Jesus set an open door before
the people of Philadelphia,
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the church of
brotherly love and said,
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please walk through it.
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Accept an invitation
to me, get to know me.
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Svetlana did exactly that.
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She walked all the
way through that door
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and she found brotherly love.
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She found
fellowship with Jesus Christ.
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It changed her life.
Stay tuned and find out how.
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"To the angel of the
church in Philadelphia write,
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these are the words of
Him who is holy and true,
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who holds the key
of David, what He opens
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no one can shut, and
what He shuts no one can open.
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I know your deeds.
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See, I place
before you an open door
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that no one can shut.
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I know that you
have little strength
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yet you have kept my word
and have not denied my name."
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In the Book of Revelation
Chapter 3, Jesus gave to John
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the revelation about
this church, Philadelphia,
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the church of brotherly love.
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Unfortunately,
this is all that is left
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and this really isn't
what was left from the time
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that John wrote his
letter, because this was built
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in about 600 AD.
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Nothing here left,
but yes indeed there is,
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because Jesus laid before
this church the open door.
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He set before them a
message of hope and salvation
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as long as they would hold fast
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and hang on and they did.
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It is the only one of
the churches that Jesus
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had no negative counsel for.
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They truly held fast.
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Philadelphia was founded
by Attalus II Philadelphus.
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He was known for
his brotherly love
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because of the loyalty he
had shown to his elder brother.
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This city was established
as a gateway to Phrygia.
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This area was at the crossroads
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of several trade routes.
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One of the greatest crossroads
of ancient civilizations,
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Philadelphia is in
an area called Anatolia,
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which is a broad
peninsula that lies
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between the Black
and Mediterranean seas.
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Called Asia Minor by the Romans,
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the land is the Asian
part of modern Turkey.
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The building behind
me is a gorgeous building
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right here on the
campus of Zaoksky.
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It's a huge campus.
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It shouldn't be here.
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Years ago, the
people went to Moscow
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to try and get permission
to start a campus in Moscow.
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But the officials would
have nothing to do with it.
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Finally after much negotiation
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and time and energy, they
said, we'll put you out here,
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virtually in the
middle of nowhere,
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couple of hours from Moscow.
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What happened was a miracle
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because people
came from all around
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to donate their time, energy,
love and money to this campus.
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Today there is over
a 1,000 students here.
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What a miracle to the--
testimony of the power of God.
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There's another miracle
today we want to share with you,
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and that's the
miracle of Svetlana.
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She was tuning the
radio, came across AWR,
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and fell in love
with Jesus Christ.
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She came to the campus today.
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We talked with her and--
you're going to be excited
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and intrigued about her story.
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We actually traveled for
hours to get here last night
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and Svetlana has
been trying to teach me
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where we are, and it's Zaoksky.
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I did it. Was I good?
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She's a real sweet
lady and I want to thank you
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for allowing us to come
and talk with you today.
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Tell me, sometime ago
you were tuning the radio
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and you found AWR,
share that with me.
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I was friends with Ivana
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and she told me about
this organization in Tula.
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This was a while back
when Peter Kulakov was around.
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We were a voice of hope
and I wanted to write them
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while I was
attending Bible studies here.
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So I decided to write to
Voice of Hope and within a week,
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I receive a letter in
return with Bible assignments.
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I was extremely happy
and I still have those books.
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So you called our
studio, or you wrote our studio
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and then they sent you
a set of Bible lessons.
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You did the Bible lessons.
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Yes, Bible
assignments and a little book
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and I studied happily.
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So our studio
followed up with you then.
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Yes, it did. And -- and
what happened in your heart
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as you started
doing those lessons,
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as you read the
material, what happened?
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You know, when I
wasn't living with my husband,
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I heard it from someone,
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I didn't remember
who, about this seminary.
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I study at a
school here and I decided
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to go to the
seminary once I went
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and then I went again.
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Now, it pulls me
in like a magnet.
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Saturdays are my
days and that's it.
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So, you heard that -- that
the seminary that was here,
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that was connected in
someway with the people
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who were giving
you the Bible lessons.
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Yes. Now your husband, Victor,
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he wouldn't come on
camera, but he was listening
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at the same time.
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Was he also doing
the Bible studies?
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No, he didn't. The
Bible is only in my hands.
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But when it came to baptism,
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I turned my
baptism assignment in.
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But when it came for
him to answer the question,
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he just walked out
of the room, that's it.
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None of your neighbors,
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no one else around
you were Christians?
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No, they are not.
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But, this program
touched your heart.
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Of course, very
heart. This was unexpected.
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After the great
Babylonian kingdom,
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the Medes and the
Persians took control,
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then was Alexander the Great.
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He stormed in like
a mighty man he was,
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took over everything.
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But he died in a drunken stupor.
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After that time,
his four generals
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split up the kingdoms.
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Cassander, Ptolemy,
Seleucus, Lysimachus.
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Lysimachus controlled the--
area just to the north of us.
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Seleucus controlled this area.
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There were squabbles
and fights between them,
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deciding on who
would get what territory.
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Philadelphia, the
city of brotherly love,
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was a border town.
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It was a military
outpost, a military area,
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to this day it still is.
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But somehow the
legacy of Alexander the Great
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still exists because they
grow wine, they grow grapes.
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They worship the God of
Bacchus, the god of frivolity,
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the god of drink
and wine and party.
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Still to this day, we see
the great vineyards around
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and everything else.
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But Jesus made
wonderful statement
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to the people in
Philadelphia, to the church,
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the people of God.
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He said, "I set
before you an open door,"
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and the people in
Philadelphia walked through
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that door to get
to know Jesus Christ
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better, and they certainly did.
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Here is another story of hope
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from Adventist World Radio.
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Prabha was ready
to take her own life.
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She had two small
children and was abandoned
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by her husband,
and because her family
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was too poor to help,
Prabha had nowhere else to go.
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Overcome by
disappointment and grief,
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she decided to commit suicide.
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But that night, she
says, was a great turning point
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while tuning her
radio, she stumbled
00:10:08.03\00:10:10.10
on a broadcast from
Adventist World Radio.
00:10:10.10\00:10:13.50
Being a lifelong Hindu,
she had never before heard
00:10:13.50\00:10:15.90
of a Christ who cared for her.
00:10:15.90\00:10:18.23
With a new hope in her heart,
00:10:18.23\00:10:19.80
Prabha decided to live for God.
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So, she says,
I'm sure I have a job
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to do for the people who are
like me on the edge of death.
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Adventist World Radio
shares the hope of Christ
00:10:31.13\00:10:34.93
with millions of people everyday
00:10:34.93\00:10:37.03
in their own languages.
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For more
information, visit awr.org.
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As you can see AWR is
frontline mission radio.
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Our first priority is to travel
00:10:49.96\00:10:51.73
where missionaries cannot go.
00:10:51.73\00:10:54.36
We broadcast
1,000s of hours each day
00:10:54.36\00:10:56.83
in 70 major
languages of the world.
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AWR has the
capability and capacity
00:11:00.10\00:11:02.53
of blanketing almost 80%
of the world's population.
00:11:02.53\00:11:06.33
Not only do we
broadcast via shortwave radio,
00:11:06.33\00:11:09.60
but our signal is on
over 1000 FM and AM stations
00:11:09.60\00:11:13.36
around the world as well.
00:11:13.36\00:11:15.50
Our podcast
subscribers, internet users,
00:11:15.50\00:11:17.90
satellite
downlinks are growing rapidly
00:11:17.90\00:11:20.60
evidenced by the
100,000 plus emails,
00:11:20.60\00:11:23.53
letters and phone calls we
receive each and every year.
00:11:23.53\00:11:27.36
Yes, AWR is your mission radio.
00:11:27.36\00:11:31.00
No walls and no borders,
00:11:31.00\00:11:32.60
for AWR that means
change lives and change hearts
00:11:32.60\00:11:35.50
around the world
because God is using
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the airwaves of AWR to
reach people everywhere.
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After its conquest
by Rome in the 2nd BC,
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Asia Minor enjoyed
centuries of peace.
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During the middle ages, as
part of the Byzantine Empire,
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it became a
center of Christianity
00:12:01.46\00:12:03.80
and the guardian of the
Greek and Roman cultures.
00:12:03.80\00:12:06.93
One of the chief
medieval trade routes
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passed through the region.
00:12:08.66\00:12:10.96
As the power of
the empire declined,
00:12:10.96\00:12:13.00
Arabs and Mongols invaded.
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In the 15th century,
the Ottoman Turks conquered
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the peninsula and made Istanbul,
00:12:18.20\00:12:20.80
then known as
Constantinople, the capital.
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The Ottoman
Empire lasted until 1922.
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The concept of
brotherly love is not exclusive
00:12:30.83\00:12:33.30
to the church in Philadelphia,
but was known to Christians
00:12:33.30\00:12:36.50
throughout the
Eastern Roman Empire.
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And so was singled out to John
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in his vision of the
seven churches, as an example.
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For centuries, Turkey was
the center of Christianity.
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Today the area is populated
by a kind, hardworking people.
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Constantine is
perhaps best known for being
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the first
Christian Roman Emperor.
00:13:04.56\00:13:06.80
His reign was
certainly a turning point
00:13:06.80\00:13:08.66
for the Christian Church.
00:13:08.66\00:13:10.56
In 313, Constantine
announced toleration
00:13:10.56\00:13:13.43
of Christianity in
the Edict of Milan,
00:13:13.43\00:13:16.10
which removed penalties
for professing Christianity.
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You had spent
years under communism
00:13:29.03\00:13:33.70
where God was outlawed,
00:13:33.70\00:13:35.66
but now you found Jesus Christ.
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Yes. I was in a
serious car accident.
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I couldn't walk
and I couldn't stand.
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I was also in a
serious construction injury,
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where I went
under a serious surgery.
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So you have a lot to
thank the Lord for it.
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Yes. I always thank God
no matter what, forever.
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You told me that--
you used to pack a gun
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and you used to guard a store.
00:14:54.36\00:14:59.10
Yes, I had to. I work at
this place for the government
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on the way to
Moscow, where without a rifle
00:15:04.10\00:15:08.46
you can't take a step.
00:15:08.46\00:15:10.36
You look like a sweet
lady, would you've shot anybody?
00:15:10.36\00:15:15.00
I had to. Yes. You. But
I always shot at the legs.
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I had to guard trains
and people tried stealing.
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I had to run
and chase them away.
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We couldn't come
to your home today,
00:15:43.80\00:15:45.63
because you said,
maybe it would cause
00:15:45.63\00:15:48.03
problems with the
neighbors and maybe later on
00:15:48.03\00:15:50.00
the neighbors would
break yours windows and things.
00:15:50.00\00:15:55.60
Yes, anything can happen
because they are all drunks
00:15:55.60\00:16:00.26
and they are all unfortunate.
00:16:00.26\00:16:03.26
One of the world's greatest
architectural achievements
00:16:10.23\00:16:12.80
is the Hagia
Sophia, a Christian Church.
00:16:12.80\00:16:16.46
Unfortunately, nothing remains
00:16:16.46\00:16:17.96
of the original Hagia Sophia,
which was built on this site
00:16:17.96\00:16:21.00
in the 4th century by
Constantine the Great.
00:16:21.00\00:16:25.06
Constantine was the
first Christian Emperor
00:16:25.06\00:16:27.16
and the founder of the
City of Constantinople,
00:16:27.16\00:16:29.53
which was called the new Rome.
00:16:29.53\00:16:32.26
The Hagia Sophia
was one of several
00:16:32.26\00:16:34.60
great churches he
built in important cities
00:16:34.60\00:16:37.00
throughout his empire.
00:16:37.00\00:16:38.70
Following the destruction
of Constantine's church,
00:16:42.63\00:16:44.93
a second was built
by his son, Constantius
00:16:44.93\00:16:47.76
and the Emperor
Theodosius the Great.
00:16:47.76\00:16:51.30
This second Church
was burnt down during
00:16:51.30\00:16:52.96
the Nika riots of
532, though fragments
00:16:52.96\00:16:55.96
of it have been
excavated and can be seen today.
00:16:55.96\00:17:01.73
Hagia Sophia was
rebuilt in her present form
00:17:01.73\00:17:04.70
between 532 and
537 under the personal
00:17:04.70\00:17:08.06
supervision of
Emperor Justinian I.
00:17:08.06\00:17:11.10
After completion, Justinian
is said to have exclaimed,
00:17:11.10\00:17:13.70
"Solomon, I have out done thee."
00:17:13.70\00:17:19.23
Justinian's basilica
was at once the culminating
00:17:19.23\00:17:22.33
architectural
achievement of late antiquity,
00:17:22.33\00:17:24.90
and the first masterpiece
of Byzantine architecture.
00:17:24.90\00:17:28.70
Its influence both
architecturally and liturgically
00:17:28.70\00:17:32.00
was widespread and enduring
00:17:32.00\00:17:34.03
in the Eastern
Orthodox Roman Catholic
00:17:34.03\00:17:36.53
and Muslim worlds alike.
00:17:36.53\00:17:38.23
Through the
radio waves of AWR, God
00:17:42.90\00:17:45.10
is reaching
people around the world.
00:17:45.10\00:17:48.70
We'd like to offer you
an edition of Making Waves.
00:17:48.70\00:17:51.23
It's four of
our episodes brought
00:17:51.23\00:17:52.80
to you from around the world.
00:17:52.80\00:17:55.20
God speaking to hearts, the
hearts of the listeners of AWR,
00:17:55.20\00:17:58.43
exciting stories. We
hope that you share those
00:17:58.43\00:18:01.00
with friends and
neighbors, acquaintances,
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Here is another story of hope
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from Adventist World Radio.
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Tong hated his life.
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All the ways on edge.
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He often found himself
angry at the actions of others.
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I lived under the control
of people's words, he says.
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The anger and
hopelessness led Tong to wonder
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if anyone would miss
him if he killed himself.
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A classmate
suggested Tong tune in
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to Adventist World Radio.
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Listening that
night, Tong heard,
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for the first time,
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of a God who loved
him unconditionally.
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That night I got
back my life, he says.
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Tong knows there are many others
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like him in China,
iving in hopelessness,
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believing that
no one loves them.
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I pray they find
God soon, he says.
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Jesus will help them
to leave the world of sin.
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Adventist World Radio
shares the hope of Christ
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with millions
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The Blue Mosque was
commissioned by Sultan Ahmed
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I as a rival to Hagia Sophia.
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Construction on the
Mosque began in 1609
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and took seven years.
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Sultan Ahmed
died only a year after
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the completion of his
masterpiece at age 27.
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He's buried just
outside the mosque
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with his wife and three sons.
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These magnificent
buildings in modern day Istanbul
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are the accomplishments of men
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who wished to be great
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and remembered here on earth.
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In contrast, the
remains of the church
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in Philadelphia is just rubble.
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Yet the
faithfulness of the believers
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are remembered by
Christians throughout history.
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Our Making
Waves team has visited
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many places in the world.
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And we've seen the
stronghold of Hinduism.
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We've been to the
areas of Buddhism.
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Here in the area of Islam,
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even though this is a free state
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at the moment, there is pressure
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that is building
to close it down.
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We just came from
Ukraine and Russia
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where for a
while Russia was open,
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but it's starting to close.
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How long are these
places going to be open?
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How long is it
going to be possible
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to share the
Gospel of Jesus Christ?
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Unfortunately, it seems
like in many of these areas,
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the opportunity
is fading rapidly.
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I hope you'll help us
to spread the gospel soon.
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Tell me as we're closing,
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what has AWR and
the Gospel meant to you.
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How has it really
changed your life?
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You know, I receive a calendar
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with Jesus Christ on it.
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One day I felt sick and I
pray and he answered my prayers.
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I felt his touch
and this calendar
00:22:02.80\00:22:06.06
had a picture of a young boy
00:22:06.06\00:22:08.30
and a girl and I felt that
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Jesus touched me the same way.
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So, Jesus has
touched your heart.
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And now, we're all
brothers and sisters in Christ.
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Of course, yes.
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There is a better
world to come in, yes.
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Seems like you've
had kind of a hard life?
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And it still is.
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Well, can I give you a hug now?
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Wow, I got a kiss too.
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Hope my wife
hopefully won't see the kiss.
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Thank you for
coming today and sharing.
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Thank you, thank all of you.
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I'm going through a
lot of pain right now.
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Ben, why don't you join us?
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Come on and let's
pray for her here.
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We have Dr. Schoun to
help pray for us here.
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No, now we got--
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Now, we got the team,
and you get a kiss too.
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So do you have a
radio like this one?
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No. What is your radio like?
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We don't have a radio.
We don't have anything.
00:23:32.76\00:23:37.43
Everything is broken.
00:23:37.43\00:23:38.93
Well, I tell you what,
00:23:40.40\00:23:43.13
we maybe able to
provide you a radio,
00:23:43.13\00:23:45.76
you can take this
that's another kiss, Oh God
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Thank you.
00:23:58.06\00:24:01.36
So, let's-- let's bow our heads
00:24:01.36\00:24:03.23
and have a
prayer together, okay.
00:24:03.23\00:24:05.13
Okay, let's pray.
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Our loving Father in heaven,
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we thank You
for this opportunity
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to hear the story of Svetlana
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and we thank You
that You have brought her
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to the family of God.
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And now we uplift before You,
00:24:25.60\00:24:27.86
the fact that she
needs healing in her back.
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And Lord, we just
pray that Your Holy Spirit
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will be poured out
upon her and her husband.
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That You will be close to them
00:24:36.16\00:24:38.60
and that Your healing
power would be felt by them.
00:24:38.60\00:24:41.53
And someday very soon, Lord,
00:24:41.53\00:24:43.90
we hope to see each
other together in Your kingdom.
00:24:43.90\00:24:47.40
In the name of
Jesus, our Lord and Savior,
00:24:47.40\00:24:50.60
we pray, amen, thank you.
00:24:50.60\00:24:57.30
Philadelphia, the
church of brotherly love,
00:25:00.93\00:25:03.76
sounds like a good
church to belong to.
00:25:03.76\00:25:06.40
They must have really
had good relationships
00:25:06.40\00:25:08.86
with each other.
00:25:08.86\00:25:10.06
It kind of
reminds me of the story
00:25:10.06\00:25:11.96
we had today in our interview,
00:25:11.96\00:25:14.16
Svetlana, although in her case,
00:25:14.16\00:25:17.26
we might say, she
had sisterly love,
00:25:17.26\00:25:20.30
but then, I'm
getting ahead of the story.
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Svetlana and her husband lived
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in the little
country village of Zaoksky.
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Her neighbors weren't interested
00:25:27.66\00:25:29.70
in God or Christianity.
00:25:29.70\00:25:31.93
But one day she heard,
00:25:31.93\00:25:34.13
and this was in the early 1990s,
00:25:34.13\00:25:36.60
that an old burned out building
00:25:36.60\00:25:38.60
was being turned in to a school
00:25:38.60\00:25:40.96
by some people
called Adventists.
00:25:40.96\00:25:43.56
She also heard that these people
00:25:43.56\00:25:45.93
had a radio broadcast
called the Voice of Hope.
00:25:45.93\00:25:49.03
Curiosity got the best of her
00:25:49.03\00:25:51.63
and so she turned on her radio
00:25:51.63\00:25:54.20
and tuned in to
the Voice of Hope.
00:25:54.20\00:25:56.96
She liked the program
and she listened day by day,
00:25:56.96\00:26:00.26
until finally the day
came when she felt compelled
00:26:00.26\00:26:05.53
to allow Jesus
into her life as well.
00:26:05.53\00:26:09.40
Svetlana had a
special personal relationship
00:26:09.40\00:26:14.10
with Jesus, and
with Jesus in her heart,
00:26:14.10\00:26:16.10
she felt closer to the
people around her as well.
00:26:16.10\00:26:19.23
I know we've
experienced some of that
00:26:19.23\00:26:22.10
sisterly love ourselves.
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Well, Svetlana now says
that, with Jesus in her life,
00:26:24.00\00:26:28.33
he meets all of her needs.
00:26:28.33\00:26:30.53
She had health problems
and many other difficulties,
00:26:30.53\00:26:33.50
but Jesus fulfills them all.
00:26:33.50\00:26:35.70
I believe that one of
her favorite Bible verses
00:26:35.70\00:26:38.63
is Philippians
4:19, "My God will supply
00:26:38.63\00:26:42.30
all your needs
according to His glorious
00:26:42.30\00:26:44.70
riches in Christ Jesus."
00:26:44.70\00:26:47.16
AWR brings the hope
and message of Jesus
00:26:47.16\00:26:51.73
to the people of the world.
00:26:51.73\00:26:53.36
Won't you help AWR
to reach the peoples
00:26:53.36\00:26:58.13
and languages and
nations of the world,
00:26:58.13\00:27:00.70
who have not yet
heard the message of God?
00:27:00.70\00:27:03.13
The commission
of Jesus was to go
00:27:04.70\00:27:06.26
ye into all the world.
00:27:06.26\00:27:08.30
AWR is working to do just that,
00:27:08.30\00:27:10.26
we're your mission radio.
00:27:10.26\00:27:11.70
If you'd like
to partner with us,
00:27:11.70\00:27:12.96
give us a call 1-866-503-3531
or you can write us
00:27:12.96\00:27:19.26
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00:27:23.16\00:27:26.20
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00:27:26.20\00:27:32.03
Thank you for watching.
00:27:32.03\00:27:33.26
Please join us again for another
00:27:33.26\00:27:34.66
exciting Gospel adventure,
00:27:34.66\00:27:35.90
because around the
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