¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE ¤ ¤ SPEND MY LIFE ¤ 00:00:04.67\00:00:09.54 ¤ MENDING BROKEN PEOPLE ¤ ¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE ¤ 00:00:09.54\00:00:17.75 ¤ REMOVING PAIN ¤ ¤ LORD, LET MY WORDS ¤ 00:00:17.75\00:00:26.45 ¤ LET MY WORDS ¤ ¤ HEAL UP HEARTS THAT HURT ¤ 00:00:26.45\00:00:35.06 ¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE ¤ ¤ MENDING BROKEN PEOPLE ¤ 00:00:35.06\00:00:49.01 ¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE ¤ ¤ MENDING BROKEN PEOPLE ¤ 00:00:49.01\00:01:00.39 >>> HELLO AND WELCOME TO 3ABN "TODAY LIVE." 00:01:08.46\00:01:13.10 I CAN'T BELIEVE IT, JASON. THIS IS MY CO-HOST, MY SON -- 00:01:13.10\00:01:18.27 >> I KNOW IT. >> -- THE GENERAL MANAGER OF 00:01:18.27\00:01:23.38 DARE TO DREAM NETWORK. JASON BRADLEY. 00:01:23.38\00:01:25.08 >> IT'S GOOD TO BE HERE WITH YOU. 00:01:25.08\00:01:27.48 >> I'M SO GLAD YOU ARE HERE. >> I AM TOO. 00:01:27.48\00:01:30.62 AND I'M EXCITED ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE IN STORE THIS EVENING. 00:01:30.62\00:01:34.12 >> I KNOW IT. FIRST OF ALL, WE HAVE BEEN WITH 00:01:34.12\00:01:37.83 OUR GUEST ALL WEEK -- >> UH-HUH. 00:01:37.83\00:01:40.36 >> ALL WEEK. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:01:40.36\00:01:42.43 >> BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN TAPING, RECORDING OUR NEW SALVATION AND 00:01:42.43\00:01:46.70 SYMBOLS AND SIGNS SERIES ON DANIEL. 00:01:46.70\00:01:50.44 >> UH-HUH. >> TELL OUR VIEWERS HAS IT IS 00:01:50.44\00:01:54.54 GOING. >> IT HAS BEEN ABSOLUTELY 00:01:54.54\00:01:56.75 AMAZING.-SEEING THE BOOK OF DANIEL IN A WHOLE NEW LIGHT, THE 00:01:56.75\00:02:03.42 WAY THAT PASTER MEYERS AND PASTOR RAFFERTY BREAK DOWN AND 00:02:03.42\00:02:08.52 EXTRAPOLATE THE MEAT THAT IS CONTAINED IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL 00:02:08.52\00:02:11.83 IS ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL. >> YES. 00:02:11.83\00:02:13.96 >> AND IF YOU WANT TO LEARN HOW TO STUDY THE BIBLE LIKE THAT, 00:02:13.96\00:02:18.27 WELL, YOU TUNED INTO THE RIGHT PROGRAM. 00:02:18.27\00:02:21.17 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO BE 00:02:21.17\00:02:23.64 TALKING ABOUT HOW TO STUDY THE BIBLE. 00:02:23.64\00:02:25.91 >> WE ARE. WE ARE. 00:02:25.91\00:02:27.78 I KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING, BECAUSE WE GET EMAILS EVERY 00:02:27.78\00:02:32.35 SINGLE DAY ON SALVATION AND SYMBOLS AND SIGNS, AND WE NOW 00:02:32.35\00:02:37.89 WANT KNOW HOW TO STUDY GOD'S WORD. 00:02:37.89\00:02:43.46 AND SO PASTOR IVOR MYERS IS HERE THIS EVENING. 00:02:43.46\00:02:46.66 WELCOME PASTOR IVOR MYERS. >> GOOD TO BE HERE, GOOD TO BE 00:02:46.66\00:02:51.40 HERE. YET AGAIN. 00:02:51.40\00:02:52.70 YET AGAIN. WE HAVE BEEN TOGETHER ALL WEEK. 00:02:52.70\00:02:54.94 >> WE HAVE. >> ALL WEEK. 00:02:54.94\00:02:56.50 >> FOR HOURS. >> FOR HOURS. 00:02:56.50\00:03:00.24 [ LAUGHTER ] >> BUT IT HAS BEEN GOING SO 00:03:00.24\00:03:03.01 BEAUTIFULLY, AND WE ARE SO GRATEFUL FOR THE INCITES THAT 00:03:03.01\00:03:07.72 YOU AND PASTOR JAMES RAFFERTY SHARE WITH US. 00:03:07.72\00:03:12.09 JASON AND I ARE THE STUDENTS OF THE PROGRAM, AND WE KIND 00:03:12.09\00:03:15.29 OF -- YOU KNOW, KEEP THEM ON -- INSTEAD OF BEING SO 00:03:15.29\00:03:20.06 CEREBRAL, WHICH THEY ARE, BUT WE KEEP THEM AT, LIKE, VIEWER 00:03:20.06\00:03:23.77 LEVEL. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:03:23.77\00:03:25.17 >> WE ASK QUESTIONS THAT WE THINK YOU WOULD WANT TO KNOW. 00:03:25.17\00:03:28.47 SO WE REALLY, REALLY APPRECIATE ALL THAT YOU DO. 00:03:28.47\00:03:31.94 >> THANK YOU. >> YOU THE FOUNDER OF POWER OF 00:03:31.94\00:03:37.85 THE LAMB MINISTRIES. >> YES. 00:03:37.85\00:03:38.95 >> AND YOU HAVE AN INTERESTING, INTERESTING JOURNEY. 00:03:38.95\00:03:42.98 AFTER OUR MUSIC FOR THIS EVENING, WE WOULD LIKE TO HEAR 00:03:42.98\00:03:47.22 ABOUT YOUR JOURNEY. WE HAVE STEPHANIE DAWN WITH US, 00:03:47.22\00:03:50.09 AND SHE IS GOING TO SING AND BE ACCOMPANIED BY DAN THORNTON. 00:03:50.09\00:03:57.37 SHE IS GOING TO SING "SPEECHLESS." 00:03:57.37\00:04:40.18 ¤ I'M SPEECHLESS OVERCOME BY JOY THAT REACHES INTO MY HEART SO 00:04:40.18\00:04:52.95 DEEPLY ¤ ¤ ALMOST TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE ¤ 00:04:52.95\00:05:06.03 ¤ IN THIS WONDER OF YOUR KINDNESS ¤ 00:05:06.03\00:05:18.65 ¤ I'M SPEECHLESS ¤ ¤ SILENCED BY HOW GOOD YOU ARE 00:05:18.65\00:05:25.72 TO ME ¤ ¤ WHEN THINGS HAVE BEEN SO 00:05:25.72\00:05:42.87 SHATTERING ¤ ¤ I COULD NOT USE WORDS ¤ 00:05:42.87\00:05:47.28 ¤ THERE WAS COMFORT IN THE KNOW ¤ 00:05:47.28\00:05:53.82 ¤ THAT YOU WERE THERE ¤ ¤ BUT NOW IT'S ALL GRATITUDE I 00:05:53.82\00:06:06.66 STRUGGLE TO EXPRESS ¤ ¤ MY AMAZEMENT AT YOUR 00:06:06.66\00:06:15.87 OVERWHELMING LOVE AND FAITHFULNESS ¤ 00:06:15.87\00:06:19.34 ¤ I'M SPEECHLESS ¤ ¤ OVERCOME BY JOY THAT REACHES 00:06:19.34\00:06:32.62 INTO MY HEART SO DEEPLY ¤ ¤ ALMOST TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE ¤ 00:06:32.62\00:06:52.44 ¤ IN THE QUIET WONDER OF YOUR KINDNESS ¤ 00:06:52.44\00:07:04.62 ¤ I'M SPEECHLESS ¤ ¤ SILENCED BY HOW GOOD YOU ARE ¤ 00:07:04.62\00:07:13.56 ¤ TO ME ¤ ¤ WHEN I COULD COMPARE WHAT I 00:07:13.56\00:07:28.01 DESERVE TO HOW I FEEL SO HOPELESS ¤ 00:07:28.01\00:07:33.88 ¤ I'M IN AWE THAT INSTEAD I FIND TENDERNESS ¤ 00:07:33.88\00:07:44.06 ¤ I'M SPEECHLESS ¤ 00:07:44.06\00:07:56.54 ¤ ¤ IN THIS QUIET SILENT WONDER OF 00:07:57.74\00:08:25.50 YOUR KINDNESS ¤ ¤ I'M SPEECHLESS ¤ 00:08:25.50\00:08:32.41 ¤ SILENCED BY HOW GOOD YOU ARE TO ME ¤ 00:08:32.41\00:08:46.05 ¤ I'M SPEECHLESS ¤ ¤ SILENCED BY HOW GOOD YOU ARE 00:08:46.05\00:08:57.17 TO ME ¤ 00:08:57.17\00:09:04.97 >> "SPEECHLESS." THANK YOU STEPHANIE DAWN FOR 00:09:10.05\00:09:13.28 THAT -- THAT LOVELY SONG. >> UH-HUH.-p>> LOVELY. 00:09:13.28\00:09:18.59 PASTOR MEYERS LET'S GET TO IT, AS DANNY SAY, LET'S CUT THIS 00:09:18.59\00:09:24.86 MELON. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:09:24.86\00:09:25.69 >> YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE A JOURNEY THAT -- IN A SENSE IS KIND OF 00:09:25.69\00:09:29.73 SIMILAR TO MINE IN THAT WE WERE BOTH IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY. 00:09:29.73\00:09:32.97 TELL US ABOUT YOUR BEGINNINGS, EVEN BEFORE YOU GOT INTO THE 00:09:32.97\00:09:36.50 MUSIC INDUSTRY. DID YOU GROW UP IN A CHRISTIAN 00:09:36.50\00:09:39.51 HOME? WHAT WAS YOUR HOME LIFE LIKE? 00:09:39.51\00:09:41.28 >> SO I WAS BORN IN JAMAICA. I DIDN'T GROW UP IN -- YOU KNOW, 00:09:41.28\00:09:47.65 WE WEREN'T A RELIGIOUS FAMILY, LIKE GOING TO CHURCH EVERY WEEK 00:09:47.65\00:09:51.72 OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. I MEAN WE WENT TO CHURCH -SOMETIMES, BUT 00:09:51.72\00:09:59.59 IT WAS -- MY PARENTS, YOU KNOW, GOOD PEOPLE, CAUGHT US TO BE 00:09:59.59\00:10:02.60 RESPECTFUL ALL OF THOSE THINGS. SO WE GREW UP IN A GOOD HOME. 00:10:02.60\00:10:06.27 MY INTERDIRECTION TO CHRISTIANITY KIND OF CAME IN 00:10:06.27\00:10:11.47 STAGES. BEGINNING WITH WHEN I WAS AROUND 00:10:11.47\00:10:14.81 12 YEARS OLD, I HAD, YOU KNOW, AN EXPERIENCE WITH A COUSIN OF 00:10:14.81\00:10:19.58 MINE WHO CAME OVER TO THE STATES AND INTRODUCED ME TO THE 00:10:19.58\00:10:23.28 BIBLE -- INTRODUCED ME TO THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS AND REALLY 00:10:23.28\00:10:26.89 SCARED ME TO DEATH. >> THAT WAS YOUR INTRODUCTION TO 00:10:26.89\00:10:29.89 THE BIBLE? THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS. 00:10:29.89\00:10:32.69 >> THAT WAS MY -- I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WNT TO HEAR THE STORY, 00:10:32.69\00:10:35.90 BUT -- >> YES, GO AHEAD. 00:10:35.90\00:10:38.40 TELL IT. >> I WAS 12 -- NO, I WAS 11. 00:10:38.40\00:10:43.20 I'M SORRY, I WAS 12, MY BROTHER WAS 11, AND LIKE I SAY, WE 00:10:43.20\00:10:48.48 DIDN'T GO TO CHURCH TOO OFTEN. AND MY COUSIN CAME FROM ENGLAND. 00:10:48.48\00:10:52.15 SHE IS ABOUT 14 YEARS OLD. HER NAME IS SUSAN, AND SUSAN 00:10:52.15\00:10:57.09 WOULD TALK TO US ABOUT THE BIBLE. 00:10:57.09\00:10:59.65 WE JUST FELL IN LOVE WITH HER IMMEDIATELY. 00:10:59.65\00:11:02.66 IT WAS OUR FIRST TIME MEETING HER. 00:11:02.66\00:11:04.43 AND BY THIS TIME, WE WERE IN THE STATES. 00:11:04.43\00:11:07.60 WE WERE IN AMERICA. SO SUSAN WAS TALKING US TO ABOUT 00:11:07.60\00:11:11.03 THE BIBLE ONE MORNING, BUT THIS TIME SHE IS TALKING TO US ABOUT 00:11:11.03\00:11:14.84 THIS THING CALLED THE MARK OF BEAST, AND MY PARENTS WERE NOT 00:11:14.84\00:11:20.24 HOME AT THE TIME. AND IT WAS JUST ME AND MY 00:11:20.24\00:11:23.45 BROTHER AND SUSAN AT HOME, AND SHE'S TELLING US ABOUT THIS 00:11:23.45\00:11:26.78 THING IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION CALLED THE MARK OF THE BEAST, 00:11:26.78\00:11:29.92 AND MY BROTHER AND I -- AS SHE'S TALKING, MY BROTHER AND I ARE 00:11:29.92\00:11:35.39 LIKE, NO, THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING. 00:11:35.39\00:11:39.06 WHY? BECAUSE THAT SUMMER WE HAD JUST 00:11:39.06\00:11:41.26 WATCHED A MOVIE ABOUT A LITTLE BOY WHO DISCOVERS HE IS THE 00:11:41.26\00:11:46.27 ANTICHRIST. >> OH, NO. 00:11:46.27\00:11:47.64 >> AND HE WAS FROM ENGLAND, AS FAR AS I REMEMBER. 00:11:47.64\00:11:50.97 >> OH, NO. >> AND HE HAD 666 WRITTEN IN HIS 00:11:50.97\00:11:56.21 FOREHEAD, SO ANYONE THAT DISCOVERS HIS IDENTITY DIES A 00:11:56.21\00:12:04.02 HORRENDOUS -- JUST PAINFUL, LIKE, JUST CRAZY DEATH, LIKE 00:12:04.02\00:12:10.16 GETTING HIT BY A TRUCK, AND THE TRUCK DOESN'T KILL HIM, AND A 00:12:10.16\00:12:14.10 CROW COMES OUT OF NOWHERE. AND THEY WERE JUST LIKE -- AND 00:12:14.10\00:12:18.20 THEIR DEATH WOLD JUST BE SO HORRENDOUS. 00:12:18.20\00:12:21.34 SO AFTER WE SAW THAT MOVIE, MY BROTHER AND I DECIDED WE NEVER 00:12:21.34\00:12:25.77 WANTED TO KNOW WHAT THE MARK OF THE BEAST WAS. 00:12:25.77\00:12:28.28 >> WOW, THAT WAS YOUR INTRODUCTION. 00:12:28.28\00:12:31.61 >> THAT WAS OUR INTRODUCTION. MY COUSIN WAS LIKE, I KNO WHAT 00:12:31.61\00:12:34.82 THE MARK OF THE BEAST IS. DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE 00:12:34.82\00:12:38.15 MARK OF THE BEAST IS? AND WE WERE LIKE, WE'RE ABOUT TO 00:12:38.15\00:12:42.26 DIE. AND THEN SHE BEGINS TO TELL US 00:12:42.26\00:12:44.13 THAT THERE IS A CERTAIN COMPANY THAT PRODUCES SOAP. 00:12:44.13\00:12:47.76 AND ON THEIR SOAP BOXES IS THIS SYMBOL OF A CIRCLE AND A HALF 00:12:47.76\00:12:54.54 MOON AND A MAN'S FACE. >> I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING 00:12:54.54\00:12:58.71 ABOUT. >> AND SHE IS LIKE THAT IS THE 00:12:58.71\00:13:00.84 MARK OF THE BEAST, AND I'M THINKING, WE ARE ABOUT TO DIE, 00:13:00.84\00:13:04.95 AND MY PARENTS AREN'T HOME.-AND SHE WAS LIKE DO YOU HAVE A SOAP BOX IN YOUR HOUSE?-AND I'M LIKE, 00:13:04.95\00:13:12.99 YES, SUSAN. AND SHE IS LIKE, WHERE IS IT? AND MY BROTHER AND 00:13:12.99\00:13:17.63 I WERE LIKE IT'S IN THE BASEMENT. AND SHE WAS LIKE LET'S 00:13:17.63\00:13:23.00 GO. AND OFF WE GO DOWN THE STEPS, AND THE STEPS ARE 00:13:23.00\00:13:27.90 CREAKING, AND IN MY MIND I HEAR THE HORROR MUSIC IN THE 00:13:27.90\00:13:31.21 BACKGROUND. WE GET TO THE BASEMENT AND WE POINT TO THE 00:13:31.21\00:13:35.68 SOAP BOX, AND WE START BACKING UP. SHE PICKS IT UP, TURNS IT, 00:13:35.68\00:13:39.95 LOOKS AT US, AND THEN SHE IS LIKE, THERE IT IS. 00:13:39.95\00:13:42.55 MY BROTHER AND I SEE THE CIRCLE WITH THE HALF MOON AND THE MAN'S 00:13:42.55\00:13:47.49 FACE IN IT, WE RUN OUT THE HOUSE SCREAMING IN OUR PAJAMAS. 00:13:47.49\00:13:53.53 WE ARE STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET -- NO LAUGHING ON THE 00:13:53.53\00:13:58.07 SET, PLEASE -- WE ARE STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET 00:13:58.07\00:14:02.80 SCREAMING -- >> IN NEW YORK. 00:14:02.80\00:14:04.97 >> THIS WAS IN LONG ISLAND. WE ARE SCREAMING AND CRYING, AND 00:14:04.97\00:14:08.94 MY COUSIN IS LAUGHING TO DEATH. WE'RE LOOKING FOR CROWS. 00:14:08.94\00:14:14.02 WE'RE LOOKING FOR HOUSES TO -FALL. WE'RE LOOKING FOR THE 00:14:14.02\00:14:18.19 EARTH TO OPEN UP. AND AFTER FIVE MINUTES OF 00:14:18.19\00:14:21.16 NOTHING HAPPENING, WE CALM DOWN, AND THAT WAS MY INTRODUCTION TO 00:14:21.16\00:14:24.93 THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS AND THE BIBLE. 00:14:24.93\00:14:27.56 >> IT'S FUNNY, BUT IT'S NOT FUNNY. 00:14:27.56\00:14:31.83 IT'S FUNNY IN THE WAY YOU ARE TELLING IT. 00:14:31.83\00:14:34.47 BUT IT'S NOT FUNNY BECAUSE IT IS SUCH A DISTORTION OF WHAT THE 00:14:34.47\00:14:39.04 TRUE MARK OF THE BASE IS. AND THAT'S HOW MEDIA CAN JUST 00:14:39.04\00:14:44.71 CHANGE HOW WE PERCEIVE THINGS. >> IT PLANTED A SEED IN MY MIND. 00:14:44.71\00:14:48.78 AFTERWARDS I WAS LIKE, WE'RE STILL LIVE, IT HAPPENED, MAYBE 00:14:48.78\00:14:53.19 YOU CAN KNOW WHAT THE MARK OF THE BEAST IS AND LIVE. 00:14:53.19\00:14:56.83 SO I REMEMBER A SEED BEING PLANTED. 00:14:56.83\00:14:59.26 AND IT WAS JUST LIKE A SEED WAS PLANTED AND THEN I WENT ON AS 00:14:59.26\00:15:04.57 USUAL, JUST LIVING MY LIFE OR WHATEVER. 00:15:04.57\00:15:06.87 >> UH-HUH. >> AND SO AS A TEENAGER, MY 00:15:06.87\00:15:11.37 BROTHER AND I GOT REALLY INVOLVED IN THE HOP -- HIP HOP 00:15:11.37\00:15:17.88 INDUSTRY, BREAK DANCING AND THE WHOLE CULTURE, AND BY THE TIME 00:15:17.88\00:15:20.98 WE GOT TO HIGH SCHOOL, WE HAD FORMED A FOUR-MAN HIP HOP GROUP. 00:15:20.98\00:15:25.92 WE GRADUATED WENT TO COLLEGE, AND IN MY SECOND YEAR OF 00:15:25.92\00:15:29.76 COLLEGE, ENTERED A TALENT SHOW AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY IN 00:15:29.76\00:15:38.07 WASHINGTON, D.C. WE CAME IN FIRST PLACE AND THAT 00:15:38.07\00:15:40.67 LEAD TO A RECORDING CONTRACT WITH EMI RECORDS IN 1993. 00:15:40.67\00:15:45.61 THE NAME OF OUR GROUP WAS THE BOOGIE MONSTERS. 00:15:45.61\00:15:50.78 WE STARTED RECORDING. WE RECORDED AN ALBUM, AND WHILE 00:15:50.78\00:15:55.12 WE WERE RECORDING THAT FIRST ALBUM, I WAS INTRODUCED TO THE 00:15:55.12\00:15:59.95 GOSPEL, AND THAT'S WHERE MY WHOLE LIFE JUST -- YOU KNOW, 00:15:59.95\00:16:02.79 TOOK A TURN, AND I ENDED UP LEAVING THE MUSIC INDUSTRY AS 00:16:02.79\00:16:06.76 WELL AS MY BROTHER WHO WAS IN THE GROUP WITH US. 00:16:06.76\00:16:11.60 BOTH OF US LEFT THE INDUSTRY FOR THE SAME REASON AND WENT INTO 00:16:11.60\00:16:16.14 MINISTRY. IT WAS NOT MY INTENT TO GO INTO 00:16:16.14\00:16:19.81 MINISTRY. I JUT LEFT THE GROUP, BECAUSE 00:16:19.81\00:16:21.64 THE THINGS THAT I LEARNED SO IMPACTED ME THAT I WAS WILLING 00:16:21.64\00:16:26.11 TO WALK AWAY FROM, YOU KNOW, $800,000 CONTRACT, AND BASICALLY 00:16:26.11\00:16:30.75 WENT TO WORK AT TARGET, YOU KNOW, MAKING LIKE MINIMUM WAGE. 00:16:30.75\00:16:36.09 >> YEAH. >> AND HADN'T REALLY THOGHT 00:16:36.09\00:16:38.16 ABOUT BECOMING A PASTOR, JUST KNEW THAT I COULD NOT CONTINUE 00:16:38.16\00:16:41.76 DOING WHAT I WAS DOING, AND THEN FROM THERE, THE LORD JUST BEGAN 00:16:41.76\00:16:46.50 TO SHOW ME DIFFERENT THINGS AND ONE THING LEAD TO ANOTHER, AND 00:16:46.50\00:16:50.84 NOW HERE I AM. >> WOW. 00:16:50.84\00:16:52.51 >> WOW. >> SO WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO 00:16:52.51\00:16:54.88 YOUNG PEOPLE WHO FEEL AS THOUGH THEY CAN LISTEN TO HIP HOP AND 00:16:54.88\00:17:00.38 BE CHRISTIAN IN I MEAN WHAT --WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT? 00:17:00.38\00:17:06.02 >> YEAH. YOU KNOW, I KNOW -- LIKE GOD 00:17:06.02\00:17:10.09 USES DIFFERENT PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT PLACES, RIGHT? 00:17:10.09\00:17:12.19 SO WHEN I WAS GETTING MY UNDERSTANDING OF THIS GOSPEL, OF 00:17:12.19\00:17:18.87 THIS TRUTH, IT'S -- YOU KNOW, WE WERE -- WE WERE SO EXCITED ABOUT 00:17:18.87\00:17:24.41 WHAT WE WERE LEARNING, THAT WE -- WE SAID WE'RE GOING TO 00:17:24.41\00:17:28.74 TAKE THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGES AND PUT IT IN OUR HIP HOP MUSIC, 00:17:28.74\00:17:32.95 AND GO INTO CLUBS, AND WE'LL BE PERFORMING AND PULL OUT "THE 00:17:32.95\00:17:41.36 GREAT CONTROVERSY" BOOKS OUT OF OUR BACKPACKS. 00:17:41.36\00:17:45.39 WE WOULD BE LIKE WHO WANTS TO KNOW WHAT SIN IS? 00:17:45.39\00:17:49.63 PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR. THEY WOULD PUT THEIR HANDS UP 00:17:49.63\00:17:53.30 AND WE WOULD THROW OUT "THE GREAT CONTROVERSY" BOOKS. 00:17:53.30\00:17:56.77 GOD USED AT US OUR -- THAT LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE THAT WE HAD. 00:17:56.77\00:18:01.54 AND HE USES DIFFERENT PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT PLACES. 00:18:01.54\00:18:04.38 AND NOW WHEN YOU LISTEN TO THE LYRICS OF A LOT OF THESE SONGS, 00:18:04.38\00:18:08.95 IT'S ROCK MUSIC -- IT'S ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT THINGS, AND I 00:18:08.95\00:18:12.85 THINK THE MORE YOU TRY TO GET THE MIND OF CHRIST, THAT'S THE 00:18:12.85\00:18:16.99 KEY THING. STRIVING FOR THE MIND OF CHRIST 00:18:16.99\00:18:22.66 WILL SHOW YOU HOW CHRIST WANTS YOU TO WALK. 00:18:22.66\00:18:25.80 AND SO, YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAID, THERE ARE DIFFERENT PEOPLE IN 00:18:25.80\00:18:29.04 DIFFERENT PLACES, BUT LEARNING -- THAT'S WHAT I HAVE 00:18:29.04\00:18:31.77 LEARNED OVER MY YEARS OF BEING A CHRISTIAN, SOMETIMES YOU CAN 00:18:31.77\00:18:34.64 POINT TO THINGS AND BE LIKE, YOU SHOULDN'T DO THIS, OR YOU 00:18:34.64\00:18:39.08 SHOULDN'T DO THAT. BUT THAT'S WHY MY PASSION HAS 00:18:39.08\00:18:41.98 REALLY BECOME STUDYING THE BIBLE, BECAUSE I THINK ONCE 00:18:41.98\00:18:45.42 PEOPLE LEARN HOW TO FOCUS ON CHRIST, ALL OF THE OTHER THINGS, 00:18:45.42\00:18:49.32 YOU KNOW, THAT WE TYPICALLY LIKE -- YOU KNOW, ALL OF THOSE 00:18:49.32\00:18:53.29 THINGS BEGIN TO BECOME SELF-EVIDENT. 00:18:53.29\00:18:55.96 AND SO THAT'S WHAT MY PASSION HAS BECOME, REALLY TEACHING 00:18:55.96\00:18:59.13 PEOPLE HOW TO GET INTO THE WORD OF GOD. 00:18:59.13\00:19:01.34 >> AND YOU HAVE NAMED YOUR SYSTEM. 00:19:01.34\00:19:04.27 >> YES. IT'S CALLED PHOTO-THEOLOGY. 00:19:04.27\00:19:06.74 AND THE MEANING BEHIND THAT NAME IS BASIALLY THE STUDY OF GOD 00:19:06.74\00:19:10.81 THROUGH THE USE OF PICTURES. AND WE'LL GET INTO THAT 00:19:10.81\00:19:14.78 DEFINITION A LITTLE BIT MORE, BUT IT'S INTERESTING, BECAUSE, 00:19:14.78\00:19:19.75 YOU KNOW, WHEN I BECAME A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST, I DIDN'T 00:19:19.75\00:19:25.03 COME IN THROUGH AN EVANGELISTIC SERIES. 00:19:25.03\00:19:27.66 I DIDN'T COME IN THROUGH GOING TO SCHOOL. 00:19:27.66\00:19:30.63 IT WAS -- I WAS -- YOU KNOW, A FRIEND OF A FRIEND OF MINE 00:19:30.63\00:19:35.47 BASICALLY ASKED US A QUESTION ONE NIGHT. 00:19:35.47\00:19:38.24 VERY INTERESTING, HE ASKED US WHAT DAY WE THINK THE SABBATH 00:19:38.24\00:19:42.88 IS. WE WERE ALL -- LIKE 20 TO 30 OF 00:19:42.88\00:19:45.55 US WERE JUST HANGING OUT THIS NIGHT TALKING AND ALL DREAD 00:19:45.55\00:19:49.38 LOCKED DOWN, AND SMOKING OUR MARIJUANA, AND OUT OF THE BLUE 00:19:49.38\00:19:53.36 THIS GUY THAT WE NEVER MET BEFORE ASKED US THIS QUESTION. 00:19:53.36\00:19:56.42 HE WAS A FRIEND OF A FRIEND OF OURS, BUT WE DID NOT KNOW HIM. 00:19:56.42\00:20:00.26 AND WE WERE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING -- I CAN'T REMEMBER. 00:20:00.26\00:20:04.27 AND HE -- IT WAS KIND OF ALONG THE LINES OF SPIRITUAL THINGS, 00:20:04.27\00:20:09.30 AND AT THAT TIME WE WERE MIXING SPIRITUAL THINGS LIKE -- YOU 00:20:09.30\00:20:12.84 KNOW, BEING ECLECTIC RAPPERS. THE NEW ORDER THEY ARE OUT TO 00:20:12.84\00:20:19.21 GET YOU, MAN. MARK OF THE BEAST, MAN. 00:20:19.21\00:20:22.72 WATCH OUT FOR THOSE SOAP BOXES, YOU KNOW? 00:20:22.72\00:20:25.09 >> YEAH. YEAH. 00:20:25.09\00:20:26.15 >> YEAH. >> AND HE ASKED US WHAT DAY DO 00:20:26.15\00:20:30.33 WE THINK THE SABBATH IS? AND WE'RE LIKE THAT'S A SILLY 00:20:30.33\00:20:35.80 QUESTION. LIKE EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT DAY IT 00:20:35.80\00:20:38.67 IS. IT'S SUNDAY. 00:20:38.67\00:20:39.70 AND FROM THAT ONE QUESTION, THIS GUY BEGINS TO BREAK DOWN TO US, 00:20:39.70\00:20:44.27 DANIEL CHAPTER 2, DANIEL CHAPTER 7, AND THIS WHOLE CHANGE THAT 00:20:44.27\00:20:48.71 THE BIBLE SAID WAS GOING TO HAPPEN, THAT REALLY 00:20:48.71\00:20:51.81 CHANGED -- IT WAS THAT NIGHT THAT EVERYTHING CHANGED FOR US. 00:20:51.81\00:21:01.32 >> HUM. >> SO I DIDN'T LEARN THROUGH AN 00:21:01.32\00:21:05.56 EVANGELISTIC SERIES. I BASICALLY -- I DIDN'T EVEN 00:21:05.56\00:21:08.20 KNOW THE GUY WAS ADVENTIST. YOU KNOW, FOR A WHILE, WE WERE 00:21:08.20\00:21:13.03 JUST LIKE, THERE IS NO ONE ON THE PLANET THAT KNOWS THE BIBLE 00:21:13.03\00:21:16.87 AS GOD AS THIS GUY. RIGHT? 00:21:16.87\00:21:19.57 >> YEAH. >> AND A COUPLE OF WEEKS LATER, 00:21:19.57\00:21:22.11 WE ARE LIKE WHAT ARE YOU? HE IS LIKE I'M A SEVENTH-DAY 00:21:22.11\00:21:26.55 ADVENTIST. WE'RE LIKE WHAT IS THAT? 00:21:26.55\00:21:28.42 SO WE ENDED GOING TO CHURCH WITH HIM FOR THE FIRST TIME. 00:21:28.42\00:21:32.29 AND WE WENT INTO THAT CHURCH -- AND IMAGINE LIKE 20 OF 00:21:32.29\00:21:37.96 US WALKING UP TO THIS LITTLE CHURCH IN LAURELTON QUEENS. 00:21:37.96\00:21:44.30 IT WAS A LEBANON SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:21:44.30\00:21:47.37 AND THE PEOPLE WERE JUST LIKE -- WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE 00:21:47.37\00:21:50.77 WALKING UP INTO OUR CHURCH, RIGHT? 00:21:50.77\00:21:54.14 WE'RE ALL IN JEANS AND GUM CHEWING. 00:21:54.14\00:21:59.71 WHAT'S UP? AND AS THE PASTER IS SPEAKING, 00:21:59.71\00:22:02.85 WE ARE LIKE LOSING OUR MINDS. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:22:02.85\00:22:05.89 >> WE'RE LIKE WHAT? HE DID JUST THAT JESUS IS THE 00:22:05.89\00:22:12.43 LORD! WHAT? 00:22:12.43\00:22:13.56 [ LAUGHTER ] >> AND EVERYONE ELSE WAS SITTING 00:22:13.56\00:22:16.30 AROUND LIKE . . . [ LAUGHTER ] 00:22:16.30\00:22:18.67 >> YEAH. >> AND WE WERE LIKE, HOLD ON. 00:22:18.67\00:22:23.71 HOLD ON. THEY MUST NOT HAVE JUST HEARD 00:22:23.71\00:22:26.54 THAT THE PASTOR JUST SAID THAT YOU HAVE TO PAY TITHE. 00:22:26.54\00:22:31.61 THEY MUST NOT HAVE HEARD THAT, BECAUSE I HAVE NEVER HEARD THAT 00:22:31.61\00:22:35.35 TRUTH BEFORE. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:22:35.35\00:22:37.29 >> AND WE WOULD LOOK AROUND LIKE, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH 00:22:37.29\00:22:40.16 THESE PEOPLE. AND WE JUST DIDN'T CARE, WE WERE 00:22:40.16\00:22:44.46 LIKE -- WE JUST LOST IT. LITERALLY EVERYTHING THE 00:22:44.46\00:22:47.66 PREACHER SAID, AND SO THAT'S WHERE -- LIKE, SOMETIMES PEOPLE 00:22:47.66\00:22:51.30 SEE MY PREACH AND HE GETS EXCITED WHEN HE PREACHES. 00:22:51.30\00:22:56.57 >> YEAH. YEAH. 00:22:56.57\00:22:57.64 >> IT'S NOT MANUFACTURED, LIKE, THAT'S HOW WE CAME INTO THE 00:22:57.64\00:23:02.51 CHURCH. AND WERE SHOCKED TO LOOK AROUND 00:23:02.51\00:23:05.05 AND SEE PEOPLE LIKE . . . AND IT HAS BEEN 24, 25 YEARS NOW -- YOU 00:23:05.05\00:23:11.79 KNOW, HOWEVER LONG IT HAS BEEN SINCE I HAVE BEEN IN THE CHURCH, 00:23:11.79\00:23:14.76 AND IT IS STILL THE SAME ISSUE, LIKE, I DON'T GET IT. 00:23:14.76\00:23:18.49 DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING? 00:23:18.49\00:23:20.63 >> I DO. >> HOW IS IT THAT WE'RE NOT MORE 00:23:20.63\00:23:23.40 EXCITED ABOUT THE THINGS THAT GOD HAS SHOWN US IN THE 00:23:23.40\00:23:27.40 SCRIPTURES. >> YES. 00:23:27.40\00:23:29.77 >> AND SO I -- THIS IS HOW PHOTO-THEOLOGY FOR ME DEVELOPED. 00:23:29.77\00:23:34.54 BECAUSE LIKE I SAID, I DIDN'T GO TO SCHOOL TO STUDY HOW TO STUDY 00:23:34.54\00:23:40.52 THE BIBLE. SO I WAS LEARNING IN A WAY THAT 00:23:40.52\00:23:43.42 GOD WAS SPEAKING TO ME. >> UH-HUH. 00:23:43.42\00:23:45.92 >> AND I DID NOT EVEN REALIZE IT. 00:23:45.92\00:23:48.22 BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW THERE IS A SYSTEM TO BIBLE STUDY. 00:23:48.22\00:23:51.96 I NEVER HAD ANY OF THAT. SO AS A HIP HOP ARTIST, YOU 00:23:51.96\00:23:56.13 KNOW, THE TING ABOUT MUSICIANS, AND YOU PROBABLY -- YOU KNOW 00:23:56.13\00:24:00.50 THIS, IS WE'RE VERY ARTISTIC, RIGHT? 00:24:00.50\00:24:04.14 MUSIC IS A VERY CREATIVE THING. IT TAKES A CREATIVE MIND TO BE A 00:24:04.14\00:24:10.21 MUSICIAN. SO WHENEVER YOU WRITE RHYMES, 00:24:10.21\00:24:16.02 YOU DON'T WANT TO SAY ANYTHING THAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS SAID. 00:24:16.02\00:24:23.19 SO YOU WANTED TO WRITE IN A TWHA WAS UNIQUELY YOUR OWN STYLE. 00:24:23.19\00:24:27.93 SO WE WERE ALWAYS THINKING HOW CAN I SEE THIS IN A DIFFERENT 00:24:27.93\00:24:32.03 WAY. SO WHEN IT CAME TO STUDYING THE 00:24:32.03\00:24:34.64 BIBLE, I DIDN'T NECESSARILY REALIZE THAT THAT WAS WHAT I WAS 00:24:34.64\00:24:38.11 DOING, BUT THAT'S WHAT I WAS DOING, RIGHT? 00:24:38.11\00:24:40.18 AND IT WASN'T AN INTENTIONAL THING, IT'S JUST OKAY, I'M 00:24:40.18\00:24:45.11 LOOKING AT THE WORDS IN THE SCRIPTURE, AND I'M LIKE, THAT 00:24:45.11\00:24:48.92 WORD IS PRETTY INTERESTING. AND I WOULD SEE THAT WORD LIKE 00:24:48.92\00:24:53.62 200 DIFFERENT WAYS, AND I WOULD JUST GET LIKE, WOW, THAT IS 00:24:53.62\00:25:01.80 POWERFUL. SO PHOTO-THEOLOGY IS BASICALLY 00:25:01.80\00:25:04.47 WHAT ENDED UP BECOMING THE WAY THAT BIBLE TAUGHT ME HOW TO 00:25:04.47\00:25:08.20 STUDY THE BIBLE. >> WHAT WAS IT LIKE WHEN THAT 00:25:08.20\00:25:10.91 FLIP HAPPENED WHEN YOU FOUND OUT THAT THE SABBATH WAS SATURDAY? 00:25:10.91\00:25:15.51 >> IT WAS -- IT WAS MIND BLOWING. 00:25:15.51\00:25:18.65 >> UH-HUH. >> YOU KNOW, IT WAS -- I FELT 00:25:18.65\00:25:26.79 LIKE I WAS IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE, RIGHT? 00:25:26.79\00:25:30.96 IN A SENSE IT WAS JUST LIKE, HOLD ON, HOW CAN THIS BE TRUE. 00:25:30.96\00:25:35.46 AND REMEMBER AT THIS TIME, I DIDN'T KNOW THERE IS A WHOLE 00:25:35.46\00:25:42.07 MOVEMENT CALLED ADVENTISM. SO I'M THINKING HOW CAN EVERYONE 00:25:42.07\00:25:47.24 HAVE THIS WRONG. AND FOR A LITTLE WHILE, I WAS 00:25:47.24\00:25:51.55 LIKE ME AND MY FRIENDS AND THIS GUY ARE THE ONLY ONES ON THE 00:25:51.55\00:26:00.52 PLANET -- [ LAUGHTER ] 00:26:00.52\00:26:02.02 >> AND NOW IT IS UP TO US. TO LET THE WORLD KNOW. 00:26:02.02\00:26:08.73 YOU KNOW, I WAS JUST FOR A LITTLE WHILE, AND THEN I WAS 00:26:08.73\00:26:11.97 LIKE, OKAY, THERE'S A WHOLE MOVEMENT. 00:26:11.97\00:26:14.90 OKAY. [ LAUGHTER ] 00:26:14.90\00:26:15.60 >> ISN'T IT AMAZING HOW MANY TIMES YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU 00:26:15.60\00:26:20.31 HAVE THAT VOID. YOU KNOW THAT SOMETHING IS 00:26:20.31\00:26:23.65 MISSING, OR MAYBE YOU ARE JUST GOING THROUGH LIFE, AND YOU 00:26:23.65\00:26:26.92 DON'T REALLY REALIZE WHAT IS MISSING UNTIL YOU GET IT, AND 00:26:26.92\00:26:30.15 THEN WHEN YOU GET IT, WHAT AN AMAZING FEELING THAT IS. 00:26:30.15\00:26:33.92 LIKE HERE YOU ARE, JUST ABSORBING ALL OF THE INFORMATION 00:26:33.92\00:26:37.09 LIKE A SPONGE, AND IT'S SO EXCITING TO YOU, BECAUSE THIS IS 00:26:37.09\00:26:42.23 SOMETHING REALLY -- NEW FOR YOU. YOU ARE IN CHURCH AND YOU ARE 00:26:42.23\00:26:47.74 HEARING ALL OF THE TRUTHS. AND MANY TIME WE AS MEMBERS TAKE 00:26:47.74\00:26:51.97 THINGS FOR GRANTED. YOU KNOW, YOU HEAR THINGS, AND 00:26:51.97\00:26:55.11 HEAR SERMONS, AND YOU CAN TAKE IT FOR GRANTED. 00:26:55.11\00:27:00.28 YOU CAN TAKE THE TRUTHS FOR GRANTED IF YOUR RELATIONSHIP 00:27:00.28\00:27:04.29 WITH THE LORD IS NOT REMAINING FRESH. 00:27:04.29\00:27:06.86 >> YEAH. I'LL TELL YOU, I HEARD -- BEFORE 00:27:06.86\00:27:09.69 I BECAME AN ADVENTIST, WHEN I WAS GROWING UP AS A YOUNG PERSON 00:27:09.69\00:27:13.40 AND GETTING INTO COLLEGE, I WOULD HEAR DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS 00:27:13.40\00:27:19.80 GROUPS -- WE HAD PEOPLE COME TO OUR CAMPUS AND SPEAK. 00:27:19.80\00:27:25.54 AND I WAS ALWAYS LIKE THAT MESSAGE SOUNDS STUPID. 00:27:25.54\00:27:29.51 I WAS IN A SENSE SKEPTICAL OF RELIGION. 00:27:29.51\00:27:34.12 YOU KNOW, YOU SAY BE GOOD. YOU SAY BE GOOD, SO WHY CHOOSE 00:27:34.12\00:27:38.52 ONE OVER THE OTHER, AND ALL OF THIS IS JUST LIKE, YOU CAN NEVER 00:27:38.52\00:27:43.73 KNOW WHAT TRUTH IS. SO I WAS SPECTACLE AGAINST ALL 00:27:43.73\00:27:49.30 RELIGIONS, BUT WHEN I HEARD THIS, IT SCARED ME, BECAUSE IT 00:27:49.30\00:27:52.77 MADE SO MUCH SENSE. >> HUM. 00:27:52.77\00:27:57.77 >> AND I WAS LIKE HOW DID THIS ESCAPE ME? 00:27:57.77\00:28:02.98 IT JUST HAD A RING OF TRUTH IT TO THAT A SKEPTICAL MIND HEARING 00:28:02.98\00:28:08.92 IT, WAS LIKE, WOE, THIS IS TRUE. THIS IS TRUE. 00:28:08.92\00:28:12.05 >> UH-HUH. >> AND I'LL TELL YOU, YOU KNOW, 00:28:12.05\00:28:15.42 WHEN -- WHEN I STARTED STUDYING, I WAS -- THE AMOUNT OF 00:28:15.42\00:28:20.20 INFORMATION I LEARNED IN ABOUT THREE MONTH'S TIME, I WAS -- I 00:28:20.20\00:28:27.30 WAS TOTALLY BLOWN AWAY. >> HUM. 00:28:27.30\00:28:31.51 >> HUM. >> AND I WAS LIKE I CANNOT 00:28:31.51\00:28:35.58 BELIEVE HOW MUCH I HAVE LEARNED IN THREE MONTHS, SO WHEN I WOULD 00:28:35.58\00:28:38.75 GO TO CHURCH, I WOULD LOOK AT OTHER PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN IN THE 00:28:38.75\00:28:43.12 CHURCH FOR TEN YEARS, 20 YEARS, AND I ALMOST WOULD WANT TO FALL 00:28:43.12\00:28:47.32 DOWN AND WORSHIP, LIKE, WHAT MUST YOU KNOW? 00:28:47.32\00:28:50.73 BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN IN THE CHURCH FOR A WHOLE TEN YEARS! 00:28:50.73\00:28:54.73 AND I WOULD JUST PASS OUT, LIKE -- I WILL NEVER CATCH UP TO 00:28:54.73\00:29:00.97 THEM. I WILL NEVER. 00:29:00.97\00:29:01.70 BECAUSE WHAT I HAVE LEARNED IN THREE MONTHS. 00:29:01.70\00:29:03.77 AND I'M JUST THINKING EVERYBODY -- EVERYBODY IN THE 00:29:03.77\00:29:08.88 CHURCH IS JUST LIKE, YOU KNOW, DON'T EVEN TRY TO TOUCH ON THAT. 00:29:08.88\00:29:14.35 THAT'S MY BOY HENRY OVER THERE. HE HAS BEEN AN ADVENTIST FOR 20 00:29:14.35\00:29:21.49 YEARS. DON'T TOUCH HIM. 00:29:21.49\00:29:22.52 YOU CANNOT TOUCH HIM. >> YOU WERE PASSIONATE ABOUT THE 00:29:22.52\00:29:27.46 GOSPEL FROM THE MOMENT YOU FOUND OUT ABOUT IT. 00:29:27.46\00:29:29.53 >> FROM THE MOMENT. FROM THE MOMENT, YEAH. 00:29:29.53\00:29:32.33 >> SO HOW DID YOU BEGIN TO STUDY IT? 00:29:32.33\00:29:36.47 HOW DID YOU -- IN THREE MONTH'S TIME YOU ARE I SAYING YOU KNEW 00:29:36.47\00:29:44.91 MORE THAN YOU COULD HAVE IMAGINED. 00:29:44.91\00:29:46.58 HOW DID YOU -- DID YOU HAVE A SYSTEM THEN? 00:29:46.58\00:29:49.95 WELL, LET ME GO BACK FOR A SECOND. 00:29:49.95\00:29:53.36 WHEN YOU WERE IN SCHOOL, WERE YOU A GOOD STUDENT? 00:29:53.36\00:29:56.52 >> I WAS A GOOD STUDENT. THE THING IS MY -- I THINK MY 00:29:56.52\00:30:02.86 PASSION -- GROWING UP I WANTED TO BE INTO PSYCHOLOGY. 00:30:02.86\00:30:06.63 I LIKED HOW THE HUMAN MIND WORKED. 00:30:06.63\00:30:09.50 I WAS REALLY LIKE A THINKER. I LIKED TO THINK ABOUT THE WAY 00:30:09.50\00:30:13.51 PEOPLE THINK AND HOW TO DISSECT THE MIND AND THAT KIND OF THING, 00:30:13.51\00:30:17.25 YOU KNOW, PEOPLE'S THOUGHTS OR WHATEVER. 00:30:17.25\00:30:20.05 AND SO THAT'S WHERE MY PASSION WAS REALLY GROWING UP, LIKE, 00:30:20.05\00:30:24.12 YEAH, I THINK THAT'S WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO, SO I THINK 00:30:24.12\00:30:27.76 THERE WAS ALWAYS A LEANING TOWARDS JUST THAT CREATIVITY OF 00:30:27.76\00:30:33.56 THE MIND >> UH-HUH. 00:30:33.56\00:30:35.10 >> AND AS I SAID EARLIER, WHEN -- WHEN I WAS WRITING 00:30:35.10\00:30:39.90 LYRICS, YOU KNOW, JUST -- IF -- YOU HAVE TO BE 00:30:39.90\00:30:44.51 POETICAL, RIGHT? SO THE WAY THAT I WOULD WRITE MY 00:30:44.51\00:30:47.08 MUSIC, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO FIND DIFFERENT WAYS, CREATIVE WAYS TO 00:30:47.08\00:30:51.78 GET ACROSS A CERTAIN POINT. WHEN IT CAME TO THE BIBLE, LIKE 00:30:51.78\00:30:55.28 I SAID, I DIDN'T HAVE A SYSTEM. I DIDN'T KNOW THIS IS WHAT I WAS 00:30:55.28\00:31:00.49 DOING, BECAUSE MY MIND JUST WORKED THAT WAY. 00:31:00.49\00:31:02.39 SO I WOULD READ A TEXT AND SOMETHING WOULD JUMP OUT TO ME 00:31:02.39\00:31:05.36 THAT I WOULD BE LIKE, WOE. LOOK AT THIS. 00:31:05.36\00:31:09.43 LIKE THERE'S -- BUT I DIDN'T -- I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS 00:31:09.43\00:31:13.00 A NORMAL -- LIKE EVERYONE SAW THIS. 00:31:13.00\00:31:15.27 >> RIGHT. >> UH-HUH. 00:31:15.27\00:31:16.44 >> SO WHEN I WOULD START SHARING SOME OF THIS STUFF WITH OTHER 00:31:16.44\00:31:19.91 PEOPLE WHO ARE ADVENTISTS, THEY WERE LIKE, OH, I NEVER SAW IT 00:31:19.91\00:31:24.31 THAT WAY BEFORE. AND I WOULD LOOK AT THEM LIKE, 00:31:24.31\00:31:27.55 WHAT DO YOU MEAN? LIKE -- YES, IT'S RIGHT THERE, 00:31:27.55\00:31:31.99 DON'T YOU SEE IT? NO, NO, NO. 00:31:31.99\00:31:34.76 I NEVER SAW THAT. I STARTED STUDYING USING AMAZING 00:31:34.76\00:31:39.39 FACTS STUDY GUIDES -- ACTUALLY IT WAS JOE CRUZ THOSE LITTLE 00:31:39.39\00:31:47.00 PAMPHLETS THAT HE WROTE. AND I WOULD GET THOSE LITTLE 00:31:47.00\00:31:50.31 BOOKS AND READ AND HIGHLIGHT MY BIBLE. 00:31:50.31\00:31:53.48 LIKE MY BIBLE WAS LIKE A COLORING BOOK, AND THAT'S HOW I 00:31:53.48\00:31:57.58 LEARNED THE BASICS AS FAR AS DOCTRINE, BUT LIKE I SAID, I 00:31:57.58\00:32:01.92 DIDN'T REALIZE THAT-- AT THAT TIME -- IT'S ONLY AS I LOOKED 00:32:01.92\00:32:05.39 BACK THAT I SAW THAT I WAS -- THAT I THINK THE LORD 00:32:05.39\00:32:10.36 CALLED ME IN A CERTAIN SENSE BECAUSE I WAS COMING FROM THE 00:32:10.36\00:32:14.13 OUTSIDE -- >> UH-HUH. 00:32:14.13\00:32:16.63 >> -- BECAUSE I HAD MIND THAT HAD NOT BEEN BROUGHT UP IN THE 00:32:16.63\00:32:19.87 CHURCH, IF YOU WILL, SO I WAS GOING TO SEE THINGS DIFFERENTLY, 00:32:19.87\00:32:23.97 JUST NATURALLY. >> YES. 00:32:23.97\00:32:26.44 YES. >> AND HE WOULD EVENTUALLY LEAD 00:32:26.44\00:32:30.21 ME TO DEVELOP THAT INTO A SYSTEM. 00:32:30.21\00:32:31.88 >> UH-HUH. >> SO AS I LOOK BACK, THAT'S HOW 00:32:31.88\00:32:35.15 I SEE THIS UNFOLDING. IT'S LIKE I SAID I HAVE A NEW 00:32:35.15\00:32:40.72 SCHOOL OF THOUGHT. THAT WAS JUST THE WAY I 00:32:40.72\00:32:44.03 APPROACHED THE SCRIPTURE, AND I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST NORMAL. 00:32:44.03\00:32:47.23 >> YES.-BUT YOU HAVE THE CLEAN SLATE. >> YES. 00:32:47.23\00:32:50.87 >> YOU CAME IN WITHOUT ANY PRECONCEPTIONS, REALLY, YOU JUST 00:32:50.87\00:32:57.21 CAME IN AND -- LORD, JUST SHOW ME. 00:32:57.21\00:33:00.18 >> YEAH. >> -- AND HE DID. 00:33:00.18\00:33:04.15 SO I KNOW PEOPLE ARE PROBABLY SAYING WHY ARE THEY TALKING 00:33:04.15\00:33:07.78 ABOUT THIS SYSTEM. SO TELL US, HOW DO YOU START? 00:33:07.78\00:33:11.89 IF SOMEONE IS WATCHING RIGHT NOW THAT HAS NEVER STUDIED THE BIBLE 00:33:11.89\00:33:19.03 BEFORE, WHERE DO YOU START? >> I'LL SHARE SOMETHING 00:33:19.03\00:33:22.83 PRACTICAL RIGHT NOW. >> UH-HUH. 00:33:22.83\00:33:24.27 >> ONE OF THE THINGS THEY USE RIGHT NOW, WHEN I STUDY THE 00:33:24.27\00:33:28.27 BIBLE -- AND I HAVE BEEN USING IT FOR YEARS IS BIBLE SOFTWARE. 00:33:28.27\00:33:33.94 SOMETHING CALLED E-SORT. IT'S A FREE SOFTWARE -- NOW 00:33:33.94\00:33:37.81 THERE ARE OTHER SOFTWARES OUT THERE THAT YOU CAN PURCHASE, AND 00:33:37.81\00:33:42.98 THEY ARE QUITE EXPENSIVE. SOME RUN LIKE THOUSANDS OF 00:33:42.98\00:33:47.12 DOLLARS, AND SO IT'S PRETTY EXPENSIVE. 00:33:47.12\00:33:51.89 E-SORT IS PRETTY MUCH FREE. I THINK AT SOME PLACES IT MIGHT 00:33:51.89\00:33:57.00 COST $10 OR $5 OR SOMETHING. BUT IT'S A VERY POWERFUL TOOL 00:33:57.00\00:34:01.90 BECAUSE IT BASICALLY BRINGS THE BIBLE, YOU KNOW, TO YOUR 00:34:01.90\00:34:05.61 FINGERTIPS, RIGHT? YOU CAN HAV DIFFERENT 00:34:05.61\00:34:09.78 TRANSLATIONS, DIFFERENT COMMENTARIES, DICTIONARIES. 00:34:09.78\00:34:13.21 YOU CAN LOOK UP A WORD IN GREEK OR HEBREW, SO IT'S VERY 00:34:13.21\00:34:17.82 TECHNICAL, BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE REALLY 00:34:17.82\00:34:22.39 DON'T KNOW ABOUT. BACK IN THE DAY, I WOULD STUDY 00:34:22.39\00:34:29.80 MY BIBLE WITH THE BIBLE AND A CONCORDANCE. 00:34:29.80\00:34:35.07 AND IT WOULD TAKE HOURS. AND YOU ARE TRYING TO FIND A 00:34:35.07\00:34:38.77 WORD THAT IS FOUND IN SEVERAL DIFFERENT PLACES IN THE 00:34:38.77\00:34:43.01 SCRIPTURES. WELL, NOW YOU CAN DO ALL OF THAT 00:34:43.01\00:34:45.31 RIGHT THERE AT YOUR FINGERTIPS. >> YEAH. 00:34:45.31\00:34:48.48 YEAH. >> ON THE TECHNICAL SIDE, I 00:34:48.48\00:34:52.69 WOULD SAY GET A GOOD SOFTWARE. AGAIN, I USE E-SWORD, AND YOU 00:34:52.69\00:34:59.29 CAN DOWNLOAD IT ON YOUR COMPUTER. 00:34:59.29\00:35:03.33 OR WHATEVER SOFTWARE YOU CHOOSE, GET IT. 00:35:03.33\00:35:06.17 SO THAT IS THE TECHNICAL SIDE. IT TAKES A WHILE TO LEARN HOW TO 00:35:06.17\00:35:10.07 USE IT, BUT ONCE YOU LEARN HOW TO USE IT, IT REALLY AMPLIFIES 00:35:10.07\00:35:14.71 YOUR BIBLE STUDY IN A POWERFUL WAY. 00:35:14.71\00:35:17.61 >> YES. >> SO BEYOND THAT, WHAT YOU 00:35:17.61\00:35:24.22 NEED -- LET ME START THIS WAY. SO I HAVE A MINISTRY -- ANOTHER 00:35:24.22\00:35:28.56 MINISTRY CALLED ARMY BIBLE CAMP. AND ARMY BIBLE CAMP, I STARTED 00:35:28.56\00:35:32.89 IT PROBABLY ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO NOW. 00:35:32.89\00:35:36.00 AND IT WAS BECAUSE PEOPLE KEPT ASKING ME, PASTOR, HOW DO YOU 00:35:36.00\00:35:39.93 STUDY THE BIBLE? HOW DID YOU SEE THAT? 00:35:39.93\00:35:42.17 >> UH-HUH. >> HOW DID YOU GET THAT? 00:35:42.17\00:35:44.54 I HAVE READ THAT STORY LIKE A HUNDRED TIMES -- 00:35:44.54\00:35:47.38 >> WE HAVE HEARD YOUR SERMONS, IS WE KNOW. 00:35:47.38\00:35:51.91 >> AND WE SAY THAT ON SALVATION SYMBOLS AND SIGNS. 00:35:51.91\00:36:01.36 I HAVE READ THAT SAME SCRIPTURE OVER AND OVER, AND HOW DID YOU 00:36:01.36\00:36:06.06 COME TO THAT? >> YEAH, I NEVER HAD AN ANSWER 00:36:06.06\00:36:09.00 READY FOR PEOPLE. IT WAS JUST LIKE, WELL, THAT'S 00:36:09.00\00:36:11.97 HOW I STUDY THE BIBLE. AND WHEN PEOPLE STARTED ASKING 00:36:11.97\00:36:14.97 ME MORE AND MORE, I WAS LIKE, I NEED TO THINK ABOUT WHAT I'M 00:36:14.97\00:36:19.47 DOING. LIKE, HOW AM I GOING THROUGH 00:36:19.47\00:36:21.31 THIS PROCESS? AND THIS IS THE PROCESS THAT 00:36:21.31\00:36:24.78 LEAD ME TO THIS SYSTEM CALLED PHOTO-THEOLOGY. 00:36:24.78\00:36:28.82 THE STUDY OF THE WORD OF GOD THROUGH THE USE OF PICTURES. 00:36:28.82\00:36:32.19 ONE OF THE -- AND THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT PRINCIPLES IN THIS 00:36:32.19\00:36:39.03 SYSTEM, BUT LET ME -- I'M GOING TO SHARE A STATEMENT WITH YOU, 00:36:39.03\00:36:41.83 AND I'M GOING TO SEE WHAT -- WHAT COMES TO YOUR MIND 00:36:41.83\00:36:45.93 WHEN I SHARE THIS STATEMENT. SO IT'S TAKEN FROM [ INAUDIBLE ] 00:36:45.93\00:36:51.77 APRIL 16TH, 1889, AND IT SAYS TAKE YOUR BIBLE, AND COMPARE 00:36:51.77\00:36:58.48 PASSAGE WITH PASSAGE AND VESE WITH VERSE AND YOU WILL FIND THE 00:36:58.48\00:37:03.59 PRECIOUS JEWELS OF TRUTH. YOU SHOULD PUT THE PRECIOUS GEMS 00:37:03.59\00:37:09.36 OF LIGHT IN A BEAUTIFUL SETTING AND HANG THEM IN MEMORY'S HALL. 00:37:09.36\00:37:13.70 THAT'S A QUOTE. >> HUM. 00:37:13.70\00:37:16.23 >> WHAT CAME TO YOUR MIND WHEN I READ THAT? 00:37:16.23\00:37:19.33 >> A PICTURE. >> OKAY. 00:37:19.33\00:37:21.00 WHAT KIND OF A PICTURE? >> UM -- 00:37:21.00\00:37:24.37 >> HANG THEM IN MEMORY'S HALL. >> MEMORY'S HALL. 00:37:24.37\00:37:29.18 YEAH. BUT THE ASSOCIATION. 00:37:29.18\00:37:31.11 >> UH-HUH. >> DID YOU SEE -- I DON'T KNOW 00:37:31.11\00:37:34.02 ABOUT YOU, BUT I SEE A HALL -- MEMORY'S HALL. 00:37:34.02\00:37:37.65 THAT BRINGS TO MY MIND A PICTURE, RIGHT? 00:37:37.65\00:37:40.62 AND NOW I'M SEEING A HALL IN MY MIND -- I'M A VISUAL PERSON. 00:37:40.62\00:37:47.03 I'M SEEING A HALL -- I'M A PERSON THAT LIKES PICTURES, 00:37:47.03\00:37:50.73 RIGHT? SO I'M SEEING A HALL IN MY MIND, 00:37:50.73\00:37:53.50 AND I'M BEING TOLD THAT I SHOULD TAKE DIFFERENT TRUTHS, DIFFERENT 00:37:53.50\00:37:57.71 STORIES IN THE BIBLE AND HANG THEM IN MEMORY'S HALL. 00:37:57.71\00:38:04.55 NOW, THIS SYSTEM OF -- OF BIBLE STUDY THAT I HAVE, 00:38:04.55\00:38:11.35 PHOTO-THEOLOGY, SO I'M NOW TRAINING PEOPLE, THIS IS HOW 00:38:11.35\00:38:13.79 YOU -- YOU DO THIS, RIGHT? SO -- LIKE I SAID, IT'S AN 00:38:13.79\00:38:19.79 ENTIRE SYSTM, AND ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS I SHARE IS THIS 00:38:19.79\00:38:23.73 CONCEPT OF MEMORY'S HALL. WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, THERE WAS A 00:38:23.73\00:38:26.97 CARD GAME I PLAYED CALLED CONCENTRATION. 00:38:26.97\00:38:29.70 >> OH, YEAH. >> ALL OF THE CARDS ARE FACING 00:38:29.70\00:38:32.84 DOWN, AND YOU TURN ONE CARD, AND THEN YOU HAVE TO FIND THE 00:38:32.84\00:38:36.81 MATCHING CARD. YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER, WHERE DID 00:38:36.81\00:38:39.58 I SEE THAT CARD BEFORE? AND SO YOU FLIP, YOU FLIP, 00:38:39.58\00:38:44.75 THAT'S A MATCH. RIGHT? 00:38:44.75\00:38:46.62 >> YEAH. >> IN ESSENCE THAT IS THE ART OF 00:38:46.62\00:38:52.53 PHOTO-THEOLOGY, SO LET'S PLAY CONCENTRATION. 00:38:52.53\00:38:55.66 OKAY?-I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A PICTURE. MOSES GOES ON TOP OF A 00:38:55.66\00:39:00.94 MOUNTAIN. HE TELLS JOSHUA, YOU ARE MIGHTING THE MALI KITEDS 00:39:00.94\00:39:11.15 BELOW. I'M GOING TO GO UP TO THE MOUNTAIN, AND WHEN I LIFT MY 00:39:11.15\00:39:14.02 HANDS WITH THE ROD -- WHEN I LIFT MY HANDS -- WHEN I LIFT MY 00:39:14.02\00:39:18.29 HANDS WITH THE ROD IN MY HAND, YOU ARE GOING TO EXPERIENCE 00:39:18.29\00:39:22.62 VICTORY. WHEN I LIFT MY HANDS, WHEN I 00:39:22.62\00:39:25.93 LIFT MY HANDS. WHEN MY HANDS ARE CONNECTED TO 00:39:25.93\00:39:29.76 WOOD, AND I HAVE LIFTED MY HANDS. 00:39:29.76\00:39:32.40 >> OH, YES. >> YOU ARE GOING TO EXPERIENCE 00:39:32.40\00:39:35.60 VICTORY. EVERY TIME HIS HANDS COME DOWN, 00:39:35.60\00:39:37.91 NO VICTORY. EVERY TIME HIS HANDS GO UP, BOTH 00:39:37.91\00:39:42.21 HANDS ARE CONNECTED TO THE ROD, TO WOOD, THERE IS VICTORY. 00:39:42.21\00:39:46.72 >> WOE. >> YOU ARE SAYING WOW, AND I 00:39:46.72\00:39:52.09 HAVEN'T SAID ANYTHING. I'M JUST GIVING YOU THE STORY. 00:39:52.09\00:39:55.06 >> I HAVE A PICTURE. >> AND NOW MOSES'S HANDS BEGIN 00:39:55.06\00:40:00.80 TO GET TIRED SO ERIN STANDS ON ONE SIDE OF HIM, HARRAH HANDS ON 00:40:00.80\00:40:06.80 THE OTHER SIDE OF HIM. MOSES IS ON A ROCK. 00:40:06.80\00:40:11.31 HIS HANDS ARE EXTENDED HIS ARMS EXTENDED. 00:40:11.31\00:40:18.35 ON EITHER SIDE OF HIM IS ERIN AND HERR AND THEY HOLD HIS HANDS 00:40:18.35\00:40:25.35 UP. ALL I HAVE DONE IS GIVEN YOU A 00:40:25.35\00:40:27.62 PICTURE OF A STORY YOU ALREADY KNOW. 00:40:27.62\00:40:30.59 BUT SOMETHING JUST HAPPENED. BECAUSE AS I WAS EXPLAINING THAT 00:40:30.59\00:40:34.56 STORY, YOU WERE SAYING HOLD ON HOLD ON WAIT A MINUTE, WAIT A 00:40:34.56\00:40:37.87 MINUTE, AND WHAT HAPPENED IS YOU RAN DOWN MEMORY'S HALL AND YOU 00:40:37.87\00:40:41.87 WERE LIKE, I HAVE SEEN THAT PICTURE SOMEPLACE ELSE. 00:40:41.87\00:40:45.27 >> COME ON. >> AND YOU ARE LIKE HOLD ON, 00:40:45.27\00:40:48.71 WAIT A MINUTE. AND WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? 00:40:48.71\00:40:52.25 WHY ARE YOU SMILING? >> BECAUSE YOU SEE JESUS ON THE 00:40:52.25\00:40:55.85 CROSS WITH HIS ARMS OUTSTRETCHED. 00:40:55.85\00:41:01.72 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> YEP. 00:41:01.72\00:41:02.72 >> AND NOW WE KNOW BECAUSE OF THOSE HANDS THAT WERE EXTENDED 00:41:02.72\00:41:06.36 ON THE CROSS, WE CAN HAVE VICTORY IN OUR FIGHT. 00:41:06.36\00:41:10.20 >> OH, THAT'S GOOD. THAT'S GOOD. 00:41:10.20\00:41:14.44 >> WE CAN HAVE VICTORY IN OUR FIGHT. 00:41:14.44\00:41:16.84 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> THAT'S WHY WE HAVE VICTORY IN 00:41:16.84\00:41:20.21 OUR BATTLE AGAINST THE FLESH AND THE PRINCIPALITIES OF THIS 00:41:20.21\00:41:23.68 WORLD, BECAUSE OF WHAT CHRIST DID ON THE CROSS, AND NOW I KNOW 00:41:23.68\00:41:27.08 SOMETHING ELSE TOO FROM THIS STORY. 00:41:27.08\00:41:28.95 IT'S NOT THE NAILS THAT HELD HIS HANDS UP -- 00:41:28.95\00:41:31.72 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> IT WAS THE SINNER ON EITHER 00:41:31.72\00:41:35.32 SIDE OF HIM THAT HELD HIS HANDS UP. 00:41:35.32\00:41:38.69 JUST AS AARON AND HERR STOOD THERE TO HOLD UP MOSES'S HANDS, 00:41:38.69\00:41:43.10 IT WAS THE SINNER ON EITHER SIDE OF HIM. 00:41:43.10\00:41:46.23 IN OTHER WORDS JESUS DIED FOR THE WHOLE WORLD. 00:41:46.23\00:41:52.84 THOSE WHO WOULD ACCEPT HIM AND THOSE WHO WOULD REJECT HIM. 00:41:52.84\00:41:56.21 SO WHAT HAVE WE JUST DONE IN WE JUST PLAYED A GAME. 00:41:56.21\00:41:59.68 THE GAME IS CALLED CONCENTRATION. 00:41:59.68\00:42:02.82 I SEE THIS STORY IN THE BIBLE, AND I'M TRYING TO -- I'M 00:42:02.82\00:42:06.76 LEARNING HOW TO THINK IN PICTURES. 00:42:06.76\00:42:08.69 >> UH-HUH? >> THAT'S ALL WE JUST DID. 00:42:08.69\00:42:10.86 IF YOU HAD A SERMON TO PREACH NOW, AND NO ONE EVER WATCHED 00:42:10.86\00:42:14.93 THIS, YOU COULD BE LIKE, I'M GOING TO CREATE -- 00:42:14.93\00:42:19.27 [ LAUGHTER ] >> JASON, HOW DID YOU SEE THAT? 00:42:19.27\00:42:23.30 >> DON'T BE SURPRISED IF HE GOES TO PREACH THAT. 00:42:23.30\00:42:27.88 >> I WON'T PREACH AT A CHURCH WHERE YOU PREACH IT. 00:42:27.88\00:42:32.15 >> BUT PHOTO T-PHOTO-THEOLOGY. IT'S THE SIMPLE ART OF HAVING 00:42:32.15\00:42:37.25 THESE PICTURES IN YOUR MIND AND THEN LEARNING HOW TO CONNECT THE 00:42:37.25\00:42:42.09 PICTURES TO REVEAL A STORY. >> HUM. 00:42:42.09\00:42:45.76 >> HUM. >> THAT IS ONE OF THE 00:42:45.76\00:42:50.20 PRINCIPLES, AND THAT'S ACTUALLY A MAJOR PRINCIPLE. 00:42:50.20\00:42:53.50 BECAUSE THE MORE YOU LEARN -- AND HERE IS THE 00:42:53.50\00:42:56.27 PROBLEM. A LOT OF US -- YOU KNOW, IF YOU 00:42:56.27\00:42:58.64 DON'T HAVE PICTURES HANGING IN MEMORY'S HALL, YOU ARE NOT GOING 00:42:58.64\00:43:03.18 TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THESE CONNECTIONS. 00:43:03.18\00:43:05.48 >> RIGHT. >> UH-HUH. 00:43:05.48\00:43:06.78 >> AND THAT'S WHY ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS YOU WANT TO DO IS 00:43:06.78\00:43:11.29 LEARN HOW TO HANG THIS PICTURES IN YOUR HALL, RIGHT? 00:43:11.29\00:43:14.46 LOCK THEM IN YOUR MIND, BECAUSE YOU MAY NOT EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT 00:43:14.46\00:43:17.53 THE PICTURE IS ABOUT RIGHT NOW, BUT PUT IT THERE, BECAUSE 00:43:17.53\00:43:20.96 SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN ONE DAY. 00:43:20.96\00:43:22.66 ONE DAY YOU ARE GOING TO MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS, WASHING 00:43:22.66\00:43:26.20 DISHES OR SOMETHING, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN A PICTURE IS GOING TO 00:43:26.20\00:43:29.64 COME TO YOUR MIND, AND YOU ARE GOING TO BE LIKE, WAIT A MINUTE, 00:43:29.64\00:43:33.68 WAIT A MINUTE. THAT PICTURE ADDS TO -- THAT 00:43:33.68\00:43:36.54 PICTURE MATCHES THIS PICTURE. ONE OF MY FAVORITE PICTURES, AND-I HAD THIS PICTURE HANGING 00:43:36.54\00:43:42.72 IN MY HALL FOR A LONG TIME. AND NOW IT'S LIKE THAT'S A 00:43:42.72\00:43:47.66 MESSED UP STORY. IT IS THE STORY OF DAVID AND 00:43:47.66\00:43:53.13 BATHSHEBA. AND DAVID HAS BATHSHEBA'S 00:43:53.13\00:43:55.30 HUSBAND KILLED. WHY? 00:43:55.30\00:43:57.80 BECAUSE BATHSHEBA IS PREGNANT WITH DAVID'S CHILD. 00:43:57.80\00:44:01.50 HE HAS HER HUSBAND KILLED SO THAT HE COVERS IT UP, AND THEN 00:44:01.50\00:44:06.51 THE PROPHET NATHAN COMES TO HIM AND GIVES HIM THIS WHOLE PARABLE 00:44:06.51\00:44:11.38 AND TELLS HIM YOU ARE THE MAN OF THIS PARABLE, BASICALLY EXPOSING 00:44:11.38\00:44:17.25 DAVID. I KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE DONE. 00:44:17.25\00:44:19.32 DAVID REPENTS, HE IS TOTALLY SORRY, AND NATHAN SAYS, YOU WILL 00:44:19.32\00:44:25.33 LIVE. AND PRAISE GOD. 00:44:25.33\00:44:27.13 DAVID REPENTS AND GOD TELLS NATHAN TO TELL DAVID THAT HE IS 00:44:27.13\00:44:37.37 GOING TO LIVE. BUT THE CHILD OF BATHSHEBA IS 00:44:37.37\00:44:41.01 GOING TO DIE. AND I HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT MESSED 00:44:41.01\00:44:43.41 UP STORY. SO I HAD THAT PICTURE HANGING IN 00:44:43.41\00:44:47.25 MEMORY'S HALL FOR A LONG TIME. AND ONE DAY, I DON'T KNOW WHAT 00:44:47.25\00:44:50.89 OR HOW, BUT I WAS LIKE, WAIT A MINUTE, THAT CHILD DOESN'T HAVE 00:44:50.89\00:44:54.06 A NAME. WE DON'T KNOW WHO THE CHILD IS. 00:44:54.06\00:44:57.46 THE ONLY THING WE KNOW IS THAT IT WAS A MALE, SO THIS WOULD 00:44:57.46\00:45:01.36 HAVE BEEN THE SON OF DAVID. >> HUM. 00:45:01.36\00:45:08.24 >> SO THE SON OF DAVID WAS BROUGHT INTO THIS WORLD BECAUSE 00:45:08.24\00:45:14.91 OF SOMEBODY ELSE'S SIN, AND THOUGH HE HAD DONE NO WRONG, 00:45:14.91\00:45:22.82 DIED WHILE DAVID GOT TO LIVE. >> WOW. 00:45:22.82\00:45:26.76 >> ALL OF A SUDDEN, I'M LIKE, WOE. 00:45:26.76\00:45:29.56 YOU MEAN THAT LITTLE BOY, WHO WE DON'T KNOW -- WE DON'T KNOW HIS 00:45:29.56\00:45:34.10 NAME, WE DON'T -- THAT LITTLE BOY WAS A TYPE OF THE VERY WORK 00:45:34.10\00:45:38.70 THAT JESUS WAS TO DO, BECAUSE JESUS, WE KNOW IN THE NEW 00:45:38.70\00:45:43.67 TESTAMENT, WHAT IS HE CALLED? HE IS CALLED THE SON OF DAVID. 00:45:43.67\00:45:47.61 HE WAS BROUGHT INTO THIS WORLD BECAUSE OF OUR SIN, AND THOUGH 00:45:47.61\00:45:51.58 HE WAS INNOCENT ANDHAD DONE NO WRONG, HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT 00:45:51.58\00:45:56.69 LIVE. >> WOW. 00:45:56.69\00:45:57.52 >> HUM. >> AND SO YOU BEGIN TO SEE THESE 00:45:57.52\00:46:00.36 STORIES IN THE BIBLE THAT ARE -- YOU KNOW, YOU THINK, 00:46:00.36\00:46:03.12 YEAH, THAT STORY DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING, YOU JUST THROW IT TO 00:46:03.12\00:46:07.03 THE SIDE, BUT GOD WASTES NOTHING. 00:46:07.03\00:46:09.76 SO THESE STORIES IN THE SCRIPTURES THAT WE TEND TO GLOSS 00:46:09.76\00:46:16.64 OVER, WHEN WE STOP AND BEGIN TO THINK, OKAY, WHAT IS GOD TRYING 00:46:16.64\00:46:21.54 TO SHOW ME HERE? ONE OF THE EXAMPLES I LIKE TO 00:46:21.54\00:46:25.48 GIVE IS THIS. IMAGINE WE'RE IN A PRIMITIVE 00:46:25.48\00:46:30.55 SOCIETY, AND A CAMERA DROPS RIGHT IN THE MIDST -- SOMEONE 00:46:30.55\00:46:36.09 SLIDES OVER AND DROPS A CAMERA IN THE MIDST OF OUR SOCIETY. 00:46:36.09\00:46:40.06 AND WE'RE LIKE WHAT IS THAT? WE HAVE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE, 00:46:40.06\00:46:43.63 AND AFTER A FEW WEEKS OR MONTHS SOMEONE GETS BOLD ENOUGH TOUCH 00:46:43.63\00:46:49.24 IT, AND IT DOESN'T DO ANYTHING. AND IT ISN'T GOING TO HURT US. 00:46:49.24\00:46:55.28 AND NOW THIS IS A THING THAT WE ARE JUST IN AH OF. 00:46:55.28\00:47:03.18 IS THAT PRIMITIVE SOCIETY USING THE CAMERA IN THE RIGHT WAY? 00:47:03.18\00:47:07.32 >> NO. >> WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE 00:47:07.32\00:47:11.06 CAMERA? >> TO TAKE PICTURES. 00:47:11.06\00:47:12.59 >> TO TAKE PICTURES. THE STORIES OF THE BIBLE ARE 00:47:12.59\00:47:19.63 CAMERAS THAT REVEAL THE PICTURE OF JESUS. 00:47:19.63\00:47:22.94 >> WOW. >> MOST OF US APPROACH THESE 00:47:22.94\00:47:25.54 STORIES AND JUST LOOK AT THE CAMERA. 00:47:25.54\00:47:29.68 WHAT A NEAT CAMERA. WOW, THAT'S A BEAUTIFUL CAMERA. 00:47:29.68\00:47:33.82 HEY, LOOK AT THIS CAMERA. MAN, THESE CAMERAS ARE GREAT. 00:47:33.82\00:47:37.65 NOT REALIZING THAT THESE CAMERAS WERE DESIGNED TO SHOW US JESUS. 00:47:37.65\00:47:43.09 >> HUH. >> SO IN ESSENCE, WE END UP 00:47:43.09\00:47:47.03 MISSING THE -- >> PICTURE. 00:47:47.03\00:47:48.30 >> PICTURE. >> WOW. 00:47:48.30\00:47:50.10 >> THAT'S WHAT ENDS UP HAPPENING. 00:47:50.10\00:47:52.83 WE OFTEN READ THE BIBLE AND MISS THE PICTURE OF JESUS. 00:47:52.83\00:47:58.14 LIKE, YOU GUYS REMEMBER -- AND THIS IS ONE OF MY STRONG BELIEFS 00:47:58.14\00:48:02.01 WHEN IT COMES TO PHOTO-THEOLOGY. PHOTO-THEOLOGY IS THE ART OF 00:48:02.01\00:48:06.58 LOOKING FOR JESUS.->> HUM. >> IT'S THE ART OF LOOKING FOR 00:48:06.58\00:48:11.32 JESUS. SO ON THE ROAD, DO YOU REMEMBER 00:48:11.32\00:48:13.46 THE DISCIPLES, THEY WERE HEART BROKEN BECAUSE JESUS HAD JUST 00:48:13.46\00:48:19.53 DIED. >> RIGHT. 00:48:19.53\00:48:20.20 >> JESUS COMES TO THEM, BUT THEY DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S HIM. 00:48:20.20\00:48:25.33 THEY CAN'T RECOGNIZE HIM. AND HE BEGINS -- THEY BEGIN 00:48:25.33\00:48:29.60 TELLING HIM -- HE IS LIKE, WHY ARE YOU SO SAD? 00:48:29.60\00:48:32.71 THEY BEGIN TELLING HIM ALL OF THE REASONS WHY THEY ARE SAD AND 00:48:32.71\00:48:37.75 DISCOURAGED, AND THEN HE -- HE SAYS TO THEM BELIEVE ALL THAT 00:48:37.75\00:48:44.05 THE PROPHETS HAVE SAID, SHOULD NOT THESE THINGS HAVE BEEN 00:48:44.05\00:48:48.19 FULFILLED. THE BIBLE SAYS BEGINNING FROM 00:48:48.19\00:48:50.53 MOSES AND THE PRO PROPHETS HE BEGAN TO PROFOUND TO HIMSELF IN 00:48:50.53\00:48:55.46 THE SCRIPTURES, ALL OF THE THINGS CONCERNING HIMSELF. 00:48:55.46\00:48:58.93 HE IS GIVING THESE DISCOURAGED DISCIPLES, A BIBLE STUDY. 00:48:58.93\00:49:04.37 THEY JUST LOST THE GUY THEY THOUGHT WAS THE MESSIAH. 00:49:04.37\00:49:07.94 >> RIGHT. >> I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, AND 00:49:07.94\00:49:10.68 SOMEONE DIES THAT YOU ARE CLOSE TO, YOU ARE PROBABLY NOT IN THE 00:49:10.68\00:49:14.35 MOOD -- YOU JUST WANT TO MOURN. JESUS DECIDES TO PULL THEM OUT 00:49:14.35\00:49:18.59 OF THEIR MOURNING BY GIVING THEM A BIBLE STUDY. 00:49:18.59\00:49:22.59 THAT BIBLE STUDY MUST HAVE BEEN SO DEEP AND POWERFUL, BECAUSE IT 00:49:22.59\00:49:27.40 WAS BURN, THEY WERE LIKE, DID NOT OUR HEARTS BURN. 00:49:27.40\00:49:34.20 >> YES. >> BECAUSE JESUS BEGAN TO SHOW 00:49:34.20\00:49:36.84 THEM HIMSELF IN ALL OF THE SCRIPTURES, BEGINNING AT MOSES 00:49:36.84\00:49:42.04 AND THE PROPHETS THE EXPOUNDS HIMSELF. 00:49:42.04\00:49:46.15 THAT MEANS THAT JESUS IS ALL OVER THE OLD TESTAMENT. 00:49:46.15\00:49:49.78 IT'S LIKE WALLDO. >> I USED TO LOVE THOSE BOOKS. 00:49:49.78\00:49:59.69 >> YOU KNOW THAT WALDO IS IN THERE SOMEWHERE. 00:49:59.69\00:50:03.26 SO WHEN I READ THE SCRIPTURE, PHOTO-THEOLOGY IS THE ART OF 00:50:03.26\00:50:07.74 LOOKING FOR JESUS ON EVERY PAGE OF THE SCRIPTURES, BEGINNING 00:50:07.74\00:50:10.74 FROM MOSES AND THE PROPHET. IN GENESIS 1, GOD SAID LET THERE 00:50:10.74\00:50:17.48 BE LIGHT. JESUS IS LIGHT. 00:50:17.48\00:50:21.28 IN GENESIS 2, GOD MAKES WATER PROMINENT. 00:50:21.28\00:50:27.39 I'M SORRY ON DAY 2. ON DAY 3, THE BIBLE SAYS THAT 00:50:27.39\00:50:32.06 GOD BROUGHT THE FRUITS FROM THE EARTH. 00:50:32.06\00:50:37.10 ON THE THIRD DAY, THE FIRST FRUITS -- 00:50:37.10\00:50:41.34 >> WOW. >> WOW, LOOK AT THAT. 00:50:41.34\00:50:46.04 YES. >> FROM THE GROUND. 00:50:46.04\00:50:47.34 THE THIRD DAY -- >> OH, MY. 00:50:47.34\00:50:49.51 [ LAUGHTER ] >> ISN'T IT SOMETHING HOW YOU 00:50:49.51\00:50:51.38 CAN READ THAT AND JUST NOT CONNECT THE DOTS. 00:50:51.38\00:50:55.62 >> UH-HUH. >> BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT -- YOU 00:50:55.62\00:50:58.99 HAVE HEARD THE SAYING A PICTURE IS WORTH -- 00:50:58.99\00:51:01.79 >> A THOUSAND WORDS. >> UH-HUH. 00:51:01.79\00:51:04.66 >> GODS IS INTO PICTURES. JUST LOOK AT THE BOOK OF 00:51:04.66\00:51:08.70 REVELATION. IT'S ALL ABOUT IMAGES. 00:51:08.70\00:51:11.27 LOOK AT THE BOOK OF DANIEL, GOD IS INTO PICTURES. 00:51:11.27\00:51:15.50 GOD IS CREATIVE BY NATURE, AND SO OFTEN WE APPROACH THE 00:51:15.50\00:51:21.44 SCRIPTURES WITH THIS -- YOU KNOW, NARROW -- HERE IS WHAT THE 00:51:21.44\00:51:26.55 TEXT SAYS, AND WE STOP RIGHT THERE. 00:51:26.55\00:51:29.25 AND, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, IT -- IT IS A CHALLENGE WHEN YOU APPROACH 00:51:29.25\00:51:32.92 THE SCRIPTURES, BECAUSE YOU -- WHAT THE TEXT SAYS 00:51:32.92\00:51:37.13 ABSOLUTELY IMPORTANT, OKAY? >> UH-HUH. 00:51:37.13\00:51:39.03 >> BUT THERE IS A DIMENSION BEYOND THAT -- 00:51:39.03\00:51:41.60 >> RIGHT. >> THAT IS BEYOND ON THE INK ON 00:51:41.60\00:51:46.43 THE PAPER, RIGHT? SO IT'S LIKE WHEN JESUS SAYS 00:51:46.43\00:51:51.21 EXCEPT YOU EAT MY FLESH AND DRINK MY BLOOD. 00:51:51.21\00:51:54.68 THE JEWS ARE LIKE, WHAT? HOW DARE YOU? 00:51:54.68\00:51:57.91 WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT EATING FLESH AND DRINKING BLOOD? 00:51:57.91\00:52:02.98 ARE YOU CRAZY? THEY COULD NOT UNDERSTAND THE 00:52:02.98\00:52:06.19 SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HIS WORDS, SO THEY LOOK LITERALLY 00:52:06.19\00:52:10.06 WHAT HE MEANT TO BE SPIRTUAL OR SYMBOLIC. 00:52:10.06\00:52:14.03 DESTROY THIS TEMPLE AND IN THREE DAYS I'LL RAISE IT UP AGAIN. 00:52:14.03\00:52:19.00 YOU HEAR WHAT THIS GUY SAID? HE SAID HE WOULD DESTROY THIS 00:52:19.00\00:52:27.24 TEMPLE IN THREE DAYS. NOT REALIZING HE WAS TALKING 00:52:27.24\00:52:30.35 ABOUT HIS BODY. SO THE WAY THAT JESUS APPROACHED 00:52:30.35\00:52:33.75 THE SCRIPTURES, HE APPROACHED IT IN A VERY CREATIVE -- BECAUSE HE 00:52:33.75\00:52:38.19 IS THE CREATOR. >> WITH A PARABLE. 00:52:38.19\00:52:42.09 >> WITH A PARABLE. JESUS FAVORITE METHOD OF 00:52:42.09\00:52:48.70 TEACHING WAS THROUGH OBJECT LESSONS. 00:52:48.70\00:52:55.04 WE NEED TO LEARN HOW TO SEE THE BIBLE AS GOD SEES THE BIBLE, 00:52:55.04\00:52:59.11 RIGHT? HOW TO SEE THE BIBLE AS JESUS 00:52:59.11\00:53:01.81 SEES THE BIBLE. A LOT OF TIMES YOU HEAR THE TERM 00:53:01.81\00:53:08.05 EXO-JESUS. WHAT WAS THE AUTHOR THINKING AS 00:53:08.05\00:53:09.78 HE WAS WRITING, RIGHT? SO WHEN YOU ARE READING THE BOOK 00:53:09.78\00:53:15.86 OF DANIEL OR ISAIAH, YOU ARE TRYING TO GET IN THE MIND OF 00:53:15.86\00:53:21.33 ISAIAH, AND WHEN HE WROTE THS, WHO WAS THE LETTER TO? 00:53:21.33\00:53:24.50 AND WHAT DID HE MEAN BY -- YOU ARE GETTING INTO THE MIND OF THE 00:53:24.50\00:53:28.74 AUTHOR, AND THAT'S -- YOU KNOW, PRAISE GOD. 00:53:28.74\00:53:31.24 BUT GUESS WHAT, ISAIAH IS NOT THE ULTIMATE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK 00:53:31.24\00:53:37.75 OF ISAIAH. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE ULTIMATE 00:53:37.75\00:53:41.92 AUTHOR, WHICH IS GOD HIMSELF. >> YOEP. 00:53:41.92\00:53:47.66 -- YEP. >> WHICH IS JESUS HIMSELF. 00:53:47.66\00:53:51.69 SO I HAVE TO GET IN THE MIND OF JESUS IF I WANT TO UNDERSTAND 00:53:51.69\00:53:55.43 THE FULL DEPTH OF THE SCRIPTURES, AND WHAT BETTER WAY 00:53:55.43\00:53:59.23 TO HAVE THIS MIND BE IN YOU, WHICH WAS IN CHRIST JESUS? 00:53:59.23\00:54:02.47 >> YES. >> THAT'S WHY STUDYING THE BIBLE 00:54:02.47\00:54:06.01 HELPS US TO RECEIVE THE MIND OF CHRIST. 00:54:06.01\00:54:08.91 ASK DANIEL IF HE UNDERSTOOD HALF OF THE THINGS HE WROTE. 00:54:08.91\00:54:14.45 [ LAUGHTER ] >> I'M GOING TO BE RIGHT WHERE 00:54:14.45\00:54:18.12 DANIEL WAS. I UNDERSTAND NOT. 00:54:18.12\00:54:20.66 RIGHT? >> YEAH. 00:54:20.66\00:54:21.56 >> SO THERE WAS ONE GREATER THAN DANIEL WHO UNDERSTOOD, OKAY, 00:54:21.56\00:54:26.59 WHAT DID GOD INTEND WHEN HE WAS TELLING DANIEL WHAT TO WRITE. 00:54:26.59\00:54:31.77 SO THAT'S WHERE -- YOU KNOW, I REALLY SEE A NEED TO TRY TO GET 00:54:31.77\00:54:37.77 INTO THE MINE OF GOD, TO GET INTO THE MIND OF CHRIST TO 00:54:37.77\00:54:41.64 UNDERSTAND THE SCRIPTURES. THAT CAMERA, THAT BIBLE STORY, 00:54:41.64\00:54:47.22 THAT TEXT, WHERE IS CHRIST IN THIS STORY? 00:54:47.22\00:54:50.22 >> UH-HUH. >> AND THAT'S -- SO THAT WOULD 00:54:50.22\00:54:53.69 BE A JUICED DOWN VERSION THUS FAR OF PHOTO-THEOLOGY. 00:54:53.69\00:54:57.83 >> THAT IS AMAZING. >> IT IS. 00:54:57.83\00:54:59.93 >> I MEAN, REALLY, WHEN YOU ARE LOOKING FOR CHRIST ON EVERY 00:54:59.93\00:55:04.23 PAGE. I REMEMBER YOU CAME AND DID A 00:55:04.23\00:55:07.40 3ABN CAMP MEETING, AND YOU PREACHED A SERIES -- HEART BURN 00:55:07.40\00:55:12.47 AND YOU MENTIONED EARLIER, BUT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT HOW TO 00:55:12.47\00:55:16.14 FIND JESUS ON EVERY PAGE, AND YOU GAVE ILLUSTRATIONS 00:55:16.14\00:55:19.25 THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE, A JUICED DOWN VERSION. 00:55:19.25\00:55:22.15 >> A JUICED-DOWN VERSION. >> YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. 00:55:22.15\00:55:26.65 AND IT MAKES YOU LOOK AT THE BIBLE IN A WHOLE NEW LIGHT. 00:55:26.65\00:55:30.46 >> YEAH. >> WELL, I LIKE WHAT YOU SAID 00:55:30.46\00:55:33.76 ABOUT -- GOD NEVER WASTES ANYTHING. 00:55:33.76\00:55:36.03 AND, YOU KNOW, WE KNOW THAT. WE KNOW THE WAY HE MOVES, HE 00:55:36.03\00:55:40.40 DOESN'T WASTE -- HE DOESN'T JUST ACCOMPLISH ONE THING. 00:55:40.40\00:55:44.17 HE ACCOMPLISHES MANY THINGS WITH ONE MOVE. 00:55:44.17\00:55:46.84 >> RIGHT. >> SO IT BARES TO REASON THAT HE 00:55:46.84\00:55:50.15 WOULD HAVE THIS WHOLE MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ASPECT IN THE 00:55:50.15\00:55:54.62 WORD. >> UH-HUH. 00:55:54.62\00:55:56.18 >> YOU DIDN'T JUST SAY MULTI-DIMENSIONAL, DID YOU? 00:55:56.18\00:56:00.66 >> I DID. >> YOU DID, DIDN'T YOU?->> OH, WAIT A MINUTE. 00:56:00.66\00:56:04.96 >> AND THAT'S NICE THAT YOU SAID THAT. 00:56:04.96\00:56:07.66 BECAUSE THAT IS ONE OF THE ASPECTS OF PHOTO-THEOLOGY. 00:56:07.66\00:56:13.47 IT'S ANOTHER PRINCIPLE I HAVE CALLED FIVE-DIMENSIONAL BIBLE 00:56:13.47\00:56:19.11 STUDY. >> OH. 00:56:19.11\00:56:19.71 >> SO I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO -- YOU LEAD. 00:56:19.71\00:56:23.04 >> OKAY. I DO WHEN WE COME BACK.-BECAUSE -- YEAH, I DON'T 00:56:23.04\00:56:28.58 WANT TO START, AND THEN WE TAKE OUR LITTLE BREAK -- 00:56:28.58\00:56:30.69 >> YEAH. >> BUT WHEN YOU THINK 00:56:30.69\00:56:32.79 ABOUT -- WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT GOD AND THE WAY THE BIBLE IS 00:56:32.79\00:56:36.86 WRITTEN, LIKE -- IN OUR SALVATION AND SYMBOLS AND SIGNS, 00:56:36.86\00:56:42.23 IT'S AMAZING TO ME HOW THESE NEW THOUGHTS -- THESE NEW ASPECTS OF 00:56:42.23\00:56:47.60 THE TEXT JUST COME INTO YOUR MIND. 00:56:47.60\00:56:51.37 THE HOLY SPIRIT BRINGS YOU A WHOLE NEW WAY TO LOOK AT THE 00:56:51.37\00:56:55.84 TEXT. >> I REALLY -- IN THE SECOND 00:56:55.84\00:56:57.98 HOUR, I REALLY WANT YOU TO GO OVER DANIEL, THE STATUE, THE 00:56:57.98\00:57:02.72 AMAZING POINT THAT YOU BROUGHT OUT WHILE WE WERE RECORDING -- 00:57:02.72\00:57:06.29 >> WHICH ONE DANIEL 2? >> I BELIEVE IT WAS DANIEL 2. 00:57:06.29\00:57:11.03 YES, THAT STATUE, ABSOLUTELY. >> WE WANT YOU TO MAKE SURE THAT 00:57:11.03\00:57:15.66 YOU CALL PEOPLE AND TELL THEM TO TUNE INTO THIS PROGRAM. 00:57:15.66\00:57:18.47 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE FOUND IS THAT WE ALL NEED TO STUDY THE 00:57:18.47\00:57:25.47 SCRIPTURES TO GET REALLY INTO THE SCRIPTURES DEEPLY, AND MANY 00:57:25.47\00:57:29.98 TIMES WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO THAT. 00:57:29.98\00:57:31.81 SO CALL YOUR FRIENDS -- AS DANNY WOULD SAY -- CALL YOUR FRIENDS, 00:57:31.81\00:57:36.72 YOUR ENEMIES, EVERYBODY, AND TELL THEM TO TUNE IN AND WATCH 00:57:36.72\00:57:40.19 THIS PROGRAM. STAY TUNED. 00:57:40.19\00:57:42.16 WE'RE GOING TO BE RIGHT BACK WITH SOME MORE PRECIOUS INCITES. 00:57:42.16\00:57:45.33 ¤ 00:57:45.33\00:57:48.90