As you're well aware,
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we're living in
unprecedented times.
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Join us now for
Today 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 3ABN Today.
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I'm Shelley Quinn.
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I'm J.D. Quinn.
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And we're so glad
that you're joining us
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as many of you do
each and every day.
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We have a fascinating
couple with us today.
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It's exciting to see
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how God can tap the Marlboro Man
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on the shoulder and
bring him into His work.
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God is so good to us.
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And I wanted to start
today with Revelation 18:4.
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You know, there's so many people
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who don't know
anything about Jesus.
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But there are so
many wonderful Christians
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in other churches that
don't know His full truth.
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And we believe that God
has His people in every church.
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And He says in Revelation
18:4, He says to them,
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"Come out of her,
come out of Babylon,
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come out of this system
of religion that is untrue.
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Come out of her, My people."
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So we're going to
talk with a couple today,
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get to know them
a little bit better,
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and find out what they're
doing to help this loud cry.
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J.D., you want to
introduce our guests?
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Most certainly,
the Goss's G-O-S-S,
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and we have Ron and we have Pat.
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Yes.
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What a lovely, lovely couple.
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I mean, there's a
difference in the personalities,
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one's more
aggressive than the other.
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And I think that we
both are looking toward Ron
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as being aggressive.
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What a man of God.
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And it's interesting
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whenever you told
me what your past was,
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where you were, and
where you are today.
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You were a law man,
you were Chief of Police.
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And so, and today,
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you heard
something from the Lord
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that says maybe I
need to reevaluate
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for I am and who I am.
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Amen.
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And then you changed direction
and you've done a mighty work
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and been a mighty
warrior for the kingdom of God.
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And we're excited
to get into this story.
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Amen.
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Before we do, I know, we
know that you all love music.
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We also know you
love Ladye Love Smith.
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So Ladye Love is
going to sing for us.
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What is it?
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She's going to be
singing, God gave the song.
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You ask me why
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My heart keeps singing
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How can I sing
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When things go wrong
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For since I found
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The source of music
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I just can't help it
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'Cause God gave the song
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Come walk with me
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Through fields and forests
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We'll climb those hills
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And still hear that song
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For even hills
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Resound with music
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They just can't help it
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'Cause God gave the song
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And I see
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I see
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Because
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Because
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I'm happy
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I'm happy
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And I see
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I see
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Because
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Because
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I found
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The source of music
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And I just can't help it
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'Cause God gave the song
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For since I found
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The source of music
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I just can't help it
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'Cause God gave the song
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God gave the song
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Well, Ladye Love is
one of my favorite singers.
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She is, she and Reggie
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are just so on fire for the Lord
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and they're so sweet.
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They talk to everybody
everywhere they go, don't they?
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Make you look easy.
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They do indeed.
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Well, if you're
joining us just a little late,
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our special guests
today are Ron and Pat Goss.
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And they are the Co-directors
for Project Restore.
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But before we get
into what God is doing
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through them right now,
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we want to get to know
y'all just a little bit better.
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So I'm going to
start, ladies first.
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Yes.
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And, Pat, did you grow
up in a Christian home?
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Yes.
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Tell us a little bit
about your upbringing?
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My father was a Methodist,
and my mother was a Catholic.
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Okay.
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And they transferred
from church to church
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as I was growing up
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until they came
across a set of meetings
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that they wanted to go to.
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And they learned so
much from the Bible.
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And we became
Adventist Christians.
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Amen.
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And the Lord
guided us and directed us
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and just grew up as
an Adventist Christian,
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went to Academy
and went to college.
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Praise God.
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I thought the Lord
would come before then,
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but praise the
Lord where we are now.
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And we can share
and get literature out
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and do all kinds of things.
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I'm blessed to
have the husband I have.
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Amen. Amen.
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So let me ask you a question
'cause this is interesting.
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You know, sometimes people
will grow up in the church
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and go through
the church schools,
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but it doesn't
become real in their heart.
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You know, God
has no grandchildren,
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only children.
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So when did it become a
real connection for you?
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How old were you?
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Probably about 11 or 12 years.
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Really.
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So you are one of those
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that just
connected immediately in.
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Oh, yes.
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Praise God.
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And I had parents that
were very, very dedicated
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to the Lord.
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Amen.
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I mean, I remember my mother
getting stuck, the car stuck,
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and she said, "Well, we
need to pray about this."
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Amen.
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And we prayed.
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And then the car
just moved on out.
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And wherever we went,
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my mother always had literature
to hand out to people.
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She'd even open
the window in the car
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and handed the material out.
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And it was just
so exciting to see.
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Wonderful.
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I was very blessed.
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You are very blessed.
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So how about you, Ron?
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Did you grow up
in a Christian home?
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My mother was a Methodist.
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My father was a Catholic,
just the opposite to Pat.
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How interesting.
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Yes.
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And my mother studied
and found the Sabbath truth,
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and she joined the
Adventist Christian Church.
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And when I was just quite young,
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just a baby, but I was a rebel.
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I was a prodigal son.
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I had it all.
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I never doubted
the Adventist message.
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Matter of fact,
I've said in a bar room
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and between drinking a Budweiser
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and smoking a Marlboro and
telling the guy next to me,
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"Now if you're going
to keep the true Sabbath,
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it's Saturday, brother."
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Amen.
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So I've never doubted the truth.
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I've always believed
the truth of Adventism.
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But it wasn't until my mid 30s
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as I'm driving
around a patrol car,
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and the Holy Spirit spoke
to me very audibly, and said,
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"Ron, you've been locking
up people long enough now,
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it's time to go set some free."
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Ooh! Wow.
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Wow.
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So I knew at that point,
and it's a long, long story,
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but how the Lord
loves you so much
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and just leads and guides
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and directs
every step of the way
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and I am so grateful to Him
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that He is long
suffering and merciful.
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You know I love
when people say that.
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And sometimes when
I first came to 3ABN,
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I'd say, "Well,
the Lord said this,
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or the Lord said that."
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And people were like,
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"She thinks she's
hearing from God."
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But you know, 1 Kings
19:12 says, talks about
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the still small voice of
the Lord that Elijah heard.
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And when you think about it,
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God's audible voice
is compared to like,
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many rivers and floods.
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And it's so
magnificent that people shook
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when they heard
this audible voice.
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But I believe that
the Spirit of the Lord
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when He impresses a
thought upon our mind,
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He whispers to us. Yes.
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Absolutely.
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One day I was
walking down the main road,
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and the voice said to
me, "Walk up in the field."
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Well, they had
just plowed the field,
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and it had
rained and it was muddy.
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And I thought,
"What am I hearing?
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This is crazy.
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And then it came to me again.
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And so I thought,
"Well, I better go up."
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And I did and then a car
came along and flipped over
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where I would have been.
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Oh, glory to God.
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So we have to
listen to what God says.
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Amen.
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And glory to God that you did.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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So, Ron, you
were in police work,
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actually, you
were a Chief of Police.
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And he told us a
story in the greenroom
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how he's driving around
Las Vegas in his Corvette,
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had a beer in one hand,
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and Marlboro in the other,
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that's why I called
him the Marlboro Man.
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But then you hear
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the Holy Spirit speaking to you.
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Tell us how God took
you, how he got your heart,
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were you really ready
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to give up all the
vanities of the world?
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Well there's
the number of steps.
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You know, the Lord
takes us as we can handle it,
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as we can feel with it.
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He leads us, He's
gentle, He's kind, He's loving.
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And some things
happen where someone
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when I was
working on the Sabbath,
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and someone broke in the home
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and they stole
some different thing,
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money I had saved for Las Vegas
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and stole my wife's jewelry
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except for the watch she'd wear,
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every once in a while
wanted to please my mom,
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I'd go to church.
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And it just
started coming together,
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piecing together and I knew
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that the Lord was
working on my heart.
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And I used to
love to hunt and fish,
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and if I wasn't
fishing and hunting,
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I was looking for a
place to fish and hunt.
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Should have been born
back in Daniel Boone's.
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Yeah.
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But, anyway, just
the Lord step by step
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and I said to the
fellow that was driving
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that pickup
truck on the way back
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from a deer hunting trip.
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I said, "Bill, I
think I'm going to quit,
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give up deer hunting."
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He said, "What?
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You're going to
quit deer hunting?
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Are you going to quit hunting?"
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I said, "No, I didn't say
I was going to quit hunting."
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I said, "I think I'm
going to give up deer hunting.
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I think I'll hunt
souls for the Lord."
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Oh, boy.
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And for the next half hour,
there wasn't another word said
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as we drove along
because I could not believe
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that that came out of my mouth.
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And I knew then that
the Lord was working.
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Step by step He brought me back
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until I went to
church in my new Corvette
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and come in at 11:30
just when the sermon starts,
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just about and
preacher gave an altar call.
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And again, the Holy
Spirit spoke to my heart
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that day and said, "Ron,
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even you've been
serving the devil long enough.
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Choose to serve Me
today or you're a lost man."
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Just as clear as that.
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And I said, "Lord, I've
wasted all these years."
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Cause I was in my
mid 30s at that time,
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"But if You'll have
me, I'll serve You."
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And He said, "I'll have you."
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And I went forward that day,
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and life hasn't
been the same since
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and had us do a
ministry called Project Restore,
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where we're doing everything
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we can by His
grace to lead others
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to the lovely
Jesus that we serve.
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Amen.
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So tell us
about Project Restore?
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Project Restore, I was
telling, as we were talking
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at the green
room a little earlier,
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Pat and I were in town,
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one of the town's
after we moved to Virginia,
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I had turned my
badge in '86, and I said,
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"Do you see that
fellow in the corner,
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standing on the
corner there up the street?"
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He said, "Yeah."
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So well, I've locked
him up several times.
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So I used to, you know,
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they used to call me
the pistol packing preacher.
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They can see you carry,
you know, everywhere you go,
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and then as I got
closer to the Lord,
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the Lord spoke to
me and basically said,
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"The angel Lord encamped
around about them that fear him,
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and he's well
enough to take care of us.
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You don't need it."
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Amen.
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So as I was contemplating
this and doing that morning,
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I jumped in the
shower, had the radio play,
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and a commercial
or something came on,
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I don't know if it
came from the radio or not,
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I'm not sure but
this is what I heard,
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"Put away your sword
and pick up your pen."
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I had no idea what
that meant at that time.
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But time after that
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is when the Lord called us to do
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Project Restore
and Project Restore,
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as a ministry before
the great and terrible day
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of the Lord, Elijah will return.
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We know that's
the Elijah message.
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How long he hopped
between two opinions,
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if it be God then serve God,
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if it be Baal then serve Baal,
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but you can no
longer sit on the fence,
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because Satan owns the fence.
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So what we're
doing is, by God's grace,
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we started into
the printing ministry,
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we don't have
printing presses ourselves,
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we have other ministry
or other businesses do that.
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And we connected with
Dwight at Remnant Publication
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to do different things.
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But we've, Mom
and Pop organization,
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we've had the privilege
of printing and distributing
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over 75 million magazines,
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32 page magazine four color.
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But then we were impressed
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to get out The
Great Controversy,
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the full text, Great Controversy
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with the appendix,
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because next to the Bible,
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I believe it is
the book of the hour.
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Because she
says of all my books,
00:16:12.77\00:16:15.44
even above The Desire of
Ages and Steps to Christ,
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she says above all my
books, as wonderful as they are,
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she says I want
The Great Controversy
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out more than any
book I've ever written.
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Because it depicts and
shares not only the past,
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but the present,
and the future history
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of what's about to take place.
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And it's so well written
that it's just a page turner,
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you know, you
just turn one page,
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and you can't wait
to get to the next page,
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and fantastic.
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For those of you at home,
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if you're not familiar
with The Great Controversy,
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it was written by Ellen White,
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and it is the
history of the church.
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It is the
history of the Dark Ages.
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And then it goes forward
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at unfolding all of these things
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that we see that prophecy,
00:17:02.98\00:17:06.59
many of the Bible prophecies
have already been fulfilled,
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but there are more coming.
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And the interesting thing
about The Great Controversy,
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we know and you may
know if you've watched 3ABN,
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we've got some
Pastor John Bradshaw,
00:17:17.90\00:17:21.70
Pastor David Asscherick
00:17:21.74\00:17:24.24
came into the church
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by reading that book.
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And Doug Batchelor,
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that was a turning point for him
00:17:32.91\00:17:36.65
when he read The
Great Controversy.
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So it's a fascinating
book, because anybody that's...
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As you said, the way
in which it's written,
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it makes history come alive,
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but you see Bible
prophecy being fulfilled,
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but then it's going forward.
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So what, now when you
said a mom and pop operation,
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you are, Project
Restore is a 501 (c) (3),
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that means it's a
nonprofit organization.
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So this is a ministry.
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And obviously,
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if you've printed
75 million magazines,
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and how many Great Controversies
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have you printed?
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Oh, we just ordered the paper
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for the next five million books.
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That's right.
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And... How much
paper does that take?
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That's five million pounds.
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Wow.
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Okay.
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And for those who are a little
more practical minded that's...
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12553 foot,
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tractor trailer loads of paper.
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Wow.
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It's unbelievable.
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That's the weight. That's right.
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But if you put
those tractor trailer,
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you line them
up on an interstate
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and you just give a
little safe distance in between,
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that'd be two miles of
tractor trailers pulling
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that paper
that's going to end up
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being The Great Controversy,
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the present truth,
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which must get out
to the world today.
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Amen.
00:18:58.27\00:18:59.60
And I know the paper is...
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For a mom and pop operation,
that's not bad at all.
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Is it? Praise God.
00:19:03.30\00:19:04.64
That'd be about
25 million books.
00:19:04.67\00:19:06.01
Yeah.
00:19:06.04\00:19:07.38
But the thing about it
00:19:07.41\00:19:09.08
is that you got
your assignment...
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Yes.
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And you follow through.
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You're still a
mom and pop operation,
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so you say and you...
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It's there's no telling
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how many souls
have been touched.
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Well, we know of a lot of people
00:19:26.29\00:19:28.73
because we get the testimonies
00:19:28.76\00:19:30.23
and we know many, many
that have come in truth
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and accepted in wanting
to be Adventist Christians.
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That's right.
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And some, for
instance, in South Carolina,
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we went, had a
speaking assignment down there
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and we went to visit
with an elderly lady,
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we stayed with her
and she had bulk mail
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to the zip code
around her church
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and where she lived.
00:19:53.32\00:19:54.76
And so when Pat and
I got there, she said,
00:19:54.79\00:19:56.86
"Oh, Ron, you know,
it's been about 10 months
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since the books gone out.
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We're not hearing anything,
00:20:01.96\00:20:03.60
does it really
make a difference?"
00:20:03.63\00:20:06.23
And I said,
"Surely, the Word of God says
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His Word will
not come back void!"
00:20:10.51\00:20:12.01
Amen.
00:20:12.04\00:20:13.38
Period, exclamation point.
00:20:13.41\00:20:15.31
The Word of God
says, "Cast the bread,
00:20:15.34\00:20:17.31
which is the Word
of God on the waters,"
00:20:17.35\00:20:19.68
Revelation 17:15, "The people,
00:20:19.71\00:20:22.25
cast the bread upon the waters,
00:20:22.28\00:20:23.72
and after many
days it shall return!"
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Period, exclamation point.
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Amen. Amen.
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So the Sabbath I'm speaking here
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comes a man by the name of Fred.
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Fred's coming out of one
of the Babylonian churches
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that he belonged
to at a time realized
00:20:36.26\00:20:37.80
that there was some confusion.
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Okay, explain.
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Let's pause for just a second
00:20:40.57\00:20:41.90
because we've got
people watching...
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Okay.
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Who are saying,
00:20:44.67\00:20:46.01
"What do you mean
Babylonian churches?
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Explain what the Bible
talks about in Revelation,
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that Babylon is
a religious system
00:20:52.58\00:20:58.25
of confusion.
00:20:58.29\00:21:00.06
It is taking
part of God's truth,
00:21:00.09\00:21:03.32
but it's adding man's tradition.
00:21:03.36\00:21:06.59
And what did
Jesus say to the people?
00:21:06.63\00:21:08.80
He said, "Hey, you are
taking the doctrines of men
00:21:08.83\00:21:14.70
and making void the
Word of God by them."
00:21:14.74\00:21:17.34
So that's what
we're talking about.
00:21:17.37\00:21:19.24
That's what we're talking about.
00:21:19.27\00:21:20.61
We know the Tower of Babel,
00:21:20.64\00:21:21.98
and they all were speaking
all these different languages,
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nothing but confusion.
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There's a lot of confusion,
even though God has a people,
00:21:24.91\00:21:28.58
as you mentioned
earlier in all denominations.
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In Revelation 18:4
00:21:31.72\00:21:33.05
which you read come
out of her My people,
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don't be confused any longer.
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And we believe as
Adventist Christians
00:21:37.23\00:21:41.00
that we need to
be the Paul Harveys
00:21:41.03\00:21:44.00
of Christianity.
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Amen.
00:21:45.40\00:21:46.74
We need to give them
the rest of the story.
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Many other people in
all different churches
00:21:48.57\00:21:52.11
love and know Jesus
better than many of us.
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They know Him even better,
00:21:56.58\00:21:58.55
but they haven't
heard the rest of the story.
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Yeah.
00:22:00.28\00:22:01.62
And that's where the
Elijah message comes in.
00:22:01.65\00:22:03.59
And the rest of the
story is all from the Bible.
00:22:03.62\00:22:06.12
It's all from the Bible.
00:22:06.15\00:22:07.49
So they haven't focused on that.
00:22:07.52\00:22:09.26
So here you are
preaching and Fred walks in.
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And Fred comes in, and he said,
00:22:11.19\00:22:13.46
"I've been reading
The Great Controversy,
00:22:13.50\00:22:16.63
and I realize that Saturday,
00:22:16.67\00:22:19.03
the seventh day is
the Sabbath of the Bible."
00:22:19.07\00:22:21.30
How?
00:22:21.34\00:22:22.67
"And I'm going to join
here with some Sabbath keepers."
00:22:22.70\00:22:25.27
And so he came in.
00:22:25.31\00:22:26.74
So then he decided he was going
to put an ad in the newspaper,
00:22:26.78\00:22:30.55
and put a picture of
The Great Controversy,
00:22:30.58\00:22:33.48
and said that, "Maybe you
read this book like I did,
00:22:33.52\00:22:36.42
and I started keeping
the seventh day Sabbath,
00:22:36.45\00:22:38.79
and maybe you
would like to as well,
00:22:38.82\00:22:40.69
and so we're
inviting you to come."
00:22:40.72\00:22:42.26
And he gave the address of
the church for them to come.
00:22:42.29\00:22:44.96
So when he goes over
to the newspaper office
00:22:44.99\00:22:47.66
to get the ad, the
lady that's helping him
00:22:47.70\00:22:51.23
with the ad that works
at the newspaper office,
00:22:51.27\00:22:53.80
she said, "Well, my husband
and I got the book in the mail
00:22:53.84\00:22:56.24
as well, and we've
read The Great Controversy."
00:22:56.27\00:22:59.54
And so Fred
invited them to church.
00:22:59.57\00:23:02.31
So they all three showed up
00:23:02.34\00:23:04.18
at the
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
00:23:04.21\00:23:07.18
and they were
having communion that day,
00:23:07.22\00:23:09.32
and they all
participated in communion,
00:23:09.35\00:23:12.65
even the foot washing.
00:23:12.69\00:23:14.02
Amen.
00:23:14.06\00:23:15.39
So yes, we have the
stories, we get letters,
00:23:15.42\00:23:18.09
we understand from people
that are coming into the truth,
00:23:18.13\00:23:21.26
dedicating their lives to
work for God as well, fully.
00:23:21.30\00:23:26.20
Okay, so Project
Restore began when?
00:23:26.23\00:23:29.27
It actually began in
'95, 1995 when first started.
00:23:29.30\00:23:32.97
Yes.
00:23:33.01\00:23:34.34
And you've sent out
over 17 million magazines,
00:23:34.38\00:23:37.31
and now millions of
copies of The Great Controversy.
00:23:37.35\00:23:41.45
Tell us how do you distribute?
00:23:41.48\00:23:45.95
I mean, it's amazing to
me when God says, "Okay,
00:23:45.99\00:23:50.53
Ron, I'm tapping
you on the shoulder,
00:23:50.56\00:23:52.56
Pat, I'm tapping
you on the shoulder."
00:23:52.59\00:23:55.86
For two people
running a ministry,
00:23:55.90\00:23:59.17
it's amazing what God's doing.
00:23:59.20\00:24:01.84
So tell us how you distribute,
00:24:01.87\00:24:04.24
how do you get the
funds to do all of this?
00:24:04.27\00:24:06.78
Well, first of all,
it said in our titles,
00:24:06.81\00:24:09.41
were the Co-directors...
00:24:09.44\00:24:10.78
Yes. Because
Jesus is the Director.
00:24:10.81\00:24:12.31
Amen.
00:24:12.35\00:24:13.68
And we're safe as
long as He's the Director.
00:24:13.72\00:24:15.22
Amen. Amen.
00:24:15.25\00:24:16.58
But we follow the guidelines
00:24:16.62\00:24:18.12
that are given to us.
00:24:18.15\00:24:19.49
If you go to volume nine
00:24:19.52\00:24:21.06
of the
Testimonies for the Church
00:24:21.09\00:24:22.62
and I remind people,
00:24:22.66\00:24:23.99
it's Testimonies for the church,
00:24:24.03\00:24:26.09
not against the church.
00:24:26.13\00:24:28.00
It tells us, we go door-to-door,
00:24:28.03\00:24:30.13
it tells us that
wherever travel is,
00:24:30.17\00:24:33.84
wherever there's
thoroughfares I've traveled,
00:24:33.87\00:24:36.30
Jesus was in the midst
because people were coming
00:24:36.34\00:24:38.97
from all different
parts of the world.
00:24:39.01\00:24:41.21
And that's what we try to do.
00:24:41.24\00:24:43.71
And also it says
through the mail,
00:24:43.75\00:24:46.48
so these are bulk
mail throughout the mail.
00:24:46.51\00:24:49.68
We've just recently completed.
00:24:49.72\00:24:54.46
We did the whole
state of West Virginia.
00:24:54.49\00:24:56.83
That's
approximately 730,000 homes.
00:24:56.86\00:25:00.16
Every home brother there,
whether they're the judge,
00:25:00.20\00:25:03.33
or whether they're rich
or whether they're poor,
00:25:03.37\00:25:05.63
they all received
The Great Controversy,
00:25:05.67\00:25:08.64
full text Great Controversy
00:25:08.67\00:25:10.11
with appendix to
show the history.
00:25:10.14\00:25:11.57
You want to hold it.
00:25:11.61\00:25:12.94
So now I think
they'll show a graphic of it.
00:25:12.97\00:25:16.18
I mean, this is a copy of it,
00:25:16.21\00:25:17.55
but I think they'll
show up the graphic...
00:25:17.58\00:25:18.91
It's a beautiful cover.
00:25:18.95\00:25:20.28
Revelation 13
on the front cover.
00:25:20.32\00:25:22.35
Explain the cover,
00:25:22.38\00:25:23.72
because people are
looking and you got to watch.
00:25:23.75\00:25:25.82
This isn't just a reflection.
00:25:25.85\00:25:27.86
If I show this,
00:25:27.89\00:25:29.22
and when I give this
to say a Catholic priest,
00:25:29.26\00:25:32.29
immediately
they know what it is.
00:25:32.33\00:25:33.90
It's the Capitol building,
it has a reflecting pool,
00:25:33.93\00:25:37.47
and it reflects the
basilica at the Vatican.
00:25:37.50\00:25:41.30
Yes.
00:25:41.34\00:25:42.67
In other words, the first beast,
00:25:42.70\00:25:44.37
or the second
beast of Revelation 13,
00:25:44.41\00:25:46.44
what does it do?
00:25:46.47\00:25:47.81
It makes an image...
Makes image to the beast.
00:25:47.84\00:25:49.58
It makes an image to the beast.
00:25:49.61\00:25:52.38
And it's this book is been,
00:25:52.41\00:25:56.58
we've had three
different covers,
00:25:56.62\00:25:57.95
we did one for the Reformation,
00:25:57.99\00:26:01.09
the 500th year
anniversary of the Reformation.
00:26:01.12\00:26:03.89
So we had a special cover.
00:26:03.93\00:26:05.26
And then we did one,
00:26:05.29\00:26:06.63
the first one we
did was with the world
00:26:06.66\00:26:08.00
with the chess pieces.
00:26:08.03\00:26:09.70
And King Jesus wins.
00:26:09.73\00:26:12.23
Amen. Amen.
00:26:12.27\00:26:13.60
And, but this is
the one I said to David,
00:26:13.64\00:26:18.44
Dwight's brother-in-law,
00:26:18.47\00:26:19.81
we worked on the cover together.
00:26:19.84\00:26:21.18
And I said,
David, "I want a cover
00:26:21.21\00:26:23.04
that I never have to
change it until Jesus comes.
00:26:23.08\00:26:25.48
Amen.
00:26:25.51\00:26:26.85
And the Lord gave us this cover.
00:26:26.88\00:26:29.18
There's no doubt
00:26:29.22\00:26:30.62
and I guess the Lord
will have to forgive us
00:26:30.65\00:26:33.05
because we spent $5
to get a Vatican flag,
00:26:33.09\00:26:35.39
so we can make it lay
out just right the picture
00:26:35.42\00:26:37.73
put it on the book, so.
00:26:37.76\00:26:39.09
Well, that's beautiful.
00:26:39.13\00:26:40.46
But anyway, we do that.
00:26:40.50\00:26:41.83
The state of Alaska
has also been bulk mailed.
00:26:41.86\00:26:46.37
That was done by private,
00:26:46.40\00:26:48.14
you know, folks just picking up
00:26:48.17\00:26:50.61
wanting to order in bulk mail
00:26:50.64\00:26:52.04
through the
whole state of Alaska,
00:26:52.07\00:26:53.78
which is not that large.
00:26:53.81\00:26:55.14
But the Conference of
Indiana has got a little excited
00:26:55.18\00:27:00.02
about what
happened in West Virginia.
00:27:00.05\00:27:01.65
And so they've called
Dwight at Remnant and said,
00:27:01.68\00:27:05.22
"Listen, we want to look
00:27:05.25\00:27:06.59
into putting The
Great Controversy
00:27:06.62\00:27:08.92
into every home in
the state of Indiana.
00:27:08.96\00:27:11.13
Praise God.
00:27:11.16\00:27:12.49
So we're looking at
about, probably somewhere around
00:27:12.53\00:27:14.96
about two and a
half million homes,
00:27:15.00\00:27:17.30
but we've already
done Indianapolis,
00:27:17.33\00:27:20.37
you know, that was
about 450,000 homes.
00:27:20.40\00:27:23.20
And you've done a
lot up in Washington DC.
00:27:23.24\00:27:26.81
Tell us about that?
00:27:26.84\00:27:28.24
And New York.
00:27:28.28\00:27:29.61
Well, let's, if I can
go back just a little bit.
00:27:29.64\00:27:32.98
Some of the cities
that have been done
00:27:33.01\00:27:35.25
are like Chicago
and San Francisco,
00:27:35.28\00:27:37.32
we put a million
books in New York City.
00:27:37.35\00:27:39.85
People say, "Oh, they're
just going to throw them away,
00:27:39.89\00:27:42.09
just throw them away."
00:27:42.12\00:27:43.46
I said, "Listen, if
one person out of 100
00:27:43.49\00:27:45.83
reads this book, it makes
a difference in their lives.
00:27:45.86\00:27:49.06
That's 10,000 precious
souls for the kingdom."
00:27:49.10\00:27:51.20
Amen.
00:27:51.23\00:27:52.57
But we've done many other cities
00:27:52.60\00:27:54.20
like Philadelphia and
there was a police detective
00:27:54.24\00:27:58.64
and raised Roman Catholic
00:27:58.67\00:28:00.61
all through his life
came up to the schools.
00:28:00.64\00:28:03.38
He got to hold
the book and he said,
00:28:03.41\00:28:06.08
and I've talked him on
the phone several times.
00:28:06.11\00:28:08.28
And he said to
me, "Ron," he said,
00:28:08.32\00:28:10.75
he said, "I got that book."
00:28:10.79\00:28:12.12
He said, "I didn't know this
if from another denomination
00:28:12.15\00:28:14.46
are putting these out.
00:28:14.49\00:28:15.82
He said, but I was
praying Lord, should I?
00:28:15.86\00:28:17.89
You know, should
I read this book?
00:28:17.93\00:28:20.03
Or maybe I'll
just read one chapter.
00:28:20.06\00:28:23.00
And you let me know
00:28:23.03\00:28:24.37
rather I should read
the rest of it," He said.
00:28:24.40\00:28:25.73
Just randomly took the book,
00:28:25.77\00:28:27.47
and he opened it up and there's
can our dead speak to us,
00:28:27.50\00:28:32.91
was the chapter he opened to.
00:28:32.94\00:28:34.28
Yeah.
00:28:34.31\00:28:35.64
He called me up and
we've talked on the phone,
00:28:35.68\00:28:37.38
he said, "Then I realize
00:28:37.41\00:28:41.38
that everyone
who's gone to sleep
00:28:41.42\00:28:45.22
are waiting for
the resurrection.
00:28:45.25\00:28:46.59
Amen.
00:28:46.62\00:28:48.02
They're not
ministering to us right now.
00:28:48.06\00:28:49.76
They're sleeping, waiting.
00:28:49.79\00:28:51.13
And he said, "I
told every police officer
00:28:51.16\00:28:53.09
in the state of Philadelphia
that I could contact,
00:28:53.13\00:28:55.83
you got to read this book.
00:28:55.86\00:28:58.40
You got to read this book."
00:28:58.43\00:29:00.70
And I just had to point
out because its Bible based.
00:29:00.74\00:29:05.01
Yes.
00:29:05.04\00:29:06.37
There's so much scripture in it.
00:29:06.41\00:29:07.74
I remember I was writing a
book with Danny and I co-wrote,
00:29:07.78\00:29:11.68
it was Antichrist Agenda,
00:29:11.71\00:29:13.35
and then it was Ten
Commandments Twice Removed,
00:29:13.38\00:29:15.92
and my sister would call
me and, Ron, it was so funny.
00:29:15.95\00:29:19.72
One day, she calls
00:29:19.75\00:29:21.36
and I couldn't get her
to quit calling actually.
00:29:21.39\00:29:24.33
So when she called,
00:29:24.36\00:29:26.39
what I would do is
read her the chapter
00:29:26.43\00:29:28.50
I had worked on that day,
and I got to John 5:28-29,
00:29:28.53\00:29:34.20
where the Bible
says, or Jesus says,
00:29:34.24\00:29:38.51
"All who are in their graves."
00:29:38.54\00:29:42.04
He said, "The day is coming
00:29:42.08\00:29:43.41
when all who are in their graves
00:29:43.45\00:29:45.18
will hear My voice.
00:29:45.21\00:29:46.92
Some will come forward
00:29:46.95\00:29:48.28
to the
resurrection of righteous,
00:29:48.32\00:29:49.88
some to the
resurrection of condemnation."
00:29:49.92\00:29:52.75
I'm reading that and
I just go on past it.
00:29:52.79\00:29:54.92
My sister goes, "Wait a minute.
00:29:54.96\00:29:57.09
Break up.
00:29:57.13\00:29:58.46
Break that again.
00:29:58.49\00:29:59.83
What do you mean?
00:29:59.86\00:30:01.76
What did He mean?"
00:30:01.80\00:30:03.30
And I started to explain.
00:30:03.33\00:30:04.73
She was so upset.
00:30:04.77\00:30:07.60
She was screaming at me.
00:30:07.64\00:30:09.40
You mean mama's not in heaven,
my grandma's not in heaven.
00:30:09.44\00:30:13.44
And you know what happened?
00:30:13.48\00:30:14.81
I told her,
00:30:14.84\00:30:16.18
"If you will just get out
your Strong's Concordance,
00:30:16.21\00:30:19.38
look up everything about rest,
00:30:19.41\00:30:21.35
sleep, death, and resurrection,"
00:30:21.38\00:30:23.45
I said, "You'll see it's true."
00:30:23.49\00:30:26.86
She hung up on me, screaming.
00:30:26.89\00:30:29.29
Six hours later,
she called me back.
00:30:29.32\00:30:33.76
She'd been in the
Strong's Concordance.
00:30:33.80\00:30:35.40
Amen.
00:30:35.43\00:30:36.77
She found the truth in
it's like, she said, "Well,
00:30:36.80\00:30:39.63
why didn't so and so teach
us, why doesn't so and so."
00:30:39.67\00:30:43.17
So it's amazing that this man,
00:30:43.20\00:30:47.81
reared to Catholic
would open to that chapter,
00:30:47.84\00:30:51.05
and accept the truth that fast.
00:30:51.08\00:30:53.42
But it's all
backed up by Scripture.
00:30:53.45\00:30:56.05
It's not just
somebody's thoughts.
00:30:56.08\00:30:58.25
And we get calls
and things of people
00:30:58.29\00:31:01.52
that have read
the book and said it,
00:31:01.56\00:31:03.32
it transformed my life.
00:31:03.36\00:31:04.83
Amen.
00:31:04.86\00:31:06.19
What this will do,
when people read this,
00:31:06.23\00:31:08.70
it will encourage
and we've heard it
00:31:08.73\00:31:10.13
over and over again.
00:31:10.17\00:31:11.63
It will encourage
people to go to the Bible
00:31:11.67\00:31:14.60
and then read the Bible.
00:31:14.64\00:31:15.97
Absolutely. That's right.
00:31:16.00\00:31:17.34
We were just in Walmart,
Wally World, aka Walmart,
00:31:17.37\00:31:22.31
as they say, and we
pray everywhere we go.
00:31:22.34\00:31:25.85
And, you know, where
you got to have ammunition
00:31:25.88\00:31:28.95
wherever you go, right?
00:31:28.98\00:31:30.32
You've got to
have the Word of God,
00:31:30.35\00:31:31.69
and then you pray and ask
the Lord to lead you to people.
00:31:31.72\00:31:33.89
And so we went into
there and I met a gentleman
00:31:33.92\00:31:37.36
and he had
something on his T shirt,
00:31:37.39\00:31:40.33
something that looked
like a flag a little bit.
00:31:40.36\00:31:42.03
And I said, "Is that a flag?"
00:31:42.06\00:31:43.40
I said, "You know, it's good."
00:31:43.43\00:31:44.77
See what that
flag on or whatever,
00:31:44.80\00:31:46.60
just to get in a conversation.
00:31:46.63\00:31:48.67
And we started talking,
man, he says, "I can't believe
00:31:48.70\00:31:50.67
what's happening in
our world right now.
00:31:50.71\00:31:53.07
Everything's such a mess."
00:31:53.11\00:31:54.44
He said, "Matter
of fact," he says,
00:31:54.48\00:31:56.31
"I opened my Bible last night,
00:31:56.34\00:31:58.08
I went to the
Book of Revelation,
00:31:58.11\00:31:59.45
I'm trying to, you know,
see what this is all about."
00:31:59.48\00:32:02.08
His name was Bernard and I said,
00:32:02.12\00:32:03.55
"Bernard, guess what?"
00:32:03.59\00:32:05.75
I said, "My wife and I
just prayed in the parking lot
00:32:05.79\00:32:07.66
before you came in here
that the Lord would lead us
00:32:07.69\00:32:09.52
to someone who's seeking
00:32:09.56\00:32:11.43
and wanting to know
God's truth in His Word."
00:32:11.46\00:32:14.43
I said, "How's it feel
00:32:14.46\00:32:15.80
to be a part of
the answer to prayer?"
00:32:15.83\00:32:17.57
He shook my hand and thanked,
00:32:17.60\00:32:18.93
I gave him The
Great Controversy.
00:32:18.97\00:32:20.30
"I will read it,"
00:32:20.34\00:32:21.67
he told me two or
three times, he will read it.
00:32:21.70\00:32:23.27
We know that God will give us
00:32:23.30\00:32:25.11
the providential
meetings with people.
00:32:25.14\00:32:27.81
We have not because we ask not.
00:32:27.84\00:32:30.15
Amen.
00:32:30.18\00:32:31.51
We ask, He will provide.
00:32:31.55\00:32:33.42
If we seek, we shall
find, if we knock, He will open.
00:32:33.45\00:32:37.49
But this is
what we're doing all.
00:32:37.52\00:32:40.06
Back to your question,
00:32:40.09\00:32:41.42
what we're doing
is through the mail,
00:32:41.46\00:32:44.33
door-to-door.
00:32:44.36\00:32:45.69
Our plans are right
now and I've got to get
00:32:45.73\00:32:48.10
with the Georgia
Cumberland Conference,
00:32:48.13\00:32:50.33
but what we're hoping to do,
00:32:50.37\00:32:52.67
is like I'm an ex law man,
00:32:52.70\00:32:54.37
so what we do is we
have what we call SWAT teams,
00:32:54.40\00:32:56.81
Swift Witness Action Teams.
00:32:56.84\00:32:59.24
And what we want to do
00:32:59.27\00:33:00.64
is we want to go
into the city of Atlanta,
00:33:00.68\00:33:04.81
instead of bulk mailing it,
00:33:04.85\00:33:06.78
we want to have
SWAT team members
00:33:06.82\00:33:09.15
going
door-to-door, door-to-door,
00:33:09.18\00:33:12.05
we're told in page 612,
"I saw the servants of God,
00:33:12.09\00:33:17.69
with their faces
lighted up, with holy zeal,
00:33:17.73\00:33:21.86
going from place to place
with a third angel's message,
00:33:21.90\00:33:26.27
and the power of God
is being poured out."
00:33:26.30\00:33:28.50
And then she goes on to say,
00:33:28.54\00:33:30.57
"The
publication's has done its work.
00:33:30.61\00:33:34.14
Long story.
00:33:34.18\00:33:35.51
Now the people come
in from everywhere."
00:33:35.54\00:33:38.78
Amen.
00:33:38.81\00:33:40.15
So we know the
printed page, just,
00:33:40.18\00:33:43.22
if you just think
about Martin Luther in 1517,
00:33:43.25\00:33:47.62
and he took a
piece of literature,
00:33:47.66\00:33:49.22
he put some
things on paper hang,
00:33:49.26\00:33:51.29
hung it to the
church door at Wittenberg.
00:33:51.33\00:33:53.46
In a week it went
through all through Germany.
00:33:53.50\00:33:55.43
Within several weeks,
00:33:55.46\00:33:57.30
it went all through Christendom.
00:33:57.33\00:33:59.10
He didn't
Facebook, he didn't Twitter,
00:33:59.13\00:34:01.07
he didn't tweet, it
wasn't on Fox or CNN.
00:34:01.10\00:34:03.81
That's right.
00:34:03.84\00:34:05.17
And it went all to
the Christian world.
00:34:05.21\00:34:07.14
And I believe
that through this book,
00:34:07.18\00:34:11.11
through this
message, there's given,
00:34:11.15\00:34:13.21
the past the
present and the future.
00:34:13.25\00:34:15.52
I really believe
that sooner or later,
00:34:15.55\00:34:19.99
it's going to strike a nerve.
00:34:20.02\00:34:22.09
And this thing is going
to go like fire in a stubble
00:34:22.12\00:34:24.33
because it's
going to make the news.
00:34:24.36\00:34:26.83
It's going to make the news.
00:34:26.86\00:34:28.86
We're told that they're going
to try to condemn God's Word
00:34:28.90\00:34:31.43
here at the end.
00:34:31.47\00:34:32.97
And when it does,
00:34:33.00\00:34:34.80
we need to have as
much literature out there
00:34:34.84\00:34:37.24
as we possibly can beforehand.
00:34:37.27\00:34:39.94
You remember, not long ago
00:34:39.97\00:34:41.88
when they were canceling
some of the different books.
00:34:41.91\00:34:44.11
People are getting
cancelled out like Dr. Seuss.
00:34:44.15\00:34:47.72
What happened after they
canceled Dr. Seuss books?
00:34:47.75\00:34:51.35
Within a couple of months,
00:34:51.39\00:34:52.72
they sold more books
than they'd ever sold before.
00:34:52.75\00:34:55.12
Because, when people were
told they couldn't have it...
00:34:55.16\00:34:57.56
They wanted it. They wanted it.
00:34:57.59\00:34:58.93
That's right.
00:34:58.96\00:35:00.30
This is the way
it's going to be,
00:35:00.33\00:35:01.66
I believe, with
The Great Controversy.
00:35:01.70\00:35:03.06
Meaningful,
absolutely amazes me is that
00:35:03.10\00:35:05.80
when did she write this book?
00:35:05.83\00:35:08.37
In the 1880s.
00:35:08.40\00:35:09.74
1880s?
00:35:09.77\00:35:11.11
And is this apropos or more so
00:35:11.14\00:35:13.51
probably times a thousand
today than it was back then?
00:35:13.54\00:35:16.08
Oh, yes.
00:35:16.11\00:35:17.45
I mean, it's just
a... It's a must read.
00:35:17.48\00:35:20.02
Well, I think, you
know, I remember talking
00:35:20.05\00:35:22.75
with David Asscherick
was studying to be a doctor.
00:35:22.78\00:35:25.49
He's, David
Asscherick's one of the...
00:35:25.52\00:35:27.86
He's an Adventist Christian
evangelist and teacher,
00:35:27.89\00:35:31.19
but he was
studying to be a doctor.
00:35:31.23\00:35:34.70
So he was a smart
boy, we'll put it that way.
00:35:34.73\00:35:38.00
And he gets a copy of this book.
00:35:38.03\00:35:40.60
And he said, here he
is reading the history
00:35:40.64\00:35:43.97
of the Dark Ages and everything.
00:35:44.01\00:35:45.71
And he would go
and verify the history.
00:35:45.74\00:35:50.25
And the beauty of
this is its history
00:35:50.28\00:35:52.98
written with the
Scriptures that support
00:35:53.01\00:35:56.52
where all of this was prophesied
00:35:56.55\00:35:58.52
that it would happen.
00:35:58.55\00:35:59.99
And so all of a sudden,
00:36:00.02\00:36:02.32
he said the
history was accurate,
00:36:02.36\00:36:04.76
but the Bible just
melded so perfectly with this,
00:36:04.79\00:36:08.73
that he realized
that prophecy was true.
00:36:08.76\00:36:13.17
So then, as you walk
through these things,
00:36:13.20\00:36:16.74
then you realize the rest,
00:36:16.77\00:36:18.77
and we're seeing
prophecy fulfilled,
00:36:18.81\00:36:21.44
I mean, left and right daily.
00:36:21.48\00:36:24.41
But you see that
it is going to happen,
00:36:24.45\00:36:29.22
as the Bible says it happens,
00:36:29.25\00:36:30.82
and that's the
beauty of the book.
00:36:30.85\00:36:32.19
That's right.
00:36:32.22\00:36:33.56
Well, there're
chapters in there.
00:36:33.59\00:36:34.92
Religious liberty is restricted.
00:36:34.96\00:36:37.73
The impending conflict,
00:36:37.76\00:36:39.26
when it deals
with the law and order
00:36:39.29\00:36:42.36
just being falling apart,
00:36:42.40\00:36:44.33
where it talks
about the calamities,
00:36:44.37\00:36:46.53
you know, the storms,
the floods, the fires.
00:36:46.57\00:36:49.24
It talks about the
political corruption.
00:36:49.27\00:36:51.47
It talks about all
these different things,
00:36:51.51\00:36:53.84
they're going to be transpiring
00:36:53.88\00:36:55.64
just before the
return of our Lord.
00:36:55.68\00:36:57.51
And He said, "When you see this,
00:36:57.55\00:36:58.88
and this, and this, and this,
00:36:58.91\00:37:00.28
because I'm even at the door.
00:37:00.32\00:37:02.48
Look up for your
redemption draweth nigh."
00:37:02.52\00:37:04.85
Hallelujah.
00:37:04.89\00:37:06.22
We're excited,
folks, Jesus is coming soon.
00:37:06.25\00:37:08.09
Amen. Amen.
00:37:08.12\00:37:09.46
And we need to warn the world.
00:37:09.49\00:37:10.83
But now, let's talk
about, you mentioned that,
00:37:10.86\00:37:13.43
I mean, because
what amazes me about God
00:37:13.46\00:37:17.33
is that He's
called the two of you
00:37:17.37\00:37:20.70
together to work
on this ministry.
00:37:20.74\00:37:22.67
Amen.
00:37:22.70\00:37:24.04
But as Ron said,
00:37:24.07\00:37:25.41
when God calls you to something,
00:37:25.44\00:37:27.14
He's going to see through it.
00:37:27.18\00:37:28.71
So He does have
people waiting in the wings.
00:37:28.74\00:37:31.75
I mean, to me, it
was a huge leap of faith
00:37:31.78\00:37:33.98
to call Dwight Hall
at Remnant Publications
00:37:34.02\00:37:36.85
and say, "Hey, give me
five million pounds paper,"
00:37:36.89\00:37:40.46
however many pounds of paper.
00:37:40.49\00:37:42.69
But I asked you
in the green room,
00:37:42.72\00:37:46.06
"How do you get your funding?"
00:37:46.09\00:37:47.86
And you said, "A
lot of your funding
00:37:47.90\00:37:50.90
is coming in
from non-Adventists."
00:37:50.93\00:37:53.27
Tell us about the $100,000
00:37:53.30\00:37:55.14
check you got in the mail?
00:37:55.17\00:37:56.84
Well, after we
made the decision,
00:37:56.87\00:37:58.97
because we stepped out in faith,
00:37:59.01\00:38:00.44
of course, you know,
we're told we think too small
00:38:00.48\00:38:04.91
when it comes to God's work.
00:38:04.95\00:38:07.12
We restrict God's work
00:38:07.15\00:38:08.48
because we're
looking at circum...
00:38:08.52\00:38:09.85
We put Him in a box.
00:38:09.88\00:38:11.22
We're looking at circumstances.
00:38:11.25\00:38:12.59
We got to quit
looking at the circumstances,
00:38:12.62\00:38:13.96
we got to look at
what He's promised,
00:38:13.99\00:38:16.32
and His promises aren't limited.
00:38:16.36\00:38:18.26
There's no limit to
the promises of God.
00:38:18.29\00:38:20.83
But after we made the decision
00:38:20.86\00:38:23.00
to step out and just say, "Okay,
00:38:23.03\00:38:25.70
Dwight, see
what you can find out
00:38:25.73\00:38:27.20
to get five
million pounds of paper,
00:38:27.24\00:38:29.07
want five million more books."
00:38:29.10\00:38:30.71
Sooner or later,
00:38:30.74\00:38:32.07
we're not going to be
able to get the paper,
00:38:32.11\00:38:33.44
we might not be
able to get printed.
00:38:33.48\00:38:36.68
And as soon as that
happened, I received,
00:38:36.71\00:38:39.21
we received $100,000 check
from 34 year old young man.
00:38:39.25\00:38:44.12
Amen. Okay.
00:38:44.15\00:38:45.49
Wow.
00:38:45.52\00:38:46.86
I didn't know it
was coming, but God did.
00:38:46.89\00:38:48.22
Amen.
00:38:48.26\00:38:49.59
And then
another man called me...
00:38:49.62\00:38:50.96
And he wasn't a
Seventh-day Adventist...
00:38:50.99\00:38:52.33
He was, he's an Adventist.
00:38:52.36\00:38:53.70
He, but he just
what turned him around...
00:38:53.73\00:38:55.56
Was the book.
00:38:55.60\00:38:56.93
Was The Great Controversy.
00:38:56.97\00:38:58.93
He read The
Great Controversy book,
00:38:58.97\00:39:01.64
and it turned him around.
00:39:01.67\00:39:03.34
And he was excited about
what he was learning from that.
00:39:03.37\00:39:06.84
And now he's on
fire for the Lord,
00:39:06.88\00:39:09.64
wants to do
whatever we can to help him.
00:39:09.68\00:39:11.91
Another man called and said,
00:39:11.95\00:39:15.82
"My uncle died and a
bunch of first cousins
00:39:15.85\00:39:20.56
are getting inheritance."
00:39:20.59\00:39:22.52
And he says, "I
want every penny of that
00:39:22.56\00:39:24.03
to go into The
Great Controversy...
00:39:24.06\00:39:25.39
Praise God.
00:39:25.43\00:39:26.76
Which will probably be
about maybe 3 to $400,000.
00:39:26.80\00:39:29.60
Of course, that's
not a drop in a bucket,
00:39:29.63\00:39:32.47
but when you're dealing
00:39:32.50\00:39:33.84
with that many
billions of dollars,
00:39:33.87\00:39:36.60
but it's a great
help, that's for sure.
00:39:36.64\00:39:38.04
Amen.
00:39:38.07\00:39:39.41
But I would say
three of the top donors
00:39:39.44\00:39:44.15
that we've ever had
are from non-Adventist.
00:39:44.18\00:39:47.48
Praise God.
00:39:47.52\00:39:48.95
All right, so if
somebody were to go to you,
00:39:48.98\00:39:52.19
well, first of
all, I want to ask you
00:39:52.22\00:39:53.92
where you got your title,
00:39:53.96\00:39:55.29
but you can go to
ProjectRestore.com
00:39:55.32\00:39:58.96
That's their website,
00:39:58.99\00:40:00.60
ProjectRestore.com
00:40:00.63\00:40:02.90
And does it lists
all of the various things
00:40:02.93\00:40:06.10
'cause you've done...
00:40:06.13\00:40:07.47
Well, I must confess,
I'm not a computer person.
00:40:07.50\00:40:10.44
Okay.
00:40:10.47\00:40:11.81
I have a hard time
just turning one on, okay?
00:40:11.84\00:40:14.21
I'm in the mid-70s so...
00:40:14.24\00:40:15.88
It's age related.
00:40:15.91\00:40:17.25
Right.
00:40:17.28\00:40:18.61
Now you can give
a three year old,
00:40:18.65\00:40:21.58
you know, iPad and
they can wiz through it.
00:40:21.62\00:40:24.92
But so it hasn't
really been updated
00:40:24.95\00:40:27.52
as much as I'd
love to see it updated.
00:40:27.56\00:40:29.26
So a lot of it is not on,
you know, on there right now.
00:40:29.29\00:40:31.79
But we need to
definitely get it updated.
00:40:31.83\00:40:33.73
But just main thing we
need is we need prayer.
00:40:33.76\00:40:37.87
Amen.
00:40:37.90\00:40:39.23
A lot of prayer, a lot of power.
00:40:39.27\00:40:40.64
A little prayer, a little power.
00:40:40.67\00:40:42.00
No prayer, no power.
00:40:42.04\00:40:43.37
We need prayer.
00:40:43.41\00:40:45.24
God, He owns the
cattle on a thousand hills,
00:40:45.27\00:40:49.01
and He owns the gold
underneath them there hills too.
00:40:49.04\00:40:51.95
Correct?
00:40:51.98\00:40:53.31
Yeah. Right.
00:40:53.35\00:40:54.68
And so He will impress
people, and we encourage,
00:40:54.72\00:40:56.32
we lean to let people
know what we're doing,
00:40:56.35\00:40:59.39
the reasons why we're
doing it, and seeking the help.
00:40:59.42\00:41:02.16
And a lot of folks today do not,
00:41:02.19\00:41:06.53
they don't see the
importance of the printed page,
00:41:06.56\00:41:10.10
as much as they used
to many, many, especially
00:41:10.13\00:41:13.47
a lot of the
younger folks coming along.
00:41:13.50\00:41:15.34
And by the way,
people tell us all the time,
00:41:15.37\00:41:18.81
"Nobody reads books.
00:41:18.84\00:41:20.84
They get the electronic stuff."
00:41:20.88\00:41:22.88
You know...
00:41:22.91\00:41:24.25
So, go ahead. Go ahead.
00:41:24.28\00:41:25.61
I just going to say, I
just have to tell you this,
00:41:25.65\00:41:28.02
Scott Ritsema just did
a program here on 3ABN,
00:41:28.05\00:41:31.49
and he brought all of this data
00:41:31.52\00:41:33.72
to support his commentary.
00:41:33.76\00:41:37.83
But all of the research shows,
if you are reading online,
00:41:37.86\00:41:43.80
if you're reading on your phone
or on an iPad or your computer,
00:41:43.83\00:41:48.90
you retain 50% less
00:41:48.94\00:41:52.71
than when you're
reading a hardback book.
00:41:52.74\00:41:55.34
Agree with it.
00:41:55.38\00:41:56.71
Yes.
00:41:56.75\00:41:58.08
And so, you
know, it's interesting
00:41:58.11\00:42:00.32
that the people
that we're seeing now,
00:42:00.35\00:42:03.89
the younger generation,
00:42:03.92\00:42:05.85
they're actually, and forgive me
00:42:05.89\00:42:07.59
for saying this, but it's true,
00:42:07.62\00:42:09.26
and it's affecting the
more we all get on media,
00:42:09.29\00:42:12.99
it gives you the
attention span of a hummingbird,
00:42:13.03\00:42:16.50
you know, you kind
of dip a little here.
00:42:16.53\00:42:19.23
I mean, when I
read the news now,
00:42:19.27\00:42:21.54
you know, you used to
sit with the newspaper,
00:42:21.57\00:42:24.44
you just zip
through it in depth.
00:42:24.47\00:42:26.98
But...
00:42:27.01\00:42:28.34
The thing of it is, he said,
00:42:28.38\00:42:31.11
I took it out of
USA Today sometime back,
00:42:31.15\00:42:33.58
but Hewlett Packard,
which is a computer company,
00:42:33.62\00:42:36.42
did a survey of
2000 Facebook users,
00:42:36.45\00:42:39.22
which are computer users.
00:42:39.25\00:42:41.56
In the survey
what they found out
00:42:41.59\00:42:43.16
was 83% of the people
00:42:43.19\00:42:46.66
preferred a book in hand.
00:42:46.70\00:42:51.60
I mean, how does
Barnes and Noble,
00:42:51.63\00:42:53.50
how do they keep these big
bookstores open in airports
00:42:53.54\00:42:55.77
if people don't
read books any longer?
00:42:55.80\00:42:57.84
They do read the books.
00:42:57.87\00:42:59.21
Amen.
00:42:59.24\00:43:00.58
And we're finding
that to be the case,
00:43:00.61\00:43:01.94
and we've got to
get them out there
00:43:01.98\00:43:03.31
like the leaves of the autumn.
00:43:03.35\00:43:05.01
And she says I want this book.
00:43:05.05\00:43:08.02
She equates it to more
valuable than gold and silver.
00:43:08.05\00:43:11.72
And of all my books, I
want this book out, she says.
00:43:11.75\00:43:15.42
And we're told that
many, many are going to come
00:43:15.46\00:43:19.63
into God's
message for this time,
00:43:19.66\00:43:22.83
as a result of that book,
00:43:22.86\00:43:24.20
more than we can
possibly understand now
00:43:24.23\00:43:26.97
of what we see today.
00:43:27.00\00:43:28.70
We certainly know it.
00:43:28.74\00:43:30.07
Pat, how has the
focus on this project
00:43:30.11\00:43:35.38
as you all have
been working together
00:43:35.41\00:43:38.08
under the Lord's direction?
00:43:38.11\00:43:40.45
He is your director,
you are the co-directors,
00:43:40.48\00:43:44.02
how has it changed your
heart or your walk with the Lord
00:43:44.05\00:43:48.66
when you see
these miracles happening
00:43:48.69\00:43:51.26
of people turning to the Lord
00:43:51.29\00:43:52.83
because of the
book or funds coming in?
00:43:52.86\00:43:55.30
It's been so wonderful,
00:43:55.33\00:43:56.67
we draw closer and
closer to the Lord.
00:43:56.70\00:43:59.27
It's just amazing,
all the different people
00:43:59.30\00:44:02.24
that we've shared with
when we go to the stores
00:44:02.27\00:44:05.57
and things like that.
00:44:05.61\00:44:06.98
Sometimes I'll see
someone and I think,
00:44:07.01\00:44:08.91
"Oh, I need to
give a book to them."
00:44:08.94\00:44:10.85
And then they've
gone one direction,
00:44:10.88\00:44:12.68
I go another direction,
00:44:12.71\00:44:14.08
but the Lord brings us together,
00:44:14.12\00:44:15.72
and I share it with them.
00:44:15.75\00:44:17.09
And they're so excited.
00:44:17.12\00:44:18.92
And it just, it's better
00:44:18.95\00:44:22.02
than if someone would
give me a million dollars.
00:44:22.06\00:44:24.89
I'd rather share a book
00:44:24.93\00:44:26.33
and make a difference in
someone's life for eternity.
00:44:26.36\00:44:29.50
Amen.
00:44:29.53\00:44:30.87
Amen.
00:44:30.90\00:44:32.23
And you think about this man
that's getting an inheritance.
00:44:32.27\00:44:35.84
I mean, there's
not too many people
00:44:35.87\00:44:37.74
inheritance and just say,
00:44:37.77\00:44:40.64
"Hey, I want to put
it all on this project.
00:44:40.68\00:44:43.71
But it is that important.
00:44:43.75\00:44:45.95
Yes, ma'am.
00:44:45.98\00:44:47.32
I had a great aunt that died.
00:44:47.35\00:44:51.49
And, well, her
husband had died too.
00:44:51.52\00:44:54.72
And her daughter had died.
00:44:54.76\00:44:57.49
And so the money
was given to cousins,
00:44:57.53\00:45:00.73
and I was one of the cousin.
00:45:00.76\00:45:02.46
And it was about
100,000, wasn't it overall?
00:45:02.50\00:45:05.63
Well, it
started out with 25,000.
00:45:05.67\00:45:07.90
Yeah, and then more came.
00:45:07.94\00:45:09.47
And I thought, "Boy,
00:45:09.50\00:45:13.01
we need to put this in
The Great Controversy fund."
00:45:13.04\00:45:15.14
But it's her money,
it was given to her,
00:45:15.18\00:45:17.95
and she comes to me and says,
00:45:17.98\00:45:19.91
"I think we ought to put this
money in Great Controversy."
00:45:19.95\00:45:21.75
Great Controversy. Yeah.
00:45:21.78\00:45:23.28
Then, hits upon another check...
00:45:23.32\00:45:26.35
Yeah.
00:45:26.39\00:45:27.72
75,000 from the same
thing, and by God's grace,
00:45:27.76\00:45:31.83
we put that, because you
can't outgive God, folks.
00:45:31.86\00:45:33.76
No, you can't.
00:45:33.80\00:45:35.13
Who's trying?
00:45:35.16\00:45:36.50
You cannot outgive God.
00:45:36.53\00:45:37.87
And God's taking care
of us and watch over us...
00:45:37.90\00:45:39.27
Every step of the way.
00:45:39.30\00:45:41.00
Every step of the way.
00:45:41.04\00:45:42.37
But anyway, it ended up...
00:45:42.40\00:45:43.74
Everything's
going to burn someday.
00:45:43.77\00:45:45.11
Yeah.
00:45:45.14\00:45:46.47
Ended up, she gave that to
The Great Controversy fund,
00:45:46.51\00:45:48.11
and then it was a
larger check than that.
00:45:48.14\00:45:50.45
Most of that went into
The Great Controversy fund,
00:45:50.48\00:45:52.48
and we took
some of it to pay off
00:45:52.51\00:45:54.15
some debt to be debt free.
00:45:54.18\00:45:57.25
But give and it
should be given on to you.
00:45:57.29\00:46:00.92
Amen.
00:46:00.96\00:46:02.29
Press down, overflowing.
00:46:02.32\00:46:03.96
What other books do you
also get our other materials?
00:46:03.99\00:46:08.80
We know that is
The Great Controversy.
00:46:08.83\00:46:10.63
I mean...
00:46:10.67\00:46:12.00
Well, we did the hardback,
00:46:12.03\00:46:13.37
I don't know if they
can show that on the screen
00:46:13.40\00:46:14.74
if you hold those up.
00:46:14.77\00:46:16.10
Go ahead, Shelley.
00:46:16.14\00:46:17.47
One's red, one there's the blue,
00:46:17.51\00:46:19.04
when they've got on the screen.
00:46:19.07\00:46:20.41
These are gorgeous.
00:46:20.44\00:46:21.78
Fantastic blue for boy?
00:46:21.81\00:46:23.14
Yeah. Yeah.
00:46:23.18\00:46:24.51
Right up on the screen.
00:46:24.55\00:46:25.88
And red for heart.
00:46:25.91\00:46:27.25
There we go right there.
00:46:27.28\00:46:28.62
And the thing,
the thing of it is,
00:46:28.65\00:46:29.98
is that we've learned
because we go into Washington,
00:46:30.02\00:46:34.02
before the pandemic started,
00:46:34.06\00:46:36.32
we go into Washington DC,
at least a couple times a year.
00:46:36.36\00:46:40.73
Our purpose is to get
00:46:40.76\00:46:42.10
the illustrated
Great Controversy
00:46:42.13\00:46:43.63
into the hands of people
in the House and the Senate.
00:46:43.67\00:46:46.77
And, boy, God's given
you some real success...
00:46:46.80\00:46:49.54
Well, we could
share names of people
00:46:49.57\00:46:52.04
that you read about and see
on the news every single day.
00:46:52.07\00:46:55.38
That's right.
00:46:55.41\00:46:56.75
But as we said before,
you don't want to give,
00:46:56.78\00:47:01.88
you can't give a scooter
to a Harley Davidson driver.
00:47:01.92\00:47:04.49
You got to have
something quality.
00:47:04.52\00:47:06.62
So we did another
hardback with quality,
00:47:06.65\00:47:10.43
because they need to put those
on the shelves and keep them,
00:47:10.46\00:47:14.70
and we got a letter
back from a former president
00:47:14.73\00:47:18.37
who sent us a letter
back thanking us for the book.
00:47:18.40\00:47:20.00
Amen.
00:47:20.04\00:47:21.37
We got a letter from
people like Lieutenant Governor,
00:47:21.40\00:47:24.81
former Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia, says,
00:47:24.84\00:47:27.64
"Ron, I'm learning so
much about church history.
00:47:27.68\00:47:30.48
I'm sharing it with my family
00:47:30.51\00:47:32.25
and holds a very
special place in my library."
00:47:32.28\00:47:35.22
And we've had other
Congressmen and people write us,
00:47:35.25\00:47:37.95
"Project Restore, if
there's anything we can do
00:47:37.99\00:47:40.42
to help you in any way be sure."
00:47:40.46\00:47:42.79
Oh... Go ahead. I do need it.
00:47:42.82\00:47:46.46
We've only got four minutes.
00:47:46.49\00:47:47.83
And I got to ask
you this question.
00:47:47.86\00:47:49.20
Okay.
00:47:49.23\00:47:50.57
If somebody is
watching in there in Phoenix,
00:47:50.60\00:47:53.37
or they're in Albuquerque,
or they're in Denver,
00:47:53.40\00:47:55.77
and they're
saying, "You know what?
00:47:55.80\00:47:58.07
I've read this
book, you're right,
00:47:58.11\00:47:59.97
it is something
that needs to get out."
00:48:00.01\00:48:01.84
Because we do
believe time is short.
00:48:01.88\00:48:03.98
Amen.
00:48:04.01\00:48:05.35
A loud cry hasn't quite
come, we're going to see
00:48:05.38\00:48:08.65
the outpouring
of the latter rain,
00:48:08.68\00:48:11.09
and then the loud cry.
00:48:11.12\00:48:13.29
But if somebody from
another city is saying
00:48:13.32\00:48:15.72
that, what did they do?
00:48:15.76\00:48:17.09
Do they just contact you?
00:48:17.13\00:48:18.89
And we're going to put
some contact information,
00:48:18.93\00:48:21.40
but can they
just, they contact you
00:48:21.43\00:48:23.60
or Remnant Publications?
00:48:23.63\00:48:25.03
Who do they contact?
00:48:25.07\00:48:27.44
And or, and or both.
00:48:27.47\00:48:28.80
Okay. They can contact us.
00:48:28.84\00:48:30.17
Okay.
00:48:30.21\00:48:31.54
Again, we're mom and pop,
00:48:31.57\00:48:32.91
so we don't have a
lot of staff to be.
00:48:32.94\00:48:34.34
But again, we've
been working closely.
00:48:34.38\00:48:37.61
Dwight is a dear
friend and his wife,
00:48:37.65\00:48:39.55
Deb for many years.
00:48:39.58\00:48:41.58
And, so the... He's
an on fire guy for God.
00:48:41.62\00:48:44.15
He is. Yes.
00:48:44.19\00:48:45.72
Yeah. Praise the Lord.
00:48:45.75\00:48:47.09
If he wasn't, might
have put some knots on him,
00:48:47.12\00:48:51.89
but we are closer together.
00:48:51.93\00:48:54.06
But if they wanted to bulk mail,
00:48:54.10\00:48:56.40
and if they want to
help us to bulk mail,
00:48:56.43\00:48:58.33
say Indiana or any
other bulk mailers,
00:48:58.37\00:49:00.47
or maybe they
just want to do them,
00:49:00.50\00:49:01.84
the church with
their church funds,
00:49:01.87\00:49:03.57
the outreach funds,
00:49:03.61\00:49:04.94
they might want to bulk
mail around their zip codes,
00:49:04.97\00:49:06.54
around their towns.
00:49:06.57\00:49:07.91
That's right.
00:49:07.94\00:49:09.68
They can do that by calling us
or calling Remnant Publications
00:49:09.71\00:49:13.31
and they can give us a zip code.
00:49:13.35\00:49:16.35
We can look them up
and tell them exactly
00:49:16.38\00:49:18.59
how many residential addresses
00:49:18.62\00:49:20.22
there are in that
particular zip code.
00:49:20.26\00:49:22.72
And...
00:49:22.76\00:49:24.09
So if they
sponsored a bulk mail,
00:49:24.13\00:49:25.46
do they have to buy the books
00:49:25.49\00:49:27.03
or do they or do they
just pay the postage for?
00:49:27.06\00:49:31.17
With the postage,
it's over dollar per home,
00:49:31.20\00:49:37.14
but that include...
00:49:37.17\00:49:38.54
Wow, you can get this
book out for a dollar?
00:49:38.57\00:49:42.08
Well, it's a dollar,
about a dollar 40 right now,
00:49:42.11\00:49:44.61
I think it is because
postage keeps going up.
00:49:44.65\00:49:46.82
I mean, it cost you 50 cents,
00:49:46.85\00:49:48.45
just 57 cents maybe
or something like around.
00:49:48.48\00:49:51.72
But you can send the
book, the paperback book out,
00:49:51.75\00:49:55.26
the postage, the
handling, the mailing service,
00:49:55.29\00:49:57.59
everything, for around a
dollar 40 cents per home.
00:49:57.63\00:50:01.60
And I'm going to tell
you with inflation right now,
00:50:01.63\00:50:03.37
a dollar 40 is not much.
00:50:03.40\00:50:04.73
Yeah.
00:50:04.77\00:50:06.10
Right now that's all is. Yeah.
00:50:06.13\00:50:07.64
But it's going to get worse.
00:50:07.67\00:50:09.00
It's going to get worse.
00:50:09.04\00:50:10.37
Today is the day of salvation.
00:50:10.41\00:50:11.74
You need to get the message out.
00:50:11.77\00:50:13.11
Amen.
00:50:13.14\00:50:14.48
Things are happening so quickly.
00:50:14.51\00:50:17.11
We know that
prophecy is being fulfilled,
00:50:17.15\00:50:20.95
it will
continue to be fulfilled.
00:50:20.98\00:50:23.42
And we're going to
take a short break here,
00:50:23.45\00:50:25.72
but I want, we're
going to come back
00:50:25.75\00:50:27.72
for a final thought.
00:50:27.76\00:50:30.46
If I just want to before
we put your address roll,
00:50:30.49\00:50:33.60
they can either contact you
00:50:33.63\00:50:35.30
or they can contact
Remnant Publications
00:50:35.33\00:50:38.63
if they want to be part of this.
00:50:38.67\00:50:40.87
And you know, I've just believed
00:50:40.90\00:50:42.40
that the Holy Spirit
is working on hearts.
00:50:42.44\00:50:45.91
And people are saying,
maybe you've read this book,
00:50:45.94\00:50:48.91
and you know how
powerful this book is.
00:50:48.94\00:50:52.11
And I think that
what Ron and Pat,
00:50:52.15\00:50:55.68
what God has done with you
00:50:55.72\00:50:57.29
is He's given you
that gift of faith
00:50:57.32\00:50:59.82
where you're
stepping out on faith
00:50:59.85\00:51:01.59
to get the materials
to make it all ready.
00:51:01.62\00:51:04.59
So all you have to do
is you can contact them
00:51:04.63\00:51:09.16
or you can contact Remnant.
00:51:09.20\00:51:11.20
But this is a book
that needs to get out
00:51:11.23\00:51:14.57
so that people can see
00:51:14.60\00:51:16.94
how history the
Bible contains the history.
00:51:16.97\00:51:21.08
History just confirms
prophecies what I'll say.
00:51:21.11\00:51:24.81
Amen.
00:51:24.85\00:51:26.18
But we see other prophecies
that are unfolding now,
00:51:26.21\00:51:29.32
and we know history
will confirm that as well.
00:51:29.35\00:51:31.95
But here's how
you can get in touch
00:51:31.99\00:51:34.56
with Project Restore.
00:51:34.59\00:51:38.59
If you would like to contact
00:51:38.63\00:51:39.96
or know more
about Project Restore,
00:51:40.00\00:51:41.83
you can write to
them at PO Box 2000,
00:51:41.86\00:51:46.37
Locust Dale, Virginia 22948,
00:51:46.40\00:51:50.44
or you can call them
00:51:50.47\00:51:51.91
at (540) 661-9263.
00:51:51.94\00:51:57.08
That's (540) 661-9263.
00:51:57.11\00:52:02.02
You can also visit their website
00:52:02.05\00:52:03.69
at ProjectRestore.com
00:52:03.72\00:52:06.72
That's ProjectRestore.com
00:52:06.76\00:52:10.03
or you can send them an email
00:52:10.06\00:52:11.66
at staff@ProjectRestore.com
00:52:11.69\00:52:14.93