Participants: C. A. Murray (Host), Danny Shelton (Host), Brian Hamilton, Mollie Steenson, Shelley Quinn
Series Code: TDY
Program Code: TDY015092A
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Removing pain 00:23 Lord, let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:45 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:07 Hello, and welcome to a very special 3ABN Today program. 01:11 Well, this is a two hour program. 01:12 We would call it "Behind The Scenes." 01:14 Well, since it is not, we can not. 01:16 So we don't quite know what to call it, 01:17 but we call it something as the program short of ending. 01:19 We'll call it Year End, right. Okay, Year End. 01:21 It's a Year End State of the Union may be, I don't know. 01:23 Indeed. State of the Ministry. 01:24 I am in the presence of the articulate and effervescent, 01:27 Shelley Quinn. 01:28 Oh. Thank you. 01:29 The attractive and efficient Mollie Steenson. 01:31 The erudite and understated Brian Hamilton... 01:33 All right. I love it. 01:35 The efficacious and outstanding Danny Shelton and me. 01:38 I've no idea what he said. I hope... 01:39 I don't know whether to be happy or upset at him, do you? 01:42 He knows words. 01:44 He even knows how to use them in sentences 01:46 and how to spell them, 01:47 that you have never even heard of. 01:49 Oh, no, I've never even heard of those, 01:50 but they sounded okay. 01:51 Well, praise the Lord. So I think we're all happy. 01:53 Yeah, we're happy. We're all happy about it. 01:54 We're happy. 01:55 We're coming down to the end of the year. 01:57 We're in the last month of the year 01:59 and it has been an exciting year, Brother Shelton. 02:00 Absolutely. 02:02 And just recently Dr. C.A. Murray 02:04 had a birthday here. 02:05 We probably should sing happy birthday to you. 02:07 We already did, but for the folks at home, 02:10 they can sing happy birthday to you. 02:12 So we just want to tell you, we love you, we appreciate you, 02:15 and I look at you as my older brother now, 02:17 since we just switched... 02:18 We were the same age most of the year, 02:20 but he's ahead of me right now. 02:22 So, I've always looked up to you. 02:26 And Mollie's got one coming up in a next a little bit too. 02:28 She is a December person. I certainly have. 02:29 Okay. 02:31 Yeah, there are a lot of December people here at 3ABN. 02:33 Yeah. All right. And... 02:35 Well, you know, you don't feel any older... 02:38 Not today. The Lord... 02:39 Not today, no. 02:41 And the Lord keeps you young. 02:42 And as Shelley was just saying, I don't want to be old 02:44 and fabby was that Mollie? 02:46 Oh, it was me. I don't mind getting old. 02:48 I just don't get old and bitter. 02:50 Oh, there you go. Absolutely. 02:52 And when Jesus in your heart that should stop that, 02:54 that's the only... 02:56 That's the only way to do that, right. 02:58 And the Lord gives us such good news, Danny, that, it... 03:00 Even if you entertain the thought of being bitter, 03:03 you come to work here, you see a Shelley Quinn, 03:04 you see a Mollie Steenson, you see a Brian Hamilton, 03:07 you see a Danny Shelton 03:08 and it kind of makes your day go pretty easy. 03:09 That is true. 03:11 You know I had a lot of people talk to us 03:13 and we got lots of calls on the Thanksgiving program. 03:17 And there was about 18 of us there 03:18 and Shelley you and J.D. were in Israel. 03:20 Sorry that you missed it. We were too. 03:22 But we had a wonderful time together and people keep saying 03:25 as you said that they have said to you. 03:27 You people really look like you like each other. 03:30 I mean, you really are very friendly, you're very open. 03:33 I had someone called me from way on the east coast 03:37 and they have been here a couple of times to visit, 03:39 but they said, we are so amazed 03:41 that we can tell when people 03:43 really enjoy each others presence. 03:44 We can tell when you are happy, 03:46 but they say when we're at 3ABN, 03:47 we get treated so well by everybody, 03:50 no matter who it is and what position they have. 03:53 And I said really that's the way it should be. 03:54 But you know, we don't take that for granted. 03:57 I don't in the position I am. 03:58 I'm thankful that God has brought us literally 04:01 all of us a team and you at home, 04:04 those of our team members who pray for us, 04:06 those who have joined the Blessing on the Go, 04:08 those who just been giving for years with no credit. 04:11 And, and praying for years with no credit back to you. 04:15 Thank you for what you do, 04:16 but we have a wonderful team here 04:19 and I praise God that the atmosphere is good 04:22 and we're happy. 04:24 People come in and you hear a lot of laughter in the halls 04:26 and people say, how can you be so serious, 04:29 things must be going well, financially you must be... 04:32 Brian, you must be rolling in the money, 04:33 but we know that's not true. 04:35 And it's always a struggle. 04:36 It's especially been a struggle the last couple of years, 04:39 financially, to really, to stay 04:41 and try to keep the head above the water. 04:43 And sometimes we've been spending more money 04:45 than we take in. 04:46 So we're being honest with you about that. 04:48 But you know what? 04:49 "God supplies all of our needs 04:51 according to His riches and glory through Christ Jesus." 04:54 And He's been doing it through you. 04:55 Brian will tell us a little bit later on, 04:57 but the last few months, 04:58 we've seen our donations coming back up 05:01 and we're cutting expenses because we're determined 05:04 that this is God's ministry and I said in the beginning 05:07 that I don't want to beg and don't want to borrow 05:10 and so we want to go to that and say, you know, what, 05:12 we want to totally have no debt, we want to-- Brian, 05:16 and when we go forward we're not going to beg for money, 05:18 but we make our needs known from time to time. 05:20 So this is year end. 05:21 And so appreciate you right now thinking about what the Lord 05:25 would have you to do. 05:26 Some of you can give, yeah, this year. 05:28 You are saying, Lord, what should I do with my resources? 05:32 Well, please pray and ask about donating here at 3ABN. 05:36 Some of you're saying, we've just given this year, 05:39 but in January, so ask the Lord 05:41 what He would have you to do something special for 3ABN. 05:45 All of this is not for us. 05:47 We're not getting raises from it. 05:49 All we're doing is trying to get this gospel of the kingdom 05:52 into all the world. 05:53 And there are so many 05:54 communication highways opening up, 05:56 that is just mind-boggling to some of us, 05:59 that the doors that God has opened. 06:01 Thirty years ago, Brian, I would have dreamed 06:03 I can pick my phone right now, an iPhone that I haven't have, 06:06 some might have Androids and watch 3ABN 06:08 anywhere in the world. 06:09 I mean, that's Dick Tracy stuff, right? 06:11 When your kids, some of you old enough know, 06:13 remember Dick Tracy when we're kids and had to watch. 06:16 And I haven't have one of those watches now, 06:18 but I still have my $27 Timex because I figuring out 06:21 how to use that smart watch that you can talk 06:24 and make phone calls too. 06:25 It's a great watch. 06:26 It's just a little smart for me right now. 06:28 So, but what I'm saying is, here it is, the end of year, 06:32 after 31 years we're still going, Brian. 06:34 Mollie, we're still... 06:36 We haven't had to go off the air. 06:38 We're still growing. 06:39 We've gone, equipment the last several years. 06:42 Gone from technology, that's hi-def equipment. 06:45 I mean, studios, every thing that we've needed, 06:48 God has supplied the needs He's done that through you. 06:51 So this is a time for us to say a big thank you. 06:54 I'm sure some of the rest of you all 06:57 will want to say the same thing. 06:58 And thank the folks, for what you're doing. 07:00 But, from me thank you so much 07:02 for what you're doing for the cause of God. 07:03 So we got a good program. 07:05 It's just not a planned one as usual. 07:07 But back to the point again, we do love each other 07:10 because there's a great amount of respect for the folk 07:13 that we work with here. 07:14 Not just the ones you see on camera, 07:16 but those that's behind the scenes working. 07:19 We've done numerous new Christmas programs. 07:21 We've got people, they are putting hundred of hours 07:24 and a lot of folk working overtime. 07:26 Some of these are salary people. 07:28 They don't get the extra pay but they say, you know what, 07:30 if works got to be done we're doing it. 07:32 So they are people that you will never meet on this earth, 07:35 right here at 3ABN, and maybe behind the cameras, 07:37 in the production rooms, could be out just, 07:40 just to serving in other areas, in the call center, 07:43 the sound center, but we're all on the same team. 07:46 Thank you for joining with us 07:48 as we take the undiluted Three Angels' Messages. 07:51 One would counteract the counterfeit into all the world. 07:54 You know, Danny, when our viewing analyst and audience 07:58 becomes part of the go team or sends a donation in, 08:01 they really are entering into a family. 08:04 And we function as a family. 08:08 Someone asked me, just last week in Buffalo, 08:09 talking about you. 08:11 They said, "Do you like that guy?" 08:12 I said, yeah, I do. I really... 08:14 Why are people always asking that, Brian? 08:16 Everywhere they go, they are always asking that. 08:18 I said, he's a genuine deal. 08:20 And you look at the-- our "guests" here. 08:24 We get along well. There's no fighting. 08:26 You know people fighting to get on air. 08:28 In fact, we fight to get out of this chair, 08:30 because it is chair, we're just like, "You want the chair?" 08:32 "No, I don't want." "You want it?" 08:33 That kind of thing. 08:34 So when you become part of the 3ABN team, 08:37 you really join a family unit of people 08:39 who genuinely like each other 08:41 and who generally love the Lord. 08:43 And television is a stressful thing. 08:44 There's no way to get around it. 08:46 And yet, it is made so much better 08:47 because you're dealing with people 08:49 who love Christ and who... 08:51 If they occasionally make a mistake 08:53 and sort of run out of their lane, 08:54 they are quick to say I'm sorry and we press on. 08:56 That's how Christians work together. 08:58 So this is a family unit. 09:00 It is a family and it's a great place to come to work 09:02 and to come to praise the Lord. 09:04 You know something that I thought we might need to 09:06 kind of express to our viewers is, 09:09 we don't have any on-air personalities here at 3ABN. 09:13 We have employees that go on the air 09:17 and present programs and so forth. 09:19 What everyone of us did before we came out here, 09:23 was we got up from our desk where we had been working, 09:26 been in meetings, this things run all morning long, 09:29 taking care of business. 09:30 Brain is taking care of the finances. 09:32 Shelley is working with other people 09:35 that want to do new programs. 09:37 C.A. is the general manager 09:41 of our Proclaim Network and he's a producer. 09:45 Danny is busy all the time. 09:47 So what we do is that hopefully 09:50 give us at least a days warning, 09:52 so we can fix our hair, you know, 09:54 or put on--you know. 09:55 Oh, no. Except for C.A. 09:57 And so that we'll know oh, 10:00 we're gonna be doing a program tomorrow. 10:02 So we get prepared, 10:04 but we come into work at 7.30 in the morning 10:06 and we work till it's time to get up from our desk, 10:09 come out here and, and talk to you because we love you 10:13 and we want to be a part of your lives. 10:15 But we are workers here at 3ABN. 10:17 I think, I said this sometime ago. 10:19 We don't have any queen bees at 3ABN. 10:22 We have nothing but worker bees. 10:24 And so that's what we are. That's true. That's true. 10:28 You know, I love the fact that you said that, 10:30 you made the deal with the Lord 10:32 that you didn't ever want to have to beg for money. 10:34 And I am so excited and you guys know 10:38 that how my enthusiasm has been bubbling over. 10:42 I'm so excited that the Lord gave you the vision of a way 10:46 to increase the financial base for 3ABN. 10:50 But it's not begging for money, it's actually we are... 10:53 God, when He gave you this vision, 10:55 He also gave it where it would benefit our viewers 11:00 and that is the Go Evangelistic Team. 11:03 The Blessing is on the Go Evangelistic team. 11:06 And I'm so excited to say that right now 11:08 we have nearly 2,000 people. 11:11 And just these short months, 11:13 it would just barely gaining traction. 11:16 And it is so exciting to see how... 11:20 Well, your God is honoring your deal. 11:22 I never want to have to beg for money. 11:24 So what does He do? 11:25 He gives you a vision, a plan, a movement 11:28 to get His people off their pews, 11:32 out of the pews 11:33 and really doing something that's so simple, 11:36 to just share with friends or neighbors 11:38 and to support evangelism around the world. 11:40 And there are somebody isn't familiar, 11:42 they are just tuning in. 11:44 Quickly how does it work? Oh, okay, yeah. 11:46 Well, I just assumed that everybody, our living breed, 11:49 the Go Evangelistic Team. 11:50 So what this vision is, is that, when you... 11:57 You joined with us to become a Go Evangelistic Team member. 12:02 Danny has been saying for years. 12:04 "The Blessing is on the Go." 12:06 And God gave him this idea that what you do is register. 12:10 You can go to our 3ABN.TV, our website and click on the banner 12:16 and you can register to become an Evangelistic Team member. 12:21 And if you are part of the Go Evangelistic team, 12:24 you're making a recurring monthly donation to 3ABN 12:29 and you're supporting evangelism around the world. 12:33 And we're gonna be having some huge public evangelism, 12:36 in addition to our television and radio. 12:38 But then also we send you every month an evangelistic tool. 12:43 It could be a Bible study, it could be a music CD or DVD, 12:47 a sermon on DVD, or book. 12:50 And it's something you can share with your friends 12:54 or your family and your neighbors. 12:55 Something so simple. 12:57 Anyone from 9 to 90 can do this 12:59 because not everybody can get up 13:01 and stand in front of a group and speak 13:03 or maybe you're not comfortable leading a Bible study. 13:06 But you can share a tool, it's just a friendship evangelism. 13:11 And you know, evangelism is not an event, it's a way of life. 13:15 And so this is what we're doing. 13:18 And then as you are... 13:20 When you do register, you get a certificate, 13:22 a beautiful certificate to say 13:23 that you are part of 3ABN's Go Evangelistic team. 13:28 And you get Danny Shelton's book, 13:31 the "Blessing Is on the Go" which, Danny, 13:33 so many people are saying, are inspiring them. 13:36 You know, even... Oh, praise the Lord. 13:38 I mean, I'm getting so many reports of people 13:40 who are saying, 13:41 this has inspired me to recognize. 13:43 Time is short, we've got to do something. 13:46 But, we're just so excited for those of you 13:49 who have joined us 13:50 and we pray for our 13:52 Go Evangelistic Team members everyday. 13:54 But, I'm praying that God... 13:58 This is not a program, it's a movement of God. 14:03 And I feel that everything that we've done for 31 years, 14:06 to get all of this place is just so that God can reach out, 14:11 tap you on the shoulder and say, get involved. 14:14 And I'm just so excited that it's really gets traction. 14:19 I can't wait to see what the Lord is going to do with this. 14:22 We had a General Conference person here 14:24 just a couple of days ago, in your office 14:26 and you were sharing the nuts and bolts of this. 14:29 And he didn't have to sell it, 14:31 he just said this is what we're trying to do. 14:33 And this person is right up there in a General Conference 14:36 and said, that's a God thing, that's... 14:37 Absolutely. 14:39 Man, that's something off the court... 14:40 So much so he said, I'm gonna take this back. 14:42 I'm gonna take it and do it. 14:44 To this at the General Conference level for a project 14:47 that I have going and I said help yourself. 14:49 Yeah, he said I'm gonna borrow it, that borrow it, 14:51 I'm gonna tell him to steal it, I'm taking it. 14:52 Yeah, he said, I'm gonna take it. 14:54 But he told just like it's not stealing. 14:55 No, no, no, I've said, hey, you know, 14:57 there's enough pies in refrigerator, 14:59 we just got to open the door, 15:00 there's a lot more refrigerators. 15:01 So anything that we come up with that help somebody else 15:04 we're happy about it 15:05 because the Lord will impress people 15:07 where there supposed to give. 15:09 Some folk are supposed to give here 15:10 and some will give to what he's doing 15:11 and we praise the Lord for that 15:13 because people are giving, souls are being won. 15:15 And so, you know, that's just the way it is 15:17 and that's the way we have to understand. 15:19 We don't own anything. 15:20 Everything we have is, is the Lord's. 15:22 He allows us to be caretakers for a while. 15:25 But sometimes that can be 15:26 a very difficult responsibility. 15:30 Juggling, doing things to say, how am I gonna make this work. 15:33 And Brain knows that because I'm talking about you actually. 15:36 You're in a very difficult position 15:38 because you know what the needs are 15:40 and yet you sometimes see what's coming 15:42 and so you have to say, well, folks, 15:44 now this month I know you want to do this, 15:46 but can you slow down a little, 15:48 let me pay that, then we go on there. 15:50 But somehow it's been working and we've seen some great-- 15:54 in the last few months, some results, aren't we? 15:56 Yes. 15:57 For some years a couple...Two or three years now 16:01 we've seen a slide in the number of donors giving 16:07 that it was concerning us. 16:08 Yes. 16:10 And, and that's where the Lord kind of impressed you 16:13 I believe that, 16:15 that the problem was really evangelism. 16:17 We weren't about being evangelistic. 16:20 We were about producing programs and good programs, 16:23 quality programs. 16:25 But we hadn't really... 16:26 We lost our emphasis on evangelism. 16:30 So as we've refocused on evangelism, 16:32 we've seen the number of donors increasing 16:35 and that's broadening our base. 16:37 That was one of the pieces of the puzzle 16:39 that we needed to change. 16:42 And the Lord is blessing on that. 16:43 So we've seen that graph now going up which is great to see. 16:49 C.A., you know, pastors have these stewardship sermons 16:53 every once in a while, right? 16:55 Once a year, at least you... At least once in a year. 16:57 The conference, you know, it says, hey, 16:58 you got to go have stewardship sermon 17:00 and in those sermons we talk about the treasure 17:02 that the Lord is giving us. 17:05 The Lord is giving us the treasure of time, 17:08 talent, and means. 17:10 And that's our treasure that He has given to us. 17:13 And just this week since I had to put this together 17:17 a few spots on stewardship and that type of thing, 17:20 I was assigned at. 17:24 It hit me, we're talking about time, talents, and means. 17:29 That's going and doing and giving. 17:34 That's right. 17:35 The blessing comes from the going and the doing 17:40 and the giving. 17:41 And we've seen our viewers come up to the plate on that. 17:45 And so we're blessed, but I believe our viewers 17:48 are going to be blessed even more. 17:49 Absolutely. Yeah. 17:50 You know, what? I've to say... 17:52 I agree with you there because when you think about this... 17:56 When God created us and when He created life, 17:59 He instilled in every living organism, 18:02 the capability of reproduction. 18:04 And the law of life demands reproduction. 18:08 If a species is not reproducing, 18:11 they are going to become extinct. 18:13 Well, that applies in the spiritual level, 18:15 as in spiritual level as well. 18:18 If we do not share our faith with somebody, 18:22 it's kind of like our faith just becomes dead faith, 18:25 we've got to share. 18:27 And if our churches are not growing, 18:29 if your church isn't growing, if it's just maintaining, 18:33 it's on the verge of becoming extinct, as people die off. 18:37 So when Jesus said to us in Matthew 28 18:41 that we are to go into all the world 18:43 and share this gospel with the, you know, 18:47 fulfill this great commission 18:48 by sharing the gospel with all these nations, 18:51 I believe that His underlying motivation 18:55 was because He knew, the reason God chooses us, 18:58 He could finish the work by Himself, 19:01 but the reason God chose us to be part of this work, 19:04 to go and to share, is because He knew, 19:06 that's what would keep us spiritually alive 19:09 and that's how our churches will grow. 19:11 Yeah. Here's what you tapped into. 19:14 There is an irrevocable law, it can not be changed, 19:17 it can not gain said, that when you step out an evangelism 19:21 and directly involve yourself in the work of the Lord, 19:24 two things happen, one, your finances stabilize, 19:27 any church, any person, once you begin doing that. 19:29 And two, your spirituality soars, 19:31 which is why Shelley has gotten so, so infective, 19:35 infected and is infecting all of us 19:37 because one, your money is gonna stabilize. 19:41 God's not gonna put you in a hole 19:43 and then your spirituality is gonna just zoom. 19:47 And, so I have to quote, what Shelley was saying, 19:50 if your church is lagging or flagging, 19:54 if your own spirituality is dipping or dying, 19:57 then buy into this, if I can use that terminology... 20:00 Yeah, sure. 20:01 You really want to get on board on this, 20:03 two things will happen. 20:04 And we're not preaching a prosperity kind of thing. 20:05 We are just saying this is a law 20:07 that God has put in place. 20:08 One, if you stand up for Him, He's gonna stand up for you. 20:11 So your finances are gonna stabilize 20:13 and your spirituality is gonna soar, 20:15 that's gonna happen. 20:17 And if you try God, He will prove Himself faithful, 20:20 that's sort of a whole Malachi 3 thing is about. 20:23 That if you give to Him, God will give to you, 20:25 press down and running over. 20:27 That's God's promise 20:28 and you will find that it's true to your word. 20:29 That's why we're so excited. 20:31 We're walking around grinning, you know, 20:32 because God is doing something marvelous here 20:35 and we are infected 20:37 and want to infect the whole world. 20:39 You know, you're speaking the biblical principle, 20:42 "You reap what you sow." 20:44 Now that's a biblical principle. 20:45 What happens when you go to put 20:47 a biblical principle into operation? 20:49 You get a biblical result. Precisely. 20:51 And if you put a negative principle 20:53 in operation, 20:55 you're gonna get a negative result. 20:56 And you reap what you sow. 20:58 So as you sow-- 20:59 and I just want to tell you 3ABN is good ground. 21:03 This is good ground. 21:04 This is good soil. Well said, Mollie. Yes. 21:06 And as you sow into 3ABN, you're gonna reap what you sow. 21:10 You know, I was thinking earlier, 21:13 of the letters, of the emails, of the phone calls, 21:17 that we receive in this ministry, 21:19 every single day of people 21:22 that make Jesus Christ the Lord of their life. 21:24 Come out of darkness and come into light, 21:27 that here the end-time truths that God has entrusted 21:31 to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. 21:33 God has entrusted this church with inside end time truths 21:38 and it's our responsibility to share them. 21:40 And as we share, people hear them 21:42 and they are coming into greater knowledge 21:44 of homes that have been healed, 21:46 of people that have been delivered, 21:48 of children who have comeback to the Lord. 21:51 This is the fruit of the ministry of 3ABN. 21:55 This is what you're sowing into 21:57 and, C.A., I don't think that we've told you this. 22:00 But just this week, I believe it was yesterday, 22:03 the lady from our call center, her name is Marilyn Durante, 22:07 she's the assistant manager at the call center. 22:09 She came over and said, Mollie, we got a phone call, 22:14 last Thursday night during the live 22:17 and this gentleman called and he said, 22:19 I want to thank 3ABN. 22:21 I had the gun in my hand. Oh. 22:24 I had the gun in my hand and, 22:27 and I started listening to the program 22:30 and C.A., you were hosting it. 22:32 And I just want you to know that I've put the gun down. 22:37 You all saved my life today. He didn't give us his name. 22:41 We don't have any information on, 22:43 but that, that is the soil that you are sowing into 22:48 when you sow into 3ABN, 22:50 that's where you're gonna reap what you sow. 22:52 And you know, when we were in Israel, 22:54 there were several people on the tour there 22:56 who grew up Adventist, left the church, 22:59 but because of 3ABN they came back into the church. 23:04 And we see that on almost a daily basis. 23:08 Our pastoral is getting calls 23:10 of people who grew up in the church, 23:12 left the church, 23:14 but have comeback into the church 23:15 from watching us, so. 23:16 You know, we look at Galatians 6:7 23:18 which is a text that you're alluded to, Mollie, 23:20 about sowing and reaping in a negative context. 23:22 If you live a bad life you're gonna have bad result. 23:24 But, the biblical principle is either way. 23:27 You know, because of the way 23:28 that if you put out positive things 23:30 and live a positive life 23:31 and surrender yourself to Christ 23:33 then good things are gonna happen. 23:35 You know, Christ things are gonna happen. 23:36 And that's what we've been, 23:38 you know, I had a teacher who said, 23:39 you know you got to be stupid enough 23:41 to serve the Lord. 23:43 You know, that scripture has may be been abused at times. 23:48 You know my frame of reference and I've seen it abused, 23:51 but it still a biblical principle. 23:53 If you-- and it's the natural principle. 23:55 If you sow corn, what you're gonna get? 23:57 Yeah, a corn. 23:58 Sow tomato seeds, what you're gonna get? 24:01 If you sow finances, it is a biblical principle. 24:06 And you don't give to get 24:08 because once that's your motive, 24:09 you've just negated the biblical principle. 24:13 But there is biblical principle involved. 24:15 And if you line yourself up with God's word 24:18 then the windows of heaven are opened up to you 24:20 and blessings are poured out 24:22 that you won't be able to receive. 24:23 That's biblical principle. 24:25 You know I forgot my Bible, it's in the car actually. 24:28 But, I wrote down two scriptures 24:30 before I came down here 24:32 and I just would like to do those really quickly. 24:33 Luke 6:38, you've already briefly mentioned this. 24:37 But, it's a law of reciprocity 24:39 where God says, give-- Jesus says 24:41 "Give, and it will be given to you good measure, 24:44 pressed down, shaken together and running over, 24:46 will be poured into your bosom. 24:47 For with the same measure you use, 24:50 it will be measured back to you." 24:51 So there is that law of reciprocity, 24:54 but I love how Paul says and this kind of ties into 24:58 what you were saying in 2 Corinthians 9. 25:01 He says, "He who sows sparingly also reap sparingly. 25:05 He who sows bountifully reaps bountifully." 25:08 And we are good soil. 25:10 There is a bounty of our harvest 25:12 when you sow into it. 25:14 But here's what he says. 25:16 "Let each one as he purposes in his heart, 25:19 give not grudgingly or of necessity; 25:21 for God loves a cheerful giver. 25:24 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, 25:27 that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, 25:33 may have an abundance for every good work." 25:35 So there is this spiritual principle 25:38 that God sees and I forget, maybe you recall, 25:42 but there is a man that was here on 3ABN. 25:45 And he said, he started giving 90 percent of his income, 25:50 his business became very successful. 25:52 He was giving 90 percent of his income 25:54 to the Lord's work. 25:56 And he said, it was like I was putting in and out 25:59 a shuffle full at a time 26:01 and God was coming in like with the bulldozer, 26:04 dumping the blessings in on me. 26:06 So there is that blessing, that is a biblical principle. 26:09 You remember Charlie Clark? 26:12 Well, he did with-- 26:13 Tell the people 26:14 what Charlie Clark did with his popcorn patch. 26:16 Yeah, that was years ago. 26:18 Charlie had some property. He was still in Nebraska. 26:20 They have been here for a number of years, 26:22 moved here with their family. 26:23 But Charlie is a farmer and have, 26:25 I think 3,000 acres something like that. 26:27 But somewhere on his property, 26:28 I think it's fairly close to his house, Brian. 26:31 He had some property there 26:32 that just wouldn't seem to grow anything. 26:33 And he tried to grow things that just wouldn't happen. 26:36 So finally he said, you know, what, I've tried popcorn, 26:39 I've tried this, I've tried that, 26:40 I'm gonna put out popcorn this year 26:42 and Lord this is yours, 26:44 whatever comes out of this I'll give it to you. 26:46 He had the best crop that he didn't ever have. 26:48 According to Charlie, this thing grow 26:50 and literally I think proprietor 26:51 or somebody was buying it and it just amazed him, 26:55 the same, you know, Nebraska is sandy soil up there, 26:58 but some of his better than others. 26:59 And he said, this soil just wouldn't grow anything. 27:03 When I gave it to the Lord, 27:05 it just multiplied, multiplied and was just a great crop. 27:08 I mean, how often do we hear that? 27:11 And I know on television and so many, 27:13 you hear these televangelists 27:14 and it's the healthy, wealthy and wise give it to me. 27:17 I've heard preachers say, I don't need the money. 27:19 I've got one guy said, I got to gold piano. 27:21 I got all of these things, but you need to give it. 27:24 So give it, you know, 27:25 but the healthy, wealthy and wise, 27:27 you know, we preached that to an extent 27:29 totally different though. 27:30 We say, if you live right, you don't smoke or drink 27:32 and you exercise and drink a plenty of water, 27:35 you're gonna live healthier than you would if you didn't. 27:38 But that's an action where we're doing something. 27:40 You can't give dollars to say, I'm gonna live healthy now. 27:43 I'm gonna eat. My mom used to say, I'm gonna eat anything. 27:46 She said, some people eat anything 27:47 that don't ate them first. 27:48 You know, so you can't eat anything that don't-- 27:51 First except to be healthy because you give money. 27:53 You can't buy your way into good health. 27:55 You can't buy your way into heaven. 27:57 You can't buy your way into success. 28:00 But when you give to the Lord out of the heart, 28:03 and for the right motives because first of all, 28:07 everything that we have is not ours, it's God's. 28:09 So He allows us to be stewards. 28:11 So when we give to Him, we give to God, 28:15 He accepts that, that offering now is to Him. 28:18 God honors that because He said, 28:20 go ye into all the world. 28:21 So if we're giving-- 28:22 One preacher said, you sow your old Cadillac 28:26 and God will give you new one, you know. 28:28 It wasn't on 3ABN and I'm happy to say that, 28:31 that's not true at all. 28:32 But here's what I've found out. 28:34 If I want to give something to get a new car, 28:37 that's not gonna work. 28:38 But if I say, you know, what, I'm gonna sow this seed 28:40 or I'm gonna plant this $1,000 into whatever ministry this is, 28:45 God always brings that back. 28:47 When 3ABN, over the years-- 28:49 Mollie, you know certain people, 28:51 the Lord's impressed a certain areas to help 28:53 or to sow into ministries and God always comes. 28:56 I don't want to call it a rear door, 28:58 but comes somewhere, we don't even know. 29:00 I remember one time and we've may told it before. 29:02 Someone was on the dead end. 29:04 You know, had a program on 3ABN, very good people, 29:08 person, good ministry, but didn't have the money 29:11 and was gotten really behind on the bill, 29:15 the airtime because we have to pay that ourselves. 29:18 So these people pay us, the folks sits on. 29:20 But this particular ministry just didn't have the money. 29:24 We asked him about it, they said we don't have it. 29:26 So Mollie brings me a bill and it was $35,000. 29:30 And she said, 29:31 Danny, what do you want to do with this? 29:33 They just don't have the money 29:35 and we've asked them two or three times. 29:37 What should we do? 29:39 And I said, well, and before I did, she said, 29:41 I know what you're gonna say. 29:43 You want to just forgive, so she wrote forgiven on it. 29:45 Mollie, really gave. 29:46 I didn't give it because she just-- 29:48 She said it like this, Brian, I know what you want to do. 29:51 So we'll just, you know, just helping me. 29:53 So I looked at her and I said, you know, what, 29:55 that's right, that's the right thing to do. 29:57 So I didn't really give it, Mollie gave it, 29:59 but it was $35,000. 30:01 So she literally just wrote on it, forgiven, 30:03 and mailed it to him. 30:05 She said, here's what we're doing, 30:06 instead of the bill, it's forgiven. 30:07 But wouldn't you rather have it forgiven 30:09 than have them owing it. 30:11 You see, now they don't owe it to us. 30:12 Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a bad feeling. 30:14 Well, here's the thing. 30:15 So, so about two weeks later, 30:17 I get a call from the lady in Kentucky and she says, 30:21 I want to ask you about someone that's one the air. 30:23 And I said, we get that quite a bit. 30:25 Okay. 30:26 Is it true that they owed you $35,000 and they couldn't pay? 30:30 And I said, well, I don't really want to discuss that. 30:33 I'm not gonna discuss who owes and who doesn't. 30:36 And I said, who told you that? She said, well, he did. 30:39 The person, the head of the ministry did. 30:41 And I said, oh, he told you. 30:42 She said, yeah he told me that how wonderful that was, 30:45 that you actually forgave it. 30:47 Was that true? And so I told the story. 30:49 I said, well, actually Mollie did. 30:51 I supported her, but when she, she told me, 30:53 she knew what I do and wrote forgiven. 30:55 She said that is so nice. 30:57 I just want to hear it from you. 30:58 I put you a check in the mail today 31:00 for $50,000 to cover. 31:01 Glory to God. 31:03 Now, see, you didn't know that, Mollie, when you said, 31:05 you know, you're gonna do this. 31:07 Mollie didn't say. 31:08 Let's see, I think God will give me 50,000. 31:10 Her heart said, the ministry is good, 31:12 it's a good ministry 31:14 and it needs to stay on the air, 31:15 let's just forgive it and God will honor. 31:17 But who knew that this lady would call 31:20 and send $50,000 to cover. 31:22 We've seen it over and over and over again. 31:24 God will do that in your life too, 31:26 but giving for the right reasons 31:27 for the right purposes. 31:29 So when you give, when you give for the gospel, 31:33 when you give for something 31:34 that's gonna take the gospel to the world, 31:36 that's where Jesus says, "All power is given me, 31:39 all authority on heaven and earth. 31:41 Go ye therefore." 31:42 So there's no break right there 31:43 and that's what I like about it. 31:45 "All power is given me, go ye therefore. 31:47 So what he just said is, all power is given me. 31:50 There is no excuse on earth for you to say, 31:52 you can't do it. 31:54 I just said, all power is given me 31:55 and I'm telling you, go ye therefore. 31:58 Dr. Walter always said, 31:59 the Lord counted His resources in advance, 32:02 right, before He told us to go do something 32:04 and found he wasn't wanting. 32:06 So now we can say, you know, what, 32:08 Jesus said take this gospel into all the world. 32:10 So we can do it. You can be a 33 year old carpenter. 32:13 You can be a 25 year old, whatever and say, 32:16 when you're impressed to build our station 32:17 to reach the world, 32:19 I didn't have to think about it, Brian. 32:20 I didn't even go to counselors, maybe I should have. 32:22 I didn't go to the General Conference 32:24 and say, I wonder if I should do this 32:26 because in my mind-- 32:28 They would have discouraged you. 32:29 I don't know. 32:31 All I know this is in my mind, I tried to-- 32:33 Isaiah 8:20, "To the law and the testimony. 32:35 If it's not according to this word, 32:37 there's no light in them." 32:38 So all I said was, 32:39 what if there were a television station 32:41 giving the Three Angeles' Message 32:43 or what we believe it Bible Message, 32:44 we call it Seventh-day Adventist, 32:46 but a Bible message to a lost and dying world. 32:48 Will that be the Lord or the devil? 32:50 Lord. Thank the Lord. 32:51 Okay. That's all I need to know. 32:53 Let's go forward. 32:54 The very next day I went to see Hal and Mollie 32:56 and that's when I talked to Brother Hal 32:58 and you all have-- were charismatic pastors. 33:00 It's the time they had a large church, 33:02 growing church, at television-- 33:03 She still a bit charismatic. Yeah, she is. 33:05 Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord for that too. 33:08 Praise the Lord for that. 33:09 She's a two hander praiser, 33:11 but she does a great, so is Shelley. 33:12 Yeah. 33:13 But from there it went on and on and on till today, 33:16 31 years later 33:17 and we're still praising the Lord for what He has done. 33:20 But you know what? We couldn't do it without you. 33:22 So that's why today, 33:24 this is kind of an end of the year, 33:25 we've been having all kinds of programs on, 33:27 but we want to say most of all thank you for what you do. 33:30 For those of you it's in valley of decision. 33:32 We want you to pray 33:34 and we're gonna pray here in a little bit 33:35 and have you pray with us and say, 33:37 Lord, what would You have me to do, 33:38 something special for the end of the year, 33:40 this year for 3ABN, 33:42 so we can continue to take the gospel into all the world. 33:45 That's why, Brian, a while ago, we're hitting on evangelism 33:49 and that's why we're going to London. 33:50 We'll talk about that more later. 33:52 But, Mollie, you got something else, give it to us. 33:54 Well, I was just thinking, 33:55 you were talking about $35,000 that ramped into $50,000. 34:00 That's big figures. 34:02 But I want to share the story that Mrs. Haney shared 34:05 in Sabbath school this past Sabbath. 34:08 Mrs. Haney is the principle of our Christian school. 34:12 And when she was very young, she told at the time, 34:15 when her parents gave her, her money 34:17 to do her Christmas shopping 34:19 when they were on Christmas shopping, 34:20 you know how much she got? 34:22 A nickel. 34:23 She had maybe four bro-- three brothers, sisters, whatever. 34:27 It was penny a piece, that was her money 34:29 that she was gonna get to spend for her family. 34:32 And so they were going shopping and they went by-- 34:35 I believe it was the salvation, one of the army, those-- 34:38 the bucket wringers and she's told her daddy, 34:40 oh, dad, I want to put something in there. 34:42 I want to put my nickel in there. 34:43 And her father said, you know, put your money in there, 34:46 you're giving to the Lord, the Lord will supply for you. 34:50 So she dropped her nickel into the bucket 34:53 and then she walked into the store 34:55 and there laying on the ground was a quarter. 34:58 And her father said the Lord provided you. 35:01 She picks up the quarter, her nickel, 35:03 because she was obedient. 35:06 And she was a little gal. 35:08 So when a nickel, 35:10 it has ramps into a quarter when you're 5 years old, 35:14 Danny, that's as huge as $35, 000 35:17 ramping into 50,000. 35:19 It doesn't matter how much money it is, 35:21 God is your source and He sure supply 35:23 and He is the one that activates the miracles. 35:26 Absolutely. 35:27 And it's not always, you know, a tit for a tat. 35:30 If you give, that you give that-- 35:31 You know, when we're talking about a 100 fold return, 35:35 sometimes it's not always monitory, 35:37 but it maybe that your shoes are not wearing out, 35:39 just like they did you know-- 35:42 And Moses, and the children of Israel 35:43 or it maybe a blessing of health, 35:45 it maybe so many other things. 35:47 But I've never, you know, people will say, 35:50 you can't out give God and I say, who's trying. 35:54 I mean. But and it's so true. 35:57 You can't out give God and He does take care of us. 36:00 And as you said Brian, I'm sorry. 36:02 Just quickly, when you give to this ministry, 36:04 thanks to, to see that God planted in your heart, 36:07 you're giving to so many other ministries. 36:09 Every ministry that's on air is being supported 36:11 and you have graciously allowed other ministries 36:13 to come and raise money. 36:15 I just did a rap for an ASI that rolled this week. 36:19 That earthquake went through Katmandu, Nepal. 36:22 They needed $200,000. They came to 3ABN. 36:25 They got $380,000. Praise the Lord. 36:27 And they got it in less than 20 days time. 36:29 So the one light house in the country of Nepal, 36:33 that hospital, that Adventist hospital, 36:35 Scheer Memorial, is up there running 36:37 because of the money that was raised here on 3ABN. 36:40 And that's why I think God tends to bless this ministry 36:43 because this ministry exists for among other things 36:45 to bless other ministries. 36:47 Amen. 36:48 And honestly the airtime that people pay to be on 36:50 is not near what they would pay anywhere else 36:53 and it's more to cost basis because-- 36:57 And so when we're doing that it helps all the ministries 36:59 because if we charge people what, 37:02 it really should cost them, they couldn't afford to be on. 37:05 And so that's something that we've said, okay, 37:08 we need the programming, we're gonna do this more 37:10 to cause rather than try to make money off of it, 37:13 like any other stations as they were running time 37:16 all around the country, around the world. 37:18 It's gonna be a whole lot of more costly 37:19 for the amount of audience that we have. 37:21 But it's just something we've said, 37:22 you know, what, God will honor this 37:24 and He has through you. 37:26 You know, people have asked me before. 37:28 You mean you charge other Adventist ministries 37:30 to be on 3ABN and I tell them, 37:32 no, we ask them to help us with the finances 37:36 because we have to pay the satellite bills 37:40 every single month and Brian they are huge, huge amount. 37:44 And so it's not that we're trying to-- 37:47 we're just asking them to help us with the satellite, 37:51 the cost of the satellite. 37:52 We're not charging them 37:54 to give the message of the gospel to the world. 37:55 We are just appreciate the fact that they will help us, 37:58 then pay those satellite fees. 38:02 The term you used planting in the soil. 38:06 Every minute of every day, somebody's life 38:11 is being touched for eternity through 3ABN. 38:14 Amen. 38:16 You just think about, every minute of every day. 38:18 Just to give you an example. Last week I got a phone call. 38:21 Just came out of the blue and the person on the phone 38:24 identified himself as an employee 38:28 of one of the prisons in one of-- 38:31 It was in New Mexico, State of New Mexico. 38:34 And the purpose of the phone call 38:35 was to introduce me to a prisoner. 38:39 So he wanted to let me know that the prisoner 38:41 who wanted to talk to me about a certain subject 38:44 and would I take the phone call and he told me who he was, 38:47 so I would legitimize the phone call. 38:49 So I get this phone call. 38:50 Not very often that you get a phone call 38:51 from somebody working at a state prison, okay. 38:56 And so then the inmate got on the phone. 38:58 That inmate was assigned to ask us to submit a proposal 39:06 to get 3ABN into their prison. 39:09 That was his assignment, okay. Wow. Okay. 39:12 He worked in the education wing 39:13 and they would like 3ABN as one of their, 39:16 one of the lineup in the program. 39:18 So he told me a little bit about himself. 39:20 He says, "I was in another prison," 39:22 the one he's in currently, doesn't have 3ABN. 39:24 "But I was in another one that did." 39:27 And he said, "There was only two programs 39:29 we could get when everybody went digital 39:31 and they were analog. 39:33 And she says we get the home shopping network 39:36 and we could get 3ABN." 39:38 Praise God. Okay. All right. 39:39 He says, 3ABN was on solid in my cell 39:43 all that period of time. 39:44 But he says, I was so blessed 39:46 and I got to know each one of you folk 39:48 because of that experience, you know. 39:51 And so that's just a little seed 39:54 that's being planted and you don't know 39:56 where it's gonna go and what it's gonna do, 39:59 but it's blessed the man in prison. 40:02 And now he's in a position where he's advocating for us 40:06 to put 3ABN into another whole prison. 40:09 Wow. Praise to God. 40:10 One other things it's important and for anyone in ministry 40:13 and I put this on the Blessings on the Go, 40:15 is that the mission 40:17 that you have to stick with your mission. 40:19 When the Lord impressed us 40:21 to build a television station to reach the world 40:23 with an undiluted Three Angeles' Messages, 40:25 one would counteract the counterfeit, 40:28 praise God that we have stuck with that. 40:30 It's not just me, I'm talking about our board members. 40:33 No one has ever come on the board, 40:35 those who work with the church, for the church, 40:38 those who are laymen to come on, 40:39 we all in one accord, this is what so-- 40:42 One other thing's I'm happy to say over 30 years, 40:45 we've seen a lot of changes in the world. 40:48 We've seen a lot of changes in a lot of churches, 40:51 but hopefully you have noticed 40:54 the message of 3ABN is still the same. 40:55 Amen. 40:57 Because it's an everlasting message, 40:59 but it's a message to give 41:00 to an end times message for an end times people. 41:03 So what we've done is we've concentrate, 41:06 we've centered in on the truth and say, 41:09 you know, what, even though the world is doing this 41:11 or even the churches, a lot of churches 41:14 are going this direction or that direction because-- 41:17 we feel it always-- 41:19 And I won't get down to the down home deal, 41:21 but it always bothers me that people do studies 41:24 and then on their studies they figure out 41:26 a better way to reach people than to tell them the truth. 41:29 Well, if we go around over here we'll get more people come in. 41:33 We get over here we'll do that. 41:35 And then eventually we hope they come around to get it. 41:38 When, since it's not ours and we don't-- 41:41 And Jesus says, you know, 41:42 that we're just telling the truth. 41:44 "He's the way, the truth, and life." 41:45 So when we just give the straight message 41:48 then I feel like, if people are ready 41:51 they are not gonna miss it. 41:52 If they are not ready, 41:54 I don't care which directions you go to. 41:55 You can try all. 41:57 You can think you're the smartest person 41:58 in the world. 42:00 You can study all the, you know, 42:01 ways to philosophize this thing 42:04 and you can do all of this and you're not, 42:06 still not gonna reach them because they are not ready. 42:09 So we have found that when people want the truth, 42:12 miracles happen, literally they are dishes, 42:14 C.A. knows, that all of you know that, 42:15 dishes that were turned that never got 3ABN get up. 42:19 The guy in Jamaica, they hadn't watched us, 42:21 He's gonna kill himself, it was dark, 42:23 knocks the remote off and it turns on 42:26 and Mark Finely sitting here at 3BN with us saying, 42:29 a friend of you contemplating suicide, don't. 42:31 Those are miracles, folks. Those are absolute miracles. 42:34 We don't need to go study and somebody say, 42:36 well, I've done a study and we need to do this, no. 42:38 Just tell the truth 42:40 and let the truth land where it may, 42:42 on whom it may to accept it whenever they are ready for it. 42:46 And that's what I love about 3ABN. 42:47 Everyone of these folks, no one of these folks 42:50 or our board members have ever said, 42:51 you know, we really need to-- 42:52 Everybody else is doing this, so why don't we try this? 42:56 Am I telling the truth? 42:58 Yes, you are. True, very much so. 42:59 Nobody here and none of our board members have ever said, 43:02 well, I think we should change the message up. 43:03 If we do a little softer here or we go here, 43:07 more people will accept. 43:08 No one has done it. We just preach it. 43:10 John Carter gets up, he preaches it. 43:12 You know, whether it's Doug Bachelor, he gets up. 43:14 Whether it's all these folks, just preaching. 43:16 C.A. Murray, Shelley, no matter who it is, 43:19 just preaching what we've been preaching for 30 years. 43:22 and that's what's doing it. 43:23 It's the Holy Spirit is blessing the message. 43:25 It's not the messenger that's important, 43:28 it's the message. 43:29 And we understand that. 43:31 So that's why there's no stars here at 3ABN. 43:34 We're family, just like you are family. 43:36 All we're trying to do is get the message 43:38 that God has given us as a church 43:41 to give this message to a lost anddying world. 43:43 And I'm amazed at how, when we simply tell the truth, 43:47 again miracle after miracle. 43:49 Radio stations, people call and say, 43:50 I'm getting your station. 43:51 There's not a radio station in 100 miles. 43:53 How can you be getting this? 43:55 It's happened over and over and over. 43:57 No, I see it on, you know, this is, I get this channel. 44:00 Well, how could you? There's nothing there. 44:02 But you know what? 44:03 God knows who's ready and who isn't. 44:05 So when people are ready for the truth, 44:07 then we don't want to be giving them something else. 44:10 That's gonna deter them. Amen. 44:11 We want them to turn on 3ABN and there it is. 44:14 And that I love it 44:16 and I'm so thankful that I work with people who say, 44:19 you know what, we want to give the truth, 44:21 we're not gonna compromise it, 44:22 we're not gonna color it to be popular 44:24 because now a days politics is even plays 44:27 a big part in too many churches. 44:30 So we want to do anything to do with politics, 44:32 we just wanted to do with truth 44:33 and do what God has called us to do. 44:35 And He's honored. God is honored. 44:37 All of you and all of you at home for supporting. 44:40 All of the folks that we have on the preaching, 44:42 the teaching, the ministries that is getting 44:45 the Three Angeles' Messages to the world. 44:46 Thank you so much. 44:49 You know, Danny, not everything we do is easy. 44:51 We had to do some cutting here recently. 44:54 Our, our income has been... 44:56 Since this is the State of the Union. 44:58 Yeah, that's all right. 44:59 Our income for the last 10 years 45:00 has been very solid, very consistent, 45:03 very straight, which we're blessed. 45:05 And we want to thank you for that. 45:07 That's a real blessing that you would 45:09 be so consistent, so faithful to us. 45:12 But at the same time as the income being steady, 45:15 we've seen our expenses going up. 45:18 You think a healthcare cost, just one item, 45:20 just, you know, like a 100,000 in a year 45:22 could go up, you know. 45:24 And so we've had to do some cutting. 45:26 And so one of the areas we cut this year 45:29 was to shut off one of those satellites. 45:32 And that was hard decision to make. 45:34 I mean, that wasn't easy. 45:35 And that's the one that goes to Europe. 45:38 But yet, then the Lord had some other way 45:40 for us to solve that issue 45:41 and that's with the new kind of box that Moses is... 45:45 Yeah. 45:46 The Roku boxes and my SDA TV, people can still get it. 45:50 And anybody that did get it, can if they do this so. 45:54 It really worked out and it's $34,000 a month. 45:57 And yet, we couldn't justify that 45:59 for the few people that was reaching it, 46:01 that had the dishes in those areas. 46:03 But now the churches... 46:05 The Hope Channel did the same thing. 46:06 They went off of that. 46:08 They are promoting Roku box and we've been doing it. 46:11 The Conference is over there. 46:13 So people are getting it 46:14 and now Moses got his new my SDA Box. 46:17 and so God honored that. 46:18 So people are still getting the message. 46:20 And they can still get it online. 46:23 You can still get it with your phones, your iPads, 46:25 there's so many way you can get 3ABN now. 46:28 And I think satellite is going out eventually, 46:31 I'd like to be off of all of them 46:33 because there are so many new ways 46:34 people can get us without having to do 46:37 all of those satellite bills. 46:40 Yeah, with us SDA Box, you know the hocus-pocus 46:43 that most of us always has cooking up. 46:46 But that thing has a potential reaching 46:48 you know far more people than the satellite. 46:50 Yeah, absolutely. 46:51 Because more people are in the internet, everyday. 46:54 And so that's... 46:55 I like to see how the Lord takes 46:57 one of those hard things we did and He did blessed it. 46:59 you know, with something else, so. 47:02 And Roku has, has the name recognition now. 47:05 But when people begin to understand 47:06 Danny, Shelley, Mollie, Brian, 47:08 the intricacies of this,this, my SDA TV 47:11 and some of the things that it can do 47:13 and features that it can do that put it far in a way above. 47:17 What Roku can do. Yeah. 47:18 I think they will be very much impressed 47:20 to get this box because 47:22 it's a fabulous piece of technology. 47:25 And as I understand Moses is gonna have three level. 47:27 Something like that. Yeah, sure. 47:29 And you know, and Moses is a bright guy. 47:31 Yeah, he is. I'm telling you the truth. 47:32 He is one smart cookie. 47:34 And he's always thinking spiritual, 47:36 he's always thinking how I can do this efficiently. 47:39 And sometimes he comes with a pretty heavy price tag, 47:42 but on the backend of that price tag is ministry 47:45 and somebody's life is gonna be touched. 47:47 This year we had to do some changes 47:48 and we didn't make, 47:50 begin to move into Digital HD, we would be here now. 47:53 So we had to spend some money, 47:54 but it was all again for ministry. 47:56 Right. Yeah. 47:57 You know I just wanted to say one thing 47:58 because I know our time is nearly out. 48:00 And to you at home who are watching by television 48:04 or listening on the radio or maybe on internet, 48:06 I just want to tell you that we love you. 48:08 You know this is something that 48:11 we pray for all of our viewers and our listener's everyday. 48:15 And we pray for those who support this ministry. 48:18 We pray for all of our callers everyday. 48:21 And we feel privileged to be part of your team 48:25 because that's how we feel is that 48:27 you're helping to support this ministry. 48:29 So we're all team. 48:31 And brothers and sisters in the Lord 48:34 and we just want to say that we love you 48:36 and I just want to tell you, 48:38 we hope that you have the most blessed Christmas 48:41 and a Happy New Year. 48:43 Amen. 48:45 C.A., we got about, what four or five more minutes. 48:47 In a little bit I want to have a prayer with our viewers. 48:49 And I also just want to again thank you 48:52 for what you're doing, all those who have joined 48:54 the Blessing on the Go. 48:55 Now some of you may be like me. 48:56 I didn't realize that I went in 48:58 when the first night we started 49:00 I did what I thought was the right thing. 49:02 But I noticed, Brian, two or three months later, 49:05 I'm getting the evangelistic tool 49:07 but I haven't seen any money come out of my account. 49:10 So I went to Mollie or you and said, 49:13 I wonder if there's other people like this 49:14 and it turns out that maybe a couple of hundred 49:16 other people or something. 49:17 You may be one of those. 49:19 So you may want to go back, 49:20 if you're getting this evangelistic tool, 49:23 what we do is we've actually setting it up, 49:25 so when people aren't giving we can't continue, 49:27 of course, it's costly to do that. 49:29 So we want to make sure that if you're one of those 49:32 that accidentally aren't thought you're giving monthly 49:35 and you are not, than you go back 49:37 and look at it again say, say you know what, 49:39 I need to make this, make this up, 49:42 either it's to say I don't want to do it 49:44 or I do want to do it. 49:45 But I think there's a lot of folk just like me 49:47 so I was sitting there thinking, 49:50 oh, wait a minute I'm not, where is that. 49:51 I'm not even missing that money and then it's like, 49:53 no it's not being coming out of my account. 49:55 And I thought it was coming out of Paypal. 49:57 So I'm correcting that, just so you all know, 50:00 you can keep sending me the Blessing on the Go tools 50:03 because I'm correcting that. 50:05 But there's folks like that at home, 50:06 we look through Mollie. 50:07 You found quite a few. 50:09 So we're asking you if you're not sure 50:10 maybe go back and look. 50:12 Make sure you've pushed on the monthly button 50:14 so it automatically comes out, 50:15 that's the easiest way not to forget it. 50:17 Yeah, that very last step, 50:19 I think several people probably just didn't see the last step 50:23 which I believe it's their recurrent. 50:25 And so that you have to press on that 50:28 and then every month your donation will come out 50:30 and then everything will just be 50:33 work like clock work for you. 50:34 And I also wanted to say that we are now sending 50:37 with each event, Go Evangelistic Tool. 50:40 We are sending three 3ABN share cards 50:44 so this is just shows ways to watch 3ABN, 50:48 ways to get 3ABN. 50:49 So we want to encourage all of our 50:51 Go Evangelistic team members to share the share cards 50:55 so that people will know how they can get 3ABN. 50:57 Now let's remind them quickly 50:59 also that we are thinking about adding 51:00 a day tour camp meeting next year 51:02 just for Go Evangelism Team purpose. 51:04 Which I think is really exciting. 51:06 Yes, this is gonna be a team. 51:08 It's going to be evangelism training 51:11 and we're gonna be brining a number of people to, 51:14 to talk about various ways and avenues of evangelism. 51:17 And just for all the blessing on the go team members. 51:19 All just for go... To help us, all right. 51:22 Encourage us and to teach us how to go forward. 51:24 What we like to do, we'll go to newsbreak in a little break. 51:26 But we're gonna have a prayer. 51:28 And maybe 51:29 a, well, that the birthday boy is still recent enough. 51:32 Maybe we can have you say 51:33 a special prayer for our viewers, 51:35 then we also want to put up on the screen, our 3ABN addresses. 51:39 We go to newsbreak. 51:40 So if the Holy Spirit is impressing you to support 51:43 this ministry you may do so. 51:45 Would you lead us in the prayer, C.A.? 51:47 Well, take my hand, All right. Shelley. 51:50 Gracious Father, we join our hands together 51:53 even as the spirit has joined our hearts together. 51:56 We're united in a common cause 51:59 that is the cause of lifting up the mighty 52:02 and matchless name of Jesus. 52:03 Father, it is the greatest work ever entrusted to the frail 52:06 and feeble hands of men and women 52:08 and we realize that we could not do 52:10 what we're called to do without the help, the love,the support 52:14 of the thousands of people around the world 52:16 who bless us with their financial gifts 52:18 each and every week, each and every day 52:21 and each and every month. 52:22 Lord, we thank You for them. We praise You for them. 52:25 We ask, Lord, that You will continue to bless them 52:28 so that they can bless this ministry. 52:30 We ask that You would unite this team together 52:32 in a very special bond of love and labor 52:36 so that the word of Christ can go to the darkest 52:40 corners of this earth, letting men and women know that 52:43 soon and very soon Jesus is coming. 52:46 Bless us, Father. 52:48 Keep our hearts united even as our hands are united. 52:52 And for the millions around the world 52:53 who we symbolically hold their hands also, Father. 52:57 May we lift up each others hands 52:59 as we lift up the name of Jesus. 53:00 We thank You, Father, for this ministry 53:03 and for the call to leave no stone unturned 53:06 in the salvation of men and women. 53:08 We praise You, Lord, and we thank You 53:10 and we pledge now to serve you in the future 53:13 even as You have blessed us to serve You in the past. 53:15 We love You, Lord, we praise You 53:17 and we thank You in Jesus name, amen. 53:20 Amen. Amen. Amen. |
Revised 2015-12-24