A former hitman
for a drug cartel,
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an entertainment script writer
who consulted the dark side.
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A sex addict whose
lifestyle was indelible.
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What did all of these
people have in common?
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Stay tuned to find out.
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My name is Jason Bradley,
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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 Yvonne Shelton,
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3ABN Dare to Dream
co-founder and consultant,
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and she's also my mom.
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Welcome to Urban Report, Mom.
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Thank you, Jason.
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It's so good to be here. @Yes.@
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It's great to have you here.
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It's weird calling you Yvonne.
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So I'm just gonna call you
mom for the rest of the program.
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Absolutely.
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And it's weird
having you call me Jason,
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because you only do that
when you're mad at me, so.
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Oh, I might call you Jay.
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Okay.
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Well, let's stick with Jay.
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Okay, right.
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Yeah, we'll make
it through there.
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All right. Sounds good.
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So we're here to
talk about your book,
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"Glimpses of His glory."
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This is a powerful book,
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I started reading it, you
know, while you were writing it,
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and then I started
reading it once it came out.
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And it's amazing
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how there's so many
different names for God.
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I had no clue that
there were so many names.
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What inspired you
to write this book?
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Well, okay.
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So, you know, a lot of times,
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whether you're
in ministry or not,
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as a Christian, sometimes
you just need some inspiration,
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you need to
have your prayer life
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turned up, you
need that relationship
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with the Lord to
get turned up some
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as opposed to just
being mundane or routine.
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And so I was reading this book
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about how to
improve your prayer life.
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And the author had said
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that she studied
the names of God.
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And I thought, I
think I'll look into that.
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So I did.
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And, man, what an
incredible study it is.
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Because it just
opens up various aspects
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of God's character to you.
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Because each title, it's more,
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these are more
titles than names.
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But each title gives you
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just a little
glimpse of who He is,
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hence the name
Glimpses of His glory.
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Yes.
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Each title just
gives you a little glimpse
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of who He is, and how
He is, and how He loves us.
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And, you know,
Satan is always trying
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to distort the character of God.
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He's trying, he tries
to make God seem so harsh
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and mean and
this cosmic killjoy,
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but God is
loving, and kind and just.
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No joke. That is no joke.
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And He's strong
and powerful and kind
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and all of these things.
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And each title
just kind of gives you
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a little aspect of that.
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Yeah.
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So it gives you a
glimpse into His character.
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Exactly.
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And the different
aspects of His character.
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That's right.
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And they're all,
they're not mutually exclusive.
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I mean, while He is
El Shaddai, God Almighty,
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He's also Adonai Tzidkenu,
the Lord our Righteousness.
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So He's all
these things at once.
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These titles
work complementarily,
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they don't work in
isolation but it's just,
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they all kind of
exemplify His love and power.
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So, you know, when
you share some of these
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other names, right?
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And you said that
they all work at once.
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So He can be loving,
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He can be just
all of those things.
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I think of a time
when I was a little kid,
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and we go to the
grocery store, and you loved me,
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but it used to drive me crazy
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when you would
pick up with something
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that I was
trying to get something
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and it had a lot of sugar in it,
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it had a lot of
chemicals in it, all this stuff.
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And I knew that if
you read the ingredients,
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you're gonna
tell me to put it back
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and you're gonna
find a substitution.
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That's true.
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But God has a
health message for us.
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Yes.
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And He loves us and gives us
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that health
message for our benefit.
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You weren't doing that
when I was a little kid
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to, you know, I
guess disappoint me,
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but you were doing
that to protect me.
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Exactly.
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So we see in the
book where, you know,
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different
aspects of His character
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show how He wants to protect us,
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how He loves us,
how all of those things.
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Yes, yes, He manifests Himself
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in so many different ways.
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His personality, you
know, you get to know who He is.
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And other thing, Jason,
is when you talk to someone,
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and you use their name versus
just some general thing, like,
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you're the general
manager of Dare to Dream,
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but you are Jason.
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Yeah.
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So there's something
so much more intimate
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about calling you by your name
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than calling you by,
you know, that work title.
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And so it is with this,
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that we learn more of God,
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more of who He is
through these titles,
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through His names and titles.
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Now, what's the significance?
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Because, you know,
back in the Bible days,
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there was a different
approach to naming people
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than we have today.
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I mean, today,
you see some names,
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and you're just like,
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"What were their
parents thinking?"
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I know.
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And you see
some names, you know,
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back in the Bible
days, where you're like,
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well, what were they thinking?
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But there was a significance
to that one, you know,
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a meaning that
went along with that.
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What's the difference?
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Yes.
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Well, back in Bible times,
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when parents
named their children
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it would often actually
signify some kind of purpose
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and direction for their lives.
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So Jesus, really
His name was Yeshua.
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He wasn't
called Jesus as a child
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because there
was no J in Hebrew.
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So He was called Yeshua.
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And that means
Y-H-W-H, is salvation.
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Y-H-W-H is the name
that God told Moses,
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when Moses
asked God in Exodus 3,
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who shall I say,
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is sending me, you know,
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to deliver the
children of Israel?
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And God said,
"Tell them Y-H-W-H."
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Now there was a
pronunciation for that.
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We don't really know
what that pronunciation is.
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The Y-H-W-H is
called the tetragrammaton.
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It's the four letters
because back in Bible times
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Hebrew had no vowels.
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So it's all consonants.
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So Y-H-W-H was
the name that God said
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that He was sending Moses.
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And He also
said, "I am who I am."
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Ehyeh 'aer 'ehyeh.
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And that meant I am who
I am, or I am, that I am.
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And so He is the
self existent one,
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the one for whom there
is no beginning and no end.
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I mean, it's just,
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there's so much
richness in it that,
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you know, you just as you
learn these different names,
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and you hear
these different names,
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it's like, wow, like,
because, for example, like,
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Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning,"
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our King James, or
New King James, or NIV,
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or whatever that
version will say,
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"In the beginning,
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God created the
heavens and the earth."
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Right?
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And that's what,
that's what we read,
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that's what we know.
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But the Hebrew,
the original Hebrew is,
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it's transliterated into,
"In the beginning, Elohim,
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created the
heavens and the earth."
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Now that word Elohim is,
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it's plural, but yet it had,
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it's followed
by a singular verb.
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So it's like Elohim
implies the Trinity.
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Okay. Okay.
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So we don't see
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that when we
read in the beginning,
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God created the
heavens and the earth,
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but in the Hebrew
Elohim is a plural noun.
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Yes.
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So it
represents and implies God,
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the Father was there, God,
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the Son was there, God,
the Holy Spirit was there.
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Yes.
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And that also
within the Godhead,
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there is a covenant relationship
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that can't be broken.
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So all of this
stuff is in that name
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that we don't know.
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If we just see, "In
the beginning God created
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the heavens and the earth."
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That's deep.
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And so, where do you go to study
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further on that like,
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because it's not
in the New King James
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it's not in NIV, it's not
in the King James Version,
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so where can we study that?
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I mean, yes, of course,
we need to read this book.
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But when we want to
go even beyond that,
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and see it in Scripture
and continue down that path,
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where do we go to find that?
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Yeah, I have, I
ordered this Bible,
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this is the names of God Bible.
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And it's the
God's word translation
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and it has some of
the different titles now
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it has Yahweh as
YHWH instead of YHWH.
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I don't use
Yahweh because that name
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was made out of
taking the vowels
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from another title of
God and then it made that.
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So that's kind of the
name that many scholars say
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that that's God's name,
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that that's how you
would pronounce the Y-H-W-H.
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But you really don't know that.
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And I had the privilege
of having Dr. Roy Gane,
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who is with Andrews University.
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He is a professor of Near
Eastern Biblical Languages.
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I hope I'm not messing
up the title, Dr. Gane.
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He has a long title.
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But he kind of
cleared that up for me,
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and I have it in the
appendix of the book,
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why I don't use
Jehovah or Yahweh,
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why I use Y-H-W-H
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when writing and
when speaking Adonai,
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because that's the Lord.
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So I use Adonai when speaking.
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Okay.
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Let's talk about the
structure of the book.
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How is the book structured?
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Well, each chapter has
first the title of God,
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and then the
pronunciation because...
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That's important.
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It is important,
because if you're going
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to be calling on
the name of the Lord,
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you do want to have
a good pronunciation.
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Yes.
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And some of these
are hard to pronounce.
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So you want to make
sure you can say it properly.
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Then there's a scripture,
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either the first time
that name is introduced,
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or scripture that
really demonstrates that name.
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Then there's
the biblical context
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for the name.
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And then there's a testimony
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of a modern day person
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in whose life God demonstrated
that aspect of His character.
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So for example, with
Elohim, we'll go back to Elohim.
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The God continues, He
is the creator of life.
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And He continues to create,
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as He recreates us in His image.
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And so we look at the parallel
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between creation and recreation.
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And then I have a
story of Chris Hudson,
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the forerunner from
the Forerunner Chronicles.
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And he was that
entertainment writer,
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who was seeking the dark side,
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actually literally
seeking fellowship communion
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with the dark side,
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so he could write his
entertainment scripts,
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and the Lord got a hold of him.
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And you got to read the
book to find out how he did it.
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That's right.
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But he did.
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And so, and then at the
end, after the testimony,
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there's a prayer.
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I love that part too.
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Praise the Lord.
And that prayer that...
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A few years ago,
well, more than a few,
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there's several years ago,
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I was going through a really
hard time about something.
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And I read this book, and
at the end of each chapter,
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there was a prayer
that you could pray aloud.
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And I thought,
"Wow, it really helped me
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to pray that prayer aloud."
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So I thought,
well, let's have a prayer
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using that
particular title of God.
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And talking to him about
that aspect of His character
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in that prayer, and
you read it out loud,
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you say it out loud to Him.
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And during your worship time,
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during your quiet
time with the Lord.
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It's so enriching to be able
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to call Him by that title
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and to pray to
Him using that title.
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I mean, you have to try it.
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It's just, it's beautiful.
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It does.
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It's so rich.
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I love that you
said that God recreates.
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Yeah.
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You know, He recreates us
because when you think about
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sanctification, sanctification
is the work of a lifetime.
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Exactly.
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So that's. Yeah, that is huge.
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How has this book
impacted your spiritual life?
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Well, I'm telling
you, Jay, it for me,
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it has just brought me
so much closer to the Lord.
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Because, again, you
know, I'm in ministry,
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I'm in full time ministry.
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And so, you know,
you can get caught up
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in, that's your job.
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But you must,
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in order to do that you
must have a relationship
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with the Lord that's meaningful,
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otherwise it is just the job.
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Yes.
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You don't want that
to be just your job,
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you want to have a deeper,
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more meaningful
relationship with the Lord.
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And I was seeking that.
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And again, reading
that book, you know,
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just kind of led me
into studying the names.
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And then I guess the
Lord just laid on my heart
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that I should write it.
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And then showing me, you know,
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the connection of the
modern day application,
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because it's not
just for Bible times.
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You know, we
think that these names,
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oh, man, they're so
outdated that's just for them.
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No, He continues
to be the Creator.
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Elohim.
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He continues to
be El M' Kaddesh,
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the God who sanctifies us.
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He continues to
be El Tsur, our Rock.
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He continues to
be Adonai Tzidkenu,
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the Lord our Righteousness.
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He continues to be just the one
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that we can call
on in every situation.
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Amen.
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So I don't know if
I might have repeated
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the Lord our Righteousness.
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I don't know.
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But anyway, if I did,
He continues to be that.
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I think you're
preaching right now.
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I know it.
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I get excited because I know
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what this has done for me.
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And I feel as though, you know,
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if you feeling
like you're in a rut,
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or you feeling like
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your spiritual life
needs a little fire,
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we all need some
revival, sometimes.
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This book is
definitely a blessing for that.
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And it's also
great to give to someone.
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Yes.
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You know, your friends,
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whether they're
Christian or not,
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I actually have the
sinners prayer in here.
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So that for those
who are not Christian,
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but they decide after reading
this that they want a deeper
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relationship with the Lord,
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or they want to
accept Jesus as their Savior.
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It's in here.
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Information about righteousness
by faith that's in here through
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one of the stories.
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So, you know, the Sabbath.
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So all of these
things are in the book
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without it being a
heavy doctrinal book,
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but yet, we introduced them
to certain truths of the Bible.
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And so, yeah, I'm excited.
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It's very informative.
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It helps them fall
in love with Jesus.
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Yes.
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And then it also shows
them that practical application
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in the life of a
modern day person.
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Yes.
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That hitman
from the drug cartel,
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former hitman
from the drug cartel.
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Yeah, former.
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You know, that script
writer, all of those examples.
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Yes.
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I like the, I think it was Goel.
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Yes.
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With Job, were
you talking about Job
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and all of that.
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Oh, yeah.
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And Boaz, and
the kinsman redeemer,
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and all of these
are powerful examples.
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And I've heard
feedback from people
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who have read the book,
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and they love it.
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They said that they're so glad
00:17:05.05\00:17:06.65
that you took
the time to write it,
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and that it has blessed them
and help them grow spiritually.
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Praise the Lord.
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I'm thankful for that.
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It's been a privilege
for me to have written it.
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Because I'm telling
you, as I was writing it,
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there would be times when, like,
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I would start reading
a scripture or something,
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and that would refer
me to another scripture.
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And then I
would put it in there,
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or I would say,
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"Lord I need something here to,
00:17:33.82\00:17:38.29
you know, to pull this together,
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or I need something to help me
with this particular section."
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And then the Lord would
impress something on my heart.
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And, you know, and
you can include this,
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or you can put that,
and I was like, "Wow!"
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I mean, when I read
it myself, I'm amazed.
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Because, not
because I'm thinking
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I'm all that,
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but because God
impressed all of this.
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Yes.
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And so, you know,
it's just to give Him glory
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and to let people know
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who He is and how He is,
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and how much He loves us,
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because it's all about love.
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It's all about love.
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And that's evident
through and through this book.
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How long did it
take you to write this?
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You know, I don't
know when I started,
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I think it took me about a year.
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Because I had started
writing it and then it's funny
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because I sent Brian,
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my cousin Brian,
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a couple of chapters,
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and he gave me some really,
you know, strong criticism,
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but he critiqued it for me.
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And so I kind of had to go
back in and rework a lot of it.
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But I'm glad he did.
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I'm glad that he, you
know, shared that with me,
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and so I had to get
back in there and do it.
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And I also talked to
different people about
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the names and
like one of my friends
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from music business,
who was a secular Jew,
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but he was the son of a Rabbi.
00:19:12.55\00:19:15.42
And he also studied with one
of the top cantors in New York
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and great singer,
and he decided to sing
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commercials and
stuff, but he helped me
00:19:23.66\00:19:26.26
too with some of
the pronunciations.
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He's Jewish, so he
helped me with that.
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And then, of
course, Dr. Roy Gane.
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So all of these, you know,
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talking back and
forth and research,
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the research took a lot of time.
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And then the contributors,
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most of these
stories come from people
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that I've interviewed
over the years here at 3ABN
00:19:44.45\00:19:47.68
whether it was on Dare to Dream
or Today program or whatever.
00:19:47.72\00:19:51.15
And their
testimonies are so powerful.
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It's like these
stories need to be heard.
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Yes.
00:19:57.86\00:19:59.19
And so, I've got
permission from each of them
00:19:59.23\00:20:02.06
to use their testimony.
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And it's just been a blessing
00:20:04.03\00:20:07.90
and I guess I think
it was about a year.
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It took me
about a year to write.
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Yes, you were busy?
00:20:12.01\00:20:14.34
I was busy.
00:20:14.38\00:20:15.71
I think, you know, what
I'd like to do right now
00:20:15.74\00:20:17.98
is relive a little
bit of my childhood.
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And you know, when
I was a little kid,
00:20:20.55\00:20:23.08
you used to read me story
and you'd read devotionals,
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you know, morning and night.
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So why don't you
read a little bit
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and give us a glimpse
as to what we can expect.
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Okay.
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Is there anyone in
particular that you...
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It could be, you
mentioned Chris Hudson's or...
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Okay, I'll read a
little bit of Chris.
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I'll read something.
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I won't read it all
because his is kind of long,
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but I'll read some
just to whet your appetite.
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There we go.
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Okay, Chris's story.
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At the age of 19,
Chris decided to go
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into the entertainment industry.
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He wrote
treatments for music videos,
00:21:01.49\00:21:03.96
treatments are the
storyline for video,
00:21:03.99\00:21:06.29
what's going to
happen in the video,
00:21:06.33\00:21:08.26
the flow of it, etc.
00:21:08.30\00:21:09.93
Later, he was
offered the opportunity
00:21:09.96\00:21:11.77
to write a movie script.
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He was called into
his manager's office
00:21:13.57\00:21:15.40
and told that there
was a movie script needed.
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"When do you need it?" He asked.
00:21:18.04\00:21:19.84
"By 8 pm
tomorrow," his manager said.
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"Tomorrow night?"
00:21:22.81\00:21:24.25
Chris thought this could
be the major shot at success.
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But wow.
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The next day, it was required.
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He went to a store and
bought a can of coffee.
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He wrote and wrote.
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When he became tired,
he dug into the coffee can
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and ate three to four
handfuls of the coffee.
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By 8 pm the next night,
00:21:44.97\00:21:46.53
Chris dropped
off a 200 plus page
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movie script at
his manager's office.
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From there, he
got other projects,
00:21:52.84\00:21:54.78
movies and pilots.
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The average manuscript takes
at least six months to write.
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Chris was doing it
in under two weeks.
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He wrote most of his scripts
at his girlfriend's house.
00:22:03.05\00:22:05.69
She was a Haitian and her father
00:22:05.72\00:22:07.16
practiced voodoo in the house.
00:22:07.19\00:22:09.42
Chris smoked and sold
marijuana at the time,
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and will get high over there.
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One day, Chris went
home from their house
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and looked in the mirror.
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He saw something in
his eyes that wasn't him.
00:22:17.63\00:22:20.27
And he smiled.
00:22:20.30\00:22:21.64
He knew that the
entity looking back at him
00:22:21.67\00:22:24.24
was helping him
write the scripts
00:22:24.27\00:22:26.81
and experience
success in the industry.
00:22:26.84\00:22:31.35
By this time, he
was writing screenplays
00:22:31.38\00:22:33.75
making money and hanging out
00:22:33.78\00:22:35.68
with the
industry's top performers.
00:22:35.72\00:22:38.52
One day the Lord
spoke into Chris's spirit.
00:22:38.55\00:22:41.36
He told him to
stop what he was doing,
00:22:41.39\00:22:43.39
"Stop smoking marijuana,
00:22:43.43\00:22:44.99
and go back to school
to become a preacher."
00:22:45.03\00:22:47.50
That very night Chris
told one of his buddies
00:22:47.53\00:22:49.73
that he was
leaving the industry.
00:22:49.76\00:22:52.03
The friend could not believe it.
00:22:52.07\00:22:53.40
What was Chris thinking?
00:22:53.44\00:22:55.04
He was so successful,
why leave it all now?
00:22:55.07\00:22:58.01
Over the next few weeks,
00:22:58.04\00:22:59.41
several of Chris's
friends heard about
00:22:59.44\00:23:01.11
his upcoming departure.
00:23:01.14\00:23:02.64
And many of them
accepted the Lord
00:23:02.68\00:23:04.95
because of his witness.
00:23:04.98\00:23:06.31
Wow. Praise the Lord.
00:23:06.35\00:23:07.68
Praise the Lord.
00:23:07.72\00:23:09.05
Should I read more
or do we have time?
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Well, I want people to
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You know, like, well,
I hope Chris didn't hear
00:24:24.49\00:24:27.33
that we just left him in limbo.
00:24:27.36\00:24:29.10
But anyway, he
did come to the Lord
00:24:29.13\00:24:34.47
and he's on fire for the Lord.
00:24:34.50\00:24:35.87
And he's so and so.
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Anyway, just want to make sure
we didn't just leave him out
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in the world
talking to evil spirits.
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Okay, so...
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Yes, there was
the plan of redemption
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within that story.
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That's right. That's right.
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So yeah, I really
feel as though the Lord
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has a plan for this book.
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And that, you know,
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if we can just shared
your Bible study group,
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your personal
ministries department,
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taking it to someone
who's sick and shut in,
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giving it as a Christmas gift.
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I mean, there's
just so many uses for it
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that you can use as
an evangelistic tool
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because again, it does tell
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how to give your
heart to the Lord.
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And in the back, we
also have how to watch 3ABN.
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Oh, yes.
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So that's really important
because people need to be able
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to continue their
journey spiritually.
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And this will give them
that opportunity as well.
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Yes, and I'm sure
they're gonna want
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to study more, they're
gonna want to learn more
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about the names of God,
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and they're gonna
want to read, you know,
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the Bible
stories with those names
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as it creates
such a rich experience.
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Yes, yes.
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I praise the Lord for that.
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And I pray that
people will give their hearts
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to the Lord as a result
of this and it will turn up
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their experience with Him.
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You know, turn up that fire.
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That's what we want,
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because the Lord
Jesus is coming back.
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Yes.
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And many people are not
comfortable necessarily with,
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you know, knocking
on doors amid COVID now.
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Nobody's really
knocking too many doors.
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But you can send this
book to someone or you can,
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you know, read it for
yourself just for revival.
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Yes.
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I mean, for me, it has
really revived me spiritually.
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And I'm so grateful for that.
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Yes.
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So yeah, I think
that it's got a purpose.
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How do you suggest
that people use this book,
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like, for
example, a devotional or...
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You know,
that's a good question,
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because some
people want to just sit
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and read chapter after chapter.
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Some people will say, "Okay,
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let me just read
one title today."
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And they'll read one
title for their worship time.
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It's short, it's an easy read,
but yet pretty comprehensive.
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So you might just want to say,
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"Okay, during my quiet
time with the Lord, today,
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I'm gonna read
one chapter of this
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and learn about
one of his titles."
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And then the next
day, do another one,
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or you might want to sit
and do three or four at a time.
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It's not a real thick book.
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But it's got a lot of
different titles in it.
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Yes, and rich in information.
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In just a few seconds,
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I'd like for you to
look into this camera
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over here and just
speak to that person at home
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who has never
given Jesus a chance.
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You know, now is
the day of salvation.
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If you're watching this program,
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and you've never
given Jesus a chance,
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what do you have to lose?
00:27:43.86\00:27:45.89
You have everything to gain,
00:27:45.93\00:27:47.70
He is your
salvation and He loves you.
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Amen. Amen.
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Thank you so much for
coming on this program
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and sharing A
Glimpse of His glory.
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Until next time, God bless.
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