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Speaker 1: Well, you know, as the Bible remains the world's best

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Speaker 1: selling book, people everywhere are seeking a deeper understanding of God,

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Speaker 1: yet many still wonder how to begin that journey. Well,

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Speaker 1: today's guest shares practical, powerful ways, of course, that you

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Speaker 1: can spark your devotional life and tune your heart to

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Speaker 1: hear his voice. But before you get to that, joint

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Speaker 1: me around the table is April Simon's and of course

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Speaker 1: we're talking about the book of Books, which is the Bible,

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Speaker 1: the Bible, And how has that impacted your life? Oh?

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Speaker 2: My goodness, It's changed my life. It's what I rely

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Speaker 2: on every day. And I love the book that we're

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Speaker 2: going to talk about today because it makes the Bible practical. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: my granddaughter said, geg, I don't really like reading the Bible.

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Speaker 3: She's eight.

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Speaker 1: There's honesty, right, there's when you're over there in Leviticus.

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Speaker 3: I said, where are you written?

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Speaker 2: She said, Genesis. I said, let me help you out

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Speaker 2: a little bit, sister.

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Speaker 1: So I told her. I took her to Matthew and.

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Speaker 2: Just told her, you know, kind of like you offer

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Speaker 2: the Book of John and just making it easier.

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Speaker 1: This's what this does. It's going to help so many people.

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Speaker 1: So good, Anna Kendall, how are you.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm just great, and I'm so excited because the

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Speaker 4: Bible is active, it is alive, It is so powerful.

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Speaker 1: It really is. Rachel An Brown, the Bible is still

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Speaker 1: the number one selling book.

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Speaker 5: I know, it's wild and it's had this like re

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Speaker 5: Bible in these coming days. And I love our guest today.

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Speaker 5: He's been a pastor for twenty years, very successful entrepreneur,

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Speaker 5: and I love his heart and desire to see, especially young.

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Speaker 1: People fall in love with this book.

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Speaker 5: And so he's made it easy to equip people to

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Speaker 5: understand how to read it better.

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Speaker 1: That's good. That's good, Dorothy Newton. I know the Bible

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Speaker 1: is a very important.

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Speaker 6: Part of your worldness, and you know, it's the only

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Speaker 6: thing that we have that never changes, like never ever

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, this is so good. It's so important,

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Speaker 1: Cindy Johnson, that we understand the Bible, that we can

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Speaker 1: read it and understand it. And that's what we're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about today because a lot of things we

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Speaker 1: based on what the Word of God has to say,

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Speaker 1: which was inspired by the Holy Spirit, as these men wrote.

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Speaker 1: So this is actually God speaking to us. A lot

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it will speak to your heart. It will bring

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Speaker 7: comfort to you at the times you need comfort. But

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Speaker 7: it also corrects you, yes, the moments that you need

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Speaker 7: to be corrected, because you see stories of people that

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Speaker 7: live life that made mistakes. God forgave them, help them.

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Speaker 7: And that's what the Bible will.

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Speaker 8: Do for you.

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Speaker 1: That's so good. That's so good.

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Speaker 8: Well, he says.

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Speaker 1: Celebrated speaker, entrepreneur, and author. Please welcome our guest today,

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Speaker 1: Benjamin Wendell. Hello, welcome, see you all. So good to

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Speaker 1: see you. Thank you so glad you're here today. We're

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Speaker 1: going to talk about this and dive into it. God's

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Speaker 1: word is more accessible than ever, and hunger for it,

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Speaker 1: believe it or not, is growing. And Benjamin's going to

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Speaker 1: like that is near, with insights from his book How

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Speaker 1: to Read and Study the Bible for Yourself. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: what inspired you to write this little book and how

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Speaker 1: easy is it for people to get it, read it

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Speaker 9: Well, Joni, you're holding the very first pink version of

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Speaker 9: I have three kids myself, and I recognize that they

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Speaker 9: being transformed by the Bible. The Bible can feel unapproachable.

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Speaker 9: People can be confused, I can lack confidence. I wanted

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Speaker 9: to give some very practical tools for my own kids,

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Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about how you came to

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Speaker 9: Well, as you said, raised with Josh, love Josh and Rachel.

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Speaker 1: Why why were you? Why are you even considering walking away?

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Speaker 9: The Bible came alive to me and the more I

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Speaker 9: It was like the rising of the sun in my spirit,

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Speaker 9: Well, we are Bible readers are reading the Bible for

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Speaker 9: It's not meant to be confusing. It's written to everyone,

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: Well, it's a part of a broader campaign called Bible

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Speaker 9: Revival dot co. And we're inviting churches all around the world,

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Speaker 9: Christian schools. We just had a Christian school order a

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Speaker 9: thousand of these as a gift to all of their seniors.

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Speaker 9: Businesses if you want to bring your staff in and

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Speaker 9: help them engage in the scripture. And it's a thirty

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Speaker 9: day campaign, a journey to help people engage in scripture

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Speaker 9: for themselves. And so if you're a grandparent, a parent,

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Speaker 9: buy one for your entire family. I feel like this

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Speaker 9: is a great reading base right here, buy the pink one,

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Speaker 9: right there is a black one as well, But particularly

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Speaker 9: I would say churches, these make great gifts for new

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Speaker 9: Christians church visitors. Yes, we can give them a Bible.

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Speaker 9: I'm encouraging pastors give them a practical guide as well

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Speaker 9: as the Bible, what to do to help them understand

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Speaker 9: how to read it for themselves.

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Speaker 1: You know you've got the thirty Day devotional in the back,

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Speaker 1: like here's stay Sick. The passage is Galatians six'. NINE

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Speaker 1: i love. This let us not become weary in doing,

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Speaker 1: good for at the proper time we will reap a

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Speaker 1: harvest if we do not give. Up, now the laws

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Speaker 1: of reciprocity are so true in The, bible in that

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Speaker 1: when you do, good when you make decisions and do

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Speaker 1: the right thing in the face of, adversity when you

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Speaker 1: so seed into someone or help someone or bless, someone

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Speaker 1: it's going to come.

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Speaker 1: Okay so then you say in the, praum you give the,

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Speaker 1: passage then you give the. Process reflect on a time

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Speaker 1: when perseverance and doing good challenge. You how many times

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Speaker 1: you just SAY i do not want to bless? Them

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Speaker 1: how does the promise of a future harvest motivate you

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Speaker 1: to continue your? Efforts and you give a, Prayer Dear,

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Speaker 1: god in moments of weariness and, discouragement remind me of

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Speaker 1: the harvest that awaits faithful, perseverance strengthen my resolve to do.

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Speaker 1: Good trusting in your time and your, promise help me

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Speaker 1: to sow kindness in love without, hesitation knowing that you

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Speaker 1: will bring forth growth and do season In jesus.

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Speaker 8: Name.

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Speaker 1: Amen so you're just kind of. Teaching that's like a Six.

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Speaker 8: Yeah imagine if you've got the book and you have

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Speaker 8: all thirty. Days, yeah BUT.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to give. People and then the first

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Speaker 1: part of it is where you're really teaching about how

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Speaker 1: to ingest understand The bible in a way that is.

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Speaker 9: Relevant, yeah there's very practical tools and. Frameworks and then also,

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Speaker 9: FUNDAMENTALLY i want people to help to help them know

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Speaker 9: how to relate to The. Bible what's their relationship with

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Speaker 9: The word Of. God so it helps people understand their

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Speaker 9: approach and. Posture and then there's a whole range of

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Speaker 9: different practical tools because if people only knew all the

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Speaker 9: different ways that you can study The. Bible it's not

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Speaker 9: just For bible college, students it's not just for.

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Speaker 8: Pastors The bible is everyone's.

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Speaker 1: Book how did this change for your children when they

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Speaker 1: begin to read and understand The? Bible, like what's this

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Speaker 1: story where they came to The, dad.

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Speaker 8: We have struggled to do house devotions with our. Kids

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Speaker 8: they just get.

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Speaker 9: Distracted it turns into, chaos and then we feel like

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Speaker 9: bad parents are Bad.

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Speaker 1: Christians my dad used to make us sit around and

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Speaker 1: we'd be, like.

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Speaker 8: Oh it's just like.

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Speaker 9: THAT i just found doing this one, thing not me

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Speaker 9: reading The bible out, loud getting your kids just to.

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Speaker 8: Read The bible out. Loud so even.

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Speaker 9: If you don't have some great teaching that goes with,

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Speaker 9: it just sitting and having your kids read the. Scripture

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Speaker 9: and then at, thirteen for each of my, KIDS i

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Speaker 9: bought them a beautiful Leatherbound.

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Speaker 8: BIBLE i took them on a.

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Speaker 9: TRIP i wrote them a, letter AND i presented That

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Speaker 9: bible and, said this is the greatest.

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Speaker 8: GIFT i, mean it GETS i get emotional thinking about.

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Speaker 9: This this is the greatest GIFT i can give you

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Speaker 9: as a.

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Speaker 8: Father other words in this, book, well and.

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Speaker 1: TWO i wanted as to mention that for, children there

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Speaker 1: are so Many bibles out there with. Pictures, yes, now

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Speaker 1: j To Bray brown right. Here he loves hands And.

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Speaker 1: Bible he loves to watch them to read The, bible

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Speaker 1: but he wants. Pictures so he.

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Speaker 5: Knows The bible so well that at his school the

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Speaker 5: kids asked the, teacher could you to Teach?

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Speaker 1: Bible so the teacher allowed.

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Speaker 5: Him and also they would always comment, me that's Good bible,

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Speaker 5: Too So i'm proud of so.

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Speaker 1: Good, WELL i want you to Remember god is in

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Speaker 1: far away he's speaking to you right now through his.

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Speaker 1: Word i'm telling you there's so many TIMES i remember

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Speaker 1: WHEN i was probably like seventeen or, eighteen it's having

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Speaker 1: a tough, time like you can have a tough. Time

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Speaker 1: at seventeen, eighteen the whole world was falling in AND

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Speaker 1: i REMEMBER i went to The bible and that scripture

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Speaker 1: come unto, me all you that labor and are heavy,

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Speaker 1: laden AND i will give you. Rest And jesus was, saying,

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Speaker 1: hey let's give this to. Me, okay you Know i've got.

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Speaker 1: It so he will guide you through every season of your.

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Speaker 1: Life and the word Of god is. Crucial and if

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Speaker 1: you're watching, today you need. Prayer that's why that prayer

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Speaker 1: line numbers on the. Screen if you prayed and Invited

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Speaker 1: jesus into your heart with me, EARLIER i want you

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Speaker 1: to call because guess What i'm going to send. You

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Speaker 1: The book Of john is one of the, gospels has

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Speaker 1: A qr code at the end of every, Chapter doctor

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Speaker 1: jen gets a wonderful. Theologian we'll explain that chapter to.

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Speaker 1: You and that's just our way of saying thank. You

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Speaker 1: so if you pray Invited jesus, in let us know

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Speaker 1: we don't need anything from. You we just want to

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Speaker 1: be a blessing to. You, WELL i do want to

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Speaker 1: Thank benjamin for joining us. Today be sure you pick

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Speaker 1: up a copy of his Book how To read And

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Speaker 1: study The bible for. Yourself what a great thing for

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Speaker 1: Like christian schools Or christian universities to give to the

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Speaker 1: seniors or you, know if you've got a senior graduating

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Speaker 1: like let this be part of the gift along with

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Speaker 1: a little check right in. There you know we're gonna

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Speaker 1: give them a little bit of money and want a.

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Speaker 1: Blessing that could be the pink ones for the, girls

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Speaker 1: Yes and for more information on, this you can visit

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Speaker 1: him At Bible revival dot coo and as, always make

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Speaker 1: PLATFORMS i want to thank you for. Watching thank you,

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Speaker 1: Ladies thank You ben A Bible. Revival the revival has already,

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Speaker 1: started like you mentioned what's going on in college campuses

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Speaker 1: around the. World god is touching the hearts of our young,

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Speaker 1: people and The bible is an intricate part of. That

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for. Watching we'll see you next,

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Speaker 1: time by.

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Speaker 10: Bye for, today.

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Speaker 1: We Know god can use anyone anywhere to change the.

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Speaker 1: World in today's guests are here to show us that

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Speaker 1: when we say yeah To, god he can multiply our

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Speaker 1: lives beyond anything we ever. Imagined before we get to

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Speaker 1: that joined me around the table Is April. Simon how are?

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Speaker 1: YOU i am doing?

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Speaker 2: Great and you know, what one yes can change everything yet,

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Speaker 2: better just takes a yes an obedient. Heart, man everything

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Speaker 2: can change.

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Speaker 1: You don't always think about your Dad, John SEE i

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Speaker 1: mean one yes and look at how he changed the.

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Speaker 1: World Thank god and a. Kindle how are.

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Speaker 4: You delighted to be? Here AND i Love Kingdom? Builders

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Speaker 4: yes you.

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Speaker 8: DID i love this.

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Speaker 4: Couple We freda AND i administered in their church In

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Speaker 4: vali and went to their lovely home on the. Mountaintop

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Speaker 4: it's a delightful.

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Speaker 1: Time and you just suffered For. Jesus jesus In Why,

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Speaker 1: dorothy how are? You i'm just so. Excited, yeah it's

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Speaker 1: just been a great. Day and has it been a

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Speaker 1: great day so? Far it has been a, great great.

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Speaker 11: Day it's a long, story but WHAT i will say

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Speaker 11: is That god's love show up in so many waste

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Speaker 11: of people And i'm just so, honored so, good so thank.

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Speaker 1: You, Joony, well you are a. Blessing Rachel Lamb.

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Speaker 5: Brown you, Know dorothy is always the joy of the,

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Speaker 5: artist her, strength and she always carries that joy everywhere she.

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Speaker 1: Goes that's. Amazing that's the kind of PERSON i want to.

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Speaker 1: BE i know you are that kind of. Person Cindy,

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Speaker 1: johnson how are you?

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Speaker 7: Hello happy to be here today and happy to have this.

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Speaker 7: GUEST i had the privilege of meeting, them actually with

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Speaker 7: you And marcus Of hawaii and write.

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Speaker 1: Them yes they. Are we're talking about our dear, friends

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Speaker 1: Doctor James morocco and his Wife. Colleen welcome to the.

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Speaker 3: Table it's a joy for us to be.

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Speaker 1: Here it's always so good to have.

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Speaker 3: You the one thorn, man.

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Speaker 1: But such a voice of. WISDOM i, MEAN i love

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Speaker 1: to pick his brain Whenever i'm with, him asking me. Questions,

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Speaker 1: well From hawaii to The, nations Doctor james And Colleen

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Speaker 1: morocco have Seen god do the miraculous and today their

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Speaker 1: testimony of revival and radical obedience will encourage you that

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Speaker 1: nothing is impossible With. God, well we wanted to take

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Speaker 1: our audience back to the beginning of where you were.

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Speaker 1: Born kind of you're calling.

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Speaker 3: ME i was born In, Calcutta. India WHO i knew? That,

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Speaker 3: The bontains took my dad's. Place what happened Is dad's

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Speaker 3: was there for two. Terms he opened A bengali church In.

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Speaker 3: Calcutta that church is still going on. Today and then

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Speaker 3: he opened An english church and that church is still

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Speaker 3: going on. Todays that came After bontangs came and lived

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Speaker 3: with us for a year a year and a, half

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Speaker 3: And god spoke To dad and, said give it to The.

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Speaker 3: Bontains they'd come out just to be In evangelis for

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Speaker 3: a few, weeks but they stayed In god's. Heart was you,

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Speaker 3: know he Got god's heart for the city'd weep a.

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Speaker 3: Lot Then dad had a call to The. Philippines he

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Speaker 3: was In india for two terms and then he went

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Speaker 3: to The, philippines pastor to church And Cebu city for a.

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Speaker 3: Year then became a traveling of ages throughout The philippines

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Speaker 3: and then came back to THE. Us that's when we

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Speaker 3: lived In texas for that brief period of. TIME i

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Speaker 3: went To Highland Park High. School and then he was

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Speaker 3: called back to The. Philippines and at this time he

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Speaker 3: went back as the pastor of the. Church That leicester

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Speaker 3: summer all Started Bethel, temple which at that time was

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Speaker 3: one of the largest churches in.

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Speaker 1: The, nation had that great.

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Speaker 3: Miracle well what, Happened brother some Ar al was starting the.

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Speaker 3: Church thereat man Of. God he was a great man

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Speaker 3: Of god and he they had leift In. Erickson they

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Speaker 3: had a great revival there and he was starting the

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Speaker 3: church at That, well he's riding and driving in his

657
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 3: car and he hears this report about a woman who

658
00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 3: was In bilabad prison who's being a bit literally she

659
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 3: would start screaming and they would see BikeE marks on her,

660
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 3: hand but there was nothing, there no one, there and

661
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 3: they would the bike marks would come over her. Body

662
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 3: and so they brought in physicians and, doctors AND i

663
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 3: mean it was scary because they they were right there seeing.

664
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 3: This so they're telling it on the radio and The

665
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 3: Holy spirit, SAYS i want you to go to that

666
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 3: prison and command that demon to. Leave so he fastened

667
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 3: and prayed and asked if he could, come and they

668
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 3: lied him in and he cast the demon. Out, well

669
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 3: that thing literally shifted because it became the number one

670
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 3: thing to talk about throughout The philippines because.

671
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: All those people had seen the, Evidence oh, my something

672
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 1: that was not explainable where this woman was being bitten

673
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 1: and there was nothing.

674
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 3: There and they had they even had under her because

675
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:56,280
Speaker 3: she would fight this, thing and they had hair samples

676
00:33:56,360 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 3: under her fingernails that were not. HUMAN i, mean it

677
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:01,959
Speaker 3: was a.

678
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: Trip and so when he went, in people, were, oh

679
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: they were all in cir people were, afraid, Right oh they're.

680
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 3: Afraid they're all in, there you, KNOW i, mean you,

681
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 3: know they're all watching.

682
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 1: It so he goes in, there casademon, out and it's

683
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 1: all over the news and then a revival breaks.

684
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 4: Out right that sound.

685
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 1: Familiar that's What god.

686
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 4: Does and he wrote about it in a.

687
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 3: Book, Yeah bitten By devils is the name of the.

688
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 3: Book and he was a great man and he was

689
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 3: a close friend of our. Family in, fact he did

690
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 3: my dad's funeral and Mawim dad joined my staff in

691
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:36,840
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty.

692
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 1: Four we're jumping. Ahead so you got you were born In,

693
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 1: india and then your dad is going.

694
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:46,879
Speaker 3: To The philippines and he was there till nineteen Eighty in,

695
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 3: fact what, Happened, well where were you at in all? This,

696
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 3: well what? HAPPENED i went to college In, California. Okay

697
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,240
Speaker 3: and one of the most amazing stories IS i worked

698
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:59,280
Speaker 3: myself across The.

699
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 4: Pacific on A i think this is a phenomenal. Stort,

700
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 4: now how old were you when you?

701
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 3: Did i'm seventeen years old.

702
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 4: And you were on cargo.

703
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 3: SHIPS i was on a cargo ship Going.

704
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 4: Can you imagine, this letting your seventeen year old do?

705
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 3: THIS i know. ABSOLUTELY i got to tell you the

706
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 3: stories you want to hear. It, yes it was one

707
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 3: of the great moments in my. Life what happened is,

708
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 3: that you, know we were. Missionaries we didn't have a

709
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 3: lot of money for me to go to college or

710
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,359
Speaker 3: even get over to. COLLEGE i had brothers that were

711
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,479
Speaker 3: in college In, california AND i was going to visit.

712
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,840
Speaker 3: Them SO i heard that you could go to The

713
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 3: american embassy and wait there and if a Sailor american

714
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,439
Speaker 3: sailor got left behind in one of the. Ports if

715
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,919
Speaker 3: you went, there a ship's captain would come and hire

716
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 3: you to take that guy's. Place SO i was. Waiting

717
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 3: i'd been waiting there for about two. Weeks and it

718
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 3: was a rainy Dale i'll never forget In manila at that,

719
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 3: time it flooded horribly and it was a rainy. Day

720
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 3: and all of a, sudden the ship's captain comes in

721
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 3: and he points to, me says, you and he pointed

722
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 3: to another guy and said you get to the. Pier

723
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 3: and it was just a real short. Time, WELL i got,

724
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 3: home my parents weren't. HOME i had already packed my

725
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 3: bas BECAUSE i BELIEVED i was going to go grab my.

726
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:15,839
Speaker 3: Stuff and just AS i was ready to go to the,

727
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 3: Pier dad showed, up jumped in the. Vehicle he took

728
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 3: me to the, pier and OFF i was. GONE i

729
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 3: didn't get to Kiss debbie good. BYE i didn't get

730
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:26,759
Speaker 3: to say bye to. Anybody i'm on a ship and

731
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 3: deb is your. Sister debie's my.

732
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 1: Sister and so you were born again at that, point,

733
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 1: though YES i.

734
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,839
Speaker 3: WAS i came to The lord real. YOUNG i got

735
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 3: filled with the spirit WHEN i was a senior in high,

736
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 3: school SO i not only was, saved BUT i was

737
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 3: filled with the holy ghosts at that. Time SO i

738
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 3: got on board the ship and lo and, behold the

739
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 3: ship's going To. Vietnam it was charted by The american

740
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 3: government download. Cargo this is the height of The Vietnam

741
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:54,359
Speaker 3: war in nineteen sixty. Seven and so we get Into.

742
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:59,280
Speaker 3: Vietnam our first, port we were out in the harbor

743
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 3: and to get on land you had to take a

744
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:06,319
Speaker 3: little boat to. Land AND i remember it was the

745
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 3: first TIME i was able to get off the. Ship

746
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 3: SO i went to. Port there was An american base,

747
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:15,319
Speaker 3: there AND i hitchhiked BECAUSE i wanted to go to.

748
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 3: CHURCH i think it was A wednesday night or, something

749
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 3: and it was pouring right, now stopping. WET i went

750
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 3: to this chapel and the chaplain was. PREACHING i don't

751
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 3: remember what he, preached BUT i sat in the back

752
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 3: of that church stopping what called putting magazines in my.

753
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 3: Shirt AND i was there in. Church it just was

754
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 3: such a moment for, me AND i hitchhiked. Back the

755
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 3: only problem WHEN i hitchhiked back to the, pier there

756
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,839
Speaker 3: was sniper fire and the little boat that would take

757
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 3: me back to the ship was not, running and SO i.

758
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 3: HEAR i am all, alone seventeen year old kid in

759
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 3: the middle of a war. ZONE i didn't know where

760
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 3: to go or what to. DO i saw a shack

761
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 3: and a table was. THERE i, figured, well IF i

762
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:58,439
Speaker 3: get under the, table if, somebody if a vidcom come

763
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 3: in and they, shoot Maybe i'll Have my life would be.

764
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 3: Protected and SO i laid down under that thing went to.

765
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 3: Sleep and of COURSE i got up the next morning

766
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 3: And i'm still here and got on board the. Ship

767
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 3: but WHEN i got a board, ship we went To, Quinnom,

768
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 3: vietnam and they were unloading, cargo AND i, SAID i

769
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:19,359
Speaker 3: started praying at the back of the. Ship i'd stay

770
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 3: there with my ukulelean And i'd sing AND i was.

771
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 3: PRAYING i, Said, God i'd sure like to go back

772
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,840
Speaker 3: To manila at least one time to say bye to.

773
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 3: Everybody AND i began to pray that. Way, WELL i

774
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 3: was what they call a. MESSMAN i served the officers their.

775
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 3: Food there was only one Other christian on board the.

776
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,759
Speaker 3: Ship he worked in the in the engine. Room and

777
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 3: the ship was full of. PERVERTS i mean all they

778
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 3: did every port they went to was. Prostitutes it was

779
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:50,760
Speaker 3: everything you could. Imagine it's. Horrible So I'm i'm talking

780
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 3: to these. OFFICERS i, said is there any possible way

781
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 3: that the ship could get To manila on its way

782
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,280
Speaker 3: back to The United. States they, said it's this ship

783
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 3: is charted by The american. Government if it goes off

784
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,400
Speaker 3: charter at any, time the owners of the ship have

785
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,360
Speaker 3: to pay a lot of money to The american. Government

786
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 3: they're not going to do. That so, ANYWAYS i kept,

787
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:17,839
Speaker 3: praying And loan builds something very. Strange the ship had

788
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 3: been in the harbor In manila for two weeks getting on,

789
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 3: stuff but for some, reason they didn't get enough water

790
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 3: on the. Ship so when they came To, vietnam they

791
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 3: were low on, water and SO i, said is there

792
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 3: any possibility we'd get water In. MANILA i, said it's.

793
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 3: Impossible the barge is going to. Come we'll get filled. Up,

794
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 3: well the barge didn't show up and they left port

795
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 3: low on. Water. Wow and so a day out Of,

796
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:47,920
Speaker 3: vietnam come to find out they were headed For. Manila,

797
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:50,839
Speaker 3: so you, Know i'm so, Excited but every Time i'd get,

798
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 3: excited you, know there'd be some. Opposite it's. Impossible the

799
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 3: ship will never even be cleared by. Customs we'll get out.

800
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 3: There we'll be way out in the and the barge

801
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 3: would come fill us up and we'll be gone in

802
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 3: just a few hours because we're going off. Charter, well and,

803
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 3: behold we land In. Manila and if you've ever been To,

804
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 3: manila there's a. Wall it's a breakwater. Wall we were

805
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 3: so far out that we were way past. That and

806
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 3: we got there late in the afternoon and we're sitting.

807
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,280
Speaker 3: There the barge comes up fills it up with. Water

808
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 3: So i'm, Said, Priano, jesus we got this. Close you

809
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 3: got to let me. Off and then all of a,

810
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 3: sudden the little boat comes up and a guy gets,

811
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 3: off comes up the gang plan and they cleared the.

812
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 3: Ship it was a customs official working after, ours and

813
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 3: there were a lot of ships in the. Harbor they

814
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 3: chose our ship and they cleared our, ship which was.

815
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:52,919
Speaker 3: Incredible it was a. Miracle so the. Captains the captain, says,

816
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:55,359
Speaker 3: well you can have some time to go on shore

817
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:57,359
Speaker 3: if you. Want, WELL i had to work that, night

818
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 3: but somebody took my place AND i got on. Shore

819
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,319
Speaker 3: i'm telling you, what it was. Great and SO i

820
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 3: got into taxi AND i went. Home little DID i

821
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 3: know what was about to. Happen what had happened was

822
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 3: the church was planning a farewell party for, me BUT

823
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 3: i hopped up and left before they had the farewell.

824
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 3: Party and there was a, Sailor Frankie lane was his,

825
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 3: name who was going back to The United states and

826
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 3: he was in the, military and he was going back

827
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 3: to this AND i, said the very NIGHT i came

828
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 3: and at the very TIME i came, in they were

829
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 3: having a farewell party for, him and an honorary farewell

830
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 3: party for me at my. HOUSE i saw. Everybody everybody was.

831
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 3: Shot you were.

832
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:44,879
Speaker 1: Just like When peter got out of the, prison that's,

833
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 1: Right and they were, LIKE i couldn't Be peter's no

834
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 1: way he could be.

835
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:53,400
Speaker 3: Here and it was so what. HAPPENED i said goodbye to,

836
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:56,880
Speaker 3: everyone you, know AND i got back on board that,

837
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,399
Speaker 3: ship and it dawned on, me the goodness Of, god

838
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 3: it's one of THE. Us it's JUST i preach you.

839
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 3: GOODNESS i thought about. This of all the times for

840
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 3: the ship to not get, water they didn't get it In.

841
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 3: Vietnam of all the ports in the whole world they went,

842
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 3: to they went To. Manila out of all the times

843
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:16,919
Speaker 3: for the customs officials to work over time and to

844
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:20,320
Speaker 3: touch one ship in that. Harbor there were many. Ships

845
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 3: they went to our ship and they cleared the ship

846
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 3: out of all the times to have a. Party they

847
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 3: had at the very, night at the very time at my.

848
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 1: House and what lesson did that teach you at seventeen

849
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:33,839
Speaker 1: that you would never forget even.

850
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 3: Today the goodness Of god and the prayers and the power.

851
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:41,319
Speaker 4: Prayers you're all about, That and the fact that he was.

852
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 4: Seventeen that's just what blows my.

853
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 3: Mind they protected me with all these. Berberts it was,

854
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 3: amazing you, know because you, Know i've known the pastors

855
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 3: kids that have failed morally because they've gotten into situations like.

856
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 3: That And god was so kind to, me AND i

857
00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:59,399
Speaker 3: even made some money to help me in college WHEN

858
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 3: i got. There, God he's so. Good that's.

859
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:06,240
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Speaker 1: Doctor James. Morocco one of the THINGS i, said you

869
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Speaker 1: hear so much about prayer as, well so the goodness Of,

870
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Speaker 1: god but the fact that you were praying at seventeen

871
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 1: and actually Saw god answer those prayers in such a

872
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 1: miraculous way and then tell us about it's. Beautiful she

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00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:00,040
Speaker 1: was had red hair WHEN i met, her beautiful, redhead.

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Speaker 8: And raise the.

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Speaker 3: REDHEAD i love the red. Hair that's why she still has.

876
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Speaker 8: It, however.

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Speaker 1: A strawberry blonde now out of a.

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Speaker 9: Bottle.

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Speaker 3: Beautiful we've been married fifty four years and the greatest

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Speaker 3: Skift god gave me next To. Jesus so what?

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Speaker 1: Happened how did you meet this?

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Speaker 3: Girl met her in college and we got married two

883
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:25,799
Speaker 3: days AFTER i, graduated dated for.

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Speaker 1: Bud, wait, well tell me what you thought about, Her,

885
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Speaker 1: like how did you? Know, like, hey LOOK i want

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Speaker 1: TO i want to date this.

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Speaker 3: Girl my problem was the same problem most men. Have we're, dumb,

888
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 3: dumb you KNOW i should have married her soon AFTER

889
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:43,800
Speaker 3: i saw, her but it took me three and a

890
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Speaker 3: half three and a half, years oh, my and we

891
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:48,719
Speaker 3: got married two days AFTER i. GRADUATED i, know that's

892
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Speaker 3: WHAT i.

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Speaker 1: Say So, colleen what did he do that was? Dumb

894
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:57,800
Speaker 1: tell us he couldn't make up his? Mind and why was?

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Speaker 1: It you know a lot of times preachers can like

896
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:03,239
Speaker 1: that because the next pastor has a girl at the

897
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 1: church and they that they should. Meet got to make

898
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 1: sure you're marrying the will Of.

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Speaker 3: GOD i, know it's all of. That and you, know

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Speaker 3: and you have a misconception of. Love you, know you

901
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 3: think love is just this this better of the, heart

902
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 3: and you're there is. That it's you, know this infatuation

903
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 3: that's very. Real BUT i realized after a, WHILE i,

904
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Speaker 3: said you, know if that's, love Then i'd die of

905
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:32,800
Speaker 3: a heart attack in a few days. After AND i, realized,

906
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:36,880
Speaker 3: no love is a commitment and a decision and unawareness

907
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 3: that you're going to spend a lifetime with. Somebody and

908
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 3: one of the one thing That jumie deeply to her

909
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 3: was not just her, looks but she had a capacity to.

910
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Speaker 3: Love and there's some people just don't have that, capacity.

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00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 1: But she did in the way that she would love

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Speaker 1: people with you when you go on to. Pastor, so

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Speaker 1: how did you get To maui and suffer For jesus

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Speaker 1: all this year In?

915
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Speaker 3: Hawaii, well what happened AS i went TO USC i

916
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Speaker 3: did a master's Green Ancient history on my way to a.

917
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Speaker 3: PhD BECAUSE i wanted to be a professor on the

918
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Speaker 3: college campus and witness from the inside of the. Campus,

919
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 3: well so what happened IS i got, there finished the

920
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Speaker 3: masters and Then god speaks to. Me he, SAYS i

921
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Speaker 3: didn't call you to be a. PROFESSOR i called you

922
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Speaker 3: to be a. Pastor so that's WHEN i went To

923
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Speaker 3: Fuller Theological. SEMINAR i did another master's and a doctorate,

924
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 3: there and in the course of that, TIME i became

925
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Speaker 3: a youth pastor at a church In, Wilmington, california with

926
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Speaker 3: a man by the name Of Roy Sap you may

927
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Speaker 3: have known. Him, oh, YEAH a great, man a great.

928
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Speaker 3: Man and we worked together for five years there and

929
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Speaker 3: then he was called to be the pastor A First

930
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Speaker 3: assembly Of god In, honolulu and he asked IF i

931
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 3: would go with him and make a decision as to

932
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Speaker 3: whether we would go. Together and at the TIME i

933
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Speaker 3: was In Hong kong during the summer of nineteen sixties

934
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Speaker 3: nineteen seventy. SIX i was there because my brother pastored

935
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Speaker 3: and he was taking a trip to the mainland with

936
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Speaker 3: the singing, group and so was my dad was with.

937
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Speaker 3: Them SO i pastored both In philippines and In Hong.

938
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Speaker 3: Kong and WHILE i was An Hong kong you called

939
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Speaker 3: AND i, said, Okay i'll change my. Ticket i'll call

940
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Speaker 3: To honolulu check it. Out went To honolulu AND i

941
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 3: was at a In waikiki on a, veranda and The

942
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Speaker 3: lord spoke to, me, Said i'm going to build a

943
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Speaker 3: great church in the. CITY i want you to be

944
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Speaker 3: a part of.

945
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Speaker 1: It anything did become a great, church it.

946
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Speaker 3: Did what. HAPPENED i went back To. California bestap asked,

947
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Speaker 3: me what Did god say to. YOU i told him

948
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Speaker 3: it was exactly What god said to. Him we resigned the,

949
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Speaker 3: church went to went To, honolulu and that was in

950
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Speaker 3: nineteen seventy. Six jamie was only a year and a

951
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 3: half and we were there four. Years and in nineteen seventy,

952
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Speaker 3: Nine god spoke to me SAID i want you to

953
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Speaker 3: leave your own. Top and my dad calls me from

954
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:56,839
Speaker 3: The philippines and, says, Listen i'm thinking That god has

955
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 3: a time for us to, leave AND i would like

956
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 3: you to take our. Place, well it's the largest church

957
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 3: in the nation at the, time and we, Prayed we

958
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 3: honestly Sought god and, prayed And god said. NO i, thought, oh,

959
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:14,239
Speaker 3: well that's. STRANGE i, Said, Dad i'm. Sorry and then

960
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:15,840
Speaker 3: out of the, BLUE i get a call from a

961
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:18,759
Speaker 3: church In Huntington. Beach AND i ministered In Huntington beach

962
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 3: on the streets there AND i, thought, WOW i didn't

963
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 3: think anybody even knew my. Name they called and asked

964
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 3: IF i would consider being their. Pastor they flew me.

965
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 3: OVER i was working on my doctor and, anyway SO

966
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:33,880
Speaker 3: i had to go, over and SO i preached for.

967
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 3: It in the middle of my morning. Service i'm preaching

968
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 3: And god speaks to. Me he, says don't let them

969
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:42,319
Speaker 3: vote on, you because normally they would vote on the.

970
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 3: Best so right AFTER i, FINISHED i went to the

971
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 3: board members said don't vote on. Me SO i, said

972
00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:51,799
Speaker 3: try other people out and then if you still want

973
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:54,759
Speaker 3: me to call. Me, well about three weeks, later to

974
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 3: make a long story, SHORT i got a call from

975
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 3: a little church On maui who had lost their, pastor

976
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:05,840
Speaker 3: and it was a church that was about eighty adults

977
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 3: and twenty. Kids AND i didn't want to go there

978
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 3: on A sunday morning BECAUSE i didn't know if it

979
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:17,800
Speaker 3: Was god's. Will Because god was using me In honolulu

980
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:20,359
Speaker 3: and the church there had now become the largest church

981
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 3: in the. State and SO i went on A sunday

982
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:25,800
Speaker 3: night and there were thirty people there in church On sunday,

983
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 3: night which was a huge crowd because normally there was only.

984
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Speaker 3: TWELVE i Preached colin AND i saw The island Of

985
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:36,879
Speaker 3: may we'd never been there, before and minding my own.

986
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:38,960
Speaker 3: Business when Next SUNDAY i get a call from one

987
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 3: of the board members and he says. CONGRATULATIONS i, said

988
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 3: congratulations on what he, Said we just elected you to be.

989
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 3: ONE i, SAID i don't know IF i want to

990
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:53,759
Speaker 3: be your. Pastor SO i, Said i'll tell you What i'll,

991
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 3: do all fast and pray for a week and i'll

992
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 3: come Next sunday. Morning let you know Whether i'll be your. Pastor.

993
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:01,920
Speaker 3: Well during that because this fasting, Prayer god gave me

994
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 3: a vision of a massive church On mally that would

995
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 3: touch the. World and at that, time ALL i could

996
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 3: see in the natural was a tiny little, work but

997
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:16,319
Speaker 3: in the SPIRIT i saw something. Different so WHEN i went,

998
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:18,360
Speaker 3: THERE i knew That god had given me a. Vision

999
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:19,880
Speaker 3: BUT i knew IF i had a vision but the

1000
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:22,279
Speaker 3: people didn't have, It i'd waste my. Time AND i

1001
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 3: didn't need a good. JOB i had a good. Job

1002
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 3: SO i did Something i'd never heard anybody. Do at

1003
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 3: the end of the, SERVICE i gave everybody a. BALLOT

1004
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 3: i preached on. Vision gave everybody a ballot and, said,

1005
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 3: look if you embrace this, vision, right, yes if you

1006
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 3: don't say. No AND i remember counting the. Ballance it

1007
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:43,400
Speaker 3: was overwhelmingly. Yes SO i knew that people had caught the.

1008
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 3: Vision THEN i went to the board because they controlled the,

1009
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:50,800
Speaker 3: money and there wasn't Any there was the entire income

1010
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 3: of the, church now once you, see was fifty thousand a,

1011
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:57,239
Speaker 3: YEAR i mean four thousand a. Month they couldn't even

1012
00:50:57,239 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 3: pay my. Salary and out of that you had to

1013
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 3: pay the, pastor all the, missionaries all the up keeper

1014
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:07,920
Speaker 3: of the. CHURCH i mean it WAS i. Thought SO

1015
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 3: i REALIZED i didn't go there for the. SALARY i

1016
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:14,360
Speaker 3: went there because of the. Vision BUT i needed to test,

1017
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 3: them and they didn't have money to pay, me BUT

1018
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 3: i tested them BECAUSE i knew we'd real. Quickly SO i,

1019
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 3: said you know, WHAT i need a full time. Secretary

1020
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:25,279
Speaker 3: there was no church On maui that had a full time.

1021
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:28,920
Speaker 3: Secretary largest church on the island other Than catholic churches

1022
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 3: was two hundred, people and SO i, SAID i need

1023
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:37,440
Speaker 3: a full time. Secretary it was real, quiet just like

1024
00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:42,880
Speaker 3: it is right. Now finally one guy pops up and, says,

1025
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:45,880
Speaker 3: pastor whatever you want to, do that's all we're going to.

1026
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 8: Do.

1027
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 3: Wow and they voted to hire me a full time.

1028
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 3: Secretary AND i knew that they were willing to take

1029
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:55,880
Speaker 3: the step of faith finance THAT i could. Come AND i.

1030
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:57,879
Speaker 3: Came it took me about two months to get. THERE

1031
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,279
Speaker 3: i had the church, outs i'd repainted at a new

1032
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:05,000
Speaker 3: sign put, up AND i prayed and, Said god double

1033
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:07,840
Speaker 3: the church the First, sunday And god doubled. It and

1034
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:09,719
Speaker 3: within a year and a half we'd grown from one

1035
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:12,440
Speaker 3: hundred to one, thousand became the fastest growing.

1036
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 1: Church and we came in nineteen eighty three at that

1037
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:17,360
Speaker 1: sick you were in the skating, room skating.

1038
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:19,840
Speaker 3: Ron we came into that. Stool, yeah we came in

1039
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:22,839
Speaker 3: that skating rink in eighty two And god just did.

1040
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:27,360
Speaker 3: Stuff it was. Amazing eighty three you went To. Molokai,

1041
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:31,319
Speaker 3: yeah you know how that. Happened i'm just minding my own.

1042
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:33,800
Speaker 3: Business And god spoke to. Me he, said he, said

1043
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:35,799
Speaker 3: just as the mayor's the mayor of three, ISLANDS i

1044
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:39,719
Speaker 3: want you to pastor three Islands. Molokailand I'm. MALI i

1045
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 3: just came there to.

1046
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,719
Speaker 1: Pastor NOW i didn't If molkai had a leper, colony then, yes,

1047
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 1: no we prayed for.

1048
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 3: Them, yeah and there was only five thousand and six

1049
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 3: thousand people that lived. There AND i remember Saying, GOD

1050
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 3: i passed one of the largest churches in the in the,

1051
00:52:55,600 --> 00:53:00,400
Speaker 3: state AND i obeyed. HIM i went To mola and

1052
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 3: it was a tiny little. WORK i, Said, God i'm.

1053
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:08,719
Speaker 3: Embarrassed this is. Horrible And god spoke to, me said,

1054
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:11,440
Speaker 3: Son he, said this is the church you would have

1055
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:13,680
Speaker 3: had IF i hadn't given You. MAUI i, said, oh

1056
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:17,960
Speaker 3: thank you to. You but today we have three congregations On.

1057
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:20,960
Speaker 3: Molokai god's given me that, island And god's given me

1058
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 3: the state Of. Hawaii we have, churches fifty congregations throughout

1059
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 3: the state and we're all it's just.

1060
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 8: Amazing you all love all these.

1061
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:33,560
Speaker 1: Stories these are stories that will so encourage some of

1062
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:36,720
Speaker 1: you that are watching right now that you've been Believing

1063
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:39,480
Speaker 1: god for. Something and the thing that always stands out to,

1064
00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:43,799
Speaker 1: Me Ester morocco is just that. PERSISTENCE i, mean he

1065
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:46,799
Speaker 1: does not take no for an. Answer When god says

1066
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:49,080
Speaker 1: to do, Something he's going to keep on and on and.

1067
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 1: On And god is never, Early he is always on.

1068
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:56,080
Speaker 1: Time he's an on Time. God, yes well we are

1069
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:57,880
Speaker 1: out of time. Today BUT i want you to remember,

1070
00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:01,720
Speaker 1: this no matter What god is asking of, you obedience

1071
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 1: is always the best. Way his plans are good and

1072
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:07,600
Speaker 1: when you say, yes he can use your life for

1073
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 1: his glory in ways that you never. Imagined and WHAT

1074
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 1: i love about is Doctor moroco is. Talking is that

1075
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:16,840
Speaker 1: how he was able to listen to the voice Of.

1076
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:19,839
Speaker 1: God didn't he love? That and so you, say, WELL

1077
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:22,359
Speaker 1: i don't have, That, Well god wants to have that with.

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