Did you know that you
hold the same amount of value
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as the richest man in the world?
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Don't look at me like I'm crazy.
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Stay tuned to find out
what this is all about.
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They tried to change
us from the outside in,
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and that's never going to work.
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Because I know that no matter
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how hard and cold
the exterior may seem,
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I know that inside we hurt.
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So we just want to come
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and share some hope with you
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and let you know
that we love you,
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and that Jesus loves you
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beyond anybody in this world.
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We're not here today to
judge you or condemn you.
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We're today to tell you that
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we love you and we understand
the situation that you're in.
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Hello, I'm Jason Bradley.
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And I'm so glad that you
decided to join us today.
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We're going to be examining
the value of the human life,
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something that
seems to have been
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forgotten about by mankind
and Lemuel Vega will be...
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Hey, Lemuel.
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Hey, Jason.
It's good to see you.
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I know you're
back there socializing,
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spreading the
gospel, witnessing,
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doing what you do best.
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So how's that going for you?
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You know, we appreciate
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the opportunity
to travel together
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with 3ABN to
these jails and prisons
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to bring hope to a
people group who you
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and I both know they
want internal change.
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And so the analogies
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that Christmas Behind Bars
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has used in the
jails and prisons
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are just simple applications
to let every aspect of society
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know there's
hope for their life.
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So we appreciate being
here in this new program.
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And we just say thank you.
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Yeah, well, it's
great to be here with you.
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You know, I missed the time
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when we were able
to go into prisons
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and to minister to
the inmates in person.
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It's created a
difficult challenge,
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but praise God that
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He's still
opened the doors for you
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to get these packages in.
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And what's
contained in these packages?
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Packages have everything
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from granola
bars, chips, snacks,
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they might have some nuts,
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just lots of neat
things, physical tangible food,
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but there's also spiritual food.
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So they have whether
it's Creation magazines,
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Path to Peace, Steps to Christ,
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Desire of Ages, just
a multitude of materials
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that we use in these
packages because everybody,
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mostly comes out for the food.
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You know, a lot of people,
they'll come out for that
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though we've had
a couple of people
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turn down a package,
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they say they don't want
it but for the most part,
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they appreciate
receiving a gift.
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And so those devotional books
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remain long
after the food is gone.
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And so that's why we do
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what we do is just to tell them,
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brother, we love
you, sister, we love you.
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We care, God bless
you, don't give up.
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The internal change that you
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so desperately
have tried to attain
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is not only available,
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but it's
attainable through Christ.
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Amen? Amen.
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When I went and helped
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with the prison
ministry filming,
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I did the audio for that.
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You know, I wasn't
really thinking much about,
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you know,
anything about the prison.
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I was kind of just focusing on
doing my job getting in there,
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getting the
recordings we needed,
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and then going home.
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But I guess
initially, I was thinking,
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I was going to see a lot of guys
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who weren't going
to be receptive to
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what we were talking about,
or what we were bringing in.
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Actually, it surprised
me because when we went in,
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I couldn't believe
how many people were like
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open to hearing
about the gospel.
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And really, were actually hungry
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to hear about the gospel,
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even though my expectations
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were they weren't going to
really care they really did.
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And that was
really special to see.
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What impacted me the most was,
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we were in one
of the last areas,
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it was one of
the men's cell areas.
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And we were
passing out the Bible.
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And I remember
seeing this big guy,
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I mean, really big
guy, probably 6'4'',
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just, you know, totally ripped.
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And he looked at this Bible like
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it was the most amazing gift
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he had ever gotten
in his entire life.
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Like I've never seen
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someone look at
a Bible that way.
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And so that's
something that really like
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touched my heart to see that.
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I would say, if
you're looking to get
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into prison ministry
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or want to get
involved with prison ministry.
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If you don't
know where to start,
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obviously contact
someone you may know,
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or contact your local
church, maybe they have
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a prison ministry already set up
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and just go for it.
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You know,
sometimes it can be scary
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because we don't
really know what to expect.
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But just trust God,
and He'll take care of you.
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But I want to talk about value.
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You know, when you come in
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contact with people
that are incarcerated,
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or even people on the street,
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what have you noticed about
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their perception of their value?
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You know, society has made you
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if you're fat, there's no value,
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if you're too
skinny, there's no value,
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if you're rich,
there's some value,
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if you're poor,
there's no value.
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So society, if you're born
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on this side of
the track or that side.
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So society has
valued, demoralized
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and devaluelized our
lives so we look at TV
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and the rock stars or this star,
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that star, we
think we don't fit up.
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We don't fit in
because we ain't them,
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we and you can never be
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like them because you know what?
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God created each and
every one of us unique.
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We're special in
the sight of God.
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And so we do try to.
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We have an analogy, Jason,
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that we use to try
to let people know that
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no matter how valueless
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they may seem that
there's hope for their life.
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Can I share that with you?
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Oh, yeah, please.
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I got a $20 bill here.
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Okay.
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And I heard this
analogy of this $20 bill.
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And the story that I
heard, this wasn't my idea.
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But they took this $20 bill,
and they asked the audience,
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how many of you want it
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and there are 200-300 inmates
sitting in the auditorium.
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And you say how many
of you would want this?
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And they say,
well, they would take it,
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you know, that
they would like it.
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And I say, "Well,
what if you crumpled
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this $20 bill all up?
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How many of you still want it?"
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And they say well,
they'd still take it.
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I said, "Really?
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I said, "It's all
crumpled up and all."
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And then you threw it on
the ground, you step on it.
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Maybe throw it in the trash can,
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said, "How many of you
still want this $20 bill?"
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You know what, my brother?
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It comes from
some of the most people
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you think when they answered
they said it still has value?
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Yes. "Why would
you still want it?"
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I asked, and they
said, "It still has value."
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That's right? I said, "Why?
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It's all ruffled,
it's all crumpled."
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They said,
"Because it's still $20."
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I said, "You are
absolutely right."
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And when we come to Christ,
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we might be all rumples,
we might be all crumpled.
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But as we come to
Christ, just as we are
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what He begins
to do in our lives,
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what He's done in my life,
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and I know He's
done it in yours,
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begins to
uncrumple, He begins to unfold,
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He begins to make us back
to what He wants us to be.
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And in His eyes
there's no value,
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no monetary value
can be put on humanity.
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That's right. That's right.
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I wanna share a
scripture with you that
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really speaks to that value.
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You know, as we
think about our lives
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and the
mistakes that we've made,
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and we look at what
Christ has done for us,
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I want to share this
passage in Philippians 2:5,
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and it says, "Let
this mind be in you,
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which was also in Christ Jesus,
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who being in the form of God
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did not consider it
robbery to be equal with God,
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but made
himself of no reputation
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taking the form of a bondservant
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and coming in
the likeness of men.
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And being found in
appearance as a man,
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He humbled Himself
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and became obedient
to the point of death,
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even the death of the cross."
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That's huge.
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I mean, He saw enough
value in us to do that for us.
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It doesn't matter
whether you're in prison.
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It doesn't matter
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whether you're the alcoholic
suffering in the gutter today.
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It doesn't
matter the drug addict
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that can't get his next fix,
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or maybe just their children
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were snatched out of
their home because God cares.
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What we've done
cannot change the value that
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He placed on our lives.
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Amen? Amen.
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And what I've tried to
talk to the inmates about,
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I said, "How many of
you believe in creation?
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How many of you
believe in the beginning God
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created the
heaven and the earth?"
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And multitudes
will raise their hand
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that they still
believe in this creation story.
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I said, well, then what it
says then a few verses later,
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it says that God said, who said?
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God said, "Let Us make man,
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let Us make
humanity in Our image."
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Who said? God said.
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And whose image were we created?
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God's image.
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We are redeemed through
the shed blood of Jesus Christ
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on the cross
into the opportunity
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to be into the
likeness of Christ.
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Even though we find
ourselves crumpled and rumpled.
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This is still worth $20.
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Our price is
infinite. That's right.
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Amen. Far greater than that.
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So what has your experience been
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when you share that
hope with the inmates?
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What are some of the
things that you've heard?
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What are some of the
things that you've seen?
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Man, you know, as I'm leaving,
they doesn't get their bag.
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I don't pass out bags
when I go to some of the...
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There they are 200 inmates,
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sitting there 300 inmates,
we sing, we speak to them.
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And what I like to do is
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I like to clear till the
end before they go out the door.
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They already got their
bag, they got their card,
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and I'm just able
to shake their hand
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and tell them to keep
looking up, don't give up.
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And they said it touched me.
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It touched me. I was touched.
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And it ain't me
that can touch you,
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it wasn't the
analogy of a $20 bill
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that touched them,
it's the love of God
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because I'll go out
on that same sidewalk
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when they're all coming in.
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They got a sign in
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and they're all bumping knuckles
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and slapping hands
and talking and laughing,
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they said, "I'm
just going for the bag."
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Brother something
changes, in that auditorium
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something changes
and something changes
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between opening
prayer and closing prayer,
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and when they leave
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their life has been
inspired and touched.
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You know,
Brother, there was a man
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that couldn't
come to the service.
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I was asked to
go to this prison,
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this man was dying
and the family called,
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said, "Would you
go and see my son.
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He's getting ready to die.
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He's in prison."
And so I drove down.
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I made an appointment.
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I was supposed to be
there early in the morning.
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I made an appointment.
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I was there, I met the
chaplain outside the prison
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and we walked in, we
went through shakedown,
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they checked your pockets,
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you got to take your
shoes off, take your belt off.
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And so we made it
through shakedown,
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we'd already given our IDs
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and then the officers
asked the chaplain, said,
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"Who are you here to see?"
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Chaplain told him, he
said, "They didn't tell you.
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He died last night."
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There we were,
we were going to go
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see this individual on
the ward where they die.
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I told the chaplain, I
said, "What's your plans?"
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You know, I was crushed.
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I didn't get an opportunity
to fulfill the family's request.
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And he said,
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"I'm still gonna
go back on that ward."
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I said, "Can I go
with you?" He said, "Yeah."
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He said, "I know you got
an appointment in Illinois.
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I know you need to go that way."
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I said, "No, I said, my
time here was set for this."
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Brother, we
walked back on that ward.
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And there were three individuals
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who were in bed and
they were all shriveled up
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and they looked like
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they come from a civil war camp.
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And it was awful.
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And the first individual,
I walked over to his bed
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and I said, "Do you know Jesus?"
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"Yeah, I know Jesus."
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But brother, the TV program
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he was watching didn't
tell me that he had ingested
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and begin to
want to be like Jesus,
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he didn't want to hear about it.
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You know, I walked
over to this other bed,
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it was in the corner there.
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And I walked over to this bed,
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and I didn't know
what to say to this guy.
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He couldn't talk to me.
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And I opened the Word of God.
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And I went to Psalms 23.
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Can you go there? I sure can.
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I opened to Psalms 23
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because I didn't know
what to say to this guy,
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but I thought I would
read it in the 23rd Psalm
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because I just read
that to an individual
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who was getting ready
to die a month before.
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What does it say?
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"The Lord is my
shepherd I shall not want."
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That's where I went to.
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I started
reading I got that far.
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And I asked the man in the bed,
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I said, "Is the
Lord your shepherd?"
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And he shook his head, "No."
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I begin to read
the promise of God.
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Go ahead and read that, Brother.
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"He makes me to lie
down in green pastures,
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He leads me
beside the still waters,
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He restores my soul,
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He leads me in the
paths of righteousness
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for His name's sake.
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Yea, though I walk through
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the valley of
the shadow of death,
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I will fear no evil,
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for You are with me,
Your rod and Your staff,
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they comfort me.
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You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
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You anoint my head
with oil, my cup runs over.
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Surely goodness and
mercy shall follow me
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all the days of my life,
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and I will dwell in the
house of the Lord forever."
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I took his hand, Jason.
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I took his hand,
we prayed together.
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He said, "He didn't
know Jesus as his shepherd."
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He had tears in his
eyes as we prayed together,
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he squeezed my hand
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and that man
died a few days later.
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Would that possibly
connected him to Christ?
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Will he be in
the kingdom of heaven
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because he said that
he didn't know Jesus?
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But yet he wanted
something different.
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And that's what
the ministry of 3ABN
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is proclaiming the
gospel around the world,
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mending broken
people, helping them up.
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And that's what the
ministry of Christmas
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Behind Bars is
going to tell him that,
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Brother, doesn't
matter how far you've gone.
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Doesn't matter
how far you've sunk,
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doesn't matter how
crumpled or rumpled you is,
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you have a price
and God paid that price
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through Jesus, that we could be
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reunited one day
when Jesus comes back.
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Amen?
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And aren't you
looking forward to that day
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when Jesus comes back.
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There's no more sickness,
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no more pain, no more suffering,
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no more sorrow, no
more disease, no more death.
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That's going to
be a beautiful day
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when love is pure
love and all of that,
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and I hope that
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you are looking
forward to that day as well.
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I hope that you
recognize the value
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that has been
placed on your life,
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the value that
Christ sees in your life,
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the fact that
Christ paid it all for you
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because he sees
that you hold that value.
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He loves you beyond belief.
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Give Him a chance
today. God bless you.
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