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Series Code: OTR
Program Code: OTR000794
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01:01 It's very interesting tonight that normally
01:04 we do these live programs. 01:06 We go to churches and do rallies 01:08 in Seventh-day Adventist churches. 01:11 But we're not in a Seventh-day Adventist church 01:13 tonight, are we? 01:15 So we're gonna have to find out in just a few moments, 01:17 what church we're in. 01:19 And find out a little bit about the pastor, 01:21 about his background. 01:22 And why we came to this particular church? 01:24 I think you'll be very interested to find out. 01:27 I just want to thank the Lord again for His blessings, 01:29 for His love, for His great plan of salvation. 01:32 And ever since that I gave my heart to Jesus, 01:35 I found a deep peace that I had never known 01:38 something that this world could not afford. 01:41 Since I yielded control to my body and soul, 01:44 to my wonderful, wonderful Lord. 01:46 I'd like to sing that for you at this time. 01:48 It's an old song. 01:49 Some of you may know it, if you do, 01:50 feel free to hum it or sing it with us. 01:53 Entitled, "My wonderful Lord." 02:06 I have found a deep peace that I never had known 02:14 And a joy this world could not afford 02:22 Since I yielded control of my body and soul 02:29 To my wonderful, wonderful Lord 02:37 My wonderful Lord, my wonderful Lord 02:45 By angels and seraphs in Heaven adored 02:53 I bow at Thy shrine Oh, Savior divine 03:01 My wonderful, wonderful Lord 03:09 All the talents I have, I have laid at Thy Feet 03:17 Thy approval shall be my reward 03:25 Be my store great or small, I surrender it all 03:33 To my wonderful, my wonderful Lord 03:41 My wonderful Lord, my wonderful Lord 03:49 By angels and seraphs in Heaven adored 03:57 I bow at Thy shrine Oh, Savior divine 04:05 My wonderful, wonderful Lord 04:13 Thou art fairer to me than the fairest of earth 04:26 Thou omnipotent, life-giving Word 04:34 O thou Ancient of Days 04:39 Thou art worthy all praise 04:42 My wonderful, my wonderful Lord 04:50 My wonderful Lord, my wonderful Lord 04:58 By angels and seraphs in Heaven adored 05:06 I bow at Thy shrine Oh, Savior divine 05:14 My wonderful, wonderful Lord 05:27 My wonderful, wonderful Lord 05:39 I really like the second verses, 05:41 it says, "All the talents I have, 05:43 I have laid at Thy Feet, Thy approval shall be my reward. 05:47 Be my store great or small, I surrender it all 05:51 to my wonderful, wonderful Lord." 05:53 Once again, thank you for joining us 05:55 from around the world. 05:56 Thank you for your love and your prayers 05:58 and financial support 05:59 of Three Angels Broadcasting Network. 06:01 As we endeavor literally to be a part 06:03 of taking the gospel into all the world. 06:06 Now 3ABN, we can get the signal up, folks. 06:09 We proven to have with God's blessings, 06:11 we can get it up to all the satellites. 06:12 We can get it down into the homes. 06:14 And the Holy Spirit can impress the people, 06:17 but when people come to churches they need to be, what? 06:19 Loved. They need to be loved by you, right? 06:22 So 3ABN or any other media tool is not a replacement 06:27 for you going out and sharing the gospel to the world, right? 06:30 It's good to support this ministry 06:32 and we'll support you, but God has called 06:34 each and every one of us for-- 06:37 I believe for this particular time 06:40 in the closing moments of earth's history. 06:42 And I believe that as we get nearer and nearer 06:44 to the end of time, God has a lot of people 06:47 as we always say not of this fold. 06:50 People who are willing to submit and commit their lives to God 06:54 at whatever the cost and do what He's asking us to do. 06:57 I believe as we get down 06:58 to the closing moments of earth's history 07:00 and as the Three Angles' Messages 07:02 begins to go to the world, 07:03 there's gonna be a great shaking. 07:05 People that were in the church, maybe gonna leave 07:07 and people that have never been in church 07:10 are suddenly joining and coming in 07:12 and surrendering their lives to God. 07:14 And I believe we're already there, 07:15 I'm seeing a great shaking now. 07:17 And I'm sure-- did any of you know 07:18 what I'm talking about? 07:20 I believe there's a great dividing going on between 07:23 those that are servants of God, the Most High God 07:26 and those who are gonna choose to serve self. 07:28 And so I believe that right now it's the most exciting time 07:32 to live in earth's history because we get the privilege 07:35 of meeting people coming to God from all walks of life. 07:38 People who are Christians, who are accepting new life, 07:41 some people who were never Christians at all. 07:44 And in fact, this week my wife, Brandy, 07:46 she's down in Florida visiting her mother. 07:49 And she told me, she stopped at a restaurant, 07:51 going through a drive through. 07:53 And she had a 3ABN, actually a shirt. 07:55 I did this, I wear the hat, she wears the shirts. 07:58 Had a 3ABN shirt and she said, 08:00 "3ABN, do you-- do you know about 3ABN?" 08:04 And she said, "Well, yes, I know something about 3ABN." 08:08 And she said, "3ABN has changed my life. 08:10 Thanks to 3ABN, I'm now a Christian. 08:13 In fact, I've just joined the Seventh-day Adventist church 08:16 from watching 3ABN in Sarasota." 08:18 We have a little downlink station. 08:20 And since we see this all around the world 08:22 people as they're seeing new light are coming to that. 08:26 Once again we're here in Huntsville, Alabama. 08:29 And I'm gonna ask our friend, a fairly new friend of ours, 08:32 Pastor Reggie Whiddon and his wife Cathy, 08:34 if they would come up right now. 08:36 And probably they should be introducing me 08:39 since this is their church. And-- 08:43 Hello everybody, this is Danny Shelton. 08:45 Thank you. Thank you, I appreciate that. 08:48 And Reggie, thanks for letting us come to your church. 08:51 You know, it's such an honor to have you and the 3ABN team here. 08:54 We're just honored and blessed that you are here. 08:57 We see that you have a great thing going. 08:59 I understand you have a wonderful church school. 09:02 And something to me that's very important, 09:04 for any church is to have a church school. 09:06 Tell us a little bit about your church school? 09:08 Well, our church school is 14 years old. 09:10 Matter of fact, we're in the gymnasium now. 09:13 We never had a service like this in this gym. 09:16 We have a lot of hopping and hovering for this, 09:18 for basketball games. All right. 09:20 And so I'd love to do this where we're giving God honor 09:22 through His word like this. 09:24 But our church school is a 14 years old. 09:27 We started in 1993. Started at--in our living room. 09:31 We had five children at that time they were school age. 09:34 We were home schooling them around the table. 09:37 And one day the Lord spoke to me 09:38 and told me to open a Christian school 09:41 that would be available to anybody 09:43 that wanted to come within the community. 09:45 And I was in the Colorado Springs doing a crusade, 09:48 an evangelistic crusade, driving down the road, Danny. 09:52 And the Holy Spirit just spoke to me so clearly 09:55 and showed me what I was to do. 09:56 I had no money. I had no money to start. 09:59 I pulled off the road, went to a cell phone 10:02 or to a payphone, called my wife and told her 10:03 what the Lord had spoken to me about doing. 10:05 She said, "Well, let's do it." 10:07 And I said, "Well, since we have some money." 10:08 So I came home, we just started praying 10:10 and doing this thing around our table. 10:13 There was a lady 84-years-old 10:14 that I've met in Florida years ago. 10:17 She came up to visit with us. 10:18 We were having dinner at our table. 10:20 And she asked me, "Reggie, what do you-- 10:22 what is the Lord telling you to do?" 10:24 I said, "Well, the Lord's telling me 10:25 to start a Christian school." 10:27 She said, "Why don't you do it?" 10:29 And I said, "Well, I will as soon as I have the funds." 10:32 She said, "Well, how much does it take?" 10:34 I didn't know. 10:35 So I said, "Well, probably $10,000 would get me started." 10:39 And she excused herself from the table, 10:42 I thought she was going to the restroom, 10:43 but she went back to the guestroom 10:45 and she brought out a check for $10,000 and handed it to me. 10:48 Praise the Lord. Yeah. 10:50 Danny, I wish I'd have said it cost $20,000. 10:53 Well, you live and learn. 10:54 We live and learn. We live and learn. 10:56 Next time, next time you know, but I have a feeling 10:57 that you have learned that 10,000 just did get started, 11:00 that's what you said. 11:01 It bought a computer. Yeah. 11:04 Bought a computer. Yeah, all right. 11:06 So the church school and of course, 11:07 you have a church here. 11:09 But in the church school, 11:10 you've nurture that, it continues to grow. 11:12 How many young people do you have here? 11:13 Oh, it will range between 120 and 130. 11:16 And we're pretty packed out this year. 11:18 And what ages? What ages? 11:19 Kindergarten, 4 year olds, 11:21 all the way through seniors in high school. 11:22 Is that right? Yes. 11:24 Yes. Well, that's really wonderful. 11:25 And right here, now are you originally from Huntsville area? 11:27 No. I'm originally from Mobile, Alabama. 11:29 Mobile, all right. 11:31 We call that LA, Lower Alabama. I'm originally from Illinois. 11:35 Cathy is from Illinois? Yeah. 11:37 Really? All right. 11:39 What part? Joliet. 11:40 Joliet, oh, you are way up in the upper Chicago, huh. 11:44 That's right. Well, how long-- 11:45 This is suburb of Chicago now. Yeah, that's right. 11:47 How long have you been here? 11:49 Well, I've been in Alabama for 38 years. 11:52 38 years? All right. 11:54 Well, you guys been married then for how long? 11:56 How long have we been married? March 4th-- 11:58 You shouldn't--you don't ask that question to--? 11:59 Yeah, so do you. 12:01 Probably shouldn't no better ask her. 12:02 I know, I'm just asking her. You're supposed to. 12:04 Oh, okay, all right. On March 4th, it will be 19. 12:06 19 years? 19 years. 12:08 All right, great. Did you got children? 12:09 We do. We have five. 12:11 Five of them? Five children. 12:13 They all are grown, we got grandkids. 12:15 Grandkids coming to the school. Nothing like them. 12:17 That's it. Nothing like grandkids. 12:18 Somebody said if I known 12:20 they're so much fun, I'd had them first. 12:21 That's right. Absolutely, absolutely. 12:23 I said that once but my daughter got a little offended, 12:25 so I decided, I better not say that anymore. 12:29 She was a joy too. Absolutely. 12:30 You know, Melody, of course. 12:32 And we want to talk about it. 12:33 I want to take the folks back just a little bit. 12:35 Hey, I'm glad to see a lot of-- are you folks from Oakwood? 12:37 Some of you-- some of you young folks 12:39 from Oakwood coming in here. They're welcome. 12:40 All right from the college and academies, whatever. 12:43 Thank you all for coming. 12:44 I don't know if I see some nap shirt over there or what? 12:47 I always gonna see young people from Oakwood, 12:48 I think they're all with naps, you know. 12:50 And 'cause they come up to 3ABN, we have a great time. 12:53 But we're glad that you all have come here 12:55 to join us tonight too. 12:57 And so I want to-- we're gonna jump up 13:00 a few more years to just a year or so ago. 13:03 Last year, we had heard that there was going to be 13:08 what was called a Ten Commandments day. 13:09 A lot of the evangelicals around the country 13:12 were getting together and they were gonna 13:15 try to go to Washington D.C., 13:16 and it really didn't work out for them. 13:18 This year, they may do in some area 13:21 and they wanted to draw something like 100,000 people, 13:24 but they put a webpage talking 13:25 about the eternal moral law of God. 13:28 And they feel like, it's time that Christians in America 13:30 support the Ten Commandments. 13:32 Well, the Seventh-day Adventist Christians, 13:34 some of you out here 13:35 are Seventh-day Adventist Christians, 13:36 what do we say to that? 13:38 We agree, right? 13:39 We agree that anybody that's saying 13:41 that God's Ten Commandments are his eternal moral law 13:44 that we should be supportive of that. 13:46 And so we said, "Well, you know, maybe we need to do something. 13:49 Maybe we should go a little early out to Washington D.C., 13:53 try to rent a hall that would hold a few thousand people." 13:55 You can line up a bunch of speakers and we did. 13:58 God blessed us with some incredible speakers. 14:01 But Shelly Quinn and I had put together a book. 14:04 In fact that we actually put a book together in late 2004, 14:08 that called "The Antichrist Agenda" 14:11 And it's about 200 page book. 14:13 And so the publishers, Remnant Publications 14:16 up in Michigan called me some, 14:19 oh, must have been, I don't know if it's year later, 14:21 several months later. 14:22 And we had 100,000 printed up and had moved all of those. 14:26 And he said, I've been talking to Walmart actually. 14:30 He said, I've been talking to Walmart 14:32 and we're trying to get this book 14:33 into some of these other outlets. 14:35 But 200 pages is a little bit big for that, 14:39 could you condense this book to maybe 126 or 128 pages? 14:43 Well, I originally thought about writing a book called 14:46 "The Ten Commandments Twice Removed." 14:48 But with Shelley and me joining together, we decided, 14:51 "Well, let's put together in "Antichrist Agenda." 14:54 So we condensed the book down, came up with this little book 14:57 and "The Ten Commandments Twice Removed." 15:00 So we took out a few other chapters 15:02 that we felt we could afford to do so. 15:04 So he said to me, "Well, how many would you to print it up?" 15:06 And I said, "I don't have a market for a book like this. 15:09 So it really depends how many of any of the retail stores 15:12 want to buy it, we'll just do that." 15:14 Well, after-- wasn't long after that till 15:17 we heard about this Ten Commandments weekend 15:19 and we said well, you know what better book 15:21 this was already been printed, ready to go. 15:24 So we begin to offer it on 3ABN 15:27 for folks that would be willing to promote this book. 15:30 And people begin to call in, not 100,000 or 200,000. 15:35 I told the printer I said, 15:36 "Well, let see if we can maybe move 100,000, 15:39 plan on printing 100,000." 15:41 Well, if some of you know it, it went 100,000, 200,000, 15:44 soon it went to half a million to million. 15:46 And before it was over it was almost 5 million books 15:50 that people ordered and passed out all across this nation 15:54 and around the world. 15:56 People were starting to get the book quickly and saying, 15:58 can we print it in Spanish? 15:59 Can we print it-- and they printed it in Russian. 16:02 They printed it in number of different languages. 16:05 And so not only here in North America 16:07 were people distributing these books all over, 16:11 but literally around the world. 16:13 But I want you to take the story from there, 16:15 your mind and your own business, right? 16:17 You're running a church school, pastor in the church. 16:20 I'm just trying to be a nice guy. 16:21 Yeah. Right. 16:23 Get along with people, serve the Lord. 16:24 Yes. Just doing all I could do. 16:26 But some--one day something happens, somebody came by. 16:28 One day, one of the parents of our students 16:31 in our school came by and handed me this book. 16:35 This is the copy that he gave to me. 16:38 And he said, "Reggie, I respect you." 16:40 Matter of fact that person is here tonight. 16:42 That person is here tonight. 16:44 Is he or she? He. 16:46 He. We may have to-- 16:47 Yeah, he's here. If you say we may bring him up. 16:48 He's right behind me. Oh, yes. 16:50 He's right behind there. Oh, well, we'll bring him up. 16:51 And he can come up. We'll bring him up. 16:53 But he handed me this book and he said to me-- 16:54 Let's bring him up now then. All right. 16:57 All right. Hey, Guy. 17:01 Give us your name, please? 17:02 Guy. Guy Juzang. 17:03 Okay, Guy Juzang, tell you what, 17:05 stand right over here on the other side of Cathy. 17:09 And so now you had one of these books 17:12 and you decided to bring it and give it to this pastor. 17:16 Why? 17:18 Well, frankly I'd watched Pastor Reggie for sometime. 17:23 And he has a sincere walk with the Lord. 17:29 And I just felt like he would be a nice 17:31 Seventh-day Adventist Christian. 17:37 All right. Well, that's all right. 17:38 He was probably eying you thinking 17:40 he'd make a nice, right? Yes. 17:42 Non-denominational, what--I didn't ask you 17:44 is that was you church is non-denominational? 17:46 That's right, non-denominational. 17:47 Thank you, boy, he'd make a nice non-- 17:49 Yeah. That's right. 17:50 You know, we kind of eyeball each other like that. 17:51 You know, as Christians, hi, how are you doing? 17:55 when I'd see my friend I'd always think, 17:56 "Man, he would make a great Adventist." 17:58 And he's like, 17:59 "Boy, if I could just get Danny speaking in tongues. 18:02 I could really he would really be a great 18:04 you know do great in charismatic church. 18:07 So we--for years we've eyed each other over like this, you know. 18:10 So here Guy is kind of eyeing you over a little bit. 18:13 Is he eying me or-- So he hands you the book. 18:15 He hands me this book and asks me to read it. 18:17 He said these words, "I respect you." 18:20 And he said, "I've believed what's in this book. 18:23 Matter of fact, I'll base my life on this book." 18:25 He said, "I respect your opinion and I would like you to read it. 18:28 And when you're finished tell me what's wrong with this book?" 18:33 Didn't say, tell you what's right 18:34 or didn't he said tell me what's wrong with-- 18:36 Tell me what's wrong with the book. 18:37 All right, that's a good approach. 18:38 And he was setting me up. Setting me up. 18:42 That's called a set up, well. That's called a set up. 18:44 He wanted your critic. He wanted my critic. 18:46 He respected you which he honestly does. 18:49 So I decided that I would read it because he asked me. 18:52 And really I wanted to rescue him. 18:54 Yeah, I want to rescue. 18:56 All right, he want to rescue him. 18:57 Yeah, I want to rescue you, Guy. 18:58 Well, really I mean you're thinking here's a guy, 19:01 he's a great guy but he's probably wasting 19:04 a lot of good Saturdays. 19:06 Wasting a lot of good Saturdays. That's exactly what I thought. 19:08 Yeah, all right. 19:09 And so I read the book really out of respect for him. 19:12 And so-- And he doesn't read. 19:14 I--well, I can read, I just don't do. 19:16 Well, he doesn't--I mean, he doesn't like to read. 19:19 I can read a little. 19:20 Really? Let's see. 19:22 Let me test you here. Yes. 19:23 Principal of a school and he can't read. 19:25 Now I guess he can, I hear that he has, what you have a Ph.D? 19:28 I do. 19:30 He has a Ph.D. whatever that is-- 19:32 That in 50 cents to buy some coffee. 19:34 Okay, all right. So you decided. 19:36 Now I know you can't, people send me stuff all the time, 19:39 I just can't ready everything that people send. 19:40 The title was catchy. Okay. 19:42 The title caught my attention. 19:44 And the fact that Guy gave me the book. 19:46 Okay. So I read it one time. 19:49 And I was, I was just amazed at the content of this book, 19:54 the things that I learned from reading this book, 19:56 things that I've never heard of before. 19:58 I mean, what's your Ph.D. in? 19:59 Christian education and theology. 20:02 Theology. 20:04 But there's things in this book that you've never heard. 20:06 I've never heard. Yeah. 20:07 You read the Bible a lot, you studied a lot. 20:09 I do. I do. 20:10 Something in here just seemed to click with you. 20:13 It clicked. Okay. 20:14 So I read it and I couldn't find anything 20:16 that I could argue with. 20:17 So I read it again, same thing happened. 20:21 And I--actually I read it three times 20:23 before that I gave the book to Cathy. 20:25 Okay. Cathy, he gives the book to you. 20:27 He says I've read it three times or did he tell you that? 20:30 Well, I didn't know how many times he'd read it. 20:33 He just handed it to me and said, 20:34 "Would you read this and tell me what you think?" 20:36 I said, "Sure." 20:37 So I read it and I'd looked at him 20:39 and I said, "What's the question? 20:42 Why aren't we doing this?" Oh, have mercy. 20:44 All right. You know, this is a no-brainer. 20:46 All right. Okay. 20:48 Okay. It's true. 20:50 Yeah. Yeah. 20:51 Sometimes there's a reason why the Lord gives us good wife. 20:53 That's exactly right. All right, okay. 20:56 So you read it first time, 20:58 so you get it back and what do you say? 21:00 I get it back and then I read it two more times. 21:03 Two more times? Well, Danny, I'm a slow learner. 21:05 You are slow-- I'm a slow learner. 21:06 You just want to make sure. I want to make sure. 21:08 He wants to make sure. Okay. 21:09 At the end of the fifth time, I was embracing this truth. 21:14 Danny, I can't just tell you something. 21:16 I'll put the book down. This is your program. 21:17 You got an hour and four minutes. 21:18 You've got all of that you want. I want to tell you something. 21:20 There's only been two times in my life 21:24 that the Lord has spoken to me. 21:27 And the closest thing to an audible voice 21:29 that I can imagine it be. 21:31 One time was, when the Lord spoke to me 21:34 about starting this school. 21:37 That was such an impact in my life. 21:39 I knew that I heard His voice on that, there was no question. 21:42 The second time was when I got finished 21:44 with that book the fifth time. 21:47 I--see when we had start-- when we started this church, 21:51 we started this church as a result of the school. 21:53 We started the school first as I said. 21:55 And we didn't have-- we had some parents in our school 21:59 that was really not church. 22:01 So we wanted to find the way to minister to them. 22:04 So we started something really small, 22:06 just trying to reach that group of people. 22:09 I really wasn't wanting a church to grow. 22:11 I wasn't wanting it to-- 22:13 I didn't need additional responsibilities. 22:16 So I was-- I was actually praying 22:18 that our church wouldn't grow, yeah. 22:21 I told many pastors around town, I said I'm probably the only guy 22:24 that prays the church doesn't grow. 22:26 I doubt it. And--yeah, may be not. 22:29 I doubt it. 22:30 I met one, one time, he said, 22:32 he didn't want his church to grow. 22:33 Yeah. Well, I didn't want it to grow. 22:34 There's probably two of you. Yes, two of us. 22:36 I didn't want it to grow because from the standpoint 22:39 of just additional responsibility. 22:42 The Lord just sort of did this to me, so he tapped me on this, 22:45 on the chest there and said to me, 22:49 "I don't ever want you to pray that 22:51 because it's not your church." 22:53 Oh, all right, that's-- That's not your church. 22:55 Yeah, that's big, right there. 22:56 And he said, "I want it to grow." 22:58 Hmm. Hmm. 22:59 And when I read the book, embraced the truth 23:02 and I call the Sabbath, my delight. 23:04 I'm so passionate about the Sabbath now. 23:06 Wow. I'm passionate about it. 23:09 Amen. I'm passionate about it. 23:12 I'll look forward each and every Sabbath coming. 23:16 And matter of fact, we moved our services 23:17 from Sunday evening to Friday evening, 23:20 the beginning of Sabbath. 23:21 All right. 23:23 We're welcoming the Sabbath Friday evening. 23:24 That's grace in that one. It sure it is. 23:25 We welcome it in with-- we usher it in. 23:28 Maybe some of our Adventist churches 23:31 ought to be listening to this 23:32 and we should probably bring a Sabbath then on. 23:34 We begin with a delicious meal at 6 o'clock 23:38 and then at 7 o'clock, we start our worship service. 23:42 And our worship service will go for about an hour, 23:45 hour and twenty, thirty minutes. 23:47 And then after that we just have fellowship time, 23:50 we call it after glow. 23:51 Many times it's 11:30 or midnight, before we leave. 23:54 Isn't that wonderful? And the excitement is just here. 23:56 People started coming, it's not people that I've asked to come, 24:00 Danny, they just started hearing about what we were doing 24:03 and about the Sabbath and they started coming. 24:07 Wait a minute, you mean, 24:08 your church instead of 'cause sometimes 24:10 when people try to change the entire, 24:12 get the whole church, you lose a lot of members. 24:15 Yes. 24:16 You admit your church is growing. 24:18 It grew. It grew. 24:19 And still growing. Isn't that amazing? 24:21 Yes, it's just absolutely. 24:22 The life of God is in this place. 24:25 And it's because that we obeyed the Sabbath 24:27 and honoring our God. 24:30 Yeah. That's incredible. 24:31 Yes. It's a marvelous truth. 24:33 Guy, what are you thinking right now? 24:36 Well, I--I'm really still very humble 24:39 on this whole development, really. 24:45 I'm just a speck you know, 24:47 a sinner that God just used to do something 24:49 that just makes me feel so used, I mean, 24:55 so--and it's a wonderful thing to be used by God. 24:58 Yes, it is. Amen. 25:00 Allow to see him do something that you're connected to 25:06 on this magnitude will be with me the rest of my life. 25:11 So what you're saying is you don't have to be a preacher. 25:14 You don't have to be a teacher. 25:15 But if you can pick up a book 25:17 whether it's this one or whether it's, 25:19 you know, "Desire of ages" or "Steps to Christ" 25:21 and you can hand it to somebody you never know 25:23 what the results might be. 25:25 And some people say, "Well, I've done this before 25:28 and it doesn't work." 25:29 And somebody else said, "Oh, I did this before 25:31 and it just didn't work." 25:32 But that was before, this is now. 25:34 Say I think that right now heaven is not heaven 25:37 till God's people are home, right? 25:40 So I believe that as we're nearing the end of time, 25:43 that great portions of the Holy Spirit 25:46 are being poured out. 25:48 Now for us in North America that's pretty foreign. 25:50 But when you go to India where I've been 25:52 and see 40,000 Hindus a night coming in trucks and buses 25:57 and walking just to hear about Jesus. 26:00 And I'm seeing people baptized by the thousands, 26:02 15,000, 25,000 people at a time. 26:05 Go to Russia, I've seen thousands in a day 26:08 coming to Jesus and being baptized. 26:10 These are people who never knew about the gospel. 26:12 And we here in America, 26:14 we are so happy and proud of ourselves, 26:16 'cause we give most of the money that does all this work. 26:20 But sometimes we--at some point we got to understand 26:23 that it's not how much money we give gets work done, 26:25 but God wants our heart. 26:27 Now He may want our heart and our money, right? 26:29 Well, our heart is right where the treasure is, 26:31 there's your heart is also. 26:33 And so what I'm seeing is, is I believe right here 26:36 in North America folks, 26:38 we're seeing more and more of this happening. 26:40 I want Shelley Quinn to come up for just a moment. 26:42 I didn't want her this, 26:44 but Shelley is not too bashful and shy. 26:47 If we can just get her a microphone here, 26:48 if not you can share with Guy up here, Shelley. 26:51 But I want to talk about this for just a moment, 26:53 because I believe right now, there's never been a time 26:57 in earth's history where it's easier 26:59 to witness for the Lord Jesus Christ. 27:01 And to share truths than right now. 27:03 So for those of you who are discouraged, you'd say, 27:05 well, I just can't do anything. 27:08 I can't witness, I'm not a talker, I'm not whatever. 27:11 You don't have to worry about it. 27:13 If you can pick up a book and you can pass it. 27:15 If you can tell somebody put on a little 3ABN promos 27:21 or wear it on your shirt and say, 27:22 "Hey, watch this channel." 27:24 You have a channel down here. 27:25 You can encourage people to watch it. 27:27 The Holy Spirit what really does the work, it's not us. 27:29 That's right. We don't really do it. 27:31 God could do it in spite of us, but He chooses to bless us. 27:34 We're frail human agents, 27:35 but He allows us to be blessed for our own good 27:38 so that we quit looking at ourselves all the time 27:41 and we start looking at others, 27:43 because otherwise we get selfish, right? 27:45 But what we saw happening with you 27:47 after the Ten Commandment weekend 27:49 and literally a few millions of these. 27:51 Reggie, we begin, we heard this was a call. 27:54 Well, we hear there's a Sunday pastor, who's read this book, 27:57 he's really impressed, he wants to know more, 27:59 he's--whatever, blah, blah, blah. 28:02 And then all of a sudden, Shelley's comes to me, 28:04 she goes, there's another Sunday pastor 28:07 and he's wanting to do the same thing 28:09 and then another one, another one 28:10 and how many now like this of you've told me about? 28:13 20 or 21, I'm not sure. 20 or 21. 28:15 Praise the Lord. Pastors. 28:17 Now, these are pastors, these are--we're not talking about 28:21 just individuals, we're talking about pastors 28:23 and many of them doing just what Reggie is doing, 28:26 making transitions into the truth. 28:28 And to me that's exciting, folks. 28:30 I don't care where it is around the world. 28:32 But I mean, we've seen the whole congregations coming 28:35 in other places around the world. 28:36 But I believe God wants to do it 28:38 right here in America, don't you? 28:40 And I believe that He is doing it, 28:42 but we need to be ready in to do our part. 28:44 So Shelley, you've been, you know, 28:47 an incredible asset to 3ABN. 28:50 You and your husband JD, 28:51 who is out here with you also in pastoral. 28:53 And Shelley herself--I don't know if you guys know that. 28:56 But Shelley was a product of a evangelical world. 29:01 And she began to study, but then she made the mistake, 29:04 if we call like that-- if you want to stay there, 29:07 she made a mistake of watching 3ABN herself. 29:09 Shelley, tell us about it? 29:11 Well, actually you know 29:13 when I first came to fulltime ministry in January of 2000. 29:16 The first thing the Lord me was to forget what I thought I know. 29:20 Sit, come sit at His feet and He will teach me. 29:23 And it was God who led me 29:25 on a study of the tabernacle first the temple. 29:30 Then He led me on a study of the commandments 29:32 and the Lord proved to me 29:35 that the Ten Commandments were eternal. 29:36 He proved to me that the Sabbath 29:39 was one of the most beautiful gifts 29:41 that we could receive from Him. 29:44 And my favorite Sabbath scripture is Exodus 31:13, 29:48 because that scripture says that, 29:50 the Sabbath is a memorial of God, 29:54 recognizing God as the one who sanctifies us. 29:57 And I was sharing with, who's the third person 30:00 that read this book? 30:01 Jarian? No, what's the-- 30:03 Chris Anne. Chris Anne. 30:05 I was sharing with someone earlier 30:07 in talking with Chris Anne. 30:08 She said, "I'm the third one who read this book." 30:10 And she said, "The Sabbath 30:12 I look forward to it every weekend." 30:15 She said "This is the most beautiful gift 30:17 God's ever given me." 30:18 But what happened, can I tell-- I hate to admit this, 30:22 but you know what, in our town the little downlink station 30:27 had been owned by some charismatic group 30:30 and they were running another television network. 30:34 And suddenly it switched to 3ABN. 30:37 I wouldn't watch it. What? 30:40 I wouldn't watch it. Say that again, why not? 30:41 I had heard some negative things about Adventist. 30:45 I'm just putting that way. 30:47 I don't know where she would hear that, do you. 30:48 I had just--I had heard they were legalistic. 30:50 And because I grew up in a legalistic environment, 30:53 I was doing everything I could to run from that. 30:56 But here I am now, I'm a Sabbath celebrator. 31:00 For two years I was keeping the Sabbath, 31:03 I was out teaching the Sabbath. 31:05 God was teaching me some beautiful new truths. 31:08 And suddenly one day, I turn on 3ABN 31:11 and that's when I learned the rest of the story. 31:13 And I'm so excited to be a part of this church, 31:18 to be a part of the ministry at 3ABN. 31:21 But I have to say, Guy, you know, 31:23 when you said that it's humbling 31:25 that you feel that you were just a little speck 31:29 that's how I feel too. 31:31 You know, I really sincerely mean this that, 31:34 it wasn't Danny and I who achieved this. 31:37 God gave us the book. 31:39 But it was--we just played a small part in this. 31:44 It was when the people of God got together 31:49 and went out and passed this book out. 31:52 It was Guy, who God used even more than Danny or more than me 31:58 by giving this to Reggie and Cathy. 32:01 And I just praise the Lord. 32:03 You know, we have to remember 32:04 what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 12 32:07 that, "We all have a part in this body." 32:10 I mean, some of us maybe little baby toes 32:13 and some of us maybe thumbs, some of us maybe elbows, 32:16 but we all work together. 32:19 And Jesus Christ is the head of this church. 32:22 And what He wants as a body that's lined up under Him. 32:26 Walking in obedience, being empowered 32:29 by the transforming power of His word and by His spirit. 32:32 And not only are we seeing all of these pastors, 32:35 but literally hundreds if not thousands of people 32:38 had been reading these books and saying, 32:40 "We've now accepted the Sabbath. 32:41 We're accepting new truths that we never understood before." 32:44 And so we're excited about that 32:47 to see that so many lives being touched. 32:50 But it just took each of us to do a little, 32:53 somebody out passing this. 32:54 I heard one man, who only passed out 50 books, 32:58 but he hit two pastors in the same town 33:00 and both of them accepted the Sabbath, 33:02 in a small town, that's amazing. 33:05 And one of them brought their entire congregation over. 33:08 And the other one has left his denomination 33:11 and become a Seventh-day Adventist. 33:13 So it's amazing what God is doing. 33:16 I think it's the times in which we're living. Yes. 33:18 But there's people, eleventh hour people, 33:20 people who are coming in, 33:22 that the Lord knew Reggie and he knew Cathy 33:25 before you were born from the foundation of the world. 33:28 And he said, "I have a people 33:30 that love their lives not unto death. 33:32 And people that would be willing 33:34 to give their lives unto death if necessary 33:36 for My cause in the closing moments of earth's history. 33:39 So that everything that I did 33:41 on the cross of Calvary was not in vain. 33:42 Somebody is gonna show my character forth." 33:46 And so God is coming back 33:47 for a purified bride, a purified church. 33:50 But I want to tell you this that the more that we go the-- 33:54 ever since last May when this thing happened 33:57 and across in North America and around the world. 34:00 We have never seen so many trials, so many accusations, 34:04 so much of the enemy fighting 3ABN. 34:07 People think, they're fighting me, 34:09 people think they're fighting Shelley 34:11 or they're fighting John Lomacang. 34:13 They're not fighting these people. 34:14 They're fighting God, right? 34:16 This is not my ministry, it's God's ministry. 34:19 It's not my message, it's God's message. 34:21 So don't waste your time fighting me or anybody else 34:24 that you see, that's not our job. 34:26 Our job is to get the gospel into all the world 34:29 and God will honor that. 34:30 And He will bless you, if you will stick 34:32 to doing what He's called you to do. 34:34 Go ye into all the world, make disciples. 34:37 And it says that we should be teaching people 34:39 to observe all things that He's commanded us. 34:41 And the entire commandments is one of those. 34:43 Reggie, thank you again for letting us be here tonight. 34:46 You have something to speak to us in other minute or two 34:48 before we have some music. 34:50 We're gonna have Kateena Laforge here in a bit. 34:52 And I'm not sure she's next, but if she's not, 34:55 we'll bring her up anyway and make her next, all right? 34:57 I mean you're asking an excited, passionate preacher 34:59 about the Sabbath to speak for a minute or two. 35:01 Ah, we may give you little longer now, all right. 35:05 I just want to welcome everybody, 35:07 tell you what an honor it is that you are here 35:09 joining in worshipping our God together. 35:13 People are here in this room tonight 35:15 from many different walks of life. 35:17 Not everybody here is Adventist. Right. 35:20 You know, but we're under the banner 35:22 of the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Amen. 35:24 Amen. That's the banner we are under. 35:27 I have been a Sunday keeper, 35:30 worshiping the Lord, pretty much all my life. 35:35 As a Sunday Christian, Sunday worshipper 35:38 and walked in the truth that I had 35:40 and whenever I saw the truth of the Sabbath. 35:44 And then I embraced it, it just changed my life. 35:48 And so I've got a lot of friends, family. 35:51 I have pastor friends. 35:52 I have all kind of associates 35:53 that just-- they do not understand 35:56 where I am coming from at this point. 35:58 But I've kind of drawn a line in the sand so to speak 36:01 and saying this is what God has shown me, 36:03 I'm walking in it, I'm obeying Him from me and my house, 36:07 we will serve the Lord in this way.Amen. 36:09 And I'm certainly not-- I'm not condemning of them, 36:16 if they do not see the truth, because I went 57 years 36:18 without seeing the truth myself about the Sabbath. 36:21 Saw a lot of truth, but I didn't see that truth. 36:23 But I'm so glad that I'm part of this, 36:26 the family, and you know, 36:28 you talk about those who are coming in the last hour, 36:30 I'm just glad to get in with this truth brother. 36:32 I'm glad to get in. Thank God. Thank God. 36:34 To Him be honor and glory and praise. Thank you. 36:37 Thank you, Reggie. Thank you, Cathy. 36:39 You know, I just want to say one more thing. 36:41 We know that God has His people in all churches 36:45 and there's a lot of sincere hearted people. 36:47 But I left something hanging, Danny, 36:49 because some people haven't heard the testimony. 36:52 When I started watching 3ABN, 36:55 here I have thought they were such legalistic people, 36:58 the first time that I landed on that channel. 37:00 Now you are one. 37:02 First time I landed on that channel, 37:04 I heard Kenneth Cox, and he said, 37:07 "I don't know what everybody's problem is with obedience, 37:10 it's all by faith anyway." 37:12 Well, I was out teaching obedience by grace, 37:15 that grace is the divine empowerment of God 37:18 to live a godly life. 37:21 Then the next day, I turned it on, on purpose, 37:23 'cause I thought he must not be an Adventist. 37:26 The next day when I turned it on, 37:27 it was Doug Batchelor and he was talking 37:29 about salvation by grace through faith. 37:32 And I thought, "Well, he must not be an Adventist." 37:35 And then I learned, you know, and what I teach is this. 37:39 Obedience is the pathway to blessing. Yes. 37:42 God empowers us to obey. 37:45 There's nothing legalistic about obeying 37:47 and as these good people have learned. 37:50 The Sabbath is a great gift. Amen. 37:54 Amen. Amen. Thank you. 37:55 Thank you, Shelley. Thank you, Guy. 37:57 God bless you. God bless you all. 38:03 We feel so blessed to have Shelley and JD. 38:06 And we are so thankful that they have joined us 38:08 at 3ABN for some time now. 38:10 And both of them are such an asset, 38:13 JD works up in pastoral. 38:14 And JD, thank you for what you do for the cause of God. 38:18 I like to bring Sister Kateena LeForge. 38:21 And Kateena, it's a privilege to have you and your husband Jose. 38:24 Where's Jose? Is he going to sing with you tonight. 38:26 He never sings. He just praise in paces. 38:29 Praise in paces, huh? Yeah. 38:31 Okay, all right. 38:32 Well, Jose we're glad that you are here too. 38:34 And someday we'll get Jose back up. 38:37 Once he gave a little testimony once, didn't he? 38:39 He did. And he is such a nervous wreck, but he got it soon. 38:43 Yeah, he did but Jose gave a testimony 38:45 and you that, 3ABN has made some changes in your lives. 38:49 Now, you're not Seventh-day Adventist? 38:51 You haven't been born and raised in the church? 38:53 No, I was raised in a non-denominational church, 38:56 but it was called Pentecostal 38:59 but it was sort of a non-denominational church. 39:01 But we've come to see things quite differently 39:04 since watching 3ABN. 39:06 Well, that God's in the business of changing 39:08 all of our hearts and all of our minds and lives. 39:10 But I do know this and the reason that we've had 39:12 you sing all along and for many years, 39:15 you and associated with you and Jose, 39:17 because we know that you love Jesus with all your heart. 39:20 I do. Your soul and your mind. 39:21 And so we look forward to you blessing us 39:22 with a couple of songs. 39:24 Thank you. Okay. 39:35 Living below in this old sinful world 39:43 Hardly a comfort can afford 39:52 Striving alone to face temptation so 40:00 Where could I go but to the Lord 40:09 Where could I go, 40:13 where could I go 40:17 Seeking the refuge for my soul 40:26 Needing a friend to save me in the end 40:33 Won't you tell me 40:35 Where could I go but to the Lord 40:51 Life here is grand 40:55 with friends I love so dear 41:00 Comfort I get from God's own word 41:08 Yet when I face that chilling hand of death 41:15 Won't you tell me? 41:17 Where could I go but to the Lord 41:25 Where could I go 41:29 Where could I go 41:33 Seeking the refuge for my soul 41:42 Needing a friend to save me in the end 41:49 Won't you tell me 41:51 Where could I go but to the Lord 41:59 Where could I go but to the Lord 42:06 To the Lord 42:15 Amen. 42:19 One of my favorite stories in the Bible is about Mary. 42:25 And she was a shameful woman. 42:27 And she became a follower of our Savior Jesus. 42:31 And she came before the Lord and she knelt before Him, 42:33 she carried with her an alabaster box. 42:36 And in that box was her finest oil. 42:40 And she knelt before Him and she washed His feet with her tears. 42:45 And she dried Him with her hair. 42:47 And she poured all of her oil on the Savior's feet. 42:52 And the people thought she shouldn't be there, 42:55 because the kind of woman that she was. 42:58 But aren't you glad He loved her anyway? 43:02 If you're waiting to be good enough to serve Him, 43:04 it won't happen, surrender. 43:11 The room grew still 43:14 As she made her way to Jesus 43:18 She stumbles through the tears that made her blind 43:26 She felt such pain 43:30 Some spoke in anger 43:33 Heard folks whisper 43:35 There's no place here for her kind 43:42 Still on she came 43:45 Through the shame that flushed her face 43:49 Until at last, she knelt before his feet 43:56 And though she spoke no words 44:00 Everything she said was heard 44:04 As she poured her love for the Master 44:09 From her box of alabaster 44:13 And I've come to pour 44:18 My praise on Him 44:22 Like oil from Mary's alabaster box 44:31 Don't be angry if I wash his feet with my tears 44:37 And I dry them with my hair 44:45 You weren't there the night He found me 44:52 You did not feel what I felt 44:56 When he wrapped his love all around me 45:01 And you don't know the cost of the oil 45:07 In my alabaster box 45:17 I can't forget the way life used to be 45:23 I was a prisoner to the sin that had me bound 45:32 And I spent my days 45:35 Poured my life without measure 45:38 Into a little treasure box 45:41 I'd thought I'd found 45:46 Until the day when Jesus came to me 45:52 And healed my soul 45:54 With the wonder of His touch 46:00 So now I'm giving back to Him 46:03 All the praise He's worthy of 46:07 I've been forgiven 46:09 And that's why 46:11 I love Him so much 46:18 And I've come to pour 46:22 My praise on Him 46:25 Like oil from Mary's alabaster box 46:34 Don't be angry if I wash his feet with my tears 46:40 And dry them with my hair, my hair 46:47 You weren't there the night Jesus found me 46:55 You did not feel what I felt 46:59 When He wrapped his loving arms around me 47:04 And you don't know the cost of the oil 47:10 No, you don't know the cost of my praise 47:20 You don't know the cost of the oil 47:25 In my alabaster box 47:49 Thank you, Kateena. 47:52 Somebody told me once that they said, 47:54 "Kateena, you sing like, you got a little color in you." 47:56 And I don't know what, I don't what they meant by that. 47:59 I have no idea what they meant by that, 48:01 I just repeating what somebody said to me. 48:03 She sings like she's got a little color in her. 48:05 So that's all. Don't anybody write me any letters. 48:09 I'm not a racist or anything. I love everybody, all right. 48:12 Just repeating what was told to me. It's all right. 48:17 I think what they meant is you're singing from your heart 48:19 and that's what's important. 48:20 You know, what Jesus wants from all of us is just our heart. 48:24 That's all. We have nothing good to give. 48:27 None of us do, nothing that's, 48:29 we're not worthy of anything, everything is a free gift. 48:32 But all we have to do is be willing to accept that gift. 48:36 It's great to be once again here in Huntsville. 48:39 And Mandy, who is that, Mandy down in front? 48:41 Raise your hand. Stand up just a second, Mandy. 48:43 Turn around that way, would you? 48:44 I want some folk to get a camera on this lady. All right. 48:47 Then I'm going to tell you why, when I say--there you are. 48:50 Okay. All right. 48:51 Doesn't she look pretty tonight? Okay. 48:53 Now isn't it nice instead of you having to get the buses 48:57 and go all the way to 3ABN that we came down to you? 49:00 All right. 49:01 Mandy always brings groups of people 49:04 up to camp meeting at 3ABN. 49:07 So this time I said guess what, we get to come to Mandy 49:10 and we have to bring the buses, right? 49:11 We bring the big trucks and all of that. 49:13 So this is done with you in mind, all right, Mandy? 49:16 There you go and all the rest of you, 49:17 thank you all for coming. 49:19 And we appreciate seeing you all again down here. 49:21 What I like to do-- let's see who do we have next? 49:23 I'm gonna have my group come out. 49:25 So I know we have a couple more groups and-- All right. 49:32 Okay. All right. 49:34 Oh, okay. All right. 49:35 Now, are you singing for us? 49:37 No. I'm not singing today. 49:39 I didn't think you were singing. Give us your name. 49:42 Pearl Wise. Pearl. 49:43 Yes. Pearl Wise, that's a nice name. 49:45 Wise, huh? Thank you. 49:47 And so I think that you're spiritually wise. 49:50 What little I've heard about you already. 49:52 Tell me you have a little bit, C.A. Murray told me, 49:54 you had testimony you're gonna share with us. 49:56 Well, I must let my testimony go by the Spirit of God, 49:59 because Murray did come from Oakwood College. 50:03 And he has got me up here spontaneously. All right. 50:06 And so I must move by the Spirit of God. 50:08 And with the Lord is impressing on my heart 50:10 as I went to Murray tonight. 50:12 I had not planned to be here tonight. 50:15 And Mandy was coming 50:17 and I was able to get a ride here with her. Okay. 50:20 And so the Lord brought me into this wonderful place. 50:23 And I saw Murray and I ran into him 50:25 and I said God bless you, Murray. 50:27 You all have really been a blessing to me. 50:29 You all have been my husband and that's what I say to Murray. 50:34 And so this is how I'm up here tonight. 50:36 And what, I guess the Lord wants me 50:38 to share with you all tonight is that in my life there, 50:43 there were some sad things happened in my life. 50:47 My father was a pastor. 50:48 My mother was a church school teacher. 50:50 And there was some sad disappointments happened 50:53 while my mother was trying to get her education. 50:56 And there was some abuse that took place. 50:58 And the song tonight is just amazing. 51:01 How she sang that song tonight because that was me, 51:05 I am that woman with that alabaster. 51:07 Have mercy, all right. 51:09 I am the woman with alabaster oil. 51:11 I am the one that people have not understood 51:13 why I weep so easily when a sermon is being preached. 51:17 Because of the abuse that took place in my life 51:19 while my parents were trying to take care of home. 51:23 And I just thank the Lord for what He's done 51:25 and how He has preserved me. 51:27 And the reason that 3ABN is my husband 51:30 is because once God transformed my life. 51:33 And I decided that I didn't want to live the lifestyle 51:36 of the parties and the different things 51:39 that had come my way when I attended Oakwood College. 51:42 Now, you know, it's amazing, Danny. 51:45 You can go to a place where it's a school of the prophets. 51:49 But we come from all places around the world. 51:52 And so which lets us know 51:54 that even though we're at a school with a sin of-- 51:58 all the way to school where the prophets are. 52:00 There still are scars where sin has come in and affected us. 52:05 And when sin has come in and affected us, 52:07 if we have not met Jesus, we will affect somebody else. 52:11 And that's what happened to me. 52:13 As a innocent child, I was affected by someone else, 52:17 until God sent me to Oakwood College. 52:20 And when I was in, I would go and I was living in Carter Hall, 52:24 the freshman dormitory, the sophomore dormitory. 52:27 And my room was on the front of the dormitory. 52:30 And that crazy bell would ring every morning. 52:34 That was a early morning prayer meeting bell. 52:36 And I said I wish that, somebody would just shut that bell down. 52:40 And I could not sleep I toss and I turn. 52:43 And finally I started going to early morning prayer meeting. 52:47 And in early morning prayer meeting 52:49 as testimonies was given, my life was being changed. 52:53 Amen. All right. My life was being changed. 52:55 And that's why I'm here tonight as the testimony to say, 52:58 that my life has being changed, 52:59 it doesn't matter how far you've gone down. 53:03 Christ goes deep down where you are and will bring you up. 53:07 And at the time that you're giving up 53:09 is the time that He's ready to walk in 53:11 and transform your life. 53:12 And people won't understand why you're smiling, 53:14 because just like the song was saying. 53:16 You know, they don't understand what Jesus, how He found me. 53:20 They don't understand how He put His loving arms around me. 53:24 And that's what, what happened with me. 53:26 He put His loving arms around me 53:28 and I didn't have to have anymore arms. 53:31 I didn't have to have some stranger 53:33 to lead me here or lead me there. 53:35 But Jesus led me all the way. 53:36 Amen. Pearl, thank you so much. 53:38 And I'm grateful. God bless you. 53:39 And thanks for that tremendous testimony. 53:45 Tell you what? I like preaching, 53:47 but testimonies are just hard to beat, aren't they? 53:50 I mean, when somebody just talks from the heart, 53:52 because that's really what it's all about. 53:54 It's great that we read the Bible 53:56 and we learn some things. 53:58 But people don't really care how much of the Bible we know. 54:01 What they want to know is, is who we know? 54:03 Do we know Jesus? 54:05 And what they want to see is they want to see somebody 54:07 that has peace in their life in the midst of a storm. 54:10 And so they want to see somebody that can get up and say, 54:13 "You know, here's where I was. 54:15 I once was lost, but now I'm found, Mandy." 54:18 And that's all they're looking for. 54:19 Pearl was lost and now she's found 54:21 and she's become the wise to match her name, right? 54:24 When you're wise when you accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. 54:28 Pastor C.A. Murray, why don't you-- 54:31 well, first of all we're glad that you are here, 54:32 I'm very glad that you are part 54:34 of Three Angels Broadcasting Network. 54:36 And I appreciate what you do. 54:38 As C.A. wears numerous hats from preaching to traveling 54:42 as far as Australia or wherever, but producing the today program. 54:46 And we put you now production manager. 54:49 So, well, you're doing a number of things. 54:51 Can I tell a quick story? 54:53 'Cause this one just came in last week. 54:56 It shows you what a blessing 3ABN is. 54:58 A woman called me on the phone 55:00 and she got this story actually from her husband. 55:02 They're going through a pretty nasty divorce. 55:06 And she had an order of protection on him. 55:09 He wasn't supposed to be near her. 55:11 But he was waiting in the house to take her life. 55:16 She was at work while he's waiting in the house. 55:21 He says, "Let me turn on." 55:23 No, no. Come on now. Come on. 55:27 I'm telling you the truth. You tell--I hadn't heard this. 55:28 Now this is true story. I was saving in this one. 55:30 You didn't just wake up. No, sir. 55:32 you weren't sleep. No, sir. 55:33 Wide awake and listening on the phone. Okay. 55:35 He turns on the television set, guess what's on? 55:39 Good thing, "Murder, She Wrote" wasn't on, right? 55:45 No "Murder, She Wrote." 55:46 Oh, thank goodness. 3ABN. 55:49 3ABN. 3ABN. 55:52 He listened. He put that knife down. 55:56 He waited for her to come home. 55:59 He confessed that he was going to do. 56:02 And they are in counseling now, 56:05 trying to get their life together. 56:07 And he is penitent, sorry for his sins 56:13 and trying to find Jesus Christ. Praise God. 56:15 And so she just called to say, thank you 56:18 Three Angels Broadcasting Network. Wow. 56:19 True story. Incredible story, Pastor C.A. 56:22 why don't you just maybe lead us in a closing prayer, would you? 56:25 I'll be glad to do. Shall we pray? 56:28 Heavenly Father, we just thank You. 56:30 We thank You for the Sabbath day. 56:33 We thank You for Jesus. 56:35 We thank You for the Three Angels Broadcasting Network 56:39 which you have erected, 56:40 which is a tool in the hand of God 56:43 for the salvation of the souls of men. 56:47 We thank You for the vision that You gave to Danny. 56:51 And for all of the thousands of people 56:53 who joined hands with us in the greatest work 56:56 ever entrusted to the frail hands of men. 57:00 And that is lifting up the name of Jesus. 57:05 We thank You Lord that this station 57:07 has been used as a tool for pastors, for members, 57:13 for the downtrodden, for the sad, 57:16 for those who have no hope and see no way out. 57:20 We thank You for the gift 57:22 that You gave to this world of Jesus. 57:25 And for the gift that You gave to Danny Shelton 57:28 to lift up Jesus to counteract the counterfeit. 57:32 Lord, bless this ministry. It's been a tough year. 57:37 Satan has seemed to oppose. 57:39 But we are thankful for the truth, 57:41 the abiding truth, the wonderful truth 57:44 that greater is He that is in us 57:46 than he that is in the world. 57:48 And now we've entered the year of victory. 57:52 Not victory in our own strength, 57:54 not victory through fighting or combat, 57:56 but victory through surrender to Jesus Christ. 58:00 May each of us Lord be that living sacrifice 58:05 that was mentioned in Romans 12:1? 58:07 May we be acceptable? May we be used of Thee? 58:11 May we be blessed by Thee? 58:13 May we see the one day soon face to blessed face? 58:18 We love You Lord. We praise You Lord. 58:22 We recommit ourselves to You. 58:25 Asking You to take us and use us 58:29 and save us in Thy eternal kingdom. 58:31 And we thank You for Your promise 58:34 to answer the prayer of faith in the worthy 58:37 and blessed name of Jesus. Amen. 58:41 Amen. |
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