She went to church
on a regular basis.
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She prayed to icon after
icon but she found no help
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neither did her
alcoholic husband,
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but stay tuned because
you're going to find out
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a miraculous story.
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Jerusalem is a very sacred
and holy place to many faiths.
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The Christians, the
Muslims, the Jewish people,
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even the Baha'i faith.
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Right behind me is the
Russian Orthodox Church
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there on the Mount of Olives.
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You'll notice the
four smaller pinnacles
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those represent
the gospel messages
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the four men of the gospel,
the taller one Jesus Christ.
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They're everywhere in
Russia, they're beautiful.
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Everywhere the eye
looks they dazzle the senses,
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they dazzle the mind,
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the icons, the gold,
absolutely everything.
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For 1100 years, the
Russian Orthodox Church
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has really help sway
over governments and people.
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It's one of the most powerful
things in all of Russia.
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Nadezhda, did I say
your name correctly?
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Nadezhda.
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Nadezhda, we're
in your home church
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but I didn't even know
where you're church is,
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what's the name
of your town here?
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I live in Novomoskovsk and
I go to that Adventist Church.
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Okay, now who are these
cute little girls with you?
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These are my grandkids.
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Oldest one Nastia, she
is three and half years old
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and she has been
going to church with me
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for two and half years.
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And my other one is
almost two years old
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and she comes to church
with us just like the rest.
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That's absolutely wonderful,
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that makes you
feel good doesn't it?
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Of course, I am very happy.
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Happy because my daughter
got baptized a year ago.
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So your daughter
is also baptized? Yes.
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Now you always wanted
to be Christian though
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and it sounds like you
had several different jobs,
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could you share a
little that with me.
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Thank God that He leads
us through that troubles
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and give us the
strength in different situation.
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Thank God He
found us in this planet.
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I was off course and
didn't believe in God
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but I did find Him
seven years ago, thank God.
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What was your
life like before that,
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would you share a
little, not to glorify
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but just so our
viewers can hear a little
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more of that story to know
what God brought you out of.
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Before I started going
to church I tried to solve
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all my problems with
the strength that I had.
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I had a lot of problems.
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One of my biggest
problem was in my family
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my husband drunk and
I tried to find a way
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out of this situation.
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Thank God, when I
came to this church
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I gain peace and
now I have happiness.
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It's difficult for you but
I appreciate you're sharing.
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Is there anything
that changed in this
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or how long did this go on?
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When I started
visiting the Adventist Church
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I mean my husband
did continue drinking.
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We had fights in the
family over Saturdays
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because I
wouldn't go to that garden,
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I wouldn't work in
the house or anything.
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He restrict me to
join choir practice.
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He was against my
studying the Bible and sometimes
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he wouldn't even
let me come home.
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And then he understood that
I will go to church either way
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and he realized that for
me it's a way to feel life.
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And now he started
changing under the Sprit of God.
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I pray for him and so
does the whole church,
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he is now changed.
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Now if I can go
back just for a moment
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because you said you tried
to solve the problems yourself.
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How do you solve
those problems yourself?
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What did you try
and do because I know
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many women have
got this problem?
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I tried solving this
problems, we even got in fights.
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I went to the
Orthodox Church for help
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they said this is your cross.
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The Russian Orthodox
Church can trace its roots
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to the earliest known organized
Christian community in Kiev
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as early as the first
half of the Tenth Century.
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In 957, Olga the region of Kiev
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was baptized in Constantinople,
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followed by the baptism
of Vladimir, Olga's grandson.
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As a result Christianity was
accepted as the state religion.
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In 1448, the
Russian bishops in Moscow
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elected their own
patriarch and was no longer
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subject to the
church in Constantinople.
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As you can see AWR is
frontline mission radio.
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Our first priority is to travel
where missionaries cannot go.
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We broadcast
thousands of hours each day
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in seventy major
languages of the world.
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AWR has the capability
and capacity of blanketing
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almost 80% of the
world's population.
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Not only do we
broadcast via shortwave radio,
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but our signal is on
over 1000 FM and AM stations
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around the world as well.
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Our podcast
subscribers, internet users,
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satellite downlinks
are growing rapidly.
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Evidence by the
hundred thousand plus e-mails,
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letters, and phone calls we
receive each and every year.
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Yes, AWR is your mission radio.
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No walls and no borders.
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For AWR that means
change lives and change hearts
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around the world,
because God is using
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the airwaves of AWR to
reach people everywhere.
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Here is another story of
hope from Adventist World Radio.
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Kaluram was a poor field
laborer near Gujarat in India.
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Finding his work tedious
Kalu purchased a small radio
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to relieve the boredom.
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One day, he came across a
program talking about Jesus.
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It was from
Adventist World Radio.
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After listening for a few
days, Kalu looked for a pastor
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who could tell
him more about Christ.
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Soon convinced of
the Christian truth
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Kalu was baptized and
became an outreach leader
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in his hometown and
the surrounding area.
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Witnessing in predominantly
Hindu towns is not always safe
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and Kalu was once attacked
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when approaching
a town to preach.
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However, through the efforts
of Kalu and the volunteers
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he has trained
nearly 1,000 people
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have accepted Christ.
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Adventist World Radio
shares the hope of Christ
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with millions
of people everyday.
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For more
information, visit awr.org.
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Orthodox believe holds
that the Orthodox Church
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is Christianity's true
holy and Apostolic Church.
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They trace their origins
directly to the institution
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established by Jesus Christ.
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The Orthodox Church
beliefs are based on the Bible
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and on tradition.
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The head of the Orthodox
Church is the patriarch.
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Matters relating to faith are
decided by Ecumenical Councils
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and are considered invaluable.
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The worship services are
interactive between the priest
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and the
congregation and their liturgy
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includes an
elaborate system of symbols
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meant to convey the
content of the faith.
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Icons and sacred images
are illuminated by candles
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and adorn every
part of the church
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and many homes
of the parishioners.
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Icons are an essential
part of the Orthodox Church.
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The icons are not
realistic but symbolic art.
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Their functions are to express
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the theological
teaching of the church.
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Through out history
icons have been controversial.
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Leo III made attempts
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to eliminate the
veneration of icons,
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and the movement
intensified under Constantine V
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with violent prosecution
of the Monastic clergy.
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After the controversy of icons
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in the Eighth and
the Ninth centuries
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the Orthodox Church formulated
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the doctrinal basis
for their veneration.
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Since God had
assumed the material form
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of the person of Jesus Christ,
he could also be represented
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in art forms as well.
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It appears that
the Eastern Orthodox
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veneration of icons has
survived the controversy intact.
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Many Western Christians
see very little difference
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between veneration and
worship of icons and saints.
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So you were a member of
the Russian Orthodox Church?
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Yes, I went to the
Russian Orthodox Church.
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I came, I prayed, and read,
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but there was still
no change in my family.
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So you found yourself
going down, down, down, down.
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At what point
did that turn around?
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Probably the
impact of the Holy Spirit.
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He even started
asking me to pray for him
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and at times we prayed together.
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Too bad my son
doesn't go to church with me
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and same for my husband
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but its all
matter of time I think.
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I am going to continue
praying. God has no limit.
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Your husband began
asking you to pray for him? Yes.
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The term icon comes
from the Greek meaning image
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and is associated with
the religious work of art
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most commonly a painting from
Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
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The belief is that
icons bring the worshipers
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into the presence of
those who are in heaven
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that is Christ, the
saints, and the angels.
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They believe that these
icons do more than visually
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remind the viewer
of the saints in heaven
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but they act as
windows into heaven.
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The seven branch candle stick
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that gave light
to the sanctuary,
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they call it the Menorah.
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It was destroyed long
ago but the temple institute
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here in Jerusalem has
been commissioned to restore
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all the parts of
the sanctuary, why?
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Because they are looking
for the Messiah still to come.
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Tell me the point where
you heard about Bible studies.
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I understand you
brought some Bible studies
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to share and show me.
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Yes, I passed
Bible study classes.
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At first I passed a class called
"That's what the Bible says"
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before you get baptized.
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Later after attending church
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they offered a
class called "New Life."
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I was happy that these courses
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were so
interesting, very interesting.
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How did you ever
find our AWR Studio?
00:15:04.50\00:15:06.83
Did someone tell you or
how did you come across,
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did you listen to radio or what?
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Yes, at church
my sister offered me
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to pass these classes,
00:15:15.76\00:15:19.53
so the expansion
of my understanding
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and a bigger
range of you and life
00:15:22.80\00:15:26.00
and for me it
was very interesting.
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What does the AWR
program mean to you today?
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These courses
were very interesting.
00:15:35.53\00:15:38.33
I was surprised that
every little book was different
00:15:38.33\00:15:42.40
and had its own little topic.
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It was very interesting.
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When I first came to church
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I didn't know
the Bible very much
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and they helped me better
understand the word of God.
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Does your husband
listen to AWR with you?
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I don't know if
he listens or not.
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Hasn't come that far yet?
00:16:09.50\00:16:13.56
Sometimes we
watch Christian movies.
00:16:13.56\00:16:17.76
Now your life from praying
to icons looking for help there
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to a real love of Jesus Christ,
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tell everybody out
there that's watching,
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what does--what should
that mean to everybody?
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I mean that's
powerful that you were here
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and now you're here.
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Why should
everybody do the same thing?
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We need to find the living God
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and we don't need
to be searching far.
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He is close to us.
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He is our life just
turn to Him with a prayer
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and he will answer your prayer.
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Right now I work
at the shoe store
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and a lot of people
come in and I can't see
00:17:05.33\00:17:08.60
that they have a lot of problems
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not just over shoes
but with other things.
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God gives me the
chance to talk to them
00:17:20.90\00:17:24.43
and I have the
opportunity to offer suggestion
00:17:24.43\00:17:27.80
for an easier life.
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Now I have amazing job
and my boss is Adventist
00:17:34.10\00:17:39.16
and now our store
celebrates Saturdays.
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We have the Ten
Commandments hanging
00:17:49.13\00:17:51.96
and we listen to
Christian music CD's
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with all our songs
and I have newspaper out.
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Do we call that making waves?
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You're really influencing others
telling others about Jesus.
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I imagine you're sharing the
Bible studies in AWR also. Yes.
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Got to ask one more thing,
you said something earlier
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about Christ is not in the eye.
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Can you tell me
just a little bit more
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about what you meant by that?
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This means that our
God is a living God.
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He was raised from
the dead and He listens
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and answers our prayers.
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And to Christ
every life is important.
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He loves
everyone, every problem,
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no matter what the problem is.
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With our own power
we can't solve them.
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To us it's not possible but
to God everything is possible,
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even the kids know and I
just want everyone to find God,
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so everyone can live in
happiness and the peace,
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so that they can solve
the problems through God
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because with God
everything is possible.
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Now you brought your
daughter along today.
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Do we get to see your
daughter for a moment today?
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Yes. Oh, good, good.
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Well, let's look--I
look forward to that.
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Through the radio wave of AWR,
00:19:20.63\00:19:22.60
God is reaching
people around the world.
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We would like to offer
you an edition of Making Wave.
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It's four of our
episodes brought to you
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from around the world.
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God speaking to
hearts--the hearts
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of the listeners of
AWR, exciting stories.
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We hope that you'll share those
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acquaintances, anyone
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Here is another story of
hope from Adventist World Radio.
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Juang 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 Juang had begun
listening to the programs
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of Adventist World Radio.
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The message of
God's love and forgiveness
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had so much appealed to him
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because he had
plenty to be forgiven off.
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Force to become a child
soldier in Burma when just 13,
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Juang 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
Juang had ample time to wonder,
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"Would God really forgive him?"
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with millions of people
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As with many doctrines,
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icons have had their
share of controversy.
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One notable event was
the use of a full face
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image of Jesus
on the back of coins
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put in
circulation by Justinian II.
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About this time began the
Iconoclastic Period 730-787
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when Leo III ordered the removal
of an image of Jesus Christ
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over the entrance to the
great Palace of Constantinople.
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Creating free standing,
three dimensional sculptures
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of holy figures was resisted by
Christians for many centuries.
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Out of the belief that deities
inhabited Pagan sculptures
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and also to make a
clear distinction between
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Christian and Pagan Art.
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To this day in
obedience to the commandment
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not to make graven images,
Orthodox icons may never be
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more than three
quarter base relief.
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Oh, Jim, this is
my daughter Maria.
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Hello Maria. Hello.
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So you joined the
church with your mother? Yes.
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She's been telling me
all these wonderful things.
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Now were you always a Christian?
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I can say that I was a
Christian my whole life.
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Maybe not
officially but since last year
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yes officially I am a Christian.
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So how did that happen, was
that because of your mother?
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No my mom had no effect on me.
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I push her away and I
made my own decisions.
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I wanted to call it my own
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and I wanted to
do it without her.
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About seven years ago she
gave me a Bible as a gift.
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I picked it up
for the first time.
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I tried to reading it
but it never worked out.
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So I put it on the
shelf, so it was on the shelf
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for a couple of years.
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Later I wanted to open it again
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and about a year and
half ago I opened it back up
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and started reading it.
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So mother,
you've been making waves
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and now your daughter
caught in those waves too.
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Yes, but it took some
years to see the result.
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So your daughter
has been baptized now?
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Yes, last year in the
summer she was baptized.
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It was an amazing feeling
for her and for me as well.
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This is absolutely wonderful.
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I really appreciate
you sharing the story
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and I know--I
know you need to go
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but thank you both so much.
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And you keep praying for
your husband and your dad.
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God can do mighty
things in his life too.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you, wish you well
and it was nice meeting you.
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Nadezhda was
basically a religious person.
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But that meant
that her only belief
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that she knew was the
Russian Orthodox Church.
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So whenever she had a
problem or a deep need
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she would go to the
church and pray over the icons.
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Icons are pictures
or objects or relics
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that are believed to
have spiritual power.
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But you know as she
did that she found that
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she wasn't getting
any answers to her prayer,
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nothing changed and she didn't
feel that connection with God.
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Then she heard the voice of
hope and from the voice of hope
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she learned that Jesus
was not in the objects.
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Jesus was in the heart.
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She said, Jesus is not
in the eye but in the heart
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and there she realized that
she could pray from her heart
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to the heart of God.
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Nadezhda was so happy to be
able to receive spiritual power
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and her prayers
began to be answered.
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It was like Jesus who talked
with the woman at the well.
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The lady who
argued with him about
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whether we should worship
in Jerusalem or in Samaria.
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Jesus said the
place doesn't matter,
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the things we see don't matter,
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what matters is it we
worship in spirit and in truth.
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And so let's keep the
voice of hope and truth
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being broadcast to the masses
of this world's population.
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AWR is your Mission Radio
reaching around the world.
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