Why should you
be stuck with trash
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when the ultimate
treasure is within your reach?
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Stay tuned to find out
how to live the abundant life.
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They try 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 how hard
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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
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
beyond anybody in this world.
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I'm not here today to
judge you or condemn you,
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we're today to tell
you that we love you
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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
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to join us once again.
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I'm here with Lemuel Vega,
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founder of
Christmas Behind Bars,
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an organization that
shares the hope of Christ
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with people that
are incarcerated.
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Lemuel, we've been
across the United States to
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several correctional facilities.
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Many. Yes.
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Many, many, beyond several.
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You and your team have
come actually thousands of miles
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to multiple states
and we just say thank you.
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Yes.
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I mean, for you to
come in and preach and sing
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and different
people come together.
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And you know, the
reason we do what we do,
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Jason, is to share hope
with these people that are,
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they're in a place
they don't want to be.
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Amen? Amen.
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So they've done something
wrong and they find themselves
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and they don't
know how to change.
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And, first of all, we
want to tell them that
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we love them,
we care about them,
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God loves them
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and then it's
through tangible things.
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Yes.
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Packages, you know, the
granola bars and the chips
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and you've helped
pass out many packages
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and how have you seen
their lives touched from that?
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I've seen where you
call for volunteers,
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you give an illustration,
you call for volunteers
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and people come up
and they participate
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in the illustrations
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and then you hand them a
Bible or some kind of gift.
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And I've seen
tears just stream down
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grown men's eyes and
streaming down their face.
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I mean, it's really
moving, it's really touching.
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And that's the Lord.
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We go physically
and do those things,
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but that's the Lord,
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that that's a
conversion process,
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the Holy Spirit calling
upon their hearts and lives.
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And that's why we're
using these analogies
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that we've used in jails
and prisons to let our viewers
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know because we know
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that it's
applicable for all people.
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That's right.
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But you want to talk a
little bit about the trash,
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that's our analogy today.
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Would you want to talk
a little bit about that
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for people in society
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or where do you want to
start with our scripture?
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Absolutely.
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I've got a scripture
that I'd like to share.
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And this scripture is
found in Mark 8:36-37,
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and the Word of God says this,
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"For what will it profit a man
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if he gains the whole
world and loses his own soul?
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Or what will a man give
in exchange for his soul?"
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So we're not just
talking about people
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that tried to
gain the whole world
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and got caught robbing a bank
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or whatever and is incarcerated.
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But there's people out
there that they ain't got caught
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and they're trying to gain
something other than salvation.
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Yes.
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They're trying to gain money,
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finances,
status, whatever it is.
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But what they don't realize
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is they're just
picking up trash.
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And they're still
empty inside. Yes.
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No matter their bank account,
no matter their status quo.
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That's right.
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There's no peace,
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there's no
security, there's no joy,
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there's no, you
know, none of that.
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They're constantly
looking over their shoulders,
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making sure they're
not about to get robbed,
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making sure they're
not about to get killed,
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making sure that
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they're not
about to go to prison,
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so that's not a
comfortable lifestyle.
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So that's the people
outside of these bars,
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but now the other spectrum
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is for people that
are inside these bars.
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That's right.
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You know, I wonder
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if we could get
one of the volunteers?
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Larry, would you come up here?
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I got a question,
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have you ever
collected any trash?
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Yes, I have, like many people.
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You've collected
trash in your life.
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You know, I
have a trash can here
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and did you ever
have anger in your life?
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I have anger.
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Got anger in your life? Drugs.
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You've had drug
addiction? Drug addiction.
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You know, so
many people in prison,
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out of prison
suffer with drug addiction.
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Alcohol. Alcohol is another.
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Shame. Shame.
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Pain. There's
been a lot of things.
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I've done a lot
of terrible things.
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Any guilt?
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Well...
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I'm afraid I got more things
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than you got
trash here in my life.
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You know what, Larry?
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At some point, you wanted
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to get rid of that
trash, but you couldn't.
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How did you make a new
beginning in your life?
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I had to try and
turn it up to the Lord.
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So you was running miles
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down the highway wanting change,
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but you couldn't change.
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Couldn't do it. I
tried, I sincerely wanted to.
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You know, that was for me too,
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and that's for
people that are hurting
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all across the
world, not just in prison.
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So you're hurting,
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and you're
seeking, and you're wanting,
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you're trying to fill
that void in your life,
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and what took place after that?
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Things got worse and worse
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and it came to one
night when I was drunk
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and I was on drugs
and out on the motorcycle,
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involved with a gang
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and did something that
could have gotten me killed.
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With all this
trash, baggage. Everything.
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And most of it was
coming out in that night.
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And in the morning I just,
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I woke up and I just,
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I didn't even
realize how much was real
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and how much wasn't,
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but I just
couldn't take it anymore.
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And you want to
get rid of that trash?
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God, I got to. I can't do this.
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Well, here's how
we have to do it.
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Here's the
beginning from my life,
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for Jason's life,
is we said "Lord,"
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we have to acknowledge Him first
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and we have to acknowledge
our own unmanageability.
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And you want to get
rid of that trash, right?
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I do. Let's have
a word of prayer.
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Dear heavenly Father, Lord,
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we know we
can't do it on our own
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and that's why You give
the gift of Your Son, Jesus
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for all of humanity,
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incarcerated, free,
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but yet we're empty
and alone without You.
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And, Larry, you just
say this prayer with me.
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Dear Lord, please help me.
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Dear Lord, please help me.
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I want to, but I
can't. I want to, but I can't.
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Here's my life,
take me and use me.
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Here's my life,
take me and use me.
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Dear heavenly Father,
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we just pray as
he acknowledges You,
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Lord, he's willing to
surrender these things.
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We just ask a special
anointing and blessing as Larry
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is a representation for
all of the incarcerated,
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all of the people
outside of Your will.
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The people in
the free world today
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they are suffering
with many, many things.
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We just ask for a
special blessing now
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in Jesus' name we pray.
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Amen. Amen.
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Larry, let's
get rid of the pain.
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Do you want to
surrender that? Yes, I do.
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Let's get rid of
the unforgiveness.
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What else would
you like to surrender?
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You got hate here,
you said in your life.
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The drug addiction?
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The drug addiction, the alcohol.
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The alcoholism.
And the shame, pain.
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The shame and the
pain. Get rid of it all.
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You know, the Lord
wants to replace us with joy.
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He wants to give us hope,
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He wants to
replace the hate with love.
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He wants to continue to give
us the spirit of evangelism.
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He wants to continue to help
us now throughout all eternity.
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And he wants to use
you as a representation
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for all people
because the Word of God says,
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"Go ye therefore and
proclaim the gospel."
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He wants to use you to
bring hope to the burdened.
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You have a
scripture there, Brother.
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Absolutely.
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Larry, I want to share
this encouraging scripture
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with you that really made a
difference for me in my life.
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And this has come from 2
Corinthians 5:17 and it says,
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"Therefore, if
anyone is in Christ,
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he is a new creation,
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old things have passed away,
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behold, all
things have become new."
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By accepting Christ you
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become a new creation,
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all of those old
things have passed away.
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I'm going to present
this Bible to you, Larry,
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that many sponsors
have made possible.
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I want you to take this Bible
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and I want it to be a
daily active part of your life.
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We love you and thank you
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for being part of this ministry.
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God bless you.
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Lemuel asked my
cousin Jewlee and I to come
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and perform a
skit for the inmates.
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At first, it was to
speak with the women,
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but after we had
finished all the women's blocks,
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he had asked us to
go and speak to the men.
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So primarily what we did
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there was go and perform
skits in every cell block
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and talking and
interacting with the inmates.
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I had never been in a
setting like that before
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and I was scared.
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I guess I was expecting
people to kind of not listen to
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what we had to say
because we were young.
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I felt
unqualified, I guess for it.
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I was scared
that, you know, people,
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they wouldn't care
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what we had to say
or they wouldn't listen.
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And I was expecting
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probably the worst of the worst,
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that's just how my mind goes.
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You know, I
walked in there scared
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and expecting the worst
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and being afraid
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and then just seeing that
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God gave me strength
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and knowledge to be able to do
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what I did, even
though I was up there,
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you know,
shaking half of the time,
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just to see him
soften the hearts of people.
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You know, I went in
there expecting nobody
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to listen to what we had to say.
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And then just seeing
God move through the room
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and seeing people's
demeanors just changed,
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going from these
hardened criminals,
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to these opening,
like, receiving people.
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That impacted me so much,
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to seeing what the
power of the Holy Spirit
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could do in a room,
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and I was very
blessed to be a part of that.
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You know, for you at
home, I want to tell you that
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wherever you are
in your daily life,
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this trash can represents that
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we can trade in,
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we can trade in the old
for what God has for us.
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And as you see trash
cans, perhaps in your house,
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along at gas stations,
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I want it to resonate
in your life and mind,
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that as you see a
trash can, you can know that
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we can trade in
whatever might separate us
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from our
relationship with Jesus Christ.
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For you at home
that are Christians
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and you've
committed your life to Christ.
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You know, the Word of
God says that the wheat
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and the tares are
gonna grow together
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until the end of time.
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That the wheat and tares,
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that's what's
going on in our world,
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the great controversy,
they're growing together.
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But there's coming a time
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the Bible says that
the wheat and the chaff,
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the wheat and the
chaff will be separated.
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And the wheat He's going gather
into the kingdom of heaven
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and the chaff is
going blow to the wind.
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Amen. Amen? Amen.
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You know, Lemuel,
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I'm so thankful that
we serve a forgiving God.
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Amen.
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I mean, that is the
most powerful thing.
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And this scripture
here in 1 John Chapter 1...
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Can I share something with you
about giving a forgiving God?
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Absolutely, share.
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John 3:17, "For
God sent not His Son
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into the world to
condemn the world,
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but that the world
through Him might have..."
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Might have everlasting
life. "Everlasting life."
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I'm sorry,
Brother. That's all right.
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1 John 1:9, "If we
confess our sins," He's what?
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"Faithful and just
to forgive us our sins."
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Go ahead, come on.
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"And to cleanse us,"
from how much unrighteousness?
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"All unrighteousness."
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That's right. That's right.
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You know, when you think
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about the
practical illustration,
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the application here,
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when you have
trash at your house
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and that trash can is
piling up and that trash
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is just piling up and piling up.
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Day after day.
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And day after day
and you're throwing
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maybe the leftovers in there,
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you're throwing everything
in there, it begins to what?
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Oh, it's nasty,
it's stinky. Yeah.
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It smells horrible,
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you can't wait to
get it out of there.
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In our life. In our lives.
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As we collect all that and
the baggage and it festers.
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That's right.
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Man, Brother. That's right.
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We want to give
it to Jesus. Oh, yes.
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And then when we do and
we get that fresh scent,
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that fresh scent comes back
to the house and you're just...
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Oh, yeah.
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So you don't go
through the dishwasher
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before you come to Jesus.
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That's right. Amen.
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That's right.
I'll tell you what?
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It is such a blessing.
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The analogies, Brother, for me,
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when I was in second grade,
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they tied me in a
seat with a jump rope
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so I didn't get school.
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But when the
teacher would unfold it
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and make it practical,
then I begin to understand.
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Yes. And isn't
that what Jesus did?
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Oh, absolutely.
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When Jesus was here,
He walked with the people
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and talked with the people.
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Yes. What would you...
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Is there a parable
that sticks out in your mind
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how Jesus met the
people where they were?
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You know, one thing
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that resonates with
me is the prodigal son.
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Oh, yeah.
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You know, that
really stands out to me
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because even
though that child took
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his inheritance early and
he went to a far away land
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and he went out on
his own and he failed.
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He made many mistakes.
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Squandered it.
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Squandered it on riotous living.
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And when he came to
himself, like Larry.
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Yeah.
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And he came back to his
father, guess what happened?
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Oh, his father is
looking for him a long way off.
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Embraced him, yes,
and hugged his neck.
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And Jesus is
doing the same thing.
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Our heavenly Father is beckoning
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and calling and wooing.
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That's right.
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And that's the
power of the gospel.
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Wherever you are today,
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and we want to say
thank you for your time
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and now for your conversion,
for your willingness,
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for your encouragement
to encourage others.
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen.
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And I would just
want to thank you
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for your time
and what you've been
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doing in spreading the gospel
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and these
practical illustrations here.
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We're going to
get rid of our trash
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and accept God's rich treasure.
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And we want that for you too.
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If you're tired of
your trash, give it to God
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and He will replace
that with marvelous treasure.
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God bless. Amen.
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