The church service today was
done completely by the inmates.
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Pope Benedict XVI is calling
for a New World Financial Order.
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One, the boat will carry
everything that we order.
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Literally this need is
gathered in the season.
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And release some radioactive--
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God wants to signal us,
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send the signal to
us if we're watching.
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Welcome to Laymen
Ministry News, I'm Jeff Reich.
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This is the first of a
series of new news programs.
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The name Laymen
Ministry News is significant.
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As Laymen Ministry
started back in the mid '1980s
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as a lay organization
that was created as a ministry
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to help motivate
and educate lay people
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to be involved with ministry.
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Our first
publication was a newsletter,
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so you can guess what the
title of the newsletter was?
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Yes, that's right,
Laymen Ministry News.
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Now nearly 30 years later,
it seemed only appropriate
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to name a TV news
program Laymen Ministry News.
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Right now Europe or what is
now knows as the European Union.
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There is a growing
movement towards making
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Sunday as the
official day of rest.
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This is being pushed
by an organization called
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the European Sunday Alliance
which was formed June 2011.
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It was made up of a network
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consisting of
various organizations
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such as trade unions,
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civil society organizations
and religious communities.
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These organizations are
committed to make "Sunday"
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the synchronized free
time for European societies.
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Their founding statement in
European Sunday Alliance says,
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"Only a well-protected
common work-free day per week
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enables citizens to enjoy
full participation in cultural,
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sports, social
and religious life,
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to seek cultural enrichment
and spiritual well-being
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and to engage in voluntary work
and association of activities.
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Without this day, all these
forms of social interaction
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and pastime
would be endangered."
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The alliance also states in
its resolution that it urges
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the European Institutions
to safeguard Sunday,
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in principle, as a
common weekly rest day in the EU
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and calls upon the
Governments of the Member States
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to take their
responsibility for improving,
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implementing and enforcing
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existing
legislation and practices.
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On their official
website they state, today,
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legislation and
practices now in place at EU
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and Member States levels
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need to be more
protective of the health,
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safety, and dignity of everyone
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and should more
assertively promote
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the reconciliation of
professional and family life.
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We believe that social cohesion
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in the European citizenship
should be reinforced.
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They are using the angle
of the need of the family,
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human rights and
the economy as stratagem
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to try to get this
legislation passed.
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Recently on a BBC
program filmed in England
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entitled "The Big Question."
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I don't know if you
have seen this on BBC or not
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but this program deals--
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they had one particular
program not too long ago
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that dealt with the
Sunday Law moment in Europe.
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One question that was
under debate on that program was
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"Should the
Sabbath be a day of rest?"
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It's important to know that
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when they referred
to the Sabbath here,
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they are talking about Sunday.
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In fact I appreciated
when one German participant
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on the program said when
he cleared up this point.
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"Should the
Sabbath be a day of rest?"
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Well, actually the
Sabbath is a Jewish festival,
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not a religious festival
and secondly if it was--
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Oh, oh, I'm
sorry. I wish it were.
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We had a cacophony of
disagreement over here
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from our friends
in the dark color.
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As a Christian, the
Christian church has adopted
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Sunday as their Sabbath,
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but it's actually
a Jewish festival.
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I should be able to tell
this program pull together
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people of various faiths
as well as secular voices
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to discuss the
concept of a Sunday rest day.
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If we're going to, as a
country and as individuals,
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if we can say,
actually it's our relationships
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that are most
important to us as a community
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and not just economics,
it's not just economics,
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we can both end but we
have to have some priorities,
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then I suggest that
we have to make one day
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in the week give
priority to relationships.
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You got a bug
there-- Otherwise--
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Otherwise what will happen is
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that commercial
pressures will run over us.
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You can see how this
idea of family and the economy
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is being woven into this
philosophy of a rest day idea.
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It was interesting to
hear the comments made by
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Alex Goldberg of
the London Jewish Forum.
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It seems some Jews
are kind of soft pedaling
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their Seventh-day Sabbath idea
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and leaning
towards this idea that
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"What day we keep
is not that important
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as it is spending
time with the family
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on any designated day."
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Look, I'm a
Sabbath observant Jew
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which means I've got very
huge stretches what I can't--
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I couldn't even get in
a motor car on a Sunday.
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And I've worked, also I'm now
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Chief Executive of
the London Jewish Forum,
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I've worked in
mainstream environments
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where my colleagues
were Muslim and Christian
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and secularism or whatever.
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And people respect to the
fact that I had to honor time
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from sunset on Friday
to dusk down Saturday.
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With Saturday, Sunday,
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I'm not against the
Jewish Christian debate on that.
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And I know
exactly where it comes,
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but choose your day
it could be a Friday
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or Saturday or
Sunday, whatever is--
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Everybody needs the same
day off because otherwise--
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well, because,
because, because--
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I will choose my own time.
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Please allow me to
finish my sentence.
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He needs a day off. He does.
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You're already
telling me what to do.
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No, because if I
have Wednesday off
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my children are not at
home, my friends are at work,
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I can't have community, I
can't meet with my relatives,
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I can't spend time
with my kids or my spouse.
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If we're all having
different days of the week off.
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This movement
towards Sunday rest
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is effecting the
country of Israel as well,
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with its longstanding history of
keeping the Seventh-day Sabbath.
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I've here a paper, a
newsletter actually called
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the Maoz Israel Report.
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This is from August of 2011.
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And it says,
"Should Sunday become
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a day of rest for Israelis?"
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Now this is
extremely interesting.
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And this article goes on,
"Israel looks for a solution."
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All Israeli businesses
with international dealings"
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and this is what
it goes on to say,
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"have the exact same situation.
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A dramatic example of
the world's stock markets
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and financial institutes which
conduct businesses on Friday
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while Israel's
stock market is closed.
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Then on Sunday, when
Israel is in full swing,
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most of the world is shut down.
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The Israeli parliament is
very aware of this problem
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and a movement within
the Knesset is growing
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to legislate Sunday as
a day of rest in Israel."
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And then it goes on to say,
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"Having Sundays off
is inevitable for Israel.
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Demographic and
economic realities
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make the change unavoidable."
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This is a little bit
reminiscent of what happened
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during the third
century under Constantine
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because there was this
separation has started happening
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between the early
Christians who came from Judaism
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that accepted
The Ten Commandments
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as a moral Decalogue
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and kept the Seventh-day Sabbath
and there were Christians
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and that was a longstanding
tradition for hundreds of years,
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but Gentiles who had
converted to Christianity
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started to slowly
adopt the Pagan Sunday
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as a day of
rest, for two reasons.
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They wanted to distance
themselves from the Jews,
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because the Jews
had a bad reputation
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about what
happened to the Messiah
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and secondly that the Sabbath
was such a day of bondage,
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a day of dos and don'ts
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that Sunday became more
appealing for a day to go out
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and be involved
with sporting events,
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to feast or
gather with your friends
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and to do things together
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that you couldn't
do on the Sabbath.
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And so there was this
shift that was starting
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to take place amongst
early Christians towards Sunday
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which came
totally from tradition
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and not from a
Biblical point of view.
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And now we see the exact same
thing happening with Israel.
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You might be
thinking, well, Jeff,
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you seemed to be
opposed to this idea?
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What's the problem?
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Don't you think that
everyone would benefit
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from having a day of rest?
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Well, first of
all I liked to say
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that I'm in favor
of keeping a rest day.
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I keep the Seventh-day
Sabbath every week myself.
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I'm just not in favor
of having the government
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telling us what day
that we should rest.
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You see there's some
complications with this.
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For instance,
let's say that we have
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a Monday through
Saturday workweek
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and Sunday is legislated by
the government as our day off.
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What happens to those people
who want to keep a different day
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because of their conscience,
because of their convictions,
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another day holy as a rest day.
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Are they gonna
be all of a sudden
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under pressure of course
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because there's
this established workweek
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from Monday to Saturday
that in order to keep their jobs
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they have to work on Saturday
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and the employer is
gonna say something like,
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well, you know, you have Sunday
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that's why the government
has given us Sundays off.
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You can take Sunday
off like everybody else
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and then they have to go against
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their convictions
and their conscience,
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just because
there's this established
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work weakness
made by the government.
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Does the state have
the right to dictate to us
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what day we should rest?
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Then they are gonna
have to come up with an idea
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of what constitutes work
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and then they are gonna
have to make laws as saying,
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well, you can do
this kind of work,
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but you can't do
that kind of work.
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And what does it
really mean to rest on Sunday?
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You can go to sporting events,
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but you can't fix
the fence at your house
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or paint your house on a Sunday.
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And all of this starts to
open up a whole bag of worms
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as far as how to legislate
and enforce a Sunday rest day.
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And I ask myself
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"could this really even
happen in secular Europe?"
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And if so is America next?
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Well, America has a
longstanding tradition
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of Sunday Closing Laws.
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And I have before me
right here a book called
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"Religious Liberty in America."
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This book was published in 1914.
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It's a gathering of essays
dealing with the principles
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of separation
of church and state
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and religious liberty
issues that took place here
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in the early
centuries of the United States.
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Now in the early days
before America declared
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its independence
from British rule,
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we were
considered to be colonies
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and one colony was referred
to as the Colony of Virginia.
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In chapter 6 of
this book it says,
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"Conscience
Outlawed in Virginia."
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Now I like to give you just kind
of an example of what happens
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when you start to try
to legislate a day of rest.
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If you did not, go
to religious services
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on the Sabbath which was Sunday.
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The first offense was whipping,
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the second offense
was stoppage of allowance
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which was financial support
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and the third was the
galleys for six months.
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But I found this
one particular law
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interesting for
Sabbath breaking.
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You know, having a
Sunday legislated law.
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"For Sabbath-breaking
the first offense
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was the stoppage of allowance."
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They hit you in the pocketbook.
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The second was a whipping
and the third was death.
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Well, you might say, well, Jeff,
that was back in the 1600s',
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you know, we're
way beyond that now.
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People were too intelligent,
that would never happen again.
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Well, I would
like to differ with you
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because as soon as the church
gets involved with helping
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and having the government
legislate her degrees or dogmas,
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her interpretation of
scripture and her traditions,
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history has proven
that the consequences
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are some sort of
persecution and punishment.
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Evangelicals have
this idea that the reason,
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there's a
separation of church and state
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today in our government
is to protect the church
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from the evils
of the government,
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but that's not the case.
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The founding fathers put
together the Bill of Rights
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and the Constitution
to protect the government
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from the evils of the church.
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You know, in
Romans 6:16 it says,
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"Know ye not, to whom ye yield
yourselves servants to obey,
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his servants ye
are to whom ye obey."
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It's saying in another words,
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whoever you give
your allegiance too,
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who you obey that is
who you're servant to.
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Where would such laws end up
if they start legislating Sunday
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saying that we have
to rest upon that day.
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Would I be forced to
go against my conscience?
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Would I yield myself to
what the government says
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and become a
servant to the government?
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Or would I yield my conscience
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to that which is
found in the scripture
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upholding the
Seventh-day Sabbath
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and resting upon the
day that God has decreed,
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written in His own hand
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in the Decalogue of
the Ten Commandments,
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part of that new covenant
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that He is writing on
our hearts and our minds.
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And if this did
come to this point,
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if so, could it become a kind
of like a sign of allegiance
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to whom we honor the
Bible or the tradition of men?
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Could it establish an
identifying mark of loyalty
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to God versus loyalty to men?
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In Luke 21:11 it says,
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"And great earthquakes
shall be in divers places,
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and famines, and pestilences,
00:13:29.98\00:13:31.91
and fearful
sights and great signs
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shall there be from heaven."
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Maybe there are
other signs more subtle
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but yet frightening signs
that are taking place right now
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that God is sending
us to help us to know
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that this world is winding down
00:13:44.65\00:13:46.70
and that His soon
coming is imminent.
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Wildlife officials in Arkansas
trying to solve two mysteries
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that are getting a lot
of attention this morning.
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They involve the deaths of
thousands of birds and fish.
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A town blanketed
by 5,000 black birds
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appeared to have fallen out
of the sky on New Year's Eve.
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It is a mystery but
it's also a reality.
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Something very strange
definitely happened here.
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More than a
thousand turtle doves
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have dropped dead
over the past five days
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100,000 dead fish
turned up on US shores.
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Louisiana followed the suit
and Europe ruffled some feathers
00:14:17.24\00:14:20.39
with mysterious
avian deaths in Sweden.
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Neighbors were shocked to
find thousands of death herring
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on this Vancouver Island Beach.
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Fisheries officials
are trying to figure out
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what killed 900 kilos of fish.
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It's Redondo Beach, California,
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and we're told
that they are estimating
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these are thousands at least.
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And maybe tens of
thousands of dead fish
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spotted at a Marina there.
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Look at that you
can't even see the water.
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This is just a small sample
of some of the freak events
00:14:42.20\00:14:44.37
that have been
happening in the last two years,
00:14:44.40\00:14:46.45
many within the last few months.
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Well, I like to share
with you a Bible verse.
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And this is kind
of interesting twist
00:14:50.16\00:14:51.69
that you probably
haven't heard before.
00:14:51.72\00:14:53.27
In Hosea 4:3.
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Now listen to this
text very carefully.
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"Therefore shall the land mourn,
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and every one that
dwelleth therein shall languish,
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with the beasts of the
field, the birds of the heavens,
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and the fishes of the sea
also shall be taken away."
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Why? Well, look at verse 6.
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"My people are
destroyed for lack of knowledge
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because thou hast
rejected knowledge,
00:15:14.54\00:15:17.38
I will also reject thee,
00:15:17.41\00:15:19.15
that thou shalt
be no priest to me
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seeing that thou hast
forgotten the law of God."
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So why have
these calamities come?
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Why are the fish and the
birds falling from the sky?
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It's because people
have forgotten the knowledge
00:15:30.39\00:15:32.55
that God wants to
give us found in His law.
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You know, that's a fulfillment
of the new covenant promise
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that He shall write
His law upon our hearts
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and upon our minds
that we shall be unto Him,
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the people and He
shall be to us a God.
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It's not something that
government can legislate.
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I know there's people that
have this idea that they think
00:15:46.67\00:15:48.76
that if we can
just legislate God's law
00:15:48.79\00:15:51.65
that we can get
people to conform
00:15:51.68\00:15:53.53
to the standard
of righteousness,
00:15:53.56\00:15:55.45
but that really can't happen.
00:15:55.48\00:15:57.68
It comes from
revival and reformation,
00:15:57.71\00:15:59.79
recognizing our need of having
Christ as a personal Savior
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and having Him personally by His
spirit dwelling in our hearts
00:16:03.59\00:16:07.70
writing His heart,
His law upon our hearts
00:16:07.73\00:16:09.86
and upon our minds and all
these signs that we see today,
00:16:09.89\00:16:13.62
these are the
signs of the times.
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Laymen Ministries has been
working in India since 1994
00:16:21.19\00:16:24.77
with national
evangelism in connection
00:16:24.80\00:16:26.53
with Pastor Shadrach Samuel.
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A few years ago I
met Pastor Johnson
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at a friend's
house in Chennai, India.
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While we were
there, some church members
00:16:33.27\00:16:34.62
approached our
ministry about starting
00:16:34.65\00:16:36.10
a television program in India.
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Here's what
Pastor Johnson remembers
00:16:38.41\00:16:39.92
about that "Historic Day."
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It was a
historical day for India,
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pioneering of
television program in India
00:16:45.89\00:16:49.17
through Laymen Ministry.
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The program later
became known as "Saving Hands."
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In a short time this
program's popularity took off
00:16:53.53\00:16:55.91
and now it's
become a very key part
00:16:55.94\00:16:58.01
to Laymen Ministries
Evangelistic efforts in India.
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You see this is how it works.
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Seeds are sown
through television.
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Our Bible workers do
outreach by going door to door
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and following up
on contacts that come
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from the television program
00:17:09.46\00:17:10.75
through the prayer
hotline that we have.
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And these contacts
lead to Bible studies
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and then finally
evangelistic meetings.
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People are baptized and
then new churches are built.
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It's not only a television,
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but it is completely
the package of evangelism.
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Our programs are now in
three different languages
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on six different networks
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seen from the
Middle East to Australia.
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One of the networks is
called "Jaya Television."
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It's a mainstream
Hindu television network.
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It has a viewing
audience of 95 million people.
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Our broadcast was seen
over satellite television,
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cable and even
over the internet.
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We would like to take
you to India right now
00:17:49.08\00:17:50.66
to share with you our
most current developments.
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This is the property that Laymen
Ministries just purchased,
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it's just east of
the city of Chennai.
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It's in a nice rural area here.
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We actually have this
property completely paid for
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and we had a dedication
service last December 25
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for this piece of property.
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Now we're working with engineers
00:18:07.24\00:18:08.72
to actually get the
building up and going.
00:18:08.75\00:18:11.01
And we have engineer
who is visiting with us.
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We chose this area but yet
it's still a rural environment.
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So it's quiet here.
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There's a lot of
farm land, you know,
00:18:17.29\00:18:18.59
animals and pasture land here.
00:18:18.62\00:18:20.59
So it's a nice place
to have a training center
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and have a place
to, have a call center
00:18:23.03\00:18:24.98
for our TV ministry
00:18:25.01\00:18:26.69
and also to have
a television studio
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to produce our own
television programs.
00:18:28.30\00:18:30.32
We've been working here
for quite a number of years,
00:18:30.35\00:18:32.79
already we're well established
on the networks here in India,
00:18:32.82\00:18:35.65
producing national
language televisions programs.
00:18:35.68\00:18:38.23
And so having this facility here
will give us the opportunity
00:18:38.26\00:18:41.25
to be able to
produce our own programs
00:18:41.28\00:18:43.20
and then give them
directly to the networks
00:18:43.23\00:18:44.62
without having to
hire commercial places
00:18:44.65\00:18:47.68
to produce our programs.
00:18:47.71\00:18:49.06
Pastor Johnson
also explains to us
00:18:49.09\00:18:50.79
some of the
reasons why Laymen Ministry
00:18:50.82\00:18:52.49
purchased this
property in this area.
00:18:52.52\00:18:55.08
And the reason why we
have chosen is, number one,
00:18:55.11\00:19:00.14
it's an
opportunity for evangelism.
00:19:00.17\00:19:03.55
Because in that area
where we purchased the property,
00:19:03.58\00:19:07.87
there were 4,500
villages un-entered territory.
00:19:07.90\00:19:14.65
The second one is cost,
00:19:14.68\00:19:17.37
because in the city
it is very expensive.
00:19:17.40\00:19:21.20
It's huge, that is we cannot.
00:19:21.23\00:19:24.11
So I think in my understanding
00:19:24.14\00:19:28.17
it is an
opportunity for evangelism.
00:19:28.20\00:19:30.51
So we're moving
and also the cost.
00:19:30.54\00:19:34.71
You see, owning our
own production studio
00:19:34.74\00:19:36.75
will clear up
some of the problems
00:19:36.78\00:19:38.07
we've been having in
hiring commercial studios.
00:19:38.10\00:19:40.73
When we record our
programs, things like now,
00:19:40.76\00:19:44.02
this is kind of sensitive
but these are real issues
00:19:44.05\00:19:46.00
when it comes to
producing television programs
00:19:46.03\00:19:48.27
for broadcast around the
world on national television.
00:19:48.30\00:19:52.13
The studios would
often cancel our shoot.
00:19:52.16\00:19:54.64
The pastors were in-depth coming
to the studio to do the shoot,
00:19:54.67\00:19:57.32
just to be told we're
sorry, you were cancelled today
00:19:57.35\00:20:00.55
or they would come
and they would say,
00:20:00.58\00:20:02.01
oh, the schedule
tapings have changed,
00:20:02.04\00:20:04.06
you are supposed
to come on Wednesday
00:20:04.09\00:20:05.96
or sometimes they would
over bill us on our taping cost
00:20:05.99\00:20:09.93
and then sometimes
they were little bit
00:20:09.96\00:20:12.06
less than honest in the amount
of studio hours that we used.
00:20:12.09\00:20:15.55
We currently have funding
00:20:15.58\00:20:16.61
for the new studio
equipment for the building.
00:20:16.64\00:20:18.46
And we have some
funds for starting
00:20:18.49\00:20:19.88
the actual
building project itself.
00:20:19.91\00:20:22.10
But we're still
around $60 to $70,000 short
00:20:22.13\00:20:24.80
for this
particular building project.
00:20:24.83\00:20:26.78
Please pray with us
about this special need
00:20:26.81\00:20:29.66
and this work in India.
00:20:29.69\00:20:31.99
Right now I would
like to take you out
00:20:32.02\00:20:33.05
to the South Pacific To Vanuatu.
00:20:33.08\00:20:35.54
Mike and Becky
Needles and family
00:20:35.57\00:20:37.29
arrived this
last February to help
00:20:37.32\00:20:38.85
with our outreach
program doing education
00:20:38.88\00:20:40.97
and medical missionary work.
00:20:41.00\00:20:42.35
We have also an aviation
medical project going on there
00:20:42.38\00:20:45.58
with Dr. Turnbull
and his wife Naomi,
00:20:45.61\00:20:47.74
who oversee this project.
00:20:47.77\00:20:49.63
Now Mike is a
building contractor
00:20:49.66\00:20:51.58
and he will be
focusing his work,
00:20:51.61\00:20:52.89
coordinating building
projects with connection
00:20:52.92\00:20:55.07
with Laymen Ministries
growth that's taking place
00:20:55.10\00:20:57.65
there in the
Islands in Northern Vanuatu.
00:20:57.68\00:20:59.72
As well as helping
to start a trade school
00:20:59.75\00:21:01.93
where he will teach
practical building skills
00:21:01.96\00:21:03.96
to teach the
students in our schools.
00:21:03.99\00:21:06.80
Mamburao, Philippines,
graduation just took place
00:21:06.83\00:21:10.40
this last March from our forward
credit elementary schools.
00:21:10.43\00:21:13.32
This last year
we had 233 students
00:21:13.35\00:21:15.96
registered in our schools.
00:21:15.99\00:21:17.42
So we're building a
new present truth academy
00:21:17.45\00:21:20.54
which will be a working academy
00:21:20.57\00:21:22.39
connected together
with agriculture work.
00:21:22.42\00:21:25.33
We have 75 acres of
land already paid for.
00:21:25.36\00:21:28.16
It's already got a
nice road going into it.
00:21:28.19\00:21:30.32
It's all drained and ditched
and we have a building site
00:21:30.35\00:21:33.09
that's been cleared
out and we've just shipped
00:21:33.12\00:21:35.07
over four
containers with equipments,
00:21:35.10\00:21:37.24
solar panels and
all kinds of things
00:21:37.27\00:21:39.19
to help get the school started.
00:21:39.22\00:21:40.88
We recently put up a
wind tower and solar panels.
00:21:40.91\00:21:44.23
This school will be off the grid
00:21:44.26\00:21:45.75
and will be generating also
an electricity for the schools,
00:21:45.78\00:21:49.03
for the computers, for
lighting, everything there.
00:21:49.06\00:21:51.14
Recently just in
the last couple of weeks
00:21:51.17\00:21:53.52
a team came
over from Switzerland
00:21:53.55\00:21:55.51
and started helping to do
00:21:55.54\00:21:57.17
the construction
on these buildings.
00:21:57.20\00:21:58.80
They were
digging the foundations
00:21:58.83\00:22:00.70
to lay the new buildings
00:22:00.73\00:22:02.97
and to help cut out some areas
00:22:03.00\00:22:04.80
that will be used
for extensive gardening.
00:22:04.83\00:22:07.05
Right now in the Philippines
we have an urgent need
00:22:07.08\00:22:09.52
for student missionaries
for this next school year.
00:22:09.55\00:22:12.15
So if you know
anybody that's interested
00:22:12.18\00:22:13.71
in getting
involved with missions,
00:22:13.74\00:22:15.43
right now is the time to contact
our ministry on our website.
00:22:15.46\00:22:19.41
Download a mission
application and get involved
00:22:19.44\00:22:22.58
with helping the
school in the Philippines.
00:22:22.61\00:22:25.48
Now it's time for
our special feature.
00:22:31.04\00:22:33.04
This is the time where we share
with you a human interest story.
00:22:33.07\00:22:36.03
Just recently Abegail Fearson
returned from the Philippines
00:22:36.06\00:22:39.23
where she served as a missionary
for Laymen Ministries.
00:22:39.26\00:22:42.45
In a recent interview she
shared one of her experiences.
00:22:42.48\00:22:45.56
If the boat doesn't
come, there's no food.
00:22:47.98\00:22:51.03
I spend a year
in the Philippines,
00:22:56.14\00:22:58.84
in the middle of the jungle
as a volunteer missionary.
00:22:58.87\00:23:03.55
There are only two sources
of food there in the village
00:23:03.58\00:23:06.31
because it's so far
away from everything.
00:23:06.34\00:23:09.37
One, the boat
will carry everything
00:23:09.40\00:23:11.78
that we order via text.
00:23:11.81\00:23:13.82
Or two, the people in
the village will give us
00:23:13.85\00:23:18.76
or sell to us what they have.
00:23:18.79\00:23:22.02
We were really
dependent on the boat.
00:23:22.05\00:23:25.45
A typhoon had been in the area,
one that had struck Australia
00:23:25.48\00:23:32.77
and because of
this typhoon the waves
00:23:32.80\00:23:36.07
over near our village are
really rough, really rough
00:23:36.10\00:23:40.98
and the boat wasn't able
to come and bring food to us.
00:23:41.01\00:23:44.98
The first week went by,
we're okay, we had enough food.
00:23:45.01\00:23:49.08
Second week went by,
hey, we're still making it.
00:23:49.11\00:23:52.37
This is what we
expected two weeks.
00:23:52.40\00:23:55.39
Now the third week
wasn't so much fun.
00:23:55.42\00:23:58.61
The third week we had run
out of everything, even rice.
00:23:58.64\00:24:05.47
And it was my week to cook.
00:24:05.50\00:24:08.21
I had to take care of four
individuals including myself.
00:24:08.24\00:24:12.54
And I had no idea
how I was gonna do it
00:24:12.57\00:24:15.24
because we
literally had nothing.
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I did the only
thing I knew I could do.
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I went down on my
knees and I prayed.
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I said Lord, I have no idea
00:24:26.66\00:24:30.91
how I'm gonna make
it through this week
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and I pray that
you will provide for me
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like You promised in Luke 12.
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As soon as I got off my knees
after pleading with the Lord,
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I heard a voice
at my front door.
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Mom, mom Abby and
I saw little girl,
00:24:53.61\00:24:56.83
she doesn't speak much English
00:24:56.86\00:24:58.04
but my students
translated for me.
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I have cassava to sell to
you and I can tell you this,
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there was not one
day for that entire week
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that any of us were not stuffed.
00:25:10.14\00:25:13.91
When I say the
floodgates of heaven were open,
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I don't mean we just ate.
00:25:17.39\00:25:18.69
Okay, I think I can do with this
to survive and live comfortably.
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No, we were
almost stuffed each day.
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My name is Abegail and
my prayer was answered.
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Abegail story is one of
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This is a section of our program
where we share a new story
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with you and ask
for your comments.
00:26:07.80\00:26:10.29
Then in our next
program we'll be reading
00:26:10.32\00:26:12.44
some of your
comments on the air.
00:26:12.47\00:26:14.83
Now I don't know
if you've heard about
00:26:14.86\00:26:16.28
what's going on
in around the world
00:26:16.31\00:26:18.46
that this is kind of unusual,
00:26:18.49\00:26:20.07
people are hearing weird sounds
00:26:20.10\00:26:22.46
in very many different
places around the world.
00:26:22.49\00:26:24.58
When I first started
hearing about this I thought,
00:26:24.61\00:26:26.48
this is just a
hoax, is it fakes.
00:26:26.51\00:26:28.45
Is this something
like only the tabloids
00:26:28.48\00:26:30.25
will be reporting on.
00:26:30.28\00:26:31.60
I went to YouTube
00:26:31.63\00:26:32.69
and I listened to
some of these sounds
00:26:32.72\00:26:33.87
and some of them were kind
of scary, a little bit eerie.
00:26:33.90\00:26:36.51
And then I
started looking around
00:26:36.54\00:26:38.15
and I noticed that there
was enough people calling in
00:26:38.18\00:26:40.31
from hearing these
sounds in various areas
00:26:40.34\00:26:42.59
that they were contacting
their local newscasters
00:26:42.62\00:26:45.35
and they were actually
being reported on the news.
00:26:45.38\00:26:48.14
What I like to
do is share with you
00:26:48.17\00:26:50.09
a couple of news clips
00:26:50.12\00:26:51.84
and some actual
footage of these strange
00:26:51.87\00:26:53.93
and mysterious sounds
and see what you think.
00:26:53.96\00:26:56.56
This county have also
received numerous calls
00:27:03.21\00:27:05.67
about a large boom
and the ground shaking
00:27:05.70\00:27:08.33
just like some folks
were describing out here.
00:27:08.36\00:27:13.07
Some strange noises
heard around the world
00:27:13.10\00:27:14.88
in the last few
weeks has people buzzing.
00:27:14.91\00:27:17.52
It sounds like a noise straight
out a science fiction flick.
00:27:17.55\00:27:20.87
People around the world
00:27:20.90\00:27:22.04
and here at home have reported
hearing some bizarre noises.
00:27:22.07\00:27:25.76
That right Baltic sound
if we've ever heard one.
00:27:25.79\00:27:28.97
And what could that possibly be?
00:27:29.00\00:27:31.45
Somebody shut the door.
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It sounds supernatural.
00:27:32.62\00:27:34.92
So what do you think
these strange sounds might be?
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We would like to hear from you.
00:27:37.74\00:27:39.15
You can email us at
lmnstudio@gmail.com.
00:27:39.18\00:27:43.70
Or if you're really
creative you can create
00:27:43.73\00:27:45.40
a YouTube response
and email us the link,
00:27:45.43\00:27:48.31
then we'll air that
on our next program.
00:27:48.34\00:27:50.28
You can also contact
us at Laymen Ministries,
00:27:50.31\00:27:52.62
that's 414 Zapada
Road, St. Maries ID 83861.
00:27:52.65\00:27:57.97
Or contact us on the
worldwide web at www.lmn.org.
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