I wouldn't want to live in
a society where stopping for
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red lights is optional.
I wouldn't want to live in
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a place where the
speed limit was up the knee.
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I really want to live in a
place where everybody's obeying
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the law so I am kept safe.
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That' s why I love
The Ten Commandments.
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I long to see a society
that lives by them, so I think
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while others are trying
to ignore them, or they are
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trying to tear them
down, there ought to be a place
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that is hanging them up
so when people can see them
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they will know that we
are living by a standard
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that is ordained and commanded
by God. That's why they are
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called Commandments
and not suggestions.
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You must know that God is God
and our opinion does not count.
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A group of atheists are suing
because of the fact that they
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have the Ten
Commandments in front of a
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public court house.
Um...No one's following
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the Bible. You've got the
organizations that hide behind
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words like marriage and
family and all this nonsense
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These Ten Commandment
plaques have been in class rooms
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for as long as he can remember.
Students signed a petition
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at school today asking
the administration to re-think
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the position to
take down the signs.
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I was raised on the
Ten Commandments as was
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this sponsor, this amendment.
In 1980 the court ruled that
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The Ten
Commandments can not be shown
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in public schools because
displaying them shows support
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of religion.
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There are so many
voices crying out saying
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"There are no more
absolutes." Well I say to you
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if there is no more absolutes,
then we're on shaky ground.
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If a church does not have
some absolutes, then we are
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desperately wicked as a society.
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The cities are run by laws,
governments are run by laws,
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in fact, in every house there
must be laws just for the people
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to survive in the
house. The laws might be crazy,
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they might be wrong, but
laws are what keep you together.
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Even gang bangers have
rules that they live by,
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and it's upon life or
death if you break those laws.
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The law is the
heart of a society.
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Is our sense of right
and wrong, it is innate to us
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is it our pride, our property.
This is the love of God.
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Read that we
keep His Commandment!
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That we keep His Commandments!
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We live in a day
where it is hard to find the
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Ten Commandments. I
remember the Ten Commandments
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being in High School.
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I remember the Ten
Commandments being in the
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court room. I
remember the Ten Commandments
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being in church. I
remember the Ten Commandments
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and I memorized
them by seeing them.
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And so now that
you don't see them,
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we act like they don't exist.
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So the last thing, while others
are trying to ignore them,
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while they are
trying to tear them down,
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there ought to be a
place that is hanging them up
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so when people can see
them they will know that we are
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living by a standard that is
ordained and commanded by God.
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You know when I
first got to Las Vegas,
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one of the first things that
really intrigued me is coming
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you know...out of the airport,
or coming out of the terminal
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and bumping into slot
machines and I was wondering,
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what is this,
what is this all about?
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And I looked and I saw a sea
of slot machines in the airport.
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I saw these lights, spectacular
lights the buildings just
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illuminating. But I
see a great deception,
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because beyond all the lights
I think that many people are
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being deceived.
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One of the first things that
intrigued me when I first came
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into this church and walked
into this sanctuary is to see
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this awesome commandments,
the monuments just in the church
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and I thought
that was a statement.
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I understood that Dr.
Rock had a vision to have
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the Ten
Commandments in the church.
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This vision was brought
out and carried forth with
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the assistance of the then
youth pastor, associate pastor,
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Pastor Leroys. When
we started this journey
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to install the Ten Commandments
in Abundant Life Seventh Day
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Adventist Church, it was
one of excitement and at the
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same time trepidation in
terms of how it would be done.
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Pastor Rock always
wanted to have a set of the
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Commandments in our church.
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The church board wanted
to find a way in which to
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fulfill this dream that he
had. Pastor Rock had always had
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the vision of displaying the
Commandments in the sanctuary
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of the Abundant Life Church,
and now he was retiring and
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they really wanted to
get this done for him.
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There was a brick wall in
terms of how do we get it done.
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I had been working with
this group in our community
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and I said well let me have
an opportunity to talk with him
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to come up with
a recommendation.
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Through a lot of prayer,
I was stuck with the idea of
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having it done in
concrete, you know the good old
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Ten Commandments
movie from the 50's.
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When you think Commandments,
you generally have this typical
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traditional tablet
Commandments in mind.
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Tombstone like solid granite
or marble, definitely dangerous
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and very difficult to do.
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I would get these two
tablets somewhere in the church
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so that they are symmetrical,
we are not interrupting
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any other functions, or
the audio/visual that just
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installed in less
than five years ago.
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So you have cameras, you
have monitors, microphones,
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all of these things in the
sanctuary, we wanted to create
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a design that could
literally disappear.
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I get a call from Ryan
and he's got this idea to take
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the tablets and
make them translucent.
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We thought it would be a great
opportunity for us to employ
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some of the unique concepts
that we had been working on.
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They said, "what
does that look like"?
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I said well, it's going to be
a clear medium and immediately
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the question comes out...
If you are going to put up
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clear Commandments,
how will they be seen?
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When it was suggested that
we might consider a clear medium
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it was, well how will we
be able to see the letters?
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Will we be able
to read the words?
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At the church in Abundant Life,
the back wall is mostly white
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so we decided to go with
black decals in order to produce
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a contrast. We took it to
the board, we had an almost
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unanimous vote on installing
God's Word and His Commandments.
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On Sabbath morning you could
feel the excitement in the room.
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There were these on the
wall... was this white fabric,
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this cloth that was hanging
there. Pastor Lee Wards called
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up Pastor Rock and proceeded
to have a brief conversation
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about his desires and
what he had wanted for us
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and for our church, then
the tablets were presented.
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As people come in,
they cannot help but see
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the Ten Commandments, to
see that there is a God that
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loves them. This basically
is what the whole Commandments
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is all about.
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Here are the ones
that we know the best:
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Though shall not kill,
commit adultery, steal,
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bear false witness. But this is
the commandment that is getting
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all the attention: Though shall
have no other God's before me.
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Cut down the
first four Commandments,
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just get rid of them.
Therefore that would eliminate
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the four Commandments
that mention God by name.
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God wants to give the children
of Israel a real picture
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of who He is and
who He wants them to be.
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He takes them to a mountain
called Sinai and Moses goes up
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to meet with God and the
people have been instructed
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to build a fence around
the bottom of the mountain
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and don't come near. No one
was supposed to pass that fence
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but Moses, Aaron, and
Joshua for a little peace.
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But there they are, there
is fire and smoke, trembling,
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the ground under their feet
was shaking and they are now
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trying to get to know
a new God that they had
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never known before. They heard
in the distant past about Him,
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now they got Him as a personal
friend and they are moving
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with Him, and they got
evidence that He is with them
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because they got a
pillar of fire by night
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and a pillar of cloud by
day leading them step by step
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so God brings them to a
mountain called Sinai...
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Moses goes up to get
this precious gift called
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The Ten Commandments.
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These Ten Commandments
are the character of God.
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About a year after we
had completed our project
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a friend of mine who is a pastor
in North Carolina decided that
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he wanted to do the Ten
Commandments in his church.
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Our pastor, Pastor Ezra
Mendinghall was there and he saw
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these Commandments, and he
said, you know, I'd like to have
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Commandments
hanging in my church.
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So we had this conversation
the Sunday following
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the unveiling of the
Commandments in Las Vegas
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and he says, I believe people
are putting the emphasis on
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the wrong thing.
Everyone wants a bigger screen,
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everyone wants louder speakers,
everyone wants glitzier
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clothing, because they
believe that's what will
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draw people to Christ.
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What the pastor's vision
was at the Northeast Church
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was that if we hang the Word
of God and make it prominent
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in the church, that people
would be brought here to see and
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experience the Word of
God. But I believe he said
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that if we take all of
the effort and the energy that
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would ordinarily be put into
something else and we infuse it
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into a large project
to put God's words up,
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people will be drawn to Christ.
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We thought it was a good idea
although we had a few wranglers
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but I felt it was a good idea
to have it placed up there so
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every parishioner would be able
to see why we do what we do.
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There is an effort to
remove the Commandments,
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the very very character of
God out of it's institutions.
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There are many churches
that have crosses up there,
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they have statues, they have
all kinds of different things,
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but to see the Commandments,
that was a very good thing.
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In fact, I believe that
every church should have
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the Commandments... If
we could take this kind of
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energy and put it into
the elements of the church
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that we've just let wash
by because we are so used to
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doing them and get that
kind of newness, that kind of
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new focus towards God's Word,
or the elements of God's place
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in the church for a reason.
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The church in North
Carolina is essentially a dome,
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it slopes in the back,
it slopes in the front,
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the shape of the church is known
as a truncated icosahedron.
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You can actually look at the
ceiling and you can see these
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hexagons interspersed in
which are these pentagons.
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It's the same shape
that a soccer ball has.
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there is no big wall in the
back to hang some Commandments.
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If the Commandments are to
far apart, then it looses the
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majesty. If the Commandments
are to small, then it looses the
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majesty, so where would
we put these Commandments?
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Well after looking at the
church it became apparent that
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the best thing to do would be
to hang them from the ceiling,
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literally suspend the
Commandments in mid air
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and we knew the
moment we came up with that,
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that the answer was going to
be NO, let's try something else.
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As many know, if we do this,
and it can be read anywhere
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in the church, they are
going to dominate the space.
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Meaning if someone comes
in the church and leaves,
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that's what they
are going to remember,
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these Commandments, and
he looked at us very sternly,
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didn't take much time
to think about it, he said,
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"That's what I want".
When someone walks into this
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space, that's what I want
them to see, when they leave,
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that's what I
want them to remember.
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Looking at the way our church
is made, I could not envision
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how the Commandments
were going to be suspended
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and then thinking about the
material that it was going to
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take, I could not envision
that. And so I was restlessly
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awaiting to see
what was going to happen.
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That was exciting when I
heard that it was coming,
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even though I didn't
know what it was going to be,
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what it's like, you
know. But when I saw it,
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then I understand
what it was all about.
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The Word is likened unto
a lamp and Christ Himself
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is called The Light.
Just talking about light
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is intriguing to understand
that we are told that we should
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worship the true light that
is Jesus Christ, and He wants
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our light, the light that He
has given us to shine forth...
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What we wanted was for the
words of God to not require
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an external source to
shine upon them, but for them to
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literally glow as if
they had an internal light.
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We began to have an idea that
there could be a way on acrylic
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that would allow a
prominent display of the actual
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Commandments in the church.
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What if we could etch
every word of the Commandments
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into these two large acrylic
slabs and then what if we could
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create an internal lighting
system and turn them into
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the Commandments so that no
could see the light shining.
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Acrylic is like a window pane
where you want light to pass
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through and it's just totally
transparent. But we realize
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that if you put a scratch on
a window pane that that scratch
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will show up. And then
the lights would shine through
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the material and hit these
etched words and cause the words
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to illuminate. Use light
to bring that etching out
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to the audience. This was
the idea, but was it possible...
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So, first we had to convince
the people at North East
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that this was the way to
go. We're going to make some
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Commandments, hang them
in the middle of the air,
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each tablet being larger,
much larger than a grown man
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and the words are going to glow
like God had written them with
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His own finger. How do you
explain that to a church board?
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Well, we had to figure
out a way of exploring that so
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we found one of these cubes,
these acrylic cubes that you
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see in a souvenir shop
and we used the LED light from
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a telephone. We put the cube
on the top of the telephone,
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turned the light on, we took
that little cube into a meeting
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and we set it on the desk
and we were trying to explain
00:19:23.32\00:19:26.63
what we were trying to do
with these huge tablets...
00:19:26.66\00:19:29.88
then we turned the light on
that little cube and suddenly
00:19:29.91\00:19:33.74
people's eyes just got wide.
He showed us some of the things
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and I said you know, I've
seen what he's talking about
00:19:40.03\00:19:43.17
earlier, but then once he
came that day with that sample
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and did it with the sample
and I said yes, "this is what I
00:19:46.97\00:19:50.03
had in my mind and this is
exactly what it looked like
00:19:50.06\00:19:53.09
plus some.
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There are thousands of religious
monuments across the country
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and around the
world... Why was this one of the
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Ten Commandments to much
to bear enough so to make you
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bring up a lawsuit. It's to show
that the Bible is a primitive
00:20:08.46\00:20:11.83
and brutal document that
people...There's this idea that
00:20:11.86\00:20:16.00
the Bible, the Ten
Commandments specifically are...
00:20:16.03\00:20:20.06
a good moral code that we can
agree on, but that's not true.
00:20:20.10\00:20:24.43
The rich young man
that we often hear about,
00:20:24.46\00:20:26.81
he came to Jesus and said,
what must I do to be saved?
00:20:26.84\00:20:30.18
And Jesus gives him words that
we ought not to ever forget,
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He says, Thou shall
love the Lord thy God,
00:20:32.79\00:20:35.89
with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul and with all
00:20:35.92\00:20:39.24
thy strength, and with
all thy mind, and thy neighbor
00:20:39.27\00:20:43.00
as thyself. On these two
commands hang all the law.
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and God is trying to
get us to be just lovers,
00:20:47.39\00:20:50.01
lovers of Him,
and lovers to mankind.
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God would accomplish this
if we would but yield to Him,
00:20:52.51\00:20:57.07
understanding that these laws
have not been done away with,
00:20:57.11\00:21:01.78
and they shall not be done
away with, and God requires
00:21:01.81\00:21:04.79
them, and this is Jesus
talking in this text telling us,
00:21:04.82\00:21:08.06
what is required to be saved.
00:21:08.09\00:21:10.34
This was a massive project, and
we had to engineer everything
00:21:33.69\00:21:38.59
to the T. The only problem
was, the ceiling being so high,
00:21:38.62\00:21:43.20
getting up there
was out of the question.
00:21:43.23\00:21:46.64
We could not just go up
and measure the beams that
00:21:46.67\00:21:49.90
we needed to measure.
Hanging from the ceiling,
00:21:49.93\00:21:52.54
I think the weight of them...
I'm thinking can the ceiling
00:21:52.57\00:21:58.11
hold these? So we
had to ghost engineer
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a way to calculate all of
the measurements we needed.
00:22:02.67\00:22:06.71
So imagine, we are sitting
there on the pew, and instead of
00:22:06.74\00:22:11.33
a ladder and some tape measures,
we're sitting there with pencils
00:22:11.36\00:22:15.45
paper and a phone calculator
trying to get the measurements
00:22:15.48\00:22:19.96
that were
crucial to this project.
00:22:19.99\00:22:21.81
Well, we had a team of
people that we were working with
00:22:21.84\00:22:28.60
and the funniest thing happened.
It was as if everyone that was
00:22:28.63\00:22:32.79
involved in this project
had a spiritual experience.
00:22:32.82\00:22:37.22
There were people
who would call and say,
00:22:37.25\00:22:39.63
you know I've never
really been a church goer,
00:22:39.66\00:22:42.62
I've never really been all
that religious, but just working
00:22:42.65\00:22:45.42
with you guys on
these Commandments,
00:22:45.45\00:22:47.15
I felt the urge to be better,
I felt the urge to go to church.
00:22:47.18\00:22:51.61
So we found a guy in a
shop in Las Vegas whose name was
00:22:51.64\00:22:55.55
Paul, and Paul was of
Asian decent and Paul took
00:22:55.58\00:22:59.06
great pleasure in explaining
to us that even though he was
00:22:59.09\00:23:01.65
of Asian decent, that he was
a Christian, and he understood
00:23:01.68\00:23:05.49
the importance
of the Commandments.
00:23:05.52\00:23:07.00
As we talked with him,
we began to describe to Paul
00:23:07.03\00:23:11.40
what it is we were trying to do.
He listened and this just began
00:23:11.43\00:23:15.74
to sink in. So one day I'm
talking to Paul and the phone
00:23:15.77\00:23:19.91
rings and he answers
the phone and says, oh yes,
00:23:19.94\00:23:25.00
Senator McCain. It was
one of the representatives
00:23:25.03\00:23:28.80
from Senator McCain's
office, and apparently Paul
00:23:28.83\00:23:32.21
was doing some work on
Senator McCain's furniture,
00:23:32.24\00:23:36.95
he had some fine
antiques that he wanted to have
00:23:36.98\00:23:39.66
refurbished, and the senator
wanted to know what the progress
00:23:39.69\00:23:43.36
was on his stuff, and
Paul says senator, I'm going to
00:23:43.39\00:23:48.03
have to call you back
because I am working on the
00:23:48.06\00:23:52.09
Ten Commandments. Paul
said well, I'm writing the
00:23:52.12\00:23:54.93
Commandments, and
this has to be perfect,
00:23:54.96\00:23:58.65
so there is no room for error.
00:23:58.68\00:24:00.86
Paul took it upon himself to
get a sample of an acrylic sheet
00:24:05.62\00:24:11.08
that was maybe one
foot long by two feet wide,
00:24:11.11\00:24:14.73
and we came and we had a
sample of the LED lighting...
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Would this concept hold up?
The church had already invested
00:24:20.83\00:24:26.63
so much in it. We needed this
to work, so I took this sample
00:24:26.66\00:24:32.46
over and we hooked up a
very small LED strip and put the
00:24:32.50\00:24:38.32
Commandments atop and
when we turned these LED's on
00:24:38.35\00:24:42.01
those words blazed
in the middle of the air
00:24:42.04\00:24:47.47
1,000 times more
than we even hoped for.
00:24:47.50\00:24:51.23
So what I have here is a
sample of what the Commandments
00:24:55.25\00:24:58.05
will look like, and
it is only a sample.
00:24:58.08\00:25:00.09
This is acrylic, and it's
just a fraction as thick as the
00:25:00.12\00:25:04.15
final product would be, but
I'm going to shut the lights off
00:25:04.18\00:25:07.33
and I want you to see what
happens when I shine the light
00:25:07.36\00:25:10.70
into the edge
of the Commandments
00:25:10.73\00:25:12.87
see exactly what
happens with the lettering.
00:25:12.90\00:25:15.33
So you can see the sign is
invisible here in the dark,
00:25:15.36\00:25:19.81
but once I have the LED
lights come on, it completely
00:25:19.84\00:25:27.08
illuminates the letters as the
light passes invisibly through
00:25:27.11\00:25:31.31
the acrylic.
00:25:31.34\00:25:32.77
The final design of the
Commandments has ten hidden
00:25:43.12\00:25:47.96
theological and scriptural
concepts in the actual
00:25:47.99\00:25:51.62
architecture of
the Commandments.
00:25:51.65\00:25:53.76
I won't tell them all to
you, you will have to go to
00:25:53.79\00:25:56.06
North Carolina and have
that experience for yourself.
00:25:56.09\00:25:59.03
So when you look at
the Commandments, there are
00:25:59.06\00:26:02.78
three wing sets. There is
an inner and an outer and an
00:26:02.81\00:26:06.77
outer most wing set.
Each half is a single wing,
00:26:06.80\00:26:11.06
and then the other half put
together will create a set of
00:26:11.09\00:26:14.77
wings, for a total of six wings
representing the six wings of
00:26:14.80\00:26:19.86
the Three Angels on
the Three Angels Message
00:26:19.89\00:26:22.53
that can be found in Revelation.
00:26:22.56\00:26:24.45
When you go into the church,
you would see what we called
00:26:28.40\00:26:31.48
auxiliary lights...Three
point lighting systems.
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A light in the upper right,
a light in the upper left,
00:26:35.05\00:26:38.59
and a light directly
above the Commandments,
00:26:38.62\00:26:41.40
and they shine in such a
way that the beams intersect.
00:26:41.43\00:26:46.22
At the intersection of these
beams form a cross that can only
00:26:46.25\00:26:51.71
be seen if there is a
little dust or haze in the air.
00:26:51.74\00:26:55.10
We put this cross there
to remind us that we are not
00:26:55.13\00:26:59.79
saved by works, we
are saved by grace.
00:26:59.82\00:27:02.85
Each of those lights represent
a member of the Trinity Godhead,
00:27:02.88\00:27:09.82
God the Father, God the
Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
00:27:09.85\00:27:13.40
I don't know if you are
familiar with the Golden Ratio,
00:27:16.90\00:27:20.87
this is denoted by the
Greek character of phi.
00:27:20.90\00:27:26.61
You can find this ratio by
inspecting aspects of nature.
00:27:26.64\00:27:32.26
Things such as the distances
that stars are from each other
00:27:32.29\00:27:37.53
in galaxies, the shapes
of the galaxies themselves,
00:27:37.56\00:27:40.83
This ratio shows up in the
spiral of an nautilus shell,
00:27:40.86\00:27:45.01
it is evidence of
intelligent design.
00:27:45.04\00:27:48.73
We wanted to give
honor to God as our Creator
00:27:48.76\00:27:53.93
by infusing every single
element of these Commandments
00:27:53.96\00:27:58.63
with this Golden Ration. We
had so much fun putting together
00:27:58.66\00:28:05.11
significant parts so that
people that have an experience
00:28:05.14\00:28:08.76
when they see
these Commandments.
00:28:08.85\00:28:11.03
You know every Sanctuary I
believe ought to focused on
00:28:24.19\00:28:27.26
God's Word and of
course the Ten Commandments
00:28:27.29\00:28:30.29
is a summary I think of
all God can ask us to do.
00:28:30.32\00:28:33.46
So, as I look in the sanctuary
here in the quietness of the
00:28:33.49\00:28:36.51
moment, I can envision
the Ten Commandments hanging
00:28:36.54\00:28:39.93
in there, and we know they
are in the process of being
00:28:39.96\00:28:42.17
built, and I tell you, to see
them hanging there as a message
00:28:42.20\00:28:46.99
from God every time
anybody stands in that desk,
00:28:47.02\00:28:50.39
they are going to
get the Ten Commandments.
00:28:50.42\00:28:52.73
The Ten Commandments are
the heart of all that God would
00:28:52.76\00:28:55.99
have us do, the
heart of His government.
00:28:56.02\00:28:57.92
And so it certain it ought
to be central in our worships,
00:28:57.95\00:29:00.94
central in our sanctuary,
and I just see those crystal
00:29:00.97\00:29:05.24
plates with the words of
God popping out at us indelibly
00:29:05.27\00:29:10.70
imprinted on every
mind and every heart.
00:29:10.73\00:29:12.47
But I think this is going
to be an unusual experience
00:29:12.50\00:29:15.95
because you see the
Ten Commandments only in
00:29:15.98\00:29:19.32
a very few places and
then you hear these messages
00:29:19.35\00:29:21.70
coming from all kinds of places
saying that they aren't to be
00:29:21.73\00:29:24.10
kept any more and
that they are meaningless.
00:29:24.13\00:29:26.59
Well, it's time for us
to put meaning in Word's,
00:29:26.62\00:29:29.39
it's time for us to see
them on a regular basis,
00:29:29.42\00:29:31.54
it's time for us to look up
before this earth's history is
00:29:31.57\00:29:37.56
finally concluded. It would
be nice to see the Word of God
00:29:37.59\00:29:41.30
displayed in this way, so
that people can prepare for
00:29:41.33\00:29:44.69
His soon coming.
00:29:44.72\00:29:45.80
We decided that we had
to personally drive these
00:30:00.31\00:30:04.28
Commandments out there,
because they were so fragile
00:30:04.31\00:30:07.93
and so important that we
couldn't risk a crack, a chip,
00:30:07.96\00:30:13.51
or any type of injury
to these Commandments.
00:30:13.54\00:30:16.80
So we got up 4:00 in
the morning, double checked,
00:30:16.83\00:30:22.60
triple checked, made
sure everything was in the
00:30:22.63\00:30:25.12
right place and that we
had everything we needed to
00:30:25.15\00:30:27.28
get them safely
out to North Carolina.
00:30:27.31\00:30:30.01
We had maybe two or three days
in which to get the Commandments
00:30:30.04\00:30:36.93
out to North Carolina, and
so we embarked on this journey,
00:30:36.96\00:30:40.91
driving essentially non-stop.
We knew it would be a long trip,
00:30:40.94\00:30:45.98
the sun wasn't even up
yet. We loaded up the truck,
00:30:46.01\00:30:50.76
I waved goodbye to my
husband, said a little prayer,
00:30:50.79\00:30:55.50
and had faith that he
would get there safely.
00:30:55.53\00:30:57.95
Coming up on Flagstaff,
340 miles or so outside of
00:31:07.05\00:31:14.43
Albuquerque.
00:31:14.46\00:31:15.68
Well, it's night time,
it's coming up on midnight,
00:31:33.15\00:31:37.33
I'm somewhere in Texas.
00:31:37.36\00:31:40.37
Do a little work here.
If I can get it through...
00:31:42.52\00:31:47.35
If I can just get it through
this little stretch right here,
00:31:47.38\00:31:50.13
get some rest early in the
morning, the rest should be ok.
00:31:50.16\00:31:54.18
I would check in periodically,
"Bellum One are you there"?
00:31:54.21\00:31:58.43
Are you still
awake? Any troubles?
00:31:58.46\00:32:02.01
Alright, coming up on
my second sunrise here.
00:32:02.04\00:32:07.06
Oklahoma sunrise!
00:32:07.09\00:32:10.76
Alright, bringing
these Commandments home.
00:32:39.06\00:32:42.89
I think the truck was
already here when I got here,
00:33:06.13\00:33:08.64
and it was time for us to
go out and look at these things
00:33:08.67\00:33:12.93
and to bring them
into the sanctuary.
00:33:12.96\00:33:14.94
All of a sudden, I know
I myself and a few others,
00:33:14.97\00:33:18.89
got this sense of awe and
reverence, because now you are
00:33:18.92\00:33:23.34
handling something
that is symbolic in a way
00:33:23.37\00:33:27.69
of what Moses and God
handled back on the mountain.
00:33:27.72\00:33:31.85
When I saw them, I had no
idea that they were so heavy.
00:33:31.88\00:33:35.65
You know I saw it and
they looked like glass to me,
00:33:35.68\00:33:42.19
but I had no idea
that they were so heavy.
00:33:42.22\00:33:45.53
We're pretty much all the way
to the top of the ceiling which
00:33:45.56\00:33:49.27
I'm guessing is about
maybe 20- 25 feet all the way
00:33:49.30\00:33:53.67
up there hanging them you
know, and you know it got to be
00:33:53.70\00:33:58.70
a little bit going up
and down the scaffolding,
00:33:58.73\00:34:00.82
but it was well worth it.
00:34:00.85\00:34:02.29
Then I realized that it's not
going to be to much of a strain
00:34:18.20\00:34:24.32
on us to manually lift it
up because the lift was kind of
00:34:24.35\00:34:29.84
gradually pulling it up, so
all we have to do is keep it
00:34:29.87\00:34:33.18
in place until
it goes to the roof.
00:34:33.21\00:34:37.09
I remember when we got the
first one to hang completely
00:34:45.20\00:34:50.53
by itself. I made a
statement... something like
00:34:50.56\00:34:53.57
the Ten Commandments is now
suspended on it's own weight,
00:34:53.60\00:34:57.52
something to that effect... and
that was quite an exhilarating
00:34:57.55\00:35:00.62
feeling because you are
doing it not quite sure...
00:35:00.65\00:35:03.91
Is everything going to work
and to hold the weight that you
00:35:03.94\00:35:08.12
envision it holding, but when
it did, it was quite a relief.
00:35:08.15\00:35:11.57
Well, this is a moment
that I think all of us kind of
00:35:11.60\00:35:15.50
relaxed, because we realized
that the Commandment is up.
00:35:15.53\00:35:19.61
I think this was the ending
of the hardest part of the work.
00:35:19.64\00:35:22.70
It was awe inspiring to
see the lights come on to see
00:35:33.35\00:35:38.55
the lettering in the
Commandments itself...
00:35:38.58\00:35:40.28
It's something that you
really...It's hard to describe,
00:35:40.31\00:35:43.65
you had to have been
there to feel it, to see it,
00:35:43.68\00:35:45.99
and here you have all
of the Commandments lit up.
00:35:46.02\00:35:49.79
For me to explain
it, it's more than word,
00:35:49.82\00:35:55.47
it is more than word. But
to see it, it's something else.
00:35:55.50\00:36:02.49
When you are dealing with
something as similar to a glass
00:36:07.64\00:36:11.58
surface, any fingerprint,
and smudge will show on this,
00:36:11.61\00:36:15.06
so we had a bit of time
to trying to make sure we got
00:36:15.09\00:36:18.10
all the smudges, all the little
haze of grease or smudge of oil
00:36:18.13\00:36:23.23
on it anywhere. Elder Boyd
and Brother Basil were trying
00:36:23.26\00:36:29.12
to make sure that they were
perfectly clean, and they were
00:36:29.15\00:36:35.29
looking for ways of wiping
the Commandments, and they had
00:36:35.32\00:36:39.08
special solutions and
some things that were made for
00:36:39.11\00:36:41.48
acrylic and what have you
and as we tested different parts
00:36:41.51\00:36:45.72
of the Commandments,
things weren't working.
00:36:45.75\00:36:49.16
So finally they said,
why don't we just try water.
00:36:49.19\00:36:52.77
We figured out that some plain
water works best just to wipe it
00:36:52.80\00:36:57.66
off and it...You
know, when you are up close,
00:36:57.69\00:37:01.56
you still see some of it,
but when you are standing back
00:37:01.59\00:37:04.53
from it and the light
is on it, you don't see it.
00:37:04.56\00:37:06.90
I'll never forget the
sight of them manually holding
00:37:06.93\00:37:11.84
the edges of these Commandments
with these gloves, while one
00:37:11.87\00:37:15.37
would wash it and wipe
it, trying to make sure that
00:37:15.40\00:37:18.47
every little smudge was
off of those Commandments,
00:37:18.50\00:37:21.37
this went on
for hours and hours.
00:37:21.40\00:37:24.87
It's not very easy to
hold back like this you know...
00:37:24.90\00:37:29.54
so every so often we have to
take turns...It was very tiring
00:37:29.57\00:37:35.72
just to hold it back
for the boy to clean.
00:37:35.75\00:37:40.26
We were trying to figure
out how we are going to display
00:37:46.07\00:37:49.56
the Commandments on
that Sabbath morning.
00:37:49.59\00:37:51.51
We don't want people to come
into the church and suddenly
00:37:51.54\00:37:54.98
see the Commandments there.
We want them to be a part of
00:37:55.01\00:37:58.60
the ceremony where the
Commandments are revealed
00:37:58.63\00:38:01.81
and we are talking
about how do we cover them.
00:38:01.84\00:38:04.69
Well, what do we
use, do we use a sheet...
00:38:04.72\00:38:06.82
Do we drape a sheet over the
Commandments and pull it down?
00:38:06.85\00:38:09.91
Do we do something else?
And we are looking around,
00:38:09.94\00:38:15.06
trying to figure out what
kind of material would be best
00:38:15.09\00:38:18.34
for these Commandments,
to hide these Commandments.
00:38:18.37\00:38:22.74
We finally went to a fabric
store and we searched in this
00:38:22.77\00:38:26.80
fabric store and it turns
out that they had these panels,
00:38:26.83\00:38:31.63
these huge panels, nine
foot panels that we could hang
00:38:31.66\00:38:37.40
over the Commandments. We
brought that fabric back...
00:38:37.43\00:38:41.06
when we brought that
fabric up to the Commandments...
00:38:41.09\00:38:43.93
What we saw was that when
we draped the Commandments...
00:38:43.96\00:38:46.48
We could see the fabric,
we could actually see through
00:38:46.51\00:38:49.47
the fabric, but because
the Commandments were acrylic,
00:38:49.50\00:38:54.23
they were transparent,
we could not see them.
00:38:54.26\00:38:56.74
So they were the
perfect material for covering
00:38:56.77\00:39:00.81
the Commandments until we
were going to then unveil them
00:39:00.84\00:39:05.37
on that Sabbath morning.
00:39:05.40\00:39:07.34
I was excited, I knew
that visitors had been invited,
00:39:17.07\00:39:20.81
I knew visitors that were coming
and I knew it was going to be
00:39:20.84\00:39:24.25
something that no one
else in the city was doing.
00:39:24.38\00:39:26.47
It was a fantastic day...
Well, when you walk into the
00:39:26.50\00:39:32.64
church, the Commandments
were veiled with a thin sheer...
00:39:32.67\00:39:36.88
I believe it was light
lavender and white material with
00:39:36.91\00:39:41.00
the ties on it, and the
curtains hang from the ceiling
00:39:41.03\00:39:45.54
to almost the floor, so
you are kept in suspense
00:39:45.57\00:39:50.24
which is one thing.
00:39:50.27\00:39:51.53
The church has been
in anticipation for weeks
00:39:51.56\00:39:53.93
and they are here, they
are actually hanging and
00:39:53.96\00:39:58.20
they are covered in this
sheet, which I feared at first
00:39:58.23\00:40:03.34
that they would be obvious,
you could see what was going on
00:40:03.37\00:40:05.77
as you walked in, but you
couldn't. You couldn't really
00:40:05.80\00:40:08.36
see anything but glass
figures and because it was clear
00:40:08.39\00:40:12.20
no one really took notice of
anything except for there was
00:40:12.23\00:40:16.62
something big that's
here, we don't know what it is.
00:40:16.65\00:40:19.22
The Commandments are now
draped with this fabric...
00:40:19.25\00:40:25.30
We have special music
that has been orchestrated and
00:40:25.33\00:40:31.55
personally written for
this day, for this moment.
00:40:31.58\00:40:36.49
and then you have the
choir who came in that had the
00:40:36.52\00:40:40.15
similar colors that
the curtains were that were
00:40:40.18\00:40:44.26
veiling the Commandments.
So, everything was colorful
00:40:44.29\00:40:48.86
and bright, and the church
was getting really crowded
00:40:48.89\00:40:51.90
and a little warm.
There are so many people there
00:40:51.93\00:40:55.31
from other churches, from the
community, they have come to see
00:40:55.34\00:40:59.70
this thing that Pastor
Mendinghall has been describing
00:40:59.73\00:41:04.26
for the last year, this
thing that the church committees
00:41:04.29\00:41:08.19
have been
broadcasting into the community.
00:41:08.22\00:41:10.52
Knowing that we are going to
unveil the Ten Commandment...
00:41:10.55\00:41:14.74
You want to tell somebody,
you want to tell somebody,
00:41:14.78\00:41:17.94
listen, I've seen it, I
know what it is, but you have to
00:41:17.97\00:41:21.55
reserve that excitement because
you know it is going to...
00:41:21.58\00:41:25.98
The pastor is going to
unveil it, and you don't want to
00:41:26.01\00:41:29.31
break the surprise for everyone.
00:41:29.34\00:41:32.98
The communications department
has been working by now to
00:41:35.71\00:41:40.63
make sure that the lighting
is correct, that the sound
00:41:40.66\00:41:44.95
is correct. We have a
choir in place behind the
00:41:44.98\00:41:49.33
Commandments. We were just
waiting and it almost felt like,
00:41:49.36\00:41:53.51
if you can recall the children
of Israel at the bottom of the
00:41:53.54\00:41:56.55
mountain waiting for
Moses to come down and reveal
00:41:56.58\00:41:59.70
what God had given him,
that's how I personally felt.
00:41:59.73\00:42:02.75
I can't experience what the
children of Israel go through
00:42:02.78\00:42:05.89
when they see the
lightening from God.
00:42:05.92\00:42:09.33
It brings up a feeling.
People again describe it as
00:42:09.36\00:42:15.83
feeling like the children
of Israel must have felt
00:42:15.86\00:42:20.01
when Moses brought the
Commandments down from the
00:42:20.04\00:42:22.95
mountain. And then the
time for the unveiling comes.
00:42:22.98\00:42:27.86
And they dimmed the lights
of the church such that it is
00:42:36.21\00:42:39.35
completely dark, as dark as
it could get in the day time...
00:42:39.38\00:42:43.03
They have pulled the shutters,
they have closed all of the
00:42:43.06\00:42:46.58
curtains and you could just
hear this murmuring among the
00:42:46.61\00:42:51.19
congregation you know...So
what's going on you know,
00:42:51.22\00:42:53.80
what's going to happen?
So when the lights were dim
00:42:53.84\00:42:56.47
we are already again in
suspense and we had been moved
00:42:56.50\00:42:59.87
spiritually the whole day.
I felt like God's Holy Spirit
00:42:59.90\00:43:03.74
was with us from the beginning
of the service and that this
00:43:03.77\00:43:07.22
truly was His
moving. The place is packed,
00:43:07.25\00:43:10.02
it's standing room
only, and they are wondering,
00:43:10.05\00:43:12.85
where are the
Commandments? Because again,
00:43:12.88\00:43:14.79
you can't see them because
the fabric is covering them,
00:43:14.82\00:43:18.57
but also because
they are transparent.
00:43:18.60\00:43:21.16
So people are
literally wondering
00:43:21.19\00:43:23.07
" Are the Commandments going
to come down out of the ceiling"
00:43:23.10\00:43:25.01
or where are the
Commandments going to come from?
00:43:25.04\00:43:26.86
There was certain individuals
chosen to release the ribbons
00:43:26.89\00:43:30.57
so to say, and pull the
curtains down and again the
00:43:30.60\00:43:34.83
whole service we're holding
our breath to see what this is
00:43:34.86\00:43:37.87
going to look like.
00:43:37.90\00:43:39.14
That was part of the day because
I has said, I have never seen
00:43:40.31\00:43:43.65
I have been chosen to uncover
them, but I was really excited
00:43:43.68\00:43:49.61
when I went up...
00:43:49.64\00:43:51.67
And at the proper time,
instead of just removing
00:43:53.87\00:44:00.03
the veils and
showing the Commandments,
00:44:00.06\00:44:02.81
the communications
team turned on those LED's.
00:44:02.84\00:44:08.47
They light the Commandments
still underneath the sheet,
00:44:08.50\00:44:12.74
and you just see
this glow of words.
00:44:12.77\00:44:16.85
You can't even tell that there
is any acrylic structure there,
00:44:16.88\00:44:21.53
you just see the
glowing of the Commandments.
00:44:21.56\00:44:23.45
The words of the Commandments
shown through the fabric
00:44:23.48\00:44:27.71
and it looked as though
the Commandments and the
00:44:27.74\00:44:30.96
Word of God were
literally floating in the air,
00:44:30.99\00:44:34.69
that they were just suspended.
00:44:34.72\00:44:36.49
I saw the Commandment
in it's glory, and I says
00:44:36.52\00:44:43.01
"This is amazing".
00:44:43.04\00:44:46.69
This is something to
call friends and talk about
00:44:46.72\00:44:51.01
and that's exactly what I
do. I start calling friends and
00:44:51.04\00:44:55.49
I said listen, I saw something
that I have never seen before.
00:44:55.52\00:44:59.05
The whole church went
into an automatic Ahhh!
00:44:59.08\00:45:05.38
It was almost like a
release. I mean we could hear
00:45:05.41\00:45:10.40
crying, we could hear people
talking, cell phones went up,
00:45:10.43\00:45:15.20
people began taking pictures
of the Ten Commandments.
00:45:15.23\00:45:18.46
Sitting behind me were some
visitors that we knew and had
00:45:18.49\00:45:22.59
invited, and they had their
camera phones and they were so..
00:45:22.62\00:45:28.38
you could just hear
them Oooing! and Ahhhing!
00:45:28.41\00:45:31.01
and everything that took place.
00:45:31.04\00:45:32.35
And then we turned
on the auxiliary lights
00:45:32.38\00:45:35.09
which then filled in
the other spaces around the
00:45:35.12\00:45:38.15
Commandments. And when
that happened, there they stood
00:45:38.18\00:45:41.76
in "Full Glory". It
was just the most amazing
00:45:41.79\00:45:45.44
that many of us had ever seen.
00:45:45.47\00:45:47.63
I think it took a
moment for us to take it all in
00:45:47.66\00:45:52.22
because here
all Ten Commandments
00:45:52.25\00:45:54.68
are hanging from
the ceiling, and lit up.
00:45:54.71\00:45:59.09
So you could see it from
all over the Sanctuary, it was
00:45:59.12\00:46:03.89
something we
hadn't experienced before,
00:46:03.92\00:46:06.46
we knew no one else
in the city had it..
00:46:06.49\00:46:08.89
You know, you want to tell
them, this is the only place,
00:46:08.92\00:46:14.96
this is the only
church that has this.
00:46:14.99\00:46:18.30
I think I was more excited for
my guests than I was for myself
00:46:18.33\00:46:23.72
because I knew this was
an experience of a life time
00:46:23.75\00:46:26.58
that they were taking part of.
00:46:26.61\00:46:28.68
And it was something, and
even the lady behind me who was
00:46:28.71\00:46:31.41
a visitor said, "I've got
to go share this with someone".
00:46:31.44\00:46:35.00
"I've got to go show this".
00:46:35.03\00:46:36.61
I just hope that we don't,
you know, take it for granted
00:46:58.31\00:47:01.89
that we really put the
Commandments where they belong,
00:47:01.92\00:47:03.76
and that's in our
hearts and in our lives,
00:47:03.79\00:47:05.53
you know we don't want to walk
the street I guess and fight to
00:47:05.56\00:47:08.80
keep the Commandments
in the yard and keep the
00:47:08.83\00:47:10.65
Commandments when in reality
they are not even in our lives.
00:47:10.68\00:47:13.62
So when you walk into
the sanctuary now there is a
00:47:13.65\00:47:16.89
different reverence, you see
kids, the adults, they walk by,
00:47:16.92\00:47:23.83
the first thing
they do is look up.
00:47:23.86\00:47:25.58
We should put this kind of
energy back into God's word
00:47:25.61\00:47:30.57
or the elements of God's place
in the church for a reason.
00:47:30.60\00:47:33.75
You know, I have worked
and been involved with other
00:47:42.03\00:47:45.43
church related projects from
my child hood, but being there
00:47:45.46\00:47:50.22
handling the Ten Commandments,
mounting it, working from
00:47:50.25\00:47:54.07
up there, it was
quite an experience.
00:47:54.10\00:47:57.52
It's hanging daily, you know,
and as the pastor said before,
00:47:59.30\00:48:03.37
when everybody is taking
it down, we are putting it up.
00:48:03.40\00:48:07.18
When I think of the impact
that this project has had on
00:48:10.84\00:48:14.87
the church, it's members, and
the members of the community,
00:48:14.90\00:48:19.31
I see how it has pulled
them together, and I look at how
00:48:19.34\00:48:25.04
God's word is influencing them,
I just, it leaves me speechless.
00:48:25.07\00:48:30.94
This was an opportunity to put
God's Words up in the sanctuary
00:48:30.97\00:48:35.53
and we didn't want
to do it in a small way.
00:48:35.56\00:48:38.85
Just the situation itself merits
you giving it the very best
00:48:38.88\00:48:43.83
that you have.
00:48:43.86\00:48:45.33
It is very difficult to be
here in the North East Church
00:48:52.84\00:48:57.74
now and not have the
Commandments on, and every time
00:48:57.77\00:49:02.58
we turn that dial to turn the
lights up, you still feel that
00:49:02.61\00:49:07.46
sense of awe, that personal
gasp that we heard from the
00:49:07.49\00:49:13.70
audience on the day that we
unveiled those Commandments.
00:49:13.73\00:49:16.79
The power of God through the
Commandments has revealed here
00:49:16.82\00:49:21.37
is always, always
fresh, every single Sabbath.
00:49:21.40\00:49:25.35
You know, while this world
right now is being challenged
00:49:32.70\00:49:36.55
by what they believe, it
is important for Christians
00:49:36.58\00:49:41.41
of every religious persuasion
to go back to the Bible
00:49:41.44\00:49:45.99
and re-discover even
these very Ten Commandments,
00:49:46.02\00:49:49.10
the transcripts
of God's character.
00:49:49.13\00:49:51.91
If we will just humble ourselves
and plead for God to make these
00:51:01.21\00:51:07.79
Ten Commandments a
part of our living,
00:51:07.82\00:51:10.47
rivet them in our minds and cry
out to Him to help us to obey
00:51:10.50\00:51:16.26
them, because in our obeying
them, that we shall be saved.
00:51:16.29\00:51:21.78
God is the author of
eternal salvation for all those
00:51:26.03\00:51:30.61
who obey Him, and it's
talking about obedience to His
00:51:30.64\00:51:34.03
Ten Commandments and His Word.
Let's give God our very best,
00:51:34.06\00:51:40.71
let's make Him our God,
let's let Him rule and reign
00:51:40.74\00:51:43.60
our lives, let's not
have any part time lovers,
00:51:44.10\00:51:47.65
or any sacred
thing that's above God.
00:51:47.69\00:51:51.55
For God so love the world, that
He gave His only begotten Son
00:52:08.67\00:52:11.60
that whosoever believeth
in Him shall not perish,
00:52:11.63\00:52:14.15
but have everlasting
life. God wants to make us
00:52:14.18\00:52:17.41
His sons and daughters.
God wants us to be Number One
00:52:17.44\00:52:21.95
for Him, so He asks us
to make Him Number One.
00:52:21.98\00:52:25.26
You can be God's firstborn
and we all can be firstborns
00:52:25.29\00:52:28.78
if we make God firstborn in
our lives, first and best always
00:52:28.81\00:52:33.52
and let's worship God with
our whole heart, and life itself
00:52:33.55\00:52:37.58
will be altogether different
for God is coming back for
00:52:37.61\00:52:40.70
His children and
love Him and serve Him.
00:52:40.73\00:52:44.02
Let's serve Him with all
of our hearts for He is worthy
00:52:44.05\00:52:47.53
to be praised by the way we
live, not just by our singing,
00:52:47.56\00:52:51.58
let's bless God
with all our energy.
00:52:51.61\00:52:55.73
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