Who was Jesus?
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He had compassion for
the weak and the hurting.
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He loved every person He met
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and taught them how to love,
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His great heart helped
all those who came near Him.
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But most of
all, He was a friend.
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That was who He was.
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Now find out who He is.
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What a privilege to
be working for the Lord
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in the closing
moments of earth's history.
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Such a privilege
to work here at 3ABN
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with so many
wonderful brothers and sisters,
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who love the Lord and
joining hands with you
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from around the world.
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We want to thank you for
your love and your prayers
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and financial support of 3ABN
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as we endeavor to take
this great gospel of the kingdom
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into all the world.
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Sister Shelley Quinn,
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she usually puts
out the titles for us
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to what we're
going to talk about,
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whether we call it a sermon,
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I like to call myself a
talk rather than a sermon.
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And, but when I talk,
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she usually gives the subjects
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and this one is
called Expanding the Kingdom.
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Well, it kind of goes back
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to what I've been talking
about for many, many years.
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And that's the Go ye.
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That's a great gospel commission
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found in Matthew 28:18-20.
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And if you have your
Bibles, follow along, please.
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"And Jesus came and
spake unto them saying,
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All power is given
me in heaven and earth.
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Go ye therefore,
and teach all nations,
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baptizing them in
the name of the Father,
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and of the Son,
and the Holy Ghost:
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teaching them," what?
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"Teaching them to
observe all things
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whatsoever I have
commanded you, and lo,
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I am with you always,
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even unto the end of the world."
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Now, each of these verses
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could be whole
sermons within themselves.
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But today, I want
to touch on just maybe
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three main points of
each of these verses.
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The very first one,
Jesus says in verse 18,
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"All power is given Me."
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The dictionary says,
one's whole interest,
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energy or property, to
give one's all it says,
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or it could be to lose all,
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but it says
often all represents,
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and I love this
one, the entire universe.
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So the little word,
three letters A-L-L.
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And so when you think
about our Creator God,
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who created the entire universe,
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He's sitting here
saying to us, and these words,
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"All power is given
Me in heaven and earth."
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This little tiny word
now suddenly becomes huge,
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it becomes the whole universe,
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because the Creator
of the universe says,
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"All power is given me."
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And now guess what he's saying,
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I'm going to give
that power to you to take
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the gospel of the
kingdom into all the world.
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So Philippians 4:13,
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"I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me."
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That little word all again.
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We can go again
to Philippians 4:19.
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I know I'm running through
these, you can write them down.
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If you don't have
time, write them down,
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read them later.
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"My God shall
supply all of your need,
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according to his
riches and glory."
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Then, Romans 8:28, for
we know that, all things
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and what I'm doing
here is keep bringing back
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that word that is so
complete, when Jesus says,
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"Go ye into all the world."
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He's just made some promises.
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"Go therefore and
teach all nations,"
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He says in 19, "baptizing
them in the name of the Father,
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the Son and the Holy Spirit."
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You say, "Well,
I'm not a preacher.
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I don't know how
to do any of that.
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Where in the world would I get
the resources for all of this?"
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Well, let me tell you something,
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the blessings of God
really are on the go.
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Now, many of you heard me
say that before, I'm sure.
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And I've said it
many, many times,
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but the
blessings on your own life,
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the blessings of your ministry,
when you go into ministry,
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and we each should is on the go.
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Once you settle in your
mind that Jesus is all power,
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and He's willing to
use you as a conduit.
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Nothing should stop you
from carrying God's directive
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for your ministry, right?
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Yes.
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And even including
a worldwide ministry
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because He says as
we just read twice.
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He says teach all
nations, the whole,
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that little word all
universe again, right?
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Okay.
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So the question
you may be asking,
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and each and every one of you
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is how do I do
my part in expanding
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the gospel of
Jesus into all the world.
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People asked me that often
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as we travel
from church to church.
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So I want to talk
about that a little bit.
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As I mentioned today,
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I don't want to just talk
about 3ABN and what we're doing.
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I want to talk
about what God is doing,
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what He's willing
to do through anyone
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who's willing to be used.
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So number one, make sure
it's God who's calling you.
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Are you, when you
want to go on ministry,
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you're feeling called?
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Are you trying to
fulfill your dream
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or God's will for your life?
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There's a big difference.
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I remember about
three or four years
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after we went on the
air back in the late '80s.
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I had this preacher
call me. And he was...
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We were talking and one day
he said, "I'm just so upset.
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Things aren't going my way."
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He had started a TV program,
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and he was having
all kinds of issues.
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And 3ABN was continuing to grow.
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We were growing and
growing and growing.
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So he said, I watched,
I sit at home and he said,
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"I just beat my
chest sometimes."
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And I say, "God, why
did you give that ministry?
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Why did you give 3ABN to him?
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Danny's done, and
all his folk up there
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and his workers, why
did you give it to them?
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I want, I wanted it.
Lord, I wanted to be on TV."
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He's telling me this.
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"Lord, I wanted to be on
TV since I was in high school.
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I wanted to be
known around the world.
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And now here,
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God picks a place in a little
cornfield in Southern Illinois.
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I'm in Florida, I'm in an area
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where a lot of people around,
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but he picks that
area and he chooses you.
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You don't seem to care
whether you're on TV or not.
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And I've always
wanted to be on TV.
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And now that I'm a preacher,
now that I'm a preacher,
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I really want to
use this platform
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to get the gospel to the world.
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But I don't want to just
have a 30 minute program.
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I want my own
television network."
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He quieted down, he talked
about as fast as I just did,
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he quieted down a minute.
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And he said, "Brother,
Danny, do you have any idea
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why God chose
you for this ministry
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instead of me?"
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And I said, "Well, I'm
not sure why He chose me.
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But I think
listening to yourself,
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you may understand
why He hasn't chosen you."
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And I didn't mean
to be hurtful to him.
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But I heard too many I's.
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I wanted to be on
television, I want to be known.
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I want to do
this, I want to do that.
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And so that's what I'm saying,
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when God is
calling you into ministry,
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make sure one of the
first things you want to do
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is to make sure that guess what?
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You are following
what God wants you to do,
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and not what you want to do.
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Right?
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Because you may go on
areas, I've been in many areas,
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and I'm still in that from
time to time you get an areas
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that are uncomfortable.
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You're not sure,
really, where do I go?
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This is the first,
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I don't care how many
years you've been in ministry,
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we're going on 37.
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We still run into
things, Greg and Jill
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and I and we're
meeting and our meetings like,
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well, I've never run
across that one before.
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What do we do?
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So okay, so now you
said, "Lord, I'm ready to go.
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I feel like you're
calling me into ministry.
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But maybe let
me check that out."
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So what I do, the next thing
you do is you try the spirits
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to the law and to the testimony,
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you know the
scripture, Isaiah 8:20.
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"If there's, if they
don't speak the truth,
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there's no light in them."
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So what I have to do now is
I've got to put it to a test.
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Now when the Lord impressed
me, it was November 14,
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late night hours,
early morning hours,
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November 15th, 1984.
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And the Lord impressed me.
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I was trying to sleep.
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And the Lord impressed me,
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I want you to build
a television station
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that will reach the world
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with an undiluted
three angels' messages,
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one that would
counteract the counterfeit
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into all the world.
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Now, folks, I have
to tell you something
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that is not Danny Shelton,
that's not the way I thought,
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was not my thinking.
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I had never thought
about going into all the world,
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because it just would
be impossibility for me.
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But as I heard this
voice, I had to try the spirits,
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because I said,
"Well, wait a minute,
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why, Lord, why doesn't a
church build television stations
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to reach the world?"
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Now why did I was I having
that conversation with God?
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Let me take you back.
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My daughter and
I were traveling,
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and we were
singing, this was early '80s.
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And we were singing on
some television networks.
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And so every television
network I would go to,
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we would see people there
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that they'd have their prayer
counselors they called them,
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people were calling in.
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And I thought, Lord,
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where are we a
Seventh-day Adventists
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in the media.
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There's 24 hour
religious networks,
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and I'm thankful for
our It Is Written program
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and Breath Of Life
and some of the others
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that we have
that's on a half hour
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Sunday morning in some
cities in the United States,
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but these people have
taken authority over television,
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and they're 24/7.
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But yet so much of the
stuff I heard was not the truth.
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So I had this burden.
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Every place we would go,
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one of the
places I went they said,
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"Oh we can't
wait for the rapture.
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When rapture comes, you know,
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God Himself is going to
come down to this channel,
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here in California or wherever.
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And, you know, the disciples
and they're going to preach
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to those here that were
left behind for seven years."
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I'm like, "Lord, where are we
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as Seventh-day
Adventist in the media?
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Shouldn't we be the
heads instead of the tails?
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So you try to spirits,
so I said in my simplicity,
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okay, Lord, my first
thing was I've told you as well,
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shouldn't the
church do this, Lord?
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Why don't you have
the church do this?
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But their voice I heard said
wasn't audible but in my head
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when it said build an
undiluted three angels,
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television
station reached the world
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with an undiluted
three angels' messages,
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one that would
counteract the counterfeit.
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I'd never
thought that way before.
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I had never thought
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about the three
angels' messages that much.
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And I tell people
now back then I could,
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I was raised in
the Adventist Church.
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My mother became an
Adventist, the year I was born.
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And so now I
could argue with you
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about debate
somebody about the Sabbath
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and the state of the dead,
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even about health
certain things like,
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you know, you name the subject,
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what happens to
you after you die?
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You know, how
long does hell burn,
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all of these types
of things, but really,
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I had never really studied
the three angels' messages.
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And so for me to
think and to hear this voice
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to build a television station
that will reach the world
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with an undiluted
three angels' messages,
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one that would counteract
the counterfeit was not me.
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So I said, "Okay,
Lord, this is not me."
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So I'm trying the
spirits is Isaiah 8:20,
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what if there were
a television station
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to reach the world 24/7.
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Now I didn't have any
idea how this could happen.
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But it was
giving the what we call
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the Adventist
message, which is really,
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I want to make this
clear to all of our viewers,
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the Bible message,
a complete message,
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including the Old
Testament and the New Testament,
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including all 10 of
the commandments of God.
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What if there were possible,
there was a television station
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that could reach the world
and it was giving truth 24/7?
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Would that be of the Lord
or would that be of the devil?
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Well, that wasn't
a very hard decision.
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I said, "Okay.
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That's got to be of the Lord."
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So I said, "Okay, Lord, I'll
go forward on two conditions."
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Now, I don't know if I'm
supposed to do that or not.
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But I had seen people in
the Bible put out fleeces
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sometimes so I said, "Well,
okay, maybe I can do that."
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So I said, and I don't know
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if word is innocence
or ignorance, maybe both.
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I said, "Well, Lord, I'll
go forward on two conditions.
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If this is really
You, I won't beg for money.
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I won't borrow money."
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Now, as I always tell folk,
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and some of you've
heard me said before,
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that was pretty easy.
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When I'd gone to these,
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a lot of these
TV stations to sing,
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I felt like they
were begging for money.
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And I said, "I'm
not going to do this.
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If this is the Lord,
He'll supply every need."
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And then I said, "I won't
beg for money or borrow money."
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Well, guess what?
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I didn't have any credit.
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I'm working hand to mouth,
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just trying to
every day as I can get by.
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So I'm not, I
don't have any money.
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I don't have credit.
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I couldn't borrow very
much money if I had wanted to.
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So, Lord, I'll go
forward on two conditions.
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I won't beg for
money, borrow money. Okay.
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Then the next step,
I'm talking to you now,
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the next step, the
Lord's impressing you
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what to do?
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You've tried the
spirits, what do you do?
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You step out in
faith, and you do it.
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If God directed you, He will
supply your every need, right?
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Just take these
steps one at a time.
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I'm not talking about us.
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I'm talking about you right now.
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So please listen carefully
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to what I'm
about to say right now.
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Timing is everything.
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I'm going to say it
again, timing is everything.
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When God impresses you
to do something, don't wait.
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Don't wait. Don't put it off.
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Don't plan.
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Don't get a bunch
of people together
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and get committees together.
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You know, they say committees
keep minutes but lose time,
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you've probably heard that.
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Don't say, "Well,
let me figure this out."
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Because I can guarantee you
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that the devil
would love for you to wait
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and just talk about it.
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So in my case, I
really had no reason to dream
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about building the
station to reach the world
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with a worldwide network.
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How could it ever be a reality?
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But the next morning,
after I was impressed,
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I felt I had to do something.
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I almost felt like there
was something in my shoes
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that were burning,
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that I just had to do something.
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I'd had these conversations
I felt like with the Lord
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during the night, but I
couldn't just sat still,
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I didn't want to
say well, let me see.
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Lord, open up
the windows of heaven
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and pour me out a blessing
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where there's not
room enough to receive it.
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I said, "No, I'm
not going to do that."
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Go ye into all the world.
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Go ye, the blessing
of God is on the go.
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So I didn't know what to do.
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Next morning, I'm knocking
on my Brother Kenny's door
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at 6 o'clock in the morning,
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because I know
he's an early riser.
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And so he's going to be there.
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So I told him,
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"Kenny, this is what the
Lord's impressed me to do."
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Well, he could
have laughed at me.
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He could have,
you know, said, Danny,
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go back to bed,
whatever, he didn't.
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He said, "Well, whatever,
if that's what the Lord wants,
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you know, count me in.
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I'm part of it. I'm
going to be with you."
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So then I said,
"Well, what do I do now?"
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Old Hal and Mollie Steenson.
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Yeah, they're
charismatic pastors at the time.
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Many of you know how
and Mollie and Mollie,
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God rest her soul.
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She's now resting in the Lord.
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And we miss her
tremendously here at 3ABN
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and her husband
Hal, he's still going.
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So keep praying for
Brother Hal and, Brother Hal,
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if you're listening, God bless.
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We love you.
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But I said, "I
got to do something."
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So what am I going to do?
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So I decided to go
out to their church.
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Why did I go to their church?
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Because they had a
little television studio.
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They were producing programs
for a local television station.
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And so, sometimes
my daughter Melody
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and I had sang on the station.
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So I said, "Well, if I'm
going to be in television,
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I probably should go out.
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I probably should go
out and see what it entails.
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I've been in
front of the cameras,
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but I'd never been
behind the cameras.
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So I said, "Okay, now
what else am I going to do?"
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Well, let me go visit
that local television station
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in the area.
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So what happened is
my dream began to grow
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instead of diminishing.
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See, the Lord kept me
focused on the positive.
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So that's what I
want you to think about,
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see being raised poor
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because of my
father's disability
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and I only had a
high school education,
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had no money, had no property,
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don't have any
qualifications, really.
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I was living, as they
say, from hand to mouth,
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week to week,
trying to make a living
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and just making enough
money to pay the bills.
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And it seemed like it
was an impossible dream.
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But everything changed.
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Now, I want you to
listen this really closely too,
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and this may be your life.
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What you're just hearing,
maybe you say, well, Lord,
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I'm not qualified.
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I don't have anything.
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Lord, I don't even
know where to begin.
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I don't have money. I
don't have an education.
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I've got six kids,
you know, whatever.
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I just don't know what to do.
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And when you say to
the Lord, "Okay, Lord.
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If this is really You,
and You want me to go forward,
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I'll go forward.
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I'm going to trust You."
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And I step out in faith.
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Go ye, the
blessing is on the go.
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Everything will
change, what happened?
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It changed my whole life,
all of those impossible dreams
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became a reality with
one encounter with God.
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That's all it took was
one encounter with God,
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took my doubts away.
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And I can promise
you, I've never doubted God
00:17:55.70\00:17:58.91
and His Word and the
blessings that He would continue
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to bless 3ABN
for almost 37 years.
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I promise you that,
00:18:04.85\00:18:06.18
no matter how
bleak things have looked
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and how we've been
through all kinds of situations.
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Absolutely, we have.
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Have I been
through personal problems
00:18:13.12\00:18:15.36
and disappointments in my
life in the last 37 years or so?
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If you don't
believe it, look at me.
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Some of you
remember when I used to look
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a lot younger and
look a lot better, right?
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So that's part of it. Yes.
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Have I been
through these things?
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Have you been
through these things?
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Absolutely, we have, but
I have never doubted, never.
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My right hand up as
we say before the Lord.
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He knows I'm telling the truth.
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I've never
doubted since that night,
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since the Lord said,
"Build a television station
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that will reach the
world with an undiluted
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three angels' messages,
00:18:46.62\00:18:48.06
one that would
counteract the counterfeit."
00:18:48.09\00:18:50.23
I've never doubted
that God would do His part.
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Now, I've been worried
about myself doing my part.
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We've had many people
come and many people go,
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but what the
Lord also has shown me
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and He will show you this too.
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It's not about the messenger,
it's about the message.
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We'll talk about that
a little bit later on.
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But that's what
God is looking for.
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And that's what
He's going to bless.
00:19:12.85\00:19:14.45
As I said, "People come and go."
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We get people
come in over the years,
00:19:15.85\00:19:17.95
no matter who you
are, and you meet people,
00:19:17.99\00:19:19.82
we're all can,
it can happen to us.
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We can get full of ourselves,
00:19:21.92\00:19:23.26
pastors can get
full of themselves,
00:19:23.29\00:19:24.79
evangelists
thinking, oh, look at me,
00:19:24.83\00:19:26.93
I'm really, you
know, God's using me,
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I'm doing all these things.
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No, God is blessing
you in spite of you.
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God is blessing
you in spite of you
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because he says His
Word will not return void.
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So it doesn't,
you don't have to be,
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that's why when I've watched
some of these TV stations,
00:19:41.64\00:19:44.51
I remember in
the very beginning,
00:19:44.55\00:19:46.58
I'm like, Lord,
these TV station,
00:19:46.61\00:19:48.98
some of these that I'm watching,
00:19:49.02\00:19:50.35
there was a couple
of channels in the '80s
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and I said there
are so many things,
00:19:52.85\00:19:54.86
they are so far
off biblically on it.
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Their theology is off,
00:19:58.16\00:20:00.20
so how you can be
blessing those people.
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And one night I had a dream.
00:20:03.77\00:20:06.00
And in this dream, I
was, I don't know where I was,
00:20:06.03\00:20:09.37
but I was in the
midst of a apple orchard.
00:20:09.40\00:20:12.57
And the apples were huge.
00:20:12.61\00:20:15.94
And the trees
were all hanging down,
00:20:15.98\00:20:18.88
loaded with
these ripe red apples.
00:20:18.91\00:20:22.32
And all I had to do is
just reach out and pluck them.
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Just like this.
00:20:24.89\00:20:26.22
I could walk
around, I didn't see God.
00:20:26.25\00:20:28.66
But it was just He and
I talking, I said, "Lord,
00:20:28.69\00:20:31.26
what are all of
these ripe red apples?"
00:20:31.29\00:20:35.30
And I'm going to take you back
before I give you God's answer.
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Because I had been traveling,
00:20:38.97\00:20:41.40
start since my daughter
and I sang and ever since
00:20:41.44\00:20:43.94
I was impressed to
build this television station.
00:20:43.97\00:20:46.57
For the next
couple of months or so,
00:20:46.61\00:20:48.71
we had what we call
engagements on weekends to sing.
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I would get up and tell people
00:20:52.05\00:20:53.38
we're going to build
Adventist television station
00:20:53.42\00:20:55.88
to reach the world, we're
going to counter counteract,
00:20:55.92\00:20:58.92
because I heard
counteract the counterfeit.
00:20:58.95\00:21:00.96
So I'm going to counteract
and I would name names,
00:21:00.99\00:21:03.49
this network and that
network, and we're going to do,
00:21:03.53\00:21:06.96
you know, whatever.
00:21:07.00\00:21:08.36
So this night, I have the dream.
00:21:08.40\00:21:10.30
I said, "Lord, what are
all these ripe, red apples,"
00:21:10.33\00:21:13.70
this beautiful
this hanging down.
00:21:13.74\00:21:16.57
And it's just
like He said to me,
00:21:16.60\00:21:18.64
"These are people.
00:21:18.67\00:21:20.41
These represent people
who've come to the knowledge
00:21:20.44\00:21:22.84
of the truth through
these other networks.
00:21:22.88\00:21:27.38
They've come off of drugs,
they've come off of alcoholic,
00:21:27.42\00:21:30.89
come off of all their
problems, their bad habits,
00:21:30.92\00:21:34.09
they've surrendered their lives.
00:21:34.12\00:21:35.82
And now you with giving
the three angels' messages,
00:21:35.86\00:21:39.26
3ABN are ready,
00:21:39.29\00:21:41.13
these ripe red apples
are ready to be plucked.
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What God taught me was
something very important.
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Man is not my enemy,
00:21:46.97\00:21:49.00
because I disagree with someone,
00:21:49.04\00:21:51.61
because I look at
some preacher and say,
00:21:51.64\00:21:53.51
"Oh, boy, he's a phony."
00:21:53.54\00:21:55.21
Maybe he is or because
I look at somebody else.
00:21:55.24\00:21:57.78
Or they look at me because
people look at me the same way.
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What I learned about
that is our enemy's the devil.
00:22:01.08\00:22:06.35
I'm gonna say it
again, our enemy's the devil,
00:22:06.39\00:22:08.69
it is not each other.
00:22:08.72\00:22:10.73
And this disunity is
the division in the church
00:22:10.76\00:22:14.76
that's keeping this
gospel of the kingdom
00:22:14.80\00:22:17.77
from going into all the world.
00:22:17.80\00:22:20.14
My hope and prayer today
00:22:20.17\00:22:21.60
is that each
and every one of us,
00:22:21.64\00:22:25.84
me included, will pray,
Lord, help us to be one.
00:22:25.87\00:22:29.24
Remember the disciples
that came in one accord?
00:22:29.28\00:22:32.58
When they came in one accord?
00:22:32.61\00:22:33.95
We're not talking about
a little car around here
00:22:33.98\00:22:35.92
they call the Accord, right?
00:22:35.95\00:22:37.42
We're saying them when
they came in one accord,
00:22:37.45\00:22:39.22
one mind, one
heart, guess what God did?
00:22:39.25\00:22:42.86
He poured out His Holy Spirit,
00:22:42.89\00:22:44.23
when He begin to pour out
His Holy Spirit on people.
00:22:44.26\00:22:46.96
Then when they went forward,
00:22:47.00\00:22:48.63
people could see
the Jesus in them.
00:22:48.66\00:22:50.57
I, if I be lifted up
from this earth will draw,
00:22:50.60\00:22:54.10
that little word
again, all men to me.
00:22:54.14\00:22:59.24
Now, I've learned a lot.
00:22:59.27\00:23:01.81
Thirty seven
years, I'm still learning.
00:23:01.84\00:23:03.88
I don't have it all,
I still make mistakes.
00:23:03.91\00:23:06.15
I still can't believe
that I do some of the things
00:23:06.18\00:23:09.12
that Lord only by Your grace.
00:23:09.15\00:23:13.56
And I want you to
think about your life today.
00:23:13.59\00:23:15.42
You say I'm not
fit for ministry.
00:23:15.46\00:23:17.99
I have people tell me I'm not.
00:23:18.03\00:23:20.40
I'm just not good
enough to go to church.
00:23:20.43\00:23:22.03
Had a guy that I knew for years,
00:23:22.06\00:23:23.57
and he traveled with me
00:23:23.60\00:23:25.57
and I won't give
too much details,
00:23:25.60\00:23:28.37
because some of you
would know who he is.
00:23:28.40\00:23:30.34
But he's a wonderful guy.
00:23:30.37\00:23:32.21
But I would say,
00:23:32.24\00:23:33.58
"Hey, when you
want to come to church?
00:23:33.61\00:23:34.94
You want to come to church?"
00:23:34.98\00:23:36.31
He'd say, "I just
can't go to church."
00:23:36.34\00:23:38.11
I said, "Why not?"
"I'm not good enough."
00:23:38.15\00:23:40.95
I said, "I'm not either.
00:23:40.98\00:23:43.08
I'm not either."
00:23:43.12\00:23:44.45
We can go to church
00:23:44.49\00:23:45.82
because of
Christ's righteousness
00:23:45.85\00:23:47.36
because He shed His
blood on the cross of Calvary
00:23:47.39\00:23:50.99
for you and me.
00:23:51.03\00:23:52.39
Therefore, we can stand
perfect before the Father,
00:23:52.43\00:23:55.26
so all we have to do
is to confess our sins,
00:23:55.30\00:23:58.37
realize that we're
sinners, confess our sins.
00:23:58.40\00:24:01.80
The Bible says in 1 John 1:9,
00:24:01.84\00:24:03.57
"He's faithful and just
to forgive us from our sins,
00:24:03.61\00:24:07.34
and to cleanse us from..."
00:24:07.38\00:24:10.35
Oh, there's that word
again, "All unrighteousness."
00:24:10.38\00:24:14.72
Isn't that amazing how
that word just keeps popping up?
00:24:14.75\00:24:18.49
All when I'm
thinking about universe,
00:24:18.52\00:24:20.56
the creator of the universe
00:24:20.59\00:24:23.83
is willing to
forgive us from our sins
00:24:23.86\00:24:25.83
and cleanse us from
all unrighteousness.
00:24:25.86\00:24:28.46
So no, God uses
us in spite of us.
00:24:28.50\00:24:31.23
We are not each other's enemies.
00:24:31.27\00:24:33.27
We've let, and I
won't get into it now.
00:24:33.30\00:24:35.14
But maybe at some point,
00:24:35.17\00:24:36.81
and you know what
I'm talking about.
00:24:36.84\00:24:38.31
We've let
politics divide the church.
00:24:38.34\00:24:40.18
We've let all kinds of
things divide the Church of God.
00:24:40.21\00:24:44.61
We should not be changing
00:24:44.65\00:24:46.08
the thing that I
want to encourage you
00:24:46.11\00:24:47.72
when you're in ministry.
00:24:47.75\00:24:49.18
When God gives you a message
00:24:49.22\00:24:50.55
when He gives you a message,
mission, stay focused on it.
00:24:50.59\00:24:54.76
Now, the waiting part.
00:24:54.79\00:24:56.79
I believe that if I
waited even a week or two
00:24:56.83\00:25:00.16
just start to go ye directive.
00:25:00.20\00:25:01.66
You know, I said, I
got up that next morning.
00:25:01.70\00:25:03.97
I believe God would have allowed
00:25:04.00\00:25:05.63
the devil to talk me out of it.
00:25:05.67\00:25:08.90
Think about that for a minute.
00:25:08.94\00:25:10.34
The Lord's
impressing you to do something,
00:25:10.37\00:25:13.61
and you want to think about it.
00:25:13.64\00:25:15.34
So your tendency
is, oh, that's a huge,
00:25:15.38\00:25:19.21
that's a huge task,
00:25:19.25\00:25:20.58
Lord, how could You
ask me to do that, that,
00:25:20.62\00:25:24.05
I can't do
that, that's big test.
00:25:24.09\00:25:27.06
What you will do is
you will talk yourself out
00:25:27.09\00:25:30.49
of doing what
God's called you to do.
00:25:30.53\00:25:32.83
So and don't spend
too much time planning.
00:25:32.86\00:25:35.80
Because remember, it's
not about you anyway, right?
00:25:35.83\00:25:39.07
So don't spend too
much time planning.
00:25:39.10\00:25:40.90
Just go forward,
in the beginning,
00:25:40.94\00:25:43.14
the Lord's impressing you.
00:25:43.17\00:25:44.51
I go, I ended up
with my brothers.
00:25:44.54\00:25:46.17
As I just
mentioned, I ended up at Hal
00:25:46.21\00:25:49.11
and Mollie Steenson's
church, they all encouraged me,
00:25:49.14\00:25:51.95
went to the television
station to see how it worked.
00:25:51.98\00:25:55.35
And so that's
all I knew how to do.
00:25:55.38\00:25:59.59
But see, I really
believe this with all my heart
00:25:59.62\00:26:02.32
that if you don't do what
God's impressing you to do,
00:26:02.36\00:26:05.69
He will pass you right on by,
and He'll go to somebody else.
00:26:05.73\00:26:10.37
And they will be doing
00:26:10.40\00:26:12.50
what really He had
planned for your life.
00:26:12.53\00:26:15.60
You know how I know that.
00:26:15.64\00:26:17.21
It's happened at least
three times that I know of,
00:26:17.24\00:26:21.01
within a year or two,
after 3ABN went on the air.
00:26:21.04\00:26:24.71
I started going to
different churches.
00:26:24.75\00:26:28.08
And I would tell my story,
00:26:28.12\00:26:29.78
the Lord impressed to
build His television station,
00:26:29.82\00:26:32.45
then this little
lady donated property,
00:26:32.49\00:26:34.92
then I would say, then,
then the power lines was there,
00:26:34.96\00:26:38.43
the electricity,
people came up from Tennessee,
00:26:38.46\00:26:40.90
and they gave the first
50,000 to erect this station.
00:26:40.93\00:26:45.17
And so, the Lord's impressed us
00:26:45.20\00:26:47.04
and now we're getting
ready to go on satellite,
00:26:47.07\00:26:49.40
that satellite's going
to cover North America.
00:26:49.44\00:26:51.87
And then eventually the
world after the service,
00:26:51.91\00:26:55.21
three different occasions.
00:26:55.24\00:26:57.48
One was the lady in
Chicago, she came up to me
00:26:57.51\00:27:00.25
and she had work
some in television.
00:27:00.28\00:27:02.38
She said, "I know every word
that you're saying is true."
00:27:02.42\00:27:06.76
I said, "Really?"
00:27:06.79\00:27:08.12
She said, "Yes,"
00:27:08.16\00:27:09.49
because I don't
remember the exact years,
00:27:09.52\00:27:11.43
but two or three
years ago, whatever.
00:27:11.46\00:27:13.93
The Lord
impressed me the same thing.
00:27:13.96\00:27:15.90
He came to me.
00:27:15.93\00:27:17.70
And I wrestled with
Him, just like you did,
00:27:17.73\00:27:21.40
because He's told me to
build a television station
00:27:21.44\00:27:23.94
that would reach the world,
00:27:23.97\00:27:25.44
almost exactly what He told you.
00:27:25.47\00:27:27.18
But she said, "I'm one person.
00:27:27.21\00:27:29.41
I don't have any money.
I work for a TV station.
00:27:29.44\00:27:33.38
There's no way I could do
it. And so I didn't do it."
00:27:33.42\00:27:37.69
Now I see that God
called me and I missed out.
00:27:37.72\00:27:40.62
I was over in Indiana
at a church told a story.
00:27:40.66\00:27:45.86
Maybe months later,
a man came up to me.
00:27:45.89\00:27:48.70
And he said, "Every
word you're saying is true.
00:27:48.73\00:27:53.54
I know it
because I'm an engineer."
00:27:53.57\00:27:56.81
He said, "I'm a
television engineer,
00:27:56.84\00:27:58.34
I worked for," I don't remember
00:27:58.37\00:27:59.97
what network it was.
00:28:00.01\00:28:01.61
"I work for network.
00:28:01.64\00:28:03.48
And I've been thinking
that I was so impressed,
00:28:03.51\00:28:06.78
Adventist should
have television station
00:28:06.82\00:28:09.45
to reach the world.
00:28:09.48\00:28:11.02
And so I got this
impression one night,
00:28:11.05\00:28:13.66
build a television
station to reach the world.
00:28:13.69\00:28:16.46
But I couldn't do that.
I didn't have the money.
00:28:16.49\00:28:20.20
I don't, you know,
00:28:20.23\00:28:21.76
I know how to
build the stations.
00:28:21.80\00:28:23.63
But I don't know anybody.
How would I put it together?
00:28:23.67\00:28:25.93
I don't know
anything about programming.
00:28:25.97\00:28:28.14
I don't have any.
00:28:28.17\00:28:29.50
I just can't,
Lord, I can't do it.
00:28:29.54\00:28:33.44
So I didn't."
00:28:33.48\00:28:36.48
Third place I went to,
exact same thing happen.
00:28:36.51\00:28:40.65
Another person came up.
00:28:40.68\00:28:42.18
"I know you're
telling the truth."
00:28:42.22\00:28:43.99
Then years later,
when Jim Gilley was here,
00:28:44.02\00:28:46.72
Jim, he's told
the story on the air.
00:28:46.76\00:28:50.09
And like 1979 or 1980,
00:28:50.13\00:28:53.09
he was working at the
North American Division,
00:28:53.13\00:28:56.10
and was at the
General Conference.
00:28:56.13\00:28:58.27
And he said he went
to the General Conference
00:28:58.30\00:29:00.00
and said,
00:29:00.04\00:29:01.37
"We need to build Adventist
television station 24/7
00:29:01.40\00:29:05.44
to reach the world."
00:29:05.47\00:29:07.48
But he said, "I
couldn't get anywhere.
00:29:07.51\00:29:09.61
No one would go for it."
00:29:09.64\00:29:12.28
Everybody said, "There's
just no way we can do that.
00:29:12.31\00:29:15.15
That's huge. It would cost
tremendous amount of money.
00:29:15.18\00:29:18.35
We're not able to do it,
00:29:18.39\00:29:20.06
you know, lest,
just don't do it."
00:29:20.09\00:29:22.92
So he said, "I
just forgot about it."
00:29:22.96\00:29:26.19
Then, about six years later,
00:29:26.23\00:29:28.76
he said the very
first time I heard you,
00:29:28.80\00:29:31.47
you were in Texas in Keene,
00:29:31.50\00:29:33.44
talking to the
church and Sabbath School.
00:29:33.47\00:29:35.90
I was there, and I
said, "I'm on board,
00:29:35.94\00:29:39.11
because I know this is God's
will because that's exactly
00:29:39.14\00:29:42.84
what the Lord
impressed me six years before."
00:29:42.88\00:29:46.48
So, folks, if the Lord's
impressing you to do something,
00:29:46.51\00:29:49.72
don't wait, don't try
to hire a bunch of people,
00:29:49.75\00:29:53.69
don't find out
you know all they say
00:29:53.72\00:29:56.52
that I won't go into that
story about the perspective.
00:29:56.56\00:29:59.06
Do you have a perspective?
00:29:59.09\00:30:00.56
Don't worry about all
that, go forward and watch
00:30:00.60\00:30:02.76
what God has you to do.
00:30:02.80\00:30:04.70
Then next, this
one's a tough one,
00:30:04.73\00:30:08.57
when you don't blame
things on other people.
00:30:08.60\00:30:12.11
Okay, take the responsibility.
00:30:12.14\00:30:14.64
Don't wait on others.
00:30:14.68\00:30:16.34
Because I've seen that so
many times people come to me,
00:30:16.38\00:30:18.98
"Well, have you
thought about building this."
00:30:19.01\00:30:20.68
And wouldn't even be television.
00:30:20.72\00:30:22.75
They'll say, "Well,
the Lord impressed me
00:30:22.78\00:30:24.29
to do this ministry.
00:30:24.32\00:30:26.15
But I think 3ABN should do it.
00:30:26.19\00:30:27.86
You'd be good at it."
00:30:27.89\00:30:29.22
I said, "Well, wait a minute.
00:30:29.26\00:30:30.59
You just said the
Lord impressed you, right?"
00:30:30.63\00:30:32.63
Well, yeah. Then why 3ABN.
00:30:32.66\00:30:34.36
Well, you guys
have the resources.
00:30:34.40\00:30:36.33
I said, "You have the exact
same resources that we have,
00:30:36.36\00:30:40.64
the Lord and the
Holy Spirit to work on.
00:30:40.67\00:30:43.24
So people say, "Oh, well,
00:30:43.27\00:30:45.11
I really wanted to do something,
00:30:45.14\00:30:46.64
but my church
didn't support me."
00:30:46.68\00:30:48.54
Excuses. See, the
devil loves excuses.
00:30:48.58\00:30:51.91
So when the Lord's
impressing you to do something,
00:30:51.95\00:30:54.42
don't say, well, you know,
my church didn't support me.
00:30:54.45\00:31:00.09
My pastor didn't support me.
00:31:00.12\00:31:01.62
My husband didn't
support me, you know?
00:31:01.66\00:31:04.19
So when things don't
go right, what do you do?
00:31:04.23\00:31:06.39
You take responsibility.
00:31:06.43\00:31:08.23
Here's where the
devil has a heyday,
00:31:08.26\00:31:10.97
literally has a heyday, excuses.
00:31:11.00\00:31:13.34
There's no song says excuses,
excuses, I hear them every day.
00:31:13.37\00:31:17.34
The devil, he'll supply them
if from church, you stay away,
00:31:17.37\00:31:22.31
you know?
00:31:22.34\00:31:23.68
So anyway, I won't even
go on the rest of that song,
00:31:23.71\00:31:25.98
I've repeated it before.
00:31:26.01\00:31:28.05
But I want to encourage
you never be discouraged.
00:31:28.08\00:31:32.05
There's no reason, all
heaven is on your side.
00:31:32.09\00:31:34.86
I want to tell you even
after 37 years of ministry,
00:31:34.89\00:31:38.83
3ABN still deals with
opposition virtually every day.
00:31:38.86\00:31:43.40
There's times that
we deal with opposition,
00:31:43.43\00:31:46.67
sometimes within the church,
00:31:46.70\00:31:48.37
sometimes
without it, but why not?
00:31:48.40\00:31:51.61
I mentioned it
earlier, I said sometimes,
00:31:51.64\00:31:54.11
if we're not, I've
mentioned to other people,
00:31:54.14\00:31:56.01
and look, if we're not
butting heads with the devil,
00:31:56.04\00:31:59.15
then we must be
running alongside of him.
00:31:59.18\00:32:01.02
So don't be discouraged.
00:32:01.05\00:32:02.78
Don't let the
devil discourage you.
00:32:02.82\00:32:04.69
Go forward.
00:32:04.72\00:32:06.05
Don't worry about oppositions.
00:32:06.09\00:32:07.92
I want to go up
now and talk about
00:32:07.96\00:32:09.32
some of the things that we
can be encouraged about, okay?
00:32:09.36\00:32:12.23
I'm kind of telling you
00:32:12.26\00:32:13.60
what not to be
discouraged about.
00:32:13.63\00:32:15.63
But let's talk
about being encouraged.
00:32:15.66\00:32:17.23
I want to talk
about the goodness of God.
00:32:17.27\00:32:19.43
And I want to talk
about God's timing.
00:32:19.47\00:32:22.44
It's no accident again.
00:32:22.47\00:32:24.61
I believe in divine providence,
00:32:24.64\00:32:26.31
we do not
believe in coincidence,
00:32:26.34\00:32:28.84
we don't believe in accidents,
00:32:28.88\00:32:30.58
but we believe in
divine providence.
00:32:30.61\00:32:33.01
So I want to go back to timing.
00:32:33.05\00:32:35.28
When the Lord
impressed us to build a station,
00:32:35.32\00:32:37.49
we didn't have anything.
00:32:37.52\00:32:38.95
Now think of this timing.
00:32:38.99\00:32:40.56
The first Wednesday
night after I was impressed
00:32:40.59\00:32:43.02
to build a station, I
went to prayer meeting.
00:32:43.06\00:32:45.19
Now I have to
tell you the truth.
00:32:45.23\00:32:46.59
I didn't always back
then go to prayer meeting.
00:32:46.63\00:32:49.36
Maybe don't always
now, and should more,
00:32:49.40\00:32:51.67
but I'm just saying a
lot of times I didn't go,
00:32:51.70\00:32:54.90
I show up at prayer meeting.
00:32:54.94\00:32:56.60
And there's a woman,
00:32:56.64\00:32:57.97
now our prayer meeting in that
little West Frankfort Church
00:32:58.01\00:32:59.67
had about 12 people in it.
00:32:59.71\00:33:01.88
But there was a lady
who showed up 77 years old
00:33:01.91\00:33:04.75
I believe, her
name Fonda Summers.
00:33:04.78\00:33:06.88
She came to that meeting,
00:33:06.92\00:33:08.62
because my
mother had gotten a card
00:33:08.65\00:33:11.12
from a literature
evangelist who said,
00:33:11.15\00:33:13.29
"Hey, this lady
asked about books.
00:33:13.32\00:33:15.46
Maybe you want to go see her."
00:33:15.49\00:33:17.03
So my mother drove out
towards Thompsonville area
00:33:17.06\00:33:20.23
to find a lady,
she talked to her.
00:33:20.26\00:33:22.36
Her name was Fonda Summers.
00:33:22.40\00:33:24.43
I think she belonged
to the Methodist Church
00:33:24.47\00:33:26.80
and invited her to
come to prayer meeting.
00:33:26.84\00:33:29.60
So that Wednesday night,
she came to prayer meeting.
00:33:29.64\00:33:32.94
Now, just a coincidence,
00:33:32.97\00:33:34.71
I'll keep saying
this or divine providence.
00:33:34.74\00:33:37.21
She comes to
prayer meeting that night,
00:33:37.25\00:33:39.21
I stand up and
say, Tell him look,
00:33:39.25\00:33:41.42
the Lord's impressed me
to build a television station
00:33:41.45\00:33:43.79
to reach the world.
00:33:43.82\00:33:45.25
And prayer meetings over,
we go home two nights later.
00:33:45.29\00:33:48.32
Friday night,
my mother calls me,
00:33:48.36\00:33:49.82
Danny, guess what?
00:33:49.86\00:33:51.49
Fonda Summers, the little lady
00:33:51.53\00:33:52.89
that was at
church Wednesday night.
00:33:52.93\00:33:54.26
Yes.
00:33:54.30\00:33:55.63
She said she went home
and said Lord, I'd like...
00:33:55.66\00:33:57.47
Was praying, "Lord,
I'd like to do something
00:33:57.50\00:33:59.17
to help this folk, but
I don't have any money.
00:33:59.20\00:34:02.30
I don't have anything.
00:34:02.34\00:34:03.67
The Lord said to me,
00:34:03.71\00:34:05.17
she says, what is
this you have in your hand?
00:34:05.21\00:34:08.61
Well, I don't have any, I
got six acres of property."
00:34:08.64\00:34:11.61
I mean, my house and
everything's on the front.
00:34:11.65\00:34:13.62
Maybe I could give
them two acres in the back
00:34:13.65\00:34:15.95
of the property,
if that would help.
00:34:15.98\00:34:18.99
Well, now, really
Thompsonville 600,
00:34:19.02\00:34:21.86
West Frankfort was about 9000,
00:34:21.89\00:34:23.63
Thompsonville about 600.
00:34:23.66\00:34:25.49
If you're going to build a
TV station to reach the world.
00:34:25.53\00:34:28.13
That's probably not
where you're going to figure
00:34:28.16\00:34:30.13
that you want to be in the
back of somebody's property
00:34:30.17\00:34:33.40
out in the middle of Timbuktu,
right, in the boondocks.
00:34:33.44\00:34:36.81
But she says,
Fonda Summers said,
00:34:36.84\00:34:39.27
"Well, the Lord impressed
her to give some property."
00:34:39.31\00:34:42.28
So I said,
"Well, praise the Lord,
00:34:42.31\00:34:43.88
that that's good."
00:34:43.91\00:34:45.25
Well, I mentioned
I've gone to a TV station,
00:34:45.28\00:34:47.62
I talked to an
engineer named Clarence Larsen,
00:34:47.65\00:34:50.45
Clarence said to me,
"I know what you're doing,
00:34:50.49\00:34:53.42
I think of
Adventist or Sheltons,
00:34:53.46\00:34:55.56
he said, as
singers and carpenters."
00:34:55.59\00:34:57.86
And he said, "I don't
think of you building stations,
00:34:57.89\00:35:00.60
because I've seen you on ours.
00:35:00.63\00:35:01.96
But I've been doing
an engineering study
00:35:02.00\00:35:04.53
for another station
about going to satellites,
00:35:04.57\00:35:07.10
which I knew nothing
about, and satellites
00:35:07.14\00:35:09.90
and taking signals that will
go all across North America."
00:35:09.94\00:35:13.24
And I said, "Really?",
00:35:13.27\00:35:14.61
And he says, get this.
00:35:14.64\00:35:16.34
He says, "I've been studying
on my little Apple 2 computer.
00:35:16.38\00:35:19.95
And I think there's a
place out towards Thompsonville
00:35:19.98\00:35:23.28
that would be free
of microwave signals,
00:35:23.32\00:35:25.99
where you could send satellite
signals to space 22,300 miles
00:35:26.02\00:35:31.73
to hit a satellite
that then would send signals
00:35:31.76\00:35:34.40
all around North
America down into TV stations,
00:35:34.43\00:35:37.30
down into homes,
through big satellite dishes.
00:35:37.33\00:35:41.20
And I said, huh, wow,
00:35:41.24\00:35:43.51
property she's saying
out this way, Clarence says,
00:35:43.54\00:35:47.18
so we get
Scientific Atlanta from Georgia
00:35:47.21\00:35:50.15
come out and do a
study on properties.
00:35:50.18\00:35:53.25
I said to them, "I
have some property."
00:35:53.28\00:35:55.75
I'll never forget
what the man said,
00:35:55.78\00:35:57.75
"No, you don't know if
you have property or not,
00:35:57.79\00:36:00.06
let us come to your area,
00:36:00.09\00:36:01.46
we'll do a study
and see if any of that,
00:36:01.49\00:36:04.16
let's see if any of that
there's property anywhere
00:36:04.19\00:36:07.63
that would be free of
microwave interferences,"
00:36:07.66\00:36:10.10
because your Illinois
Bell and all these different
00:36:10.13\00:36:12.57
microwave
signals flying and you,
00:36:12.60\00:36:14.30
if you're going to satellite,
you can't have interference.
00:36:14.34\00:36:17.71
So I said, well,
actually, I have two properties.
00:36:17.74\00:36:19.77
He said, two piece,
two acres of property.
00:36:19.81\00:36:21.98
He said, you
don't know that work.
00:36:22.01\00:36:24.21
I said, "Well come
up and do the test."
00:36:24.25\00:36:25.91
They did, not only
did it work, he said,
00:36:25.95\00:36:28.18
"This is the only area
spot in the entire area,
00:36:28.22\00:36:31.92
you can send satellite signals
to any of the 20 I think,
00:36:31.95\00:36:35.29
it was 20 or 21
satellites in space right now
00:36:35.32\00:36:38.66
that can be downlinked
anywhere across North America.
00:36:38.69\00:36:41.93
Can you imagine
what that did to us
00:36:41.96\00:36:44.90
in the beginning to
say, oh, the Lord has...
00:36:44.93\00:36:49.94
This is real.
00:36:49.97\00:36:51.31
That dream build a station what?
00:36:51.34\00:36:54.01
The Lord impresses people,
00:36:54.04\00:36:55.38
I don't even know is that timing
00:36:55.41\00:36:58.08
is what I want to
talk to you about,
00:36:58.11\00:36:59.45
God shall supply all your needs.
00:36:59.48\00:37:01.42
But the timing is so important.
00:37:01.45\00:37:03.59
Had she not been
to prayer meeting,
00:37:03.62\00:37:05.35
had I not been
at that same time?
00:37:05.39\00:37:07.72
How things work
is divine providence.
00:37:07.76\00:37:10.69
I went to Clarence,
00:37:10.73\00:37:12.69
the engineer I
was telling you about.
00:37:12.73\00:37:14.63
And so, the
timing of meeting him,
00:37:14.66\00:37:17.93
and I knew him from before,
00:37:17.97\00:37:19.30
but meeting him and finding out
00:37:19.33\00:37:20.70
he only lives a
couple country blocks from me
00:37:20.74\00:37:22.80
and start working with this
man to do engineering studies.
00:37:22.84\00:37:26.34
I could go through over
and over and over again.
00:37:26.37\00:37:29.18
Now we needed money.
We needed some money.
00:37:29.21\00:37:31.05
The lady gave us the property,
00:37:31.08\00:37:32.51
we needed money
to build the roads.
00:37:32.55\00:37:34.45
So $6,000 we
didn't have any money.
00:37:34.48\00:37:37.85
But I talked to the guy
who delivers the gravel.
00:37:37.89\00:37:40.32
Well, he could do it
the next like five days
00:37:40.36\00:37:43.43
later. So I told Him
by faith, bring the gravel
00:37:43.46\00:37:45.86
because it was fall,
it was starting to go on.
00:37:45.89\00:37:47.80
I knew it was going to rain,
00:37:47.83\00:37:49.16
we wouldn't be able to
get through all of 1400 feet
00:37:49.20\00:37:51.33
to get to the
back of her property.
00:37:51.37\00:37:53.94
We needed to get road dug
and get some gravel in there.
00:37:53.97\00:37:56.94
So we could drive
to build the building.
00:37:56.97\00:37:58.74
My brother and I did
know how to build buildings.
00:37:58.77\00:38:01.08
We were carpenters.
00:38:01.11\00:38:02.81
So we didn't have the money.
00:38:02.84\00:38:04.31
So we're praying
about it for several days.
00:38:04.35\00:38:06.15
Oh, Lord, this is
huge. We don't have $6,000.
00:38:06.18\00:38:10.09
No one had ever given
$6,000. So we pray about it.
00:38:10.12\00:38:14.06
On a like a day or two before
00:38:14.09\00:38:16.76
that the gravel
was to be delivered.
00:38:16.79\00:38:18.89
I went to the mailbox, PO Box
00:38:18.93\00:38:21.03
I think was 582 in West
Frankfort little small box,
00:38:21.06\00:38:24.17
we got a bigger one
now, praise the Lord.
00:38:24.20\00:38:26.07
This time a little
small box and I opened it up.
00:38:26.10\00:38:29.20
There were only two letters.
00:38:29.24\00:38:30.87
Now people
would hear about 3ABN,
00:38:30.91\00:38:33.11
we were young, we
weren't on the air,
00:38:33.14\00:38:35.01
just starting.
00:38:35.04\00:38:36.38
But I put out little newsletters
00:38:36.41\00:38:37.75
and handout at churches.
00:38:37.78\00:38:39.11
So word was
getting around every now
00:38:39.15\00:38:40.75
and then somebody
would sent $10 and say,
00:38:40.78\00:38:42.75
I want to help you or $15 or 20.
00:38:42.78\00:38:45.25
But no, this one I opened
up two letters and I'm like,
00:38:45.29\00:38:48.59
oh, boy, first
one is for $2,000.
00:38:48.62\00:38:51.63
A lady from Chicago said,
00:38:51.66\00:38:53.29
"Hey, the Lake Union Herald
did a little story about you
00:38:53.33\00:38:57.77
and your brothers and
your family going to build
00:38:57.80\00:38:59.73
Adventist Television Network.
00:38:59.77\00:39:01.97
And the Lord impressed
me to send you this $2,000."
00:39:02.00\00:39:05.41
I opened up the next letter,
00:39:05.44\00:39:07.01
$4,000 from a guy
named Dale out in California,
00:39:07.04\00:39:11.68
San Diego area.
00:39:11.71\00:39:13.18
And he said,
"The Lord impressed me
00:39:13.21\00:39:15.15
of the urgency
you need this $4,000.
00:39:15.18\00:39:19.25
Two and four, you
don't have to be much
00:39:19.29\00:39:20.76
of a mathematician
to figure that one out.
00:39:20.79\00:39:23.29
$6,000 just while we
needed to build the road.
00:39:23.32\00:39:26.66
Now when the Lord says
go ye into all the world,
00:39:26.70\00:39:30.50
we've said it
over and over again.
00:39:30.53\00:39:32.03
He will do if He
hasn't been doing it for you,
00:39:32.07\00:39:34.30
maybe it's because you haven't
stepped out in faith yet.
00:39:34.34\00:39:36.81
So again, when God
blesses us, in spite of us
00:39:36.84\00:39:39.84
what I'm sharing you
some of these things.
00:39:39.87\00:39:41.98
He didn't do it
because we're good people.
00:39:42.01\00:39:43.81
None of us are good.
00:39:43.85\00:39:45.55
We're all as filthy rags
in the sight of the Lord.
00:39:45.58\00:39:48.42
But God wants to
do great and mighty
00:39:48.45\00:39:50.69
and marvelous
things in us and through us
00:39:50.72\00:39:53.39
as we go forward.
00:39:53.42\00:39:54.76
And I'm just I'm amazed.
00:39:54.79\00:39:56.56
I'm sitting here
saying, what could I say?
00:39:56.59\00:39:59.29
Now it's what do I
not have time to say,
00:39:59.33\00:40:02.36
the clock is my enemy.
00:40:02.40\00:40:03.87
There's so many
things that right now
00:40:03.90\00:40:05.60
is going through my
mind, miracle after miracle.
00:40:05.63\00:40:08.20
Timing, divine
providence, not coincidence.
00:40:08.24\00:40:11.31
Give you an instance.
00:40:11.34\00:40:12.67
We're on the air out
to two acres of property
00:40:12.71\00:40:14.78
for a few years.
00:40:14.81\00:40:16.14
We start growing,
ministries out growing,
00:40:16.18\00:40:18.41
we need to buy some property.
00:40:18.45\00:40:19.78
So I said, "Well,
let's go out to 149."
00:40:19.81\00:40:22.18
That's the highway between West
Frankfort and Thompsonville.
00:40:22.22\00:40:25.42
See if there's any property.
00:40:25.45\00:40:26.86
One evening I'm driving
by, I look up on the right
00:40:26.89\00:40:30.13
and there's some
really beautiful property.
00:40:30.16\00:40:31.76
I don't know how much is
there, but had been farming,
00:40:31.79\00:40:34.60
had been in corn or what
have you for the last few years.
00:40:34.63\00:40:37.73
But it was up there empty.
00:40:37.77\00:40:39.33
So I asked a
neighbor who owns that.
00:40:39.37\00:40:41.14
They told me who
owned the property.
00:40:41.17\00:40:43.04
So I just felt
impressed back then
00:40:43.07\00:40:45.31
you could look up in phonebook
and get a guy's name, right,
00:40:45.34\00:40:47.98
phone numbers back then.
00:40:48.01\00:40:49.41
So I went home, I
looked up his phone number,
00:40:49.44\00:40:52.15
so I called him.
00:40:52.18\00:40:53.52
And I said,
"Listen, I understand you own
00:40:53.55\00:40:56.28
the property out
there on Charlie Good Road,
00:40:56.32\00:40:58.62
it's where our main
administration building
00:40:58.65\00:41:00.56
is right now.
00:41:00.59\00:41:01.92
I said, "I understand
you own that property?"
00:41:01.96\00:41:03.53
"Yeah, I do."
00:41:03.56\00:41:04.89
And I said, "Would that property
00:41:04.93\00:41:06.36
by chance be for sale?"
00:41:06.39\00:41:08.90
And he was quite a
second. He said for sale?
00:41:08.93\00:41:13.17
Why do you ask?
00:41:13.20\00:41:14.54
And I said, "Well, I was
looking for some property.
00:41:14.57\00:41:17.41
And I drove by that and it just
looked like is pretty property.
00:41:17.44\00:41:20.51
I have no idea how
much property you have,
00:41:20.54\00:41:22.41
if it's for sale."
00:41:22.44\00:41:23.78
He said, "Well,
no, it wasn't for sale.
00:41:23.81\00:41:25.58
I do have 70 acres there."
00:41:25.61\00:41:27.82
And I said, oh, wow,
because I didn't know
00:41:27.85\00:41:30.59
how much that would cost.
00:41:30.62\00:41:32.19
But I said, "Oh, 70 acres."
00:41:32.22\00:41:34.36
He said, "But you
know what's interesting?"
00:41:34.39\00:41:36.59
He said, "My wife
and I were farmers.
00:41:36.62\00:41:38.73
And we have orchards.
00:41:38.76\00:41:40.13
And this property
that you're talking about
00:41:40.16\00:41:42.80
is about two miles from
the rest of our property.
00:41:42.83\00:41:46.20
And I'm getting older now.
00:41:46.23\00:41:47.57
And it's too much
hassle for me to go back
00:41:47.60\00:41:50.27
and forth with my
farming equipment,
00:41:50.31\00:41:52.51
and try to farm this.
00:41:52.54\00:41:53.98
So tonight we
were sitting here,"
00:41:54.01\00:41:58.01
they were Christians, said,
"we were sitting here saying,
00:41:58.05\00:42:00.52
I wonder if we
should sell that property.
00:42:00.55\00:42:02.92
Maybe we should put
this property up for sale."
00:42:02.95\00:42:05.65
He said, "And you
called, the phone rings."
00:42:05.69\00:42:08.92
Now, is that coincidence
or that divine providence?
00:42:08.96\00:42:12.09
So I said, "Well,
do you have any idea
00:42:12.13\00:42:14.96
how much you would
take for the property?"
00:42:15.00\00:42:16.63
He said, "Well, we were
just talking about that too."
00:42:16.67\00:42:19.20
He says, "Would
50,000 be fair enough?"
00:42:19.23\00:42:23.87
I said, "Yes."
00:42:23.91\00:42:25.47
He said, "It is?
00:42:25.51\00:42:27.48
You want to buy
it?" I said, "Yes, sir.
00:42:27.51\00:42:29.58
I want to buy."
00:42:29.61\00:42:30.95
And I hadn't even gone
to look the rest of it.
00:42:30.98\00:42:33.31
I said, "I want to buy it."
00:42:33.35\00:42:35.02
So now did I have $50,000?
00:42:35.05\00:42:36.95
No, I did not,
did not have 50,000.
00:42:36.99\00:42:39.52
So I said, he said,
"When you want to do this?"
00:42:39.55\00:42:41.86
I said "As soon as you
can get the title insurance,
00:42:41.89\00:42:44.83
I'll have the money."
00:42:44.86\00:42:46.19
"Well, that's gonna
take about a week or so."
00:42:46.23\00:42:47.86
I said, "Okay,
we'll have the money."
00:42:47.90\00:42:49.53
And you know what?
00:42:49.56\00:42:50.90
A week or so later,
00:42:50.93\00:42:52.27
when we went into
Mike Griever's office
00:42:52.30\00:42:53.77
in West Frankfort attorney,
00:42:53.80\00:42:55.44
we had the money
put down the $50,000.
00:42:55.47\00:42:58.37
God blessed that over
and over, we began to grow.
00:42:58.41\00:43:01.18
We were growing.
00:43:01.21\00:43:02.54
So now we need, we said "Well,
now we need this sanctuary."
00:43:02.58\00:43:05.81
We ended up building a
school and some apartments
00:43:05.85\00:43:08.88
and we needed more property.
00:43:08.92\00:43:11.45
So across the highway just
past towards Thompsonville,
00:43:11.49\00:43:16.19
where we bought
the 70 on the left,
00:43:16.22\00:43:18.63
I would drive by there.
00:43:18.66\00:43:20.00
And I remember the years ago
and I'd forgotten about this.
00:43:20.03\00:43:23.70
I drove by and I saw a
property over on the left
00:43:23.73\00:43:26.20
but has grown up and
you couldn't really see
00:43:26.23\00:43:28.07
what all was there.
00:43:28.10\00:43:29.47
So I asked Larry Welch,
who worked here at the time,
00:43:29.50\00:43:32.67
why you don't see who owns that?
00:43:32.71\00:43:34.44
How much acreage it is
and see if they'll sell it?
00:43:34.48\00:43:37.91
So he did.
00:43:37.95\00:43:39.55
And he came back,
and he said, "Oh, yeah."
00:43:39.58\00:43:41.22
And he gave me the lady's name.
00:43:41.25\00:43:43.39
I don't think she'd
mind me giving her name,
00:43:43.42\00:43:45.29
but I won't
without her permission.
00:43:45.32\00:43:48.09
So he said no, she said
00:43:48.12\00:43:51.36
that she and her
husband had owned that property.
00:43:51.39\00:43:53.70
He died a number of years ago.
00:43:53.73\00:43:55.20
It's got a nice
little pond on it.
00:43:55.23\00:43:57.27
And they used to
have people out fishing
00:43:57.30\00:43:59.00
and property just
means a lot to her.
00:43:59.03\00:44:01.34
So she's not, she's not,
she doesn't want to sell.
00:44:01.37\00:44:03.87
So I said, "Okay."
00:44:03.91\00:44:05.24
So a few years went
by that's what it was.
00:44:05.27\00:44:07.31
And then we ended
up with this property.
00:44:07.34\00:44:11.28
I'm talking about
on Charlie Good Road,
00:44:11.31\00:44:13.25
the 70 acres.
00:44:13.28\00:44:14.75
But now we're
continuing to grow.
00:44:14.78\00:44:16.28
We need some
more. I forget about it.
00:44:16.32\00:44:18.82
So I look up who she is,
00:44:18.85\00:44:21.96
should have thought about
it because it's 10 years later.
00:44:21.99\00:44:24.03
So I drive in knock on her door,
00:44:24.06\00:44:26.86
told her I said,
"Hi, I'm Danny Shelton."
00:44:26.90\00:44:28.93
She said, "I know who you are."
00:44:28.96\00:44:30.60
She said, "You're here about
to ask him about property."
00:44:30.63\00:44:34.20
And I said, "Yes."
00:44:34.24\00:44:35.84
And she said, 'cause
I was, I was at a blank.
00:44:35.87\00:44:39.54
You know, I'm like what?
00:44:39.57\00:44:40.91
She said, well remember
what I told you the last time
00:44:40.94\00:44:43.28
and she had told, I
guess through Larry,
00:44:43.31\00:44:45.95
she said, "I told you last time
you asked several years ago,
00:44:45.98\00:44:49.55
I would keep this
property till I die, didn't I?
00:44:49.58\00:44:52.39
I said, "You
know what? I'm sorry.
00:44:52.42\00:44:53.79
I forgot about it."
She said, "Come on in.
00:44:53.82\00:44:56.46
Come on in. You could
have a minute to come in."
00:44:56.49\00:44:58.06
I said, "Yes."
00:44:58.09\00:44:59.43
She said, "Tonight, I
was sitting here praying,
00:44:59.46\00:45:02.33
Lord, what should I
do with that property?"
00:45:02.36\00:45:04.77
She said, "I have a
little building on it.
00:45:04.80\00:45:06.94
People had gone out there,
00:45:06.97\00:45:08.30
they were staying
all night round the pond,
00:45:08.34\00:45:10.54
I was afraid
they're going to dry drown.
00:45:10.57\00:45:12.91
They were throwing
cans through the windows.
00:45:12.94\00:45:16.58
And I had the
insurance company out here.
00:45:16.61\00:45:19.28
And it's just too
much responsibility for me.
00:45:19.31\00:45:22.58
I was praying tonight,
00:45:22.62\00:45:23.95
Lord, what should I
do with this property?
00:45:23.99\00:45:26.32
And she said you
knocked on my door."
00:45:26.35\00:45:29.02
Now is that coincident or
is that divine providence?
00:45:29.06\00:45:32.59
So I asked her how much
property, was nearly 100 acres.
00:45:32.63\00:45:35.73
Let me tell you,
00:45:35.76\00:45:37.10
she gave, also gave a great deal
00:45:37.13\00:45:39.33
wasn't much more
per acre than that.
00:45:39.37\00:45:42.34
Now I won't give those
details without her permission.
00:45:42.37\00:45:44.84
But it's amazing.
00:45:44.87\00:45:46.84
So I can take you time
and time and time again.
00:45:46.88\00:45:51.15
And what people would say,
00:45:51.18\00:45:52.58
"Well, I don't know
if I can go, you know,
00:45:52.61\00:45:54.95
I don't know if I can do this."
00:45:54.98\00:45:56.58
Look, you can do all
things through Christ
00:45:56.62\00:45:58.82
who strengthens you, how much?
00:45:58.85\00:46:00.62
I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me.
00:46:00.66\00:46:03.73
The reason that God
is opening up doors,
00:46:03.76\00:46:06.70
and He's opening up
technology, like with 3ABN,
00:46:06.73\00:46:09.56
to reach the world,
00:46:09.60\00:46:10.97
is because heaven is not heaven
till God's children are home.
00:46:11.00\00:46:14.30
Heaven is not heaven
00:46:18.04\00:46:20.24
till God's
children are all there.
00:46:20.28\00:46:22.64
Heaven for the
most part is empty.
00:46:22.68\00:46:24.45
All there may be
mansions been built.
00:46:24.48\00:46:27.45
There's plenty of room.
00:46:27.48\00:46:29.78
But God's people aren't there.
00:46:29.82\00:46:32.72
Jesus is coming back
to this earth very soon.
00:46:32.75\00:46:36.32
And when He comes
back, it's ready or not.
00:46:36.36\00:46:39.66
Are we ready? Are we not?
00:46:39.69\00:46:41.96
And I want to be counted
among those that said, Lord,
00:46:42.00\00:46:46.33
send me and we're willing to go.
00:46:46.37\00:46:49.47
And the Lord wants you
00:46:49.50\00:46:50.84
I'm telling you
again this today,
00:46:50.87\00:46:52.41
these things not for.
00:46:52.44\00:46:54.58
Again, God blesses
us all in spite of us.
00:46:54.61\00:46:57.48
1991 in the fall,
Pastor John Carter, called me,
00:46:57.51\00:47:01.85
"Danny, would you
want to go to Russia,
00:47:01.88\00:47:04.69
God's opened the
doors for to go to Russia
00:47:04.72\00:47:07.99
and preach the gospel.
00:47:08.02\00:47:09.49
Communism had just fallen."
00:47:09.52\00:47:11.59
He said, "We're
going to do it May of '92.
00:47:11.63\00:47:13.93
We're going to go to Moscow,
00:47:13.96\00:47:15.30
but then a city opened up
called Nizhny Novgorod, Russia,
00:47:15.33\00:47:19.43
third largest city in Russia,
00:47:19.47\00:47:20.87
about three and a
half million people.
00:47:20.90\00:47:23.30
Would you want to
go over there with me
00:47:23.34\00:47:24.94
and 3ABN bring cameras?"
00:47:24.97\00:47:26.68
Absolutely.
00:47:26.71\00:47:28.04
Some of you have
seen the footage.
00:47:28.08\00:47:29.41
If not, we probably
should get it out again
00:47:29.44\00:47:31.15
and show some of
it from time to time.
00:47:31.18\00:47:33.85
But that
meeting, those meetings,
00:47:33.88\00:47:36.32
thousands of people
showed up every night.
00:47:36.35\00:47:38.65
Elder Carter rented a building,
hold about 6,000 people
00:47:38.69\00:47:42.46
and made seven at most.
00:47:42.49\00:47:44.33
Three nights he had to
do three services a night,
00:47:44.36\00:47:47.60
it just kept going on and on.
00:47:47.63\00:47:49.50
The crowds built,
thousands of people.
00:47:49.53\00:47:51.90
At the end of the meetings,
we baptized 2532 souls.
00:47:51.93\00:47:56.57
They're in Russia
behind the Iron Curtain
00:47:56.60\00:47:59.04
that only a few years before
would be impossible to get to.
00:47:59.07\00:48:03.04
Now we're there preaching
the gospel and the baptisms,
00:48:03.08\00:48:06.21
the KGB brings out
trucks, sets up tents.
00:48:06.25\00:48:10.62
And so all these pastors,
00:48:10.65\00:48:12.45
27 pastors can go
out for four hours
00:48:12.49\00:48:15.29
baptizing people in
the cold Volga River.
00:48:15.32\00:48:18.66
Now, all of this happens.
00:48:18.69\00:48:20.96
The president of the
conference Vasily Stolyar,
00:48:21.00\00:48:24.37
and the vice
president Aleksander Antonyuk
00:48:24.40\00:48:27.74
came to me and said, "We
have a major problem now.
00:48:27.77\00:48:30.97
While these meetings
have been so successful,
00:48:31.01\00:48:33.94
we don't have a
place to put the people.
00:48:33.98\00:48:35.54
We only have one church
in this entire huge city,
00:48:35.58\00:48:39.25
holds 225 people or so.
00:48:39.28\00:48:42.15
And one church is all we
have, and it's almost full.
00:48:42.18\00:48:45.89
And now we baptized 2532 people,
00:48:45.92\00:48:50.19
what are we gonna do?
00:48:50.23\00:48:51.79
Can we meet together and talk?"
00:48:51.83\00:48:53.83
So we were
staying into Rucia Hotel
00:48:53.86\00:48:56.63
there right on
overlooking the Volga.
00:48:56.67\00:48:59.77
And I said, river
and I said, "Sure."
00:48:59.80\00:49:02.17
"So when can we meet?
00:49:02.20\00:49:04.07
How about tomorrow
morning at 11, can we meet?"
00:49:04.11\00:49:06.24
I said, "Sure." So I'm
standing on the stairs.
00:49:06.27\00:49:08.78
Now listen to this.
00:49:08.81\00:49:10.28
God's timing, the
blessing is on the go.
00:49:10.31\00:49:12.68
But I want to talk
about His timing again,
00:49:12.71\00:49:14.78
when we're willing.
00:49:14.82\00:49:16.15
I'm standing on a
little stairs coming down.
00:49:16.18\00:49:18.49
And I'm waiting. It's
about 15 minutes till 11.
00:49:18.52\00:49:21.22
So I'm waiting on
these conference pastors
00:49:21.26\00:49:24.13
to come to have a meeting.
00:49:24.16\00:49:25.49
We're just going to
find a place in the lobby
00:49:25.53\00:49:27.53
to meet so I'm waiting on him.
00:49:27.56\00:49:29.36
And while I do, there's
a man that walks up to me,
00:49:29.40\00:49:31.97
he's an American.
00:49:32.00\00:49:33.37
I've never met him
before. Don't know who he is.
00:49:33.40\00:49:35.90
He says, "Hi."
00:49:35.94\00:49:37.27
He says, "My
name is Manny Treves.
00:49:37.31\00:49:39.54
I'm from California."
00:49:39.57\00:49:41.04
Now some of you may know,
00:49:41.08\00:49:42.74
Manny Treves, I
had never met Manny.
00:49:42.78\00:49:45.41
So he said, he
had a little recorder,
00:49:45.45\00:49:47.68
little microphone,
little recorder, and he said,
00:49:47.72\00:49:50.85
"Do you have just a minute?
00:49:50.89\00:49:53.49
I would like to interview you.
00:49:53.52\00:49:55.16
And because I'm
going to take it back home
00:49:55.19\00:49:57.96
and tell people what's going on.
00:49:57.99\00:49:59.49
Could I just get
a little interview?"
00:49:59.53\00:50:01.10
And I said to him,
"I'm sorry, Mr. Treves.
00:50:01.13\00:50:04.63
I can't right now."
00:50:04.67\00:50:06.00
I'm waiting on
the conference leaders
00:50:06.03\00:50:07.37
and I was
looking down the doorway,
00:50:07.40\00:50:08.97
the hallway waiting for them.
00:50:09.00\00:50:10.34
I said they're coming in.
00:50:10.37\00:50:11.71
We're going to have a meeting
about that we need to meet.
00:50:11.74\00:50:14.54
I said, "They don't know
00:50:14.58\00:50:16.58
what to do with all
these people we baptized."
00:50:16.61\00:50:19.11
So he said, "Oh, I'm
sorry to bother you."
00:50:19.15\00:50:22.02
And I said,
"What brought you here?
00:50:22.05\00:50:23.75
Did you come with elder Carter?"
00:50:23.79\00:50:25.32
No, he said, "I didn't
come with Elder Carter.
00:50:25.35\00:50:26.96
I just came on my, he
said, I heard it on the air.
00:50:26.99\00:50:30.53
I saw what you were doing.
00:50:30.56\00:50:31.89
And I watched the meetings
and I said I want to come."
00:50:31.93\00:50:34.70
So he said, "I
heard about the meeting.
00:50:34.73\00:50:36.33
So I came over here."
That's the way it was.
00:50:36.36\00:50:39.20
I came over here on my own.
00:50:39.23\00:50:41.37
Seventy four years old
I think he said he was.
00:50:41.40\00:50:43.81
I was impressed to
go Russia by myself
00:50:43.84\00:50:45.77
made my own arrangements.
00:50:45.81\00:50:47.31
And I said, "What do you do?"
00:50:47.34\00:50:48.68
He said, "I'm
just seating people.
00:50:48.71\00:50:50.05
I'm an usher every night."
00:50:50.08\00:50:51.41
That was a big job
00:50:51.45\00:50:52.78
because people were literally
running over each other
00:50:52.81\00:50:55.08
to get seats
into this auditorium.
00:50:55.12\00:50:57.95
So I was just here.
He said, "I'm just here."
00:50:57.99\00:51:00.26
So well, listen,
I'm sorry to bother you.
00:51:00.29\00:51:02.59
I saw the conference president
and vice president coming in.
00:51:02.62\00:51:06.36
And as like the
Lord spoke to me,
00:51:06.39\00:51:08.56
Manny walked off.
00:51:08.60\00:51:09.93
I said, I said to Mr. Treves,
00:51:09.96\00:51:12.23
"Brother Treves,
come back for a minute."
00:51:12.27\00:51:14.00
I said, "Why don't you go sit
down with us in the meeting?"
00:51:14.04\00:51:16.91
Oh, I don't have
anything to have no reason to.
00:51:16.94\00:51:20.48
I said, "Well, why
don't you sit with us?"
00:51:20.51\00:51:23.08
Because I was feeling bad,
00:51:23.11\00:51:24.65
because I had kind
of just brushed him off.
00:51:24.68\00:51:26.55
I felt like, man, that's
not a nice way to do somebody.
00:51:26.58\00:51:29.78
I wasn't kind enough to him.
00:51:29.82\00:51:31.59
I was afraid I
wasn't kind enough,
00:51:31.62\00:51:33.19
because I was so
concentrating on this,
00:51:33.22\00:51:35.79
that I wanted him
to know that hey, look,
00:51:35.82\00:51:37.53
I'm glad you're here.
00:51:37.56\00:51:39.13
Thankful you're here, but so no.
00:51:39.16\00:51:41.10
So I said, "Well, come
on, sit down with this.
00:51:41.13\00:51:42.83
Let's talk." So
they had a translator.
00:51:42.86\00:51:45.63
So they said, "What
are we going to do?"
00:51:45.67\00:51:48.27
The governor has
opened up 13 buildings.
00:51:48.30\00:51:51.87
And they're going
to allow 13 businesses
00:51:51.91\00:51:54.18
or several in Nizhny Novgorod
00:51:54.21\00:51:56.58
that were being
built back 20 years ago
00:51:56.61\00:51:58.91
that the
government never finished.
00:51:58.95\00:52:00.48
So they're half done.
00:52:00.52\00:52:01.85
Some of them
were huge buildings,
00:52:01.88\00:52:03.22
like 200,000 square feet,
00:52:03.25\00:52:05.72
but they're going to open them
up for sale for the first time
00:52:05.75\00:52:08.52
since Communism started in 1917.
00:52:08.56\00:52:11.76
Would you help us
buy some property?
00:52:11.79\00:52:14.90
And maybe one of those
old buildings we can remodel?
00:52:14.93\00:52:17.90
And I said, "Yes.
00:52:17.93\00:52:19.50
But it have to be
big enough to hold 20,
00:52:19.53\00:52:22.37
you know, 2500 plus,
this church is going to grow.
00:52:22.40\00:52:25.27
So we need a building,
that's going to be huge."
00:52:25.31\00:52:27.54
Well, there's a
few of them started.
00:52:27.58\00:52:29.58
And then I said, "Well,
why don't you look around
00:52:29.61\00:52:32.31
and see what you can find?"
00:52:32.35\00:52:34.02
And I said, "May
we'll help you buy it."
00:52:34.05\00:52:35.42
I said, "What do
you think it would cost
00:52:35.45\00:52:37.09
or something like that?"
00:52:37.12\00:52:38.72
And I remember
that, the president said,
00:52:38.75\00:52:42.79
"Oh, it costs
way too much money."
00:52:42.82\00:52:45.16
I said, "Well,
just give me an idea."
00:52:45.19\00:52:46.90
"Oh, you couldn't afford it?"
00:52:46.93\00:52:48.26
I said, "Well,
I can't afford it.
00:52:48.30\00:52:49.86
Maybe the Lord can.
00:52:49.90\00:52:51.23
What do you think it would cost
to buy a piece of property?"
00:52:51.27\00:52:55.40
Now remember, people were
making $15 a month at the time.
00:52:55.44\00:52:58.81
Julia Outkina,
PhD in Linguistics,
00:52:58.84\00:53:01.41
who still our director,
00:53:01.44\00:53:02.81
and I won't have much
time to get into that today
00:53:02.84\00:53:05.45
is our director of 3ABN Russia.
00:53:05.48\00:53:07.65
She's a PhD in Linguistics,
00:53:07.68\00:53:10.55
and I think making $15 a month
00:53:10.59\00:53:12.45
or her mother's a
physician making 20.
00:53:12.49\00:53:15.02
So Russia, compared to economy,
compared to the US then,
00:53:15.06\00:53:18.73
so they said, "Oh,
you couldn't afford it.
00:53:18.76\00:53:20.63
There's no way
you can afford it."
00:53:20.66\00:53:23.16
So I said, "What would it
cost? Just give me a figure."
00:53:23.20\00:53:25.67
So finally, they
looked at me and he says,
00:53:25.70\00:53:29.44
"Probably about $100,000."
00:53:29.47\00:53:32.47
Well, to me, you
mean, we could build,
00:53:32.51\00:53:35.88
buy a huge facility in Russia,
00:53:35.91\00:53:39.68
never been able to do
that before for only $100,000.
00:53:39.71\00:53:43.95
They were saying,
"Oh, this is impossible.
00:53:43.99\00:53:46.32
There's no way we
could raise that much money."
00:53:46.35\00:53:49.39
So I said, what
people sometimes do
00:53:49.42\00:53:52.33
when we've been in
ministry for a while,
00:53:52.36\00:53:54.43
we kind of think we
know where God is leading.
00:53:54.46\00:53:57.13
And we shouldn't but
our human tendency is,
00:53:57.17\00:53:59.67
so I say, "Well, listen,
if you can get us something,
00:53:59.70\00:54:04.27
and we can buy for $100,000,
00:54:04.31\00:54:06.78
I'll go back to the States.
00:54:06.81\00:54:08.14
I'm going to tell all
of our American friends,
00:54:08.18\00:54:10.51
I'm going to tell them
about this opportunity.
00:54:10.55\00:54:13.62
About we need a
church for all these people,
00:54:13.65\00:54:16.08
we need a center.
00:54:16.12\00:54:17.45
So these people can come
they can learn and grow."
00:54:17.49\00:54:20.82
And I said, "I'm sure we
can raise that $100,000."
00:54:20.86\00:54:24.49
So I looked over at Mr.
Treves who hadn't said a word.
00:54:24.53\00:54:28.76
And he looked at me and
he nodded his head, he went.
00:54:28.80\00:54:33.17
And so I looked at him
and he just smiled he went.
00:54:33.20\00:54:36.44
I said, I said, "Don't
you think, Mr. Treves."
00:54:36.47\00:54:39.14
He said, "Now I know
why the Lord impressed me
00:54:39.17\00:54:41.64
to come to Russia.
00:54:41.68\00:54:43.24
I'll give the 100,000."
00:54:43.28\00:54:46.45
Now if that didn't
give you some chill bumps.
00:54:46.48\00:54:49.32
Now you think about it.
00:54:49.35\00:54:50.85
The timing, God's timing,
the blessing is on the go.
00:54:50.89\00:54:55.42
You go because I
stood outside the hotel.
00:54:55.46\00:54:58.69
And I said, Lord, because
00:54:58.73\00:55:00.23
that Psalms 2:8 came to
me, "Ask me, and I'll give you
00:55:00.26\00:55:02.96
the heathen for
thine inheritance,
00:55:03.00\00:55:04.90
and the uttermost parts
00:55:04.93\00:55:06.27
of the earth for
thy possessions."
00:55:06.30\00:55:08.34
And I said, "Lord, I'm
standing on terra firma.
00:55:08.37\00:55:11.01
What can you do?
00:55:11.04\00:55:12.37
What are you
going to do for us?"
00:55:12.41\00:55:13.74
But we're here. We made it.
00:55:13.78\00:55:15.11
The blessing of
God is on the go.
00:55:15.14\00:55:17.25
So here we did, we came.
00:55:17.28\00:55:22.32
Manny gave the money.
00:55:22.35\00:55:23.69
We ended up
buying the facilities
00:55:23.72\00:55:26.55
after two or three years
00:55:26.59\00:55:27.92
and we put a lot
more money in it.
00:55:27.96\00:55:29.99
That facility
28, 29 years later,
00:55:30.03\00:55:33.36
is still, is
still bringing in souls
00:55:33.40\00:55:37.70
for the Kingdom of God.
00:55:37.73\00:55:39.30
I could go on and
on and on. I'm sorry.
00:55:39.33\00:55:41.77
Maybe I took too much
time in the beginning.
00:55:41.80\00:55:44.07
But I want to let
you know that Jesus says,
00:55:44.11\00:55:47.48
"All power is given
me in heaven and earth."
00:55:47.51\00:55:49.71
Then He says, "Go ye therefore."
00:55:49.74\00:55:51.65
Then He says,
"Teaching them to observe
00:55:51.68\00:55:53.78
all things whatsoever
I have commanded you."
00:55:53.82\00:55:57.19
And I believe,
as much as anything
00:55:57.22\00:55:59.69
that's teaching the
Ten Commandments of God,
00:55:59.72\00:56:01.99
not nine of them,
not eight of them,
00:56:02.02\00:56:04.09
not seven of them,
because now it's in our church.
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It seems like in
the Christian church,
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we're forgetting about the sixth
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and seventh commandments.
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We don't want to
talk about those.
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They're not politically correct.
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That's another sermon.
But we have to stand up.
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So I want to promise you,
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you give all God the
credit and you trust in Him.
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You go forward
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when He impresses
you to in ministry.
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You stick to the
message that He's called you.
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Do not look to the left,
do not look to the right.
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Say, "Lord, I
will not compromise,
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I'm going to do no
matter how unpopular it is,
00:56:32.75\00:56:36.12
no matter how
unpopular it is, I promise you,
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I'm going to preach the truth."
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3ABN I can say this, in
spite of all of our failures.
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Those of you watching for years,
00:56:44.30\00:56:46.13
we've continued to
preach and with by God's grace,
00:56:46.17\00:56:48.97
and through board
members that care and leadership
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like Greg and Jill and
others here, Pastor John,
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all of those
3ABN has is committed
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and will continue
is my promise to you
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to give an undiluted
three angels' messages,
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one that would
counteract the counterfeit
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into all the world.
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His body was broken,
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so that we could live,
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giving us the
gift of eternal life.
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He pursues us relentlessly
with an everlasting love
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regardless of our
failures and mistakes,
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the One who
loves us like no other.
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This is who Jesus is.
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