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00:00 >> Hello and thank you for
00:02 joining us on It Is Written 00:03 Canada. 00:04 I can clearly remember 00:06 visiting a little village in a 00:08 third world country where 00:09 garbage littered the streets, 00:11 mice and rats scurried along 00:13 the back ally ways, and even 00:15 inside the rows and rows of 00:17 shacks. 00:18 But despite these obvious 00:20 signs of poverty, happy 00:22 children played in the streets 00:24 and every puny hovel I entered 00:27 was a home filled with joy. 00:30 >> Most of these people did 00:32 not own a pair of shoes and 00:34 their mealtimes consisted of 00:36 the same food, breakfast, 00:38 lunch, and supper; rice and 00:41 whatever vegetables or fruit 00:43 they could grow. 00:44 [MIKE] None of the little 00:46 shacks these people lived in 00:47 had beds to sleep on, just 00:49 hard dirt and cement floors. 00:52 Yet there was such a cheerful 00:54 atmosphere in every single 00:57 dwelling I entered. 00:59 >> They spoke of their 01:00 blessings, their many, many 01:03 blessings. 01:04 They sang and sang and sang. 01:07 Singing came from the tin 01:09 shacks, the old churches and 01:11 even from the little trading 01:12 kiosks along the street. 01:15 >> When I asked the people why 01:17 they were so joyful, they 01:19 answered, "Because God is so 01:22 good," and it reminded me of 01:23 Daniel in the Bible who was a 01:25 prisoner in Babylon. 01:27 And yet he proclaimed... 01:34 [RENÉ] Or Joseph, who despite 01:35 being confined in prison, was 01:38 so thankful and remained 01:40 hopeful and positive because 01:42 he positioned his faith in God. 01:46 >> Today on It Is Written 01:47 Canada you will meet David and 01:49 Darrell Beaudoin, who also 01:52 chose to position their faith 01:53 in God. 01:54 Their story has always been a 01:56 source of inspiration to me, 01:59 personally, because they are 02:01 both so cheerful and thankful 02:04 to Jesus for the peace that He 02:06 has brought into their lives. 02:08 However, they were not always 02:11 so joyful. 02:12 In a moment, you will hear 02:13 their story. 02:17 ♪♪ 02:59 [MIKE] Thank you for joining 03:01 us again on It Is Written 03:02 Canada. 03:03 We are here in Fort 03:05 Saskatchewan, Alberta where we 03:06 are visiting with our good 03:08 friends, Pastors David and 03:10 Darrell Beaudoin, whose story 03:13 and their Christian journey 03:15 has always been a source of 03:17 inspiration to me, personally. 03:20 [RENÉ] David and Darrell, thank 03:21 you so much for joining us on 03:23 It Is Written Canada. 03:24 >> It is our pleasure to be 03:25 with you today. 03:26 >> Thank you for the 03:27 invitation, yes. 03:29 >> So, you guys are obviously 03:30 identical twins. 03:32 Can you tell us-- 03:33 [DARRELL] Can you tell? 03:34 [laughter] 03:36 >> Can you tell us what it was 03:37 like and how this influenced 03:38 your lives? 03:40 [DARRELL] You know, being a twin 03:43 is a novelty for many people so 03:47 growing up we had many 03:49 experiences and opportunities 03:50 where people would kind of 03:51 spot-light us at school, at 03:54 our early church experience, 03:56 and they'd get us up there to 03:58 sing songs together, music's 03:59 been a very integral part of 04:01 our experience. 04:02 [DAVID] But it's been a real 04:03 blessing to be twins and just 04:05 to have somebody around that 04:07 you can bounce ideas off and 04:10 have some fun with and, yeah, 04:12 it's just been really good. 04:13 [DARRELL] Yeah. 04:15 >> You have always inspired me 04:17 with the closeness that you 04:19 have, like you talk to each 04:20 other regularly, you share 04:22 common interests and... 04:24 >> That's the key right there. 04:25 Because we share a common 04:26 interest, we are on the same 04:28 page with so many things in 04:30 life and therefore it behooves 04:31 us to stay connected and to 04:33 draw from each other. 04:34 >> There was a time where we 04:36 weren't that close, you know, 04:37 and as we entered our teen 04:38 years, there was a bit of a 04:40 separation, you know, he went 04:42 into his rock 'n roll days and 04:44 I went into my music, but that 04:47 time we gave our life to Christ, 04:49 that changed everything. 04:51 >> But we body-built together, 04:52 didn't we? 04:53 >> Well, sometimes, yeah. 04:55 But we still-- we just didn't 04:56 have that closeness. 04:57 >> Can you imagine a skinny 04:58 vegetarian body-builder? 04:59 [MIKE] That's awesome. 05:01 >> That's the way it was back 05:02 then, yeah. 05:03 >> So take us back to your 05:05 childhood, what was that like 05:06 in your home, growing up as 05:09 identical twins, but also just 05:11 what was the home life like? 05:13 >> Well, we were the second 05:14 generation of twins, we have 05:16 uncles that were twins and so 05:18 we were greatly loved, you 05:19 know, I have to say that and... 05:21 >> Very social home, too. 05:23 Our neighbourhood was somewhat, 05:26 our home was somewhat of a hub 05:28 to our neighbourhood. 05:29 Lots of friends coming and 05:30 going, there was a lot of 05:32 comradery, a very social type 05:35 of life that we had. 05:37 [DAVID] Yeah, yeah. 05:38 >> And do you have any siblings? 05:40 >> We do, yeah. 05:42 We were a family of seven 05:43 of us including the parents, 05:45 but there was two girls and 05:46 three boys, yeah. 05:48 [DARRELL] Yeah, I would say 05:49 that our early ages, too, was 05:51 passing through the 60's, the 05:53 70's, and kind of the 05:54 generations that-- the "Me" 05:56 generation, the "If it feels 05:57 good, do it" generation... 05:58 [DAVID] Well, the hippie 05:59 generation. 06:00 [DARRELL] The hippie generation, 06:01 that, too, and that's sort of 06:02 the detriment, to our 06:03 disadvantage 'cause we got 06:05 caught up in, you know, the 06:07 atmosphere of that generation. 06:08 Yet our home was still 06:10 somewhat of a Judeo-Christian 06:11 atmosphere. 06:13 Mom came from Anglican 06:16 background, Mormon background, 06:18 our father was Catholic, so 06:20 those sprinklings of religion 06:23 were present in our life. 06:25 >> Our mom and dad divorced 06:26 when we were about ten, eleven 06:27 years old, so that definitely 06:28 sent us in a different 06:29 direction. 06:31 >> So, David and Darrell, were 06:32 there any early life 06:34 experiences that contributed 06:35 to you being open to the 06:37 Holy Spirit? 06:38 >> Well, I definitely remember 06:41 one occasion laying out in a 06:44 school field behind our house 06:46 and it was in the evening 06:47 time, I'm not sure if Darrell 06:49 was there that night or not... 06:50 >> And I'm surprised that, you 06:51 know, that you say it's one 06:52 experience, but obviously very 06:53 memorable to you. 06:54 >> But I remember just 06:56 looking up at the stars and 06:57 just contemplating eternity 06:58 and looking up and just 07:00 thinking, "Oh, what happens if 07:01 you get through a brick wall, 07:03 what's on the other side of 07:03 the brick wall?" 07:04 You know? 07:05 But the thought came to me 07:07 that night that, you know, 07:08 whoever is out there and at 07:10 that time I thought God flew 07:11 around in a UFO, and I thought 07:13 whoever it was that was out 07:14 there, he had to be kind, you 07:16 know, and I can't explain why 07:18 that thought came into my 07:19 mind, maybe I just felt so 07:21 insignificant, but whoever was 07:23 out there that that was God, 07:25 had to be kind and loving and 07:27 it's just a thought that just 07:28 followed me right into my 07:30 conversion experience later 07:31 years in life. 07:32 >> And that's why I mentioned 07:33 about being surprised about 07:35 the one time he can remember 07:36 that 'cause for me it seems 07:38 that from, you know, most of 07:40 my teen years, 12 to 18, many 07:42 times I remember the deep 07:45 existential thoughts, you 07:47 know, staring out the window 07:49 in my bedroom or laying under 07:51 the stars for hours and coming 07:53 to those same thoughts, you 07:54 know, is there a roof to the 07:57 space and what's out there? 08:00 Who's out there? Etcetera. 08:02 And these were, obviously in 08:03 my mind, our minds, you know, 08:05 the stirring of God's spirit 08:06 preparing us. 08:08 And I think of, you know, that 08:10 intrinsic reality with most 08:13 people, that there is these 08:14 inbred inner longings to find 08:17 something that satisfies us 08:19 and the things of this world 08:21 cannot satisfy and that's why 08:24 finding it in Jesus Christ is 08:26 the final experience of a 08:28 blessing for us. 08:30 >> But it's funny, as you look 08:31 back in retrospect, you see 08:33 these incidents where you know 08:34 the Holy Spirit was leading in 08:35 your lives because it led you 08:36 to a certain point in your 08:38 journey. 08:39 >> So there's this longing in 08:41 your hearts, before you became 08:43 a Christian, what were you 08:44 doing, what were you doing in 08:46 your lives? 08:48 >> Well, music was a big part 08:49 of our lives. 08:50 >> Yes, and, of course, when 08:52 Mom and Dad divorced, things 08:54 went south from there as young 08:57 people because you need that 08:58 father figure for young boys, 09:00 I would think, too, as well as 09:02 the mother and I think what my 09:03 mom had to go through trying 09:05 to keep five siblings together 09:07 in an experience where now 09:09 substance abuse, the music, 09:10 the whole... 09:12 >> But it was at that point 09:13 where we really started 09:14 getting into the music. 09:16 Yeah, 'cause we grew up in the 09:17 60's, late 60's and 70's, you 09:18 know, so the hippie generation 09:21 whatever you wanna call it, 09:22 but that's when we started 09:23 getting into music. 09:25 >> And I received my first 09:26 guitar, my first Les Paul 09:27 guitar when I was about 18 09:29 years of age. 09:30 >> Well, we wanted to play 09:31 drums, but my dad bought us a 09:32 guitar and just said, 09:33 "Well, try the guitar, you 09:34 "know, if that doesn't work 09:36 then we'll get you drums." 09:37 He knew what he was doing, 09:37 you know? 09:39 >> That guitar is not around 09:39 today, why is that? 09:40 >> We used to use it for a 09:41 toboggan, yeah. 09:43 We learned to play the guitar 09:44 then we used it for a toboggan 09:44 after that. 09:45 >> We'd throw the guitar in 09:47 its case down the hill and 09:48 we'd both jump on it and fly 09:49 down the rest of the hill on it. 09:50 [DAVID] We were only ten years 09:51 old, so... 09:52 >> It was probably a very nice 09:53 guitar back then to Mom and 09:54 Dad spend the money on, but, 09:56 you know, but years later we 09:58 found that personal desire to 10:00 play the guitar and from then 10:02 on we continued to advance, 10:04 quite rapidly, because when I 10:06 first began playing the guitar 10:09 with a real personal interest, 10:10 within two years I was playing 10:12 in a professional band and 10:14 travelling and doing the gigs, 10:16 as they call it. 10:18 And it was a learning 10:20 experience, but it was a self-- 10:22 experience of self-abuse and 10:24 self-destruction over a ten 10:26 year period. 10:27 >> But the music was a big 10:28 part of what we did before our 10:29 conversion experience. 10:31 >> So, David, did you join 10:33 Darrell on all these gigs? 10:35 >> No, no, Darrell was the 10:37 rock 'n roller, he was doing 10:39 his gigs and I was playing my 10:41 acoustic guitar, I liked it a 10:42 little more toned down and-- 10:44 But I have to be honest, when 10:46 he was doing his gigs 10:48 and they'd have their little 10:50 parties, first thing I would do 10:52 is go into the bathroom and 10:53 stick toilet paper in my ears 10:55 to deaden things a little bit. 10:57 [DARRELL] And then stick around 10:58 and enjoy the music, right? 10:59 >> Well, that's right, yeah. 11:00 Stick around and enjoy the 11:01 time, but maybe not the music, 11:03 but the party, you know. 11:04 >> Now it was very sordid 11:06 times, playing-- we were an 11:09 A circuit band. 11:10 In Alberta you have the A, B, 11:13 C circuit and the A circuits 11:14 were the tighter, well-paid 11:16 bands and we did those venues. 11:19 And it was a self-destructive 11:22 lifestyle, you know, up all 11:24 night, after the bar closes 11:26 and the party's over, the 11:28 party's just beginning 'cause 11:29 now you're over at somebody 11:30 else's place 'til sun-up and 11:31 it's sleeping all day and then 11:33 getting up and doing the same 11:34 thing over again. 11:35 And during those years I 11:37 started to begin to feel 11:39 somewhat like an animal in a 11:40 cage, not really sure how to 11:42 get out of this pit of the 11:45 drugs, the smoking. 11:46 Every time I would smoke 11:48 marijuana, pot, cannabis today, 11:50 you know, it was hurting my 11:52 lungs and it wasn't sitting 11:55 well with me and I just didn't 11:57 know where to turn to find the 12:00 victory until Jesus took 12:03 control of our lives and... 12:05 >> In a sense, even with all 12:06 that was happening back in 12:07 those days, it was still a 12:08 lonely time 'cause we weren't 12:10 finding the satisfaction that 12:11 we wanted and God was leading 12:12 us to a point in our lives... 12:16 Probably gonna come up in one 12:17 of your questions, you know. 12:18 >> So that's what I was gonna 12:19 ask right now, so what 12:21 circumstances led you 12:22 to the Christ? 12:24 >> OK, well, I think that 12:26 begins with me, in a sense, 12:28 because I was working at a 12:29 paper mill not too far from 12:30 here and one of my co-workers, 12:32 it was a night shift, and one 12:34 of my co-workers gave me a 12:36 book about Bible prophecy and 12:38 it was about the end of the 12:39 world, about war at the end of 12:40 the world and I read that book 12:42 in two nights. 12:43 And at the end of night number 12:44 two, there was a little appeal 12:46 at the back of the book, how 12:48 to give your heart to Jesus. 12:49 And I remember going home and 12:51 laying in bed and just saying, 12:53 "God, if You're real, You'll 12:55 make me a Christian." 12:57 And at that instant, I felt a 12:59 wave of, I can't even explain 13:02 it, just a wave of warmth, 13:04 emotion, I felt like I was 13:05 levitating on my bed. 13:07 And, you know, God was giving 13:09 me a physical experience 13:10 because at that point I was 13:12 heavily into drugs and I was 13:13 into physical experiences so 13:15 God gave me something that I 13:17 could relate to and I slept 13:19 like a baby that night, or 13:21 that morning, I came home 13:22 after a night shift, and when 13:24 I woke up, I knew something 13:25 had changed. 13:26 >> And you gave me a copy of 13:27 that book... 13:28 >> That's right, and so, 13:29 Darrell, take over from here 13:31 because I gave him the book. 13:32 >> And I just kinda shelved it 13:33 for a few days and he asked 13:34 me, "Did you read the book?" 13:36 And then he looked at me 13:37 straight, he says, "Darrell, 13:38 "if there's anything you need 13:40 "to do that's of a priority, 13:41 you need to read that book." 13:43 And I saw in him this sense of 13:44 seriousness, I thought, "OK, 13:46 "I'm gonna sit down, I'm gonna 13:47 read this book." 13:49 So I grabbed myself a half a 13:50 case of beer, a joint, rolled 13:52 up a joint, and began to start 13:55 reading this book and in two 13:56 nights I read the book also 13:58 and then at the end of the 13:59 book it asked to pray the 14:01 sinner's prayer and here I am, 14:03 stoned, intoxicated, but God 14:05 took me where I was, right, 14:07 and putting that burden on 14:09 my heart. 14:10 Within a week or so you 14:12 received a handbill to a 14:13 prophecy seminar. 14:15 >> About three weeks later, 14:16 the same fellow who gave me 14:17 the book at work gave me a 14:18 handbill that a prophecy 14:20 seminar was coming to Edmonton. 14:22 [DARRELL] During that time I was 14:24 in my home with some friends 14:27 and somebody pointed out a TV 14:28 commercial with these beasts 14:30 and this prophecy seminar 14:31 taking place at the Shaw 14:32 Convention Centre in Edmonton. 14:34 He showed me the brochure a 14:35 few days later and I said, 14:37 "Hey, that's the same thing 14:38 "that I saw happening-- that I 14:39 saw the commercial about." 14:41 And so we decided we were 14:43 going to attend that seminar 14:44 and I think it was the second 14:46 night that we attended, we 14:47 missed the first night. 14:49 For some reason I think God's 14:50 providence and hand was in 14:52 that, the second night that we 14:53 attended was on signs of the 14:55 times, and here was are, long 14:56 hair, you know... 14:58 >> But the interesting thing I 15:00 wanna point out is that God 15:01 used that book, even though 15:02 there was error in that book, 15:04 He used that book to lead us 15:05 to Christ... 15:06 >> Stir our hearts. 15:07 >> ...and then within three 15:08 weeks he was gonna bring us to 15:09 the-- a fuller understanding 15:10 of Bible truth. 15:11 >> And, yeah, within the four 15:13 or five week period of that 15:15 seminar, prophecy seminar, we 15:17 attended probably about 22 of 15:19 the 26 presentations and were 15:21 baptized shortly after and 15:23 that was the beginning, 15:24 the transition. 15:24 >> We were on fire. 15:26 >> It was, we went walking out 15:27 of the house every day with a 15:28 beer in your hand to a Bible 15:29 in your hand. 15:30 >> That's about it, yeah. 15:32 >> Wow, you replaced the beer 15:34 with a Bible. 15:35 [DAVID] Replaced the beer with 15:36 a Bible, yeah. 15:37 [DARRELL] Yeah, that's right. 15:37 >> So... 15:38 [DARRELL] There might be a 15:39 song I could write on that. 15:40 The Bible for the beer, the 15:41 Bible instead of a beer. 15:43 >> So then you now-- it must 15:46 have been a whirlwind tour 15:47 because now you're pastors 15:49 today, so what transpired? 15:52 What led you to become pastors? 15:54 >> K, well, you know, I think 15:55 that began with me as well and 15:57 I think-- we were baptized on 15:59 June 21st, 1986 and within 16:04 three months, by September, 16:06 somebody came to me and said, 16:08 "How would you like to go 16:09 "door-to-door with me and hand 16:10 out literature?" 16:11 And I was a little bit nervous 16:12 I said, "Let's give it a 16:14 try," you know. 16:15 So we loaded up a couple 16:16 backpacks with, you know, 16:17 Desire of the Ages and Signs 16:18 of the Times and I remember 16:21 going to the first door and 16:22 handing the lady a Signs of 16:24 the Times and she just gave me 16:25 this big smile, "Oh, thank you 16:27 very much, I look forward to 16:28 reading it." 16:29 And I just couldn't believe it 16:30 was that easy, you know, and 16:32 so I went to Darrell and I 16:33 said, you know, "We gotta-- 16:35 "you gotta come with me and try 16:36 this out," you know. 16:37 And the Lord just put a fire in 16:38 our hearts at that point so... 16:40 >> I would add, too, that, you 16:41 know, our conversion experience 16:42 I look at it as explosive, 16:46 very transitional. 16:48 We did something that might be 16:51 unique to some people, we went 16:53 to our local Christian book 16:54 store that our church promotes 16:56 and we purchased $1600 of 17:00 Bible commentary books, 17:02 devotional books, etcetera... 17:03 >> We walked in there with a 17:05 shopping cart and just loaded 17:05 it with books. 17:07 >> We did and we went home and 17:08 we filled up a shelf with all 17:10 these books and for two, three 17:11 years, this was our seminary 17:13 degree training, we sat down 17:14 and we read. 17:15 And I remember, exhausted with 17:18 study, day in, day out, using 17:20 my fingers as bookmarks in 17:21 different parts of the Bible 17:23 and these books and just 17:24 having to just close it up and 17:26 go for a walk and just assess 17:27 what it is I'm learning. 17:29 And after maybe two years of 17:31 this reading, we realized we 17:34 possess something incredibly 17:36 important and we can do no 17:37 other than share it with others. 17:39 And the next thing for us to 17:41 do was to go door-to-door and 17:42 start giving out material. 17:44 >> So while that was going on, 17:45 we started a door-to-door 17:46 ministry and... 17:47 >> A company at that. 17:48 >> Yeah, we had people 17:49 donating thousands of dollars 17:51 to our ministry and every 17:53 Sunday we'd get together with 17:55 probably 15 or 20 church 17:58 members and we'd be handing 17:59 out these books. 18:01 We covered an area of 18:03 Edmonton, Mill Woods, which was 18:04 about 50,000 people at the 18:06 time, took us about two years 18:07 to do it, but we covered 18:08 every home. 18:10 >> We gave out 10,000 books. 18:11 During that time, as a 18:14 musician, I was also a 18:16 furniture mover and, a little 18:18 guy, but we always loved that 18:20 heavy work and that hard work 18:23 and I made a pact with God, if 18:26 you will, that I'm gonna go 18:27 door-to-door with a bag full 18:29 of books and I'm gonna give 18:30 them away on a donation basis 18:32 and, Lord, if I can make 18:34 enough money to live off of, 18:36 going hour by hour, then I'm 18:38 going to move away from my 18:39 furniture moving business and 18:40 start our own company. 18:42 And we did that. 18:44 I went out, I think, with an 18:45 airline bag full of Great 18:47 Controversy's and just gave 18:48 them away on a donation basis, 18:49 came back with enough cash to 18:51 show me that I made about $20 18:52 an hour doing it, so we thought, 18:53 "Well, let's just start buying 18:55 pallets of books." 18:57 And we would order The Great 18:58 Controversy, Patriarchs and 18:59 Prophets, Ministry of Heal-- 19:01 Desire of Ages, and Ministry 19:04 of Healing, we would shrink 19:05 wrap them in blocks of books 19:06 and we started a company 19:08 called Better Living Books. 19:10 [DAVID] And it was so successful 19:12 that the conference, Alberta 19:14 conference, got wind of what 19:16 we were doing and asked us if 19:18 we would come and sell books 19:19 for the Home Health Education 19:21 Service. 19:22 [MIKE] And when I met you, the 19:24 two of you were Bible workers 19:27 and you were, you know, 19:29 bringing people into the 19:31 church and baptizing them. 19:32 [DAVID] We did colporteur work 19:34 for about 12 years and then 19:35 the conference invited us to 19:37 be Bible workers, conference 19:38 Bible workers, and we did that 19:40 for three years and then at 19:42 the end of the three years, 19:43 they asked us to take on full 19:44 pastoral duties and we've been 19:46 doing that for the last 22 19:47 years and during that time we 19:49 became evangelists. 19:51 And I think, between the two 19:52 of us, we've probably done 60 19:54 crusades, you know. 19:55 We don't call them crusades 19:56 anymore, prophecy seminars, 19:57 you know. 19:59 [RENÉ] So, David and Darrell, 20:00 you're both ordained pastors, 20:02 but you're also musicians so I 20:04 wonder if you would please 20:05 share your music video with 20:07 us right now. 20:09 [Darrell reading] 20:16 [gentle guitar music] 20:22 ♪♪ 20:38 ♪There is a longing 20:40 ♪in the hearts of 20:41 ♪all mankind who know 20:45 ♪of an inner peace 20:47 ♪that he can know is real 20:52 ♪But for some that search 20:54 ♪is over when they've 20:56 ♪come to know 20:59 ♪Of an unconditional love 21:00 ♪that never fails 21:07 ♪But the enemy of man 21:09 ♪he's crafty 21:10 ♪as he sets his snares 21:13 ♪Through the pleasures 21:15 ♪of this world 21:16 ♪he claims his own 21:21 ♪Still the road was paved to 21:23 ♪freedom there on Calvary 21:28 ♪That in dying He would 21:30 ♪live to claim His throne 21:36 ♪Jesus live in me forever 21:43 ♪All my hope I place in Thee 21:49 ♪You paid it all 21:52 ♪How could anyone refuse You 21:58 ♪Thank You, Jesus 22:01 ♪for Your peace 22:10 ♪♪ 22:18 ♪And in this ever-changing 22:20 ♪world we live 22:21 ♪A cry goes out 22:24 ♪All creation groans for 22:26 ♪deliverance from the pain 22:32 ♪So make a personal effort 22:34 ♪to respond to a soul in need 22:38 ♪For that same one might 22:41 ♪some day meet you in glory 22:44 ♪Oooo 22:47 ♪Go to the highways 22:48 ♪and the byways 22:50 ♪to reveal His sweet love 22:53 ♪And compel them that His 22:55 ♪house it might be full 23:00 ♪For if one should die 23:02 ♪that all might live 23:04 ♪to praise His name 23:07 ♪Who are we to hesitate 23:10 ♪He's calling you 23:12 ♪So pray this prayer with me 23:15 ♪Jesus live in me forever 23:22 ♪All my hope I place in Thee 23:28 ♪You paid it all 23:31 ♪How could anyone refuse You 23:37 ♪Thank You, Jesus 23:40 ♪for Your peace 23:45 ♪Jesus live in me forever 23:52 ♪I chose to live my life 23:54 ♪for Thee 23:58 ♪You paid it all 24:01 ♪Oh, how could anyone 24:03 ♪refuse You 24:09 ♪Thank You, Jesus 24:11 ♪for Your peace 24:16 ♪Thank You, Jesus 24:18 ♪for Your peace 24:24 ♪Thank You, Jesus 24:28 ♪for Your peace 24:39 >> David and Darrell, thank 24:40 you so much for your music 24:42 video, I just love the words, 24:44 "Jesus, live in me forever." 24:46 >> "All my hope I place in 24:48 Thee," is an important part of 24:51 that phrase, too. 24:53 >> It really is about putting 24:55 all our hope in Him and giving 24:56 Him all our hearts... 24:58 [DARRELL] Amen. 24:59 >> ...and as we finish up our 25:01 program together, are there 25:03 any encouraging words that you 25:05 would give to our viewers to 25:07 help them, to encourage them 25:08 to find this same kind of 25:10 peace that you have found? 25:11 >> Appreciate you giving a 25:13 chance to say something to-- 25:14 Go ahead. 25:15 >> Yeah, looking back at my 25:16 conversion, and Darrell's as 25:18 well, but, you know, it wasn't 25:19 til, for the first 28 years of 25:21 my life I was serving myself 25:23 and then for the last 35 years 25:25 I've had the opportunity to 25:26 serve Jesus. 25:27 And for the first half of my 25:30 non-Christian life, it's-- I 25:32 was looking for something that 25:34 I didn't have and I am so 25:36 thankful for the last 35 years 25:38 what I have. 25:39 So if there's anybody out 25:41 there that's still searching, 25:42 give your heart to Jesus and 25:44 you'll experience the same 25:45 thing. 25:46 >> Indeed, there are billions 25:48 that are searching today and 25:51 never in a time of earth's 25:52 history has Jesus and the 25:54 principles of God's word been 25:55 more relevant. 25:57 So we would just like to 25:58 encourage those who are 26:01 experiencing those existential 26:04 yearnings for something better. 26:06 You will be blessed, enriched, 26:08 transformed, empowered. 26:11 [MIKE] Amen. 26:13 [RENÉ] So before we end, David, 26:14 I wonder if I could ask you to 26:16 please pray for us. 26:20 >> Loving Father, we want to 26:22 thank You so much for sending 26:23 Jesus to this world and giving 26:26 us the hope of eternal life. 26:27 As we look forward to the soon 26:29 return of Jesus, I just pray 26:31 that everyone who is listening 26:33 to my voice today, would just 26:35 have the same peace, the same 26:36 hope and the joy that Darrell 26:38 and I have experienced, the 26:40 way that You have led in our 26:42 lives so... 26:43 We just thank You so much for 26:45 all that You've done and just 26:46 pray a blessing upon everyone 26:48 here today that has joined us 26:50 this afternoon. 26:51 And we pray and thank You, in 26:52 Jesus's name, amen. 26:53 [MIKE & DARRELL] Amen. 26:57 >> Friends, have you ever 26:58 heard somebody say, "You have 27:00 your truth and I have mine?" 27:03 Really? 27:04 People agree that it is not 27:06 wise to step out of the tenth 27:08 story window because gravity 27:11 is a truth that works the same 27:13 for all and it's also not safe 27:15 to eat certain types of 27:16 mushrooms. 27:18 >> These are truths that are 27:19 equally true for all. 27:21 >> In fact, science and 27:23 technology are built upon the 27:24 proposition that truth is 27:26 waiting out there to be 27:28 discovered. 27:30 >> Today's free offer, God's 27:32 Truth Can Change Your Life, 27:34 shows that there is truth, not 27:37 only in the material world, 27:39 but also in the social and 27:41 spiritual realms, truth that 27:44 is foundational to personal 27:46 and social health, truth that 27:48 our special guests, Darrell 27:50 and David Beaudoin, experienced 27:53 and that truth transformed 27:55 their lives. 27:57 It can transform your life, too. 28:03 >> Friends, we want you to 28:04 experience the truth that is 28:06 found in the words of Jesus 28:07 when He said, "It is written, 28:10 "'Man shall not live by bread 28:12 "'alone, but by every word 28:14 "'that proceeds out of the 28:15 mouth of God.'" 28:17 ♪♪ |
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