Today's journey is exciting
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because we're
going to explore healing.
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Healing? Yes, healing.
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Discover with me the love
and the power of God to heal
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as we traverse ancient land
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seeking stories of miracles.
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We're going from
Israel to Ukraine, so hang on.
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One of the
greatest ministries of Jesus
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was that of physical healing.
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In order to reach the hearts
and the minds of the people
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with the most
important news of eternal life,
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Jesus would relieve them
of their physical suffering.
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We caught up to one
person in Capernaum.
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Well, we didn't
actually catch up to him,
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but we were able to find
his footprints sort to speak.
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This synagogue is built over
the site of the original one
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that the Roman Centurion
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had given funds
for here in Capernaum.
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This is why the
Jewish elders had
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recommended his needs to Jesus.
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You see, he had a
servant who needed healing.
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So he's asking Jesus
to please help my servant.
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Jesus immediately
started to go with him.
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Centurion said, "No,
you don't even need to go."
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He says, "I'm man in authority,
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I say to one man
to go and he goes,
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and I say to another
to come, and he comes.
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All you need to do
is speak the word."
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Well, Jesus said,
"I've not seen so great faith
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in all of Israel, be it done."
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And at that moment
his servant was healed.
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Mihail, it's good to meet you.
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Foreign Language
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Tell me a little
bit about yourself.
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Tell me, where were you born?
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Foreign Language
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I'm Mihail MIrgorodsky.
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I was born in 1945,
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Sumskaya region,
City of Akhtyrka.
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Now tell me you're,
you told me as soon as I,
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I saw you just a little earlier,
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the first thing you said,
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although I hadn't officially
met you was you're a boxer.
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Foreign Language
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Yes, I was a
champion of my city, Akhtyrka,
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but later I left and
attended Kiev Medical Institute,
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but then later became
the young champion of Kiev
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in 1965 at 67 kilo weight class.
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Foreign Language
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So you're a big man.
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Foreign Language
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I was a doctor, I played sports,
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I watch myself
because the doctor is
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supposed to be healthy,
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and I believe that
every human should be healthy.
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How many fights did you have
in order to become a champion?
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Foreign Language
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The Olympics were
around the same time,
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so according to how many
people joined the competition,
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I had to fight three fights.
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Foreign Language
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Then on a fight
before and the last fight.
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And then I became the champion.
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This was in
Kiev, well before that
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I was training
for numerous years,
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and before that I
was also a champion
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in my home City of Akhtyrka.
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Did you go to the Olympics?
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Foreign Language
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No, I decided to
have my last fight, why?
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Because I wanted to be a doctor.
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Foreign Language
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Boxing was more of a hobby.
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I wanted to be a boxing champion
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and I wasn't till I turned 44,
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then for a short period of time,
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I worked as a trainer.
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Foreign Language
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Standing here in the
ancient ruins of Beth-Shan.
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It's one of the ten
cities of Decapolis.
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Probably the
most important city.
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It was in the area of Decapolis
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where Jesus met the demoniac,
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met I say because he
came running out of the tombs
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with chains on his hand,
he'd been cutting himself,
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he's bleeding all over,
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it seems nothing
could control him.
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I know that's actually
the way it is with sin,
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a good representation,
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nothing could shackle
and nothing could hold him.
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He'd been cutting
himself, bleeding,
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and now as he comes up to Jesus,
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all the disciples run back
because they're scared of him,
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but they turn and where's Jesus,
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He's standing there.
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The demoniac is
there at His feet.
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Jesus looks at him
and He can read his heart.
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The demoniac can't
even speak anything
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except
utterings from the demons,
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it's the first and only
time it's recorded that Jesus
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entered into any kind of
conversation with the demons.
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They said, "We're legion."
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Well, legion was a
huge number of demons.
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But in a moment,
Jesus cast them all out into
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a herd of swine which ran over
a cliff and in the instance,
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the disciples or Jesus,
we don't know exactly who
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took off some of their
clothing and clothed this man.
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And now he's in his right mind,
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he's whole and he's looking
in the face of Jesus Christ.
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What a moment
that must have been.
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Now he wanted to follow
Jesus, he wanted to go with Him,
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in the boat across
the Sea of Galilee,
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but Jesus said, "No,
stay, here and witness for me,
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be my witness here."
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Well, the next time
that Jesus came back,
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the whole city ran out
to meet him and greet him.
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And I'm sure
that many at that time
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gave their hearts to Jesus.
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Kalu Ram was a poor field
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While we were at the
seaside town of Capernaum,
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we were inspired by
many biblical healings.
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Right behind me is the
beautiful Sea of Galilee,
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standing here in Capernaum.
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These are some of the
old houses that were here,
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I'm told at the time of Jesus.
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I just think about it,
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imagine Jesus walking
through these streets.
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We're told that He
spent a lot of time here,
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they even called
it the home of Jesus.
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Think about it, the
Creator God of the Universe
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walking these
streets and healing everyone
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He came in contact with.
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I've been in India many times
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and throngs tend to come
around you from every side
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because they want
some kind of help.
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The very little help we
have is not much, but Jesus,
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why Jesus broke up every
funeral he ever attended.
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Imagine Jesus going
into hospital in your town
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and as he walked out,
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every single person would
come out rejoicing with Him.
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Not a sick person left.
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That's what happened as
Jesus went from town to town,
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area to area and
here in Capernaum also.
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So you're in medical school.
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Tell me a
little more about that.
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Foreign Language
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In 1964, I moved to Kiev,
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lived here in the city
and attended the institute.
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Foreign Language
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In 1970, I
finished my doctor's degree.
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With that degree, they send me
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as a military doctor
to Kukas, City of Belize.
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Foreign Language
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So you were an
officer in the Russian Army?
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Foreign Language
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Yes, it was mandatory
for every doctor to serve
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as a military
doctor for two years.
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After that, we have
the right to establish
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a business anywhere we wanted.
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In 1972, I started working
on a tuberculosis division,
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and I worked in that division
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from 1972 till this present day.
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Foreign Language
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Our areas connected
very well with America
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on the studies and
cares for tuberculosis.
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Foreign Language
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So really most of your years
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as a professional has been
in the area of tuberculosis?
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Foreign Language
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Yes, I work in that division
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and for the
past couple of years,
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we partnered up with America
to fight against tuberculosis.
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America dispatches
a new method of curing
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and then they
mail us the medicine.
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We do this as partners
because it's a worldwide crisis.
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America helped us
and is helping us now
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with the fight
against tuberculosis.
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What do you see as
your greatest progress
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in the area of tuberculosis
here in the country?
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Foreign Language
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I can give you an
example of the number of people
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who are seeking
help for tuberculosis.
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We have records for
how many people are in
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need of treatment
for every 100,000.
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Foreign Language
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Right now in Ukraine,
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it stopped at 82 for
every 100,000 people.
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In Russia, it stopped at 150.
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Afghanistan and China 230.
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In the western countries,
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we only have two to ten
for every hundred thousand.
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Foreign Language
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There was no way
that we can share
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all of the
wonderful biblical accounts
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of healing by our Lord,
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but there are two
more events that stand out.
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One involved a family
member of one of his disciples.
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As a matter of fact,
let's look at his home.
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I'm actually here at
the home of Simon Peter.
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The smaller area inside here,
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the outer walls
however are Octagonal,
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until that was a later
church that was built over
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the home of Simon Peter.
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Octagonal because you see
that represents the eight day.
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What's the eight day you ask?
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Well, the seventh
day was the Sabbath.
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The eight day was
when Jesus rose they say,
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so in commemoration, they
built eight sided churches.
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But the home of Simon Peter,
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this is where
Jesus entered that home,
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his mother-in-law had a fever.
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Jesus sent everybody outside
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and he healed his mother-in-law.
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Imagine right there, a
healing by Jesus Christ.
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Now tell me, doctor,
you've been a communist,
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a championship boxer,
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and a medical professional
for most of your life.
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Share with me about
your religious times in life.
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What happened in
religion in your life?
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Foreign Language
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Studying at the
institution and prior to that,
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I believed in Christ.
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Foreign Language
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During my studies
at the university,
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we didn't have the
right to speak our mind, why?
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Back then, for example in 1970,
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a classmate of mine
who was about to graduate
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didn't receive his
diploma because he mentioned
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during the finals
that he believed in Christ.
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Foreign Language
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All of Kiev remembers
a day when Vasily Pavlyuk
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didn't receive his diploma.
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And majority of the people said,
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he was an idiot
for opening his mouth.
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We had different believers,
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but most of us
kept it to ourselves.
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So there was real persecution
at that time for your beliefs.
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Foreign Language
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Even in 1985, if a person
was found with a pocket calendar
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that had strong Bible
verses on the back of each page
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was automatically
kicked out of school or work.
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Foreign Language
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How did that made
you feel personally
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as a medical student,
your classmate is gone,
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but you have beliefs?
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What was going
through your heart?
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I later asked a teacher,
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is it right for them to
not give Vasily a degree.
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Even though he scored
higher than any other student.
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He said, "Yes, because
we believe that medicine
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and religion
should not be mixed."
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But you're a
physician, you made it through
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and you also
started some type of belief,
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continue on and
tell me how did you,
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how did you open up to God?
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Foreign Language
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And later the time came
when I started listening
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to Christian
Broadcasting over television.
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Foreign Language
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After watching
them over my television,
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I started writing to them,
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then I started
their Bible courses.
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They came to my house to
observe my living conditions
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and spent time with me.
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They noticed that
I wasn't pulling out
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a bottle of
vodka nor was I smoker.
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They then
directed me to a church
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where I began my
pre-baptism courses.
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Later I was baptized
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and I still have my
pictures from my baptism.
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I want to say
that I got baptized
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on the 24th of August, 2003.
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This was a mix of
three special events.
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One, it was my baptism day.
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Two, it was the birthday
of the pastor who baptized me.
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Three, it was on the
independence day of Ukraine.
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Big celebration
day for you, then.
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And for many others.
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Through the radio waves of AWR,
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God is reaching
people around the world.
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We'd like you to offer you
an edition of making waves.
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It's four of our
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from around the world.
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God speaking to hearts,
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the hearts of the listeners
of AWR, exciting stories.
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We hope that you'll share those
with friends and neighbors,
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acquaintances, anyone
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Join us, to make waves.
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Here is another story of
hope from Adventist World Radio.
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Juan lay wide awake
in his dark jail cell.
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A Chinese man
imprisoned in Thailand.
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He had no family or
friends to visit him.
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Recently, Juan
had begun to listening
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to the programs of
Adventist World Radio.
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The message of God's love
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and forgiveness had
so much appeal to him
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because he had
plenty to be forgiven off.
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Forced to become a child
soldier in Burma when just 13.
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Juan had committed
many terrible sins.
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He escaped into Thailand,
but quickly wound up in jail.
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Now alone in his cell.
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Juan had ample time to wonder,
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would God really forgive him?
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with millions of people everyday
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We discovered the
location of today's final story
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of healing and
restoration back in Jerusalem
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at an ancient pool.
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Imagine yourself in the setting.
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I'm here at the
Pool of Bethesda.
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This is the place
where Jesus met the man
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who have been
paralyzed for 38 years.
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Jesus said, "Rise,
take up your bed, and walk."
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And a favorite book of mine,
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the Desire of Ages says that,
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in that moment that man
grabbed a hold of Jesus' words
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and he was energized,
his body was energized
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and he jumped up and he rejoiced
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in the salvation
of freedom in Christ.
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The man he didn't even know.
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Who was this man?
He was the Creator God.
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And now this man
rejoiced and he walked,
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and he jumped and he ran
all the way to the temple.
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What an exciting
story? What an exciting God?
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Later on, Jesus met
the man in the temple.
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The perfect place to go
when you're thanking God
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for what He's done for you.
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The Pool of
Bethesda has a long history.
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Predating the time of
Jesus by a great deal.
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The story goes at an
angel would come and stir up
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the water for
those that were sick,
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lying all around
the porticoes here
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and the first one
that made it in the water
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would be the one who was healed.
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Only problem with that is,
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only the healthy would be
able to make it to the water.
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No one else could.
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Later on, past the time of
Jesus now up into the 1800s,
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the Ottoman Empire
controlled this area
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and they actually gave it
to Napoleon as a gift in 1856,
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because he helped
them with the Crimean War.
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Tell me, let's go back a moment
to that first radio program,
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that first AWR
Program, you turned the dial,
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you heard the
radio, why did you respond,
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why did you send in a letter?
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I realized that
the time has come
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for the society to notice Christ
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and was ready to speak about Him
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without any kind of punishment.
00:22:50.50\00:22:52.13
Foreign Language
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I decided that this
was my chance to act
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and have the
opportunity to share opinions
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and read the
gospel with many others.
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Foreign Language
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Majority of the
patients aren't Christian.
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And I can see how their lives
could be changed with Christ,
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because following Christ
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and following
the Ten Commandments
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will keep you from
the unhealthy lifestyle.
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Foreign Language
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So now you worked
with the great physician
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and the great
healer for your patients.
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Foreign Language
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I received a lot of
non-Christian patients
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and I always give
them advice in medicine
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and give them
opinions on things,
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and that's where I decided
00:24:01.63\00:24:02.83
to tell them a
little about Christ.
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I tell them that
they need to follow Christ
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because a doctor
plus God can help.
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Only if that's what you want.
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Work became a lot
easier because I'm not alone
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in front of these patients.
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I've God on my side.
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If you never
heard the AWR Program,
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how would your
life be different?
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Foreign Language
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If I didn't hear the radio,
I would have dropped this job,
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left these sick people.
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Most of them are
criminals anyway.
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I would have reached my
retirement, left my job,
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and lived on the dacha, why?
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Because working here is
very hard and for little pay.
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A lot of doctors leave,
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especially the ones working
in the tuberculosis field.
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Foreign Language
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I actually left
the medical field,
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but thanks to my religion
I returned to tuberculosis
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and continued working happily.
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Women are the majority of
the membership of many churches.
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In Russia as well as
other parts of the world,
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but today our
story is about a man.
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Dr. Mihail, a man's
man, a champion boxer,
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educated, a
physician, and yet he can say,
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"My God and I work together."
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In the work of healing,
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in bringing
people to a better life.
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Today, I want to talk
to our men who are viewing.
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Jesus wants men to
follow Him as well.
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He asked Peter, the
fisherman, big, strong,
00:25:38.53\00:25:41.16
burly guy whose house
is just a short distance
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away from here in Capernaum.
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And He asked
Peter to follow Him,
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and Peter became one of
the leaders of Jesus group.
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The Centurion who
lived here in Capernaum,
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whose servant Jesus healed,
00:25:57.10\00:25:59.83
without even going to his house,
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had a faith in God and
He built this synagogue
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so that people could worship
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and God's name
could be glorified.
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It's possible to be
a Christian and believe
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and yet be educated and logical,
00:26:14.70\00:26:17.50
it's possible to be
strong and yet gentle.
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Faith, you see involves
another whole reality of life,
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another world.
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In the Book of
Second Corinthians,
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it says, "The things
that are seen are temporary,
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but the things that
are unseen are eternal."
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Don't reject a whole
another reality of our lives.
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I invite you today to
accept Jesus as your Savior.
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Women and men can
become followers of Jesus.
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I hope you will
make that decision today
00:26:49.90\00:26:52.80
and help AWR to bring
many more people to the master.
00:26:52.80\00:26:58.13
We're here today
at the Sea of Galilee
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and the City of Capernaum,
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but AWR is actually around
the world at the same time.
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We broadcast
thousands of hours each day.
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If you'd like to
help us spread the gospel
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and the message of
Jesus Christ around the world,
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give us a call, 1-866-503-3531
00:27:13.76\00:27:18.80
or you can write us at 12501,
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Old Columbia Pike,
Silver Spring, Maryland,
00:27:21.16\00:27:24.26
20904 or you can log on
to our website www.awr.org.
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Thank you for
watching and please,
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join us again for another
exciting gospel adventure,
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because around the
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