As you're well aware,
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we're living in
unprecedented times.
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Join us now for
today's special program.
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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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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
another Today program.
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We're glad that you're with us.
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We have a wonderful
program for you today.
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And we want to
encourage you to stay with us.
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As a matter of fact,
this is one of those programs
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you may want to
tell other people about.
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That's right. We
want you to be blessed.
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So we encourage
you to be with us.
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We're gonna pray in a moment.
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But before that, we
want to introduce to you
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our special guests
during this morning,
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actually part of
the family of 3ABN
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and we have
Brother Charles Byrd,
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Pastor Charles Byrd,
and his wife Karen, welcome.
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Thank you.
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What a privilege to be with you.
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Thank you so much for coming.
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We know that you're very busy,
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not only in pastoral ministries,
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but also in the ministry,
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"Thunder In The Holy Land,"
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and other things
that we're gonna hear
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also an update about.
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Give us a little,
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what would you
say a little glimpse
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of where we're
headed in this program?
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Well, God has
laid on people's hearts
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and you interview
so many of them here
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to be active in ministry,
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we are in the last
days of earth's history,
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time has come now to
that moment in history
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where we are
called to be witnesses.
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And to be a witness for the Lord
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means that everyone is called.
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In fact, if we just
wait for the pastors,
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evangelists.
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No, everyone is a
minister, we're all called.
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And if we don't all
get on this together,
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we're gonna be a
long time here yet.
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So God's calling
us to finish this up.
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Amen and amen.
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True, true indeed.
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So we hope that
you will see this
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as a call from the Lord
to be active in some way,
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and helping to finish the work
that God has given us to do.
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The whole world needs to hear
the good news of Jesus Christ.
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Before we continue,
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we'd like to go to
the Lord in prayer,
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and we want you to join us.
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But before that,
I like to remind you
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that you can be a
part of the 3ABN ministry
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by praying for the request
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that you hear or
see on the programming.
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People are
counting on your prayers.
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So we want you to join us,
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be part of the family
in praying for the request,
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because actually,
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we are blessed
praising the Lord,
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because we have prayer partners
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in almost every
country in the world,
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and you could be one of them.
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And you can go to our website,
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and find out how to
become a prayer partner
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and you receive
some prayer requests
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sent to your email,
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and not all of
the prayer requests
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that come in,
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because you will be overwhelmed.
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We'll send you some,
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but we encourage you
to be a prayer warrior.
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So at this time,
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we encourage
you to pray with us.
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Let us pray.
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Our loving and
wonderful Heavenly Father,
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we come before
You in Jesus' name.
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And we present to You, Lord,
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the requests that
have come in to 3ABN.
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You know, there are many,
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and you know
each and every person,
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each and every concern.
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And Heavenly Father,
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one of the
things that really slow
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Your children
down is to be worried,
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worried about how
these things will turn out.
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So we pray that as we come
before Your throne of grace,
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You will give Your children
a calmness and a serenity
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knowing that You are in control.
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And with You all
things are possible.
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We pray for those that are sick.
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We pray for those
that are concerned
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about their financial situation.
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We pray for those that
have marriage problems.
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And we pray also for those
that are praying for others
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to come to the knowledge
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of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ.
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And even for those
mothers and fathers
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that are praying
for their children
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to return to the Lord.
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We pray for Your Holy
Angels and your Holy Spirit
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to do that work which
human beings cannot do.
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But we pray Heavenly Father
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that if in any way we
can cooperate with You
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to reach those that
need to hear about You.
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And if in any way
Your children can cooperate
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with You in the healing process,
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let us know what can be done.
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And Heavenly Father,
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we now pray for Your
blessing upon this program.
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We ask that it will reach people
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and help people
encourage and also inspire.
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We ask You Heavenly
Father for these things
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in the holy and
blessed name of Jesus.
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Amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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Well, we would like to ask you
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to join us in a
scripture reading,
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Romans 2:4,
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I will go ahead
and read that for you.
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And actually, how
about Sister Karen,
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how about if you
read that for us?
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A nice woman's voice
would be really good in here.
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"Or despisest thou
the riches of His goodness
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and forbearance
and long suffering,
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not knowing that
the goodness of God
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leadeth thee to repentance?"
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Hmm.
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What a marvelous
and powerful question.
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Anything you would
like to share about this?
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Well, when I, early
on, when I got married,
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I came home one
day, and I told my wife,
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"I don't
believe in God anymore."
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And, of course, she's a PK,
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which means a "preacher's kid."
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She's also an MD. Okay.
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A "minister's daughter."
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And she was in a
little bit of shock there.
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But I was frustrated in
my own personal journey,
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because I wanted to follow God,
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I wanted to do what was right.
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I tried.
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And for those who have tried
to be good in their own power,
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you know how impossible that is.
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Oh, yes.
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And, so I was done trying.
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And the Lord told me,
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"I want you to go
back to Steps to Christ."
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I said, "Lord,
I've read that book.
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It's boring."
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And He said, "No,
study it inductively."
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So I picked up the book again,
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the first chapter
is "God's love for men,
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" I know He loves
me, He died for me,
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but that's not helping.
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Second chapter was a
"sinners in the Christ."
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I know I'm a sinner
and that's my problem.
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The third
chapter was "repentance."
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I was raised in
the Adventist Church,
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dyed in the wool,
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never darken the door
of a public school system.
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I had no clue
what repentance was.
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None.
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And I mean, none.
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There was no nail
on the wall in my mind,
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there was no Velcro
strip, there was no sticky tape,
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there was nothing there.
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So I took my Strong's
Exhaustive Concordance,
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I went through every text
in the Bible on repentance.
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And when I got done,
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what I knew was
is that repentance
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is feeling about
things the way God does,
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and acting accordingly.
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That's what repentance is.
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And it's a gift
that God gives you.
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It comes from the
outside to the inside
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where He changes your want to.
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It's a black
preacher who wrote a book,
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you got to have a want to.
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And He gives you
the will and the doing.
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He does it all.
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Well, once I realized that,
and I could go to Him and say,
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"Lord, I like this.
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You told me not to like it.
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You told me not to
have any part of it.
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But I like it.
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Would you change my heart?"
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Wow, praise God.
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And then He
started changing my heart.
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Praise the Lord. I
treated my wife better.
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I treated other people
better, not because I had to,
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but because I wanted to.
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And it made
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a radical difference in my life.
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And just this morning,
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as I was reading
this verse again.
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And I always use this phrase,
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"I was reading it
again for the first time."
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Because in God's Word,
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when you are into the
Word, it's always new.
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Yes.
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His mercies are
new every morning.
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And so they're new for us today.
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And so as I was
reading it this morning,
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I was also
reading Steps to Christ.
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And I read in Steps
to Christ, page 115.
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"The children of God are called
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to be representatives of Christ,
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showing forth the
goodness and mercy of the Lord."
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Praise the Lord.
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And it's His
goodness that draws us to Him.
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And so He overwhelms
us with His goodness,
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if we care to notice it.
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And that's what
draws us to Jesus.
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And so if we want
to be representatives,
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it isn't just knowing
Saturday is the Sabbath
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or dead people are
sleeping in the grave
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or whatever unique truth
that we found in God's Word.
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It's also the goodness.
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Wow. Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed.
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You know, it's
a very strong word
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used there.
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Do you despise
the goodness of God?
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You know, it's
something interesting
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to consider that
somebody is giving you
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something
priceless, like repentance.
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And you reject
this marvelous gift.
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Sister Karen,
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do you have anything
you'd like to share about this?
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Well, I think that all of heaven
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must just go, "What!
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What!
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How could you despise?"
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You know, they see
and they have seen it all.
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And we see
through a glass darkly.
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And, but once you start
looking at God's goodness,
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it's just all over.
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Amen.
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I mean, we have
everyday just so many things
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we can be thankful for.
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And just, I've been
overwhelmed many times,
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and just seeing how good God is
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in spite of
everything around us.
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His goodness is so wonderful.
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Well, I think our
friends that are joining us
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can tell that we
can probably spend
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the rest of the hour
talking about this verse.
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However, we
can't do that right now
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because we have
some wonderful things
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to share with you.
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And we do have a music offering
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that we'd like
to bring before you.
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And this song has
a wonderful title,
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it's called
"Shepherd of My Heart"
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by Kendol Bacchus.
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Amen and praise the Lord.
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Kendol Bacchus, we
thank you so much for
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coming to record
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this beautiful
instrumental piece
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and we encourage you
to visit Kendol Bacchus,
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surely has a Facebook page,
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and I'm sure he'll be
glad to hear from you say
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you heard him on 3ABN.
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Well, we have with
us Pastor Charles Byrd
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and his wife Karen,
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both of you work
together in ministry
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and that's a
wonderful thing to see
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a couple together in ministry.
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And now
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you are the
board chairman of QLP.
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QuestLine Production.
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QuestLine Production.
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And your wife is the president.
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Tell us about
QuestLine Production.
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What is that?
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Well, it's, we create
video Bible study series.
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We've done two series so far
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and ramping up
for our third series.
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"In Search for The
Truth" was our first
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and then "Thunder
In The Holy Land."
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And now we're
looking towards another one.
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Well, our viewers and listeners
00:18:01.78\00:18:03.75
are familiar with
"Thunder In The Holy Land."
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I'm not sure when it
started, can you give us dates.
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I know it's been on
the 3ABN for many years.
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I think it was fall of 2013
00:18:11.45\00:18:13.19
is when Thunder
started being aired.
00:18:13.22\00:18:15.86
Well, that's a few years ago.
00:18:15.89\00:18:17.79
And so it has taken a change,
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the first series was
with Pastor Charles Byrd,
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but then we saw
other people in the videos,
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the new version when you
say "Thunder In The Holy Land,"
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why that title
"Thunder In The Holy Land?"
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That's a good question.
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I wanted to create a
new Bible study series
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with a new theme to it.
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Many Bible studies are out there
00:18:40.42\00:18:42.32
from many denominations.
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They're all
probably somewhat titled
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My Church versus Your Church.
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Now, none of them are
really titled that way.
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But we're more
interested in our stripe,
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you know, I'm a
Baptist, I'm a Lutheran,
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you know, I'm a
Pentecostal, whatever.
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And I said to myself,
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you know, if we
claim to be Christians,
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"If we're all Christians,
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then we ought to at
least agree on what Jesus said.
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And if we can't
agree on what Jesus said,
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if He said, "Love your enemies,"
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and we say, "Yes, we
should love our enemies,
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except for Muslims."
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You go hate them.
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Well, if that's your mentality,
you're not really a Christian
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because Jesus said,
"Love your enemies."
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That's right. And He
said, "Love everybody."
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So you can't start
hating a certain class of people
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because of the
color of their skin
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or because of what
country they're from
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or because of their background.
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So I said, if we can't
agree on the teachings of Jesus,
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so I thought I'd
like to make a series.
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Every episode is
something Jesus taught.
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So "Thunder In The Holy
Land," that's what it is.
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That's the title
"Thunder In The Holy Land, "
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because every time
Jesus opened his mouth,
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it caused a
storm of controversy.
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Love your enemies. What?
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You know?
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I am the Son of God.
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Stone Him, every time...
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Our God is one
God. Our God is one God.
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What, you know, you
can't be the Son of God.
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So He caused trouble,
because He taught the truth.
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Yes.
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And so "Thunder
In The Holy Land."
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Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
00:20:05.23\00:20:07.10
Well, it's been on
3ABN for many years
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and our viewers
call, our listeners call
00:20:09.20\00:20:11.57
and we just praise the Lord,
00:20:11.61\00:20:13.21
because wonderful
things have happened,
00:20:13.24\00:20:16.11
and tell us how this
has impacted your life
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as you've heard from people
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that have listened
or watched the series?
00:20:20.75\00:20:23.92
Well, it has
made a bigger impact
00:20:23.95\00:20:26.52
than just watching us
00:20:26.55\00:20:28.36
and just watching us on 3ABN
00:20:28.39\00:20:30.16
because it was
built from the ground up
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to be a Bible study.
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And the power of it
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is really the
impression questions
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which are on our website,
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you can just
download them print them off
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and use them when
you get the Bible study.
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That's really the miracle
sauce of what we're doing
00:20:42.60\00:20:44.84
because people are
engaging with the guests
00:20:44.87\00:20:48.38
that they're
getting Bible studies to
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and not only that,
00:20:50.38\00:20:52.45
but it's not
just my Bible study.
00:20:52.48\00:20:55.02
Ministries often have, you
know, the star of the show.
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Well, we built
Thunder from the ground up
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so that local
pastors could be inserted
00:21:01.79\00:21:03.83
and take my place.
00:21:03.86\00:21:05.19
So the people who
are familiar to 3ABN
00:21:05.23\00:21:07.13
and they've watched Charles Byrd
00:21:07.16\00:21:08.70
doing "Thunder
In The Holy Land."
00:21:08.73\00:21:10.67
There are now
nearing 100 pastors,
00:21:10.70\00:21:15.10
layman, educators,
00:21:15.14\00:21:17.84
conference
leadership, evangelists,
00:21:17.87\00:21:20.48
who have been
inserted as the host
00:21:20.51\00:21:22.84
and now it's their series.
00:21:22.88\00:21:24.61
Lonnie Malashenko was inserted,
00:21:24.65\00:21:26.28
Chris Holland when
he was speaker/director
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for It Is Written
Canada was inserted.
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So many people have
taken advantage of this
00:21:30.12\00:21:32.22
and then use
this as Bible studies.
00:21:32.25\00:21:34.12
And it's so rewarding
to hear stories of people
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we've never met,
00:21:38.83\00:21:40.16
people who don't even know us,
00:21:40.20\00:21:41.53
who didn't even see us
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they maybe saw
some other pastor.
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I'm thinking of
Pastor Jason Logan.
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Yeah, and the most
recent one, we heard, Dick,
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he was all his life.
00:21:51.11\00:21:53.38
He knew there was a higher power
00:21:53.41\00:21:55.04
but didn't give it much thought.
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And had
struggled with alcoholism
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for quite a long time
00:21:59.75\00:22:01.08
and had taken
advantage of that higher power,
00:22:01.12\00:22:03.89
not really knowing
totally what that was.
00:22:03.92\00:22:07.16
But he finally
gained the victory.
00:22:07.19\00:22:09.32
And then he had a
really serious car accident.
00:22:09.36\00:22:14.10
And his
Seventh-day Adventist landlord
00:22:14.13\00:22:19.80
was helping him kind of learn
00:22:19.83\00:22:22.50
how to heal his body.
00:22:22.54\00:22:24.91
And in the process
00:22:24.94\00:22:27.71
there was a
Thunder study going on,
00:22:27.74\00:22:30.75
because Jason
Logan had been inserted,
00:22:30.78\00:22:32.68
and his members were,
00:22:32.71\00:22:34.05
you know, having
00:22:34.08\00:22:35.42
"Thunder In The Holy
Land" studies going on.
00:22:35.45\00:22:36.79
Small group studies.
00:22:36.82\00:22:38.15
And, so they got to
talking about Scripture.
00:22:38.19\00:22:41.66
And she invited Dick
00:22:41.69\00:22:43.06
to one of those Thunder studies.
00:22:43.09\00:22:45.29
And he was just
so captured by it.
00:22:45.33\00:22:50.17
And I didn't
mention that he was 92.
00:22:50.20\00:22:52.33
Oh, 92! Wow!
00:22:52.37\00:22:54.04
Ninety two and he just
says, "Wow, this is truth."
00:22:54.07\00:22:57.51
And he was just
really impressed with it.
00:22:57.54\00:22:59.07
And the Holy
Spirit impressed upon him.
00:22:59.11\00:23:01.84
He had to be baptized,
00:23:01.88\00:23:03.21
it was delayed for a
while because of COVID.
00:23:03.24\00:23:05.68
And then he went
to, Pastor Jason said,
00:23:05.71\00:23:08.05
"We can't wait any longer.
00:23:08.08\00:23:10.19
I must get baptized, I'm 92."
00:23:10.22\00:23:13.62
Something good happened.
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The beauty of,
00:23:15.86\00:23:17.19
you know, having
your church members
00:23:17.23\00:23:20.26
having these
studies going on, ongoing,
00:23:20.30\00:23:23.43
so you can just plug them in.
00:23:23.47\00:23:25.10
That's wonderful.
00:23:25.13\00:23:26.47
Now, some pastors or
lay people have heard you
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as this aspect
of being inserted in
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because there's
the part of the program
00:23:34.64\00:23:37.88
where you have
your people on the site,
00:23:37.91\00:23:41.92
on the holy land
doing their presentation.
00:23:41.95\00:23:44.25
They all stay constant. Okay.
00:23:44.29\00:23:46.29
But I as the host,
00:23:46.32\00:23:48.36
so I'm like the
evening news anchor,
00:23:48.39\00:23:50.23
I start at middle and end it.
00:23:50.26\00:23:52.09
And I hand it off
to the reporters live,
00:23:52.13\00:23:54.16
they stay constant.
00:23:54.20\00:23:55.73
But the local pastor,
or the local evangelist,
00:23:55.76\00:23:58.67
or the local Bible
worker can be inserted
00:23:58.70\00:24:00.77
and take my place.
00:24:00.80\00:24:02.14
So I'm not even
seen in the video.
00:24:02.17\00:24:04.31
And the power of that to me is,
00:24:04.34\00:24:08.08
is that then it gives
the local church members
00:24:08.11\00:24:10.51
something to share.
00:24:10.55\00:24:11.88
So I'm out sharing
the Bible with somebody
00:24:11.91\00:24:14.32
and somebody and I get
near the end of the study,
00:24:14.35\00:24:16.02
I say, "Would you like to
meet the host of this series?"
00:24:16.05\00:24:18.19
And they go, "Oh, can I?"
00:24:18.22\00:24:19.62
I say, "Oh, yeah,
personal friend of mine."
00:24:19.65\00:24:21.86
"Really?" "Yeah."
00:24:21.89\00:24:23.22
Next week, I bring my pastor.
00:24:23.26\00:24:25.09
They already know the pastor
00:24:25.13\00:24:26.46
because they've
been watching him
00:24:26.49\00:24:27.83
teach the
precious truths of Jesus.
00:24:27.86\00:24:29.70
And they already know me
00:24:29.73\00:24:31.07
because I've been
loving on them for 26 weeks.
00:24:31.10\00:24:33.70
And I just encourage all
of our pastors out there,
00:24:33.74\00:24:37.64
all of our church
members out there,
00:24:37.67\00:24:39.64
take your church
00:24:39.67\00:24:41.01
and give it a
cycle of evangelism,
00:24:41.04\00:24:42.44
make it a Thunder church,
00:24:42.48\00:24:44.18
to where you're
constantly having
00:24:44.21\00:24:45.98
studies going
just all year long,
00:24:46.01\00:24:48.42
and you're
constantly reaping people
00:24:48.45\00:24:50.19
instead of
waiting for that one event
00:24:50.22\00:24:52.69
every five or
whatever years, two years,
00:24:52.72\00:24:55.12
whatever your church is doing.
00:24:55.16\00:24:56.93
Have a cycle of evangelism
00:24:56.96\00:24:58.29
where anyone who
comes to your church
00:24:58.33\00:24:59.76
can be plugged in
to a Thunder study.
00:24:59.79\00:25:02.13
It is powerful. It is winsome.
00:25:02.16\00:25:04.97
We had one couple
who came to a Bible study
00:25:05.00\00:25:08.20
that Pastor Jeff
Potts was holding.
00:25:08.24\00:25:10.34
Pastor Jeff
Potts is an evangelist
00:25:10.37\00:25:12.91
in his own right,
00:25:12.94\00:25:14.28
was the ministerial director
for Man/Sask Conference.
00:25:14.31\00:25:18.48
And he said, it is
his own words to me.
00:25:18.51\00:25:22.05
He says, "I'm
kind of embarrassed."
00:25:22.08\00:25:23.42
He says, "In over
30 years of ministry,
00:25:23.45\00:25:24.92
I've never held a
Bible study in my own home
00:25:24.95\00:25:27.26
for my neighbors."
00:25:27.29\00:25:28.82
But he got
inserted into the Thunder.
00:25:28.86\00:25:30.56
People started coming to
his studies in his own home,
00:25:30.59\00:25:33.19
started seeing baptisms
empower church members started.
00:25:33.23\00:25:36.10
Anyway, one couple came.
00:25:36.13\00:25:37.73
And the one guy
said, you know, he said,
00:25:37.77\00:25:39.90
"These are safe to use."
00:25:39.93\00:25:41.27
Yes.
00:25:41.30\00:25:42.64
"Get me a set so I can
share with my friends."
00:25:42.67\00:25:44.77
Marvelous. Praise the Lord.
00:25:44.81\00:25:47.18
Any number of other young people
00:25:47.21\00:25:48.54
have been impressed with it.
00:25:48.58\00:25:50.55
We had one Thunder group
00:25:50.58\00:25:51.98
that was happening
that young people came to it
00:25:52.01\00:25:55.28
and they said,
00:25:55.32\00:25:56.65
"If those young
people can do that,
00:25:56.69\00:25:58.75
we should do something."
00:25:58.79\00:26:00.42
And they started
a campus ministry
00:26:00.46\00:26:02.86
in the college in their town,
00:26:02.89\00:26:04.59
inspired by the young
people that were on Thunder.
00:26:04.63\00:26:06.80
Excellent!
00:26:06.83\00:26:08.53
One inspiring another.
00:26:08.56\00:26:10.80
That's right. That's great.
00:26:10.83\00:26:12.60
Now, the people
are being inserted,
00:26:12.63\00:26:14.97
the pastors and lay
people being inserted,
00:26:15.00\00:26:17.01
do they come to where you are?
00:26:17.04\00:26:19.21
They come to our studio.
00:26:19.24\00:26:21.04
We give them three days.
00:26:21.08\00:26:23.04
They only speak for
four and a half hours,
00:26:23.08\00:26:24.71
we give them three days.
00:26:24.75\00:26:26.51
Because many of
the people who come,
00:26:26.55\00:26:28.08
they're not media people.
00:26:28.12\00:26:29.98
And because
they're not media people,
00:26:30.02\00:26:31.35
it takes three days.
00:26:31.39\00:26:32.92
But when we get done with us,
00:26:32.95\00:26:34.42
you think they
were media people.
00:26:34.46\00:26:36.52
And they look good, they
have a nice presentation.
00:26:36.56\00:26:40.00
And people enjoy their videos.
00:26:40.03\00:26:42.50
Excellent. Praise the Lord.
00:26:42.53\00:26:43.87
Well, we want to
encourage you to consider
00:26:43.90\00:26:46.47
being one of the hosts for
"Thunder In The Holy Land."
00:26:46.50\00:26:49.30
And we're gonna
share information,
00:26:49.34\00:26:51.31
you know, in a
moment, how you can do that.
00:26:51.34\00:26:53.74
But we know there's
a lot more going on.
00:26:53.78\00:26:57.95
There are more
projects you're working on.
00:26:57.98\00:27:00.85
What is the latest
passion or the latest project
00:27:00.88\00:27:04.12
that you're working on
to help further the gospel?
00:27:04.15\00:27:07.29
I remember when we finished
00:27:07.32\00:27:09.39
in search of the
truth 13 episodes,
00:27:09.42\00:27:12.53
I was pastoring four churches,
00:27:12.56\00:27:14.13
we created 13
episodes, people said,
00:27:14.16\00:27:16.36
"What are you
gonna produce next?"
00:27:16.40\00:27:17.73
I said, "Nothing." I
mean, I love doing it.
00:27:17.77\00:27:21.70
But when you're pastoring,
and then making videos,
00:27:21.74\00:27:24.77
it just really
consumes your time.
00:27:24.81\00:27:26.37
And so I wasn't interested
in doing anything else
00:27:26.41\00:27:28.81
until I met Pastor Chuck Holly,
00:27:28.84\00:27:32.05
appreciate that
man, a godly man.
00:27:32.08\00:27:34.18
He basically
created the framework
00:27:34.22\00:27:37.39
of what is
"Thunder In The Holy Land."
00:27:37.42\00:27:39.09
He created his own
Bible study series.
00:27:39.12\00:27:40.62
I'm using his method,
hook, line and sinker.
00:27:40.66\00:27:44.03
I'm just so blessed
00:27:44.06\00:27:45.63
by what he
thought through and did.
00:27:45.66\00:27:48.00
His method of
impression questions.
00:27:48.03\00:27:49.53
His method of
impression questions.
00:27:49.56\00:27:50.93
So that's what
Thunder was based off
00:27:50.97\00:27:53.54
of using those
impression questions,
00:27:53.57\00:27:55.70
using that whole
method that he was doing
00:27:55.74\00:27:57.41
just a different set of videos.
00:27:57.44\00:28:00.91
So then people started asking me
00:28:00.94\00:28:02.28
the same question you did.
00:28:02.31\00:28:03.65
"So what are you
gonna produce next?"
00:28:03.68\00:28:05.01
"No, I'm done.
Really, trust me, I'm done.
00:28:05.05\00:28:07.18
Really, this time I'm done."
00:28:07.22\00:28:09.08
Until we've had now 13
languages and counting,
00:28:09.12\00:28:13.52
and we were just
talking to Tony Nobili,
00:28:13.56\00:28:16.52
who is the vice president
of the North American Division,
00:28:16.56\00:28:19.39
in charge of multilingual work,
00:28:19.43\00:28:22.26
and he just threw
in a couple more names.
00:28:22.30\00:28:24.60
And now we're 13, 14, 15.
00:28:24.63\00:28:26.90
And under his portfolio,
00:28:26.94\00:28:29.00
he's got 13 languages
00:28:29.04\00:28:30.47
that he works with
here in North America.
00:28:30.51\00:28:31.84
Yes.
00:28:31.87\00:28:33.21
So the languages
keep coming and saying,
00:28:33.24\00:28:36.41
"We want something like Thunder,
00:28:36.44\00:28:38.11
but in our language."
00:28:38.15\00:28:40.28
And I kept telling the Lord,
00:28:40.32\00:28:42.98
"I don't think we can do that
00:28:43.02\00:28:44.35
once you raise that much money,
00:28:44.39\00:28:45.72
and then take
them all on location
00:28:45.75\00:28:47.76
and, and shoot it
and then edit all that.
00:28:47.79\00:28:51.59
That is so time
consuming, so much money.
00:28:51.63\00:28:55.23
It can't be done.
00:28:55.26\00:28:56.60
It just can't be done."
00:28:56.63\00:28:57.97
So I kept saying no, no, no
00:28:58.00\00:29:00.00
until about the ninth language.
00:29:00.04\00:29:02.44
And then one day I
was reading my Bible,
00:29:02.47\00:29:04.67
and I'm sitting there reading,
00:29:04.71\00:29:06.57
and the text that
pops off the page,
00:29:06.61\00:29:09.34
for the first time again, says,
00:29:09.38\00:29:12.85
"Is anything too
hard for the Lord?"
00:29:12.88\00:29:14.62
Oh, yes.
00:29:14.65\00:29:16.02
And I just stopped right there.
00:29:16.05\00:29:17.39
And I said, "Lord,
I know it's too hard.
00:29:17.42\00:29:21.72
I know it's too much money.
00:29:21.76\00:29:23.09
It's too much
time. It's too hard.
00:29:23.12\00:29:25.09
I know it can't be done.
00:29:25.13\00:29:27.63
But now I'm reading in your book
00:29:27.66\00:29:29.00
and You said, "Is
anything too hard for me?"
00:29:29.03\00:29:31.07
Like, "Hello, I'm God here."
00:29:31.10\00:29:34.40
And so I stopped and I
began to pray and I said,
00:29:34.44\00:29:37.31
"Lord, forgive me
for not seeing things
00:29:37.34\00:29:39.77
through Your eyes."
00:29:39.81\00:29:41.14
Yes.
00:29:41.18\00:29:42.51
"So if you
believe that we can shoot
00:29:42.54\00:29:44.21
a Bible study series
00:29:44.25\00:29:46.65
that can then be reshot
again and again and again
00:29:46.68\00:29:49.15
in multiple languages.
00:29:49.18\00:29:50.99
You're gonna have to
show me how to do it.
00:29:51.02\00:29:54.02
Because I don't have a
clue of how to pull that off.
00:29:54.06\00:29:57.79
You opened the door.
00:29:57.83\00:29:59.16
You opened the door
for the Lord to show you?
00:29:59.19\00:30:01.40
Yes. And that's good.
00:30:01.43\00:30:02.76
We should do that.
00:30:02.80\00:30:04.13
We should say,
"Lord, how is this gonna be?
00:30:04.17\00:30:05.77
Show me."
00:30:05.80\00:30:07.14
So how, what happened?
00:30:07.17\00:30:08.50
So the first thing he
did is he started speaking,
00:30:08.54\00:30:10.01
as soon as I prayed
that he started talking,
00:30:10.04\00:30:11.61
and he said,
00:30:11.64\00:30:12.97
"Don't take the
Muhammad to the mountain,
00:30:13.01\00:30:16.54
bring the mountain to Muhammad."
00:30:16.58\00:30:18.45
Now I was a student
missionary in Jordan.
00:30:18.48\00:30:20.52
So I have a little
bit of the Muhammad
00:30:20.55\00:30:23.59
in story in my mind,
00:30:23.62\00:30:25.69
and, and
immediately I interpreted that,
00:30:25.72\00:30:28.59
do it greenscreen,
00:30:28.62\00:30:30.23
don't take everyone on location,
00:30:30.26\00:30:32.56
bring the location to them.
00:30:32.59\00:30:34.83
And I said,
"Okay, Lord, I got that."
00:30:34.86\00:30:37.13
But still, you've got to
hire all these camera operators.
00:30:37.17\00:30:40.64
And you've got to,
00:30:40.67\00:30:42.00
you've got to
pay all these people.
00:30:42.04\00:30:43.37
And I said, "Now if the
cameras just knew where to go
00:30:43.41\00:30:46.17
all by themselves,
00:30:46.21\00:30:48.01
all by themselves,
00:30:48.04\00:30:49.38
they would just move
and zoom in and zoom out,
00:30:49.41\00:30:51.38
rise up, go down and
move left and move right,
00:30:51.41\00:30:53.88
if they just moved
all by themselves."
00:30:53.92\00:30:56.25
Never heard of such a thing.
00:30:56.28\00:30:57.62
But if they could,
you'd save all that money,
00:30:57.65\00:31:00.32
you could do it cheap enough,
00:31:00.36\00:31:01.72
because you got
to get the cost down.
00:31:01.76\00:31:03.32
Because if you're
going to repeat it
00:31:03.36\00:31:04.69
over and over and over, you
00:31:04.73\00:31:06.06
got to get the cost down
00:31:06.09\00:31:07.43
to where these
languages can afford to do it.
00:31:07.46\00:31:11.53
And, so Karen and
I jumped on a plane,
00:31:11.57\00:31:14.50
we flew to Las Vegas
00:31:14.54\00:31:15.87
to the National
Association of Broadcasters.
00:31:15.90\00:31:18.61
And I walked up to
a booth and I said,
00:31:18.64\00:31:20.88
"Well, I'm looking
for some equipment."
00:31:20.91\00:31:22.24
"But tell us what
you're trying to do?"
00:31:22.28\00:31:23.61
So I told him,
00:31:23.65\00:31:24.98
"I'm trying to
create a Bible study series,
00:31:25.01\00:31:26.35
where I can do it factory style,
00:31:26.38\00:31:28.45
where the cameras automatically
just know where to go,
00:31:28.48\00:31:31.52
and the teleprompter runs
00:31:31.55\00:31:33.49
and points them to
the nice camera move
00:31:33.52\00:31:36.52
and all that all by itself."
00:31:36.56\00:31:39.13
And he just smiled, he
said, "Sounds ambitious."
00:31:39.16\00:31:45.80
So I went to another booth
and I went to another booth.
00:31:45.83\00:31:48.20
And finally I landed at a booth.
00:31:48.24\00:31:50.37
And all the equipment
00:31:50.41\00:31:51.74
that the Lord had put in my mind
00:31:51.77\00:31:54.11
has been created.
00:31:54.14\00:31:55.48
All ready
existed. It already exists.
00:31:55.51\00:31:58.45
It's expensive,
but it already exists.
00:31:58.48\00:32:01.88
And then if you think,
00:32:01.92\00:32:03.25
well, it's not that
expensive if you use it all day,
00:32:03.28\00:32:06.99
all month, all year
00:32:07.02\00:32:08.82
for language after language
after language after language,
00:32:08.86\00:32:11.66
empowering those
languages to have a Bible study
00:32:11.69\00:32:14.63
in their own
language with their own people
00:32:14.66\00:32:16.83
speaking their own dialect,
00:32:16.87\00:32:19.57
then it's not that expensive.
00:32:19.60\00:32:21.40
So now we're in a full
bore going ahead, mode,
00:32:21.44\00:32:27.94
we're writing the scripts,
00:32:27.98\00:32:29.51
they have to be
written differently,
00:32:29.54\00:32:31.45
then for just an
American audience,
00:32:31.48\00:32:34.18
because it's going to be
an international audience.
00:32:34.22\00:32:36.92
And so we're
writing them that way.
00:32:36.95\00:32:38.82
They're more story form.
00:32:38.85\00:32:40.86
They're truth formed
versus colloquial, local form.
00:32:40.89\00:32:46.86
Well, Karen, you're
involved in this as well.
00:32:46.90\00:32:49.96
What is the
title of this series?
00:32:50.00\00:32:52.33
And where does it go
00:32:52.37\00:32:54.40
as compared to
"Thunder In The Holy Land?"
00:32:54.44\00:32:56.44
We talked and
talked about the title,
00:32:56.47\00:32:59.27
and prayed and prayed about it.
00:32:59.31\00:33:01.24
And one came to him and
it just seemed too simple.
00:33:01.28\00:33:06.98
But when it all
was said and done,
00:33:07.02\00:33:09.38
it just seemed like
that was the right one.
00:33:09.42\00:33:11.72
Just the simple
title of "I Met God."
00:33:11.75\00:33:14.52
"I Met God," okay.
00:33:14.56\00:33:17.06
The overarching title.
00:33:17.09\00:33:19.33
And then it would be done
00:33:19.36\00:33:22.36
in four 13 episode series,
00:33:22.40\00:33:27.17
which would turn
out to be 52 episodes,
00:33:27.20\00:33:30.54
which is one for
every week of the year.
00:33:30.57\00:33:32.74
Yes.
00:33:32.77\00:33:34.11
So, it's, I met
the God of science,
00:33:34.14\00:33:38.51
I met the God of health,
I met the God of prophecy,
00:33:38.55\00:33:41.88
and I met the
God of relationship.
00:33:41.92\00:33:43.65
And they can be,
people can plug in,
00:33:43.69\00:33:46.29
you know, whichever
they think their audience
00:33:46.32\00:33:49.49
would be most
interested in starting out with.
00:33:49.52\00:33:52.36
You know, I have an
audience interested in health
00:33:52.39\00:33:54.66
so let's start
with the health one.
00:33:54.70\00:33:56.36
So it doesn't have to be,
you know, lockstep in order.
00:33:56.40\00:34:00.54
I don't even know
if there is a God.
00:34:00.57\00:34:02.47
Maybe there isn't really a God.
00:34:02.50\00:34:04.01
How ought we know
there even is a God?
00:34:04.04\00:34:06.14
Will you start with I
met the God of science.
00:34:06.17\00:34:09.61
Now after being at
3ABN for a while I,
00:34:09.64\00:34:13.52
you kind of get a feel
for what people are thinking
00:34:13.55\00:34:15.62
as far as when they hear things.
00:34:15.65\00:34:17.29
Now when you say this,
I met the God of science.
00:34:17.32\00:34:19.89
I met the God of this
and I met the God of that,
00:34:19.92\00:34:22.26
people are wondering,
00:34:22.29\00:34:23.63
well, how many gods
are you talking about?
00:34:23.66\00:34:24.99
Are we still
talking about the one God
00:34:25.03\00:34:27.30
or are you saying
there are different gods?
00:34:27.33\00:34:29.76
I met God.
00:34:29.80\00:34:31.40
Okay.
00:34:31.43\00:34:33.77
Good answer.
00:34:33.80\00:34:35.27
I'm really excited
00:34:35.30\00:34:36.64
for the folks up at sermon view.
00:34:36.67\00:34:38.01
In fact, we have
a graphic of this.
00:34:38.04\00:34:39.37
They have actually done
our artwork for our new series,
00:34:39.41\00:34:42.34
"I met the God of science."
00:34:42.38\00:34:44.55
"I met the God of health."
00:34:44.58\00:34:47.78
"I met the God of relationship."
00:34:47.82\00:34:50.65
"I mean, of prophecy, "
00:34:50.69\00:34:52.25
and "I met the God of science."
00:34:52.29\00:34:53.89
And so this artwork
00:34:53.92\00:34:55.79
actually at the center of it
00:34:55.82\00:34:57.23
is that picture
from the Sistine Chapel
00:34:57.26\00:34:59.43
where God is
reaching out and touching man.
00:34:59.46\00:35:02.33
And that kind of centers it.
00:35:02.36\00:35:04.03
But then you have
these different topics
00:35:04.07\00:35:05.60
along the way.
00:35:05.63\00:35:06.97
Great, great.
00:35:07.00\00:35:08.87
And illustration helps
capture the interest as well.
00:35:08.90\00:35:12.54
Now we also have other pictures,
00:35:12.57\00:35:14.08
would you like to talk
about those at this time?
00:35:14.11\00:35:16.61
No, we'll pick them up as we go.
00:35:16.64\00:35:17.98
We'll pick them
up as we go? Okay.
00:35:18.01\00:35:19.35
Very good.
00:35:19.38\00:35:20.72
So this I met God
series is already in process.
00:35:20.75\00:35:26.72
What do you need to keep going?
00:35:26.76\00:35:30.53
Well, we're gonna
need a number of things.
00:35:30.56\00:35:33.13
Obviously, we're
going to need prayer,
00:35:33.16\00:35:34.50
but people don't recognize
00:35:34.53\00:35:37.97
if they start praying
00:35:38.00\00:35:39.33
for something
their heart is in it.
00:35:39.37\00:35:41.04
And so that's really key.
00:35:41.07\00:35:42.90
But before we talk about that,
00:35:42.94\00:35:45.97
I think it's
important to help our audience
00:35:46.01\00:35:49.81
to recognize
00:35:49.84\00:35:51.91
how this is going
to be a unique series.
00:35:51.95\00:35:53.95
Okay.
00:35:53.98\00:35:55.32
Because instead of it
just being a talking head,
00:35:55.35\00:35:59.92
it's going to look
very much like Thunder,
00:35:59.95\00:36:02.86
it's going to have
a host in the studio.
00:36:02.89\00:36:05.46
And then they're
going to hand it off
00:36:05.49\00:36:06.83
to reporters,
00:36:06.86\00:36:08.53
literally around the world.
00:36:08.56\00:36:11.37
So when we're talking
about the God of science,
00:36:11.40\00:36:13.44
for example, one
of the illustrations
00:36:13.47\00:36:15.17
we're going to use
that there has to be a God.
00:36:15.20\00:36:18.17
Yes.
00:36:18.21\00:36:19.54
Is DNA.
00:36:19.57\00:36:21.48
Well, DNA it's,
00:36:21.51\00:36:23.24
you know, many
sets of encyclopedias
00:36:23.28\00:36:27.05
of all the information
that's encoded in your DNA.
00:36:27.08\00:36:30.85
In other words, it's a language.
00:36:30.89\00:36:33.42
How do you create
a language randomly?
00:36:33.46\00:36:37.79
So even if you took 27
letters of the alphabet,
00:36:37.83\00:36:40.50
and you just put
them in a scrabble box
00:36:40.53\00:36:42.53
and shook them up
and dumped them out,
00:36:42.56\00:36:44.10
you wouldn't get
any meaningful sentence?
00:36:44.13\00:36:46.90
No, you probably
wouldn't even get
00:36:46.94\00:36:48.50
a meaningful word,
00:36:48.54\00:36:49.87
but you wouldn't get
a meaningful sentence.
00:36:49.90\00:36:51.54
And so DNA
00:36:51.57\00:36:53.17
is sentence after
sentence after sentence
00:36:53.21\00:36:55.61
book after book set after set.
00:36:55.64\00:36:59.15
And so we're actually
shooting that portion of it,
00:36:59.18\00:37:02.95
in front of the
Institute in France,
00:37:02.98\00:37:07.92
where a camera, human camera
00:37:07.96\00:37:10.29
took the first
picture of a DNA strand.
00:37:10.33\00:37:14.23
I can't imagine
what kind of a lens
00:37:14.26\00:37:16.67
has to be on a camera
00:37:16.70\00:37:18.60
that can actually take
a picture of a DNA strand.
00:37:18.63\00:37:22.94
So it's gonna
literally be all over the world,
00:37:22.97\00:37:25.64
every episode,
00:37:25.67\00:37:27.08
whether you're
talking about science,
00:37:27.11\00:37:28.58
or whether you're
talking about health,
00:37:28.61\00:37:31.01
you know, whatever
you're talking about,
00:37:31.05\00:37:32.65
we're gonna have anchor points
00:37:32.68\00:37:34.32
literally all around the world.
00:37:34.35\00:37:35.88
So this series will have a
true international fragrance.
00:37:35.92\00:37:40.12
So that when the
Chinese are doing this series,
00:37:40.16\00:37:43.69
one of the
portions will be there
00:37:43.73\00:37:45.06
in front of the
terracotta soldiers
00:37:45.09\00:37:46.46
in China.
00:37:46.49\00:37:47.83
But then they'll
also be in Baghdad,
00:37:47.86\00:37:49.70
and they'll also be on the steps
00:37:49.73\00:37:51.20
you know, of Tibet,
you know, or whatever.
00:37:51.23\00:37:53.87
So these Chinese people
will be all over the world.
00:37:53.90\00:37:57.67
And when the
Malawan people do it,
00:37:57.71\00:37:59.57
that literally will
be all over the world.
00:37:59.61\00:38:01.48
And when the Mong people do it,
00:38:01.51\00:38:03.51
they'll literally
be all over the world
00:38:03.55\00:38:04.98
doing these different.
00:38:05.01\00:38:06.72
Excellent.
00:38:06.75\00:38:08.08
Now this sounds like a
series that people will say,
00:38:08.12\00:38:09.88
"I have to watch this.
00:38:09.92\00:38:11.42
I have to watch this."
00:38:11.45\00:38:12.79
We've had some people.
00:38:12.82\00:38:14.16
Is it ready? Is it ready?
00:38:14.19\00:38:16.96
Oh, we're still fundraising.
00:38:16.99\00:38:19.59
It's coming.
00:38:19.63\00:38:21.16
Now I understand
00:38:21.20\00:38:23.60
that the Grants Pass
Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:38:23.63\00:38:26.94
has been inspired.
00:38:26.97\00:38:29.20
How they got inspired
them to embrace this project?
00:38:29.24\00:38:33.27
Well, we have
one of our members.
00:38:33.31\00:38:36.61
This was like
during COVID, wasn't it?
00:38:36.64\00:38:38.71
Yeah. It was during COVID.
00:38:38.75\00:38:40.82
He was just saying, he
kept saying to my husband,
00:38:40.85\00:38:44.79
"We really, our
church really should have
00:38:44.82\00:38:47.49
a world mission project."
00:38:47.52\00:38:49.99
We should.
00:38:50.03\00:38:51.36
You know,
there's so many promises
00:38:51.39\00:38:53.13
that we have,
00:38:53.16\00:38:54.50
from the Spirit of Prophecy
00:38:54.53\00:38:55.86
about how it blesses a church
00:38:55.90\00:38:58.10
when they get
personally involved
00:38:58.13\00:38:59.80
with a world mission project.
00:38:59.83\00:39:02.17
So they, my husband said...
00:39:02.20\00:39:05.74
So Bob comes to me and he says,
00:39:05.77\00:39:07.11
"We really ought to do this."
00:39:07.14\00:39:08.48
Now I'm a pastor.
00:39:08.51\00:39:10.91
And when somebody
comes to me and says,
00:39:10.95\00:39:12.45
"This is what we ought to do,"
00:39:12.48\00:39:13.82
that means the Lord
put the burden on them.
00:39:13.85\00:39:15.62
Yes. Yeah.
00:39:15.65\00:39:16.99
And I, my name is Byrd.
00:39:17.02\00:39:18.52
And so I always put
wind under their wings.
00:39:18.55\00:39:20.89
And I said, "Well,
make up our proposal.
00:39:20.92\00:39:23.56
Let's take it to the
board, I'll support you."
00:39:23.59\00:39:26.09
And so he did
nothing for about a month
00:39:26.13\00:39:27.66
and he comes to me and he says,
00:39:27.70\00:39:29.03
"Pastor, we really ought
to do something on missions."
00:39:29.06\00:39:31.40
I said, "Make up the plan.
00:39:31.43\00:39:33.64
I'll support you."
00:39:33.67\00:39:35.00
"Gather team."
00:39:35.04\00:39:36.37
"Gather team,
put a plan together.
00:39:36.40\00:39:38.44
So he came to me a third time.
00:39:38.47\00:39:40.58
And finally he did it.
00:39:40.61\00:39:42.58
He was really shy.
00:39:42.61\00:39:43.95
He didn't want to be up front.
00:39:43.98\00:39:45.31
He didn't want to push
the church to do something.
00:39:45.35\00:39:47.18
He wanted me to push
the church to do something
00:39:47.22\00:39:48.78
but that God
called him to do it.
00:39:48.82\00:39:50.75
And I agreed with him, I
think that you should do it.
00:39:50.79\00:39:54.32
So they pick.
00:39:54.36\00:39:55.76
And this is what's amazing.
00:39:55.79\00:39:57.89
Right during COVID,
00:39:57.93\00:39:59.63
that's when
churches are shutting down.
00:39:59.66\00:40:01.36
People can't come.
00:40:01.40\00:40:02.73
How do you pay your
tithes and offerings
00:40:02.76\00:40:04.10
when you can't come to church?
00:40:04.13\00:40:05.93
And the first month
00:40:05.97\00:40:09.44
when that
happened in our church,
00:40:09.47\00:40:12.61
we sent the conference like,
00:40:12.64\00:40:15.04
only 40% of
what they usually get
00:40:15.08\00:40:17.38
from our church in tithes.
00:40:17.41\00:40:19.15
Only 40%, they call up,
00:40:19.18\00:40:20.78
"Hey, what's
going on down there?"
00:40:20.82\00:40:22.15
"Well, you shut
our church down?"
00:40:22.18\00:40:23.52
How about that, you know,
00:40:23.55\00:40:25.02
so to start a mission project
00:40:25.05\00:40:26.92
where you're raising
money for other stuff,
00:40:26.96\00:40:29.99
that's kind of like
not a smart move, right?
00:40:30.03\00:40:32.99
Wrong.
00:40:33.03\00:40:34.36
That's...
00:40:34.40\00:40:35.73
When is the time
00:40:35.76\00:40:37.10
to stop moving forward in faith?
00:40:37.13\00:40:39.13
Hmm, that's a good question.
00:40:39.17\00:40:41.60
There's never a
time. There's never a time.
00:40:41.64\00:40:44.31
You know, the walls
of Jericho are steep,
00:40:44.34\00:40:45.87
move forward, you know,
00:40:45.91\00:40:47.48
the Jordan
Rivers in flood stage,
00:40:47.51\00:40:49.11
move forward, the
Red Seas in the way,
00:40:49.14\00:40:51.38
move forward.
00:40:51.41\00:40:52.75
God doesn't want us to stop.
00:40:52.78\00:40:54.12
In fact, that's a
statement that has guided me.
00:40:54.15\00:40:58.49
God cannot guide
a stationary object.
00:40:58.52\00:41:02.02
If you stop
moving, He can't guide you.
00:41:02.06\00:41:04.76
So we started doing this.
00:41:04.79\00:41:06.46
We raised money for God
pods, for Papua New Guinea.
00:41:06.49\00:41:10.40
That was one of the projects.
00:41:10.43\00:41:11.83
We raised money to
build a school in India.
00:41:11.87\00:41:14.00
Marvelous.
00:41:14.04\00:41:15.37
And the church
says we want to support
00:41:15.40\00:41:16.74
the I met God project,
00:41:16.77\00:41:18.67
knowing that it's going to cost
00:41:18.71\00:41:20.04
hundreds of thousands of dollars
00:41:20.08\00:41:21.41
for the equipment and
getting this all together.
00:41:21.44\00:41:24.08
We probably can't do all
that, but we can support it.
00:41:24.11\00:41:27.25
We can support with our prayers.
00:41:27.28\00:41:28.88
We can support it
financially as we can.
00:41:28.92\00:41:31.42
And with volunteers.
00:41:31.45\00:41:32.79
With volunteers
we can do something.
00:41:32.82\00:41:35.99
So we're right in
the middle of COVID.
00:41:36.02\00:41:37.63
And we've been at this
for what, nine months now.
00:41:37.66\00:41:41.13
Eight, nine months.
00:41:41.16\00:41:43.06
They wanted to
raise $6,000 for God pods.
00:41:43.10\00:41:45.37
They raised over 10.
00:41:45.40\00:41:46.87
Praise the Lord.
00:41:46.90\00:41:48.24
They wanted to
raise $10,000 for India,
00:41:48.27\00:41:50.91
they raised over 12.
00:41:50.94\00:41:52.27
Praise God.
00:41:52.31\00:41:53.64
And then they didn't even
pick a figure for I met God.
00:41:53.68\00:41:56.61
And they've
raised close to 20,000.
00:41:56.64\00:41:58.81
Praise the Lord. Yes.
00:41:58.85\00:42:00.72
And in October,
00:42:00.75\00:42:03.25
this is the time
when you're falling
00:42:03.28\00:42:04.62
behind in church budget, see,
00:42:04.65\00:42:06.35
I mean, you're kind of
at the end of the year,
00:42:06.39\00:42:07.72
and you're kind
of falling behind,
00:42:07.76\00:42:09.09
you hope you make
it up in December.
00:42:09.12\00:42:10.53
We're $3,000 ahead.
00:42:10.56\00:42:12.39
Of our yearly budget.
00:42:12.43\00:42:14.53
Yes. So the...
00:42:14.56\00:42:15.90
It was so awesome to
see what happens when...
00:42:15.93\00:42:19.90
The Lord is moving. Yeah.
00:42:19.93\00:42:21.34
When you have a heart
for the people of the world
00:42:21.37\00:42:27.38
that haven't
heard about Jesus yet.
00:42:27.41\00:42:28.74
Yeah.
00:42:28.78\00:42:30.11
And the Spirit of Prophecy says,
00:42:30.15\00:42:31.48
"If you have an item mission,
00:42:31.51\00:42:32.85
the funds at home will
take care of themselves."
00:42:32.88\00:42:34.62
Yeah. Praise the Lord.
00:42:34.65\00:42:35.98
So I would encourage,
00:42:36.02\00:42:37.35
you said, "What
could our listeners do?"
00:42:37.39\00:42:38.85
I would encourage
perhaps 100 churches out there,
00:42:38.89\00:42:42.89
or 200 or 1000
churches out there,
00:42:42.92\00:42:44.66
say, "Let's make
the I met God project
00:42:44.69\00:42:47.30
one of our mission
projects for the world.
00:42:47.33\00:42:50.47
Because not only will it supply
00:42:50.50\00:42:52.47
Bible study
material for the languages
00:42:52.50\00:42:54.30
who are asking for it,
00:42:54.34\00:42:56.10
can we have a
Bible study like Thunder?
00:42:56.14\00:42:57.77
We want to share
Jesus with our community.
00:42:57.81\00:43:00.21
We want to share the
three angels' message
00:43:00.24\00:43:01.91
with our community.
00:43:01.94\00:43:03.28
But we need a tool
00:43:03.31\00:43:04.65
in our own
language like you have,
00:43:04.68\00:43:06.51
we want a quality one.
00:43:06.55\00:43:07.88
The people that look like us,
and people that dress like us,
00:43:07.92\00:43:10.69
and graphics that are
relevant to our culture.
00:43:10.72\00:43:15.22
Absolutely.
00:43:15.26\00:43:16.59
Can we, can you
help us with that?
00:43:16.62\00:43:17.96
And so, yes, we can.
00:43:17.99\00:43:20.00
And if churches said,
00:43:20.03\00:43:21.36
"Let's make that
a mission project,
00:43:21.40\00:43:22.73
a foreign mission project
00:43:22.76\00:43:24.10
and support the
I met God project."
00:43:24.13\00:43:26.33
If we had 200 or
300 churches saying,
00:43:26.37\00:43:28.34
"We're going to do that,
00:43:28.37\00:43:29.70
we're going to make
this a mission project.
00:43:29.74\00:43:31.14
It's COVID, I know,
00:43:31.17\00:43:32.51
but we're going to
have a mission project."
00:43:32.54\00:43:34.78
They would see I
think the same results
00:43:34.81\00:43:36.34
we've seen in our church.
00:43:36.38\00:43:37.71
Praise the Lord.
This is a massive project.
00:43:37.75\00:43:42.12
But with God, all
things are possible.
00:43:42.15\00:43:45.15
And so we want to
encourage you that are listening
00:43:45.19\00:43:48.36
and you may be listening
00:43:48.39\00:43:49.72
because God has called you
00:43:49.76\00:43:51.09
to be a part of
this Thunder project,
00:43:51.13\00:43:53.66
I met God project
and this is a great plan.
00:43:53.70\00:43:57.70
Is there a place they
can go on the internet
00:43:57.73\00:44:00.54
to find out more information?
00:44:00.57\00:44:03.67
Where the project is
00:44:03.71\00:44:05.17
we're going to be
sharing information
00:44:05.21\00:44:07.14
contact information,
00:44:07.18\00:44:08.51
because people want
to know, "How's it going?
00:44:08.54\00:44:10.88
Are you done yet?" Yes.
00:44:10.91\00:44:12.51
QLP.tv. QLP.tv?
00:44:12.55\00:44:16.25
QLP stands for
QuestLine Productions.
00:44:16.28\00:44:18.69
Or you can say
"Quick, let's pray."
00:44:18.72\00:44:22.36
QLP.tv and also
Charles, Facebook?
00:44:22.39\00:44:25.79
And we have
00:44:25.83\00:44:27.16
a QuestLine
Productions Facebook page,
00:44:27.20\00:44:28.53
which we're active.
00:44:28.56\00:44:29.90
In fact, if you
go to Facebook page,
00:44:29.93\00:44:32.93
go to QuestLine Productions.
00:44:32.97\00:44:34.30
You'll see me today
standing in front of 3ABN
00:44:34.34\00:44:37.31
saying we're going in
to record this program
00:44:37.34\00:44:42.21
and so we try to
keep people current
00:44:42.24\00:44:43.98
of what we're doing
how we're moving forward.
00:44:44.01\00:44:45.98
Praise the Lord.
00:44:46.01\00:44:47.35
This is marvelous
00:44:47.38\00:44:48.72
and I'm glad to
hear that your plan
00:44:48.75\00:44:51.95
is also to do other languages.
00:44:51.99\00:44:54.02
Yeah.
00:44:54.06\00:44:55.39
Because people need the
Lord in every single language.
00:44:55.42\00:45:00.30
It says, Well, we you know,
00:45:00.33\00:45:02.26
we think of the
scripture that says
00:45:02.30\00:45:04.53
in Revelation Chapter 14,
00:45:04.57\00:45:06.57
"To every tribe,
00:45:06.60\00:45:08.40
people and tongue and nation."
00:45:08.44\00:45:11.37
So it, it's something
marvelous that you're doing.
00:45:11.41\00:45:14.48
And I encourage people to pray.
00:45:14.51\00:45:18.25
What, how do you see
prayer as part of this project?
00:45:18.28\00:45:23.18
Well, I was before you
asked a question I was,
00:45:23.22\00:45:25.65
I was thinking,
00:45:25.69\00:45:27.46
if you've been in
a foreign country,
00:45:27.49\00:45:29.89
surrounded with a language
that you're not familiar with,
00:45:29.92\00:45:33.16
even if you kind of can get
00:45:33.19\00:45:34.83
to where you
can kind of make it.
00:45:34.86\00:45:37.33
Just imagine
trying to get to know God
00:45:37.37\00:45:42.50
through that foreign language.
00:45:42.54\00:45:45.54
You know, it was just
how beautiful it would be
00:45:45.57\00:45:48.21
if these people could
hear with their own people
00:45:48.24\00:45:52.61
sharing the gospel
in their own accent,
00:45:52.65\00:45:55.25
you know, not
even a foreign accent.
00:45:55.28\00:45:58.65
It's just to me,
it's just overwhelming
00:45:58.69\00:46:00.69
when I think the difference
00:46:00.72\00:46:02.06
I know that some
people I've talked with,
00:46:02.09\00:46:04.33
if they know English,
00:46:04.36\00:46:07.03
but it's not
their mother tongue.
00:46:07.06\00:46:09.36
And so when they read the Bible,
00:46:09.40\00:46:11.17
they like to go back
to their mother tongue.
00:46:11.20\00:46:14.44
And then it really
they really understand it.
00:46:14.47\00:46:17.47
Let me give you the perspective
00:46:17.51\00:46:19.57
from the
Spanish and the Russian.
00:46:19.61\00:46:24.18
When 3ABN was
privileged with the opportunity
00:46:24.21\00:46:29.52
to go into Russia,
00:46:29.55\00:46:30.92
we were bringing people
00:46:30.95\00:46:33.79
to translate our
programming into Russian.
00:46:33.82\00:46:37.09
And they came and
spent some time here,
00:46:37.13\00:46:40.66
and these were the things
we were putting on the air.
00:46:40.70\00:46:43.53
Eventually, when
our studio was done,
00:46:43.57\00:46:45.40
initially Novgorod, Russia,
00:46:45.43\00:46:48.84
they began to
produce programs in Russian.
00:46:48.87\00:46:53.11
So the difference
00:46:53.14\00:46:54.48
between the response
of people responding,
00:46:54.51\00:46:57.65
we have a book for you,
we have a Bible for you.
00:46:57.68\00:47:00.62
That you can, it was like,
00:47:00.65\00:47:02.75
okay, we received
these many calls and letters,
00:47:02.78\00:47:08.59
but when it was in
their own language,
00:47:08.62\00:47:11.33
I mean, they
could see the person
00:47:11.36\00:47:12.69
speaking not a translation,
00:47:12.73\00:47:14.73
it went higher and higher.
00:47:14.76\00:47:16.46
And it was like,
amazing, amazing.
00:47:16.50\00:47:20.07
The same thing I could
tell you about the Net series,
00:47:20.10\00:47:23.30
there was Net 95,
Spanish translations,
00:47:23.34\00:47:25.44
Net 96 Spanish translation,
00:47:25.47\00:47:27.58
and the people were
watching Mark Finley preaching
00:47:27.61\00:47:29.44
and then there was
a Spanish translation.
00:47:29.48\00:47:31.75
But I can tell you,
00:47:31.78\00:47:33.45
there were many baptisms
at Net 95, Net 96, Net 98 etc.
00:47:33.48\00:47:38.99
But when we had
a Spanish speaker
00:47:39.02\00:47:44.66
do a Net series,
00:47:44.69\00:47:47.13
there was a more churches
that joined and more baptism.
00:47:47.16\00:47:51.47
So the concept of people
00:47:51.50\00:47:53.54
hearing the gospel
in their own language
00:47:53.57\00:47:56.30
by a native speaker,
00:47:56.34\00:47:58.57
and seeing the person,
00:47:58.61\00:48:00.18
I can tell you from
experience, it works.
00:48:00.21\00:48:03.58
Not that the
other does not work,
00:48:03.61\00:48:04.95
it does work,
00:48:04.98\00:48:06.31
but it impacts
people better, more.
00:48:06.35\00:48:08.78
Absolutely.
00:48:08.82\00:48:10.15
And that's the burden
00:48:10.19\00:48:11.52
I think the
Lord laid on my heart
00:48:11.55\00:48:12.89
when these
languages kept coming to me.
00:48:12.92\00:48:14.96
Can imagine us
00:48:14.99\00:48:16.32
doing these 52
episodes in Russian?
00:48:16.36\00:48:18.69
Now the Russians gonna have
it spoken in their own language.
00:48:18.73\00:48:21.33
Yes.
00:48:21.36\00:48:22.70
The Spanish can have it,
spoken in their own language,
00:48:22.73\00:48:25.73
Indian dialects in
their lines, the 10/40 Window,
00:48:25.77\00:48:29.67
all these languages,
00:48:29.70\00:48:31.27
having their own Bible
study in their own language
00:48:31.31\00:48:33.71
with their own people.
00:48:33.74\00:48:35.08
Yes.
00:48:35.11\00:48:36.44
You asked, what can,
you know what about prayer?
00:48:36.48\00:48:38.68
How will prayer fit in here?
00:48:38.71\00:48:40.55
And what you can
really be praying for
00:48:40.58\00:48:45.02
is that God who owns a
cattle on a thousand hills,
00:48:45.05\00:48:50.73
who we know he
can provide for this.
00:48:50.76\00:48:53.70
And for the funding
00:48:53.73\00:48:56.16
that it'll take to
do the initial setup
00:48:56.20\00:49:00.94
and then set it up as
a factory, so to speak,
00:49:00.97\00:49:04.44
to be able to
through these languages.
00:49:04.47\00:49:06.91
So we just need,
00:49:06.94\00:49:08.28
we need resources
of financial resources,
00:49:08.31\00:49:11.11
we need human resources,
people resources, just...
00:49:11.15\00:49:17.59
You know, there are some people
00:49:17.62\00:49:19.32
that like to hear a number.
00:49:19.35\00:49:22.66
How much do you need,
00:49:22.69\00:49:24.33
and some people don't
have that type of interest.
00:49:24.36\00:49:29.33
You know, we tell people,
00:49:29.36\00:49:31.03
"Let the Lord impress you
how much you want to give,
00:49:31.07\00:49:33.03
because the need is there."
00:49:33.07\00:49:35.94
Now do you have a, let say,
00:49:35.97\00:49:38.07
let us say phase
one or phase two,
00:49:38.11\00:49:41.14
number that you could say,
00:49:41.18\00:49:42.51
well, we need this much
00:49:42.54\00:49:44.45
to complete this
particular phase?
00:49:44.48\00:49:45.91
You have something. Sure.
00:49:45.95\00:49:47.28
A crowdsourcing number. A
crowdsourcing number, yeah.
00:49:47.32\00:49:50.19
So the equipment,
00:49:50.22\00:49:51.55
the highly technical equipment
00:49:51.59\00:49:52.99
which will allow us
to factorize this process
00:49:53.02\00:49:56.83
so that we can do it quickly
00:49:56.86\00:49:58.19
and efficiently
is about $950,000.
00:49:58.23\00:50:02.23
That's the equipment.
There's other expenses.
00:50:02.26\00:50:04.07
We've gotten some of it
00:50:04.10\00:50:05.43
with the
donations that have come.
00:50:05.47\00:50:06.80
Yeah.
00:50:06.84\00:50:08.17
Let me give you
some numbers this way.
00:50:08.20\00:50:09.54
I've got a
picture of a little boy.
00:50:09.57\00:50:11.24
And then I'd like to put
up on the screen right now
00:50:11.27\00:50:13.17
it's a little boy in Africa,
00:50:13.21\00:50:15.04
that little boy in Africa
is hungry, is very hungry.
00:50:15.08\00:50:18.58
So if I asked you
for a loaf of bread
00:50:18.61\00:50:21.18
to feed this
child, would you deny me?
00:50:21.22\00:50:25.42
So that's... It's
very hard to deny that.
00:50:25.45\00:50:26.79
It's very hard.
00:50:26.82\00:50:28.16
So I'm going to ask
the question this way,
00:50:28.19\00:50:29.96
if I asked you for three loaves
00:50:29.99\00:50:31.76
of Killer Dave's bread.
00:50:31.79\00:50:33.50
And for those of you
who are American audiences
00:50:33.53\00:50:36.33
who've gone to
American grocery stores,
00:50:36.36\00:50:38.17
there's a brand
called Killer Dave's bread.
00:50:38.20\00:50:40.47
It's a guy who was in prison.
00:50:40.50\00:50:42.57
And maybe he was a killer,
00:50:42.60\00:50:44.27
but he got
working in the bakery,
00:50:44.31\00:50:45.87
and he started making
this really good bread.
00:50:45.91\00:50:47.84
Lots of sticks and twigs in it.
00:50:47.88\00:50:49.24
Lots of sticks and
twigs in as my friends say,
00:50:49.28\00:50:51.38
"It's a healthy bread, right?"
00:50:51.41\00:50:53.42
So that bread is like $5 a loaf.
00:50:53.45\00:50:56.38
Wow.
00:50:56.42\00:50:57.75
If just 200,000 listeners says,
00:50:57.79\00:50:59.62
I'll send you
three loaves of bread,
00:50:59.65\00:51:01.02
I'll send you 15 bucks,
00:51:01.06\00:51:02.72
they can do it at our website,
qlp.tv the donations page,
00:51:02.76\00:51:06.63
they could do it on
Facebook, either way.
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If 200,000 just sent $15
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that's not going to
be a stretch for anybody.
00:51:12.07\00:51:14.30
Or if 100,000 said,
00:51:14.34\00:51:16.67
"I'll give you
six loaves of bread."
00:51:16.71\00:51:18.94
So if people just said
I'm going to pray and say,
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"Lord, if I'm
going to give 50 or 300."
00:51:23.91\00:51:26.31
If 10,000 people gave $300,
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we could pay for
all the equipment,
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and get the first five languages
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out the door.
00:51:32.15\00:51:33.49
Praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
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So think of it as
not a big sacrifice
00:51:34.89\00:51:37.36
that you have to do.
00:51:37.39\00:51:38.86
Well, you've heard
some good information
00:51:38.89\00:51:42.26
and we're going to share
with you contact information
00:51:42.30\00:51:45.23
so that you can
get more information
00:51:45.27\00:51:47.60
and we want you to
visit and write down
00:51:47.64\00:51:51.91
and pray for this project.
00:51:51.94\00:51:53.58
After this we are going
to have our 3ABN news break
00:51:53.61\00:51:56.11
and we'll be back in a moment.
00:51:56.14\00:51:58.58
For more information
about QuestLine Productions,
00:51:58.61\00:52:01.25
you may go to
their website at QLP.tv.
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That's QLP.tv.
00:52:05.29\00:52:08.06
Their email
address is info@QLP.tv.
00:52:08.09\00:52:11.89
Their phone
numbers are (844) 777-5788
00:52:11.93\00:52:17.87
or (541) 415-6879.
00:52:17.90\00:52:23.81
Their mailing
address is 367 Volkmer Way,
00:52:23.84\00:52:27.81
Williams, Oregon 97544.
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That's 367 Volkmer Way,
00:52:31.35\00:52:33.98
Williams, Oregon 97544.
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