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- Hello and welcome
to Jesus for Asia Now.
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I'm Natalie Wood and
I am not in our studio.
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I'm actually in India in
an English-speaking church.
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And I have the
privilege today of doing
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a show like none that
we've ever done before
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because we have a guest today
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and she only speaks
Tamil and I only speak English.
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So it's a very
different kind of show,
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but I'm really happy
to have this opportunity.
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Welcome to the show, Jaya Aaron.
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So glad you're here.
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Now, I'm looking forward
to learning more about you
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and about what you
do with Jesus for Asia.
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- I am one of
the phone answerers
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and I am a prayer warrior.
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- Okay, so what
does a prayer warrior do?
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- Usually I get phone calls
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for prayer requests like,
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"We are not feeling well
and there is a big problem"
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or "My family is in
this kind of a sad situation,
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so please pray for us."
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Whenever prayer requests like
that come in, we pray for them
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and after two or
three days they call us back
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and say, "You prayed for us
and the prayer was answered.
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So please tell us
more about your faith."
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- I'm sure you have stories.
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Do you have a story that
you would like to share with us?
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- Today I'm going to
share about three families
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who called for prayer, how
they came to know about Jesus
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and how they accepted Jesus.
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I want to share about that.
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- Wonderful. I'm
looking forward to hearing.
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- This is from a place
called Theni in Tamil Nadu
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about a girl named Rajani.
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She is a
nursing school graduate.
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She came to know
me through her mother
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who had
previously called for prayer.
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You see, Rajani was
married to a Hindu man,
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even though her family comes
from a Protestant background.
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She felt that her
life was completely ruined.
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It was a bitter marriage.
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She had a baby by that time,
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but their lives were so
miserable that they separated.
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Her mother called me, she said,
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"I made a big mistake.
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You gave me Bible studies.
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You told me about Jesus,
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but I never listened to you.
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I never responded to it.
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I made a mistake.
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I gave my daughter a way
to be married to a Hindu man
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and now my whole life is ruined.
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So I need to ask
God to forgive me
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for turning away from him,
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for not listening
to your Bible studies
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or obeying God's word."
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And now I have
started giving Bible studies
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to the mother and
to her daughter also.
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They both asked
so many questions.
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We spent many days
together as I explained
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the doctrines and
about the Sabbath.
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And finally now by God's grace,
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they both have
accepted Jesus Christ
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and they are
attending church regularly
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on Fridays and on the Sabbath.
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- Wow.
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- Before, Rajani was
working in a hospital
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in Coimbatore, but
after the family situation,
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she could not go to work
for nearly a year and a half.
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When she finally
returned, they said,
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"Your position
is already filled."
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So she prayed for a new job
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and God has given
her an excellent job
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nearer to where she
lives and she is happy
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with her mother and son.
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And moreover, on
Fridays if she gets any kind
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of work, she says, "No."
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Friday evening, Sabbath
morning, she has determined
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that she will not do any work.
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And she even told the hospital,
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I do not want
to work on Sabbath.
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No, not on Sabbath.
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So now they are
coming to church.
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They come on
Friday and Saturday,
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they come Sabbath
morning and bring food.
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They stay the full day at church
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and are involved in
the door visiting ministry.
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- Wow. Praise the Lord.
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That's a beautiful story.
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- Rajani's mother is praying
that her daughter's husband
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will also join them.
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Also, they are
praying for both her sons
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who have not accepted Jesus,
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that they will also
accept Jesus and come.
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So that is her greatest desire,
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to bring the
whole family to Jesus.
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- Yes. Amen.
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So when you're talking about
giving people Bible studies,
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do you go to their home
to study the Bible with them?
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How do you do the Bible studies?
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- I cannot go to the
house because it is too far.
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If I were to go, I
would have to take a train
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and travel
overnight to reach them.
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So I give them Bible
studies over the phone.
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- You said it was
a lot of Bible study
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with Rajani and her mother.
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So you had to explain
to them about the Sabbath,
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about the 10 Commandments,
different things like that?
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- I started teaching
them about the 10 Commandments
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and Sabbath and the
three angels messages,
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how the Bible was
written and by whom,
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who inspired
the Bible, you know,
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and how long it
took to write it.
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I explained all
these things to them.
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- So even though the
mother was Christian,
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she didn't know very
much about the Bible?
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- Yes.
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Even though she was a Christian,
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she did not know
anything about the Bible.
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- So it was
starting from scratch,
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from the very beginning.
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- I started teaching them from
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the Book of
Genesis to Revelation.
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- That took a lot
of time, I'm sure.
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- It was three to
four years of studies.
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- During the process of
studying the Bible with them,
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did you introduce
them to a church pastor
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or a Bible worker in their area,
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or was there one?
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- I gave her an address.
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I said, "If you
go to this place,
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there will be a
seven day Adventist school.
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Right next to the school
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there is a seven
Day Adventist church.
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You go there on the Sabbath day
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and give the
phone to the pastor.
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I will talk to the pastor
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and I will
connect you with him."
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- Okay.
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Well, I know you have
another story you'd like
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to share, so would you
like to start that now?
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- This lady's name is Prabha.
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She is from Madurai down south.
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She was introduced by a
lady who called me previously
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through our JFA TV program.
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For the past 10 years,
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she had been going to
the Pentecostal Church.
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The lady who
introduced her to me
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had told her that I
can give her Bible studies.
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So Prabha said,
"I heard about you
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and I want to know the Bible.
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Please teach me from the Bible."
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She did not know
anything about the Bible,
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who wrote it when it was
written or how it was written.
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For the last 10 years,
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she was going to a
Pentecostal church,
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but she knew
nothing from the Bible.
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She thought that
speaking in tongues,
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going to church on Sunday
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and being filled
with the Holy Spirit
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was what was important.
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She was blindly going to church
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without knowing the real truth.
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I started
teaching her from Acts 2.
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I taught her about
tongues from the Bible
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and from 1 Corinthians 13
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about what is true Christianity.
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You know these
chapters, these Bible verses,
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when I started
teaching her, she said,
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"How come I didn't know
these things from the Bible?"
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And she said, "If
you speak in tongues,
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the Bible says that you
also need to tell the meaning.
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But some people
are just speaking
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without knowing the meaning,
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which is not really
speaking in tongues."
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And then she understood
and she started to realize.
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And so she told me,
"Yes, what you said is right."
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- Wow.
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- I started teaching her
about the 10 Commandments
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because many
people do not really
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believe in the commandments.
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I started
teaching her how important
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the 10 Commandments are.
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Also, about the
three Angels message
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and the other
doctrines from the Bible.
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I would even use Ellen
White books to teach her.
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She was amazed to
know all these truths
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which she had not heard before.
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She was very happy
to learn these things
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and she wanted to
learn more about God.
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Now she is going to a
Seventh Day Adventist Church
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and most importantly,
she is also teaching
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her former church members
that what we are doing is wrong.
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Sunday is not the Sabbath day,
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speaking in tongues is
not what we believe it to be,
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and the 10
Commandments have not vanished.
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We are still to
observe the Sabbath.
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Her goal is to bring
Bible truth to that church
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and her neighbors
who belong to that church
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and she is
working among them now.
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She showed them 1
Timothy 6, verses 13 and 14.
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She quoted that the
commandments have not vanished
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and in the time
of the Israelites,
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if you touch the
Ark of the Covenant
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when you were not
allowed to, you die.
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She taught them how important
the 10 Commandments are.
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Moses laws
vanished but not God's.
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What God gave to
us did not vanish.
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It was kept inside of
the arc of the covenant.
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Now she is going to our
church, attending our church,
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and she said, "I am
not going to go away
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or turn away from this truth.
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I am going to keep the Sabbath,
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which is of the
greatest importance."
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Also, she is doing the
things which need to be done
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before Sabbath to
keep the Sabbath holy,
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like preparing the food
and keeping the Sabbath holy
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without doing any
work for personal gain.
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She is observing
the Sabbath 100% now.
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She says, "I want to share
this for as long as I live.
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I want to share this
truth with many other people."
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Even yesterday, her son
was doing his 12th grade exams.
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He called me.
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He said, "Mother,
please pray for me.
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I am going to write my exams.
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I want God's blessing."
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So I prayed for him yesterday.
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- Wow. Powerful testimony.
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That's really awesome
yo see how God is working
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and leading people to himself.
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- Her son has
accepted the Sabbath,
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but her husband has not yet.
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But she says that
"I have great hope
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that God will touch him."
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She is slowly sharing the
Bible truth to her husband.
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Her prayer request is for us
to please pray for her husband
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so that God will touch him
and he will be converted also.
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- We will.
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- I was studying the Bible
with a woman from the South
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and whomever I
give Bible studies to,
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I will ask them to
write down the Bible verses.
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This lady had many questions,
so she wrote the verses
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that answered her
questions on a notebook.
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I told her, "Tonight,
what we are going to do is
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before going to
sleep, pray earnestly.
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Ask for the Holy
Spirit and read these verses.
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The Holy Spirit will
speak in your heart."
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The next day she
called me and said,
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"I did what you told me to do
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before going to sleep.
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I prayed and I read and
asked for the Holy Spirit.
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Then I read the verses again
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and the Holy
Spirit came into my heart.
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He explained so
many things to me,
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which were all the
things you told me about
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and many other things."
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She was amazed because of that.
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The next day she said to me,
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"This truth is so
important, so valuable,
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but my church pastors
are not talking about it.
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Yet, learning
these truths I know now
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that I do not want
to go to that church."
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She said, "I will make sure
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that I will stand
firm in this truth."
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That is what she told me.
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- Wow. Praise the Lord.
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- I said, "I told you all
these things from the Bible.
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It is your responsibility
to talk to your pastor.
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Ask him these questions.
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Why are you not
teaching these things?
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The same things you ask me."
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So the next day the
pastor came to her house
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and she said, "First I am
going to ask you a question."
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The pastor said, "All this time,
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you did not have any questions.
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What happened?
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Today, you are
going to ask me questions?
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Okay, you asked
me your questions."
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She asked him,
"Tell me from the Bible,
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which is the true Sabbath day."
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Her pastor was
astonished. He was shocked.
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He said, "You come to
church regularly on Sunday
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and today you are
asking me when is the Sabbath?"
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She said to him, "No,
you tell me from Bible,
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which is the true Sabbath day?"
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The pastor asked her,
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"Who came and told
you to ask this question?"
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She said, "A lady from Chennai,
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she is giving me Bible studies
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and she is quoting
everything from the Bible,
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and I am really inspired and
I was touched by those words.
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Please answer me now,
which is the true Sabbath?
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Why are you
hiding these things?"
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Then he said,
"You believe that lady
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who called you over
the phone from Chennai,
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but you don't believe me?"
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She said, "No, it is
not that I am believing her.
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You teach me from the Bible.
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She taught me from the Bible.
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You do the same.
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Answer my
question from the Bible".
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She asked, "Tell me now,
which is the true Sabbath day?"
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The pastor finally
said, "According to Bible,
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Saturday is the Sabbath day."
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Then she said,
"So you know the truth
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and you were hiding
this truth all this time?
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Why did you do that?
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Do you want us to go to hell?
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You want us all to die?
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Why would you do that?"
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And he said, "I tell you,
this is a Sabbath, Saturday."
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Then he left.
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- Wow. That's powerful.
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So were you born Adventist
or did you become Adventist?
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- My father and
mother were both Hindus.
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My father was
offered a job which required
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the family to go to Coimbatore.
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One day, a pastor
told my father about Jesus
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and my parents accepted Jesus
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and became
Protestant Christians.
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- Okay.
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- At that time my
father was working
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as a foreman and
there was a big strike.
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My father was
opposed to the strike,
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so he brought other
workers from outside
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and they started
working even though
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the whole company was striking.
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The workers who
were on the picket line
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were very angry at him,
00:14:04.31\00:14:05.67
so they hatched
to plot to kill him.
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They offered my
father's horse and car driver
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a lot of money to take my
father to a certain location
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the next time
he was driving him.
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Every week this
driver would pick up
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the entire family
to take us to church.
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We would always
arrive an hour before church,
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but this time the
horseman was quite late.
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The horse went
normally for a while
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and then it stopped and
refused to walk anymore.
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It was just standing there
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and would not move
even one step further.
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We were getting late for church,
00:14:33.50\00:14:35.60
so the driver
started hitting the horse,
00:14:35.60\00:14:38.47
but still the
horse would not move.
00:14:38.47\00:14:41.18
Then my father
said to the driver,
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"I do not want to go anymore.
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Just take us back to our house
because it is too late now."
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The problem was those guys
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that had bribed
the driver told him,
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"If you do not bring this
family to that particular place,
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we are going to kill
you and your family."
00:14:57.36\00:15:00.10
So he was trying his
best to take my family
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to that spot
because he was afraid,
00:15:02.96\00:15:05.60
but the horse just
would not move at all.
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My father said, "Just
turn the horse cart around.
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We do not want to
go to church late."
00:15:11.37\00:15:13.38
As he turned the horse cart,
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the horse ran fast all
the way back to our house.
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After the horse got
us back to our house,
00:15:17.98\00:15:19.85
the driver informed my
father of the bribe he had taken
00:15:19.85\00:15:23.12
to bring the
family to that spot.
00:15:23.12\00:15:25.59
- Wow.
00:15:26.79\00:15:28.19
- He put that
money at my father's feet
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and said, "I do
not want this money.
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I was given this
money to take your family
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to that place for
those men to kill you,
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but I see now that
your God is the living God."
00:15:38.10\00:15:41.24
He fell to his
knees and he said,
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"Please forgive me for what
00:15:43.37\00:15:45.44
I have done
against your family."
00:15:45.44\00:15:47.24
So he immediately
wrote a letter of resignation
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and resigned from his job,
00:15:50.31\00:15:52.28
and we went to a
place called (indistinct).
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After we arrived there,
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my father and brother
were on their way to a shop.
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Along the way, they heard
music coming from the building.
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They went inside to
see what was going on.
00:16:04.43\00:16:07.66
Inside, there was a big
banner on which was written,
00:16:07.66\00:16:11.20
"If you attend this
meeting for 40 days,
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we will give you a
free Bible as a gift."
00:16:14.80\00:16:17.41
They were so surprised
and they had wanted a Bible
00:16:17.41\00:16:21.51
so they thought, "Okay,
let's go attend those meetings."
00:16:21.51\00:16:24.68
This is where
they came to know about
00:16:24.68\00:16:26.98
the Seventh Day
Adventist Church.
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They accepted this truth
00:16:28.85\00:16:30.62
and as a family they
were baptized into the church.
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- That's a great testimony.
00:16:36.96\00:16:38.79
How old were you then?
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- When the incident happened
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with that horse
card in Coimbatore
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I was two years old.
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When we came to
the Adventist Church,
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I was about 12 years old.
00:16:47.30\00:16:49.54
- Okay, awesome.
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God was leading in your life
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and taking care of you
even from a very small age.
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After you were baptized,
did you go to Adventist school?
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- Yes, I attended one of
our boarding schools there.
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- Did you meet your
husband there at school?
00:17:08.39\00:17:10.76
- No.
00:17:10.76\00:17:11.46
- Was he an Adventist?
00:17:11.46\00:17:13.50
- He was attending a
Baptist church when we met.
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He was given Bible studies
00:17:18.63\00:17:20.14
and then he joined
the Adventist church.
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After that, he became
an elder at our church.
00:17:22.64\00:17:25.01
- So after you met
him? - After marriage.
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- After marriage. Okay.
00:17:28.94\00:17:30.85
I know that he
has passed away now
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and he used to
work in the railway,
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and I heard one time he
was in a terrible accident.
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- Yes.
00:17:39.95\00:17:40.76
He had an accident while working
00:17:40.76\00:17:42.29
as a mechanic for the railways.
00:17:42.29\00:17:43.89
This accident happened when
he was traveling to New Delhi.
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On the way, the
train was derailed.
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It was a miracle,
00:17:49.53\00:17:51.33
at the time he was
sitting between the train cars.
00:17:51.33\00:17:54.44
Miraculously he was
thrown from the train.
00:17:54.44\00:17:57.47
God threw him
away from the train
00:17:57.47\00:17:59.54
and he rolled down the
hill into thorn bushes,
00:17:59.54\00:18:01.98
which cushioned his
fall and then into some sand.
00:18:01.98\00:18:04.85
Usually there are big
rocks at the side of the tracks,
00:18:04.85\00:18:08.02
but not at that specific place.
00:18:08.02\00:18:10.35
God really protected
him and saved his life
00:18:10.35\00:18:12.45
without any severe
injury from that big accident.
00:18:12.45\00:18:15.59
- Wow. That's a blessing.
00:18:16.79\00:18:19.23
And your youngest son?
00:18:19.23\00:18:20.60
- He studied at Spicer College,
00:18:21.53\00:18:23.23
then studied outside also,
00:18:23.23\00:18:25.20
and now he is
working for Jesus for Asia
00:18:25.20\00:18:28.14
and he is doing
ministry all over India.
00:18:28.14\00:18:31.47
- Did he always work for God?
00:18:32.41\00:18:34.28
Did he always do ministry?
00:18:34.28\00:18:36.18
- He first
worked in a call center.
00:18:36.18\00:18:38.95
He had issues
with his eyes and left.
00:18:38.95\00:18:41.48
Then he went to work
in another call center.
00:18:41.48\00:18:43.85
He was offered a nice
salary, but he refused it.
00:18:43.85\00:18:47.69
He came and asked me,
"Should I join this company?"
00:18:47.69\00:18:50.66
I asked him if they would
allow him to rest on Sabbath
00:18:50.66\00:18:53.76
and he said, no.
00:18:53.76\00:18:55.00
"I do not want the job then.
00:18:55.00\00:18:56.87
I do not want to
work for this company
00:18:56.87\00:18:59.07
because I will not
have the Sabbath off."
00:18:59.07\00:19:01.34
I encouraged him
to honor his God.
00:19:01.34\00:19:03.97
So he quit that good paying job.
00:19:03.97\00:19:06.37
He got admitted to a
very well known college
00:19:06.37\00:19:09.08
where it was
difficult to get into.
00:19:09.08\00:19:10.81
He never went
because of the Sabbath issue.
00:19:10.81\00:19:13.52
All three of our children
went to Spicer Adventist College
00:19:13.52\00:19:16.85
because of the
Sabbath issue, only Sabbath.
00:19:16.85\00:19:19.49
- I just realized
I forgot to ask you
00:19:21.26\00:19:22.99
about when your
youngest son was small
00:19:22.99\00:19:26.46
and he had polio.
00:19:26.46\00:19:28.46
- When he was four
months old he almost died.
00:19:30.57\00:19:33.20
He was normal when he was born,
00:19:33.20\00:19:34.74
but when he was four
months old, he stopped moving.
00:19:34.74\00:19:37.91
I did not know what to do.
00:19:37.91\00:19:40.11
Immediately, I
took him to the hospital
00:19:40.11\00:19:41.91
and there the doctors were
not even able to find a vein.
00:19:41.91\00:19:45.81
They said, "Your son is dying.
00:19:45.81\00:19:48.22
His vital signs are very weak."
00:19:48.22\00:19:50.49
But I begged them.
00:19:50.49\00:19:51.89
I said, no, please find a vein,
00:19:51.89\00:19:53.76
but they could not find a vein.
00:19:53.76\00:19:55.56
For three days, the
doctor said he should not sleep.
00:19:55.56\00:19:58.36
If he sleeps, he will die.
00:19:58.36\00:20:00.20
So I kept him
awake for three days.
00:20:00.20\00:20:02.13
Finally, they were
able to find a vein,
00:20:02.13\00:20:05.00
and through that vein
00:20:05.00\00:20:06.40
they started giving
fluids and medicine.
00:20:06.40\00:20:08.74
It was only because of
prayer that he survived.
00:20:08.74\00:20:11.91
After that, he was fine
until he was nine months old.
00:20:11.91\00:20:15.41
When suddenly he
developed a high fever
00:20:15.41\00:20:17.91
with heavy vomiting.
00:20:17.91\00:20:19.08
For six straight
days he had a high fever.
00:20:19.08\00:20:22.25
I took him to
the primary hospital
00:20:22.25\00:20:24.62
and the doctor said,
"No, we cannot do anything.
00:20:24.62\00:20:27.52
The fever is high.
00:20:27.52\00:20:29.06
He is going to die."
00:20:29.06\00:20:30.36
I took him to the
children's hospital
00:20:30.36\00:20:32.06
and there after six
days, the fever broke.
00:20:32.06\00:20:35.70
We then found that he
was afflicted with polio.
00:20:35.70\00:20:38.53
So the fever
slowly started reducing,
00:20:38.53\00:20:40.64
but he was still unconscious.
00:20:40.64\00:20:42.90
For 15 days he was in
the children's hospital.
00:20:42.90\00:20:45.91
I was praying for him.
00:20:45.91\00:20:47.54
Fasting and praying for him.
00:20:47.54\00:20:49.94
For six days, I
held him on my lap there.
00:20:49.94\00:20:52.71
I was continually
reading the Bible and praying,
00:20:52.71\00:20:55.02
"Lord, please send
the doctor, at least one
00:20:55.02\00:20:58.15
doctor so that they can
see what is the problem."
00:20:58.15\00:21:01.19
On the sixth day of
fasting and praying,
00:21:01.19\00:21:03.86
a team of six doctors
arrived and attended to my son.
00:21:03.86\00:21:08.56
They found that both his
legs and hands were not working.
00:21:08.56\00:21:12.57
He was completely frozen.
00:21:12.57\00:21:14.40
His body was frozen,
00:21:14.40\00:21:16.00
and they took my baby
and laid him on the bed.
00:21:16.00\00:21:18.51
They said, "We
will do what we can."
00:21:18.51\00:21:21.64
But I continued
fasting and praying.
00:21:21.64\00:21:24.05
The doctors put
plaster casts on his legs.
00:21:24.05\00:21:26.85
15 days of fasting and praying.
00:21:26.85\00:21:29.18
I never gave up
praying and wrestling with God.
00:21:29.18\00:21:31.99
Oh Lord, please heal my son
00:21:31.99\00:21:33.69
so he can have a normal
life and look after himself.
00:21:33.69\00:21:36.56
When they took off the
cast there was no improvement,
00:21:36.56\00:21:40.46
so they did it again.
00:21:40.46\00:21:42.20
Finally, after the third
attempt, one leg was 100%
00:21:42.20\00:21:46.74
healed. The other
leg was 50% healed.
00:21:47.67\00:21:50.54
So the doctor
said it will heal fully
00:21:50.54\00:21:52.37
with physical
therapy and exercise.
00:21:52.37\00:21:54.51
They were all surprised to
see that my prayer was answered.
00:21:54.51\00:21:57.88
- Wow.
00:21:59.61\00:22:00.45
- And I thank God for
healing him and helping him.
00:22:01.75\00:22:04.39
Now he is doing this work.
00:22:04.39\00:22:06.79
I am so happy to see
him serving the Lord.
00:22:06.79\00:22:09.59
- Amen.
00:22:10.86\00:22:11.99
Wow, you have
really seen the hand of God
00:22:11.99\00:22:14.50
in your life and the
lives of your family.
00:22:14.50\00:22:17.97
So before you
started helping with
00:22:17.97\00:22:20.30
the television
prayer phone ministry,
00:22:20.30\00:22:22.90
had you been praying for a way
to have a ministry from home?
00:22:22.90\00:22:27.58
- Yes. It was the
answer to my prayer.
00:22:27.58\00:22:30.28
But still, I also
love to go door to door.
00:22:30.28\00:22:33.68
Even though now I am
doing the phone ministry,
00:22:33.68\00:22:36.18
I am also doing tracks
ministry when I travel.
00:22:36.18\00:22:39.02
I keep telling
people about Jesus.
00:22:39.02\00:22:41.02
- I know, I've gone
with you shopping before
00:22:42.16\00:22:44.73
and we were on the
train for two minutes
00:22:44.73\00:22:46.76
and you were
telling someone about Jesus.
00:22:46.76\00:22:50.00
- I have a small taxi
take me to the church.
00:22:50.00\00:22:52.50
I share the word of God
all through our travel time.
00:22:52.50\00:22:55.64
When we get
there, when I get out,
00:22:55.64\00:22:57.67
I will tell the
driver, this is the church.
00:22:57.67\00:23:00.14
Please come to this church.
00:23:00.14\00:23:01.84
My pastor has seen
me several times sitting
00:23:01.84\00:23:03.98
in front of the
church in the auto rickshaw.
00:23:03.98\00:23:06.48
- Wow.
00:23:06.48\00:23:08.02
- I would stay there
00:23:08.02\00:23:09.28
and tell the driver about God,
00:23:09.28\00:23:11.02
we all need to do
God's work like this.
00:23:11.02\00:23:13.19
We need to share the love of God
00:23:13.19\00:23:15.06
because we are in the last day.
00:23:15.06\00:23:16.96
We should not give up
any opportunity given to us.
00:23:16.96\00:23:19.66
- Yeah.
00:23:20.53\00:23:21.33
We need to all be evangelists
00:23:21.33\00:23:22.53
and really care
about the people around us.
00:23:22.53\00:23:25.50
- Even when I leave the church,
00:23:26.30\00:23:28.30
I am giving Bible
studies to whomever
00:23:28.30\00:23:30.24
is in the auto with me,
00:23:30.24\00:23:31.47
teaching them about the
love that God has for us.
00:23:31.47\00:23:35.04
They are always
thankful to learn about Jesus.
00:23:35.04\00:23:38.28
- Wow.
00:23:39.48\00:23:40.88
And now today you're helping
other people to know about God.
00:23:40.88\00:23:44.69
So in your work, what
does your day look like?
00:23:44.69\00:23:48.69
- I do the work of
answering the phone calls
00:23:48.69\00:23:51.23
in the morning and I
give them Bible studies.
00:23:51.23\00:23:53.90
When a pastor comes to my house,
00:23:53.90\00:23:55.93
I will give them
the prayer request.
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The pastors do the prayer
and I do the Bible studies.
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- So how many Bible studies
do you do in a typical day?
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- Usually about five
hours of giving Bible studies
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and another three hours
of taking prayer requests.
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- So do you only do Bible
studies between certain hours,
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like between eight and five,
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or do you do Bible
studies other times of the day?
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- There are no time limits.
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They will call me all
hours of the day or night.
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People will call me and
tell me, "I am free now.
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May we please have Bible
study at 12:30 at night?"
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And we will have
Bible study at that time.
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- So you recognize
that when they're interested
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is the time to give it to them.
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- Yes.
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People will say to me,
"I have my Bible with me.
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May we have Bible study now?"
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And I will give
them immediately anytime.
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- So do you see the
value in the TV ministry?
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Do you think it's valuable?
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- This TV ministry is
really an important ministry
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because we are able to reach
many people around the world.
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There are calls
from all over India
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and even far away from
India, from the Andaman Islands
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and many other countries.
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There are calls coming and
they are asking for prayer.
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I feel that this is a
very valuable ministry.
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- So you believe
it should continue?
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- Yes.
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It must continue
because there are so many people
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who do not know Jesus yet.
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It must reach them all.
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- Yes, I agree with you.
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- There are so many
Bible studies going on
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through this TV program and
many have accepted Jesus Christ,
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but many are still hesitating
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because they wanted to
accept Jesus Christ as a family.
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And there have been many calls,
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prayer calls
through this ministry.
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- So we're almost finished,
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and I wanted to ask,
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who is Jesus to
you in your life?
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- Jesus Christ
is everything to me.
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The disease, the sicknesses,
the weakness I am undergoing.
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Amidst all this, I am surviving.
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It is because of his grace.
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Without Jesus, I cannot
live, not even for a moment.
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- So are you
thankful that you can spend
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your days helping
other people to know Him too?
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- I am really very happy
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and I pray that God
will bring many more people
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for Bible studies and prayer.
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That is my only prayer.
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- Yes, that is our prayer also.
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- The Bible says this
gospel needs to be preached
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to all the
nations, to all the world.
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Then shall the end come.
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So it is our responsibility
to spread the gospel.
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- I agree with you 100%.
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So you're doing Bible studies
for one person who calls you,
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but then it seems like
every time through that
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someone else finds
out about Jesus also,
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and so it's spreading.
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- I have faith that
even though outwardly
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they are not yet showing that
they have accepted the truth,
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seeds have been
planted inwardly.
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Particularly
that lady, you know,
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there are so many like that.
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But the seeds which
are sown in their heart
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about the
Sabbath and the true God
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and the second coming of Jesus,
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they cannot
give an excuse saying
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that they did
not know the truth.
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You know, if they accept it,
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it is good for
their eternal life,
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but the seeds which are sown,
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and it is now
the Holy Spirit's job
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to do the work in them.
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- I wanna thank
you so much for coming
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and sharing with us.
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It's been a huge blessing.
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- I am also very
happy. Thank you.
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- I wanna invite
you to learn a lesson
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from Mrs Jaya Aaron and pray.
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Pray all the time, pray
no matter what, and pray for
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others. And if you would like to
know more about our TV ministry
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here in India, you can
contact us at Jesus for Asia
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PO Box 1221,
Collegedale, Tennessee, 37315.
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Call us at (423) 413-7321
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or visit our
website Jesus4asia.org.
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May God richly bless you
until we see you next time
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on Jesus for Asia Now.
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(uplifting music)
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