focuses on the subject of human
trafficking and therefore could
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be considered
unsuitable for children.
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>>John Bradshaw: This is It
Is Written. I'm John Bradshaw.
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Thanks for joining me.
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You wonder how it can happen.
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I mean, we're a long way
into the 21st century now,
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and yet the
problem is as bad, in fact,
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the problem is worse now
than it's ever been before.
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CNN reported that a Pakistani
man worked seven days a week
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in a cell-phone
store in Hong Kong.
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He slept on the
floor of the store
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and was regularly
beaten by his employer.
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He was sent home to Pakistan
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without having
been paid one cent.
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When he complained
about his treatment,
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associates of his employer
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threatened the lives
of him and his family.
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CNN also told the
story of two Bangladeshi men
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who paid six
thousand dollars each
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to secure work at
a hotel in Scotland.
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They were told they
would earn $22,500 a year.
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When they got there,
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they found that had been changed
to $125 a week, $6,500 a year.
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And then they
didn't even get that much.
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When they complained about the
treatment they were receiving,
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they were told by their
employer, “I am sponsoring you.
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If you complain, I will
withdraw my sponsorship,
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you'll be here illegally,
and you'll be arrested.”
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And then there's the
14-year-old middle-schooler
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who was picked on
by her classmates.
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An older girl befriended her
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before introducing her
to a man in his thirties.
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That man
treated her wonderfully,
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before asking her for favors.
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Before long, she was
servicing forty men a day.
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Forty.
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She found
herself trapped in a web
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she simply didn't
know how to get out of.
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And when she
talked about leaving,
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a gun appeared and
her life was threatened.
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Human trafficking is the
second most lucrative crime
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in the world,
after drug trafficking.
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And 22 percent of all
human trafficking victims
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are forced into prostitution.
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Based on the numbers we have,
that would mean that right now
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there are more than four and
a half million women and girls
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who have been
forced into prostitution,
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against their will.
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And they're not
all somewhere else.
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Some of them are near you.
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Human trafficking is a
massive global problem.
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A problem that's
hidden in plain view.
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And even if you can't
see it from where you are,
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the problem is real.
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It's very real.
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Girls as young as 12 or younger.
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Mothers who are forced
to leave their families
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to find “work” far from home.
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Men forced to toil
as laborers without pay
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and without any hope of escaping
their difficult existence.
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Trafficking sees people
pressed into forced labor,
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child labor, domestic
servitude, bonded labor,
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where people are forced
to work to pay off debt,
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even the debts of
ancestors in some cases,
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sex trafficking, or
child sex trafficking.
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The United States State
Department website says this:
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“Modern slavery, trafficking in
persons, and human trafficking
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have been used as umbrella
terms for the act of recruiting,
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harboring, transporting,
providing, or obtaining a person
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for compelled labor
or commercial sex acts
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through the use of
force, fraud, or coercion.”
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It's estimated that one in
100 Moldovans is trafficked.
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If this was the United States,
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that would be the
equivalent of 32 million people.
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That's an
enormous amount of people
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from this little
country who have been
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forced against their
will into lives of slavery.
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>>Irina Arap: So imagine a
35-year-old woman with two kids,
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abused by her husband,
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with no prospectives for
very good job opportunities,
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is receiving a very
good offer from a neighbor
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to go abroad to earn
some money for a living.
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So these are the main
push factors that help
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the traffickers to make the
citizens fall into their traps.
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>>John: And the poverty and
the lack of opportunities means
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Moldova has become a
fertile breeding ground
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for human trafficking.
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>>Lidia Gorceag: Yes. There
are victims that are very aware
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that they will be exploited.
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They go back and
forth again and again,
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not because they
want to be exploited,
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but because they see no
way out of their situation.
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>>Irina: So it's about
poverty and vulnerability.
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Social factors also
determine the citizens
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to accept the offers of
the strangers sometimes.
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It's the same as, let's take
the case of so-called woman.
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She has no house.
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She has, for example,
divorced from her husband;
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she has two kids.
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Sometimes it could be, one of
them could be a disabled child,
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so she does not see any
future better opportunities
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for her in Moldova.
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So it means that she has no
perspectives here in Moldova.
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So then she is to
accept this job abroad.
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>>Lidia: Two
sisters, 18 and 23 years old,
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came from a boarding school.
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They have no external support.
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No parents, no
siblings, no house,
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nothing to their name except
a child that the older one had.
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Through the internet,
they met a man from Albania
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who offered them a job.
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Knowing that they had no money,
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he paid for them
to fly to Albania.
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So they took her
six-month-old baby and left,
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knowing that it was
potentially dangerous.
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When they arrived, the
trafficker took the baby
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to stay with his
parents away from the girl,
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and the girls were
taken to Switzerland
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and Germany to
become prostitutes.
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>>Irina: Recruitment measures
used by traffickers have uh,
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have uh changed a bit.
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They have become,
let's say kinder or mild.
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But this is also
not very good for us,
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the professional in
this field, because sometimes
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it may bring to a
lower level of identification
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of victims themselves.
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I will talk in examples.
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We had a victim
of human trafficking
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for sexual
exploitation in Spain.
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Of course, she was in this house
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where the
exploitation was taking place.
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But she had,
she had a cell phone
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and in the building
there was also Wi-Fi.
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So, uh, she was given some
money, but very little money,
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just to buy cigarettes,
and she had the possibility to,
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to go to the shop, just
two minutes from the building.
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But at the same time she
does not know the language,
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and her cell phone has not
a valid uh, Spanish number.
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>>Lidia: My colleagues
and I sometimes feel guilty
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because we cannot help enough.
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Once the victims leave
our center, where can they go?
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We feel like we
have not done enough
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because there simply aren't
enough long-term resources.
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>>Irina: Up to 15 percent of the
victims who have been identified
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and assisted within our
program get to be retrafficked
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in several years or so.
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>>John: I'll be back
with more in just a moment.
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This It Is Written
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of human trafficking and
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unsuitable for children.
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>>John: This is It Is
Written. Thanks for joining me.
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There are 21 million
people in the world right now
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who are the victims
of human trafficking.
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That's almost the
population of Australia.
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Of that amount, 68
percent are exploited for labor,
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10 percent are in
state-imposed forced labor,
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and 22 percent are
being sexually exploited.
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I'm in Chisinau,
the capital of Moldova.
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Moldova is a landlocked country
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located between
Romania and Ukraine.
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For more than 50 years Moldova
was a part of the Soviet Union.
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Over the centuries, it's
been the scene of invasions
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and revolutions,
not uncommon for Europe.
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It's estimated that 1 in
100 Moldovans is trafficked.
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If this was the United States,
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that would be the
equivalent of 32 million people.
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That's an enormous amount of
people from this little country
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who are being
forced against their will
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into lives of slavery.
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Remember what the
State Department says:
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“...through the use of
force, fraud or coercion.”
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Many of them forced to
work in the sex industry.
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>>Irina: She would get the
money from the recruiter to,
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to have her passport done, most
of the time they do not have,
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they do not
hold their passports.
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Then she might get
some money to travel.
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It can be by bus,
by train, or by plane,
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recently it's not a
problem; it's affordable.
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But this is also
something that they are
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afterwards constrained with,
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because you have a debt to
me so you must work for this to,
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to give me back the money.
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Sometimes, the
exploitation occurs immediately,
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or sometimes she
could be given some time
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to adapt to the situation.
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She will be in an apartment
with other 10 ladies or so,
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if we talk about
sexual exploitation.
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And then she will get, you know,
this physical abuse sometimes,
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or psychological abuse, and
the exploitation can, can go on,
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I mean, start immediately.
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For example, the
last case I dealt with,
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I think in middle February,
was about nine Moldavan citizens
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who were exploited for
labor in the Russian Federation.
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They were hiding in
their rooms just to,
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only one of them
had a cell phone.
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But they somehow managed
to threaten the trafficker
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that they would call the police.
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Nevertheless, one woman
was, um, also exploited.
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And because she tried to escape,
she was kept in the outside
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for two hours with almost
no clothes on her, at minus 20.
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So this was a
sort of punishment.
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But, nevertheless,
they managed to escape.
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They retrieved their passports.
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So they were
repatriated to Moldova.
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But in regards to the
criminal investigation,
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I cannot tell the stage of it.
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>>John: Human
trafficking is simply a response
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to a demand that exists.
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Because prostitution
is treated so blithely
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by so many in society today
you know, boys will be boys,
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it's a victimless crime, it's
the world's oldest profession,
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makes it possible for
trafficking to flourish.
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It can operate in the shadows of
an evil profession which itself
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thrives in every major
city in the United States and,
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it's fair to say, in every
major city throughout the world.
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And because from a distance
one prostitute looks pretty much
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like another, you
can't tell whether that woman
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standing on the street corner
is pursuing a career choice
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or is being
trafficked against her will.
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It was reported
that in Columbus, Ohio,
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of the 1,000 prostitutes
put behind bars every year,
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92% are being trafficked.
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That's almost every single one.
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So what does this
have to do with the Bible?
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Everything.
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Jesus said in John 8:36,
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“Therefore if the
Son makes you free,
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you shall be free indeed.”
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Now, consider this:
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With 21 million
people being trafficked
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in the world right now,
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between 600,000
and 800,000 people are
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trafficked across international
borders every year.
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Eighty percent are
female, and half are children.
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With between 14,500
and 17,500 being trafficked
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into the United
States every year,
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that's 50 a day, every day,
do you think it's only atheists
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doing the
trafficking, or the using?
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You see, God's desire
is that people are free.
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And yet there's
another form of slavery
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that affects even more
people than human trafficking.
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I'll tell you
more in just a moment.
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>>John: The flight
attendant noticed her.
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She appeared to be
14 maybe 15 years of age
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and she looked out of place.
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She was disheveled,
her hair was greasy,
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she looked uncomfortable.
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And she was seated next to a man
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who was considerably
older and very well dressed.
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So the flight
attendant alerted the pilot,
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the pilot alerted
authorities on the ground,
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and when the flight from
Seattle landed in San Francisco,
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law enforcement officials were
waiting to intercept the man,
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and to release the girl and
return her to a much better life
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than the life moments
before, she was facing.
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Human trafficking happens,
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and more than
likely it happens near you.
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If you've
traveled through airports
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you may have noticed
signs up in airports warning
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about human trafficking.
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It really does take place.
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It might be taking place at
the mall in your neighborhood
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as young people are
groomed by unscrupulous men
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who would turn them over
to a life of misery and shame.
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I'd like to encourage you if you
suspect that you are witnessing
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human trafficking taking place,
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you go online
to www.ice.gov/tips
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and share the
information that you have.
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Something can be done.
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Also be sure to pray.
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Pray about what you are seeing
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or pray for this
awful phenomenon in general.
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Also you might want to know
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its best not to approach the
supposed victims or perpetrators
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of human trafficking.
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If you are a human trafficking
victim, speak out, seek help.
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Cautiously contact
law enforcement officials
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and know that there
people that will help you.
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>>Announcer: In Matthew
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>>John Bradshaw:
If you're old enough,
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you'll remember it
like it was yesterday.
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In 1987, an
18-month-old little girl
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somehow fell down
a narrow well shaft
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in her aunt's
backyard in Midland, Texas.
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She was stuck 22 feet under the
ground for two and a half days,
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and the nation and much
of the rest of the world
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watched
around-the-clock coverage
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of the rescue of Baby Jessica.
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Of course, all these years
later Jessica doesn't remember
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what happened back then,
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but every time she
looks in the mirror today,
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she sees a scar on her forehead,
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a reminder that
someone saved her
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when she couldn't save herself.
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I Corinthians 15:4 says,
“Christ died for our sins.”
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You weren't there at the time,
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but whenever you open a Bible
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you'll be reminded
of what God did for you.
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It's something that
you never want to forget.
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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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This It Is Written program
focuses on the subject of
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human trafficking and
therefore could be considered
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unsuitable for children.
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>>John: Thanks for joining
me today on It Is Written,
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in the Republic of Moldova.
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It's a country with a
turbulent history littered
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with conquests and invasions.
00:19:54.86\00:19:57.43
In the 1940s and
‘50s, 250,000 Moldovans
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were sent to
labor camps in Siberia.
00:20:01.50\00:20:04.73
During World War II,
thousands of Jews perished here.
00:20:04.77\00:20:09.77
But the crime
against humanity that plagues
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Moldova today is the
same as that which plagues
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societies all over the world.
00:20:15.51\00:20:18.61
Human trafficking right now
flourishes in the United States.
00:20:18.65\00:20:23.02
And what that means is,
you can buy a human being,
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usually a woman or a girl,
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for the purpose of
sexual exploitation.
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And you can own her
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just like you would own
a pair of shoes or a dog.
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Except very few dogs
were ever treated as badly
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as a woman who is trafficked.
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There's a growing awareness
in Moldova and around the world
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of the problem of
human trafficking,
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with more light
being shown on the subject,
00:20:52.78\00:20:54.62
and more and more people
willing to lend their support
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to the fight against it.
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There's one thing,
and only one thing,
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that will
actually fix the problem.
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You can't blame the
women and the girls involved.
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No female
chooses to be trafficked.
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If you locked them all up,
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all you'd be doing would
be punishing the victims.
00:21:12.57\00:21:15.74
And if you locked them up,
00:21:15.77\00:21:17.14
there'd be a fresh batch of
victims back out on the streets
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to take their
place in no time at all.
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The reason human
trafficking exists is economics.
00:21:23.98\00:21:27.88
It's a case of
supply and demand.
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If unscrupulous businessmen
wouldn't exploit workers,
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you wouldn't have forced labor.
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And if men wouldn't pay money
to exploit trafficked women,
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the problem would just go away.
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But the challenge is,
there's a market for this.
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The problem is, there are sick
men who will pay money for sex,
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and in many cases knowing full
well that the victim involved
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is trafficked, or illegal.
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And who are these sick men?
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You might be
thinking it's the creepy guy
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who lives down
the street from you.
00:22:00.98\00:22:03.02
Ask the experts,
and they'll tell you.
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These are
schoolteachers and policemen
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and doctors and you-name-it.
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Everyday people.
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Most likely someone you know.
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The problem is
hidden in plain view.
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Changing laws
might certainly help.
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But laws get broken every day.
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We could take some time to talk
about the climate in society
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which fuels this sort of demand.
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The objectification of women,
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and the sexually
hyper-charged society
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in which we live
that creates demand
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and then presents this
as, as some sort of option.
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Ultimately, this is a
problem of the human heart.
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You see, there's
another kind of slavery.
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Let the Apostle Paul
explain in Romans 6:16.
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“Do you not know
that to whom you present
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yourselves slaves to obey,
00:22:58.61\00:23:01.34
you are that one's
slaves whom you obey,
00:23:01.38\00:23:04.48
whether of sin leading to death,
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or of obedience
leading to righteousness?”
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Thankfully, there's a way out.
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Verses 17 and 18:
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“But God be thanked that
though you were slaves of sin,
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yet you obeyed from the
heart that form of doctrine
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to which you were delivered.
00:23:22.13\00:23:23.90
And having been
set free from sin,
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you became slaves
of righteousness.”
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Now, notice: The Bible says that
those who are the slaves of sin
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the King James
uses the word “servants”
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those who are slaves of
sin are slaves of the one they
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have chosen to serve.
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See,
ultimately, sin is a choice.
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It might not
always feel like that.
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It might feel that
it's less of a choice
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if you've become accustomed
to living a life of sin,
00:23:52.86\00:23:56.16
and more a matter
of being on autopilot.
00:23:56.20\00:23:58.83
But the Bible is clear.
00:23:58.87\00:24:00.64
You can choose to be
either the slave of sin
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or the slave of righteousness.
00:24:05.01\00:24:07.44
Romans 6, verse 20.
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“For when you
were slaves of sin,
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you were free in
regard to righteousness.”
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And verse 22. “But now
having been set free from sin,
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and having become slaves of God,
you have your fruit to holiness,
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and the end, everlasting life.”
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So a person who
is the slave of sin
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can become instead the
slave of righteousness.
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The servant of righteousness.
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A person can learn to love
doing right as much as he or she
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ever loved committing sin.
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In 1 Corinthians, chapter 6,
Paul speaks to a group of people
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who were adulterers and
fornicators and idolators
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and thieves and
drunkards and so forth
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and he says this
to them in verse 11,
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“And such were some of
you: but ye are washed,
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but ye are
sanctified, but ye are justified
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in the name of the Lord Jesus,
and by the Spirit of our God.”
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That's what God can do for you.
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If you let Him.
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And so it's right to
hope and pray and work
00:25:11.11\00:25:13.61
that those who are caught in
the grip of human trafficking
00:25:13.64\00:25:16.01
find liberation, freedom,
find hope in their lives.
00:25:16.04\00:25:20.48
And if you're caught
in spiritual slavery,
00:25:20.52\00:25:24.52
you can find that same
hope and liberation and freedom
00:25:24.55\00:25:29.29
through Jesus Christ.
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Because “If the Son makes you
free, you shall be free indeed.”
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Our Father in Heaven,
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we are thankful today that there
is freedom in Jesus Christ.
00:26:50.44\00:26:56.41
And I want to pray,
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Lord for the so
many in this world
00:26:57.25\00:26:59.45
that are caught in the
grip of human trafficking.
00:26:59.48\00:27:02.95
There are so many major problems
besetting our world today.
00:27:02.98\00:27:07.02
But we know that you are
great enough to turn back
00:27:07.06\00:27:10.33
the tide of evil and sin.
00:27:10.36\00:27:12.93
And I pray that you would do so.
00:27:12.96\00:27:15.73
Father, I know
there is someone today
00:27:15.76\00:27:17.37
who is reaching out to you.
00:27:17.40\00:27:19.47
They're saying,
“I'm stuck in sin.
00:27:19.50\00:27:22.00
I'm a slave to sin
and I want to be free.”
00:27:22.04\00:27:25.01
Lord, set that man, that
woman, free in Jesus right now.
00:27:25.04\00:27:29.91
And let that day be soon
when Jesus returns to this earth
00:27:29.94\00:27:33.08
to take us home to
be with you forever,
00:27:33.11\00:27:35.98
in a world
where there is no sin.
00:27:36.02\00:27:38.25
We thank you for that hope.
00:27:38.29\00:27:39.89
We hold onto it.
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And we pray in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Thanks so much
for joining me today.
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I'm looking forward to
seeing you again next time.
00:27:47.66\00:27:50.33
Until then, remember:
00:27:50.37\00:27:53.13
It Is Written.
00:27:53.17\00:27:54.90
Man shall not
live by bread alone,
00:27:54.94\00:27:57.84
but by every word that
proceeds from the mouth of God.
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