We drove for a lot
of miles this afternoon
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through what seemed
like hot air and desert
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but in reality it
used to be all a big bay.
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We arrived here in Miletus.
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Miletus was a major
importance in the time of Paul.
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It was actually a
bigger city than Ephesus was.
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You remember in
the book of Acts.
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Paul sealed here,
called all the elders
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from Ephesus to come
here to speak with him.
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How to take
charge of the church,
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how to foster God's children.
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This was the time
when he was heading
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to Jerusalem and before
he left they embraced him,
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they gave him hugs and
kisses, the Bible says,
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fell on his neck because
their leader was leaving.
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He spent years
with them in this area.
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This is an interesting place
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because not only was it
a large center of commerce
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but because it had two bays,
ships could sail in and out.
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Remember no
motorized boats in those days
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but they could
sail in the one area,
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if the wind was contrary
they would sail in the other way
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that's why it
made it so important
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for this particular city.
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At its height of
glory you can see
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some of what's left
here, massive amphitheater,
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buildings,
construction everywhere.
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Huge city flourishing
during the time of Rome
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and maybe even a
little bit before them.
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Just imagine the
jigsaw puzzle was out here.
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Many times you see
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that they mark them
with specific codes.
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They have been started
doing that yet and once
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they get the codes together
they catalog everything,
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then they put it in the computer
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and start rebuilding the model.
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They've got a lot
of work ahead of them.
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Andrey, thank you
for joining us today.
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foreign language
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Now this is the
Russian summer I'm cold.
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You, you seem like you're warm.
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foreign language
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We're accustomed to
have that kind of weather.
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I'd hate to see Russian winter.
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Yes, How much snow do you get?
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foreign language
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All winter?
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During the biggest once, yes.
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Now I can see why you're in
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short sleeves
and I am in a coat.
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Yes, Tell me a
little bit of your story
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what do you do for a job?
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foreign language
Now? foreign language
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Oh, manager in a company
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that deals with
public health issues.
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Okay, okay,
you've been that--doing
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that for a long time?
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Half a year.
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Oh, what you do before?
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foreign language
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I work for a missionary group
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for a program "300"
not far from the city.
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foreign language
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I started a new church
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and I was working
there for seven years.
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So you've always
been a Christian?
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No, I was an
atheist since my childhood.
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Okay, what point did
you become a Christian?
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foreign language
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The main thing
was the information,
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true and serious information.
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And I heard it
through the "Voice of Hope."
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foreign language
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Well, I definitely wanna
come back to that in a minute
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because that's important to us.
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Let me ask you.
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How old were you at that time?
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Twenty-five. Twenty-five.
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so you are an
atheist for 25 years.
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Well, at around 18, 19 I
started thinking about it.
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I understood that
there was something
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but I cannot
figure out what it was.
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So it seems like
from what I've heard
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that a lot of people in
the country were atheists
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but many of them began thinking
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there's got to be
something more than atheism.
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Yes, Why, why did
you get your thinking
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was there anything that said oh,
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there's got to
be something more?
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foreign language
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From the start in school
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they told us that
evolution was the truth
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and the Bible was a myth.
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foreign language
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And it was impossible
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to receive
information from anyone.
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foreign language
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So you're brainwashed in school,
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all through
school but yet something
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kept speaking to you?
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foreign language
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Through the "Voice of Hope"
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I realized that the
sophistication of nature,
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many think and realized
that there is a creator.
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foreign language
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Although this
amphitheater is smaller
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than the one in Ephesus
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to me it's a
lot more impressive.
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It's beautiful in design it's,
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it's--I don't know
it's just gorgeous.
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The Greeks really
knew how to do it.
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We think today of our stadiums,
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our football
stadiums and things that,
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it's a new invention but they
had done their science here.
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Look around and say wow,
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they really knew
what they're doing.
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Maybe, maybe that's
why Paul there at Athens
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went up on Mars Hill.
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He began talking with these men
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about the great
things, speaking to them
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about the unknown God.
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Because they
had a statue to even
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the unknown God, they wanted
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to make certain--they
had all basis covered.
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They had them
covered in philosophy.
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They had them
covered in everyway.
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Except they really
didn't know the creator God.
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I can imagine
Paul perhaps standing
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right here and addressing
the great throngs of people
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during the Roman times.
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But things were a little
bit different in Roman times
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because once Rome
took over they tore out
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many of the seats and
they created an arena of blood.
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The gladiators, the
lions, it looks to me like the,
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the level here is a
little too low for lions
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but I guess there
was a readymade feast
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within the arena
so the lions really
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didn't have to go anyplace.
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It's hard for me to
imagine today what it must
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have been like.
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Blood soaked ground,
people screaming and cheering
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for the death of someone else.
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What a time?
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These were not the cheap seats.
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These were the expensive seats
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but they probably
misplaced this one.
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In all reality it
would have been down further
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in the front because
the big man, the governors,
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all the rulers
they sat down further
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but they got the
good seats with a backrest
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even though it was
rock, it's still a backrest.
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As you can see AWR is
frontline mission radio.
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Our first priority is to travel
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where missionaries cannot go.
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We broadcast
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in 70 major
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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
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but our signal is on
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Our podcast
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Evidenced by the
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Yes, AWR is your mission radio.
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No walls and no borders.
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Here is another story of
hope from Adventist World Radio.
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You're crazy and the
Bible is corrupt and distorted.
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The letter said,
"Please do not write me back."
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It was from Salome a
devout Muslim in North Africa.
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Our staff member who received
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the letter honored Salome's
request and did not reply.
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For weeks she
prayed to the Holy Spirit
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would bring Salome to Christ.
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One day a letter
arrived from Salome.
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"I want to apologize for
what I wrote before," it said.
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"I don't know what's happening
but lately something greater
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than I has opened my
eyes and filled my heart
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with a desire to
know more about Jesus.
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Please forgive me and
send me your Bible lessons."
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I'm actually standing
on top of the hill right
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now which is a fort.
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The forts that the Turks built
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above all the Greek
and the Roman ruins.
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What I wanted to show
you is right behind me.
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You can see out
there the Aegean Sea.
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The sea used to come
right up very close over
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here and on the other side also.
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It's hard to
imagine how all these silted
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in but overtime it did and hence
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today all the farmland fields.
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When Paul landed in the harbor
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he sent words to the Ephesians.
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Now they had to come through
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these mountains right over here.
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Fifty kilometers
away, that's a long journey.
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Where did he
stay, at that realm?
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This is my sanctified
imagination but perhaps
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he stayed in
something like this as he waited
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for those men because it was a,
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a several day journey.
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What did he talk about?
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He was levy.
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These were his children.
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He loved them supremely.
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He wanted to
uplift them even further
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to Jesus Christ and I'm
sure he talked with them
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about their reunion in heaven.
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Immediately behind me
you'll see the old ruins
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and also olive grows.
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It brings up a
very interesting story
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of a man named Thales.
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Thales was
before the time of Paul.
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But Thales was a
man who observed things.
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He observed nature.
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He watched the
comings and goings of the sun
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and the moon and the stars.
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He noticed that
certain years these olive trees
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would produce large
amounts, other years not much.
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He began thinking
about this and soon
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he fashioned a plan.
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He told his
neighbors and friends
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but they wouldn't believe
him, science, these things,
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observation it
meant nothing to them.
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But he was going
to prove something.
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And the years
that his trees produced
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great abundance of olives
he collected those olives.
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The next year not many olives,
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he sold all the olives
to the friends and neighbors
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and relatives
and everybody around,
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when they had none.
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He made a lot of
money in commerce
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and that made
everybody else think
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this man may know something.
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Some of the people we talk
to pronounce his name Thales
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but the Greeks
actually pronounced it Thales.
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Before Thales
the Greeks explained
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the origin and
nature of the world through
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myths and
anthropomorphic gods and heroes.
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Phenomena such as
lightning and earthquakes
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were attributed to
actions of the gods.
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In contrast to these
mythological explanations
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Thales attempted to find
naturalistic explanations
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of the world without reference
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to the supernatural.
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He explained
earthquakes by hypothesizing
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that the earth floats
on water and earthquakes
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occur when the
earth is rocked by waves.
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His philosophies help bring
about scientific observation
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rather than the contemporary
thought that the gods
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were the source and
explanation of these things
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that they did not understand.
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Okay, so we're
actually back to AWR.
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Tell me then how did you
first find it on the radio dial?
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Around 1991 or 1992.
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And what happened?
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Exactly how did you find it?
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foreign language
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It was by
chance--it happened by chance.
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By an accident?
00:13:08.80\00:13:10.10
Back then, I
thought it was by accident.
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And what was the first
program that you heard?
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No, Don't remember that but,
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but there was a change--start
to change in his life?
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Yes, foreign language
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Yes, because they carried out
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serious educational
information from just
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the first time listening to it.
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And it caught my attention
and it was very interesting
00:13:33.66\00:13:36.70
and started drawing me in.
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After receiving so many
facts I started comparing
00:13:38.60\00:13:41.56
it to evolution and later
started reading the Bible.
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After knowing more
about Christ I started praying
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and later God
started answering my prayers
00:13:49.80\00:13:52.06
and miracles began
happening in my life.
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So I decided to
turn my life around.
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What caused you
to actually pray?
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I mean praying is a
Christian thing and you,
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you hear a program
and you started praying?
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I wanted to receive help.
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So you just knew that
help would come from there?
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Yes, I had a lot of problems
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that I wanted to get
rid off during that time.
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Alcoholism, smoking I
tried with all my power to quit.
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I read in the Bible
that God can straighten
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you so I decided to try.
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If it worked, it worked.
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If it doesn't I
don't lose much trying
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but I did have a lot of
faith that it would work.
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Now you began listening to AWR,
00:14:36.36\00:14:38.70
your life started changing,
00:14:38.70\00:14:39.93
you quit all these
things, what, what next?
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Yes, I started going
to a small Bible studies
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group here in a small church.
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And even before that
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I attended a
Russian Orthodox Church
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and went to a
Protestant Church as well.
00:14:51.73\00:14:54.23
And after that I
compared the two churches
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and decided to
attend the Protestant Church
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because it sounded
closest to what I wanted to hear
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and what I was comfortable
listening to and later
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I became closer with
Christ and was baptized.
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Now you're baptized
where in, in Adventist Church?
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Yes, Okay, so you did the,
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you did the Bible
studies do you, you--
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foreign language
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Yes, foreign language
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From the "Voice of Hope,"
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24 discs to change my life
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and I was amazed
it was fantastic.
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Now I thought I
heard him say fantastic,
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did I hear him say that? Yes,
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So that's
was--you're into English words.
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Fantastic, all right.
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So, so what's your
life been like now?
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The Bible can only describe
my life as the blessed one.
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Do you share AWR and
your faith with others?
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Everyone I know.
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Everyone, Yes.
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foreign language
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When I visited the
bordering city of Kimovsky
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everyone in that
town knew and even
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when I was with the
missionary they all knew.
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Everywhere I go I
recommend "Voice of Hope."
00:16:06.00\00:16:09.13
The city of Miletus became
one of the 12 Ionian Cities
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of Asian Minor.
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Another Ionian city was Priene.
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Situated across the
valley floor against
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the side of the
mountains Priene was sacked
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by Ardys of Lydia
in the 7th Century B.C.
00:16:27.16\00:16:30.13
but regained its
prosperity in the 8th Century.
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Captured by the generals
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of the Persian King
Cyrus around 540 B.C.,
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Priene took part in several
revolts against the Persians.
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The city was
subject to the Persians
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until the time of
Alexander the Great.
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The population of
Priene was limited and probably
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never exceeded 5,000.
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This was due in part to
its cliff side location.
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Priene is not
mentioned in the Bible
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but it is likely that the
early Christians of Miletus
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had contact with this city.
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It had a
substantial Christian community
00:17:03.16\00:17:05.16
during the Byzantine period
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and was the seat of the bishop.
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From the acropolis you can see
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across the plains to Miletus.
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Because of the silting
end by the Meander River
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the area is now rich farmland.
00:17:16.06\00:17:18.43
These two Ionians
cities once separated
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by the Aegean Sea
are now a major source
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of produce in the area.
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The evolution of the land
reclaimed by the sea somewhat
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argue is additional proof of
Darwin's theory of evolution.
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Other see it is as
the earth is creating
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new land as
designed by the creator.
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Through the radio
wave of AWR God is reaching
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people around the world.
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We would like to offer you
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My name is Benjamin Schoun
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and I'm the president
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Let me tell you
about our work in Vietnam.
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The communist country
where Christianity is severely
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controlled and public
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However programs broadcast
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effortlessly reach
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of people listen
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together in small
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to the programs
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These groups
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Ben, I can look all
the way out to the sea
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and I understated that
Patmos is not too far from here.
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Yes, a few miles out,
it's the island of Patmos.
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It's a quaint and
beautiful island really.
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But it was a prison for John.
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John was sent there.
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The isolation with the
sea all around prevented
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him from having
contact with anyone else.
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Praise the Lord, he
wasn't in exile forever.
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Yes, Came back
here to apparently
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the place where we are now.
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Yes, these little old
city of Ephesus is nearby
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and that's the place were
John spent many, many years.
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He was actually
the pastor of Ephesus.
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Really, I never knew that.
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Well, John was known
as the apostle of love
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and his gospel is a little
different than the others.
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It is, the
three gospels Matthew,
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Mark and Luke are
more narrative in story.
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John's is more theological.
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He talks about
faith and the Holy Spirit
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and love and in
all of his writings
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the theme of love
seems to come through.
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And I love the way he
was so humble in his writing.
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He never referred to himself,
only the one Jesus love--
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Yes. Always diverted
attention away from himself.
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That's right.
00:21:04.43\00:21:06.13
To think that
this could be the place
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John is buried you
think all the history
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here it's, it's moving.
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John is a disciple that I like.
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I like his spirit.
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He was a gentle person and
had such concern for people.
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This actually is basilica
that was built a little later
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in honor of the Apostle John.
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And so it's a huge complex here.
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It seem like they
always built a church
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over every good location.
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Yes, that's
right. I was told, Ben,
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this place was built
in about the 6th Century.
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Yeah, that's
what I've heard too.
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And look they
have a baptistery here.
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And it's not just a
fountain for sprinkling.
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It's one where you get right in.
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I remember seeing an old artwork
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pictures of baptisteries
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where people--they
did it a little different.
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Let's go down and
see what it's like.
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When they baptize, often
they would just crouch down.
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Looks awfully tiny in here.
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It does but they
would get their head under
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the water like this.
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And you know, the
reason for immersion
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is the significance of it.
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It symbolizes a death,
being buried under water
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and then coming up
out of the water like
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a new resurrection
into a new life in Christ.
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And a witness to those around
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that your life
has been changed also.
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And further more
the water symbolizes
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washing or cleansing from sin.
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So there is a lot
of symbols connected
00:22:40.56\00:22:42.53
with baptism by emersion.
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And you know
every one of our stories
00:22:44.76\00:22:47.63
that we've had
throughout this entire series
00:22:47.63\00:22:50.23
on "Making Waves" has
gone through this experience.
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That's right, that's right.
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God is, God is doing mighty
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things through the ministry.
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Ben, that's what is
exciting to me. That's right.
00:22:57.16\00:22:59.20
In fact that's why
part of the reason we chose
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this name because we make waves
00:23:01.43\00:23:04.03
when we lay people in the water.
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Perfect thing,
then they are part
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of the family of God.
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Amen, amen.
00:23:09.66\00:23:15.36
Andrey, if have
you had the opportunity
00:23:15.36\00:23:17.26
to share, what you
believe about Jesus Christ
00:23:17.26\00:23:20.53
to the whole world?
00:23:20.53\00:23:23.23
What would you share?
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What would you tell
everybody right now?
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Christian or non-Christian.
00:23:26.76\00:23:29.63
Nonbelievers-- foreign language
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Because, because
you're an atheist--
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foreign language
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And now you are a Christian.
00:23:35.40\00:23:37.50
What do you tell all those
who don't believe in Christ?
00:23:37.50\00:23:40.53
foreign language
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To just pay a little attention.
00:23:43.70\00:23:45.76
To dig into the situation.
00:23:45.76\00:23:47.93
foreign language
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Try to find God and
you'll see what happens.
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foreign language
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God will answer your
prayers and He will bring hope
00:23:59.33\00:24:02.50
and He will help
you solve your problems.
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Amen, I'm gonna ask
you one more question.
00:24:05.26\00:24:10.30
Because it was the,
the message of creation
00:24:10.30\00:24:14.56
that touched you.
00:24:14.56\00:24:16.06
What if somebody else out there
00:24:16.06\00:24:18.10
is kind of wondering well,
00:24:18.10\00:24:20.53
you know, I look at evolution,
00:24:20.53\00:24:22.26
I look at creation,
why believe in creation?
00:24:22.26\00:24:25.66
foreign language
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It's better known and
compared to evolution.
00:24:30.60\00:24:33.23
foreign language
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Even Darwin himself
wasn't sure and questioned
00:24:41.53\00:24:44.96
his own theory.
00:24:44.96\00:24:46.53
foreign language
00:24:46.53\00:24:53.76
It was his partners and
students who added things
00:24:53.76\00:24:56.76
and made things up.
00:24:56.76\00:24:58.56
This wasn't a solid theory.
00:24:58.56\00:25:03.33
You know, Andrey, it's I
guess about 9 o'clock here,
00:25:03.33\00:25:06.60
sun goes down very
late in summer in Russia
00:25:06.60\00:25:09.20
I didn't believe
that till I saw it,
00:25:09.20\00:25:11.83
but I understand the
ladies have got a meal for us.
00:25:11.83\00:25:14.53
Shall we go and have a meal?
00:25:14.53\00:25:15.53
foreign language
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And I think your
testimony is going to change
00:25:16.56\00:25:19.53
many lives for the Lord.
00:25:19.53\00:25:22.33
Thank God, Praise the Lord.
Halleluiah, Praise the Lord.
00:25:22.33\00:25:25.30
Thank you, brother.
00:25:25.30\00:25:26.70
Thank you so much.
00:25:26.70\00:25:28.20
I am standing here in
the Garden of Gethsemane
00:25:34.40\00:25:37.56
and behind me this
huge olive tree, very old,
00:25:37.56\00:25:42.10
a magnificent
example of God's creation.
00:25:42.10\00:25:45.40
And then we have the flowers
around and the birds flying
00:25:45.40\00:25:48.70
and the animals and
then God's crowning work
00:25:48.70\00:25:51.46
the creation of human beings.
00:25:51.46\00:25:54.30
Few of us
realize just how central
00:25:54.30\00:25:57.53
the doctrine of creation
is to all that we believe.
00:25:57.53\00:26:02.86
In fact for Andrey
it was these things
00:26:02.86\00:26:05.26
that caught his
attention and changed
00:26:05.26\00:26:08.00
him from an
atheist to a believer.
00:26:08.00\00:26:11.10
When Andrey began to
believe in the creator God
00:26:11.10\00:26:15.30
miracles began to
happen in his life.
00:26:15.30\00:26:19.36
His prayers were answered.
00:26:19.36\00:26:22.10
His habits began to change.
00:26:22.10\00:26:25.40
A creator God is a powerful God.
00:26:25.40\00:26:28.36
And God's power is
what transforms our lives.
00:26:28.36\00:26:32.50
Even in these last
days the Book of Revelation
00:26:32.50\00:26:35.56
in the first angel's
message Chapter 14 and verse 7,
00:26:35.56\00:26:39.23
it encourages us to
again worship the God
00:26:39.23\00:26:43.03
who created the
heavens, the earth, the sea,
00:26:43.03\00:26:45.86
and the fountains of water.
00:26:45.86\00:26:47.86
It was the "Voice
of Hope" radio program
00:26:47.86\00:26:50.36
where Andrey first
learned about creation
00:26:50.36\00:26:53.60
and the Creator God.
00:26:53.60\00:26:55.50
In his own words he said,
00:26:55.50\00:26:57.40
"The concept of creation
has harmony and it's logical."
00:26:57.40\00:27:02.56
You can help AWR give
this message to thousands
00:27:02.56\00:27:07.03
more people in this world.
00:27:07.03\00:27:08.80
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00:27:10.10\00:27:12.36
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00:27:12.36\00:27:15.73
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00:27:29.90\00:27:35.80
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