:44.41\01:00:47.38
So God commissioned us to
build a television station
01:00:47.58\01:00:51.01
to reach the
world. Dr. Walt Thompson,
01:00:51.21\01:00:53.72
who is now resting in Jesus,
01:00:53.92\01:00:55.42
said to me one
time: "Don't you think
01:00:55.62\01:00:57.75
when Jesus said to
'Go ye into all the world'
01:00:57.95\01:01:01.06
and to build a television
station to reach the world
01:01:01.26\01:01:03.96
that He counted His resources
in advance and found that He was
01:01:04.16\01:01:07.10
not wanting? " So we go forward.
01:01:07.30\01:01:10.17
Now 1991 comes around.
01:01:10.37\01:01:12.97
Communism falls in Romania,
01:01:13.17\01:01:17.01
Ceausescu had been overthrown,
01:01:17.21\01:01:19.37
and so we had an
opportunity to go to Romania
01:01:19.57\01:01:22.51
literally weeks, maybe a month
or two after this big coup,
01:01:22.71\01:01:26.35
and the country was in a mess.
01:01:26.55\01:01:28.75
We went over there, three
of us, and went to Romania.
01:01:28.95\01:01:32.89
When we got there
we saw the condition.
01:01:33.09\01:01:35.32
We saw the tent church
where people were meeting
01:01:35.52\01:01:39.06
out in a tent because
the government had destroyed
01:01:39.26\01:01:42.03
their building and
killed a number of the pastors.
01:01:42.23\01:01:44.17
So they built a big tent and
went to church in cold weather
01:01:44.37\01:01:47.27
in the snow in a tent -
literally - that was freezing.
01:01:47.47\01:01:50.91
They'd do it every Sabbath
their commitment for them.
01:01:51.11\01:01:53.58
I said: "We need to
build a production studio here
01:01:53.78\01:01:56.24
so we are going to put in...
$250,000 is what we needed.
01:01:56.44\01:02:01.48
And we didn't really have
the money, but I said: "By faith
01:02:01.68\01:02:03.99
we're going to do it;
God will supply the need. "
01:02:04.19\01:02:06.52
We come to November and
what are we going to be short?
01:02:06.76\01:02:10.53
I find out we're
going to be short $250,000.
01:02:10.73\01:02:13.93
My first thought was:
"Wow! If we hadn't put that
01:02:14.13\01:02:17.60
$250,000... " 'Cause we've
been in the black every year.
01:02:17.80\01:02:20.87
"If we hadn't put it in Romania,
01:02:21.07\01:02:22.60
we would have the
money that we need. "
01:02:22.80\01:02:24.64
But then I said: "No, we
did what God told us to do.
01:02:24.84\01:02:28.11
He's faithful, we were
faithful to the mission.
01:02:28.31\01:02:31.05
He said: 'Go ye into all
the world with the undiluted
01:02:31.25\01:02:33.82
three angels'
messages' so... we did it. "
01:02:34.02\01:02:36.69
I get a phone call. I
don't think he'd mind me
01:02:36.89\01:02:38.89
giving his name
now: Dr. Bob Ford.
01:02:39.09\01:02:41.69
I didn't know Bob
Ford... he's on the East coast.
01:02:41.89\01:02:43.76
Never heard of him, but
we were already on the air
01:02:43.96\01:02:47.03
and I had my Uncle Olin.
Anybody old enough to remember
01:02:47.23\01:02:49.66
Uncle Olin singing on 3ABN?
01:02:49.86\01:02:51.77
Just a few songs. "Life is
like a mountain railroad... "
01:02:51.97\01:02:56.37
That's Uncle Olin. And
so he played the guitar.
01:02:56.57\01:02:59.44
And he would play a
little bit, come in off time.
01:02:59.64\01:03:03.58
He never came in...
Tim, I'd love to see Tim
01:03:03.78\01:03:05.68
try to play with him
'cause he just came on whenever
01:03:05.88\01:03:07.62
he wanted to. Hold a note
for a while and then jump in.
01:03:07.78\01:03:10.72
And he would have a
harmonica around his neck.
01:03:11.12\01:03:13.96
Who who who...
who who who. And then
01:03:14.16\01:03:16.42
he'd play a little bit
more and sing a little bit more.
01:03:16.62\01:03:18.76
So I get a phone call. Then
we had... You know, it was our
01:03:18.96\01:03:21.43
beginning days and we had
our lattice strips in the back
01:03:21.63\01:03:24.10
behind us and
anything we could try to put.
01:03:24.30\01:03:26.97
We didn't have
money for very good sets.
01:03:27.17\01:03:28.67
So here we are... I
get a call from Bob Ford.
01:03:28.87\01:03:32.14
They said: "He
wants to talk to you. "
01:03:32.34\01:03:34.28
So I talked to Bob and he said:
01:03:34.41\01:03:36.68
"You know, I was listening
the other night. I turned on
01:03:36.88\01:03:39.28
3ABN out in Washington state
and I heard your Uncle Olin. "
01:03:39.48\01:03:42.85
My heart went
"woops" like, you know.
01:03:43.05\01:03:45.85
Uncle Olin's a great
guy and he loved the Lord
01:03:46.05\01:03:49.62
and he did it but
OK, here's a surgeon.
01:03:49.82\01:03:51.93
This man's a surgeon. He's like:
"And I saw your Uncle Olin"
01:03:52.13\01:03:55.26
and he said: "I
was so blessed by that.
01:03:55.46\01:03:58.63
I was so impressed and I thought
of the Spirit of Prophecy...
01:03:58.83\01:04:01.70
I'm watching some of
the people on there... "
01:04:01.90\01:04:03.81
which probably included
me and some of the others -
01:04:04.01\01:04:06.57
"basically are just people
that come from the plow. "
01:04:06.78\01:04:09.38
He said: "Ellen
White makes a statement
01:04:09.58\01:04:11.51
you know: 'In the last days
people come from the plow. ' "
01:04:11.71\01:04:14.25
Not everybody will
have gone to the cemetery...
01:04:14.45\01:04:16.48
seminary. And so God
will use people who's willing
01:04:16.69\01:04:20.66
to be used and
laymen be willing to do it.
01:04:20.86\01:04:24.16
So he said: "I was
so impressed with that
01:04:24.36\01:04:26.70
the Lord
impressed me to help you. "
01:04:26.90\01:04:28.86
And so I said:
"Great! That's wonderful! "
01:04:29.06\01:04:31.10
And here's what he said:
"Do you have any special needs
01:04:31.30\01:04:34.80
right now? How much
money do you need? "
01:04:35.00\01:04:36.74
Now I know that I'm going
to be at least $250,000 short
01:04:36.94\01:04:41.28
because we put
that money into Romania.
01:04:41.48\01:04:43.65
And my temptation was to say:
01:04:43.85\01:04:45.78
"We really need $250,000.
" The other side of me said:
01:04:45.98\01:04:49.32
"You'll run the guy off
telling that much money. "
01:04:49.52\01:04:52.72
So I heard myself say
to him: "Well, Dr. Ford,
01:04:52.92\01:04:55.62
why don't you pray about
it. The Lord impressed you
01:04:55.82\01:04:57.93
to give. Why
don't you pray about it
01:04:58.13\01:04:59.56
and then you give
whatever He impresses you to. "
01:04:59.76\01:05:02.23
And he said:
"Well, that's different!
01:05:02.43\01:05:03.77
I support ministries; I
never had anybody do that. "
01:05:03.80\01:05:06.53
Monday he called me back:
01:05:06.94\01:05:08.60
"Danny, I prayed about it
and the Lord gave me a figure. "
01:05:08.80\01:05:11.57
I said: "Really?
Great; that's wonderful. "
01:05:11.77\01:05:14.08
"I sent you a
check this morning. "
01:05:14.48\01:05:16.01
I said: "Well praise the Lord. "
He said: "Don't you want to know
01:05:16.21\01:05:18.15
how much it is? " I said: "Yeah,
I just didn't want to ask. "
01:05:18.35\01:05:20.85
You know? So he said:
"The Lord impressed me
01:05:21.05\01:05:24.09
to send you $250,000. "
01:05:24.29\01:05:26.52
God is faithful... put
it up on the screen for us.
01:05:27.16\01:05:30.43
Put it up... I
want you all to read it.
01:05:30.83\01:05:32.16
God is faithful!
Time and time again!
01:05:39.27\01:05:41.70
Now as we grow our
needs are getting bigger.
01:05:41.90\01:05:44.84
So a few years later... every
year we end up in the black.
01:05:45.24\01:05:49.28
A few years later we've
invested; now we're going to
01:05:49.48\01:05:52.48
Russia and we're
putting money into Russia.
01:05:52.68\01:05:55.05
And so towards the end
of the year we're $750,000
01:05:55.25\01:05:59.75
we're going to be short.
01:05:59.95\01:06:01.36
And so we're down
in Forest Lake Academy
01:06:01.56\01:06:04.26
where my youngest
baby just graduated from.
01:06:04.46\01:06:07.73
Trinity's back here somewhere.
01:06:07.93\01:06:09.40
And so she came home.
She's in Southern right now.
01:06:09.60\01:06:12.33
Surprised me by the way.
Told me she wasn't coming
01:06:12.53\01:06:15.30
this weekend and
then came in last night
01:06:15.50\01:06:17.71
and we were very
happy that she came
01:06:17.91\01:06:19.57
here... to have her here.
01:06:19.77\01:06:21.14
But we were in Forest Lake
Academy doing a live program
01:06:21.64\01:06:25.48
and I said to the
folks... We were talking about
01:06:25.68\01:06:27.95
God's goodness
and how faithful He is
01:06:28.15\01:06:29.82
and I said to them:
"You know what? For instance
01:06:30.02\01:06:32.25
right now we are
$750,000 short. If we don't get
01:06:32.45\01:06:36.22
an extra - above and
beyond our regular means -
01:06:36.42\01:06:40.33
by the end of this year
we'll be in debt $750,000.
01:06:40.53\01:06:44.57
But I'm going to stand here
and tell you that by January
01:06:44.77\01:06:48.14
I'm going to get on
and give you a story
01:06:48.34\01:06:50.24
and tell you how God
raised that money for us. "
01:06:50.44\01:06:52.81
Amen! You have to step
out in faith sometimes, folks.
01:06:53.01\01:06:55.58
It's not you... it's God.
01:06:55.78\01:06:57.71
He says: "Go ye
into all the world. "
01:06:57.91\01:06:59.71
We got home.
About a week later -
01:07:00.12\01:07:01.72
make these as short
as I can - a woman...
01:07:01.92\01:07:04.09
I get a phone call.
Mollie says: "There's a lady
01:07:04.29\01:07:06.89
out in Redding, California, area
01:07:07.09\01:07:09.96
that called and she
says she's got some money
01:07:10.16\01:07:11.89
but you have to
come out and get it. "
01:07:12.09\01:07:13.50
She won't send
it... it's cash money.
01:07:13.90\01:07:16.77
She says you've got
to come out and get it.
01:07:16.97\01:07:18.50
So I said: "OK. "
I'm home eating lunch.
01:07:18.90\01:07:21.50
Three, four, five minutes later
she called. She said: "There's
01:07:21.70\01:07:24.31
another just called and she's
in Grand Junction, Colorado.
01:07:24.51\01:07:27.88
She says: "She's got
some money but she wants you
01:07:28.08\01:07:31.18
to meet her husband.
He's not a Christian but
01:07:31.38\01:07:33.25
he watches you on TV and
thinks you might be for real.
01:07:33.45\01:07:36.02
And if he could meet
you and talk to you -
01:07:36.22\01:07:38.99
he deals in gold and silver -
that he would be willing to give
01:07:39.19\01:07:42.02
you thirty or forty thousand
dollars in gold coins. "
01:07:42.22\01:07:44.63
So the lady in Redding,
I said: "Well how much? "
01:07:45.03\01:07:48.73
I said: "Well, you know, to
fly out there. " And she said:
01:07:48.93\01:07:52.47
"Well, you'll have to
bring a private plane. "
01:07:52.67\01:07:54.90
And I said: "Now
that'd be expensive
01:07:55.10\01:07:56.74
to fly out there. " And she
said: "Well, it's going to be
01:07:56.94\01:07:58.61
worth it. " I said:
"Well, do you mind me asking
01:07:58.81\01:08:00.78
how much money it is? "
01:08:00.98\01:08:02.31
"Well, " she
said, "it's 6 CMs. "
01:08:02.41\01:08:04.91
And I said: "What? " She said:
01:08:05.98\01:08:07.32
"Six CMs. " I said: "CMs? "
01:08:07.35\01:08:09.25
She said: "Well didn't you
take Roman numerals in school? "
01:08:09.45\01:08:11.55
I said: "Yeah, I did. "
01:08:11.95\01:08:13.76
I remember C's a
hundred and M's a thousand.
01:08:14.16\01:08:16.66
So she's telling me
she's either got $60,000
01:08:17.06\01:08:20.96
or $600,000.
01:08:21.16\01:08:22.56
So she said:
"Well, you think about it
01:08:22.96\01:08:25.13
and call me when you
figure out how much it is. "
01:08:25.33\01:08:27.34
So the next day I call her back
01:08:28.97\01:08:31.21
and I say: "I can't tell
you. I think I figured out
01:08:31.41\01:08:35.71
how much it is, but if I tell
you I'll defeat your purpose. "
01:08:35.91\01:08:38.71
'Cause she said: "I don't
want to say it on the phone
01:08:38.91\01:08:41.38
'cause I'm a
widow; I live by myself.
01:08:41.58\01:08:43.62
Somebody will rob me so
that's why I can't tell you. "
01:08:43.82\01:08:46.62
So I say to her: "So
how can? I figured it out
01:08:46.86\01:08:49.16
but how can I tell you on
the phone 'cause I'll defeat
01:08:49.36\01:08:51.93
your purpose of
hiding it, right? "
01:08:52.13\01:08:54.20
So I said: "But I
think I know how much it is.
01:08:54.40\01:08:56.90
I think it's worth
getting a plane to do it. "
01:08:57.10\01:08:59.70
So she says: "Well
great. If you do... "
01:08:59.90\01:09:02.74
I said: "It'd
be pretty costly. "
01:09:02.94\01:09:04.37
She said: "Well I'll give
you... I'll make it 7CM. "
01:09:04.57\01:09:07.58
So I said: "OK... I'm coming! "
01:09:07.78\01:09:09.48
So I get David
Everett, E.T.'s husband.
01:09:09.68\01:09:12.78
He's about 6'5"
or 6'6". Big guy.
01:09:12.98\01:09:15.32
Get my
brother-in-law Bruce. I say:
01:09:15.52\01:09:17.22
"You guys need to
go with me. " So now
01:09:17.42\01:09:19.15
we've got a call... I've
called a pilot there in Marion
01:09:19.35\01:09:23.06
and I say: "We're going
to Redding, California. "
01:09:23.26\01:09:25.66
And he said: "Well, it's not...
We don't have... Smaller planes.
01:09:25.86\01:09:28.93
We can't go... we
have to make a stop. "
01:09:29.13\01:09:30.87
And I said:
"Well, that's fine. "
01:09:31.00\01:09:32.93
He said: "Well,
it's your choice.
01:09:33.13\01:09:34.47
We either have to stop in Denver
or Grand Junction, Colorado. "
01:09:34.50\01:09:37.74
I said: "Now wait a minute. "
01:09:38.14\01:09:39.61
A lady calls from Grand
Junction and one from Redding
01:09:39.81\01:09:43.08
and the stop that we have
to do. So I called the lady
01:09:43.28\01:09:46.82
and I say, from
Colorado: "We'll be there. "
01:09:47.02\01:09:50.09
So we fly out to
California, meet the woman.
01:09:50.29\01:09:54.56
She's talking about
how much she loves 3ABN
01:09:54.76\01:09:57.03
and all this stuff
and I'm getting nervous
01:09:57.23\01:09:58.93
'cause I'm there. And I
finally said: "Now you said
01:09:59.13\01:10:01.00
you had 7CM. " 'Cause
I'm thinking: what if I
01:10:01.20\01:10:04.30
flew all the way out
here and she didn't... "
01:10:04.50\01:10:06.53
She took us in the
closet, raised up a box -
01:10:06.74\01:10:09.74
it looked like a
big box - raised it up.
01:10:09.94\01:10:11.64
There was like gunny
sacks. We opened those
01:10:11.84\01:10:14.34
and there was aluminum
foil. Money in aluminum foil.
01:10:14.54\01:10:16.95
$50,000 cash in
each one of them.
01:10:17.15\01:10:19.75
There was $700,000 cash money.
01:10:19.95\01:10:24.09
She said: "Bring the biggest
suitcase that you can find. "
01:10:24.29\01:10:27.36
Now, we needed $750,000, right?
01:10:27.86\01:10:30.86
By the end of the year.
So she said: "Here's 700. "
01:10:31.06\01:10:33.83
So she had a little
safe. Just a small thing.
01:10:34.03\01:10:36.77
She said: "Why don't you
just take that with you? "
01:10:36.97\01:10:38.70
And I'm thinking about
the weight and the small plane
01:10:38.90\01:10:40.77
and I said: "Oh, that's
OK... we don't need it. "
01:10:40.97\01:10:42.84
She said: "Why
don't you open it up
01:10:43.04\01:10:44.37
'cause I think you'll want it. "
01:10:44.41\01:10:45.74
So I said: "OK. " I
opened it up, and there was
01:10:45.84\01:10:47.94
$40,000 of gold coins.
01:10:48.14\01:10:50.55
I said: "I'll take it! "
01:10:50.75\01:10:52.08
So we took that.
We get on the plane...
01:10:52.11\01:10:55.42
start to go on the
plane. The pilots have no idea
01:10:55.82\01:10:58.32
what we've got now: $740,000.
01:10:58.52\01:11:01.59
And we're going
back to Grand Junction
01:11:01.79\01:11:03.53
hopefully to get some more.
01:11:03.73\01:11:05.09
And so we get on
the plane and he says...
01:11:05.29\01:11:08.03
he says: "Here, just
put this in the back. "
01:11:08.53\01:11:10.80
And he opens a little lid
and says: "Put it in the back. "
01:11:11.00\01:11:14.44
I said: "No, it's
coming up here with me. "
01:11:14.64\01:11:16.24
He said... It's a big
case... it was this big.
01:11:16.44\01:11:18.84
He said: "Well,
there's not enough room. "
01:11:19.04\01:11:20.38
And I said: "Yeah, there is. "
01:11:20.41\01:11:21.74
And I don't like tight
spaces but I said: "This
01:11:21.81\01:11:23.85
is going to be tight.
This money is flying with me
01:11:24.05\01:11:26.85
right here. " So he said:
"Well I can put it right here
01:11:27.05\01:11:30.89
in the back. " And I
said: "No... I'm not going to. "
01:11:31.05\01:11:32.92
So I got on the
plane and I told my buddies
01:11:33.12\01:11:35.32
I said: "The reason I
didn't do that: a friend of mine
01:11:35.52\01:11:37.63
sang at a
funeral not too long ago
01:11:37.76\01:11:39.86
and he told me that
grandpa had died, Henry.
01:11:40.10\01:11:43.06
He was in the casket,
and grandma was a big woman.
01:11:43.26\01:11:46.37
While he was
singing Amazing Grace
01:11:46.57\01:11:48.27
she went over to the
casket and leaned over
01:11:48.47\01:11:50.61
and it had a bad
hinge and it fell on her.
01:11:50.81\01:11:52.94
The casket lid fell.
01:11:53.14\01:11:54.74
And then she did it
again. By the end of the night
01:11:54.94\01:11:56.58
I said: "I was thinking about
that hinge on that back carrier
01:11:56.78\01:12:00.72
that what if it
broke and we lost $740,000
01:12:00.92\01:12:05.25
somewhere between
California and West Frankfort? "
01:12:05.45\01:12:08.32
So I said: "We're either all
going to make it or we're all
01:12:08.52\01:12:10.33
gonna die. We're
going to do this together.
01:12:10.53\01:12:13.50
We are not
separating ourselves. "
01:12:13.70\01:12:15.43
So we go back into Colorado.
01:12:15.73\01:12:18.80
So now we're in Grand
Junction. They're refueling,
01:12:19.20\01:12:22.27
so the lady comes to pick me up.
01:12:22.47\01:12:24.21
I tell the guys:
"You have to eat breakfast
01:12:24.41\01:12:26.37
one at a time. " Now
here's the interesting thing:
01:12:26.57\01:12:28.84
when I finally got the money...
01:12:29.24\01:12:31.05
We got this lady, and she
wanted us to count it all.
01:12:31.25\01:12:33.31
We did $50,000. I
said: "You know, "
01:12:33.52\01:12:35.75
and I gave her name, I said:
01:12:35.95\01:12:37.62
"Listen, this would
take hours and hours. "
01:12:37.82\01:12:40.06
And she said: "Well I
don't want to cheat you. "
01:12:40.26\01:12:41.72
I said: "Well if you're short
I'll call you and let you know.
01:12:41.92\01:12:43.93
There's no use
counting all of this. "
01:12:44.33\01:12:47.43
I mean, that's just
a lot of money to do.
01:12:47.63\01:12:49.96
So now... So we go ahead
01:12:50.17\01:12:52.37
and we're in Grand
Junction so I tell them: "Look,
01:12:52.57\01:12:55.14
just one at a time go eat. Stay
in the room with the money. "
01:12:55.34\01:12:58.21
So I go meet the husband.
01:12:58.41\01:13:00.31
Very good man...
his health was bad.
01:13:00.51\01:13:02.28
Prayed with him, and he
did give his heart to the Lord
01:13:02.48\01:13:04.48
and also gave about $40,000.
01:13:04.68\01:13:07.05
But when we left her
house, loaded all that money,
01:13:07.25\01:13:10.02
she said to me: "Whew!
I have never been so glad
01:13:10.22\01:13:14.42
to get rid of
anything in my life! "
01:13:14.62\01:13:16.22
And I'm like: "How can anybody
say something like that? "
01:13:17.33\01:13:20.80
We're taking close to a
million dollars home in cash
01:13:21.00\01:13:24.37
and she's like: "I'm so
glad... never been so glad
01:13:24.57\01:13:27.07
to get rid of it.
" So now we fly home.
01:13:27.27\01:13:29.37
So I bring Bruce and
David Everett. I let them out
01:13:29.57\01:13:32.77
and we bank over in Galatia
about 10 miles from here.
01:13:32.97\01:13:35.34
So I'm in the car and
I've got all this money
01:13:35.74\01:13:38.75
and as I head down
the little highway here
01:13:38.95\01:13:40.65
I say: "What if I had a wreck
01:13:40.85\01:13:42.95
and all the money flew
out and I was unconscious
01:13:43.15\01:13:45.69
and people stole the money? "
01:13:45.89\01:13:47.66
So I got so paranoid the car was
doing like this down the road
01:13:48.06\01:13:52.16
and I was afraid I was
going to cause my own demise.
01:13:52.36\01:13:54.83
And so I get to the bank
01:13:55.03\01:13:56.87
and that little bank I'm
sure had never been robbed.
01:13:57.07\01:13:58.90
So I lock the doors over
here and I walk over to the bank
01:13:59.10\01:14:02.37
and I'm looking in the
window. For what? To make sure
01:14:02.57\01:14:05.51
everything's OK. And I
called Neal, the bank president,
01:14:05.71\01:14:09.88
Neal Patterson, and I said:
"Neal, you're going to need
01:14:10.08\01:14:11.98
to leave the bank
open for a while. "
01:14:12.18\01:14:13.52
I said: "We've
gotta leave it open
01:14:13.72\01:14:15.18
because I brought a lot
of money. " I said: "I've got
01:14:15.38\01:14:18.52
a lot and it's cash. I'll
need people there counting it. "
01:14:18.72\01:14:21.76
He said:
"You've got that much? "
01:14:21.96\01:14:23.53
I said: "Yes! " He
said: "How much is it? "
01:14:23.73\01:14:25.33
And I heard myself say "7CMs. "
01:14:25.73\01:14:29.43
And he said: "7CM? "
01:14:29.63\01:14:32.63
I said: "Didn't you take
Roman numerals in school? "
01:14:32.83\01:14:35.20
He said: "Yes, but
what's that got to do with it? "
01:14:36.40\01:14:39.54
I said: "I don't want to tell
you; I'm afraid somebody will
01:14:39.74\01:14:42.01
hear what I'm doing.
" So we get to the bank.
01:14:42.21\01:14:45.48
We finally go in and we
count all of that money.
01:14:45.68\01:14:47.72
It takes about five
hours to get it all.
01:14:47.92\01:14:50.12
He hands me a deposit
slip and I, with my hand up,
01:14:50.32\01:14:53.09
I heard myself go:
"Whew! I have never been so glad
01:14:53.29\01:14:57.03
to get rid of
something in my life. "
01:14:57.23\01:14:59.76
That's exactly the
way I felt about it.
01:15:00.96\01:15:04.00
Because of that...
01:15:04.20\01:15:05.53
All of that story, I
meant to make it shorter,
01:15:05.57\01:15:07.74
but God is
faithful. He's always there!
01:15:07.94\01:15:11.71
Somebody put it
on the screen for me.
01:15:11.91\01:15:13.68
He never fails! So we
ended up in the black again.
01:15:17.15\01:15:19.78
I can remember
time and time again
01:15:20.22\01:15:21.88
places we would
go. We needed money...
01:15:22.28\01:15:25.29
I went to another... It
was close to Redding, CA.
01:15:25.49\01:15:28.29
It was in a church and
we were praying: "Oh Lord,
01:15:28.49\01:15:31.96
we need some money.
We need about $100,000. "
01:15:32.16\01:15:34.40
We went to a church, and after
the church service was over
01:15:34.80\01:15:38.63
a lady said: "Can I
talk to you privately? "
01:15:38.83\01:15:40.54
I said: "Yes. " She
said: "I'm from Oregon.
01:15:40.74\01:15:42.94
I was going to
southern California. I'm driving
01:15:43.14\01:15:45.77
and I had to stop somewhere
to go to church so I just
01:15:45.97\01:15:49.44
happened to be here today.
And after hearing you speak
01:15:49.64\01:15:53.08
the Lord impressed me
to write you a check. "
01:15:53.28\01:15:55.35
She handed me a
check for $100,000. "
01:15:55.55\01:15:57.59
Now is that coincidence
or divine providence?
01:15:57.75\01:16:00.16
Over and over and over again.
01:16:00.36\01:16:02.42
We go to Russia; we see
the need. Baptized in 1992
01:16:02.62\01:16:06.29
2,532 people. The
church only holds 250 people.
01:16:06.49\01:16:12.33
So the conference says:
"We've gotta meet with you.
01:16:12.53\01:16:14.50
We need help; we
have a huge problem.
01:16:14.70\01:16:16.54
How're we gonna
house 2,500 people more
01:16:16.74\01:16:19.67
when our church is
already full? What can we do? "
01:16:19.87\01:16:22.31
I said: "Well we'll meet
with you, see if we can build
01:16:22.51\01:16:24.58
something. " The gas
over there at the time
01:16:24.78\01:16:27.52
was 7 cents a gallon; the dollar
was worth about 7,000 ruble
01:16:27.68\01:16:31.69
so you could buy a
lot for very little.
01:16:31.89\01:16:33.99
So we're going to
meet with the conference.
01:16:34.39\01:16:36.96
So right before I meet
with the conference leaders
01:16:37.16\01:16:39.49
in the Rossiya
Hotel an American man
01:16:39.69\01:16:42.53
named Manny Trebs
came from the West coast
01:16:42.73\01:16:45.90
came up. And I hadn't met
him; he'd been there a while.
01:16:46.10\01:16:48.74
He'd been to the
John Carter meetings
01:16:48.94\01:16:50.54
and he had
volunteered. Flown over.
01:16:50.74\01:16:53.68
Saw we were going there
on television. 74 years old.
01:16:53.88\01:16:56.98
Said: "Well I think I want
to go help them do something. "
01:16:57.18\01:17:00.15
So every night he
was helping seat people
01:17:00.45\01:17:02.85
and taking care of
people. And they were coming in
01:17:03.05\01:17:05.29
by the thousands.
Building holds 6,000.
01:17:05.49\01:17:08.59
They'd let 7,000 in.
01:17:08.79\01:17:10.36
Let them out, 7,000
more were outside waiting.
01:17:10.56\01:17:13.43
They would come in.
Let them out; 7,000 more!
01:17:13.63\01:17:16.00
Elder Carter was
doing three sermons a night
01:17:16.20\01:17:18.90
to 20-some thousand people
01:17:19.10\01:17:21.14
coming in this former
Communist country that had
01:17:21.34\01:17:25.41
never heard about God, never
been allowed to have a Bible.
01:17:25.61\01:17:28.58
So we're getting ready to
meet with the conference leaders
01:17:28.98\01:17:31.51
and so this man
comes up to me and he says:
01:17:31.71\01:17:34.32
"Hi, my name's Manny Trebs.
I've watched you a lot on 3ABN
01:17:34.48\01:17:37.95
and I just volunteered.
I wanted to do something. "
01:17:38.15\01:17:40.66
He had a little tape recorder.
"Can you do a little interview?
01:17:40.86\01:17:44.06
I'd like to take it home
and play it to my church. "
01:17:44.26\01:17:46.26
And I said:
"Well Manny, I'm sorry.
01:17:46.46\01:17:47.90
The conference leaders... "
I saw them. "The church leaders
01:17:48.10\01:17:50.60
are coming in. I've gotta
meet with them right now. "
01:17:50.80\01:17:53.94
And he said: "Oh,
well, OK. " Very humble.
01:17:54.14\01:17:56.34
"Well OK... I
understand you're busy. "
01:17:56.54\01:17:58.44
And I said: "Well
come and sit with me. "
01:17:58.64\01:18:00.48
"What? " I said: "Well
come and sit with me. "
01:18:00.88\01:18:02.61
"Oh, I don't need to... " I
said: "Well, come on. Let's...
01:18:02.81\01:18:05.08
come sit; let's hear
what they have to say. "
01:18:05.28\01:18:07.88
As we're talking I say:
"What would it cost to build
01:18:08.08\01:18:10.62
or buy a facility
big enough to hold
01:18:10.82\01:18:13.39
2,500 people or 3,000 people? "
01:18:13.59\01:18:16.73
"Oh, it'd cost
way too much money!
01:18:17.13\01:18:19.06
More than you could afford. "
01:18:19.26\01:18:21.16
I said: "Well let us
decide. How much would it be? "
01:18:21.36\01:18:24.10
"Oh, it would be a
tremendous amount of money. "
01:18:24.30\01:18:26.87
"How much? " So they
said: "Well probably $100,000. "
01:18:27.07\01:18:31.34
Now, they were
making $15 a month
01:18:31.54\01:18:33.98
so you can imagine that's
a tremendous amount of money
01:18:34.18\01:18:36.75
when the average wage
in Russia is $15 a month.
01:18:36.95\01:18:39.75
So he says: "$100,000. "
01:18:39.95\01:18:44.89
So me, by now, I've
been in the work for a while.
01:18:45.29\01:18:47.82
You kind of think
you've got God figured out.
01:18:48.02\01:18:50.03
So I said: "Well
don't worry about it.
01:18:50.23\01:18:51.83
I will guarantee
you: I'll go home;
01:18:52.03\01:18:54.20
I'll tell our
viewers and our 3ABN people
01:18:54.36\01:18:57.17
will come up
with that $100,000. "
01:18:57.37\01:18:59.47
The man sitting right next to me
01:18:59.87\01:19:01.87
I look over at
Manny and he smiles.
01:19:02.07\01:19:05.01
And I just look at
him; he just smiles.
01:19:06.98\01:19:08.91
I said: "Manny? " and he goes...
01:19:09.11\01:19:12.05
And I said: "You
want to say something? "
01:19:12.45\01:19:15.02
He said: And I
said... he said: "Yeah. "
01:19:15.22\01:19:20.06
I said: "You got the $100,000? "
01:19:20.26\01:19:22.19
He said: "I'll
give the $100,000. "
01:19:22.39\01:19:24.26
Now, think about that: I'm
in Russia; never met this guy
01:19:24.46\01:19:28.70
in America. We're
Americans; we're there.
01:19:28.90\01:19:30.87
The first time
we meet in two weeks
01:19:31.07\01:19:33.94
we're meeting right
before the meeting, he comes
01:19:34.14\01:19:36.17
to the meeting, sits down,
and exactly - God was there -
01:19:36.37\01:19:40.51
when I need Him, on
time, right? When we need Him,
01:19:41.84\01:19:44.68
and He never fails!
01:19:44.88\01:19:48.25
God is always there,
on time, when we need Him,
01:19:49.28\01:19:51.79
and He never fails!
01:19:51.99\01:19:53.66
That took care of that,
01:19:53.86\01:19:55.19
and then God began to
put the rest of the money in.
01:19:55.22\01:19:57.63
We've seen it
over and over and over.
01:19:57.76\01:19:59.63
Now we talk about
financial miracles.
01:19:59.83\01:20:01.40
I'm going to switch
with you for a few minutes
01:20:01.60\01:20:03.23
about all the
"stuck" dishes; about people.
01:20:03.47\01:20:07.04
As I said while ago,
God knows when people are
01:20:07.24\01:20:09.84
ready long before
they do to hear the truth.
01:20:10.04\01:20:12.11
Amen! So in His
divine providence
01:20:12.31\01:20:14.64
and because He loves us so much
01:20:14.84\01:20:16.41
He makes a way
01:20:16.61\01:20:17.95
for people to hear
truth when they don't want to.
01:20:18.05\01:20:20.62
The one man... C.A.
tells the story... the one man
01:20:20.95\01:20:24.09
that he called me. He
was watching the Super Bowl.
01:20:24.29\01:20:26.76
I'll make these quick.
Watching the Super Bowl.
01:20:26.96\01:20:29.06
He loved sports;
that's what he lived for.
01:20:29.26\01:20:31.19
Had a big satellite dish
to watch. Half-way through
01:20:31.39\01:20:34.56
the Super Bowl
the dish breaks down.
01:20:34.76\01:20:38.23
It sticks, and he can't
get anything to come back on.
01:20:38.43\01:20:42.87
He shuts it off;
turns it back on...
01:20:43.07\01:20:45.04
it comes on to 3ABN.
01:20:45.24\01:20:47.08
He is really angry now
because this is Super Bowl.
01:20:48.24\01:20:51.75
He's waited the whole
year. So finally he goes and
01:20:51.95\01:20:54.85
listens to it on the radio.
01:20:55.05\01:20:56.79
Tells his wife: "Get... "
They live out in the country.
01:20:57.19\01:20:59.25
"Get somebody out
here and fix this! "
01:20:59.45\01:21:01.39
So six weeks later
he writes me a letter
01:21:01.59\01:21:03.83
then I end up
talking to him. And he says:
01:21:04.03\01:21:06.03
"So I come home every
night and I'm a couch potato.
01:21:06.23\01:21:09.10
I have a six-pack of
beer; I have my cigarettes
01:21:09.30\01:21:11.30
and I just go from one...
That's why I got satellite.
01:21:11.50\01:21:14.07
one sports channel to the other.
01:21:14.27\01:21:15.94
Now I come home...
My wife... " I said:
01:21:16.14\01:21:18.27
'Is the guy coming? '
She said: 'It's going to be
01:21:18.47\01:21:20.08
at least two weeks.
' " We had bad weather
01:21:20.28\01:21:21.98
and they'd had
a lightning strike
01:21:22.18\01:21:23.55
and so "he's gonna
have to order a part.
01:21:23.78\01:21:26.31
It's gonna be a
couple more weeks. "
01:21:26.51\01:21:28.08
So several weeks went by
01:21:28.48\01:21:31.59
and he said: "I'd sit back
01:21:31.99\01:21:33.86
and just turn it on
'cause I'm a creature of habit.
01:21:34.06\01:21:37.03
And I made fun of
everybody on there. "
01:21:37.43\01:21:39.46
"I'd look at their hair... "
So I started acting sheepish...
01:21:40.53\01:21:43.60
"I'd look at their hair
and I'd look at this about them
01:21:43.80\01:21:46.60
and I'd look at this
and I'd make fun of them. "
01:21:46.84\01:21:48.50
But by the end of six weeks
01:21:48.70\01:21:50.81
he had written us and said:
"Praise God that my satellite
01:21:50.97\01:21:53.81
dish stuck on 3ABN
01:21:54.01\01:21:55.81
'cause I'm going to an Adventist
church for the first time. "
01:21:56.01\01:21:58.45
I've seen it over and
over. The guy in Kentucky
01:21:58.85\01:22:00.92
who had... he has a
cul-de-sac. He lives out
01:22:01.08\01:22:04.29
in the country and
he has people driving in
01:22:04.42\01:22:08.86
his driveway and he has flowers,
everything all around it.
01:22:09.06\01:22:12.36
He's so happy about that
but he gets upset when people
01:22:12.56\01:22:16.43
drive in so he puts
in his driveway a sign:
01:22:16.67\01:22:19.67
Do not enter; no trespassing.
01:22:19.87\01:22:22.10
You know... four different
signs he had: Do Not Enter.
01:22:22.50\01:22:25.41
So he said... Watching 3ABN
01:22:25.61\01:22:27.71
he finally decided to
give his heart to Jesus
01:22:27.91\01:22:30.35
but he looked in the phone
book for an Adventist church.
01:22:30.55\01:22:32.88
Couldn't find one.
01:22:33.08\01:22:34.42
So he said: "The first
time ever I kneeled down to pray
01:22:34.55\01:22:37.52
and I said: 'Lord, I
don't know how to contact
01:22:37.92\01:22:41.42
an Adventist church or
Adventists. If You want me to be
01:22:41.62\01:22:45.89
a Seventh-day Adventist You'll
have to send somebody to me. ' "
01:22:46.09\01:22:48.63
He said: "I'm praying
and then I hear the roar
01:22:48.83\01:22:50.97
of like a big truck. It
makes me immediately angry
01:22:51.17\01:22:54.14
and I quit my
prayer because I say
01:22:54.34\01:22:56.37
'There is not room for
any big truck, and why would
01:22:56.57\01:22:59.11
a truck drive in here
when I've got all the Keep Out
01:22:59.31\01:23:02.84
posted signs? ' "
So basically he said:
01:23:03.04\01:23:06.58
"I didn't know, I hadn't
talked to the Lord that much.
01:23:06.82\01:23:08.55
I said: 'Excuse
me; I'll be back. ' "
01:23:08.75\01:23:10.79
So he says: "I go to the window;
01:23:11.15\01:23:13.25
I pull the curtains open.
01:23:13.46\01:23:15.09
When I pull it open there
is, sure enough, a big truck
01:23:15.29\01:23:18.03
but on the side it says
SDA Community Services. "
01:23:18.23\01:23:21.23
Now he said: "Lord, You'll
have to send somebody to me. "
01:23:23.23\01:23:25.70
Put it on the screen.
01:23:25.90\01:23:27.84
Put it on the screen
and I want you to say it.
01:23:28.04\01:23:29.67
Let me hear you.
01:23:29.87\01:23:31.21
It happens over and over.
01:23:36.85\01:23:38.51
A lady called in
from Washington state.
01:23:38.71\01:23:40.62
She was so excited. She
said: "I have been praying,
01:23:40.82\01:23:43.59
praying for how
to study Revelation
01:23:43.79\01:23:46.86
and today I turned on 3ABN, a
channel I'd never seen before.
01:23:47.06\01:23:52.36
And they advertised I can
get free Revelation seminars. "
01:23:52.56\01:23:57.70
So my cousin
answered the phone and he said
01:23:57.90\01:24:00.94
to her: "Oh,
where do you live? "
01:24:01.07\01:24:02.54
And she told him where she lived
01:24:02.94\01:24:04.87
and he said: "Oh, how did?
Do you have a satellite dish? "
01:24:05.07\01:24:07.64
She said: No! I
just turned on my TV
01:24:07.84\01:24:10.05
and it was there. I've
never seen the channel before
01:24:10.25\01:24:12.95
today but it's
there. " And so he looked
01:24:13.15\01:24:15.35
at our downlinks and he said:
"Ma'am, you couldn't be getting
01:24:15.55\01:24:18.25
3ABN. You're not within 100
miles of any of our stations.
01:24:18.45\01:24:22.89
It couldn't just
come... " She said: "Sir,
01:24:23.09\01:24:24.43
how do you think I got
the number to call you? "
01:24:24.63\01:24:26.70
She said... which
doesn't make us feel too smart.
01:24:26.90\01:24:30.57
But what happened
is... So I went on the air
01:24:30.97\01:24:33.34
that night and I
said: "Please call in
01:24:33.54\01:24:35.57
if there are any... " She
gave the town where she lived.
01:24:35.77\01:24:37.91
I said: "Any Adventist women
out here that you want to go
01:24:38.11\01:24:41.54
meet somebody and
give them Bible studies. "
01:24:41.74\01:24:43.24
She never got the channel again.
01:24:43.45\01:24:45.38
She got it that
day. Four women called in
01:24:45.58\01:24:47.85
and went to visit her, and
she ended up being baptized
01:24:48.05\01:24:50.19
into the
Seventh-day Adventist church.
01:24:50.59\01:24:52.19
We see it over and over.
People listening on radio.
01:24:52.39\01:24:54.99
Years ago a guy in Denver.
I almost did the same thing.
01:24:55.19\01:24:57.83
We have no radio station.
He said: "Oh I love 3ABN!
01:24:58.03\01:25:00.70
I listen to it every
day on my way to work. "
01:25:00.90\01:25:02.90
I'm like: "Where do
you live? " "Denver. "
01:25:03.30\01:25:05.27
I'm like: "We don't have
any radio stations out there. "
01:25:05.47\01:25:07.64
He said: "Apparently you do. "
01:25:07.80\01:25:09.14
So, you know, you
feel about this big.
01:25:09.37\01:25:12.04
So over and over and over.
01:25:12.24\01:25:14.38
Then I can tell you
about lives being changed.
01:25:14.58\01:25:17.25
We were out in Medford, Oregon.
01:25:17.45\01:25:21.32
I believe it was Medford.
Out, Bruce, your church.
01:25:21.52\01:25:23.79
We were there, and
E.T. Everett was with us,
01:25:23.99\01:25:26.69
and we did a service that
evening. There were two people
01:25:26.89\01:25:29.52
came in. They
sat on the front row.
01:25:29.72\01:25:31.19
And so both of them...
I noticed the man and wife
01:25:31.59\01:25:35.00
cried nearly the whole service.
01:25:35.20\01:25:37.07
As we talked about
the Lord they were crying.
01:25:37.27\01:25:39.37
So afterwards I had to
shake hands with people
01:25:39.57\01:25:41.57
so I said to E.T. Everett, I
said: "E.T., why don't you go
01:25:41.77\01:25:44.67
talk to those people,
see what's the deal? "
01:25:44.87\01:25:46.68
She spend about an hour
with them and afterwards
01:25:46.88\01:25:48.94
she said they
went into a side room
01:25:49.14\01:25:51.68
and the lady said: "I was
raised in a family of witches
01:25:51.88\01:25:55.05
and I'm a witch. " She said:
01:25:55.25\01:25:57.39
"My health got really
bad; I'm way overweight.
01:25:57.59\01:25:59.65
I've got
diabetes; my heart is bad
01:25:59.85\01:26:01.89
and they told me I
probably wouldn't live that much
01:26:02.09\01:26:04.69
longer. " So she said: "I
was going to the doctor... "
01:26:04.89\01:26:07.83
and she said: "I was
sitting in the doctor's office
01:26:08.03\01:26:10.57
and some people were
there. And one of them said:
01:26:10.77\01:26:13.13
"Well I've been watching 3ABN;
01:26:13.34\01:26:14.77
they've got good
health programs. "
01:26:14.97\01:26:16.30
She said: "What's 3ABN? "
01:26:16.34\01:26:17.67
"Oh it's a TV
station. " So she said: "Oh. "
01:26:17.71\01:26:20.28
So she said: "I
didn't watch it. "
01:26:20.48\01:26:21.91
Next week or two I
go back to the doctor
01:26:22.31\01:26:24.48
sitting in
there. Different people.
01:26:24.68\01:26:26.65
And someone said:
"Boy, if you watch 3ABN
01:26:26.85\01:26:29.35
they've got some good... "
So she said: "I'm going to go
01:26:29.55\01:26:31.32
home and watch it. "
Now she said: "I had already
01:26:31.52\01:26:33.79
made up my mind that I
was going to kill my husband
01:26:33.99\01:26:37.13
and my daughter before
I died. I didn't want them
01:26:37.33\01:26:40.23
to become Christians so I
wanted to make sure they...
01:26:40.43\01:26:44.27
they are with me. " She
said: "We went to church;
01:26:44.43\01:26:47.24
we had our own little church.
01:26:47.44\01:26:48.77
We sang out of hymnals
but we sang to the devil. "
01:26:48.80\01:26:50.94
So she said: "Here
I'm ready to do this
01:26:51.34\01:26:53.81
and I turn on 3ABN.
Someone was reading the Bible.
01:26:54.21\01:26:58.18
You know how we
have different people -
01:26:58.38\01:26:59.88
Kelly Mowrer, others -
01:27:00.12\01:27:01.45
will just read. She said:
"They were reading the Bible"
01:27:01.48\01:27:03.49
and she said: "Within
seconds, it seemed like less
01:27:03.69\01:27:07.06
than a minute, I
found myself prostrate
01:27:07.26\01:27:09.39
before the Lord on
my face and asked Jesus
01:27:09.59\01:27:12.06
into my heart. "
And she and her husband
01:27:12.26\01:27:16.53
she said were
converted. The first time
01:27:16.97\01:27:18.87
they'd ever been in a SDA
church was when we were there
01:27:19.07\01:27:21.77
that night. We've
seen that over and over.
01:27:21.97\01:27:24.14
I went to Green Bay, Wisconsin.
01:27:24.34\01:27:26.04
People came up to me
afterwards and they said:
01:27:26.24\01:27:28.31
"We wanted to talk to
you. It's the first time
01:27:28.51\01:27:30.45
we've been to an
Adventist church. "
01:27:30.65\01:27:32.18
He said: "I run a porn magazine
01:27:32.38\01:27:34.98
and my wife is a madam and
has a lot of prostitutes. "
01:27:35.18\01:27:39.52
And he said:
"We went on vacation
01:27:39.72\01:27:41.72
and we were gone
for several weeks.
01:27:41.92\01:27:43.66
I came home, and my
cable bill hadn't been paid
01:27:44.06\01:27:46.43
so they shut my cable off. "
01:27:46.63\01:27:48.26
So in Green Bay, " he said,
"I'm a creature of habit. "
01:27:48.46\01:27:51.03
Like the other folk.
"About midnight I turn on the TV
01:27:51.23\01:27:54.27
and I can't get my
cable... it's gone. "
01:27:54.67\01:27:57.41
So he said: "The only
thing I have is rabbit ears.
01:27:57.61\01:27:59.74
The only channel I could
get... " I think it's channel 57
01:27:59.94\01:28:03.45
"was 3ABN. "
01:28:03.65\01:28:05.58
So he said: "I
started watching it.
01:28:05.98\01:28:07.75
I was hating every minute of it
01:28:07.95\01:28:09.45
then Elder John
Carter came on. "
01:28:09.85\01:28:11.82
And he said:
01:28:12.22\01:28:15.36
"Jesus loves
you... He died for you,
01:28:17.76\01:28:21.20
He made a plan of
salvation for you.
01:28:21.40\01:28:24.07
He's coming back
for you very soon.
01:28:24.27\01:28:27.07
It's no coincidence
you're watching this channel
01:28:27.27\01:28:30.81
right now. God is
speaking to you. "
01:28:30.94\01:28:33.61
He said: "I immediately
fell on my face before God.
01:28:34.01\01:28:37.15
I asked God to
come into my heart.
01:28:37.55\01:28:39.68
I confessed my
sins. I was so excited!
01:28:39.88\01:28:42.65
I felt a peace I'd
never felt in years.
01:28:42.85\01:28:45.05
I was so excited
that I woke my wife up. "
01:28:45.25\01:28:49.72
Now she's a
Satanist and a madam.
01:28:50.83\01:28:54.36
"So I wake my wife up
and she said: 'Why are you
01:28:54.56\01:28:56.67
waking me up at 2 in
the morning? ' He said:
01:28:56.87\01:28:58.80
"I'm so excited
I've gotta talk to you. "
01:28:59.00\01:29:00.94
"What's going on? " He said:
01:29:01.10\01:29:02.44
"I just gave my
heart to the Lord. "
01:29:02.57\01:29:04.84
She said: "What? "
01:29:05.24\01:29:06.71
He said: "I just
gave my heart to the Lord
01:29:06.91\01:29:08.54
and I want you to. "
01:29:08.74\01:29:10.08
He told me... she
was sitting there...
01:29:10.25\01:29:12.85
he said: "She became so angry
it's like the devil was just
01:29:13.05\01:29:17.79
in her and so angry" that
he said: "I was a brand new
01:29:17.99\01:29:21.52
Christian but I started
casting the demon out of her. "
01:29:21.72\01:29:24.03
He said: "I've got
to get rid of this devil
01:29:24.23\01:29:27.13
in her 'cause I'm afraid
it'll do me a lot of harm. "
01:29:27.33\01:29:29.70
She was upset but
after a number of weeks
01:29:30.20\01:29:32.43
we interviewed them. Some of
you may have seen the interview
01:29:32.63\01:29:35.17
several years ago. Both
of them gave their heart
01:29:35.37\01:29:37.64
to the Lord. Now,
is that coincidence
01:29:37.84\01:29:39.74
or divine
providence? See, God knows
01:29:39.94\01:29:42.81
those who are looking for
truth long before they do.
01:29:43.01\01:29:45.48
Amen! So that's no accident.
01:29:45.68\01:29:47.65
Put it up on the screen
one more time. Read it for me:
01:29:47.85\01:29:50.09
I mean, is this
incredible or what?
01:29:57.63\01:29:59.73
Amen! Is this incredible?
01:29:59.93\01:30:01.36
That's why I can
never be discouraged
01:30:01.76\01:30:03.77
at 3ABN... I can
never be discouraged.
01:30:03.97\01:30:05.83
I could literally sit
here for hours - stand here
01:30:06.03\01:30:09.14
for hours - tell you stories
that many of you probably
01:30:09.34\01:30:12.04
have never
heard, miracle stories,
01:30:12.24\01:30:14.41
that God's in the
business of saving souls.
01:30:14.61\01:30:16.95
Amen! And that He
allows us the privilege
01:30:17.15\01:30:20.22
of working in His
vineyard with Him.
01:30:20.62\01:30:23.15
All we have to do is
be faithful to the mission
01:30:23.69\01:30:26.55
that He's given us. And the
trouble is is that we're not.
01:30:26.76\01:30:30.26
But I want to read, and
we're going to close here
01:30:30.46\01:30:32.16
in just a few
minutes. Revelation 14:12,
01:30:32.36\01:30:34.63
you know it by
heart many of you.
01:30:34.83\01:30:36.46
"Here is the patience of
the saints... " Say it with me:
01:30:36.77\01:30:39.97
"Here are they that
keep the commandments of God
01:30:40.17\01:30:42.47
and the faith of Jesus. "
01:30:42.67\01:30:45.54
I want to tell you something:
the devil is working hard
01:30:47.51\01:30:51.15
to distract
Seventh-day Adventist Christians
01:30:51.35\01:30:54.65
from the mission to take
the three angels' messages
01:30:54.85\01:30:58.32
to the world. Amen.
He's never worked harder.
01:30:58.52\01:31:01.12
And I can tell you
that with calm assurance
01:31:01.32\01:31:03.96
because we've never been
closer to the second coming.
01:31:04.16\01:31:06.80
Amen!
01:31:07.00\01:31:08.33
Right? We've never been
closer to the second coming.
01:31:08.40\01:31:11.23
So the devil is doing more now,
fighting harder than ever before
01:31:11.43\01:31:16.37
to distract us, to get our minds
on anything except the mission
01:31:16.57\01:31:21.61
that God has given us as
a people and as a church.
01:31:21.81\01:31:24.58
That's why
there's so many problems.
01:31:24.78\01:31:27.95
And I don't... I
didn't want to do this.
01:31:28.15\01:31:30.99
I asked God while
ago. I was in the back room
01:31:31.19\01:31:33.46
getting ready and I
said: "Deliver me from this.
01:31:33.66\01:31:36.06
I don't want to say this. "
And I wasn't going to say it
01:31:36.26\01:31:38.96
but I'm going to
go ahead and say it.
01:31:39.16\01:31:40.60
All right? We're about
over so if you walk out
01:31:40.80\01:31:43.03
you've heard most of it anyway.
01:31:43.23\01:31:44.60
But the devil is doing
01:31:45.10\01:31:47.77
things that he should
never be getting away...
01:31:48.84\01:31:51.31
If we were focused on
Jesus, on our mission,
01:31:51.51\01:31:54.44
he could never divide us.
01:31:54.64\01:31:56.14
We're seeing a divided church.
01:31:56.54\01:31:57.88
We see a divided
country. And I have seen -
01:31:58.08\01:32:00.75
and this is what I
didn't want to talk about -
01:32:00.95\01:32:02.28
'cause I'll tell you
right now I'm independent.
01:32:02.48\01:32:04.69
I'm not a
Democrat or Republican.
01:32:04.89\01:32:06.55
But I have seen politics divide
our church and church members.
01:32:06.76\01:32:11.36
Politics do it, literally.
01:32:11.76\01:32:14.73
And you go on Facebook
and like all of these SDA's
01:32:14.93\01:32:17.97
are saying all this
stuff that the public can hear
01:32:18.17\01:32:20.84
around the world.
01:32:21.00\01:32:22.77
And I see it on
both sides of the aisle
01:32:22.97\01:32:25.31
so I can sit here and say it.
01:32:25.51\01:32:27.01
But to me I don't
know how any of us
01:32:27.21\01:32:29.74
can align ourselves
with earthy politics.
01:32:29.94\01:32:34.02
You can't do it.
01:32:34.22\01:32:35.55
Now, I'm not
saying you shouldn't vote
01:32:35.65\01:32:37.19
from time to time.
01:32:37.39\01:32:38.72
But I'm saying you
can't be a card-carrying
01:32:38.75\01:32:40.49
or one of these
supporters that no matter what
01:32:40.69\01:32:43.02
somebody does it's all OK.
01:32:43.22\01:32:45.06
We have to be separate!
01:32:45.46\01:32:47.13
We have people
right now in our church
01:32:47.53\01:32:49.63
that are card-carrying
Democrats for instance
01:32:49.83\01:32:52.37
when their policy
is same-sex marriage -
01:32:52.77\01:32:55.67
they made it law of
the land - and abortion.
01:32:55.87\01:32:57.97
And yet we're
Seventh-day Adventists
01:32:58.37\01:32:59.94
and we tell everybody:
"Well, you've got to keep
01:33:00.18\01:33:01.81
all of the commandments of God"
01:33:02.01\01:33:03.38
but yet we support these others.
01:33:03.58\01:33:05.28
And you know how we do it?
"Well I hate President Trump
01:33:05.48\01:33:08.88
so bad that... I hate
him so bad that I've joined
01:33:09.08\01:33:14.82
the Democratic party
'cause I hate what he does. "
01:33:15.02\01:33:17.36
That would be like me saying:
"Boy, I'll tell you what:
01:33:17.56\01:33:20.00
I've got a black neighbor next
door and I just can't stand him
01:33:20.20\01:33:23.20
so much I'm going
to join the KKK. "
01:33:23.40\01:33:25.03
Right? 'Cause I
have a black neighbor.
01:33:25.80\01:33:27.37
Makes no sense. Two
wrongs don't make a right.
01:33:27.57\01:33:29.57
Then on the other hand
you've got the Republicans.
01:33:30.01\01:33:32.71
On the Republican
side we have to be aware
01:33:32.91\01:33:36.98
as Seventh-day
Adventist Christians
01:33:37.18\01:33:39.41
that though they're
not out openly condemning
01:33:39.61\01:33:42.48
or breaking...
telling same-sex marriage,
01:33:42.88\01:33:46.19
the seventh commandment,
abortion "Thou shalt not kill, "
01:33:46.39\01:33:50.86
not doing that
they are more likely...
01:33:51.06\01:33:54.00
this party is more likely to
bring in a national Sunday law.
01:33:54.20\01:33:56.97
Because now we're all
convinced and the president,
01:33:57.17\01:34:00.67
they have such
influence over the president,
01:34:00.87\01:34:03.27
and there's a big
thing going on right now
01:34:03.71\01:34:05.61
with some of the major speakers.
I mentioned it the other night
01:34:05.81\01:34:09.28
out in Arizona. A
thirty-three member church
01:34:09.48\01:34:11.45
and a pastor is teaching
you all the commandments are
01:34:11.65\01:34:14.05
done away with.
Then other Sunday pastors
01:34:14.25\01:34:17.12
in big churches and
networks are saying:
01:34:17.32\01:34:19.19
"That's not true. "
Well, look at Matthew.
01:34:19.39\01:34:21.32
It says: "I come not to
destroy the law nor the prophets
01:34:21.52\01:34:24.13
but to fulfill
them. " And I'm like:
01:34:24.33\01:34:25.93
"These are Sunday folk arguing
over the Ten Commandments. "
01:34:26.13\01:34:29.40
Right now, folks,
we have to be focused
01:34:29.80\01:34:32.40
on loving Jesus and
loving people. Amen!
01:34:32.60\01:34:35.64
We cannot align
ourselves with earthly politics.
01:34:35.84\01:34:39.37
To have our favorites
or say "I support this
01:34:39.57\01:34:42.38
more than that. " We
live in an evil world
01:34:42.58\01:34:44.45
and nobody's going to be
perfect. But let's be careful
01:34:44.65\01:34:47.55
and not put so
much time into politics
01:34:47.75\01:34:50.12
and put more time into
Jesus and spreading the gospel
01:34:50.32\01:34:53.15
to the world. Because
whichever side you're on
01:34:53.36\01:34:55.92
is not going to be right.
01:34:56.12\01:34:57.73
It's not going to hold up;
it's not going to stand the test
01:34:57.93\01:35:00.73
of what it means to
be a true Christian.
01:35:00.93\01:35:02.73
So enough said about
that. I didn't want to say that
01:35:02.93\01:35:04.90
but I did... it's there.
01:35:05.30\01:35:07.24
So it's there. Somebody
said: "I'm glad you did"
01:35:07.44\01:35:10.01
and 400 others
didn't say anything.
01:35:10.21\01:35:12.61
So it's all right...
I'm with you; I'm with you.
01:35:12.81\01:35:14.94
That's all right. That
one's OK. That's all I needed.
01:35:15.14\01:35:17.28
That's all I needed.
01:35:17.68\01:35:19.01
But I want to
tell you in closing
01:35:19.25\01:35:21.78
that God is faithful - Amen -
01:35:24.09\01:35:26.99
If you can understand that
01:35:37.57\01:35:39.53
and get that in your
mind and you believe it,
01:35:39.73\01:35:44.21
I promise you you'll
be a giant for the Lord -
01:35:44.37\01:35:47.51
Amen - in these closing
moments of earth's history.
01:35:47.71\01:35:50.25
You will not be
sidetracked from the mission
01:35:50.45\01:35:53.31
and the message
that God has given us.
01:35:53.52\01:35:56.18
The last thing you want to be
01:35:56.58\01:35:58.82
and not do it right in the clos-
ing moments of earth's history
01:35:59.72\01:36:03.32
is to be a SDA
Christian that doesn't make it
01:36:03.73\01:36:07.20
to the kingdom of heaven.
01:36:07.40\01:36:08.83
As I mentioned
earlier: "To much is given
01:36:09.03\01:36:11.10
much is required. "
Folks, we can't just sit by
01:36:11.30\01:36:14.24
and do nothing. That's
why these projects like
01:36:14.40\01:36:16.71
sending the Ten
Commandments to Alabama...
01:36:16.91\01:36:19.44
We're living in
an incredible time.
01:36:19.64\01:36:21.61
Think about that:
an incredible time
01:36:21.81\01:36:23.55
where they're voting on putting
the Ten Commandments back
01:36:23.75\01:36:26.15
in Alabama into the state
house, into the government.
01:36:26.35\01:36:29.02
Five million people...
all eyes on the law of God.
01:36:29.22\01:36:31.79
We can't sit
back and do nothing.
01:36:31.99\01:36:33.46
That's why we're sending
over half a million books
01:36:33.66\01:36:36.59
already getting
ready to be mailed there.
01:36:36.83\01:36:39.29
Another half
million are being printed
01:36:39.49\01:36:41.43
because we want
everybody in Alabama to decide
01:36:41.63\01:36:44.00
for themselves - Amen -
what day they should keep
01:36:44.20\01:36:46.57
and if they should
keep the law of God.
01:36:46.77\01:36:48.34
And we're asking you to support
us and to join us in that.
01:36:48.54\01:36:51.27
What I'm going to do: I'm
going to ask Yvonne to come out
01:36:51.67\01:36:54.44
and Tim's here at the piano.
01:36:54.84\01:36:56.38
And I want her to sing for us
01:36:56.78\01:36:58.95
and then we want to
have a closing prayer.
01:36:59.15\01:37:00.62
I want you to
think about your life
01:37:00.82\01:37:02.42
and your
relationship with Jesus Christ
01:37:02.62\01:37:05.72
and your commitment to Him.
01:37:05.92\01:37:07.76
Are you willing to give up
01:37:08.16\01:37:12.09
things of this earth?
01:37:12.49\01:37:14.70
Will they grow strangely dim
01:37:15.10\01:37:17.47
in the light of
Christ's glory and grace?
01:37:17.63\01:37:19.53
Are you willing to
allow that to happen?
01:37:19.73\01:37:21.24
Are the things of
earth that you once loved
01:37:21.64\01:37:23.34
are you now beginning to hate?
01:37:23.54\01:37:24.87
God has a plan, and He's
called each and every one of us
01:37:26.31\01:37:30.38
to do a great and
mighty, marvelous work.
01:37:30.78\01:37:33.08
And that's simply to
rightly represent Him
01:37:33.28\01:37:35.55
and His character
before a lost and dying world.
01:37:35.75\01:37:38.65
And we can always
know that God is faithful,
01:37:38.85\01:37:41.32
He's always there, He's on time,
01:37:41.72\01:37:43.53
and He will never fail.
01:37:43.93\01:37:45.86
How can I say thanks
01:37:55.34\01:38:01.11
for the things
01:38:02.94\01:38:05.88
You've done for me?
01:38:06.08\01:38:09.98
Things so undeserved
01:38:10.39\01:38:14.99
yet You gave
01:38:16.16\01:38:18.59
to prove Your love for me.
01:38:18.79\01:38:23.23
The voices
01:38:23.67\01:38:25.87
of a million angels
01:38:26.07\01:38:29.90
could not express
01:38:30.11\01:38:33.68
my gratitude.
01:38:33.88\01:38:37.55
All that I am
01:38:37.95\01:38:41.12
or ever hope to be...
01:38:41.52\01:38:47.29
I owe it all to Thee.
01:38:47.86\01:38:53.90
To God
01:38:54.96\01:38:57.50
be the glory!
01:38:57.70\01:39:01.97
To God
01:39:02.37\01:39:04.74
be the glory!
01:39:04.94\01:39:08.64
To God
01:39:09.04\01:39:11.41
be the glory
01:39:11.61\01:39:15.18
for the things He has done!
01:39:15.78\01:39:21.72
With His blood
01:39:22.52\01:39:25.46
He has saved me;
01:39:25.66\01:39:29.53
With His power
01:39:29.93\01:39:32.23
He has raised me;
01:39:32.43\01:39:36.14
To God
01:39:36.54\01:39:39.24
be the glory
01:39:39.44\01:39:42.91
for the things He has done!
01:39:43.11\01:39:49.02
With His blood
01:39:49.22\01:39:52.29
Jesus saved me;
01:39:52.49\01:39:56.12
With His power
01:39:56.32\01:39:58.46
He has raised me;
01:39:58.66\01:40:02.90
To God
01:40:03.30\01:40:06.00
be the glory
01:40:06.20\01:40:10.61
for the things
01:40:10.81\01:40:12.94
for the things He has done!
01:40:13.14\01:40:18.15
Great
01:40:18.35\01:40:20.52
is Thy faithfulness!
01:40:20.72\01:40:25.35
Great is
01:40:25.75\01:40:28.39
Thy faithfulness!
01:40:28.59\01:40:32.29
Morning by morning
01:40:32.69\01:40:36.97
new mercies I see!
01:40:37.17\01:40:43.07
All I have needed
01:40:45.04\01:40:49.71
Thy hands have provided...
01:40:50.15\01:40:55.35
Great is Thy faithfulness...
01:40:55.75\01:41:01.59
Great is Thy
01:41:04.53\01:41:07.10
faithfulness
01:41:07.30\01:41:12.00
Lord
01:41:12.70\01:41:15.04
unto
01:41:15.24\01:41:19.01
me!
01:41:19.21\01:41:25.21
Amen! Come over
here... that's too much!
01:41:31.02\01:41:34.76
We only have just a minute left
01:41:34.96\01:41:38.16
and I'm going to ask you,
Yvonne, to say a closing prayer.
01:41:38.36\01:41:41.06
It's my prayer that
each and every one of us...
01:41:41.46\01:41:43.40
You take this time...
we're here at Camp Meeting.
01:41:43.60\01:41:45.60
And if you need
somebody to pray with you,
01:41:46.00\01:41:47.97
you're here in the
valley of decision,
01:41:48.17\01:41:49.94
come and talk to some of
us. You know those who are here
01:41:50.14\01:41:52.14
that are willing
to pray with you.
01:41:52.34\01:41:54.01
We care about you; we love you.
01:41:54.21\01:41:55.58
Stay focused to the mission and
remember that God is faithful.
01:41:55.78\01:41:59.01
Right? He's
always there on time!
01:41:59.41\01:42:03.59
He'll never leave
us... He'll never forsake us
01:42:03.99\01:42:06.76
and He never fails!
01:42:07.16\01:42:09.76
Lord, we just thank You.
01:42:11.79\01:42:13.60
We just praise You
for Your faithfulness.
01:42:13.80\01:42:16.33
Help us never to
forget how faithful You are.
01:42:16.53\01:42:19.33
Keep it in the forefront
of our minds, Lord God.
01:42:19.53\01:42:23.54
Help us to always be grateful
01:42:23.94\01:42:26.11
for what You do
because You're always on time.
01:42:26.31\01:42:29.51
You're always there for us and
You will never, ever fail us.
01:42:29.71\01:42:34.02
So help us to
continue to stay strong in You
01:42:34.38\01:42:37.49
and, Lord, continue
to guide and direct us
01:42:37.85\01:42:40.79
as we prepare for
You second coming.
01:42:41.19\01:42:44.23
Help us to be ready and
help us to all be there.
01:42:44.39\01:42:47.43
Everyone that's in this room,
Lord. Help us to be together -
01:42:47.63\01:42:51.20
Amen - on the sea of
glass to worship You forever.
01:42:51.40\01:42:54.90
In Jesus' name, Amen. Amen!
01:42:55.10\01:42:58.04