The earth is the
Lord's and the fullness
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thereof; the world, and
those who dwell therein.
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Wewoka Woods Adventist Center is
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the Lord's and all it's
fullness what do you say?
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Let us rejoice and be glad.
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Let us give
praises to our God for His
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incomprehensive
love, His amazing grace
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and His unfailing
mercy. This is a place where
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the gentle horses
take our adventures,
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adventurous youth
through the rolling
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hills and
beneath the mighty oaks.
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This is the place
where for 25 years,
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God's people of Oklahoma
Conference of Seventh-day
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Adventist have
assembled to worship
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and to
fellowship. This is the place
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where year after year
God's name is exalted.
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The Bible is
respected and Jesus is uplifted.
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Where lives
have been rejuvenated
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and hearts have been converted.
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Let us rejoice in
the Lord and be glad for
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His salvation. Let us now hear
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from the president of Oklahoma
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Conference Elder John Moyer.
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Good evening and
welcome to camp meeting.
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Have you been
praying for a blessing? Amen.
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The Lord will
answer that prayer.
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There is a old hymn
that we used to sing.
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I haven't heard it
much lately, safely
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through another week
God has led us on the way.
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As we begin this
Sabbath, I think we
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ought to paraphrase
that hymn just a little
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bit and sing safely
through another year.
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God has led us on
the way because here we
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are gathering
back here, Wewoka Woods
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for a camp
meeting one more time,
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and we know that the
Lord is going to bless us.
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We have a special treat tonight.
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And we weren't able
to get this in the camp
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meeting brochure
because we at that
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time we weren't sure
that this was going to
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happen, but we
want to welcome Danny
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Shelton tonight. And
thank you, thank you,
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we of course you know as the old
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saying goes, Danny
needs no introduction,
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but so we just want
to say welcome and we
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want to tell you
Danny, the way we
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said in
Oklahoma, I don't know how
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it is in Southern
Illinois but the way
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we say in Oklahoma
is when you come the
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first time you're
a visitor, when you
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come back you're
family and I know
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this is a second
time you've been in
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Oklahoma recently so
you're the part of the
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family brother. Sing
for us. God bless you.
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Good evening. Good evening.
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It's going to be
here in Oklahoma and its a
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beautiful camp. It's
first time I have been
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to your camp we were, my brother
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Ronny is now Pastoring in your
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conference in this
area, so we've been to
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his church and a few
other places and then
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every now and
then I sneak down to
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Oklahoma city where
they have a horse show.
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So ever now and then
if I get an excuse I'll
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come down the Oklahoma city and
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watch your
quarter horses show or
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something like
that. So we don't get do
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that I have only got
do that a couple times
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and Shawnee,
Oklahoma is not too far.
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One time I came
down and watched a
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big horse auction,
so it's lot a horse
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country and our
family like horses
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and we got about
15 of them ourselves
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I noticed you all
have some out here running
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around the camp
ground just mowing
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the lawn for you
right. So, how many of you
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can watch 3ABN
or get 3ABN at home?
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Okay, quite a few of
you. Shame on the rest of
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you, but we're, I've
got a solution for you now.
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I have to tell
you something that's
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really incredible
what the Lord has done.
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See, I don't
believe in coincidence,
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I believe in divine providence,
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what do you think?
There is no such thing
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as coincidence or happenstance.
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About a year and
half ago I think it was a
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year ago April, any of
you have Sky Angel Network?
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Alright, have you
noticed who is back
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on Sky Angel or that network.
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Alright, now let me
tell you what happened?
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See if you don't
think this is divine
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providence, for, and
I can't talk about this
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all sometimes and
depending where I am
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but I am going
to be feel at home
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tonight to do
this. Sometime ago,
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Dish Network and Sky
Angel worked together.
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There are two separate networks,
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Sky Angel is this,
they have probably a
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couple hundred
thousand subscribers and it's an
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all religious
network of about 20 or 30
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channels but they
work with Dish Network,
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but they have an
agreement that other
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than just the religious channels
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grandfathered
in on Dish Network,
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all religious
channels had to go on to
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Sky Angels
site. Now the downfall
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of that is, Sky
Angel probably had around
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200,000
subscribers. Dish Network has 12
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and half million subscribers.
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Now it doesn't tell
you, you don't have to
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be a great mathematician
to figure out that's a
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lot of people,
isn't? That represents 36
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million homes in
the United States that
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Dish Network goes
into. But we talked to Dish
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Network several years
ago. They said, we're sorry,
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it's impossible,
we can't put you on
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because we have an
agreement with Sky Angel
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that we can't put
on anymore religious
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networks, and
so it's impossible.
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We would put you on.
We don't mind putting
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you on, we get a lot
of requests for you but
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we can't do it, it's impossible.
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A year ago I
think April, there was a
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satellite
failure with Sky Angel,
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the satellite that they were on.
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This failed and they
were 10 channels that
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were dropped, 10
channels were dropped.
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Seven of them put back
on. One of the 3 they did
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not put back on was
3ABN, and for months people
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began to call,
many, many Adventists,
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50 to 60
thousands dishes we had sold
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ourselves to
Seventh- day Adventist and
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these people began
to call Sky Angel and
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tell them we want 3ABN back on.
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Sky Angel did
not put us back on.
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After so long of
the time we negotiated
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with Sky Angel
and Dish Network and
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said why don't Sky
Angel, why don't you
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let Dish Network out
of their contract and
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you don't have
to put us back on.
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We won't try to force
you to put us back on.
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If you will let them
out of their contract
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and put let us, if
Dish Network will let us go
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on Dish Network.
Eventually, they did
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this folks. So
they allowed us, so Dish
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this folks. So
they allowed us, so
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Disk Network now
agreed to put us on.
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But here's what happened?
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They agreed only to
put us on the satellite
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that Sky Angel is
on and that's the small
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amount of their
viewers. That's what they told
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us they would
do. We'll put you on,
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even though you
are not on Sky Angel,
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everybody who has
Sky Angel will get
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you again on the
same channel you used to
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be on, 9710, okay
you're following me
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so far. Alright, so
you're gonna be back
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on, as far as
they're concerned they will
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think you're
back on Sky Angel but
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actually it's Disk
Network putting you
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on that same
satellite. So they put us back
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on that satellite
but what we began to get
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is calls from
people all over America
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saying who is
this 3ABN, we've never
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seen you and we're
suddenly getting you
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and we're on
Disk Network and our
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people would say oh,
are you on Sky Angel,
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they said, no we
are not on Sky Angel,
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we are on Disk
Network, so I went
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myself then I told Moses Primo,
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our director of broadcasting who
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negotiated, I said,
I think they put us on
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to the millions of
homes, not just the
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200,000 there is three
satellites and he said,
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no that wasn't our agreement.
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So I went to Dish
Network, you can try
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it on, just typed
in Dish Network on the
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Internet and it
brought up programs and all
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their packages
whether you buy 100,
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200, 250, or 300
it's on the basic channel
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line up of all of
those channels, so when
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anybody signed up
for Dish Network, they
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automatically get 3ABN.
So here it is to millions
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of people. Now
that's not the end of it,
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so finally we get
we're off of Sky Angel
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but God ordains us to be
back on the same satellite.
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Now we're reaching
millions of people and
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we just found
out a few weeks ago,
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Sky Angel was
going off the satellite.
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So nearly the
entire network of Sky Angel
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is dropping,
those of you who have
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Sky Angel with the
30 channels you won't be
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getting that much
longer 'cause they're
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dropping all of
those channels and now
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3ABN will still be
there. So all the people who
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had the Sky
Angel channels they're
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gonna to be
replace by secular channels
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but 3ABN will still
be there, so all of the
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people who
intended to watch all these
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other Christian
networks won't have
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much choice. They will kind of
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have to watch 3ABN
now, so now is that
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coincidence or
divine providence.
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See, we serve a
God of mighty miracles,
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don't you? And I
am doing something,
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tonight I don't
think I've done in many,
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many years, and I
think this was actually
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listed as a concert
so I better sing a song.
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I talk much more than I sing.
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So I'll get up here
and I am going to thank
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Bill one of our 3ABN
folk for let me use his
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guitar this
evening. I just think God is
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so good and I
love being a Christian,
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I love serving
God in these closing
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moments of
earth's history and a few
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years ago I was in
Nashville, Tennessee,
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and I was doing a
recording in a studio
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and there was a
guitar player and the guitar
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player said to me I
said, man that guitar
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sounds
incredible, rhythm guitar and
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Martin just like
this one, and I said,
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that one sounds so
great, it sound wonderful.
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What year is it and
he said, it's a 1973,
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and I looked at
him and I said well 70,
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and the 70's wasn't
the best years for Martins,
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that sounds too
good. How did you get a
00:11:00.54\00:11:03.72
1970's Martin
that sounds so good,
00:11:03.73\00:11:06.06
and he said,
well, you're not gonna
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believe me but
I'll tell you I aged it,
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you see what makes
an guitar sounds good
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or elders
instruments? The wood, the aging
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process, and I said,
how do you age a guitar?
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And he said,
everyday when I go to work.
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He's a studio
musician. I left my 73 Martin,
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I put right in front
of my stereo system then
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I turn my stereo
system on full blast
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and I let it
vibrate, the strings and the
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wood all day long
and he ,said what happens
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is the vibrations
causes the molecular
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structure of the wood
to change and therefore,
00:11:37.91\00:11:41.74
it actually ages it,
so this guitar sounds like
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one is 40 years
older if you do it for a
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length of time. I
had never heard of such a
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thing but I got
to thinking about it,
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you know, isn't
this just like God.
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We take a tree that
he created, we cut it
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down, we sand
it, we varnish, we do
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everything in the
world we think it's dead,
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but even at dead
it's not really dead
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because after all
of this, the molecular
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structures still
can change and all of a
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sudden the sound just
gets better and better
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and better, and so
I was on my way home
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from Nashville at
that time driving and this
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little song came
to me, and I could not
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wait to get home to
actually try it out on
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the guitar, but it's just
a little chorus and it goes.
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I love you, I love you Lord,
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I love you Lord, I really do
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I love you, I love you Lord
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I love you Lord, I really do.
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My Savior,
creator, redeemer, and King
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You are the reason I sing,
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I love you I love you Lord
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I love you Lord, I really do.
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I love you, I love you Lord
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I love you Lord, I really do
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That's so simple, I
think you all can sing
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that, try that with
me, would you, the chorus.
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I love you, I love you Lord,
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I love you Lord, I really do
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Same thing let's
do it again, okay.
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I love you, I love you Lord,
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I love you Lord, I really do.
00:13:45.86\00:13:50.94
I just sing that
all the way home I said,
00:13:50.95\00:13:52.70
how good is God
that he can do what he
00:13:52.71\00:13:56.06
does as a Creator God
and I am thankful that
00:13:56.07\00:13:59.02
that's what separates
him from all other Gods.
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Our God is the
Creator God of the
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universe, so when
you see a guitar one like
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this you say, this
wood no, it's not dead
00:14:07.21\00:14:09.58
this wood is something that God
00:14:10.08\00:14:11.48
has created in with
age. Would not be a nice if
00:14:11.49\00:14:13.50
we as people
got better with age.
00:14:13.51\00:14:15.23
You know we should
get smarter to a point
00:14:15.64\00:14:18.88
that all of a
sudden we kind to go to the
00:14:18.89\00:14:20.27
other way, but in
heaven we won't have
00:14:20.28\00:14:23.07
to worry about that.
I'm gonna do a couple
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this is kind of a
down home camp meeting
00:14:24.81\00:14:26.58
isn't it, Oklahoma,
so I am going to do a
00:14:26.59\00:14:28.37
couple of really
old songs and see if any
00:14:28.38\00:14:30.25
of you recognize
this. I learned this from my
00:14:30.26\00:14:32.98
mom and dad and remember Ronny,
00:14:32.99\00:14:35.21
my bother Ronny is out here.
00:14:35.22\00:14:36.36
He'll remember it as a kid.
00:14:36.37\00:14:37.92
If I had all the
wealth of this wide world,
00:14:38.57\00:14:45.29
if I had all
that money could buy,
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Yet I had not the
love of my Savior,
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I'd rather be dead than alive.
00:15:02.29\00:15:09.54
Oh, let me walk with you Jesus,
00:15:10.84\00:15:17.52
don't ever leave me alone,
00:15:18.31\00:15:25.18
for without your
love I could never,
00:15:27.35\00:15:33.90
no, never make heaven my home.
00:15:34.68\00:15:41.74
You found me when
I was so lonesome.
00:15:43.67\00:15:50.40
You found me when I was so blue,
00:15:51.48\00:15:57.23
You found me
when one could help me
00:15:59.61\00:16:06.66
when no one
knew just what to do.
00:16:07.60\00:16:14.70
Oh, let me walk with you Jesus,
00:16:15.83\00:16:22.77
don't ever leave me alone,
00:16:23.52\00:16:30.56
for without your
love I could never,
00:16:31.86\00:16:38.18
no never make heaven my home.
00:16:39.66\00:16:50.08
I love you, I love you Lord,
00:16:51.10\00:16:57.11
I love you Lord, I really do
00:16:57.79\00:17:02.70
I love you, I love you Lord
00:17:03.27\00:17:08.91
I love you Lord, I really do.
00:17:09.29\00:17:14.28
Jesus, keep me near the cross,
00:17:16.79\00:17:25.13
There's a precious fountain,
00:17:26.95\00:17:34.14
Free to all, a healing stream,
00:17:36.97\00:17:44.70
Flows from Calvary's mountain.
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Sing with me In the
cross, in the cross,
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Be my glory ever;
Till my rapture soul
00:18:02.53\00:18:16.04
shall find Rest
beyond the river.
00:18:16.49\00:18:27.31
Learning to
lean, Learning to lean
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I'm learning to lean on Jesus
00:18:36.90\00:18:44.75
Finding more power
than I'd ever dreamed
00:18:45.61\00:18:53.20
I'm learning to lean on Jesus.
00:18:53.68\00:19:01.14
Sing with me. Learning to lean,
00:19:01.15\00:19:06.98
Learning to lean
I'm learning to lean
00:19:06.99\00:19:15.02
on Jesus Finding
more power than I'd ever
00:19:15.03\00:19:26.45
dreamed I'm
learning to lean on Jesus.
00:19:26.46\00:19:36.90
I love you, I love you Lord,
00:19:37.75\00:19:43.93
I love you Lord, I really do
00:19:44.47\00:19:48.77
I love you, I love you Lord
00:19:50.04\00:19:56.23
I love you Lord, I really do.
00:19:56.66\00:20:00.86
My Savior,
creator, redeemer and King
00:20:01.50\00:20:08.04
You are the
reason I sing, I love you
00:20:08.57\00:20:15.65
I love you Lord I
love you Lord, I really do.
00:20:15.66\00:20:23.90
I love you, I love you Lord
00:20:24.89\00:20:31.33
I love you Lord, I really do
00:20:31.96\00:20:37.07
I love you, I love you Lord,
00:20:37.85\00:20:43.76
I love you Lord, I really do.
00:20:44.59\00:20:51.09
I want to encourage
each and every one of
00:21:00.93\00:21:02.80
you tonight in
your relationship with
00:21:02.81\00:21:05.76
Jesus, and I want
to tell you something
00:21:05.77\00:21:08.23
I have been
growing and growing in the
00:21:08.24\00:21:09.84
last few years especially and it
00:21:09.85\00:21:13.73
seems like that about
3 and half years or so
00:21:13.74\00:21:16.73
ago that my own
personal world fell apart.
00:21:16.74\00:21:19.15
I was the president
of World Wide Ministry
00:21:19.63\00:21:21.68
but it just seems
like everything fell apart,
00:21:22.25\00:21:24.30
Satan began to
attack from one side and the
00:21:24.58\00:21:26.59
other side and it
seemed like that it just
00:21:26.60\00:21:30.33
what was happening
couldn't be happening
00:21:30.34\00:21:32.36
and I didn't really
know where to go and
00:21:33.23\00:21:35.00
didn't know what to
do. I began to talk to
00:21:35.01\00:21:37.79
people and talk to
my board members and
00:21:37.80\00:21:39.98
pray with people and
said, what should I do?
00:21:40.54\00:21:43.93
Should I quit ministry, should
00:21:45.44\00:21:46.97
I continue in
ministry, should I just step
00:21:46.98\00:21:49.90
down, what should I
do? And I tried to look
00:21:49.91\00:21:52.90
through the Bible
and try to get counseling
00:21:52.91\00:21:55.48
from people but
you know what I found
00:21:55.49\00:21:56.98
out, I don't
want to encourage you
00:21:56.99\00:21:58.41
tonight, there is
really nothing in the Bible
00:21:58.42\00:22:00.80
that says we need
to step back or we need
00:22:00.81\00:22:02.63
to go the other
direction or that we
00:22:02.64\00:22:04.56
need to quit talking
about Jesus, does it?
00:22:04.57\00:22:06.90
We need to keep going forward no
00:22:07.65\00:22:09.16
matter what happens
in your life, we need
00:22:09.17\00:22:11.85
you to just say you
know Lord, my life is
00:22:11.86\00:22:15.20
for you, I've
given it to you, whatever
00:22:15.21\00:22:17.19
happens oh, I'm not
perfect and you're not
00:22:17.20\00:22:19.35
perfect and
sometimes we bring on our own
00:22:19.36\00:22:21.48
problems don't we?
We're not saying that
00:22:22.03\00:22:24.05
tonight that we
don't bring them on.
00:22:24.06\00:22:25.43
But when we're
going forward, we're doing
00:22:26.08\00:22:27.94
the best we know
how to do that I want to
00:22:27.95\00:22:30.48
encourage you
tonight, no matter where you
00:22:30.49\00:22:32.29
are in your life
and I talk to people.
00:22:32.30\00:22:34.38
I've been in church
for many, many years,
00:22:34.90\00:22:36.62
maybe there are elders, deacons,
00:22:37.02\00:22:38.36
and even Pastors
who get discouraged.
00:22:38.37\00:22:40.22
But I want to tell
you tonight Satan is the
00:22:40.23\00:22:42.64
author of confusion,
Satan is the author of
00:22:42.65\00:22:45.12
discouragement
and we don't have to
00:22:45.13\00:22:47.43
worry about any of those things.
00:22:47.44\00:22:48.60
We have a great and
exciting job to accomplish.
00:22:48.61\00:22:53.21
God has commissioned
us as Christians, in
00:22:53.68\00:22:56.69
particular
Seventh-day Adventist Christians
00:22:56.70\00:22:59.01
to give a specific
message in the form
00:22:59.02\00:23:01.35
of the three
angels messages to a
00:23:01.36\00:23:02.89
lost and dying
world. And God has given us
00:23:02.90\00:23:05.74
the tools to do
what He's asked us to do,
00:23:05.75\00:23:08.26
in fact what He's
commanded us to do.
00:23:08.27\00:23:10.34
Sometimes we forget
that, we act like it's a
00:23:10.74\00:23:12.66
choice but I want
to tell you something,
00:23:12.67\00:23:14.66
I believe that if
you come and you drink in
00:23:14.67\00:23:16.44
from the fountain
of life you're gonna go
00:23:16.45\00:23:18.38
share that with
everybody that you
00:23:18.39\00:23:20.38
come in contact
with. So one night I was
00:23:20.39\00:23:22.76
sitting at home, and
it was about probably 6
00:23:22.77\00:23:24.97
months or a year
after my own personal life
00:23:24.98\00:23:27.41
seemed to take just
a terrible spill and
00:23:27.42\00:23:30.96
didn't know what to
do and I heard myself
00:23:30.97\00:23:33.08
I picked up my guitar,
I don't play very much.
00:23:33.09\00:23:34.98
I played more
today practice in here a
00:23:35.45\00:23:38.16
while ago about,
I didn't know I was
00:23:38.17\00:23:40.53
gonna do the guitar
so that and what I just
00:23:40.54\00:23:42.79
did probably I haven't
done in the last 6 months.
00:23:42.80\00:23:44.73
I don't really
play that much anymore,
00:23:44.74\00:23:46.26
but I picked up my
guitar, I was home by
00:23:46.64\00:23:48.21
myself one night and
I didn't know what else
00:23:48.22\00:23:51.11
to do and I found
myself just saying,
00:23:51.12\00:23:52.88
Lord, let me hold on to you.
00:23:52.89\00:23:54.25
I'm afraid I can
lose the vision of you,
00:23:54.81\00:23:56.87
I can lose my
relationship, Lord, let
00:23:56.88\00:23:59.56
me hold on to you
and all of a sudden the
00:23:59.57\00:24:01.74
Lord just gave me
the song and I think we
00:24:01.75\00:24:03.37
have the sound
track, Lord, let me hold on
00:24:03.38\00:24:05.66
to you and I will try
to sing for you just way
00:24:05.67\00:24:07.93
the Lord gave it to me.
00:24:07.94\00:24:08.91
There been times I felt so alone
00:24:30.12\00:24:37.61
and it seems no one
cares I just can't go long
00:24:38.79\00:24:47.64
then I raise my
hands to the Father above
00:24:48.49\00:24:57.26
and cry out Lord,
let me keep holding on.
00:24:57.27\00:25:04.22
Lord, let me hold on to you.
00:25:06.97\00:25:14.16
Lord, let me hold on to you.
00:25:16.44\00:25:24.63
When it seems
I've lost everything.
00:25:26.17\00:25:34.64
Lord, let me hold on to you.
00:25:35.53\00:25:41.33
Many of you have
been at that point of
00:25:42.07\00:25:43.63
your life where just
feel like you've lost
00:25:43.64\00:25:45.72
everything, wasn't
it good, that now we
00:25:45.73\00:25:48.47
have Jesus to hold on to us.
00:25:48.48\00:25:50.17
So, here I was
asking, reaching out saying
00:25:51.38\00:25:53.15
Lord, hold on to me, then
00:25:53.16\00:25:54.94
He came back to this earth.
00:25:54.95\00:25:56.61
For Father, hears my
cry and sees each tear
00:26:03.12\00:26:10.87
And in love, His great
love He calms all my fears.
00:26:12.58\00:26:21.95
Then he reaches down,
puts His hand and might
00:26:22.54\00:26:31.58
And says hold on,
child you hold to me.
00:26:31.59\00:26:37.93
Can you say Amen for that?
00:26:37.94\00:26:39.04
Lord, let me hold on to you
00:26:41.07\00:26:47.64
Lord, let me hold on to you
00:26:50.65\00:26:59.44
When it seems I
have lost everything
00:27:00.58\00:27:09.30
Lord, let me hold on to you
00:27:10.23\00:27:16.93
When it seems I
have lost everything
00:27:19.11\00:27:28.45
Lord, let me hold on to you.
00:27:30.81\00:27:39.24
And I'm thankful that He does.
00:27:42.89\00:27:44.27
My time is about
gone, I just want to
00:27:47.45\00:27:48.95
thank you for the
opportunity of being
00:27:48.96\00:27:50.80
here and I have to
go back actually really
00:27:50.81\00:27:54.32
early in the
morning I've got to get back
00:27:54.33\00:27:55.96
home, but I just
wanna let each and
00:27:55.97\00:27:59.64
everyone of you
know that Three Angels
00:27:59.65\00:28:01.49
Broadcasting Network,
we're still going forward.
00:28:01.50\00:28:04.25
God is blessing
in ways abundantly
00:28:04.71\00:28:06.53
more than we
could ever ask or think.
00:28:06.54\00:28:08.05
New doors are
opening. 3ABN is now the second
00:28:08.59\00:28:11.48
largest owner of televisions
00:28:11.49\00:28:12.99
station in
America. We should be number
00:28:13.00\00:28:15.96
one, no shouldn't
we? But we're the second
00:28:15.97\00:28:18.21
largest owner of
television stations in America.
00:28:18.22\00:28:20.59
Our radio network has
over 80 radio stationed.
00:28:20.60\00:28:24.29
Steve works with
our, Darmody over here,
00:28:24.51\00:28:26.46
and Steve's got,
you would like tender
00:28:27.07\00:28:28.93
voices, Steve's
got a nice high tender
00:28:28.94\00:28:30.54
voice, doesn't
he? And so I told the
00:28:30.55\00:28:33.99
Elder Moore back
there, I said, I'm
00:28:34.00\00:28:35.69
gonna use a
different voice tonight because
00:28:35.70\00:28:37.81
Steve when he normally sings
00:28:37.82\00:28:39.25
actually he's
just pantomiming to my
00:28:39.26\00:28:41.06
voice, so I let
him have my voice and
00:28:41.07\00:28:43.11
I just use a different
one. Oh, you don't believe
00:28:43.12\00:28:45.66
that, and I don't
blame you right, alright.
00:28:45.67\00:28:47.64
But Steve works with
our radio network and
00:28:48.06\00:28:51.22
as well of
course with 3ABN, also
00:28:51.23\00:28:53.22
we appreciate
him and his ministry,
00:28:53.23\00:28:54.84
but 3ABN is now on
100s of cable stations,
00:28:55.35\00:28:58.84
100s of cable
stations around the world.
00:28:59.02\00:29:01.48
We're on 10 satellites,
literally encomposing
00:29:01.49\00:29:04.05
planet earth. Anywhere on planet
00:29:04.06\00:29:05.42
earth if you want to
watch 3ABN now you can.
00:29:05.43\00:29:07.79
So we're on cable stations,
00:29:08.51\00:29:09.87
we're on 10
satellites around the world.
00:29:11.85\00:29:14.41
We're the second
largest owner of TV
00:29:14.42\00:29:15.99
stations in
America. Now we don't say
00:29:16.00\00:29:17.49
this, we're not
good business men.
00:29:17.50\00:29:19.09
We say this that God
blesses us in spite of
00:29:19.10\00:29:21.19
us, and I give God
the honor in the glory,
00:29:21.20\00:29:23.76
in the praise
because in spite of the man
00:29:23.77\00:29:26.53
and our
weaknesses and our failures.
00:29:26.54\00:29:28.01
God message is gonna
get to this world, isn't it?
00:29:28.36\00:29:30.65
Because you see
that's what important.
00:29:31.23\00:29:33.02
It's not the
messenger it's the message.
00:29:33.03\00:29:35.21
And we need to
understand that but
00:29:35.52\00:29:36.89
God has called each of us to be
00:29:36.90\00:29:39.05
messengers but
your support through
00:29:39.06\00:29:41.25
ministries like
Steve and Elder Halvorsen,
00:29:41.26\00:29:43.85
3ABN, it is written,
Amazing Facts, all of
00:29:44.15\00:29:47.11
these different ministries,
is allowing this gospel
00:29:47.12\00:29:49.96
to go with
rapidity, and faster than ever
00:29:49.97\00:29:53.70
before in the
history of planet earth.
00:29:53.71\00:29:55.88
We literally are
sending satellites
00:29:56.21\00:29:57.98
signals up, 22,300
miles to space, and it
00:29:57.99\00:30:02.31
goes around the
world in a split second.
00:30:02.32\00:30:04.48
Can you imagine
a 186,200 miles per
00:30:04.90\00:30:07.95
second, 222,300 miles
to space, 10 different
00:30:07.96\00:30:11.25
satellites. People
can hear us, they can
00:30:11.26\00:30:14.02
watches
literally around the world.
00:30:14.03\00:30:16.19
The newest thing
that we have that Moses
00:30:16.20\00:30:19.31
Primo, has just come
up with, worked on it
00:30:19.32\00:30:21.86
for long time and
this is an incredible new
00:30:21.87\00:30:24.50
technology folks,
if you have high speed
00:30:24.51\00:30:26.85
Internet at home
we have what I called
00:30:26.86\00:30:28.82
MO TV like Moses
that's really not what it is.
00:30:28.83\00:30:31.60
It's media
opportunities but MO TV, if you
00:30:31.61\00:30:34.87
heard of MO TV and
here's what happens,
00:30:34.88\00:30:37.24
if you have high
speed Internet at
00:30:37.25\00:30:38.61
home you buy little
box, not much bigger
00:30:38.62\00:30:41.16
than a good size
Bible. You plug it into you
00:30:41.17\00:30:43.83
Internet and the other
end into your television.
00:30:43.84\00:30:46.91
Now don't plug
into your computer you
00:30:47.21\00:30:48.73
could but plug it in
if you have a big screen
00:30:48.74\00:30:50.89
television, plug it
into the internet, then plug
00:30:50.90\00:30:54.68
it into your
television you get 3ABN
00:30:54.69\00:30:57.02
English 24x7, you
get 3ABN Latino 24x7.
00:30:57.03\00:31:02.75
Now same little
box you get 3ABN world
00:31:03.28\00:31:06.27
of praise, a
new minority network
00:31:06.28\00:31:08.57
we're coming up
with, 24x7, and 3ABN
00:31:08.58\00:31:11.79
children's network
24x7, all in one little box,
00:31:11.80\00:31:15.70
isn't that amazing?
Plug it into the, from
00:31:15.71\00:31:18.21
the Internet connection
to your television set
00:31:18.22\00:31:21.14
and other channels
as they become available
00:31:21.50\00:31:24.22
plus there are
other channels that you
00:31:24.64\00:31:25.87
actually can get or purchase.
00:31:25.88\00:31:27.31
Now if you want
to, not from 3ABN but
00:31:27.66\00:31:29.85
through this
other company but we're
00:31:29.86\00:31:31.50
gonna have a numerous channels.
00:31:31.51\00:31:32.91
Folks this allows
people in high-rise
00:31:32.92\00:31:35.19
apartments in New
York City and places
00:31:35.20\00:31:37.76
that we've never been
able to reach that can't
00:31:37.77\00:31:39.61
have satellite
dishes, they don't have cable
00:31:39.62\00:31:42.11
for whatever
reason, can't get UHF,
00:31:42.12\00:31:44.60
can't hear the
radio, these are just other
00:31:44.61\00:31:47.26
options and I
believe God is serious about
00:31:47.27\00:31:50.01
coming back,
don't you? I think He's
00:31:50.02\00:31:52.06
serious because He is
opening up new highway,
00:31:52.07\00:31:55.31
communication
highways like never before and
00:31:55.32\00:31:59.11
just for us to set
back. We're just amazed
00:31:59.12\00:32:01.98
constantly at the
new ways of reaching a
00:32:01.99\00:32:05.07
lost and dying
world. Tonight I would leave
00:32:05.08\00:32:07.22
you with this
thought, where are you in your
00:32:07.23\00:32:09.26
relationship with
Jesus? It's great that you
00:32:09.27\00:32:11.97
support the church
here, it's great that
00:32:11.98\00:32:13.74
you support the
Oklahoma Conference and your
00:32:13.75\00:32:16.44
local church, it's
greatly support 3ABN
00:32:16.45\00:32:18.78
and Amazing Facts
and all these other
00:32:18.79\00:32:20.62
ministries but what
are you doing in your
00:32:20.63\00:32:23.06
own life and
your own relationship.
00:32:23.07\00:32:24.67
These are vehicles that can help
00:32:25.07\00:32:26.68
communicate the
gospel, but you can't
00:32:26.69\00:32:29.40
depend on 3ABN
and all these other
00:32:29.41\00:32:31.78
ministries to do the work God
00:32:31.79\00:32:33.69
commissioned you to
do. He said, go ye into all
00:32:33.70\00:32:36.80
the world, preach
the gospel to every
00:32:36.81\00:32:38.89
nation, kindred,
tongue, and people.
00:32:38.90\00:32:40.50
Now some of you
say, I can't preach,
00:32:40.84\00:32:42.44
you know well ask
our husbands or wives
00:32:43.01\00:32:45.04
they'll tell us we
preach pretty good at
00:32:45.05\00:32:46.52
times, won't they?
People say well, I'm
00:32:46.53\00:32:49.38
just not a good
speaker, I'm just not
00:32:49.39\00:32:51.39
good at talking and
I say that's funny you
00:32:51.40\00:32:53.66
go buy a new automobile and you
00:32:53.67\00:32:55.15
don't have a better
trouble talking that
00:32:55.16\00:32:56.87
guy down as low
as you can get him.
00:32:56.88\00:32:58.53
See what I'm
saying my dad used to say,
00:32:58.91\00:33:00.61
people do what
they want to do, right.
00:33:00.92\00:33:02.91
And so sometimes, I
think we use that as
00:33:03.36\00:33:05.53
an excuse because it
is a fact that we have
00:33:05.54\00:33:08.32
what we want, we
get what we want and we
00:33:08.33\00:33:10.77
find ways to
communicate and to do it.
00:33:10.78\00:33:12.80
But when we love
Jesus we'll wanna get
00:33:13.18\00:33:15.28
the gospel to the
world. Now your world may
00:33:15.29\00:33:17.74
not be a television
speaker or singer like
00:33:17.75\00:33:20.45
Steve Darmody or
like Brother Halvorsen.
00:33:20.46\00:33:22.39
You're gonna hear,
hear in a bit but your
00:33:22.69\00:33:24.54
world maybe the
folk around you, maybe
00:33:24.55\00:33:26.54
the folk that you
work with, maybe it's just
00:33:26.55\00:33:28.51
your own family.
What better place to
00:33:28.52\00:33:30.64
be a witness and to
stand up for God then
00:33:30.65\00:33:33.15
in your own household right.
00:33:33.16\00:33:34.33
So that your kids
and your grand children
00:33:34.34\00:33:35.99
can see people
who love Jesus but
00:33:36.30\00:33:38.25
I believe God has a
work for all of us to do.
00:33:38.26\00:33:40.74
Some are singers,
some are preachers,
00:33:40.84\00:33:42.34
some teachers,
some have the gift
00:33:42.35\00:33:44.33
of hospitality. There
are so many gifts that
00:33:44.34\00:33:47.00
God has given us.
I'd like you to ask
00:33:47.01\00:33:49.00
yourself what am
I doing for the Lord
00:33:49.01\00:33:51.32
Jesus Christ. If
Jesus were to come tonight,
00:33:51.33\00:33:53.71
folks would you be
ready, would you be
00:33:54.14\00:33:56.55
one of those, that
can look up and say lo,
00:33:56.56\00:33:58.17
this is my God
whom I've waited for.
00:33:58.18\00:34:00.26
He's come to
save me or would we be
00:34:00.65\00:34:02.81
among those who
suddenly realize that
00:34:03.35\00:34:06.07
we've been living a facade.
00:34:06.08\00:34:07.66
We've been living a
life that's not really
00:34:08.27\00:34:12.34
about God, it's a
self-centered life.
00:34:12.35\00:34:14.33
It could be, we
could be clothed, the Lord
00:34:14.64\00:34:17.88
gave me a thought years ago.
00:34:17.89\00:34:20.08
I woke up one
morning probably 15
00:34:20.09\00:34:21.65
years ago, and He
said the anti-Christ,
00:34:21.66\00:34:24.20
the thought that
came to my mind was the
00:34:24.21\00:34:26.08
anti-Christ is nothing
more than the spirit of
00:34:26.09\00:34:29.14
the devil, garbed in
the cloak of Christianity.
00:34:29.15\00:34:31.79
I did know what that
mean, I'm starting to
00:34:32.75\00:34:34.34
learn a little bit
about that, you see, it's not
00:34:34.35\00:34:37.63
how we look, we can come
look dress up on Sabbath.
00:34:37.64\00:34:41.46
We can look like
we're happy, we can
00:34:41.98\00:34:43.60
look like we're
Christians but God
00:34:43.61\00:34:45.14
knows our heart.
You maybe fooling
00:34:45.15\00:34:47.10
the person sitting
next to you, you maybe
00:34:47.54\00:34:49.88
fooling your
husband or your wife, your
00:34:49.89\00:34:52.02
children, but
you can't fool God.
00:34:52.03\00:34:53.67
And my, what I
would like to leave
00:34:54.34\00:34:55.81
you with this,
tonight is this thought.
00:34:55.82\00:34:58.25
I want you to
think about, before this
00:34:58.26\00:35:00.39
meeting is over
tonight. Lord, what am I really
00:35:00.40\00:35:03.17
doing, and am I
doing everything that I can
00:35:03.18\00:35:05.49
do, it's no accident
that you're alive here
00:35:05.50\00:35:08.22
in the closing
moments of earth's history.
00:35:08.23\00:35:09.72
It is not a, can
somebody say amen to that.
00:35:10.29\00:35:12.05
It's divine
providence and when Jesus was
00:35:12.70\00:35:15.27
hanging on the
cross, you and me were on
00:35:15.28\00:35:17.46
his mind. He could
look down the stream
00:35:17.47\00:35:19.06
of time and see a
people that would be
00:35:19.07\00:35:21.03
willing to get their
lives unto death if necessary.
00:35:21.04\00:35:23.44
And so therefore,
if you're alive today
00:35:24.12\00:35:26.70
which we all are
here then God has
00:35:27.51\00:35:29.88
something special
and He could see a people
00:35:29.89\00:35:32.09
that would stand up
for the cause of Christ.
00:35:32.63\00:35:34.91
A people who would
not be ashamed to the
00:35:35.36\00:35:37.01
gospel of Christ, for
it is the power of God
00:35:37.02\00:35:39.24
under salvation
but what are we doing?
00:35:39.67\00:35:41.83
Sometimes we just get Laxidaisy,
00:35:42.41\00:35:45.07
we get in a rut.
Oklahoma has ruts
00:35:45.08\00:35:47.23
don't they.
Somebody told me, a rut is
00:35:47.24\00:35:50.09
nothing more than a
grave with two ends open.
00:35:50.10\00:35:52.29
You don't want to get
in that position right,
00:35:52.82\00:35:54.48
so ask yourself
tonight what am I doing?
00:35:54.92\00:35:57.30
Lord, have I really
given my all to you?
00:35:57.31\00:36:01.99
You have given your all to me.
00:36:02.35\00:36:03.66
Have I given my all for you?
00:36:03.67\00:36:05.85
And are you willing to do it?
00:36:06.45\00:36:07.56
If you have not
made that decision,
00:36:07.57\00:36:09.65
it's my hope and my
desire and my prayer
00:36:10.23\00:36:14.28
that you will ask
Jesus to come into your
00:36:15.22\00:36:16.79
life anew and
afresh. God bless you and
00:36:16.80\00:36:20.61
thank you for allowing me to be
00:36:20.62\00:36:21.66
here tonight and if
we don't meet in this
00:36:21.67\00:36:24.17
world, on this, the
old song says, if we don't
00:36:24.18\00:36:26.75
meet again what, we'll
meet on heaven's shore.
00:36:26.76\00:36:29.66
God bless you all.
00:36:30.20\00:36:31.17