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Series Code: TDYL
Program Code: TDYL210040B
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00:10 I cannot believe
00:11 how fast this first hour has gone by. 00:14 What an incredible miracle to see what God is doing, 00:17 how God is bringing healing, and forgiveness, and cleansing, 00:20 and reconciliation between former enemies, 00:24 between the rebel army there in Mindoro in the Philippines, 00:29 and the government, to see that bringing together, 00:32 God to break down those walls. 00:35 I'm so excited about this program. 00:37 If you are just joining us and you missed the first hour, 00:40 shame on you. 00:41 Actually no, you can go to YouTube 00:43 and you can watch it any time or 3abnplus. tv 00:47 You can watch it on demand anytime 00:49 and you can catch up and see those videos, 00:51 the miracles of how God is using AWR. 00:55 The title of this entire program 00:57 is From Terrorist to Adventist. 00:59 Look at God, praise the Lord for what He can do. 01:03 I'm going to introduce you to the family one more time 01:06 in case you missed the first hour 01:07 and we also traded out guests. 01:09 So we got to introduce the new guests to you. 01:11 To my right, elder Duane McKey, who is the president of AWR, 01:16 and sitting next to him is his beautiful wife, 01:19 Kathy McKey, 01:21 who is the Social Media Outreach coordinator 01:23 for the General Conference. 01:25 As we come around the island, 01:27 Ambassador Kathryn Proffitt 01:29 and you're a board member for AWR 01:32 as well as the board chair 01:34 for Your Best Pathway to Health. 01:35 I just got to get in Your Best Pathway to Health. 01:37 In a lot, we all sit on the board 01:39 of Your Best Pathway to Health as well. 01:41 Everyone here. 01:42 That's right, we're all board members. 01:44 And last but not least, 01:46 this is our newest family member. 01:47 This is Pastor Kyle Allen, 01:49 who is the vice president of AWR 01:52 and what a blessing to have you here tonight. 01:55 Amen. Thank you so much. 01:57 Glad to be here. 01:58 Actually he's Dr. Allen. Dr. Allen. 02:00 Yes, he just finished his doctorate. 02:01 So we're very proud of him. What's your doctorate in? 02:04 It's doctorate in Ministry and studying Health Evangelism. 02:07 So it was really exciting. 02:08 Health Evangelism like Pathway stuff? 02:10 Yeah, actually Pathway is a part of, 02:12 in fact, I had to interview Kathy. 02:15 It's about that model and combining the gospel... 02:19 Yeah. 02:20 And the amazing thing is listening to the first hour, 02:23 we saw how health and the gospel 02:25 combined to reach the hearts of the rebels. 02:27 Listen to the story of Effren and he talked about this. 02:29 Absolutely. Amen. 02:32 So we ended the first hour talking about 02:34 what happened during COVID, 02:35 and how evangelism did not stop at AWR. 02:38 Cami Oetman preached 02:40 the incredible evangelistic series 02:41 Unlocking Bible Prophecy. 02:43 And tell us, Dr. Kyle, what happened 02:46 with the baptisms there undercover? 02:47 Well, you know, so it's COVID, and churches are closed. 02:51 So you can't have baptisms 02:52 in the baptisteries and churches. 02:54 But that doesn't stop the Holy Spirit 02:56 because people are still getting converted. 02:59 They're coming to Christ. 03:00 And they're watching Unlocking Bible Prophecies 03:02 and Earth's Final Countdown and our digital missionaries. 03:05 We're doing Bible studies over, you know, YouTube and Facebook. 03:08 And so many people were making decisions, 03:10 but where to baptize them. 03:11 So the Filipinos came up with a very creative solution, 03:15 Duane, Jill, Kathy, Kathy. 03:19 They said, "Okay, we can't go in the churches 03:22 but we've got a solution. 03:23 A huge dump truck, lined with plastic, 03:26 filled it with water, 03:27 and you've got a mobile baptistery." 03:29 We've got a picture of it. 03:31 We have a picture. 03:32 Well, I got to see that. 03:34 There it is. There it is. 03:35 Oh, that's incredible. 03:37 And so they would drive this truck around 03:39 and baptize people at the various places. 03:41 The Holy Spirit was moving in powerful ways. 03:44 And so, yeah, and so COVID came, 03:47 but it didn't stop the work of the gospel. 03:51 But you know, this also, people were desperate, 03:55 they want to get baptized now. 03:56 They didn't want to wait. 03:57 There were so many 03:59 but there were really hundreds and thousands 04:00 that had made their decision. 04:02 And the Holy Spirit was working so powerfully 04:06 that Duane decided we need to go personally. 04:10 Why don't you tell them a little bit 04:12 about how we decided to come back? 04:14 How you decided to come back? 04:16 Now we are fast-forwarding to 2021. 04:18 Right. 04:19 That's now. 04:20 That is now. 04:22 We just got back. For a couple more weeks. 04:24 Yeah, the four of us, 04:25 we just got back from the Philippines. 04:28 It was amazing because they said 04:29 we couldn't come because of COVID. 04:32 The country was locked down and you can't go 04:35 and then we got a little glimpse of a little light 04:40 and I talked to Elder Wilson 04:41 and we plan this actually for a long time. 04:44 And he wanted to go in the worst way and we did 04:47 and so we worked with Robert Dulay 04:49 and we worked with an ambassador, with Eric, 04:51 Kathy Proffitt, with Allen, more about Tejano, 04:54 but it's just amazing how finally came together. 04:57 We kept getting almost every day or every two days, 05:01 we get a different signal. 05:03 You know, you have to be sequestered. 05:07 You don't have to be, it has to be for one day, 05:09 it has to be for two days, it has to be for one week, 05:12 it has to be for two weeks. 05:13 And finally, Elder Wilson and I had a talk. 05:16 And we had gotten this, it's coming down the line. 05:20 We had to get our visas and they haven't come through 05:24 and it's been kind of complicated. 05:25 And all of a sudden, he said, "Duane," 05:29 we're talking on the phone. 05:30 He said, "We're not going." 05:32 I said, "My suggestion is, Elder Wilson, 05:35 is that we put it off until now, until December." 05:40 The fall. Yeah. 05:41 Until December, this is November, December now. 05:44 Okay. 05:45 And so, and we agreed. 05:48 So he goes home that night talks to Nancy. 05:51 And I said to him, 05:52 "How can the General Conference president 05:54 be shut down at a hotel for 10 days. 05:57 It's not going to work. 05:58 We got to cancel or put it off." 06:00 Right. And so we agreed. 06:02 And he talks to Nancy that night. 06:04 And Nancy says, "Ted, we're not going to die 06:10 if we had to stay in a hotel room 06:11 for 10 days together." 06:14 Praise the Lord for godly wife. 06:16 Amen. 06:19 So they, that's what they came back the next day, 06:21 and we're going to go. 06:23 We get locked up for 10 days. 06:25 We're going to enjoy the time. Still going to go. 06:27 We're going to work on YouTube, it's going to be fine. 06:30 Not YouTube, but Zoom. 06:32 But yeah, so. 06:33 But the problem was, 06:36 we couldn't get into the Philippines. 06:38 The Philippines really suffered with COVID 06:41 because they didn't have access to the vaccines 06:43 as quickly as we did. 06:45 And it was devastating. 06:46 So the government had closed all tourist visas. 06:50 And there were different categories. 06:52 We were yellow country, 06:53 yellow countries could not come. 06:55 And there were no visas being issued, 06:59 unless there was a special authorization, 07:02 and it had to be signed 07:04 by the Secretary of the Department 07:06 of Foreign Affairs. 07:08 So the equivalent to our Department of State. 07:10 That was the only way to get a visa. 07:12 Well, so the decisions made, 07:14 we're going, we don't have a visa, 07:16 we don't have a way to get into the country. 07:19 And so this is where I'd like to introduce you to someone, 07:23 if we can show the group picture. 07:25 This is some of the people that went with us on our trip. 07:28 And I want to point out an individual to you. 07:32 So the very far left, gentlemen, 07:35 this is Ambassador... 07:37 Bien Tejano. Yes. 07:39 You know Bien Tejano. Oh, we love him. 07:41 He's been to 3ABN and we work closely, yes. 07:44 Anyway, God has used this individual for many years. 07:47 But what many people don't know, 07:49 and this is the exciting thing about the story 07:51 is God knew that 24 years later, 07:57 AWR needed to come. 07:58 So 20... 08:00 Going back 24 years, Pastor Tejano, not ambassador, 08:04 but Pastor Tejano was a pastor who really worked hard 08:08 with the anti-drug program. 08:10 And he made such an impression. 08:11 He was called to the palace. 08:14 And he was introduced to the president, 08:17 who was thanking him. 08:19 And whatever he said it was the Holy Spirit thing. 08:22 The president became so impressed. 08:24 He said, "Come over here. 08:26 Raise your hand. 08:28 I'm going to swear you in as an ambassador. 08:30 You just have to tell me 08:31 what country you want to go to." 08:34 And Pastor Tejano said, "I'm a pastor. 08:38 I'm not a diplomat." 08:39 And the division president said, 08:42 "This is of God, don't refuse." 08:44 Be a Daniel. "Don't refuse." 08:47 And so 24 years ago, he became an ambassador. 08:51 Now normally, I can tell you, he was a political appointee. 08:55 This president picked him. 08:58 One president is voted out of office, 09:02 and usually the opposite party comes in. 09:05 He had done such good work, they kept him. 09:07 They did. 09:08 And that happened over and over and over. 09:09 You know the story, Jill, because you know him, 09:12 because and he's done amazing things for the church. 09:15 He's done amazing. He is still a pastor. 09:17 He's still a pastor. 09:19 And he, the Lord knew that 24 years 09:23 from the day of that meeting in the palace, 09:26 we needed Ambassador Tejano, 09:28 because it was his relationship with the palace, 09:31 with the president, 09:33 as well as with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 09:36 Because of him we got the visa, but here's the situation. 09:39 Okay. 09:41 Imagine Elder Wilson and Mrs. Wilson 09:44 are supposed to go to Turkey and then from Turkey... 09:46 You are leaving a little bit out. 09:48 Okay, tell me Duane. 09:49 What did I leave out? No, Pathways, remember? 09:52 Oh, yes. Okay, Pathways. 09:54 She has a comrade in Pathways who works with her, 09:57 who works in Guam, who's been to the Philippines. 10:01 And so, she's a nurse and she's... 10:04 She's doctor, yeah. 10:05 A doctor, okay. 10:07 Yeah, that's right. I'm sorry. She's a doctor. 10:08 And so, Kathy calls me up. 10:11 You can't go why? 10:13 It's terrible in the Philippines, 10:14 this doctor in Guam, she's been there several times. 10:17 There's COVID, is everywhere, we can't go. 10:19 It's not safe. It's not safe. 10:21 We shouldn't go. It's true. 10:23 So they were all of these blocks. 10:26 All this stuff, oh, terrible. 10:28 You know, when the devil tries that hard, Jill, 10:31 to block us, 10:32 we know that something amazing is going to happen. 10:35 It's going to happen. 10:37 I remember a text I got from Ms. Kathy, 10:41 while you were over there in the Philippines, 10:42 and she said, "Guess what, Jill, 10:44 I'm watching 3ABN in the hotel room 10:46 while we're here on quarantine." 10:47 Exactly. Yeah, there was 3ABN. 10:50 And you know, you walked around your room, 10:51 you got your steps in. 10:52 Yeah, I did. Watched 3ABN. 10:54 You know... 10:56 Had your meals delivered to the room. 10:57 Meals delivered on a chair outside your door, 10:59 you were locked in your room for that whole time... 11:02 It was incredible. But you know what? 11:04 Somehow God brought us through 11:06 and we knew what was coming on the other end. 11:07 So it made it all worth it. Made it all worth it. 11:09 And there was, you know, I thought 11:11 I would have all this time to catch up on things. 11:13 We were busy. Very busy. 11:15 There were Zoom calls and meetings 11:17 and planning for the rest of the trip. 11:18 But there were also division meetings 11:20 that were happening, 11:21 you were in meetings, 11:23 so there were Zoom calls every single day. 11:24 Yeah. That's right. 11:26 Anyway, Lord. 11:29 I told Kathy, I said, 11:30 "I wish the Lord wouldn't do this. 11:31 This is too hard on my heart." 11:33 I'm kind of getting old, you know, I take this. 11:39 And then we received a phone call 11:41 that the President of the Republic 11:43 wanted to meet our delegation, 11:46 which was incredible. 11:48 It was incredible. It was. 11:49 So, Duane, why don't you tell a little bit? 11:52 And he asked for a meeting, and guess what? 11:55 It was exactly on the day we were out of quarantine. 11:58 In other words we couldn't have come. 11:59 Just in time. Yeah. 12:01 Just in time. Yes. 12:02 Just in time. 12:03 And then we had to get tested. 12:05 I think we got tested three times 12:07 just to go see the president. 12:08 It's just Kathy says, 12:11 "Again?" 12:14 Yes. 12:16 I think we brought some pictures 12:17 that show that meeting. 12:18 Yeah, we do. That's very exciting. 12:20 So this is the meeting between when you all went there, 12:24 and with the President of the Philippines? 12:26 That's right. 12:27 He was very gracious to us, very gracious. 12:30 Some of our people had cell phones, 12:33 and they weren't supposed to, it was against the law. 12:36 But the President said to security, 12:41 "We want the Adventist to know that we can trust them." 12:44 Oh, wow. 12:46 "Let them bring their cell phones." 12:47 It was... 12:49 So those are the cell phone pictures 12:50 from your meeting? 12:52 Yeah. 12:53 And what was the purpose of this meeting? 12:54 We pitch to it a little bit at the very beginning. 12:56 You know, the first hour 12:58 with the amnesty for the rebels. 12:59 Talk to us about that? 13:00 We just wanted to thank him. Okay. 13:02 Yeah, we wanted to thank him. 13:03 He wanted to meet us and thank us for coming. 13:05 And it was just a really nice meeting. 13:07 He was very cordial. 13:08 He wasn't feeling well, we heard later, 13:10 and he saw us anyway. 13:11 And it was just exciting. 13:14 And he told us some things that, 13:16 from his political standpoint, that was rather enlightening. 13:20 But such a gracious man 13:24 and he assured us how much they appreciated 13:28 the Seventh-day Adventist Church. 13:30 And normally, we were told by the attorney of the palace, 13:34 normally he sees people for five minutes. 13:36 Wow. 13:37 He saw us, and Elder Wilson talked to him 13:41 and shared with him and prayed with him... 13:43 Amen. 13:44 Thirty six minutes. 13:46 Wow. 13:48 I think it's unusual 13:49 to have a prayer in that kind of a meeting. 13:51 And yet when Pastor Wilson asked permission, 13:56 "President Duterte, could I pray for you? 13:59 And could I pray for your country?" 14:01 He stood up to show his respect for God. 14:04 It was wonderful. 14:06 It was and you know, Duane, 14:08 we wanted to thank him for the amnesty. 14:11 Yeah. We didn't ask for this meeting. 14:12 Right. He asked for it. 14:14 Wow. 14:15 So God is amazing what He can do. 14:17 Yes. 14:18 And then in the prayer and in the talk, 14:20 and also in the prayer all of us have thanked him 14:22 for giving amnesty to the rebels. 14:24 Amen. 14:25 So this is a big deal for the cause of the rebels. 14:27 No, this is a big deal. 14:28 The war has been 50 years? 14:29 Fifty years, 40,000 people. 14:32 Now I was thinking, we think of the 200,000 14:35 that were baptized in the Philippines. 14:37 Yes. 14:39 Forty thousand died in the last 50 years. 14:42 Yeah. 14:43 It just reminds me, Jill, of this verse in Proverbs, 14:47 where Solomon says, 14:48 "Do you see a man who excels in his work, 14:49 he will stand before kings." 14:52 And you know, it's just a testimony 14:55 that what's happening through AWR, 14:58 through the power of the gospel, 14:59 the work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, 15:01 it's being noticed by the leaders of these countries 15:05 and President of Philippines 15:07 and it's just an incredible testimony 15:08 to the power of God's Word. 15:10 Amen. 15:11 We could sit and have a whole another hour 15:13 just for conversation 15:14 but I know we have several videos too. 15:16 So let's go to, this is the first video 15:18 for this second hour. 15:20 And I know we're going to talk over it 15:22 but it has to do with Earth's Final Countdown, 15:24 which was the name 15:26 for your evangelistic meetings held there 15:28 and set that up for us 15:29 what we're gonna see. 15:31 Okay. Sure. 15:32 So, what happened after we got out of quarantine, 15:35 then the next day we went to the island of Mindoro, 15:37 where Elder Wilson was doing the final sermons 15:41 in this series that Duane, 15:43 and he had been broadcasting for the weeks before. 15:47 After Mindoro, 15:49 we went with Elder Wilson to Cebu and to Mindanao 15:51 to visit some of these places. 15:53 And they were having baptisms everywhere we went. 15:56 In fact, we were in Mindanao, 15:58 they were doing baptisms on Zoom. 16:00 And all these places had done Earth's Final Countdown, 16:03 hundreds of sites. 16:04 We sat there on this huge screen 16:05 watching baptism after baptism after baptism, 16:08 thousands of people 16:09 being baptized at the same time. 16:11 It was an incredible experience 16:12 to see how the Holy Spirit moves, 16:13 And they tell us over 60,000 were baptized. 16:16 Sixty thousand... Wow! 16:17 With that event? 16:19 Whole across. 16:20 Yeah, it's just amazing, thrilling. 16:22 So let's take a look at this video right now. 16:26 Okay. 16:28 So what are we seeing here? 16:29 So what we're seeing 16:30 is when we came to do the final meeting. 16:32 So we're in the car with President Wilson 16:34 and with President McKey, 16:37 they lined up cheering and clapping, 16:40 hundreds of the rebels, hundreds of the rebels. 16:44 It was incredible. 16:45 The military with their protection... 16:46 It was amazing. So here is the audience. 16:49 It's full of hundreds of people 16:50 and we're beginning to the meetings. 16:53 Just as we got to the point 16:55 where Elder Wilson was going to begin his sermon, 16:58 there was this incredible rainstorm. 17:00 I see it coming down. 17:02 Was huge, I've never seen rain. It was horrible. 17:03 I didn't know you could have horizontal rain. 17:05 It was pouring down and all the rebels left. 17:08 Everyone left. 17:09 We thought, "Oh, no after all this?" 17:12 We thought they left. We thought they left. 17:14 They were gone. 17:15 And so we're looking at the rain and Pastor McKey, 17:19 you can see it was just coming down. 17:21 Pastor McKey. 17:23 Yeah, look at the girl. Look at the girl. 17:24 She's singing. 17:25 Yes. Beautiful. Our theme song. 17:28 She doesn't miss a note. 17:30 She was soaked. 17:31 And the rain was just coming. 17:32 It's coming right at her. 17:34 I say, "Kyle, she's not married and you're not married..." 17:38 This is a little set up here. 17:41 Mercy. 17:43 Oh, I mentioned that, I'm sorry. 17:46 This just happens to go out 17:47 all over the world live television, 17:50 so you all know. 17:54 She's a beautiful girl, and she did. 17:55 Really, if you looked at the picture, it was fast. 17:59 You can see, 18:00 you can see the rain and blowing horizontal. 18:02 Yeah. 18:03 And she was holding the mike, cordless mike, 18:05 and singing her heart, she doesn't miss a note. 18:08 It was beautiful. 18:09 She is a pre-dental student at our university. 18:12 It was just memorable. And she was covered. 18:14 I mean, she was under a covered stage, 18:16 and yet she was soaked 18:17 because the rain's coming all sides. 18:18 Yeah. 18:20 So we left pretty discouraged, 18:22 because we didn't know where the rebels went. 18:24 After all of this, and then this rain happens, 18:28 and they left and they didn't get to hear the sermon. 18:31 But they did. 18:32 Yeah, they did. That's right. 18:34 We later found out 18:35 that they had gone to these shelters 18:39 that were around behind the stage. 18:41 We didn't see them. 18:42 And they listened. 18:43 And later they told Pastor Dulay, 18:46 "We thought that they would stop. 18:49 When this kind of rain happens in the Philippines 18:51 the meetings end. 18:53 We can't believe that the president of the church 18:55 continued preaching even through the rain." 18:59 And it really made an impression. 19:00 It did. So they stayed. 19:02 Some of them put up 19:03 chairs over their head and just stayed. 19:06 Kyle I think you saw where they went, didn't you? 19:08 They went under these little shelters 19:10 and places on the side. 19:11 We have a picture, I think, of one of the shelters. 19:13 Oh, yeah, I see that. 19:15 You know what they said, I think Duane, they said, 19:18 you know, we've heard people speak before 19:20 and usually when it rains they quit. 19:23 There must be something about your message 19:24 that makes it important enough 19:26 that you won't quit in the rain. 19:28 Yeah. That's powerful. 19:29 And that's powerful. 19:31 So this was Thursday night. 19:34 On Friday night, 19:35 we had another meeting and guess what? 19:37 We got there and it was raining again, 19:40 and there was no one in the audience. 19:43 And it's like we have to pray and we got into a circle. 19:46 And Duane led us in prayer. 19:48 Elder Wilson prayed, "Please, Lord, stop the rain." 19:51 And it was the opposite. 19:53 This time when Elder Wilson stood up, 19:55 the rain stopped just in time. 19:58 Just in time it stopped. 19:59 Just in time. 20:01 Yeah. 20:02 Thrilling, Kyle, you were, 20:04 you walked around and got pictures. 20:05 Yeah. 20:07 And just watching them listening to Elder Wilson. 20:10 And just, you could see it that they were just listening 20:14 intently to the message. 20:16 These rebels had come from the mountains, 20:18 their lives have been changed by the power of the gospel. 20:21 And now they were here and to think and that night, 20:24 I remember walking around thinking, 20:25 "All these people are going to get baptized tomorrow." 20:28 It was an exciting night, 20:30 it was an incredible moment to think about it, 20:32 and to see them just taking in the message. 20:35 You know, I don't know, but I think I need to say this 20:37 for our 3ABN crowd. 20:39 For before I went to the GC, I would do events and things. 20:43 And every year Elder Wilson would come and preach. 20:47 I've been in a church a long time administration. 20:50 And I've never seen a General Conference President 20:54 do a series, 20:55 evangelistic meetings every year. 20:58 But every year, he's there. 21:00 The only year we've skipped is the COVID year, 21:04 but that was it. 21:05 Every year he does a series. Amen. 21:07 We're so grateful. 21:09 I just want to mention that too. 21:10 As far as from 3ABN's perspective, 21:12 as well, we're so grateful for Elder Wilson. 21:13 Grateful for his leadership at the General Conference. 21:16 God has called him for such a time as this. 21:19 We're grateful for him and his wife. 21:21 Yeah. 21:22 And if I could just add since we're talking about him, 21:23 'cause I get the privilege of traveling 21:25 with him for a few days, 21:26 and just watching them, 21:27 just the patients that they have, 21:29 the love for people, they would sit there, 21:31 and literally it's like one nonstop selfie 21:34 the whole day. 21:35 One picture, pictures, pictures, 21:37 and he'll just stand there 21:38 and let people take pictures, and thousands of pictures. 21:40 I mean, I've never seen so many pictures in my whole life. 21:42 But it was amazing to watch and to see 21:45 how God is using them to be a blessing to the church. 21:49 I was happy to have Kyle go in my place. 21:53 Kathy and I have been with them. 21:56 They're wonderful people. 21:58 They are so gracious. 21:59 I want to, I know you can't, 22:02 but I wanted to say, "Ted it's enough. 22:04 Let's go, let's go." 22:07 You need some rest. 22:08 Nancy Wilson told me, she said, 22:09 "Usually when people travel with us once 22:11 they don't travel again." 22:14 Because they know, 22:15 usually it's talking about how demanding it is. 22:17 I've never seen anyone work so hard. 22:20 I mean, it was just work, work, work. 22:22 It is. 22:23 So let's transition to Sabbath morning 22:25 and then baptism. 22:26 Okay. Right, oh, you got to see this. 22:27 Before we start to Sabbath morning, 22:29 which is when the baptism happened. 22:30 I'm wondering if you can tell 22:32 just a little bit about Jay and Rose 22:34 because they're featured in the baptism. 22:36 Who are Jay and Rose? 22:37 And tell us just a little bit about their story. 22:38 Well, actually, sometimes you hear 22:41 you hear Jay's name called Kal or Kal Martin. 22:45 He's the general. 22:47 He's the one in charge of the rebels. 22:48 Okay. 22:50 Yeah, bad guy. 22:51 Had been a bad guy. 22:53 You know, just these assassins are real assassins. 22:56 They were killing people, hundreds and thousands. 22:59 Terrible. 23:02 And so he's baptized. 23:03 And so they say, 23:05 the military says we need to change his name. 23:08 He's a target. 23:09 Because on that we even know on that Friday night. 23:13 And then on Sabbath morning, 23:14 the military found assassins 23:17 in the audience looking for him. 23:20 Oh, wow. 23:21 Yeah, this is real. 23:23 Right, this is real. 23:25 And so they changed his name to Kal, Kal Martin. 23:28 Jay. Jay. 23:30 No, first, two changes. 23:32 That's right. 23:33 I don't know what the real name is. 23:35 Okay. And so they changed it. 23:37 And then they said, "Okay, 23:39 he's, you know, he's going to be baptized in public. 23:42 We need to change it again." 23:43 So they changed his name again to Jay 23:47 and he has a brand new passport and everything. 23:50 So we think if it all works out, 23:53 Jay and his beautiful wife, Rose, 23:55 who are baptized. 23:57 I baptized Rose and Elder Wilson, baptized Jay. 24:00 Wow. 24:01 We think there's a good chance 24:03 there'll be at General Conference Session. 24:04 You know, it was a life changing moment 24:06 for me personally 24:07 to witness the baptism of Jay and Rose. 24:11 And to be in that pool, Duane, 24:13 you and I were there, we were all there. 24:15 And just to see not only Jay and Rose, 24:17 but 700 former rebels, coming into the pool, 24:23 one after the other, after the other, 24:24 whole family is getting baptized. 24:26 Duane, whole families. Amen. 24:28 And then, you know, I remember standing there 24:30 and seeing them come in. 24:32 And you can see on their faces, 24:34 the lives they've lived have been very hard. 24:36 They've been far from peace, far from hope. 24:39 But now, like, they had hope. 24:42 And many of them coming up out of the water, 24:43 you know, they were crying, they would hug you. 24:45 You could sense deeply 24:47 that their lives had been changed. 24:49 And there is nothing like it, right? 24:52 I mean, there's nothing like it to experience 24:55 the moving of the Holy Spirit now and by the way, 24:57 we thought we were over, we thought we were done. 24:59 Duane, I think you guys 25:00 were even on your way to another baptismal site. 25:02 And some of us were getting out like, 25:03 "No, no, no, don't get out. 25:05 More people are coming." Oh, really? 25:06 Yeah, more people were coming. 25:08 And so we baptized for another 45 minutes, 25:10 hours in the pool. 25:12 Yeah. 25:13 God was working in a powerful way. 25:14 Amen. Amen. 25:16 And some of that's captured on video. 25:17 Yeah. 25:19 So let's take a look at that right now. 25:20 Good. 25:21 Friends, I'm Dr. Duane McKey, 25:23 president of Adventist World Radio. 25:24 Thrilling, exciting things are happening right here. 25:27 I'm sitting next to the South China Sea. 25:31 This is Mindoro. This is where it's happening. 25:33 It's been happening for five years. 25:35 Rebels and their families 25:36 have given their lives to Jesus. 25:37 That war is ending after 50 years, 25:41 40,000 people dead. 25:43 Go with me to a swimming pool. 25:45 This has never happened before. 25:47 But there are former rebels 25:48 with their families being baptized. 25:50 Their lives are being changed. 25:52 What an exciting time to be alive. 26:02 Greetings, my friends. 26:04 This is Dr. Duane McKey from Adventist World Radio. 26:06 It is so exciting to be here. 26:08 We're right here with the baptism. 26:10 This is Kal Martin who is the general 26:13 of the former rebels, 26:15 but actually they changed their lives, 26:18 they left the life behind of 18 years for them. 26:22 Actually, what happened is 50 years ago, 26:24 Adventist World Radio began and 50 years ago 26:26 communists invaded this beautiful island in Mindoro 26:29 and took over the mountains. 26:30 The last 18 years, 26:32 this couple has led the rebellion 26:35 and now Jesus has touched their heart 26:37 and things have changed. 26:38 Pastor Dulay, you have worked so hard 26:41 in the mountains here with the rebel. 26:43 What I am so excited to tell you 26:45 that the chief of police here told us, 26:47 he said for all these years 26:49 they have tried to do all kinds of things. 26:51 They tried to even bribe the rebels, 26:53 they gave them money, they gave them land, 26:55 they did all kinds of things out to beg them 26:58 to stop this war and to stop shooting at them, 27:02 40,000 people had died and that didn't help. 27:06 Nothing they did, nothing they could do. 27:08 The police said, the military said, 27:10 nothing they could do to stop the war 27:12 until Adventist World Radio pack arrived, 27:15 started broadcasting up in the mountains. 27:17 They were the question of the day, 27:19 they started responding, 27:20 and lives were changed when they heard the good news 27:23 that Jesus is coming again. 27:24 When they heard about God's grace 27:26 that they gonna be forgiven and change 27:28 because all these rebels, all these, hundreds. 27:31 How many altogether, Pastor, have been baptized? 27:34 For them, I guess around 500 for their group only. 27:37 This Sabbath. 27:38 With their families and everybody else how many? 27:40 Yes, more than around 15,000 since we started 27:44 Since we started, 15,000 have been baptized. 27:47 The war is coming to an end. 27:48 Praise God. 27:50 What bullets couldn't do, what machine guns couldn't do, 27:53 what these gunships couldn't do, 27:56 God has done by His grace, 27:57 by broadcasting the good news that Jesus is coming again, 28:01 the forgiveness of God, 28:03 and God has forgiven these young people. 28:06 It's amazing how God has worked through their lives 28:09 and they have worked so hard 28:10 and prayed and prayed and prayed 28:12 and God is using them now to do a different ministry. 28:15 We're working very, very wonderful way 28:19 cut reaching out to the people in the villages to help them 28:22 become self-productive, knowing they are forgiven. 28:25 We are building churches for them. 28:26 The land has been given by the government. 28:28 And now as we help them learn to be productive citizens 28:33 through different programs, 28:34 we'll talk about in a different setting. 28:37 It is thrilling how they learned to be farmers 28:39 and learn to be businessman. 28:41 And we are so excited. 28:42 I like your hat. That's a beautiful hat. 28:44 Thank you for being a part of Adventist World Radio. 28:47 Thank you. This is... 28:48 I can never thank my friend who worked for AWR. 28:53 Robert Dulay, I know, who has worked so hard. 28:56 This has been his dream. 28:58 And he will continue on here to finish the work 29:00 because there are lots more people on this island, 29:02 who aren't rebels but who need to know about Jesus. 29:05 And by God's grace, 29:06 they'll learn the good news too, 29:07 that Jesus is coming again. 29:09 And now as we focus 29:10 on a different part of the island, 29:12 there are some other rebels in Mindanao. 29:15 They are actually very difficult rebels, 29:18 they capture people, 29:19 they hold it for ransom and do all kinds of bad things. 29:22 But by God's grace, through Adventist World Radio, 29:24 their lives have been changed too, Robert. 29:26 Thank you for your vision, and thank you for working 29:29 for Adventist World Radio. 29:31 Thank you. Let's pray together. 29:32 Father in heaven, what a joy it is 29:35 to be here together at this wonderful baptism. 29:38 And the people are signing so wonderfully. 29:41 This is the live music 29:42 as more and more are being baptized 29:44 to give their hearts to Jesus. 29:45 Military people, former rebels, 29:47 people who have given their hearts 29:49 it's absolutely incredible, 29:51 and all working together because of God's grace. 29:54 In Jesus' name, amen. 29:55 Amen. 30:04 Look at God, you can feel the excitement 30:07 watching through the television, 30:08 you can feel the excitement of the baptisms 30:11 and 700 rebel soldiers coming to Jesus. 30:15 This is unbelievable. Absolutely. 30:17 You know, I was just, Kyle, has a package of peanuts there. 30:22 Did you bring food on the set? I did. 30:24 I was kind of hungry. 30:25 So I thought I'd get some snacks. 30:26 We mentioned, we wanted to do something special. 30:29 And so we've given some funds to them to help them restart. 30:32 And they took the funds, they didn't pass them out. 30:35 And what did they do, Kyle? 30:36 Well, they decided that they wanted this one, 30:38 they need to start a new life. 30:39 And so they became, they started a business. 30:42 And the business is a peanut business. 30:45 It's called the Organic Former Rebels 30:47 Association Crunch. 30:49 So pick yours up today. 30:51 I mean, isn't that amazing? Amazing. 30:54 So from rebels to, from terrorists to Adventists, 30:58 to business people who are using their business 31:01 to witness for others. 31:02 What an incredible testimony of God's grace. 31:03 Amen. 31:05 You talked to Kal Martin there. 31:06 Well, his new name is Jay, as I mentioned, 31:09 and he and his wife are being baptized. 31:11 It was so thrilling and exciting. 31:14 We had tried to baptize him two years before, 31:18 and that's when we were there, Kathy was there, 31:20 Cami, we got up at three in the morning, 31:22 we drove up a concealed road 31:27 and then went up a river. 31:29 And the bed of the river was the road. 31:32 And so we walk up 31:34 and we go partway up a mountain. 31:36 They had stopped us many times and use their cell phones, 31:39 just to see if we were being... 31:40 Followed. 31:42 That's right. 31:43 And it was quite an adventure going up this river, 31:48 and climbing up. 31:49 And then we went to a shelter 31:51 to wait for Jay to come down 31:55 from the mountains to be baptized. 31:58 But we waited, 32:00 I don't know how long it was two to three hours. 32:03 Yeah. 32:04 And then... 32:05 And there was a torrential downpour, 32:07 sorry, torrential downpour, and... 32:10 And then we had one of the guys come down 32:12 and they say, "Get out of here." 32:14 They said, "We have spot a military below you." 32:17 This is two years ago, this is real. 32:20 And if you, if we come down, 32:23 there's going to be shooting 32:24 and you're going to be caught in the crossfire. 32:28 And so I said, "Yep, we're leaving." 32:32 So we got out of there. 32:35 So the interesting thing now here, 32:37 you just saw the baptism. 32:38 Right. Jay is being baptized. 32:42 And it is so exciting. 32:44 There's another guy 32:46 who was just baptized right after that. 32:49 And he is CIA. 32:52 He's just baptized. Oh, wow. 32:54 Kathy, you remember just about, just three days later, 32:59 he came to our hotel with his wife... 33:01 He and his wife and little boy. 33:04 Little boy, Jacob and his wife, 33:08 Gina and... 33:11 Ray. Ray. Yeah. 33:12 Gina and Ray. 33:13 They come to our hotel, and we begin to talk to them. 33:15 I said to Gina, "So you were there, 33:18 you were baptized too with your husband?" 33:19 "No." 33:21 I said, "Oh, have you thought about being baptized?" 33:24 That's a good question. Right? 33:25 That's a good question. Yes, it is. 33:27 It's very open ended. 33:30 And she says, "Yes." 33:31 I said, "Well, we're here at the ocean. 33:32 Would you want to be baptized now?" 33:34 And she said, "Yes." Amen. 33:37 So we went and baptized her. 33:41 Now the interesting thing is, as I'm talking to Ray, 33:45 Ray says, "You know, I'm with a CIA." 33:50 Wow. 33:51 So I have military guys that are Adventists, 33:53 and rebels, ex-rebels who are Adventists, 33:57 they are all sitting there together telling stories. 33:59 I was chasing you. 34:00 I was chasing you. 34:03 And the fun thing is as, well, it's a God thing. 34:07 And it, as we talk, we realize that Ray, 34:11 the CIA guy from the military... 34:16 He was the one that set us up to be in the middle. 34:20 To be the bait. 34:21 We were the bait. 34:24 I said, "You used us." 34:28 And then we start laughing 34:30 and we prayed together and all was fine, 34:31 but it's amazing. 34:32 He set us up to use as a bait. 34:35 Some of the conversation 34:37 was actually recorded in a video, 34:38 maybe we could play that 34:40 where Duane is actually talking to Rose, 34:43 to Jay and also to... 34:47 Gina? 34:48 No, Gina's husband. 34:50 Oh, Ray. Ray. 34:51 Okay. And Rose. 34:52 Rose and Jay, sorry. 34:54 I'll tell you a story about Jacob. 34:55 It's a short story but... 34:57 Yes. Yes. 34:58 After the video. 35:00 Okay, let's go to the video right now 35:01 and then we'll go to the story of Jacob. 35:04 Greeting from Adventist World Radio. 35:05 I'm Dr. Duane McKey, president, and I have with me here, 35:08 Robert Dulay, he's my assistant 35:10 who's stationed here in the Philippines. 35:12 Thrilling and exciting things have been happening 35:15 for the last five years. 35:16 And I want to introduce you 35:18 to some very, very important friends of ours. 35:21 This is Kal Martin, and his wife Rose. 35:23 They have been the leaders of the group 35:26 in the mountains who have been, 35:28 we have referred to them as rebels, 35:30 who had continued with this war 35:32 that's gone on for about 50 years, 35:34 I think, a long, long time with the NPA. 35:37 His brother was killed. Was killed. 35:40 Okay, by the military in an action. 35:43 And so that changed your life. 35:44 And you came, you left the military school. 35:47 And then joined... 35:49 He joined the New People's Army. 35:51 New People's Army. 35:53 And at that time, how long was it before you 35:56 became the leader of the New People's Army? 35:59 Five years. 36:00 After five years. After five years? 36:02 Okay. Yeah. 36:03 So about that time, too, 36:06 there was a young lady that you met, 36:09 and you admired her a lot. 36:11 And so you were attracted by her. 36:12 And you married her. 36:15 How many years, Rose, how many years ago was that? 36:18 Two years. Two years? 36:19 So, when he joined after two years... 36:21 After two years. 36:22 They got married in the movement. 36:25 Okay. Yeah, yeah. 36:26 And so you lived in the mountains, 36:28 and you would get together and work together 36:32 and when you left the movement, 36:34 and you became a Christian, 36:35 and you guys were just baptized just a few days ago, 36:39 Elder Wilson baptized you. 36:40 And I've baptized you, Rose. 36:44 When you left the movement, your children, were they there? 36:47 Did they witness the baptism? 36:49 So all of them were baptized, 36:50 all of them witnessed their baptism. 36:52 All of them were there 36:53 and they were baptized 36:55 into the Seventh-day Adventist Church. 36:56 Yeah. 36:57 Last Sabbath, they were all baptized. 36:59 Wow. 37:01 All these years we had conflict, 37:03 lots of conflict, different things going on. 37:06 And you have been working for the NPA, 37:10 but not for God. 37:11 Now you're giving your lives to Jesus. 37:14 And you have, Robert is teaching you 37:16 to become evangelists. 37:19 Amen. 37:20 Yes. 37:21 We involve them in our training. 37:24 We conduct the training. 37:25 They use our projectors, 37:29 our materials in this ministry. 37:32 Wow. 37:33 And yes, they are very influential. 37:36 And not only when they, 37:39 after they attracted to the Lord to the church, 37:42 they even reach for their former, 37:44 you know, comrades. 37:45 Amen. 37:47 And that's the reason why we have 37:48 these so many baptisms that's happened. 37:50 Wow. 37:51 If we can just over a little bit. 37:54 Right, please have a seat here. 37:56 This is Ray, two, three years ago, we were here. 37:59 And we had gotten up at 3 o'clock in the morning. 38:03 And Kal was on the mountain with some other friends 38:06 and he was going to come down 38:08 and we were going to have a secret baptism. 38:10 But you worked for the military, 38:13 Ray's secret service. 38:14 And so he had spotted, he found out, I don't know how, 38:19 you guys do have a secret service people know 38:20 what's going on. 38:22 They have ears on the ground. 38:24 And so we would stop the car, talk on the phone, 38:27 go someplace I was talking on the phone. 38:29 And we thought we were safe. 38:31 And so but you knew what was happening. 38:35 So we went to the river, 38:37 we started walking up the river Kathy and Cami and Robert... 38:42 All the crew. The whole crew. 38:43 You were with us. 38:45 And we're walking up the river. 38:46 We got partway up the mountain and we stopped 38:48 and then it rained and rained and rain. 38:50 And then Kal, one of your secret service man, 38:56 you figured out that there were military, 38:59 Ray, down below hiding in the jungle. 39:03 And you sent word to us as Americans. 39:06 And you said, "Get out! Get out! 39:11 There's military hiding in the jungle before 39:13 and if we come down there is going to be shooting 39:15 and you Americans are going to be caught in the center." 39:17 And so I said to Kathy and Cami and Robert and Heather, 39:21 "Get out here. 39:23 Let's go" So we ran down the mountain and gotten a river 39:27 and then it started raining more 39:29 and we were going down the river 39:31 and as we are going down, we were helping Kathy 39:33 and she was floating down the river, 39:36 we're holding on to her arm. 39:38 We were muddy and wet. 39:41 We were all wet. 39:42 All wet. 39:44 But the point of this is that was then, 39:48 you were baptized Sabbath. 39:51 You were baptized Sabbath. 39:54 You were baptized Sabbath. 39:59 It's all forgiven. 40:01 Reconciliation. Amen. 40:02 I can't believe what God's doing and is doing. 40:07 Ray, thank you. 40:10 When you guys were baptized Sabbath, 40:13 it brought tears to all of our eyes 40:15 to see what God is doing, 40:16 how great the Lord is. 40:18 Robert, 40:20 this has been a highlight of my ministry. 40:22 Praise the Lord. 40:24 For 50 years I've been in the ministry. 40:26 I've never seen anything like this. 40:28 It has been a highlight for your ministry. 40:30 We have never seen anything. 40:32 This is latter rain doing, latter rain. 40:35 Yeah. And the Holy Spirit is... 40:36 A latter rain. 40:38 Is being poured out. 40:39 The Holy Spirit is being poured out, 40:40 and like never before God is blessing. 40:43 Jesus is coming soon. 40:44 Amen. 40:49 Amen. 40:51 Praise the Lord. 40:52 Jesus is coming soon. Amen. 40:53 I love what you said at the end. 40:55 This is the highlight of my ministry. 40:57 What an incredible thing to see. 40:59 The CIA and the rebel soldiers, to see them baptized, 41:02 to see them come together, to see that healing. 41:04 Yeah. So tell us about Jacob. 41:06 You talked about Jacob. Okay. 41:08 Jacob's mother is Jean. 41:09 I just baptized her. Okay. 41:11 And we have a little picture of them. 41:13 But it's incredible. Here they are. 41:16 This is Jacob, and this is Ray and Gina just baptized. 41:20 So we're out of the ocean. 41:22 I'm baptizing her. 41:25 Also is with us is Rose. 41:28 She's been an assassin. 41:29 Yeah. 41:31 And she's changed. 41:32 And she's standing there. 41:34 And at her feet is little Jacob. 41:37 She's taking care of Jacob 41:39 while his mother is being baptized. 41:42 Amen. Wow. 41:43 Just unbelievable. 41:46 Yeah, mother. 41:48 You know, mothers unites to this, 41:50 to trust somebody to take care of your child 41:52 who's been an assassin. 41:53 Right. 41:55 Think about it. Yeah. Yeah. 41:56 That doesn't happen in today's world. 41:57 No. Right. 41:59 That's because of the power of the Holy Spirit. 42:01 It's all God. Amen. Amen. 42:02 All God. Yeah. 42:04 It's incredible. Yeah. 42:05 We also saw an incredible story. 42:08 Duane, you and I were on the beach there in Mindoro, 42:11 and we met two gentlemen. 42:13 Similar situation, former enemies, 42:15 one had been an assassin for the rebels. 42:17 In fact, they said he was so strong, 42:19 he could carry a body on his shoulder, right Duane? 42:22 Yeah. Up and down the mountains. 42:23 With his machine gun. 42:25 With his machine gun for hours. 42:28 Wow. 42:29 And then we had one of the intelligence officers, 42:31 another CIA officer. 42:34 And there they were, literally, 42:36 we have a picture of them shaking hands, embracing. 42:38 They're at the ocean? 42:40 They're at the ocean and getting baptized 42:42 at the same time. 42:43 And you know, that story, the story of Ray, 42:45 it reminds me again, power of this message, 42:50 the power of Jesus to unite people 42:52 who are former enemies. 42:55 The text in Romans 5:10... Oh, yes. 42:58 Just have to share this one 'cause this is so powerful. 43:00 It says, "If when we were enemies, 43:02 we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son." 43:06 Former enemies being reconciled 43:08 through Jesus Christ for eternity. 43:11 And they're all Adventists now. 43:12 They're all Adventists. 43:13 Exactly. 43:15 It's so powerful. 43:16 At Saturday night, Saturday night. 43:17 No, it was... Sunday night. 43:19 Sunday night. Yes. 43:20 Something happened. They planned a party. 43:22 What happened? 43:23 Well, after Elder Wilson 43:26 and Elder McKey left to go do other baptisms 43:28 throughout the rest of the country, 43:31 and Kyle was there with me. 43:33 It was just Kyle and I. 43:35 And so they didn't want to leave. 43:37 They wanted to stay and have more preaching. 43:40 And so we had to go to the military 43:42 and get special permission to keep them 43:44 because they were going to take them back 43:45 to the mountains. 43:46 They stayed for two more days. 43:48 And Kyle preached that first night. 43:49 So Saturday night we arrived, the stage had been taken down 43:52 but they were still there. 43:53 They were all gathered around the baptismal pool. 43:55 They created a new stage, 43:57 they brought in flowers and decorated. 43:59 They rebels did 44:00 'cause they wanted the preaching to continue. 44:02 They didn't want to go home, 44:03 they still wanted to hear more. 44:04 And so we shared a message that night, 44:06 we all, actually many of our team shared testimonies, 44:08 and we shared a message about 44:09 how it doesn't matter where you've come from, 44:10 it only matters where you're going, 44:12 and how God is calling us, 44:14 and God is calling them to a bright new future. 44:16 And then that was Saturday night. 44:18 Okay. Yes. 44:20 And then there was one more night 44:21 and sadly, I left 'cause I missed Sunday night. 44:23 But Sunday night, you were still there, 44:25 Kathy and something incredible happened Sunday night? 44:28 It was incredible. 44:30 We had a presentation 44:31 that was prepared, the final sermon. 44:34 And I was the only one there, so it was going to be me. 44:39 We received a message, don't leave. 44:43 After the meeting, 44:45 we have prepared a special program. 44:47 The rebels have prepared a special program. 44:49 Secret, they didn't tell us or we've stayed. 44:51 They didn't tell us. 44:52 Right. They didn't tell us. 44:54 And so afterwards, it was just incredible, 44:59 because there's hundreds of them around the pool. 45:03 And it was so well organized. 45:05 They started by telling us that they had made, 45:08 they had organized as a group, 45:09 because you know, we didn't think about it. 45:11 But because they were in all these other camps 45:13 in the mountains, 45:15 many of them had never actually met. 45:17 This was a time of fellowship and meeting people 45:19 they communicated with, 45:20 but never actually met. 45:22 And so they organized a foundation, 45:25 they elected officers, and Rose is the new president. 45:29 Oh, wow. 45:31 Pastor Kyle had talked about, don't let the past define you. 45:35 Elder Wilson had said, we've all been rebels, 45:39 but because today you're getting baptized, 45:41 you're new creatures in Christ. 45:42 Amen. 45:44 So as part of this presentation, 45:46 they told us we've met 45:48 and we don't want the past to define us. 45:52 We don't want to be known as FRs 45:54 because that's what the military calls them FRs, 45:56 there were signs where they said former rebels. 46:00 We don't want to be known as former rebels. 46:02 We want to be known as FRs, 46:05 and it now stands for fully reconciled. 46:08 Oh, I love that. 46:10 Fully reconciled. Fully reconciled. 46:12 Amen. Yeah. 46:14 Amen. 46:15 And so, earlier that day, 46:16 we'd had a little impromptu medi-clinic. 46:18 A medical clinic, yes. 46:19 Because we had one doctor remaining. 46:21 And we noticed they were little cuddles, 46:23 little groups playing their guitars. 46:25 And what they were doing was rehearsing, 46:27 because there were something like 46:28 17 different camps or groups. 46:31 And each one did a program. 46:32 There were three parts. 46:34 They composed their own song 46:36 that talked about their experience. 46:39 And we were hearing the translations 46:41 and there were so many beautiful things. 46:43 One of the songs was for breakfast 46:46 we ate dew from the grass, 46:48 for lunch, we searched for coconut, 46:52 for dinner, we go to sleep. 46:54 Praise God. 46:56 We don't have to live like this anymore. 46:59 It was amazing. 47:01 And then they elected a spokesperson 47:03 who talked about the group, 47:05 how God had changed their lives and their commitment. 47:08 It was incredible. 47:10 And in the middle of this, 47:11 and I think Duane is going to talk about this 47:13 after we talk about rebel night. 47:16 Someone came to the microphone and said, 47:20 "I did not get baptized. 47:21 I did not believe in this. 47:23 I did not... I wasn't sure this was real. 47:26 So I came to watch. 47:29 But what's happened this week has changed my life. 47:33 And I'm making a commitment tonight 47:35 in front of all of you, 47:36 I will be baptized." 47:37 Amen. Amen. 47:39 So he was one of the holdouts that have not surrendered. 47:43 So after each group gave their presentation, 47:46 suddenly they turned out all the lights, 47:48 and they started passing candles, 47:51 one candle after another, hundreds of candles. 47:55 They turned off the lights 47:57 and they sang hymns, and they prayed. 48:00 And then they turned on the lights 48:02 and called us all up. 48:04 The first row stands 48:06 and one by one every single rebel, 48:09 every single member, 48:11 even the little children came 48:13 and gave each one of us a flower and touched us, 48:17 grabbed our hands. 48:19 Many of them don't speak English, 48:20 but they learned enough to say thank you for coming. 48:24 Thank you for bringing Jesus. 48:25 Thank you for AWR. 48:27 Thank you for coming. 48:28 Thank you for Elder Wilson coming. 48:30 Thank you for Elder McKey. 48:32 They thanked us individually, and we were all in tears. 48:34 I mean, we were all in tears. 48:36 But there was one final surprise, 48:38 and that was they said we've made a commitment 48:42 that we are each one going to win one. 48:45 Amen. 48:47 Each one is going to win one. 48:48 Each one reach one. 48:50 Each one reach one. 48:51 Each one win one. 48:52 And we're going to come back. 48:54 And we're going to meet again 48:56 like this before the end of the year. 48:57 We're going to bring people for Jesus. 48:59 Amen. 49:01 We have a video of this, right? 49:02 We do have a video of the rebel's night. 49:04 Let's go to that video right now. 49:05 Yes. 49:08 What are we seeing here? 49:10 Okay, so here's the scenario around the pool. 49:13 There's a hundreds of rebels, 49:15 and they're giving their presentation. 49:18 And it was just, it was amazing. 49:20 It was amazing. 49:22 And this is where they're theming. 49:25 They created a theme song. 49:26 They're talking about the theme song. 49:27 They're giving their different musical numbers 49:30 when each group presented. 49:31 Here's an example of the speakers 49:33 from various groups giving their presentation. 49:36 And then this is, yes, 49:41 this might be the guy I can't remember who said, 49:44 "I'm going to be next." 49:45 Wow. It was incredible. 49:47 So the different speakers 49:48 from each of the different 17 communities. 49:51 And then they after this was finished, 49:55 you'll see the candle lights, the lighting of the candles. 49:59 And it was beautiful because it started on one side, 50:01 and then everyone passed their light to the next person. 50:04 It is beautiful. It is incredible. 50:07 Yeah. Wow. 50:08 I love that I will go. 50:09 I will go. 50:11 They all wore the I will go shirts. 50:13 They were so proud. 50:15 And then the next thing you'll see... 50:18 That's beautiful. It is incredible. 50:21 Think about reconciliation. Yes. 50:24 Forever reconciled, the FR. Yes, forever. 50:26 Here they are coming up and giving us the flowers, 50:29 one by one, every single person personally thanking us. 50:35 We were all in tears. 50:36 It was one of the most... 50:38 I couldn't sleep all night 50:40 because I'm thinking we got home at midnight. 50:43 How am I going to tell the others, 50:45 because this was for the church. 50:47 This was for Adventist World Radio, 50:48 it was for Elder Wilson and they missed it. 50:50 So I couldn't sleep. I was so excited. 50:52 I was really upset 50:54 when I missed it, I'll be honest. 50:55 I don't blame you. 50:57 He had just left three hours before. 51:00 But what a powerful testimony. 51:02 You know, it wasn't just a flash in the pan. 51:05 There's things we want people to know. 51:06 This is real changed lives. 51:08 Yes. That's right. 51:09 And we are seeing the outpouring 51:11 of the Holy Spirit in these last days. 51:13 And I believe, with all my heart, Jill, 51:15 that this is only the beginning. 51:17 Amen. 51:18 You've said this before, Duane, I've heard you, 51:19 you know, as we're going around the world 51:21 Adventist World Radio televise these meetings, 51:23 the Holy Spirit is being poured out. 51:24 This is only the beginning. 51:26 God is going to do even bigger things 51:27 in the days ahead. 51:28 God can do exceedingly, abundantly 51:30 above all that we ask or think. 51:32 We're right at the end of this program. 51:34 I cannot believe the time has gone so quickly. 51:37 What a miracle. Amen. 51:38 From terrorist to Adventist, seeing the miracle 51:41 and the healing and the reconciliation. 51:44 We want to put up the contact information 51:47 for AWR in just a moment. 51:49 But first before we do that, 51:51 I know 3ABN believes in the ministry of AWR. 51:54 We are thrilled to be partnering together, 51:57 to be able to do that. 51:58 But talk to us about some of your needs? 52:01 Okay. What do you need at AWR? 52:03 It's obvious right now, this one project, 52:06 we, actually tonight, tonight in the Philippines, 52:10 these FRs are all across the hills 52:14 holding evangelistic meetings. 52:16 Amen. 52:17 We have given them video projectors, 52:18 they have the sermons, 52:20 and they're out in the mountains there 52:22 holding meetings. 52:23 Amazing. Holding meetings. 52:25 And then the thrilling thing is, 52:29 as we have talked with the FRs, 52:31 with Robert Dulay, and the rest of our team there, 52:34 they're saying, okay, 52:36 all the rebels now are having meetings. 52:39 They've gone back into the mountains. 52:40 Actually, there are 70 villages. 52:43 Wow. Robert said 70 villages. 52:46 They have a problem though. 52:48 The meetings will go on, they'll do evangelism. 52:50 They'll continue with that, but they have a problem. 52:55 Where do you have church on Sabbath? 52:58 Well, if it's not rainy, and it's not too hot, 53:02 you can go out under mango trees, 53:06 and have church. 53:08 But there somehow, 53:10 you know, if you just had something 53:11 so we can put up, there'll be order. 53:14 They need the sheet metal, 53:16 they need the post and everything 53:18 for about $5,000... 53:20 A church? A church. 53:22 So $5,000 a church Five thousand, church, 53:24 and I said to Kathy, "Let's do one." 53:26 And she says... "Let's do two." 53:28 "Two." 53:30 I love it. We can do that. 53:32 It's not much. I love it. 53:33 It's not much, you know, maybe, 53:35 I said to our kids for our Christmas, 53:39 "We're going to be out." 53:41 I said, we've done this in India, 53:42 that we can do this in the Philippines. 53:45 That's incredible. Amen. 53:46 And we'll put your name on. They said, "Really?" 53:48 I said, "Yeah, up in the mountains 53:50 there in Mindoro 53:52 we'll put our name up there." 53:53 Amen. You know our kids back... 53:54 Wow. Yeah, and the church. 53:57 So we will put up two churches. Amen. 53:58 And so churches, that's the biggest right now? 54:00 Churches? Churches. 54:01 Right. Absolutely. 54:03 Okay, Duane, you've convicted me, 54:04 I'm going to say it on this live, I'm going to do one. 54:05 Yes. Amen. 54:07 Me too. Me too. Amen. 54:08 And I want to challenge everybody 54:09 who's listening tonight. 54:11 That's right. 54:12 Maybe there's somebody out there you say the Lord is, 54:14 you've been impressed by this incredible testimony 54:15 and the Lord is speaking to your heart. 54:16 You want to help build a church for these rebels 54:18 who are now fully, 54:19 they're no longer rebels, they're fully reconciled. 54:20 Amen. 54:22 I love that. 54:23 Okay, so what we're going to do right now 54:25 is put up the contact information for AWR 54:27 and 3ABN is going to build a church too. 54:30 Amen. So I was gonna say that. 54:31 I was just thinking talk about them. 54:33 We want you at home, our 3ABN audience, 54:36 who are movers and shakers, 54:37 I hope tonight you have been encouraged. 54:39 I hope tonight you have been inspired. 54:41 I hope tonight you have realized what God can do, 54:44 still do, the miracles He can perform 54:47 in people's hearts and lives. 54:49 So here's the way that you can contact AWR 54:53 and become involved in this exciting mission opportunity. 54:56 Amen. 54:59 If you would like more information 55:01 about Adventist World Radio, 55:03 you can write to them at 12501, 55:06 Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, 55:09 Maryland 20904. 55:12 You can call them at (301) 680-6304. 55:17 That's (301) 680-6304. 55:22 Their website is awr.org 55:27 Or you can email them at 55:28 info@awr.org 55:33 Contact them today, they'd love to hear from you. 55:43 If you were not able to get AWR's contact information 55:46 for whatever reason, 55:47 you can always contact us here, 55:49 and we would be delighted to put you in touch with AWR. 55:52 We're right at the end of our program. 55:54 Pastor Kyle, do you have a closing thought? 55:56 Well, just was thinking, 55:57 you know, as we've looked at these incredible stories today 55:59 about these former rebels now fully reconciled, 56:03 and we've seen how their lives literally 56:05 were changed completely. 56:07 It reminds me that God is able to do that for each one of us. 56:11 You know, we may not have been rebels in the Philippines 56:13 but we're all rebels. 56:15 We've all been sinners. 56:16 And God says here in Romans 5:8, 56:18 "God demonstrates His own love toward us, 56:20 and that while we were still sinners 56:22 Christ died for us." 56:23 Amen. Amen. Elder McKey? 56:24 Amen. Thank you so much. 56:27 Jill, it's a joy to be here with you. 56:29 AWR is probably not quite as exciting, 56:34 but we do deal with rebels around the world, assassins, 56:38 we have down in Central America and Colombia, 56:41 different places on the Amazon River, we see, 56:44 we're seeing incredible things happen when the assassins, 56:47 drug lords are laying down their guns and we see this, 56:50 we're going to see the same thing. 56:52 We do see the same thing in Mindanao. 56:53 We see it in Bangladesh, we're seeing it in the Israel, 56:56 and I can't tell you some of those stories. 56:58 But it's just amazing what God is doing. 57:01 One of the reasons I didn't know this, actually, 57:03 I said, I learned that when we hired Kyle, 57:07 God is able to do exceedingly, 57:09 abundantly above all that we ask or think. 57:11 That's his favorite text too as well as my mine. 57:12 Amen. I love that. 57:14 And now it's yours. Amen. 57:17 Elder McKey, my sister Kathy, my sister Kathy, 57:21 and Elder Kyle, 57:22 thank you all so much for being here. 57:24 Thank you for your heart for ministry. 57:26 The Ministry of AWR is incredible, reaching lives. 57:30 I love your slogan, from broadcast to baptism. 57:33 I love that. 57:35 So we just want to encourage you tonight. 57:37 Get involved in ministry, get involved in evangelism, 57:41 it will change your life. |
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