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Music And Testimonies (Friday Evening)

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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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