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00:01 As you're well aware,
00:03 we're living in unprecedented times. 00:05 Join us now for Today special program. 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Mending broken people 00:23 I want to spend my life 00:29 Removing pain 00:34 Lord, let my words 00:39 Heal a heart that hurts 00:44 I want to spend my life 00:50 Mending broken people 00:55 I want to spend my life 01:01 Mending broken people 01:15 Hello, and welcome to another 3ABN Today program. 01:18 We're so glad that you've joined us. 01:19 You know, we look forward to spending this one hour 01:21 with you each and every day. 01:22 And thank you for allowing us into your living room. 01:25 Or maybe you're driving your car 01:26 and you have 3ABN radio in your car 01:29 or watching on your 3ABN phone app, 01:32 I don't know how, but thank you so very much 01:35 for joining us today. 01:38 Thank you so very much for being a part of our family 01:40 that mean so very much to us. 01:42 And thank you so much 01:43 for your prayers and financial support 01:45 for the ministry of 3ABN. 01:47 I'm so excited about today's program, 01:49 because it's a testimony 01:51 of a life changed largely in part two, 3ABN. 01:56 And this is just an encouragement to you. 01:58 I know so many of you give sacrificially 02:01 to support the ministry of 3ABN. 02:02 Thank you so very much. 02:04 And why do you do that? 02:05 Well, it's because you're interested in souls, 02:07 souls for the Kingdom of God. 02:10 And I'm joined here on the set today 02:12 with Mr. Jack Stout. 02:13 Thank you so very much for being here today 02:15 and for sharing your testimony. 02:17 Thank you, Greg. Amen. 02:18 Now this is not your first time to 3ABN? 02:20 No, I was here 02:23 around 1995 or so, '96. 02:27 And that was at the original building, 02:28 the Uplink building, as we call it, 02:30 but God has continued to do amazing things in your life. 02:33 So if you've seen a program with Mr. Jack Stout 02:36 on where you get to see an update to what God is doing, 02:38 but also today, we're going to be sharing 02:40 his complete testimony with you. 02:41 It's so inspiring. 02:43 You know, I think about the ripple effect. 02:46 As a kid, we had a farm pond, it always seemed to be muddy. 02:50 But we would take stones 02:51 and we would throw it out in the pond. 02:53 And if you look closely, right, 02:55 when that stone goes into the water, 02:57 a little ripple forms, 02:58 and it slowly gets bigger and bigger and bigger. 03:01 So I'm thinking about you, you know who you are. 03:04 Last year, somebody gave 99 cents 03:06 to the ministry of 3ABN 03:08 to support this ministry 03:09 and to bring souls into the Kingdom of God. 03:11 Well, that's a ripple 03:12 and that ripple gets bigger and bigger and bigger. 03:15 Well, people such as Mr. Jack Stout, 03:17 they're affected by that donation. 03:19 They're like, "Wow, I found truth on 3ABN." 03:23 So Mr. Jack, he has started a ministry now. 03:25 And so now that ripple has multiplied, right? 03:28 It just gets bigger and bigger and bigger. 03:31 I can just see Jesus shining out of you. 03:33 Why do you love the Lord, Mr. Jack? 03:35 Because that He took a wretch like me, 03:39 and made me to love people and love Him, 03:44 love the things of the kingdom. 03:46 Amen. 03:47 And I love the title of your ministry too, 03:49 Turn to Jesus Ministries, 03:51 which we're going to be talking about a little bit later on, 03:55 but to share Jesus 03:56 and to then have an impact in other's lives 03:58 that does something special, doesn't it to you? 03:59 Amen. It does. 04:01 Yeah, absolutely. 04:02 So before we jump into his testimony, 04:04 we want to go to some music right now 04:06 by Sister E.T. Everett. 04:08 She's going to be bringing to us 04:09 a beautiful song today entitled 04:11 Bind Us Together and the Family of God. 04:14 Amen. 08:40 Amen. 08:41 Thank you so very much Sister E.T. 08:43 God's given you so many gifts and talents. 08:45 And one of those is, of course, music 08:48 and I love the melody there, 08:51 especially the family of God. 08:53 Now just think about 08:54 being a part of the family of God. 08:55 Amen. Isn't that awesome? 08:57 That's incredible. 08:58 I look so much forward to heaven 09:00 and be able to spend eternity together. 09:01 That'll be an incredible day. 09:03 But while we're here on this earth, 09:04 we must be faithful to the mission 09:06 that God has given to each one of us, 09:07 and that's to share the good news 09:09 of salvation to a lost and dying world. 09:11 In case you're just joining us here, 09:14 joining me on the set is Mr. Jack Stout, 09:16 an incredible testimony 09:18 and 3ABN has had an important part 09:21 to play in your conversion, 09:23 your salvation and your walk with God. 09:26 I didn't introduce you in the very beginning, 09:29 because you're actually a... 09:30 I need to do this. 09:31 You're a businessman, you're a minister for the Lord, 09:34 you're an evangelist, 09:35 what else would we say that you are? 09:36 A family man. A family man? 09:38 Yeah, praise the Lord. 09:40 But God's done marvelous things in your life. 09:42 So, let's go back and go to your testimony. 09:44 You want to go back to when you were a child? 09:46 Sure. Yeah, sure let's do. 09:47 To kind of get the basis of it. 09:49 I was actually born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 09:50 No, I'm not going to tell you how long ago. 09:52 Okay. 09:53 It's pretty obvious by my, color of my beard. 09:55 But you look younger and younger. 09:56 You kind of look the same every time I see you. 09:58 Anyway, I was born to some roving parents. 10:03 We used to move all over the place. 10:05 We lived a little bit in Arkansas, 10:07 quite a few places in Oklahoma. 10:10 And when we got up to school age that was, 10:12 became pretty tough 10:14 because you just learned to meet folks, 10:17 other kids and then it's time to move again. 10:20 What did your folks do? What was their business? 10:22 Why did they move so much? 10:23 Most of the time dad drove a truck. 10:25 Okay. 10:27 And he was gone a lot 10:28 and my childhood wasn't really 10:31 that good 10:34 because my dad, my mom, 10:37 there was three boys and three girls. 10:39 My mom used to say that she had to raise seven kids, 10:43 including my dad. 10:44 Okay. 10:46 And anyway, he was tough on us 10:48 and, but we moved around a lot. 10:52 And eventually he got a job as a ranch foreman 10:56 on a 6000 acre ranch in north of Tulsa. 11:02 And I really liked that 11:03 because you could saddle a horse 11:04 and just go in about every direction. 11:06 And I love driving cows, 11:08 I love breaking horses and things like that. 11:12 But that eventually kind of evolved into rodeos. 11:16 Me and my brothers, 11:18 we used to ride broncs and bulls 11:20 every weekend at the rodeos 11:22 and some rodeos, 11:23 my mom was the rodeos' secretary. 11:25 So we were for sure to get on the books 11:28 but as we were going to these rodeos, 11:31 we started kind of learning the new vices of, 11:35 you know, the after rodeo parties 11:36 and drinking 11:38 and eventually started smoking and then the worst one was, 11:44 you know chewing tobacco and such but... 11:46 So how old were you? 11:48 I think we have some pictures right now too 11:49 that for you at the rodeo. 11:51 So you're how old when you started doing that? 11:53 Probably mid-teens 11:54 right through these pictures here. 11:57 Well, that's rough. 11:58 It's funny. 12:00 I was never hurt riding a bull. Wow. 12:02 But there was a few times that, 12:03 you know, I'd break a bone 12:04 or something on the bronc riding. 12:06 But anyway, like I said, 12:10 we kind of evolved into the vices of the world 12:14 and well then, finally, 12:19 when I graduated from high school, 12:21 matter of fact I started my first business then. 12:24 I was only 17 years old, didn't attend college anywhere 12:28 but started selling meat products 12:31 to restaurants in Tulsa. 12:34 And I would do that every day. 12:36 And eventually, the refrigerated trucks 12:40 that I started out with, 12:41 you know, like a picket size 12:43 evolved into a little bigger truck 12:46 until I was in the full-fledged trucking business. 12:51 Wow. 12:52 And here's the first new truck. 12:56 This is not the first truck I owned, 12:57 but this is the first new truck. 13:00 Matter of fact, I bought this truck brand new, 13:04 two weeks later bought the trailer. 13:06 And I was running so hard at that time 13:08 that I was going through Pine Bluff, Arkansas one night. 13:13 And as I was leaving town, I fell asleep... 13:17 At the wheel? 13:18 At the wheel and eased off the road 13:20 and turn that thing over. 13:21 You're talking in a semi-truck? 13:23 In a semi-truck, didn't have a seat belt on. 13:25 And I remember as it started to roll, 13:27 I just grabbed the steering wheel 13:29 and rode it out. 13:31 And when it ended up 13:32 I'm still holding on to the steering wheel 13:34 sitting outside the windshield. 13:36 And only thing that happened 13:38 I got a little scratch on my shoulder 13:40 from hitting my CB radio going out. 13:42 But that was... 13:43 So you went through the windshield? 13:44 Went through the windshield. 13:46 Hanging on to your steering wheel? 13:47 Hanging on to the steering wheel. 13:48 Oh, my. 13:50 And while I was ready, 13:51 you know, getting that truck rebuilt, 13:54 I started buying more trucks and eventually I stayed, 13:59 by this time I'd probably been in the trucking business 14:01 seven or eight years or so like that. 14:03 So are you in your 20s then... 14:05 I was in my 20s, yeah. Late 20s, okay. 14:07 So then how was everything? 14:08 'Cause you're talking like in high school 14:10 you kind of started like you said, 14:12 chewing tobacco, some alcohol, some party. 14:14 So is that just accelerating or? 14:16 That's very much accelerating. Okay. 14:18 And anyway, the trucking business, 14:22 you know, I do know of a few Christians 14:26 that are in the trucking business. 14:28 It's a tough business to be a Christian 14:30 and especially a Sabbath keeping Christian. 14:33 But anyway, the truck started multiplying. 14:37 I eventually got up to six trucks and 12 drivers. 14:40 I had teams on them 14:42 and they were running coast to coast. 14:43 Did that for about three or four years. 14:46 And one day I was in my office and I thought I have no life. 14:50 I mean, I was workaholic seven days a week 14:54 and marriage was struggling. 14:58 By this time I had two boys and two girls, 15:00 they were very young. 15:02 And anyway, I decided to shut that business down. 15:08 And I remember sitting in this little office 15:10 that I had probably about the size of this desk here. 15:13 And this wall of stress just crumbled down. 15:17 And I thought, ooh, that felt good. 15:19 Well, anyway, my dad was in the satellite business 15:23 at that time. 15:24 And he had a retail business and a wholesale. 15:26 He asked me, said, "What are you going to do now?" 15:28 I said, "I don't know. 15:30 I haven't really thought about it yet. 15:31 I just, you know, just knew 15:34 I had to get out of this business." 15:35 So you sold your trucking company basically? 15:37 No, actually, I just closed it down. 15:39 You just closed it down. 15:42 I probably could have sold it, it was profitable, 15:45 but I just, you know, I was young 15:48 and just thought my easiest way 15:49 of getting out is just close it down, 15:51 and sell of the equipment. 15:53 Can I put a pause right here then. 15:54 So tell me about your Christianity. 15:56 What's happening then during these years? 15:57 Like your teens, your 20s, what's God in your life 15:58 and church life? 16:00 We never went to church, didn't. 16:03 If I probably associated with anything, 16:06 it would probably be Baptist, 16:07 even though I never really went to a Baptist Church. 16:11 My grandmother was probably 16:12 the most spiritual person in my life 16:16 all through my childhood. 16:17 And... 16:19 So praying, were you into prayer? 16:20 No, no, no. 16:23 At that time, it was just heathen, 16:27 I used to tell people, 16:29 you know, they asked me what were you before you 16:31 become an Adventist, 16:32 and I said heathenism probably I'd describe it. 16:35 But... 16:36 So then when you are in this accident, 16:38 'cause I'm just backing up a little bit, 16:39 'cause there's someone right now 16:40 who is listening or watching is like, 16:42 "Hey, that's me. 16:43 I'm right where Jack was." 16:44 So you had this accident. 16:46 You flew through the windshield, 16:47 still hanging on to the tractor trailer steering wheel, 16:49 what did you think? 16:50 You were just lucky? 16:51 Yes. Okay. 16:53 You didn't think, "Wow, 16:54 somebody is watching out for me? 16:55 No, really, I didn't. 16:57 Like I said, my mind was far from God. 16:58 And you know what's amazing, for seven or eight years, 17:02 I carried a Bible in my truck. 17:04 Did you really never read it? 17:06 I can never ever remember opening it up and reading it. 17:10 I mean, you know, it was kind of like 17:11 having a good luck charm, 17:13 you know, setting it in there with me. 17:15 And it was I guess... 17:17 The Lord was watching out for you. 17:19 And the funny thing about it, 17:20 when I fell asleep at that time, 17:22 I would probably estimate, 17:24 I'd fallen asleep 1500 times driving a truck. 17:28 I was, like I said I was a workaholic. 17:30 And I ever knew when to quit, you know. 17:33 And that was including, 17:35 however many hours that I spent driving. 17:38 But anyway, when I decided to shut the business down, 17:42 dad asked me if I wanted to work with him. 17:44 And I said, "Sure." 17:46 And first of all, 17:47 I was, worked in his retail section of. 17:52 You know, it was back when the big 10 foot dishes, 17:54 you remember? 17:56 Oh, yeah, huge dishes. Exactly. 17:57 And not only was I selling them, 18:00 but every once in a while I'd go out 18:02 while they were installing one, 18:04 if it's one of my customers, 18:05 and I'd help them program it in. 18:08 And I remember there used to be like 18:10 15 or 20 satellites up there 18:12 that we'd have to program it in. 18:14 Well, eventually this customer came in 18:18 and they were trying to witness to me, 18:21 and they were talking about 18:26 a red calf going on in Israel. 18:27 And but they were basically they were saying, 18:30 "Jesus is coming." 18:32 And I, like I said, even though I wasn't a Christian, 18:37 I believe that God, you know, through my grandmother, 18:40 I believe in God. 18:41 And I believe that she when she tells me that 18:43 Jesus was coming back, I believe that too. 18:46 Well, I got to thinking about the salvation 18:48 of myself and my kids, 18:51 because they were sitting there 18:53 watching the same R rated stuff that we were. 18:55 Wow. 18:56 And I noticed the things coming out of their mouth 18:58 was not godly or Christian. 19:00 And so I started, it got me thinking about 19:05 maybe start going to church. 19:06 Wow. 19:07 And so I came home one day after work, 19:12 and I just happen to mention to my wife. 19:15 And by this time we had been married 13 years. 19:17 And like I mentioned earlier, it was not very good. 19:21 Matter of fact, I don't think we'd ever made the 14th year 19:25 'cause things have gotten so bad. 19:26 Wow. 19:28 But I mentioned to her, I said, 19:29 "You know, I think we need to start going to church." 19:32 And we lived in a rural area. 19:34 And my thoughts on that 19:36 there was a Baptist Church about a mile down the road, 19:39 all our neighbors go there. 19:40 So that's where I want to go. 19:42 And my wife was, well, when she was two years old, 19:48 her parents became Seventh-day Adventists. 19:50 Wow. 19:51 And so she was raised in the church 19:53 unlike a lot of our young people. 19:56 When we got married, she said bye and for 13 years, 20:01 I really didn't know anything about the Adventist Church 20:06 because she just basically, you know, just left. 20:10 And when I started talking about 20:12 this Baptist Church, 20:14 she said, "You know, I was raised an Adventist. 20:17 And I don't remember much about it, 20:19 but I know it's the truth." 20:20 And she said, that's where I want to go. 20:23 I said, okay. 20:25 You go ahead if you want to, you know. 20:26 So you want to go to the Baptist Church 20:28 just down the road. 20:29 Exactly. 20:30 She's saying, well, Jack, you know what, 20:32 I was raised a Seventh-day Adventist, 20:33 I'd really prefer to go 20:35 to a Seventh-day Adventist Church. 20:36 Exactly. Okay. 20:37 So the next Saturday, 20:39 she took the kids to the Adventist Church 20:40 and then Sunday, 20:41 she came with me and the kids to the Baptist Church. 20:44 Well, the Baptist pastor came over right after church, 20:48 we just barely got done with lunch 20:49 and knocked on the door. 20:51 And, you know, I'm going from heathen to starting, 20:56 kind of like this Jesus talk, you know. 20:59 And anyway, we're sitting there 21:02 having a really nice conversation. 21:04 And my wife said, "Pastor, 21:08 how come you don't keep the fourth commandment?" 21:10 And I'm really not knowing 21:13 what the fourth commandment was. 21:14 Well, he said, 21:15 "Well, there's a scripture in the Bible 21:17 that says it was done away with." 21:19 And I thought, 21:21 you know, this would be a good time to shut her up. 21:23 And so I went over there 21:25 and got this great big old family Bible that, 21:28 that's the only Bible we had in the house, 21:29 and lay it in his lap, had brushed the dust off of it. 21:34 'Cause I don't think it'd been opened 21:36 for the 13 years that we, 21:38 anyway, he peeled through the pages, 21:39 you know, they were still stuck together. 21:42 And subject got changed after about 10 minutes or so. 21:45 And that was it. 21:47 Well, for the first time in my life, I could not wait. 21:52 I went and got me a Bible the next day, 21:54 I could not wait to come home and read the Bible. 21:58 Wow. 21:59 And, I mean, I was just really absorbing it 22:02 and just really been blessed. 22:05 Well, the next weekend came along, 22:06 she took the kids to the Adventist Church, 22:09 and then went with me to the Baptist Church again. 22:12 And anyway, here comes the Baptist pastor 22:17 and one of the elders, so... 22:18 Knocking on your door again? 22:19 Knocking on the door, 22:21 oh, I got to get this young couple in here, you know. 22:22 Sure. 22:24 And anyway, 22:27 I'm really loving 22:29 what we're talking about. 22:31 Amen. 22:32 And I just happen to look over at my wife, 22:35 and she's sitting there and finally she said, 22:38 "But, Pastor, what about the fourth commandment?" 22:41 And at this time, I watched this, 22:44 this grown man just kind of squirm a little bit 22:47 and then he relaxed. 22:48 He said, "Well, it's been a long time tradition 22:52 to go to church on the first day of the week." 22:53 This is what the pastor said? 22:55 This is what the pastor said. 22:56 And I thought, "Oh, wait a minute, 22:59 I had just read the day before in Matthew 15, 23:02 it says, "But in vain they do worship me 23:05 teaching the doctrines the commandments of men?" 23:07 Oh, wow. 23:08 And when he said that, I thought, oh, 23:10 well, I remember then thinking, 23:12 okay, if you're not going to find that, 23:17 you know, or show us why, 23:20 I'm going to do it myself. 23:21 Because I basically worked on might is right, 23:26 you know what I mean? 23:27 The whole world can't be wrong on this issue. 23:30 And so that next week, 23:33 I went on an all-out Sabbath killing hunt. 23:37 Okay. And so that means what? 23:39 You're in the Word of God... 23:40 I'm in the Word of God, 23:42 I'm looking at everything. 23:44 You know, finally, by this time, 23:45 I've got the Concordance. 23:46 So I'm looking up Sabbath, and I'm looking at, 23:48 and every time I go, no, 23:51 that seems to say we should keep it. 23:53 And, boy, I'm just really scratching 23:55 my head at this time. 23:57 And I remember thinking, "Oh, what about the calendar?" 23:59 Now, it's the same seven day cycle. 24:02 It may change a few days there, 24:04 you know, but and really by the end of that week, 24:09 I'm really confused. 24:10 Question, what about your wife? 24:11 Is she involved in all in this? 24:13 No. No. 24:14 So you're just in there by yourself 24:16 just studying and research? 24:17 No, I surely didn't want to add any flame to that fire. 24:21 You know what I mean? 24:23 Because that would made her right. 24:24 Okay. 24:26 You know, I told you 24:27 I was from the church of heathenism, 24:28 you know, and anyway, that week went by, 24:33 but I'm starting to learn to pray. 24:35 And I'm starting to say, "Lord, 24:37 I don't know what's going on here, 24:38 but something's going on. 24:42 But whatever it is, I want truth. 24:45 I want to find out the truth there is." 24:46 Amen. That's right. 24:48 Well, that week next weekend. 24:50 I don't know for some reason, 24:52 I didn't feel like getting up to go to the Baptist Church. 24:56 And the following week, 25:01 I had come over, 25:05 or come home for lunch. 25:07 Tuesday at noon, 25:09 first time I'd come home for lunch ever. 25:12 I mean, I always generally eat out 25:13 or bring my lunch or whatever. 25:15 Well, I, what fix me a sandwich and I turned the TV on 25:18 and it was on 3ABN, you know. 25:23 Just so happened that it was on that that channel. 25:25 So did you normally watch 3ABN? 25:27 No, I didn't 25:28 but my wife had found out about it 25:30 from the Adventist pastor, 25:31 so she turned it there the night before. 25:34 And so anyway, I thought, 25:37 where's the remote at, you know? 25:39 I'm not ready to watch this channel, you know? 25:43 And so I'm looking for the remote 25:45 and all sudden this guy on the screen 25:47 starts talking about the Sabbath. 25:49 And so that kind of perked my ears up a little bit. 25:51 Sure, 'cause you've been dialed into the Sabbath topic. 25:54 Exactly. 25:56 Well, it was a Revelation seminar. 25:58 And anyway, so I, at the end of that program... 26:04 Who was the person? Did you know? 26:05 It was some bald-headed guy. 26:07 And... Okay. 26:09 Anyway, so at the end of that, 26:11 I thought where is brought about Sunday? 26:13 I was, why is that interchanged, you know? 26:16 Well, anyway, I came home Thursday at lunch, 26:22 and turn the TV on. 26:24 It was there again, 26:25 the same guy that was preaching on Tuesday, 26:28 learned, found out later 26:30 this guy was named Doug Batchelor 26:32 with Revelation seminar. 26:34 Yes. 26:35 And anyway, just so happened 26:38 he was given the first day text of you know, 26:42 in the New Testament, 26:44 and by the end of that program, 26:48 I'm thinking this is way too clear. 26:50 Is that coincidence or divine providence? 26:52 Divine providence. Divine providence. 26:54 Think about that. 26:55 Here you are, you never come home 26:57 to eat lunch... 26:58 Exactly. 26:59 Popped down in front of the TV, turn it on, 27:01 and your wife had 3ABN on 27:02 the night before and is still on. 27:04 And you're like what? 27:05 And it says Sabbath and you're like, 27:06 "Oh, that's what I've just been studying." 27:08 Yes. Praise the Lord. 27:09 And the funny thing about it, 27:10 Revelation seminar only came on Tuesdays and Thursdays. 27:13 And you came home on Tuesday. 27:14 I came home on Tuesdays and Thursdays. 27:16 Anyway, at the end of that program, 27:19 I thought that was way too clear. 27:23 The funny thing about it, the very next morning, 27:26 I had a guy coming out to do 27:28 some give us a quote on remodeling our kitchen, 27:31 or doing some work in the kitchen. 27:35 And as we're discussing, as my wife is still in bed, 27:40 and as we're discussing this, all of a sudden, 27:44 I started giving him a study on the Sabbath. 27:50 And a matter of fact, you know, I got my Bible out, 27:53 and I started, you know, showing him all the scriptures. 27:56 And the funny thing about it at the end of, when he left, 27:59 I could see he was like, I got to get out of here. 28:02 So you're giving him a Bible study 28:03 on the seventh day Sabbath? 28:05 Yes. Wow. 28:06 Proving on it. 28:08 My wife was still in bed at this time. 28:09 And she told me later, she didn't tell me then, 28:11 she told me later, she said, 28:13 "I just looked up at the ceiling and said, 28:14 'Thank you.'" 28:15 And, 'cause she could see what was going on there. 28:19 And funny thing about it, 28:21 I'm fresh and brand new in the Bible. 28:23 And I couldn't believe that I knew 28:25 where all these scriptures were. 28:26 I mean, it's like the Holy Spirit 28:28 was leading me. 28:29 Amen. 28:30 But anyway, later that evening, 28:34 the Adventist pastor came over 28:36 about a couple of days prior to that, 28:38 and I'm still a little bit standoffish, 28:41 and so they're over there talking, 28:43 but I'm over here doing my own thing. 28:45 But you're listening. I'm listening. 28:46 And anyway, I decided to ask him a question. 28:51 And so I asked him this question. 28:53 I don't remember what it was. 28:54 He reached out and grabbed his Bible 28:56 and read me a scripture and answered the question. 28:58 I thought, "That's pretty good. 29:00 And so a little bit later, I asked him another question. 29:02 He did the same exact thing. 29:04 Wow. 29:05 And it was all starting to tie together. 29:09 Well, by Saturday night, I said, 29:12 you know, I think I'll go to church 29:14 with you guys tomorrow. 29:16 And... So this was Friday night, or? 29:18 This was Friday night. Friday night. 29:19 Okay. Yeah. 29:21 And I've been going 29:22 to the Adventist Church ever since 29:24 and that's been about 30 years ago. 29:26 Praise the Lord. 29:28 Absolutely incredible, you know, that you go back 29:30 we were talking about divine providence, 29:32 coincidence, of course, 29:33 you know, it's divine providence 29:35 and I just, again, think about the Lord, 29:38 you know, and His long suffering 29:39 with us, 29:41 His mercy, 29:42 and He's ever drawing us right to Him. 29:43 Amen. 29:45 And giving us so many chances. 29:46 So many chances to find Him. 29:48 Amen. Wow. 29:50 You're somebody that was plucked so to speak, 29:53 yeah, from the, from first. 29:55 I remember the first Sabbath, 29:57 you know, my wife had already kind of filled me in on how to, 30:01 you know, keep the Sabbath holy and such. 30:03 Or maybe it was the second Sabbath. 30:04 And, man, I felt like I was in bondage. 30:07 And I mean, I can't do nothing, you know, I can't do this. 30:11 Well, by the third Sabbath, I'm starting to think, 30:14 "Hey, I kind of like this." 30:15 Because prior to this, I'm a workaholic. 30:19 I worked seven days a week." 30:20 And I finally got a day that I can rest in Him 30:25 with family and not worry about work and everything. 30:28 Well, then the pastor at that time, 30:30 he had started going to the prisons. 30:34 And he had asked me, 30:37 "Would you mind coming out and sharing the song?" 30:40 And be grudgingly, I said, "Okay." 30:43 Because, like I said, I'm starting 30:45 to really get into this Sabbath lay activity. 30:48 Sure. 30:49 Anyway, but I had been in... 30:52 What's neat thing about this, 30:55 I had been doing music for most of my life. 30:59 I got my first guitar when I was about 10. 31:01 And singing in the bars and clubs 31:04 and rock and roll and country. 31:07 Anyway, a week or so prior to that, 31:10 he asked me, say, "Hey, 31:12 would you mind doing a special in church?" 31:14 Well, I didn't know any Christian songs. 31:16 But I had remembered in the past, 31:20 every time that I ever heard How Great Thou Art, 31:24 the Holy Spirit, 31:25 even though I was not even listening or following, 31:28 Holy Spirit said, "One of these days, 31:29 you're going to sing it in church." 31:31 I'd go, "Well, that's nice." 31:32 And then I chuck it on my mind. 31:34 And, so, when he asked me to do a special, 31:38 I thought, "Okay, well, I know what song I'm going to do." 31:42 And so I had to learn it real quick. 31:44 And, well, anyway he said, 31:45 "Hey, would you do this at the prison?" 31:48 And I said, "Okay." 31:51 Well, what was neat about? 31:52 This started a weekly thing going 31:55 to prison in the Saturday afternoon. 31:56 Wow. 31:58 And after I'd get up and sing my song, 32:01 which at first it was one, 32:02 and then I started learning some more. 32:05 And now I've got hundreds of songs 32:08 that I sing out there. 32:09 But what was really great was after I'd sing my song, 32:13 I'd sit down, 32:14 and when they were teaching them, 32:16 guess who else was being taught? 32:17 Myself. You were. 32:18 And eventually, I was the teacher. 32:21 And what's amazing, man, friend of mine, 32:25 Tom Solomon, we've been doing that for 30 years now. 32:28 Wow. Prison ministry? Exactly. 32:30 And we have a lady who we actually baptized 32:33 about 20 years ago and got out 32:36 and now she's one of our volunteers 32:37 that helps us out there, but it's incredible. 32:40 Through the years, I've got to go on mission trips 32:44 all over the world, 32:45 Panama, Venezuela, Honduras, Mexico, 32:48 probably 20 times or more, Uruguay, 32:52 and even got to do a three week evangelistic meeting 32:55 in India about 20 years ago. 32:58 Why don't I just stop you right here and just, 32:59 'cause there's someone too that's just now saying, 33:02 "You know, I've just committed my life to God, 33:04 and I'm not quite sure what to do next." 33:07 For you, it seemed to be very important. 33:08 You committed yourself to God, 33:10 made a decision to follow Christ, 33:11 and you got involved. 33:13 Amen. 33:14 That's very important, isn't it? 33:15 Very important. 33:17 What would you tell someone right now? 33:18 They've just accepted Christ, now what do I do? 33:20 What do they do? 33:21 What would you recommend to them? 33:22 You know the Bible says that we are saved by grace. 33:26 And a little book called Steps to Christ, 33:28 I'm trying to remember the page, 33:29 maybe page 50, or 70, 33:31 or something right through there. 33:33 She says the only way to grow in grace 33:36 is to be doing the work 33:37 that God has called for us to do. 33:39 Amen. And you know what? 33:41 He's not going to call me and not call you. 33:43 That's right. 33:44 Everybody is called, everybody is a minister, 33:46 everybody, when He's, when Jesus said, 33:49 "Go ye," I'm ye, you're ye, and everybody is ye, 33:54 if you're a Christian, if you believe in God, 33:56 we're all called to do but... 33:58 Yeah. No, that's really important. 34:00 'Cause I think about 34:01 your involvement in prison ministry, 34:02 and you're still involved, your mission trips, 34:04 getting involved sharing, 'cause it's neat, 34:06 you're learning, but then you're also sharing 34:09 and you're ministering and at the same time, 34:10 you are growing. 34:12 So the Christian life is not just a bed of roses, is it? 34:14 No. 34:15 There's also challenges and things, 34:17 so share with us some of those 34:18 and how you got through those? 34:19 Well, when I was working with the folks, with satellite, 34:21 I eventually, through after we joined the church, 34:25 and even from my family, 34:27 I started to have a little Sabbath persecution. 34:30 You know, they would schedule these things 34:32 on Sabbath or Saturday. 34:35 And I'd say, "Mom, I can't do it, 34:37 or dad, I can't do that." 34:38 And so I started my own mini dish satellite company. 34:42 And this was probably about 1996, I think, 34:46 and eventually, it had, 34:52 by 1999, 34:54 I felt impressed to sell it. 34:57 And I had 70 employees by that time, 35:01 it was 19 locations in seven states. 35:05 It was prospering. 35:06 Very, it was doing really well. 35:08 And anyway, one weekend, 35:10 I felt impressed to sell it and I thought, "Okay, Lord, 35:12 if You want me to sell it, 35:14 you're going to have to send me a buyer." 35:15 Two hours later, a guy calls me and said, 35:18 "Hey, I'd like to talk to you about buying your company." 35:22 What does that tell you, you know? 35:24 Better sell the company. Exactly. 35:26 Well, anyway... Wow. 35:28 He came down to talk the next day, 35:29 we spoke about three hours. 35:31 And he said, "I want it." 35:32 And within a couple of months, 35:34 December of '99, he took possession of it, 35:37 while I went full fledge into Turn to Jesus Ministries, 35:41 got it organized, and registered to be a... 35:46 Nonprofit. 35:47 Nonprofit, 501c3. 35:49 And my problem was, 35:54 I was seeing God work. 35:55 And so and a lot of new believers' 35:59 hearts sometimes 36:01 we want so bad to please God 36:05 that we get ahead of Him. 36:07 And what I mean by that... Wow. 36:09 Say that one more time, 'cause that's profound. 36:11 We want to believe, we want to please God 36:14 so much sometimes that we get ahead of Him. 36:16 You know, sanctification is a work of a lifetime. 36:19 Yes, it is. 36:21 I had spent 30 some years at this point, 36:23 getting all of this out. 36:25 Well, I was wanting to get it out really quick. 36:27 And I got ahead of Him. 36:29 And the worst part about that 36:31 is Satan starts to work with you too. 36:34 And he's like, "Hey, you're ready for translation? 36:37 You know, you're perfect now. 36:38 You're ready." And I tell you what? 36:40 It'll mess with your mind, especially as a new believer, 36:43 a young believer. 36:45 And I had to go through a trial there. 36:49 There was a point, and I've... 36:51 I'm full time ministry now, you know? 36:53 And there was probably about two or three years into it, 36:57 I'm thinking, "You know, wow, 37:02 Jesus, come now, I'm ready." 37:03 You know what I mean? 37:04 Even though we're supposed to have that assurance, 37:06 but it was not the same with me 37:08 because I had gotten way ahead of God. 37:12 Well, God had to allow me to go through this trial, 37:16 and it was very devastating. 37:20 Matter of fact, in the aftermath of it, 37:22 I decided to go ahead and start another business. 37:27 I started realizing that my faith wasn't as genuine 37:31 as I thought it was. 37:33 I mean, at, in the aftermath of this trial, 37:36 it really, really messed me up in a lot of ways. 37:39 And I had basically had to start all over. 37:42 And... 37:44 How do you hang on to God 37:45 in the midst of something like that? 37:46 What did you do? You know what? 37:48 I never quit paying tithes, 37:49 I never quit keeping the Sabbath. 37:53 I remembered what my life was like prior, 37:57 I remembered what it did to my family, 37:59 I remembered, and I didn't want to go back to that. 38:02 So... To heathenism and the heathen. 38:03 Exactly and I remembered the piece. 38:07 And that He offered, that He gave, 38:10 and I didn't want to lose that. 38:12 So I was still attending church. 38:14 But I was not, I was struggling. 38:17 And I was not giving my heart fully back to Him 38:21 mostly because I was a little afraid 38:24 and because during this trial, 38:28 I don't know if anybody can relate to this or not. 38:31 But it was like God said, okay. 38:36 Or actually it's first like Satan said, 38:39 "Nobody touch him, don't nobody touch him. 38:41 Just leave him alone." 38:42 I went for like two months thinking, 38:44 "Wow, this is incredible." 38:46 The worst part about that, 38:47 with that some type of temptation. 38:49 Matter of fact, that's why 38:50 James had counted all joy for divers temptation, 38:53 Without temptation, 38:55 you really get laxed and really get lazy. 38:57 Well, all of a sudden, after about two months, 39:01 is like Satan said, "Get him." 39:04 And I mean, he grabbed me by the collar, 39:06 it's like it stuck me down 39:08 in a pen of Doberman Pinschers and said sick him, 39:11 and for two months, I mean, it was constant, 39:14 constant harassment just and it felt like 39:18 I could hang on for a couple of weeks or so. 39:20 But then all of a sudden 39:21 your mind starts thinking about some, 39:23 the most evil and wicked things. 39:25 And I was so never was so glad at the end of that two months 39:28 that it finally just quit. 39:31 Wow. 39:32 And that was kind of in the aftermath of this trial. 39:35 So that's great. 39:37 So you continued going to church, 39:38 you continued reading the Bible, 39:39 praying, giving your tithes, hanging on with Your life. 39:44 Exactly. Yeah. Okay. 39:45 So you felt impressed then to start a business. 39:47 Is that right? Yes, exactly. 39:49 All right. And then what happened next? 39:50 Well, I started a business and it was... 39:55 What's funny, I started this business 39:57 'cause I was a graphic artist, 39:59 kind of, you know, junior graphic artist, 40:02 so to speak. 40:03 Oh, you're doing a good job. Good work. 40:05 Anyway, after about a year. 40:08 Oh, I thought, oh, man, this is a tough business. 40:10 And matter of fact, after about two years, 40:13 I started hating this business, really didn't like it. 40:17 And after about five years, I thought, 40:20 "This is my purgatory 40:22 that I've got to go through, you know." 40:24 But the funny thing about it through this time, 40:27 I planted two churches, pastored both of them, 40:31 and we're still doing the prison ministry, 40:34 still doing everything. 40:35 And I could feel that God was rebuilding me back. 40:38 But this time, what's funny, there was a... 40:40 There was a book that I had in my library, 40:43 it was called To Know God Book One 40:47 or Five Days, 40:49 but and it was more spending. 40:50 Oh, yes. That did such wonders for me. 40:54 It taught me about, you know, letting Him rebuild me back. 40:58 And so for the next 18 years, 41:01 while I'm still got this sign company, 41:03 I'm building back 41:05 and, well, about a year and a half, 41:10 a little, about a year and a half ago, 41:13 my wife and I were talking, we're both in our 60s now. 41:15 And we started thinking about how are we going to, 41:19 you know, settle back down? 41:21 And I had thought, 41:27 in my business, man, 41:31 I'm going to probably have to operate it 41:32 until I'm least 66 and then just shut it down, 41:35 'cause I really couldn't see selling it 41:39 or finding somebody that would want to buy it. 41:41 I mean, it had grown quite a bit 41:44 since I'd started at 18 years earlier, 41:46 I had probably five or six bucket trucks, 41:49 two or three cranes and 12 employees 41:52 or something like that. 41:53 And it was a good, profitable business. 41:56 But I was miserable. 41:58 You know, I... 42:00 You know, I just wasn't happy doing it. 42:01 It was, the stress was incredible. 42:03 Every time the guys would go out, 42:05 you know, and have a, 42:06 you know, a $30,000 sign in the year, 42:09 you know, my stress would think, 42:10 "Oh, what happens if the cable breaks? 42:13 Or, what if they're up there and get hurt." 42:14 You know, and it just really was stress. 42:17 Well, when we had this talk that night in September, 42:23 two days later, I get an email from a guy in Tulsa and said, 42:27 "Hey, Jack, I was wondering 42:29 if you would be interested in selling your company?" 42:32 Wow. Oh, my goodness. 42:34 And I said, "Well, 42:35 we could talk about it, you know?" 42:36 Sure. 42:38 Well, that was in September, by December the first, 42:39 he owned the company. 42:41 Wow, that's quick. 42:42 That quick. 42:43 And so I started praying, well, I first saw my wife, 42:47 I said, "You know, honey, 42:49 if I can maybe have 30 days 42:52 of just no really responsibilities 42:57 at the stress would be," 42:58 I found out it took six to eight months 43:01 to finally break loose. 43:02 And the funny anything about it, 43:04 for all of this time, 43:06 I was praying daily, "Lord, what do You want me to do?" 43:09 Yes. 43:10 "Lord, do You want me to start another business? 43:11 Do You want me to do full time ministry?" 43:15 You know, and, here's the scary thing. 43:19 For most of this time, 43:20 I was not getting any answers either way. 43:23 And I mean, I still had plenty of things 43:26 around the house to keep me busy. 43:28 And anyway, it wasn't until about October 43:34 that He started impressing me to do the ministry. 43:39 And matter of fact, even after that, 43:42 I looked in another business to get into, 43:44 and it was like He squelched that out real quick, 43:47 a two or three different times. 43:49 And God was wanting to make sure 43:52 that I was ready this time. 43:54 I had to get rid of all the stress, 43:55 all of these things from the past in order to, 43:58 you know, to fully get back into it. 44:01 Well, I fired TTJ ministries back up, 44:05 it kind of laid dormant all those years. 44:06 Yeah. 44:08 We're talking about 18, 15 years? 44:09 Yeah, it took a while. Yeah. 44:11 It was still, I was keeping up my findings 44:13 so I could stay current on it. 44:15 And, well, let me back up a little bit 44:19 in October of 2020, 44:22 one of our church members, Wesley, had came to me, 44:26 he said, we've got a new DVD project, 44:30 Final Days DVD, I hope you recognize that. 44:32 I sure do. 44:33 He came to me and he said, "I need a web page, 44:35 or I need a Facebook page and a YouTube page, 44:39 would you help me?" 44:40 And I said, "Sure." 44:42 Well, as we were setting that up and everything, 44:45 you know, I said "What your plans on?" 44:47 He goes, "Well, we're going to print up 44:48 as many of these DVDs and hand them out 44:50 and mail them out and such like that." 44:52 And I said, "You know what would really 44:55 be more effective and a lot less expensive? 44:58 On your Facebook page, you can boost it 45:00 for just hundreds and reach millions of people." 45:06 And so they started doing that 45:09 and really had some success. 45:10 Well, you know, I thought when my ministry got fired up, 45:14 I need to put my money where my mouth is. 45:16 And so I, from December the fifth 45:21 to now, 45:23 I've had about 3600 Bible study requests 45:28 from many places around the world. 45:29 Like, we'll see, I've done Southwestern Union, 45:34 which is Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, 45:37 did that on a kind of a joint venture with ASI, 45:40 our local chapter there. 45:42 Did Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Hong Kong, 45:45 and Mexico and Uruguay. 45:48 I figured out a way to do it in a foreign language 45:52 and it's amazing because for instance, 45:56 Mexico so far this year, this month 46:00 has got 17,168 Bible study requests. 46:04 Wow, absolutely incredible. 46:06 My question to you is 'cause someone may be saying, 46:08 "Well what is Turn to Jesus Ministries?" 46:10 So maybe describe that in the next couple of minutes 46:12 what is this ministry that you have? 46:13 Then we're going to give some contact information 46:15 in about five or six minutes or so. 46:16 What is Turn to Jesus Ministries? 46:18 Turn to Jesus Ministries, 46:19 let's see if they could show the Bible. 46:21 Yeah. 46:23 Anyway, it, we use the social media 46:25 to get the gospel out. 46:27 Basically, Bible Made Easy, 46:29 I actually started about three years ago 46:31 and main reason I started, 46:33 I produced in my bedroom 46:37 26 videos of our teachings. 46:40 Okay. 46:41 And, you know, it's pretty humbly done, 46:43 not like 3ABN studios and such but anyway, 46:48 well then, as I had mentioned that ASI they decided, 46:53 "Hey, we'd love to do this." 46:54 So I developed Bible Prophecy Made Easy 46:57 Facebook page for them. 46:59 Okay. And... 47:00 There it is. 47:01 Well then as, I thought, 47:03 you know, we need to really get in, 47:04 we need, there's a lot of different languages 47:06 so I started putting the stuff together 47:10 to do this Spanish territory, 47:12 and which La Biblia hecha facil. 47:16 I'm not a Spanish speaking person, 47:18 but I am amazed 47:21 at how incredible 47:25 that those at work, the reach there. 47:27 So what is, so Turn to Jesus Ministries 47:29 and so you've developed 47:31 or recorded some videos, is that right? 47:32 Given the basic foundational teachings? 47:34 Well, actually, on the... 47:37 Let me back up with the boosting. 47:39 I've been using 47:40 for the English Hope through Prophecy, 47:44 Dustin Pestlin's videos. 47:45 Okay. 47:47 I use, I'm putting a mark of the beast on there. 47:50 I'm thinking we're at the time 47:51 that we need to really go for the gusto, 47:53 the third angel's message, and it's working very well. 47:57 So this is on YouTube? 47:58 This is on YouTube, and on the Spanish 48:00 I'm using Carlos Munoz 48:04 from Amazing Facts on that. 48:08 And for Bible studies, 48:09 Amazing Facts has incredible website called 48:13 amazingbiblestudies.com 48:15 Oh, yes. 48:16 It's in about nine or so different languages. 48:20 And those are the guides 48:22 that I use when I came into the church, 48:24 and I've used all through the years 48:26 in the prisons and mission trips. 48:28 And they work really well. 48:30 So the good thing about this ministry, 48:33 basically, I just have to pay for the advertising 48:39 to send it out through the world. 48:42 And we have all these other resources 48:44 to use to get it. 48:46 So what's been the response then 48:48 to Turn to Jesus Ministries, 48:49 'cause obviously there's been some response coming back 48:50 because there can be comments on YouTube. 48:52 Oh, yeah. 48:53 So tell us some comments that have come back from this? 48:56 I tell you what, 48:57 we could probably spend another hour 48:59 sharing that had been so positive. 49:01 You know, anytime you tweak the devil's tail, 49:03 he's going to get in there. 49:05 I would say out of the, 49:07 all of the 3600 requests in just a little over a month, 49:13 I would say probably 49:16 maybe a dozen bad remarks. 49:20 And most of those are, you know, are not real bad. 49:24 They just don't agree with it. 49:25 But most of them have been so very positive. 49:28 They have said how much they loved it 49:30 and they want more. 49:32 And so I sent them a link for 17 more videos, 49:34 I sent them a link to enroll in the Bible studies. 49:38 And what's neat is the ones 49:40 who continually call back 49:44 I probably led at least 20 49:46 or so in the last month 49:47 two churches around the world. 49:49 And... Okay, so that's really nice. 49:52 So they can actually 49:53 directly contact your ministry then, 49:55 Turn to Jesus Ministries through what email or phone? 49:58 Yes, it's... Okay. 49:59 And we'll put that up in just a couple of minutes. 50:01 Okay. 50:02 So in other words, then you're there as a resource. 50:03 Exactly. And that's a help. 50:05 Wow, that's powerful. 50:06 So then they can contact you and you can point them 50:07 in the right direction like, "Hey, 50:09 in this area of the world or the country 50:12 there's a church or there's a pastor, 50:14 or there's a Bible study group. 50:15 Absolutely. 50:16 Also the website, it's got, 50:18 it'll have our music ministry 50:19 still involved in music ministry. 50:21 Yes. Tell us about that. Okay. 50:22 Over the past few years, 50:24 I've been able to produce three CDs. 50:27 Oh, wow. 50:28 The last one I'm really proud of it's the one in the middle, 50:31 it's called look up all the songs on it I, 50:34 the Lord gave me wrote. 50:36 And I recorded it in Nashville 50:38 with really top notch musicians 50:41 which was fun, really fun. 50:43 Most of it I had to kind of make it 50:45 through on my own talents and such but... 50:47 That's really neat, you know, 'cause I think about, 50:49 you know, the all the gifts that God has given you, 50:50 I think about your growing up and the challenges 50:53 and how God has led you on this incredible journey, 50:55 and then how God is using them now for Him. 50:58 Amen. 50:59 Your music as you were, where you said 51:00 in the clubs and all this with your music. 51:02 Amen. 51:03 Now you're doing music, prison ministry, 51:04 you have albums. 51:06 I think about even your love for research, 51:07 and then how God has used that 51:09 then to even bring you into the truth. 51:10 Amen. Absolutely. 51:11 Amen. Powerful. 51:13 What we want to go to right now 51:14 is actually the address role for Jack Stout 51:17 and Turn to Jesus Ministries 51:18 that has all the contact information, 51:20 how you can support because he has a 501c3, 51:23 if this is on impressed, 51:25 the Holy Spirit is impressing you 51:26 to help support him, 51:28 they can send you a tax deductible receipt, 51:30 but you're actually helping to spread the gospel 51:31 to a lost and dying world through his ministry. 51:34 So we encourage you to do that. 51:36 Or if you want to contact like, wow, how is he doing this? 51:38 I'm interested in Bible studies myself. 51:40 Brother Jack Stout is there to help you 51:42 and to show you the way, the truth, 51:44 and the life through Jesus Christ. 51:45 Let's go to the address role and then we'll be back 51:47 with a couple of closing comments. 51:50 If you would like to contact 51:51 or know more about Turn to Jesus Ministries, 51:53 you can do so in the following ways. 51:56 You can write to them at PO Box 1250, 51:59 Muskogee, Oklahoma 74402. 52:04 You can call them at 918-869-6571. 52:09 That's 918-869-6571. 52:14 You can visit their website at ttjministries.org 52:18 That's ttjministries.org 52:23 You can also write them an email at 52:24 turntojesusministries777 @gmail.com |
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