[Music] >: It has stood the test
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of time, God's book, the Bible,
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still relevant in
today's complex world.
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It Is Written.
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Sharing hope around the globe.
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[Music]
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John Bradshaw: I'm John Bradshaw
and this is It Is Written.
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Thanks for joining me.
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In the Bible in John
Chapter 9 there's a remarkable
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story of healing.
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You know, Jesus actually
spent more time healing than
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preaching.
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There were times Jesus
would go into a village
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or villages and every one
in the village who was sick
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would be healed by Jesus.
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In this instance, a man
who had been blind from birth
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caught Jesus' attention,
and Jesus' manner of healing him
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was a little
out of the ordinary.
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The Bible says that Jesus
spat on the ground and made
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clay of the saliva and then
anointed the eyes of the man
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with the clay.
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And then he said to
him, go and wash in the Pool
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of Siloam.
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So the man went and
washed and he came back seeing.
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Now, the methods might
have changed, but the results
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have not.
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Here in India Jesus is
still giving sight to the blind
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by working through a
remarkable man of vision.
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Dr. Jacob [Prabaka] is
an Indian ophthalmologist
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who is working
tirelessly to restore
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the vision of some of
the world's poorest people.
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And this is no small problem.
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As well as the dubious honor
of having more than a third
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of the world's poorest people,
almost 40% of the world's
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blind
population call India home.
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That means more
than 15 million Indians
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are unable to see.
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And most shocking of all,
more than 75% of these cases
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could have been
avoided or cured.
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So, Dr. Prabaka,
together with a team of highly
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skilled medical
professionals, is taking
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on the problem
one eye at a time.
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[Music]
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>: I have never seen a
man that is gifted with hands
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like he is.
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God has blessed
him tremendously.
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>: Because he comes from
a poor background, he knows
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the poverty And that's
why he want to give vision
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to the people.
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He want to help the
poor people of this world.
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>: [Foreign language]
>: Dr. Jacob is the kind
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of man that
inspires others by his caring
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and compassion.
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He wants to restore sight
to the blind so that they can
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work and have a job,
take care of their family.
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JB: Remarkable words of
praise indeed for a man's
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whose early beginnings
were anything but remarkable.
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[Music] Jacob
Prabaka: I was born
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in a remote village on the
east coast of, of South India.
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It's about, um, three or four
kilometers from the--the coast
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of bay of Begal It's
really a country life.
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They have beautiful rivers
passing by, the backwaters,
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the green fields with, uh,
rugged roads right in front
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of my home.
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We did not have electricity.
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The well was, uh, situated
about four or five homes
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away from our house.
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These homes are made
of mud walls, mud floors,
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and thatch roofs.
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Utter poverty.
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As a child there is
nothing much to look forward to.
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JB: But despite the extreme
poverty Jacob and his family
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faced, they were still able
to find simple joys in life.
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JP: Raised in a, a
family of, uh, eight siblings
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and five of them sisters
who actually took care of me
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and raised me.
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It was a very, very
joyful thing to have a large
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family.
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I had all the affection
that a, a boy could receive.
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My mother delivered all
the children in my home,
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giving birth to eight
children in a village home
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with no physician,
with no nurses around.
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It's a miracle.
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[Music] JB: So, how then did
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a boy born and raised in
poverty become one of India's
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most respected ophthalmologists?
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JP: If it is not for the grace
of God I wouldn't be what I am.
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It's been a--an opportunity
for me to go to church
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which my parents
attended and the church pastor,
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identified in me some potential.
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JB: In fact, the church
pastor saw so much potential
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in Jacob that he secured
him a place in a church-run
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boarding school.
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It was a difficult transition.
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JP: I would cry almost
every day for my parents.
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I had only one pair
of clothes, no shoes.
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I was actually
terrified to be left there.
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I was put in grade one
because I knew no English.
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I didn't know the
English alphabet there.
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I was doing well in
grade one and so they give me
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a double promotion, from
grade one I was put in grade
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three.
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JB: At the completion of
high school Jacob applied
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for medical school, but
unable to meet the tuition
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fees, he was turned down.
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But that wasn't the end
of his medical aspirations.
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JP: I waited for one
year By then I had some
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sponsors who were willing
to provide financial assistance
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for me.
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It was in 1985
August that I was chosen
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to join the medical school.
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That was the happiest,
uh, moments of my life.
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JB: If you had not had
the opportunities you had,
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you wouldn't be an
ophthalmologist today.
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You have come to
school here, you'd have gone
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to the public high
school up the street.
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What would have become of you?
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JP: Some of my classmates
who study with me in this very
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same school are
working in the field, laborers,
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taking care of the cattle.
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JB: What do they earn?
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JP: Probably they would earn
about, um, 200 rupees a day?
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JB: That's, uh, just a little
over four American dollars.
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JP: That's right.
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JB: A day.
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JP: That's right.
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JB: They can live on that?
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JP: They can manage on a
daily basis and buy their
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food one day at a time.
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JB: If you hadn't had some
of the opportunities you had,
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if you were an average
kid who took an average
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part, you'd probably
today be working in a field
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earning four dollars a day.
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JP: I'm quite
certain about that.
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Since the time I was picked
up from the school and taken
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to the boarding school
I've seen the hand of God
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leading me all through.
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[Music]
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JB: John the Baptist
was encouraged to continue
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to trust in Jesus
because the deaf could hear,
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the lame could walk,
and the blind could see.
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It Is Written is committed
to opening the eyes of the blind
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and restoring sight
to the visually impaired
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here in India.
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And I want to tell
you how you could be part
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of this work.
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Eyes for India is giving
sight to the blind and you
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can be a part of this
amazing work that God is doing.
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Fifteen million
blind people live in India.
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More than any other
country in the world.
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And many of the blind
in India could see again
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if only they could have
simple cataract surgery.
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It Is Written is
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>: In Matthew 4:4 the Word
of God says, it is written,
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man shall not live by
bread alone, but by every word
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that proceeds
from the mouth of God.
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"Every Word" is a
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Look for "Every Word" on
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[Music]
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JB: Astronomers in Australia
announced a few years ago
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that they calculated the
number of stars in the sky,
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seventysixtillion
That's 70,000 million,
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million, million.
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Seventy followed by 22 zeros.
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That's more stars than
there are grains of sand in all
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the earth's deserts and beaches.
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And the astronomers say
their number is likely way
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to low.
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In Psalms 8, verses 3
and 4, we read these words:
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"When I consider thy heavens,
the works of thy fingers,
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the moon and the stars
which thou hast ordained,
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what is man that
thou are mindful of him?"
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God has made a
universe that vast and yet he is
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still mindful of
the human family.
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We serve a great and a big God.
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If he made all that, and
he did, you can be certain he
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can take care of you
and your burdens today.
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I'm John Bradshaw
for It Is Written.
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Let's live today by every Word.
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JB: I'm John Bradshaw
and this is It Is Written.
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Thanks for joining me.
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Here in India there's a
man of vision doing the very
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work that Jesus did.
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One day when Jesus was
leaving Jericho, a blind man
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named Bartemaeus
called out to him.
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He said, "Jesus, son of
David, have mercy on me."
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Well, Jesus said to the
man, "What would you like me
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to do for you?" And he answered
by saying, "Rabonai, that I may
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receive my sight." Jesus
said, "Go on your way, your
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faith has made you well."
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And immediately the
man received his sight.
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Well, here in India,
thanks to the dedicated work of
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Dr. Jacob Prabaka and
his team, tens of thousands
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are seeing again.
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And in a country with
no western welfare system,
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where so many people are
living in crippling poverty,
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simple cataract surgery
may save them from a life
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of extreme hardship.
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>: [Foreign language] >:
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JB: But, although Dr.
Jacob is operating on some
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of the world's poorest
people, the standard of care
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they receive is world class.
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>: I've stood over Dr.
Jacob's shoulder for four hours
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last night and he went
back and forth from patient
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to patient, his hands,
his, his expertise, his focus,
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his vision is just unbelievable.
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An ophthalmologist surgeon
in, uh, the western world,
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the United States,
for instance, would do
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approximately 30 a day
would be, a, a very good number,
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a very good number.
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JB: And while 30 surgeries
a day may seem like a lot,
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Jacob and his team
have refined the process
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so thoroughly that 30 surgeries
now accounts for less than
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an hour's work.
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JP: We do about 40
surgeries in one hour.
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When I began my career I
was taking nearly one hour
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or more per surgery.
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But all through that time,
because of the high numbers
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of surgeries,
we use these steps,
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we use the instrumentation,
on average the surgery
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is less than two minutes,
and then I work 465 surgeries
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in one day.
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Eleven thousand
surgeries in one year.
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And about 100,000
surgeries in my career.
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We have a very small team,
which is very, very efficient.
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For the volume of surgery
that we perform in a year,
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our team should have
been ten times bigger.
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We're able to do a lot of
surgeries because the team
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is highly
motivated and dedicated.
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JB: With such an impressive
number of surgeries behind
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him, there is little doubt
that Dr. Prabaka still would
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be in high demand on
this side of the world.
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>: If Dr. Jacob was
working in the United States
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of America, his lifestyle would
be at the top of the world,
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so to speak.
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His income would be in
the multimillion dollar area.
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He could have all the
material things in life that he
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would like to have, plus more.
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JP: No doubt there is
opportunity for me to serve
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in higher institutions,
in bigger cities, to be able
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to amass a lot of wealth,
but I see that there is so much
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need.
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There is more than 15
million blind people in India
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and I realize that
unless we spend most of our time
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operating upon these
patients, there is no way we can
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clear the backlog of blindness.
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This drives me to
do as much as possible.
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>:He always thinks about
the patients and he wants
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to support more patients
and he want to go to the many
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places to help the patients.
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That it is his kind of nature.
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>: Dr. Jacob, he want
to help the poor people,
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poor people of this world.
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Nobody is operating them.
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[Music]
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JB: What was life like
in this village when you
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were growing up?
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JP: Back in those years it
was very remote, it was very
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lonely, very few people,
and these are the little shops
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that we used to purchase
our groceries on a, a daily
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basis.
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JB: Sounds like
life was pretty simple.
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These weren't big supermarkets.
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JP: Very, very simple.
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In fact, we would
purchase or just for that meal.
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We would, we'd like to
have breakfast, we buy supplies
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just for that day's breakfast.
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JB: I know you spend much
of your professional life now
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in the villages, in the places
where the people are the poorest
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of the poor.
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There's a
connection, isn't there, between
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your upbringing and what you're
doing today professionally
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to minister to others?
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JP: I know what poverty is like.
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I've seen it, I've experienced
it, I've gone through it.
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And I realize that it's so
very important to be sensitive
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to the needs of those
people who are actually in need
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of help.
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[Music]
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JB: Jacob Prabaka
is unique among medical
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professionals here in India.
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His cataract surgery
technique, the support
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of his dedicated team,
and a relentless commitment
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to hard work makes it possible
for him to treat an enormous
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amount of people.
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The poorest of India's poor,
those who would have slipped
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through the cracks without him.
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While many medical
professionals in India are happy
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to get ahead, and many of
them are happier to get out,
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Dr. Prabaka has
dedicated his medical practice
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to deliberately seeking
out the poorest of India's poor
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and providing them with medical
services that they couldn't
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possibly get anywhere else.
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So, what drives
this remarkable man?
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JP: Every moment of my
life I depend upon God.
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I cannot depend on myself.
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I always give the credit
to God whether I see a Hindu
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or a Muslim or a Sikh or
a Christian friend, I would
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say to them, if it was not
for the grace of God I could
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not be what I am.
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[Music] >: [Foreign language]
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[Music] >: [Foreign language]
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[Music]
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JB: India is a
land of great contrasts.
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Incredible beauty and
suffocating pollution.
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Vast natural
resources and terrible poverty.
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Well paid professional
cricket players and IT workers
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and then the masses
barely eking out an existence.
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And for millions of people
in India medical help is almost
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impossible to find.
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There are masses of
people living here, living
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in the darkness of blindness,
who could see if only they could
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get eye surgery.
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Eyes for India is giving
sight to the blind and you
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can be a part of this
amazing work that God is doing.
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Fifteen million
blind people live in India.
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More than any other
country in the world.
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And many of the blind
in India could see again
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if only they could have
simple cataract surgery.
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It Is Written is
making that happen.
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Would you
support Eyes for India?
00:19:09.96\00:19:13.03
For just $75 you'll be giving
the gift of sight to someone
00:19:13.03\00:19:17.43
who desperately wants to see.
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Here's all you need to do.
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Call 1-800-253-3000 to donate
and support Eyes for India.
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Or you can write
to It Is Written,
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Box 0, Thousand
Oaks, California 91359.
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You'll also find Eyes for
India online at itiswritten.com.
00:19:35.40\00:19:40.50
[Music] JB: In
rural India when a person
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loses their ability to
see, everything changes.
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Somebody who works in
the rice fields, well,
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they cannot work
if they cannot see.
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A person who tends the
cattle, somebody who works
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as a laborer every
day, they're not working
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if they're not seeing.
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And there isn't an employer
who's prepared to provide
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benefits.
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There isn't any
sort of health insurance
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for these most poor of the poor.
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It just doesn't
exist for these people.
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However, the same Jesus who
opened the eyes of the blind
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when he walked here on
the earth is still opening
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the eyes of the
blind here in India.
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The compassion that drove
Jesus is the same compassion
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that fuels Dr. Jacob Rabaka
and his team, to help the most
00:20:25.96\00:20:29.93
needy here and to
demonstrate to them the love
00:20:29.93\00:20:34.73
of a loving God.
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[Music] >: [Foreign language]
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JB: Well, this is a
special moment because here we
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are in your home village.
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As a matter of fact, at
your home, surrounded by
00:20:50.53\00:20:54.33
people on whom you've operated.
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How does that make you feel?
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JP: Well, it's very exciting
and really, really special.
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The place that I was brought
up and I was raised here.
00:21:03.16\00:21:06.83
And so these people
were known to me since
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my childhood I'm
excited that I am able
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to help my people.
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JB: Why do you do this?
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That is to say, you don't
live anywhere near here now.
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Just to get here is
an enormous exercise.
00:21:21.90\00:21:26.56
JP: I was raised in this place
and I know the poverty here.
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I know the
people, how poor they are.
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And they have no
health care facilities around.
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JB: Just giving back to
the community that really
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gave you so much.
00:21:36.60\00:21:37.60
JP: Yes.
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These people are the
ones that gave for me
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when I was in school.
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They encouraged me.
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And it's a, a very wonderful
opportunity for me to come
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back home and help
them--transform their lives
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through this cataract surgery.
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[Music]
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>: [Foreign language]
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JB: But it's not
just their physical lives
00:22:22.40\00:22:26.80
that are being transformed.
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As vision is restored,
their eyes are being opened
00:22:27.36\00:22:32.83
to the Word of God,
and many are accepting
00:22:32.83\00:22:36.83
Jesus into their hearts.
00:22:36.83\00:22:38.43
JP: Some people they
say, I want to read the Bible,
00:22:38.43\00:22:41.10
but they don't have it yet.
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After surgery,
they can read the Bible.
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We are distributing
Bible whenever we can.
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We have great opportunities
to restore their sight,
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touch their lives.
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What's more exciting is
we are having an opportunity
00:22:55.13\00:22:58.63
to give them Bible study,
distribute Bibles, sharing
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the Gospel.
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>: Dr. Jacob's patients,
when they have their cataracts
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removed and they have this new
vision, it's not just a vision
00:23:08.00\00:23:10.86
that's physical.
00:23:10.86\00:23:12.13
He follows up with the
Bibles, the spiritual emphasize,
00:23:12.13\00:23:15.16
so they have spiritual healing
along with physical healing.
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And you can't
beat that combination.
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>: Really grateful, I'm grateful
to God, by the glory of the God
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he has done that job.
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By the glory of the God,
Jacob Prabaka operated me.
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How many poor people he help?
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>: [Foreign language]
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JB: Of course, this
remarkable man and his team
00:23:49.20\00:23:51.96
could not continue their
very important work were it not
00:23:51.96\00:23:55.46
for the support of Eyes
for India and the generous
00:23:55.46\00:23:59.13
hearts of our donors.
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JP: The need of operating
upon patients is so vast
00:24:03.53\00:24:06.40
that without the generous
support of these sponsors
00:24:06.40\00:24:09.66
it would not be possible for
us to operate so many and give
00:24:09.66\00:24:13.36
them sight.
00:24:13.36\00:24:15.36
The sponsor that's
provided by our generous donors
00:24:17.53\00:24:21.46
is utilized to
purchase materials, consumables,
00:24:21.46\00:24:24.96
lenses, medicines, and
in bringing the patients
00:24:24.96\00:24:30.63
from the locations to the
place where the hospital is.
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These sponsors are
changing thousands of lives.
00:24:35.60\00:24:41.20
[Music] JB: And although
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more than 100,000
people have already received
00:24:46.43\00:24:49.50
this sight-giving surgery,
the journey is far from over
00:24:49.50\00:24:54.16
for Dr. Prabaka.
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What's your vision of the future
as far as your involvement
00:24:56.56\00:25:01.06
in this work?
00:25:01.06\00:25:02.46
JP: I'm excited, uh, to be able
to be involved in opening the
00:25:02.46\00:25:05.56
eyes of thousands of people
and I believe there is a long
00:25:05.56\00:25:08.46
way to go.
00:25:08.46\00:25:09.86
the road ahead of me seems
to be very, very long and I
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have, uh, thousands and
thousands of people whose
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eyes I need to open.
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[Music]
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JB: I want to tell
you how you can be part
00:25:25.53\00:25:26.96
of Eyes for India.
00:25:26.96\00:25:28.06
Just $75 will restore
the sight of someone who's
00:25:28.06\00:25:33.26
visually impaired or
someone who is completely blind.
00:25:33.26\00:25:37.20
These cataracts often take
the sight totally of people,
00:25:37.20\00:25:42.43
leaving them living in the dark.
00:25:42.43\00:25:44.43
Just $75 is all it takes
to give the gift of sight.
00:25:44.43\00:25:49.36
Here's what I'd like you to do.
00:25:49.36\00:25:51.53
Call us right now, 800-253-3000.
00:25:51.53\00:25:55.50
1-800-253-300, or visit us
online www.itiswritten.com,
00:25:55.50\00:26:02.10
itiswritten.com.
00:26:02.10\00:26:03.53
You can write to Box 0,
Thousand Oaks, California 91359.
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Only $75 and you open the
eyes of the blind and give
00:26:09.30\00:26:16.20
the gift of sight.
00:26:16.20\00:26:18.50
How many eyes are
you willing to open?
00:26:18.50\00:26:23.30
Seventy-five dollars
for one individual, $750,
00:26:23.30\00:26:26.70
you've changed 10 lives.
00:26:26.70\00:26:29.33
Multiply that out and
you can change the lives
00:26:29.33\00:26:32.66
of exponentially more.
00:26:32.66\00:26:35.06
I'd like to pray with you before
I go, so let me do that now.
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Father in heaven, I
thank you that you are opening
00:26:38.46\00:26:42.23
the eyes of the blind
and opening the hearts of so
00:26:42.23\00:26:44.73
many, who are receiving
not just physical sight,
00:26:44.73\00:26:48.06
but spiritual sight.
00:26:48.06\00:26:49.60
They're seeing Jesus
and receiving from you
00:26:49.60\00:26:52.63
the precious gift of salvation.
00:26:52.63\00:26:55.23
Continue to bless,
please, the work of Dr. Jacob
00:26:55.23\00:26:58.33
and his team here.
00:26:58.33\00:26:59.43
Open the eyes and the
hearts of multiplied more people
00:26:59.43\00:27:02.66
and bless those who give
and support this great work
00:27:02.66\00:27:06.53
with a joy and a satisfaction
and a peace from knowing
00:27:06.53\00:27:10.06
that they have touched a
life for eternity's sake.
00:27:10.06\00:27:15.43
So, bless and keep us, I pray.
00:27:15.43\00:27:18.43
Lord, let us see Jesus.
00:27:18.43\00:27:20.76
In Jesus' name.
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Amen.
00:27:22.40\00:27:27.40
[Music]
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JB: Thanks for joining me today.
00:27:45.36\00:27:47.06
I look forward to
seeing you again next time.
00:27:47.06\00:27:49.10
Until then, remember, it
is written, man shall not
00:27:49.10\00:27:53.73
live by bread alone, but
by every word that proceeds
00:27:53.73\00:27:57.90
from the mouth of God.
00:27:57.90\00:28:00.40
[Music]
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