Stay tuned to meet a man 00:00:01.36\00:00:02.70 who refuses to be politically correct. 00:00:02.73\00:00:05.10 My name is Yvonne Lewis Shelton. 00:00:05.13\00:00:07.00 And I'm Jason Bradley, 00:00:07.04\00:00:08.37 and you're watching Urban Report. 00:00:08.40\00:00:10.54 Hello and welcome to Urban Report. 00:00:33.46\00:00:35.66 Our guest today is no stranger to Dare to Dream. 00:00:35.70\00:00:38.73 In fact, he's the co-founder of Dare to Dream. 00:00:38.77\00:00:42.27 He's also the president 00:00:42.30\00:00:43.81 and founder of Three Angels Broadcasting Network, 00:00:43.84\00:00:46.78 and his name is Danny Shelton, and he's my wonderful husband. 00:00:46.81\00:00:50.61 Yay! All right. 00:00:50.65\00:00:51.98 It's good to be here today with you and Jason. 00:00:52.01\00:00:55.02 Oh, we're so happy to have you. 00:00:55.05\00:00:57.02 This is rare, we don't... I know. 00:00:57.05\00:00:58.39 It's not often that we get to interview you. 00:00:58.42\00:01:00.86 I know. I may be getting nervous. 00:01:00.89\00:01:03.93 I'm usually on the other side, it's easier, 00:01:03.96\00:01:06.09 you know, on the other end. 00:01:06.13\00:01:07.86 Well, we know that God has placed 00:01:07.90\00:01:09.40 a tremendous calling on your life. 00:01:09.43\00:01:11.27 I mean, you do everything from writing music, to books, 00:01:11.30\00:01:15.37 to hosting, to playing guitar, to singing, 00:01:15.40\00:01:19.77 to all these different things. 00:01:19.81\00:01:21.14 None of them very well, but I try everything. 00:01:21.18\00:01:23.08 No, no, no. No. 00:01:23.11\00:01:25.35 The Lord has really blessed you in so many different ways 00:01:25.38\00:01:27.55 and you've written several books. 00:01:27.58\00:01:29.62 And this last book that you've written 00:01:29.65\00:01:31.39 has stirred up quite a bit of controversy. 00:01:31.42\00:01:34.16 It has. It really has. 00:01:34.19\00:01:37.16 Well, first of all, the name of the book 00:01:37.19\00:01:38.53 is Spiritual Vigilantes. 00:01:38.56\00:01:39.89 Yes. And I have it right here. 00:01:39.93\00:01:42.16 And there you can see it. 00:01:42.20\00:01:46.50 What made you go with that title? 00:01:46.53\00:01:49.00 Well, it's actually a pretty long process. 00:01:49.04\00:01:53.21 I was watching, it started around 2015 00:01:53.24\00:01:57.15 when all of a sudden everybody was talking about 00:01:57.18\00:01:59.15 the election coming 00:01:59.18\00:02:00.52 and you had all these people running for offices 00:02:00.55\00:02:03.15 and I began to watch the Democrats, 00:02:03.18\00:02:05.32 watch the Republicans, and the independents 00:02:05.35\00:02:07.86 and watch all of these people 00:02:07.89\00:02:09.82 and things they would say to their audiences to make sure 00:02:09.86\00:02:14.10 they got votes 00:02:14.13\00:02:15.46 was just ridiculous a lot of times. 00:02:15.50\00:02:17.70 And I'm like, you know, these people 00:02:17.73\00:02:19.50 they're so worried about being politically correct, 00:02:19.53\00:02:22.74 it seems like somewhere 00:02:22.77\00:02:24.44 the truth has been lost in this. 00:02:24.47\00:02:26.84 And so, you know, I started having this burden 00:02:26.88\00:02:30.05 because I thought, "Man, there are all of these people, 00:02:30.08\00:02:32.55 there's an audience out there, 00:02:32.58\00:02:34.35 and people also who say they're Christians 00:02:34.38\00:02:37.29 and were deciding 'How am I gonna vote?' 00:02:37.32\00:02:39.25 You know, how does my religion work into politics 00:02:39.29\00:02:43.66 or my politics work into my religion, 00:02:43.69\00:02:46.36 and which way am I gonna go." 00:02:46.39\00:02:47.73 And so I began to hear people make excuses 00:02:47.76\00:02:51.07 for voting in ways that you wonder, 00:02:51.10\00:02:54.80 well, this doesn't line up with the Bible 00:02:54.84\00:02:57.01 or supporting candidates 00:02:57.04\00:02:58.91 that doesn't line up with the Bible. 00:02:58.94\00:03:00.94 And I said, you know, something needs to be... 00:03:00.98\00:03:03.28 I've never been one as, you might know, 00:03:03.31\00:03:06.21 even when I was a kid, to keep my mouth shut too much. 00:03:06.25\00:03:09.25 If I got in trouble, I usually wasn't mean, 00:03:09.28\00:03:10.99 I was talking too much, you know, 00:03:11.02\00:03:12.79 when my folks tell me to be quiet or something. 00:03:12.82\00:03:14.59 But I've always been one that felt like, 00:03:14.62\00:03:17.66 you know, something has to be said 00:03:17.69\00:03:19.39 or something has to be done. 00:03:19.43\00:03:21.93 And so it began to dawn on me, the Spiritual Vigilantes. 00:03:21.96\00:03:26.90 I looked at churches, 00:03:26.94\00:03:28.27 I looked at how churches 00:03:28.30\00:03:29.64 were mixing politics and religion, Jason. 00:03:29.67\00:03:32.74 And I'm like, you know, this is amazing to me. 00:03:32.77\00:03:36.38 Isn't it interesting, in the world 00:03:36.41\00:03:38.61 we have Vigilantes, physical, 00:03:38.65\00:03:40.85 when we talk about a vigilante, 00:03:40.88\00:03:42.68 someone who takes the law of the land 00:03:42.72\00:03:46.49 into their own hands, 00:03:46.52\00:03:47.86 they become judge, jury, and executioner. 00:03:47.89\00:03:51.19 And I said it's amazing that Christians, 00:03:51.23\00:03:54.00 some Christians and even churches, 00:03:54.03\00:03:56.67 have taken God's law into their own hands. 00:03:56.70\00:03:59.60 So based on that, I thought, 00:03:59.63\00:04:02.10 maybe Spiritual Vigilante would be a good title for this 00:04:02.14\00:04:05.34 because I want to write something that says, 00:04:05.37\00:04:07.61 "Let's don't be politically correct. 00:04:07.64\00:04:10.21 Let's put God first and serve Him 00:04:10.25\00:04:12.48 no matter what His law says, do we love Him enough, 00:04:12.51\00:04:15.35 do we trust Him enough to serve Him." 00:04:15.38\00:04:17.79 So let's talk about how they've taken God's law 00:04:17.82\00:04:21.56 into their own hands. 00:04:21.59\00:04:22.92 How did they do that? 00:04:22.96\00:04:24.29 Well, this started, you know, thousands of years ago, 00:04:24.33\00:04:26.90 but hundreds of years ago, 00:04:26.93\00:04:28.53 and we can look back into the first century AD, 00:04:28.56\00:04:31.17 for instance, there were Christians 00:04:31.20\00:04:33.94 who took God's law and tried, I always say tried, 00:04:33.97\00:04:37.21 they didn't change the fourth commandment 00:04:37.24\00:04:39.24 but they tried. 00:04:39.27\00:04:40.61 God gave us Ten Commandments, 00:04:40.64\00:04:41.98 he didn't give us a smorgasbord and say, 00:04:42.01\00:04:43.35 "Jay, pick out, you know, 00:04:43.38\00:04:45.58 which one of these you want to keep?" 00:04:45.61\00:04:47.45 He said, "Here's Ten Commandments 00:04:47.48\00:04:48.82 and he listed them all, 00:04:48.85\00:04:50.19 and these are the ones you keep." 00:04:50.22\00:04:51.85 But people, supposedly, 00:04:51.89\00:04:54.32 theologians got together and said, 00:04:54.36\00:04:55.72 "Well, you really don't have to do that. 00:04:55.76\00:04:57.53 Let's go by tradition. 00:04:57.56\00:04:59.19 We don't want to be associated with Judaism. 00:04:59.23\00:05:01.40 So we're going to start our own day of worship 00:05:01.43\00:05:04.13 and so we're going to do it on the first day of the week." 00:05:04.17\00:05:06.53 That, to me, is a spiritual vigilante 00:05:06.57\00:05:09.20 because you're now fooling around with the laws of God. 00:05:09.24\00:05:13.17 That's the last thing I want to, you know, 00:05:13.21\00:05:15.74 be doing is messing with God, right? 00:05:15.78\00:05:18.18 So we've seen it over and over and over, then in 1970s, 00:05:18.21\00:05:23.08 here in the United States of America, 00:05:23.12\00:05:24.59 '73 or so, you know, we had Roe versus Wade, 00:05:24.62\00:05:27.36 that's way before Jay was born. 00:05:27.39\00:05:29.62 And the abortion... I remember reading about that. 00:05:29.66\00:05:31.83 And so many Christians support abortion. 00:05:31.86\00:05:34.86 Well, if I have it right, 00:05:34.90\00:05:36.63 abortion would be about the sixth commandment, 00:05:36.67\00:05:39.03 "Thou shalt not murder." 00:05:39.07\00:05:40.40 And so we say, well, you know, it's the law of the land, 00:05:40.44\00:05:44.14 and, you know, it's just something, 00:05:44.17\00:05:46.78 maybe people should have a choice. 00:05:46.81\00:05:49.01 But I would say, 00:05:49.04\00:05:51.21 some people think it's okay to abort a child 00:05:51.25\00:05:54.02 literally up to minutes 00:05:54.05\00:05:55.55 before they come out of the womb. 00:05:55.58\00:05:58.15 So I say, "Well, it's okay to kill a child anytime, 00:05:58.19\00:06:01.29 whatever trimester, all the way till the end. 00:06:01.32\00:06:03.86 But as soon as it's born and comes out, 00:06:03.89\00:06:06.80 then it's murder." 00:06:06.83\00:06:08.16 Well, isn't that a child in there, 00:06:08.20\00:06:10.33 you know, beforehand? 00:06:10.37\00:06:12.53 So to me, and people have compromised, 00:06:12.57\00:06:14.90 so not only has the world done it, 00:06:14.94\00:06:16.87 but Christianity, 00:06:16.91\00:06:18.24 you rarely hear people talking about, 00:06:18.27\00:06:20.28 in the Christian church, abortion anymore. 00:06:20.31\00:06:23.91 So that's a Spiritual Vigilante, 00:06:23.95\00:06:26.45 changing God's laws. 00:06:26.48\00:06:28.42 Then in the last few years, it seemed like it just... 00:06:28.45\00:06:32.52 What word would it be? 00:06:32.55\00:06:33.92 Such a word as sneaked up on us. 00:06:33.96\00:06:35.86 It's not my folk say snuck up on us. 00:06:35.89\00:06:37.69 It snuck up on us. 00:06:37.73\00:06:39.06 So I'll go country for a minute here. 00:06:39.09\00:06:40.76 It snuck up on us, the same sex marriage. 00:06:40.80\00:06:45.27 We, as a country, I didn't get to vote on it, 00:06:45.30\00:06:47.07 I don't know about you, I don't think you did either. 00:06:47.10\00:06:49.47 But through the Obama administration... 00:06:49.50\00:06:51.57 Please don't think I'm political and favoring 00:06:51.61\00:06:54.71 because I didn't vote 00:06:54.74\00:06:56.08 and because I didn't feel like 00:06:56.11\00:06:57.45 I could in the last two or three elections. 00:06:57.48\00:07:01.45 And if you want to vote, that's great, you go ahead. 00:07:01.48\00:07:04.32 But I felt like that I had to take a stand. 00:07:04.35\00:07:08.96 And so how do I vote for something 00:07:08.99\00:07:12.13 that I don't believe in. 00:07:12.16\00:07:14.06 And it's really tough, so I said, 00:07:14.10\00:07:16.20 "Who am I going to serve? 00:07:16.23\00:07:17.57 Am I going to serve God or man? 00:07:17.60\00:07:18.93 Why can they pass a law that the Supreme Court passes, 00:07:18.97\00:07:22.70 and it says that a man and a man 00:07:22.74\00:07:27.24 or a woman and a woman can be married 00:07:27.28\00:07:30.21 when Scripture says everything but, it says, 00:07:30.25\00:07:32.61 'God created man, male and female,' 00:07:32.65\00:07:35.38 and He said, 'Be fruitful and multiply.' 00:07:35.42\00:07:37.82 And yet now, 00:07:37.85\00:07:39.22 the United States government has said that same..." 00:07:39.25\00:07:43.22 And not only the United States, 00:07:43.26\00:07:44.59 many governments around the world 00:07:44.63\00:07:46.73 have said that same sex marriage is lawful 00:07:46.76\00:07:51.33 and it's normal and it's okay. 00:07:51.37\00:07:54.17 So these are all attempts of the world 00:07:54.20\00:07:58.24 or the church to change something 00:07:58.27\00:08:00.08 we have no jurisdiction over. 00:08:00.11\00:08:02.44 So what do you say to people who might say to you, 00:08:02.48\00:08:06.51 "Well, I don't agree with same sex marriage, 00:08:06.55\00:08:10.32 but I don't like this about the other party 00:08:10.35\00:08:14.59 or I don't like that about the other party"? 00:08:14.62\00:08:17.63 What do you... How would you answer that? 00:08:17.66\00:08:20.73 Because that's what a lot of people say. 00:08:20.76\00:08:22.80 My father has been dead since 1974. 00:08:22.83\00:08:26.03 But I can hear him saying 00:08:26.07\00:08:27.40 'cause he drilled it into my mind 00:08:27.44\00:08:29.10 when I was a little kid, 00:08:29.14\00:08:30.81 "Two wrongs don't make a right, son." 00:08:30.84\00:08:33.31 And my mom would say that, you say, "'He did this...' 00:08:33.34\00:08:36.54 No, two wrongs don't make... 00:08:36.58\00:08:37.91 He hit you first, 00:08:37.95\00:08:39.28 but you hitting him, that doesn't..." 00:08:39.31\00:08:40.78 Usually, it's between brothers, you know? 00:08:40.82\00:08:42.65 "That doesn't make a right." 00:08:42.68\00:08:44.02 So two wrongs don't make a right. 00:08:44.05\00:08:45.55 So there are people who will vote for one candidate 00:08:45.59\00:08:48.59 'cause they just can't stand the other one. 00:08:48.62\00:08:50.99 And yet maybe this candidate they're voting for, 00:08:51.03\00:08:54.00 I'm amazed that they say, "Oh, well, this candidate..." 00:08:54.03\00:08:56.77 And it's not the individual, I'm not so much... 00:08:56.80\00:08:59.27 I don't care if we're talking Trump or Hillary 00:08:59.30\00:09:02.07 or if it's going to be Oprah here. 00:09:02.10\00:09:03.91 Individually, and nobody's perfect, 00:09:03.94\00:09:06.14 and these people... 00:09:06.17\00:09:07.51 We know when there have been heads of our countries, 00:09:07.54\00:09:09.44 they're not necessarily Christians. 00:09:09.48\00:09:11.11 In the Bible times, 00:09:11.15\00:09:12.48 there were not always people who followed God, 00:09:12.51\00:09:14.85 but were looking at policy 00:09:14.88\00:09:16.79 and the effect of God on a country. 00:09:16.82\00:09:19.39 So it's bigger than Donald Trump or Barack Obama. 00:09:19.42\00:09:24.06 And because we don't like 00:09:24.09\00:09:25.43 how this person acts or what he said, 00:09:25.46\00:09:28.26 we have to look what policy, 00:09:28.30\00:09:29.86 what are they forming for this nation, 00:09:29.90\00:09:32.43 and what we're seeing is it's becoming more anti 00:09:32.47\00:09:35.27 and anti-God here in the United States of America. 00:09:35.30\00:09:38.84 You know, I remember seeing in your book 00:09:38.87\00:09:40.78 where you said something about how a lot of people think 00:09:40.81\00:09:45.11 that America is a Christian nation 00:09:45.15\00:09:48.48 and was a Christian nation. 00:09:48.52\00:09:50.52 What do you have to say about that? 00:09:50.55\00:09:52.89 Well, I did some homework on it. 00:09:52.92\00:09:54.92 When you study back... 00:09:54.96\00:09:56.99 And as you said, people say, 00:09:57.03\00:09:58.36 "Well, we're a Christian nation." 00:09:58.39\00:09:59.73 We never really were a Christian nation. 00:09:59.76\00:10:01.66 But the founding fathers took, especially, 00:10:01.70\00:10:04.23 the moral laws of God, 00:10:04.27\00:10:06.60 which is the last six commandments 00:10:06.63\00:10:09.34 and entered that in 00:10:09.37\00:10:10.94 and based the structure of the Constitution 00:10:10.97\00:10:16.04 and the Bill of Rights, 00:10:16.08\00:10:17.41 all of that is all designed around God's moral law 00:10:17.45\00:10:20.52 because where else are you going to look 00:10:20.55\00:10:21.92 for something that if you want to live 00:10:21.95\00:10:23.75 in peace and tranquility, tranquility and all of these, 00:10:23.79\00:10:27.56 you're gonna have to follow the law of God 00:10:27.59\00:10:29.16 or you're going to have chaos. 00:10:29.19\00:10:32.29 It's interesting how we've gone so far from that. 00:10:32.33\00:10:35.96 You know, nowadays you see a lot of people 00:10:36.00\00:10:38.07 that want to conform religion to their lifestyle 00:10:38.10\00:10:41.90 as opposed to conforming their lifestyle to religion. 00:10:41.94\00:10:44.94 So they're not embracing the principles of God, 00:10:44.97\00:10:48.21 but they're going with their feelings 00:10:48.24\00:10:50.41 and what's popular. 00:10:50.45\00:10:52.68 Yeah. 00:10:52.71\00:10:54.52 What would you say to the Christian 00:10:54.55\00:10:57.05 that's struggling with compromise? 00:10:57.09\00:10:59.45 Well, I think it's a big battle. 00:10:59.49\00:11:02.76 But it's not necessarily over what... 00:11:02.79\00:11:05.53 That's an outward sign. 00:11:05.56\00:11:07.16 I would say that it's a battle inside. 00:11:07.20\00:11:09.66 In other words, am I willing to submit and commit to God 00:11:09.70\00:11:12.53 because maybe I'm somebody who's pro same sex marriage, 00:11:12.57\00:11:18.74 but on the other hand, I may have hate in my life, 00:11:18.77\00:11:22.24 I may have jealousy in my life, I may have pride in my life. 00:11:22.28\00:11:26.18 Those things will play out in different ways. 00:11:26.21\00:11:29.98 So my thing is the only way 00:11:30.02\00:11:32.45 that we can really know is to say, 00:11:32.49\00:11:35.06 "Lord, here I am," you know, "I confess my sins. 00:11:35.09\00:11:37.96 You said You've been faithful 00:11:37.99\00:11:39.33 and just to forgive me for my sins 00:11:39.36\00:11:40.73 and cleanse me from all unrighteousness." 00:11:40.76\00:11:43.33 And so once you do that, 00:11:43.37\00:11:45.77 "Now send me, Lord, 00:11:45.80\00:11:47.14 I'm willing to do what You want me to do." 00:11:47.17\00:11:49.30 When you come to that point, 00:11:49.34\00:11:51.71 then you care less about political correctness, 00:11:51.74\00:11:55.64 you care less about getting so involved in politics, 00:11:55.68\00:11:59.35 which I see this and I see it on Facebook 00:11:59.38\00:12:01.55 and then people from our church 00:12:01.58\00:12:03.32 and other churches arguing and everything. 00:12:03.35\00:12:05.92 And we're like backing these candidates to... 00:12:05.95\00:12:09.72 I don't know how in the world... 00:12:09.76\00:12:11.09 I'm not going to put God, 00:12:11.13\00:12:12.46 and we should not ever put God before politics. 00:12:12.49\00:12:16.10 And so I think... And politics before God. 00:12:16.13\00:12:18.30 I'm sorry, yeah, politics before God. 00:12:18.33\00:12:20.37 And we should never do that. 00:12:20.40\00:12:21.74 But I see it all the time, we get so involved. 00:12:21.77\00:12:25.11 There are people who don't like this book, 00:12:25.14\00:12:27.54 even in the church, 00:12:27.58\00:12:29.38 because when I talk about 00:12:29.41\00:12:30.91 how same sex marriage becoming the law of the land, 00:12:30.95\00:12:33.45 it was under the Obama administration, 00:12:33.48\00:12:35.45 so they wrote to me and said, "You're a racist." 00:12:35.48\00:12:37.52 You know, I said, "I wouldn't care 00:12:37.55\00:12:38.92 if he were blue or if he were, you know, white, 00:12:38.95\00:12:41.62 if he were yellow, whatever color, 00:12:41.66\00:12:44.23 it would make any difference. 00:12:44.26\00:12:45.59 Right is right and wrong is wrong." 00:12:45.63\00:12:47.30 And so to me, it has nothing to do with racism, 00:12:47.33\00:12:51.60 but again, that's because 00:12:51.63\00:12:52.97 we're so involved 00:12:53.00\00:12:54.34 in the political culture right now, 00:12:54.37\00:12:56.87 way things are going, 00:12:56.91\00:12:58.27 that you say anything that's true, 00:12:58.31\00:12:59.71 "Oh, you have offended me. 00:12:59.74\00:13:01.14 Oh, this offends me. Oh, that's a hate speech." 00:13:01.18\00:13:04.05 You'll find there are a lot of people, 00:13:04.08\00:13:06.08 and I always think this is amazing, people say, 00:13:06.11\00:13:08.78 "I should be able to do what I want." 00:13:08.82\00:13:10.42 If I want to be homosexual and talk about it, and live it, 00:13:10.45\00:13:14.19 and act it, I have a right, 00:13:14.22\00:13:15.89 I have the freedom of speech to do it, 00:13:15.92\00:13:17.89 and no one should say anything about it. 00:13:17.93\00:13:19.96 Then I'll say, you're right, 00:13:20.00\00:13:21.90 as long as it doesn't harm anybody, 00:13:21.93\00:13:23.40 you're not breaking any laws, that's fine. 00:13:23.43\00:13:25.80 But as soon as I say, according to the Bible, 00:13:25.83\00:13:28.80 this is not right, this is a sin against God, 00:13:28.84\00:13:32.64 they say, "That's a hate speech." 00:13:32.67\00:13:34.08 He's hate. 00:13:34.11\00:13:35.74 And there are countries already like Canada and some others 00:13:35.78\00:13:38.55 that won't allow you to call sin by its name 00:13:38.58\00:13:41.68 because now it's a hate speech. 00:13:41.72\00:13:43.05 So isn't that interesting that those 00:13:43.08\00:13:44.95 who complain the most, 00:13:44.99\00:13:47.26 you know, the ones 00:13:47.29\00:13:48.66 who are always saying, you know, this is wrong, 00:13:48.69\00:13:51.09 well, turn it around 00:13:51.13\00:13:54.33 and all of a sudden now it's a hate speech. 00:13:54.36\00:13:56.36 So we live in a sinful world. 00:13:56.40\00:14:00.14 And I tell people it's not a skin problem. 00:14:00.17\00:14:02.10 You know, they try to make it, 00:14:02.14\00:14:04.24 you know, the racial divide 00:14:04.27\00:14:05.61 and all kinds of things here in America, 00:14:05.64\00:14:07.11 it's not a skin problem, it's a sin problem. 00:14:07.14\00:14:10.75 What kind of controversies 00:14:10.78\00:14:13.45 has this book stirred up for you? 00:14:13.48\00:14:16.58 Well, I have to... 00:14:16.62\00:14:18.55 If I can say this in the right way, 00:14:18.59\00:14:20.69 I don't mind a lot... 00:14:20.72\00:14:22.06 a little or a lot of controversy. 00:14:22.09\00:14:24.79 Maybe I don't have enough sense, 00:14:24.83\00:14:26.46 you know, when I was little, my dad, 00:14:26.49\00:14:29.03 I'd be over playing and somebody says, 00:14:29.06\00:14:30.40 "He's a happy kid." 00:14:30.43\00:14:31.77 He'd say, "Yeah, he didn't have that much sense." 00:14:31.80\00:14:33.77 And so I'd smile, you know, 00:14:33.80\00:14:35.77 and that would confirm what they thought. 00:14:35.80\00:14:37.84 But I don't mind controversy. 00:14:37.87\00:14:40.54 Now if it's about me, I don't like to... 00:14:40.58\00:14:44.11 "Okay, well, don't say this about me because, you know, 00:14:44.15\00:14:47.48 I think I'm better than that or different." 00:14:47.52\00:14:50.65 I'm not talking about that kind of controversy, 00:14:50.69\00:14:52.35 I'm talking about spiritual controversy. 00:14:52.39\00:14:54.72 The Bible says, 00:14:54.76\00:14:56.09 "All who live godly shall suffer persecution." 00:14:56.12\00:14:59.09 So if you are living your life and you're a Christian, 00:14:59.13\00:15:02.73 and you're not going through some persecution, 00:15:02.76\00:15:04.93 then I would say, 00:15:04.97\00:15:06.40 you maybe want to go back to your knees to the Lord 00:15:06.43\00:15:08.80 and say, "Lord, what am I doing wrong? 00:15:08.84\00:15:10.44 Why aren't I getting the Jesus treatment?" 00:15:10.47\00:15:12.97 Now every time I'm persecuted or people, 00:15:13.01\00:15:15.98 you know, don't like me, that doesn't mean 00:15:16.01\00:15:17.65 'cause I'm such a good individual, 00:15:17.68\00:15:20.02 some of that, you know, I cause myself, 00:15:20.05\00:15:22.88 I make a lot of mistakes in life 00:15:22.92\00:15:24.39 as you do at home. 00:15:24.42\00:15:26.05 And I know you don't. But everyone at home do. 00:15:26.09\00:15:31.59 But, you know, we all make mistakes. 00:15:31.63\00:15:35.80 So a little bit of controversy, it doesn't really bother you. 00:15:35.83\00:15:39.33 Not when it's spiritual. 00:15:39.37\00:15:40.70 In other words, when it's spiritual 00:15:40.74\00:15:42.20 from the beginning of 3ABN, 00:15:42.24\00:15:44.34 we have seen the devil fight us, 00:15:44.37\00:15:46.98 tooth and nail from the beginning. 00:15:47.01\00:15:48.98 Everything in the world, when we started, 00:15:49.01\00:15:50.81 we figured everybody would support it, 00:15:50.85\00:15:52.85 you know Christians and Adventists, everybody, 00:15:52.88\00:15:55.02 but people say, "Oh, they'll never... 00:15:55.05\00:15:56.55 Those boys will never get that." 00:15:56.58\00:15:57.95 We were boys back then, Jay. 00:15:57.99\00:15:59.65 Not much older than you, early 30s. 00:15:59.69\00:16:01.82 "Those boys will never get that 00:16:01.86\00:16:03.19 from that farmland and southern Illinois, 00:16:03.22\00:16:04.86 they'll never get a signal on the satellite." 00:16:04.89\00:16:07.00 Well, two or three years, couple years later, 00:16:07.03\00:16:08.86 we got the signal 'cause they said, 00:16:08.90\00:16:10.27 they'll never get it up, a couple years later, 00:16:10.30\00:16:11.93 we get it up. 00:16:11.97\00:16:13.30 Coming down into about a million, 00:16:13.34\00:16:14.67 at that time, homes, big dishes. 00:16:14.70\00:16:16.44 That said, "Oh, they're never going to get it down." 00:16:16.47\00:16:18.67 Once you get up, you never get... 00:16:18.71\00:16:20.04 "Well, they're never going to reach any people. 00:16:20.08\00:16:21.44 They're only going to reach a million people. 00:16:21.48\00:16:23.04 Well, how are they going to reach the world?" 00:16:23.08\00:16:24.41 Well, they didn't know technology is changing so fast 00:16:24.45\00:16:27.22 that went from the big dish to the smaller dish to cable, 00:16:27.25\00:16:30.49 you know, to computers and radio and television 00:16:30.52\00:16:33.66 and satellites around the world. 00:16:33.69\00:16:36.19 And so I've always had controversy. 00:16:36.22\00:16:37.86 But in this particular book, as you ask me, 00:16:37.89\00:16:40.30 I'm just surprised that so many people 00:16:40.33\00:16:42.90 who claim to be Christians 00:16:42.93\00:16:44.27 and even those of our own church are upset at me 00:16:44.30\00:16:46.77 because they say, you know, you're too much into politics. 00:16:46.80\00:16:50.54 You shouldn't be talking politics, 00:16:50.57\00:16:52.51 and my thing is, no, it's just the opposite, 00:16:52.54\00:16:55.51 the reason I wrote the book 00:16:55.54\00:16:56.88 is 'cause there's so much talk of the politics 00:16:56.91\00:16:58.95 and you're putting politics before God. 00:16:58.98\00:17:01.92 So I felt like I have to say something. 00:17:01.95\00:17:04.69 Again, I'm not perfect, I make mistakes. 00:17:04.72\00:17:07.12 But how can you sit still 00:17:07.16\00:17:08.72 when it's like people don't even realize 00:17:08.76\00:17:11.56 what's going on. 00:17:11.59\00:17:12.93 Sometimes you have to allow 00:17:12.96\00:17:14.30 your haters to be your motivators. 00:17:14.33\00:17:15.66 Okay. Come on, Jay. I like it. 00:17:15.70\00:17:18.50 With 3ABN, and the story behind 3ABN, 00:17:18.53\00:17:21.57 that reminds me of Noah's Ark, you know, 00:17:21.60\00:17:23.30 they didn't think it was going to rain either. 00:17:23.34\00:17:25.24 They didn't think rain was going to come down. 00:17:25.27\00:17:27.54 And Noah's just steady building the Ark 00:17:27.58\00:17:29.34 'cause God called him to do it and he was working on the Ark 00:17:29.38\00:17:32.71 and people were sitting outside scoffing 00:17:32.75\00:17:34.98 and making fun of him 00:17:35.02\00:17:36.65 and disrespecting God and all that stuff. 00:17:36.69\00:17:39.05 And then they felt that drop. Yeah. 00:17:39.09\00:17:42.72 But here's the thing, 00:17:42.76\00:17:44.76 I've had people write me already. 00:17:44.79\00:17:46.96 And you know people that are very well known 00:17:47.00\00:17:50.60 and their lives have been changed by this book, 00:17:50.63\00:17:53.07 "The Ten Commandments Twice Removed" book. 00:17:53.10\00:17:55.44 They're very controversial. But they write us. 00:17:55.47\00:17:58.27 On the other book, we know of over 40... 00:17:58.31\00:18:01.74 More specifically was on the Sabbath, 00:18:01.78\00:18:03.78 we know of over 40 pastors who were Sunday pastors 00:18:03.81\00:18:07.88 who keep the Sabbath just from reading that one. 00:18:07.92\00:18:10.69 Now we know of hundreds and even thousands of people 00:18:10.72\00:18:13.36 who have accepted it and have joined churches, 00:18:13.39\00:18:15.86 but I'm talking about even leadership 00:18:15.89\00:18:17.66 and other denominations 00:18:17.69\00:18:19.46 and yet there is a lot of people saying, 00:18:19.49\00:18:21.20 "Oh, you shouldn't pass this out, 00:18:21.23\00:18:22.56 it's too straightforward, you're gonna offend people." 00:18:22.60\00:18:25.60 But I feel like that's my responsibility, 00:18:25.63\00:18:28.90 it's my job. 00:18:28.94\00:18:30.67 John Lomacang lives not too far from us. 00:18:30.71\00:18:33.51 You know, my brother Kenny's 00:18:33.54\00:18:34.88 just across the road over there. 00:18:34.91\00:18:36.34 If some night, in the middle of the night, we say, 00:18:36.38\00:18:40.72 "Oh, Kenny's house is on fire, you know, I better... 00:18:40.75\00:18:43.42 "Oh, we better call him. 00:18:43.45\00:18:45.02 Oh, wait a minute, it's 2:00 in the morning, 00:18:45.05\00:18:46.65 I don't want to wake him up. 00:18:46.69\00:18:48.02 He goes to bed at 9:00. I might offend him. 00:18:48.06\00:18:50.33 You know, I don't want to offend him," 00:18:50.36\00:18:51.69 would I say that? 00:18:51.73\00:18:53.06 Absolutely not. 00:18:53.09\00:18:54.43 I'm going to do everything I can. 00:18:54.46\00:18:55.80 Well, why not spiritually do the same thing? 00:18:55.83\00:18:58.33 Why not love people enough 00:18:58.37\00:19:00.04 to take the chance of offending them? 00:19:00.07\00:19:02.57 Because sometimes... 00:19:02.60\00:19:03.94 One lady wrote says, 00:19:03.97\00:19:05.31 "You've knocked my boat right out of the water, 00:19:05.34\00:19:07.91 you know, I was so upset, but now I see." 00:19:07.94\00:19:11.78 And so I think that if we love people enough, 00:19:11.81\00:19:14.45 we'll tell them the truth. 00:19:14.48\00:19:15.98 And I try and I'm too old to be a politician now, 00:19:16.02\00:19:19.45 so it's too old to start. 00:19:19.49\00:19:20.82 I never have been. 00:19:20.86\00:19:22.19 So I just felt like there's an audience 00:19:22.22\00:19:25.29 that would listen over a million of these 00:19:25.33\00:19:26.93 that have been out in the last several months 00:19:26.96\00:19:28.63 and I praise the Lord for that. 00:19:28.66\00:19:30.40 And people are passing them out all over. 00:19:30.43\00:19:32.43 I mean, Trinidad and Tobago just got over 50,000 00:19:32.47\00:19:35.97 that they're passing out the countries over there 00:19:36.00\00:19:38.77 and doing it. 00:19:38.81\00:19:40.14 So people are passing these throughout New York City 00:19:40.18\00:19:42.08 and all over, 00:19:42.11\00:19:43.45 but we're getting some great responses of people 00:19:43.48\00:19:47.65 that never knew truth who said, "Man, I've learned so much." 00:19:47.68\00:19:50.69 but really almost the only people 00:19:50.72\00:19:53.42 who are not happy about it are people within the church 00:19:53.46\00:19:57.53 that aren't happy because I just tell the truth, 00:19:57.56\00:20:00.13 I try to take history and look at it 00:20:00.16\00:20:01.50 and tell the truth. 00:20:01.53\00:20:02.86 And they say, "It's okay." 00:20:02.90\00:20:04.23 Basically, they're saying, 00:20:04.27\00:20:05.60 "It's okay to talk about the Sabbath and all that, 00:20:05.63\00:20:07.40 your Ten Commandments book, we really support that. 00:20:07.44\00:20:10.01 But this one talks about, 00:20:10.04\00:20:11.41 you know, abortion and same sex marriage, 00:20:11.44\00:20:13.94 and that's just too hot a topic, 00:20:13.98\00:20:15.31 we shouldn't touch it." 00:20:15.34\00:20:16.68 But I say, "They're all part of the Ten Commandments, 00:20:16.71\00:20:19.65 not all of the commandments but the Ten Commandments." 00:20:19.68\00:20:22.72 So if one is the Bible says in James, you know, 00:20:22.75\00:20:25.35 "If we break one, we break them all." 00:20:25.39\00:20:27.29 so I feel like if the world is missing out 00:20:27.32\00:20:30.06 on the fourth commandment, 00:20:30.09\00:20:32.19 we want to be there to talk about it. 00:20:32.23\00:20:34.00 If our own people as well as much of the world 00:20:34.03\00:20:36.40 is overlooking, or forgetting, or ignoring, 00:20:36.43\00:20:39.90 or rebelling against the sixth and seventh commandment, 00:20:39.93\00:20:44.54 then we need to bring that up too 00:20:44.57\00:20:46.17 and let the light shine on it. 00:20:46.21\00:20:47.54 And that's what your book does, Spiritual Vigilante, 00:20:47.58\00:20:50.85 it's so interesting because, you know, 00:20:50.88\00:20:53.78 Adventists tend to be very comfortable, 00:20:53.82\00:20:55.92 you know, sharing the Sabbath. 00:20:55.95\00:20:58.15 You know, you've got to keep the Sabbath, 00:20:58.19\00:21:00.56 you've got to keep that fourth commandment. 00:21:00.59\00:21:01.92 Because we're talking about other people. 00:21:01.96\00:21:03.29 Exactly, exactly. 00:21:03.32\00:21:04.93 It's so easy to point to other people and say, 00:21:04.96\00:21:07.90 "You're not keeping the fourth commandment." 00:21:07.93\00:21:09.86 But what about us, are we trying to keep 00:21:09.90\00:21:13.00 all the commandments as Adventist? 00:21:13.03\00:21:15.00 Not just the fourth commandment, 00:21:15.04\00:21:17.01 but, you know, are we supporting candidates 00:21:17.04\00:21:19.67 who support anti-Biblical stances 00:21:19.71\00:21:23.48 like abortion, like same sex marriage? 00:21:23.51\00:21:26.85 You know, are we supporting them? 00:21:26.88\00:21:28.38 So this book actually it gets to everybody. 00:21:28.42\00:21:33.89 One of the things that is so impressive to me is that, 00:21:33.92\00:21:37.83 you know, the other day someone called the house, a friend, 00:21:37.86\00:21:41.96 who is very well known in gospel music industry 00:21:42.00\00:21:45.70 and said, "Your book is really messing with me." 00:21:45.73\00:21:48.64 Yeah, yeah. 00:21:48.67\00:21:50.91 Tell us about that without saying who it was. 00:21:50.94\00:21:52.84 Yeah, this person, most people would know, 00:21:52.87\00:21:55.04 not necessarily even just in gospel music 00:21:55.08\00:21:57.75 but because of association from their family name 00:21:57.78\00:22:00.75 into some big names in music, 00:22:00.78\00:22:04.89 even back to rock 'n' roll and all of that. 00:22:04.92\00:22:07.16 But he's full-time in ministry and traveling, yeah, he called, 00:22:07.19\00:22:12.73 and he said, you know, 00:22:12.76\00:22:14.10 "I read the book 00:22:14.13\00:22:15.46 and I'm actually on my second time 00:22:15.50\00:22:17.20 and you're really messed me up." 00:22:17.23\00:22:18.90 But here's what he said, 00:22:18.93\00:22:20.40 "It's so easy, when you said it..." 00:22:20.44\00:22:23.41 He's 60 plus years old now, and he said, 00:22:23.44\00:22:25.41 "I don't understand it. 00:22:25.44\00:22:26.78 How did I go my whole life and not see it 00:22:26.81\00:22:30.41 because I read the Bible 00:22:30.45\00:22:32.28 but I never saw all these things. 00:22:32.31\00:22:34.68 And so how is it that I missed it?" 00:22:34.72\00:22:37.22 Well, that says to you and me and those of us, 00:22:37.25\00:22:40.29 so many of you 00:22:40.32\00:22:41.66 Seventh-day Adventist Christians... 00:22:41.69\00:22:43.02 That says to us, and to Christians in general, 00:22:43.06\00:22:45.99 we have something that God has given us, light. 00:22:46.03\00:22:48.76 Don't put your light under a bushel, 00:22:48.80\00:22:51.03 you have to share that. 00:22:51.07\00:22:52.60 Raise that up and let that light shine before men 00:22:52.63\00:22:55.97 so that others will see Jesus. 00:22:56.00\00:22:58.34 And so what this said to me is, 00:22:58.37\00:23:00.78 you know, I should have been much more diligent. 00:23:00.81\00:23:02.84 I've known this man many, many years. 00:23:02.88\00:23:05.38 And he knows I'm a Seventh-day Adventist Christian, he's not, 00:23:05.41\00:23:08.62 and he knows some of what I believe. 00:23:08.65\00:23:11.12 But there is that fine line again. 00:23:11.15\00:23:12.85 Well, I don't want to be pushy, you know, whatever, 00:23:12.89\00:23:16.26 but now maybe it's God's timing 00:23:16.29\00:23:19.79 and, you know, started to beat myself up, 00:23:19.83\00:23:21.70 so I should have done it sooner, 00:23:21.73\00:23:23.13 maybe he wouldn't have been ready until now. 00:23:23.16\00:23:24.63 Right. But he's ready. 00:23:24.67\00:23:26.00 Then we had another friend 00:23:26.03\00:23:27.37 who's also an internationally-known 00:23:27.40\00:23:29.60 songwriter, called us and said, 00:23:29.64\00:23:32.57 "I have to tell you that I turned on 3ABN 00:23:32.61\00:23:36.34 and my whole life has changed in 30 minutes. 00:23:36.38\00:23:39.48 I never, really, understood 00:23:39.51\00:23:40.85 what would happen to me when I die..." 00:23:40.88\00:23:42.55 I won't get into the whole story, 00:23:42.58\00:23:44.35 but he said, "I would question pastors..." 00:23:44.39\00:23:46.25 And he goes to large churches, and they'd say, 00:23:46.29\00:23:48.66 "Well, you know, I think when you die, 00:23:48.69\00:23:50.93 you go straight to heaven or hell. 00:23:50.96\00:23:52.29 Why would you ask me a question?" 00:23:52.33\00:23:53.66 So people say, actually, there's a hell, and burning, 00:23:53.70\00:23:55.53 and being tortured all those years, 00:23:55.56\00:23:56.90 and doesn't bother God. 00:23:56.93\00:23:58.27 He's not... You know, his children. 00:23:58.30\00:23:59.63 And there's people in Heaven, 00:23:59.67\00:24:01.00 God took wives and mothers and babies from parents, 00:24:01.04\00:24:04.21 and they're all in heaven, living happily, 00:24:04.24\00:24:06.24 and they don't care that... 00:24:06.27\00:24:07.61 And God doesn't care that this little child 00:24:07.64\00:24:09.64 who's raised without a parent, my daughter Melody for one, 00:24:09.68\00:24:12.38 her mother was killed... 00:24:12.41\00:24:13.75 So he said, "At that point, they'd say, 00:24:13.78\00:24:15.98 'Uh, I don't really know.'" 00:24:16.02\00:24:18.49 I mean, so now he says, "I'm able to go tell them. 00:24:18.52\00:24:22.42 You know what, if you don't know 00:24:22.46\00:24:23.79 the answer to this, I'll tell them, when you die, 00:24:23.83\00:24:25.29 you sleep in the graves till Jesus comes, 00:24:25.33\00:24:27.50 and to last trumpet, 00:24:27.53\00:24:28.86 the dead in Christ shall rise first, 00:24:28.90\00:24:30.23 we which are alive and remain shall be drawn together, 00:24:30.27\00:24:33.37 caught up together in the air with the Lord." 00:24:33.40\00:24:36.00 And so it's really neat to see some of these things. 00:24:36.04\00:24:39.87 But I don't have to have... In other words, it's great... 00:24:39.91\00:24:42.38 And the Lord I think allows that. 00:24:42.41\00:24:44.41 But I know that I know that I know 00:24:44.45\00:24:47.25 that God had put it on my heart to write what I wrote. 00:24:47.28\00:24:49.55 And it's not saying 00:24:49.58\00:24:50.92 I couldn't have done a better job 00:24:50.95\00:24:52.29 or I couldn't have done... 00:24:52.32\00:24:53.66 But the burden that I have in my limited skills 00:24:53.69\00:24:55.69 and who I am... 00:24:55.72\00:24:57.06 See, you don't have to be the best at everything to do 00:24:57.09\00:24:59.29 something for God. 00:24:59.33\00:25:00.83 None of us are good in the sight of God. 00:25:00.86\00:25:02.43 We're all as filthy rags. 00:25:02.46\00:25:03.97 So you just be the best 00:25:04.00\00:25:05.37 you can be and let God do the rest. 00:25:05.40\00:25:07.44 And so in my limited skills, I write what hits me. 00:25:07.47\00:25:10.91 But I found out, you know what, 00:25:10.94\00:25:12.27 there's a lot of other people with limited skills 00:25:12.31\00:25:14.41 and a lot of other, you'd say, 00:25:14.44\00:25:16.38 people maybe that think the same way 00:25:16.41\00:25:19.11 as I do but they're open. 00:25:19.15\00:25:20.72 So you take your talents, your gifts, your abilities, 00:25:20.75\00:25:24.02 but the last thing we want to do is 00:25:24.05\00:25:25.92 keep that light hidden. 00:25:25.95\00:25:28.62 So let's be faithful, be bold enough, 00:25:28.66\00:25:31.26 and take a chance, I would say, 00:25:31.29\00:25:33.80 take the risk of offending people 00:25:33.83\00:25:35.80 to love them enough 00:25:35.83\00:25:37.17 because in the end, when Jesus comes back, 00:25:37.20\00:25:39.20 the last thing you and I want to hear, 00:25:39.23\00:25:42.14 you know, is Him to question us, 00:25:42.17\00:25:44.81 "Why didn't you do... 00:25:44.84\00:25:46.17 Why didn't you tell people about Me and My saving power? 00:25:46.21\00:25:49.84 Why didn't you tell them about 00:25:49.88\00:25:51.21 the deceits satan has 00:25:51.25\00:25:53.92 in the closing moments of Earth's history. 00:25:53.95\00:25:55.52 I let you live in a closing generation 00:25:55.55\00:25:58.05 and you didn't want to stand up. 00:25:58.09\00:26:00.72 You were too busy being politically correct." 00:26:00.76\00:26:02.76 Well, by God's grace. 00:26:02.79\00:26:04.86 Hopefully, you know, I'll answer to everything 00:26:04.89\00:26:07.56 that I've done wrong in my life, 00:26:07.60\00:26:09.56 but by God's grace, and His mercy, 00:26:09.60\00:26:12.23 all of us can have eternal life 00:26:12.27\00:26:14.10 when we submit and commit our lives to Jesus. 00:26:14.14\00:26:16.20 You know, one of the things that I love about your books 00:26:16.24\00:26:19.04 it uses common sense, you know. 00:26:19.07\00:26:21.51 I mean there's a lot of common sense in there. 00:26:21.54\00:26:23.24 And what's happening nowadays is the truth has been polluted 00:26:23.28\00:26:27.28 and it's convoluted 00:26:27.32\00:26:28.78 with a whole bunch of confusion, 00:26:28.82\00:26:30.55 and God is not the author of confusion. 00:26:30.59\00:26:32.65 So I like that. 00:26:32.69\00:26:34.02 And Jesus died for us publicly, 00:26:34.06\00:26:36.62 so I love what you're saying about not covering your light, 00:26:36.66\00:26:39.69 because He died for us publicly. 00:26:39.73\00:26:42.46 So we shouldn't just praise Him privately, 00:26:42.50\00:26:44.70 we should praise Him in public and share him with everybody. 00:26:44.73\00:26:46.07 Absolutely, absolutely. That's good. That's good. 00:26:46.10\00:26:48.47 And I'm thankful for what you two do 00:26:48.50\00:26:50.17 for the cause of God. 00:26:50.21\00:26:51.74 We're really thankful for you, at home and at work. 00:26:51.77\00:26:56.54 How can people get this book and how much is it? 00:26:56.58\00:26:59.31 Well, it's absolutely free. 00:26:59.35\00:27:01.72 All you have to do is write or e-mail us here at 3ABN, 00:27:01.75\00:27:05.32 and we'll send them out by the cases. 00:27:05.35\00:27:07.52 If you'll agree that you'll pass them out, 00:27:07.56\00:27:10.13 your churches, you know, community service, 00:27:10.16\00:27:12.96 however you want to do it, you get together and say, 00:27:12.99\00:27:14.96 send us 100 or even send 1,000, 00:27:15.00\00:27:17.13 all you have to pay is the shipping. 00:27:17.17\00:27:18.80 And we've found out shipping anywhere in America 00:27:18.83\00:27:21.44 is only $18 per 100. 00:27:21.47\00:27:23.77 So that's 18 cents. 00:27:23.81\00:27:25.14 So all you have in the book, 3ABN... 00:27:25.17\00:27:27.21 And we have donors who have given the money to say, 00:27:27.24\00:27:29.68 let's give this book away, let's don't sell it. 00:27:29.71\00:27:32.21 And your only commitment is that 00:27:32.25\00:27:33.68 you just pay the shipping 00:27:33.72\00:27:35.18 and then you share it with those around you. 00:27:35.22\00:27:37.92 Thank you so much. 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