Have you ever found
yourself saying what's
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wrong with me
Lord, and just wondering,
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why you are having a
difficult time changing
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some bad habit.
Well you know what,
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Paul said to the
Galatians you foolish Galatians
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having begun in the
Spirit, are you now trying to
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perfect your walk in
the flesh. Join us today;
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because we are going to
talk about God's power to
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change us, it's not
something we can do on our own.
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Hi, I am Shelley Quinn
and I'm glad you've joined us
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today and I think
you're gonna be glad as well
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because we're gonna hear
some exciting testimonies
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and learn something
about the power to change,
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God's power to change.
Let me share, I'm gonna
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share two scriptures
from Ephesians with you,
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and there are some of my
favorite. Ephesians 3:16,
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Paul is praying for,
he is saying that he prays
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for them that, God would
grant you according to the
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riches of His glory, to
be strengthened with might
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through His Spirit in
the inner man, get set that
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we are strengthen with
power through the Spirit
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in our inner man and
then he concludes in verse 20
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by saying, now to
Him, God, who is able to do
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exceedingly,
abundantly above all that we ask
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or think according to
the power that works in us
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what's that power. I
should say who is that power,
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it's the power of the
Holy Spirit in our hearts,
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and here with us
today is a gentleman who has
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been touched by that
power, has been filled
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with that power, and
he is, God transformed his
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life dramatically. Let
me introduce our special
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guest Jim Ayer who is
a Vice President for AWR,
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Adventist World
Radio, Jim once again so glad
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that you are with us.
Well thank you very much;
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it's good to be here.
You know what, you know,
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I enjoyed being around
you because in so many ways
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the Lord has led the two
of us along the same path.
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Now, something that
in the previous times
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I don't think I've
mentioned you or an author,
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you've written a couple
of books one was Lift Him Up
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or no He Shall
Lift You Up, absolutely,
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He Shall Lift You Up,
and the other is called
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Second Chance. Now,
that's a book matter of fact
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that you
co-published with review on air,
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fairly recently.
3ABN; it is a 3ABN book so,
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what is Second Chance all
about? Well, it's my whole
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life story and my
wife's life story really as we
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joined together and
we weren't Christians,
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we got married, matter
of fact I asked my wife
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to marry me, I got her
stoned loaded with drugs
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down at the creek and
then I asked her to marry me.
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Oh, you took unfair
advantage of that woman.
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That's the way we
started out our life together,
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yeah. It's amazing,
it's only by God grace so
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we ever stayed
together in those situations but
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you know, after some
years when God really
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spoke to our
hearts and we listened,
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we listened to that
still small voice that you have
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mentioned before,
and we answered and wow,
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it was so
incredible that we ended up,
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we were baptized in
that very river, at the very
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spot, where I asked
her to marry me when we
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were stoned on
drugs. How precious,
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so you were heavy into
drugs, alcohol, you were
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not a very nice
person. Not even according to
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say a non-Christian secular
person, who is just living
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an average life they
would look at you and say let's
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cross the street. I
thought I was a nice guy, but,
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but you know you couldn't,
you couldn't tell for a
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lot of appearances at a
certain point in my life
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because I became
you know respectable,
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I had a business, and
but we were still just doing
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all of these things, but
then like I say God spoke
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to us, we had this
incredible transformation
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in our lives really,
realizing that God could change
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us, I couldn't get off
a drugs at my own I tried,
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I couldn't get off of
those things, but when I finally
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said God, it yours I
want to follow you, all of a
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sudden it was like
this huge weight was lifted
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off my shoulders,
amen, amen. A way I didn't
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realize I had, and I
want to imagine lot of folks
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listening today don't
realize they've got this
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weight bearing down
so heavily in their lives
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because the Devil does
it slowly, you've heard
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the old saying it's like
put a frog into the water
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you know, he swims
around and pretty soon
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he keep turning it
up and turning it up,
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he doesn't realize until
he finally boiled, you know.
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That's the way it is
with the lot of folks.
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The devil make certainty
only, does these things
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a little bit at the time
and that's way he started
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out. I was a great guy
"originally" and then just
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slowly got into all
these things and went further
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and further down and
down. Jeanine was a sweet young
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lady, she would never do
drugs, she would never do
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any of these things,
and I talked to her into it,
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and slowly she start
doing more, but then here
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we came at that cross
roads in our life when God
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says hey I've got
a better way for you,
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a way that will bring
happiness, I died for you,
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I gave my life for you
and, while you were yet
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a sinner, yeah and
I didn't have any idea
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who God was even,
even when I accepted him,
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I didn't really have
any idea, I mean, I got to
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the point where I
wanted to follow God so much
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after He touched our
hearts that, that I realize
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it was come in Easter
time and I've been studied my
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Bible, and it
talked about a sacrifice.
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Well I wanted to go
find a lamb to sacrifice
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because I thought
that's what I should do.
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Oh, and so I started
looking in the newspapers.
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Well, where do you find a
lamb for sacrifice you know
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and I thought my wife
is gonna think I'm crazy,
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everybody is gonna
think I am nuts, but I want to
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follow God. So had you
only read the Old Testament
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at that time, you
had made it to the story.
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Well it just like my
mind just didn't comprehended
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yet, maybe it was just
too much drugs or something
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yet, but it just in
comprehended and then
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you know I was reading
this book and it said Jesus
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is the lamb slain from
the foundation of the world
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and I went halleluiah,
amen. Oh God I saw Him
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all of a sudden what
He done for me and it was
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so precious, and so
wonderful to realize that
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I didn't have to sacrifice
a lamb, it have been done
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for me, and all my
sins have been washed away,
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and all the stuff I
done, all the evil nasty stuff
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was just gone, thrown
in the depths of the sea
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and it was exciting.
Behold the Lamb of God that
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takes away the
sins of this world.
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So you at this point,
God really did do a work in
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your heart once, oh
yeah, and you became a new
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creation in Christ Jesus,
as II Corinthians 5:17 says
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that we are new
creations the old has gone
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and the new has come. God
cut you free from the cord,
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the cords that were
binding you before, yeah.
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Now, did you, where you
aware that there had been
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this metamorphosis like
here you are like the little
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Caterpillar that's crawling
on the ground and all of a
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sudden you go into this
cocoon stage or learning
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and then now you are
able to fly, well you aware.
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It's all interesting you
use that metaphor because
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that's Romans 12:2, Paul
says be therefore transform
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by the renewing of
your mind and the word
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transform there
is metamorpho in the
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Greek metamorpho,
which is where we get our
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word metamorphosis, a
changing from a warm to
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our glorious butterfly and
I brought a quote actually,
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okay. On that very
thing I was so excited about
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this text. This fellow
William, let's see how do
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I pronounce his name,
Biederwolf every creature
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born into this world
has a nature after its kind.
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Well we were born in the
sin; you can't train a bird
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to crawl for the same
reason you can't train
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a snake to fly. Truth
to his nature a Caterpillar
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crawls and when he
sees one we see him we don't
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say oh what had
accomplished from caterpillar,
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but we say the
creature has been changed when
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we see the flying butterfly,
yes. It's a new nature,
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it's a new creature,
and that's what happened
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to me and my wife
Jeanine; we became new creatures
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in Jesus Christ. He
came in and He totally
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transformed us. You know
a burden I've got Shelley,
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if I might share with you
is I've got one friend that
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he was just a nasty
guy, he made me look like
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I was the saint, I
mean this fellow had a Fifth
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W's, 52 page rap
sheet. You know rap sheet,
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where all the pages
you can pile at the police
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department over all
the crimes you've committed
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52 pages he had, wow,
and he went to Pelican
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Bay Prison in Northern
California. High security
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prison and some way some
how God spoke to his heart
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while he was in prison
and he decided that he do
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a Bible study, and that
man was absolutely energized
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and found God in
prison transformed and he came
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out; he is now an elder
in his church I mean excuse
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me a deacon in his
Seventh-Day Adventist
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Church praise the
Lord. I've got another friend
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that he was in the
Mafia in New York City;
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he slept with us, sort
of shot gun by his bed.
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He slept with a 45 in
his pillow, under his pillow,
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and one day God spoke
to him and he accepted God,
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it's been 10 years now
and he is absolutely the most
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wonderful Christian man
you would every meet you
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think, this guy was
in the mafia you know.
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He wanted to go kill
people and he has transformed.
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It is so exciting to
hear testimonies like that,
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we hear, you know,
3ABN is being broadcast
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and I know that there
are many prisoners watching
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us today and people
have written to us to say you
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know we never knew
freedom when we were
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out in the world, but
when we were behind close
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doors, behind these
cells, these bars then we met
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the Lord and now
whom the son has set free,
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is free indeed and
they've been changed right there
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in prison. I was up in
an area called Shimla clear
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up in the North; it
was a North West Portion of
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India. I went to talk
with these fellows who
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were in prison and I
wasn't able to personally get
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in but I had a friend who
is Indian, they let him in
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the prison talk with
these guys and told us
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his history, this
fellow, he is, well actually he
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and his dad and brother,
the father gotten an argument
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with one son over a little
piece of real state little
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piece of property,
and soon this argument
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became so bad the son
broke the father's arm
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and the father went
to the other two brothers
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and said look what
your brother did to me go do
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something about it.
Well they went they got into
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an argument and the
one brother took a Machete
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and killed the
other brother. Oh no, now
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all three men went to
prison and we are talking
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with them, but their
lives had been changed
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because the one
brother got a hold of a radio
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and while he was in
prison he began tune in it
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and he came across
to our radio program,
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Adventist World Radio,
fell in love with Jesus Christ
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and then he became
sharing with everybody else
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you know when you
got Jesus in your life
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you just wants
to bubble out there.
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You've experienced
and I know, yes amen.
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And, and he was got
so excited, he began
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sharing with all the
other prisoners and the official
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said, wow you know
something has changed
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in this prison. We are
going to give you fellows
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a 40 day furlough to
go home. You know three
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murderers now, they
send them home for 40 days
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and just say when
you're done come back, wow,
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and they went home
and guess what they took
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the one young man
took to his mother a radio,
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praise God, he says
mom, I've got to share
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something with you
and he takes his radio
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and he tunes it to our
program, she falls in love
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with Jesus Christ,
the daughter-in-law does,
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all of the family does,
and she told me she said,
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it is so exciting she
says, the cattle she says now
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give more milk than
anybody else's cattle,
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the water buffalo
work harder than anybody
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else's water buffalo.
Now this is a very strong
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Hindu area, and the
Hindus worship thousands of Gods
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you know they are
trying appease all these Gods,
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and she says even our
crops produce more than
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everybody else's,
our fruit trees give more
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fruits than
everybody else's fruit trees,
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favor of God, and now
people come from miles
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and miles around to
find out who is this God
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that does all these
marvelous things for you,
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he is the creator
of God who loves us.
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You see, we see all
these transformations with
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people who come to
God, but then we kind
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of say okay we live
all the power of God right
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there in the baptismal
tank and we will say that's
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as far as God can
go, He transform them,
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He change them,
now we baptism them
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and now we've got to
live this life for sin,
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and sinning all the times
in our life in the church.
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Do you think that's
just, I mean that comment
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kind of catches me
little off guard. Do you feel
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or believe that a lot
of people feel that way is
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that once we get them
into the baptism pool that,
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alright there is
nothing to go further as far as
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sanctification I mean
you catch me off guard little
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bit here. Well, the
reason I say at that way is
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because lot of people
believe that God can't do
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anything else in our
lives until He comes.
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We only have this
transformation that
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Paul is talking
about, once we get to heaven
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and then God can
change us but until that time,
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we just keep on sinning
and sinning and sinning.
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And I found myself
doing as a Christian too
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I found myself I
would come home sometimes
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and pray oh God I'm
sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry for
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the same exact sin,
over and over and over.
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Not even any new
ones okay the same ones,
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but then one day I
really discovered that wow it
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was because, I had
not really allowed God to
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really work in my
life because there was
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parts of my life that
I really did want to hang
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on to, okay. I
remember one preacher said,
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Lord you know yesterday
I gave you all my troubles
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and problems and
trials, I wrapped them up and
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I place them at the
altar, he says Lord today
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I promised to do the
same, but today Lord I'm gonna
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give you the string
in all because yesterday
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I tripped over the string
I was still hanging on to,
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yeah. We tend to want to
just hang on to something
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of the whole life because,
the living a new life in
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Christ can be scary,
it can. Well you know to
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give God every bit of
me, I was a self-made man;
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I had done all these
things on my own. You know as,
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for me the North
America is someone from America,
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I am a self-made
person, you know I've made my
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own money, I've done all
this, got my own schooling,
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but God says hey, I want
to take charge in your life,
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I wanted to lead you over
here Jim, it's kind a like
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Abraham you know he
is what 70 some years old
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God says hey,
Abraham come on over here,
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I would like to build a
great nation and I would like
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you to join me in
this work, and Abraham says
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wow Lord I've got to
go some place else I don't
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know where it is I'm 70
years old, I got to uproot
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all my house
and everything, yes.
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You see you can't
stay where you are and go
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with God, and that's
what God asked Abraham to do
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is go with him and so
it was crisis of belief for
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him at that moment, same
with Moses. Knock on Moses'
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heart one day in the
form of a burning bush say hey
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Moses I'm delivering the
children of Israel I would
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like you to come and
join me in that work would
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you join me. Well but Lord
I've been out in the desert
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for 40 years, I can't do
this, you see at that moment
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that call of God was
something totally outrages
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for Moses but he had to
decide do I stay where I am
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or do I go with God,
amen. And it comes for each one
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of us God says hey,
I've got a new life for you
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Shelley Quinn, and I'm
gonna be excuse me I'm gonna
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be doing this and
this and this through you,
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and you've got to decide
do I stay where I am or do
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I go with God and
allow God to take my life,
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God been there and
I'll tell you what,
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when you make that
decision to accept to
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God's will for your life
it is so incredible of the
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journey that He, you
know, step by step as
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He takes you, He doesn't
let us know everything all
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at once, but when
He change his direction
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you say yes Lord I'm
willing to follow and you start
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following the Lord, it's
exciting what God opens up.
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You know, I know
God has made tremendous
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transformation in
your life, absolutely.
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And, I see God doing
that everywhere and I mean,
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I was in Ethiopia,
talking with this young lady,
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sweet young lady in
our 20s, and she said Jim
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she said, I was
counseling other young people
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and how to lead their
lives, oh she said I talked
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to them about drugs
and alcohol and teen
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pregnancy and doing
all these things she said
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I sought to lead
them in other direction
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but she said, in reality
I had all the same problems,
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I had all the same
problems and I didn't
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know what to do about
it, I had finally decided
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I was going to commit
suicide. And I was driving
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down the road one
day and I turned on your
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radio program, and I
began listening about
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Jesus Christ and I
heard these people who had
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gave testimonies of
changed lives of how God's
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life was so wonderful as
he wanted to live it in me,
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and I accepted at that
moment Jesus and she says
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now she said and she
just being with smile I can
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began to give the same
kind of being that she did,
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but that you could just
see God radiating out of
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her just like Moses when
he came down from mountain,
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I remember that, yes,
children of Israel God says
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I mean the people
said cover your face, cover
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your face, because
he glowed for God, amen
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and that's what God
wants to do in each one of us,
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just glow in our lives
and this lady says I counsel
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everybody now in a
whole different way,
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because I point them
to Jesus, I point them to
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the true solution.
So, she was one who,
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when she came to the
feet of Jesus, she was ready
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to go forward with the
understanding that he was
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gonna make this
change and he would help her
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not to sin again.
Absolutely, absolutely,
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it's like choosing
moment by moment every moment
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of everyday we have
to choose, whether we are
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going to serve God. It
maybe, I'm sitting home
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at night for my own
life, I like television I mean,
00:19:14.70\00:19:18.25
I've been a person, I
was a TV baby and I grew up
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I could watch a test pattern
and get excited about it.
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Now people today
probably don't even know what
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test patterns are, you
know but I can get excited
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about a test pattern, so
I like television, and well
00:19:29.91\00:19:34.06
matter of fact, when
God finally woke us up the
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second time really
gave us a second chance
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and I said Lord, I just
don't have time for study
00:19:38.90\00:19:43.31
and prayer I'm too
important, I'm too busy,
00:19:43.34\00:19:45.84
I just can't do it,
but finally I said okay God
00:19:45.87\00:19:51.07
I'll commit to you,
and you know God gave me
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the opportunity and
the time to study because
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the first thing He said
Jim take off all the premium
00:19:56.77\00:19:59.13
channels of the
television and I had slowly as a
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Christian as a
Seventh-Day Adventist Christian
00:20:03.39\00:20:05.19
I had slowly started
watching these TV programs
00:20:05.22\00:20:08.04
and some would have bad
language but I said well,
00:20:08.07\00:20:10.76
it's that same kind
of language on the world,
00:20:10.79\00:20:13.08
you know I've got a
listen to it anyway and pretty
00:20:13.11\00:20:16.35
soon it was worse
language and it was worse
00:20:16.38\00:20:18.03
language and it's
like, I just numbed myself to
00:20:18.06\00:20:22.37
the real realities of
what God wanted to do in me,
00:20:22.40\00:20:25.35
and God says put this
stuff away and all of a sudden
00:20:25.38\00:20:29.63
while I had time to study
the Bible and realize there
00:20:29.66\00:20:35.15
I could go to, I could go
to Luke and John and think
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well Jesus staggered
under the weight of sin for me.
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He did all this for me
and I began falling so deeply
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in love with Him, and he
really did change my life
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and he wants to
change our lives everyday.
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Alright, so I have
a question for you,
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when the woman who
was caught in adultery
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was brought to Jesus
feet, and of course I love
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that passage
because, when they were ready
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to stone her and
Jesus sits there of course
00:21:07.72\00:21:09.69
they trying to trip Him
up, but He just simply said
00:21:09.72\00:21:13.90
let he who is without
sin cast the first stone.
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Well, that if anyone
was honest with himself then
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no one was qualified
to get to stone, exactly,
00:21:22.67\00:21:26.12
but now he told
her go and sin no more.
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Is that what you are
saying is that, when we come
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and be baptized we
believe in the power to change
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to get someone to that
point of saying I'm gonna
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accept Jesus as my Lord
and Savior, but we don't
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believe I mean is that
what you are tying to say to
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us is that we've got to
believe that there is power
00:21:50.67\00:21:53.64
to give up the rest
of this, I am trying to.
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Now see, as you talk
about this and you've mentioned
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this lady there, you
know crouch down I mean she
00:22:00.71\00:22:03.92
had sin no doubt about
it, Lord told her where are
00:22:03.95\00:22:08.05
your accusers, she looks
around and said well there
00:22:08.08\00:22:10.49
are none Lord said
neither do I condemn you,
00:22:10.52\00:22:14.05
and then as you say
those five words "go
00:22:14.08\00:22:16.77
and sin no more. " Now,
let's we think I was just
00:22:16.80\00:22:19.40
an isolated incident,
the Lord comes up to a fellow
00:22:19.43\00:22:22.59
what the Pool of Bethesda
been there for 38 years,
00:22:22.62\00:22:26.04
and he tells him
take up your bed and walk.
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Little while later he
finds him in the temple and
00:22:28.84\00:22:31.32
by the way that's a good
place to be when you have
00:22:31.35\00:22:33.42
an encountered with
God is go to the temple
00:22:33.45\00:22:35.11
and worship God, yeah
and thank God and praise God.
00:22:35.14\00:22:37.89
He is there and Jesus
says to him, go and sin no
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more same five
words. Now, either God isn't
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Evil Prankster,
that knows we can't do it
00:22:44.48\00:22:47.78
or he really met it,
he really will empower us
00:22:47.81\00:22:52.58
to do that very
thing. You know Jim what
00:22:52.61\00:22:55.03
I always say is that
anything the Lord commands
00:22:55.06\00:22:57.57
that sounds like a
command to me, anything that
00:22:57.60\00:23:00.65
he commands is also a
promise because he will
00:23:00.68\00:23:03.18
calls us to be all that
he calls us to be and I think
00:23:03.21\00:23:06.90
that's very important,
but the idea of, I mean
00:23:06.93\00:23:11.70
it's something that we
all realize in 1st John says
00:23:11.73\00:23:16.19
that any of us who says
that we are without sin,
00:23:16.22\00:23:18.85
we are liar the truth
is not in us, but I think
00:23:18.88\00:23:23.17
you are right that we
do make excuses to say
00:23:23.20\00:23:26.76
you know I'm just
gonna to be a sinner until
00:23:26.79\00:23:29.64
Jesus comes back, and
yes while it's true we may
00:23:29.67\00:23:33.07
stumble and fall and
sin it's something that God
00:23:33.10\00:23:38.50
will give us the
power. Romans 8:13 says it's
00:23:38.53\00:23:43.04
by the power of His Holy
Spirit that we put to death
00:23:43.07\00:23:45.93
mist deeds of the flesh.
So it's learning to rely on
00:23:45.96\00:23:50.46
his power and not be
like those foolish Galatians,
00:23:50.49\00:23:53.09
who were trying to
perfect their own walk.
00:23:53.12\00:23:56.32
It's all about learning
how to yield to the power
00:23:56.35\00:24:00.20
of God. That's
right matter of fact in
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The Book of Romans,
Paul takes three chapters
00:24:02.12\00:24:05.30
basically to deal
with justification, now
00:24:05.33\00:24:08.27
justification is a
big word but basically
00:24:08.30\00:24:10.69
it's God saying
here is my righteousness
00:24:10.72\00:24:13.83
you are totally
righteous in the sight of all
00:24:13.86\00:24:15.83
universe, and so then he
takes six-and-half chapters
00:24:15.86\00:24:20.82
to discuss sanctification,
in other words the
00:24:20.85\00:24:24.34
changing, the transforming,
the allowing the power
00:24:24.37\00:24:27.64
of God to make us
new creatures in him,
00:24:27.67\00:24:30.37
every moment of
everyday and we are told that's
00:24:30.40\00:24:33.16
a work of a lifetime,
but as you said Shelley
00:24:33.19\00:24:36.19
earlier his biddings
are enabling in other words
00:24:36.22\00:24:40.27
if God bids us to do
it there is got to be some
00:24:40.30\00:24:42.64
power in it because I
have nothing in myself, I,
00:24:42.67\00:24:45.51
Jim Ayer can't do
anything when I get up
00:24:45.54\00:24:47.66
in the morning there is
a nothing I can do on my
00:24:47.69\00:24:49.52
own in reality, amen,
even my breath is God's.
00:24:49.55\00:24:52.61
Someone once said,
when you wake up in the
00:24:52.64\00:24:55.17
morning praise God
for 10 things and he said
00:24:55.20\00:24:58.44
if you can't think of
anything hold your breath
00:24:58.47\00:25:00.13
for five minutes, and
then see if you can't think
00:25:00.16\00:25:02.57
of at least one thing.
Well, its true God gives
00:25:02.60\00:25:05.48
us even that breath,
our lives are held here
00:25:05.51\00:25:08.56
in this world by God's
power. He says the just
00:25:08.59\00:25:12.91
and the unjust all the
same he supports everybody,
00:25:12.94\00:25:16.16
but it's all by the
power of God. So I don't want
00:25:16.19\00:25:18.27
anybody to think that
I'm saying we can do this on
00:25:18.30\00:25:21.10
our own because the
trasheaps of history are
00:25:21.13\00:25:24.60
strummed with people who
tried to become righteous
00:25:24.63\00:25:27.05
on their own, and it
doesn't work. Oh and you know
00:25:27.08\00:25:29.46
this is, this is why
people, I have a teaching that
00:25:29.49\00:25:32.71
I do when I go out
it's a series, I call it
00:25:32.74\00:25:35.65
Sanctification
Seekers and everybody is
00:25:35.68\00:25:38.13
always fine with that
title Sanctification Seekers,
00:25:38.16\00:25:41.23
but as soon as I
translate and say that it means
00:25:41.26\00:25:44.27
to pursue Holiness
there will be just as little
00:25:44.30\00:25:47.12
Holy hush that
comes across the crowd,
00:25:47.15\00:25:49.25
because it's the idea
of that God says be holy
00:25:49.28\00:25:52.70
because I'm Holy we
get scared of holiness
00:25:52.73\00:25:55.89
and we don't recognize
that the job of making us
00:25:55.92\00:26:00.62
Holy, it's God had we
are sanctified by His word,
00:26:00.65\00:26:05.48
we are sanctified
by the blood of Jesus,
00:26:05.51\00:26:07.56
by His life, by His
death, we are sanctified by the
00:26:07.59\00:26:10.71
spirit, it's God who is
gonna work in us to willing
00:26:10.74\00:26:13.55
to act according
to His good purpose.
00:26:13.58\00:26:15.37
So by the time I go
through the teaching people
00:26:15.40\00:26:17.57
get excited, but we are
all weary of being of people
00:26:17.60\00:26:27.32
trying to mold us and
make us without the power
00:26:27.35\00:26:30.14
of God or of having
teachings that we've
00:26:30.17\00:26:33.90
got to change and
thinking it's up to us.
00:26:33.93\00:26:36.88
Yes, God wants us
to become water walkers
00:26:36.91\00:26:40.91
what do I mean by
that, if you go and you look
00:26:40.94\00:26:42.79
in the Bible there was
Peter in the boat he said Lord,
00:26:42.82\00:26:45.00
if it's really you out
there walking on the water,
00:26:45.03\00:26:47.23
bid me to come out
there. Jesus said yes,
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he gets on he starts
walking on the water but then
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he turns around he
looks and he is kind of
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bragging on himself
hey I'm doing cool and he
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sinks and he calls out
to God help me and Jesus
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is right there to lift
him up. Now we always yell
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at Peter for this,
but what really happened
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is from there on
Jesus walked arm and arm
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with Peter on top of
the water all the way back
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the boat, and that's
the only way we can walk
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on water but we
can when we are arm and
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arm with our God,
amen. I cannot believe that
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how quickly this
time has gone by;
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Jim Ayer thank you so much
for joining us again today.
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Well thank you, and I
just want to say again to you
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at home remember
Ephesians 3:16 and 3:20,
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it is the power of
God that's within us,
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the Holy Spirit, in our
inner man that makes God
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able to do exceedingly,
abundantly more than
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we could ever ask or
think. It is true that God
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has a plan for your
life, it's better than the one
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that you are living
and you know there is such
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happiness when we are
walking with the Lord,
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it is a joy unspeakable.
Thanks be to God for His
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indescribable gift
and my prayer is that you
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learn to know
God and the one that
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He sent Jesus Christ, bye bye.
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