I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, and welcome to a
very special 3ABN Today program.
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Well, this is a
two hour program.
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We would call it
"Behind The Scenes."
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Well, since it
is not, we can not.
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So we don't quite
know what to call it,
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but we call it something as
the program short of ending.
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We'll call it Year
End, right. Okay, Year End.
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It's a Year End State of
the Union may be, I don't know.
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Indeed. State of the Ministry.
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I am in the presence of the
articulate and effervescent,
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Shelley Quinn.
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Oh. Thank you.
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The attractive and
efficient Mollie Steenson.
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The erudite and
understated Brian Hamilton...
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All right. I love it.
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The efficacious and outstanding
Danny Shelton and me.
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I've no idea what
he said. I hope...
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I don't know whether to be
happy or upset at him, do you?
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He knows words.
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He even knows how to
use them in sentences
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and how to spell them,
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that you have
never even heard of.
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Oh, no, I've never
even heard of those,
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but they sounded okay.
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Well, praise the Lord.
So I think we're all happy.
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Yeah, we're happy.
We're all happy about it.
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We're happy.
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We're coming down
to the end of the year.
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We're in the
last month of the year
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and it has been an
exciting year, Brother Shelton.
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Absolutely.
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And just
recently Dr. C.A. Murray
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had a birthday here.
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We probably should
sing happy birthday to you.
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We already did, but
for the folks at home,
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they can sing
happy birthday to you.
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So we just want to tell you,
we love you, we appreciate you,
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and I look at you as
my older brother now,
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since we just switched...
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We were the same
age most of the year,
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but he's ahead of me right now.
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So, I've always
looked up to you.
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And Mollie's got one coming
up in a next a little bit too.
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She is a December
person. I certainly have.
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Okay.
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Yeah, there are a lot of
December people here at 3ABN.
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Yeah. All right. And...
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Well, you know, you
don't feel any older...
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Not today. The Lord...
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Not today, no.
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And the Lord keeps you young.
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And as Shelley was just
saying, I don't want to be old
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and fabby was that Mollie?
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Oh, it was me. I
don't mind getting old.
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I just don't get old and bitter.
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Oh, there you go. Absolutely.
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And when Jesus in your
heart that should stop that,
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that's the only...
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That's the only
way to do that, right.
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And the Lord gives us such
good news, Danny, that, it...
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Even if you entertain
the thought of being bitter,
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you come to work here,
you see a Shelley Quinn,
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you see a Mollie Steenson,
you see a Brian Hamilton,
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you see a Danny Shelton
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and it kind of makes
your day go pretty easy.
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That is true.
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You know I had a
lot of people talk to us
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and we got lots of calls
on the Thanksgiving program.
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And there was
about 18 of us there
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and Shelley you and
J.D. were in Israel.
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Sorry that you
missed it. We were too.
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But we had a wonderful time
together and people keep saying
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as you said that
they have said to you.
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You people really look
like you like each other.
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I mean, you really are
very friendly, you're very open.
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I had someone called me
from way on the east coast
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and they have been here
a couple of times to visit,
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but they said, we are so amazed
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that we can tell when people
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really enjoy
each others presence.
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We can tell when you are happy,
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but they say when we're at 3ABN,
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we get treated so
well by everybody,
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no matter who it is and
what position they have.
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And I said really
that's the way it should be.
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But you know, we
don't take that for granted.
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I don't in the position I am.
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I'm thankful that God
has brought us literally
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all of us a
team and you at home,
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those of our team
members who pray for us,
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those who have joined
the Blessing on the Go,
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those who just been
giving for years with no credit.
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And, and praying for years
with no credit back to you.
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Thank you for what you do,
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but we have a
wonderful team here
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and I praise God that
the atmosphere is good
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and we're happy.
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People come in and you hear
a lot of laughter in the halls
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and people say, how
can you be so serious,
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things must be going
well, financially you must be...
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Brian, you must be
rolling in the money,
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but we know that's not true.
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And it's always a struggle.
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It's especially been a struggle
the last couple of years,
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financially, to really, to stay
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and try to keep the
head above the water.
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And sometimes we've
been spending more money
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than we take in.
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So we're being
honest with you about that.
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But you know what?
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"God supplies all of our needs
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according to His riches and
glory through Christ Jesus."
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And He's been
doing it through you.
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Brian will tell us
a little bit later on,
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but the last few months,
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we've seen our
donations coming back up
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and we're cutting expenses
because we're determined
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that this is God's ministry
and I said in the beginning
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that I don't want to
beg and don't want to borrow
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and so we want to go to
that and say, you know, what,
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we want to totally have
no debt, we want to-- Brian,
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and when we go forward we're
not going to beg for money,
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but we make our needs
known from time to time.
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So this is year end.
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And so appreciate you right
now thinking about what the Lord
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would have you to do.
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Some of you can
give, yeah, this year.
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You are saying, Lord, what
should I do with my resources?
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Well, please pray and ask
about donating here at 3ABN.
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Some of you're saying,
we've just given this year,
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but in January, so ask the Lord
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what He would have you to
do something special for 3ABN.
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All of this is not for us.
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We're not
getting raises from it.
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All we're doing is trying to
get this gospel of the kingdom
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into all the world.
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And there are so many
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communication
highways opening up,
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that is just
mind-boggling to some of us,
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that the doors
that God has opened.
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Thirty years ago,
Brian, I would have dreamed
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I can pick my phone right now,
an iPhone that I haven't have,
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some might have
Androids and watch 3ABN
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anywhere in the world.
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I mean, that's
Dick Tracy stuff, right?
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When your kids, some
of you old enough know,
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remember Dick Tracy when
we're kids and had to watch.
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And I haven't have
one of those watches now,
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but I still have my $27
Timex because I figuring out
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how to use that smart
watch that you can talk
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and make phone calls too.
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It's a great watch.
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It's just a little
smart for me right now.
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So, but what I'm saying is,
here it is, the end of year,
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after 31 years
we're still going, Brian.
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Mollie, we're still...
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We haven't had
to go off the air.
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We're still growing.
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We've gone, equipment
the last several years.
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Gone from technology,
that's hi-def equipment.
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I mean, studios, every
thing that we've needed,
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God has supplied the needs
He's done that through you.
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So this is a time for
us to say a big thank you.
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I'm sure some of
the rest of you all
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will want to say the same thing.
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And thank the folks,
for what you're doing.
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But, from me thank you so much
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for what you're
doing for the cause of God.
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So we got a good program.
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It's just not a
planned one as usual.
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But back to the point
again, we do love each other
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because there's a great
amount of respect for the folk
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that we work with here.
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Not just the ones
you see on camera,
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but those that's
behind the scenes working.
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We've done numerous
new Christmas programs.
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We've got people, they
are putting hundred of hours
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and a lot of
folk working overtime.
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Some of these are salary people.
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They don't get the extra
pay but they say, you know what,
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if works got to be
done we're doing it.
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So they are people that you
will never meet on this earth,
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right here at 3ABN, and
maybe behind the cameras,
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in the production
rooms, could be out just,
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just to serving in other
areas, in the call center,
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the sound center, but
we're all on the same team.
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Thank you for joining with us
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as we take the undiluted
Three Angels' Messages.
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One would counteract the
counterfeit into all the world.
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You know, Danny, when our
viewing analyst and audience
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becomes part of the go
team or sends a donation in,
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they really are
entering into a family.
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And we function as a family.
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Someone asked me,
just last week in Buffalo,
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talking about you.
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They said, "Do
you like that guy?"
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I said, yeah, I do. I really...
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Why are people
always asking that, Brian?
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Everywhere they go,
they are always asking that.
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I said, he's a genuine deal.
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And you look at
the-- our "guests" here.
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We get along well.
There's no fighting.
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You know people
fighting to get on air.
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In fact, we fight to
get out of this chair,
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because it is chair, we're
just like, "You want the chair?"
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"No, I don't
want." "You want it?"
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That kind of thing.
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So when you become
part of the 3ABN team,
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you really join a
family unit of people
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who genuinely like each other
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and who generally love the Lord.
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And television is
a stressful thing.
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There's no way to get around it.
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And yet, it is
made so much better
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because you're
dealing with people
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who love Christ and who...
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If they
occasionally make a mistake
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and sort of run
out of their lane,
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they are quick to say
I'm sorry and we press on.
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That's how
Christians work together.
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So this is a family unit.
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It is a family and it's a
great place to come to work
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and to come to praise the Lord.
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You know something that
I thought we might need to
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kind of express
to our viewers is,
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we don't have any on-air
personalities here at 3ABN.
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We have employees
that go on the air
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and present
programs and so forth.
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What everyone of us did
before we came out here,
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was we got up from our
desk where we had been working,
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been in meetings, this
things run all morning long,
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taking care of business.
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Brain is taking
care of the finances.
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Shelley is
working with other people
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that want to do new programs.
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C.A. is the general manager
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of our Proclaim
Network and he's a producer.
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Danny is busy all the time.
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So what we do is that hopefully
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give us at least a days warning,
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so we can fix
our hair, you know,
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or put on--you know.
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Oh, no. Except for C.A.
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And so that we'll know oh,
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we're gonna be
doing a program tomorrow.
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So we get prepared,
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but we come into work
at 7.30 in the morning
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and we work till it's
time to get up from our desk,
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come out here and, and
talk to you because we love you
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and we want to be
a part of your lives.
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But we are workers here at 3ABN.
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I think, I said
this sometime ago.
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We don't have any
queen bees at 3ABN.
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We have nothing but worker bees.
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And so that's what we
are. That's true. That's true.
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You know, I love the
fact that you said that,
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you made the deal with the Lord
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that you didn't ever
want to have to beg for money.
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And I am so
excited and you guys know
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that how my enthusiasm
has been bubbling over.
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I'm so excited that the Lord
gave you the vision of a way
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to increase the
financial base for 3ABN.
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But it's not begging for
money, it's actually we are...
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God, when He
gave you this vision,
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He also gave it where it
would benefit our viewers
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and that is the
Go Evangelistic Team.
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The Blessing is on
the Go Evangelistic team.
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And I'm so excited
to say that right now
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we have nearly 2,000 people.
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And just these short months,
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it would just
barely gaining traction.
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And it is so
exciting to see how...
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Well, your God is
honoring your deal.
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I never want to
have to beg for money.
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So what does He do?
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He gives you a
vision, a plan, a movement
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to get His
people off their pews,
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out of the pews
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and really doing
something that's so simple,
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to just share with
friends or neighbors
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and to support
evangelism around the world.
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And there are
somebody isn't familiar,
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they are just tuning in.
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Quickly how does it
work? Oh, okay, yeah.
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Well, I just assumed that
everybody, our living breed,
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the Go Evangelistic Team.
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So what this vision
is, is that, when you...
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You joined with us to become
a Go Evangelistic Team member.
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Danny has been saying for years.
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"The Blessing is on the Go."
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And God gave him this idea
that what you do is register.
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You can go to our 3ABN.TV, our
website and click on the banner
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and you can register to become
an Evangelistic Team member.
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And if you are part of
the Go Evangelistic team,
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you're making a recurring
monthly donation to 3ABN
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and you're supporting
evangelism around the world.
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And we're gonna be having
some huge public evangelism,
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in addition to our
television and radio.
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But then also we send you every
month an evangelistic tool.
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It could be a Bible study,
it could be a music CD or DVD,
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a sermon on DVD, or book.
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And it's something you
can share with your friends
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or your family
and your neighbors.
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Something so simple.
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Anyone from 9 to 90 can do this
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because not everybody can get up
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and stand in front
of a group and speak
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or maybe you're not comfortable
leading a Bible study.
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But you can share a tool, it's
just a friendship evangelism.
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And you know, evangelism is not
an event, it's a way of life.
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And so this is what we're doing.
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And then as you are...
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When you do register,
you get a certificate,
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a beautiful certificate to say
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that you are part of
3ABN's Go Evangelistic team.
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And you get
Danny Shelton's book,
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the "Blessing Is on
the Go" which, Danny,
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so many people are
saying, are inspiring them.
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You know, even...
Oh, praise the Lord.
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I mean, I'm getting
so many reports of people
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who are saying,
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this has
inspired me to recognize.
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Time is short,
we've got to do something.
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But, we're just so
excited for those of you
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who have joined us
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and we pray for our
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Go Evangelistic
Team members everyday.
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But, I'm praying that God...
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This is not a program,
it's a movement of God.
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And I feel that everything
that we've done for 31 years,
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to get all of this place is
just so that God can reach out,
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tap you on the
shoulder and say, get involved.
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And I'm just so excited
that it's really gets traction.
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I can't wait to see what the
Lord is going to do with this.
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We had a General
Conference person here
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just a couple of
days ago, in your office
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and you were sharing
the nuts and bolts of this.
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And he didn't have to sell it,
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he just said this is
what we're trying to do.
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And this person is right up
there in a General Conference
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and said, that's a
God thing, that's...
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Absolutely.
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Man, that's
something off the court...
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So much so he said,
I'm gonna take this back.
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I'm gonna take it and do it.
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To this at the General
Conference level for a project
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that I have going
and I said help yourself.
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Yeah, he said I'm gonna
borrow it, that borrow it,
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I'm gonna tell him to
steal it, I'm taking it.
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Yeah, he said,
I'm gonna take it.
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But he told just
like it's not stealing.
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No, no, no, I've
said, hey, you know,
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there's enough
pies in refrigerator,
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we just got to open the door,
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there's a lot
more refrigerators.
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So anything that we come up
with that help somebody else
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we're happy about it
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because the Lord
will impress people
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where there supposed to give.
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Some folk are
supposed to give here
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and some will
give to what he's doing
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and we praise the Lord for that
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because people are
giving, souls are being won.
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And so, you know,
that's just the way it is
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and that's the way
we have to understand.
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We don't own anything.
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Everything we
have is, is the Lord's.
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He allows us to be
caretakers for a while.
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But sometimes that can be
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a very difficult responsibility.
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Juggling, doing things to say,
how am I gonna make this work.
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And Brain knows that because
I'm talking about you actually.
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You're in a very
difficult position
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because you know
what the needs are
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and yet you
sometimes see what's coming
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and so you have
to say, well, folks,
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now this month I
know you want to do this,
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but can you slow down a little,
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let me pay that,
then we go on there.
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But somehow it's been working
and we've seen some great--
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in the last few months,
some results, aren't we?
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Yes.
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For some years a
couple...Two or three years now
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we've seen a slide in
the number of donors giving
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that it was concerning us.
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Yes.
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And, and that's where the
Lord kind of impressed you
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I believe that,
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that the problem
was really evangelism.
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We weren't about
being evangelistic.
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We were about producing
programs and good programs,
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quality programs.
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But we hadn't really...
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We lost our
emphasis on evangelism.
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So as we've
refocused on evangelism,
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we've seen the
number of donors increasing
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and that's broadening our base.
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That was one of the
pieces of the puzzle
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that we needed to change.
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And the Lord is
blessing on that.
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So we've seen that graph now
going up which is great to see.
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C.A., you know, pastors
have these stewardship sermons
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every once in a while, right?
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Once a year, at least
you... At least once in a year.
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The conference,
you know, it says, hey,
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you got to go
have stewardship sermon
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and in those sermons
we talk about the treasure
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that the Lord is giving us.
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The Lord is giving
us the treasure of time,
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talent, and means.
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And that's our treasure
that He has given to us.
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And just this week since
I had to put this together
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a few spots on stewardship
and that type of thing,
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I was assigned at.
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It hit me, we're talking
about time, talents, and means.
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That's going and
doing and giving.
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That's right.
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The blessing comes
from the going and the doing
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and the giving.
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And we've seen our viewers
come up to the plate on that.
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And so we're blessed,
but I believe our viewers
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are going to be
blessed even more.
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Absolutely. Yeah.
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You know, what? I've to say...
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I agree with you there because
when you think about this...
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When God created us
and when He created life,
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He instilled in
every living organism,
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the capability of reproduction.
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And the law of life
demands reproduction.
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If a species is not reproducing,
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they are going
to become extinct.
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Well, that applies
in the spiritual level,
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as in spiritual level as well.
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If we do not share
our faith with somebody,
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it's kind of like our
faith just becomes dead faith,
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we've got to share.
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And if our
churches are not growing,
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if your church isn't growing,
if it's just maintaining,
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it's on the verge of becoming
extinct, as people die off.
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So when Jesus said
to us in Matthew 28
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that we are to go
into all the world
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and share this
gospel with the, you know,
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fulfill this great commission
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by sharing the gospel
with all these nations,
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I believe that His
underlying motivation
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was because He knew,
the reason God chooses us,
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He could finish
the work by Himself,
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but the reason God chose
us to be part of this work,
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to go and to
share, is because He knew,
00:19:04.41\00:19:06.74
that's what would
keep us spiritually alive
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and that's how our
churches will grow.
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Yeah. Here's
what you tapped into.
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There is an irrevocable
law, it can not be changed,
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it can not gain said, that
when you step out an evangelism
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and directly involve yourself
in the work of the Lord,
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two things happen, one,
your finances stabilize,
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any church, any person,
once you begin doing that.
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And two, your
spirituality soars,
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which is why Shelley
has gotten so, so infective,
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infected and is
infecting all of us
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because one, your
money is gonna stabilize.
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God's not gonna
put you in a hole
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and then your
spirituality is gonna just zoom.
00:19:43.88\00:19:47.38
And, so I have to
quote, what Shelley was saying,
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if your church is
lagging or flagging,
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if your own spirituality
is dipping or dying,
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then buy into this, if I
can use that terminology...
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Yeah, sure.
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You really want to
get on board on this,
00:20:01.70\00:20:03.03
two things will happen.
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And we're not preaching
a prosperity kind of thing.
00:20:04.43\00:20:05.77
We are just saying this is a law
00:20:05.80\00:20:07.14
that God has put in place.
00:20:07.17\00:20:08.50
One, if you stand up for Him,
He's gonna stand up for you.
00:20:08.54\00:20:11.01
So your finances
are gonna stabilize
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and your
spirituality is gonna soar,
00:20:13.61\00:20:15.84
that's gonna happen.
00:20:15.88\00:20:17.51
And if you try God, He
will prove Himself faithful,
00:20:17.55\00:20:20.68
that's sort of a whole
Malachi 3 thing is about.
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That if you give to
Him, God will give to you,
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press down and running over.
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That's God's promise
00:20:27.19\00:20:28.52
and you will find that
it's true to your word.
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That's why we're so excited.
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We're walking
around grinning, you know,
00:20:31.29\00:20:32.79
because God is doing
something marvelous here
00:20:32.83\00:20:35.33
and we are infected
00:20:35.36\00:20:37.27
and want to
infect the whole world.
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You know, you're
speaking the biblical principle,
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"You reap what you sow."
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Now that's a biblical principle.
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What happens when you go to put
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a biblical
principle into operation?
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You get a
biblical result. Precisely.
00:20:49.68\00:20:51.48
And if you put a
negative principle
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in operation,
00:20:53.88\00:20:55.22
you're gonna get
a negative result.
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And you reap what you sow.
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So as you sow--
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and I just want to tell
you 3ABN is good ground.
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This is good ground.
00:21:03.56\00:21:04.89
This is good soil.
Well said, Mollie. Yes.
00:21:04.93\00:21:06.63
And as you sow into 3ABN,
you're gonna reap what you sow.
00:21:06.66\00:21:10.37
You know, I was
thinking earlier,
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of the letters, of the
emails, of the phone calls,
00:21:13.54\00:21:17.44
that we receive
in this ministry,
00:21:17.47\00:21:19.81
every single day of people
00:21:19.84\00:21:22.31
that make Jesus Christ
the Lord of their life.
00:21:22.34\00:21:24.61
Come out of
darkness and come into light,
00:21:24.65\00:21:27.42
that here the end-time
truths that God has entrusted
00:21:27.45\00:21:31.32
to the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
00:21:31.35\00:21:33.56
God has entrusted this church
with inside end time truths
00:21:33.59\00:21:38.06
and it's our
responsibility to share them.
00:21:38.09\00:21:40.43
And as we
share, people hear them
00:21:40.46\00:21:42.40
and they are coming
into greater knowledge
00:21:42.43\00:21:44.53
of homes that have been healed,
00:21:44.57\00:21:46.43
of people that
have been delivered,
00:21:46.47\00:21:48.00
of children who have
comeback to the Lord.
00:21:48.04\00:21:51.27
This is the fruit of
the ministry of 3ABN.
00:21:51.31\00:21:55.24
This is what you're sowing into
00:21:55.28\00:21:57.18
and, C.A., I don't think
that we've told you this.
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But just this week, I
believe it was yesterday,
00:22:00.42\00:22:03.79
the lady from our call center,
her name is Marilyn Durante,
00:22:03.82\00:22:07.22
she's the assistant
manager at the call center.
00:22:07.26\00:22:09.72
She came over and said,
Mollie, we got a phone call,
00:22:09.76\00:22:14.10
last Thursday
night during the live
00:22:14.13\00:22:17.27
and this gentleman
called and he said,
00:22:17.30\00:22:19.67
I want to thank 3ABN.
00:22:19.70\00:22:21.80
I had the gun in my hand. Oh.
00:22:21.84\00:22:24.57
I had the gun in my hand and,
00:22:24.61\00:22:27.58
and I started
listening to the program
00:22:27.61\00:22:30.71
and C.A., you were hosting it.
00:22:30.75\00:22:32.91
And I just want you to
know that I've put the gun down.
00:22:32.95\00:22:37.19
You all saved my life today.
He didn't give us his name.
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We don't have
any information on,
00:22:41.09\00:22:43.36
but that, that is the
soil that you are sowing into
00:22:43.39\00:22:48.33
when you sow into 3ABN,
00:22:48.36\00:22:50.33
that's where you're
gonna reap what you sow.
00:22:50.37\00:22:52.70
And you know,
when we were in Israel,
00:22:52.73\00:22:54.30
there were several
people on the tour there
00:22:54.34\00:22:56.60
who grew up
Adventist, left the church,
00:22:56.64\00:22:59.87
but because of 3ABN they
came back into the church.
00:22:59.91\00:23:04.18
And we see that on
almost a daily basis.
00:23:04.21\00:23:08.12
Our pastoral is getting calls
00:23:08.15\00:23:09.98
of people who
grew up in the church,
00:23:10.02\00:23:12.79
left the church,
00:23:12.82\00:23:14.16
but have
comeback into the church
00:23:14.19\00:23:15.52
from watching us, so.
00:23:15.56\00:23:16.89
You know, we
look at Galatians 6:7
00:23:16.93\00:23:18.26
which is a text that
you're alluded to, Mollie,
00:23:18.29\00:23:20.13
about sowing and
reaping in a negative context.
00:23:20.16\00:23:22.26
If you live a bad life
you're gonna have bad result.
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But, the biblical
principle is either way.
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You know, because of the way
00:23:27.54\00:23:28.87
that if you put
out positive things
00:23:28.90\00:23:30.51
and live a positive life
00:23:30.54\00:23:31.87
and surrender yourself to Christ
00:23:31.91\00:23:33.71
then good things
are gonna happen.
00:23:33.74\00:23:35.14
You know, Christ
things are gonna happen.
00:23:35.18\00:23:36.95
And that's what we've been,
00:23:36.98\00:23:38.31
you know, I had
a teacher who said,
00:23:38.35\00:23:39.85
you know you got
to be stupid enough
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to serve the Lord.
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You know, that scripture
has may be been abused at times.
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You know my frame of reference
and I've seen it abused,
00:23:48.02\00:23:50.99
but it still a
biblical principle.
00:23:51.03\00:23:53.13
If you-- and it's
the natural principle.
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If you sow corn,
what you're gonna get?
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Yeah, a corn.
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Sow tomato seeds,
what you're gonna get?
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If you sow finances, it
is a biblical principle.
00:24:01.37\00:24:06.78
And you don't give to get
00:24:06.81\00:24:08.14
because once that's your motive,
00:24:08.18\00:24:09.81
you've just negated
the biblical principle.
00:24:09.84\00:24:13.18
But there is
biblical principle involved.
00:24:13.21\00:24:15.28
And if you line
yourself up with God's word
00:24:15.32\00:24:18.12
then the windows of
heaven are opened up to you
00:24:18.15\00:24:20.56
and blessings are poured out
00:24:20.59\00:24:22.02
that you won't
be able to receive.
00:24:22.06\00:24:23.86
That's biblical principle.
00:24:23.89\00:24:25.43
You know I forgot my
Bible, it's in the car actually.
00:24:25.46\00:24:28.70
But, I wrote down two scriptures
00:24:28.73\00:24:30.77
before I came down here
00:24:30.80\00:24:32.13
and I just would like
to do those really quickly.
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Luke 6:38, you've
already briefly mentioned this.
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But, it's a law of reciprocity
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where God says,
give-- Jesus says
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"Give, and it will be
given to you good measure,
00:24:41.94\00:24:44.15
pressed down, shaken
together and running over,
00:24:44.18\00:24:46.15
will be poured into your bosom.
00:24:46.18\00:24:47.88
For with the
same measure you use,
00:24:47.92\00:24:50.09
it will be
measured back to you."
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So there is that
law of reciprocity,
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but I love how Paul says
and this kind of ties into
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what you were
saying in 2 Corinthians 9.
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He says, "He who sows
sparingly also reap sparingly.
00:25:01.76\00:25:05.47
He who sows
bountifully reaps bountifully."
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And we are good soil.
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There is a bounty of our harvest
00:25:10.74\00:25:12.77
when you sow into it.
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But here's what he says.
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"Let each one as he
purposes in his heart,
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give not
grudgingly or of necessity;
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for God loves a cheerful giver.
00:25:21.52\00:25:24.12
And God is able to make
all grace abound toward you,
00:25:24.15\00:25:27.72
that you, always having
all sufficiency in all things,
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may have an
abundance for every good work."
00:25:33.16\00:25:35.83
So there is this
spiritual principle
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that God sees and I
forget, maybe you recall,
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but there is a man
that was here on 3ABN.
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And he said, he started
giving 90 percent of his income,
00:25:45.07\00:25:50.35
his business
became very successful.
00:25:50.38\00:25:52.58
He was giving 90
percent of his income
00:25:52.61\00:25:54.88
to the Lord's work.
00:25:54.92\00:25:56.25
And he said, it was
like I was putting in and out
00:25:56.28\00:25:59.92
a shuffle full at a time
00:25:59.95\00:26:01.42
and God was coming in
like with the bulldozer,
00:26:01.46\00:26:04.39
dumping the blessings in on me.
00:26:04.43\00:26:06.53
So there is that blessing,
that is a biblical principle.
00:26:06.56\00:26:09.46
You remember Charlie Clark?
00:26:09.50\00:26:12.07
Well, he did with--
00:26:12.10\00:26:13.44
Tell the people
00:26:13.47\00:26:14.80
what Charlie Clark did
with his popcorn patch.
00:26:14.84\00:26:16.94
Yeah, that was years ago.
00:26:16.97\00:26:18.31
Charlie had some property.
He was still in Nebraska.
00:26:18.34\00:26:20.44
They have been here
for a number of years,
00:26:20.48\00:26:22.34
moved here with their family.
00:26:22.38\00:26:23.71
But Charlie is
a farmer and have,
00:26:23.75\00:26:25.08
I think 3,000 acres
something like that.
00:26:25.11\00:26:27.22
But somewhere on his property,
00:26:27.25\00:26:28.72
I think it's fairly
close to his house, Brian.
00:26:28.75\00:26:30.99
He had some property there
00:26:31.02\00:26:32.35
that just wouldn't
seem to grow anything.
00:26:32.39\00:26:33.96
And he tried to grow things
that just wouldn't happen.
00:26:33.99\00:26:36.26
So finally he said, you
know, what, I've tried popcorn,
00:26:36.29\00:26:39.09
I've tried
this, I've tried that,
00:26:39.13\00:26:40.60
I'm gonna put
out popcorn this year
00:26:40.63\00:26:42.56
and Lord this is yours,
00:26:42.60\00:26:44.30
whatever comes out of
this I'll give it to you.
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He had the best crop
that he didn't ever have.
00:26:46.53\00:26:48.34
According to
Charlie, this thing grow
00:26:48.37\00:26:50.21
and literally I think proprietor
00:26:50.24\00:26:51.81
or somebody was buying
it and it just amazed him,
00:26:51.84\00:26:55.28
the same, you know,
Nebraska is sandy soil up there,
00:26:55.31\00:26:58.15
but some of his
better than others.
00:26:58.18\00:26:59.81
And he said, this soil
just wouldn't grow anything.
00:26:59.85\00:27:03.62
When I gave it to the Lord,
00:27:03.65\00:27:05.12
it just multiplied, multiplied
and was just a great crop.
00:27:05.15\00:27:08.82
I mean, how
often do we hear that?
00:27:08.86\00:27:11.16
And I know on
television and so many,
00:27:11.19\00:27:13.40
you hear these televangelists
00:27:13.43\00:27:14.86
and it's the healthy,
wealthy and wise give it to me.
00:27:14.90\00:27:17.07
I've heard preachers
say, I don't need the money.
00:27:17.10\00:27:19.47
I've got one guy
said, I got to gold piano.
00:27:19.50\00:27:21.34
I got all of these
things, but you need to give it.
00:27:21.37\00:27:24.04
So give it, you know,
00:27:24.07\00:27:25.41
but the healthy,
wealthy and wise,
00:27:25.44\00:27:27.01
you know, we
preached that to an extent
00:27:27.04\00:27:28.98
totally different though.
00:27:29.01\00:27:30.35
We say, if you live
right, you don't smoke or drink
00:27:30.38\00:27:32.81
and you exercise and
drink a plenty of water,
00:27:32.85\00:27:35.58
you're gonna live healthier
than you would if you didn't.
00:27:35.62\00:27:38.05
But that's an action
where we're doing something.
00:27:38.09\00:27:40.42
You can't give dollars to
say, I'm gonna live healthy now.
00:27:40.46\00:27:43.63
I'm gonna eat. My mom used
to say, I'm gonna eat anything.
00:27:43.66\00:27:46.16
She said, some
people eat anything
00:27:46.19\00:27:47.53
that don't ate them first.
00:27:47.56\00:27:48.90
You know, so you can't
eat anything that don't--
00:27:48.93\00:27:51.23
First except to be
healthy because you give money.
00:27:51.27\00:27:53.37
You can't buy your
way into good health.
00:27:53.40\00:27:55.84
You can't buy
your way into heaven.
00:27:55.87\00:27:57.54
You can't buy
your way into success.
00:27:57.57\00:28:00.31
But when you give to
the Lord out of the heart,
00:28:00.34\00:28:03.41
and for the right
motives because first of all,
00:28:03.45\00:28:07.02
everything that we have
is not ours, it's God's.
00:28:07.05\00:28:09.52
So He allows us to be stewards.
00:28:09.55\00:28:11.85
So when we give to
Him, we give to God,
00:28:11.89\00:28:15.82
He accepts that, that
offering now is to Him.
00:28:15.86\00:28:18.59
God honors that because He said,
00:28:18.63\00:28:20.06
go ye into all the world.
00:28:20.10\00:28:21.43
So if we're giving--
00:28:21.46\00:28:22.80
One preacher said,
you sow your old Cadillac
00:28:22.83\00:28:26.33
and God will give
you new one, you know.
00:28:26.37\00:28:28.80
It wasn't on 3ABN and
I'm happy to say that,
00:28:28.84\00:28:31.57
that's not true at all.
00:28:31.61\00:28:32.94
But here's what I've found out.
00:28:32.97\00:28:34.31
If I want to give
something to get a new car,
00:28:34.34\00:28:36.98
that's not gonna work.
00:28:37.01\00:28:38.35
But if I say, you know,
what, I'm gonna sow this seed
00:28:38.38\00:28:40.75
or I'm gonna plant this $1,000
into whatever ministry this is,
00:28:40.78\00:28:45.12
God always brings that back.
00:28:45.15\00:28:47.22
When 3ABN, over the years--
00:28:47.26\00:28:49.09
Mollie, you know certain people,
00:28:49.12\00:28:51.13
the Lord's impressed
a certain areas to help
00:28:51.16\00:28:53.23
or to sow into
ministries and God always comes.
00:28:53.26\00:28:56.63
I don't want to
call it a rear door,
00:28:56.67\00:28:58.00
but comes
somewhere, we don't even know.
00:28:58.03\00:29:00.04
I remember one time and
we've may told it before.
00:29:00.07\00:29:02.74
Someone was on the dead end.
00:29:02.77\00:29:04.74
You know, had a program
on 3ABN, very good people,
00:29:04.77\00:29:08.28
person, good ministry,
but didn't have the money
00:29:08.31\00:29:11.08
and was gotten
really behind on the bill,
00:29:11.11\00:29:15.15
the airtime because we
have to pay that ourselves.
00:29:15.18\00:29:18.05
So these people pay
us, the folks sits on.
00:29:18.09\00:29:20.92
But this particular ministry
just didn't have the money.
00:29:20.96\00:29:24.46
We asked him about it,
they said we don't have it.
00:29:24.49\00:29:26.76
So Mollie brings me a
bill and it was $35,000.
00:29:26.80\00:29:30.47
And she said,
00:29:30.50\00:29:31.93
Danny, what do you
want to do with this?
00:29:31.97\00:29:33.80
They just don't have the money
00:29:33.84\00:29:35.47
and we've asked
them two or three times.
00:29:35.50\00:29:37.61
What should we do?
00:29:37.64\00:29:38.97
And I said, well, and
before I did, she said,
00:29:39.01\00:29:41.61
I know what you're gonna say.
00:29:41.64\00:29:42.98
You want to just forgive,
so she wrote forgiven on it.
00:29:43.01\00:29:45.38
Mollie, really gave.
00:29:45.41\00:29:46.75
I didn't give it
because she just--
00:29:46.78\00:29:48.12
She said it like this, Brian,
I know what you want to do.
00:29:48.15\00:29:51.15
So we'll just, you
know, just helping me.
00:29:51.19\00:29:53.46
So I looked at her and
I said, you know, what,
00:29:53.49\00:29:55.39
that's right, that's
the right thing to do.
00:29:55.42\00:29:57.13
So I didn't really
give it, Mollie gave it,
00:29:57.16\00:29:59.19
but it was $35,000.
00:29:59.23\00:30:01.10
So she literally just
wrote on it, forgiven,
00:30:01.13\00:30:03.80
and mailed it to him.
00:30:03.83\00:30:05.17
She said, here's
what we're doing,
00:30:05.20\00:30:06.53
instead of the
bill, it's forgiven.
00:30:06.57\00:30:07.90
But wouldn't you
rather have it forgiven
00:30:07.94\00:30:09.74
than have them owing it.
00:30:09.77\00:30:11.11
You see, now they
don't owe it to us.
00:30:11.14\00:30:12.67
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's a bad feeling.
00:30:12.71\00:30:14.24
Well, here's the thing.
00:30:14.28\00:30:15.61
So, so about two weeks later,
00:30:15.64\00:30:17.95
I get a call from the
lady in Kentucky and she says,
00:30:17.98\00:30:21.18
I want to ask you about
someone that's one the air.
00:30:21.22\00:30:23.52
And I said, we
get that quite a bit.
00:30:23.55\00:30:25.15
Okay.
00:30:25.19\00:30:26.59
Is it true that they owed you
$35,000 and they couldn't pay?
00:30:26.62\00:30:30.59
And I said, well, I don't
really want to discuss that.
00:30:30.63\00:30:33.63
I'm not gonna discuss
who owes and who doesn't.
00:30:33.66\00:30:36.46
And I said, who told you
that? She said, well, he did.
00:30:36.50\00:30:39.67
The person, the
head of the ministry did.
00:30:39.70\00:30:41.17
And I said, oh, he told you.
00:30:41.20\00:30:42.80
She said, yeah he told me
that how wonderful that was,
00:30:42.84\00:30:45.84
that you actually forgave it.
00:30:45.87\00:30:47.78
Was that true? And
so I told the story.
00:30:47.81\00:30:49.61
I said, well,
actually Mollie did.
00:30:49.64\00:30:51.15
I supported her, but
when she, she told me,
00:30:51.18\00:30:53.68
she knew what I do
and wrote forgiven.
00:30:53.72\00:30:55.45
She said that is so nice.
00:30:55.48\00:30:57.09
I just want to hear it from you.
00:30:57.12\00:30:58.45
I put you a
check in the mail today
00:30:58.49\00:31:00.32
for $50,000 to cover.
00:31:00.36\00:31:01.76
Glory to God.
00:31:01.79\00:31:03.12
Now, see, you didn't know
that, Mollie, when you said,
00:31:03.16\00:31:05.79
you know, you're gonna do this.
00:31:05.83\00:31:07.16
Mollie didn't say.
00:31:07.20\00:31:08.53
Let's see, I think
God will give me 50,000.
00:31:08.56\00:31:10.50
Her heart said,
the ministry is good,
00:31:10.53\00:31:12.93
it's a good ministry
00:31:12.97\00:31:14.30
and it needs to stay on the air,
00:31:14.34\00:31:15.67
let's just forgive
it and God will honor.
00:31:15.70\00:31:17.84
But who knew that
this lady would call
00:31:17.87\00:31:20.31
and send $50,000 to cover.
00:31:20.34\00:31:22.14
We've seen it over
and over and over again.
00:31:22.18\00:31:24.78
God will do that
in your life too,
00:31:24.81\00:31:26.15
but giving for the right reasons
00:31:26.18\00:31:27.88
for the right purposes.
00:31:27.92\00:31:29.28
So when you give, when
you give for the gospel,
00:31:29.32\00:31:33.02
when you give for something
00:31:33.05\00:31:34.72
that's gonna take
the gospel to the world,
00:31:34.76\00:31:36.83
that's where Jesus
says, "All power is given me,
00:31:36.86\00:31:39.09
all authority on
heaven and earth.
00:31:39.13\00:31:41.10
Go ye therefore."
00:31:41.13\00:31:42.46
So there's no break right there
00:31:42.50\00:31:43.83
and that's what I like about it.
00:31:43.87\00:31:45.27
"All power is given
me, go ye therefore.
00:31:45.30\00:31:47.70
So what he just said
is, all power is given me.
00:31:47.74\00:31:50.41
There is no excuse
on earth for you to say,
00:31:50.44\00:31:52.67
you can't do it.
00:31:52.71\00:31:54.04
I just said, all
power is given me
00:31:54.08\00:31:55.84
and I'm telling
you, go ye therefore.
00:31:55.88\00:31:58.35
Dr. Walter always said,
00:31:58.38\00:31:59.75
the Lord counted His
resources in advance,
00:31:59.78\00:32:02.35
right, before He
told us to go do something
00:32:02.38\00:32:04.75
and found he wasn't wanting.
00:32:04.79\00:32:06.32
So now we can
say, you know, what,
00:32:06.35\00:32:08.19
Jesus said take this
gospel into all the world.
00:32:08.22\00:32:10.49
So we can do it. You can
be a 33 year old carpenter.
00:32:10.53\00:32:13.43
You can be a 25 year
old, whatever and say,
00:32:13.46\00:32:16.20
when you're
impressed to build our station
00:32:16.23\00:32:17.80
to reach the world,
00:32:17.83\00:32:19.17
I didn't have to
think about it, Brian.
00:32:19.20\00:32:20.54
I didn't even go to
counselors, maybe I should have.
00:32:20.57\00:32:22.84
I didn't go to
the General Conference
00:32:22.87\00:32:24.47
and say, I wonder
if I should do this
00:32:24.51\00:32:26.91
because in my mind--
00:32:26.94\00:32:28.44
They would have discouraged you.
00:32:28.48\00:32:29.81
I don't know.
00:32:29.84\00:32:31.18
All I know this is
in my mind, I tried to--
00:32:31.21\00:32:33.31
Isaiah 8:20, "To the
law and the testimony.
00:32:33.35\00:32:35.62
If it's not
according to this word,
00:32:35.65\00:32:36.99
there's no light in them."
00:32:37.02\00:32:38.35
So all I said was,
00:32:38.39\00:32:39.72
what if there were
a television station
00:32:39.75\00:32:41.72
giving the
Three Angeles' Message
00:32:41.76\00:32:43.29
or what we
believe it Bible Message,
00:32:43.32\00:32:44.96
we call it
Seventh-day Adventist,
00:32:44.99\00:32:46.33
but a Bible message to
a lost and dying world.
00:32:46.36\00:32:48.46
Will that be the
Lord or the devil?
00:32:48.50\00:32:50.37
Lord. Thank the Lord.
00:32:50.40\00:32:51.73
Okay. That's all I need to know.
00:32:51.77\00:32:53.10
Let's go forward.
00:32:53.13\00:32:54.47
The very next day I
went to see Hal and Mollie
00:32:54.50\00:32:56.71
and that's when I
talked to Brother Hal
00:32:56.74\00:32:58.74
and you all have--
were charismatic pastors.
00:32:58.77\00:33:00.81
It's the time they
had a large church,
00:33:00.84\00:33:02.21
growing church, at television--
00:33:02.24\00:33:03.58
She still a bit
charismatic. Yeah, she is.
00:33:03.61\00:33:05.38
Praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord for that too.
00:33:05.41\00:33:08.02
Praise the Lord for that.
00:33:08.05\00:33:09.38
She's a two hander praiser,
00:33:09.42\00:33:11.05
but she does a
great, so is Shelley.
00:33:11.09\00:33:12.42
Yeah.
00:33:12.45\00:33:13.79
But from there it went
on and on and on till today,
00:33:13.82\00:33:16.29
31 years later
00:33:16.32\00:33:17.76
and we're still praising
the Lord for what He has done.
00:33:17.79\00:33:20.50
But you know what? We
couldn't do it without you.
00:33:20.53\00:33:22.60
So that's why today,
00:33:22.63\00:33:23.97
this is kind of
an end of the year,
00:33:24.00\00:33:25.53
we've been having
all kinds of programs on,
00:33:25.57\00:33:27.50
but we want to say most of
all thank you for what you do.
00:33:27.54\00:33:30.41
For those of you it's
in valley of decision.
00:33:30.44\00:33:32.64
We want you to pray
00:33:32.67\00:33:34.01
and we're gonna
pray here in a little bit
00:33:34.04\00:33:35.38
and have you
pray with us and say,
00:33:35.41\00:33:37.05
Lord, what would
You have me to do,
00:33:37.08\00:33:38.41
something special
for the end of the year,
00:33:38.45\00:33:40.85
this year for 3ABN,
00:33:40.88\00:33:42.22
so we can continue to take
the gospel into all the world.
00:33:42.25\00:33:45.62
That's why, Brian, a while
ago, we're hitting on evangelism
00:33:45.65\00:33:49.19
and that's why
we're going to London.
00:33:49.22\00:33:50.73
We'll talk
about that more later.
00:33:50.76\00:33:52.19
But, Mollie, you got
something else, give it to us.
00:33:52.23\00:33:54.56
Well, I was just thinking,
00:33:54.60\00:33:55.93
you were talking about $35,000
that ramped into $50,000.
00:33:55.96\00:34:00.10
That's big figures.
00:34:00.14\00:34:01.97
But I want to share the
story that Mrs. Haney shared
00:34:02.00\00:34:05.31
in Sabbath school
this past Sabbath.
00:34:05.34\00:34:08.64
Mrs. Haney is the principle
of our Christian school.
00:34:08.68\00:34:12.08
And when she was very
young, she told at the time,
00:34:12.11\00:34:14.98
when her parents
gave her, her money
00:34:15.02\00:34:17.62
to do her Christmas shopping
00:34:17.65\00:34:18.99
when they were on
Christmas shopping,
00:34:19.02\00:34:20.49
you know how much she got?
00:34:20.52\00:34:22.56
A nickel.
00:34:22.59\00:34:23.93
She had maybe four bro-- three
brothers, sisters, whatever.
00:34:23.96\00:34:27.03
It was penny a
piece, that was her money
00:34:27.06\00:34:29.23
that she was gonna get
to spend for her family.
00:34:29.26\00:34:32.27
And so they were going
shopping and they went by--
00:34:32.30\00:34:35.00
I believe it was the salvation,
one of the army, those--
00:34:35.04\00:34:38.24
the bucket wringers
and she's told her daddy,
00:34:38.27\00:34:40.14
oh, dad, I want to
put something in there.
00:34:40.18\00:34:42.58
I want to put
my nickel in there.
00:34:42.61\00:34:43.95
And her father said, you
know, put your money in there,
00:34:43.98\00:34:46.65
you're giving to the Lord,
the Lord will supply for you.
00:34:46.68\00:34:50.95
So she dropped her
nickel into the bucket
00:34:50.99\00:34:53.05
and then she
walked into the store
00:34:53.09\00:34:55.52
and there laying on
the ground was a quarter.
00:34:55.56\00:34:58.93
And her father said
the Lord provided you.
00:34:58.96\00:35:01.70
She picks up the
quarter, her nickel,
00:35:01.73\00:35:03.93
because she was obedient.
00:35:03.97\00:35:06.63
And she was a little gal.
00:35:06.67\00:35:08.70
So when a nickel,
00:35:08.74\00:35:10.61
it has ramps into a
quarter when you're 5 years old,
00:35:10.64\00:35:14.61
Danny, that's
as huge as $35, 000
00:35:14.64\00:35:17.71
ramping into 50,000.
00:35:17.75\00:35:19.31
It doesn't matter
how much money it is,
00:35:19.35\00:35:21.22
God is your
source and He sure supply
00:35:21.25\00:35:23.52
and He is the one that
activates the miracles.
00:35:23.55\00:35:26.42
Absolutely.
00:35:26.45\00:35:27.79
And it's not always,
you know, a tit for a tat.
00:35:27.82\00:35:30.09
If you give,
that you give that--
00:35:30.13\00:35:31.56
You know, when we're
talking about a 100 fold return,
00:35:31.59\00:35:35.50
sometimes it's
not always monitory,
00:35:35.53\00:35:37.53
but it maybe that your
shoes are not wearing out,
00:35:37.57\00:35:39.90
just like they did you know--
00:35:39.93\00:35:42.07
And Moses, and
the children of Israel
00:35:42.10\00:35:43.84
or it maybe a
blessing of health,
00:35:43.87\00:35:45.57
it maybe so many other things.
00:35:45.61\00:35:47.84
But I've never, you
know, people will say,
00:35:47.88\00:35:50.55
you can't out give God
and I say, who's trying.
00:35:50.58\00:35:54.15
I mean. But and it's so true.
00:35:54.18\00:35:57.42
You can't out give God
and He does take care of us.
00:35:57.45\00:36:00.16
And as you said
Brian, I'm sorry.
00:36:00.19\00:36:02.32
Just quickly, when
you give to this ministry,
00:36:02.36\00:36:04.26
thanks to, to see that
God planted in your heart,
00:36:04.29\00:36:07.30
you're giving to so
many other ministries.
00:36:07.33\00:36:09.16
Every ministry that's
on air is being supported
00:36:09.20\00:36:11.60
and you have graciously
allowed other ministries
00:36:11.63\00:36:13.70
to come and raise money.
00:36:13.74\00:36:15.90
I just did a rap for an
ASI that rolled this week.
00:36:15.94\00:36:19.24
That earthquake went
through Katmandu, Nepal.
00:36:19.27\00:36:22.08
They needed
$200,000. They came to 3ABN.
00:36:22.11\00:36:25.15
They got
$380,000. Praise the Lord.
00:36:25.18\00:36:27.88
And they got it in
less than 20 days time.
00:36:27.92\00:36:29.85
So the one light house
in the country of Nepal,
00:36:29.88\00:36:33.15
that hospital,
that Adventist hospital,
00:36:33.19\00:36:35.06
Scheer Memorial,
is up there running
00:36:35.09\00:36:37.39
because of the money
that was raised here on 3ABN.
00:36:37.43\00:36:40.20
And that's why I think God
tends to bless this ministry
00:36:40.23\00:36:43.37
because this ministry
exists for among other things
00:36:43.40\00:36:45.90
to bless other ministries.
00:36:45.93\00:36:47.27
Amen.
00:36:47.30\00:36:48.64
And honestly the
airtime that people pay to be on
00:36:48.67\00:36:50.91
is not near what they
would pay anywhere else
00:36:50.94\00:36:53.64
and it's more to
cost basis because--
00:36:53.68\00:36:57.28
And so when we're doing
that it helps all the ministries
00:36:57.31\00:36:59.85
because if we
charge people what,
00:36:59.88\00:37:02.92
it really should cost them,
they couldn't afford to be on.
00:37:02.95\00:37:05.95
And so that's
something that we've said, okay,
00:37:05.99\00:37:08.19
we need the programming,
we're gonna do this more
00:37:08.22\00:37:10.63
to cause rather than
try to make money off of it,
00:37:10.66\00:37:13.03
like any other stations
as they were running time
00:37:13.06\00:37:16.00
all around the
country, around the world.
00:37:16.03\00:37:18.03
It's gonna be a
whole lot of more costly
00:37:18.07\00:37:19.70
for the amount of
audience that we have.
00:37:19.73\00:37:21.44
But it's just
something we've said,
00:37:21.47\00:37:22.80
you know, what,
God will honor this
00:37:22.84\00:37:24.71
and He has through you.
00:37:24.74\00:37:26.24
You know, people
have asked me before.
00:37:26.27\00:37:28.28
You mean you charge
other Adventist ministries
00:37:28.31\00:37:30.81
to be on 3ABN and I tell them,
00:37:30.85\00:37:32.71
no, we ask them to
help us with the finances
00:37:32.75\00:37:36.95
because we have to
pay the satellite bills
00:37:36.99\00:37:40.39
every single month and Brian
they are huge, huge amount.
00:37:40.42\00:37:44.46
And so it's not
that we're trying to--
00:37:44.49\00:37:47.13
we're just asking them to
help us with the satellite,
00:37:47.16\00:37:51.23
the cost of the satellite.
00:37:51.27\00:37:52.67
We're not charging them
00:37:52.70\00:37:54.04
to give the message of
the gospel to the world.
00:37:54.07\00:37:55.90
We are just appreciate the
fact that they will help us,
00:37:55.94\00:37:58.74
then pay those satellite fees.
00:37:58.77\00:38:02.14
The term you used
planting in the soil.
00:38:02.18\00:38:06.82
Every minute of
every day, somebody's life
00:38:06.85\00:38:11.65
is being touched for
eternity through 3ABN.
00:38:11.69\00:38:14.82
Amen.
00:38:14.86\00:38:16.19
You just think about,
every minute of every day.
00:38:16.22\00:38:18.03
Just to give you an example.
Last week I got a phone call.
00:38:18.06\00:38:21.10
Just came out of the blue
and the person on the phone
00:38:21.13\00:38:24.47
identified
himself as an employee
00:38:24.50\00:38:28.87
of one of the
prisons in one of--
00:38:28.90\00:38:31.24
It was in New
Mexico, State of New Mexico.
00:38:31.27\00:38:34.08
And the purpose
of the phone call
00:38:34.11\00:38:35.44
was to introduce
me to a prisoner.
00:38:35.48\00:38:39.15
So he wanted to let
me know that the prisoner
00:38:39.18\00:38:41.58
who wanted to talk to
me about a certain subject
00:38:41.62\00:38:44.29
and would I take the phone
call and he told me who he was,
00:38:44.32\00:38:47.36
so I would
legitimize the phone call.
00:38:47.39\00:38:49.12
So I get this phone call.
00:38:49.16\00:38:50.49
Not very often that
you get a phone call
00:38:50.53\00:38:51.93
from somebody working
at a state prison, okay.
00:38:51.96\00:38:55.96
And so then the
inmate got on the phone.
00:38:56.00\00:38:58.73
That inmate was assigned
to ask us to submit a proposal
00:38:58.77\00:39:06.17
to get 3ABN into their prison.
00:39:06.21\00:39:09.08
That was his
assignment, okay. Wow. Okay.
00:39:09.11\00:39:12.21
He worked in the education wing
00:39:12.25\00:39:13.85
and they would like
3ABN as one of their,
00:39:13.88\00:39:16.72
one of the
lineup in the program.
00:39:16.75\00:39:18.79
So he told me a
little bit about himself.
00:39:18.82\00:39:20.39
He says, "I was
in another prison,"
00:39:20.42\00:39:22.39
the one he's in
currently, doesn't have 3ABN.
00:39:22.42\00:39:24.69
"But I was in
another one that did."
00:39:24.73\00:39:27.03
And he said, "There
was only two programs
00:39:27.06\00:39:29.26
we could get when
everybody went digital
00:39:29.30\00:39:31.73
and they were analog.
00:39:31.77\00:39:33.40
And she says we get
the home shopping network
00:39:33.44\00:39:36.81
and we could get 3ABN."
00:39:36.84\00:39:38.54
Praise God. Okay. All right.
00:39:38.57\00:39:39.91
He says, 3ABN was
on solid in my cell
00:39:39.94\00:39:43.28
all that period of time.
00:39:43.31\00:39:44.81
But he says, I was so blessed
00:39:44.85\00:39:46.38
and I got to know
each one of you folk
00:39:46.41\00:39:48.58
because of that
experience, you know.
00:39:48.62\00:39:51.09
And so that's just a little seed
00:39:51.12\00:39:54.09
that's being
planted and you don't know
00:39:54.12\00:39:56.49
where it's gonna go
and what it's gonna do,
00:39:56.52\00:39:59.46
but it's blessed
the man in prison.
00:39:59.49\00:40:02.26
And now he's in a position
where he's advocating for us
00:40:02.30\00:40:06.63
to put 3ABN into
another whole prison.
00:40:06.67\00:40:09.57
Wow. Praise to God.
00:40:09.60\00:40:10.94
One other things it's important
and for anyone in ministry
00:40:10.97\00:40:13.44
and I put this on
the Blessings on the Go,
00:40:13.48\00:40:15.88
is that the mission
00:40:15.91\00:40:17.65
that you have to
stick with your mission.
00:40:17.68\00:40:19.61
When the Lord impressed us
00:40:19.65\00:40:20.98
to build a television
station to reach the world
00:40:21.02\00:40:23.15
with an undiluted
Three Angeles' Messages,
00:40:23.18\00:40:25.19
one would
counteract the counterfeit,
00:40:25.22\00:40:28.02
praise God that we
have stuck with that.
00:40:28.06\00:40:30.86
It's not just me, I'm
talking about our board members.
00:40:30.89\00:40:33.36
No one has ever
come on the board,
00:40:33.40\00:40:35.43
those who work with
the church, for the church,
00:40:35.46\00:40:38.03
those who are laymen to come on,
00:40:38.07\00:40:39.70
we all in one
accord, this is what so--
00:40:39.73\00:40:42.77
One other thing's I'm
happy to say over 30 years,
00:40:42.80\00:40:45.77
we've seen a lot of
changes in the world.
00:40:45.81\00:40:48.11
We've seen a lot of
changes in a lot of churches,
00:40:48.14\00:40:51.31
but hopefully you have noticed
00:40:51.35\00:40:54.15
the message of
3ABN is still the same.
00:40:54.18\00:40:55.95
Amen.
00:40:55.98\00:40:57.32
Because it's an
everlasting message,
00:40:57.35\00:40:59.15
but it's a message to give
00:40:59.19\00:41:00.79
to an end times message
for an end times people.
00:41:00.82\00:41:03.56
So what we've done
is we've concentrate,
00:41:03.59\00:41:06.23
we've centered in
on the truth and say,
00:41:06.26\00:41:09.56
you know, what, even
though the world is doing this
00:41:09.60\00:41:11.67
or even the
churches, a lot of churches
00:41:11.70\00:41:14.90
are going this direction
or that direction because--
00:41:14.94\00:41:17.74
we feel it always--
00:41:17.77\00:41:19.47
And I won't get down
to the down home deal,
00:41:19.51\00:41:21.88
but it always bothers
me that people do studies
00:41:21.91\00:41:24.71
and then on their
studies they figure out
00:41:24.75\00:41:26.85
a better way to reach people
than to tell them the truth.
00:41:26.88\00:41:29.48
Well, if we go around over here
we'll get more people come in.
00:41:29.52\00:41:33.05
We get over here we'll do that.
00:41:33.09\00:41:35.49
And then eventually we
hope they come around to get it.
00:41:35.52\00:41:38.53
When, since it's
not ours and we don't--
00:41:38.56\00:41:41.50
And Jesus says, you know,
00:41:41.53\00:41:42.86
that we're just
telling the truth.
00:41:42.90\00:41:44.23
"He's the way,
the truth, and life."
00:41:44.27\00:41:45.63
So when we just
give the straight message
00:41:45.67\00:41:47.97
then I feel like,
if people are ready
00:41:48.00\00:41:51.27
they are not gonna miss it.
00:41:51.31\00:41:52.64
If they are not ready,
00:41:52.67\00:41:54.01
I don't care which
directions you go to.
00:41:54.04\00:41:55.91
You can try all.
00:41:55.94\00:41:57.28
You can think
you're the smartest person
00:41:57.31\00:41:58.78
in the world.
00:41:58.81\00:42:00.15
You can study all the, you know,
00:42:00.18\00:42:01.85
ways to philosophize this thing
00:42:01.88\00:42:04.72
and you can do all
of this and you're not,
00:42:04.75\00:42:06.82
still not gonna reach them
because they are not ready.
00:42:06.86\00:42:09.02
So we have found that
when people want the truth,
00:42:09.06\00:42:12.03
miracles happen,
literally they are dishes,
00:42:12.06\00:42:14.10
C.A. knows, that
all of you know that,
00:42:14.13\00:42:15.93
dishes that were turned
that never got 3ABN get up.
00:42:15.96\00:42:19.33
The guy in Jamaica,
they hadn't watched us,
00:42:19.37\00:42:21.27
He's gonna kill
himself, it was dark,
00:42:21.30\00:42:23.47
knocks the remote
off and it turns on
00:42:23.51\00:42:26.27
and Mark Finely sitting
here at 3BN with us saying,
00:42:26.31\00:42:29.24
a friend of you
contemplating suicide, don't.
00:42:29.28\00:42:31.25
Those are miracles, folks.
Those are absolute miracles.
00:42:31.28\00:42:34.35
We don't need to go
study and somebody say,
00:42:34.38\00:42:36.18
well, I've done a study
and we need to do this, no.
00:42:36.22\00:42:38.59
Just tell the truth
00:42:38.62\00:42:40.09
and let the truth
land where it may,
00:42:40.12\00:42:42.22
on whom it may to accept it
whenever they are ready for it.
00:42:42.26\00:42:46.06
And that's what
I love about 3ABN.
00:42:46.09\00:42:47.60
Everyone of these
folks, no one of these folks
00:42:47.63\00:42:49.96
or our board
members have ever said,
00:42:50.00\00:42:51.50
you know, we really need to--
00:42:51.53\00:42:52.87
Everybody else is doing
this, so why don't we try this?
00:42:52.90\00:42:56.77
Am I telling the truth?
00:42:56.81\00:42:58.14
Yes, you are.
True, very much so.
00:42:58.17\00:42:59.51
Nobody here and none of our
board members have ever said,
00:42:59.54\00:43:01.98
well, I think we
should change the message up.
00:43:02.01\00:43:03.88
If we do a little
softer here or we go here,
00:43:03.91\00:43:07.18
more people will accept.
00:43:07.22\00:43:08.82
No one has done
it. We just preach it.
00:43:08.85\00:43:10.89
John Carter gets
up, he preaches it.
00:43:10.92\00:43:12.85
You know, whether it's
Doug Bachelor, he gets up.
00:43:12.89\00:43:14.89
Whether it's all
these folks, just preaching.
00:43:14.92\00:43:16.89
C.A. Murray,
Shelley, no matter who it is,
00:43:16.93\00:43:19.49
just preaching what we've
been preaching for 30 years.
00:43:19.53\00:43:22.26
and that's what's doing it.
00:43:22.30\00:43:23.63
It's the Holy Spirit
is blessing the message.
00:43:23.67\00:43:25.93
It's not the
messenger that's important,
00:43:25.97\00:43:28.40
it's the message.
00:43:28.44\00:43:29.90
And we understand that.
00:43:29.94\00:43:31.37
So that's why there's
no stars here at 3ABN.
00:43:31.41\00:43:34.18
We're family, just
like you are family.
00:43:34.21\00:43:36.75
All we're trying to
do is get the message
00:43:36.78\00:43:38.78
that God has
given us as a church
00:43:38.81\00:43:41.45
to give this message
to a lost anddying world.
00:43:41.48\00:43:43.75
And I'm amazed at how,
when we simply tell the truth,
00:43:43.79\00:43:47.79
again miracle after miracle.
00:43:47.82\00:43:49.16
Radio stations,
people call and say,
00:43:49.19\00:43:50.53
I'm getting your station.
00:43:50.56\00:43:51.89
There's not a radio
station in 100 miles.
00:43:51.93\00:43:53.60
How can you be getting this?
00:43:53.63\00:43:54.96
It's happened
over and over and over.
00:43:55.00\00:43:57.40
No, I see it on, you know,
this is, I get this channel.
00:43:57.43\00:44:00.37
Well, how could you?
There's nothing there.
00:44:00.40\00:44:02.54
But you know what?
00:44:02.57\00:44:03.91
God knows who's
ready and who isn't.
00:44:03.94\00:44:05.27
So when people are
ready for the truth,
00:44:05.31\00:44:07.51
then we don't want to be
giving them something else.
00:44:07.54\00:44:10.18
That's gonna deter them. Amen.
00:44:10.21\00:44:11.71
We want them to turn
on 3ABN and there it is.
00:44:11.75\00:44:14.72
And that I love it
00:44:14.75\00:44:16.42
and I'm so thankful that
I work with people who say,
00:44:16.45\00:44:19.65
you know what, we
want to give the truth,
00:44:19.69\00:44:21.02
we're not gonna compromise it,
00:44:21.06\00:44:22.39
we're not gonna
color it to be popular
00:44:22.42\00:44:24.16
because now a days
politics is even plays
00:44:24.19\00:44:27.83
a big part in too many churches.
00:44:27.86\00:44:30.00
So we want to do
anything to do with politics,
00:44:30.03\00:44:32.27
we just wanted to do with truth
00:44:32.30\00:44:33.84
and do what God
has called us to do.
00:44:33.87\00:44:35.54
And He's
honored. God is honored.
00:44:35.57\00:44:37.77
All of you and all of
you at home for supporting.
00:44:37.81\00:44:40.71
All of the folks that
we have on the preaching,
00:44:40.74\00:44:42.81
the teaching, the
ministries that is getting
00:44:42.84\00:44:45.15
the Three Angeles'
Messages to the world.
00:44:45.18\00:44:46.85
Thank you so much.
00:44:46.88\00:44:49.08
You know, Danny, not
everything we do is easy.
00:44:49.12\00:44:51.72
We had to do some
cutting here recently.
00:44:51.75\00:44:54.79
Our, our income has been...
00:44:54.82\00:44:56.76
Since this is the
State of the Union.
00:44:56.79\00:44:58.13
Yeah, that's all right.
00:44:58.16\00:44:59.49
Our income for the last 10 years
00:44:59.53\00:45:00.86
has been very
solid, very consistent,
00:45:00.90\00:45:03.06
very straight,
which we're blessed.
00:45:03.10\00:45:05.63
And we want to
thank you for that.
00:45:05.67\00:45:07.14
That's a real
blessing that you would
00:45:07.17\00:45:09.87
be so consistent,
so faithful to us.
00:45:09.90\00:45:12.57
But at the same time as
the income being steady,
00:45:12.61\00:45:15.08
we've seen our
expenses going up.
00:45:15.11\00:45:18.05
You think a
healthcare cost, just one item,
00:45:18.08\00:45:20.38
just, you know,
like a 100,000 in a year
00:45:20.42\00:45:22.65
could go up, you know.
00:45:22.68\00:45:24.12
And so we've had
to do some cutting.
00:45:24.15\00:45:26.86
And so one of the
areas we cut this year
00:45:26.89\00:45:29.29
was to shut off one
of those satellites.
00:45:29.32\00:45:31.99
And that was
hard decision to make.
00:45:32.03\00:45:33.96
I mean, that wasn't easy.
00:45:34.00\00:45:35.63
And that's the one
that goes to Europe.
00:45:35.66\00:45:38.10
But yet, then the
Lord had some other way
00:45:38.13\00:45:40.00
for us to solve that issue
00:45:40.04\00:45:41.47
and that's with the new
kind of box that Moses is...
00:45:41.50\00:45:44.97
Yeah.
00:45:45.01\00:45:46.34
The Roku boxes and my SDA
TV, people can still get it.
00:45:46.37\00:45:50.78
And anybody that did get
it, can if they do this so.
00:45:50.81\00:45:54.15
It really worked out
and it's $34,000 a month.
00:45:54.18\00:45:57.52
And yet, we
couldn't justify that
00:45:57.55\00:45:59.65
for the few people
that was reaching it,
00:45:59.69\00:46:01.39
that had the
dishes in those areas.
00:46:01.42\00:46:03.46
But now the churches...
00:46:03.49\00:46:05.33
The Hope Channel
did the same thing.
00:46:05.36\00:46:06.70
They went off of that.
00:46:06.73\00:46:08.06
They are promoting Roku
box and we've been doing it.
00:46:08.10\00:46:11.87
The Conference is over there.
00:46:11.90\00:46:13.40
So people are getting it
00:46:13.44\00:46:14.84
and now Moses got
his new my SDA Box.
00:46:14.87\00:46:17.24
and so God honored that.
00:46:17.27\00:46:18.74
So people are still
getting the message.
00:46:18.77\00:46:20.78
And they can
still get it online.
00:46:20.81\00:46:23.04
You can still get it
with your phones, your iPads,
00:46:23.08\00:46:25.88
there's so many way
you can get 3ABN now.
00:46:25.91\00:46:28.75
And I think satellite
is going out eventually,
00:46:28.78\00:46:31.52
I'd like to be
off of all of them
00:46:31.55\00:46:33.15
because there
are so many new ways
00:46:33.19\00:46:34.92
people can get us
without having to do
00:46:34.96\00:46:37.79
all of those satellite bills.
00:46:37.83\00:46:40.16
Yeah, with us SDA Box,
you know the hocus-pocus
00:46:40.20\00:46:43.43
that most of us
always has cooking up.
00:46:43.47\00:46:46.50
But that thing has
a potential reaching
00:46:46.53\00:46:48.54
you know far more
people than the satellite.
00:46:48.57\00:46:50.14
Yeah, absolutely.
00:46:50.17\00:46:51.51
Because more people are
in the internet, everyday.
00:46:51.54\00:46:54.18
And so that's...
00:46:54.21\00:46:55.54
I like to see how the Lord takes
00:46:55.58\00:46:57.31
one of those hard things
we did and He did blessed it.
00:46:57.35\00:46:59.95
you know, with
something else, so.
00:46:59.98\00:47:01.98
And Roku has, has
the name recognition now.
00:47:02.02\00:47:05.05
But when people
begin to understand
00:47:05.09\00:47:06.45
Danny, Shelley, Mollie, Brian,
00:47:06.49\00:47:08.09
the intricacies of
this,this, my SDA TV
00:47:08.12\00:47:11.59
and some of the
things that it can do
00:47:11.63\00:47:13.40
and features that it can do
that put it far in a way above.
00:47:13.43\00:47:17.23
What Roku can do. Yeah.
00:47:17.27\00:47:18.93
I think they will
be very much impressed
00:47:18.97\00:47:20.67
to get this box because
00:47:20.70\00:47:22.04
it's a fabulous
piece of technology.
00:47:22.07\00:47:25.07
And as I understand Moses
is gonna have three level.
00:47:25.11\00:47:27.88
Something like that. Yeah, sure.
00:47:27.91\00:47:29.24
And you know, and
Moses is a bright guy.
00:47:29.28\00:47:31.35
Yeah, he is. I'm
telling you the truth.
00:47:31.38\00:47:32.71
He is one smart cookie.
00:47:32.75\00:47:34.25
And he's always
thinking spiritual,
00:47:34.28\00:47:36.55
he's always thinking how
I can do this efficiently.
00:47:36.58\00:47:38.99
And sometimes he comes
with a pretty heavy price tag,
00:47:39.02\00:47:42.42
but on the backend of
that price tag is ministry
00:47:42.46\00:47:45.13
and somebody's life
is gonna be touched.
00:47:45.16\00:47:47.16
This year we had
to do some changes
00:47:47.20\00:47:48.70
and we didn't make,
00:47:48.73\00:47:50.07
begin to move into Digital
HD, we would be here now.
00:47:50.10\00:47:53.00
So we had to spend some money,
00:47:53.03\00:47:54.37
but it was all
again for ministry.
00:47:54.40\00:47:56.20
Right. Yeah.
00:47:56.24\00:47:57.57
You know I just
wanted to say one thing
00:47:57.61\00:47:58.94
because I know our
time is nearly out.
00:47:58.97\00:48:00.31
And to you at home who
are watching by television
00:48:00.34\00:48:04.21
or listening on the
radio or maybe on internet,
00:48:04.25\00:48:06.65
I just want to tell
you that we love you.
00:48:06.68\00:48:08.75
You know this is something that
00:48:08.78\00:48:11.12
we pray for all of our viewers
and our listener's everyday.
00:48:11.15\00:48:15.56
And we pray for those
who support this ministry.
00:48:15.59\00:48:18.66
We pray for all of
our callers everyday.
00:48:18.69\00:48:21.43
And we feel privileged
to be part of your team
00:48:21.46\00:48:25.53
because that's
how we feel is that
00:48:25.57\00:48:27.40
you're helping to
support this ministry.
00:48:27.44\00:48:29.74
So we're all team.
00:48:29.77\00:48:31.57
And brothers and
sisters in the Lord
00:48:31.61\00:48:34.44
and we just want to
say that we love you
00:48:34.48\00:48:36.95
and I just want to tell you,
00:48:36.98\00:48:38.61
we hope that you have
the most blessed Christmas
00:48:38.65\00:48:41.78
and a Happy New Year.
00:48:41.82\00:48:43.65
Amen.
00:48:43.69\00:48:45.05
C.A., we got about, what
four or five more minutes.
00:48:45.09\00:48:47.42
In a little bit I want to
have a prayer with our viewers.
00:48:47.46\00:48:49.92
And I also just
want to again thank you
00:48:49.96\00:48:52.33
for what you're doing,
all those who have joined
00:48:52.36\00:48:54.00
the Blessing on the Go.
00:48:54.03\00:48:55.36
Now some of you may be like me.
00:48:55.40\00:48:56.87
I didn't realize that I went in
00:48:56.90\00:48:58.70
when the first night we started
00:48:58.73\00:49:00.70
I did what I
thought was the right thing.
00:49:00.74\00:49:02.44
But I noticed, Brian,
two or three months later,
00:49:02.47\00:49:05.61
I'm getting the
evangelistic tool
00:49:05.64\00:49:07.48
but I haven't seen any
money come out of my account.
00:49:07.51\00:49:10.25
So I went to
Mollie or you and said,
00:49:10.28\00:49:13.01
I wonder if there's
other people like this
00:49:13.05\00:49:14.85
and it turns out that
maybe a couple of hundred
00:49:14.88\00:49:16.48
other people or something.
00:49:16.52\00:49:17.85
You may be one of those.
00:49:17.89\00:49:19.22
So you may want to go back,
00:49:19.25\00:49:20.59
if you're getting
this evangelistic tool,
00:49:20.62\00:49:23.43
what we do is we've
actually setting it up,
00:49:23.46\00:49:25.23
so when people aren't
giving we can't continue,
00:49:25.26\00:49:27.83
of course, it's
costly to do that.
00:49:27.86\00:49:29.86
So we want to make sure
that if you're one of those
00:49:29.90\00:49:32.17
that accidentally aren't
thought you're giving monthly
00:49:32.20\00:49:35.70
and you are
not, than you go back
00:49:35.74\00:49:37.64
and look at it again
say, say you know what,
00:49:37.67\00:49:39.67
I need to make
this, make this up,
00:49:39.71\00:49:42.01
either it's to say
I don't want to do it
00:49:42.04\00:49:44.11
or I do want to do it.
00:49:44.15\00:49:45.55
But I think there's a
lot of folk just like me
00:49:45.58\00:49:47.78
so I was sitting there thinking,
00:49:47.82\00:49:49.98
oh, wait a minute
I'm not, where is that.
00:49:50.02\00:49:51.95
I'm not even missing
that money and then it's like,
00:49:51.99\00:49:53.76
no it's not being
coming out of my account.
00:49:53.79\00:49:55.56
And I thought it was
coming out of Paypal.
00:49:55.59\00:49:57.69
So I'm correcting
that, just so you all know,
00:49:57.73\00:50:00.30
you can keep sending me
the Blessing on the Go tools
00:50:00.33\00:50:03.73
because I'm correcting that.
00:50:03.77\00:50:05.10
But there's folks
like that at home,
00:50:05.13\00:50:06.47
we look through Mollie.
00:50:06.50\00:50:07.84
You found quite a few.
00:50:07.87\00:50:09.20
So we're asking
you if you're not sure
00:50:09.24\00:50:10.64
maybe go back and look.
00:50:10.67\00:50:12.01
Make sure you've
pushed on the monthly button
00:50:12.04\00:50:14.08
so it automatically comes out,
00:50:14.11\00:50:15.74
that's the easiest
way not to forget it.
00:50:15.78\00:50:17.31
Yeah, that very last step,
00:50:17.35\00:50:19.48
I think several people probably
just didn't see the last step
00:50:19.51\00:50:23.69
which I believe
it's their recurrent.
00:50:23.72\00:50:25.92
And so that you
have to press on that
00:50:25.95\00:50:28.06
and then every month
your donation will come out
00:50:28.09\00:50:30.93
and then everything will just be
00:50:30.96\00:50:33.03
work like clock work for you.
00:50:33.06\00:50:34.46
And I also wanted to
say that we are now sending
00:50:34.50\00:50:37.47
with each event,
Go Evangelistic Tool.
00:50:37.50\00:50:40.44
We are sending
three 3ABN share cards
00:50:40.47\00:50:44.51
so this is just
shows ways to watch 3ABN,
00:50:44.54\00:50:48.21
ways to get 3ABN.
00:50:48.24\00:50:49.58
So we want to
encourage all of our
00:50:49.61\00:50:51.71
Go Evangelistic team
members to share the share cards
00:50:51.75\00:50:55.28
so that people will
know how they can get 3ABN.
00:50:55.32\00:50:57.72
Now let's remind them quickly
00:50:57.75\00:50:59.09
also that we are
thinking about adding
00:50:59.12\00:51:00.82
a day tour camp
meeting next year
00:51:00.86\00:51:02.49
just for Go
Evangelism Team purpose.
00:51:02.52\00:51:04.89
Which I think
is really exciting.
00:51:04.93\00:51:06.29
Yes, this is gonna be a team.
00:51:06.33\00:51:08.63
It's going to be
evangelism training
00:51:08.66\00:51:11.23
and we're gonna be
brining a number of people to,
00:51:11.27\00:51:14.07
to talk about various
ways and avenues of evangelism.
00:51:14.10\00:51:17.31
And just for all the
blessing on the go team members.
00:51:17.34\00:51:19.81
All just for go...
To help us, all right.
00:51:19.84\00:51:22.28
Encourage us and to
teach us how to go forward.
00:51:22.31\00:51:24.48
What we like to do, we'll go
to newsbreak in a little break.
00:51:24.51\00:51:26.72
But we're gonna have a prayer.
00:51:26.75\00:51:28.48
And maybe
00:51:28.52\00:51:29.85
a, well, that the birthday
boy is still recent enough.
00:51:29.88\00:51:32.49
Maybe we can have you say
00:51:32.52\00:51:33.86
a special
prayer for our viewers,
00:51:33.89\00:51:35.69
then we also want to put up on
the screen, our 3ABN addresses.
00:51:35.72\00:51:39.56
We go to newsbreak.
00:51:39.59\00:51:40.93
So if the Holy Spirit is
impressing you to support
00:51:40.96\00:51:43.67
this ministry you may do so.
00:51:43.70\00:51:45.83
Would you lead us
in the prayer, C.A.?
00:51:45.87\00:51:47.24
Well, take my
hand, All right. Shelley.
00:51:47.27\00:51:50.44
Gracious Father, we
join our hands together
00:51:50.47\00:51:53.88
even as the spirit has
joined our hearts together.
00:51:53.91\00:51:56.75
We're united in a common cause
00:51:56.78\00:51:59.61
that is the cause of
lifting up the mighty
00:51:59.65\00:52:02.02
and matchless name of Jesus.
00:52:02.05\00:52:03.92
Father, it is the greatest
work ever entrusted to the frail
00:52:03.95\00:52:06.86
and feeble
hands of men and women
00:52:06.89\00:52:08.76
and we realize
that we could not do
00:52:08.79\00:52:10.46
what we're called to do without
the help, the love,the support
00:52:10.49\00:52:14.03
of the thousands of
people around the world
00:52:14.06\00:52:16.23
who bless us with
their financial gifts
00:52:16.26\00:52:18.50
each and every
week, each and every day
00:52:18.53\00:52:21.14
and each and every month.
00:52:21.17\00:52:22.50
Lord, we thank You for
them. We praise You for them.
00:52:22.54\00:52:25.44
We ask, Lord, that You
will continue to bless them
00:52:25.47\00:52:28.21
so that they can
bless this ministry.
00:52:28.24\00:52:30.18
We ask that You would
unite this team together
00:52:30.21\00:52:32.95
in a very special
bond of love and labor
00:52:32.98\00:52:36.52
so that the word of
Christ can go to the darkest
00:52:36.55\00:52:40.79
corners of this earth,
letting men and women know that
00:52:40.82\00:52:43.59
soon and very
soon Jesus is coming.
00:52:43.63\00:52:46.83
Bless us, Father.
00:52:46.86\00:52:48.20
Keep our hearts united
even as our hands are united.
00:52:48.23\00:52:52.30
And for the
millions around the world
00:52:52.33\00:52:53.87
who we symbolically hold
their hands also, Father.
00:52:53.90\00:52:57.14
May we lift up each others hands
00:52:57.17\00:52:59.17
as we lift up the name of Jesus.
00:52:59.21\00:53:00.88
We thank You,
Father, for this ministry
00:53:00.91\00:53:03.31
and for the call to
leave no stone unturned
00:53:03.35\00:53:06.41
in the salvation
of men and women.
00:53:06.45\00:53:08.78
We praise You,
Lord, and we thank You
00:53:08.82\00:53:10.62
and we pledge now to
serve you in the future
00:53:10.65\00:53:12.99
even as You have blessed
us to serve You in the past.
00:53:13.02\00:53:15.66
We love You, Lord, we praise You
00:53:15.69\00:53:17.53
and we thank You
in Jesus name, amen.
00:53:17.56\00:53:20.10
Amen. Amen. Amen.
00:53:20.13\00:53:21.46