As a Communist she thought
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that there just must
be more to life than this.
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But what was it?
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Jesus told the
Ephesians to persevere,
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and that's exactly what she did.
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She persevered until she found
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that loving
relationship with Jesus Christ
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Stay tuned to find out more.
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Istanbul, historically known
as Byzantine and Constantinople
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is the largest city in Turkey
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and sits on the border
between Europe and Asia.
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The city straddles
the Bosporus strait,
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which is the waterway between
the Black Sea and Marmara sea.
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It is world's narrowest strait
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used for
international navigation.
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And is one of the busiest
shipping routes in the world.
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Giving Russia, Ukraine,
Bulgaria, Romania, and Georgia
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access to the Aegean
and Mediterranean seas.
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Behind me is the Bosporus,
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the dividing point
between east and west,
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between different civilizations,
different cultures.
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Yesterday we took a cruise
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that I want to
share with you right now.
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Some phenomenal things we saw.
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You'll be amazed at the castles
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and buildings of the
culture of the people you see.
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Along the nineteen mile route
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are the remains of
the Rumelian Castle.
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Built at the
narrowest point of the strait
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by the Ottoman
Sultan Mohammed II in 1451.
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Before he
conquered Constantinople.
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At the
confluence of the Black Sea
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and the Bosporus
on the Asian side
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of the Straits
sits Yoros Castle.
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Remains in the area
date back to centuries B.C.
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remains of Yoros
Castle date back to 1305.
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Lidia, it's so good to be
with you in your home today.
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I appreciate the invitation.
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I'm very happy that
God planned for us to meet.
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It's all about the
Lord, isn't it? Yes.
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Now, I
understand we're here today
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because you're now a Christian
but it wasn't always so.
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It wasn't always like this.
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Can you share a little of that.
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Foreign language
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Christ lives in our
hearts since our birth
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and Holy Spirit is
always working in our heart.
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I became an Adventist in 1995.
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But I was baptized in 2003.
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So did you go to church
at all when you where child?
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No. Later on in life did you go?
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Yes, to the Orthodox Church.
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Now I understand
you're a schoolteacher.
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Yes, I was a teacher.
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Did you teach
communism to the student?
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During the communism
I wasn't a teacher then.
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I was a bookkeeper
and a tax inspector.
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It's hard for me to imagine,
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growing up in a
totally free country.
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What was it like for you at
the time before Perestroika?
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Each family had their
own opinion back then,
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about the communists then.
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It wasn't clear to everyone
back then like it is today.
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But somewhere
along the line here
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over these years
as you're thinking
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you came across the
radio program is that correct?
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Yes. Share with me
what happened if you would.
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I started to have a different
attitude with my close ones.
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But in the first place,
it was my way toward life.
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And my
relationship with my neighbors,
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slowly I started
changing as a person.
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You say a miracle way.
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Why do you call it a miracle way
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that you had these changes.
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This happened slowly and steady.
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The first time I noticed
that I started to change.
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It was a
conversation with my son,
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when he asked me
why are you going
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to this church on Saturday.
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If I can I want to go
back just for a second to.
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Tell me what the
Lidia of the old days
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used to be like before,
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because if everyone
started seeing these changes,
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you must have
been very different.
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Well, I was left
without my husband
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and having no
money followed with that.
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All my problems in life were
almost like small explosions.
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This made me jump.
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I wasn't stable, I
always told my son more
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than he needed to know
while raising my voice at him.
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When he asked me the
questions, where are you going?
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I ask him if he
sees the difference in me
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from before and how I'm now.
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And what did he reply to you?
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He didn't answer me
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and never again did he
ask me why I went to church.
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Now your neighbors
also noticed the difference.
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You must have been
fairly, you say loud,
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but it must have been quite
a bit to notice the difference.
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Actually with my
neighbors I always have a peace.
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But we use to
celebrate with a lot of people
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behind a table of food and wine.
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Foreign language
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And after a while I
stopped drinking wine.
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And they start to label me.
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So Russians are known for quite
a bit of vodka consumption.
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You too before you knew Christ?
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Yes, of course.
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But no alcohol now?
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Yes, somber and it
wasn't a bad thing.
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I actually felt a
lot better. Amen, amen.
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Now did your students,
you were a schoolteacher,
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did your students
know the difference?
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I always tried to be very
respectful to my students.
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They wouldn't have known
the difference in my behavior
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because they knew me
when I was with Christ.
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Mohammed II combined the
Old Byzantine administration
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into the Ottoman State.
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His reign is also
known for religious tolerance
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especially among the
conquered Christians.
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Which was very unusual
for Europe in the middle ages.
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He kept the
Byzantine Church functioning.
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However, in 1453, he
also ordered the Hagia Sophia
00:11:40.99\00:11:45.40
to be converted to a mosque.
00:11:45.43\00:11:47.53
The bells, altar icons
and sacrificial vessels
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were removed and
many of the mosaics
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where eventually plastered over.
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The Mehrab is a Niche
in the wall of the mosque
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in the direction of Mecca.
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And the member's
pulpit with stairs elevating
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the Imam above the worshipers.
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Here, he can both
be seen and heard.
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At a later date
before minarets were added.
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Now I understand we
have the privilege today
00:12:20.66\00:12:22.86
of being here and it's
your first day of retirement?
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They offered me a
job as an accountant.
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Now if I can go back when
you heard the programs on AWR
00:12:32.86\00:12:37.83
and your life begin to
change did you also apply
00:12:37.86\00:12:42.80
for studies at our studio?
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Yes, Voice of Hope
sent Bible homework.
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And even if I
open the Bible everyday
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and read the text,
over that is familiar to me.
00:13:02.46\00:13:06.83
But in this text
I find something new
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and something astonishing.
00:13:10.33\00:13:12.43
So you as an
educated woman discovered
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something new and exciting.
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It's very nice to
hear educated people
00:13:24.13\00:13:26.90
but when a
person opens the Bible
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looking for Christ he
will always find something
00:13:29.43\00:13:32.76
in the book to
help him every time.
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So the foot of the cross
is the leveler for all people.
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Yes, yes.
00:13:41.33\00:13:43.56
What would you tell
people, what do you tell people,
00:13:43.59\00:13:47.36
why is your life changed?
00:13:47.39\00:13:49.20
How do you share
that message with others?
00:13:49.23\00:13:51.26
Because before we
got out here today
00:13:51.29\00:13:53.76
you told me that you do share.
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Foreign language
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It's hard to
say I usually repeat
00:14:04.70\00:14:07.30
the same things over and over.
00:14:07.33\00:14:09.53
But usually it just depends on
00:14:09.56\00:14:12.03
who the person is and
what his situation is.
00:14:12.06\00:14:15.63
One person will be sad
00:14:22.23\00:14:23.93
and another will have
challenges in his life.
00:14:23.96\00:14:27.90
And with all these people,
00:14:27.93\00:14:29.90
I try and direct
them towards Christ.
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And he's suffering-
00:14:32.83\00:14:34.56
I tell them that
it's not about us
00:14:40.46\00:14:43.76
but how we live our lives.
00:14:43.79\00:14:46.06
There's people
around the world listening
00:14:49.03\00:14:52.40
and watching to this program
00:14:52.43\00:14:53.83
and they're
listening to you, Lidia.
00:14:53.86\00:14:55.50
What would you tell them
or why they need Jesus also?
00:14:56.40\00:15:01.96
What kind of
comfort have you found?
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I can't imagine my
life without Jesus.
00:15:10.93\00:15:13.73
But what can I say about people
00:15:13.76\00:15:16.06
they chose their
own road in life.
00:15:16.09\00:15:19.13
But if you want a
good life here on Earth
00:15:19.16\00:15:23.03
and life in heaven then we
have no other way to Christ.
00:15:23.06\00:15:27.86
Ellen G. White said,
path to heaven starts out
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from the road that
are here on the Earth.
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I bet you're extremely
happy that you've turned
00:15:43.63\00:15:45.90
on that radio there on that day
00:15:45.93\00:15:47.83
and found AWR, aren't you?
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When I first heard
that it was something big
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and not understandable.
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In the year 538 God's
1260 year prophecy began
00:16:06.80\00:16:12.00
But one year before that in 537
00:16:12.90\00:16:15.33
the Emperor Justinian built
this massive chapel Hagia Sophia
00:16:15.36\00:16:20.40
right on top of two
other Christian churches.
00:16:20.43\00:16:23.03
It's is massive,
it is tremendous,
00:16:24.10\00:16:26.10
but another
interesting thing happened
00:16:26.13\00:16:28.00
in the 15th Century,
Islam came in and took it over.
00:16:28.03\00:16:32.56
And that's why you noticed
many of the Islamic signatures
00:16:32.59\00:16:36.40
on all the
different walls and things.
00:16:36.43\00:16:39.03
Today also you can see
outside massive buttresses
00:16:39.06\00:16:42.76
that are building up.
00:16:42.79\00:16:44.60
over here we notice structures
00:16:44.63\00:16:46.46
that are supporting walls.
00:16:46.49\00:16:47.60
They're reworking the place
00:16:47.63\00:16:49.00
but you know if you
were over 1400 years old,
00:16:49.03\00:16:51.66
you need some help too.
00:16:51.69\00:16:53.06
The Hagia Sophia was
originally constructed
00:16:55.56\00:16:57.96
between 532 A.D and 537 A.D.
00:16:57.99\00:17:01.36
by Emperor Justinian I
00:17:01.39\00:17:03.86
and was the 3rd church
to be built on the spot.
00:17:03.89\00:17:06.63
The previous churches
were destroyed by riots.
00:17:07.80\00:17:10.43
Its massive dome is considered
00:17:14.96\00:17:16.70
to be pyramid of
Byzantine architecture.
00:17:16.73\00:17:19.50
And have to have changed
the history of architecture.
00:17:19.53\00:17:22.50
For nearly 1000 years,
00:17:22.53\00:17:24.30
it was the world's largest
cathedral until the completion
00:17:24.33\00:17:27.36
of the Seville
Cathedral in 1520 A.D.
00:17:27.39\00:17:30.20
Justinian chose the
physicist Isidore of Miletus
00:17:33.76\00:17:36.73
and the mathematician Anthemius
00:17:36.76\00:17:38.50
of Tralles as the architects.
00:17:38.53\00:17:40.43
Materials were brought
in from all over the empire.
00:17:42.23\00:17:45.50
Including columns from the
temple of Artemis at Ephesus
00:17:45.53\00:17:48.90
and various
colored stones from Egypt,
00:17:48.93\00:17:51.00
Syria and the Bosporus region.
00:17:51.03\00:17:53.16
Worn by the feet of century
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after century of
Christian worshipers.
00:17:58.23\00:18:01.00
And then worn by century
00:18:01.03\00:18:02.80
after century of Islamic
worshipers and now tourists.
00:18:02.83\00:18:06.86
Look at where it started out.
00:18:06.89\00:18:08.50
It seems like solid marble
00:18:11.20\00:18:12.70
and it's worn that's
far by human traffic.
00:18:12.73\00:18:16.00
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No walls and no borders.
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For AWR that means changed lives
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and changed
hearts around the world,
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because God is
using the airwaves of AWR
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to reach people everywhere.
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Here is another story of hope
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from Adventist World Radio.
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My name is Benjamin Shoun,
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President of
Adventist World Radio.
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Let me tell you about
our work in North Korea,
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a nation governed by powerfully
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repressive communist regime
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where any form of evangelism
is strictly forbidden.
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Adventist World
makes daily shortwave
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broadcast to North Korea.
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Spreading the hope
of Christ to a nation
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utterly devoid of Christianity,
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it is extremely rare
that we make any contact
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with listeners in North Korea.
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However, through communication
with North Korean refugees
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we're encouraged to know
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that people are
listening to our programs.
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We pray that our
listeners in North Korea
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will receive God's word
and find salvation in 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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On May 7th, 558 A.D.
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an earthquake
destroyed the main dome.
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The emperor ordered
an immediate restoration.
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Isidorus, the nephew
of Isidore of Miletus
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was entrusted with restoration.
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He used lighter
materials and elevated the dome
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by more than 20 feet,
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bringing the height up
to its current 182 feet.
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But this was not
the last time the dome
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would be damaged by earthquakes.
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It was again shaken January 869
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and also in October of 989.
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Over the centuries
the church was decorated
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with beautiful mosaics
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and at onetime
contained many religious relics.
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Designed as a
earthly mirror of the heavens
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the interior of
Hagia Sophia succeeds
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in imparting a
true celestial field.
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The artistic highlights
a number of glistening
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figurative mosaics,
remains of the decoration
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that once covered the walls
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but have otherwise
mostly disappeared.
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The remarkable works
of Byzantine art date
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from the 9th Century or later
after the iconoclastic era.
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Many churches of
this period contain
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icons or images
of the Holy Family,
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including Christ at
various ages and the apostles.
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Some of the
greatest pieces of art
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were to be founded
in these cathedrals.
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In 726 Emperor Leo
issued a series of edicts
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against the veneration of images
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and ordered the army
to destroy all icons.
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It was during this
period that the statues
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and all religious pictures
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were removed
from the Hagia Sophia.
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In 1935 the first
Turkish President Ataturk
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transformed the church
turned mosque into a museum.
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The carpets were removed
and the marble floor decorations
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appeared for the
first time in centuries.
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Expert restorers
painstakingly removed
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the plaster covering mosaics.
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The Hagia Sophia was so richly
and artistically decorated
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that Justinian proclaimed,
"Solomon, I have outdone thee."
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Lidia, tell me how did you
first find the AWR program?
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I lived in Ural and
there I was searching
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for the program Voice of
Hope and I listened to it.
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Also you were
actually tuning the dial
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looking for something Christian.
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Yes. Was AWR the first program?
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Yes, program of Voice of Hope.
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What caused you to stop
right there or not look anymore?
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Foreign language
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Because the program was
built in a very friendly way,
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it was comfortable to
listen to Victor's voice
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The good feeling that I
receive inside continued,
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so I had no
problem listening to it.
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Let's go back to that
day share with me if you can,
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and I imagine you can remember,
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what was going through your mind
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and your heart at the moment,
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when you came across
that first Christian program?
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They felt like my close friends.
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Wow, I don't know
what to say after that.
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That's just wonderful. Okay.
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What's your
favorite part of the program
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or do you have a favorite part?
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Well, of course, I
waited for the preaching,
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they had small sermons.
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Yes, that's what
I was waiting for.
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So that really
touched your heart then?
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Yes. Now did they have
also a little health talk?
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Yes. There were
topics on health.
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But I was mostly
waiting for the sermon.
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Isn't that
wonderful how God speaks
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to each one of us in
a little different way?
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It's a miracle and it's amazing
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and it's all
about our life. Amen.
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What a sweet and friendly lady.
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She's the kind of person
you just enjoy being around.
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She's so hospitable and happy.
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But apparently she
wasn't always that way.
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She told us that
earlier in her life sometimes
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she wasn't very patient.
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And sometimes she spoke
rather sharply to people.
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But a change came in her life
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and she attributes the change
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to listening to
the Voice of Hope.
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Change, transformation,
that's what happens
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when the love of Jesus
fills a person's heart.
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We're standing here in the-
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what remains in
the city of Ephesus.
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One of the churches
that the Apostle John
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established so many years ago.
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This is the
Temple of Hadrian here
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and that maybe that
the Christians worshiped
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in a building
somewhere up along this road.
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The Apostle John wrote to
the church here in Ephesus
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and in Chapter 5 of his
Book of Ephesians verse 1,
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He tells them to
be "imitators of God.
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To live a life of love
just as Christ loved us."
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That's our goal,
that's way Lidia lived
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when she found Christ and I'm
sure the people of Ephesus here
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show that kind of love
to one another as well.
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We invite you to
share your encouragement
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and support with AWR to keep
this message on the airwaves.
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There's certainly a
lot of people to help.
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The message of Jesus
Christ must reach these people.
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If you would like to join AWR
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and partner with
us give us a call
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1-866-503-3531 or you
can write us at 12501,
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Maryland, 20904.
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Or log on to our
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Thank you for watching
and please join us again
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for another
exciting gospel adventure.
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Because around the
world AWR is making waves.
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