Today is my favorite
day at GYC, amen, amen.
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Not only is it the
Sabbath Day, but today
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is the Outreach Day.
Today is your opportunity
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to take what you have
learned in those seminars
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and put it into
action. To take that enthusiasm
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and excitement I
have been seeing,
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and bring it to
the streets, amen.
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The very first year
I believe there were 17
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buses, this year there were 50.
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So, the number of
buses, there are so
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many people that want to go.
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Outreach becomes
the highlight of GYC.
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Young people went out;
sometimes for the first
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time they will keep
doing it from here on now.
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I think if there's
just a couple of hundred
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people, this
could be like a social
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phenomenon, but
seeing there are thousands,
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couple of thousand
of people coming here.
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There is definitely a need.
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Okay guys in the
back door be sure to pray
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with people when you
have done it, if they
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have a spiritual
interest. It is crucial.
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It has melted so many hearts.
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I have had friends
who were creative people,
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who were atheists
and agnostics, and it's
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melted their hearts guys.
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You have no idea
about the power of prayer.
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Yeah, we don't
necessarily look like
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a Bible worker type of people.
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This is our first time
doing this sort of thing.
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And we had gone to
the store and the door
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opened up and a
lady who is dress in
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scrubs said,
yeah what do you want?
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At first it was
little bit skeptic.
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As soon as we
mentioned religion and
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God, his face
completely changed.
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As she goes, oh
talking about God, my son,
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my son just tried to
commit suicide last night.
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All the same time
they have lost a job, their
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spouses left them and they had
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a death in the
family. He lost nine family
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members within eight months.
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And he just
continued to share why would
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God allow this to happen, why?
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Right in there it was a
moment saying we need to
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come and pray with
you, can we pray with you.
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And they all came together.
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There was mellow
music in the background and
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we asked the family
to come gather round,
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they gathered around
and they just you know,
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wide knuckles just
clinched, confused,
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wondering why
their son have done this?
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And we got down
there and we prayed with
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them, and we encouraged
them with the prayers.
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As soon as we
prayed, the Lord just started
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opening up things for us.
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It's just like
God can use anyone.
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It's like God let you
to us. It sounds like God
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did lead us, God
did lead us to you man.
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And so I said to a
Monsieur if you are
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interested, we have
a means through which
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you can start
reading the Bible again.
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You can actually
study for a deeper meaning.
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She took the Bible studies.
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So we signed him
up for Bible studies.
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We signed up for
more Bible studies.
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It was so clear
that the Holy Spirit,
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which is at that moment.
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And it was just such a blessing.
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I don't know about
you, but when I watch a
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video like that, it
makes me very proud of the
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fact that ASI
supports GYC, amen.
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Amen! I have two
officers from GYC here
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with me today
Alonna Smith and Justine
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McNeilus, and
Alonna I want to ask you
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a question; are you
involved with GYC and
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Justine as well
because of the big bucks they
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pay you working at GYC, right?
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No GYC is an organization
that is run all by young
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people who are
volunteering their time.
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So, it's not the big bucks,
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you're a volunteer?
No, no that's right.
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Tell me a little bit more about
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what makes GYC unique?
GYC is an organization,
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a growing organization
that is run by young
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people for young
people, and it is
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committed to the
distinct views of the
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Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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Justin, let me
ask you this question.
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How is GYC making an impact on
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Seventh-day
Adventist young people?
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Well, I think it's
interesting and just
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of kind a piggyback
and something Alonna was
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saying, but we do
stand for the 27, 28
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Fundamental Beliefs
of the Adventist Church.
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And that includes
Seven Day creation,
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all the things that
the Church stands for.
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And when young
people catch onto that,
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you can't stop
them. They come to a
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convention like
this. They see that young
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people can lead
out in the Church.
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They see we
showcase what other young
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people are doing
around the world.
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They see that and
it creates such a fire,
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such an enthusiasm
they can't be stopped.
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And if I can just
share something real quick,
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this last conference
or two conferences ago,
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group of young
people met at GYC.
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They had a heart
for Africa, and they
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thought to themselves, what
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could we do in
Africa? And they thought,
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well we'll just
start planning Evangelistic
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series in Africa.
So, last night as you
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and I slept in our
comfortable beds in the
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air conditioning,
a group of GYC young
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people were in the
heart of Ethiopia in
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the middle of a
desert preaching the Gospel.
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Amen. Isn't that inspiring?
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Justin I have
another question for you.
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We saw the video
with the Outreach and
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I believe that
something it's a part of your
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Convention every
year. What happened last
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year at the end
of that Outreach?
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Without a doubt,
the highlight, shouldn't
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necessarily say
that, there is a lot of
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highlights of GYC,
but one of the highlights
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that all young
people look forward to
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is the Outreach
Day. And it gets very
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exciting young people;
it's almost like positive
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peer pressure.
So, you have got this
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massive young
people, I think we sent out
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about 24-2500 young
people into the City of
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Louisville,
Kentucky because of your
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donation. And out
they went into the buses,
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into the streets
thousands of requests
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for Bible studies,
the local Church followed
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up with it. And, and
it just creates this,
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this passion and
this excitement in young
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people, and if I can
just share one another thing.
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I was over in
Manchester, England
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just a short time
ago, and this young lady
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came out to me and she
said Justin guess what?
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I'm from Scotland and
I was at GYC last year.
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So, I said well
tell me a little more.
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And, and she said,
I went on Outreach.
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I said, well
yeah lot of people go.
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She said, yeah but
I went on Outreach,
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I never go on
Outreach. I saw all these young
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people, my friends
were pulling me along,
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so I went on
Outreach and, and I was so
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nervous, but I did
it because everyone else
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was doing it. And
so this young lady
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went to the door and
she said, guess what,
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I signed up one
for Bible studies.
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And the smile lit up
in her face and she said,
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but I didn't stop
there. I went back to Scotland
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and you know what I found?
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No one does door-to-door
Ministry in Scotland.
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And she said you know,
I just got together with
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a group of young
people in Scotland and
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there each Sabbath
we go out door-to-door
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finding people for Jesus, amen.
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Because of a
simple Outreach Day, even
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because of your
donation here at GYC,
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at ASI excuse me, a
group of young people
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go out each Sabbath
in Scotland and there
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maybe the only group going out
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door-to-door there,
amen. Now, Alonna where is
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GYC gonna be doing its Outreach
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and having its
Convention this year.
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GYC will be
December 29 to January
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2nd in Baltimore,
Maryland and you are
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all invited. We
would love to have each
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of you join us
there. We're gonna have many
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of the same speakers
that are here at ASI.
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We're gonna have
Mark Finley, Bill Knott,
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David Asscherick,
and Elder Ted Wilson
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will be speaking for
our Sabbath message as well.
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So, consider this
your personal invitation to
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come to Baltimore and join us.
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Even if you are over age 30.
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Even if you are over age 30.
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Alright, you are all
very welcome to come,
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thank you so very, very much.
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My next guest is
Dr. Michael Hasel.
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Dr. Michael Hasel is
an archeologist that works
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at the School of
Religion at Southern
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Adventist University and welcome
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Dr. Michael Hasel.
It's great to be here.
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Tell me, why is the
Bible and its history
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so important for
the mission and message
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our Seventh-day
Adventist Church?
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Well, I think when
we go back in history,
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and we look at
the beginnings of this
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movement, we see
the Adventist Church
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pioneers basing everything,
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their entire
existence, their entire message
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mission on
scripture. That was the root of
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what started this movement.
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And I think it's
extremely important
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as we look at our
future, and as we look at our
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mission and our
message for the end
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of time that we
continue to be rooted in that
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scripture. Jesus
said in Corinthians when
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there was a question
about the resurrection
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among the members in Corinth.
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Some seize to
believe in the resurrection
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and so forth. He made
a very vital connection
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between what actually
happened in history and
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our current belief,
and he says if you don't
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believe in resurrection
then not even Jesus has
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been raised from the dead.
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And if He is not been
raise from the dead then
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your preaching is in
vain and your faith also.
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And I think that's a
vital message for us today
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that as we look back
into Biblical history,
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if those things didn't
take place, the way the
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Bible describes
and what are we doing
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in Evangelism,
what are we doing around
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the world as we
prepare people for
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the Second Coming of Christ.
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Without the
authority of scripture a lot of
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things fall apart. That's right.
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Here is the next
question for you;
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we know that there are
always challenges to the
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authority of
scripture. Why and how does
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archeology and
science play a role
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in looking at the
history of scripture?
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I think in our
Post-Modern Age in
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which we live today,
we have an increasing
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number of challenges
that are being brought
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to the
forefront. We have questions
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about creation of
course. Evolution is being
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taught widely and is in
the media all around us.
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We have
questions about even basic
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Biblical figures that
we have taken for granted
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as a Church for many years.
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In the last 20 years one
of those figures that has
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been attacked very,
very keenly is David
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and Solomon, and if
you remove David from
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history, a lot falls by
the way side including the
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promise of a
Messiah, which David of course
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was the
beginning of that lineage
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for Jesus Christ
himself. Sure, sure. Now Sandra
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and I, my wife had the
privilege of joining you
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on an archeological dig
at Khirbet Qeiyafa or in
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Israel today. What
did you find on that dig?
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Well, that's
incredible I'm gonna let the
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students on this video
tell us a little bit about
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what we have find and then
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I'll expand on that a
little bit. Excellent.
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My name is Luther
and I'm a business major.
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As a young person
growing up in an age of
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higher criticism, I
think it's very easy to become
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skeptical of the Bible and the
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religion as a
whole. But as I have been
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here in Israel and as I
have seen Biblical sites
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with my own eyes,
as I have touched each
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of artifacts with my
hands, I feel like the
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Bible has become a
much more relevant,
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intangible part of my life.
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My name is Ross and
I'm a theology major
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and I found an
awesome silver coin
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from the time of
Alexander the Great.
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My name is Sarah and I'm a
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nursing major
and I found a bone.
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My name is Heather and
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I found a finger print handle.
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My name is Joel and I
found a flint arrowhead.
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My name is Fluend
and I found a bluestone.
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I found a juglet. I
found a grinding stone.
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I found a stone platter.
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My name is Anna Lee and I found
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these funky huge teeth.
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My name is Gin and
I'm an animation major
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and I found
this metal made coin.
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My name is Rachel,
I'm an art education major
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and I found an arrowhead.
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My name is Cecil and I
found the stone mortar.
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My name is Houston, I
found some roman glass.
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I found an Iron Age vessel.
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I found this monument.
I found a spindle whorl.
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My name is Clay,
I'm an archeology major
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and I found an
Iron Age torch jar.
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I'm Steven and I found
iron daggers and swords.
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My name is Kristen and
I found a floor of Iron
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Age storable
vessels. My name is Luke and
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I'm an archeology
major. This is my first
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excavation in Israel
and being this close to
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Biblical history
that show me that
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I definitely
picked the right major.
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I tell you having
been at that site,
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and actually digging
in the dirt and finding
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some of these
artifacts that I knew was from
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the time of David
or you know, slightly
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thereafter how
exciting that was to be able to
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touch a piece of
Biblical history.
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And as we look at
all these students and we
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see what they are
finding Dr. Hasel,
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why are these
artifacts important?
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Well again with
the whole debate over
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David, we have for
the first time been
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excavating a site
that dates right at
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the beginning of his monarchy.
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We know that from
the pottery, you heard
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that term Iron Age
over-and-over again.
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Well, just translate
that to the time of David.
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And so we're talking
about 3000 years ago.
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We're talking about
whole vessels that are
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lying on floors, in rooms,
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in huge monumental
wall surrounding this
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fortification, right
in the Elah Valley where
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the famous battle
of with over David and
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Goliath took
place, between David and
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Goliath and, and
it's a border area between
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Philistia and between
Judah and here we have
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not only evidence
for huge fortifications,
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a huge fortified
city, but we have the
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first evidence for writing.
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In 2008 we found
the oldest Hebrew
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inscription ever
found at that side.
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Eight hundred years
older than the Dead Sea
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Scrolls, and that
shows that people were
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literate, people were
writing and the stories
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that we find in the
Bible could have been written
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that early in
time. And that something
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that has been attacked
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again-and-again in
critical scholarship.
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I remember when we were
walking around the site.
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And you showed me
something that was
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very, very unique about
that city, something that
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was very distinct
that was mentioned in
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scripture, what was
that? Well, one of the
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important aspects is always the
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identification of these sites.
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How do we know,
which site we are
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excavating out. We haven't found
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in scripture yet that
says this is this site,
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but we found
another very tantalizing bit
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of evidence. This
city not only has one gate
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facing towards Philistia,
the border area that it's
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guarding, but has
another gate facing
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towards the street
or highway that leads up
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to Jerusalem, that
was the main highway in
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ancient times.
And that's unique for
00:15:51.35\00:15:55.06
a city to have two
gates. Jerusalem perhaps had
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several gates, but
this site is the only other
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city in the entire area
of Judah and even Israel
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that has two gates.
And that's interesting
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because in First
Samuel 17 and the story of
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David and Goliath
after Goliath has been slain
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and the
Philistines are fleeing away
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through the valley.
It says that they fled
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along the road of Sha'arayim and
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Sha'arayim in
Hebrew means Two Gates.
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So, could it be
that we're actually
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excavating the
site of Sha'arayim and
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I found that city for
the first time and our
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excavating that site. So, that's
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very, very exciting.
We can trust the Bible,
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amen. Amen! I wan to
shift, and just ask you
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briefly about
another project that ASI
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supported Southern
Adventist University,
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your origins
exhibit. Tell me how you
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believe that origins
exhibit, first of all what
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it is? And how you
believe that will impact
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students that are
studying science at
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Southern Adventist University?
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I think we need
to produce the best
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scientists today.
We have ability in
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our institutions to
do that, and if we have
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ground them firmly
in scripture and teach
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them the
Biblical view of how this
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world came about.
We have the potential
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of really having the
brightest young people
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to be working in that field.
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And we want to do
that at Southern, so,
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whether it's an
archeology, biology,
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the biology department
is doing a fantastic job
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transforming Hickman
Science Center in the
00:17:14.60\00:17:16.71
second floor into a
large museum, but more than
00:17:16.74\00:17:21.25
a museum through
art work and through the
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art as you walk
in, you are walking
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into a giant
cell. And in showing the
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intricacies of the
smallest elements in the
00:17:28.93\00:17:32.72
human body of cell,
they show how complex
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that organism is and
how difficult that would
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be to just spontaneously
generate itself, and
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the whole exhibit
is going to be designed
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around various
aspects the geological column.
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We recently received
gift of over 200,000 fossils.
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And so that will be
part of the exhibit as well.
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And so that
students as they come in,
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not only in classrooms,
but just walking down
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the halls, visiting
with one another they can
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already see the
evidences for the creator God.
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Isn't that
amazing? Amen. Thank you,
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so much Dr. Hasel. Thank you.
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Good morning. Good morning.
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They send me out
because I like excitement,
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and I like the good
things that happen at
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ASI, amen. And this is
one of my favorite parts.
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We get to talk
about the offering, amen.
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The reason I like the
offering is because of
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what we do here at ASI.
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The projects that
we're able to help.
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Now, last night you
were told about the 38
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projects and to go
and look them over and
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I will tell you as
someone who gets to
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look through the
projects and hear about them,
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they are all exceptional.
And we're fortunate to
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come here and to
be able to help them
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because the
Ministries here we help.
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There are many things
they couldn't do unless
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we, as ASI members
are able to help them,
00:19:02.14\00:19:05.47
and to give, and that's
why I like it, that's why
00:19:05.85\00:19:08.48
it's exciting
because the Lord wants us to
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participate in His work, amen.
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The first we have to
put our hearts in it.
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We have to go out
and see people because we
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want to and we also
participate financially
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because there are
some people, there are some
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Ministries that
don't have the means.
00:19:23.27\00:19:25.66
The Lord has give
them the burden and that's
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their skills is to
go out and do the work,
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we need to help
them. So, we have got 38
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projects. Hope you all
had a chance to review them.
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Our first project
we're gonna talk about today
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is from a friend of
mine, and I think some
00:19:42.35\00:19:45.34
of you might know
him. He returned not too
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long ago from Rome. So, Shawn!
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Hello, Shawn. It's a
long walk from there.
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Shawn you just
returned from Rome.
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What you do over
there? We were holding an
00:20:10.53\00:20:12.44
Evangelistic
series, downtown Rome just
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literally stones
throw from the Vatican City.
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And I have got to say
that was one of the most
00:20:18.24\00:20:19.87
exciting Evangelistic
meetings of my entire life.
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So, you were did an Evangelistic
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meeting in Rome. So, that was,
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that's in, that's in
Europe. Right. Right?
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Yeah. So, that's over there.
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Well, that's actually
the reason that we did this
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Terry is that I
had always heard that
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Western Europe is
a Postmodern secular
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society and it can't
be won, and you can't go
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preach the Three
Angles Message and
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this generation
won't listen to a simple
00:20:48.78\00:20:50.57
prophetic message and
we asked the question,
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where could you go on
this planet to prove that
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God did not make
a mistake giving the
00:20:55.84\00:20:57.66
remnant Church, this
assignment in this message.
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Where could you
preach, so that nobody
00:21:00.31\00:21:02.19
could say it
won't work in my town?
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And that's why we
choose Rome, Italy
00:21:04.47\00:21:06.58
because if you
can preach the Three
00:21:06.61\00:21:08.14
Angles Message in
Rome, Italy and get a
00:21:08.17\00:21:10.48
crowd and see
decisions happen you can do
00:21:10.51\00:21:12.95
it in any town on the
face of the planet, amen.
00:21:12.98\00:21:15.37
Okay, so now that's
Rome, what about here?
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What about, how many
people here would like
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to see something done
here in North America?
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Well, that's the, the
thing about this Terry is
00:21:23.93\00:21:28.40
I have heard the same
thing about North America.
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I have been in this
message for, oh just
00:21:31.09\00:21:33.29
about 20 years. I
can't say I'm a new
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Adventist anymore I
still feel like one,
00:21:35.12\00:21:37.63
but I have heard
about North American society
00:21:38.40\00:21:40.73
that it's the same
Post-Modern secular,
00:21:40.76\00:21:42.90
nobody will listen,
you got to change the
00:21:42.93\00:21:44.59
method, you got a
change the message as
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if God made a mistake
with the assignment He
00:21:46.76\00:21:48.98
gave us and the
message He gave us,
00:21:49.01\00:21:50.65
and I don't believe
it. So, we have been
00:21:50.94\00:21:52.03
praying about this
and thinking about this,
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where could you go
in North America to do
00:21:54.35\00:21:57.37
the same kind of
thing we did in Rome.
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Ring a bell, so
that everybody's courage
00:21:58.90\00:22:01.21
level would rise
and would realize hey,
00:22:01.24\00:22:03.29
it can happen
anywhere and we have thought of
00:22:03.83\00:22:06.15
this place in North
America, we could do
00:22:06.18\00:22:07.83
the same thing and
not, not only that Terry.
00:22:07.86\00:22:09.59
Not only have I
discovered that we
00:22:10.16\00:22:11.56
have been thinking
and praying about this
00:22:11.59\00:22:12.91
place, but Ministries
at ASI have been thinking
00:22:12.94\00:22:15.30
about the same
place. And other Ministries
00:22:15.33\00:22:17.77
I have talked to and
conferences and pastors
00:22:17.80\00:22:19.61
all over North America
had been thinking about
00:22:19.64\00:22:21.95
the very same city
all at the same time.
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Well, Shawn where is the city?
00:22:24.31\00:22:26.20
What do we gonna do?
This is so exciting you
00:22:26.23\00:22:28.45
know, that everybody
is thinking the same thing
00:22:28.48\00:22:30.24
at the same time
usually it means God's got his
00:22:30.27\00:22:32.61
finger on the project
and there is a place in
00:22:32.64\00:22:35.49
North America
where if you could hold a
00:22:35.52\00:22:36.94
meeting there, you
can hold in anywhere.
00:22:36.97\00:22:38.21
The Bible Belt? It's
not in the Bible Belt,
00:22:38.40\00:22:40.64
not exactly.
It's in Sin City USA,
00:22:40.67\00:22:44.93
Las Vegas, Nevada.
00:22:44.96\00:22:46.33
Now think about
it, that is not a
00:22:48.38\00:22:51.52
place that is not the
Bible Belt, that is not
00:22:51.55\00:22:53.77
where you go for a
spiritual retreat, right?
00:22:53.80\00:22:55.97
That's not where you
go when your life is all
00:22:56.44\00:22:58.19
messed up and you need the Lord.
00:22:58.22\00:22:59.43
So, what's the
plan for Las Vegas?
00:23:00.40\00:23:01.92
Well, this is the
most exciting part.
00:23:01.95\00:23:03.49
Everybody has been
thinking about the same
00:23:03.52\00:23:05.14
city and
dreaming the same dream.
00:23:05.17\00:23:06.81
God's obviously
got His hand on it.
00:23:06.84\00:23:08.29
And so this is not
gonna be a Ministry going to
00:23:08.68\00:23:11.12
Las Vegas with an
Evangelistic meeting.
00:23:11.15\00:23:13.90
This is going to be
all of us working together
00:23:13.93\00:23:16.34
and lifting that
city. So, that everybody can
00:23:16.37\00:23:18.38
see, if it can happen
in Vegas, it can happen
00:23:18.41\00:23:20.74
anywhere and
God knew what he was
00:23:20.77\00:23:22.34
doing with this
message for this time. Amen!
00:23:22.37\00:23:24.63
So, the Ministries
of ASI, I met with the
00:23:24.77\00:23:27.41
bunch of them
yesterday, we're gonna
00:23:27.44\00:23:28.50
work with the Ministries of ASI.
00:23:28.53\00:23:30.13
It is written,
Nevada -Utah Conferences is
00:23:30.16\00:23:32.32
one of the biggest Evangelistic
00:23:32.35\00:23:33.67
co-operations you
will have ever seen
00:23:33.70\00:23:36.13
in your entire
life, everybody working
00:23:36.16\00:23:38.13
together on the most difficult
00:23:38.16\00:23:39.74
city in the country.
So, is the point then
00:23:39.77\00:23:42.75
to inspire the
people of Las Vegas?
00:23:42.78\00:23:44.83
Well, it's a point
to inspire the people of
00:23:45.19\00:23:46.95
Las Vegas. The point
is to inspire the people
00:23:46.98\00:23:49.22
of North America. I
want everyone to look
00:23:49.25\00:23:51.39
and say, hey if that
can happen there I can do
00:23:51.42\00:23:54.01
it here in my town.
But more than inspire,
00:23:54.04\00:23:56.96
we want to involve everybody.
00:23:57.84\00:24:00.15
I want this to spill
out of Las Vegas all across
00:24:00.88\00:24:03.49
North America and
so here is the plan.
00:24:03.52\00:24:05.60
We're going to
Webstream meetings
00:24:06.00\00:24:08.92
interactively
across all of North America
00:24:08.95\00:24:11.63
because everybody
sitting in this room or
00:24:11.66\00:24:13.47
watching by
television can run the very same
00:24:13.50\00:24:16.03
campaign in their
living room or in your place of
00:24:16.06\00:24:19.50
business, if you are
a doctor open your lobby
00:24:19.53\00:24:21.58
at 7 PM, invite
your patients back.
00:24:21.61\00:24:23.63
If you have a
high speed internet
00:24:23.84\00:24:24.99
connection, you
can run this meeting
00:24:25.02\00:24:26.71
wherever you are.
If you are the only one
00:24:27.11\00:24:29.09
in your town wants
to do Evangelism you
00:24:29.12\00:24:30.79
can do it using this technology.
00:24:30.82\00:24:33.02
It's not only web
streaming it will be
00:24:33.05\00:24:34.56
interactive, so your
guests can ask questions.
00:24:34.59\00:24:36.71
It will bounce to the platform,
00:24:36.74\00:24:38.02
bounce back to you.
You can still get it on
00:24:38.05\00:24:40.35
a satellite dish
if you want to gather
00:24:40.38\00:24:41.95
everybody in the
Church or you could
00:24:41.98\00:24:43.51
put it on your iPad
and gather everybody at
00:24:43.54\00:24:45.64
the donut shop and
have your Bible study every
00:24:45.67\00:24:47.99
evening interactive.
This is all of us holding
00:24:48.02\00:24:51.14
a meeting at the very
same time full message
00:24:51.17\00:24:53.63
for all of America,
all at once interactive
00:24:53.66\00:24:56.01
and streaming, amen, amen.
00:24:56.04\00:24:58.28
And how many people
do we want to reach?
00:24:58.81\00:25:00.74
Well, you know, up
until recently there was
00:25:00.85\00:25:02.59
a limit on how
much you could get down
00:25:02.62\00:25:04.65
over the
internet because it was so
00:25:04.68\00:25:05.97
expensive, that
limit I was told the other
00:25:06.00\00:25:08.35
day has gone, we
can only accommodate
00:25:08.38\00:25:10.28
a trillion viewers
that's all we can hold.
00:25:10.31\00:25:12.57
So, our target is
to get one million
00:25:12.60\00:25:16.74
non-Seventh-Day
Adventists into an
00:25:16.77\00:25:18.63
Evangelistic meeting
in America, amen, amen.
00:25:18.66\00:25:21.41
One million people per night.
00:25:21.44\00:25:23.20
One million people every night.
00:25:23.23\00:25:24.63
All over the US. Absolutely.
00:25:25.19\00:25:26.81
North America
division. You got it.
00:25:26.84\00:25:28.66
That's a pretty lofty
goal can that be possible.
00:25:29.78\00:25:31.85
It's got to be
possible. God says, He is gonna
00:25:31.88\00:25:33.81
light the world with
His glory before Jesus
00:25:33.84\00:25:35.76
comes Revelation
18, there is a loud cry.
00:25:35.79\00:25:38.67
We know the end
game, we're going to win.
00:25:38.96\00:25:41.24
It's going to win, Jesus
wins and yes it's possible.
00:25:41.52\00:25:44.14
In fact I think God
dreams bigger dreams
00:25:44.25\00:25:46.20
than we ever do.
And so, this is not only
00:25:46.23\00:25:48.46
something we can do, this is
00:25:48.49\00:25:49.62
something we must do, amen.
00:25:49.65\00:25:51.74
This is something we must do.
00:25:51.77\00:25:53.22
When it's gonna
happen? It's gonna happen
00:25:54.20\00:25:56.21
beginning in
2011. Now it happened in
00:25:56.24\00:25:58.93
several phases. In
2011 in May there will
00:25:58.96\00:26:02.15
be a short four or five
I'm still working on it,
00:26:02.18\00:26:05.09
four or five I guess
it depends, if it's metric
00:26:05.12\00:26:08.76
or imperial nights,
four or five nights of
00:26:08.79\00:26:11.35
meetings live from
Las Vegas interactive
00:26:11.38\00:26:14.59
online, we're gonna
test the technology.
00:26:14.62\00:26:16.64
You can run this four
or five night meeting,
00:26:16.67\00:26:18.47
it's to interest
people in your community and
00:26:18.50\00:26:20.20
Bible study. I'm
gonna show you a little bit
00:26:20.23\00:26:22.23
more about that Terry
in just half a moment,
00:26:22.26\00:26:24.63
it's called Babylon
Rising on last day events.
00:26:25.18\00:26:27.94
Then from May
through the end of 2011 we're
00:26:28.41\00:26:31.17
gonna hit the City
of Las Vegas, all these
00:26:31.20\00:26:33.20
Ministries we're
gonna work at health
00:26:33.23\00:26:34.69
seminars, in
archeology seminars, in marriage
00:26:34.72\00:26:37.85
seminars and Bible
study and door-to-door
00:26:37.88\00:26:40.50
work everything you
can dream up, then in
00:26:40.53\00:26:42.67
2011 the big event,
a full message meeting
00:26:42.70\00:26:45.35
web streaming live
from Las Vegas from
00:26:45.38\00:26:49.59
the month of
January, February 2012,
00:26:49.62\00:26:52.03
big year. Everybody
think some big is gonna
00:26:52.06\00:26:54.61
happen in 2012, and
they are right, they just
00:26:54.64\00:26:56.46
didn't realize,
it was a Seventh-day
00:26:56.49\00:26:57.94
Adventist Evangelistic meeting.
00:26:57.97\00:26:59.34
Shawn why are we looking
at something this big now?
00:27:05.28\00:27:08.84
You know, I think
everybody is getting
00:27:09.48\00:27:11.03
the sense, it's
not business as usual.
00:27:11.06\00:27:12.66
Take a look around,
this might be our last
00:27:13.46\00:27:17.25
chance to do something;
this big, this freely,
00:27:17.28\00:27:19.42
this publicly,
amen. I really have that
00:27:19.45\00:27:21.67
conviction and that fear that we
00:27:21.70\00:27:23.44
are running out of
time. Take a look at the signs
00:27:23.47\00:27:25.78
of the times, take a
look at the way society is
00:27:25.81\00:27:27.80
changing, and I
don't know how many
00:27:27.83\00:27:29.16
more opportunities
we're gonna get to lift
00:27:29.19\00:27:31.30
on a huge scale
together as a Church.
00:27:31.67\00:27:33.67
This might be our last go at it
00:27:33.90\00:27:36.59
in a big public
freeway. And so this isn't
00:27:36.62\00:27:39.01
something we can do
or should do, we must
00:27:39.04\00:27:41.63
do it and we have
to do it now, amen.
00:27:41.66\00:27:43.60
We have to do it now, amen.
00:27:43.92\00:27:45.20
And to do that we
need the participants
00:27:45.54\00:27:47.65
that are out here
today. We need them to
00:27:48.02\00:27:50.46
participate in
person. We need them to have
00:27:50.49\00:27:54.87
the meetings in
their homes, in their
00:27:54.90\00:27:56.36
Churches, in
their places of business
00:27:56.39\00:27:58.11
to invite people.
Our motto is Christ in
00:27:58.14\00:28:00.68
the marketplace, and
I want to put that to
00:28:00.71\00:28:03.87
the pavement. If
Christ is in the market
00:28:03.90\00:28:06.07
place we need your
involvement in this
00:28:06.10\00:28:07.84
in several ways.
Obviously today your
00:28:07.87\00:28:09.84
financial
involvement is of the utmost
00:28:09.87\00:28:12.15
importance. We got
to lift this project
00:28:12.18\00:28:14.31
up the ground and
then even bigger than that
00:28:14.34\00:28:16.44
we got to work on it together.
00:28:17.21\00:28:18.44
We all have to do it
to get a million people
00:28:18.47\00:28:20.41
Terry and I can't
get a million people
00:28:20.44\00:28:22.45
ourselves, but
take a look around,
00:28:22.48\00:28:23.93
we could get a
million people watching this.
00:28:23.96\00:28:25.60
We could get a
million people watching this,
00:28:26.00\00:28:27.37
if we all did it, if
you open your place of
00:28:27.40\00:28:29.40
business and made
it Christ in the market
00:28:29.43\00:28:31.13
place and you ran
an Evangelistic meeting
00:28:31.16\00:28:32.91
in your waiting
room, in your garage base
00:28:32.94\00:28:35.67
wherever you
happened to work, or open your
00:28:35.83\00:28:37.59
home or gather people
in your Church, but do it.
00:28:37.62\00:28:40.30
We all have to do it
together because God's
00:28:40.33\00:28:42.10
dream was not one or
two or five specialists
00:28:42.13\00:28:45.11
finishing the
work, it was God's Church
00:28:45.14\00:28:46.98
finishing the
work, and we can do it.
00:28:47.01\00:28:49.21
Some generations
gonna do this and
00:28:49.49\00:28:51.47
I think it may as
well be us because I want
00:28:51.50\00:28:53.55
to go home, amen.
Shawn the last question
00:28:53.58\00:28:56.27
I have, have you
ever seen an Evangelistic
00:28:56.30\00:28:59.56
series that like you
are working on whereas
00:28:59.59\00:29:02.53
many Ministries
have come forward and
00:29:02.56\00:29:04.25
said yes I want to participate,
00:29:04.28\00:29:06.31
I'm gonna be
there. No, Terry you know,
00:29:06.34\00:29:08.58
we have always worked
in a synergistic pattern
00:29:08.61\00:29:11.33
and it is written
they have always been a few
00:29:11.36\00:29:12.99
Ministries at work
with us and I have seen the
00:29:13.02\00:29:15.45
power of that
synergy. But I have never seen
00:29:15.48\00:29:18.20
anything on this scale,
if we all come together;
00:29:18.23\00:29:20.27
can you imagine
how God smiles on that?
00:29:20.30\00:29:22.54
And how he just as and
to the angels let's lift it,
00:29:22.91\00:29:25.26
let's make it bigger
than they ever dreamed.
00:29:25.63\00:29:27.07
I have never seen
anything with this kind
00:29:27.10\00:29:28.94
of potential ever,
Terry. And I can only imagine
00:29:28.97\00:29:32.77
that one day in heaven
people were still gonna
00:29:32.80\00:29:34.62
be telling the story
about the discussion we
00:29:34.65\00:29:36.66
have all had here at
this morning together
00:29:36.69\00:29:38.35
because there
is a final burst of
00:29:38.66\00:29:40.56
glory before Jesus comes.
00:29:40.59\00:29:42.00
See it's time for
us to come together,
00:29:42.03\00:29:44.01
work together that's
when we will finish the work?
00:29:44.04\00:29:46.31
Absolutely,
absolutely May 2011 is the kick
00:29:46.54\00:29:51.21
off event. May 2011,
are you ready for that?
00:29:51.24\00:29:54.60
Yes. Alright, May
2011, four or five nights
00:29:54.63\00:29:58.27
on Bible prophecy
it's called Babylon Rising.
00:29:58.30\00:30:01.17
I have got a little trailer
this just the idea behind
00:30:01.66\00:30:04.07
this project again is
to invite people into Bible
00:30:04.10\00:30:06.12
study, to get
them interested in your
00:30:06.15\00:30:08.40
community and in Las Vegas.
00:30:08.43\00:30:10.06
I'm gonna show the ad
that we have developed
00:30:10.29\00:30:11.92
for Babylon Rising,
four or five nights in
00:30:11.95\00:30:14.60
May to kick the whole thing off.
00:30:14.63\00:30:16.01
Let's roll that video
now. I want you to see
00:30:16.31\00:30:18.64
what we're working on.
00:30:18.98\00:30:19.95
This is the ad
for Babylon Rising.
00:30:19.96\00:30:22.06
An ancient city rises,
00:30:27.45\00:30:29.52
the most wicked city on earth.
00:30:35.29\00:30:37.38
The prophets said
it would be destroyed.
00:30:43.60\00:30:45.73
They were right. It
has never been rebuilt,
00:30:49.74\00:30:56.85
yet the ancient
prophets saw her rising,
00:30:59.36\00:31:02.02
and then the world ends.
00:31:05.01\00:31:07.51
Babylon Rising.
00:31:14.64\00:31:15.85
Do you know, what's coming?
00:31:22.92\00:31:24.37
In ASI we never
think small do we?
00:31:34.24\00:31:37.32
You know, my,
my guest right here
00:31:38.95\00:31:41.06
in an ASI member by
name of Jeffery Cobb.
00:31:41.09\00:31:43.35
And Jeffery
represents a Ministry that he is
00:31:44.22\00:31:46.45
gonna be benefiting
from our offering this
00:31:46.48\00:31:48.31
morning called
Shelter from the Storm.
00:31:48.34\00:31:50.17
Now, Jeffery a few
years ago you ended
00:31:50.20\00:31:54.12
up with some accommodations
00:31:54.15\00:31:55.57
that you weren't
necessarily desiring,
00:31:55.60\00:31:57.92
what were those accommodations?
00:31:57.95\00:31:59.33
I ended up in prison.
Okay, you were in prison.
00:31:59.44\00:32:02.04
And you wanna tell
all these good people
00:32:02.50\00:32:04.64
what you were doing
in the prison and how
00:32:04.67\00:32:06.01
come you got there?
I was selling drugs in
00:32:06.04\00:32:08.76
Miami for 20
years. I was involved with
00:32:08.79\00:32:12.11
crooked judges,
lawyers, police officers
00:32:12.14\00:32:14.57
in Miami for 20
years. Okay and you ended up
00:32:14.60\00:32:18.10
in prison having to
pay for those crimes.
00:32:18.13\00:32:20.24
Now, what happened
to you in that prison?
00:32:20.83\00:32:22.76
When I entered in a
prison I was tired of
00:32:23.59\00:32:25.57
living in a way
that I was living.
00:32:25.60\00:32:27.15
When I was not just
selling drugs I knew
00:32:27.18\00:32:29.36
it was a better life.
So, I ended up in prison
00:32:29.39\00:32:32.11
and some guys invite me
to come to the Bible study.
00:32:32.14\00:32:34.96
So, they say come
on let's go down on
00:32:35.33\00:32:37.74
Saturday to the Bible study.
00:32:37.77\00:32:39.24
So, I went down
there, when I was brought up
00:32:39.67\00:32:42.11
in about this
Church, when I went there and
00:32:42.47\00:32:44.32
I went back to my cell,
I pulled a knife on a guy
00:32:44.35\00:32:47.54
and I say, if you tell
me to comeback to that job
00:32:47.57\00:32:50.58
telling me that I
can't eat my pork chop and
00:32:50.99\00:32:52.83
my shrimps, I'll
cut your head off.
00:32:52.86\00:32:55.06
Oh! Now that's a
witnessing story, alright.
00:32:56.77\00:32:58.32
Alright. Now, now,
now Jeffery something
00:32:58.35\00:33:02.17
happened to you though,
00:33:02.20\00:33:03.17
you got over pulling knife?
00:33:03.18\00:33:04.64
Yes, what happened
was, they transferred
00:33:05.32\00:33:08.03
me from the prison
in Miami to Gainesville.
00:33:08.06\00:33:10.75
And so as I get off
the bus here a guy hey man,
00:33:11.45\00:33:14.02
you need to come to
this service on Saturday.
00:33:14.17\00:33:16.17
I said here goes
the Saturday junk again.
00:33:16.46\00:33:18.60
Yeah, he was chasing
you. Yes. The Lord was
00:33:18.63\00:33:21.59
following you
around, okay but when that
00:33:21.62\00:33:23.67
happened something
got to hold to your heart.
00:33:23.70\00:33:26.37
Yes, I went down
and I attended the study
00:33:26.91\00:33:29.63
and you know, the
Holy Ghost came into my
00:33:29.66\00:33:33.26
life and I had
accepted this message, amen.
00:33:33.29\00:33:37.39
And then once I
accepted his message,
00:33:37.42\00:33:39.61
when I was
released I didn't want to go
00:33:40.00\00:33:42.00
back to Miami to the old friend.
00:33:42.03\00:33:43.89
So I stayed in Gainesville and
00:33:44.35\00:33:46.09
I actually, I am must
say, hey I don't want to
00:33:46.12\00:33:48.14
go back to that
life. You know, I know a
00:33:48.17\00:33:50.72
lot of Seventh-day Adventists
00:33:50.75\00:33:52.25
is locked up in
prison. What the Lord
00:33:52.28\00:33:54.82
impressed on me to do
when I get out to start
00:33:54.85\00:33:57.16
a halfway house
for the Seventh-day
00:33:57.19\00:33:59.12
Adventist Church.
Amen. Okay, now in that
00:33:59.15\00:34:01.89
halfway house and
that's good, we're
00:34:01.92\00:34:03.51
excited about that.
In that halfway house
00:34:03.54\00:34:05.27
you have had
people come out and what's
00:34:05.77\00:34:07.38
in just a, a couple
of sentences, what's the
00:34:07.72\00:34:10.13
biggest challenge
that a prisoner that has
00:34:10.16\00:34:11.94
had to conversion
experience in a prison.
00:34:11.97\00:34:14.18
What are the
biggest challenges they have
00:34:14.64\00:34:15.72
when they come out?
Going to a place where
00:34:15.75\00:34:18.98
they can continue
to study you know,
00:34:19.01\00:34:21.54
it is truth, because
there is a baby in Christ,
00:34:21.57\00:34:23.89
and that was my
problem, I went to a
00:34:24.01\00:34:25.69
first day halfway
house and I was struggling
00:34:25.72\00:34:28.21
with well versed
truths because they would
00:34:28.24\00:34:30.22
twisting the
scriptures and no this and that.
00:34:30.57\00:34:32.75
And I think that's
the biggest challenge
00:34:33.18\00:34:35.12
coming out and
being able to go a place
00:34:35.42\00:34:37.63
where they can
continue to study the truth.
00:34:37.66\00:34:39.79
But in the
transition that you actually in
00:34:40.40\00:34:43.39
Shelter from the
Storm this halfway house for
00:34:43.42\00:34:45.67
these prisoners
that are coming out,
00:34:45.70\00:34:47.61
you are actually
helping them, creating a
00:34:48.23\00:34:51.12
moment where the Holy Spirit can
00:34:51.15\00:34:52.35
transform their
lives. Have you seen some
00:34:52.38\00:34:54.24
lives transformed?
Oh! Yes couple of the
00:34:54.27\00:34:56.95
guys have come to the program.
00:34:56.98\00:34:58.83
They are in the
Seventh-day Adventist
00:34:58.86\00:35:00.30
Church, a couple in
Maryland, also one guy,
00:35:00.33\00:35:03.30
now he is a leader
of the community and
00:35:03.33\00:35:05.85
service at the
Church, they have come to
00:35:05.88\00:35:08.11
Shelter from the
Storm. Okay, now how does
00:35:08.14\00:35:10.82
Shelter from the
Storm support itself?
00:35:10.85\00:35:12.75
Shelter from the
Storm, well God impressed on
00:35:13.51\00:35:15.84
me to start a lawn
service, and I had know
00:35:15.87\00:35:18.32
some of you all as you
are riding by the street
00:35:18.35\00:35:20.31
you see these guys in
these uniform cutting grass.
00:35:20.34\00:35:23.53
So, the Lord impressed on me to
00:35:23.56\00:35:25.42
start a lawn
service. So, the lawn service
00:35:25.45\00:35:28.28
is the big
support for Shelter from
00:35:28.31\00:35:30.70
the Storm
Ministry. Okay, now when you
00:35:30.73\00:35:33.08
are in Miami in
your earlier career
00:35:33.11\00:35:35.32
you earned some
pretty good money, yes.
00:35:36.18\00:35:38.50
Okay, now in
your lawn service what
00:35:38.53\00:35:40.73
kind of money do you earn?
00:35:40.76\00:35:41.82
I don't earn as
what I used to earn when
00:35:42.57\00:35:45.14
I was out there in
a world organization,
00:35:45.17\00:35:48.04
we would make
seven to eight thousand
00:35:48.51\00:35:50.06
dollars a night selling drugs.
00:35:50.09\00:35:51.78
Okay, and what do you
make now selling lawn service?
00:35:51.94\00:35:55.58
Oh, its not near that
much, you might be praying.
00:35:56.41\00:35:58.78
Oh, you know, now
what, what is that
00:36:01.52\00:36:03.86
transforms the
man from that kind of
00:36:03.89\00:36:07.09
income to being
satisfied with another income.
00:36:07.12\00:36:11.52
It hasn't been
only Christ that changes
00:36:12.10\00:36:14.63
because as I've
said, making seven to eight
00:36:14.66\00:36:17.66
thousand dollars
a night and coming
00:36:17.69\00:36:19.64
out of prison, I
started five dollars an hour.
00:36:19.67\00:36:22.71
It can be nothing but Jesus.
00:36:23.16\00:36:25.38
And Jesus always comes through.
00:36:27.47\00:36:29.68
Now, last question,
I know in our earlier
00:36:29.71\00:36:33.66
conversation that Florida Prison
00:36:33.69\00:36:35.66
Ministries, my
friend Frank Barton,
00:36:35.69\00:36:37.42
he works closely with you, yes.
00:36:38.22\00:36:40.14
And recently he had
a request from a couple
00:36:40.17\00:36:42.87
of guys on death row.
Tell us what happened?
00:36:42.90\00:36:45.87
Yes, Frank had
called me saying he received
00:36:46.45\00:36:49.48
a call from
Amazing Facts to the Bible
00:36:49.95\00:36:52.86
course that two
guys on death row
00:36:52.89\00:36:55.76
need to be baptized.
So I talked with Frank
00:36:56.79\00:36:59.79
and he say, hey
you need to go down and
00:36:59.82\00:37:01.32
baptized these
guys on death row.
00:37:01.35\00:37:03.18
So, what I do, I go
and connect with the
00:37:03.76\00:37:07.36
local pastor, Pastor
Dan Gayman at Gainesville
00:37:07.39\00:37:10.43
Church, I said, hey
we got two guys on death
00:37:10.46\00:37:12.85
row need to be baptized.
And I called the Chapel;
00:37:12.88\00:37:15.87
I say can we baptize
these two guys on Thursday.
00:37:15.90\00:37:19.99
He said, you can
baptize, he said but you
00:37:20.39\00:37:22.11
can't baptize
them on the same day
00:37:22.14\00:37:24.45
and I was like
why. He says when these
00:37:24.48\00:37:26.47
guys on death row
go to get baptized,
00:37:26.50\00:37:30.07
they got to close
down the whole compound,
00:37:30.41\00:37:32.60
it just can be you,
the pastor and a Chaplain
00:37:32.79\00:37:36.48
and a person who is
going to be baptized.
00:37:36.81\00:37:38.63
So we did them one
on Wednesday, one on
00:37:38.99\00:37:41.24
Thursday and the
first guy that we baptized
00:37:41.27\00:37:44.34
that on death row
he was so much at peace
00:37:44.69\00:37:46.94
that I have to check myself.
00:37:47.60\00:37:49.13
You know, and it
was amazing and then the
00:37:50.05\00:37:52.37
next guy he say he
had been on a death row
00:37:52.40\00:37:54.92
for a while and he
said and when he got
00:37:54.95\00:37:57.89
baptized he was
crying. He said he was on death
00:37:57.92\00:38:00.70
row and he might, you
know, die but he wanted to
00:38:00.73\00:38:04.73
get Baptized into
the truth before he die.
00:38:04.78\00:38:07.27
Amen, you know, what
there is an entire world
00:38:07.71\00:38:10.55
that we live in
its on death row. Amen.
00:38:10.77\00:38:13.67
And whether you
are reaching Las Vegas
00:38:13.90\00:38:16.08
and the million
people that Pastor Shawn
00:38:16.29\00:38:18.23
and ASI working on, or
whether you are looking
00:38:18.46\00:38:20.83
at a couple of
guys on death row,
00:38:21.05\00:38:22.81
like my friend
Jeffery has just talked about
00:38:23.03\00:38:25.54
baptizing just three weeks ago,
00:38:25.75\00:38:27.01
the power of the Holy
Spirit changes lives and
00:38:27.25\00:38:29.69
that's what ASI is all
about. Thank you. Amen.
00:38:29.88\00:38:33.28
Many viewers at
ASI have been tracking
00:38:41.97\00:38:44.61
the One-Day Church project.
00:38:44.84\00:38:47.10
Have you heard of
the One-Day Church?
00:38:47.32\00:38:48.67
Now down here is a little sample
00:38:48.88\00:38:50.88
of that One-Day Church.
00:38:51.10\00:38:52.27
Somebody asked me this
morning if that was one.
00:38:52.49\00:38:55.39
Its not that small,
it's that just a sample
00:38:55.62\00:39:00.85
to remind you it's a
symbol that God is working
00:39:01.06\00:39:03.82
around the world
meeting the needs
00:39:04.02\00:39:05.82
for Churches and schools.
00:39:06.03\00:39:08.07
The Church has grown in
the last couple of decades
00:39:08.29\00:39:11.65
in a great way in
many parts of the world.
00:39:11.86\00:39:13.81
I have to tell you
today, I'll give you an update,
00:39:14.02\00:39:15.80
nearly 500,000
people on this Sabbath
00:39:16.02\00:39:19.48
are meeting under a
One-Day Church, amen.
00:39:19.68\00:39:22.12
You say praise
the Lord for that?
00:39:22.34\00:39:24.50
From Mozambique to
Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe,
00:39:25.99\00:39:30.65
Chad, Kenya,
Tanzania over to the populus
00:39:30.89\00:39:36.48
sub-continent of India
to the islands of Vanuatu
00:39:36.69\00:39:40.99
in the Pacific,
Ecuador in South America,
00:39:41.19\00:39:43.63
Mexico our neighbor,
Tahiti. God is providing places
00:39:43.86\00:39:50.34
for those new members to
meet, praise the Lord, amen.
00:39:50.55\00:39:54.44
And it's not only providing
places for people to meet,
00:39:54.66\00:39:57.13
it's a witnessing too,
00:39:57.33\00:39:58.33
24 hours a day,
seven days a week.
00:39:58.53\00:40:00.58
People know that
the creator God exists
00:40:00.79\00:40:04.27
because the
One-Day Church is there.
00:40:04.48\00:40:06.89
And I need to tell you
that we, the reason that we
00:40:07.11\00:40:12.29
have got excited
about this is because we had
00:40:12.50\00:40:14.31
a hundred thousand requests
for Churches, amen, amen.
00:40:14.51\00:40:17.80
Now, we have a
hundred thousand requests
00:40:18.00\00:40:19.17
just for One-Day
Churches around the world.
00:40:19.38\00:40:22.10
Now what's good about
that of course is that,
00:40:22.33\00:40:25.26
that means the
work is growing, yes.
00:40:25.47\00:40:26.72
Now, some of the
pictures here shows
00:40:26.93\00:40:29.11
some of the simple projects.
00:40:29.32\00:40:30.63
Some of them have just
been put up and some of them
00:40:30.83\00:40:33.98
the locals have
already finished them.
00:40:34.17\00:40:35.65
And I have been very excited
00:40:35.87\00:40:37.82
and I need a report
to you that the locals
00:40:38.02\00:40:40.61
are finishing these
buildings in Ecuador,
00:40:40.83\00:40:44.54
I talked to the Union
President and he said,
00:40:44.75\00:40:46.60
he was shocked that
over 90% of the Churches
00:40:46.82\00:40:49.87
were finished within
the first six months. Amen.
00:40:50.09\00:40:52.05
So, it's working the
locals once they have that frame
00:40:52.27\00:40:56.15
and the rough, they
go ahead and finish.
00:40:56.36\00:40:58.15
And this was
initially set up as a
00:40:58.37\00:41:00.92
combined project
of ASI and Maranatha.
00:41:01.17\00:41:05.58
I want to tell you
we have been combining
00:41:05.86\00:41:07.85
with the lot of partners
00:41:08.06\00:41:09.03
around the world,
which is very exciting.
00:41:09.04\00:41:10.95
There is a lot of people
out there that are helping
00:41:11.15\00:41:13.49
out and here in
North America Churches,
00:41:13.70\00:41:16.13
Sabbath school classes,
conferences, unions, schools
00:41:16.34\00:41:23.12
are helping out
with the One-Day Church,
00:41:23.34\00:41:25.56
around the world
OCI - Outpost Centers,
00:41:25.78\00:41:28.88
Riverside Farms,
Congo Frontline Missions,
00:41:29.09\00:41:32.87
Living Waters,
ShareHim, Quiet Hour,
00:41:33.11\00:41:35.48
Gary Robertson
Chad, Kibidula Institute,
00:41:35.70\00:41:39.44
Daystar Academy and
probably some I forgot,
00:41:39.65\00:41:42.93
but combing together
to make this an exciting
00:41:43.16\00:41:46.79
and powerful
project around the world.
00:41:46.99\00:41:49.59
Now, one of the places
that they are actually building
00:41:49.81\00:41:52.36
and using the One-Day
Church is at Riverside Farms
00:41:52.58\00:41:55.22
in Zambia and here
to speak about that
00:41:55.43\00:41:57.76
is Meiring
Pretrius from Riverside.
00:41:57.97\00:42:00.62
Good morning ASI
family? Good morning.
00:42:04.84\00:42:07.06
It is my first at ASI this year.
00:42:07.29\00:42:09.40
If it looks like I'm
nervous it's not nervousness,
00:42:09.63\00:42:12.83
it's excitement
because of what is happening
00:42:13.03\00:42:15.25
around the world, if I
hear all these wonderful
00:42:15.46\00:42:18.25
testimonies and I want
to share one blessing from
00:42:18.47\00:42:21.93
Africa in this project of
the One-Day Church program.
00:42:22.14\00:42:25.91
Training is very
important aspect in Evangelism
00:42:26.12\00:42:29.13
and Paul says to us
in 2 Timothy 2 Verse 2,
00:42:29.34\00:42:32.69
that we should train
others that are capable,
00:42:32.90\00:42:35.61
so that they can
teach others once again,
00:42:35.82\00:42:37.81
and so multiply
the workers for God.
00:42:38.03\00:42:39.92
About three
years ago I was driving
00:42:40.14\00:42:42.01
with one of our lay
Bible workers, and we just had
00:42:42.21\00:42:45.51
a conversation about
his working at district.
00:42:45.71\00:42:47.47
And then he looked
at me and he said to me,
00:42:47.69\00:42:49.56
do you know, how
many Laypeople are here
00:42:49.78\00:42:52.74
in this district
that want this training.
00:42:52.96\00:42:55.80
They will work without money.
00:42:56.03\00:42:57.77
They will work
for God full time.
00:42:57.99\00:43:01.77
They just want the
knowledge and the information,
00:43:01.98\00:43:04.89
can we train them?
And then there was silence
00:43:05.10\00:43:07.39
and then he said to me,
00:43:07.61\00:43:08.61
what are we
going to do about it?
00:43:08.84\00:43:10.09
And then we committed
of course just to pray
00:43:11.00\00:43:12.88
and we said, Lord we
need training centers.
00:43:13.11\00:43:16.64
And we said Lord please
give us more than just one,
00:43:16.86\00:43:23.16
because we have the whole Zambia
00:43:23.37\00:43:26.64
with 72 languages to cover.
00:43:26.85\00:43:28.54
Please give us more than one.
00:43:28.77\00:43:31.30
And above our expectations
you know, when I, when I
00:43:31.50\00:43:35.63
when I first
heard about the idea
00:43:35.84\00:43:37.13
of the One-Day
Churches, I was thinking
00:43:37.57\00:43:39.42
why we are just
gonna use these Churches?
00:43:39.62\00:43:40.93
But above my expectations
the answer came so fast
00:43:41.14\00:43:47.70
it was called the
One-Day Church structures.
00:43:47.93\00:43:51.77
And then it was
transformed recently into
00:43:51.99\00:43:55.82
also using it as
lay Evangelism schools.
00:43:56.03\00:43:59.24
And I was really
excited about that project
00:43:59.45\00:44:01.72
and we started about a
year and a half ago finding
00:44:01.95\00:44:06.91
some land outside
of the cities and towns
00:44:07.13\00:44:13.03
and we decided, we just start,
00:44:13.26\00:44:15.19
God has told us He will help us.
00:44:15.42\00:44:18.27
So, we started under the trees.
00:44:18.49\00:44:20.72
My wife and I do
week Evangelism trainings,
00:44:20.95\00:44:24.29
and we just started with
people that are interested
00:44:24.52\00:44:27.24
in the community on
these properties that we found.
00:44:27.45\00:44:29.84
But now we have
buildings, and we're gonna use
00:44:30.06\00:44:34.86
four buildings on
each of these six schools
00:44:35.07\00:44:37.95
and it's gonna be used
for a Church, for a classroom
00:44:38.61\00:44:41.92
and which we will
separate of course in two parts
00:44:42.08\00:44:45.19
because we also train
in medical missionary work
00:44:45.41\00:44:47.39
and we're gonna use it
as spectacle hydrotherapy
00:44:47.62\00:44:50.30
massage and
teaching natural remedies.
00:44:50.52\00:44:52.82
We're gonna use one as Adometry,
00:44:53.10\00:44:55.43
which we going to
split into two using for
00:44:55.66\00:44:58.63
men and women and then
also it's going to be one
00:44:58.86\00:45:02.00
for living quarters for
our staff and our teachers,
00:45:02.21\00:45:04.69
and these lay schools
are helping us to break
00:45:04.91\00:45:07.81
the barriers of
these 72 languages.
00:45:08.03\00:45:09.49
And these Laypeople
can now come and be trained
00:45:09.73\00:45:12.89
in their owned local languages
00:45:13.12\00:45:15.00
more than just
what Riverside could do,
00:45:15.21\00:45:17.63
these schools also
helping the conferences
00:45:17.87\00:45:20.39
in the fields to train
more of these Laypeople
00:45:20.59\00:45:23.84
to help them as leaders
00:45:24.06\00:45:25.03
and Evangelists in
different districts.
00:45:25.23\00:45:27.19
The pastors are
few; some of our pastors
00:45:27.43\00:45:30.78
have to oversee anything from
00:45:31.01\00:45:32.90
40 to 50 company's
branches and Churches.
00:45:33.11\00:45:35.67
There is a huge
and there is a great
00:45:35.90\00:45:39.07
need for this type of training.
00:45:39.28\00:45:40.57
We have already
done more than a hundred
00:45:42.24\00:45:44.31
training just under the trees.
00:45:44.53\00:45:46.56
Now just
imagine if we have these
00:45:46.78\00:45:48.82
buildings that we can use,
00:45:49.03\00:45:50.81
how many students
we can bring and train
00:45:51.04\00:45:54.78
for Christ and
for his Second Coming.
00:45:55.00\00:45:57.78
And I know that ASI
family here is helping us
00:45:58.00\00:46:02.23
to establish these
schools not just in Zambia,
00:46:02.45\00:46:05.23
but in other places
in the world as well.
00:46:05.45\00:46:07.49
And your contributions
will help us to further
00:46:07.71\00:46:10.34
this project and
this training to train
00:46:10.54\00:46:13.02
more people for
Jesus Second Coming.
00:46:13.22\00:46:14.70
Let us give in
proportion to our desire
00:46:14.91\00:46:17.50
to see Jesus
coming soon. Amen, amen.
00:46:17.72\00:46:21.49
Thank you Meiring. Another
place that God has chosen
00:46:21.71\00:46:25.12
to use the one day
structure in a major
00:46:25.35\00:46:27.64
and phenomenal way
is the country of Haiti.
00:46:27.85\00:46:31.21
I'm gonna talk little bit
this afternoon about Haiti,
00:46:32.97\00:46:35.12
but let me just
mention a couple of things.
00:46:35.32\00:46:36.63
When the earthquake
first happened down there
00:46:36.86\00:46:39.91
in January, I got
a call from Israelite
00:46:40.11\00:46:42.71
to the Division
President for in America,
00:46:42.92\00:46:45.07
and he said we need
some buildings to be used
00:46:45.30\00:46:49.06
for housing for
our members right away.
00:46:49.28\00:46:51.04
So we work very fast and
hard to get some containers
00:46:51.26\00:46:55.63
out to Haiti, and
we got down there,
00:46:55.85\00:46:58.26
we started
putting them up quickly
00:46:58.48\00:47:00.36
and we found
something very interesting,
00:47:00.59\00:47:03.18
and I will just cut
through a real quick.
00:47:03.39\00:47:05.62
Those buildings are being
used somewhat for shelters,
00:47:05.83\00:47:08.91
but primarily
they are being used
00:47:09.12\00:47:10.94
for Churches and schools.
00:47:11.16\00:47:12.57
Parents will not send
their children to a school
00:47:12.79\00:47:17.16
that has a concrete
rough, you can understand why?
00:47:17.38\00:47:21.07
Most of them won't
sent, won't go to Church
00:47:21.28\00:47:23.79
and most of the Churches
by the way in Port-au-Prince,
00:47:24.00\00:47:26.48
the Adventist Churches
most of them were destroyed.
00:47:26.69\00:47:28.66
Today we have about
4000 members meeting under
00:47:29.37\00:47:33.43
One-Day Churches in
Port-au-Prince, amen.
00:47:33.64\00:47:35.43
And over 5000
students in One-Day schools
00:47:35.65\00:47:40.30
including
virtually all the students
00:47:40.52\00:47:42.54
at the Adventist
University in Port-au-Prince
00:47:42.74\00:47:45.33
over 2500 students
under one day structures
00:47:45.54\00:47:49.33
on that campus. So, we
praise the Lord for that,
00:47:49.54\00:47:52.63
I have to tell you.
00:47:52.83\00:47:53.80
And God is very
merciful toward His people.
00:47:54.91\00:48:05.54
I have been working
with Maranatha for 28 years.
00:48:05.77\00:48:09.21
I have never
seen such a graphic,
00:48:09.42\00:48:12.83
graphic intervention of God
00:48:13.04\00:48:17.00
and the leading of God
in a project as that one.
00:48:17.21\00:48:19.76
We had no idea
what the real need was?
00:48:19.98\00:48:23.15
He knew that this
versatile one day structure
00:48:23.35\00:48:26.50
was gonna bring
the people together.
00:48:26.71\00:48:29.09
In fact, in such a way
that those Churches have caused
00:48:29.29\00:48:33.59
the baptism rate
to more than double
00:48:33.80\00:48:35.95
since the earthquake, amen.
00:48:36.17\00:48:38.10
So, praise the Lord
for that, that's exciting.
00:48:38.30\00:48:41.50
One of the greatest
developments out of the
00:48:41.71\00:48:44.89
One-Day Church is
the One-Day School.
00:48:45.08\00:48:47.06
Some of you have seen it
look at the exhibit hall,
00:48:47.28\00:48:50.04
eduction a powerful
thing in the Adventist Church.
00:48:50.25\00:48:53.55
This building from
the concrete floor,
00:48:53.76\00:48:58.00
9 foot sidewalls, doors,
windows, desks, blackboard,
00:48:58.20\00:49:03.93
everything is
included in this building.
00:49:04.14\00:49:06.32
So, from the time that
concrete floor is poured
00:49:06.53\00:49:09.17
until schools
starts would be how long?
00:49:09.39\00:49:12.40
How long? One day.
00:49:12.62\00:49:15.81
Ah! Excellent,
you are a good class.
00:49:16.02\00:49:19.01
One day you are all qualified
00:49:19.22\00:49:20.93
to support the
One-Day School now.
00:49:21.14\00:49:22.79
And now some of
these are being asked
00:49:23.00\00:49:26.00
for is individual classrooms,
00:49:26.19\00:49:27.46
many of them for
complete campuses.
00:49:27.65\00:49:29.29
In fact, at the General
Conference Session in Atlanta
00:49:29.50\00:49:32.04
we put up one of
these buildings just to see,
00:49:32.25\00:49:35.34
if the world Church
was interested in it.
00:49:35.54\00:49:37.05
Do you think they
were interested? Yes.
00:49:37.27\00:49:39.49
After meeting
with the Church leaders
00:49:39.70\00:49:41.90
from around the world at the end
00:49:42.11\00:49:43.25
of the General
Conference Session,
00:49:43.45\00:49:44.74
we had 40,000
requests for classrooms
00:49:44.95\00:49:49.74
around the world,
amen Can you imagine? Amen.
00:49:49.95\00:49:52.79
Can you imagine
what would happen,
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if we build them?
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What would happen to a
generation of young people?
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Last night, Pastor Rosary
was talking about Adventism
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being only one
generation away from extinction.
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I'm sure he would agree
that if we turn it around
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and educate we are
only one generation
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away from the kingdom, amen.
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The One-Day
Church is just a school
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is just for that
educating for eternity.
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At the General Conference,
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I had the privilege of talking
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with the man and his
wife, they came up to the booth
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and they talked
us about the school.
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They were from Africa.
This man told me a story,
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very compelling
story. He said, I was raised
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an animist in Africa,
didn't know about God.
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There happened to
be a Christian school
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or Seventh-day
Adventist School in my town.
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And my parents want
to me to be educated,
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so they send me
there. And as often happens
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in a short time he committed
his life to Jesus Christ,
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praise the Lord
happens all the time.
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He was more
serious He went to college.
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He became a Seventh-day
Adventist pastor, amen, amen.
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And today that man who
sat in that One-Day School
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telling a story
is Dr. Gilbert Wari,
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the President of the
West-Central Africa Division
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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He is in charge of 22
countries of God's work
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around the world,
praise the Lord. Amen.
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And his wife is
the Education Director
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and guess what at the
end of that discussion,
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they requested 2000
complete campuses of
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One-Day Schools just in
those 22 countries, why?
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Because they know the potential
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they know the value.
Ellen White said, educate,
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educate, educate, and
you will change the world.
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You know the One-Day
Church and the One-Day School,
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hundred thousand
requests for One-Day Churches,
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40,000 requests so
far for One-Day Schools,
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God must be doing something;
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He must be opening
wide a door of opportunity,
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would you agree? Amen.
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He is opening wider
door of opportunity.
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We need to walk
through that door.
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My wife says you need to get on,
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to get off the planet plan.
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And the One-Day
Church and the One-Day School
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are part of that
get off the planet plan.
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Just yesterday as
part of result of this,
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we started planning for
India that great continent,
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one campaign
including 500 One-Day Churches,
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some One-Day Schools, the
goal is to baptize a hundred
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thousand people stand by
for that that's coming up.
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You can
participate, you can be involved
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hang on to your
seatbelt and things will happen
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into this world and
Jesus is coming soon.
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Hang on your seat belt,
loosing up your wallets.
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Now, is the time to
respond to the opportunity
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as the Jesus has given us.
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Now, is the time
for the One-Day School.
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Now is a time for the
One Day Church, amen, amen.
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Garwin, when you first
had the fleeting thought
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go through your mind
that you can bend some steal,
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and somehow create a structure
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that people would worshipping,
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did you ever had any idea
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that it would be
like it is today?
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No, Dan I didn't.
The One-Day Church
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is definitely
inspired from heaven.
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And we think a last
year, everyday 2000 people
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receive the spiritual
home, 10,000 each Sabbath,
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over a half a million last year.
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God is in the
One Day Church. Amen.
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And I have had the
privilege of being in the field
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and seeing the
joy in their hearts
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on the Thanksgiving,
and the thing that they say,
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tell my brothers
and sisters thank you.
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So, on behalf I say,
thank you for the privilege
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of being involved
in the One Day Program
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and now the school
just Zimbabwe alone,
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we are putting up a
large school at Victoria Falls
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right across from Livingston
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it's comprises of
about 40 buildings.
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And I was concerned,
I said to the pastor,
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can you feel it? And
he brought me the list.
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He says here is our
list of students signed up
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and here is the waiting list,
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and we haven't even built it,
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we're gonna
built it this winter.
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Zimbabwe alone the leadership
said they have 2,480,000
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Seventh-day Adventists
aged children that want
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Christian education,
that's just one union.
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Yes the One-Day Church is
beyond anything I expected
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and on behalf of
the brothers and sisters
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who receive it, we say thank you
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and without your
support the One-Day Church
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would just be a pile
of iron in God center,
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and we thank you, we
thank you, we thank you, amen.
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You know, Garwin and
I, and you can go ahead,
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I have one more
thing I want to say here.
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It maybe that someone sitting
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in your home watching right now.
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You may have sent in
a $5 donation towards
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the One-Day Church or
Schools or other structures.
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Someone may have send in $50,
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someone may have send an $500,
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and there is some in
this group that may have send
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some those numbers or
some have done $50,000,
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some who have done $500,000.
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Whatever it is that you can
give in this year's offering
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will make a
difference in eternity
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for someone and
I thank you for it.
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I think we can
all relate to this,
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and that is now is
the time to take action.
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You know, I
don't have to tell you
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what's going on in this world.
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It's coming up pretty sure.
And it's your contribution,
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it's our contributions
in time and our means
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that make a
difference to finish this work.
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You can see the
different activities that were,
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the different
projects that we're doing.
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You know in Las Vegas
for a thousand dollars
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you can reach a thousand people.
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That's efficient use of
money in Evangelistic terms.
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I found that out. For
the One-Day School, for $200
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you can educate a
student for life to know Jesus.
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The statistics on people
who go to Christian education,
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who are involved in
the Church is amazing,
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and that's the
impact that we have.
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For $20,000 you can
do a lay planning's,
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lay training center.
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You know, we
don't think about this,
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we think about
just training Laypeople,
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but sometimes we need
good places to train them,
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and this for
$20,000 you can do that.
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It's exciting to be part of ASI.
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It's exciting to give
because when we get to heaven
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this is, this is
for me you can apply it
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however you want.
When you get to heaven
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we'll find out
where our dollars went,
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when people will
come to us and say,
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because you gave, it
made a difference in my life.
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And that's why we're
here, that's why we give.
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And sometimes it's not easy,
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sometimes their
sacrificial giving involved
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and hopefully
you prayed last night
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and today about what
the Lord want you to do?
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You know, you, we had an
interview Wednesday night
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with Rodney who is
working with the Muslims.
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I can't tell you, I
can't take the time to describe
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what this offering
will do for his work.
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It's amazing,
that's why we are giving
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because the power of the
Holy Spirit is working today
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God wants to unleash
His power at this time
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alone because we all want to go.
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