Participants: Karen Thomas, Stan Dixon
Series Code: IAA
Program Code: IAA000036
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00:30 Welcome to another edition of "Issues and Answers."
00:33 What a pleasure it is to have you join us today. 00:36 We've a very special guest 00:38 who will be talking to us about talents. 00:41 What does that mean, talents? 00:44 Does it mean money? Does it mean prestige? 00:46 Does it mean power? Does it mean giftedness? 00:49 We'll learn more about talents 00:52 through Pastor Stanley Dixon's personal testimony, 00:54 but first little bit about him. 00:56 He's a graduate of the Los Angeles City College, 01:01 Radio Broadcasting and Journalism School 01:04 and also Oakwood College 01:05 and the Andrews University Theological Seminary. 01:09 He's also a former US navy ship serviceman and honor guard. 01:14 He's been involved in many youth ministries around the country, 01:18 has pastored many churches and has also been involved 01:21 in television and radio broadcast. 01:24 Welcome, Pastor Dixon, to our program. 01:25 It's a pleasure to be here. 01:27 Tell us about talents. Well, I-- 01:31 talents is a very important subject to me because 01:35 a couple of years ago, the Lord showed me 01:40 what having talents really meant. Mm-hmm. 01:42 And I just like to go back to my childhood. Okay. 01:46 Well, I grew up in a home where there wasn't 01:50 a lot of laughter, not a lot of joy. 01:52 My mother had divorced when we were-- 01:55 I had another brother at that time who was 5 years old. 02:00 And there were times, very dark times, a dismal period. 02:07 About 5 years after that, my mother remarried 02:10 and a stepfather came into the picture 02:12 and he was not happy about this arrangement. 02:16 You know-- You mean, with the children? 02:17 With the children involved and so life was kind of miserable, 02:22 you know, and I'm talking about, 02:25 you know, anger and accusing and just not-- 02:29 How did that affect you and your brothers? 02:31 Well, it affected me in the sense of looking outside 02:36 of the home for peer group and peer support 02:39 which resulted in my going outside of the home 02:43 and getting involved in gangs and the wrong kind of crowd. 02:48 And where were you living? 02:49 I was living in Los Angeles, 02:51 the inner city of Los Angeles. Mm-hmm. 02:52 And fortunately I barely made it out of high school 02:58 because of the commitment towards education. 03:02 My father was a teacher. Mm-hmm. 03:05 And I thought, well, it must be somewhat important since, 03:08 you know, he had already obtained a masters degree. 03:12 But still for me I think 03:16 after that experience of leaving home, 03:20 it was a quest to find happiness and joy 03:23 and I found out that I couldn't find it, 03:25 didn't find it in the gangs, I didn't find it in the clubs, 03:28 I didn't find it in the party. And so-- 03:31 How old were you when you left home? 03:33 Well, I was about 18 and I joined the United States Navy. 03:36 So after I got out of the navy, I was still looking 03:40 and I remember when I was young, 03:41 I used to watch a lot of television. 03:45 And I think for the first time I saw people, you know, laughing 03:48 and being happy at least superficially. Mm-hmm. 03:52 At that time I didn't know it. 03:54 And I decided after watching certain stand-up comics 03:58 that I would go into that field. 04:00 Because if these people had happiness, 04:02 you know, I wanted to be a part of it. 04:03 I wanted to give it to others and so I learned 04:06 how to do stand-up comedy. I learned the craft and-- 04:11 How interesting for a person who was hurting so much inside 04:13 to choose comedy. Right. 04:15 To choose comedy. Yeah. 04:16 It was sort of a Band-Aid approach looking back on it. 04:19 But I remember in a speech class, 04:22 the teacher suggested and this is at a city college 04:25 that, "You know, why don't you try stand-up comedy, 04:28 you know, because you're pretty good 04:30 at arranging facts and ideas in a funny way." 04:32 And so I took him up on that and on December 04:37 I think it was the 25th 1977, I went up before a crowd 04:42 at the comedy store in West Hollywood. 04:44 Oh, that's a very famous spot. 04:45 Yeah. Right. And-- 04:47 A lot of people who've gotten 04:48 there start as comedians at that place. Right. 04:50 And the first night was terrible. 04:53 It was awful, I mean, it was-- 04:58 it was a bad experience. 05:00 I'll put it that way. Mm-hmm. 05:02 And I couldn't see anything. 05:04 The lights were in front of me and the timing was off. 05:08 People weren't laughing. 05:09 In fact, people were shouting, you know, 05:10 "Get off the stage. Get a day job. 05:12 Go West, young man." 05:15 And I was kind of stubborn. 05:17 So I said, "Let me find out what I did wrong." 05:20 And so the next week I came back, 05:22 I did better and so that began a 3-year 05:27 circulating through the comedy circuit in Hollywood. 05:32 And by the end of 3 years, I had learned the craft. 05:36 I don't think I was naturally gifted to be funny, 05:39 but I had learnt how to do it 05:43 and I remember Arsenio Hall-- Mm-hmm. 05:45 You know, saying, "You know, you really 05:46 have some clever material. 05:48 And then you ought to keep doing." 05:49 So he gave me encouragement and Pablo Rodriguez-- 05:51 Paul Rodriguez, actually asked me 05:54 to perform open for him, doing a college circuit. 05:58 And I remember at the improv 06:00 there were two producers 06:02 of television programs, gave me their card 06:05 and said that they were gonna look me up and at the same time 06:07 I was going through a real dreadful period in my life 06:11 being without God and live-- as a young man, 06:14 you know, living in sin 06:15 and at the same time trying to achieve something. 06:18 I was a little bit off balance and so my life got real bad 06:23 and it seemed that I had no future. 06:25 I had no purpose, even though I was pursuing a career, 06:30 learning how to make people laugh--Mm-hmm. 06:32 At the same time even though people were laughing, 06:34 I was still miserable. I was still unhappy. 06:37 I was still feeling this sense of emptiness. 06:41 And at the same time, the Lord was drawing me 06:43 away from the comedy circuit. 06:46 In fact, he drew me to the University 06:48 of Seventh-day Adventist Church in Los Angeles. 06:50 And I began to study and I began to read the Bible 06:54 and I remember one morning, one of the members at university 06:59 called me for prayer and at the end of that prayer, 07:04 I was impressed to turn to Matthew 25, 07:07 and I'll just read it. 07:10 Matthew 25, beginning with verse 14, and it says, 07:16 "The kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling 07:18 into a far country who called his own servants 07:21 and delivered unto them his goods. 07:23 And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, 07:26 and to another one, and to every man 07:29 according to his several ability, 07:30 and straight way took his journey. 07:33 And then he that received the five talents went and traded 07:36 with the same and made them other five talents. 07:38 And like wise he that had received two, 07:40 he also gained other two. 07:43 But he that received one went and digged in the earth, 07:48 and hid his Lord's money." 07:51 And when I saw that, it hit me like a ton of bricks 07:57 that I was the one who had hid his talent in the earth. 08:03 And when I was reading the scripture and I can't explain it 08:06 because there are no human words to describe 08:07 what happened in that room for the next 2 hours. 08:10 But it was like a presence came into that apartment 08:14 where I was staying at that time and the words 08:18 even though they were read and I was reading the words, 08:20 the words became alive. 08:23 That's the best I can describe it. 08:25 And it was like the Father, the Son, 08:28 and Jesus Christ was right there in the room 08:30 and His presence or His nearness toward me enlivened the word 08:35 and the word became living to me and I saw 08:40 where the word applied to me, to my own personal situation. 08:43 I was the one who had buried his talents in the earth. 08:47 I was in the world trying to make a name, 08:49 trying to be successful, using God's talent. 08:53 You know, 'cause the Bible says, "You are not your own. 08:55 You were bought with a price," 08:57 you know, "honor God in your body." 08:59 I was burying what God gave me in the earth. 09:03 Well, Pastor Dixon, it also meant 09:05 that the fact that God came and allowed you to feel 09:08 His presence meant that you even-- 09:10 that you also had talents. Yes. 09:12 That kind of affirmed to you that you had talent. Yeah. 09:16 It did, it was an affirmation of what I had 09:20 and then also suggested that there may have been 09:22 other talents that I hadn't even tapped in on yet. Mm-hmm. 09:25 See, comedy is just one slice of a talent 09:29 and it was never meant to be taken in on its own, 09:33 because you can't really laugh 09:35 or laugh without crying to be a whole person. 09:39 And what comedy was doing at least in the world 09:42 was exploiting this gift to be able to make people laugh. 09:48 And I cried in my room for about an hour 09:53 and I surrendered my life to the Lord and that was 09:56 the beginning of my conversion experience 09:59 and also the beginning of giving the Lord my talent, 10:03 so I stopped doing the stand-up comedy in the night clubs 10:06 and using the language and-- 10:09 So what did you do for money? 10:11 'Cause that was your job. 10:12 Well, actually I wasn't getting paid that much for it. 10:14 So, you know, I was a full-time student 10:16 at that time. Okay. 10:20 But I see it as the Lord redirecting me away from 10:26 using talents in Satan's venue. 10:32 And eventually I began to do other things in the church. 10:38 And the Lord showed me that I had other gifts. 10:39 I had a gift for writing. 10:41 I had a gift for counseling people. 10:42 I had other, you know, gifts of speaking, 10:44 not necessarily just making people laugh, 10:47 but using whatever I had learned in the comedy circuit 10:51 to use it for the glory and honor of God. 10:53 So what happened next? 10:55 Well, the next thing happened is, 10:56 I enrolled at Oakwood College with a lot of encouragement 10:58 from the university church members. 11:01 So church members can make a difference 11:02 in the lives of young people? 11:04 Oh, yes, oh,yes, oh, yes. 11:05 It was a lot of encouragement 11:06 and also they utilized what gifts I had. 11:08 If they had something going on in an AY program, 11:11 they would say, "Hey, Stan, can you do this? 11:13 We need you to memorize a speech. Can you do this? 11:15 Do Martin Luther King. Do this, do that." 11:17 And so I felt a sense of being needed and I felt 11:21 that my gifts were nurtured and developed, 11:24 you know, at the church. 11:25 And then they sent me away to Oakwood College and there 11:28 I was impressed to follow or pursue ministry as a career. 11:35 But God had called me before that and He told me 11:38 "to take your talents out of the world and give them to Me 11:42 and watch Me multiply them." Amen. 11:44 So that's been my quest since then is to continue 11:49 to study Matthew 25, because there are a lot of lessons 11:52 as it relates to, you know, the use of your gifts 11:57 and the development of the gifts and also the increasing 12:02 or the multiplication of those gifts. 12:04 So I've been very fortunate, 12:07 you know, and the Bible says in Proverbs 17:22, 12:10 "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine." Yes. 12:14 And I think sometimes even in the church we can be so serious. 12:18 And, in fact, I'm serious and often accused of that. 12:22 And people will say, "How could you used to be a-- 12:24 how did you-- how were you a comedian?" 12:26 How were you a comedian? 12:27 Because, you know, you seem so serious and I think 12:29 it's a reaction to, you know, the world on my association 12:35 with comedy with the world. Mm-hmm. 12:37 But over the years I've learned that, 12:41 that it's still useful as long as it's sanctified by God 12:45 and it's not divorce from life in general, 12:48 in other words, not exploited. 12:50 Okay. You see. So you still make people laugh? 12:53 Sometimes it comes out, but naturally now. 12:55 You know, it may be in a sermon. 12:57 It may be for example to ease tension. 13:01 We had a situation where if someone stood up to sing 13:06 and the tape player wouldn't come on 13:09 and so there's this paralyzing silence. Yes. 13:12 And all that is needed at that time is for someone 13:15 to say something that will ease people. 13:18 And sometimes, you know, what happens where you might 13:21 say something that "Well, the tape is not 13:24 functioning and the devil is on," 13:25 and people will be laughing and it eases the situation. 13:28 So there's a use, there's a purpose for laughter. 13:32 And there's a doctor out at Loma Linda who did a study-- 13:36 A controlled study and he showed that laughter 13:40 actually improved a person's immune system. 13:43 Oh, absolutely. Yeah. 13:45 "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine." 13:47 Doeth good like a medicine, yeah. 13:48 "And a broken spirit dries up the bones." 13:50 Yes, yes. So it's not a sin to laugh. 13:53 But it is a sin to exploit laugher 13:56 outside of the context of life and truth. 14:01 So I've learned that in the church 14:03 that even in a sermon it may come out, 14:05 but it's not a joke. 14:08 And some of your preachers even preachers 14:10 that have been here on 3ABN, you know, I've watched them. 14:13 They will say something so true that it makes you laugh. 14:16 But it's not-- the laughter is not the end. 14:20 It's not the purpose of what is being said. 14:23 But it's a byproduct of what has been said because it's so true. 14:26 It sounds so true, so you laugh. 14:29 And, so it's been a help in my ministry. 14:33 The past has been a help, but not until that talent 14:37 was surrendered to God and now God gives it back to me 14:42 to be used for His glory. 14:43 Not just making people laugh, but making people whole, 14:47 giving people hope and encouragement. 14:50 And how about that pursuit for happiness? 14:52 I found it. Praise the Lord. 14:54 I found it and I'm watching other people get the real thing. 14:58 So now you went to Oakwood College and-- Yes. 15:01 Tell us about your experience there. 15:03 When did you know that the Lord was calling you to ministry? 15:06 Actually I knew that before Oakwood College 15:09 because I was just attracted to the church. 15:11 I was attracted to the word so much that I would spend 15:15 days and nights just searching the word of God. 15:18 And I remember C. D. Brooks did a revival. 15:21 I think it was a tent effort in Los Angeles and I was there 15:25 every night and as long as the doors were open, 15:28 you know, I was at that church and I was usually 15:30 the last one to leave, you know, and I'm a new convert 15:34 no longer than three months in the church, 15:36 but I had an insatiable desire 15:38 for a hunger for spiritual things. 15:41 And I guess the other ministers saw that and they encouraged me. 15:44 The church members, the elders, 15:46 they saw that and then they encouraged me on. 15:49 And Oakwood College was like heaven. 15:51 Because that same environment reminded me 15:57 of what heaven would be like. 15:58 I would sit in classrooms 16:00 and I would hate for the bell to ring. 16:02 You know, I was like, "Oh, no, 16:04 we got to go back in the world again." 16:06 And E. E. Cleveland was one of the instructors. 16:12 E. C. Ward and, you know, some of the old timers. 16:15 So it was a rich experience that 2 years that I was there. 16:18 I was a transfer student, transferred from UCLA, 16:20 but the 2 years was very rewarding 16:24 and it gave me a foundation, 16:27 so that whatever would happen, you know, in the future, 16:30 I was prepared because they really gave me 16:32 some solid roots and solid foundation. 16:35 Now did you go straight way to the seminary 16:37 after Oakwood College? No. 16:38 I went back into the wilderness 16:40 and it was about 2 years, 2 or 3 years 16:43 before I went back to-- well, 16:45 I went to Andrews. And at that time-- 16:48 Were you in the ministry pastoring at that time? 16:49 I wasn't pastoring, but I was ministering, 16:52 but I wasn't officially a minister. 16:54 I was, you know, working as a substitute teacher-- 16:58 So you really had to exert a lot of faith 17:00 to having spent-- graduated in theology? Yeah. 17:04 And then not to have received a call as they say 17:08 which is full-time employment in ministry. 17:11 But you decided instead to go ahead and pursue ministry 17:15 because you knew the Lord wanted you to do that. 17:17 Yes, and I remember I would be asked to speak 17:20 and I would help and I would run Revelation seminars. 17:23 But eventually after 3 years, I got a little frustrated. 17:24 I said, "Lord, do you really want me to do this. 17:27 I think I'm gonna change my major 17:28 and I'm gonna go into psychology, 17:30 because I don't feel that these sacrifices 17:33 that are being made are paying off," you know. 17:37 And I remember just being in a park one night 17:41 and just almost at a point of just giving up 17:44 and that following Friday night, Elder, um, 17:50 what's his name, Elder Winston-- 17:53 Elder Taylor has said to me 17:55 "We voted you in. We voted you in." 17:57 Just when I was about to give up, 17:59 the Lord moved upon this committee to say, 18:02 you know, that, you know-- The time is right. 18:04 Now you're a part of the ministry, 18:06 but the Lord had to teach me some things 18:08 during that 3-year time. What did He teach you? 18:10 He taught me faith, you know, trusting in God, 18:14 not to make sacrifices, not to compromise principles-- 18:20 Because if you were back in Los Angeles again 18:22 it would've been just as easy for you 18:23 to get right back into that. 18:24 It was. There were a lot of temptations. 18:29 A lot of inducements, and the comedy field 18:31 was right there, right in the center. 18:33 So the Lord said, "Go back where I found you and" 18:37 you know, "and do the work of ministry." 18:40 And just when I got tired that's when He came through. 18:44 He knows how much we could bear. 18:45 Now were you married at that time? 18:47 Was not married, which made it worse. 18:50 Because like I said, but the Lord was developing, 18:55 you know, the character traits that I would need later on. 18:59 And the only way He could've done that was to remove 19:02 all of the protection and He'd set me in just like 19:05 Jesus going into the wilderness. 19:07 Just going in and depending upon God, trusting in Him. 19:12 So you left from there and you went 19:13 to Michigan-- Went to Michigan. 19:15 To the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary. Yes, yes. 19:17 A very different place from Los Angeles in temperature. 19:20 Yes, yes. 19:22 But it was there that I learned the tools of ministry. 19:28 I've already had the basis for faith. 19:31 I've learned that in my own personal study 19:33 and also Oakwood College facilitated that. 19:37 But at Andrews, I learned the discipline of study 19:43 and of writing and I'm really putting those gifts into use. 19:47 So these are more talents the Lord was placing--Yes. 19:50 In your lap and developing. 19:52 And incidentally, when I was looking to find out who I was 19:59 in ministering and to define that "Lord what are my gifts, 20:02 I know," you know, "I can speak and there's, 20:07 you know, I know I have the gift of understanding the word, 20:09 I know I have that," 20:11 but I went back to my grade school, 20:19 I think it's the office where they have all 20:20 the cume reports. Mm-hmm. 20:22 And I read some of those cume reports 20:25 and it indicated by one of the teachers 20:28 that I had been an excellent person in writing. Okay. 20:36 Especially creative writing. Mm-hmm. 20:38 No one ever told me that. 20:39 It's very interesting. I didn't know that. 20:41 So you never got that teacher comment way back where-- 20:43 Never got it, never got it from my parents or anything. 20:45 And so I said, "Okay, well, that is true." 20:48 Because I remember when I was at LACC, you know, 20:51 I was on the student newspaper and I didn't think any of it. 20:54 I just wrote an article and it won an award, 20:57 you know, it won an award. 20:58 So it verified that, that God had given me 21:01 that gift from an early age. 21:04 And so those are some areas that I'm still exploring 21:07 the gift of writing. 21:09 But the most important thing about Andrews University, 21:11 I guess, is I met my wife there. Well, praise the Lord. 21:15 Yeah, that's the most important. 21:17 And so it's been a blessing. 21:20 But I wanted to say maybe a couple of things about talents. 21:24 The Bible says in Matthew 25 that, 21:30 that this man who had been given one talent 21:33 hid that talent in the earth. 21:35 Now a talent was something very precious. 21:38 A talent was worth 15 years' wages. 21:42 That's a lot of money. 21:44 Yeah, so if you make $30,000 a year, 21:46 one talent would've been 21:49 something equivalent to $330,000. 21:52 Wow. Just one talent. 21:55 And you're thinking the person with five talents who in-- 21:59 by increase-- and by faithfulness increased 22:02 his talents to 10, would have all over 22:05 three million three hundred dollars in today's economy. 22:09 So a talent was something very precious 22:11 and it symbolized those internal gifts that God has given us. 22:16 To say that if we use those gifts for God, 22:19 God will increase those gifts and they are not to be 22:22 used for the world but to be used for Him 22:26 in helping to win souls for Him. 22:29 And I think it's been a blessing 22:33 to have learned that. Amen. 22:37 So how about the guy who then buried 22:39 all this money in the ground? It's unexplainable. 22:43 I don't why someone would do that? 22:45 It's a lot of money. I had no idea it was $300,000. Yes. 22:49 No wonder why the master was so angry with that servant 22:53 who buried that money. That's right, that's right. 22:54 It might have even rotted beneath there. Yeah. 22:57 Why would a person want to bury that much money 23:00 that's something so precious? 23:02 Well, the Bible says that when he was asked to render 23:05 an account, you know, for his stewardship, he replied, 23:09 "Well, I thought you were a hard task master" 23:13 and the condemnation was not so much that he buried it, 23:17 but the fact that he didn't do anything with it, you know. 23:21 And, you know, Jesus said to him, "Well, you know, 23:26 I could've put my money in the bank and made more money 23:28 if I knew you weren't going to-- " Then he's accused of being 23:31 a "wicked and slothful servant." 23:33 So he just didn't want any responsibility, you know. 23:36 He didn't want to manage. He didn't want to do anything. 23:38 So he was not given that benediction. 23:41 You know, you've been a faithful and good servant. 23:47 And so, but he receives the condemnation and those 23:53 who improve their talents, you know, Jesus said, you know, 23:57 you've been faithful over a few things. 24:00 I mean, a person here, a person with 10 talents, 24:02 he's been faithful over few things. 24:04 Just think, what it's gonna be like in heaven, 24:06 if we're faithful in the use of our talents now? 24:08 Amen. So what can we do? Yeah. 24:10 Let's say someone who's watching the program 24:12 or myself, I want to know, too. 24:15 What can we do to develop what God has given? 24:17 What's the first step? 24:19 Well, the first step is pray, 24:21 the second step is pray, and the third step is pray 24:26 because spiritual things are spiritually discerned. 24:29 It's okay to take a spiritual gifts inventory 24:31 and those kinds of tests, but the bottom line 24:34 is that God can reveal it to us if we pray. 24:37 And the second step is to explore, 24:38 to read about the subject, find out as much as we can 24:41 about what the Bible has to say about spiritual gifts. 24:45 And the third step is to experiment, 24:47 be open to God's leading and His providence. 24:49 God may place someone in your path who has the gift 24:53 of the sermon and will direct you and say to you, 24:55 "Hey, you've got a spiritual gift for singing." 24:58 "No, I never thought I could sing." 24:59 "But I heard you, you know, before, 25:00 you know, just humming around." 25:02 So we have to trust God's leading and if we pray, 25:04 God will move us into the path of discovery. 25:09 Well, I'm glad you said that. 25:10 Because I think that's what we should do. 25:12 Pray, right now. Join us at home. 25:14 Heavenly Father, I thank you O God, 25:16 for the precious gifts you've given us 25:17 that you've taught us not only worthy to say, 25:20 but also to give us a gift while we're here to enjoy 25:24 witnessing and to join service for you. 25:27 I thank you O God that you've given gifts 25:29 to the church, to the body of Christ 25:31 for its up building and edification. 25:34 Please bless any individual who's listening with-- 25:36 any viewer who's listening that they will have discernment 25:40 to find out and to discover what those gifts are. 25:42 In Jesus name, Amen. Amen. 25:44 Well, thank you so much, Pastor Dixon, for-- 25:46 It's been a pleasure. Yes. Coming to our program. 25:47 It's been a real blessing to have you here 25:49 and to learn about talents-- Yes. 25:51 That we can pray, we can ask the Lord's leading--Yes. 25:55 We can listen to individuals who have discernment 25:57 and we can ask God to continue to develop us 26:02 through experimenting with what He is wanting 26:05 to do in our lives. Amen. 26:06 At this time, I'd like to share with our viewers 26:08 your address how to contact you. 26:10 That's fine. That's okay? 26:11 You may contact Pastor Stanley K. Dixon 26:14 at 5133 West Condor Drive 26:18 Tucson, Arizona 85742 26:23 That's 5133 West Condor Drive Tucson, Arizona 85742 26:30 If you're in the area, stop by 26:32 the Sharon Seventh-day Adventist Church in Tucson 26:35 and you can hear Pastor Dixon. 26:37 Their church service is on Saturdays? 26:39 Yes. At 11 o'clock? Yes. Okay. 26:42 Also if you wish to phone Pastor Dixon, 26:45 you may call him at (520) 622-2218. 26:51 Email is 3angels number 3, 3angelsmsg@juno.com. 26:59 You know, it's always a blessing 27:00 that when you're trying to make a decision for the Lord, 27:03 to be able to form and to come into agreement 27:06 with individuals through prayer, through sharing God's Word 27:10 and we invite you at this time to take 27:13 that opportunity to call the 800 number that you see 27:16 on your screen or on your computer screen. 27:19 Dial that 800 number. 27:20 There are individuals who are willing to pray with you, 27:23 to answer questions that you might be having 27:26 regarding the talents, 27:27 regarding God's purposes for your life. 27:30 We encourage you please to dial the 800 number. 27:33 Do not hesitate. Do not wait. 27:35 It is never too late to serve the Lord. 27:37 Isn't that right, Pastor Dixon? It's never too late. 27:39 He always makes a difference in our lives, 27:40 doesn't He? Yes. 27:42 And He's always on time. 27:43 Well, praise the Lord for that and until next time 27:45 we certainly wish the greatest blessings that God has 27:48 to abundantly pour out upon your life 27:51 and until the very next time, may God bless you. 27:53 And we look forward to seeing you 27:55 in another edition of "Issues and answers." |
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