Have you ever
met a living legend?
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Well, stay tuned because
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we have one sitting
right here in the Studio.
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My name is Yvonne Lewis
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and you're
watching Urban Report.
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Hello and
welcome to Urban Report.
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My guest today is
Dr. Ernest Eugene Rogers
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also known as Dr. E.E. Rogers,
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Dr. Rogers is a
scholar of Biblical languages,
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a former Professor
at Oakwood University
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and a wonderful example of
Christian leadership and service
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welcome to Urban
Report Dr. Rogers.
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It's good to be here.
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Dr. Rogers, I grew
up in part at Oakwood
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so, I went to
school with your sons...
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I lived at Oakwood when
I was... from 10 to 13...
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and you were a Professor there
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when I was there.
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My dad was... I'm
sure... one of your students
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because he was a Theology
Major so your tenure at Oakwood
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was just like, from
what to what how many years?
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From 1945 to 1979...
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My! my! well tell us...
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before we get into
your Oakwood tenure,
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let's talk about your life
because you just celebrated
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a very special
birthday, how old are you?
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I am 100 years old now.
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Dr. Rogers, you look amazing,
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no one would ever know
you were 100 years old.
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That is phenomenal...
what's your secret?
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Well, proper attitude...
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Okay, unpack that a
little bit, what do you mean?
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When I say "Proper Attitude...
" I... we want things...
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if you can keep your
mind clear and stayed on God,
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nothing will come out of it
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but something
that is good for God,
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if you have a problem and
you can solve it in your mind,
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then it will never go into
action so where anybody can see.
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Okay, so then, your attitude and
keeping your mind fixed on God,
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that's how... that's what
you feel is like... the secret.
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Oh, to me it is.
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Hmmm... hmmm... hmmm... hmmm.
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Over the past 100 years,
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you must have
seen so many changes
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in this Country... in the
status of African Americans,
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tell us about how you grew up,
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where did you grow up?
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I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee,
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the conditions... at that
time, were not the very best,
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but as I said, I tried
to keep a good attitude
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for what is in you...
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if you can stop it
before it goes out of you...
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if it is bad... then it
will become good anyway.
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Yes, yes, yes, yes...
so, when you were growing up,
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then you grew up in a...
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you grew up in Segregationist
Memphis, Tennessee
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because it was
segregated at that time.
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Oh, very much so.
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What was life
like... as a young black boy
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in Memphis during that time?
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It was horrible,
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I've seen incidents that
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I don't even like
to even think about
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but I've... I tried to stay away
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from where I
thought trouble might be
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and I usually
stayed with elderly people
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because I felt that they could
be a shield and a guide to me
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because my father was
killed in an automobile accident
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when I was around
nine or ten years old,
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and for fatherly care...
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so that I would be able to
have some type of a key on life,
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I worked through a gentleman
by the name of Eli Hayes,
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he was a staunch
Christian and he used to have me
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to read the Bible to him
and by reading the Bible to him
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and having a very
active mind at that age,
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I was able to retain a number
of the passages of the Scripture
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and when things came,
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I would... I could
be able to adjust them
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by what I had
read in the Bible...
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Ah...
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And then too... his office
was just outside of the black...
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what you might
call, "black neighborhood"
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and we didn't have too many
policemen coming in at that time
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and I was somewhat
secluded from any...
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the brutality
that we have right now
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and... which was
worse back in those days
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but thank the Lord... I
came through it very well.
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Yes, yes, so
what you're saying is
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God provided
someone to mentor you
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after your dad was killed,
He had someone else there
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and He had you reading the
Bible and by doing that for him,
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your life was changed.
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My life was completely changed.
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My! did you have
brothers and sisters?
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I had five
brothers and one sister
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after my
mother's second marriage
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she had six boys
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and she didn't get a girl
until after she married again.
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Ah... okay... all
right... all right...
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so, when you had
this... this mentor...
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he was a Godly Christian man
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and he spent time giving you
like, putting values into you.
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Very much so...
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Did you go to church with him?
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No, I never went
to church with him,
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I was doing just during the
week days... I would go in...
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I didn't play around
much with the fellows,
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I always went to him because
what he was saying interested me
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and I felt that if I
could stay around him,
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I could obtain values
that would be helpful to me
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in my later life which it did.
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So, now, did you ever get
into trouble as a teenager,
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did you ever kind of
hang out with the wrong crowd,
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what did you do as a teenager?
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I never got into any
trouble and when I saw myself
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mingling with
those that I thought
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might be troublesome to
me, I moved away from them,
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I stayed clear of what I
thought might be troublesome.
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Hmmm... so at Oakwood,
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you taught Greek
and Hebrew, correct?
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I taught Greek largely,
I started a Hebrew class
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but the students
were afraid of it
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having taken Greek
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I only had three
persons in the... in the class.
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I taught it for that quarter
and then after that I decided
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that I'd better
just stick with Greek.
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Now, what gave you your
love for Biblical languages?
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When I went to college,
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our teacher brought
out points in the Bible
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that stimulated my thinking,
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I saw Grammar...
in a different light,
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the sentences in Greek
did not have to be in order as
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subject, verb and...
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Hmmm...
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If you could
put... any way you wanted
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and you didn't
follow the regular order,
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whatever came first is the thing
that you wished to emphasize
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and when I read
Saint John 1:1 to 3...
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Yes... ah ha...
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"In the beginning was the Word,
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and the Word was with God... "
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the subject came with
the last word in the sentence
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but you have an
adverbial clause there...
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Yvonne: Ah ha...
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Dr. Rogers: to introduce it and
then it started to the thinking,
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"Why was this done?"
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And since I knew that
the emphasis was placed there
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because... I marveled... I said,
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"Well, what are they saying?"
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Why did they say, "In
the beginning was the Word?"
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I just said, "Well, hmmm...
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He had been
speaking about He was God
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because He said that He was God"
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it says... they
are talking about
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maybe... the eternity of God
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and they used in that a
verb... the verb "to be... "
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the imperfect tense
of the verb "to be... "
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and the imperfect tense...
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usually starts with
the time of his speaking,
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or hearing or doing
and then goes back...
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and as far as you go back
it will continue to go back
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and there is no
end to it whatsoever,
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and so, as I read
the text, it says,
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"In the
beginning was the Word... "
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the Word was in the beginning...
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the Word was
before the beginning...
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and when the
beginning began, He already was.
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Wow! and all
that's in the Greek...
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Dr. Rogers: Yes... Yvonne: Oh!
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Dr. Rogers: And I said, "My!
I'm going to stick with this"
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because I saw new insights
that I had never seen before
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and I could see
the eternity of God...
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I could see God
in all of His way.
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Doc! that's rich... because...
because there are some who say,
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"In the beginning was the
Word and the Word was with God
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and the Word was 'a' God...
" they add that article there
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but in the Greek that
article isn't there is it?
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No, that article isn't there but
when the article isn't there,
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there is no need for
a definite article...
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Hmmm...
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when the subject
is definite itself...
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Come on... come on Doc...
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oh, I wish I had
taken your class myself,
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oh! that is so rich...
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Yeah... it's... you...
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that which is definite is just
like saying, "Where is John?"
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"He's at... he's at home... "
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you don't need a
definite article there
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because it is definite
already, he only has one...
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Your right, that's
right... that's right...
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they're talking
about, "Where is John?"
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right? not "Where is 'a' John?"
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"Where is John?"
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And they know
there is only one John
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it's the guy with whom you're...
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Yes, yes, so from that verse,
you got the eternal existence
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of Christ... the incarnate...
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That's right...
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ooh! that's rich... that's rich.
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So, you have two verbs in Greek
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one is the imperfect...
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what we say,
"the imperfect tense"
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one is called the "Aorist Tense"
in Greek, it's past tense...
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to give you an example of
the difference between the two,
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when Jesus was talking to
the Jews about His existence,
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He says,
"Before Abraham was... "
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He didn't use "a" which
is a form of the verb "to be"
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which shows there is no
beginning and no end... you see.
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Yvonne: Ahh... Dr.
Rogers: He's always present.
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Yvonne: Right.
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Dr. Rogers: He used the
"Aorist Tense" which means,
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"it happens then and it stopped"
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But He says... and He didn't go
back to the imperfect tense then
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He started with
the present tense,
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He says, "I am... "
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He says,
"Abraham had a beginning"
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but "I am" has no
beginning and no end
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it exists in
the eternal present.
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Oooooh!
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And so, when I became acquainted
with these particular aspects
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of how it makes
the Bible come alive
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and how you can see
things that you've never seen,
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everything then
became... oh, so dear to me
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and I just loved it.
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Oh! where did you learn it,
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where did you go
to school to learn it?
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Oakwood, at that time,
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did not have a Department
of Biblical Languages,
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it was just a Junior College
at that time... when I graduated
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back in 1941...
and I've learned...
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I started... I learned
portions of what I now know
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at Union
College from Dr. Rolland
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who was my Greek
Instructor at the time,
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but how to put it together and
how to make Grammar stand out
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and become
edifying to those that hear
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and meaningful to
those that hear...
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I got it at the Seminary.
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Ahhh... that is so...
to me, it's so exciting
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because it's not
just... like, when I read
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the King James Version
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I can read, "Before
Abraham was... I am... "
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but when you're reading it
in the Greek or in Aramaic...
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In the Greek...
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In the Greek... it just...
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it makes the
whole thing come to life
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because you're looking at
not just what is said there
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but those
tenses and all of that,
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you're
conjugating all of that...
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to me it's amazing!
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You can say, in other words
you could put it another way,
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"Before Abraham came
into being... I am... "
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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and "I am" is such a
powerful statement isn't it?
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In other words,
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it is the equivalent
to the word, "Jehovah. "
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Whoa... and that's why they
wanted to stone Him isn't it?
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That's why they wanted to
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because He was
making Himself a God.
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Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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And there is no beginning and
there is no end with the present
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with "I am... " because
"I am" has always been "I am"
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"and I will always be I am,
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there never was a
time when I wasn't,
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and there never is a
time when I will not be... "
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Yes.
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So, He could say, to
make that distinction
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so He could let
the Jews hear it,
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they wanted to pick
up a stone and stone Him
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because they interpreted...
they got His meaning,
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"You are saying
that you are God. "
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Yes, yes... oh that is so
rich, how did the students...
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how did your
students grasp the Greek,
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were they eager to grasp it...
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were they... how...
how did they deal with it?
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They were very,
very eager, what we did,
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I always gave something
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that I thought that
they would be able to use
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in their sermonic preparation
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because anytime you can
bring out a new concept...
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a new idea... maybe one that
one could not otherwise know
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unless he had some idea of
what it was in the original
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to give you an
example, the word "peculiar" now
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when you think of
peculiar, what does it come...
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what comes to your mind?
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Strange...
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Strange...
queer... but back in 1611
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when the King
James Version was written
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or when John wrote it,
the word there meant...
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back then "peculiar" meant
there "a precious possession. "
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Hmmm...
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And when you look
at the word itself,
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it comes from a
word, "perioúsios"
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"peri" means...it's like a
perimeter, it's a circle...
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and "ousima...
" the verb "to be"
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"here I'm a being outside
of the circle of God's grace,
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but when I, by faith,
accept Him as my Savior,
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the circle which did not
encircle me... now encircles me
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and I am existing now in
the circle of God's grace. "
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Oh! Doc... oh, that is so good.
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These are the things that
made Greek so precious to me.
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Yes...
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And I enjoyed it immensely.
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Yes, I can tell because
I'm enjoying it right now,
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and I'm sure our
Viewers will enjoy it too,
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just... it's like... digging
deeply into the treasures
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that are in the
Bible that we don't even...
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we don't even really know
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because we don't know
the Biblical languages.
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That's right.
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The deep, deep treasures,
what's your favorite Bible text?
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Oh, my favorite Bible text is
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Saint John 15:7,
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"If ye believe in me,
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and my word... "
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no, it really
doesn't say "believe"
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"If ye abide in me,
and my words abide in you,
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you shall ask what you will,
and it shall be done unto you. "
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My wife, at that
time, was dying from cancer,
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they had given
her only days to live
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and I was by her bedside
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and I was reading my Bible
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and that text came
across, I was you at that time
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and I read it... I said,
00:20:35.60\00:20:40.24
"It says here, if
you believe in me,
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and my Word... " I
keep saying "believe... "
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that word there is "abide"
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"If you abide in me
and my words abide in you,
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you shall ask what you will,
and it shall be done unto you. "
00:20:56.38\00:21:02.79
I looked at the word "done"
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and the word "done" actually
came from the word that means
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"a beginning... "
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I said, "Oh,
what it is saying here
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'if you believe in me
and my words abide in you,
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you shall ask what you
will and if what you ask for
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does not exist, I will
bring it into existence
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in order that your
prayer might be answered. '"
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Hmmm...
00:21:41.83\00:21:43.16
And I asked her,
"Do you believe that?"
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She said, "Yes... "
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I said, "Can you
think of anything
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that might be
between you and the Lord
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so that He will not
answer this prayer?"
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She says, "No... "
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because people were praying
for her all around the world...
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I said then,
"Let's just pray... "
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I said, "Lord,
please bring into existence
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a cure that never existed before
00:22:11.29\00:22:14.83
in order that she might
be able to see as she desires
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her children grow up... "
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52 years later...
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Ohhhh... are you kidding?
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She was able to see
all of her grandchildren
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and her great-grandchildren
and hold them on her lap,
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I said, "That text from now on
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will always be
my favorite text. "
00:22:47.30\00:22:51.57
"If what you ask
for does not exist,
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I will bring it into existence
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in order that your
prayer might be answered. "
00:22:59.67\00:23:04.05
Oh...
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This is why I love
Biblical languages.
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Yes, that is so beautiful
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so she only had days to
live according to the doctor?
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Yeah... according to the doctors
00:23:14.89\00:23:16.22
and this was 50...
51 or 52 years later
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she was still
fondling her great-grandson.
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Praise the
Lord... what a blessing.
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This is... you can
see why Biblical...
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and I try to make it practical,
I knew that my students would...
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some of my students...
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we have some that were very
scholarly... very scholarly...
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very good theologians
00:23:45.39\00:23:49.09
and... but I knew that
00:23:49.12\00:23:52.76
the majority of them
were there... taking it
00:23:52.79\00:23:56.87
because they had to take
it in order to get a grade.
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It was a requirement...
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Exactly... I didn't want
them to be spending their money
00:24:01.77\00:24:05.27
for something that would
not benefit them in the end
00:24:05.31\00:24:08.81
and so, I used
practical illustrations,
00:24:08.84\00:24:13.25
I used words too... that I
knew that they would be using
00:24:13.28\00:24:18.62
in their sermons and
gave them illustrations
00:24:18.65\00:24:23.96
from the Word itself
and how the Greek shed light
00:24:23.99\00:24:28.60
upon the text and
they appreciated it,
00:24:28.63\00:24:35.34
they never missed class hardly
00:24:35.37\00:24:37.67
because they felt that
they would miss something
00:24:37.71\00:24:41.38
if they were
not there to get it.
00:24:41.41\00:24:43.55
Yes... yes... and the
Lord has blessed you so much,
00:24:43.58\00:24:49.75
He blessed you
in your home life,
00:24:49.78\00:24:52.45
He blessed you in your ministry,
He blessed you as a Professor
00:24:52.52\00:24:57.06
and a few years ago, you
had lost your first wife,
00:24:57.09\00:25:01.26
He blessed you
with another wife,
00:25:01.30\00:25:03.26
you got married
at... how old were you Doc?
00:25:03.30\00:25:07.74
My wife was 91
years old and I was 93...
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Yvonne: Oh... look at that...
00:25:12.21\00:25:14.11
Dr. Rogers: And I told her,
00:25:14.18\00:25:16.01
I said, "Most people
say 'life begins at 40... '"
00:25:16.04\00:25:20.52
I said, "but today...
we have changed that...
00:25:20.55\00:25:24.95
life now begins at 90... "
00:25:24.99\00:25:28.22
Come on... Doc...
you are rapping...
00:25:28.26\00:25:34.43
oh that's so
sweet, how sweet is that!
00:25:34.46\00:25:38.67
And so, we have
been happy ever since
00:25:38.70\00:25:42.84
and I wish she could
have been here beside me
00:25:42.90\00:25:46.41
because she's my inspiration.
00:25:46.44\00:25:48.24
Oh, that is so sweet,
well, you know, thankfully
00:25:48.31\00:25:52.31
we are going to be
doing a "Today Program"
00:25:52.35\00:25:55.18
with you and with your
wife so that's going to be
00:25:55.22\00:25:58.79
on our parent network so
our Viewers can watch you
00:25:58.85\00:26:01.96
on Dare to Dream and
they can also watch you on
00:26:01.99\00:26:05.09
3abn Parent Network
with your lovely wife.
00:26:05.13\00:26:08.30
Good... that's a blessing...
00:26:08.33\00:26:10.87
That's incredible...
00:26:10.90\00:26:12.23
what closing thought
would you like to leave
00:26:12.27\00:26:16.24
in like 30 seconds or so
with our Viewers about anything,
00:26:16.27\00:26:20.64
anything that the
Lord lays on your heart.
00:26:20.68\00:26:22.78
Do you have a closing thought?
00:26:22.84\00:26:25.15
My closing
thought would be this,
00:26:25.21\00:26:30.02
"Always keep a good attitude
00:26:30.05\00:26:34.82
because if you can
think right you will do right,
00:26:34.86\00:26:42.13
if you have a good idea
00:26:42.16\00:26:45.47
and actions spring from
your thoughts that you think,
00:26:45.50\00:26:51.37
if you can kill the thing
that is wrong in your mind,
00:26:51.41\00:26:57.25
by taking that attitude
00:26:57.28\00:26:59.75
by making God
first and best and last
00:26:59.81\00:27:02.88
in your experience,
00:27:02.92\00:27:04.39
then it would never come
into full play where it can be
00:27:04.42\00:27:09.79
seen in public,
00:27:09.82\00:27:13.90
what you kill on the inside,
00:27:13.93\00:27:17.37
will never be played
out on the outside. "
00:27:17.43\00:27:21.87
Doc... on that
note... thank you so much,
00:27:21.90\00:27:24.97
may God continue
to richly bless you,
00:27:25.01\00:27:27.98
and thank you for your
service and all that you've done
00:27:28.01\00:27:31.45
just to leave
this wonderful legacy
00:27:31.48\00:27:34.48
we thank you so much.
00:27:34.52\00:27:36.02
Thank you...
00:27:36.05\00:27:37.39
Yes, and Dr. Rogers
has lived these 100 years
00:27:37.42\00:27:40.76
as a Servant Leader,
00:27:40.79\00:27:42.16
what an example he
is for us to follow,
00:27:42.19\00:27:45.46
we appreciate
and honor his legacy.
00:27:45.49\00:27:48.66
Those of you who know
other seniors... honor them...
00:27:48.70\00:27:53.10
let them know how
much you appreciate them
00:27:53.13\00:27:55.87
well, we've reached
the end of another Program,
00:27:55.90\00:27:58.47
join us next time
because you know what?
00:27:58.51\00:28:00.91
it just wouldn't be
the same... without you.
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