We've a very special
speaker with us this morning,
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a gentleman who works
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with the Adventist world radio,
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one of the vice presidents
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there in Silver
Springs, Maryland.
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He has host a TV
series called, "Making Waves,"
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Making Waves Radio.
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And it's a very
powerful TV series
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sharing the
testimonies worldwide
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as to what has happened
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with Adventist World Radio.
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He has written books
called, "He Shall Lift You Up,"
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so you can have
victory in these final days,
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"Reclaiming Lost Members."
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Anybody interested in that?
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That's another book.
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So we would like to welcome,
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Jim Ayer to share the word
of God with us this morning.
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But before he comes out
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we've a very special selection.
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[Music]
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Amen! Amen!
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Lord I need the every
hour that should be the prayer
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of each one of
us, they should it?
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Can you hear it this morning?
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Yes. Can you hear it? Yes.
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That's the footsteps
of an approaching God.
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Turned on your
radio, listen to the news.
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It's the footsteps
of an approaching God.
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Read the newspaper,
turn on your television set
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you can hear the
footsteps of an approaching God.
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Look in the
Church, look in the world,
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everybody is running to Rome,
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all these things going on
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you can hear
brothers and sisters,
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the footsteps of
an approaching God.
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Praise God that ASI
is on the cutting edge
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of things you look
at the youth for Jesus.
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What an exciting group.
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That means if we
can hear the footsteps
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of an approaching God.
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GYC- I mean the list
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could go on and on and on.
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We can hear the
footsteps of an approaching God.
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But at the same time as
God is preparing His people
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for His soon coming the Devil
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is a roaring lion going around
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and seeking
whom be may devoured.
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Do you know I didn't
know always believes that?
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I didn't believe in
a lot of these things.
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Matter of fact I didn't believe
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in any of these things.
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Now it may be a little difficult
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to look at me this morning.
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You know what, I
was gonna say middle-age
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but I can't say
that anymore here.
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You know, but look
at this fellow up here.
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I didn't always look like this.
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You see I was a drug dealer,
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an alcoholic, and a thief.
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And one day in my life I
was sitting in my little room
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and I was smoking away
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in a join and all of a sudden,
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all of a sudden
the room just expanded,
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this mighty auditorium
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and there in the bottom
floor was guarding the devil.
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I didn't need any introduction.
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They were debating over me.
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Well I couldn't
really understand
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the lot of the
things they were saying,
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but I can remember
that the arguments of Devil
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was using to over
me were the same things
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I had used to
turn people onto drugs.
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See young people,
you've got to understand
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that the Devil
hasn't changed his arguments
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since 6000 years.
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"Go ahead Eve try it.
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It'll raise you up
to a superior existence.
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It'll be
enlightening. It'll be exciting.
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Go ahead, just
try, just one bite."
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Sin for the
first bite is exciting.
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Sin is
exhilarating at the first bite.
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But then you know
the rest of the story.
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And there the Devil
was debating over me,
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but praise God, the
things that God would say
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the Devil would
have to be quiet.
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He was just silenced.
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And then a moment
would pass by and again
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the Devil would come
with another argument
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and God would
again say something
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and the Devil would
have to be quiet again.
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And soon it was all over
and I was back in my room
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stone cold, straight and sober.
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And just like I'm
speaking with you this morning
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the voice said Jim,
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Jim you have a
short time to decide.
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And I thought this is crazy.
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You know, I've
taken all kinds of drugs,
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I've done all kinds of
things and I don't understand
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what's going on here.
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I've never had a bad experience.
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And every single day
that I would get loaded
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which was every
day, the voice say,
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Jim you've a
short time to decide.
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Well, I got to
the point it just,
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it almost ruined the
whole experience for me
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and I finally, I finally quit.
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And I moved back
in with my parents
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which was an interesting
thing to do at that time.
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I wanted my dog to sit
at the dinner table with me.
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You've got to know my
mother to understand that one.
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But they loved me so
much and they wanted me
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to be a part of the
family again so much
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so that they kind of allowed it.
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Now my mother was so fastidious.
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In those days when
people would smoke,
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I swear she
cleaned out the ash tray
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between flex of ashes.
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But she allowed this.
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And but as time went
on, it's like I wanted
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some drugs so
badly I couldn't sleep.
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I couldn't do anything.
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I wanted something so much,
and after about eight months
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I went to the local bar.
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You know, drinking. That's okay.
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So went to the local bar.
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And at the bar I'm sitting there
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and a fellow
walks through the door.
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And the Old Saying,
"It takes one to know one."
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I thought this guy is packing.
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Well, he began
talking little bit
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and saying he needed
a ride to the next town.
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And it's just so happened,
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that's where my girlfriend was,
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the young lady I
was going out with,
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that young lady sitting
in the front road today,
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39 years of marriage by the way.
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You know, it's get
better all the time. Amen.
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You know, if it
hadn't been for God
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we couldn't have
gotten through a lot of this,
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but praise God stick with it.
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If you're younger it
gets better all the time,
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as long as you look to God.
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But this guy hoped
in my car that night.
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He rolled as Jim said
which was like absolutely.
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I mean, he didn't
finished the sentence,
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I didn't finished the sentence.
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I just grabbed the chain
and off I went and no voices.
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It was great.
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And I started getting
my loved one over here
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in the front seat, I
started getting her loaded.
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I used all those same arguments
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to turn on her to drugs.
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She was so sweet.
She was so wonderful.
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She had never done anything
like that in all her life.
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But all, you know,
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had the canon of
the Devil on my side,
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used all those arguments.
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My life went on for while
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and we began
having a "good time."
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And then one day I
took her down to a river,
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got loaded and I
said honey would you,
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would you marry me?
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Kind of an
interesting thing you know.
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I had to get her stone
before she would say yes.
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But you know, she said yes.
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We got married.
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And we traveled along
that pathway for sometime.
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But no voices, no voices at all.
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One day I was down in Sacramento
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and we were
partying with some friends,
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and I was so loaded that night
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that Janine had to drive.
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I couldn't drive. We get home.
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She is changing the baby
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on a kitchen table, small house.
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Changing the baby
on the kitchen table
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and by now she is
loaded too and I'm loaded
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and all of a sudden I
walk back into the other room
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and there is the
voice, it said Jim,
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tonight is your
last night to decide.
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And it was at that moment
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there was the
crossroads of the eternity.
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I mean this way
led to eternal life
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and this way to damnation.
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And I needed no one
to tell me anything else.
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It's like I knew it was there.
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It was laid out
right in front of me.
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And I went to the
door and I picked up
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all my stuff and I
walked into the kitchen,
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I said honey I said, I've
got to get rid of all these.
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We got to flush
it down the toilet.
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And she just kind of smiled
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and went on changing the baby.
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I walked into the bathroom
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and I poured
everything into the toilet.
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Now this was not the
only time I poured things
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into the toilet you understand
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because I also
have knocked before
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at the door of the police.
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So everything
went into the toilet
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as fast as possible.
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But this was
different. This was different.
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When I poured
everything in there
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and flushed that toilet,
all of a sudden it was like
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every care in the
world, the weight of the world
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was lifted off of my shoulder.
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A weight, I didn't realized
I even had until that moment.
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You see the Devil
weighs us down just an ounce
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at a time so we
don't realize it.
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We began carrying this huge load
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and pretty soon it feels normal.
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And all of a sudden it was gone.
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And I was holding on to
that white porcelain ball
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and the tears were
coming down my eyes
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and I turned around.
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There is my
sweetheart in the door
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and she is crying too.
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And at that moment I
turned to her and I said,
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honey would you
join me in a prayer?
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And we got up, we
walked out the other room.
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And we put our arms
each other and said,
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God I'm sorry it took so long.
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Sorry it took so long.
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And then we, you
know, we began thinking,
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well now we're
Christians what do we do?
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Well, I guess we
should go to a Church.
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And so we began
going to the place that
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a fellow that married us.
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But every week it kind of seemed
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like the same thing,
every week he repeated
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the same things
as I wanted more.
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I wanted more. I begin
trying to study the Bible
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and learn little
more and soon one day
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I'm sitting back,
Sunday afternoon relaxing.
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All of a sudden on
television comes this,
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the most glorious story
ever told in living color
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in this
beautiful set of studies.
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I've forgot exactly how went,
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but I didn't want to
tell you the punch line,
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so I'm kind of skipping
around what they were called.
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But I ordered them.
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And they finally came,
this beautiful 10 volume set.
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And they sat there on a shelf.
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One day I thought, hmm
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may be I have to
see what's in this.
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You know, I didn't want my son
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to go through all the
things I've gone through
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and so I bought these for him.
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But I thought may be
I've to check them out.
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So I open volume
one and I began reading.
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Hey, I could understand this.
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This was written for me.
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I just began loving,
volume 2 and 3 and 4.
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And everyday I go to work,
we had a store at that time,
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a business in town,
and everyday I go to work
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and I didn't
care to sell anything.
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I just wanted to tell everybody
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about Jesus Christ.
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I began studying
my Bible continually.
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I began praying all the time.
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I began doing so much.
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One day I can
remember, is it okay
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to tell this honey on you?
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My wife said, wow!
I wish I would get it
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between the pages of that book.
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I wouldn't pay any
attention to her at all.
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Husbands you got to
pay attention your wife.
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Believe me I would
study and study and pray
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and it would be 2, 3, 4,
5 O'clock in the morning,
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I go to sleep for couple
hours and get up energized,
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ready to go, tell the
world about Jesus Christ.
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You see that's the
way it is when Jesus comes
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in your life,
you can't control it.
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You want to know if
someone loves the Lord,
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watch what they do?
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Watch through
they tell about Jesus?
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That's how you can tell,
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you can be food
inspectors that way.
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Well, I
continued long and one day
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I got to this volume and
it was just about Easter time
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and I was reading where
they sacrifice the lamb,
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confessed their
sins over the lamb,
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and I thought I've
got to go find the lamb,
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but where can I find the lamb?
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It's not on the... you know,
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the classified section
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usually lambs were
sale for slaughter.
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And I thought I
can't tell my wife,
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she is going to think
I'm absolutely gone crazy,
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she already was beginning
to thinking I'm little.
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But I continued
to pray and I thought
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if this is what God
wants I've got to do it.
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I've got to follow my
Lord wherever He guides,
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and wherever He leads.
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But praise the
Lord, I got to that volume
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just before Easter that
said Jesus Christ is the lamb
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slain from the
foundation of the world,
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I thought
Hallelujah, I found Jesus.
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Isn't it great how God leads us
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step by step by
step to an experience,
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to our relationship,
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to a fellowship
with Jesus Christ.
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This is life
eternal that they might know
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the only true
God in Jesus Christ
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whom thou hast sent,
and while I began to study
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even more, even, even
with more earnestness.
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And I prayed
continually and I could hear.
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I could hear God saying
this is the way walk in.
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You know, if you can't
hear God speaking to you,
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I would submit
you've got a problem
00:17:17.31\00:17:19.61
with a very core
of your Christianity
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because God is same yesterday,
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today and forever.
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He spoke to people
in the Old Testament,
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He spoke to people
in the New Testament,
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and He wants to speak to you.
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But He can only do that
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as we have our
relationship with Him,
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as we have a
fellowship with Him,
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as we get to know Him
intimately and personally.
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All in we have that relationship
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and it was so exciting,
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God led us through
pathway after pathway,
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you know, one day I
actually became a coal porter.
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I was sitting in that meeting
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and they were complaining about,
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they put out this
beautiful ad across the airways,
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had a toll free
number and there was only
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one person that
responded to that ad.
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Janene and I, we've have
been the one that responded.
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Tell me that God
doesn't know your address,
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God know your
address, God knows your life,
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and He is looking for you.
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He is looking to
spend time with you
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to have that friendship with
you personally, individually.
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And it just became so
exciting as life went on,
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but you know, we had a
call into the ministry.
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We went to school,
how does school pastor,
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no matter you
talk conference called,
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he said Jim we got
a brand new church,
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we would like you to pastor.
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Well something that
happened in the interim?
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You see I began
studying less and praying less
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and when he called I
looked at my young family,
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looked at my wife,
looked at our business
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that we'd had and
we... long story there,
00:18:52.64\00:18:54.95
we had to
reclaim it from someone.
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And I said no and at that moment
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I can hear the
Holy Spirit trying
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to get through to
me, but I didn't wanted,
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I kept backing up and
I went into real estate
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and I began
becoming very successful.
00:19:09.68\00:19:12.98
I ended up in the top 4
percent of the cold war bank
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or agents in all
in North America.
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And I had a radio talk
show, when I was on television,
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and I lobbied Congress
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on various
things on Capitol Hill.
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I was a player on Capitol Hill,
00:19:25.23\00:19:28.02
doing all these
things I looked really good.
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I was extremely successful
00:19:34.51\00:19:36.27
as the world counts success.
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And I was sitting in
church, I was still preaching,
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but I was preaching without
the power of the Holy Spirit.
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That's the terrible thing to do.
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Sitting in that church
pew, ooking fine, paying tithe,
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keeping the Sabbath,
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doing all these
things, but I was lost.
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I was absolutely lost
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and then one day God said Jim,
00:20:07.98\00:20:09.68
yes, I hadn't heard
that voice for a long time.
00:20:12.91\00:20:15.96
At least that I
wanted to pay attention too.
00:20:15.97\00:20:19.36
Jim, the Holy
Spirit may be poured out
00:20:19.37\00:20:21.55
all around you and
you'll never recognize it.
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Wow! I don't
want that to happen.
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I began talking
with friend of mine
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an orthopedic
surgeon and he was having
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the same
troubles, the same trials,
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the same problems.
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He said let's get
together on a Friday night.
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Let's at least
try and do something,
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let's do something, we
didn't know exactly what?
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When he heard
about a particular study
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and that Friday
night we get together
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and there is about eight
people there and he opens
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the back of the book
and at the back of the book
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well some very
interesting words,
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so I covenant to
spend time with God
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every single day
in prayer and study.
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I'm too important for
that, I can't do that,
00:21:05.80\00:21:08.89
I've got too many
people that depend on me,
00:21:08.90\00:21:10.56
I'm making too much
money, I'm doing this,
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I'm going here
and I'm doing that,
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I just don't have that
kind of time, I can't sign this.
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Everybody else in
the group signed it,
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everybody else
was happy to sign it.
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And I couldn't do
it, I closed the book.
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The meeting went on,
everybody continued it
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on the whole evening and
at the end of that evening
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they plugged in and that
time it was a video plugged
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in a video and that preacher
was talking directly to me.
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Good thing the lights were off
00:21:37.73\00:21:38.88
because he was talking
about you have piled up
00:21:38.89\00:21:41.15
so much garbage in
front of the door of your life
00:21:41.16\00:21:43.66
that even if God
calls you to service,
00:21:43.67\00:21:46.64
even if you hear it
you can't get to the door
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to answer and that's who I was.
00:21:48.68\00:21:53.12
I piled up all these
things between God between me.
00:21:53.13\00:21:57.58
Lights were turned back on,
00:22:01.47\00:22:03.67
I got the back cover inside open
00:22:03.68\00:22:07.33
everybody is
walking out the door,
00:22:07.34\00:22:08.86
Holy Spirit is saying Jim
sign it, sign it, sign it.
00:22:08.87\00:22:12.04
I'm still
looking and finally just
00:22:12.05\00:22:14.83
for a walk out
the door I signed it.
00:22:14.84\00:22:17.02
And praise God I signed it
00:22:17.03\00:22:18.84
because God changed our life.
00:22:18.85\00:22:21.24
Janene is saying she signed it.
00:22:21.25\00:22:22.94
He spoke to the two
of us at the same time
00:22:22.95\00:22:25.25
and our lives
were altered completely
00:22:25.26\00:22:27.79
at that very
moment and guess what?
00:22:27.80\00:22:29.81
We got home and I
found time to study,
00:22:29.82\00:22:32.48
you know, how that happened?
00:22:32.49\00:22:33.94
The first thing
the Holy Spirit said
00:22:33.95\00:22:35.52
Jim cut out all premium channels
00:22:35.53\00:22:37.78
out of television
and I had the time.
00:22:37.79\00:22:41.22
And it got so
exciting, I begin to study
00:22:41.23\00:22:43.69
more and more and
more, I began to pray more,
00:22:43.70\00:22:46.14
began to journal.
00:22:46.15\00:22:47.31
If you never tried journaling,
00:22:47.32\00:22:48.36
it's kind of neat, you
know you can focus step by step
00:22:48.37\00:22:50.54
on praising God and
giving glory to Him.
00:22:50.55\00:22:53.61
Over the years I
thought about those
00:22:54.77\00:22:58.55
on the new heavens and new earth
00:22:58.56\00:22:59.80
will just be out
there in the fields.
00:22:59.81\00:23:01.56
All of a sudden
they will praise God
00:23:01.57\00:23:03.91
and I hadn't
had that in my life.
00:23:03.92\00:23:06.82
How could you
just spontaneously out
00:23:06.83\00:23:08.64
there in a middle of a
field lift your hands up
00:23:08.65\00:23:10.53
and praise God, but soon
I began feeling that way.
00:23:10.54\00:23:14.68
It was so exciting, I
began knowing Jesus Christ.
00:23:14.69\00:23:18.54
This is life eternal
that we might know Him,
00:23:18.55\00:23:22.67
we might know Him.
00:23:22.68\00:23:24.57
While I was
sitting in church one day,
00:23:24.58\00:23:26.51
I'm thinking
about selling everything
00:23:26.52\00:23:28.10
and going down be Costa Rica,
00:23:28.11\00:23:29.37
that been my plan for sometime.
00:23:29.38\00:23:31.26
My wife, wasn't her
plan, but it was my plan,
00:23:31.27\00:23:34.51
you know, we can sell everything
00:23:34.52\00:23:35.85
move down there
retire like kings.
00:23:35.86\00:23:37.48
We could have a maid
and a servant and a gardener
00:23:37.49\00:23:39.73
and a chef and this
and that and kick back
00:23:39.74\00:23:42.96
and have the good life.
00:23:42.97\00:23:44.52
Well, I'm still kind of thinking
00:23:44.53\00:23:45.75
about that in church, you know,
00:23:45.76\00:23:46.95
Lord haven't led
me all the way yet.
00:23:46.96\00:23:48.57
And that day, the Lord said,
00:23:50.97\00:23:51.96
Jim you need to
do something for me.
00:23:51.97\00:23:57.16
Okay, Lord, well we got
to the car and I said honey,
00:23:57.17\00:24:03.02
I said, the Lord said,
that we need to do something
00:24:03.03\00:24:04.96
for Him this year.
00:24:04.97\00:24:06.01
Yeah, she said let's
go on a Maranatha trip,
00:24:07.33\00:24:09.41
just, I mean, that fast.
00:24:09.42\00:24:10.97
So Don Noble,
thank you for Maranatha.
00:24:12.13\00:24:13.95
Just that quick, I
said, well, okay, got home,
00:24:15.33\00:24:17.97
Monday morning
called up Maranatha said
00:24:17.98\00:24:20.34
where are you going?
00:24:20.35\00:24:21.32
Well, we're going to Varangian
00:24:21.33\00:24:22.37
and we're going to this place,
00:24:22.38\00:24:24.21
we're going to that place,
00:24:24.22\00:24:25.19
I've never heard of Varangian.
00:24:25.20\00:24:27.46
They cost more
money anyway so I...Okay,
00:24:27.47\00:24:29.70
we'll go to the
other one that's cheaper.
00:24:29.71\00:24:31.38
We get to that, that location
00:24:33.31\00:24:34.90
I never leave block in
my life and standing there
00:24:34.91\00:24:39.59
with the block in
my hand and the mud
00:24:39.60\00:24:41.23
and it turns out
00:24:41.24\00:24:42.64
one of the vice-
presidents of Review
00:24:42.65\00:24:44.21
and Herald was
standing right across from me.
00:24:44.22\00:24:46.78
And he said, you
know, isn't that wonderful?
00:24:46.79\00:24:48.59
There were the
answered to the prayers
00:24:48.60\00:24:50.42
of so many people.
00:24:50.43\00:24:51.62
You know when I
guess, I don't know,
00:24:52.93\00:24:53.98
I just trying to tear up easy
00:24:53.99\00:24:55.47
and I had to turn around
00:24:55.48\00:24:57.12
because I
looked at these people,
00:24:57.13\00:24:59.19
the people they were there,
00:24:59.20\00:25:02.01
and we were there
that answered their prayer.
00:25:02.02\00:25:03.52
I haven't been
answered to anybody's prayer
00:25:03.53\00:25:05.30
for long time, for long time.
00:25:05.31\00:25:10.48
We get home in the
evening in our little tent.
00:25:10.49\00:25:13.14
We shared the tent by the way
00:25:13.15\00:25:14.68
with someone that I think
00:25:14.69\00:25:16.79
they were about in their 80's.
00:25:16.80\00:25:17.82
And they come in
the tent like this.
00:25:17.83\00:25:19.41
And forgive me if
you are watching today
00:25:20.94\00:25:22.48
or you are here in the audience,
00:25:22.49\00:25:23.46
but we had to get
to sleep right way,
00:25:23.47\00:25:26.64
because they snored so loudly,
00:25:26.65\00:25:27.97
we could never get
to sleep, but you know,
00:25:27.98\00:25:30.67
it was an absolute miracle
because he would walk out
00:25:30.68\00:25:33.59
in the morning like
this, he get to the job site
00:25:33.60\00:25:37.31
and his job was mixing the mud.
00:25:37.32\00:25:39.84
Can you believe it,
his job was mixing the mud,
00:25:39.85\00:25:41.61
and he take those five gallon
buckets and he hand them up
00:25:41.62\00:25:44.71
to everybody the
whole day, all day long.
00:25:44.72\00:25:47.18
And then at the
night time, practice.
00:25:48.52\00:25:51.89
I'll tell you, you want to
get excited on the job site,
00:25:51.90\00:25:54.50
God will give you
an infusion of energy
00:25:54.51\00:25:57.00
to go serve Him.
00:25:57.01\00:25:59.18
He is so wonderful,
He will give you power,
00:25:59.19\00:26:01.48
He will give you strength
to go out and serve Him.
00:26:01.49\00:26:04.49
Do it and try it.
00:26:06.21\00:26:08.34
Anyway we get to our
tent and we'll be so excited,
00:26:08.35\00:26:10.67
say we've got to do more of it,
00:26:10.68\00:26:12.15
this is wonderful stuff.
00:26:12.16\00:26:14.00
Soon as we got home we went
00:26:14.01\00:26:15.30
to the Maranatha
office, where are you going?
00:26:15.31\00:26:17.96
We want to go there,
we want to lead a team.
00:26:17.97\00:26:20.90
So well, we don't
really have anything right now,
00:26:20.91\00:26:22.76
he said, is there anything that,
00:26:22.77\00:26:24.10
that hasn't been
completed that we can finish.
00:26:24.11\00:26:26.52
Well, yes, there is one place
00:26:26.53\00:26:27.79
and so they said
here it is and we need it
00:26:27.80\00:26:30.10
in the next eight weeks and Wow!
00:26:30.11\00:26:31.38
Raise the whole
team in eight weeks.
00:26:31.39\00:26:33.26
Yup! Well, if God wants
it done, God will do it.
00:26:33.27\00:26:37.84
And you know, on eight weeks,
00:26:37.85\00:26:38.82
we had a team of 32 people,
00:26:38.83\00:26:40.40
we went to the Island,
00:26:40.41\00:26:41.38
we finished the whole gymnasium
00:26:41.39\00:26:42.73
in the school complex
and I got to preach, oh!
00:26:42.74\00:26:45.69
Man and it was so much fun,
00:26:45.70\00:26:47.31
I hadn't really preach
00:26:47.32\00:26:48.29
with the power of
Spirit for a long time.
00:26:48.30\00:26:51.24
Let me tell you when you preach
00:26:51.25\00:26:52.34
with the power of
the Holy Spirit, its fun,
00:26:52.35\00:26:54.97
it's exciting
because its God doing.
00:26:54.98\00:26:57.26
You just kind of get
to stand back and say,
00:26:57.27\00:26:59.03
well, Lord, where do
you come up with that?
00:26:59.04\00:27:01.58
It's great and this
continued on and on and on
00:27:01.59\00:27:06.09
and sorted our prayer
time and sorted our study time.
00:27:08.50\00:27:11.47
We began praying continually,
00:27:11.48\00:27:13.70
I began writing
in my journal Lord,
00:27:13.71\00:27:15.54
I want to reach
the world for you.
00:27:15.55\00:27:18.19
I want to reach
the world for you.
00:27:18.20\00:27:19.31
Don't ever pray a prayer
unless you really mean it.
00:27:19.32\00:27:22.75
You know, if you want
God to do great things
00:27:22.76\00:27:25.33
in your life, pray
for them, pray for them
00:27:25.34\00:27:27.84
as you serve God,
pray for the great things
00:27:27.85\00:27:30.44
because God is ready, willing,
00:27:30.45\00:27:32.60
and more than able to do it.
00:27:32.61\00:27:35.19
You know, you can
do anything God can do,
00:27:35.20\00:27:37.79
if God is living in
you, you realize that.
00:27:37.80\00:27:41.22
There is no excuse in this life
00:27:41.23\00:27:42.76
to have a
half-baked Christianity
00:27:42.77\00:27:45.16
because God in
you is all powerful.
00:27:45.17\00:27:49.68
Do you believe
that this morning?
00:27:49.69\00:27:51.40
He is all powerful.
00:27:51.41\00:27:53.44
There is no excuse
not to have a powerful,
00:27:53.45\00:27:56.02
vibrant life because He wants
00:27:56.03\00:27:57.97
to rain the
Holy Spirit upon you.
00:27:57.98\00:28:01.70
Well, we just continued on,
continued praying that prayer
00:28:01.71\00:28:05.81
and it was so
phenomenal where God led us,
00:28:05.82\00:28:07.75
I mean, it was just astounding
00:28:07.76\00:28:09.67
step by step by step.
00:28:09.68\00:28:11.31
God led us all the away
back from where I denied
00:28:11.32\00:28:14.07
God going in the ministry.
00:28:14.08\00:28:15.68
Let us all the
way back to ministry.
00:28:15.69\00:28:18.37
And I've got to take a
little pause just for a moment.
00:28:18.38\00:28:20.94
This may sounds crazy to you,
00:28:20.95\00:28:22.71
but I prayed it on
a regular basis, Lord,
00:28:22.72\00:28:25.94
show me a little
glimpse of heaven, would you?
00:28:25.95\00:28:28.54
Just a little glimpse, I mean,
00:28:28.55\00:28:30.48
you showed your profit.
00:28:30.49\00:28:33.17
It wouldn't be a big deal,
00:28:33.18\00:28:34.15
just give me a
little glimpse of heaven
00:28:34.16\00:28:35.81
and I prayed that prayer,
00:28:35.82\00:28:37.19
I think I
probably drove God crazy.
00:28:37.20\00:28:40.49
Prayed over and
over and over and over,
00:28:40.50\00:28:42.50
one day the Lord said,
Jim, you've already seen heaven.
00:28:42.51\00:28:47.71
How is that Lord?
00:28:47.72\00:28:49.41
By all the
people, I've given to you,
00:28:49.42\00:28:52.42
already the people
you have witnessed,
00:28:52.43\00:28:53.95
to the people
you have brought in,
00:28:53.96\00:28:55.71
that's what heaven is all about.
00:28:55.72\00:28:57.22
You want to see a
glimpse of heaven?
00:28:58.57\00:28:59.79
Look at all the people that
God has touched through you,
00:28:59.80\00:29:03.38
through your
ministry, that's heaven.
00:29:03.39\00:29:05.83
You want to
have a bigger heaven,
00:29:05.84\00:29:06.97
a better heaven?
00:29:06.98\00:29:08.32
Go share Jesus Christ.
00:29:08.33\00:29:10.02
That's what ASI is all about.
00:29:10.03\00:29:11.95
Having a bigger, better heaven,
00:29:11.96\00:29:13.50
populate with those who
have been called by you.
00:29:13.51\00:29:17.72
Oh, praise God!
00:29:17.73\00:29:19.17
What a God we serve.
00:29:19.18\00:29:20.66
I ended up in a
tremendous ministry
00:29:22.60\00:29:24.68
here at Adventist World Radio.
00:29:24.69\00:29:26.90
It's exciting because we speak
00:29:26.91\00:29:29.18
in 80 languages
around the world.
00:29:29.19\00:29:31.53
The major languages of the world
00:29:31.54\00:29:33.41
are on AM, FM,
shortwave, podcasting, internet.
00:29:33.42\00:29:36.80
We are baptizing people
in China for the internet.
00:29:36.81\00:29:39.68
God can do marvelous things,
00:29:39.69\00:29:42.20
but I want to share a
couple of stories with you
00:29:42.21\00:29:43.91
because I want you
to hear this morning,
00:29:43.92\00:29:46.31
the foot steps of our Holy God
00:29:46.32\00:29:47.88
because when I woke up.
00:29:47.89\00:29:49.42
When the Lord says,
you may not ever realize
00:29:49.43\00:29:53.25
that the Holy Spirit is
being poured out around you.
00:29:53.26\00:29:55.34
It was been poured
out, it was been poured out.
00:29:57.10\00:30:00.52
And brothers and sisters,
I want to tell you today,
00:30:00.53\00:30:02.88
it is been poured
out today right now.
00:30:02.89\00:30:07.34
And if you don't
recognize it, I'll say you
00:30:07.35\00:30:09.80
get on your knees right away
00:30:09.81\00:30:10.82
and say God, open my eyes.
00:30:10.83\00:30:13.62
The book of Revelation says,
00:30:13.63\00:30:14.88
he that hasn't an
ear, let him hear"
00:30:14.89\00:30:17.45
if you got just want to
ear, listen to God saying hear,
00:30:17.46\00:30:21.94
this is the way I walk
in, this is what I'm doing.
00:30:21.95\00:30:26.49
In one country
that has to go unnamed,
00:30:26.50\00:30:29.28
the Bishop of the
church in that country
00:30:29.29\00:30:31.99
wrote to all of his
priests and said you need
00:30:33.54\00:30:35.98
to be listening to
Adventist World Radio
00:30:35.99\00:30:38.41
because they are
preaching the truth.
00:30:38.42\00:30:40.54
In another short time,
we've had a 100 priests
00:30:40.55\00:30:42.61
called and say we've been
listening to your programs,
00:30:42.62\00:30:44.81
we want to
join, we want to join.
00:30:44.82\00:30:48.64
In another areas,
people are coming in so rapidly
00:30:48.65\00:30:51.16
that we can't even hardly deal
00:30:51.17\00:30:52.58
with the influx of people.
00:30:52.59\00:30:53.90
I say can you
hear the foot steps
00:30:53.91\00:30:55.92
of an approaching God? Oh!
00:30:55.93\00:30:58.58
We serve a marvelous
God in this one location,
00:30:58.59\00:31:01.73
so how do we reach these people?
00:31:01.74\00:31:03.18
How do we even get to them?
00:31:03.19\00:31:06.70
Oh! That's God's job.
00:31:06.71\00:31:08.27
This young man had a dream,
he was told to go to a city.
00:31:10.56\00:31:15.00
He was outside of Dar es Salaam
00:31:15.01\00:31:17.24
toward the Afar
people, not Afar peace,
00:31:17.25\00:31:19.51
but they are Afar people.
00:31:19.52\00:31:21.25
He had never gone to
the city in his life,
00:31:23.65\00:31:25.38
but this dream was so
strong and, of course,
00:31:25.39\00:31:27.14
everybody in that
area is strong Muslims.
00:31:27.15\00:31:29.84
Go to the city, go to
the city, finally he said,
00:31:31.01\00:31:32.99
okay, I'll go to the city.
00:31:33.00\00:31:34.47
He's wandering around the city
00:31:34.48\00:31:35.91
and he is
wondering why I'm here?
00:31:35.92\00:31:38.05
He had no idea or reason
00:31:38.06\00:31:39.64
to be there just that dream.
00:31:39.65\00:31:42.45
And there one day he sees
00:31:42.46\00:31:44.03
this young lady
playing a guitar.
00:31:44.04\00:31:45.68
He had never heard guitar music.
00:31:45.69\00:31:48.91
He was fascinated by it,
00:31:48.92\00:31:50.47
and he began
listening some more,
00:31:50.48\00:31:51.90
and soon he began to
talking with the young lady
00:31:51.91\00:31:53.89
and said, would you
like to come to a meeting?
00:31:53.90\00:31:56.68
We're going to have a
lot more guitar music.
00:31:56.69\00:31:58.92
He said, well, yes
I would, yes I would.
00:31:58.93\00:32:01.61
So he goes to the
meeting and guess what,
00:32:03.52\00:32:05.99
it's a Christian meeting.
00:32:06.00\00:32:07.61
He gives his
heart to Jesus Christ.
00:32:07.62\00:32:09.67
He goes back to his
village and the very first thing
00:32:09.68\00:32:12.27
the village does is
throw him in prison.
00:32:12.28\00:32:15.02
They hate Christians.
00:32:15.03\00:32:17.64
While he is in
prison for some reason,
00:32:17.65\00:32:19.05
he gets to keep his cell phone
00:32:19.06\00:32:20.45
and they gave him a radio.
00:32:20.46\00:32:21.50
Kind of interesting in prison,
00:32:23.11\00:32:24.37
but and by the way,
cell phone in there,
00:32:24.38\00:32:27.61
they have no electricity
in most of his village,
00:32:27.62\00:32:30.98
so someone comes by once a week,
00:32:30.99\00:32:32.34
collects all the
phones and charges them up
00:32:32.35\00:32:34.13
and brings them back.
00:32:34.14\00:32:35.44
Interesting thing!
00:32:35.45\00:32:37.26
But God is using technology
00:32:37.27\00:32:38.83
as he is tuning
the radio in prison,
00:32:38.84\00:32:40.49
he comes across AWR's program.
00:32:40.50\00:32:43.88
He didn't want
AWR, he was trying
00:32:43.89\00:32:46.01
to get the BBC news,
but we put our frequencies
00:32:46.02\00:32:48.53
as close as we can to BBC news.
00:32:48.54\00:32:50.67
And he heard and he listened.
00:32:53.05\00:32:54.51
We had just recently begun
00:32:54.52\00:32:56.21
broadcasting in that language.
00:32:56.22\00:32:57.53
Now normally we
want to use producers
00:32:57.54\00:32:59.59
who are born and
raised in a culture,
00:32:59.60\00:33:01.31
so they can
contextualize the message.
00:33:01.32\00:33:03.64
In other words, we use
Masai people who were born
00:33:03.65\00:33:07.45
and raised in the
culture for Tanzania's.
00:33:07.46\00:33:09.83
We broadcast, we
tell them how to take
00:33:09.84\00:33:11.42
a better care of the cattle.
00:33:11.43\00:33:12.85
And then we do a
segment on health and family
00:33:12.86\00:33:15.50
and then we do
the Biblical segment.
00:33:15.51\00:33:17.55
We do that in all
of these countries.
00:33:17.56\00:33:19.05
Well, we couldn't
find someone who was Afar,
00:33:19.06\00:33:23.68
but we did find
someone who spoke the language,
00:33:23.69\00:33:25.56
so we decided to use them.
00:33:25.57\00:33:26.72
We just started
broadcasting when this young man
00:33:26.73\00:33:29.59
was thrown in the
jail, tuned his radio
00:33:29.60\00:33:32.15
and he heard the
program and he said, wow!
00:33:32.16\00:33:34.08
We have no written
language and we have nobody
00:33:34.09\00:33:38.11
that ever has a radio program,
00:33:38.12\00:33:40.03
but all of a sudden,
I heard in my language,
00:33:40.04\00:33:41.78
this is good stuff.
00:33:41.79\00:33:43.54
He began listening.
He called our producer.
00:33:43.55\00:33:47.21
He said, you know, if you
did this and this and this,
00:33:47.22\00:33:49.56
it would help my people,
it would reach them better.
00:33:49.57\00:33:52.82
So we twit our program.
00:33:52.83\00:33:54.88
Next week, he
called again and say,
00:33:54.89\00:33:56.19
if you do this and this and this
00:33:56.20\00:33:57.23
and this went on for weeks.
00:33:57.24\00:33:58.45
He continually called up and say
00:33:58.46\00:34:00.74
do this and this and this.
00:34:00.75\00:34:02.90
Soon they said, you
know, you ought to come,
00:34:02.91\00:34:05.08
if you ever get out of prison,
00:34:05.09\00:34:06.39
you should come to our studio.
00:34:06.40\00:34:09.34
Sure enough, he
got out of prison,
00:34:09.35\00:34:10.98
he became our producer.
00:34:10.99\00:34:13.70
He called up about, oh!
00:34:13.71\00:34:15.29
It's been a year and half now.
00:34:15.30\00:34:16.73
He called up my
president Dr. Ben Schoun.
00:34:16.74\00:34:20.55
Ben my chief of the
village want you to come,
00:34:20.56\00:34:23.98
he would like to meet you.
00:34:23.99\00:34:25.04
Well, this was a
little bit interesting
00:34:26.37\00:34:28.31
because you know, these fellows,
00:34:28.32\00:34:29.39
I was just over
there in that area,
00:34:29.40\00:34:31.09
they carry AK47
over their shoulders
00:34:31.10\00:34:33.70
and they meet out
just as pretty rapidly
00:34:33.71\00:34:35.68
if they don't like you.
00:34:35.69\00:34:38.21
But finally the
producer convinced Ben
00:34:38.22\00:34:39.85
that he should come.
00:34:39.86\00:34:42.12
He got over there, he
sat on the chief's little hut
00:34:42.13\00:34:44.87
and as he's sitting
there, Ben is little nervous.
00:34:44.88\00:34:49.27
The first thing the
chief said is I'm listening
00:34:49.28\00:34:51.42
to your program, okay.
00:34:51.43\00:34:54.61
Do you like it? Yes
I like it very much.
00:34:54.62\00:34:57.66
Do you people listen to it?
00:34:57.67\00:34:58.92
No my people don't have radios.
00:34:58.93\00:35:01.92
Ben said, if we
give you the radios,
00:35:01.93\00:35:03.65
would you give
them to your people.
00:35:03.66\00:35:04.90
He said, yes I
would, so now get this,
00:35:04.91\00:35:08.11
we have a Muslim chief,
00:35:08.12\00:35:09.09
a tribe of
couple thousand people,
00:35:09.10\00:35:10.90
he's provided
radios to them to listen
00:35:10.91\00:35:13.10
to Adventist
programming, what do you say.
00:35:13.11\00:35:15.13
Amen. We serve our almighty God.
00:35:15.14\00:35:18.49
In Afghanistan,
we began broadcasting
00:35:18.50\00:35:21.01
in the Afghan language shortly
00:35:21.02\00:35:23.15
before George
Bush went in there.
00:35:23.16\00:35:25.21
And you know
that the government,
00:35:25.22\00:35:26.49
they put out
leaflets, they drop leaflets
00:35:27.76\00:35:29.84
to every village in the country.
00:35:29.85\00:35:31.55
People look at the leaflets,
00:35:31.56\00:35:34.87
but there was only one problem.
00:35:34.88\00:35:36.35
Most of them can't
read, US government,
00:35:37.39\00:35:43.59
I shouldn't have said that.
00:35:43.60\00:35:44.57
And then they came
up with a good idea.
00:35:47.02\00:35:51.07
They said let's do something
else, they got crank radios,
00:35:51.08\00:35:54.98
solar panels, battery operated,
00:35:54.99\00:35:57.34
and electric four
different kinds of power.
00:35:57.35\00:35:59.40
The exact radios
that we use and hand up,
00:35:59.41\00:36:01.35
the radios you
can see at our booth.
00:36:01.36\00:36:02.69
And they
dropped 250,000 of those
00:36:02.70\00:36:05.09
into every
village in Afghanistan
00:36:05.10\00:36:06.87
and now God had a way
to speak to those people,
00:36:06.88\00:36:09.89
what do you say? Amen.
00:36:09.90\00:36:11.08
Oh, I tell you, you can hear
00:36:11.09\00:36:12.38
the footsteps of
an approaching God.
00:36:12.39\00:36:14.94
In one country we're
working and very secretly
00:36:14.95\00:36:18.26
we're trying to bring the
leaders out of the country,
00:36:18.27\00:36:21.85
sneak them under
the radar to train them
00:36:21.86\00:36:23.61
in another country, so
to raise up their churches.
00:36:23.62\00:36:27.22
They're going down
the jungle pathway,
00:36:27.23\00:36:29.19
sneaking, sneaking, sneaking
00:36:29.20\00:36:30.91
and it opens up
into a wide area.
00:36:30.92\00:36:33.92
And all of a
sudden, up over the bank
00:36:33.93\00:36:35.21
comes the police and
the police have long rifles
00:36:35.22\00:36:37.67
with bayonets
attached and they are all,
00:36:37.68\00:36:39.13
there they are, get them.
00:36:39.14\00:36:40.43
And they come running
down toward our people
00:36:40.44\00:36:42.75
and our people like
deer in the headlines.
00:36:42.76\00:36:44.33
What're they going to do?
00:36:44.34\00:36:45.41
There's no place to
run and they just freeze.
00:36:45.42\00:36:48.54
The police come up
within about 10 feet
00:36:48.55\00:36:50.39
of them and they are
standing there and they said,
00:36:50.40\00:36:52.33
where do they
go, where do they go?
00:36:52.34\00:36:54.53
Plain sight, plain
sight, and all of the sudden,
00:36:54.54\00:36:57.28
the cops said,
there they are going,
00:36:57.29\00:36:58.26
they take off
running over this way,
00:36:58.27\00:37:00.73
and leave our
fellows to go on their way.
00:37:00.74\00:37:03.95
Well, I tell you, you
can hear the footsteps
00:37:03.96\00:37:06.50
of an approaching God.
00:37:06.51\00:37:09.71
I was just
recently, we were filming
00:37:09.72\00:37:11.22
for our Making
Ways Television Program
00:37:11.23\00:37:13.02
down in Madagascar.
00:37:13.03\00:37:15.82
Wow! Is God doing
mighty things there?
00:37:15.83\00:37:18.47
Everywhere people will
hear the program one time
00:37:18.48\00:37:22.64
and they say, this is the truth.
00:37:22.65\00:37:27.03
How is it we hear
in the United States,
00:37:27.04\00:37:28.80
we do all these
things, we go back and forth,
00:37:28.81\00:37:31.14
we say, is this
the truth walked,
00:37:31.15\00:37:32.45
this really be
correct, is this right?
00:37:32.46\00:37:34.79
They hear it one
time and they altered
00:37:34.80\00:37:36.37
and changed their
entire lives for Jesus Christ.
00:37:36.38\00:37:40.12
I talked with a lady
who had communed with demons
00:37:40.13\00:37:42.89
in her home just
like we're talking today.
00:37:42.90\00:37:45.96
Commune with the
demons openly for years
00:37:45.97\00:37:48.16
and they wanted
to make her witch.
00:37:48.17\00:37:49.63
They took her down to the river,
00:37:49.64\00:37:51.42
they submerged her
underneath the water
00:37:51.43\00:37:54.31
for a day and a half.
00:37:54.32\00:37:56.11
Get me don't miss
this, underneath the water
00:37:56.12\00:37:58.12
for a day and a half,
00:37:58.13\00:37:59.10
she talked with
the demons there.
00:37:59.11\00:38:00.93
They gave her powers
00:38:00.94\00:38:01.91
that over
lightening many other things.
00:38:01.92\00:38:03.57
She was famous in her area
00:38:03.58\00:38:05.18
for all the powers
that she possessed.
00:38:05.19\00:38:07.49
But then through
a series of events,
00:38:07.50\00:38:09.10
God led her step by step
she heard the radio programs,
00:38:09.11\00:38:12.70
she said, this is the truth.
00:38:12.71\00:38:14.62
She was
delivered from the demons
00:38:14.63\00:38:16.67
by the power of
people prayed for her.
00:38:16.68\00:38:18.89
And now as she has
been sharing herself,
00:38:20.87\00:38:24.12
she has 100 people
that are coming together
00:38:24.13\00:38:26.47
every Sabbath to worship
00:38:26.48\00:38:27.92
the creator God of the Universe.
00:38:27.93\00:38:30.30
Tell me God isn't powerful,
00:38:30.31\00:38:32.19
and God has the
same kind of power
00:38:32.20\00:38:33.85
to deliver you
whatever your problems are.
00:38:33.86\00:38:36.23
God has the power to change you,
00:38:36.24\00:38:39.24
God has the power to
mould you, and make you,
00:38:39.25\00:38:41.71
and shape you into his image
00:38:41.72\00:38:43.85
and he wants to
do that very thing.
00:38:43.86\00:38:46.95
He wants to prepare
you for His soon coming.
00:38:48.09\00:38:51.21
Oh, mighty, mighty miracles.
00:38:51.22\00:38:54.48
In one country again, I
can't disclose the country
00:38:54.49\00:38:57.49
but we tried to sneak someone
00:38:57.50\00:39:00.31
into this particular
area for a long time.
00:39:00.32\00:39:02.26
One fellow was shot
and killed and another one
00:39:02.27\00:39:04.23
narrowly escaped with his life.
00:39:04.24\00:39:06.22
But we wanted to
see what we had heard
00:39:06.23\00:39:08.35
that there was a great
work going on through AWR.
00:39:08.36\00:39:11.99
Finally, someone
got up into that area.
00:39:12.00\00:39:14.20
He got to this first village,
00:39:15.93\00:39:17.09
I called them villages
00:39:17.10\00:39:18.07
but there are thousand
and thousands of people.
00:39:18.08\00:39:20.47
Everybody was a
Seventh-day Sabbath Keeper.
00:39:22.04\00:39:24.83
He went to the chief, he said,
00:39:24.84\00:39:26.27
how did this happen.
00:39:26.28\00:39:27.56
The chief said,
well, it's like this,
00:39:27.57\00:39:29.00
one day a large
man in imposing figure
00:39:29.01\00:39:31.28
of great stature with
an aura of light about him,
00:39:31.29\00:39:35.41
came into our village,
wanted to see the chief,
00:39:35.42\00:39:37.59
I sat down with him.
00:39:37.60\00:39:38.89
He pulled out a radio.
00:39:38.90\00:39:41.52
He tuned to the dial to our AWR,
00:39:41.53\00:39:44.17
he showed me how to tune,
and he said listen to this,
00:39:44.18\00:39:46.82
it will bless you and
it will bless your people.
00:39:46.83\00:39:50.32
I took the radio
out of his hands,
00:39:50.33\00:39:51.71
I turned to the
fellow next to me.
00:39:51.72\00:39:53.97
We talked for just a
moment, we turned back
00:39:53.98\00:39:55.76
and he had disappeared.
00:39:55.77\00:39:57.88
We took this as
some kind of signs
00:39:57.89\00:39:59.59
and they are anonymous there.
00:39:59.60\00:40:00.95
We took this as some
kind of sign that we should do
00:40:00.96\00:40:03.33
what he said, and
we all fell in love
00:40:03.34\00:40:05.47
with Jesus Christ.
00:40:05.48\00:40:07.68
Praise God, and our
fellow got to a second village,
00:40:07.69\00:40:10.06
many, many miles away,
00:40:10.07\00:40:11.38
they don't
travel between villages.
00:40:11.39\00:40:14.00
It's too far away but our fellow
00:40:14.01\00:40:15.18
got to second village,
00:40:15.19\00:40:16.40
guess what he
discovered, same thing,
00:40:16.41\00:40:18.91
same story that
he said a large man
00:40:18.92\00:40:20.99
in imposing
figure of great stature
00:40:21.00\00:40:22.62
with an aura of light about
him, came into our village.
00:40:22.63\00:40:26.25
Three villages, four villages,
00:40:26.26\00:40:27.73
five villages, six villages,
00:40:27.74\00:40:29.25
recently we
discovered six more villages.
00:40:29.26\00:40:31.45
We believe there is
hundred of thousands of people
00:40:31.46\00:40:35.13
in that area, because
somebody brought radios
00:40:35.14\00:40:39.85
that had an aura
of light about it.
00:40:39.86\00:40:42.11
Can you hear brothers
and sisters the footsteps
00:40:42.12\00:40:44.82
of an approaching God?
00:40:44.83\00:40:46.65
Can you hear this morning?
00:40:46.66\00:40:48.47
God is out there,
00:40:48.48\00:40:49.45
He's coming
soon to take us home.
00:40:49.46\00:40:53.14
One country were
distributing DVDs,
00:40:53.15\00:40:55.08
they all have our name on them,
00:40:55.09\00:40:56.26
we pack them up
nicely, we'll put them
00:40:56.27\00:40:58.29
on a little mopeds and
go putting down the street.
00:40:58.30\00:41:02.04
But the police
don't want us to do it,
00:41:02.05\00:41:03.70
they hate the gospel message.
00:41:03.71\00:41:06.49
Putt down the street away,
00:41:06.50\00:41:07.61
set them on the street corner,
00:41:07.62\00:41:09.08
pretty soon another
motorcycle comes up,
00:41:09.09\00:41:10.83
putt, putt, putt, stops
picks him up, loads them on.
00:41:10.84\00:41:13.70
Down the street
they go little further,
00:41:13.71\00:41:15.94
you know, kind of
like a New York drug deal.
00:41:15.95\00:41:18.25
You get caught, I don't
know where they came from
00:41:20.46\00:41:22.33
and he has found
them on the street.
00:41:22.34\00:41:25.03
Well, one of our
fellows the police pointed
00:41:25.04\00:41:26.94
a special task force, they hate
00:41:26.95\00:41:29.16
what we're doing so much.
00:41:29.17\00:41:30.68
This police force
only pays attention
00:41:30.69\00:41:33.17
to try and catch our people.
00:41:33.18\00:41:35.69
They threw out whole
drag net into this area
00:41:35.70\00:41:37.80
and strewn up, one of
our fellows was there.
00:41:37.81\00:41:39.95
He's thinking I'm either dead
00:41:39.96\00:41:41.37
or I'm going to prison forever.
00:41:41.38\00:41:42.91
They are searching
every vehicle, every person,
00:41:42.92\00:41:45.11
they get up to him,
they open his boxes up,
00:41:45.12\00:41:47.28
they look at every DVD
and the name on every DVD,
00:41:47.29\00:41:50.17
they pack them all back
up, they send him on his way,
00:41:50.18\00:41:53.11
they never saw a think.
00:41:53.12\00:41:54.70
Oh, I tell you, the
footsteps of an approaching God.
00:41:55.99\00:41:59.70
Again we do a lot of sneaking,
00:42:01.56\00:42:04.16
sneaking people
out of another place.
00:42:04.17\00:42:06.15
They watch the petrol
boats, go by on the river.
00:42:06.16\00:42:09.59
Everybody piles in the boat,
00:42:09.60\00:42:10.96
they put rice
straw on top of the boat.
00:42:10.97\00:42:12.75
They start heading
out across the river,
00:42:12.76\00:42:14.96
half way out an
unexpected petrol boat comes.
00:42:14.97\00:42:18.05
They stop they've got
bandits, chukum, chukum,
00:42:18.06\00:42:21.60
chukum down through the boat.
00:42:21.61\00:42:23.80
Our fellows later
on said they could feel
00:42:23.81\00:42:25.90
the knife blades
in between their legs,
00:42:25.91\00:42:28.36
between touching their
skin, never hurt a single one
00:42:28.37\00:42:32.07
the police sent
them on their way.
00:42:32.08\00:42:34.69
Oh, yeah.
00:42:34.70\00:42:35.92
I talk with a fellow up
in Burma, little bitty guy,
00:42:39.30\00:42:45.93
about this tall,
sweet little fellow.
00:42:45.94\00:42:49.08
He said, you know, he said
00:42:50.36\00:42:51.42
the landlord for
years owed me money.
00:42:51.43\00:42:53.52
I kept trying over time to get
00:42:53.53\00:42:55.27
the money from the landlord.
00:42:55.28\00:42:56.48
He would not pay me.
00:42:56.49\00:42:58.04
He wouldn't pay me a cent.
00:42:58.05\00:42:59.45
Finally one day
I was determined,
00:42:59.46\00:43:00.70
I had to have the money,
00:43:00.71\00:43:01.86
I was going to get it that day.
00:43:01.87\00:43:04.79
He went he ended up
killing the landlord.
00:43:04.80\00:43:09.01
They send him to prison.
00:43:09.02\00:43:11.33
While he's in prison,
00:43:11.34\00:43:12.40
he kills the head
of all the prisoners,
00:43:12.41\00:43:15.37
this sweet little guy.
00:43:15.38\00:43:18.22
They send him out
to an island to die.
00:43:18.23\00:43:20.03
That's where they sent
encroachable, out to die,
00:43:20.04\00:43:22.03
but for some reason
in four and half years
00:43:22.04\00:43:24.59
they let him go.
00:43:24.60\00:43:25.96
They send him home,
00:43:25.97\00:43:27.03
they don't even
tell him why to this day.
00:43:27.04\00:43:28.76
He doesn't know
exactly why they let him
00:43:28.77\00:43:30.53
go other then the lord.
00:43:30.54\00:43:33.49
There's soon there
is a knock at his door.
00:43:33.50\00:43:36.77
He open's the
door into his old house
00:43:36.78\00:43:38.42
where he moved back.
00:43:38.43\00:43:39.40
There's a couple from next door
00:43:39.41\00:43:41.48
and they have got a
radio in their hands.
00:43:41.49\00:43:43.38
A sweet Baptist
couple, they hand him the radio
00:43:43.39\00:43:45.76
and said you should
listen to this program,
00:43:45.77\00:43:47.31
it will change your
life, AWR, praise the lord.
00:43:47.32\00:43:50.31
He turned it on and
sure enough he fell in love
00:43:50.32\00:43:53.08
with Jesus and
his name is translated
00:43:53.09\00:43:57.28
in the English,
shining, brightening.
00:43:57.29\00:44:00.17
And certainly he shines
bright for Jesus Christ.
00:44:00.18\00:44:02.96
The other day we
filmed a story in Kenya.
00:44:05.68\00:44:10.23
The fellow had
been raised a Christian,
00:44:10.24\00:44:11.68
young man raised a Christian.
00:44:11.69\00:44:14.01
But he absolutely didn't
like the gospel message at all.
00:44:14.02\00:44:17.59
He didn't want
anything to do with it.
00:44:17.60\00:44:19.53
And so he just said
finally to his family,
00:44:19.54\00:44:23.80
I'm not going
to church any more,
00:44:23.81\00:44:25.64
I'm not going to
follow any of these
00:44:25.65\00:44:27.48
and he took off and
he became a truck driver.
00:44:27.49\00:44:30.14
And he said you
know, I did everything
00:44:30.15\00:44:32.00
the truck drivers do.
00:44:32.01\00:44:33.13
He said I drank, I smoked,
00:44:33.14\00:44:34.55
I did all the
other illicit things.
00:44:34.56\00:44:36.64
He said my life just
went down and down and down.
00:44:38.32\00:44:40.80
He said our job
was to haul freight
00:44:40.81\00:44:42.77
from one side of Kenya
out to the ocean to the other,
00:44:42.78\00:44:45.30
and we had to drive
through Tsavo National Park.
00:44:45.31\00:44:48.23
Now Tsavo T-S-A-V-O,
00:44:48.24\00:44:50.16
is known for its
man-eating lions.
00:44:50.17\00:44:52.44
You can Google it
and you'll find it.
00:44:52.45\00:44:55.76
Well, they
always want him to drive
00:44:55.77\00:44:57.78
through there in the day time
00:44:57.79\00:44:58.90
for that specific reason.
00:44:58.91\00:45:00.42
But this one
time they had to drive
00:45:00.43\00:45:02.70
through there at night.
00:45:02.71\00:45:04.14
And so he and his partner
were not very happy about it,
00:45:04.15\00:45:06.68
but they decided to do it.
00:45:06.69\00:45:08.40
They are traveling along
00:45:08.41\00:45:09.43
and all of a sudden, guess what?
00:45:09.44\00:45:10.80
In the middle of
that park they break down.
00:45:10.81\00:45:14.23
Well, they roll up the windows,
00:45:14.24\00:45:15.65
they call for help,
and they are so far away,
00:45:15.66\00:45:18.08
he helpers will be
there in the morning.
00:45:18.09\00:45:21.02
So they hunker
down for the night,
00:45:21.03\00:45:22.21
he turns on the radio.
00:45:22.22\00:45:23.77
On the radio,
there was a preacher
00:45:23.78\00:45:26.07
preaching about Jesus Christ.
00:45:26.08\00:45:28.12
And gives a call you said
00:45:28.13\00:45:29.72
accept Jesus Christ now today.
00:45:29.73\00:45:32.68
He turns off the radio.
00:45:32.69\00:45:34.88
He thinks about
it, I don't know,
00:45:34.89\00:45:37.45
his partner
isn't very interested
00:45:37.46\00:45:39.19
and in the next
second on this side,
00:45:39.20\00:45:41.34
remember drivers are reversed,
00:45:41.35\00:45:42.90
on this side a lion, a
big four hundred pound male
00:45:42.91\00:45:46.49
comes up and pokes his head
00:45:46.50\00:45:47.83
against the glass and stares in.
00:45:47.84\00:45:50.78
Now they are little
nervous and then he watches
00:45:50.79\00:45:53.51
the lion go out
about twenty feet away
00:45:53.52\00:45:56.16
and the lion
takes a running dash up,
00:45:56.17\00:45:58.85
breaks through the wind shield,
00:45:58.86\00:46:00.19
they don't have
windshield like we do,
00:46:00.20\00:46:01.67
they are like safety
glass it just explode.
00:46:01.68\00:46:03.62
That lion grabbed his
partner ripped him out
00:46:03.63\00:46:06.23
of the vehicle and
began eating him right
00:46:06.24\00:46:08.47
in front of him.
00:46:08.48\00:46:09.70
Now, that's a real
come to Jesus moment,
00:46:09.71\00:46:11.94
and he prayed
Lord if you save me
00:46:14.80\00:46:16.57
I'll serve you
the rest of my life.
00:46:16.58\00:46:18.53
And in just another
moment a car drove up
00:46:19.61\00:46:22.07
the opposite
direction with the lights on
00:46:22.08\00:46:24.31
and he figured this
person is too scared
00:46:24.32\00:46:26.40
to continue on and drive on.
00:46:26.41\00:46:28.09
And as he was there
he continued to watch
00:46:29.75\00:46:32.69
and I won't even go
into all the details,
00:46:32.70\00:46:34.84
but he sat there and
said Lord please help me,
00:46:34.85\00:46:37.07
please help me, please help me.
00:46:37.08\00:46:39.42
And that lion was
finished and the lion walked up
00:46:39.43\00:46:41.84
and put his pause on the dash
00:46:41.85\00:46:43.55
and looked in at him
and then he backed up again
00:46:43.56\00:46:47.35
just like he had previously.
00:46:47.36\00:46:49.80
And he took a running,
flying leap in his pause,
00:46:49.81\00:46:52.37
hit the dash and he
went up on top of the vehicle
00:46:52.38\00:46:56.59
where he slept the entire night.
00:46:56.60\00:46:59.39
The next morning
the person in the car
00:46:59.40\00:47:01.49
who had the lights on
from the other direction
00:47:01.50\00:47:03.15
got out of the car.
00:47:03.16\00:47:04.27
It was a little sweet
old lady, she came up to him
00:47:04.28\00:47:07.54
she put her
finger up to his chest,
00:47:07.55\00:47:09.11
she said are you a Christian?
00:47:09.12\00:47:11.30
He said, well,
I... yes, I guess I'm.
00:47:11.31\00:47:14.15
Listen to this now, she
said you need to go home
00:47:16.43\00:47:18.99
and study and pray
and she turned around
00:47:19.00\00:47:21.47
and she got in the car and left.
00:47:21.48\00:47:23.35
I don't think that was a person.
00:47:23.36\00:47:26.65
I think that had to be his angel
00:47:26.66\00:47:29.37
that held that
lion's mouth that night.
00:47:29.38\00:47:31.98
Why would you ever say
such a thing to a person?
00:47:31.99\00:47:35.28
I tell you brothers and
sisters though the devil
00:47:35.29\00:47:38.87
is ready to
destroy each one of us,
00:47:38.88\00:47:41.08
the devil is
ready to destroy you
00:47:41.09\00:47:42.81
at our heart beat and we
can be doing the God's work.
00:47:42.82\00:47:48.81
We can be doing
everything for God.
00:47:48.82\00:47:51.17
We can be giving all
our money to the God.
00:47:51.18\00:47:52.84
We can be giving
all of our time to God,
00:47:52.85\00:47:54.63
and we can be lost.
00:47:54.64\00:47:57.76
Because slowly
imperceptibly, we say,
00:47:57.77\00:48:01.68
well, I don't have quiet
as much time today to study.
00:48:01.69\00:48:05.39
I don't have
quiet as much time today
00:48:05.40\00:48:07.30
because the job calls
for this and calls for that
00:48:07.31\00:48:10.86
and so just a
little less time today.
00:48:10.87\00:48:13.15
And soon there will be
less and less and less time.
00:48:13.16\00:48:19.37
And soon you will have
00:48:20.81\00:48:22.48
no relationship
with your creator.
00:48:22.49\00:48:24.96
You will no longer
know Him because the devil
00:48:24.97\00:48:28.43
will have stolen
that completely from you.
00:48:28.44\00:48:30.95
Make no mistake about it,
we live in perilous times.
00:48:30.96\00:48:34.61
This is not a time
to read good things
00:48:34.62\00:48:36.66
like Readers Digest.
00:48:36.67\00:48:37.93
This is not a time to
watch good TV programs
00:48:37.94\00:48:40.61
whatever they may be.
00:48:40.62\00:48:41.82
This is a time to be
on our knees in praying.
00:48:43.57\00:48:46.89
This is a time to be
on our knees and studying.
00:48:46.90\00:48:49.48
Felix, remember
Felix and Drusilla,
00:48:53.52\00:48:55.76
Drusilla was his second wife.
00:48:55.77\00:48:58.95
Felix was a great man
now he purchased his freedom.
00:48:58.96\00:49:04.25
He was a ruthless ruler
and he had Paul in prison.
00:49:04.26\00:49:08.17
Paul stood
before that man one day
00:49:12.46\00:49:16.04
and he began talking with him.
00:49:16.05\00:49:19.10
He laid out judgment,
00:49:19.11\00:49:20.60
he laid out the
coming of Christ.
00:49:20.61\00:49:23.73
He laid out the gospel
message in all of its beauty,
00:49:23.74\00:49:26.72
but here laid out judgment.
00:49:26.73\00:49:28.37
And he said Felix
tremble, God laid out
00:49:30.34\00:49:34.11
before him in panoramic
view all the things he had done.
00:49:34.12\00:49:38.72
And he trembled
and he said, Paul,
00:49:38.73\00:49:43.41
I'll call you at a
more convenient time,
00:49:43.42\00:49:46.47
I'll call you at a
more convenient time.
00:49:48.76\00:49:52.12
And then we find
in Acts Chapter 26.
00:49:52.13\00:49:55.96
We find Paul before Agrippa,
00:49:55.97\00:49:59.56
oh the great leader Agrippa.
00:49:59.57\00:50:01.23
Wow! Paul you've
almost convinced me,
00:50:06.10\00:50:11.84
almost convinced me.
00:50:11.85\00:50:14.09
I've wondered
sometimes, I've thought
00:50:17.01\00:50:18.87
about this I had
a daymare, you know
00:50:18.88\00:50:20.84
what a daymare
is like a nightmare,
00:50:20.85\00:50:22.25
only it's in the
middle of the day.
00:50:22.26\00:50:23.36
I came up in the resurrection
00:50:25.71\00:50:27.31
and there this
beast standing before me
00:50:28.93\00:50:31.87
with sagging flesh on his jaws.
00:50:31.88\00:50:34.16
And he said I raised you
up, we can take that city.
00:50:34.17\00:50:37.88
What a horrible thought,
what a horrible thought.
00:50:42.34\00:50:46.55
Paul you have
almost convinced me,
00:50:46.56\00:50:51.28
you have almost convinced me.
00:50:51.29\00:50:52.56
And then Philippian
Jailer, we talk about
00:50:54.76\00:50:57.99
the Jailhouse Rock.
00:50:58.00\00:50:59.39
Paul prayed and
the whole jail shook,
00:50:59.40\00:51:01.48
the whole earth
shook, every door,
00:51:01.49\00:51:04.27
every rock split out of
its place and the jailor said,
00:51:04.28\00:51:07.39
what must I do to be saved?
00:51:07.40\00:51:09.54
What must I do to
be saved three men?
00:51:11.25\00:51:14.58
Oh, three men,
different stories.
00:51:14.59\00:51:17.27
They only one with the
good ending is the jailor.
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How many of you here
have ever played monopoly?
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It's well its
probably on live TV
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or what camera you
won't want to save?
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Quiet a few of
you raise your hands.
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Monopoly, young man
he loved to began...
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he started playing with grandma,
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and he just loved to do it.
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He wasn't very good at a chip,
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but he loved to
can out the money.
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He left so much,
you know, 5s, 10s, 20s
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stick them all on
board, roll around and go
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and what do you
collect when you go around go?
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Oh, you know.
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He just loved it,
but he soon he noticed,
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you know, grandma
as things are going on,
00:51:50.98\00:51:53.49
grandma would start
buying this property
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and buying that property,
and he had to pay rent,
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and he didn't like to pay rent.
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And soon all of
his money was gone
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and he, oh, he just hated it.
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The final time
grandma wanted to stop
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he said grandma I just hate it.
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Honey, honey, what?
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One day you'll understand.
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Oh! Grandma, he
went away that summer,
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he found a
friend, he learned to play
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tremendously well.
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He was ready now, I mean,
00:52:22.06\00:52:23.20
he was ready to beat grandma,
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he won every
single game all the time.
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He got back to grandma
and said let's play grandma.
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He's starts
stacking out the money,
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oh, and he's ready and
they go round and round
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and round and round and
you know how monopoly goes.
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He was having a wonderful time,
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now he's beating,
oh, he's getting in soon.
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He's got
everything, every hotel,
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every apartment
complex, every rail road,
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he's got it all.
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And he grabs
the fistful of money
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and he said I beat you grandma.
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She says honey, what?
00:52:51.94\00:52:54.26
One day you'll understand.
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What do you mean
grandma one day I'll understand.
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One day honey
you will understand.
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Oh, grandma, what
do you talking about?
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Honey, honey
when the game is over,
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it all goes back in the box.
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I'm glad to hear
you got it, because
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it's so important
brothers and sisters.
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Everything,
everything you've got,
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everything I've got,
everything we work for,
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it's gonna be worthless.
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God's paving the
city with streets of gold,
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He doesn't need our
stuff, He needs you,
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He needs me, He needs
a relationship with us.
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This is life eternal
if they might know thee
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and I wonder this
morning how many of you
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really want to
spend time with God.
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Make a new covenant right now.
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God I want to
spend time with you.
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Let me see your
hands. Praise God.
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