[MUSIC] [MUSIC] 00:00:21.32\00:00:21.98 >> I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE FIXING BROKEN 00:00:21.98\00:00:24.89 PEOPLE. I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE 00:00:24.89\00:00:26.42 REMOVING PAIN. LORD, LET MY WORDS I 00:00:26.42\00:00:45.84 WANT TO SPEND PIPE LIFE MENDING BROKEN PEOPLES. 00:00:45.84\00:01:11.77 >> HELLO, AND WELL KMENT TO ANOTHER 3ABN TODAY LIVE. 00:01:11.77\00:01:13.27 MY NAME IS CA MURRAY, AND ALLOW ME ONCE AGAIN TO THANK YOU FOR 00:01:13.27\00:01:16.37 SHARING JUST A LITTLE OF YOUR NO DOUBT BUSY DAY WITH US. 00:01:16.37\00:01:20.18 THANK YOU FOR YOUR, LOVE YOUR PRAYERS, YOUR SUPPORT -F OF THIS 00:01:20.18\00:01:26.15 MINISTRY FOR ALL THESE 32 + YEARS. 00:01:26.15\00:01:27.82 WE ARE JOINED TOGETHER, PARTNERED TOGETHER, TO LIFT UP 00:01:27.82\00:01:31.15 THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS AND TO TAKE HIS GOSPEL TO THE END OF 00:01:31.15\00:01:34.99 THE EARTH. >> ALSO THANK YOU FROM THE 00:01:34.99\00:01:36.73 BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS. WHEN WE SAY THAT, THOSE ARE NOT 00:01:36.73\00:01:40.66 JUST WORDS THAT COME FROM OUR LIPS, THEY COME STRAIGHT 00:01:40.66\00:01:43.16 FROM-OUR HEARTS. WE REALIZE WE COULD NOT DO WHAT WE'RE CALLED 00:01:43.16\00:01:48.64 TO DO WITHOUT YOUR PARTNERSHIP. I'M IN THE COMPANY OF MY FRIEND 00:01:48.64\00:01:50.24 OF SO MANY, MANY YEARS. >> DON'T SAY OLD. 00:01:50.24\00:01:53.27 >> NO, I WON'T SAY OLD [LAUGHTER] 00:01:53.27\00:01:57.21 A FRIEND OF LONG STANDING, A FRIEND OF A LONG TIME. 00:01:57.21\00:01:59.65 >> THAT'S GOOD. >> DEAR FRIEND, BUT NOT OLD 00:01:59.65\00:02:01.78 FRIEND. >> OKAY, GOOD, GOOD. 00:02:01.78\00:02:04.49 >> YVONNE LEWIS, GOOD TO HAVE YOU HERE. 00:02:04.49\00:02:08.52 >> IT IS SO GREAT TO BE HERE. >> YOU'RE BACK IN 1980 - - .->> 00:02:08.52\00:02:22.17 THAT'S 1986. >> IT'S GREAT TO BE HERE. >> LET'S INTRODUCE TH REST 00:02:22.17\00:02:24.37 OF THE FAMILY. OUR FOUNDER AND FRIEND, MINISTER 00:02:24.37\00:02:29.88 MR. DANNY SHELTON. >> I'M NOT USED TO THIS 00:02:29.88\00:02:32.28 PARTICULAR SEAT. >> Danny Shelton: SO I DON'T 00:02:32.28\00:02:33.58 KNOW HOW I WILL ACT SO WE'LL SEE HERE TONIGHT. 00:02:33.58\00:02:35.48 A LITTLE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE, BUT I LIKE WHAT I'M SEEING. 00:02:35.48\00:02:49.80 >> HOSTED MR. SHELTON ALL OVER THE LOOK. 00:02:49.80\00:02:52.10 >> Danny Shelton: CA MURRAY IS A GOOD DRIVER BECAUSE HE CAN COME 00:02:52.10\00:02:54.64 WITHIN INCHES JUST LIKE YOU'RE IN LONDON YOUR AS GOOD AS THE 00:02:54.64\00:02:59.21 TAXI DRIVERS WEAVING IN AND OUTS OF TRAFFIC. MIKE, IT SEEMED 00:02:59.21\00:03:02.71 LIKE YOU WERE INCHES BETWEEN VEHICLES BUT YOU MADE IT ALL THE 00:03:02.71\00:03:05.28 WAY THROUGH AND TOOK US TO THE CHURCHES, BROUGHT US BACK 00:03:05.28\00:03:09.52 SAFELY. >> SOMETIMES IT'S PARTICIPATE 00:03:09.52\00:03:11.82 TIGHT. >> HE'S A GOOD DRIVER. 00:03:11.82\00:03:13.86 >> YES. >> YOU HAVE TO DRIVE LIKE YOU 00:03:13.86\00:03:15.02 DON'T CARE. >> YOU DO. 00:03:15.02\00:03:16.89 >> DRIVE LIKE YOU CARE MR. MARK CARDUCCI, HE IS COMING OUT 00:03:16.89\00:03:28.14 MINISTRIES. >> YES, UH-HUH. 00:03:28.14\00:03:29.07 >> WE'RE GOING TO TALK A LITTE BIT ABOUT THAT BECAUSE YOU'RE 00:03:29.07\00:03:31.67 HERE FOR A SPECIAL PURPOSE, SOMETHING SPECIAL TO TALK ABOUT. 00:03:31.67\00:03:33.71 AND THEN ON THE END, CERTAINLY NOT LAST, SHELLEY QUINN. 00:03:33.71\00:03:41.32 >> IT SEEMS LIKE WE'VE BEEN ON CAMERA TODAY ALL DAY TOGETHER. 00:03:41.32\00:03:46.79 >> WE'VE BEEN TAPING PROGRAMS FOR THE LAST TWO DAYS. 00:03:46.79\00:03:50.23 >> THE SCHOOL PANEL. >> WE GET GREAT RESPONSES. 00:03:50.23\00:03:59.63 >> IT IS FUN TO, AS SHELLEY WILL ATTEST, BUT IT IS WORK. 00:03:59.63\00:04:03.84 FOUR PROGRAMS A DAY, ONE HOUR, TRYING TO CONDENSE ALL YOU 00:04:03.84\00:04:07.84 STUDIED INTO TEN MINUTES PER SEGMENT. 00:04:07.84\00:04:10.28 THAT'S LOT OF WORK, BUT IT'S FUN. IF IS FUN 00:04:10.28\00:04:12.81 >> IN THIS QUARTER, THE THIRD QUARTER IS GOING TO BE ON THE 00:04:12.81\00:04:16.55 GOSPEL IN GALATIANS IT'S LU ABOUT RIGHTEOUSNESS AND 00:04:16.55\00:04:20.36 SALVATION BY FAITH AND CHRIST ALONE. 00:04:20.36\00:04:22.36 >> WOW. >> SO IT IS WONDERFUL. 00:04:22.36\00:04:23.69 >> IT IS A WONDERFUL STUDY INDEED. 00:04:23.69\00:04:26.49 THIS IS A VERY SPECIAL 3ABN, I GUESS WE COULD CALL THIS TODAY 00:04:26.49\00:04:31.60 LIVE WORLD VIEW BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO BE TAKING A LOOK AT A 00:04:31.60\00:04:34.24 LOT OF THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING, THAT ARE AFFECTING THE CHURCH, 00:04:34.24\00:04:38.24 AFFECTING AND I LIKE THE IDEA, YVONNE, THAT EVERY NOW AND AGAIN 00:04:38.24\00:04:41.78 WE CAN SORT OF PULL THE MASK BACK NO SO MUCH BEHIND THE 00:04:41.78\00:04:46.75 SCENES ON 3ABN, BUT OUR VIEW OF THE WORLD, THE BIBLE VIEW OF THE 00:04:46.75\00:04:50.29 WORLD, THE CHURCH'S VIEW OF THE WORLD, WE ARE CALLED TO BE SOFT 00:04:50.29\00:04:54.99 AND LIGHT IN THE WORLD. >> SO TRUE, THERE'S SO MUCH 00:04:54.99\00:05:04.53 GOING ON IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW AND WE HAVE BEEN CALLED TO 00:05:04.53\00:05:07.97 COUNTER ACT THE COUNTERFEIT AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE 00:05:07.97\00:05:14.44 DOING TONIGHT. THERE IS JUST THIS TENDENCY TO 00:05:14.44\00:05:16.75 GO ALONG AND GET ALONG, BUT 3ABN DOESN'T DO THAT. 00:05:16.75\00:05:20.62 AND DANNY SHELTON DOESN'T DO THAT. 00:05:20.62\00:05:25.99 SO THIS IS REALLY TO FOCUS ON WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD AND 00:05:25.99\00:05:28.72 HOW IT EITHER CORRESPONDS OR CONTRADICTS DIFFICULT PRINCIPLES 00:05:28.72\00:05:32.89 AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOIG TO BE DEALING WITH. 00:05:32.89\00:05:37.80 >> Yvonne Lewis: SOME VERY HEAVY AND YET NECESSARY INFORMATION 00:05:37.80\00:05:40.24 BECAUSE NOBODY'S DOING IT. NOBODY WANTS TO TOUCH IT. 00:05:40.24\00:05:44.31 IT'S A HOT POTATO. >> CA Murray: YES. 00:05:44.31\00:05:49.91 >> Yvonne Lewis: NOBODY WANTS TO TOUCH IT, BUT PRAISE THE LORD. 00:05:49.91\00:05:52.05 THE LORD HAS LAID ON DANNY'S HEART TO DEAL WITH THESE ISSUES 00:05:52.05\00:05:56.12 AND THAT HE DOES. >> CA Murray: YES. 00:05:56.12\00:05:58.72 THE BIBLE HAS ENJOINED US TO SPEAK THE TRUTH IN LOVE, BUT, 00:05:58.72\00:06:02.56 UH, IN LOVE SPEAK THE TRUTH. >> Yvonne Lewis: THAT'S RIGHT, 00:06:02.56\00:06:05.76 THAT'S RIGHT. >> CA Murray: AND THAT'S WHAT 00:06:05.76\00:06:07.30 WE'RE ATTEMPTING TO DO. ONE OF THE THINGS WE'LL TALK 00:06:07.30\00:06:10.63 ABOUT IS THE NEW BOOK THAT MR. SHELTON HAS BEEN BLESSED TO 00:06:10.63\00:06:14.27 LIGHT. THEN MIKE HERE IS HERE FOR A 00:06:14.27\00:06:16.00 VERY SPECIAL READING BECAUSE WE SEE WHAT WE COULD CALL A CLEAR 00:06:16.00\00:06:19.37 AND PRESENT DANGER IN THE WORLD THAT WE'VE GOT TO ADDRESS.-SHELLEY'S GOT SOME 00:06:19.37\00:06:24.95 SPECIAL THINGS TO TALK ABOUT. THIS IS A PROGRAM YOU WANT TO 00:06:24.95\00:06:28.12 GIVE EAR TO BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO COVER A LOT OF SUBJECTS EACH 00:06:28.12\00:06:31.65 IN ITS OWN WAY VERY PERTINENT, VERY IMPORTANT FOR SPIRITUAL 00:06:31.65\00:06:36.32 LIFE, SPIRITUAL GROWTH, FOR YOUR VIEW OF THE WORLD, AND WE NEED 00:06:36.32\00:06:39.69 TO BE ON THE SAME PAGE SERVING THE SAME GOD, DOING WHAT WE CAN 00:06:39.69\00:06:43.47 TO LIFT UP THE NAME OF JESUS AND SOMETIMES THAT MEANS SWIMMING UP 00:06:43.47\00:06:47.00 STREAM. GOING AGAINST WHAT MAY BE THE 00:06:47.00\00:06:49.44 PREVAILING NORMS, BUT AS LONG AS YOU'RE ON THE LORD'S SIDE, GOD + 00:06:49.44\00:06:53.48 1 IS A MAJORITY SO YOU NEED NOT FEAR. 00:06:53.48\00:06:57.35 >> Yvonne Lewis: AMEN, AMEN, AMEN. 00:06:57.35\00:06:59.05 SO, LET'S TALK, DANNY, ABOUT THIS BOOK THAT YOU'VE WRITTEN. 00:06:59.05\00:07:02.25 BECAUSE I'VE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO READ IT MORE THAN ONCE. 00:07:02.25\00:07:07.42 >> Danny Shelton: SHE'S MY EDITOR. 00:07:07.42\00:07:11.39 SHE AND BOBBY DAVIS DID THE FIRST CHAPTER. 00:07:11.39\00:07:13.90 ANYBODY WITH EYES SAID I THINK I SEE SOMETHING, HERE'S THE 00:07:13.90\00:07:17.50 MANUSCRIPT, WE'LL TAKE THIS DOWN TO ABOUT A FIVE AND A HALF BY 00:07:17.50\00:07:20.74 EIGHT AND A HALF SIZE. SO IT'S KNOWING TO BE SIMILAR TO 00:07:20.74\00:07:28.54 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS TWICE REMOVED BOOK BUT WE CALL IT 00:07:28.54\00:07:33.72 SPIRITUAL VIGILANT ES. >> Yvonne Lewis: WHERE DID THAT 00:07:33.72\00:07:38.19 NAME COME FROM? >> Danny Shelton: I WAS 00:07:38.19\00:07:41.22 WATCHING, AS MOST OF US HERE IN AMERICA, FOR SURE, AND UCH I 00:07:41.22\00:07:43.79 GUESS AROUND THE WORLD, UM, IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS AS WE 00:07:43.79\00:07:48.03 STARTED HEADING TOWARDS THE ELECTIONS OF A NEW PRESIDENT. 00:07:48.03\00:07:53.94 YOU HAVE THIS SIDE VERSUS THAT SIDE AND I WAS SO AMAZED THAT 00:07:53.94\00:07:57.61 CHRISTIANS GET IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THIS POLITICAL STUFF AND SAY-I'M A DEMOCRAT. 00:07:57.61\00:08:03.88 SOME GOING FROM THE SAME CHURCH, PENTECOSTAL SAYING I'M CATHOLIC, 00:08:03.88\00:08:09.62 I'M REPUBLICAN, I'M DEMOCRAT. I WAS AMAZED FIRST OF ALL, YOU 00:08:09.62\00:08:13.05 AND I SPENT A LOT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT THAT YVONNE, CA, 00:08:13.05\00:08:17.73 SHELLEY, ALL OF US IS HOW DO WE GET IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS, AND 00:08:17.73\00:08:21.33 WRAP MYSELF UP TO SAY I'M A DEMOCRAT. 00:08:21.33\00:08:23.10 OR I'M A REPUBLICAN. UM, SOMEBODY SAID WHAT PARTY DO 00:08:23.10\00:08:27.10 YOU BELONG TO? I SAID PART OF THE JESUS PARTY, 00:08:27.10\00:08:30.07 IT'S THE ONLY ONE THAT WILL LAST. 00:08:30.07\00:08:33.68 >> CA Murray: AMEN. >> Danny Shelton: BUT WE CAN'T - 00:08:33.68\00:08:35.31 - WHAT I SEE IS THE DEVIL IS A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF 00:08:35.31\00:08:40.08 CAN'T STAND, RIGHT? SO THE DEVIL HAS COME INTO TH 00:08:40.08\00:08:46.19 CHURCH, INTO THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IT'S AMAZING. 00:08:46.19\00:08:50.79 PEOPLE THAT YOU WOULD NEVER HEAR FROM BEFORE ARE GETTING ON 00:08:50.79\00:08:54.23 ARGUING AND I'VE HEARD CHRISTIANS, EVEN SOME THE SAME 00:08:54.23\00:08:59.57 DENOMINATION MYSELF OTHERS, BUT ARGUING AND HAVING WORD BATTLES 00:08:59.57\00:09:10.31 ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER, ON SOCIAL MEDIA THAT ANYBODY CAN 00:09:10.31\00:09:12.88 READ, THE PUBLIC CAN READ. I'M LIKE WHAT IS WRONG WITH 00:09:12.88\00:09:16.28 THESE FOLK? THIS ONE LOVES THIS CANDIDATE, 00:09:16.28\00:09:18.59 THIS ONE LOVES THIS ONE. WE VOTE FOR THIS ONE, AND IF YOU 00:09:18.59\00:09:21.69 VOTE FOR THAT ONE YOU KNOW YOU SHOULDN'T VOTE FOR THIS. 00:09:21.69\00:09:24.36 I WAS AMAZE SAID BY ALL OF THAT AND SO I BEGAN TO LOOK AT THE 00:09:24.36\00:09:34.70 CURRENT EVENTS. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE ISSUES 00:09:34.70\00:09:38.34 PRESENTED. I THOUGHT ABOUT WHEN I WAS A CHILD, SOME OF US 00:09:38.34\00:09:41.34 PRETEND WE'RE NOT THAT AGE, BUT WHEN WE GREW UP, WE GREW UP WHEN 00:09:41.34\00:09:44.95 I GREW UP, THERE WAS I LOVE LUCY AND LEAVE IT TO BEAVER ON 00:09:44.95\00:09:50.45 TELEVISION >> NOW YOU LOOK AT MODERN FAMILY 00:09:50.45\00:09:56.76 AND ALL THESE THINGS THAT TALK ABOUT HOMOSEXUAL LIFESTYLE, 00:09:56.76\00:10:02.00 THEY'RE SO LIBERAL, THAT OUR YOUNG PEOPLE EVEN WITHIN OUR 00:10:02.00\00:10:05.43 CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS OUR ACADEMIES AND UNIVERSITIES AND THROUGH 00:10:05.43\00:10:08.00 FACEBOOK AND SOCIAL MEDIA ARE BEING BOMBARDED THAT'S ALL THESE 00:10:08.00\00:10:11.67 THINGS ARE OKAY. AND SO AS I BEGAN TO LOO AT 00:10:11.67\00:10:15.01 THESE THINGS, I SAID YOU KNOW WHAT, IT'S AMAZING TO ME HOW 00:10:15.01\00:10:20.65 QUICKLY ABOUT PROBABLY IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN 30 OR 40 YEARS AGO JOE 00:10:20.65\00:10:24.75 WROTE A BOOK CALLED CREEPING COMPROMISE. 00:10:24.75\00:10:27.19 TODAY WE HAVE TO SAY RAPID COMPROMISE BECAUSE IT'S 00:10:27.19\00:10:30.13 LITERALLY BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS AS I BEGAN TO SEE WHAT WAS 00:10:30.13\00:10:35.83 HAPPENING WITH, YOU KNOW, FOR SO MANY YEARS WE TEACH AND KEEP ALL 00:10:35.83\00:10:41.07 THE COMMANDMENTS. WHAT I'M FINDING OUT IS THERE'S 00:10:41.07\00:10:49.38 OTHER ONES PEOPLE FORGET. I'M TALKING ABOUT ANY 00:10:49.38\00:10:53.38 DENOMINATION, INCLUDING MY OWN AND SOME OF THE OTHERS I 00:10:53.38\00:10:56.02 MENTIONED. THERE ARE PEOPLE, FOR INSTANCE, 00:10:56.02\00:10:57.49 WHO ARE SAYING WE THINK SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IS OKAY. 00:10:57.49\00:11:01.02 AND THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH IT. 00:11:01.02\00:11:02.92 ABORTION IS OKAY. THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH IT. 00:11:02.92\00:11:05.69 PEOPLE SAY THAT'S A POLITICAL TOPIC, YOU SHOULDN'T TALK ABOUT 00:11:05.69\00:11:08.50 IT. NO, IT ISN'T, IT'S A BIBLICAL 00:11:08.50\00:11:13.44 TOPIC. WE CAN TALK ABOUT THOSE THINGS 00:11:13.44\00:11:14.97 BECAUSE TO ME WE HAVE 10 COMMANDMENTS, WE DIDN'T GET TO 00:11:14.97\00:11:18.44 PICK AND CHOOSE, AND SO FOR US SOME OF US SEVENTH DAY 00:11:18.44\00:11:27.75 CHRISTIANS WE'RE TEACHING THE WORLD YOU HAVE TO KEEP ALL TEN. 00:11:27.75\00:11:30.42 THERE'S SOME OF US SAYING I THINK SAME-SEX MARRIAGE OR 00:11:30.42\00:11:34.32 ABORTION THESE THINGS SOME OF THESE OTHER CANDIDATES, I VOTE 00:11:34.32\00:11:37.56 FOR THEM BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE WHAT THE OTHER CANDIDATES TO. 00:11:37.56\00:11:40.30 SO MY THING IS TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT. 00:11:40.30\00:11:44.20 IF YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT EITHER OF THEM DO, DON'T VOTE FOR THEM. 00:11:44.20\00:11:47.20 IT'S LIKE YOU'RE ENDORSING WHAT YOU DO. 00:11:47.20\00:11:49.70 I GOT TO THINKING ABOUT IT, WHAT A PHYSICAL VIGILANTE IS. 00:11:49.70\00:11:54.01 A VIGILANTE IS SOMEONE WHO TAKES THE LAW INTO THEIR OWN HANDS. 00:11:54.01\00:12:00.75 AND SOMETIMES IT'S EVEN PEOPLE THAT WEAR A BADGE THAT SAY YOU 00:12:00.75\00:12:06.15 KNOW WHAT THESE CRIMINALS, THESE THUGS, THEY KEEP GETTING AWAY 00:12:06.15\00:12:12.93 WITH THESE CRIMES THEY'RE OUT HERE GIVING DRUGS TO OUR KIDS 00:12:12.93\00:12:16.93 THEY TAKE THE LAW INTO THEIR OWN HANDS AND ACTUALLY BEDOM JUDGE, 00:12:16.93\00:12:20.57 JURY, AND EXECUTIONER, CA. AND SOMETIMES KILL THESE PEOPLE. 00:12:20.57\00:12:26.74 THAT'S A VIGILANTE. SOMETIMES THAT'S EVEN RELIGIOUS 00:12:26.74\00:12:35.02 LEADERS RELIGIOUS LEADERS TRY TO SET THEMSELVES IN PLACE OF GOD 00:12:35.02\00:12:43.29 TO SAY YOU KNOW WHAT, THIS COMMANDMENT, THAT DOESN'T APPLY 00:12:43.29\00:12:49.20 ANYMORE. THIS COMMANDMENT DOESN'T REALLY 00:12:49.20\00:12:50.43 MEAN WHAT YOU THINK IT MEANS. IT'S DIFFERENT NOW. 00:12:50.43\00:13:09.28 >> CA Murray: IT'S INTERESTING THAT THAT TITLE IS REFLECTIVE OF 00:13:09.28\00:13:12.22 A TIME ORIGINALLY THE VIGILIST WAS A PERSON IN ANCIENT ROMAN 00:13:12.22\00:13:18.49 TIMES WHO WAS ASSIGNED TO KEEP WATCH OVER THE CITY, WATCH FOR 00:13:18.49\00:13:21.10 FIRES, WATCH FOR RUN AWAY SLAVES. 00:13:21.10\00:13:24.57 THEY JUST KEPT WATCH OVER THE CITY. 00:13:24.57\00:13:28.97 BUT IT HAS MORPHED THE IDEA TO NOW THAT IT'S SOMEONE WHO WANTS 00:13:28.97\00:13:32.67 TO TAKE SOMETHING INTO THEIR OWN HANDS AND CHANGE THAT. 00:13:32.67\00:13:35.88 IT'S AN APT TITLE BECAUSE YOU HAVE PEOPLE NOW WHO SORT OF TRY 00:13:35.88\00:13:38.61 TO TAKE IT ON THEMSELVES AND MAKE CHANGES THE BIBLE NEVER 00:13:38.61\00:13:45.19 ENDORSES. >> YOU KNOW, YOU BROUGHT UP 00:13:45.19\00:13:46.79 SOMETHING, DANNY, A FEW MINUTES AGO ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA AND ITS 00:13:46.79\00:13:51.06 IMPACT. >> Yvonne Lewis: AND WHAT WE'RE 00:13:51.06\00:13:52.79 SEEING IN SOCIETY IS THAT PEOPLE ARE GROUPING THEMSELVES TOGETHER 00:13:52.79\00:13:59.13 BASED ON THEIR OPINIONS OF WHAT'S POLITICALLY CORRECT, AND 00:13:59.13\00:14:04.07 ALL OF THIS. AND IT'S, IT'S JUST KIND OF 00:14:04.07\00:14:09.18 OVERWHELMING BECAUSE WHAT WE'VE SEEN IS THIS WHOLE TRANSITION 00:14:09.18\00:14:13.45 FROM FOCUSING ON BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES TO BEING DOMINATED BY 00:14:13.45\00:14:20.52 YOUR CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE. SO WHAT HAPPENS IS IF YOU ARE IF 00:14:20.52\00:14:25.59 YOU'RE BLACK, THEN YOU TEND TO, BECAUSE MOST BLACK PEOPLE ARE 00:14:25.59\00:14:31.27 NOT REPUBLICANS, MOST BLACKS ARE DEMOCRATS, SO YOU'RE GOING TO 00:14:31.27\00:14:34.54 TAKE ON THAT PLATFORM. WELL, AS A CHRISTIAN I DON'T 00:14:34.54\00:14:37.94 AGREE WITH ABORTION, BUT I LIKE THIS CANDIDATE BETTER THAN THE 00:14:37.94\00:14:41.08 OTHER ONE. SO I'M GOING TO VOTE FOR THEM. 00:14:41.08\00:14:46.35 OR I'M NOT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, BUT I LIE THAT 00:14:46.35\00:14:48.98 CANDIDATE BETTER SO I'M GOING TO VOTE FOR THEM. 00:14:48.98\00:14:52.82 AND THEN WHAT ENDS UP HAPPENING IS CULTURE YOUR CHRISTIANITY. 00:14:52.82\00:14:59.79 AND THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S WHAT WE SEE A LOT. 00:14:59.79\00:15:04.13 THAT CULTURE THE CHRISTIANITY. YOU HAVE TO ASK YOURSELF, WHO AM 00:15:04.13\00:15:08.04 I FIRST? WHAT AM I? 00:15:08.04\00:15:09.97 AM I FIRST BLACK, OR AM I FIRST A CHRISTIAN? 00:15:09.97\00:15:13.54 AND IT'S A TOUGH, TOUGH QUESTION. 00:15:13.54\00:15:16.75 THESE ARE SOME OF THE, YOU TOUCH ON THE WHOLE IDEA OF SAME-SEX 00:15:16.75\00:15:20.52 MARRIAGE, AND ABORTION IN THE BOOK YOU EXPLORE HOW SOCIAL 00:15:20.52\00:15:26.22 MEDIA HAS IMPACTED, YOU KNOW, SOCIETY AND ALL THAT. 00:15:26.22\00:15:30.46 IT'S A CRITICAL THING, NOBODY ELSE IS REALLY TALKING ABOUT HOW 00:15:30.46\00:15:36.40 CULTURE AND SOCIAL MEDIA AND ALL THAT PLAYS SUCH AN IMPORTANT 00:15:36.40\00:15:39.97 PART IN YOUR PERSPECTIVE, AND, AND IT'S LIKE WE'RE JUST KIND OF 00:15:39.97\00:15:46.68 OVERCOME BY IT BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO ROCK THAT BOAT. 00:15:46.68\00:15:51.85 WE DON'T WANT TO ROCK THE BOAT. I'M NOT GOING TO OFFEND YOU, 00:15:51.85\00:15:55.78 MIKE. I'M NOT GOING TO SAY ANYTHING. 00:15:55.78\00:15:57.09 I'M NOT GOING TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW I FEEL ABOUT 00:15:57.09\00:16:02.52 SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BECAUSE I MIGHT HURT YOUR FEELINGS. 00:16:02.52\00:16:07.50 >> WE'VE DEVELOPED AND I'VE SEEN IT, MIKE, IT'S POPULAR CULTURE. 00:16:07.50\00:16:11.20 IT'S POPULAR CULTURE BASED ON A CONSUMER MINDSET. 00:16:11.20\00:16:15.37 IT'S LIKE WHAT APPEALS TO MY CONSUMER MENTALITY. 00:16:15.37\00:16:18.17 I'LL GO TO THE CHURCH, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THE RIGHT 00:16:18.17\00:16:20.94 CHURCH, BUT THE PREACHER IS GOOD, THE MUSIC IS GOOD, AND I 00:16:20.94\00:16:23.58 CONSUME THAT, SO THAT'S WHERE I'M GOING TO GO. 00:16:23.58\00:16:28.25 UM, THIS CANDIDATE SPEAKS TO ME, IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER WHAT 00:16:28.25\00:16:31.75 HIS PLATFORM IS, I'M A CONSUMER. SO RATHER THAN BE 00:16:31.75\00:16:37.46 PRINCIPLE-DRIVEN WE'RE CONSUMER DRIVEN. 00:16:37.46\00:16:40.50 WITH THE INTERNET AND MEDIA YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND A POOL OF PEOPLE 00:16:40.50\00:16:43.90 WHO CAN REINFORCE YOUR MINDSET. IF YOU THINK THIS WAY, THERE'S A 00:16:43.90\00:16:47.84 LINE OF PEOPLE THAT WILL LINE-UP BEHIND YOU. 00:16:47.84\00:16:51.37 SO WE THROW AWAY PRINCIPLES IN FAVOR OF A CONSUMER MINDSET. 00:16:51.37\00:16:59.31 THAT CONSUMERISM WEAVES ITS WAY INTO EVERY PART OF OUR LIFE. 00:16:59.31\00:17:08.12 >> I THINK IT'S MANY INROADS. I DON'T THINK IT'S ONE DAY YOU 00:17:08.12\00:17:11.93 JUST ALL OF A SUD THROWN YOUR CONVICTION TO THE WIND, I THNK 00:17:11.93\00:17:14.93 WE'RE BOMBARDED BY MEDIA. YOU BROUGHT THAT UP A LITTLE 00:17:14.93\00:17:18.40 EARLIER, DANNY. IN THE 60S WE WERE BEING 00:17:18.40\00:17:21.14 PROGRAMS TO ACCEPT CERTAIN THINGS AND I THINK IT WAS SO 00:17:21.14\00:17:23.61 SUBTLE KIND OF LIKE THE FROG AND THE POT. 00:17:23.61\00:17:27.94 GAVE CHARACTERS ON TELEVISION, AND THEN WHAT THEY START DOING 00:17:27.94\00:17:30.55 IS THEY START SHOWING CHRISTIANS AS KIND OF, UM, UH, THEY'RE KIND 00:17:30.55\00:17:34.82 OF OFF OR THEY'RE, UH, SOCIALLY INEPT SO WE HAVE TO KIND OF TUCK 00:17:34.82\00:17:44.16 IN OUR VALUES. I THINK THAT SLOWLY WE LEARN TO 00:17:44.16\00:17:47.40 DO THAT AND WE'VE ALL BEEN LULLED BY THE MEDIA TO ACCEPT 00:17:47.40\00:17:50.40 THAT CHRISTIANITY IS REALLY KIND OF A HAS BEEN OR A HATED GROUP 00:17:50.40\00:17:55.37 OR, UM BASICALLY INEFFECTIVE. >> CA Murray: ONE OF THE REASONS 00:17:55.37\00:18:04.68 WE'RE GLAD THA YOU CAME HERE TONIGHT - - . 00:18:04.68\00:18:06.41 >> AND WE HAVE A NUMBER OF THINGS TO TAL ABOUT AND THE 00:18:06.41\00:18:08.38 BOOK GOES INTO SO, BUT SOMETHING THAT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT WE WANT 00:18:08.38\00:18:14.12 TO TALK ABOUT IT IS WHAT DO YOU DO? 00:18:14.12\00:18:18.99 WE TITLED THE PROGRAM WHAT IS THE CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE ON 00:18:18.99\00:18:22.70 SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. AND SO TONIGHT IS WHAT YOU SAID, 00:18:22.70\00:18:25.43 I FOUND MYSELF LAST WEEK WE WERE IN NEW YORK AND, YOU KNOW, AS A 00:18:25.43\00:18:31.37 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTST, WE TALK ABOUT THE PAPACY, THE MARK OF 00:18:31.37\00:18:38.15 THE BEAST, REVELATION, ANY OF THOSE ATTACKING GOD'S LAW, WE DO 00:18:38.15\00:18:41.95 IT, AND DO IT OPENLY. I'VE FOUND MYSELF BEING A LITTLE 00:18:41.95\00:18:45.95 HESITANT AND SAID WHY AM I HESITANT WHEN I AM TALKING TO A 00:18:45.95\00:18:48.82 GROUP OF FELLOW BELIEVERS ABOUT A SUBJECT LIKE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE 00:18:48.82\00:18:54.13 OR ABORTION. WE DON'T KNOW QUITE HOW TO DEAL 00:18:54.13\00:19:00.10 WITH THEM BECAUSE PEOPLE SAY AND WHAT'S OUT THERE NOW IS, YOU 00:19:00.10\00:19:03.37 KNOW, THIS IS SUCH A HUGE ISSUE AND NOW IT'S ALMOST POPULAR TO 00:19:03.37\00:19:10.15 COME OUT - - YOU LOOK AT HOSTS OF TELEVISION PROGRAMS, MANY OF 00:19:10.15\00:19:14.48 THOSE WHEN IT'S NEWS OR YOU'RE WATCHING A CHANNEL, A HOST OF-PROGRAMS THAT ALL GLORIFY 00:19:14.48\00:19:20.69 THIS AND MAKE IT NORMAL OR NATURAL AND THAT IT'S OKAY. 00:19:20.69\00:19:24.63 SO OUR YOUNG PEOPLE, OF COURSE, ARE GETTING AS WE SAID THEY'RE 00:19:24.63\00:19:30.90 GETTING THIS CONSTANTLY. CONSTANTLY TO THEM. 00:19:30.90\00:19:33.03 BUT REALLY, WHAT BROUGHT THIS TO MY ATTENTION WAS HOW DO WE DEAL 00:19:33.03\00:19:38.37 WITH IT? WE'RE ALL SINNERS. 00:19:38.37\00:19:44.08 SO IS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, IS HOMOSEXUALITY, IS THAT A WORSE 00:19:44.08\00:19:48.42 IS SIN THAN ANYONE WHO IS AN ADULT? 00:19:48.42\00:19:52.59 >> NO. >> IS IT WORSE THAN BEING A 00:19:52.59\00:19:54.52 THIEF? >> NO. 00:19:54.52\00:19:56.42 >> SIN IS SIN. THE BIBLE DEFINITION FOR SIN IS 00:19:56.42\00:20:00.10 WHAT? >> TRANSGRESSION OF WHAT P*. 00:20:00.10\00:20:02.93 >> TRANSGRESSION OF WHAT? >> THE LAW. 00:20:02.93\00:20:04.40 >> OR THE BREAKING OF GOD'S LAW. SO ANYTHING THAT BREAKS GOD'S 00:20:04.40\00:20:08.04 LAW, THAT'S CONSIDERED SIN. SO WE HAVE TEN COMMANDMENTS THAT 00:20:08.04\00:20:11.77 GOD GAVE US. THE FIRST FOUR ARE OUR DUTIES TO 00:20:11.77\00:20:14.81 GOD AND OUR LAST SIX ARE OUR DUTIES TO MAN. 00:20:14.81\00:20:21.62 AND YET, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK 00:20:21.62\00:20:24.12 WE'RE A CHRISTIAN NATION.-ACTUALLY, WE'RE NOT. BUT OUR FOUNDING FATHERS AND WE 00:20:24.12\00:20:28.42 GO INTO THIS IN A LOT OF DETAILS AND I DID A LOT OF HOMEWORK THIS 00:20:28.42\00:20:33.36 TIME AND STUDIED A LOT - - I'M NOT SAYING ALWAYS EVERYTHING - 00:20:33.36\00:20:40.57 - I SEE THIS THING AS BEING SUCH A HUGE ISSUE NOT ONLY WITHIN OUR 00:20:40.57\00:20:45.24 CHURCH, BUT THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN GENERAL. 00:20:45.24\00:20:47.34 BUT THE FOUNDING FATHERS CHOSE TO TAKE THE LAST SIX 00:20:47.34\00:20:52.85 COMMANDMENTS OUR DUTIES TO MAN AND REALLY ADOPT THOSE AS PART 00:20:52.85\00:20:56.92 OF OUR CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 00:20:56.92\00:21:00.72 ADULTERY IS ALWAYS BEEN SINCE THE BEGINNING WAS A SIN. 00:21:00.72\00:21:05.23 ADULTERY, AND WAS A CRIME. IN 1718, UNTIL RECENTLY IN SOME 00:21:05.23\00:21:11.40 STATES ON THE BOOKS IT STILL IS. ADULTERY. 00:21:11.40\00:21:13.84 BUT WHAT WE'RE HAVING NOW IS THE ISSUE COMING UP IS THAT, WELL, 00:21:13.84\00:21:19.44 SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IS NOT REALLY OR HOMOSEXUALITY IS NOT WRONG 00:21:19.44\00:21:24.21 ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE. AND SO WE ALWAYS SAY WELL, LOOK, 00:21:24.21\00:21:27.85 HERE'S ALL OF THESE SCRIPTURES. I TALKED TO SOMEONE LAST WEEK, 00:21:27.85\00:21:31.22 WATCHED SOMEONE WHO'S A PASTOR WHO JUST SAID A FEW WEEKS AGO 00:21:31.22\00:21:34.76 I'M BISEXUAL. SO I'M COMING OUT AS BISEXUAL. 00:21:34.76\00:21:40.43 BUT HOMOSEXUALITY IS NOT REALLY TALKED ABOUT. 00:21:40.43\00:21:50.51 SODOM AND GOMORRAH, THAT'S JUST ABOUT ARROGANCY. 00:21:50.51\00:21:54.74 THEY TALK ABOUT CASTRATING YOUNG MEN. 00:21:54.74\00:22:00.62 WHAT'S WRONG WHEN THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALTY RAPE, 00:22:00.62\00:22:09.86 INCEST, ALL THESE THINGS, IF TWO PEOPLE LOVE EACH OTHER THAT'S 00:22:09.86\00:22:12.43 OKAY. BUT THE INROADS, LET ME GIVE YOU 00:22:12.43\00:22:14.73 SOME OF THAT, BUT THE BIG PICTURE IS THIS, TO ME. 00:22:14.73\00:22:18.57 IF WE ACCEPT THIS COMING INTO OUR CHURCHES AS CHRISTIAN 00:22:18.57\00:22:26.17 CHURCHES THAT NUMBER ONE HIJO MO SEXUALITY OR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE 00:22:26.17\00:22:30.98 IS ACCEPTABLE BEFORE GOD. NOW AS I SAID EARLIER, WE ALL 00:22:30.98\00:22:36.45 SIN. WE ALL HAVE SIN. 00:22:36.45\00:22:37.79 BUT WHEN WE OPENLY REBEL AGAINST GOD'S LAW, THAT'S SIN. 00:22:37.79\00:22:41.72 TRANSGRESSION OF THE SOUL. SIN IS REBELLION TO PURPOSELY 00:22:41.72\00:22:44.43 SAY I KNOW WHAT THE LAW IS BUT I DON'T CARE OR I'M GOING TO LIVE 00:22:44.43\00:22:48.33 MY LIFE THE WAY I WANT TO, RIGHT? 00:22:48.33\00:22:50.20 SO THE BIG PICTURE OF THIS IS TO ME, YVONNE, WOULD BE COMING 00:22:50.20\00:22:55.70 HAVING THIS COME INTO THE CHURCH AND PEOPLE ACCEPTING IT. 00:22:55.70\00:22:59.01 BECAUSE I'M SEEING IT. OUR CHURCHES, ALL THE OTHER 00:22:59.01\00:23:02.44 CHRISTIAN CHURCHES. THE LAW OF GOD HAS MADE A 00:23:02.44\00:23:07.12 NON-EFFECT. BECAUSE WHEN THIS COMES IN, BUT 00:23:07.12\00:23:09.02 WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS THAN THE OTHER ONES IF A PERSON - 00:23:09.02\00:23:13.25 - I'VE EXPLAINED THS BEFORE. IF A PERSON, SHELLEY, COMES TO 00:23:13.25\00:23:16.62 YOUR CHURCH AND SAYS LOOK, I'M, UM, YOU KNOW, CLEPTOMANIAC, I 00:23:16.62\00:23:24.57 STEAL. MY FATHER STOLE, MY GRAND 00:23:24.57\00:23:26.07 FATHER, BUT I REALLY WANT TO BE YOUR TREASURE. 00:23:26.07\00:23:30.77 COULD YOU GUYS VOTE ME IN TO BE YOUR TREASURE? 00:23:30.77\00:23:34.31 WHAT WOULD THEY PROBABLY SAY? THEN AM I GOING TO BE OFFENDED 00:23:34.31\00:23:38.78 AND SAY I COME FROM A LINE, THIS IS NOT REALLY I WAS KIND OF BORN 00:23:38.78\00:23:41.62 THAT WAY. LET'S SAY MY MOTHER WAS AN 00:23:41.62\00:23:45.15 ALCOHOLIC. OR DRUG ADDICT AND SO I WAS BORN 00:23:45.15\00:23:47.59 WITH A DRUG ADDITION. BUT LATER IN LIFE, I GIVE MY 00:23:47.59\00:23:50.96 LIFE TO JESUS, BUT I COME TO YOUR CHURCH AND SAY YOU KNOW 00:23:50.96\00:23:54.76 WHAT? I STILL DO DRUGS, OR I'M AN 00:23:54.76\00:23:57.47 ALCOHOLIC, BUT I WANT TO BE, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO BE A CHOIR 00:23:57.47\00:24:01.54 DIRECTOR. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO SAY TO ME? 00:24:01.54\00:24:08.41 >> NO. >> Danny Shelton: WHY NOT? 00:24:08.41\00:24:09.48 WHY CAN'T I BE? BECAUSE IT'S CONSIDERED SIN. 00:24:09.48\00:24:12.25 IT'S CONSIDERED AGAINST GOD'S LAWS. 00:24:12.25\00:24:15.52 IT'S TRANSGRESSION AGAINST GOD'S LAWS. LET'S JUST SAY THAT I'M A 00:24:15.52\00:24:21.66 GOSSIPER, I'LL ADMIT IT. I LIKE TO TALK ABOUT PEOPLE. 00:24:21.66\00:24:24.19 BUT MY FAMILY ALL DOES IT, A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH DO IT, 00:24:24.19\00:24:28.80 BUT I WANT TO BE ASSISTANT TO THE PASTOR, WHERE I HAVE ALL HIS 00:24:28.80\00:24:33.60 RECORDS AND THE CONVERSATION, AND KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON. 00:24:33.60\00:24:35.84 WHAT YOU GOING TO SAY TO ME? >> NO. 00:24:35.84\00:24:39.74 >> YOU'RE GOING TO SAY NO. I COULD GO DOWN ANY ONE OF THESE 00:24:39.74\00:24:46.88 COMMANDMENTS AND THE CHURCH WILL HAVE NO PROBLEM IN SAYING WELL, 00:24:46.88\00:24:48.88 I'M SORRY WE CAN'T ELECT YOU TO BE IN A POSITION OF LEADERSHIP. 00:24:48.88\00:24:53.79 NOW, WE WANT YOU TO COME TO CHURCH, WE WANT TO LOVE YOUR 00:24:53.79\00:24:56.93 EARS OFF, AND WE WANT TO, YOU KNOW, BE A GOOD EXAMPLE TO YOU 00:24:56.93\00:25:01.46 BUT YOU'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE PART, AS FAR AS BEING A LEADER 00:25:01.46\00:25:04.67 IN THIS CHURCH, BECAUSE IT'S A BAD EXAMPLE. 00:25:04.67\00:25:07.24 THE ONLY ONE THAT THEY SAY YES TO IS I'M A HOMOSEXUAL. 00:25:07.24\00:25:13.11 AND ALREADY I KNOW OF CHURCHES WHO HAVE HIRED OPENLY GAY 00:25:13.11\00:25:18.95 HOMOSEXUALS WHO SAY BUT I WAS BORN THAT WAY. 00:25:18.95\00:25:21.48 THAT'S MY NATURALLY TENDENCY, AND I CAN'T HELP IT. 00:25:21.48\00:25:25.65 AND SO IT'S SAME-SEX, UM, MARRIAGE IS LAW OF THE LAND NOW. 00:25:25.65\00:25:31.59 UH, THANKS TO THE LAST ADMINISTRATION. 00:25:31.59\00:25:33.50 IT'S LAW OF THE LAND. AND SO I SHOULD BE ABLE TO BE A 00:25:33.50\00:25:37.70 CHOIR DIRECTOR IN YOUR CHURCH OR THE ORGANIST. 00:25:37.70\00:25:42.54 OR SOME OF THE PASTORS ARE SAYING I'M THAT WAY AND THEY'RE 00:25:42.54\00:25:45.37 ACTUALLY COMING OUT. WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT COMING 00:25:45.37\00:25:48.31 OUT MINISTRIES, BUT WHEN WE DO THAT THERE'S SO MUCH EMOTION 00:25:48.31\00:25:52.55 INVOLVED. WELL, WE DON'T WANT TO OFFEND 00:25:52.55\00:25:53.62 THESE PEOPLE. BUT WE DIDN'T CARE TO OFFEND 00:25:53.62\00:25:56.12 THEM WHEN IT CAME TO STANDING UP FOR DRUGS, OR ALCOHOL, OR 00:25:56.12\00:26:00.32 TOBACCO. OR I SAY LOOK, I WANT TO BE A 00:26:00.32\00:26:06.09 SABBATH SCHOOL TEACHER. I THINK YOU CAN GO TO CHURCH ANY 00:26:06.09\00:26:08.93 DAY YOU WANT, BUT I WANT TO BE YOUR SABBATH SCHOOL TEACHER AT 00:26:08.93\00:26:12.33 CHURCH. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO TELL ME? 00:26:12.33\00:26:14.77 NO. I'M GOING TO SAY WAIT A MINUTE, 00:26:14.77\00:26:17.61 WHY NOT? THAT'S OFFENSIVE TO ME. 00:26:17.61\00:26:20.28 PEOPLE SAY WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM? 00:26:20.28\00:26:22.28 BUT WHEN I COME TO YOU AND SAY I'M OPENLY GAY, EVERYBODY SAYS 00:26:22.28\00:26:27.55 WE JUMP BACK AND SAY WE'D BETTER NOT - - AND THEY HAVE THE 00:26:27.55\00:26:32.09 SUPPORT. YOU MENTIONED IT AWHILE AGO, 00:26:32.09\00:26:33.82 WHAT HAPPENED IS, AND THIS IS SATAN THAT SAYS IT'S POSSIBLE WE 00:26:33.82\00:26:39.26 WOULD - - THIS TO ME IS AMAZING, YVONNE, AND YOU REALLY HELPED ME 00:26:39.26\00:26:43.20 WITH THIS. THE NAACP, WHEN THE GAY 00:26:43.20\00:26:50.21 COMMUNITY CONNECTED AND GOT THE SUPPORT OF THE NAACP, WHAT 00:26:50.21\00:26:53.58 HAPPENED IS THEY TOOK SAME-SEX MARRIAGE FROM A MORAL ISSUE TO A 00:26:53.58\00:27:00.92 CIVIL ISSUE. AM I RIGHT? 00:27:00.92\00:27:05.55 >> Yvonne Lewis: YES. >> Danny Shelton: NOW WE DON'T 00:27:05.55\00:27:06.96 TALK ABOUT IT BEING A MORAL ISSUE ANYMORE. 00:27:06.96\00:27:12.59 >> Shelley Quinn: IT MADE HOMOSEXUALITY A MINORITY STATUS. 00:27:12.59\00:27:16.13 YOU KNOW, DANNY, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU WERE SAYING AND 00:27:16.13\00:27:18.87 TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, IN CHURCHES IS WE'VE GOT SO MANY 00:27:18.87\00:27:23.81 PEOPLE HIRNG OPENLY GAY PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH. 00:27:23.81\00:27:26.21 I THINK PART OF THE REASON IS WE'VE GONE SO LONG WITHOUT 00:27:26.21\00:27:29.51 TALKING ABOUT THE ISSUE THAT MANY PEOPLE DON'T KOA EVEN KNOW 00:27:29.51\00:27:32.61 WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE ISSUE SO WE CONTINUE TO BE FEARFUL ABOUT 00:27:32.61\00:27:35.95 ADDRESSING AN ISSUE THAT WE COULD DO IN A LOVING AND 00:27:35.95\00:27:39.35 COMPASSIONATE WAY THAT DOESN'T COMPROMISE, BUT BECAUSE WE'RE SO 00:27:39.35\00:27:42.46 AFRAID OF THE ISSUE WE'VE GOT PEOPLE ALL OVER THE SPECTRUM NOT 00:27:42.46\00:27:45.73 KNOWING WHAT TO DO IS AND SAYING I'LL JUST LOVE THEM AND GIVE 00:27:45.73\00:27:49.16 THEM A POSITION INSTEAD OF BEING THIS CONDEMNING CHRISTIAN 00:27:49.16\00:27:54.20 THROUGH THE MEDIA THAT IS SO WRONG. 00:27:54.20\00:27:55.90 I THINK THAT YOUR BOOK IS REALLY BENEFICIAL BECAUSE WHAT I WAS 00:27:55.90\00:27:59.11 REALLY IMPRESSED WITH, DANNY, AND I'LL BE HONEST FOR A 00:27:59.11\00:28:02.51 HETEROSEXUAL MAN TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE THAT DOESN'T COME ACROSS 00:28:02.51\00:28:05.91 AS, UM, ALMOST INDIFFERENT TO THE ISSUE, WHAT I SAW WAS A LOT 00:28:05.91\00:28:09.75 OF COMPASSION THAT DIDN'T COMP COMPROMISE, BUT INSTEAD IS IS 00:28:09.75\00:28:14.36 SAW THAT I DON'T HAVE THAT ISSUE AND I DON'T STRUGGLE WITH THAT, 00:28:14.36\00:28:17.13 BUT I KNOW WHAT STRUGGLE IS. YOU REALLY ADDRESSED THAT. 00:28:17.13\00:28:20.00 I LIKE THAT YOU THREW YOURSELF SELF UNDER THE BUS AS FAR AS 00:28:20.00\00:28:22.80 KNOWING THAT WE ALL STRUGGLE WITH SOMETHING. 00:28:22.80\00:28:24.77 AND TO RECOGNIZE THAT HEY, YOU KNOW, HOMOSEXUALITY DOESN'T HAVE 00:28:24.77\00:28:29.57 TO BE THIS THING OUT THERE IN THE STR ATOSPHERE OUT THERE, BUT 00:28:29.57\00:28:36.78 PUT IT BACK IN THE POT WITH STRUGGLE AND AUTOMATICALLY IT 00:28:36.78\00:28:39.98 DOESN'T HAVE AS MUCH STEAM OR MOVEMENT, I DON'T THINK, ONCE WE 00:28:39.98\00:28:43.85 REALIZE THAT HEY, WE'RE IN THIS TOGETHER. 00:28:43.85\00:28:46.32 YOUR ISSUE MAY NOT BE MINE, BUT WE HAVE THEM. 00:28:46.32\00:28:48.66 I THINK THAT'S REALLY THAT COMES ACROSS REALLY NICELY IN YOUR 00:28:48.66\00:28:54.36 BOOK. >> CA Murray: WONDERFUL, PRAISE 00:28:54.36\00:28:55.86 THE LORD. WE'RE GOING TO LET YOU CALL IN 00:28:55.86\00:28:57.47 LATER ON IF YOU CHOOSE, RIGHT? MAYBE QUESTIONS THE SECOND HOUR 00:28:57.47\00:29:01.04 WE'LL TRY TO GET TO SOME OF THOSE. 00:29:01.04\00:29:02.94 BUT WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO, IF YOU DON'T MIND, MIKE, I'D LIKE YOU-TO ADDRESS THIS. 00:29:02.94\00:29:08.11 MIKE MINISTRY IS COMING OUT MINISTRIES AND YOU KNOW USED TO 00:29:08.11\00:29:12.05 SAY HE CAME OUT OF THE CLOSET, I DON'T KNOW WHERE THAT TERM CAME 00:29:12.05\00:29:16.08 FROM. YOU'RE HIDING AND COME OUT SUD 00:29:16.08\00:29:18.35 LANE NOW YOU'RE TELLING EVERYBODY. 00:29:18.35\00:29:24.69 >> Mike Carducci: JESUS SAID IT FIRST, COMING OUT OF DARKNESS.-WE HAD IT FIRST. 00:29:24.69\00:29:28.40 >> CA Murray: BUT I WANT YOU TO TALK ABOUT YOUR, FOR INSTANCE, 00:29:28.40\00:29:33.10 WHEN YOU WERE GROWING UP, YOU WERE A CHILD, BECAUSE PEOPLE - 00:29:33.10\00:29:35.90 - IN FACT, I TALKED TO SOMEONE TODAY HE SAID I DIDN'T KNOW 00:29:35.90\00:29:39.84 UNTIL JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO THAT PEOPLE WERE BORN WITH THIS 00:29:39.84\00:29:44.31 TENDENCY, I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A CHOICE. 00:29:44.31\00:29:46.75 BUT YOU DIDN'T DECIDE IT U FOUR, FIVE, SIX, EIGHT, TEN YEARS OLD 00:29:46.75\00:29:50.55 I THINK I WANT TO BE GAY. IS THAT RIGHT? 00:29:50.55\00:29:53.12 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE BORN WITH IT OR NOT AND I DON'T KNOW IF 00:29:53.12\00:29:56.29 THERE'S ANYBODY THAT CAN SCIENTIFICALLY GO ONE WAY OR THE 00:29:56.29\00:29:58.73 OTHER, BUT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT YOU INDIVIDUALLY BECAUSE NOW 00:29:58.73\00:30:01.86 FROM WHERE YOU ARE, YOUR POSITION, DID YOU JUST PURPOSELY 00:30:01.86\00:30:05.43 SAY I THINK I WANT TO BE GAY? OR DID YOU HAVE THAT TENDENCY 00:30:05.43\00:30:11.51 THAT YOU SAID THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO BE? 00:30:11.51\00:30:13.31 I'M ATTRACTED? >> IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE ABLE TO 00:30:13.31\00:30:17.51 TALK ABOUT THIS BECAUSE AT 40 YEARS OLD WHEN I CAME BACK TO 00:30:17.51\00:30:20.75 GOD, I WANTED TO KNOW HOW THIS HAPPENED. 00:30:20.75\00:30:22.98 I WANTED TO KNOW WHY AT MY EARLIEST THOUGHTS, I KNEW I WAS 00:30:22.98\00:30:27.12 DIFFERENT AND IT WASN'T SEXUALIZED FOR ME. 00:30:27.12\00:30:29.42 BECAUSE OF INJECTION OF BECAUSE OF THE REJECTION OF MY FATHER 00:30:29.42\00:30:33.66 WHO WAS ABUSIVE OR UNAVAILABLE, FOR ME I STARTED PATTERNING 00:30:33.66\00:30:38.07 AFTER MY MOTHER. DEFENSIVE DETACHMENT HAPPENS 00:30:38.07\00:30:42.44 WITH BOYS AND GIRLS. ALL OF A SUDDEN AT THREE, FOUR 00:30:42.44\00:30:45.44 YEARS OLD Y DIDN'T LIKE PLAYING WITH DOLLS, I DIDN'T LIKE 00:30:45.44\00:30:48.48 TRUCKS, I DIDN'T LIKE SPORTS, I LIKED DOING THE THINGS MY 00:30:48.48\00:30:51.71 MOTHERS AND SISTERS DID. MY PATTERNS BECAME FEMININE. 00:30:51.71\00:30:55.65 WHEN I STARTED SCHOOL, THE BOYS MADE IT VERY OBVIOUS THIS GUY'S 00:30:55.65\00:30:59.05 GOT SOME ISSUES SO THE ONE THING THAT I NEEDED WAS MASCULINE 00:30:59.05\00:31:03.43 AFFIRMATION. I NEEDED TO KNOW THAT I WAS 00:31:03.43\00:31:05.53 ACCEPTABLE AS A MALE. THE ONLY ACCEPTANCE I FOUND WAS 00:31:05.53\00:31:09.56 IN CROSS DRESSING WITH MY SISTERS AND MY MOM, AND THE KIDS 00:31:09.56\00:31:12.30 THAT PUSHED ME AWAY WITH THEIR NAME-CALLING. 00:31:12.30\00:31:14.97 WHAT THAT DID IS THAT, THAT MADE THE GULF EVEN DEEPER OF THIS 00:31:14.97\00:31:19.07 INABILITY TO CONNECT WITH MEN. SO IT BECAME SEXUALIZED AT 00:31:19.07\00:31:23.41 PUBERTY. SO I NEVER THOUGHT THAT I WAS 00:31:23.41\00:31:25.25 GAY. I DIDN'T EVEN HAVE THOSE 00:31:25.25\00:31:27.45 ATTRACTIONS, I WAS NEVER MOLESTED SO NONE OF THAT 00:31:27.45\00:31:29.75 SEXUALITY WAS AWAKENED IN MY UNTIL PUBERTY. 00:31:29.75\00:31:34.46 FEELING INADEQUATE AS A MALE, I THOUGHT THE ONLY SOLUTION WAS TO 00:31:34.46\00:31:37.23 BE A FEMALE. I REMEMBER PRAYING TO GOD AND 00:31:37.23\00:31:40.40 ASKING HIM THAT HE WOULD TURN ME INTO A LITTLE GIRL AND IT WOULD 00:31:40.40\00:31:43.57 ALL BE SETTLED. THAT FOLLOWED ME UNTIL I WAS 20 00:31:43.57\00:31:46.50 YEARS OLD. WHAT WAS SO SHOCKING IS THAT AT 00:31:46.50\00:31:49.04 20 YEARS OLD IT WASN'T LIKE I HAD THIS MIRACLE FROM GOD AND 00:31:49.04\00:31:55.14 NOW SATISFIED WITH MY MALE PARTS. 00:31:55.14\00:31:57.78 IT WAS WHEN I WENT INTO GAY CULTURE I FOUND THAT MASCULINITY 00:31:57.78\00:32:04.72 WAS MORE VALUABLE THAN FEMININITY. 00:32:04.72\00:32:07.76 I NEEDED AFFIRMATION FROM MEN. DOESN'T IT MAKE SENSE I MIGHT-SEEK IT ANY WAY I CAN GET 00:32:07.76\00:32:14.63 THAT SATISFIED. AT 20 YEARS OLD I FINALLY WAS 00:32:14.63\00:32:17.33 SATISFIED REALIZING I'M GLAD I DIDN'T HAVE A SEX CHANGE. 00:32:17.33\00:32:20.27 UNTIL I WAS 20 YEARS OLD I WOULD HAVE ABSOLUTELY HAD THAT SEX 00:32:20.27\00:32:23.57 CHANGE HAD IT BEEN AVAILABLE FOR ME AT THAT TIME. 00:32:23.57\00:32:26.68 AT 40 YEARS OLD, COMING BACK INTO CHURCH CULTURE, AFER 20 00:32:26.68\00:32:30.48 YEARS OF LIVING IN GAY CULTURE, IT WAS REALLY DIFFICULT BECAUSE 00:32:30.48\00:32:34.05 NOT ONLY WAS I GETTING REJECTION FROM THE GAY COMMUNITY, I WAS 00:32:34.05\00:32:37.69 GETTING REJECTION STILL FROM THE CHURCH THAT I CAME INTO. 00:32:37.69\00:32:42.06 EVEN MY CLIENTS THAT WOULD COME IN, THEY WOULD SAY MIKE, YOU'RE 00:32:42.06\00:32:44.36 GAY, THAT'S JUST WHO YOU ARE. SO IT WAS REALLY DIFFICULT. 00:32:44.36\00:32:48.70 >> WHAT WERE YOU IN? >> Mike Carducci: I WAS A 00:32:48.70\00:32:53.64 HAIRDRESSER. I WAS IN BUSINESS WITH MY LOVER. 00:32:53.64\00:32:56.07 MY BOYFRIEND ACTUALLY TOOK ME TO THE PRIEST AT THE GAY CHURCH AND 00:32:56.07\00:32:59.31 SHE SAT DOWN AND SHOWED ME ALL THOSE VERSES, GAVE ME ALL OF 00:32:59.31\00:33:04.65 THOSE EXPLANATIONS FOR, UH, IT WAS BASICALLY IN HOSPITALITY, 00:33:04.65\00:33:09.18 THE SIN OF SODOM AND GOMORRA, I WAS REALLY RESPONDING TO AN 00:33:09.18\00:33:16.39 INVITATION FROM CHRIST. I LOOKED AT HER, AND AS 00:33:16.39\00:33:18.76 DESPERATE AS I WAS TO HANG ON TO MY BOYFRIEND I THOUGHT THAT'S 00:33:18.76\00:33:22.33 RIDICULOUS, THAT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE. 00:33:22.33\00:33:24.43 AND IT DIDN'T CHANGE THE FACT THAT I WAS STILL STRUGGLING WITH 00:33:24.43\00:33:26.70 A LOT OF CONFUSION, THAT I WASN'T GETTING ANSWERS IN OUR 00:33:26.70\00:33:30.07 CHURCH OR OUR DENOMINATION. SO I PUT THE RESPONSIBILITY ON 00:33:30.07\00:33:34.08 GOD, NOT KNOWING WHERE ELSE TO TURN. 00:33:34.08\00:33:35.98 WHAT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL THE LORD STARTED TO SHOW ME THERE WAS 00:33:35.98\00:33:38.65 SCIENCE TO BACK UP SOME OF WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO ME. 00:33:38.65\00:33:41.05 AND THEN THE BIBLE CAME IN AND STARTED TO AFFIRM THE SCIENCE 00:33:41.05\00:33:45.49 THAT I WAS DISCOVERING AS WELL, AND GOD HIMSELF PERSONALLY 00:33:45.49\00:33:49.22 REVEALED SOME OF THAT TO ME. AS SHOCKED AS YOU MIGHT BE, I AM 00:33:49.22\00:33:52.63 JUST AS SHOCKED TO THINK THAT I AM SITTING HERE, YOU KNOW, WITH 00:33:52.63\00:33:55.40 THIS WONDERFUL PANEL, AND TALKING ABOUT MY SAVIOR WHEN 00:33:55.40\00:33:58.07 JUST A FEW YEARS AGO I HAD A DINNER PARTY CELEBRATING ELLEN 00:33:58.07\00:34:03.54 DEGENERES COMING OUT ON HER TELEVISION SHOW. VERN QUITE A 00:34:03.54\00:34:07.51 TRANSFORMATION, GOD IS AMAZING. >> YEAH. 00:34:07.51\00:34:11.35 >> I WAS JUST THINKING TO YOUR EARLIER COMMENT ABOUT MEDIA IN 00:34:11.35\00:34:14.85 THE BOOK, WE SEE PROGRAMS IT'S OKAY TO NAME A PROGRAM, ISN'T 00:34:14.85\00:34:20.86 IT? LIKE MODERN FAMILY. 00:34:20.86\00:34:22.46 I UNDERSTAND THIS IS AN EXCEPTIONALLY WELL-CAST PROGRAM, 00:34:22.46\00:34:25.69 AND PEOPLE SAY THAT IT'S SO FUNNY, YOU KNOW? 00:34:25.69\00:34:29.73 IT'S JUST FUN. AND I'VE TALKED WITH CHRISTIANS 00:34:29.73\00:34:32.77 WHO WATCH THIS. WHAT THEY DON'T REALIZE, I-ALWAYS SAY SATAN WHEN 00:34:32.77\00:34:38.97 HE WHEN HE IS TRYING TO PASS OFF SIN, HE DOESN'T PUT IT IN A 00:34:38.97\00:34:44.01 PAPER, BROWN PAPER BAG AND MAKE IT LOOK UGLY. WHAT HE WILL DO IS 00:34:44.01\00:34:49.65 PUT IT IN SHINY FOIL PAPER WITH A NICE, SATURN RIBBON. 00:34:49.65\00:34:56.86 WHAT HE HANDS YOU IT'S NOTHING MORE THAN GIFT-WRAPPED GARBAGE.-úPEOPLE THINK IT'S JUST 00:34:56.86\00:35:06.50 FUN. OR PEOPLE WHO APPROVE OF A LIFESTYLE BY PUTTING SOMEONE 00:35:06.50\00:35:11.71 INTO A CHURCH LEADERSHIP POSITION, OR THE LADY THAT YOU 00:35:11.71\00:35:14.11 SAW AT THE GAY CHURCH AND YOU SAID WHAT IS SHE SAYING, IT 00:35:14.11\00:35:18.35 DOESN'T MAKE SENSE? MAY I JUST QUICKLY READ 00:35:18.35\00:35:21.72 SOMETHING? >> SURE. 00:35:21.72\00:35:22.85 >> IN ROMANS CHAPTER ONE, WHAT THESE PEOPLE ARE DOING IS 00:35:22.85\00:35:27.59 EXCHANGING A TRUTH - - . >> OKAY. 00:35:27.59\00:35:29.39 >> FOR A LIE. HE SAYS, UH, GOD GAVE THEM UP TO 00:35:29.39\00:35:34.50 THE TO DISHONOR THEIR BODIES AMONG THEMSELVES WHO EXCHANGED 00:35:34.50\00:35:37.57 THE TRUTH OF GOD FOR THE LIE. AND IT GOES ON AND HE'S TALKING 00:35:37.57\00:35:41.84 ABOUT THEIR VILE PASSIONS. WOMEN, UH, EXCHANGING THE 00:35:41.84\00:35:47.21 NATURAL USE FOR WHAT IS AGAINST NATURE, LIKEWISE ALSO MEN BURNED 00:35:47.21\00:35:54.82 IN THEIR LUST FOR ONE ANOTHER. THEN COMMITTING WHAT IS 00:35:54.82\00:35:59.15 SHAMEFUL. AND HE GOES ON TO THE POINT, 00:35:59.15\00:36:02.09 THIS IS THE SUMMARY OF IT ALL, HE'S SAYING TO US THAT YOU, WHO 00:36:02.09\00:36:08.43 KNOW THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT OF GOD, KNOWING THAT THE RIGHTEOUS 00:36:08.43\00:36:12.87 JUDGMENT OF GOD THAT THOSE WHO PRACTICE SUCH THINGS ARE 00:36:12.87\00:36:16.91 DESERVING OF DEATH. NOT ONLY DO THE SAME, BUT ALSO APPROVE OF 00:36:16.91\00:36:22.88 THOSE WHO PRACTICE THEM. SO OUR WATCHING AND CLAPPING OUR 00:36:22.88\00:36:27.35 HANDS OVER SOMETHING THAT WE THINK IS FUNNY AND ENTERTAINING, 00:36:27.35\00:36:31.09 WE'RE ACTUALLY APPROVING OF THE PRACTICE. 00:36:31.09\00:36:35.16 OUR PROMOTING SOMEONE TO A POSITION OF AUTHORITY, WE'RE 00:36:35.16\00:36:39.29 ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT - - IT'S LIKE YOU SAID, WHEN 00:36:39.29\00:36:43.20 SOMEONE COMES INTO THE CHURCH WE WANT TO LOVE THEM. 00:36:43.20\00:36:46.87 I'M SORRY YOU FELT REJECTION-BECAUSE WHAT WE TRY TO DO, WE HAD SOMEONE WHO COMES TO 00:36:46.87\00:36:51.74 OUR CHURCH AND WE TRIED TO MAKE HIM FEEL SO LOVED AND WE DO 00:36:51.74\00:36:56.18 EVERYTHING TO LET HIM KNOW THAT HE IS GOD'S CHILD. 00:36:56.18\00:36:58.28 BUT AT THE SAME POINT AND TIME, WE'RE NOT GOING TO PUT HIM IN A 00:36:58.28\00:37:04.12 LEADERSHIP POSITION BECAUSE, THINKING, WE'RE GOING TO CHANGE 00:37:04.12\00:37:06.52 HIM IF WE LOVE HIM INTO LEADERSHIP. 00:37:06.52\00:37:10.63 BECAUSE THEN WE'RE APPROVING OF THE PRACTICE AND WE CONFUSE 00:37:10.63\00:37:13.16 YOUNG MINDS. >> CA Murray: A COUPLE OF THINGS 00:37:13.16\00:37:17.53 COME TO MIND. YOU HAVE TO SHOW FRUIT OF YOUR 00:37:17.53\00:37:21.97 MINISTRY, UH, BEFORE YOU ARE PLACED INTO MINISTRY. 00:37:21.97\00:37:25.74 BUT, UM, I JUST READ, I SPENT SOME TIME ONLINE THIS AFTERNOON 00:37:25.74\00:37:29.18 JUST TO SEE WHAT POPULAR CULTURE WAS SAYING ON THE INTERNET, THAT 00:37:29.18\00:37:34.02 THERE IS A REVIONIST DOCTRINE OF THAT WHOLE PASSAGE YOU RED. 00:37:34.02\00:37:40.12 MIKE, YOU ALLUDED TO THE REVISIONEST DOCTRINE OF SODOM 00:37:40.12\00:37:49.80 AND GOMORRAH. THAT IT WAS NOT HOMOSEXUALITY, 00:37:49.80\00:37:57.64 THE PROBLEM IS IT WAS INHOSPITAL ITY. 00:37:57.64\00:38:03.28 BUT WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT IF YOU WANT TO FIND SOMETHING TO 00:38:03.28\00:38:09.25 BUTTRESS YOUR MIND SET NO MATTER HOW PERVERTED OR TWISTED YOU CAN 00:38:09.25\00:38:12.95 GO TO THE INTERNET AND FIND REAMES OF THINGS THAT WILL 00:38:12.95\00:38:15.69 REINFORCE YOUR POSITION. WHICH IS WHY THE INTERNET IS NOT 00:38:15.69\00:38:18.63 THE WORD OF GOD, THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD. 00:38:18.63\00:38:21.70 SO YOU CANNOT TAKE YOUR DOCTRINAL PREMISE JUST FROM 00:38:21.70\00:38:24.60 READING THE INTER-T. YOU'VE GOT TO STAY WITH THE WORD 00:38:24.60\00:38:27.47 OF GOD. YOU'VE GOT TO PRAY BEFORE YOU READ THE WORD OF GOD 00:38:27.47\00:38:31.51 BECAUSE YOU CAN GET ALL KINDS OF THINGS THAT WILL MAKE YOU EVEN 00:38:31.51\00:38:34.08 MORE CONFUSED THAN YOU ARE WHEN YOU BEGAN. 00:38:34.08\00:38:38.98 >> ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I LOVE ABOUT WHAT YOU DID WITH THE 00:38:38.98\00:38:41.28 BOOK, YOU CONSISTENTLY BUILD YOUR CASE, SO TO SPEAK, FROM THE 00:38:41.28\00:38:44.79 WORD. IT'S NOT WHAT DANNY THINKS, IT'S 00:38:44.79\00:38:47.02 WHAT DOES THE WORD OF GOD SAY. AND THAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT 00:38:47.02\00:38:50.43 BECAUSE WE NEED TO KNOW HOW - - WHAT IS GOING ON IN SOCIETY AS 00:38:50.43\00:38:57.60 IT PERTAINS TO THE WORD OF GOD. VERN THAT'S ONE THE THINGS 00:38:57.60\00:39:00.70 THAT'S REALLY GOOD YOU ACTUALLY LOGICALLY BUILD YOUR POSITION, 00:39:00.70\00:39:07.61 THE BIBLICAL POSITION, WITHIN THE BOOK, AND IT, AND IT, IT'S 00:39:07.61\00:39:11.15 SO HELPFUL BECAUSE IT'S VERY LOGICAL. 00:39:11.15\00:39:16.55 I THINK THAT ANYBODY WHO READS THIS HAS TO UNDERSTAND THAT, HAS 00:39:16.55\00:39:19.45 TO SEE THAT THIS COMES FROM THE LORD. 00:39:19.45\00:39:21.26 THIS IS COMING FROM THE WORD. >: YOU KNOW, IT WAS FUNNY 00:39:21.26\00:39:24.26 BECAUSE AS I STARTED TO READ THE BOOK, I THOUGHT WOW, HE'S HE'S 00:39:24.26\00:39:29.10 COMING RIGHT OF THE BLOCKS WITH IT, TALKING ABOUT ABORTION, 00:39:29.10\00:39:32.37 HOMOSEXUALITY, TRANSGENDERRISM. THEN ALL OF A SUD YOUNG PEOPLE 00:39:32.37\00:39:34.94 STARTED BRINGING IT AROUND TO THE LAW AND THE SABBATH AND I GO 00:39:34.94\00:39:37.94 REALLY, THAT'S A STRETCH, WHERE'S HE GOING WITH THIS. 00:39:37.94\00:39:40.61 AS IT STARTED TO UNFOLD EVEN FOR ME FOR TALKING ABOUT THE SABBATH 00:39:40.61\00:39:44.81 AS A CORNERSTONE AND A CORNERSTONE THAT HOLDS 00:39:44.81\00:39:47.85 EVERYTHING ELSE UP, WOW, I REALLY SAW HOW YOU TAKE OUT ONE 00:39:47.85\00:39:51.29 OF THOSE LAWS, EVEN THE ONE THAT GOD SAYS REMEMBER, AND BAM, 00:39:51.29\00:39:55.26 YOU'VE LOST EVERYTHING. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:39:55.26\00:39:58.16 >> YOU HAVE NO GROUNDING AT ALL. THE SAD REALITY IS THOSE OF US 00:39:58.16\00:40:01.60 WHO STILL HOLD ON TO THE SABBATH TRUTH, HOW SAD THAT WE'RE BEING 00:40:01.60\00:40:05.03 INFLUENCED BY THE WORLD AND WE'RE LETTING GO OF SOME OF THE 00:40:05.03\00:40:07.87 PRINCIPLES AND CAUSING OUR OWN, UH, I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU WOULD 00:40:07.87\00:40:10.67 CALL IT, DEMOLITION FROM INSIDE. >> CAN I ASK YOU A QUESTION, 00:40:10.67\00:40:19.01 MIKE, HOW DID YOU - - YOU BEGAN COMING BACK TO THE CHURCH, HOW 00:40:19.01\00:40:21.68 DID YOU FINALLY, AFTER TALKING WITH THIS FEMALE PASTOR OF THE 00:40:21.68\00:40:27.49 GAY CHURCH, SHE'S TRYING TO DO REVISION, HOW DID YOU WAKE UP TO 00:40:27.49\00:40:31.13 THE TRUTH AND ACTALLY COME OUT OF THAT DARKNESS INTO THE LORD 00:40:31.13\00:40:38.30 LIGHT? >> Mike Carducci: THE LORD 00:40:38.30\00:40:42.07 DIDN'T DRAG ME KICKING AND SCREAMING, BUT I WA CLOSE. 00:40:42.07\00:40:45.01 I'D LIKE TO SAY THAT IT WAS JUST BING OVER THE HEAD AND I WAS 00:40:45.01\00:40:48.84 READY TO START DATING WOMEN AND ALL OF THAT, BUT THERE WAS SO 00:40:48.84\00:40:51.61 MUCH HISTORY THAT REALLY HAD TO BE ADDRESSED. 00:40:51.61\00:40:54.52 AND HOW WONDERFUL THAT GOD DIDN'T JUST GIVE IT TO ME AND 00:40:54.52\00:40:58.35 SAY HERE'S YOUR GARBAGE, MIKE, DEAL WITH IT. 00:40:58.35\00:41:04.09 HE GAVE ME WHAT I COULD HANDLE AT A TIME I COULD HANDLE IT. 00:41:04.09\00:41:07.30 I THOUGHT I NEEDED TO BE BAPTIZED AGAIN. I DIDN'T COME 00:41:07.30\00:41:10.40 UP OUT OF THE WATER STRAIGHT, READY TO DATE, MATE, AND PRO 00:41:10.40\00:41:14.34 CREATE. SO FOR ME I THOUGHT I HAD DONE 00:41:14.34\00:41:16.37 SOMETHING WRONG. I THINK WE DO A LOT OF PEOPLE A 00:41:16.37\00:41:18.74 DISSERVICE WHEN YOU GET BAPTIZED AND WE THINK WELL, YOU'VE GOT 00:41:18.74\00:41:21.84 THE 28 FUNDAMENTALS, BE ON YOUR WAY. 00:41:21.84\00:41:27.52 THAT'S REALLY WHEN IT STARTED BEGINNING FOR ME. 00:41:27.52\00:41:29.52 I WAS STILL IN A RELATIONSHIP, THE PASTOR WOULD NOT HAVE 00:41:29.52\00:41:32.89 BAPTIZED ME HAD HE KNOWN THAT. AS I WAS BEGINNING THIS JOURNEY 00:41:32.89\00:41:35.96 NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN I'M READING UNIN THE WORD OF GOD HE'S SAYING 00:41:35.96\00:41:40.16 THAT HOMOSEXUAL PRACTICE IS AN U BALM NATION. I'M THINKING HOW 00:41:40.16\00:41:44.37 COULD YOU BE SO LOVING AND TELL ME MY RELATIONSHIP ISN'T RIGHT? 00:41:44.37\00:41:48.80 AS I WAS DESPERATELY TRYING TO HANG ON TO MY RELATIONSHIP, BUT 00:41:48.80\00:41:53.07 AS I WAS EXPERIENCING JESUS CHRIST, WHAT WAS INCREDIBLE ISI 00:41:53.07\00:41:56.91 CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU HOW OR WHY I REALIZED WHEN I NEEDED TO MAKE A 00:41:56.91\00:42:04.09 DECISION, I NEEDED CHRIST MORE THAN I NEEDED THAT BOYFRIEND I 00:42:04.09\00:42:10.56 SAID IF YOU WANT ME OUT OF HAT RELATIONSHIP YOU'RE GOING TO 00:42:10.56\00:42:12.93 HAVE TO DO IT YOURSELF. AND THE LORD SAID, I THINK, I'LL 00:42:12.93\00:42:17.40 GET RIGHT ON THAT. A FEW WEEKS LATER MY BOYFRIEND 00:42:17.40\00:42:20.24 BROKE UP WITH ME. WHAT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL IS THAT 00:42:20.24\00:42:22.77 FOR EVERYTHING THAT I FELT THAT I WAS GIVING UP, WHETHER IT WAS 00:42:22.77\00:42:26.54 PHYSICALLY, THE THINGS THAT I HAD INDULGED IN FOR YEARS, THE 00:42:26.54\00:42:30.15 THINGS I DIDN'T THINK WERE INTERCHANGEABLE. 00:42:30.15\00:42:32.35 AS I JUST STARTED EMPTYING OUT MYSELF AND LEARNING TO TRUST 00:42:32.35\00:42:35.58 JESUS CHRIST. I THINK THAT IT'S A FAIR-STATEMENT TO SAY THAT 00:42:35.58\00:42:39.35 THAT TAKES TIME. ANY RELATIONSHIP TAKES TIME. 00:42:39.35\00:42:41.89 AS I REALLY STARTED TO REALIZE THAT HE WAS MORE FAITHFUL TO ME 00:42:41.89\00:42:46.16 THAN I WAS TO HIM, I STARTED TO REALIZE I COULD TRUST HIM WITH 00:42:46.16\00:42:49.23 MORE AND MORE OF MY HEART, AND MORE ISSUES IN MY LIFE. 00:42:49.23\00:42:54.90 SO, SHELLEY, IT WASN'T AN INSTANTANEOUS THING, BUT I'M 00:42:54.90\00:43:00.54 JUST GLAD HE HUNG IN THERE. >> Shelley Quinn: HE SAYS YOU 00:43:00.54\00:43:06.82 HAVE TO BE BORN AGAIN TO SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 00:43:06.82\00:43:08.85 AND YOU HAVE TO BE BORN AGAIN TO ENTER. 00:43:08.85\00:43:11.69 WHEN YOU'RE BORN AGAIN YOU START SEEING THROUGH NEW EYES BECAUSE 00:43:11.69\00:43:15.22 THE HOLY SPIRIT IS HELPING YOU UNDERSTAND. 00:43:15.22\00:43:18.06 YOU SEE THE TRUTH FIRST, AND THEN GOD EMPOWERS YOU BY HIS 00:43:18.06\00:43:24.17 SPIRIT TO ENTER IT. THAT'S BEAUTIFUL, YOU WERE BORN 00:43:24.17\00:43:26.53 AGAIN AND YOU DIDN'T REALIZE IT, BUT WHEN YOU DID GO UNDER THE 00:43:26.53\00:43:30.57 WATER, YOU BURIED YOUR PAST. YOU CAME UP, AND YOU MAY NOT 00:43:30.57\00:43:36.24 HAVE CHANGED RIGHT AWAY, AS FAR AS GOD'S CONCERNED YOUR PAST WAS 00:43:36.24\00:43:41.88 BURIED AND HE WAS PUTTING YOU ON A NEW PATH. 00:43:41.88\00:43:49.12 >> Mike Carducci: THANK YOU. >> CA Murray: I THINK IN 00:43:49.12\00:43:50.83 LISTENING TO YOUR STORY - - THE CALL FOR YOU AND ANYONE IN SIN 00:43:50.83\00:43:53.16 IS NOT TO STOP DOING THE SIN. THE CALL IS TO LOVE JESUS, AND 00:43:53.16\00:43:59.07 FOLLOW YOUR HEART.-ú>> Shelley Quinn: AMEN. >> CA Murray: AND 00:43:59.07\00:44:04.51 THEN JESUS LIVES OUT HIS LIFE THROUGH YOU. THE STOPPING OF THE 00:44:04.51\00:44:08.48 SIN IS A PRODUCT OF THE RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS. 00:44:08.48\00:44:10.68 IF YOU HAVE NO RELATIONSHIP, YOU HAVE NO STRENGTH. 00:44:10.68\00:44:16.25 >> Mike Carducci: HE DIDN'T SAY STOP BEING GAY. 00:44:16.25\00:44:18.39 I COULDN'T CHANGE THE ATTRACTION OR THE HE JUST SAID STOP 00:44:18.39\00:44:22.86 RESISTING ME. BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW HIM. 00:44:22.86\00:44:24.53 AS I LEARNED TO TRUST HIM MORE AND RESISTED HIM LESS, THEN IT 00:44:24.53\00:44:28.53 WAS EASIER TO GIVE UP THESE THINGS THAT WERE REALLY JUST 00:44:28.53\00:44:34.34 BROKEN CISTERNS. >> CA Murray: PAUL DOESN'T SAY I 00:44:34.34\00:44:39.91 BESEECH YOU PRESENT YOUR BODY AS A LIVING SACRIFICE AND THAT 00:44:39.91\00:44:44.05 LIVING SACRIFICE WILL TAKE CARE OF THE GAY ISSUE. 00:44:44.05\00:44:48.32 ANY ISSUE. THE REMEDY IS THE SAME. 00:44:48.32\00:44:51.35 PRESENT YOUR BODY TO JESUS AND JESUS WORKS IN YOU, FOR YOU, 00:44:51.35\00:44:54.72 WITH YOU, TO YOU TO STOP WHAT THAT SIN PATTERN IS. 00:44:54.72\00:44:59.13 >> Shelley Quinn: I JUST HAVE TO SAY THIS, I THINK MY NEW 00:44:59.13\00:45:02.30 FAVORITE SCRIPTURE IS ROMANS - - EXCUSE ME, HEBREWS 7: 22. 00:45:02.30\00:45:07.77 GOD JUST OPENED THIS UP TO MEME. I'VE BEEN STUDYING THE COVENANT 00:45:07.77\00:45:13.44 AND PRESENTING THE COVENANT FOR YEAR. 00:45:13.44\00:45:17.51 I HAD AN EXPERIENCE IN FEBRUARY WHEN I WAS OUT AT THE CENTRAL 00:45:17.51\00:45:22.35 CALIFORNIA. IT WAS SO FASCINATING TO SEE 00:45:22.35\00:45:24.09 PEOPLE'S REACTION TO REALLY START SEEING ABOUT THE COVENANTS 00:45:24.09\00:45:28.36 OF GOD. BUT I DIDN'T KNOW THIS 00:45:28.36\00:45:30.56 SCRIPTURE, I MEAN, IT DIDN'T HIT ME UNTIL JUST RECENTLY. 00:45:30.56\00:45:34.36 LISTEN TO THIS, IT'S TALKING ABOUT JESUS AND HE SAYS BY SO 00:45:34.36\00:45:38.50 MUCH MORE JESUS HAS BECOME A SURETY OF A BETTER COVENANT. 00:45:38.50\00:45:44.37 AND THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY HE'S THE SURETY. 00:45:44.37\00:46:23.28 >> HE'S GOING TO FINISH THE GOOD WORK HE BEGINS IN US. SO 00:46:23.28\00:46:26.61 THAT'S WHAT HAPPEN SAID TO YOU. YOU COULDN'T DO IT IN YOUR OWN 00:46:26.61\00:46:29.92 STRENGTH, BUT THE SURETY. >> WE'RE SO HAPPY FOR YOUR BOOK. 00:46:29.92\00:46:43.63 I DID A STUDY ON WHICH MEANS AS YOU PARSE IT OUT, ANY TIME, ANY 00:46:43.63\00:46:49.27 PLACE, ANYWHERE, ANY PERSON, ANYHOW BY ANY MEANS, EVERY 00:46:49.27\00:46:53.64 PERSON, EVERY TIME, EVERY PLACE, IN ANY PLACE IN ANY MATTER BY 00:46:53.64\00:46:57.38 ANY MEANS NECESSARY, THERE'S A LOT OF CONSONANTS IN THAT WORD, 00:46:57.38\00:47:05.05 UTTERMOST. THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN BRING 00:47:05.05\00:47:06.12 THAT CHRIST HASN'T SEEN BEFORE, AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN 00:47:06.12\00:47:08.46 BRING THAT CHRIST HAS NOT CURED BEFORE. 00:47:08.46\00:47:10.93 SO THERE'S NOTHING NEW UNDER HEAVEN HE'S DEALT WITH THIS 00:47:10.93\00:47:15.63 BEFORE, AND HE'S DEALT WITH THIS SUCCESSFUL 00:47:15.63\00:47:21.24 SUCCESSFULLY. >> Mike Carducci: THERE'S SO 00:47:21.24\00:47:22.64 MUCH SEXUAL BROKENNESS THAT I FOUND IN THIS MINISTRY IN THE 00:47:22.64\00:47:25.21 LAST SIX YEARS, YOU KNOW, WE TALK ABOUT OUR STORIES IN COMING 00:47:25.21\00:47:28.71 OUT MINISTRIES, BUT WE HAVE SO MANY PEOPLE COMING FORWARD THAT 00:47:28.71\00:47:32.11 NEVER STRUGGLED WITH HOMOSEXUAL ATTRACTION, BUT THEY STRUGGLE 00:47:32.11\00:47:35.12 WITH PORNOGRAPHY ADDICTION OR SEXUAL ADDICTION FROM THE 00:47:35.12\00:47:38.55 PASTORS ON DOWN. AS PART OF THE ISSUES IS THAT 00:47:38.55\00:47:43.66 ARE WE REALLY SURE THAT JESUS CAN HEAL ANY CONDITION? 00:47:43.66\00:47:49.93 IF YOU'RE NOT GETTING VICTORY ON YOUR LIFE, YOU MIGHT SAY LET THE 00:47:49.93\00:47:56.00 GAY GUY BRING HIS BOYFRIEND IN. HE MAY AS WELL JOIN US TOO. 00:47:56.00\00:47:59.91 I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF TRUTH IN THAT, THAT WE'RE JUST NOT 00:47:59.91\00:48:02.31 SEEING THE POWER OF GOD MANIFESTED. 00:48:02.31\00:48:09.45 >> Shelley Quinn: AND I THINK THAT'S BECAUSE WE'RE NOT 00:48:09.45\00:48:11.35 SURRENDERING. ANY TIME WE TRY TO WORK OUT OUR 00:48:11.35\00:48:15.72 OWN SALVATION WITHOUT HIS POWER WE'RE GOING TO FAIL. 00:48:15.72\00:48:19.36 EVERY SINGLE SOLITARY TIME. >> AND SO MANY PEOPLE WE KNOW 00:48:19.36\00:48:23.47 OBEDIENCE IS IMPORTANT, BUT OBEDIENCE BECAUSE IT IS THE 00:48:23.47\00:48:27.20 PATHSWAY TO GOD'S BLESSING. BUT OBEDIENCE IS ONLY BY HIS 00:48:27.20\00:48:31.47 POWER. IT'S BY GRACE. 00:48:31.47\00:48:35.24 WHEN YOU TRY TO THINK THAT YOU CAN DO SOMETHING TO SAVE 00:48:35.24\00:48:38.98 YOURSELF, GUESS WHAT? GOD'S GOING TO SHOW YOU. 00:48:38.98\00:48:41.82 NOPE. SALVATION BELONGS TO GOD. 00:48:41.82\00:48:44.62 BUTS ONCE YOU GET TO THAT POINT OF JUST, YOU KNOW, OUR 00:48:44.62\00:48:48.16 RESPONSIBILITY DAY BY DAY, AND I'M SURE FOR YOU AT LEAST FOR ME 00:48:48.16\00:48:53.60 IT'S A DAY BY DAY SURRENDER. >> Mike Carducci: IT'S ABOUT 00:48:53.60\00:48:59.00 EVERY FIVE MINUTES, SHELLEY. >> Shelley Quinn: AND I 00:48:59.00\00:49:01.74 UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING BECAUSE I'VE BEEN THERE TOO, AND 00:49:01.74\00:49:04.07 STILL DO. BUT THE WHOLE POINT IS THE 00:49:04.07\00:49:06.31 REASON PEOPLE AREN'T SEEING VICTORY IS BECAUSE THEY JUST 00:49:06.31\00:49:12.28 HAVEN'T ODS KAY, LORD, SALVATION LIVES IN YOU. 00:49:12.28\00:49:16.55 LIVE IN ME, WORK IN ME. >> SHELLEY AND I WROTE TEN 00:49:16.55\00:49:25.13 COMMANDMENTS TWICE REMOVED. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE 00:49:25.13\00:49:28.03 WRITTEN A A BOOK. NORMALLY I'M WRITING FOR THOSE 00:49:28.03\00:49:30.47 THAT ARE NOT CHRISTIANS, OR THOSE OUTSIDE THE CHURCH, 00:49:30.47\00:49:33.50 BECAUSE I WANT TO PRESENT,. AND WE LOOK AT IT SOMETIMES IN 00:49:33.50\00:49:39.84 OUR OWN LITTLE WORLD WAIT A MINUTE NO MATTER WHAT CHURCH YOU 00:49:39.84\00:49:44.05 GO TO IF YOU'RE CHRISTIAN YOU BELIEVE IN THE COMMANDMENTS. 00:49:44.05\00:49:51.89 IF SO, THEN WHY IS IT STILL WRONG TO STEAL, AND KILL, AND 00:49:51.89\00:49:55.22 ALL OF THESE THINGS. OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, THE WRITING 00:49:55.22\00:49:58.63 OF THE ORDINANCE WAS NAILED AT THE CROSS, BUT IT'S THE FIRST 00:49:58.63\00:50:01.36 TIME I'VE BEEN IMPRESSED TO WRITE A BOOK THAT TWO CHURCH 00:50:01.36\00:50:07.87 MEMBERS, YOU KNOW, EVEN OUR CHURCH AS WELL AS EVANGELICALS, 00:50:07.87\00:50:12.74 AS WELL AS NON-CHRISTIANS, AS WELL AS VIRTUALLY EVERYONE 00:50:12.74\00:50:16.61 BECAUSE WHAT I'VE SEEN, CREEPING INTO THE CHURCH. 00:50:16.61\00:50:22.68 IT'S COMING IN FULL BARRELS. IT'S COMING IN FROM EVERY WAY. 00:50:22.68\00:50:26.65 THERE WAS A SURVEY THAT OF-COLLEGE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, UH, STUDENTS AND 49% OF THOSE 00:50:26.65\00:50:37.57 SAID WE DON'T SEE ANYTHING WRONG WITH-úSAME-SEX MARRIAGE. 00:50:37.57\00:50:40.44 CHRISTIAN COLLEGE. SO I DON'T EVEN WANT TO SAY WHICH ONE, WHAT 00:50:40.44\00:50:44.11 DENOMINATION, BUT YOU CAN TAKE A GUESS. THAT'S SHOCKING TO ME, 00:50:44.11\00:50:48.98 THAT 49% OF OUR YOUNG PEOPLE, BECAUSE IF WE BELIEVE THAT AND 00:50:48.98\00:50:52.48 THAT'S THE BURDEN THAT I REALLY HAVE - - IF THAT IS ACCEPTABLE, 00:50:52.48\00:50:56.42 THEN THE SABBATH, NOT IMPORTANT. UH, SAME WAY WITH ABORTION. 00:50:56.42\00:51:00.36 WE CAN TALK ABOUT ABORTION FOR A BIT. 00:51:00.36\00:51:03.02 WE, SINCE IT BECAME LAW OF THE LAND, ROWE VERSUS WADE IN 1973, 00:51:03.02\00:51:09.53 WE DON'T HEAR MUCH ABOUT IT IN CHURCHES ANYMORE. 00:51:09.53\00:51:12.33 IT'S LEGAL.-IT'S LEGAL ON THIS EARTH, BUT IT'S NOT LEGAL IN THE 00:51:12.33\00:51:17.44 SIGHT OF GOD. THERE ARE SOME STATES, DID YOU 00:51:17.44\00:51:19.87 KNOW, THAT FIVE MINUTES BEFORE A BABY IS BORN, IT'S OKAY TO ABORT 00:51:19.87\00:51:23.91 IT. FIVE MINUTES AFTER YOU'RE 00:51:23.91\00:51:25.71 ACCUSED OF MURDER. IF FIVE MINUTES BEFORE SOMEONE 00:51:25.71\00:51:28.85 KILLS THIS WOMAN AND THE BABY YOU'RE CHARGED WITH DOUBLE 00:51:28.85\00:51:32.82 HOMICIDE. THAT SEEMS VERY INCONSISTENT IF 00:51:32.82\00:51:34.89 THEY'RE FOUGHT REALLY LOOKING AT IT AS A HUMAN BEING, AS A CHILD. 00:51:34.89\00:51:39.73 SO ABORTION, IT'S AMAZING TO ME THAT PEOPLE CAN SUPPORT 00:51:39.73\00:51:44.67 POLITICAL CANDIDATES OR CHURCHES WHO SAY I THINK ABORTION, IT'S 00:51:44.67\00:51:48.10 UP TO THE WOMAN'S CHOICE. WELL, THEN, IF IT'S ABOUT 00:51:48.10\00:51:54.61 CHOICE, WHY CAN'T I GO SLAP SOMEBODY IF I CAN? 00:51:54.61\00:51:56.95 IF I FEEL LIKE DOING WHATEVER I CAN? EARN ARE IT'S A CHOICE I 00:51:56.95\00:52:01.88 SHOULD HAVE A CHOICE TO BE MYSELF. 00:52:01.88\00:52:03.42 THIS IS CHOICE OVER SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE. 00:52:03.42\00:52:05.22 THE MOST DEFENSELESS HUMAN BEINGS ON EARTH ARE THE UNBORN 00:52:05.22\00:52:10.59 BABIES. YET WE, AS A CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 00:52:10.59\00:52:12.53 SAY VERY LITTLE ABOUT IT. WHY DO WE NOT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT 00:52:12.53\00:52:16.06 IT. OUR SILENCE, I TALK ABOUT THE 00:52:16.06\00:52:18.57 SILENCE OF CHRISTIANS IS JUST AS DAMAGING AS THOSE WHO ARE OUT 00:52:18.57\00:52:25.94 THERE, SAY, PRO-CHOICE. WHEN WE'RE SILENT ABOUT IT, 00:52:25.94\00:52:29.11 WE'RE ACCESSORIES TO THE FACT THAT OVER 60 MILLION IF I HAVE 00:52:29.11\00:52:32.95 THE FIGURES RIGHT IF I LOOK THEM UP, BABIS SINCE THAT TIME HAVE 00:52:32.95\00:52:36.65 BEEN KILLED. 60 MILLION. 00:52:36.65\00:52:38.65 AND I'M ACCESSORY TO THAT IF I DON'T STAND UP AND SAY THAT'S 00:52:38.65\00:52:41.89 NOT RIGHT. NOW, DOES THIS MEAN I THINK I'M 00:52:41.89\00:52:44.63 PERFECT? NO, AND I'M GLAD YOU GOT THAT 00:52:44.63\00:52:46.96 POINT BECAUSE I REALLY PRAYED AND STRUGGLED IN THIS. 00:52:46.96\00:52:50.60 EVERYTHING I WROTE I PUT MYSELF IN THAT. 00:52:50.60\00:52:56.37 I KNOW MIKE, YOU LIVED YOUR BACKGROUND AS A HOMOSEXUAL. 00:52:56.37\00:53:01.51 I'M NO DIFFERENT I HAVE SIN IN MY LIFE. 00:53:01.51\00:53:03.48 YOU'RE NO DIFFERENT YOU HAVE SIN IN YOUR LIFE. 00:53:03.48\00:53:06.88 I HAVE NO RIGHT TO JUDGE MIKE, I'M NOT THAT WAY SO I'M OKAY. 00:53:06.88\00:53:09.85 I CAN'T DO THAT. I LOVE MIKE, EVEN WHEN HE WAS A 00:53:09.85\00:53:14.09 HOMOSEXUAL. IF I HA KNOWN YOU, IT'S MY JOB, 00:53:14.09\00:53:16.19 MY RESPONSIBILITY, AND MY PRIVILEGE TO LOVE A FELLOW HUMAN 00:53:16.19\00:53:19.36 BEING AND TO TRY TO INTRODUCE THEM TO JESUS THAT CAN GIVE US 00:53:19.36\00:53:24.63 VICTORY OVER OUR PROBLEMS. I HAVE PROBLEMS, THEY'RE 00:53:24.63\00:53:29.34 DIFFERENT KIND THAN HIS. IN WRITING THIS, IT'S IN NO WAY 00:53:29.34\00:53:34.74 TO SAY I'M PERFECT, I KEEP ALL THE COMMANDMENTS YOU DON'T. 00:53:34.74\00:53:37.35 IT'S NOT A FINGER POINTING THING, IT'S AN ISSUE THAT SAYS 00:53:37.35\00:53:39.91 THIS IS DESTROYING THE CHURCH OF GOD. 00:53:39.91\00:53:42.58 THE DEVIL, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THE BIBLE SAYS IF IT 00:53:42.58\00:53:46.72 WERE POSSIBLE TO RECEIVE THE VERY ELECT. 00:53:46.72\00:53:48.96 STARTING WITH THIS YOUNGER GENERATION, WHEN OUR YOUNG 00:53:48.96\00:53:50.83 PEOPLE IN OUR SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES AND OUR COLLEGES 00:53:50.83\00:53:54.73 BELIEVE THAT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND ABORTION SHOULD BE A CHOICE, 00:53:54.73\00:53:58.33 THE WOMAN'S CHOICE, IF YOU WANT TO ABORT YOU CAN, OR NOT. 00:53:58.33\00:54:01.57 IT'S NOT BIBLICAL. SO WE HAVE TO TAKE THAT STAND. 00:54:01.57\00:54:04.91 BUT PEOPLE, FOR YEARS, HAVE SAID, WELL, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT 00:54:04.91\00:54:08.31 TO BE CAREFUL WITH THAT. MY THING IS NOW. 00:54:08.31\00:54:49.48 >> INTERFAITH MEETING. EIGHT MILLION PEOPLE, WHATEVER, 00:54:49.48\00:54:52.12 BRING ALL THESE DIFFERENT RELIGIONS TOGETHER. 00:54:52.12\00:54:54.39 LET'S HAVE MEETINGS FOR FIVE DAYS. 00:54:54.39\00:54:56.56 DO YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAID? IN THE FIVE DAYS, ALL THE 00:54:56.56\00:55:01.70 MEETINGS, THERE WAS NEVER ONE PRAYER SAID. 00:55:01.70\00:55:03.63 YOU KNOW WHY? THEY WERE AFRAID THEY WOULD 00:55:03.63\00:55:09.27 OFFEND SOMEONE ELSE'S RELIGION, SO NO ONE WOULD EVEN PRAY FOR 00:55:09.27\00:55:14.51 THEIR FOOD. YOU HEARD ME RIGHT. 00:55:14.51\00:55:16.08 NO ONE WOULD EVEN PRAY FOR THEIR FOOD BECAUSE THEY WERE WORRIED 00:55:16.08\00:55:20.15 ABOUT - - SEE, IT'S POLITICAL CORRECTNESS. 00:55:20.15\00:55:22.38 AND I TALK ABOUT THAT IN THIS BOOK QUITE A BIT. 00:55:22.38\00:55:26.09 WE'VE CHOSEN POLITICAL CORRECTNESS OVER GOD'S LAW. 00:55:26.09\00:55:28.99 WHEN YOU DO THAT, WE END UP IN RUIN AND IN THIS CASE NATIONAL 00:55:28.99\00:55:32.93 RUIN. I GO OVER ALL THE COUNTRIES, 00:55:32.93\00:55:34.93 NUMEROUS COUNTRIES, CAMBODIA, WHETHER IT WAS RUSSIA, I GO DOWN 00:55:34.93\00:55:38.53 THE LINE, ROMANIA, COUNTRIES I'VE BEEN TO AND COMMUNISM, WHEN 00:55:38.53\00:55:41.70 THEY THREW OUT GOD, THEY ENDED UP IN NATIONAL RUIN. 00:55:41.70\00:55:44.27 AND SO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TRAMPLE ON SAME-SEX, ON THE 00:55:44.27\00:55:52.01 MARRIAGE, THE MARRIAGE COMMANDMENT, GOD ONLY INSTITUTED 00:55:52.01\00:55:54.08 THREE THINGS AT CREATED INSTITUTED THE SABBATH, AND 00:55:54.08\00:55:57.72 INSTITUTED MARRIAGE. ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN. 00:55:57.72\00:56:00.26 AND ANY MARRIAGE OUTSIDE THAT IS NOT A REAL UNION. 00:56:00.26\00:56:03.83 IT'S NOT BLESSED BY GOD. SO WHEN WE AS A NATION MAKE IT 00:56:03.83\00:56:08.96 LAW OF THE LAND, WE SLAP GOD IN THE FACE. 00:56:08.96\00:56:11.53 >> YES. >> SO WE'RE GOING DOWN. 00:56:11.53\00:56:13.30 IT'S A DOWNHILL SPIRAL AND IT'S GETTING WORSE AND WORSE, AND 00:56:13.30\00:56:17.01 WORSE, AND WORSE. AND WE'VE GOT A MINUTE AND A 00:56:17.01\00:56:19.71 HALF IN THIS. SO WE WANT YOU TO CALL IN YOUR 00:56:19.71\00:56:22.31 QUESTION OARS OR COMMENTS HOPEFULLY FOR THEEND OF THE 00:56:22.31\00:56:26.85 NEXT HOUR AND WE'VE GOT A LOT MORE INFORMATION WE WANT TO GIVE 00:56:26.85\00:56:29.48 YOU. I'M SORRY YOU WERE GETTING READY 00:56:29.48\00:56:31.75 TO - - . >> YOU MENTIONED POLITICAL 00:56:31.75\00:56:34.39 CORRECTNESS AND I'D LIKE FOR YOU TO UNPACK THAT A LITTLE BIT FOR 00:56:34.39\00:56:39.63 US. AND YOU MENTIONED THE SILENCE OF 00:56:39.63\00:56:41.66 MILLIONS. WHY ARE WE SO SILENT? 00:56:41.66\00:56:43.73 >> YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. >> I THINK IT'S MORE THAN JUST 00:56:43.73\00:56:46.67 POLITICAL CORRECTNESS. I THINK IT'S JUST FEAR. 00:56:46.67\00:56:49.34 JUST FEAR, AFRAID TO STAND UP FOR THE LORD. 00:56:49.34\00:56:52.81 YOU SAW THE LOWER THIRDS OUR TELEPHONE NUMBER (618)627-6271. 00:56:52.81\00:57:06.12 LIVE. IF I'M SURE WE'VE STIRRED 00:57:06.12\00:57:07.89 SOMETHING IN YOUR HEART YOU WANT TO WEIGH IN ON THIS WE'D BE GLAD 00:57:07.89\00:57:11.26 TO TAKE THEM IN THE SECOND HALF. WE'RE COMING DOWN TO THE END OF 00:57:11.26\00:57:15.80 A VERY SPIRITED FIRST HALF. THIS IS A SUR CORRECT, THESE ARE 00:57:15.80\00:57:19.03 SUBJECTS THAT OCCASION, MUCH PRAYER, MUCH THOUGHT STANDING UP 00:57:19.03\00:57:21.37 FOR THE THIS IS TIME FOR THE CHURCH TO 00:57:21.37\00:57:29.68 TAKE A STAND. IT'S NOT A TIME TO SIT ON THE 00:57:29.68\00:57:32.25 FENCE OR TO BE WEAK IN ANY WAY ABOUT WHO WE ARE, WHOSE WE ARE, 00:57:32.25\00:57:38.05 AND WHAT WE BELIEVE. >> AND IF THEY STAY TUNED, WHEN 00:57:38.05\00:57:40.69 WE GET BACK WE'LL TELL YOU HOW YOU CAN GET THIS BOOK 00:57:40.69\00:57:44.16 ABSOLUTESLY FREE OF CHARGE. >> WE'LL BE BACK TWO MINUTES, 00:57:44.16\00:57:46.93 AND TWO SECONDS WE'LL BE BACK, WE HOPE TO SO YOU THEN. 00:57:46.93\00:57:53.47