Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: MIQ
Program Code: MIQ000007
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00:05 >> WILMA RUDOLPH FACED ADVERSITY FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. 00:08 SHE WAS BORN PREMATURELY, ONLY WEIGHED FOUR AND A HALF POUNDS. 00:12 THEN HER MOTHER NEEDED TO NURSE HER THROUGH ONE CHILDHOOD 00:15 ILLNESS AFTER ANOTHER. 00:17 BY THE TIME SHE WAS FOUR YEARS OLD, SHE CONTRACTED DOUBLE 00:20 PNEUMONIA AND POLIO, LEAVING HER LEFT LEG SERIOUSLY DEFORMED AND 00:25 PARALYZED. 00:26 THE DOCTOR SAID SHE'D PROBABLY NEVER WALK AGAIN WITHOUT 00:28 ASSISTANCE. 00:29 BUT WILMA HAD GREAT COURAGE AND BELIEF THAT GOD HAD A SPECIAL 00:33 PLAN FOR HER LIFE, SO SHE PERSISTED. 00:36 BY THE TIME SHE WAS SEVEN, THEY FITTED HER WITH A LEG BRACE SO 00:39 THAT SHE COULD LIMP AROUND. 00:41 SHE SHOCKED THE DOCTORS WHEN TWO YEARS LATER SHE THREW AWAY HER 00:44 BRACE AND BEGAN TO WALK. 00:46 BY THE TIME SHE WAS 13, SHE WALKED WITH RHYTHM. 00:49 THEN SHE DECIDED SHE WANTED TO RUN. 00:52 PEOPLE TOLD HER NOT TO TRY BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT IT'D BE 00:54 PATHETIC. 00:55 FIRST FEW RACES SHE ENTERED, SHE ALWAYS CAME IN LAST. 00:59 BUT GRADUALLY SHE CREEPED [SIC] HER WAY UP UNTIL SHE WON HER 01:01 FIRST RACE. 01:03 AND FROM THEN ON SHE WON EVERY RACE SHE ENTERED... 01:06 ULTIMATELY WINNING THREE OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALS, RUNNING. 01:11 MAKES YOU WONDER IF WILMA FACED SO MUCH ADVERSITY AT THE 01:14 BEGINNING BECAUSE GOD HAD A SPECIAL PLAN FOR HER LIFE AND 01:17 SHE NEEDED THAT. 01:19 YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING, WHAT IS GOD'S PLAN OR WILL FOR YOUR 01:22 LIFE? 01:23 THAT'S WHY IT'S GOOD THAT YOU'RE HERE FOR M.I.Q. 01:26 ♪ ♪ >> HOW CAN I KNOW THAT GOD IS 01:31 LISTENING? 01:32 >> DID I COME FROM APES OR PREHISTORIC SLUDGE? 01:35 >> CAN THE BIBLE BE TRUSTED? 01:37 >> WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE? 01:39 >> COLLEGE? 01:39 >> CARS? 01:41 >> A JOB? 01:42 >> CAN I EVER BE PERFECT? 01:43 >> CAN I MAKE A DIFFERENCE? 01:45 [QUESTIONING SIMULTANEOUSLY] >> ...OR WHAT? 01:55 >> ANNOUNCER: "M.I.Q.": YOUR QUESTIONS, GOD'S ANSWERS. 02:00 >> NOW WHAT? 02:01 WHAT DOES GOD WANT YOU TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE? 02:03 FIND OUT NEXT. 02:05 JOIN US NOW FOR M.I.Q. 02:08 >> HELLO EVERYBODY, THIS IS M.I.Q.: MOST IMPORTANT 02:12 QUESTIONS. 02:13 WELCOME TO OUR AUDIENCE HERE IN CEDAR LAKE, MICHIGAN, AND ALSO 02:16 THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE WATCHING ON THE VARIOUS TELEVISION CHANNELS, 02:19 AND ALSO THOSE WATCHING ONLINE. 02:21 THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AGAIN. 02:23 AND A SPECIAL WELCOME TO THE MORE THAN 1,000 REGISTERED SITES 02:27 PARTICIPATING IN THIS LIVE, INTERACTIVE SEARCH FOR TRUTH. 02:32 AND IF YOU HAVE A BIBLE QUESTION, WE'D LIKE TO HEAR FROM 02:34 YOU. 02:35 YOU CAN GO TO THE M.I.Q. TEENS WEBSITE, MIQTEENS.COM, AND YOU 02:39 CAN POST YOUR QUESTION ONLINE, OR YOU CAN SEND US A TEXT 02:43 MESSAGE. 02:44 THE NUMBER TO SEND YOUR TEXT 02:46 MESSAGE TO IS 760-523-2287. 02:52 NOW FRIENDS, WE HAVE A VERY 02:53 IMPORTANT PROGRAM THIS EVENING. 02:55 I'M JUST DELIGHTED THAT YOU'RE ALL HERE. 02:58 I'D ALSO LIKE TO REMIND YOU OF THE RESOURCE THAT WE'VE BEEN 03:00 TALKING ABOUT AT EACH EVENING, AND THAT IS THE M.I.Q. TEENS 03:04 ANSWER BOOK. 03:06 I HOPE THOSE HERE IN OUR LIVE AUDIENCE, YOU'VE ALL RECEIVED 03:08 YOUR BOOK. 03:09 AND THOSE WATCHING, YOU CAN GO TO THE M.I.Q. TEENS WEBSITE, AND 03:12 YOU CAN FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THIS GREAT RESOURCE. 03:15 IT'S FILLED WITH FASCINATING FACTS, SCRIPTURE AND ANSWERS 03:19 THAT MAKE SENSE. 03:21 SO GO TO MIQTEENS.COM TO LEARN MORE. 03:25 WELL, IT'S TIME FOR OUR THEME SONG. 03:27 I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS TO PLEASE COME FORWARD. 03:30 IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE SONG, BETHANY WILL BE HAVING OUR 03:33 OPENING PRAYER. 03:34 PLEASE STAND. 03:36 ♪ ♪ ♪ WHEN I GAZE UP AT THE 03:45 COUNTLESS STARS ♪ ♪ OR ON AN ENDLESS SEA ♪ 03:51 ♪ MY MIND MAY SWIM WITH QUESTIONS ♪ 03:55 ♪ BEWILDERING TO ME ♪ ♪ BUT THEN I READ THE BIBLE ♪ 04:03 ♪ AND SEEK YOUR FACE IN PRAYER ♪ 04:07 ♪ I'M SATISFIED REMEMBERING ♪ ♪ YOUR LOVING GRACE AND CARE ♪ 04:15 ♪ WHATEVER QUESTIONS I MAY HAVE ♪ 04:19 ♪ WHETHER GREAT OR SMALL ♪ ♪ I KNOW JESUS DIED TO SAVE 04:26 ME ♪ ♪ AND THAT HE FORGAVE ME ♪ 04:31 ♪ JESUS IS THE ANSWER TO IT ALL ♪ 04:39 ♪ JESUS IS THE ANSWER TO IT ALL ♪ 04:46 ♪ I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS ♪ ♪ I WONDER IN MY HEART ♪ 04:54 ♪ HOW SOMETHING COMES FROM NOTHING ♪ 04:57 ♪ WHEN DID FOREVER START ♪ ♪ WHY CAN'T I SEE YOUR GLORY ♪ 05:05 ♪ WHERE IS THE PROMISED LAND ♪ ♪ I TRUST THAT YOU WILL LEAD ME 05:12 THERE ♪ ♪ IF I CAN TAKE YOUR HAND ♪ 05:17 ♪ WHATEVER QUESTIONS I MAY HAVE ♪ 05:22 ♪ WHETHER GREAT OR SMALL ♪ ♪ I KNOW JESUS DIED TO SAVE 05:28 ME ♪ ♪ AND THAT HE FORGAVE ME ♪ 05:33 ♪ JESUS IS THE ANSWER TO IT ALL ♪ 05:41 ♪ JESUS IS THE ANSWER TO IT ALL ♪ 05:50 >> DEAR HEAVENLY FATHER, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS 05:52 OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE AND TO LEARN MORE ABOUT YOU. 05:55 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SENDING YOUR SON TO DIE FOR US. 05:58 AND I PRAY THAT YOU WILL SEND YOUR HOLY SPIRIT TO BE WITH US 06:00 IN THIS MEETING. 06:01 PLEASE BE WITH PASTOR DOUG AS HE PREACHES AND JUST GIVE HIM 06:05 WORDS TO SPEAK. 06:06 WE THANK YOU SO MUCH. 06:07 IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 06:09 ♪ ♪ >> PASTOR DOUG: AMEN. 06:14 HEY, YOU KNOW, I SAW SOMETHING EXCITING TODAY. 06:16 SOMEONE BACK AT THE AMAZING FACTS OFFICE SENT US AN EMAIL 06:19 WITH SOME STATISTICS. 06:21 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GOT THAT, BUT IT HAD -- THE QUESTIONS THAT 06:25 WERE COMING IN, WHERE THEY'RE COMING FROM, AND I NEVER GOT TO 06:28 THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST. 06:29 BUT IT'S ALL OVER THE WORLD: AUSTRALIA, AND CANADA, AND 06:32 NEW GUINEA, SOUTH AFRICA. 06:35 JUST EVERYWHERE. 06:37 KOREA. 06:38 AND OF COURSE, MOST OF THESE PLACES THERE'S AN 06:40 ENGLISH-SPEAKING POPULATION, BUT WE WANNA WELCOME OUR FRIENDS WHO 06:43 ARE WATCHING ALL OVER THE WORLD FOR THE MOST IMPORTANT 06:46 QUESTIONS. 06:47 WE'RE DEALING WITH SOME OF THE PERTINENT AMAZING FACTS FOR 06:51 TEENS. 06:52 AND WE'RE VERY GLAD THAT YOU'RE HERE. 06:54 WE HAVE A LOT TO COVER TONIGHT, SO... 06:56 >> ALRIGHT, WELL, LET'S GET TO OUR QUESTIONS FOR THIS EVENING. 06:59 AND I THINK WE'RE READY FOR THE FIRST ONE. 07:04 >> HEY, MY NAME'S BRANDON, AND MY QUESTION IS, IS IT OKAY TO 07:07 GET A MEMORIAL TATTOO OF SOMEONE THAT JUST PASSED AWAY? 07:15 >> WELL, I THINK I CAN UNDERSTAND THE HEART OF THIS 07:17 QUESTION. 07:18 THOSE OF YOU WHO WATCHED AN EARLIER PROGRAM, WE GOT A 07:20 QUESTION ABOUT TATTOOS. 07:22 WE SHOWED YOU THAT VERSE IN LEVITICUS WHERE IT SAYS THAT YOU 07:25 SHOULDN'T MAKE ANY CUTTINGS IN YOUR FLESH OR BE TATTOOED FOR 07:28 GOD SAYS, "I AM HOLY." 07:29 OUR BODIES ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 07:32 WELL, WHAT IF THE TATTOO HAS SOME AFFECTIONATE IDEA BEHIND 07:37 IT? 07:37 OR IT'S TO REMEMBER SOMEBODY? 07:39 OR IF IT'S SOMEBODY THAT YOU LOVE? 07:42 OR IF YOU PUT -- YOU KNOW, A LOT OF SAILORS PUT, 07:43 "MOM." 07:44 I MEAN, IS IT OKAY TO TATTOO "MOM" WITH A HEART? 07:47 WELL, YOU KNOW, IF THE LORD SAYS DON'T DO SOMETHING, THEN YOU 07:51 DON'T DO IT. 07:52 THERE'S A LOT OF EXAMPLES WHERE PEOPLE THINK, "WELL, BUT CAN'T 07:55 YOU SANCTIFY IT AND THEN MAKE IT OKAY?" 07:58 GOD SAYS YOUR BODIES ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 08:00 THERE'S A THOUSAND WAYS TO SHOW YOUR LOVE FOR PEOPLE, YOUR 08:04 RESPECT FOR PEOPLE OR TO MEMORIALIZE SOMEBODY OTHER THAN 08:07 STABBING INK UNDER YOUR SKINS. 08:10 SO IF GOD SAYS DON'T DO IT; THAT DOESN'T CHANGE. 08:14 >> ALRIGHT, WELL PASTOR DOUG, WE HAVE A QUESTION THAT CAME IN 08:17 FROM, I BELIEVE, WEST VIRGINIA. 08:19 WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT THAT NOW. 08:21 ♪ ♪ 08:38 >> ANOTHER GOOD QUESTION. 08:40 WELL, OF COURSE, JESUS SAID VERY PLAINLY TO HIS DISCIPLES, "I'M 08:43 GOING TO BE BETRAYED, I'M GONNA BE BEATEN, I'LL BE MISTREATED, 08:46 I'LL BE CRUCIFIED AND I'LL RISE THE THIRD DAY." 08:50 WELL, WHEN JESUS WAS ON THE CROSS AND THE FATHER WITHDREW 08:54 HIS PRESENCE FROM JESUS, THEN, I BELIEVE, THAT THE LORD FELT 08:59 THAT THE WEIGHT OF SIN WAS SO AWFUL HE MAY HAVE HAD MOMENTS 09:02 WHERE HE WAS WONDERING, "HOW COULD I EVER BE RECONCILED TO A 09:06 HOLY GOD?" 09:07 OF COURSE, HIS FINAL WORDS ON THE CROSS WERE THOSE OF 09:10 VICTORY -- "FATHER, INTO YOUR HANDS I COMMAND MY SPIRIT" -- 09:13 AND WORDS OF FAITH. 09:15 BUT IT WAS A TREMENDOUS STRUGGLE FOR JESUS AND THE FATHER TO BE 09:18 SEPARATED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ETERNITY. 09:21 AND SO IT WAS A TREMENDOUS SACRIFICE ALSO FOR HIM TO SUFFER 09:25 THE WAY HE DID. 09:26 KEEP IN MIND JESUS DID NOT SUFFER LIKE YOU AND I SUFFER. 09:30 HE WAS SUFFERING FOR THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD. 09:33 HE DIDN'T SUFFER AS A MAN; HE SUFFERED AS GOD WHO HAD 09:36 BECOME MAN. 09:37 SO YOU AND I CANNOT EVEN COMPREHEND WHAT JESUS WENT 09:41 THROUGH. 09:41 I DON'T KNOW TOO MANY PEOPLE THAT PERSPIRE BLOOD, BUT THE 09:44 AGONY OF WHAT HE WENT THROUGH AND JUST THE WEIGHT OF THE SINS 09:49 AND THE SEPARATION FROM THE FATHER WAS, I THINK, THE MOST 09:51 PAINFUL FOR HIM. 09:54 >> ALL RIGHT, WELL, I THINK WE'RE READY FOR THE NEXT 09:55 QUESTION. 09:59 >> HI, MY NAME IS DELANEY. 10:01 MY QUESTION IS, HOW DO WE FIGURE OUT THE BALANCE OF OUR LIVES? 10:03 WHERE DO WE FIT GOD IN WITH OUR SOCIAL LIFE AND OUR SCHOOL LIFE 10:06 AND ALL THE OTHER THINGS GOING ON AND MAKE IT HEALTHY FOR US? 10:11 >> GOOD QUESTION. 10:13 HOW DO WE FIT GOD INTO OUR LIVES WHEN, ESPECIALLY -- 10:17 WE ARE LIVING IN THE BUSIEST AGE IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. 10:20 THERE'S SO MUCH GOING ON. 10:21 THERE'S SO MUCH STRESS. 10:22 SO MANY THINGS THAT CAN DISTRACT OUR ATTENTION. 10:25 HOW DO YOU FIT GOD IN? 10:26 HAVE YOU SEEN THE ILLUSTRATION BEFORE WHERE A PERSON TAKES A 10:29 JAR AND THEY'VE GOT ALL THESE ROCKS, AND GRAVEL AND SAND? 10:33 AND IF YOU PUT IN THE SAND AND THE GRAVEL FIRST, YOU'LL NEVER 10:37 GET THE BIG ROCKS IN. 10:39 YOU GOTTA PUT THE BIG ROCKS IN FIRST, AND THEN YOU CAN PUT IN 10:42 THE SAND AND GRAVEL AND SHAKE THEM DOWN. 10:44 THE IDEA IS NOT, WHERE DO WE MANAGE TO SHAKE AND SQUEEZE GOD 10:48 INTO OUR LIVES? 10:50 THAT'S A COMMON MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE. 10:52 HOW DO WE FIT GOD IN? 10:53 I'D LIKE TO SUGGEST YOU START WITH GOD AT THE FOUNDATION, THAT 10:57 HE IS THE FIRST THING YOU PUT IN. 10:59 AND THEN YOU SAY, "WHERE DO I FIT IN THE OTHER THINGS?" 11:03 SEE, GOD NEEDS TO BE JUST SATURATED IN EVERY FIBER OF OUR 11:07 LIVES. 11:09 DANIEL'S A GREAT EXAMPLE IN THE BIBLE. 11:11 KING DAVID, PSALM 55 HE SAID, "MORNING, EVENING AND AT NOON 11:14 WILL I PRAY." 11:15 AND SO THEY JUST SPENT THEIR LIVES WALKING WITH THE LORD. 11:19 YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE KEY: IS WHEN WE LEARN TO HAVE SUCH A 11:21 CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD, IT'S NOT LIKE, "OKAY, 11:24 WELL, DO I HAVE TIME TO SQUEEZE GOD IN THIS DAY OF THE WEEK?" 11:27 OR "CAN I TAKE A FEW MINUTES THIS DAY FOR PRAYER?" 11:30 IT'S HAVING AN ATTITUDE OF BEING IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD, THAT 11:33 JESUS IS HERE NOW. 11:35 HE'S ALWAYS WITH YOU. 11:36 AND THAT'S SOMETHING YOU SHOULD NURTURE, AND IT GETS BETTER WITH 11:39 PRACTICE. 11:40 PRACTICE LEARNING THAT GOD IS ALWAYS THERE AND WALKING WITH 11:44 HIM. 11:45 ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD; GOD TOOK HIM TO HEAVEN. 11:48 NOAH WALKED WITH GOD. 11:50 THE LORD'S LOOKING FOR ANOTHER GENERATION THAT WILL WALK WITH 11:52 HIM. 11:53 >> WELL, THANK YOU, PASTOR DOUG. 11:55 I THINK WE HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION. 12:00 >> HI, I'M SAM. 12:02 MY QUESTION FOR DOUG BATCHELOR IS HOW DO I KNOW WHAT GOD WANTS 12:05 ME TO DO WITH MY LIFE? 12:09 >> PASTOR DOUG: THAT IS A GREAT QUESTION. 12:10 IF IT'S OKAY, I'M GONNA USE THAT QUESTION TO SEGUE INTO OUR 12:14 PRESENTATION FOR TONIGHT. 12:16 BECAUSE TONIGHT'S LESSON IS DEALING THE SUBJECT OF THE WILL 12:19 OF GOD. 12:20 AND SO, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR QUESTIONS. 12:23 WANNA REMIND THEM OF THE WEBSITE ONE MORE TIME? 12:25 >> THE WEBSITE IS MIQTEENS.COM, OR YOU CAN SEND US YOUR TEXT 12:29 QUESTIONS AT 760-523-2287. 12:34 THANK YOU, PASTOR DOUG. 12:35 >> THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. 12:36 I JUST DATED MYSELF. 12:37 I SAID THE FAX NUMBER INSTEAD OF THE TEXT NUMBER. 12:40 TONIGHT IS GOING TO BE DIFFERENT FROM EVERY OTHER NIGHT IN THAT 12:43 WE HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH OUR MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION ANSWER 12:46 BOOK. 12:47 AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SUBJECT THAT SPECIFICALLY DEALS WITH, 12:50 "HOW DO I KNOW GOD'S WILL FOR MY LIFE?" 12:53 I'D LIKE TO RECOMMEND THAT EVERYBODY LOOKS AT THIS BECAUSE 12:56 IN THIS LESSON, WE TAKE YOU THROUGH A SERIES OF BIBLICAL 13:00 STEPS ON HOW YOU CAN DETERMINE GOD'S WILL FOR YOUR LIFE. 13:04 AND FIRST OF ALL, HIS WORD, CHRISTIAN COUNSEL, PRAY FOR 13:09 THE GUIDANCE OF HIS SPIRIT, LOOK FOR PROVIDENTIAL OPENINGS, GOD 13:13 WILL OPEN DOORS, FIND OUT WHAT YOUR GIFTS ARE. 13:16 AND SO, THERE IS A NUMBER OF STEPS IN THERE, AND I JUST 13:20 WANTED TO BRIEFLY TOUCH ON THAT. 13:22 NOW, TONIGHT I'M GOING TO DO SOMETHING THAT IS A LITTLE 13:25 DIFFERENT IN THAT I'M GONNA SHARE WITH YOU MY PERSONAL STORY 13:29 IN HOW I BECAME A CHRISTIAN AND JUST THE JOURNEY THE LORD 13:32 BROUGHT ME ON, AND I HOPE YOU'LL PRAY FOR ME AS I DO. 13:36 BECAUSE WHENEVER YOU DO THIS, WHERE YOU TAKE SOME TIME AND 13:38 TALK ABOUT YOURSELF, THERE'S ALWAYS THE RISK THAT YOU'LL BE 13:43 LIFTING UP OR GLORIFYING YOURSELF. 13:45 THAT'S ALWAYS SO NATURAL TO DO THAT. 13:48 ALWAYS KIND OF MAKE THINGS BIGGER THAN LIFE. 13:51 IT'S LIKE THE NINE-YEAR-OLD GIRL THAT DID A BOOK REPORT ON 13:54 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND SHE WANTED TO MAKE A GOOD IMPRESSION. 13:57 SO WHEN SHE STOOD BEFORE THE CLASS TO INTRODUCE HER BOOK 13:59 REPORT SHE SAID, "ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS BORN AT A VERY EARLY 14:03 AGE IN A LOG CABIN HE BUILT WITH HIS OWN HANDS." 14:08 AND SO THINGS CAN KINDA GET BIGGER THAN LIFE. 14:10 AND I'D LIKE TO BEGIN WITH A SCRIPTURE. 14:13 AND THIS IS FOUND IN 1 PETER 2:9. 14:17 THE BIBLE SAYS, "YOU ARE A CHOSEN GENERATION, A ROYAL 14:23 PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION." 14:26 HIS OWN SPECIAL PEOPLE. 14:28 "THAT YOU SHOULD PROCLAIM THE PRAISES OF HIM WHO CALLED YOU 14:32 OUT OF DARKNESS INTO HIS MARVELOUS LIGHT." 14:36 AND I JUST LIKE TO BEGIN BY THANKING THE LORD. 14:38 HE HAS BEEN SO GOOD TO ME AND CALLED ME OUT OF GREAT DARKNESS 14:42 INTO HIS MARVELOUS LIGHT. 14:44 AND HE HAS A SPECIAL PLAN FOR EVERYBODY'S LIFE. 14:48 I BELIEVE HE'S KNOCKING ON THE DOORS OF EVERY PERSON. 14:51 NOW, MANY PEOPLE THINK -- OH, AND BY THE WAY, THE STORY 14:55 THAT I'M SHARING I'M JUST GONNA CONDENSE WHAT'S FOUND IN THE 14:57 BOOK. 14:58 SOME OF YOU HAVE MAYBE HEARD ABOUT THE THE RICHEST CAVEMAN 15:01 BOOK. 15:02 AND WE'RE JUST VERY PLEASED: IT'S IN ABOUT, I THINK 13, 14 15:05 LANGUAGES RIGHT NOW, AND GOD HAS REALLY BLESSED THE TESTIMONY. 15:09 AND WE PRAISE HIM FOR THAT. 15:11 BUT I'M JUST GONNA HAVE ABOUT 40 MINUTES TO SHARE WITH YOU A 15:15 SUMMARY OF WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE. 15:18 BY THE WAY, THE TESTIMONY'S NOT OVER YET; I'M STILL LIVING IT, 15:21 AND I HOPE THERE'S MORE TO COME. 15:24 EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE HAPPY. 15:26 AND PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS IN MANY DIFFERENT 15:29 PLACES. 15:31 YOU KNOW, MUCH OF THE WORLD THINKS THAT HAPPINESS COMES FROM 15:34 FAME AND FORTUNE. 15:36 "IF I COULD HAVE MORE MONEY, I'D BE HAPPY. 15:38 IF I COULD BE MORE POPULAR, BETTER LOOKING, I'D BE HAPPY." 15:41 AND GOD PLACED ME IN A VERY INTERESTING FAMILY WHERE I SAW 15:45 FIRSTHAND THIS IS JUST NOT TRUE. 15:48 UNUSUAL PARENTS. 15:50 MY MOTHER AND FATHER WERE DIAMETRIC OPPOSITES. 15:54 THIS IS ONE OF THE PROBABLY BEST PICTURES I'VE GOT OF MOM AND 15:56 DAD. 15:58 HE WAS A REPUBLICAN; SHE WAS A DEMOCRAT. 16:01 HE WAS A REDNECK; SHE WAS BORN IN NEW YORK CITY. 16:04 JUST TOTALLY OPPOSITE. 16:06 SHE WAS A WOMEN'S LIBBER; HE WANTED A WIFE THAT WOULD STAY 16:09 HOME AND JUST COOK. 16:10 AND IT WAS AMAZING THEY EVER GOT TOGETHER, BUT THEY DID. 16:15 AND MAYBE I'LL TALK ABOUT DAD FIRST TO START WITH. 16:19 HE WAS BORN IN OKLAHOMA. 16:22 LIVED THERE DURING THE DEPRESSION. 16:24 WAS VERY POOR WHEN HE WAS YOUNG. 16:26 AND SOME OF YOU HEARD ABOUT THE DUST BOWL TIMES. 16:29 HIS FATHER DIED WHEN HE WAS SEVEN YEARS OLD, LEAVING HIM 16:33 WITH THREE YOUNGER BROTHERS DURING THE DEPRESSION, AND HE 16:37 LEARNED TO WORK VERY HARD. 16:39 CAME TO CALIFORNIA LOOKING FOR WORK, ENDED UP LEARNING HOW TO 16:43 FLY, BECAME AN AVIATOR AND THEN WORLD WAR II BROKE OUT. 16:46 THEN HE BECAME A PILOT DURING WORLD WAR II AND A CAPTAIN. 16:49 HE WAS THERE D-DAY AND THAT'S ANOTHER WHOLE STORY. 16:52 BUT AFTER THE WAR, HE BEGAN TO BUY AND SELL AIRPLANES. 16:55 AND HE'S A VERY SHREWD BUSINESSMAN AND STARTED MAKING A 16:58 LOT OF MONEY AND BECAME A VERY SUCCESSFUL EXECUTIVE. 17:03 EVENTUALLY HAD HIS OWN COMPANIES, LEASING COMPANIES. 17:08 THIS ONE SAYS, "AIRLINE EXECUTIVE, DECEMBER, 1981." 17:12 MADE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. 17:15 AT ONE POINT, HE OWNED TWO AIRLINES. 17:17 HE WAS FRIENDS WITH HOWARD HUGHES, KIRK KERKORIAN, WHO 17:21 OWNED THE -- WELL, HE OWNED CHRYSLER FOR A 17:23 WHILE, M.G.M. GRAND AND SOME OTHER THINGS. 17:27 HERE'S A NEWSPAPER CLIPPING: 17:31 HE STARTED -- I WAS BORN IN BURBANK. 17:33 HE STARTED IN CALIFORNIA AND THEN HE MOVED OUT TO MIAMI, 17:36 FLORIDA FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BASE THAT WAS DEVELOPING AND 17:39 DOWN TO SOUTH AMERICA. 17:40 AND HE LIKED TO LIVE IN THE FAST LANE. 17:43 DAD RACED CARS. 17:44 HE HAD HIS OWN RACECARS. 17:45 HE'D GO OUT RACING AND HE KNEW THE VARIOUS RACERS. 17:48 THIS IS WHEN HE WAS MUCH OLDER. 17:50 HE HAD ALL THE TOYS THAT MILLIONAIRES HAVE. 17:53 WE HAD A HOUSE RIGHT ON THE WATER. 17:56 WE HAD A YACHT IN THE BACKYARD. 17:57 OF COURSE MY NAME IS BATCHELOR, SO HE NAMED THE YACHT THE 18:00 BATCHELOR PARTY, WHICH WOULD SEEM APPROPRIATE. 18:03 AND I JUST THREW THIS IN BECAUSE THIS IS ACTUALLY PHOTOGRAPHED 18:06 INSIDE THE LIVING ROOM. 18:08 IT WAS REALLY NICE. 18:10 AND WE LIVED ON AN ISLAND, WELL, AT LEAST WHEN I LIVED WITH DAD. 18:15 THIS IS A GOOGLE PICTURE. 18:16 I ADDED THIS RECENTLY. 18:17 THESE ARE CALLED THE SUNSET ISLANDS IN MIAMI BEACH. 18:19 THAT TOP ISLAND THERE WAS SUNSET ISLAND NUMBER ONE, AND DAD 18:22 LIVED AT THE TOP OF IT. 18:23 WE LIVED RIGHT ON THE BAY THERE IN MIAMI. 18:25 AND WE HAD THREE BOATS IN OUR BACKYARD. 18:28 AND SO, DAD HAD A LOT OF MONEY. 18:30 AND HAD A LEARJET. 18:32 HERE'S ONE PICTURE I SNAPPED OF -- 18:35 BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THAT'S ME. 18:36 HAVEN'T CHANGED A BIT, HAVE I? 18:39 AND THAT'S MY STEPMOTHER. 18:41 THAT WAS DAD'S WIFE NUMBER THREE. 18:43 SHE USED TO BE MISS KENTUCKY. 18:44 VERY NICE LADY. 18:45 SO DAD HAD ALL THE TOYS. 18:47 HE HAD A LOT OF MONEY. 18:49 HE KNEW THE PRESIDENTS. 18:51 AND HAPPINESS DOES NOT COME FROM THE ABUNDANCE OF THINGS 18:55 THAT YOU POSSESS. 18:56 NOW, JUST TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE IDEA OF WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT I 18:59 THINK MOST OF YOU KNOW THIS NEXT PERSON I'M GONNA PUT ON THE 19:01 SCREEN. 19:04 SOME OF YOU KNOW A FEW YEARS AGO DONALD DIVORCED, I THINK IT WAS 19:07 WIFE NUMBER TWO, IVANA. 19:09 AND BECAUSE SHE HAD SIGNED A PRENUPTIAL AGREEMENT, SHE ONLY 19:12 GOT $14 MILLION. 19:14 WELL, WHEN BETTY DIVORCED MY DAD, BECAUSE SHE HAD SIGNED A 19:20 PRENUPTIAL AGREEMENT, SHE ONLY GOT $17 MILLION. 19:24 IT WAS THE LARGEST DIVORCE SETTLEMENT IN FLORIDA'S HISTORY. 19:28 AND SO, HE HAD A LOT OF MONEY. 19:30 AND WHEN I WAS WITH DAD WE WERE EXPOSED TO ALL THAT. 19:34 HAPPINESS DOES NOT COME FROM MONEY. 19:37 HE WAS SUCCESSFUL IN BUSINESS. 19:39 HERE'S A PAPER FROM -- THIS IS FRONT PAGE OF MIAMI HERALD 19:43 BUSINESS SECTION, 1992. 19:45 AND YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO READ THAT; I'LL TRY AND READ IT TO 19:47 YOU. 19:48 "AT 71, AVIATION PIONEER GEORGE BATCHELOR ISN'T READY TO 19:51 DESCEND. 19:52 HE RUNS ONE OF MIAMI'S MOST SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSES. 19:55 HE PILOTS JETS, RACES CARS, WATER SKIS, AND IS SOON TO WED 19:59 A BRIDE, AGE 29." 20:02 AND HE WAS 71. 20:03 I'LL TELL YOU, IT WAS REALLY STRANGE IN OUR HOME. 20:06 I MEAN, HERE WE ALREADY HAD A WHOLE LITTER OF KIDS. 20:11 AND JUST THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A SECOND. 20:13 NOW, MY WIFE'S SIX YEARS YOUNGER THAN ME. 20:17 MY FATHER, WHEN HE MARRIED WIFE NUMBER FOUR -- AND THAT WASN'T 20:20 THE LAST OF IT -- MY FATHER'S MOTHER-IN-LAW WAS YOUNGER THAN 20:25 ME. 20:28 AND HE WAS 71. 20:30 MY STEPMOTHER WAS YOUNGER THAN MY WIFE. 20:34 AND SHE HAD A BROTHER WHO WAS 11. 20:38 SO HERE MY FATHER IS 71, HE'S GOT A BROTHER-IN-LAW THAT'S 11. 20:43 I TELL YOU, IT WAS REALLY WEIRD. 20:44 [LAUGHTER] AND I'M SURE SHE MARRIED HIM FOR 20:47 HIS GOOD LOOKS AND HIS WINNING DISPOSITION. 20:50 [LAUGHTER] 20:53 SORRY TO BE CYNICAL. 20:54 AND THIS IS THE INSIDE PART OF THAT STORY, MIAMI HERALD, "AT 20:58 71, BATCHELOR GOING ON 16." 21:01 SO THAT JUST HELPS YOU UNDERSTAND AT LEAST HALF OF MY 21:03 D.N.A. 21:04 AND HERE'S A PICTURE THAT I'VE GOT -- I THINK THIS IS ONE OF 21:06 THE ONLY PICTURES I'VE GOT. 21:07 THAT'S MY BROTHER FALCON, ON THE LEFT. 21:09 MY DAD NAMED US AFTER AIRPLANES. 21:12 I WAS NAMED "DOUGLAS," AFTER THE D.C. CRAFT, McDONNELL DOUGLAS', 21:15 D.C. CRAFT. 21:17 AND MY POOR BROTHER WAS NAMED FALCON. 21:18 CAN YOU IMAGINE GROWING UP WITH THE NAME "FALCON BATCHELOR?" 21:20 HE REALLY GOT TEASED A LOT. 21:22 HE HAD CYSTIC FIBROSIS AND SO HE REALLY STRUGGLED. 21:25 HE HAD FLAMING RED HAIR. 21:26 I DIDN'T HAVE ANY HAIR, HE HAD FRECKLES AND BROWN EYES. 21:29 I HAVE BLUE EYES. 21:29 THE SAME MOM AND DAD; JUST WE DIDN'T LOOK A LOT ALIKE. 21:33 THAT WAS HIS WIFE SANDY, AND THAT'S MY DAD, WHO I THINK HAD 21:36 ALREADY STARTED DRINKING AT THAT POINT, AND THAT WAS WIFE NUMBER 21:39 FOUR THERE. 21:41 AND SHE DID HAVE CONNECTIONS THOUGH, BECAUSE SHE MANAGED TO 21:44 GET DAD IN TO VISIT WITH POPE JOHN PAUL THE SECOND. 21:47 AND IF YOU'RE WILLING TO MAKE A TWO MILLION-DOLLAR DONATION, YOU 21:50 CAN GET A PICTURE WITH THE POPE ALSO. 21:53 SO, YOU KNOW, HE KNEW THE DIFFERENT PEOPLE AND HE HAD A 21:57 LOT OF MONEY. 21:58 BUT HE WASN'T VERY HAPPY. 22:00 MATTER OF FACT, HE WOULD DRINK HIMSELF TO SLEEP EVERY NIGHT. 22:03 HERE'S A PICTURE OF KAREN. 22:04 AND THAT WAS THE SAME DAY THAT WE TOOK THAT FORMER PICTURE WITH 22:08 MY BROTHER. 22:08 MY DAD JUST HAD SO MUCH STRESS FROM HIS WORK, KAREN'S A 22:11 PHYSICAL THERAPIST AND SHE WAS TRYING TO WORK SOME OF THE KNOTS 22:14 OUT FOR DAD. 22:15 BUT MONEY DOESN'T MAKE A VERY GOOD FOUNDATION FOR YOUR LIFE. 22:20 EVEN THOUGH HE HAD THE YACHT, THE ROLLS ROYCE AND THE JET AND 22:25 ALL THE MONEY, HE DRANK HIMSELF TO SLEEP EVERY NIGHT, AND I SAW 22:29 THAT. 22:29 AND HE WAS WORK, WORK, WORK. 22:31 HE NEVER HAD TIME FOR THE FAMILY. 22:33 NOW, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN THEN, YOU'VE GOT MY MOM. 22:37 AND MOM WAS VERY DIFFERENT FROM DAD. 22:41 MOM WAS FROM A JEWISH BACKGROUND; DAD WAS FROM A 22:44 BAPTIST BACKGROUND. 22:45 THEY BOTH PRETTY MUCH WERE ATHEIST OR AGNOSTIC BY THE TIME 22:48 THEY MET. 22:49 AND, THAT'S A PICTURE OF MY MOM AND MY BROTHER AND I. 22:53 AND MOM WAS VERY TALENTED. 22:55 EVEN THOUGH SHE DIDN'T HAVE A LOT OF FORMAL EDUCATION, SHE 22:59 USED TO WRITE SONGS AND SHE COULD SING AND SHE TAUGHT 23:02 HERSELF TO PLAY A COUPLE OF INSTRUMENTS. 23:04 AND SHE BEGAN WRITING SONGS AT 18 OR 19 FOR SOME FAMOUS PEOPLE. 23:08 SHE USED TO WRITE FOR ELVIS PRESLEY AND SHE WOULD WRITE, SHE 23:12 WROTE SONGS FOR FRANK SINATRA, AND SHE BEGAN TO GET INVOLVED IN 23:15 SHOW BUSINESS. 23:16 SHE WAS A SMALL PART ACTRESS, BUT PROBABLY HER GREATEST 23:19 SUCCESS CAME, SHE WAS EVEN IN THE MOVIE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 23:22 LITTLE PART. 23:23 YOU GOTTA GO, "THERE'S MOM!" 23:25 KIDS ALWAYS SAY, "WHERE'S GRANDMA?" 23:26 "THERE SHE IS." 23:28 BUT MOST OF WHAT SHE DID WAS NOT ONLY WRITING SONGS AND HOSTING 23:32 PROGRAMS, SHE WAS THE FILM CRITIC. 23:35 SHE WAS THE PRESIDENT OF THE FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION IN 23:38 BEVERLY HILLS, AND SHE ALSO WAS THE FILM CRITIC FOR GOOD MORNING 23:42 AMERICA. 23:43 AND IT GAVE YOU A LOT OF POWER. 23:45 AND SHE KNEW A LOT OF PEOPLE IN HOLLYWOOD AND THEY KNEW HER. 23:49 BECAUSE IF YOU SAY A MOVIE IS SUCCESSFUL, THE STUDIOS MAKE A 23:53 LOT OF MONEY. 23:54 IF YOU SAY, IN WRITING, THE MOVIE IS JUST NOT ANY GOOD, THEY 23:57 LOSE MILLIONS. 23:58 AND SO THEY WERE VERY AFRAID OF MOM, AND THEY WOULD SEND HER 24:00 GIFTS AND FREE TRIPS AND FREE RESTAURANTS AND MOM KNEW HOW TO 24:06 EXPLOIT THAT ALL TOO. 24:07 AND I'VE JUST GOTTA, I TELL PEOPLE THIS AND I THOUGHT, 24:10 "WELL, I BETTER THROW SOME PICTURES IN," SO HERE'S A COUPLE 24:12 OF QUICK PICTURES OF SOME PEOPLE YOU MAY... RECOGNIZE. 24:16 HERE'S MOM AND MOHAMMED ALI IN YOUNGER DAYS. 24:19 MATTER OF FACT, MOST OF THESE PICTURES ABOUT 25 YEARS OLD. 24:22 HERE'S MOM WITH A YOUNGER SYLVESTER STALLONE. 24:25 THE NEXT ONE IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES BECAUSE I WAS THERE 24:28 THAT DAY, IS MOM WITH THE THREE STOOGES. 24:30 NOW, THAT'S THE ORIGINAL MOE AND LARRY ON THE RIGHT, AND THEY HAD 24:33 A SUBSTITUTE CURLY THAT FILLED IN FOR A PROGRAM. 24:36 MOM WROTE A MUSICAL THAT WAS ON. 24:38 AND THEN, WHAT DO WE GOT NEXT? 24:39 MOM, I THINK, WITH JIMMY STEWART. 24:41 SOME OF YOU REMEMBER THAT FAMED ACTOR. 24:44 HERE'S A PICTURE OF MOM HAVING DINNER WITH BOB HOPE. 24:46 AND WE PUT ALL THESE JUST IN BLACK AND WHITE TO KIND OF MAKE 24:50 THEM FIT. 24:51 NOW, SHE'S STILL ACTING TODAY, I BELIEVE. 24:53 THIS IS A PICTURE OF MOM WITH SALLY FIELD. 24:56 I THINK MOST OF US KNOW THE DIRECTOR AND ACTOR, CLINT 24:59 EASTWOOD. 25:01 AND -- NOW, I DIDN'T KNOW ALL THESE PEOPLE. 25:04 WE KNEW SOME OF THEM. 25:05 SOME OF THEM WERE ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS THAT WOULD COME OVER TO 25:07 OUR HOUSE. 25:07 HERE'S MOM WITH PAUL NEWMAN. 25:09 AND PAUL ALSO RACED CARS. 25:10 I THINK DAD KNEW HIM. 25:12 AND HERE'S MOM WITH DUSTIN HOFFMAN. 25:14 AND SO, SHE KNEW ALL THESE PEOPLE IN HOLLYWOOD, BUT YOU 25:17 KNOW, WHEN MOM FINALLY GOT HER FINAL ILLNESS, AND WE WENT TO 25:22 SEE HER AT THE HOSPITAL... 25:24 NOBODY WAS THERE BUT KAREN AND I AND GRANDMA AND GRANDPA. 25:28 PEOPLE JUST, IT WAS SO SHALLOW, IT WAS SUCH AN ARTIFICIAL WORLD 25:31 AND BASICALLY, SHE DIED ALONE. 25:34 PEOPLE DON'T CARE. 25:35 FAME IS SO FLEETING, AND IT'S SUCH A CUTTHROAT INDUSTRY. 25:39 WELL, I GREW UP SURROUNDED BY THAT AND I COULD QUICKLY SEE 25:42 PEOPLE WEREN'T HAPPY. 25:43 FAME DIDN'T BRING HAPPINESS. 25:46 MONEY DIDN'T BRING HAPPINESS. 25:47 AND I BEGAN TO WONDER, "WHERE DOES HAPPINESS COME FROM?" 25:50 SO I STARTED SEARCHING. 25:51 NOW, YOU KNOW, I WAS BORN IN BURBANK BUT MOVED TO NEW YORK 25:56 CITY, AND THAT'S WHERE I GREW UP. 25:58 AND I THINK ABOUT SIX YEARS OLD, WE MOVED TO MANHATTAN, ONE OF 26:02 THE BIGGEST CITIES OF THE WORLD, WE LIVED RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF 26:04 THE CITY, 51ST STREET, 81ST STREET. 26:07 AND I WAS EXPOSED TO A LOT OF THINGS THAT PROBABLY... 26:13 NOBODY SHOULD BE EXPOSED TO, AND AT A VERY EARLY AGE, BECAUSE 26:15 MOM WAS SO BUSY WITH HER CAREER, MY BROTHER AND I JUST KIND OF 26:19 TOOK CARE OF OURSELVES A LOT OF THE TIME. 26:22 AND I GOT INTO SO MUCH TROUBLE -- I THINK IT'S BECAUSE 26:24 I WANTED MY PARENTS' ATTENTION -- THAT I WENT TO 14 26:28 DIFFERENT SCHOOLS, BUT I ONLY GRADUATED THE NINTH GRADE. 26:33 AND I DID GO BACK AND GET A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA AND THEN I WENT 26:35 BACK AND TOOK SOME COLLEGE, SO I'M NOT TRYING TO GIVE YOU ANY 26:37 IDEAS, BUT THAT ALL CAME LATER. 26:40 MY PARENTS WOULD ALWAYS SEND US OFF TO SUMMER CAMP, AND JUST 26:44 ABOUT EVERY SUMMER, STARTING VERY YOUNG. 26:47 WASN'T I CUTE? 26:48 AND NO, THAT'S NOT A TOUPEE THAT I'M WEARING THERE. 26:51 OH, OR THEY'D SEND US TO BOARDING SCHOOL, BECAUSE DAD WAS 26:55 SO BUSY MAKING MONEY AND MOM WAS SO BUSY WITH HER CAREER THAT WE 26:58 JUST SORT OF GOT FARMED OUT EVERY YEAR. 27:00 AND I WENT TO, AMONG THE 14 SCHOOLS I WENT TO, I WENT TO 27:04 MILITARY SCHOOL, AND HERE'S A PICTURE OF NEW YORK MILITARY 27:08 ACADEMY. 27:08 MATTER OF FACT, I WENT A COUPLE YEARS BEFORE DONALD TRUMP 27:10 GRADUATED. 27:11 I JUST MISSED HIM. 27:12 HE WENT TO THE SAME SCHOOL. 27:13 AND FIRST MILITARY SCHOOL I WENT TO IN CALIFORNIA, I WAS FIVE 27:17 YEARS OLD. 27:18 BLACK FOX MILITARY ACADEMY. 27:20 AND THEN I WAS IN AND OUT OF SCHOOLS BECAUSE I WAS IN 27:23 TROUBLE, ALL THE TIME, BECAUSE I THINK I WAS JUST LOOKING FOR MY 27:26 PARENTS' RECOGNITION. 27:29 I WENT TO JEWISH SCHOOLS, CATHOLIC SCHOOLS, MANY PUBLIC 27:32 SCHOOLS. 27:34 I EVEN WENT TO A SCHOOL WHERE THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO RULES. 27:37 YOU'RE THINKING, "OH THAT WOULD BE PRETTY NEAT." 27:39 SCHOOL CALLED "PINEHENGE." 27:40 YOU CAN EVEN FIND IT ONLINE. 27:42 IT WAS AN EXPERIMENTAL SCHOOL WHERE THEY SAID, "YOU KNOW, 27:45 KIDS, IF YOU JUST DON'T GIVE THEM ANY RULES, AND LET THEM 27:47 FIND THEMSELVES, THEY'LL LEARN WHAT THEY NEED TO LEARN AND 27:49 THEY'LL REALLY DISCOVER THEMSELVES," AND I'D GOTTEN INTO 27:52 SO MUCH TROUBLE THAT ONCE MY MOM CALLED MY DAD -- I'D BEEN 27:56 ARRESTED -- AND SHE SAID, "HE NEEDS TO EXPRESS HIMSELF, 27:59 GEORGE; HE NEEDS THIS SPECIAL SCHOOL." 28:01 SO THEY SENT ME TO THE SCHOOL. 28:02 AND THEY REALLY HAD NO RULES. 28:04 YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO WAKE UP -- BOARDING SCHOOL. 28:07 CO-ED DORMS. 28:09 I'M TELLING YOU, THIS WAS JUST WAY OUT THERE. 28:12 AND THERE WAS ALMOST NO RULES. 28:14 THE ONLY RULES -- THEY HAD THREE RULES. 28:16 YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO WAKE UP IF YOU DIDN'T WANT TO. 28:17 DIDN'T HAVE TO GO TO MEALS. 28:18 YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO GO TO CLASS. 28:21 AT THE END OF THE YEAR, YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE ANY GRADES, BUT 28:23 THAT WAS UP TO YOU. 28:24 YOU JUST DO WHAT YOU FEEL LIKE. 28:26 THREE RULES WERE: NO FIGHTING, NO SEX, NO DRUGS. 28:30 AND NOBODY PAID ATTENTION TO THE THREE RULES. 28:33 IT WAS THE MOST CRAZIEST THING THAT YOU COULD EVER IMAGINE. 28:36 WELL, WHAT DIDN'T HELP THINGS WAS I DIDN'T HAVE THE BEST 28:40 EXAMPLES AT HOME. 28:42 NOW, BECAUSE MOM WAS IN SHOW BUSINESS, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF 28:45 PEOPLE IN SHOW BUSINESS USE DRUGS. 28:47 I THINK EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT. 28:49 AND MOM WAS NOT IMMUNE TO THAT. 28:51 NOT ONLY DID SHE SMOKE CIGARETTES AND DRINK, BUT SHE 28:54 DID OTHER THINGS. 28:55 AND I REMEMBER ONE TIME, I WAS 13 YEARS OLD, AND -- ACTUALLY 29:00 IT WAS BEFORE THAT -- AND MOM SAID, "DOUG, I KNOW YOU'RE GOING 29:03 TO BE EXPOSED TO THIS EVENTUALLY OUT ON THE STREETS OF NEW YORK. 29:08 I'D JUST ASSUME YOU DID IT AT HOME, WHERE I CAN KEEP YOU OUT 29:09 OF TROUBLE," AND SHE ROLLED A JOINT AND SMOKED IT WITH ME. 29:14 AND THEN IT GOT TO BE WHERE IT WAS MORE AND MORE FREQUENT. 29:15 AND SO IT WAS PRETTY COMMON: TWO OR THREE TIMES A WEEK, MOM 29:19 AND I WOULD SMOKE POT AND EAT ICE CREAM AND WATCH TV. 29:23 OR HASHISH. 29:25 AND -- NOW, MY BROTHER, HE WENT TO LIVE WITH DAD IN FLORIDA 29:28 BECAUSE OF HIS LUNG DISEASE. 29:30 WHEN HE'D COME AND VISIT, HE'D SAY, "THIS ISN'T FAIR. 29:32 YOU WON'T LET ME SMOKE POT." 29:34 SHE SAYS, "IT'S BAD FOR YOUR LUNGS," BUT SHE WAS A LOVING 29:36 MOTHER, SO SHE WOULD MAKE MARIJUANA OR HASHISH COOKIES FOR 29:39 MY BROTHER. 29:40 [LAUGHTER] AND ONE TIME, MY BROTHER AND I 29:42 TOOK THEM TO A SCHOOL PARTY AND GAVE THEM TO THE TEACHERS. 29:45 [LAUGHTER] IT'S TRUE. 29:50 MOM WAS A GOOD COOK. 29:51 WE SAID, "THEY'RE ORGANIC." 29:52 [LAUGHTER] SO, BUT I WAS GETTING INTO LOTS 29:57 OF TROUBLE, AND YOU KNOW, WE'RE LAUGHING NOW, BUT IT WAS 30:00 PRETTY SAD BECAUSE I GREW UP MOSTLY BELIEVING IN ATHEISM. 30:04 AND I DIDN'T THINK THERE WAS A GOD. 30:07 AND EVEN THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS I WENT TO, THEY WERE TEACHING 30:09 ATHEISM, AND I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, "MONEY DOESN'T BRING 30:12 HAPPINESS. 30:15 FAME DOESN'T BRING HAPPINESS." 30:16 I KNEW KIDS THAT WERE IN SHOW BUSINESS THAT WERE TALENTED, 30:21 YOUNG, TWICE AS SMART AS I AM, COULD SING, COULD DO ANYTHING. 30:26 AND THEY WERE SO DISCOURAGED, THEY LOCKED THEMSELVES IN A 30:29 GARAGE, TURNED ON THE CAR AND KILLED THEMSELVES. 30:31 AND EVERYBODY SAID, "THEY HAD MONEY, THEY HAD TALENT, THEY HAD 30:35 LOOKS." 30:37 AND THEY WERE SO EMPTY, THEY KILLED THEMSELVES. 30:39 THAT HAPPENED TO SO MANY PEOPLE THAT I BEGAN TO THINK, "WHAT'S 30:42 THE PURPOSE OF LIFE? 30:44 NOBODY'S HAPPY. 30:46 EVERYBODY'S STRIVING FOR SOMETHING, YOU JUST DIE, YOU 30:49 TURN INTO FERTILIZER. 30:50 WHY NOT GET IT OVER WITH?" 30:52 AND I REMEMBER AS FAR BACK AS SEVEN, I BEGAN TO THINK, SEVEN 30:54 YEARS OLD, "WONDER WHAT WOULD BE THE BEST AND FASTEST WAY TO KILL 30:58 YOURSELF." 30:59 BY THE WAY, YOU KNOW A LOT OF TEENAGERS, THEY'RE THE HIGHEST 31:02 PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE THAT COMMIT SUICIDE. 31:05 AND MORE GIRLS ATTEMPT SUICIDE THAN BOYS. 31:09 BUT MORE BOYS SUCCEED. 31:10 AND I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S BECAUSE YOU KNOW, GIRLS MAYBE 31:14 JUST TAKE PILLS OR SOMETHING AND BOYS LIKE JUMP IN FRONT OF 31:16 A TRAIN. 31:17 MAYBE THE TECHNIQUES THAT THEY USE. 31:20 BUT FOR THE GIRLS, IT MAY BE A CRY FOR HELP, BUT IT IS SERIOUS 31:24 BUSINESS. 31:25 AND I BELIEVE THERE'S A CONNECTION BETWEEN BELIEVING 31:27 THAT YOU'VE JUST EVOLVED AND THERE IS NO PURPOSE TO LIFE, AND 31:31 YOU'RE JUST GONNA DIE AND THAT'S THE END OF IT... 31:33 AND SUICIDE. 31:34 THAT'S HOW I FELT. 31:35 I THOUGHT, "WHY NOT GET IT OVER WITH? 31:36 I'M UNHAPPY. 31:37 KILL YOURSELF, GO TO SLEEP. 31:39 NO MORE TROUBLES." 31:40 WHEN I LIVED IN NEW YORK CITY, I REMEMBER SEVERAL TIMES, I'D GO 31:44 TO THE ROOF. 31:45 I OFTEN HEARD ABOUT PEOPLE THAT WERE JUMPING OFF BUILDINGS IN 31:48 NEW YORK OR JUMPING OFF THE BRIDGE, AND I'D STAND ON THE 31:51 EDGE OF... THIS BUILDING, 20 STORIES HIGH, I'D PUT MY TOES 31:55 OVER THE EDGE, I USED TO PLAY A GAME. 31:57 AND I'D TRY AND SEE HOW FAR OUT I COULD LEAN BEFORE I FELT MY 32:00 CENTER OF GRAVITY. 32:02 AND I, IT WAS LIKE I WAS FLIRTING WITH DEATH, BECAUSE I 32:05 WANTED TO END IT, BUT SOMETHING HELD ME BACK. 32:07 AND YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS I KNOW THAT HELD ME BACK WAS, I 32:10 THOUGHT, "WHAT IF I LIVE THROUGH IT AND I'M JUST ALL SMASHED UP?" 32:15 AND I THOUGHT, "I DON'T WANNA BE CRIPPLED; I WANT TO DIE." 32:17 I HEARD ABOUT PEOPLE THAT JUMPED AND LIKE LANDED ON A CAR AND 32:19 LIVED THROUGH IT, BUT THEY'RE ALL MANGLED. 32:21 "SO I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WHEN I DO IT, THAT'S IT." 32:24 AND THEN I KNEW MY MOTHER TOOK SLEEPING PILLS, AND SO ONE DAY I 32:29 THOUGHT, "YOU KNOW" -- I WAS IN TROUBLE AT SCHOOL. 32:31 GOSH, I WAS IN TROUBLE A LOT. 32:33 AND YOU KNOW WHAT'S REALLY STRANGE? 32:36 ONE THING I WANT TO DO IS I WANTED TO KILL MYSELF TO TRY TO 32:38 GET MY PARENTS' ATTENTION. 32:39 IT'S KINDA DUMB THOUGH, ISN'T IT? 32:41 BECAUSE I THOUGHT, "I WANT TO SEE THEM AT MY FUNERAL." 32:43 BUT I'D BE DEAD; I WOULDN'T SEE IT. 32:45 AND I REMEMBER I WENT TO MY MOTHER'S BEDROOM ONE TIME. 32:48 SHE TOOK SLEEPING PILLS, AND I DECIDED -- I WAS IN TROUBLE, SHE 32:51 WAS OFF AT SOME PARTY, MY BROTHER WAS GONE. 32:53 I FELT SO LONELY, I THOUGHT, "I JUST WANT TO GO TO SLEEP AND 32:57 NEVER WAKE UP." 32:58 HAVE YOU EVER FELT THAT WAY? 33:00 "I JUST WANT TO GO TO SLEEP AND NEVER WAKE UP." 33:03 AND I WENT INTO THE BATHROOM AND I SEARCHED THROUGH HER MEDICINE 33:05 CABINET, AND I FOUND THIS BIG BOTTLE OF PILLS AND IT DIDN'T 33:09 SAY "SLEEPING PILLS" ON IT. 33:11 YOU KNOW, THEY'RE NOT LABELED THAT WAY. 33:13 IT SAID, "VALIUM." 33:16 "TAKE ONE AT BEDTIME." 33:19 AND I FILLED MY HAND WITH THESE PILLS, AND I JUST GOT READY TO 33:22 SWALLOW THEM AND I JUST KEPT HESITATING. 33:24 YOU KNOW WHAT STOPPED ME? 33:25 I KEEP LOOKING ALL OVER THE LABEL FOR WHERE IT SAID, 33:27 "SLEEPING PILLS," AND I WAS LIKE 13 BACK THEN. 33:30 I THOUGHT, "WHAT IF VALIUM ARE LADY PILLS FOR THEIR PLUMBING OR 33:35 SOMETHING? 33:35 I'D JUST GET REALLY SICK." 33:37 I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS. 33:38 I THOUGHT, "THAT'D MAKE THINGS EVEN WORSE," AND SO I POSTPONED 33:40 MY SUICIDE AGAIN THAT DAY. 33:43 AND THEN SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY, I DECIDED, "WHY KILL 33:46 YOURSELF BY DOING SOMETHING BORING?" 33:48 I SAID, "WHY NOT HAVE AS MUCH EXCITEMENT--?" 33:50 I SAW AN OLD BEER COMMERCIAL. 33:51 IT SAID, "YOU ONLY GO... AROUND IN LIFE ONCE. 33:54 GET ALL THE GUSTO YOU CAN." 33:56 I WAS SO INFLUENCED BY TV, I THOUGHT, "THAT'S THE IDEA. 33:58 GET ALL THE GUSTO." 33:59 I WASN'T SURE WHAT THAT WAS, BUT I WANTED IT. 34:01 I SAID, "I'M JUST GONNA LIVE AS WILD AS I CAN AND I'LL DIE IN 34:06 THE PROCESS." 34:08 AND I REALLY WAS LIVING THAT WAY. 34:10 I WAS -- I STARTED GETTING INVOLVED IN MORE AND MORE DRUGS 34:14 NOW. 34:15 AND HERE'S A PASSPORT PICTURE YOU CAN SEE OF ME DURING THAT 34:19 AGE. 34:20 YEAH, I... 34:22 THAT'S ME. 34:24 AND I THINK I WAS 16 THERE, BUT AT THAT POINT, I HAD ALREADY 34:27 BEEN IN AND OUT OF JAIL FOR ABOUT FIVE TIMES. 34:31 DRINKING, DRUGS, STEALING. 34:34 I WOULD STEAL A CAR, AND THEN MY BUDDY AND I WOULD PULL UP TO THE 34:39 POLICE AND ASK FOR DIRECTIONS, AND WE'D HOPE WE'D GET INVOLVED 34:41 IN LIKE A HIGH-SPEED CHASE. 34:43 I MEAN, IT WAS REALLY CRAZY BACK THEN. 34:46 WHEN I WAS WITH MY DAD, IN MIAMI BEACH, HE LIVED ON THIS 34:49 EXCLUSIVE ISLAND. 34:50 I WENT BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN BOARDING SCHOOLS, MY DAD, MY 34:52 GRANDPARENTS IN CALIFORNIA. 34:54 WE KEPT GETTING BOUNCED ALL OVER THE PLACE. 34:56 LIVING WITH DAD, HE HAD A BAR IN THE HOUSE. 34:59 BETTER THAN SOME BARS YOU'D FIND IN A CITY AND WE COULD 35:04 DRINK WHENEVER WE WANTED. 35:05 IT WAS JUST AN OPEN ROOM. 35:07 AND HE HAD A BUTLER AND A MAID, AND THE BUTLER ALWAYS RESTOCKED 35:09 THE BAR, BECAUSE MY DAD DRANK A LOT. 35:11 MY DAD NEVER KNEW WHAT WAS MISSING BECAUSE THE BUTLER 35:13 RESTOCKED THE BAR. 35:15 SO WE'D WAIT UNTIL HE WENT TO WORK AND THE GARDENER AND PEOPLE 35:18 WERE OUT DOING THEIR THINGS, AND WE'D JUST GO MIX DRINKS. 35:21 SO I STARTED DRINKING AT AN EARLY AGE AND MORE OF MY 35:24 FRIENDS -- BY THE WAY, I'VE TRIED ALL KINDS OF DRUGS, BUT 35:27 MORE OF MY FRIENDS DIED FROM ALCOHOL THAN ALL OF THE OTHER 35:30 DRUGS PUT TOGETHER. 35:32 BUT WE BEGAN TO GET INVOLVED IN CRIME, WHICH WAS REALLY CRAZY 35:35 BECAUSE WHEN I WAS LIVING WITH DAD, I LIVED ON AN ISLAND WITH 35:38 ALL THESE MILLIONAIRES AND THEIR KIDS. 35:40 YOU EVER HEARD OF FIRESTONE TIRES? 35:43 I USED TO DATE AMY FIRESTONE. 35:47 AND YOU'VE HEARD OF HOOVER VACUUM CLEANERS? 35:51 USED TO PLAY WITH SANDY HOOVER, THE KID THAT LIVED ON THE 35:54 ISLAND. 35:55 AND I COULD NAME A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE; WE KNEW THESE KIDS. 35:58 WE'D GET BORED -- AND WE WERE PROBABLY JUST SPOILED -- WE'D 36:01 GET BORED AND WE'D SAY, "WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?" 36:02 "I DON'T KNOW." 36:03 "LET'S GO BREAK INTO SOMEONE'S HOUSE." 36:05 WE DIDN'T NEED ANYTHING, BUT JUST FOR THE THRILL, WE STARTED 36:08 BREAKING INTO ALL THESE MILLIONAIRES' HOUSES. 36:11 MATTER OF FACT, SOMETIMES WE'D BREAK INTO EACH OTHER'S HOUSES. 36:12 [LAUGHTER] "WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?" 36:14 "OH, WE BROKE INTO MY HOUSE LAST WEEK; LET'S BREAK INTO YOUR 36:16 HOUSE." 36:17 AND WE'D JUST DARE EACH OTHER. 36:19 AND -- NO, I'M SERIOUS. 36:19 IT WAS CRAZY. 36:20 WE'D SAY, "SEE IF YOU COULD..." 36:22 THEY'D SAY, "SOMEONE'S, IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE STILL AWAKE, DOUG. 36:24 I DARE YA TO BREAK IN AND TAKE --" WE'D JUST GET 36:27 SOMETHING, JUST TO PROVE THAT YOU WENT INTO THE HOUSE AND TOOK 36:30 SOMETHING. 36:31 I WANTED SO MUCH TO BE LOVED, I'D DO ANYTHING JUST TO GET MY 36:34 FRIENDS' APPROVAL. 36:37 AND THEY'D DARE ME TO JUMP OFF THE BRIDGE INTO BISCAYNE BAY. 36:41 I DID IT. 36:43 I'D DO ANYTHING, JUST TO TRY AND GET SOMEONE TO LIKE ME. 36:48 WELL, I GOT INTO A LOT OF TROUBLE AND WAS IN AND OUT OF 36:51 JAIL SEVERAL TIMES AND STARTED RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME. 36:56 BY THE TIME I WAS 15, I LEFT HOME. 37:00 AND I HITCHHIKED FROM FLORIDA. 37:03 DAD SAID, "I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH YOU ANYMORE," AND I 37:05 LEFT FLORIDA AND I WENT UP TO BOSTON. 37:07 AND I STARTED BREAKING INTO HOMES AND STEALING, STEALING 37:10 CARS, AND... 37:13 I HAD A PART-TIME JOB AS A SECURITY GUARD. 37:16 [LAUGHTER] THAT'S THE TRUTH. 37:18 I GOT A DRIVER'S LICENSE THAT SAID MY DATE OF BIRTH IS 1957, 37:24 AND I FORGED IT TO SAY, "1952." 37:27 AND I GOT A DRIVER'S LICENSE TO SAY I WAS OLDER THAN I WAS. 37:30 AND SO HERE I WAS 16 YEARS OLD NOW AT THIS POINT, AND I'M 37:33 WALKING AROUND BOSTON, CARRYING A WEAPON -- I'M A SECURITY 37:36 GUARD -- DURING THE NIGHT, AND DURING THE DAY, I'M STEALING 37:40 FROM PEOPLE. 37:41 BECAUSE YOU KNOW YOU WALK OUT OF SOMEONE'S HOUSE WITH THEIR TV, 37:43 AT NIGHT, YOU LOOK SUSPICIOUS. 37:45 BUT IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, THEY JUST THINK YOU'RE MOVING. 37:49 AND SO I STARTED DOING A LOT OF STEALING AND BURGLARY AND I MET 37:52 A FRIEND WHO WAS VERY RELIGIOUS. 37:54 AND HE WAS INTO ALL OF THESE EASTERN RELIGIONS. 37:58 AND HE WAS A SECURITY GUARD. 37:59 AND HE FOUND OUT WHAT I WAS DOING FOR MY PART-TIME JOB. 38:04 AND I SAID, "ARE YOU GONNA TURN ME IN, JERRY?" 38:07 HE SAID, "NO DOUG. 38:08 YOUR KARMA'S GONNA GET YOU." 38:10 I SAID, "WHAT'S THAT?" 38:11 HE SAID, "OH, EVERYTHING YOU DO COMES BACK." 38:13 I SAID, "NAH." 38:14 I SAID, "THERE'S NO GOD." 38:16 I SAID, "I STOLE THAT TELEVISION SET, I GOT RID OF IT: NOTHING 38:19 HAPPENED TO ME." 38:21 HE SAID, "YOU'LL FIND OUT." 38:23 AND A FEW DAYS AFTER HE TALKED TO ME, I WOKE UP IN MY APARTMENT 38:26 IN BOSTON, AND MY DOOR WAS AJAR, AND I LOOKED, AND MY TV WAS 38:30 GONE. 38:32 AND MY RADIO. 38:33 AND I WAS SO MAD, I SAID -- I CALLED THE POLICE RIGHT AWAY. 38:35 I WANTED THEM TO TRACK THOSE THIEVES DOWN. 38:38 AND THEN I BEGAN TO NOTICE, THAT EVERYTHING I DID SEEMED TO 38:41 BACKFIRE. 38:43 I'D STEAL SOMETHING, AND MY FRIENDS WERE ALL THIEVES: 38:45 THEY'D THEN STEAL IT FROM ME. 38:47 THERE IS NO HONOR AMONG THIEVES. 38:48 OR I WOULD STEAL SOMETHING WHILE I WAS DRINKING, AND I'D FORGET 38:52 WHERE I HID IT. 38:54 AND I'D... I'D SOBER UP AND I'D FORGET WHERE IT WAS. 38:58 AND THEN I WOULD STEAL SOMETHING, AND LIKE RISK MY LIFE 39:01 TO STEAL A STEREO OR SOMETHING. 39:03 I SPECIFICALLY REMEMBER ONE TIME, I JUST ABOUT GOT KILLED 39:05 STEALING A STEREO. 39:06 I GOT BACK, PLUGGED IT IN, I HAD STOLEN A BROKEN STEREO. 39:09 DIDN'T EVEN WORK. 39:10 AND I THOUGHT, "BOY, THIS IS, THIS CAN'T BE A COINCIDENCE. 39:13 EVERYTHING I'M DOING IS GOING WRONG." 39:15 I STARTED, KEPT THINKING ABOUT THE KARMA THING. 39:17 AND WHAT CONVINCED ME WAS A LITTLE THING. 39:20 I DIDN'T JUST QUIT STEALING COLD TURKEY; I TRIED TO TAPER OFF. 39:23 I USED THE PATCH. 39:25 AND I WENT TO SOMEONE'S HOUSE, AND WHILE THEY WERE OUT OF THE 39:29 KITCHEN, I LOOKED IN THEIR CUPBOARDS AND I SAW THAT THEY 39:31 HAD A BOX OF KRUSTEAZ INSTANT PANCAKE MIX. 39:36 AND IT WAS THE WHOLE WHEAT VARIETY, AND I WAS A HIPPIE BACK 39:39 THEN, AND EVEN THOUGH I WAS SMOKING AND DRINKING AND USING 39:41 DRUGS, I ONLY WANTED WHOLE WHEAT. 39:44 AND SO I STOLE THIS BOX OF WHOLE WHEAT PANCAKE MIX, AND IT WAS 39:48 STAMPED ON THE TOP, "$1.19." 39:50 THAT'S BACK BEFORE THE BAR CODE, AND IT WAS STAMPED $1.19. 39:55 AND SO, I THEN GOT BACK TO MY PLACE THE SAME DAY, AND SOME 40:01 FRIENDS HAD COME THROUGH MY PLACE AND THEY'D TAKEN MY BRAND 40:03 NEW JAR OF TANG INSTANT BREAKFAST DRINK, AND THEY DRANK 40:07 THE WHOLE JAR. 40:08 AND THERE BY THE EMPTY JAR WAS THE LID SITTING ON THE TABLE, 40:11 AND IT WAS STAMPED, $1.19. 40:14 AND I LOOKED AT THE PANCAKE MIX IN MY HANDS: $1.19. 40:17 I LOOKED AT THE LID, AND I THOUGHT, "CRIME DOESN'T PAY." 40:20 EVERYTHING I WAS DOING WAS BACKFIRING ON ME. 40:23 AND I BEGAN TO THINK, "THERE MUST BE A GOD." 40:26 AND ONCE I BELIEVED THERE WAS A GOD, I STARTED WONDERING, "WELL, 40:30 WHAT IS THE TRUE GOD?" 40:32 WELL, I WROTE OFF CHRISTIANS RIGHT AWAY AS, "AH, CHRISTIANS: 40:34 THEY'RE ALL HYPOCRITES," YOU KNOW. 40:37 MY MOTHER TOLD ME, "CHRISTIANS CAUSE ALL THE WARS." 40:40 AND YOU SURF THROUGH THE CHANNELS, AND IT WOULD SAY, "IN 40:42 IRELAND, THE PROTESTANTS ARE KILLING THE CATHOLICS." 40:45 THEY BOTH ARE SUPPOSED TO BE CHRISTIANS, AND THEY'RE BLOWING 40:47 EACH OTHER UP. 40:48 "AH, CHRISTIAN, I DON'T WANT TO BE A CHRISTIAN." 40:50 AND SO I BEGAN TO GET INTO SOME OF THE EASTERN RELIGIONS, LIKE 40:54 MY FRIEND JERRY WAS INTO: SHAKDI, THE SPIRITUAL SCIENCE 40:57 OF D.N.A. 41:00 AND I GOT INTO -- WELL, I ALREADY HAD SOME 41:03 BACKGROUND IN CATHOLICISM BECAUSE I WENT TO CATHOLIC 41:05 SCHOOLS. 41:06 AND MY MOTHER WAS JEWISH, SO I KNEW ABOUT THAT, BUT I WANTED TO 41:09 GET INTO SOME OF THESE EASTERN RELIGIONS. 41:11 I GOT INTO BUDDHISM AND I GOT INTO YOGA. 41:15 THAT'S WHERE YOU KINDA LOOK FOR GOD BY STANDING ON YOUR HEAD, 41:18 AND ALL I FOUND WAS MY HAIR FELL OUT WHEN I DID THAT. 41:21 [LAUGHTER] AND I TRAVELED AROUND THE 41:23 COUNTRY, TRYING TO FIND GOD. 41:25 I WAS HITCHHIKING AROUND WITH FRIENDS. 41:26 I WAS TRYING ALL THESE DIFFERENT RELIGIONS AND MIXING THEM ALL UP 41:28 TOGETHER. 41:29 WHEN I WAS LIVING IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ON THE STREETS, I 41:32 WENT TO A CHRISTIAN MISSION, BECAUSE THEY GIVE YOU A FREE 41:34 MEAL IF YOU LISTEN TO THEM PREACH. 41:36 AND I THOUGHT, "WELL THAT'S NOT SO BAD." 41:37 AND THEN I FOUND OUT THE HARE KRISHNAS ALSO GIVE YOU FREE FOOD 41:41 IF YOU LISTEN TO THEM DO THEIR SERVICE. 41:44 SO A FRIEND AND I WENT TO THE HARE KRISHNA SERVICE. 41:47 WE WERE REALLY HUNGRY THAT DAY. 41:49 AND THEIR SERVICE INVOLVED JUMPING UP AND DOWN WITH THE 41:52 DRUMS AND THE BASS, FOR IT SEEMED LIKE TWO HOURS. 41:57 AND ALL THEY SAID WAS, "HARE KRISHNA, HARE KRISHNA, KRISHNA 42:01 KRISHNA, HARE HARE. 42:02 HARE RAMA, HARE RAMA, RAMA RAMA, HARE HARE." 42:05 I NEVER FORGOT IT. 42:07 FOR TWO HOURS THEY DID THAT. 42:08 AFTER A WHILE I THOUGHT, "MAN I'M GOING TO THE BATHROOM." 42:10 I SNUCK OUT. 42:12 WHEN I CAME BACK, MY FRIEND JERRY, HE WAS STARTING TO GET 42:14 INTO IT. 42:15 I SAID, "HEY MAN, WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU? 42:16 THIS IS JUST HYPNOSIS." 42:18 AND ALL THAT JUMPING AROUND -- ALL THEY GAVE US WAS YOGURT AND 42:22 RAISINS. 42:24 AND I KNEW RIGHT THEN I WASN'T JOINING THAT RELIGION. 42:26 [LAUGHTER] SO I STARTED SEARCHING -- 42:28 NOW, ABOUT THIS TIME, MY DAD CAME BACK TO BOSTON -- I WAS UP 42:31 THERE -- TO VISIT ME. 42:32 HE SAID, "DOUG, YOU GOTTA GO BACK TO SCHOOL." 42:34 HE SAID, "YOU NEED AN EDUCATION." 42:37 MY BROTHER WAS SICK; HE KIND OF WANTED ME TO HELP TAKE OVER THE 42:39 BUSINESS. 42:41 HE SAID, "I FOUND A SCHOOL. 42:43 IT'S ON A BOAT. 42:45 SAILS AROUND THE WORLD." 42:46 MATTER OF FACT, IT WAS TWO BOATS. 42:48 AND UH -- IT'S CALLED FLINT SCHOOL 42:51 ABROAD. 42:53 AND HE SAYS, "THERE'S GIRLS. 42:54 YOU'LL SEE THE WORLD. 42:54 THERE'S SCUBA DIVING, WATER SKIING." 42:56 HE SAID, "YOU GOTTA GO BACK TO SCHOOL." 42:58 SO HE SOUNDED SO DESPERATE, I SAID, "ALL RIGHT." 43:01 SO HE TOOK ME RIGHT THERE -- I DON'T KNOW HOW HE DID IT, BUT 43:03 HE GOT A PASSPORT FOR ME IN LIKE 24 HOURS SOMEHOW. 43:07 YOU GOT MONEY, YOU CAN DO IT. 43:10 FLEW ME FROM BOSTON TO MILAN, ITALY. 43:13 WE DROVE TO GENOA WHERE THE SHIP WAS PARKED, AND HE PUT ME ON 43:15 THIS BOAT. 43:15 I GOT THERE LATE. 43:17 AND AFTER HE SMILED AND LEFT, I FOUND THAT HE TRICKED ME. 43:21 THIS SCHOOL WAS A VERY UNUSUAL, EXCLUSIVE SCHOOL FOR THE 43:24 CHILDREN OF MILLIONAIRES AND POLITICIANS, WHO WERE GETTING 43:27 MIXED UP IN VARIOUS CULTS OR DRUGS, TO GET THEM OUT OF THEIR 43:32 ENVIRONMENT, TO TRY TO INSULATE THEM AGAINST THESE THINGS. 43:35 AND THEY PUT THEM ON A BOAT AND THEY TAKE AWAY YOUR PASSPORT. 43:37 AND I WAS MAD, BECAUSE HERE I HAD BEEN LIKE AN ADULT, AND NOW 43:41 I'M BACK 16 AGAIN, AND I WAS 18. 43:43 JUST GOING AROUND THE WORLD BY MYSELF. 43:46 IT WAS AN INTERESTING SCHOOL. 43:47 WE WENT -- SAILED AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN. 43:49 INTERESTING THING WAS, THIS SCHOOL TAUGHT ATHEISM. 43:52 AND NOW I'M VERY RELIGIOUS. 43:54 I'M IN MY ROOM, I'M MEDITATING, TRYING TO BE AT ONE WITH MY 43:56 D.N.A. MOLECULES, AND EVERYBODY'S MAKING FUN OF ME. 43:59 AND THEY'RE SHOWING US FILMS OF DARWIN AND THEY WERE ALL TEASING 44:02 ME. 44:04 WELL, I LEARNED SOMETHING INTERESTING. 44:06 WE WERE SAILING FROM NORTHERN AFRICA ACROSS THE MEDITERRANEAN 44:09 TO SPAIN IN WINTER, CHRISTMAS. 44:12 MIDDLE OF THE WINTER, HALFWAY ACROSS, WE ENCOUNTERED A 44:16 TERRIBLE WINTER STORM. 44:17 YOU CAN READ ABOUT THIS IN THE BIBLE, THEY'VE GOT THESE STORMS: 44:20 ACTS 27. 44:22 AND WE THOUGHT THE WAVES WERE GONNA SWALLOW THE SHIP. 44:24 THEY WERE LIKE 25, 30 FEET TALL. 44:28 EVERYTHING WAS DISRUPTED IN THE BOAT. 44:30 THINGS WERE ALL FALLING; MATTRESSES, BOOKS, EVERYTHING 44:32 WAS EVERYWHERE. 44:33 THE MAIN SAIL RIPPED. 44:36 WATER WAS COMING IN. 44:38 EVERYBODY WAS SEASICK. 44:39 WE HAD THE PUMPS GOING. 44:41 CAPTAIN WAS SEASICK. 44:44 WHAT DO YOU THINK ATHEISTS DO WHEN THEY THINK THEY'RE GONNA 44:46 DIE? 44:47 IT WAS AMAZING. 44:49 NOBODY WAS GOING, "HARE KRISHNA, HARE KRISHNA." 44:51 [LAUGHTER] EVERYBODY WAS PRAYING, AND THEY 44:55 WERE MAKING PROMISES TO GOD THAT IF GOD WOULD JUST SPARE THEM -- 44:59 AND YOU KNOW WHAT? 45:00 THEY ALSO KNEW WHAT TO CONFESS. 45:01 THEY'RE CONFESSING THEIR SINS SAYING, "LORD I'LL NEVER DO IT 45:03 AGAIN." 45:04 INSTANTLY PEOPLE KNEW WHAT TO CHANGE. 45:06 AND I WAS DOING SOME PRAYING OF MY OWN. 45:08 I WASN'T GOING, "OM." 45:10 I WAS JUST CALLING OUT TO GOD SAYING, "PLEASE, SAVE US." 45:14 THERE'S NO ATHEISTS, THEY SAY, IN A FOXHOLE OR A STORM AT SEA. 45:19 WELL, WE SURVIVED THE STORM, AND I RAN AWAY FROM THAT SCHOOL 45:22 DURING CHRISTMAS BREAK. 45:25 AND NOW I DECIDED I WANTED TO FIND GOD THROUGH NATURE. 45:29 SO, I TOOK OFF. 45:30 I SOLD EVERYTHING I HAD TO MY BROTHER WHO ALWAYS WANTED TO 45:33 MAKE A GOOD DEAL. 45:34 I TOOK A BUS TO VIRGINIA, AND THEN I LOST ALL MY MONEY 45:38 DRINKING AND PLAYING POOL. 45:40 AND I GOT OUT ON THE HIGHWAY, HITCHHIKING. 45:43 I'M WEARING FLORIDA CLOTHING IN THE MIDDLE OF WINTER, AND I GET 45:46 STUCK IN OKLAHOMA... 45:48 AND IT WAS FREEZING COLD. 45:50 AND ALL I'VE GOT WAS A SHIRT LIKE THIS AND A REAL LIGHT 45:52 WINDBREAKER. 45:54 AND I STOOD ON THE HIGHWAY FOR HOURS -- I'VE HITCHHIKED ALL 45:58 OVER THE COUNTRY -- BEGGING FOR A RIDE. 46:02 AND SOMETIMES I'D GET SO DESPERATE, I'D GET ON MY KNEES 46:05 AND BEG FOR A RIDE. 46:06 AND YOU GET DEPRESSED. 46:07 YOU KNOW, THAT'S A LOT OF REJECTION. 46:09 YOU STAND THERE ON AN INTERSTATE, INTERSTATE 40, HOUR 46:11 AFTER HOUR. 46:12 YOU SEE PEOPLE GOING YOUR WAY. 46:13 YOU'RE SAYING, "CAN YOU HELP ME?" 46:15 AND WHEN THEY GO BY THEY'RE SAYING, "NO." 46:17 "CAN YOU HELP ME?" 46:18 "NO." 46:19 "NO, NO, NO, NO, NO." 46:20 AND AFTER HOURS OF THAT, AND YOU START FEELING... 46:23 [SIGHS] AND YOU'RE FREEZING. 46:25 EVERY TIME A TRUCK WENT BY I'D GO, "ONE, TWO, THREE." 46:26 THEN YOU TURN AROUND BECAUSE THREE SECONDS AFTER THE TRUCK, 46:29 THE WIND HITS YOU AND YOU GOT THE 60 BELOW ZERO WIND-CHILL 46:33 FACTOR. 46:34 AND I BECAME SO DESPERATE THAT I JUST PRAYED, AND I REALLY -- 46:39 I HAD SOME TIME TO PRAY. 46:40 AND I PRAYED, AND I ASKED GOD FOR FOUR THINGS. 46:43 AND I SAID, "LORD, I KNOW I'M A TERRIBLE PERSON. 46:46 I'M SELFISH AND DONE A LOT OF THINGS WRONG. 46:49 HURT A LOT OF PEOPLE." 46:50 I SAID, "WOULD YOU PLEASE GIVE ME SOME PURPOSE FOR LIVING?" 46:54 I SAID, "PLEASE HELP ME GET A RIDE TO WHERE I'M GOING." 46:59 I HAD 2,000 MILES TO GO. 47:01 I SAID, "PLEASE HELP ME GET SOME FOOD." 47:03 I WAS HUNGRY. 47:04 I LOST ALL MY MONEY. 47:06 I PRAYED FOR MONEY, WAS THE THIRD THING. 47:08 THE FOURTH THING, I PRAYED GOD WOULD GIVE ME A RIDE WITH 47:10 SOMEONE NORMAL. 47:11 [LAUGHTER] BECAUSE I KEPT GETTING PICKED UP 47:13 BY -- YOU THINK IT'S DANGEROUS TO PICK UP HITCHHIKERS? 47:17 I TELL YOU: IT'S DANGEROUS TO HITCHHIKE. 47:19 [LAUGHTER] AND I'D GET PICKED UP BY THESE 47:21 PEOPLE THAT WERE EITHER DRUNK, OR -- 47:24 SOME COLLEGE STUDENTS PICKED ME UP -- I WAS WITH A BUDDY ONE 47:27 TIME -- AND THEY WERE SMOKING SO MUCH POT THAT THEY CLOUDED 47:29 UP AND THEY COULDN'T SEE THE ROAD, AND THEY WENT ACROSS THE 47:32 MIDDLE OF THE ROAD INTO ONCOMING TRAFFIC ON AN 47:34 INTERSTATE. 47:35 [LAUGHTER] SCARED US HALF TO DEATH. 47:38 SOME OTHER DRUNK GUY SAID, "OH..." 47:40 HE'S DRIVING HIGHWAY 1 IN CALIFORNIA, WHERE THE CLIFFS, 47:42 YOU KNOW? 47:43 TWO LANES? 47:45 HE SAYS, "I CAN SEE IN THE DARK." 47:46 HE TURNED OFF HIS HEADLIGHTS TO IMPRESS US. 47:48 [LAUGHTER] I SAID, "LOOK AT THIS, THIS IS 47:50 MY STOP RIGHT HERE; THIS REDWOOD TREE IS WHERE I WAS GOING." 47:53 [LAUGHTER] SO I PRAYED FOR A RIDE WITH 47:55 SOMEONE NORMAL. 47:57 AS SOON AS I FINISHED PRAYING, THE NEXT VEHICLE STOPPED. 48:02 IT WAS A WHITE VAN. 48:04 THERE WAS A GUY IN THERE. 48:06 YOUNG GUY, ABOUT 22 YEARS OLD. 48:08 HE PICKED ME UP. 48:09 HE TOOK ME 2,000 MILES FROM OKLAHOMA TO THE DOOR OF WHERE I 48:13 WAS GOING IN CALIFORNIA. 48:15 I JUST PRAYED FOR A RIDE. 48:17 HE FED ME ALL THE WAY THERE. 48:19 I DIDN'T ASK HIM TO; HE JUST OFFERED EVERY TIME WE STOPPED. 48:22 HE GAVE ME $40 WHEN HE DROPPED ME OFF. 48:24 I DIDN'T ASK FOR IT. 48:26 I ALSO SHOULD MENTION I DID NOT ASK FOR HIM TO PREACH TO ME ALL 48:29 THE WAY FROM OKLAHOMA TO CALIFORNIA. 48:32 HE HAD RECENTLY ACCEPTED CHRIST, AND HE WAS SO EXCITED. 48:35 HE WAS NOT ONLY PREACHING TO ME. 48:36 HE WAS PREACHING TO THE GAS STATION ATTENDANT. 48:38 HE WAS PREACHING TO EVERYBODY ALL ALONG THE WAY. 48:40 THE WAITRESS IN THE RESTAURANT. 48:42 HE WAS JUST IN LOVE WITH THE LORD. 48:45 AND I THOUGHT, "HOW CAN THIS GUY BELIEVE THE BIBLE? 48:47 THE BIBLE'S A FAIRY TALE." 48:49 SO WHEN HE LET ME OFF, I DECIDED, "I'M GONNA FIND GOD IN 48:52 NATURE NOW." 48:54 HE LET ME OFF IN PALM SPRINGS. 48:56 I WENT UP TO A CAVE I HAD FOUND WHEN I WAS 15 GOING AROUND THE 48:58 COUNTRY. 48:59 I DECIDED -- AND THIS IS A PICTURE OF WHAT I LOOKED LIKE 49:02 BACK THEN. 49:03 MY BROTHER ACTUALLY CAME OUT AND VISITED ME ONE TIME AT THE CAVE. 49:06 AND I MOVED INTO A CAVE, WAY UP IN THESE DESERT MOUNTAINS, AND 49:09 WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH THESE PRETTY QUICK. 49:11 IT'S MOUNT SAN JACINTO; IT'S AN 11,000-FOOT MOUNTAIN IN SOUTHERN 49:14 CALIFORNIA. 49:15 ONE OF THE HIGHEST MOUNTAINS DOWN THERE. 49:17 I LIVED RIGHT WHERE THAT SHADOW IS NEAR THE BOTTOM. 49:19 IN THESE DESERT MOUNTAINS, THERE WAS A CREEK THAT RAN THROUGH 49:23 THIS ONE CANYON BEFORE IT WENT UNDERGROUND BY MY -- 49:26 MATTER OF FACT, YOU'VE HEARD OF PALM SPRINGS? 49:28 THE WATER FROM PALM SPRINGS RAN BY MY CAVE. 49:31 MATTER OF FACT, HERE'S THE VIEW. 49:33 LET ME SHOW YOU THIS JUST REAL QUICK. 49:35 AND THAT'S WHAT I'D SEE: I'D CLIMB FROM PALM SPRINGS UP TO MY 49:38 CAVE, UP TO THE TOP OF THE HILL AND THEN I'D HAVE TO GO BACK 49:41 DOWN TO THE CANYON, AND I HAD A CAVE RIGHT BY THE WATER. 49:45 AND I USED TO SWIM IN THE WATER THAT BOB HOPE DRANK. 49:50 ALL THE MOVIE STARS DOWN THERE IN PALM SPRINGS. 49:52 THAT USED TO GIVE ME SOME KIND OF FIENDISH SATISFACTION 49:54 WHENEVER I'D DIVE IN THE POOL OUTSIDE MY CAVE. 49:56 I THOUGHT, "ALL THOSE MILLIONAIRES DOWN THERE, I WANT 49:58 YOU TO KNOW I JUST TOOK A BATH IN YOUR SPRINGS." 50:01 [LAUGHTER] SO, I DON'T KNOW, THAT'S NOT 50:04 VERY NICE. 50:05 BUT -- SO I MOVED INTO THIS CAVE, AND THAT'S A PICTURE OF 50:08 THE INSIDE OF THE CAVE. 50:10 AND IT WAS MORE LIKE A BIG, OVERHANGING ROCK. 50:11 HAD A BEAUTIFUL POOL RIGHT OUTSIDE THE CAVE. 50:14 I HAD A CAT. 50:15 HE JUST SHOWED UP ONE DAY AND LIVED WITH ME FOR ABOUT A YEAR 50:17 AND A HALF. 50:18 CRYSTAL CLEAR WATER. 50:19 HIS NAME WAS STRANGER. 50:21 IT'S KIND OF NEAT. 50:21 HE'D GO DOWN MY SLEEPING BAG, AND HE'D PURR AT THE BOTTOM OF 50:23 MY FEET BEFORE I'D GO TO SLEEP AT NIGHT. 50:25 IT'S LIKE A LITTLE FOOT WARMER. 50:27 TO WAKE ME UP, HE'D PUSH ON MY FACE. 50:29 AND I'D OPEN UP THE SLEEPING BAG AND HE'D GO DOWN THERE AND 50:31 JUST... 50:32 [PURRS] [LAUGHTER] 50:35 AND OF COURSE, SOMETIMES HE'D BRING HOME A SQUIRREL AND EAT IT 50:37 ON MY SLEEPING BAG, SO IT WASN'T ALL GREAT. 50:40 BUT HERE'S A PICTURE OF ME, I GUESS, WHEN I WAS IN THE CAVE 50:44 WITH STRANGER. 50:46 I LIVED UP THERE FOR A YEAR AND A HALF. 50:50 AT ONE POINT I GOT ARRESTED AND SENT TO NEW MEXICO, AND THEN I 50:52 CAME BACK AGAIN. 50:54 BUT... I NEVER WORE ANY CLOTHES. 50:59 I WAS TRYING TO FIND GOD THROUGH NATURE. 51:01 I'D HIKE DOWN TO PALM SPRINGS ONCE OR TWICE A WEEK, AND I 51:05 WOULD PANHANDLE, OR I'D DIG IN THE DUMPSTER FOR FOOD. 51:10 I WAS TOO PROUD TO ASK MY FATHER FOR ANY HELP. 51:13 BY THE WAY, FIRST TIME I SAW FRIENDS DIGGING IN THE DUMPSTER, 51:16 IT WAS REVOLTING TO ME. 51:18 BUT I KEPT HANGING AROUND THOSE PEOPLE, AND PRETTY SOON YOU CAN 51:20 GET USED TO ANYTHING. 51:22 GOTTA PICK YOUR FRIENDS CAREFULLY. 51:25 MY DAD FOUND OUT -- HE HAD WORKED SO HARD TO TAKE 51:27 CARE OF US AND PROVIDE FOR US. 51:29 WHEN HE FOUND OUT FROM MY GRANDFATHER I WAS GETTING FOOD 51:31 OUT OF THE GARBAGE CAN, IT BROKE HIS HEART. 51:34 AND I'VE OFTEN THOUGHT, "I WONDER HOW OUR HEAVENLY FATHER 51:36 FEELS WHEN, INSTEAD OF GOING TO JESUS FOR HAPPINESS, WE GO TO 51:41 THE DUMPSTER OF THE DEVIL." 51:43 WELL, THE MIRACLE I DIDN'T TELL YOU IS WHEN I MOVED INTO THIS 51:45 CAVE UP THERE IN THE MOUNTAINS, THERE WAS A BIBLE IN THE CAVE 51:48 SOMEONE HAD LEFT THERE. 51:50 SOMEONE ASKED ME ONE TIME, "WAS IT A GIDEON BIBLE? 51:52 DID THE GIDEONS PUT IT THERE?" 51:54 I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT WAS VERY FUNNY. 51:55 THEY FIGURED HOTEL ROOMS AND CAVES, EVERYWHERE. 51:58 [LAUGHTER] AND -- BUT IT WAS A KING JAMES 52:01 VERSION. 52:03 AND IT WAS THERE FOR A WHILE, BUT EVENTUALLY I THOUGHT -- 52:06 I KEPT RUNNING INTO CHRISTIANS AND THEY ALWAYS SEEMED SO 52:09 CARBONATED AND -- "OH, DO YOU KNOW THE LORD? 52:12 HAVE YOU BEEN SAVED? 52:12 ARE YOU SANCTIFIED?" 52:13 AND I THOUGHT, "WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT?" 52:16 AND I FELT IGNORANT BECAUSE I'D NEVER REALLY READ THE BIBLE. 52:19 SO ONE DAY I DECIDED, "I'M GONNA READ THE BIBLE SO I CAN ARGUE 52:22 WITH THESE CHRISTIANS." 52:25 WELL, I'LL TELL YOU: IT'S A POWERFUL BOOK. 52:27 I STARTED READING; I GOT BOGGED DOWN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND A 52:30 FRIEND SAID, "YOU GOTTA GO TO THE NEW TESTAMENT." 52:32 SO EVERYDAY I USED TO MAKE BANANA BREAD, BECAUSE I'D GET 52:35 THE DAY-OLD BANANAS, AND I MADE MY OWN BREAD IN AN OVEN I'D 52:37 BUILT ON THE FIRE. 52:39 I'D EAT BANANA BREAD AND I'D READ THE BIBLE. 52:41 HAD A LOT OF TIME; I WAS A HERMIT. 52:44 I'D GO DAYS -- YOU EVER GO FIVE DAYS WITHOUT 52:46 SEEING ANOTHER HUMAN BEING? 52:47 I'D GO DAYS WITHOUT SEEING ANYBODY. 52:49 NO VOICE, NO TV, NO CELL PHONE, NO NOBODY. 52:52 I COULDN'T GET ALONG WITH ANYONE. 52:53 I DIDN'T THINK ANYONE CARED ABOUT ME. 52:55 I JUST WANTED TO RUN AWAY. 52:58 AND AFTER I GOT THROUGH MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE AND JOHN, THEN I WAS 53:02 FACED WITH THAT DILEMMA THAT C.S. LEWIS TALKS ABOUT. 53:05 JESUS IS -- I THOUGHT, "HE REALLY LIVED. 53:08 HE WAS EITHER A LIAR OR HE WAS A LUNATIC, OR HE WAS GOD BECOME 53:13 MAN. 53:14 HE WAS THE LORD." 53:16 AND YOU KNOW, I'D TRIED EVERYTHING ELSE. 53:18 I THOUGHT, "WHAT HAVE I GOT TO LOSE?" 53:21 SO UP THERE IN THE CAVE ONE TIME, I THOUGHT -- 53:23 I FELT SILLY DOING IT BECAUSE I DIDN'T REALLY EVEN KNOW HOW TO 53:24 PRAY. 53:26 GOT ON MY KNEES; I'D READ ENOUGH OF THE BIBLE TO GET AN IDEA OF 53:29 HOW IT WORKS AND... 53:31 I SAID, "LORD, I'M A BIG ZERO, AND IF YOU HAVE ANY PURPOSE FOR 53:36 MY LIFE, WOULD YOU PLEASE HELP ME?" 53:38 NOW, YOU GOTTA JUST GET THE PICTURE. 53:39 I MEAN, HERE I AM -- I'M RUNNING AROUND NAKED UP IN 53:42 THE MOUNTAINS, WITH A BEARD AND LONG HAIR, STEALING AND CURSING, 53:47 USING DRUGS, DRINKING, LYING. 53:48 I WAS VERY RELIGIOUS, BUT WAS VERY LOST, LIVING IMMORALLY. 53:54 AND I SAID, "LORD, WOULD YOU FORGIVE MY SINS" -- I WAS 17 53:57 YEARS OLD -- "AND GIVE ME SOME PURPOSE FOR LIVING?" 54:01 AND YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T SEE A FLASH OF LIGHTENING, BUT 54:05 EVERYTHING CHANGED THAT DAY. 54:08 ALL OF A SUDDEN, I FELT THIS PEACE COME INTO MY HEART, AND I 54:11 JUST KNEW IT WAS TRUE. 54:13 AND I BEGAN TO READ THE BIBLE AND TRIED THE THINGS THAT WERE 54:18 IN IT, AND IT WAS INCREDIBLE. 54:21 I REMEMBER ONE TIME I WAS DOWN WITH A FRIEND ON THE STREET AND 54:23 I SAID, "HEY, I JUST PRAYED -- I READ IN THE BIBLE THAT IF WE 54:27 PRAY AND ASK FOR FOOD THAT GOD'LL FEED US." 54:30 AND WE HAD NO FOOD. 54:32 AND SO I SAID, "LET'S PLAY AND LET'S PRAY" -- 54:35 I PLAYED THE FLUTE AND PANHANDLED -- 54:37 "AND LET'S SEE IF WE CAN GET $4.00. 54:39 HE SAID, "YOU'RE CRAZY." 54:40 I SAID, "OH, LET'S TRY IT." 54:41 AND WE PRAYED, AND WE STARTED PLAYING, AND THE FIRST LADY CAME 54:44 BY AND SAID, "OH, TODAY'S MY SON'S BIRTHDAY, HERE'S $4.00." 54:48 AND THINGS LIKE THAT KEPT HAPPENING. 54:50 ONE TIME I WENT TO A RESTAURANT WITH NO FOOD, AND I PRAYED AND 54:52 SAID, "LORD, I'M HUNGRY, BUT I HAVE NO MONEY." 54:54 THE WAITRESS COMES UP AND SAYS, "WHAT DO YOU WANT TO ORDER?" 54:56 I SAID, "I HAVE NO MONEY." 54:57 SHE SAID, "I'LL BUY YOUR FOOD TODAY." 55:00 I MEAN, I JUST -- ALL THESE THINGS, I THINK GOD 55:01 DID THAT FOR ME THEN SO I'D KNOW HOW REAL HE IS. 55:06 AND YOU KNOW, FROM THAT POINT TO THIS POINT, IT'S JUST BEEN... 55:09 IT'S BEEN A TORNADO OF ADVENTURE. 55:12 AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THE CHRISTIAN LIFE IS AN ABUNDANT 55:14 LIFE. 55:15 GOD HAS OPENED THE WAY NOW. 55:16 THE MORE I TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD AND I TELL PEOPLE ABOUT 55:19 HOW HE'S CHANGED MY LIFE AND HOW HE CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE... 55:24 HOW HE HAS A BIG PLAN FOR EVERY ONE OF YOU. 55:27 WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW WHAT GOD'S WILL IS FOR YOUR LIFE? 55:30 THE NUMBER ONE STEP TO KNOWING WHAT GOD'S WILL IS FOR YOUR LIFE 55:33 IS, ARE YOU WILLING TO DO HIS WILL? 55:37 WHEN YOU SURRENDER YOUR LIFE INTO HIS HANDS, THEN HE'LL 55:40 REVEAL HIS WILL. 55:42 WELL, YOU KNOW, MY FATHER PASSED AWAY; MY MOM PASSED AWAY. 55:49 I WAS WITH MY BROTHER WHEN HE PASSED AWAY. 55:51 THEY HAD ALL THE MONEY AND THE FAME AND I REMEMBER TALKING TO 55:55 FALCON JUST BEFORE HE STOPPED BREATHING. 55:58 AND HE USED TO TEASE ME WHENEVER I PRAYED, BECAUSE OF 56:00 MY RELIGION. 56:00 HE'D ARGUE WITH ME. 56:02 I SAID, "FALCON, WOULD YOU LET ME PRAY WITH YOU?" 56:04 AND HE SQUEEZED MY HAND AND HE ASKED ME, "PLEASE PRAY." 56:07 AND YOU DON'T KNOW HOW DIFFERENT THAT WAS FOR HIM. 56:09 AND SO I WAS ABLE TO PRAY WITH MY BROTHER, AND I HOPE, I HOPE 56:13 THAT I SEE HIM IN THE KINGDOM. 56:17 YOU KNOW, IT'S EXHIBIT "A" THAT -- HAPPINESS DOES NOT COME 56:22 FROM FAME. 56:23 IT DOESN'T COME FROM FORTUNE. 56:24 IT DOESN'T COME FROM THE WORLD. 56:26 THE ONLY HAPPINESS COMES FROM YOUR CREATOR WHO LOVES YOU SO 56:29 MUCH THAT HE DIED TO SAVE YOU. 56:33 AND AS WE CLOSE THIS MEETING RIGHT NOW, I'D JUST LIKE TO ASK 56:36 YOU, AND EVEN THOSE WHO MAY BE WATCHING... 56:40 DO YOU KNOW WHAT GOD'S WILL IS FOR YOUR LIFE? 56:42 I'LL TELL YOU: IT'S TO SURRENDER AND TRUST YOUR LIVES TO JESUS. 56:46 WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO THAT NOW? 56:49 BEFORE WE CLOSE, I'D JUST LIKE TO PRAY WITH EACH ONE OF YOU. 56:54 FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVE. 56:57 THANK YOU FOR SENDING JESUS. 56:59 THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND YOUR PERSISTENCE TO SAVE US. 57:03 BE WITH EACH OF THESE YOUNG PEOPLE. 57:05 AND I PRAY THAT YOU'LL FORGIVE THEIR SINS AND REVEAL YOURSELF 57:08 TO THEM. 57:09 IN CHRIST'S NAME WE ASK, AMEN. 57:12 ♪ ♪ >> THANK YOU FOR WATCHING THIS 57:18 EPISODE OF M.I.Q. 57:20 DURING OUR NEXT PRESENTATION, WE'LL BE TAKING A LOOK AT THE 57:22 BIG PICTURE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS. 57:24 SEE YOU THEN. 57:26 ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ 57:41 ♪ ♪ 57:44 >> ANNOUNCER: VIDEO GAMES, 57:45 TELEVISION, SHOPPING, THEY ALL EAT UP PRECIOUS TIME. 57:49 WELL, WHY NOT TAKE A MUCH NEEDED TIME OUT AND GET 57:52 CONNECTED WITH GOD, WITH THE "MOST IMPORTANT QUESTIONS" 57:55 DVD SERIES? 57:56 A BOXED SET THAT INCLUDES TEN ONE-HOUR PRESENTATIONS AND A 58:00 126-PAGE COMPANION GUIDE TO THE MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 58:03 ON GOD, THE BIBLE AND LIVING A CHRISTIAN LIFE, PRESENTED BY TV 58:08 EVANGELIST DOUG BATCHELOR. 58:10 TO GET YOUR COPY VISIT STORE.AMAZINGFACTS.ORG. 58:15 >> ANNOUNCER: IF YOU MISSED ANY OF OUR "AMAZING FACTS" 58:17 PROGRAMS, VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT AMAZINGFACTS.ORG. 58:19 THERE YOU'LL FIND AN ARCHIVE OF ALL OUR TELEVISION AND RADIO 58:20 PROGRAMS, INCLUDING "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 58:22 ONE LOCATION, SO MANY POSSIBILITIES. 58:24 AMAZINGFACTS.ORG. |
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