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's Family Worship.
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Happy Sabbath to
everyone of you at home.
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Happy Sabbath to all of
us here around the table.
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Amen.
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I think this is gonna be
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an absolute awesome
time together, Pastor Kenny.
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It is.
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My name is Chris and I
just told you his name,
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Pastor Kenny
Shelton and we have some,
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not just 3ABN family with us,
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but we have some real
biological family here tonight.
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Well, I'm sure, absolutely.
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Yeah.
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You want to introduce
some biological family members?
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No, honey. You go ahead.
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You do a better job than
I do. You do it right here.
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Well, I believe you got
your brother over here, Danny,
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I'm sure many people at
home might know who he is.
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Happy to be here.
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And then sister
Yvonne sitting next to him.
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We had to have her, we
needed some good music.
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Oh, absolutely, absolutely.
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I better be careful
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'cause I've got
another musician over here.
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And, you know,
not just the music,
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but God gives her
good spiritual words
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and thoughts that
I hear all the time
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and I'm just
thinking how wonderful
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the Holy Spirit works
through different individuals
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that helps each
of us along the way.
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So it's good to have you here.
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She's certainly
been a blessing to me,
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many, many times.
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Yeah. Really has. And you to me.
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Oh, I tell you,
well, we can get into that.
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I know, I know.
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I know just recently
in the past few months,
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if I broke down, it
was usually in her ear.
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So she had to put
up with me. Yeah. Yes.
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But to my left
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is my sweet
sister-in-law, Tammy,
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and her husband Bruce
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and we are just so excited
to have this group together.
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Amen.
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Our topic for this
evening is going to be
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the object of
God's tenderness care.
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Now whether or not we
actually get to it or not,
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I don't know, let's see.
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But to begin with...
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Why don't we go
ahead because, you know,
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a lot of times
if we start talking,
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if we start singing,
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we forget one of the
most important things
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and that is prayer.
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That's right,
absolutely. Absolutely.
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Let's pray together at home,
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pray with us if
you will, please.
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Kind, loving heavenly Father,
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we thank You for
the privilege of prayer.
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We thank You that we
can call thee our Father.
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We thank You for
the beginning edges
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as it were, the Sabbath.
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Thankful that we
can come together.
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Thankful that You
have created a day
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which we can come
apart from the world
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and that we can worship
You in spirit and in truth.
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What a beautiful gift
that's You've given to mankind.
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And so now we ask the Spirit,
the Holy Spirit be with us
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as we open the beautiful pages
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of that beautiful wonderful book
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that You've left for us.
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We pray the Holy Spirit
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will take
possession of our hearts,
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and our minds, and our lives.
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Lord, we're
hopeless without You.
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We have no knowledge, no wisdom
without thee and so we pray,
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that Your Holy
Spirit will help us
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as we look at this
most important subject,
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talking about people,
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we're talking
about church capacity,
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we're talking
about working together,
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not against each other.
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How we need that
unity and we need that love
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for one another
and that love for You.
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We pray that You again,
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take full possession of
each and every one of us,
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and may this be and
those who are viewing,
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whether they
listen, whether they watch,
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may every question be answered
that they have right now,
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something that may
be holding them back
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from fully giving
their life to You.
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Oh, Lord, let this program
be that kind of blessing today.
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May we stand behind
the cross of Calvary,
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and may Jesus be seen
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and may He be
heard is my prayers.
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I thank You for each one
here and for those at home.
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In Jesus' name. Amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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Sister Yvonne, I
think you're gonna lead us
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in a song to begin with, right?
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Oh, sure. Sure.
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And let's sing,
"We're marching to Zion."
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I like that. Okay.
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Come, we that love the Lord
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And let our joys be known
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Join in a song with sweet accord
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Join in a song with sweet accord
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And thus surround the throne
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And thus surround the throne
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We're marching to Zion
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Beautiful, beautiful Zion
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We're marching upward to Zion
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The beautiful city of God
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Amen. Amen.
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That will be pretty good
if we practice it a few times.
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All right. I love that song.
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Thank you. Isn't that great?
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We're marching to Zion
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and really that's
kind of a good foundation
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of what we're
talking about this evening.
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The object of
God's tenderness care.
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And, you know, it's been a long,
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it's been at least three
and a half to four months
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since we have been
with our 3ABN family,
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doing a family worship.
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And I can't express
enough how grateful and thankful
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that we are to be here tonight.
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Amen.
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And...
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Well, why have
you, if I can ask,
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why has it been so long?
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Why have we been
away for so long?
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If anybody
knows, Danny, you know,
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'cause you were right with us,
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but we went down to Florida
and me and Pastor Kenny...
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For Christmas vacation, right?
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Yeah, just for a few days,
get a little bit of a break
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and we met his family
and we ended up talking,
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this gentleman here
next to me to get to the ER
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and once he did, they kept him.
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You had a hard
time convincing me,
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but brother did
and he convinced me.
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I did. I couldn't do it.
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So I was on the
phone, "Danny, Danny."
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He knew what to say. Well, we...
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It's very sad.
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I know, you know, you know
your family very well, right?
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So, Chris said I can't
get him to go to the ER.
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He is having
some trouble breathing
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and some, what have you,
so I went in and he's like,
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"Oh, I'm fine.
I'm like that this."
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I think Bruce will
probably testify this,
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I don't know
anybody in this world
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I've ever met that's
tougher than this guy
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is what I'm
saying, that absolutely,
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when it comes to
strength of doing anything
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or set his mind to
accomplishing something,
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or doing
something, or not giving up,
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and never says, no.
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No matter if you said,
at 3:00 in the morning,
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"Hey, Kenny, can you
come and help me do whatever?"
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He is gonna be there and
then, you know, and apologize
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it took him five
minutes to get there, you know,
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but he would not go,
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he was not gonna
go to the doctor,
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so Chris said, "Maybe
you can do something."
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So I went up and
he was lying in bed,
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which is rare to
see him lying down.
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Right.
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He was really tired and weak
and so I said, Tammy, I said,
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"Well, Kenny, you
need to go to the ER,"
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"Ah, no, I'll be
fine," he says, "I'm fine."
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And I said, "Well, I really,
really think you ought to go."
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"Oh, no. Let's
wait and we'll see."
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So I said, "Damn"
exactly what I said
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"What would he say to me?"
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So I said, "If the
shoe is on the other foot
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and I was lying there
and you were standing here,
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what would you
tell me I should do?"
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And he said, "Well, I guess
I better get my clothes on."
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Exactly.
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That's what finally,
finally got him motivated to go
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and you are absolutely correct
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because it was at
the end of October
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and I should tell
everybody what happened.
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He ended up
having a bypass surgery.
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What we had found
out during a heart cath
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is that one of his arteries
had completely closed off
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and that occurred
at the end of October,
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so November,
December, I continued to see him
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getting weaker and
weaker but, you know,
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if he was here doing a
program, you never saw it,
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God took control,
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he did the
Sabbath school programs,
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you've never ever seen it,
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but every evening
his heart would go
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into this irregular rhythm
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and he was having
all kinds of signs,
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but he kept it a secret,
even from me for many weeks
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and finally, when he told me,
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we started here
before we left for Florida,
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but they just
were taking their time,
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acted like it was no big deal.
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Of course, after we've come back
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after two months, they're like,
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"Well, now, did you
have those symptoms?
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Was that happening
when you were here?"
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And I'm like, "Yes, he did."
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It's only a miracle, go ahead.
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God had us
where we needed to be.
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Yes.
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Where we needed to be
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for the most optimal
care possible for him.
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Amen.
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That was a top,
now both hospitals,
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he's only got VA insurance,
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'cause he was a
veteran in the Vietnam war.
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He was a medic,
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taking care of
people who were injured
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and did an awfully
good job is my understanding
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and when he went into the VA,
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it was beyond their
capacity to help him.
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So they gave us an
option of two hospitals,
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one being the
Florida hospital and we said,
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"You know, he is
an Adventist pastor."
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So that doctor, he came
back in a few hours, he said,
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I used that, I told him
you're an Adventist pastor.
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He said...
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Because the Florida hospital
is a Seventh-day hospital.
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Yes, is an Adventist hospital.
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Absolutely. Thank you.
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Yes, there is probably
people that don't realize that.
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In Florida alone,
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the Adventist
health system is huge.
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If you go to Tampa,
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they own numbers of
hospitals in one city,
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but I think
there's something like
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44,000 Floridians
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work for Adventist health system
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and Brother Des
Cummings is the president
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and what a wonderful guy
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and was so
helpful during this time.
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We called him and
wonderful to have friends
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and to somebody say,
"Hey, what are we doing?"
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And for his help.
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So, Des, if you're
watching, thank you.
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And sent his assistant, Audrey,
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I can't think of
her last name right now,
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but she was
absolutely awesome as well.
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In fact, I've spoken to her
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even after we've been
home a few times by text
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and she says,
she's still praying,
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so we can say, hi
to Audrey as well.
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Absolutely.
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And so many, many people,
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but I don't know how much
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we want to
actually focus on this
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but it does fit in
because during this process,
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we did experience
God's generous care.
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Absolutely. Amen.
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Over and over. Over
and over answered prayer.
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We never had, we
never had a feeling
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that God would take
the experience from him,
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but we were always impressed
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that He was there
walking with us, every step...
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It was divine providence
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and I just thought
as were talking here,
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in our whole lives,
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we've never really
taken a vacation together.
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We're close,
we're even neighbors,
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we live together
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but never actually
taken a vacation together,
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so we're actually just family
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with Reggie and Lady
Love and some friends,
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we literally just
rented a great big house
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for like a week,
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I think it's gonna
be close to a week,
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we said, let's just go down.
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It's over
Christmas, we'll go to Florida.
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And we didn't
really go anywhere,
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we didn't do the
Disney World thing,
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we're just being together
and they had a little game room
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and stuff there for
the kids, and, I mean,
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it's just a wonderful time
and didn't have much to do.
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We actually had
taken a motor home
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that somebody
had donated to 3ABN,
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we drove it down to
leave it to a dealer,
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so they can sell it there easier
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and we can
especially in the wintertime,
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but this just
being there together
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at the same time
and this happening,
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that's not coincidence,
it's divine providence.
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It may be even the
scheduling and it was,
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scheduling of the
date to be down there.
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I think it's scheduled day,
you know, like, can you go...?
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Could have been any other time
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but that specific
date and the time,
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it just seemed like it all...
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God had a plan in
there and He worked it out.
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It was good and I think
probably for three months,
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I think I got a phone
call from Danny every day.
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Yeah.
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That's pretty good.
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And everyday he called so...
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And maybe
sometime a couple of days
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and while I was in the hospital,
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he was busy back
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and forth trying
to make arrangements,
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make everything
easy as he could,
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so that's just,
that's the way he does.
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Made it hard on the
nursing personnel sometimes.
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Of course, it's your
family, so you think,
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boy, you want
someone there 24/7,
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you know, how, how you do,
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so you get there but
what a great organization!
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I'm really glad
you were there and,
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so the Lord had His
hand on this whole thing.
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Amen.
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But one thing I
do wanna bring out
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'cause we're talking
about God's love today,
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is we're
thankful, we can all say,
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Praise the Lord
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that Kenny made it
through God loves Him,
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God loves us, he made it through
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but what if he hadn't,
and what if tomorrow...
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And it could very
easily happen to me
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and I'm not just saying that,
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we all know, Man
that is born of a woman
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is of few days
and full of trouble
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He cometh forth like a
flower, and is cut low.
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What if it
happens to me and I died?
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Does that mean
God loved me any less?
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Does He love you?
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We still should be
here if it's me that dies,
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you all still should be
here having family worship,
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praising the
Lord 'cause, you know,
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the Bible says basically,
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"Blessed are those
who die in the Lord."
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Okay, you know, so,
I'm just saying that
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because so many
people base God's love and,
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"Oh, well, you know,
my dad's still alive,
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he is there so, well,
praise God, He loves me."
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But what happens when Dad dies?
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Does that mean
God doesn't love you?
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Does that mean He, you
know, what does it mean,
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no, it absolutely,
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how He loves us
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is that He loves us enough
that no matter what happens,
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devil is out to steal,
killing, and to destroy,
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so he can rob us of
our, our home, I always say,
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our cars, he can rob
us of our properties,
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of our finances, rob
us even of our health,
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but he can't rob
us of our eternity
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with the Lord Jesus Christ,
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because our soul belongs to God
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and so as long as we're willing,
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so whether how long I live
or don't live on this earth
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or what I go through or don't,
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has nothing to do
with how much God loves me.
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The very fact He can
take, would take sinful,
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frail human agents
like ourselves and say,
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"You know what?
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I'm gonna make a way for you.
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I'm gonna make a
plan of salvation.
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A price has to be paid
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and I'm willing
to pay that price
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with My Son and
the Son, of course,
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agreeing in the Holy Spirit."
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To do that is an amazing
thing that we don't deserve
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and it's called the blessed hope
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that we have.
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So had you gone to sleep
and now woke up in the Lord,
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we still should.
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If we really love Jesus,
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we still should be here
having a family worship,
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when that happens to me,
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I insist that you be here
and still have family worship
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and you praise the Lord
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'cause that has nothing to
do with a lack of God's love
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or where was God
when we need Him.
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You know, precious
in the sight of the Lord
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are the deaths of His saints,
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so let's don't judge
how much God loves us by,
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you know, 'cause
we feel good today
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and we don't tomorrow
but something just happened
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and because God's
love is everlasting.
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I know a couple
that were in their 80s
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and one passed away,
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and the other one
was so angry, and said,
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"Why, why me?
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Why, why us?"
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And I said, "Why not?"
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There you go. Okay.
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Look how blessed, you
had 60 years of marriage.
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That's correct. How
people can say that?
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You know.
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Not that you are not gonna
miss that person terribly and,
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you know, mourn for that person,
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we understand that,
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but it was, you know,
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why did God
allow this to happen?
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And I'm saying, "But why not?"
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This is life, life and death.
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This is what sin has
caused. That's a good point.
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And you got to
look at the blessings
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of how many
years you had together
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but when people say, "Why me?"
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I always say, "Why not?"
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Yeah. Exactly.
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We are going to
go through things,
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but one of my
favorite verses is Isaiah 43
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and I'll read it
from the New King James.
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It says, "Fear not
for I have redeemed you.
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I have called you by your name.
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You are mine.
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When you pass
through the waters,
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I will be with you
and through the rivers,
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they shall not overflow you.
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When you walk through the
fire, you shall not be burnt,
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nor shall the flame scorch you,
for I am the Lord, your God,
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the Holy One of
Israel, your Savior."
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So the Bible doesn't
say, "if," you pass through,
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but, "when" you pass through.
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So we know we're gonna
pass through some things.
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We've got to go through
some things but when we do,
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He promises He'll
be with us and we saw,
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we saw that and what
you guys went through.
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We saw Him hold you up.
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Sister Chris was, you know,
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by Pastor
Kenny's side constantly.
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Day and night. Day and night.
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I mean, it was
just, it was a blessing.
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We had to fight from keeping
to feel worse for her than you.
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'Cause she was
getting no sleep whatsoever,
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at least, they had you sedated,
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you know, for a
while but this poor woman,
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she was literally,
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day and night
wouldn't leave the room.
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Yeah, I've said that.
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I think she went
through more than I did,
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you know, more it
been, about it does,
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You know, they realized
more what's happening, going on.
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Remember, I got so tore
up at one point that I said,
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"Move him out of
the bed, and put me in."
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You know, and it's a good chance
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since, you know, that Tammy came
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all the way down
to Florida, you know,
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and different ones in
the family, her daughter,
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and children all
came, different ones
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and then all the prayers
00:18:16.93\00:18:18.76
and the support of
3ABN family is unbelievable.
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Whom you're talking to?
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I'm talking to you
right now, you know,
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and many of them will never know
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that you've
called, that you've prayed,
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but I felt like it
was the answer to prayer.
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It's that simple.
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And time and time
again, in the wee hours,
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when your kids sleep at night
and different things happen
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and constantly be reminded,
interesting, I'd hear they say,
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"You shall not die,
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but live to proclaim
the gospel." That's right.
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And I thought, you know,
what a beautiful thought.
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Yes.
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It is just an encouragement
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when you're seeing
like the roofs coming in.
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Yes. Yes.
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You're not gonna
die, but you're gonna live
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to proclaim the gospel.
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So I feel that since...
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Really you had that
voice after much prayer as well
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because there was
times that we were grieving
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we didn't know if the Lord
was finished with us or not.
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Well, there are so
many complications,
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It seem like one
complication after another
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and it's not to say
that we weren't scared,
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of course, we were scared,
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we were afraid, you know,
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but we knew that
he was in God's hands.
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Thank God for that.
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What I saw was,
when I think of that,
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were they object of God's love
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and I really
saw that exemplified
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in Chris for Kenny.
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Kenny didn't know
it, a lot of the times,
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especially right after surgery,
you know what that's like,
00:19:35.70\00:19:38.71
but we saw that in
Chris and Yvonne and I said,
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because this
woman was there too,
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she was there 'cause
you guys were so close.
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She wanted to be there for
you and so she was there too
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and spent a long
time but to see that,
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and we would talk
about it, we'd say,
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"Look at the love that she has."
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And so, it's just a
sample of the earthly of God's
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we're the object of God's love.
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I mean, to think
about that human agents,
00:20:01.83\00:20:03.80
so we saw love poured out.
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She was loving you when
you didn't even know it.
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That's true. You
know what I'm saying?
00:20:08.74\00:20:10.21
And that's what God
does with us all the time.
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And I'm sure
certainly I didn't deserve it,
00:20:12.07\00:20:13.58
probably grouchy
at certain times,
00:20:13.61\00:20:15.84
and not feeling well and
kind of like in your mind,
00:20:15.88\00:20:18.31
you know, I don't
know all about that
00:20:18.35\00:20:20.32
but she still was there,
met every need and, yeah,
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I'm very thankful for that.
00:20:24.05\00:20:26.09
I have to say I am so thankful
00:20:26.12\00:20:29.12
because if we
ever get back to this,
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we're actually talking
about God's church on earth
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and we're all
grafted in and really,
00:20:35.66\00:20:38.23
I'm grafted into this family,
00:20:38.27\00:20:41.54
but I couldn't have
asked for a better, you know,
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I really didn't bring
you here for our story,
00:20:45.77\00:20:49.81
but I brought you here
00:20:49.84\00:20:51.18
because this is
the first time back
00:20:51.21\00:20:52.78
and I just wanted family close
00:20:52.81\00:20:54.22
and I couldn't ask
for a better family
00:20:54.25\00:20:57.22
and the times
that I was the lowest,
00:20:57.25\00:20:59.79
a lot of times,
Danny would start to pray
00:20:59.82\00:21:01.76
and I kid you not,
00:21:01.79\00:21:03.12
you would just feel
the Spirit of God come in
00:21:03.16\00:21:06.09
and we would all calm down
00:21:06.13\00:21:08.50
and it was just such a
blessing to have family.
00:21:08.53\00:21:12.60
I really consider you
as my family, you know,
00:21:12.63\00:21:17.01
and it feels like
I've always been here
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and I just love
each and every one of you
00:21:18.94\00:21:20.64
very, very much,
00:21:20.68\00:21:22.01
and all of you at
home that were praying
00:21:22.04\00:21:23.98
and the Lord did, He
didn't take the trial away,
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but He has seen us through it.
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I want to give one example.
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I know you guys have
heard it to the point
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you're probably so tired of it
00:21:32.82\00:21:34.16
but it was just so awesome.
00:21:34.19\00:21:36.46
Okay, we all need
to hear your testimony.
00:21:36.49\00:21:39.93
You know, before we left the VA
00:21:39.96\00:21:42.26
and the doctor
came in and he said,
00:21:42.30\00:21:44.33
"I've called them, you
know, Florida Hospital,"
00:21:44.37\00:21:47.04
he said, "But I'll let you know.
00:21:47.07\00:21:48.40
It could be a week, it
could be three or four days
00:21:48.44\00:21:50.61
before they even have an opening
00:21:50.64\00:21:52.94
because they're so busy."
00:21:52.97\00:21:54.31
They're the number one
hospital in the state of Florida
00:21:54.34\00:21:57.95
for cardiac care
00:21:57.98\00:21:59.31
and the fifth in the nation,
00:21:59.35\00:22:00.88
so people are wanting
to get into that hospital.
00:22:00.92\00:22:03.82
In fact, after we
got there, a lady,
00:22:03.85\00:22:05.59
one of the workers
said, "Miracles happen here."
00:22:05.62\00:22:08.72
So I thought how neat
that they felt that way,
00:22:08.76\00:22:11.33
that that's a
testimony to the hospital
00:22:11.36\00:22:13.86
and it was a
miracle that we were there.
00:22:13.90\00:22:16.13
He didn't have
insurance to be in that hospital
00:22:16.16\00:22:18.87
but because we were in
Florida and that Florida VA,
00:22:18.90\00:22:24.37
they transferred us and
the VA took care of that.
00:22:24.41\00:22:29.48
That was God's
providence just in that bit
00:22:29.51\00:22:33.11
because we couldn't have
been to that great hospital
00:22:33.15\00:22:36.22
had it not been
for where we were
00:22:36.25\00:22:37.89
at that particular time.
00:22:37.92\00:22:39.25
True.
00:22:39.29\00:22:40.62
And then that night...
00:22:40.66\00:22:41.99
The size of that hospital bill
00:22:42.02\00:22:43.36
would have given
you a heart attack.
00:22:43.39\00:22:44.73
Ooh.
00:22:44.76\00:22:46.09
Yes. Yes. Yes.
00:22:46.13\00:22:48.66
If you recovered, and
then you saw the bill,
00:22:48.70\00:22:50.73
and down you go,
and that would be it.
00:22:50.77\00:22:52.57
Right.
00:22:52.60\00:22:53.94
But I know that evening,
00:22:53.97\00:22:55.57
it was about 1:00 in the morning
00:22:55.60\00:22:56.97
and the nurse
came in and she says,
00:22:57.01\00:22:58.34
"You've bet the odds,
00:22:58.37\00:22:59.84
they're sending an
ambulance for you."
00:22:59.87\00:23:01.98
And we weren't
expecting it for days,
00:23:02.01\00:23:04.38
so we weren't quite
ready, so I'm getting up
00:23:04.41\00:23:06.21
and trying to
get things together
00:23:06.25\00:23:07.62
and she comes in five minutes,
00:23:07.65\00:23:08.98
literally five
minutes later and says,
00:23:09.02\00:23:11.25
"I was wrong. The
ambulance is here."
00:23:11.29\00:23:13.82
And so, in the
middle of the night,
00:23:13.86\00:23:16.32
and we were going
to downtown Orlando
00:23:16.36\00:23:18.76
and I'm from a city, so
I've got this city center
00:23:18.79\00:23:21.26
and I wasn't really
comfortable being out there,
00:23:21.30\00:23:24.00
but I was trying
to get directions
00:23:24.03\00:23:26.00
and it was quite an
ordeal and finally, Kenny,
00:23:26.03\00:23:28.10
they had him on the stretcher
00:23:28.14\00:23:29.47
and he looked at
the ambulance driver
00:23:29.50\00:23:31.37
and he said,
"Couldn't she just follow you?"
00:23:31.41\00:23:33.94
And he said, "Yes."
00:23:33.98\00:23:35.31
And they're not
supposed to take our bags,
00:23:35.34\00:23:36.68
one of them was so kind,
00:23:36.71\00:23:38.05
reached out and
grabbed a suitcase,
00:23:38.08\00:23:39.41
one reached out and
grabbed a bag, said,
00:23:39.45\00:23:41.08
"Meet us around front..."
00:23:41.12\00:23:42.45
Not getting any
names but somebody helped.
00:23:42.48\00:23:44.19
Somebody helped. With an angel.
00:23:44.22\00:23:46.45
And so anyway, he said,
00:23:46.49\00:23:48.72
"Meet us at the
front of the hospital."
00:23:48.76\00:23:50.33
So I go around to the front,
00:23:50.36\00:23:51.69
but on my way
out of that hospital,
00:23:51.73\00:23:53.90
in the middle of the night,
00:23:53.93\00:23:55.26
I'm going out to
that parking lot,
00:23:55.30\00:23:56.70
and I just, I've been talking
to the Lord the whole time
00:23:56.73\00:23:59.50
and I said, "God, please send
an extra angel if I need it."
00:23:59.53\00:24:04.57
So I went in, got to my
car, and I sat around front,
00:24:04.61\00:24:07.64
an ambulance
came by and I thought,
00:24:07.68\00:24:09.01
"Well, this time..."
00:24:09.04\00:24:10.38
And I, you know,
hopefully, this is the only one
00:24:10.41\00:24:12.91
and took me a while before
I could get up to see him,
00:24:12.95\00:24:15.98
they had the lights on
00:24:16.02\00:24:17.35
and I finally got
it close enough to know
00:24:17.39\00:24:19.19
that that was him in the
back and just by the look,
00:24:19.22\00:24:23.12
the thought
went through my mind,
00:24:23.16\00:24:24.49
he's having a Bible
study, and I found out later
00:24:24.53\00:24:27.30
that he was having a Bible study
00:24:27.33\00:24:28.90
in the ambulance
with the guy at the back.
00:24:28.93\00:24:31.37
So anyway, we
get to the hospital,
00:24:31.40\00:24:33.87
I stayed right behind them.
00:24:33.90\00:24:37.31
I stayed right behind
them and followed them,
00:24:37.34\00:24:39.77
passed through all
of the toll booths,
00:24:39.81\00:24:41.94
Florida has toll
booths everywhere.
00:24:41.98\00:24:44.28
And so anyway,
everything was dark,
00:24:44.31\00:24:47.42
I hadn't been
to Florida hospital
00:24:47.45\00:24:48.88
since the '80s
00:24:48.92\00:24:50.25
so I didn't know my way around
00:24:50.29\00:24:51.65
and there was a
lot of construction
00:24:51.69\00:24:53.09
and they started
going what looked like down
00:24:53.12\00:24:55.46
under the hospital,
00:24:55.49\00:24:56.93
at least there
was underground level.
00:24:56.96\00:24:58.89
And the guy stopped which put me
00:24:58.93\00:25:00.93
in the middle of the road
and I pulled up and he says,
00:25:00.96\00:25:03.63
"Ma'am, you're
gonna have to go up
00:25:03.67\00:25:05.00
to the next block, make a right,
00:25:05.03\00:25:06.84
make a right, make a right,
00:25:06.87\00:25:08.20
go back to that parking garage."
00:25:08.24\00:25:09.64
And I was like, "Ooh, okay."
00:25:09.67\00:25:12.11
I'm all by myself out here,
two o'clock in the morning.
00:25:12.14\00:25:14.81
I go in there,
nobody's there, man in the booth
00:25:14.84\00:25:17.51
and there's this
man walking around
00:25:17.55\00:25:19.38
and you could tell
he wasn't going to a car
00:25:19.41\00:25:22.08
and so I sat in the car, I said,
00:25:22.12\00:25:23.85
"Lord, I don't know if
I should get out or not."
00:25:23.89\00:25:27.32
And I waited a few
minutes and I just kept praying
00:25:27.36\00:25:29.69
and finally I
thought, "I've got to try now."
00:25:29.72\00:25:31.96
And I grabbed my bags
00:25:31.99\00:25:33.33
and I started out
and it was so dark,
00:25:33.36\00:25:34.76
I couldn't tell where
the front of the hospital was
00:25:34.80\00:25:37.87
and during the day,
after we were there,
00:25:37.90\00:25:39.63
where you're seeing
all these buildings,
00:25:39.67\00:25:41.27
I didn't know where
to go and so I said,
00:25:41.30\00:25:43.67
"Lord, where should I go?"
00:25:43.71\00:25:45.54
And I thought, "Go back
to where they let Kenny off.
00:25:45.57\00:25:48.04
There's got to be a
door down there somewhere."
00:25:48.08\00:25:50.71
And that's what I
did, and started walking,
00:25:50.75\00:25:54.02
and it was so dark,
and I started walking,
00:25:54.05\00:25:55.82
at that point,
feels like I'm in grass,
00:25:55.85\00:25:57.25
that's how dark it was
where I was at, at that time.
00:25:57.29\00:25:59.79
But I made it
across and I thought,
00:25:59.82\00:26:01.46
"Surely there's a door."
00:26:01.49\00:26:02.82
I go downstairs
00:26:02.86\00:26:04.19
and it's just
this big two panel door
00:26:04.23\00:26:07.70
and it wouldn't
open and I, I said,
00:26:07.73\00:26:10.87
"Lord, what should I do now?"
00:26:10.90\00:26:13.17
And I saw, I said,
"Should I knock it?"
00:26:13.20\00:26:14.90
And it started to rain...
00:26:14.94\00:26:16.27
As you don't know
what's happening to him...
00:26:16.30\00:26:17.64
No.
00:26:17.67\00:26:19.01
And all you want
to do is get in the...
00:26:19.04\00:26:20.38
Get in, I wanted to
get in, off the street,
00:26:20.41\00:26:21.74
I love some of the details out,
00:26:21.78\00:26:23.68
but I was not comfortable
out there on the street.
00:26:23.71\00:26:27.18
And I didn't know where to go
00:26:27.22\00:26:28.65
and so I just had this
very uncomfortable feeling
00:26:28.68\00:26:31.95
about me and so I said,
00:26:31.99\00:26:34.42
"Lord, should I knock?"
00:26:34.46\00:26:35.82
And I saw these
ladies in the foreground
00:26:35.86\00:26:38.39
and then this
gentleman closer to me
00:26:38.43\00:26:41.40
and he picked up his badge
00:26:41.43\00:26:43.33
like he was gonna
go in a side door,
00:26:43.37\00:26:44.83
but he turned around
00:26:44.87\00:26:46.20
and he started
walking to the glass door,
00:26:46.23\00:26:48.64
he opened the first one,
00:26:48.67\00:26:50.54
then he, he
would open the second
00:26:50.57\00:26:52.71
and walk past me real quick
and says, "You're welcome."
00:26:52.74\00:26:55.64
I never had the
opportunity to say, thank you.
00:26:55.68\00:26:59.48
He never said, "Can I help you?"
00:26:59.51\00:27:02.12
And I had this
feeling come over me,
00:27:02.15\00:27:04.45
what just happened?
00:27:04.49\00:27:06.22
And I started to turn
and I had this thought,
00:27:06.25\00:27:09.59
"No, look for Kenny."
00:27:09.62\00:27:11.89
So, I mean, I was literally,
00:27:11.93\00:27:13.26
I wanted to see
what just happened,
00:27:13.29\00:27:14.80
I was gonna say, you know,
00:27:14.83\00:27:16.30
'cause it just was
such a feeling around me
00:27:16.33\00:27:19.17
and I started in,
00:27:19.20\00:27:20.54
I don't think
those women ever saw me
00:27:20.57\00:27:22.80
until I was in the hallway
00:27:22.84\00:27:24.57
and they said,
"Can we help you?"
00:27:24.61\00:27:26.98
And I told, I said,
00:27:27.01\00:27:28.34
"Well, they just
brought my husband
00:27:28.38\00:27:29.71
in here by ambulance."
00:27:29.74\00:27:31.08
And she said,
"You can't be here.
00:27:31.11\00:27:33.38
You're not supposed to be
in this part of the hospital.
00:27:33.42\00:27:36.02
You go through that wood
door and get up to security."
00:27:36.05\00:27:38.99
I didn't mind 'cause
I was off the street,
00:27:39.02\00:27:41.26
security sounded real
good to me at that time.
00:27:41.29\00:27:44.06
And when I told him,
he had the same feeling
00:27:44.09\00:27:47.66
and what he just whispered,
00:27:47.70\00:27:49.03
he said, "He knew
you were thankful."
00:27:49.06\00:27:51.50
And we both
thought that was an angel
00:27:51.53\00:27:54.77
and when I told
Des, Des Cummings.
00:27:54.80\00:27:57.97
Yeah.
00:27:58.01\00:27:59.34
When I told his assistant,
she got shivers, she said,
00:27:59.37\00:28:02.18
"That was God."
00:28:02.21\00:28:03.75
Another nurse felt the same way.
00:28:03.78\00:28:05.71
At that hospital
everything shuts down at night,
00:28:05.75\00:28:08.88
they should have never let me in
00:28:08.92\00:28:10.75
without questioning,
00:28:10.79\00:28:12.42
how would he know I'm thankful,
00:28:12.45\00:28:13.92
he didn't know who I was
or what I was doing there,
00:28:13.96\00:28:17.76
except by the grace of God
00:28:17.79\00:28:19.79
that God had sent
him there to let me in,
00:28:19.83\00:28:22.76
and little
things kept happening...
00:28:22.80\00:28:24.27
And so thankful that
there's such security,
00:28:24.30\00:28:26.43
you're in the middle of a city.
00:28:26.47\00:28:27.80
Yes, yes.
00:28:27.84\00:28:29.17
So to have that
kind of security,
00:28:29.20\00:28:30.54
well, sometimes it
might be inconvenient to us,
00:28:30.57\00:28:33.44
it's great to
know when you're there,
00:28:33.48\00:28:34.84
and not
anybody's coming and going,
00:28:34.88\00:28:36.38
there's a, in the cities,
there's also a lot of crime,
00:28:36.41\00:28:39.41
to have that and
then somehow you,
00:28:39.45\00:28:41.88
the Lord opened up, literally,
opened up the door for you.
00:28:41.92\00:28:44.65
It was like,
you hear the stories
00:28:44.69\00:28:46.62
about the God's people
00:28:46.65\00:28:48.39
where He opened a
passageway through a...
00:28:48.42\00:28:50.56
That's how I felt,
like what just took place?
00:28:50.59\00:28:54.56
And for him not to
say, "May I help you?
00:28:54.60\00:28:57.57
Or tell me where to go."
00:28:57.60\00:29:00.14
You think the Lord
allows sometimes those things,
00:29:00.17\00:29:03.41
little things because sometimes,
00:29:03.44\00:29:05.17
just you're looking for
something to grab on to,
00:29:05.21\00:29:07.58
just some little straw
00:29:07.61\00:29:09.51
and maybe he
allows little things,
00:29:09.54\00:29:11.08
somebody watching so,
that's no big deal, you know,
00:29:11.11\00:29:14.18
that's no big deal,
well, to you, at that time,
00:29:14.22\00:29:16.48
that was a huge deal.
00:29:16.52\00:29:18.29
And so I think
sometimes the Lord allows us
00:29:18.32\00:29:20.99
these little things,
00:29:21.02\00:29:22.42
just because He knows
we need it and, and...
00:29:22.46\00:29:25.49
And we've seen that all the way.
00:29:25.53\00:29:27.53
The object of
God's tenderous care,
00:29:27.56\00:29:29.76
there were little
things that He kept answering
00:29:29.80\00:29:32.03
throughout this whole ordeal,
you know, and that same garage,
00:29:32.07\00:29:37.24
Tammy and one of our
daughters Missie was there
00:29:37.27\00:29:40.18
and it was about
two or three days later,
00:29:40.21\00:29:41.71
that same garage I
was afraid to get out,
00:29:41.74\00:29:43.31
and they had it
surrounded by police,
00:29:43.35\00:29:45.11
helicopters over it,
looking for a murderer,
00:29:45.15\00:29:48.75
so, I mean, it's
just, it's a beautiful area
00:29:48.78\00:29:51.49
but it's kind of a rough area.
00:29:51.52\00:29:53.72
City, there's a million
people, you know, and that's,
00:29:53.76\00:29:56.22
that's what you run into.
00:29:56.26\00:29:57.59
Danny, in all these
things, we think about
00:29:57.63\00:30:00.13
faith has to be exercised.
00:30:00.16\00:30:01.50
Yes.
00:30:01.53\00:30:02.86
You know, even, even if
I'm going into the hospital
00:30:02.90\00:30:06.80
and I'm into the ambulance,
00:30:06.84\00:30:08.47
it's caused her
and I to be separated.
00:30:08.50\00:30:10.27
Yeah.
00:30:10.31\00:30:11.64
And I knew she was by
herself at that point in time.
00:30:11.67\00:30:13.81
She's going to have to
fight to get here, to get there,
00:30:14.84\00:30:17.48
there's no one to help her
and I kept thinking, I need to,
00:30:17.51\00:30:20.98
I need to help
her, I don't need help.
00:30:21.02\00:30:22.68
I need to help her
get where she needs to go.
00:30:22.72\00:30:25.45
How is she going to
get in the hospital?
00:30:25.49\00:30:26.82
How is she going to follow?
00:30:26.86\00:30:28.19
How is she going...
00:30:28.22\00:30:29.56
This is all
going through my mind,
00:30:29.59\00:30:30.93
is I'm wanting to help her
00:30:30.96\00:30:32.29
and then she's
wanting to help me
00:30:32.33\00:30:34.10
and so, you
know, through it all,
00:30:34.13\00:30:35.46
I just, Lord had said,
"Kenny, I'll take care of her."
00:30:35.50\00:30:38.30
You know, don't, don't
worry about that aspect of it,
00:30:38.33\00:30:41.70
you know, you have been praying,
00:30:41.74\00:30:43.07
asked for the angels
of heaven to take care of,
00:30:43.10\00:30:45.44
there's things that need
to be taken care of right now,
00:30:45.47\00:30:47.88
but don't you worry
about her, she will get here,
00:30:47.91\00:30:50.45
all will be well."
00:30:50.48\00:30:51.81
Absolutely.
00:30:51.85\00:30:53.18
So I was thankful for
that and so I had to grasp that
00:30:53.21\00:30:55.52
by faith, not by sight,
not by things that went on,
00:30:55.55\00:30:59.32
but by faith just,
just say, "Okay, Lord,
00:30:59.35\00:31:01.52
I trust that You're
gonna, You're gonna do that."
00:31:01.56\00:31:03.66
Absolutely
00:31:03.69\00:31:05.03
Those experiences are
just what you just said,
00:31:05.06\00:31:07.16
they encourage us.
00:31:07.20\00:31:08.53
Oh, yes.
00:31:08.56\00:31:09.90
We were recently watching
a program about Navy SEALS,
00:31:09.93\00:31:12.80
and the first thought
that came to my mind is,
00:31:12.83\00:31:14.44
"Boy, if I was
ever taken captive,
00:31:14.47\00:31:16.24
I would hope that
Navy SEALS would..."
00:31:16.27\00:31:18.71
And I thought, "No, I'd
rather have God's angels."
00:31:18.74\00:31:22.74
There you go.
00:31:22.78\00:31:24.11
Walk out.
00:31:24.15\00:31:25.48
This is how He has taken
care of His people in the past,
00:31:25.51\00:31:28.32
and He's promised He's gonna
take care of us in the future.
00:31:28.35\00:31:31.82
Our needs will be met if
we have faith and we trust,
00:31:31.85\00:31:36.09
you know, when
we need a door open,
00:31:36.12\00:31:37.93
He will open it
00:31:37.96\00:31:39.29
and we don't have to worry about
00:31:39.33\00:31:40.83
all the things that
happen when Navy SEALS arrive.
00:31:40.86\00:31:43.87
We can walk through the
crowd and they don't even see.
00:31:43.90\00:31:46.33
That people might too
and for the viewers at home,
00:31:46.37\00:31:49.67
say, well, Kenny
is picture of healthy,
00:31:49.70\00:31:51.94
weight is good, he eats great,
00:31:51.97\00:31:54.31
I mean, exercises,
you know, and, you know,
00:31:54.34\00:31:58.91
how does this thing happen?
00:31:58.95\00:32:00.38
And someone said to me once,
00:32:00.42\00:32:02.08
"You should choose
your parents wisely."
00:32:02.12\00:32:04.22
So a lot of this has to
do, you know, with heredity,
00:32:04.25\00:32:09.22
our father was
disabled with a heart attack
00:32:09.26\00:32:11.79
at 36 years old, died at 51,
00:32:11.83\00:32:14.76
we've had some
aunts that died early,
00:32:14.80\00:32:17.27
Uncle Buds had open
heart surgery, you know,
00:32:17.30\00:32:19.80
brother Tom has
had open heart surgery
00:32:19.83\00:32:21.97
and in our family,
there's a lot of that,
00:32:22.00\00:32:24.47
11 years or so
ago, 11 years ago,
00:32:24.51\00:32:26.61
now I had a stent,
put in a heart stent
00:32:26.64\00:32:29.11
but praise the Lord,
I still play basketball
00:32:29.14\00:32:31.08
every Tuesday night when I can,
00:32:31.11\00:32:32.65
I'm out there
running and feel blessed,
00:32:32.68\00:32:34.92
so it's not so,
00:32:34.95\00:32:36.58
they said, when Kenny
came in, Yvonne, they said,
00:32:36.62\00:32:39.89
when we saw your tests
and saw you, it doesn't fit,
00:32:39.92\00:32:43.26
we expected to see a
300-pound smoker, you know,
00:32:43.29\00:32:48.93
and what happens is,
00:32:48.96\00:32:50.30
this is the
world that we live in
00:32:50.33\00:32:52.53
and a lot of things
are beyond our control
00:32:52.57\00:32:54.80
but stress and
heredity, you know,
00:32:54.84\00:32:57.51
but my thing is I
have no doubt in my mind
00:32:57.54\00:33:00.48
that either one of
us would have been,
00:33:00.51\00:33:03.61
both of us would have
been dead a long time ago
00:33:03.65\00:33:06.21
had we not tried to
take care of ourselves
00:33:06.25\00:33:08.05
and don't smoke and drink
00:33:08.08\00:33:09.42
and, you know, try, try
to live a Christian life
00:33:09.45\00:33:12.02
where you have the great peace,
00:33:12.05\00:33:13.39
have they which love thy law.
00:33:13.42\00:33:14.89
And so, though
we've been through a lot,
00:33:14.92\00:33:17.09
so we give God the
credit for that and, Tammy,
00:33:17.13\00:33:20.16
you've had problems too,
00:33:20.20\00:33:21.53
all of us in our
family literally,
00:33:21.56\00:33:23.60
but, you know, hey,
you live with those things
00:33:23.63\00:33:26.37
and you praise God
that every day is a gift
00:33:26.40\00:33:29.47
and, you know, we've
seen, we have seen over and over
00:33:29.50\00:33:32.81
because Tammy
said so many things
00:33:32.84\00:33:35.51
that went wrong.
00:33:35.54\00:33:37.51
Only about one, I think
one out of a hundred people
00:33:37.55\00:33:39.98
during the
angioplasty have a stroke,
00:33:40.02\00:33:43.15
you had a stroke.
00:33:43.18\00:33:44.55
Well, we have in our family,
00:33:44.59\00:33:46.35
we try to make
light of a lot of things
00:33:46.39\00:33:48.76
and, you know, but take things
with a great resolve and say,
00:33:48.79\00:33:53.16
"Hey, that's just
life the way it is."
00:33:53.19\00:33:54.86
So Kenny is, when the
doctor come to see him,
00:33:54.90\00:33:57.87
he said, "I don't know
which one am I talking to."
00:33:57.90\00:33:59.77
He was seeing what, three?
00:33:59.80\00:34:01.20
No, there's two guys
there and I was seeing four.
00:34:01.24\00:34:03.07
Yeah, there was two
guys there and you saw four,
00:34:03.10\00:34:05.04
so he says to
them in that shape,
00:34:05.07\00:34:06.74
kind of, you know,
even jesting about that
00:34:06.78\00:34:09.21
which is not funny
but is the improvement
00:34:09.24\00:34:11.91
because your eye, literally,
00:34:11.95\00:34:13.28
wasn't following
one, and wouldn't follow,
00:34:13.31\00:34:15.98
it was droopy and look
at the improvement on this,
00:34:16.02\00:34:18.79
if I hadn't be, if I wasn't,
wasn't telling it right now,
00:34:18.82\00:34:22.39
people wouldn't know,
00:34:22.42\00:34:24.13
but though the
improvement that we've seen
00:34:24.16\00:34:26.46
has absolutely been
incredible, but I told him,
00:34:26.49\00:34:29.06
I said, "Hey, Ken, look
on the good part of it."
00:34:29.10\00:34:31.00
As I said, "You go
through that Bible reading
00:34:31.03\00:34:33.64
in a year's time,
00:34:33.67\00:34:35.00
you can do it in four
months as you see three.
00:34:35.04\00:34:37.67
I said, you can do, you
can... You can do in three.
00:34:37.71\00:34:40.64
You can do.
00:34:40.68\00:34:42.14
That was so
twisted. Is that cold?
00:34:42.18\00:34:45.51
Our sense of humor
is little bit warmer.
00:34:45.55\00:34:48.62
Sometimes, we need
that to get us through,
00:34:48.65\00:34:51.32
you can see he's
still struggling but,
00:34:51.35\00:34:53.39
but we do see
improvement and, you know...
00:34:53.42\00:34:55.66
Yeah.
00:34:55.69\00:34:57.03
That was probably
the time I was so upset,
00:34:57.06\00:34:59.69
the worst in
hospital, it's a good hospital,
00:34:59.73\00:35:02.26
please don't take it wrong
00:35:02.30\00:35:03.93
but at this time
we're in the hospital,
00:35:03.97\00:35:05.83
I saw him for just a few seconds
00:35:05.87\00:35:08.44
and his eyes were
not talking together,
00:35:08.47\00:35:10.54
both of them were
moving and they kept telling me
00:35:10.57\00:35:13.54
he was tired,
it's the anesthesia,
00:35:13.58\00:35:15.44
he's just tired and
this went on for hours
00:35:15.48\00:35:18.08
and I finally found it
a little bit more stern,
00:35:18.11\00:35:22.05
they said, this
could be neurological
00:35:22.08\00:35:24.09
or, you know, it
could be vascular,
00:35:24.12\00:35:26.12
what if he's had a stroke
00:35:26.15\00:35:27.49
and they finally
sent somebody in there
00:35:27.52\00:35:29.12
and I stood him at the
end of the bed, I said,
00:35:29.16\00:35:30.96
"Watch," You know,
00:35:30.99\00:35:32.33
'cause they're
quivering as much,
00:35:32.36\00:35:33.70
but you could tell they
weren't tracking together
00:35:33.73\00:35:36.00
and then they started running,
00:35:36.03\00:35:38.53
but we were right
there in the hospital
00:35:38.57\00:35:41.20
and they missed
the four-hour window
00:35:41.24\00:35:43.41
to give him the blood thinner...
00:35:43.44\00:35:45.01
Yes, for, you know,
00:35:46.07\00:35:47.41
in case it had
been a blood clot.
00:35:47.44\00:35:48.81
Well, one nurse came and said,
"Well, it was too dangerous
00:35:48.84\00:35:51.78
because he would have bled out."
00:35:51.81\00:35:53.52
But we know that
it has been done,
00:35:53.55\00:35:55.05
we weren't given
that opportunity.
00:35:55.08\00:35:57.09
But one thing that
crossed my mind later is,
00:35:57.12\00:36:00.39
here we are, all of
us are praying, right?
00:36:00.42\00:36:03.32
We're having faith in God
and it finally came to my mind,
00:36:03.36\00:36:07.00
if God's in control,
He closed their minds
00:36:07.03\00:36:10.67
because maybe it
was a piece of plaque
00:36:10.70\00:36:13.87
and maybe they
wouldn't have been able
00:36:13.90\00:36:15.24
to stop the bleeding
and we may have lost him.
00:36:15.27\00:36:18.14
Yeah, absolutely.
00:36:18.17\00:36:19.51
So that gave me peace. Oh, yeah.
00:36:19.54\00:36:21.11
So God was in control
even in that situation...
00:36:21.14\00:36:24.15
And, you know,
and we have to learn,
00:36:24.18\00:36:26.41
I think somebody
mentioned it right here,
00:36:26.45\00:36:28.25
Tammy, I was talking about you.
00:36:28.28\00:36:30.29
Every time I
want to say something,
00:36:30.32\00:36:32.59
you know, there's times
you get a little bit frustrated
00:36:32.62\00:36:36.22
'cause you want to
do little early yet,
00:36:36.26\00:36:38.09
and maybe you do it
just like, "Oh, boy."
00:36:38.13\00:36:40.53
And the Lord always reminds me,
"Kenny, what could have been?"
00:36:40.56\00:36:44.40
That sounds odd, but every time,
00:36:44.43\00:36:46.33
I can't say and
I've never said why?
00:36:46.37\00:36:48.90
I mean, didn't
make you a good person,
00:36:48.94\00:36:50.64
but I just
realized from scripture,
00:36:50.67\00:36:52.07
you don't say, why me?
00:36:52.11\00:36:53.58
Again, why not me?
00:36:53.61\00:36:55.08
And then the
other point is, I can't,
00:36:55.11\00:36:57.75
"Kenny, what could have been?"
00:36:57.78\00:36:59.68
Other words, "I
protected you from things,
00:36:59.71\00:37:01.68
what the enemy
want to take your sight.
00:37:01.72\00:37:04.55
He wants to paralyze
you. He wanted to kill you."
00:37:04.59\00:37:07.39
As he does many, many
others and not just me,
00:37:07.42\00:37:10.29
so that people need to
realize that's what he does
00:37:10.33\00:37:12.53
as you say often,
that's what he does,
00:37:12.56\00:37:14.00
the devil can
kill, steal, and destroy.
00:37:14.03\00:37:17.03
But, but through it
all, God says, as he did Job,
00:37:17.07\00:37:20.47
you can go this
far and that's it.
00:37:20.50\00:37:23.54
I had a good sense
and the feeling of faith,
00:37:23.57\00:37:26.98
then I sensed
that from time to time,
00:37:27.01\00:37:29.54
you're going so
far, you keep knocking
00:37:29.58\00:37:31.61
because, you know,
you can't get the fluid,
00:37:31.65\00:37:33.88
you know, in your
lungs and you've got,
00:37:33.92\00:37:35.32
now you've got pneumonia.
00:37:35.35\00:37:36.69
Now you had a
stroke, but through it all,
00:37:36.72\00:37:39.12
He's gonna somehow,
gonna take care of that,
00:37:39.15\00:37:41.12
He's gonna do it,
we just have to endure
00:37:41.16\00:37:43.22
because God said,
00:37:43.26\00:37:44.59
"I've set a wall
00:37:44.63\00:37:46.06
and this as far
is you're gonna go."
00:37:46.09\00:37:48.06
That's so beautiful to
know that God's in charge,
00:37:48.10\00:37:51.27
the enemy can't do any more
than what God allows him to do,
00:37:51.30\00:37:54.67
so like you said, we praise Him
if it's been the other outcome,
00:37:54.70\00:37:58.67
I often say, if
something happens
00:37:58.71\00:38:00.04
and I pass away,
00:38:00.08\00:38:01.44
have a good
double fellowship lunch
00:38:01.48\00:38:03.24
at church or something...
00:38:03.28\00:38:04.61
Yeah, yeah. Have a good time.
00:38:04.65\00:38:05.98
If we die in the
Lord, there's nothing,
00:38:06.01\00:38:08.05
what better is it really
if you think about your life
00:38:08.08\00:38:10.75
is still clear in Hm.
00:38:10.79\00:38:12.22
There's people who had left
00:38:12.25\00:38:13.59
and I realized
those kind of things,
00:38:13.62\00:38:15.02
but I think God, He's done,
00:38:15.06\00:38:16.56
there's a reason why we're here,
00:38:16.59\00:38:18.66
there's a reason
why things may stay
00:38:18.69\00:38:20.50
and they may
not, and they might.
00:38:20.53\00:38:22.76
So I have hope
everyday, things maybe change,
00:38:22.80\00:38:25.23
things will get better and
so on so forth, but if not,
00:38:25.27\00:38:28.44
that's what I want
to kind of, thankful,
00:38:28.47\00:38:30.14
to be able to come
and do a program or two
00:38:30.17\00:38:31.61
because every day I put it
off, it's like Lord will say,
00:38:31.64\00:38:34.41
"Kenny, you've
wasted another day."
00:38:34.44\00:38:36.78
You know, not as so
good as you did there,
00:38:36.81\00:38:38.91
so you're so good.
00:38:38.95\00:38:40.28
It's another day
that's went down,
00:38:40.32\00:38:42.05
you'll never have it again,
do something positive for me.
00:38:42.08\00:38:45.82
And so that's the sense of peace
00:38:45.85\00:38:48.69
and the reality of the day
00:38:48.72\00:38:50.46
when you get done
and you're able to,
00:38:50.49\00:38:52.19
be able to do
the work with 3ABN,
00:38:52.23\00:38:53.63
do different
things and reach people,
00:38:53.66\00:38:55.60
there's a, there's a
sense of peace inside.
00:38:55.63\00:38:59.37
You know, that song says,
00:38:59.40\00:39:00.74
"I wonder have I
done my best for Jesus."
00:39:00.77\00:39:02.87
Oh, if I'm not
doing anything, because,
00:39:02.90\00:39:04.61
well, I'll wait
till I feel better,
00:39:04.64\00:39:06.14
I may never feel
better, in that sense.
00:39:06.17\00:39:08.54
Wait till I get healed.
00:39:08.58\00:39:09.91
I may never, do it now,
00:39:09.94\00:39:11.75
get back in the swing
of things and they say,
00:39:11.78\00:39:13.72
"Well, can you read." I
said, Well, sometimes I can.
00:39:13.75\00:39:15.85
I may have to move my head,
I may have to, but it's okay,
00:39:15.88\00:39:18.29
I'm not ashamed of
that, you get through,
00:39:18.32\00:39:20.66
the Holy Spirit will
help us so, you know,
00:39:20.69\00:39:22.46
I'm encouraging those of
you at home, get involved,
00:39:22.49\00:39:24.53
don't wait till
this is all lined out
00:39:24.56\00:39:27.20
and everything is working good.
00:39:27.23\00:39:28.56
Do something for Jesus,
00:39:28.60\00:39:29.93
you'll find peace and
you'll find His healing
00:39:29.96\00:39:31.43
and all the time you're
trying to heal someone else.
00:39:31.47\00:39:33.50
And He'll give you the
strength to meet that challenge.
00:39:33.54\00:39:36.27
Amen.
00:39:36.30\00:39:37.64
Because we, we had the privilege
00:39:37.67\00:39:39.11
of coming to hear
your first sermons
00:39:39.14\00:39:41.41
since you got
out of the hospital,
00:39:41.44\00:39:43.35
and you started
out and it was good
00:39:43.38\00:39:47.22
and the more you were preaching,
00:39:47.25\00:39:50.25
the more strength you got.
00:39:50.29\00:39:52.89
It was the Lord
gave you what you needed.
00:39:52.92\00:39:55.49
Well, the saints were
praying. Yes, that's true.
00:39:55.52\00:39:59.89
I said that day, I'm
so thankful, you guys,
00:39:59.93\00:40:02.86
that was nice, to
be a family support,
00:40:02.90\00:40:05.17
that's nice.
00:40:05.20\00:40:06.53
Had a lot of other things
to do, but you still did it.
00:40:06.57\00:40:09.04
But I said that, that Sabbath
00:40:09.07\00:40:10.64
and it's been
three or four weeks ago.
00:40:10.67\00:40:13.41
I said, they got up
saying the opening song,
00:40:13.44\00:40:15.34
and well, you know,
00:40:15.38\00:40:16.91
and I opened the
songbook and like, "Say again."
00:40:16.95\00:40:19.68
I'm looking at the
songbook and I'm getting
00:40:19.71\00:40:21.18
where I can usually see
00:40:21.22\00:40:22.95
and I have,
there's three songbooks,
00:40:22.98\00:40:25.15
there's three pages, seriously,
there's three pages there
00:40:25.19\00:40:27.72
and I said, "Lord,
what in this world..."
00:40:27.76\00:40:29.46
And you are up...
00:40:29.49\00:40:30.83
I'm up, that was the song, yeah,
00:40:30.86\00:40:32.19
I'm getting ready and
I'm trying to, and I said,
00:40:32.23\00:40:33.70
there's three
pages of this song here.
00:40:33.73\00:40:36.60
What is the enemy trying to
do? And I said, you know what?
00:40:36.63\00:40:38.67
In the name of
Jesus, I rebuke that,
00:40:38.70\00:40:40.34
that may happen
during this song,
00:40:40.37\00:40:41.94
but it's not going to happen
00:40:41.97\00:40:43.30
from this time to
give the word of God.
00:40:43.34\00:40:44.67
Amen.
00:40:44.71\00:40:46.04
Then I just
closed it up and I said,
00:40:46.07\00:40:47.41
"It's not going to be that
way" and it wasn't that way.
00:40:47.44\00:40:49.11
That's right. And I
praise God. That was...
00:40:49.14\00:40:50.81
Yeah. I said,
he'll try the very last,
00:40:50.85\00:40:53.85
at the very, you know,
00:40:53.88\00:40:55.22
that he'll try to
write to the very end
00:40:55.25\00:40:57.35
but he can't be successful,
00:40:57.39\00:40:58.72
you know, he
cannot be successful.
00:40:58.75\00:41:00.09
The enemy cannot be...
00:41:00.12\00:41:01.46
If you press forward in faith.
00:41:01.49\00:41:02.82
Being in ministry, we've sensed
00:41:02.86\00:41:04.43
a lot of attacks over the years,
00:41:04.46\00:41:06.16
you know,
financial and this and that
00:41:06.19\00:41:08.60
and different
things that have happened,
00:41:08.63\00:41:10.60
but I think 3ABN
and Behold, The Lamb,
00:41:10.63\00:41:14.17
we sensed that it's
just being ramped up,
00:41:14.20\00:41:17.77
which shows us that
we are at the end of time
00:41:17.81\00:41:22.08
because the enemy
is truly seeking those
00:41:22.11\00:41:25.05
whom he may devour
00:41:25.08\00:41:26.41
and since January,
since we were gone,
00:41:26.45\00:41:28.68
we lost our camera operators
00:41:28.72\00:41:30.59
that we used for
Behold, The Lamb presents here
00:41:30.62\00:41:33.42
and now, you and us, are
both losing brother Joseph,
00:41:33.46\00:41:37.26
and he's our editor,
and he keeps our YouTube
00:41:37.29\00:41:40.90
and all these
things going and, you know,
00:41:40.93\00:41:43.87
so the enemy is really working
00:41:43.90\00:41:46.37
but by God's grace,
we have to stay positive,
00:41:46.40\00:41:49.24
do what we can, where
we can and when we can.
00:41:49.27\00:41:54.18
Yvonne, Chris put on
speakerphone the other day,
00:41:54.21\00:41:57.88
so Kenny could hear
'cause as our dad said,
00:41:57.91\00:42:00.45
"You laugh sometimes to
keep from crying, right?"
00:42:00.48\00:42:03.45
I told, she was
telling me he mowed
00:42:03.49\00:42:05.35
and he did some
wheat eating and I said,
00:42:05.39\00:42:07.02
"Well, I think the orgy
00:42:07.06\00:42:08.39
is just gonna
make it after all."
00:42:08.42\00:42:10.19
Maybe a little
zig-zag on the mow,
00:42:14.93\00:42:18.17
but eventually,
it all got mowed.
00:42:18.20\00:42:19.63
It was moving or
everything was moving so much...
00:42:19.67\00:42:21.80
That's the other
beauty of it, he only,
00:42:21.84\00:42:23.71
he only really
mowed a third of the yard.
00:42:23.74\00:42:25.87
It's all green so.
00:42:25.91\00:42:27.24
The beauty is he
didn't mowed the yard
00:42:27.28\00:42:29.04
but the thought he mowed it off.
00:42:29.08\00:42:31.11
You know, it was a
blessing, like I say,
00:42:31.15\00:42:32.65
"Oh, man, right here."
00:42:32.68\00:42:34.02
Then I say, "Oh,
what a blessing,"
00:42:34.05\00:42:36.25
to be able to set on
it and to do something.
00:42:36.28\00:42:38.32
So you look at the positive
00:42:38.35\00:42:39.69
and I realized what
we're talking about here,
00:42:39.72\00:42:41.66
it has not been the
program and I've often said...
00:42:41.69\00:42:43.59
It's God's interest in...
00:42:43.63\00:42:46.19
I wanted to read 'cause He says,
00:42:46.23\00:42:48.03
"If I be, if I be lifted
up, will draw all men unto me."
00:42:48.06\00:42:51.57
So it's lifting
up the name of Jesus,
00:42:51.60\00:42:53.44
not talking about individuals,
millions have been through it
00:42:53.47\00:42:56.20
and worse and
they've not made it,
00:42:56.24\00:42:58.37
so it's not just about it,
00:42:58.41\00:42:59.74
but I think each one of
you brought it very nicely,
00:42:59.77\00:43:01.74
we're giving God the praise,
the honor, and the glory,
00:43:01.78\00:43:04.08
He's in charge, He set things up
00:43:04.11\00:43:06.38
and it worked the
way He wants it to work
00:43:06.41\00:43:08.45
and that's the way it's going
to be and I'm thankful to that.
00:43:08.48\00:43:10.95
Absolutely,
absolutely, the one point
00:43:10.99\00:43:13.05
and this may be switching
the subject a little bit,
00:43:13.09\00:43:16.42
but the one point is about,
00:43:16.46\00:43:18.99
you know, why aren't
there more Christians today?
00:43:19.03\00:43:22.33
People say, "Well,
you know, these people,
00:43:22.36\00:43:24.83
their trust in God,"
00:43:24.87\00:43:26.30
you know, and
you may be watching,
00:43:26.33\00:43:29.10
maybe you're not a
Christian, at home,
00:43:29.14\00:43:30.64
you're watching your
neighbors and, you know,
00:43:30.67\00:43:32.87
and I always say and when
we grew up, our folks said,
00:43:32.91\00:43:35.48
"Now our
neighbors are watching you."
00:43:35.51\00:43:37.55
And, you know, so we want to be
00:43:37.58\00:43:39.01
a good influence
on these neighbors,
00:43:39.05\00:43:40.78
but I've wondered before,
00:43:40.82\00:43:42.15
why aren't
there more Christians?
00:43:42.18\00:43:43.99
And our church friends
00:43:44.02\00:43:45.35
and why not more Seventh-day
Adventist Christians?
00:43:45.39\00:43:47.66
And the sad part
is people look at us
00:43:47.69\00:43:51.19
and I believe that
the reason, you know,
00:43:51.23\00:43:53.29
I always say that, we say,
00:43:53.33\00:43:55.20
well, we're waiting on
Jesus to come back, when really,
00:43:55.23\00:43:57.83
He's waiting on His people
00:43:57.87\00:43:59.80
to prefect His
character within our lives
00:43:59.83\00:44:02.90
so that He can come
back for a victorious church
00:44:02.94\00:44:05.74
and that's what He wants to do.
00:44:05.77\00:44:09.04
But we get so caught up
in the things around us,
00:44:09.08\00:44:12.65
as we're the object of
His love and tender care,
00:44:12.68\00:44:15.85
we should show
that to those around us
00:44:15.88\00:44:18.79
if we represent Him.
00:44:18.82\00:44:20.62
And I know over the years,
I've been unkind to people,
00:44:20.66\00:44:23.73
I've been that way,
we grew up in a church
00:44:23.76\00:44:26.19
that was very, you know,
00:44:26.23\00:44:28.16
say judgmental
basically of somebody,
00:44:28.20\00:44:31.00
you know, we had
members, we call it "Our church"
00:44:31.03\00:44:34.47
and if somebody,
somebody say, well, I saw...
00:44:34.50\00:44:37.21
That person hadn't been
to church in several months
00:44:37.24\00:44:39.34
and when somebody said,
00:44:39.37\00:44:40.71
they saw him smoking,
well, it's a little group,
00:44:40.74\00:44:42.44
we tend to get together
and say, well, you know what?
00:44:42.48\00:44:44.65
We need to take their names
off these books, like what,
00:44:44.68\00:44:47.52
you know, what does that do?
00:44:47.55\00:44:49.22
And sometimes we, we don't
know what people go through,
00:44:49.25\00:44:52.25
we have no idea, you don't
know what I've been through
00:44:52.29\00:44:54.66
and I don't know
what you've been through
00:44:54.69\00:44:56.66
and so we spend so much time
00:44:56.69\00:44:58.29
judging each other
or listening to gossip
00:44:58.33\00:45:00.90
and listening to all of
this, that how can, how can God,
00:45:00.93\00:45:04.63
I'm amazed He uses
any of us honestly,
00:45:04.67\00:45:07.67
if I ever want to
throw up my hands,
00:45:07.70\00:45:09.24
it's usually and not,
00:45:09.27\00:45:10.74
when you said, my dad, you said,
00:45:10.77\00:45:12.11
I just want to throw
up my hands, you know,
00:45:12.14\00:45:13.74
when we throw up your hands,
would be when you look at,
00:45:13.78\00:45:16.75
at what we have,
00:45:16.78\00:45:18.28
there is nothing hard
about reading the Bible
00:45:18.31\00:45:22.32
and understanding the gospel
00:45:22.35\00:45:24.42
and even doctrines would then,
00:45:24.45\00:45:25.99
to say the
Seventh-day Adventist church,
00:45:26.02\00:45:28.52
we talked about a
little bit before,
00:45:28.56\00:45:30.06
but there's nothing hard
about understanding the Bible,
00:45:30.09\00:45:34.16
from Genesis to Revelation,
00:45:34.20\00:45:35.80
when it talks about the Sabbath,
00:45:35.83\00:45:37.27
it's referring to the
seventh day of the week.
00:45:37.30\00:45:38.70
That's right.
00:45:38.73\00:45:40.07
And hardly any Bible
scholars will tell you,
00:45:40.10\00:45:43.20
they try to tell you
that Sunday or Friday
00:45:43.24\00:45:45.37
or any other day is the Sabbath
00:45:45.41\00:45:47.31
because if there
are Bible scholars,
00:45:47.34\00:45:49.64
then they know it
and they studied it
00:45:49.68\00:45:51.68
well enough to know,
00:45:51.71\00:45:53.31
now there's all kinds of reasons
00:45:53.35\00:45:54.68
why I don't
think I should keep it,
00:45:54.72\00:45:56.89
but really the doctrines
of it, when you see it,
00:45:56.92\00:45:59.32
and when the Bible says,
00:45:59.35\00:46:00.69
you know, that the
people are sleeping,
00:46:00.72\00:46:02.52
you know, "Lazarus come forth,"
00:46:02.56\00:46:04.29
you know, "he was sleeping"
00:46:04.33\00:46:05.66
Jesus said, that's not
hard to understand, really,
00:46:05.69\00:46:07.96
I mean, that's very simple.
00:46:08.00\00:46:09.73
So you think, well,
maybe people just don't,
00:46:09.76\00:46:12.10
we and I've heard
this expression growing up,
00:46:12.13\00:46:14.17
well, I guess people
just don't want the truth.
00:46:14.20\00:46:16.30
You know, they do want the truth
00:46:16.34\00:46:18.21
but if they don't see it in
us, because Jesus is the truth,
00:46:18.24\00:46:22.74
and if they don't see the love
and the care and the tenderness
00:46:22.78\00:46:26.31
we're talking
about towards others,
00:46:26.35\00:46:28.68
it doesn't make any difference
what you believe or what they,
00:46:28.72\00:46:31.09
you go to church or
whether somebody dies
00:46:31.12\00:46:33.32
and goes straight to heaven
or hell or whether they sleep.
00:46:33.36\00:46:35.96
So what I would encourage today,
00:46:35.99\00:46:37.53
'cause in my own life,
00:46:37.56\00:46:38.89
I have to deal
with it all the time,
00:46:38.93\00:46:40.53
it is as I get older,
00:46:40.56\00:46:41.90
you know, we only have
one round through this,
00:46:41.93\00:46:44.23
it's I'm sorry for the years
00:46:44.27\00:46:47.14
that I've been
judgmental of the people
00:46:47.17\00:46:49.17
when number of
years ago, 13 years ago,
00:46:49.20\00:46:52.04
we don't talk about it much,
00:46:52.07\00:46:53.41
but I went through a very
public personal situation,
00:46:53.44\00:46:57.81
a divorce.
00:46:57.85\00:46:59.18
Well, people
have written about it,
00:46:59.21\00:47:00.62
thousands of
people have written,
00:47:00.65\00:47:02.45
books have been written,
00:47:02.48\00:47:03.82
everything, people
don't even know me,
00:47:03.85\00:47:05.45
they have no idea
what I went through
00:47:05.49\00:47:07.39
and yet somebody
says this or that
00:47:07.42\00:47:10.46
and they pick it up
and they believe it.
00:47:10.49\00:47:12.09
I get letters, 13 years
later from people saying
00:47:12.13\00:47:16.06
and these are church people,
00:47:16.10\00:47:17.70
"Shame on you 'cause
you did such and such."
00:47:17.73\00:47:19.77
And I have to
think about it and say,
00:47:19.80\00:47:22.00
"I've never met the
person, they don't know me.
00:47:22.04\00:47:23.91
Where did they hear that?"
00:47:23.94\00:47:25.57
so I've been guilty in the past,
00:47:25.61\00:47:27.98
so you hear something yourself,
00:47:28.01\00:47:29.34
oh, well, this, I
heard this and that,
00:47:29.38\00:47:31.48
now it's made me
so sensitive to that,
00:47:31.51\00:47:34.42
that I heard on the
news the other night,
00:47:34.45\00:47:36.05
some politician,
00:47:36.08\00:47:37.42
they were
accusing him of something
00:47:37.45\00:47:38.79
and years ago,
Kenny, I would have said,
00:47:38.82\00:47:40.49
"Well, that's terrible."
00:47:40.52\00:47:41.86
And I said, you know what?
00:47:41.89\00:47:43.22
He may not be
guilty of that at all
00:47:43.26\00:47:44.59
because one
faction is against him
00:47:44.63\00:47:46.76
and you can build up
all this you want to,
00:47:46.80\00:47:49.46
but what I would encourage
00:47:49.50\00:47:51.57
each and every one
of us is simply to love,
00:47:51.60\00:47:55.40
when we love
Jesus, it will show,
00:47:55.44\00:47:57.77
He says, "If I be lifted
up" that's not just giving
00:47:57.81\00:48:00.38
you Bible scriptures, said,
look what Revelation 13 means,
00:48:00.41\00:48:03.85
Revelation 14, it means,
when you have someone in need,
00:48:03.88\00:48:06.95
a friend, a neighbor, or
worse, an enemy, that's in need,
00:48:06.98\00:48:10.49
that you're there
for them, that you say,
00:48:10.52\00:48:12.85
"Lord, help me to be a witness.
00:48:12.89\00:48:14.22
Help me to be a
blessing to these people."
00:48:14.26\00:48:17.19
And that's what people see,
they'll be drawn to the Jesus
00:48:17.23\00:48:20.50
'cause if they look at us,
they see frail human agents,
00:48:20.53\00:48:23.73
we have nothing good to offer
00:48:23.77\00:48:25.13
and I'm talking
about myself as well,
00:48:25.17\00:48:27.20
but if I'm, if I keep
my eyes and my thoughts
00:48:27.24\00:48:31.01
and my life's
mission is serving the Lord,
00:48:31.04\00:48:34.64
then Jesus shines
out, He'll shine out of you
00:48:34.68\00:48:37.68
and shine out of me and, people,
00:48:37.71\00:48:39.21
that's what they'll
be drawn to is to Jesus
00:48:39.25\00:48:41.78
and so, if I can
encourage anybody
00:48:41.82\00:48:45.05
from my own life
lessons of making
00:48:45.09\00:48:48.12
so many mistakes,
is don't judge people,
00:48:48.16\00:48:50.79
you have no idea what
they're going through.
00:48:50.83\00:48:53.29
Your eyes can deceive
you, our hearts are deceitful,
00:48:53.33\00:48:56.26
nothing's more
deceitful than our own hearts
00:48:56.30\00:48:58.50
and justifying what we're doing
00:48:58.53\00:49:00.10
but if we
simply love one another
00:49:00.14\00:49:02.54
and that's why to me,
there's, you can take it,
00:49:02.57\00:49:07.78
I mean, talk about it
over and over and over,
00:49:07.81\00:49:09.98
you can dissect it,
you can go through it,
00:49:10.01\00:49:12.45
and you can
understand all the prophecies
00:49:12.48\00:49:14.65
and you can
understand all of this
00:49:14.68\00:49:16.28
but it boils down to one thing,
Jesus loves me this I know,
00:49:16.32\00:49:19.79
speaking of
that, my guitar's here,
00:49:19.82\00:49:22.42
Jesus loves me this I know
00:49:22.46\00:49:24.63
and I think that's
really the answer, right?
00:49:24.66\00:49:26.36
Yeah. It is.
00:49:26.39\00:49:27.73
And so folks at home,
maybe just sing this with us.
00:49:27.76\00:49:30.57
We'll do real simple
00:49:30.60\00:49:32.53
because the
gospel is simple, right?
00:49:32.57\00:49:34.47
Amen.
00:49:34.50\00:49:35.84
Jesus loves me this I know
00:49:35.87\00:49:40.48
For the Bible tells me so
00:49:40.51\00:49:45.68
Little ones to Him belong
00:49:45.71\00:49:50.49
They are weak but He is strong
00:49:50.52\00:49:55.62
Yes Jesus loves me
00:49:55.66\00:50:00.73
Yes Jesus loves me
00:50:00.76\00:50:05.43
Yes Jesus loves me
00:50:05.47\00:50:09.84
The Bible tells me so
00:50:09.87\00:50:14.54
It's a universal language.
00:50:14.58\00:50:16.04
Music they say is
but the love of God,
00:50:16.08\00:50:18.71
I mean, what else can
you say but Jesus loves me,
00:50:18.75\00:50:21.88
this I know, for
the Bible tells me so.
00:50:21.92\00:50:23.72
That's all you
need to know today.
00:50:23.75\00:50:25.75
And we have
people that's in prison,
00:50:25.79\00:50:27.72
people incarcerated,
00:50:27.76\00:50:29.22
and Brian Hamilton here
heads a prison ministry,
00:50:29.26\00:50:32.93
and Richard Bland has
been here for so many years,
00:50:32.96\00:50:35.43
and they say,
we're going to prison
00:50:35.46\00:50:37.37
and believe it
or not, right here
00:50:37.40\00:50:38.73
in the United States of America,
00:50:38.77\00:50:40.10
there are people and
they are in their 20s and 30s,
00:50:40.14\00:50:42.47
never read the Bible,
never heard the word of God
00:50:42.50\00:50:45.37
unless it were used in vain
00:50:45.41\00:50:47.31
and all they really
need to understand is
00:50:47.34\00:50:49.38
Jesus loves me this I
know, for the Bible tells me so.
00:50:49.41\00:50:54.45
Doesn't that make it
a world of difference?
00:50:54.48\00:50:57.19
So if we can
remember that ourselves
00:50:57.22\00:50:59.95
and then share that
with those around us,
00:50:59.99\00:51:01.99
let others see Jesus in us,
00:51:02.02\00:51:05.66
so and while I say that again,
I have to be very careful,
00:51:05.69\00:51:10.87
I realized my mistakes
more and more all the time.
00:51:10.90\00:51:13.20
Yes.
00:51:13.23\00:51:14.57
But if I could, if I
could do what I've done in 1984,
00:51:14.60\00:51:18.57
when I felt the Lord said,
"Build a television station
00:51:18.61\00:51:21.04
that would reach the world."
00:51:21.08\00:51:22.51
We had no idea,
Kenny, what was going to,
00:51:22.54\00:51:24.55
over the next 32,
almost 33 years would happen,
00:51:24.58\00:51:28.25
but the things
that have happened
00:51:28.28\00:51:29.98
I never dreamed they would.
00:51:30.02\00:51:31.42
When we were carpenters,
people really liked us,
00:51:31.45\00:51:34.32
the same like we didn't
have any enemies, Kenny and I,
00:51:34.36\00:51:37.79
you know, we're
well like in town
00:51:37.83\00:51:39.16
I'm sure we had some,
but we played ball all over,
00:51:39.19\00:51:41.76
we didn't care
if it's blue shoes,
00:51:41.80\00:51:43.13
whether basketball,
softball, no matter what,
00:51:43.16\00:51:45.77
we got along
with the other teams,
00:51:45.80\00:51:47.24
oh, we tried to beat each other
and, and but after it's over,
00:51:47.27\00:51:50.84
we liked each other
00:51:50.87\00:51:52.21
and probably if you said
around town those Shelton boys,
00:51:52.24\00:51:54.78
"Yeah, they're
good guys, you know."
00:51:54.81\00:51:56.28
And we say that
about all of our friends
00:51:56.31\00:51:58.08
whether it's the Ramseys
or, you know, the Hopkins,
00:51:58.11\00:52:00.35
or whoever, they're great guys
but when we got into ministry,
00:52:00.38\00:52:05.12
I never saw the devil
really working on my life
00:52:05.15\00:52:08.99
to go to the ministry.
00:52:09.02\00:52:10.36
Once we got in ministry
and dedicated, all of a sudden,
00:52:10.39\00:52:13.46
I saw people that
00:52:13.50\00:52:14.83
I thought we were
friends don't like anymore
00:52:14.86\00:52:18.13
and it took me
years to figure out
00:52:18.17\00:52:20.14
what have we done wrong?
00:52:20.17\00:52:21.50
All we're doing is in ministry
00:52:21.54\00:52:23.17
and it occurred
to me the devil hates
00:52:23.20\00:52:25.24
as long as we're
living for our self
00:52:25.27\00:52:28.51
and just living then, then
the devil leaves you alone.
00:52:28.54\00:52:31.71
But when you get serious
and you commit your life,
00:52:31.75\00:52:34.98
like we've done
and what you have done,
00:52:35.02\00:52:37.75
the devil hates you.
00:52:37.79\00:52:39.15
He hates you because every
week he hates it when you're on,
00:52:39.19\00:52:42.79
on Behold, The Lamb, on 3ABN
or when you're out preaching
00:52:42.82\00:52:46.49
and he hates
everyone and he hates you,
00:52:46.53\00:52:49.10
because he's out to
steal, kill, and to destroy.
00:52:49.13\00:52:52.03
Jesus said, "I've
come to give you life
00:52:52.07\00:52:54.00
and give it more abundantly."
00:52:54.04\00:52:55.44
So today,
encouragement is just remember,
00:52:55.47\00:52:58.17
if you're ever in doubt,
Jesus loves me this I know,
00:52:58.21\00:53:01.84
for the Bible tells me so.
00:53:01.88\00:53:04.35
That's a start and then say,
00:53:04.38\00:53:05.71
"Lord, what would
you have me to do?"
00:53:05.75\00:53:07.32
The gospel is simple,
we come and go, you come,
00:53:07.35\00:53:10.12
it's all about stop and
go, the devil says, stop,
00:53:10.15\00:53:12.45
and the Lord says, go,
"Go ye and to all the world."
00:53:12.49\00:53:15.66
Ellen White says,
"Our greatest asset is
00:53:15.69\00:53:17.86
our own personal testimony
of what God has done for us."
00:53:17.89\00:53:21.73
Yvonne has an
incredible testimony.
00:53:21.76\00:53:23.77
Someday, we may
been encouraging her,
00:53:23.80\00:53:26.63
girl, you gotta
write a book about it,
00:53:26.67\00:53:28.64
'cause where God
has brought her from
00:53:28.67\00:53:31.27
and in the world's eyes,
she's been very successful.
00:53:31.31\00:53:35.11
But she doesn't look like that,
00:53:35.14\00:53:36.64
she just sees it as a
path the Lord took her on to,
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get her where she is
now at Dare to Dream.
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This is much more important so,
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I encourage everybody to look
at your own personal testimony
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where God has brought you,
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that's all you have to
know, we always say, you know,
00:53:48.89\00:53:50.96
I have called the
cemetery and with, well, I mean,
00:53:50.99\00:53:53.43
seminary, seminary to preach
00:53:53.46\00:53:56.23
but, but really, don't get ready
00:53:56.26\00:53:59.63
and, well, I'm not ready,
00:53:59.67\00:54:01.57
soon as you give
your heart to the Lord
00:54:01.60\00:54:03.47
and you go
forward and give testimony
00:54:03.51\00:54:05.97
and God will bless you in
ways and, and He will reach,
00:54:06.01\00:54:09.14
Jesus begins to reflect at you,
00:54:09.18\00:54:10.81
no one can argue with
your own personal testimony.
00:54:10.85\00:54:13.92
I don't care, nobody
in the world can tell me,
00:54:13.95\00:54:15.58
well, God isn't in
control of your life or 3ABN.
00:54:15.62\00:54:19.15
I've seen it over
and over and over,
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till it can't be a coincidence,
it happens too often,
00:54:21.32\00:54:23.73
so I've talked enough,
00:54:23.76\00:54:25.09
but I just want
to encourage people
00:54:25.13\00:54:27.13
and closing here,
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Jesus loves me this I
know, for the Bible tells me so.
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Maybe we just,
maybe go around the table.
00:54:30.47\00:54:32.20
Bruce, you have just
a word you want to say,
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and, Tammy, have a word,
00:54:34.10\00:54:35.44
and, Chris, and it'll
be nice to go out singing
00:54:35.47\00:54:37.84
"Jesus Loves Me."
00:54:37.87\00:54:40.14
Yeah, just a quick word.
00:54:40.18\00:54:41.51
A thought that
comes to my mind is
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even what you was going through,
00:54:43.21\00:54:45.18
all the people that you
was actually witnessing to
00:54:45.21\00:54:47.65
at that time.
00:54:47.68\00:54:49.02
I'm afraid it was. Sure. Yeah.
00:54:49.05\00:54:51.45
I was thinking while ago
that's how we treat people,
00:54:51.49\00:54:55.49
how we help others, what we do.
00:54:55.52\00:54:57.43
You know, one thing,
we're all good to say,
00:54:57.46\00:54:59.63
"Well, I'll pray for you."
00:54:59.66\00:55:01.00
Somebody tells you a problem,
"Well, I'll pray for you."
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You can do more, you
can do more than prayer.
00:55:02.96\00:55:05.57
You can
physically help that person,
00:55:05.60\00:55:08.07
there's things that you
can do to help that person,
00:55:08.10\00:55:10.84
it's kind of so easy to
say, "Oh, okay, I'll pray."
00:55:10.87\00:55:14.44
Well, that's important to pray,
00:55:14.48\00:55:16.01
but let's see what
we can do too to help.
00:55:16.04\00:55:18.81
If John is hungry, don't
say, "I'll pray for you."
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Give him an apple. Amen.
00:55:21.28\00:55:22.75
And what we've
done is we've summed up
00:55:22.78\00:55:25.02
the living
church, the living church
00:55:25.05\00:55:27.76
that's fully
reflecting the love of God
00:55:27.79\00:55:30.99
and there is no
boundary once you deny yourself,
00:55:31.03\00:55:34.60
you talked about denying self
00:55:34.63\00:55:36.50
and allowing the
Spirit of God to come in,
00:55:36.53\00:55:38.63
there's no boundaries to
what He can do through you.
00:55:38.67\00:55:40.87
Amen, sister Yvonne,
word of encouragement.
00:55:40.90\00:55:43.10
Danny, if you'll do that
song, would just go out singing.
00:55:43.14\00:55:45.27
I don't think there's
anything wrong with that
00:55:45.31\00:55:46.64
after you have a word.
00:55:46.68\00:55:48.01
No matter what
you're going through,
00:55:48.04\00:55:49.64
know that God is in control,
00:55:49.68\00:55:51.61
He's not going to give
you more than you can bear,
00:55:51.65\00:55:54.12
He's not going to let
the enemy overtake you,
00:55:54.15\00:55:56.99
you are in His hand
00:55:57.02\00:55:58.62
and nothing can
pluck you from His hand.
00:55:58.65\00:56:00.72
Amen. Amen.
00:56:00.76\00:56:02.09
Beautiful
promise. Praise the Lord.
00:56:02.12\00:56:03.46
Praise the Lord. So
don't be discouraged.
00:56:03.49\00:56:04.83
The Bible says that,
00:56:04.86\00:56:06.73
"All who live godly
shall suffer persecution."
00:56:06.76\00:56:09.80
So if you're going
through things today,
00:56:09.83\00:56:11.93
just say, "Praise the Lord."
00:56:11.97\00:56:13.30
May Chang used to say,
00:56:13.34\00:56:14.67
one time I was really
pouring my heart out to her,
00:56:14.70\00:56:17.04
this happened to
me and this happened,
00:56:17.07\00:56:18.67
and she said, "Oh,
that's so wonderful,
00:56:18.71\00:56:20.68
you are receiving
the Jesus' treatment.
00:56:20.71\00:56:23.11
I really want to
get my life in line
00:56:23.14\00:56:24.88
so I can receive the Jesus."
00:56:24.91\00:56:26.78
And I was felling sorry
for myself, I'm like what?
00:56:26.82\00:56:29.55
And she says, she says,
00:56:29.58\00:56:30.92
"No, what a
blessing to receive."
00:56:30.95\00:56:33.09
We don't deserve
the Jesus' treatment
00:56:33.12\00:56:35.66
but look what
happened to him on this earth,
00:56:35.69\00:56:37.73
so we should be
thankful for what she says,
00:56:37.76\00:56:39.89
so don't be
discouraged, no matter what,
00:56:39.93\00:56:42.76
Jesus loves
you, He died for you,
00:56:42.80\00:56:44.43
He made a plan of
salvation for you,
00:56:44.47\00:56:46.50
He's coming back very soon.
00:56:46.53\00:56:48.04
So maybe at home,
00:56:48.07\00:56:49.70
if you maybe haven't
been singing in a long time,
00:56:49.74\00:56:51.54
you don't feel
like it or you say,
00:56:51.57\00:56:52.97
"Well, I can't carry tune."
00:56:53.01\00:56:54.58
Who cares, right?
00:56:54.61\00:56:57.11
God loves to have
praises of His people,
00:56:57.15\00:56:59.01
so you're gonna go
out singing this old song.
00:56:59.05\00:57:00.78
Here we go, ready?
00:57:00.82\00:57:02.38
Jesus loves me this I know
00:57:02.42\00:57:07.66
For the Bible tells me so
00:57:07.69\00:57:12.76
Little ones to Him belong
00:57:12.79\00:57:17.73
They are weak but He is strong
00:57:17.77\00:57:22.84
Yes, Jesus loves me
00:57:22.87\00:57:27.68
Yes, Jesus loves me
00:57:27.71\00:57:32.61
Yes, Jesus loves me
00:57:32.65\00:57:37.02
The Bible tells me so
00:57:37.05\00:57:42.32
The Bible
00:57:42.36\00:57:44.39
Tells me so
00:57:44.43\00:57:49.36
Happy Sabbath.
00:57:49.40\00:57:50.73
Amen.
00:57:50.77\00:57:52.10