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I was walking down the hall earlier tonight

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and I thought I'd pull a little joke

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on somebody and I stopped somebody and I

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said, Arthur Blissett couldn't come.

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He changed his mind.

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I thought the guy was going to kill

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me.

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Well, he did come.

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He got here this morning from Dallas and

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before I introduce him, I'd like for you

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to meet his, one of his sons.

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Joel, are you here?

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Where's Joel?

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I don't see you.

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Stand up, son.

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I'd like for you, give this young man

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a West Texas welcome, will you?

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We're glad, we're glad you came.

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He flew in this afternoon from Los Angeles

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and Arthur came from the opposite direction, came

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in from Dallas.

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This is a night that many of us

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have looked for and longed for and prayed

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for for a long time and we've been

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talking about Arthur's coming and about his ministry

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in many ways.

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I don't know whether I've ever met a

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preacher of the gospel quite like Arthur Blissett.

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I don't know whether I've ever met a

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man quite like Arthur Blissett.

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You're in store for a real treat.

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Arthur, welcome to Midland.

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Welcome to our city.

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Come, speak to us tonight.

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Amen.

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Well, are you ready, folks?

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Are you ready?

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Oh, well, stand up, everybody.

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The preacher asked me to come and he

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said you can do anything you want to,

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something to relax in this beautiful building.

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I mean, he brought me in here this

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morning and I said, oh, wow, you know,

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a real church.

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This is really it.

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I bought a pair of new blue jeans

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and a new shirt.

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I dressed up for you today and it

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looks so pretty.

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I mean, artificial.

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That was real.

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Get some real ones in here.

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I like it real, don't you?

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Somebody bring some real ones in here tomorrow

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night.

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We don't want anything fake in this building

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anymore.

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I think we'll just start off with a

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Jesus cheer, don't you?

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I mean, if you don't run me out

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after this, then I can stay the rest

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of the week.

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And we want the devil to know we're

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meeting here, don't we?

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God already does.

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But I mean, let's just declare.

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I mean, some old back slidding Baptist about

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two blocks from here is going to hear

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us holler Jesus and they'll think the Lord's

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come in and just ushers open the door

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and let's let the good news out.

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It's great to be in church, but it's

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even greater to get out with Jesus Christ,

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isn't it?

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I mean, it's good to meet here and

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be empowered and then go out there to

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share about.

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I'll go give me a J and you

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go J and then E and S, U,

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S.

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And what does that spell?

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Jesus.

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Now, I know that there are football freaks

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in Texas, right?

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I hear that people are excited about football

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here.

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Last night I met with the owner of

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the Dallas Cowboys for several hours.

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I mean, if somebody can get excited about

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an oblong ball, we ought to be able

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to get excited about Jesus Christ, right?

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And share about.

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Now, some of you say, now, Arthur, I

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don't know whether I want to do that

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or not.

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I'm only, we're a biblical church.

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The preacher told me this afternoon, when we

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were coming back from the television station, he

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said, you know, I said, what do you

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really, what's God teaching you?

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What do you really want to do around

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here?

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He said, I really desire a real New

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Testament church.

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I said, great.

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I said, what's your model?

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You know, where do, what's the base?

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And he said, Jesus.

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He said, so I got all excited.

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I knew we could have a Jesus here

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because I, I read over there where the

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Bible says, where the Bible says, when Jesus

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comes, there's going to be what?

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The sound of the flute and the whisper,

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right?

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What did he say?

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The sound of the trumpet and the shout

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of the archangel.

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So if you don't like noise, don't go

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to heaven.

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There's going to be noise in either place

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you go.

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The noise in the heaven is going to

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be shouting.

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The one in the other place, you don't

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want to hear those screams, but it's biblical.

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The children of Israel marched around Jericho seven

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days.

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And on the seventh day, the seventh time

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around, old Elijah hollered, shout, and they didn't

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go, you know, they got it on.

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So let's, let's just warm up for heaven.

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Now this is rapture practice.

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Give me, I think y'all are all

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ready to go.

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What do you need me?

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I thought I had to get you ready,

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but you're already ready.

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Give me a J.

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Sounds like a bunch of winos in Houston.

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Come on now.

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Sounds like a, I mean, act like you're

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talking to your wife, or your children, just

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act like it.

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And, uh, well, let's just shake this old

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building up.

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Uh, and, uh, everybody, are you ready now?

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Let's just, wouldn't it be great if we

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all got excited.

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And next Sunday night, when the preacher gets

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up to preach, the choir jumped up on

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the seats and hollered, go, go, go.

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He'd pass out, wouldn't he?

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All right, everybody.

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Let's try to give me a J.

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What's is that spell?

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Jesus.

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Who is Lord?

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Jesus.

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Who is coming again?

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Jesus.

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Who are you going to tell the world

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about?

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Jesus.

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If I was in Hollywood, I'd say, what'll

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get you higher than acid?

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Jesus.

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What'll keep you up longer than speed?

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Jesus.

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What'll make you feel better than Coke?

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Now, not Coca-Cola, but Coke or booze

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or anything in the whole world.

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Jesus.

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And what are you going to do with

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Jesus?

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Go, go, go.

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Let's give the Lord a great praise off

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and to go.

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Kiss them or shake their hand real hard

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or something, okay?

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I love you.

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God bless you.

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going to have a good time, don't you

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think?

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Uh, you could go home now and feel

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it's worth it.

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I make no apologies about being excited about

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Jesus Christ.

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God made us to laugh.

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God made us to smile.

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God made us to be happy.

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And it's the devil that's been robbing us

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that Jesus said it's the thief that cometh

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to lie, to steal, to kill and to

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destroy.

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But I have come that you might have

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life and have it more abundantly.

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Too many times we've come to church, somebody

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walks down the aisle grinning from ear to

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ear and they punch you and wonder what

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they did last night.

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Uh, you know, it has to have done

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something wrong in order to smile.

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But I make no apologies.

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I am excited about Jesus Christ.

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I love Him.

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And I'm not ashamed to tell anybody, anywhere,

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anytime that Jesus died for them, rose again

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and that He's coming again.

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And I haven't come to this town as

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a tourist.

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I've come here to share about Jesus Christ,

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to fellowship with you and to gather to

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reach out and see this city turned upside

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down for God.

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The pastor said you're ready to go.

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I don't, I haven't preached in one church

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in America for five days in over ten

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years.

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This may be the last time, you never

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know.

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Maybe another ten years after you hear me.

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Get him out of here, you know.

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That, that I, I just want you to

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know that our desire is that people see

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Jesus.

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And that we somehow fade away and that

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Christ is glorified and that everybody gives glory

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and honor to Him.

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I received a telephone call of several years

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ago and, uh, in Los Angeles.

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I was back from an overseas trip of

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carrying the cross and, and I answered the

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phone.

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I said, praise the Lord, Jesus loves you.

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And the man said, uh, uh, what?

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I said, praise the Lord, Jesus loves you.

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He said, well, anyway, um, I'm a, he

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said, I'm a psychiatrist from UCLA and we

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want to psychoanalyze you.

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I said, praise God.

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He said, well, anyway, uh, you know, he

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knew he had a case there already.

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And he said, we would like to come

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and, and, uh, try to figure out what

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it is that you're using to get all

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these people converted.

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On the Sunset Strip that back in the

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late sixties had almost 40 nightclubs.

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We've now got only two left on Sunset

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Strip.

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And, uh, the Whiskey just closed down about

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a month ago.

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And, uh, and he said, we don't know

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what it is.

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I said, there's topless dancers that are now

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gospel singers and, and managers of, one guy

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ran five nude nightclubs is now pastoring a

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church and saved it.

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And, and you're carrying that.

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Are you using hypnosis or what is it

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you're doing?

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He said, we'd like to bring three or

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four students along.

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I said, hadn't you got more students than

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that out at UCLA?

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And he said, that's enough.

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That's enough.

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And we agreed when to meet.

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Came to my office with these four students

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and they had tape recorders run down their

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sleeve and they're going to follow me around

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and, and, and record what I was saying

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and take it back to the class and

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play it.

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And I was excited and it doesn't take

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much to get me that way.

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And I, I couldn't believe they were really

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going to do this.

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And finally they say we're ready.

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And I started, I said, I stood up

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and before I stepped out the door, I

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said, listen, you've come to psychoanalyze me, but

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God has already psychoanalyzed you.

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And the problem is spelled F I N

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sin.

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And God's going to get you before this

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analysis is over.

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After a week's analysis, three of the five

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had given their lives to Jesus Christ.

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And that's what we're interested in is people

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seeing Jesus, to know him and to discover

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the abundant life that Christ gives and the

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joy and the peace that he brings into

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our heart.

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And tonight I'd like to speak to you

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about that liberty.

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Now I'd like to really preach to the

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church tonight, to the Christians, so all you

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lost people relax tonight for a while.

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I'll get you later, don't worry.

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But I'm going to stomp around on some

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Christians for a little while and, and you

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just enjoy it, if you will.

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Because, you see, Jesus Christ has given us

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the commission to go into all the world

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and preach the gospel to every person.

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I believe with the pastor you have at

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this church, with the Bible teaching and believing

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that you have, you know what God wants

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you to do.

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You've got the knowledge in your heart, but

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many of us need the fire of the

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Holy Spirit in our life.

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To have the liberty and the freedom to

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do what it is that God has called

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you to do.

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Many of us have been praying and praying,

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and don't get me wrong, I believe in

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prayer.

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But we've been praying and praying and saying,

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God, save us, Lord.

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Oh God, send a revival.

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Don't let anybody break in my house and

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steal my new stereo, Lord.

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Oh God, don't let anybody steal the hubcaps

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off my new car.

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And we've moaned and groaned and complained and

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begged God to do something, and I think

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sometime he gets so sick of hearing us

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moaning and groaning and begging, I think God

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wants to say, shut up and get out

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of there and do something.

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Somewhere between heaven and earth, somebody's got to

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move.

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Amen?

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Somebody has to hear God say, do something.

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And for too long, we've allowed the devil's

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crowd to intimidate us.

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Why, instead of creating bold witnesses for God,

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we've been getting a bunch of Christians about

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as much backbone as a wet string of

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macaroni, eking along in life, trying to be

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a little witness.

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You have a guy, big old mean tough

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guy, sits down at a bar, gets a

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six-pack of beer, punching pool balls.

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He'd fight a gorilla with his bare hands.

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That man isn't scared of anything.

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He talks about God all the time in

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the wrong way, but he uses his name.

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And that man is mean, bad, and tough.

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We get him saved, and in six months,

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he's a little pussycat, meowing around, won't even

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speak the name of the Lord, afraid he'll

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embarrass somebody.

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And instead of being a giant for God,

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he's all calmed down, quieted down, and in

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bed by 8 o'clock.

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The wildest thing he'll do now is pop

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popcorn and pool taffy on a Saturday night.

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You got a girl.

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Boy, she's a real hot girl.

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Boy, she's down at the disco every weekend.

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She's around all the clubs, drives around by

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herself.

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She isn't afraid of anybody.

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And she's riding around town, drive 75 miles

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to somebody's big party.

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She's just ready to go.

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We get her saved, and in six months,

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she's scared to get out at night.

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And if she does, she's got her windows

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rolled up and her door locked.

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We've got her scared to death, paranoid to

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even move.

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You get the point?

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We are to raise up giants for God,

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and we've allowed Satan to intimidate us.

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Some people say, well, I don't know about

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being so emotional.

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Well, let me tell you, we have a

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weird world.

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Think about it.

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Can you, did you, could you believe how

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many people get excited about some form or

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some kind of little ball?

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Balls.

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Pool balls.

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Ping pong balls.

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Tennis balls.

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Volleyballs.

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Handballs.

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Golf balls.

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Footballs.

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Soccer balls.

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Basketballs.

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If it's round, America goes crazy over it.

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I'm thinking about making a round Bible.

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You, you couldn't get down the street with

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it under your arm.

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Give it to me, they'd say, I want

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one.

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If it's in this way, you can't.

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We get excited.

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I'm not ashamed of a God that made

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a big round world.

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Let me get excited about God.

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Why somehow people are all screaming and cheering

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and everything over these kind of balls.

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Every time I see a football game, I

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get so excited.

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I preach to a lot of football teams.

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The Rams and the Raiders and the Cowboys

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just asked me to come preach to them.

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If I can work it out, I'll come

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down there.

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But I love to watch them when they

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get in the huddle.

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I think they're having a prayer meeting, you

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know.

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Wouldn't it be great if we had a

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safe football team?

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They'd line up, God's going to get you.

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And when they'd have a pileup, I'm not

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letting you up until you get saved.

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But here are these big old football players.

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300 pounds of muscle and steel and iron

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over their eyes and big old things all

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over them.

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Button heads worse than a bunch of wild

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billy goats.

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And some of them get a half million

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dollars to crash heads.

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And big old guys, I don't want to

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be no emotional religion, religious excitement.

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Raise my hands.

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I'm not that kind of thing.

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Have you ever seen that big guy get

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his ball over the line?

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They get so excited and they don't even

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have a round one.

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And they get it over the line and

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here's some old mean guy, I don't want

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to be, and he goes, oh, and they're

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piling on and jumping and carrying on worse

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than a bunch of kindergarten students.

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And some of them think I'm weird.

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I don't understand how we get so excited

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about the trivial.

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Since 1969, I've been carrying a 12 foot

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long wooden cross around the world on foot,

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now over 20,000 miles, almost the entire

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distance around the earth walking.

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And it weighs about 80 to 90 pounds,

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depends on whether it's wet or dry, and

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through 60 countries on six continents.

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And sometimes people see me with that cross

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going down the highway and they holler, you're

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nuts.

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I said, don't worry, I'm screwed on the

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right boat.

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What about you?

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I don't mind.

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I'm here to tell you tonight, I'm not

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ashamed of a piece of wood made in

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the form of a cross, which represents as

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a symbol the redemption of God's grace through

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the blood of Jesus Christ to save a

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lost world.

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Because I see other people excited about boards.

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Have you ever seen a guy drive up

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in his big old Mercedes or Cadillac, get

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out with a big successful pot belly and

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walk out in a little green pasture?

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And he's got an iron rod and he's

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got a little knot of wood on it.

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And he tries to knock a little ball

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in a hole 400 yards away.

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If he ever does it one time in

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a lifetime, you'll never hear the end of

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it.

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And that guy standing there with his iron

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rod with a little knot of wood on

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it, sees me walk down the highway carrying

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a cross and he thinks I'm weird.

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Brothers, others, big old guys say, I don't

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know about that, carrying a cross, that's crazy.

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And where does he go?

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He goes down to the bar, big old

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mean guy, and he's got a piece of

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wood punching balls with it.

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Now isn't he really tough?

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Hitting a ball with a stick.

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Others, well I think you're half crazy carrying

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a stick around a big cross.

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And what do they do?

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They give their whole life running around.

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They make their piece of wood and call

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it a tennis racket and go swish, swish.

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And they swish around day and night for

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years.

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And they think they're alright.

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Others get a stick of wood and they

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try to hit a ball with it, call

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it baseball.

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Some get a million dollars, million dollars for

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00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:33,920
swinging a piece of wood.

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And they're excited over that wood.

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There are others that take a piece of

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wood and they try to ride down a

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slippery mountain slope on snow with their boards.

520
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And there are others out in California, boy,

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they think they're really with it.

522
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And they're riding waves, trying to ride the

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ocean waves.

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And they always fall off.

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My friend, do you get the point?

526
00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,820
We've allowed people who get excited over round

527
00:21:02,820 --> 00:21:06,560
balls and little pieces of wood to intimidate

528
00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:10,140
us and tell us we're strange for telling

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00:21:10,140 --> 00:21:11,980
the good news of Jesus Christ.

530
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You can have a guy walk down the

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main street in Midland, Texas.

532
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And you can have him walk down the

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street with a Bible in his hand and

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00:21:19,900 --> 00:21:20,840
people seeing it.

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00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:21,960
Weird.

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00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:24,000
Religious enough.

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00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:26,640
You walk down the street with some guy

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00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:29,840
seven foot tall with a number two on

539
00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,520
his chest and little breefy pants bouncing a

540
00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:35,480
ball and they'll think he's a hero.

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00:21:36,260 --> 00:21:38,720
The guy could get a good job picking

542
00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:40,980
fruit in Florida and make an honest living.

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00:21:43,450 --> 00:21:48,400
And he's running around bouncing balls.

544
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Now I'm here to tell you tonight I'm

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00:21:51,180 --> 00:21:53,560
not going to let a bunch of wood

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00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:57,060
freaks and ball freaks turn me into a

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00:21:57,060 --> 00:22:00,080
little quiet witness for Jesus Christ.

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00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:03,160
If they can get excited about that, I

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00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:06,080
can say like Paul, I am not ashamed

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00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:07,920
of the gospel of Christ.

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For it is the power of God unto

552
00:22:10,700 --> 00:22:15,380
salvation to everyone that believe it.

553
00:22:15,380 --> 00:22:18,720
And it is time that we allow the

554
00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:21,920
Holy Spirit of God to set us free,

555
00:22:22,360 --> 00:22:25,440
to loose us from the things that abound

556
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:29,080
us, that we may speak and teach in

557
00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,340
the name of Jesus Christ.

558
00:22:31,340 --> 00:22:33,680
Now we're going to be sharing together for

559
00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:36,120
the next five days.

560
00:22:36,780 --> 00:22:39,700
And as we share together, I felt that

561
00:22:39,700 --> 00:22:42,800
tonight in line with the burden God's put

562
00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:44,940
on my heart to share during this week,

563
00:22:45,380 --> 00:22:48,140
that I could just emphasize a little in

564
00:22:48,140 --> 00:22:51,320
my own life and my own relationship with

565
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:52,220
Jesus Christ.

566
00:22:52,220 --> 00:22:55,040
Because I'd like for you to know what

567
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:59,200
Jesus has done in my life, that he

568
00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:02,520
may receive the glory and honor and praise

569
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:05,120
and that we'll all be free to share

570
00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:05,760
and live for him.

571
00:23:05,780 --> 00:23:06,880
And let me share this with you.

572
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:10,600
I do not look at myself like a,

573
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:15,420
you know, an orator or preacher or something

574
00:23:15,420 --> 00:23:15,900
like that.

575
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,600
What I am is just a follower of

576
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:19,740
Jesus Christ.

577
00:23:20,360 --> 00:23:21,160
That's it.

578
00:23:21,260 --> 00:23:22,800
I just follow the Lord.

579
00:23:22,940 --> 00:23:23,800
I love him.

580
00:23:23,900 --> 00:23:25,220
He is my Savior.

581
00:23:25,220 --> 00:23:29,700
And almost all the time I am sharing

582
00:23:29,700 --> 00:23:31,220
Jesus personally.

583
00:23:32,500 --> 00:23:36,100
The pastor moved the pulpit so I'd have

584
00:23:36,100 --> 00:23:38,140
a little more liberty to move around here.

585
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:42,480
And most of my living is meeting people.

586
00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:46,200
Most of the time when I share, I

587
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,740
will have walked in to like Midland, Texas.

588
00:23:49,340 --> 00:23:50,520
And the word spread.

589
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:52,180
There's a guy coming down the road with

590
00:23:52,180 --> 00:23:53,000
a cross and whatever.

591
00:23:53,260 --> 00:23:54,900
And people start gathering.

592
00:23:55,120 --> 00:23:58,200
And as they gather, somebody will say, there's

593
00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:00,920
a wide spot in town or a parking

594
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:01,680
lot up there.

595
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:03,860
And people will just gather.

596
00:24:04,100 --> 00:24:05,600
And on the way in, some of you

597
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:07,260
will be giving me something to drink and

598
00:24:07,260 --> 00:24:08,680
others something to eat.

599
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,100
And I'm talking and sharing with you.

600
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:15,960
And I'm preaching and sharing Jesus in a

601
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:20,140
natural, real setting of people that I'm around.

602
00:24:20,140 --> 00:24:22,120
And here we have to meet in a

603
00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:22,560
building.

604
00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:25,660
And you came in your clean, nice clothes,

605
00:24:25,820 --> 00:24:26,520
dressed up.

606
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:28,600
And I did too.

607
00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:30,980
And we're in a beautiful surroundings.

608
00:24:31,180 --> 00:24:32,880
And we hadn't even got to meet each

609
00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:33,180
other.

610
00:24:33,620 --> 00:24:35,180
I haven't got to eat any of your

611
00:24:35,180 --> 00:24:37,280
food or sleep in any of your houses

612
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:38,300
or anything else.

613
00:24:38,300 --> 00:24:41,620
And I'm saying that to say that really,

614
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:43,660
I love you.

615
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:45,320
I love Christ.

616
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:46,540
I love people.

617
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:51,540
And so I'm not just preaching at you.

618
00:24:51,620 --> 00:24:55,820
I'm sharing what my life is in Jesus

619
00:24:55,820 --> 00:24:57,520
Christ and what He means to me.

620
00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,260
All this summer I have been carrying the

621
00:25:00,260 --> 00:25:04,320
cross in Lebanon and in West Beirut and

622
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,880
just walked from Beirut to Jerusalem and in

623
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:08,320
Poland.

624
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:12,500
And I have been in war, in devastation,

625
00:25:12,700 --> 00:25:16,060
in death, in horrors all summer.

626
00:25:16,060 --> 00:25:21,140
And so I just pray that God will

627
00:25:21,140 --> 00:25:23,840
help each of us to share together that

628
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:27,780
Jesus may really be real in your life

629
00:25:27,780 --> 00:25:30,260
and that you may be free to follow

630
00:25:30,260 --> 00:25:30,520
Him.

631
00:25:30,820 --> 00:25:33,560
Because I had rather meet you, go home

632
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,260
and share with you and talk and spend

633
00:25:36,260 --> 00:25:38,080
the night than I had to stand up

634
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:41,380
here and preach even to an audience.

635
00:25:41,540 --> 00:25:44,080
But it's what God has ordained for this

636
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:44,500
time.

637
00:25:44,500 --> 00:25:47,900
When I was seven years old, I received

638
00:25:47,900 --> 00:25:50,260
Jesus Christ as my Savior.

639
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:52,920
I was converted in a parking lot.

640
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,400
My father was an alcoholic and my mother

641
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:57,560
was a committed believer.

642
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,400
And I grew up from the time I

643
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:03,060
was four years old until I was 13

644
00:26:03,060 --> 00:26:05,600
in bars and nightclubs in Louisiana.

645
00:26:06,180 --> 00:26:08,140
As a matter of fact, the first thing

646
00:26:08,140 --> 00:26:10,440
I ever remember of my dad when he

647
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:13,280
came home from World War II was being

648
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:17,780
in a bar in Port Natchez, Texas and

649
00:26:17,780 --> 00:26:20,720
watching a jukebox, bubbles in a jukebox going

650
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:21,220
around.

651
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,660
And I remember dad sitting there drinking.

652
00:26:24,820 --> 00:26:26,960
That's the first remembrance I have of my

653
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:27,380
father.

654
00:26:27,380 --> 00:26:31,160
And then we moved over to Louisiana and

655
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:32,940
grew up on a cotton plantation.

656
00:26:33,180 --> 00:26:36,000
And one night I heard the message of

657
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,420
Jesus in an outdoor rally out in the

658
00:26:38,420 --> 00:26:39,760
country in a brush arbor.

659
00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:42,020
And I wanted to give my life to

660
00:26:42,020 --> 00:26:42,360
Jesus.

661
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,460
First time I ever felt I needed Him,

662
00:26:44,500 --> 00:26:45,620
I wanted to trust Him.

663
00:26:45,620 --> 00:26:47,960
And my mother helped me by my shirt

664
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:49,460
and she wouldn't let me go.

665
00:26:49,860 --> 00:26:51,420
And I begged her.

666
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,140
And on the way home, finally mother stopped,

667
00:26:54,580 --> 00:26:56,740
turned the truck around and we went back.

668
00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,300
The only one left was the evangelist and

669
00:26:59,300 --> 00:27:03,000
the pastor and one lady and another man.

670
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,060
And I went up to him and I

671
00:27:05,060 --> 00:27:07,740
said, I want Jesus in my heart.

672
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,640
Seven years old, barefooted and wearing Big Mac

673
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:11,460
overalls.

674
00:27:11,580 --> 00:27:14,780
I knelt in the dirt and Jesus Christ

675
00:27:14,780 --> 00:27:17,520
came to live within my heart.

676
00:27:17,940 --> 00:27:20,100
Now, I don't know about you, but all

677
00:27:20,100 --> 00:27:21,120
I know is me.

678
00:27:21,420 --> 00:27:23,700
When I was saved, I knew it.

679
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,960
And when I got up the next morning,

680
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,640
the first thought in my mind was I

681
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,480
want to tell my sister Virginia about Jesus.

682
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:34,540
She was nine years old.

683
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:36,320
And I told her about the Lord.

684
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,060
And Virginia said, I want Jesus.

685
00:27:38,380 --> 00:27:39,820
I said, give your heart to Him.

686
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:40,780
She said, I will.

687
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:41,740
I'll go to church.

688
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:43,140
I'll go to that meeting tonight.

689
00:27:43,420 --> 00:27:45,520
I said, you might die before tonight.

690
00:27:46,300 --> 00:27:47,740
The Lord knew I was going to be

691
00:27:47,740 --> 00:27:48,380
an evangelist.

692
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:48,920
I didn't.

693
00:27:49,420 --> 00:27:51,760
And I said, so pray now.

694
00:27:51,860 --> 00:27:53,580
Virginia said, I don't know any prayers.

695
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:55,340
And I didn't know any either.

696
00:27:55,500 --> 00:27:57,600
But I knew what the preacher had prayed.

697
00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,500
And I remembered the little prayer I prayed.

698
00:27:59,500 --> 00:28:01,320
I said, let's pray right now.

699
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,400
And I got my sister on her knees

700
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:04,940
and I let her in a little prayer,

701
00:28:05,100 --> 00:28:07,460
something like Jesus come into my heart and

702
00:28:07,460 --> 00:28:08,220
save me.

703
00:28:08,460 --> 00:28:10,300
I give my life to God and I

704
00:28:10,300 --> 00:28:10,760
repent.

705
00:28:11,100 --> 00:28:12,800
My sister began to cry.

706
00:28:13,360 --> 00:28:15,080
And I thought I'd done it wrong.

707
00:28:15,780 --> 00:28:18,100
Because I was happy when I was saved.

708
00:28:18,360 --> 00:28:20,400
And I didn't know till that night that

709
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,820
you could cry or laugh or just smile

710
00:28:23,820 --> 00:28:25,380
or whatever when you got saved.

711
00:28:25,940 --> 00:28:28,360
I mean to tell you, the desire, the

712
00:28:28,360 --> 00:28:30,180
want to, was in my heart to share

713
00:28:30,180 --> 00:28:30,640
Jesus.

714
00:28:31,020 --> 00:28:33,160
I'd go to our church and I'd gather

715
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,480
up tracts from the church tract rack.

716
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:37,360
They didn't have any good tracts.

717
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:39,840
And I'd lay them around in the bars

718
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:41,120
while Dad was drinking.

719
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,600
And they were tracts like, why Baptists don't

720
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:45,120
dance?

721
00:28:48,540 --> 00:28:50,280
Ten reasons to tithe.

722
00:28:50,500 --> 00:28:54,160
You know, these ridiculous things, you know.

723
00:28:54,260 --> 00:28:55,500
But that's all they had.

724
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:56,760
I'd lay them around everywhere.

725
00:28:57,060 --> 00:28:58,700
People would say, what's this doing in here?

726
00:28:58,760 --> 00:28:59,920
Dad would say, that's my son.

727
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:01,100
Y'all leave him alone.

728
00:29:01,740 --> 00:29:04,780
And Dad, with my bodyguard, for six years

729
00:29:04,780 --> 00:29:05,560
I shared the Lord.

730
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:06,800
I was so excited.

731
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,160
I used to drive the tractor, standing on

732
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,140
the tractor seat and steering it with my

733
00:29:11,140 --> 00:29:12,520
knees and preaching.

734
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,960
Dad, we had some crooked cotton rows, but

735
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:16,820
I wanted to.

736
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:20,040
I remember preaching to a friend of mine

737
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:21,000
named Maxie.

738
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,020
And I was preaching to Maxie.

739
00:29:23,100 --> 00:29:24,320
Maxie was my dog.

740
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,780
And I was under the house.

741
00:29:26,860 --> 00:29:28,480
Our house was off the ground there in

742
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,140
Louisiana in the swamps.

743
00:29:30,380 --> 00:29:32,800
And I was telling Maxie, I remember I

744
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,440
said, Maxie, I know you're a dog and

745
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,540
you can't talk, but if you'd give your

746
00:29:37,540 --> 00:29:40,480
heart to Jesus, would you just nod your

747
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:40,840
head?

748
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,060
And I promise you it's the truth.

749
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,280
Old Maxie just raised her head.

750
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:52,080
I ran in the house.

751
00:29:52,180 --> 00:29:54,280
I said, Mama, Maxie got saved.

752
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,600
Mother said, if any dog's going to be

753
00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,360
in heaven, old Maxie will be there.

754
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:01,580
And I went out and started preaching to

755
00:30:01,580 --> 00:30:02,100
her puppies.

756
00:30:02,220 --> 00:30:04,240
I wanted everybody to get in.

757
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,080
When I was 13 years old, my dad

758
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:10,920
staggered in home drunk, could hardly walk, got

759
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:12,940
in, fell on his knees by the couch,

760
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:14,920
and he said, Son, go get the Bible.

761
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:16,900
And I went and got the big family

762
00:30:16,900 --> 00:30:17,360
Bible.

763
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:19,680
My dad began to read it and cry

764
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:20,440
and pray.

765
00:30:20,780 --> 00:30:22,500
And I had the privilege of leading my

766
00:30:22,500 --> 00:30:24,020
dad to Jesus Christ.

767
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,160
Stone drunk when he prayed and asked the

768
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,260
Lord to save him, got up, saved, and

769
00:30:30,260 --> 00:30:30,940
sober.

770
00:30:31,580 --> 00:30:33,560
I tell you, people say, Man, you don't

771
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,800
need to witness to drunks and drug addicts

772
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,460
and these people are too far gone.

773
00:30:37,820 --> 00:30:39,140
They don't know what they're doing.

774
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:41,900
I tell you, if a wino, if anybody

775
00:30:41,900 --> 00:30:44,680
can count his change, he's got enough sense

776
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:45,440
to get saved.

777
00:30:46,140 --> 00:30:47,940
You guys know what I'm talking about.

778
00:30:48,220 --> 00:30:50,540
You're down there in some old dive, and

779
00:30:50,540 --> 00:30:53,000
the guy can't hardly stand up there, and

780
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,060
he pulls out his money, and they don't,

781
00:30:55,340 --> 00:30:57,300
he owe me ten cents more.

782
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,020
Hey, if that guy can count his change,

783
00:31:00,220 --> 00:31:02,520
he can tell God, have mercy on me,

784
00:31:02,540 --> 00:31:03,020
a sinner.

785
00:31:03,500 --> 00:31:04,840
He knows what he's doing.

786
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:06,340
Don't say he doesn't.

787
00:31:06,700 --> 00:31:07,860
My dad was saved.

788
00:31:07,860 --> 00:31:09,820
Got up, said, Son, I'm not ever going

789
00:31:09,820 --> 00:31:11,360
back in those bars again.

790
00:31:11,980 --> 00:31:13,820
I said, That's not right, Daddy.

791
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,080
He said, I thought that's what it was

792
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:16,640
all about.

793
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,380
I said, No, we got to go back,

794
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:20,840
and you got to tell those men and

795
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,000
women what Jesus has done for you.

796
00:31:23,540 --> 00:31:25,740
And with my dad, with our big family

797
00:31:25,740 --> 00:31:28,760
Bible, with all the pictures in it, we'd

798
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:30,620
go back to those old bars in West

799
00:31:30,620 --> 00:31:32,600
Carroll Parish, I mean, East Carroll Parish and

800
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:36,140
Morehouse Parish, Bastrop, Monroe, and all those towns

801
00:31:36,140 --> 00:31:37,000
and go back in there.

802
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:38,580
And Daddy would lay his big old Bible

803
00:31:38,580 --> 00:31:41,660
on the bar, and then, How you doing,

804
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:42,340
Mr. Blessed?

805
00:31:42,660 --> 00:31:44,120
He'd say, I'm saved.

806
00:31:44,220 --> 00:31:44,980
What about you?

807
00:31:45,340 --> 00:31:47,820
And share the riches of Jesus Christ.

808
00:31:48,180 --> 00:31:50,240
When I was 15 years old, Christ called

809
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,340
me to preach, and I've just always been

810
00:31:53,340 --> 00:31:57,140
delighted to just do anything the Lord wants.

811
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,060
I don't know about you, but I don't

812
00:31:59,060 --> 00:32:00,360
fear the will of God.

813
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:03,480
I love for Him to share just anything.

814
00:32:03,950 --> 00:32:06,320
When I was in college, laying in the

815
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:10,420
floor of my dorm room, finally searching for

816
00:32:10,420 --> 00:32:13,920
the empowering of the Holy Spirit of God,

817
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,000
laying in the floor, not kneeling, didn't feel

818
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,000
worthy to even kneel, but laying in the

819
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,540
floor, I prayed this prayer to God.

820
00:32:21,860 --> 00:32:24,400
And it was a night of revolution inside

821
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:25,620
my life for God.

822
00:32:25,620 --> 00:32:27,840
But I remember saying this to the Lord,

823
00:32:28,260 --> 00:32:30,620
Lord, I may not can preach like Billy

824
00:32:30,620 --> 00:32:33,040
Graham, and I may not can sing like

825
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:37,500
Beverly Shea, but if there is anything that

826
00:32:37,500 --> 00:32:40,980
nobody else will do, I volunteer.

827
00:32:42,020 --> 00:32:43,900
I'll be your garbage can.

828
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,580
Call the great, call the mighty, call the

829
00:32:46,580 --> 00:32:49,740
best, but if there's anything nobody can do

830
00:32:49,740 --> 00:32:52,480
and you want it done, I will volunteer

831
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:53,240
to do it.

832
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,140
I tell you, time after time in this

833
00:32:56,140 --> 00:32:59,260
world, I think God has called, and somehow

834
00:32:59,260 --> 00:33:01,440
He got to the bottom of the barrel

835
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:02,660
and He said, Bless it!

836
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:03,840
Let's go!

837
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:05,360
And here I go.

838
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,620
To me, it's just the greatest joy to

839
00:33:09,620 --> 00:33:13,300
be able to serve and share about Jesus

840
00:33:13,300 --> 00:33:16,220
Christ, to be able to speak His name.

841
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:18,960
It's the most wonderful privilege to have His

842
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:20,900
Spirit abiding within us.

843
00:33:20,900 --> 00:33:23,720
People say, but don't you get lonely walking

844
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,820
around the world all these years, and places

845
00:33:26,820 --> 00:33:29,120
where you go for months and months, and

846
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:29,960
the jungles, and whatever.

847
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,460
How can you ever get lonely when you're

848
00:33:32,460 --> 00:33:34,920
surrounded by a whole company of holy angels,

849
00:33:35,140 --> 00:33:37,380
and you have the indwelling Holy Spirit on

850
00:33:37,380 --> 00:33:39,840
the inside, and you're saved, and you know

851
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,040
your name is written in heaven, and you

852
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,800
know that Jesus is with you, and you

853
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:46,980
know the presence of God will be with

854
00:33:46,980 --> 00:33:49,340
you always, and you know that He said

855
00:33:49,340 --> 00:33:51,580
He'd be before you, and behind you, and

856
00:33:51,580 --> 00:33:53,800
His hand would be upon you, and He

857
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:54,220
abides.

858
00:33:54,380 --> 00:33:58,100
Hey, you can't do anything but shout whatever

859
00:33:58,100 --> 00:34:00,640
the circumstance there is in life.

860
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,520
And I'm not going to give all of

861
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:05,300
my testimony, but any means we'd be here

862
00:34:05,300 --> 00:34:07,580
for every night and all day from now

863
00:34:07,580 --> 00:34:07,880
on.

864
00:34:08,139 --> 00:34:12,199
But in 1966, I began ministering in Hollywood,

865
00:34:12,460 --> 00:34:16,159
California on the Sunset Strip, and we opened

866
00:34:16,159 --> 00:34:18,659
the first Jesus Nightclub, and put a big

867
00:34:18,659 --> 00:34:21,739
cross on the wall, 12 foot high and

868
00:34:21,739 --> 00:34:22,739
6 foot wide.

869
00:34:22,860 --> 00:34:24,860
I never dreamed I'd be carrying it, or

870
00:34:24,860 --> 00:34:26,020
I wouldn't have made it so big.

871
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,239
And so we put it on, just remember,

872
00:34:29,340 --> 00:34:31,199
whatever you make one day you may have

873
00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:31,639
to carry.

874
00:34:32,100 --> 00:34:33,699
There's a sermon in that.

875
00:34:34,139 --> 00:34:37,260
But one night, after many years of witnessing

876
00:34:37,260 --> 00:34:41,280
in Hollywood, and I'd been preaching that night.

877
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,239
After the church service, I went and preached

878
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:45,540
in the cellar in Dallas.

879
00:34:45,699 --> 00:34:47,280
Any of you backsliders ever been in the

880
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:48,060
cellar in Dallas?

881
00:34:48,420 --> 00:34:49,239
I preached there.

882
00:34:49,380 --> 00:34:50,580
What about in Fort Worth?

883
00:34:50,699 --> 00:34:52,159
I preached in the old cellar in Fort

884
00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:52,420
Worth.

885
00:34:52,500 --> 00:34:53,100
And Houston?

886
00:34:53,460 --> 00:34:54,719
Preached in the cellar in Houston.

887
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:56,680
These are not, this is not a church

888
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:57,440
denomination.

889
00:34:58,220 --> 00:35:00,960
For some of you, these are nightclubs.

890
00:35:01,940 --> 00:35:03,720
And if any of you hang out down

891
00:35:03,720 --> 00:35:05,440
here at your favorite bar or whatever, if

892
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:06,940
they want me to preach, go down there

893
00:35:06,940 --> 00:35:09,120
tonight and ask them, and I'll come down

894
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:10,960
tomorrow night, or tonight, or anytime.

895
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:12,740
We'll have a rally down there at midnight

896
00:35:12,740 --> 00:35:13,620
in your local bar.

897
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:14,740
I'll preach anywhere.

898
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,900
If there's anybody alive, I'll go there and

899
00:35:17,900 --> 00:35:19,840
share with them about Jesus.

900
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,620
But that night, after having preached at that

901
00:35:22,620 --> 00:35:26,020
church, and then in the cellar at that

902
00:35:26,020 --> 00:35:28,300
old nightclub, went back to my room, and

903
00:35:28,300 --> 00:35:30,560
I was kneeling by my bed, and I

904
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:31,220
was praying.

905
00:35:31,740 --> 00:35:33,880
And I prayed on through three o'clock,

906
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,240
and four o'clock, and five o'clock

907
00:35:36,240 --> 00:35:38,980
in the morning, kneeling by my bed, Jesus

908
00:35:38,980 --> 00:35:41,340
spoke to me and said, Arthur, take the

909
00:35:41,340 --> 00:35:43,200
cross hanging on the wall of the building

910
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,380
and carry it across America.

911
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:48,760
And give your life to identify my message,

912
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,280
carry the cross in the roadsides and streets

913
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,380
of the world, and identify my message in

914
00:35:54,380 --> 00:35:56,400
the streets where the people are.

915
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:58,420
Now, I don't know about you, but again,

916
00:35:58,560 --> 00:35:59,940
all I did was pick up the phone,

917
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,060
call my wife in Los Angeles, and say,

918
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,080
Sherry, the Lord wants me to carry the

919
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:05,960
cross across America and on around the world.

920
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:07,440
My wife said, when are we leaving?

921
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,320
One place where I preached recently, the guy

922
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:12,860
said, you're not married, are you?

923
00:36:13,140 --> 00:36:14,580
As much as you travel, I said, sure

924
00:36:14,580 --> 00:36:15,020
I am.

925
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,600
My wife's name is Sherry, and we have

926
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:21,320
six children, Jenna, Joel, Joy, Joshua, Joseph, and

927
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:21,840
Jerusalem.

928
00:36:23,820 --> 00:36:25,440
And it's a quiverful.

929
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,800
You know, the first commandment in the Bible

930
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:30,160
is to be fruitful and multiply.

931
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:33,640
That's even before they ever got lost or

932
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:34,560
got saved or anything.

933
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:36,060
That's the first commandment.

934
00:36:36,140 --> 00:36:38,060
Want to be obedient, you know, to what

935
00:36:38,060 --> 00:36:38,940
the Lord said.

936
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,820
And I remember when I first met my

937
00:36:41,820 --> 00:36:44,040
wife, and it was kind of prophetic for

938
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:45,100
our whole relationship.

939
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:46,900
I was in a meeting, and I looked

940
00:36:46,900 --> 00:36:48,300
out, and she was on the third row,

941
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:49,180
second one over.

942
00:36:49,380 --> 00:36:50,400
And I punched the preacher.

943
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:51,560
I said, you know that girl?

944
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:52,320
And he said, yeah.

945
00:36:52,700 --> 00:36:54,060
I said, I'm going to marry her.

946
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:55,260
He said, when did you meet her?

947
00:36:55,300 --> 00:36:57,300
I said, I hadn't yet, but we will.

948
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:00,040
And two weeks and five days later, I

949
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:00,880
married Sherry.

950
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,620
And some people say, why so fast?

951
00:37:05,020 --> 00:37:06,560
I said, well, the Bible says, quench not

952
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:07,080
the spirit.

953
00:37:07,340 --> 00:37:10,980
So, you know, I don't know whether that's

954
00:37:10,980 --> 00:37:12,700
good for y'all's dating and marriage and

955
00:37:12,700 --> 00:37:15,340
singles class, but that's what happened to me.

956
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:16,920
And we've been living with the same wife

957
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:18,080
for 19 years.

958
00:37:18,340 --> 00:37:22,120
And we're leaving again in January, heading overseas

959
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:23,260
for another year.

960
00:37:23,860 --> 00:37:26,400
It is a joy to follow Jesus.

961
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,100
That night, having answered the call of God

962
00:37:29,100 --> 00:37:31,600
to carry the cross, I felt him say,

963
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:32,840
leave Christmas day.

964
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:34,840
And that was 1969.

965
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:38,000
Two weeks before I was to leave, I

966
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:39,940
was in our building, and I felt a

967
00:37:39,940 --> 00:37:41,460
pain on this side of my head.

968
00:37:42,140 --> 00:37:44,380
And just moments, the right side of my

969
00:37:44,380 --> 00:37:48,180
body started going numb, and paralysis on this

970
00:37:48,180 --> 00:37:50,600
side of my tongue and face, and most

971
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:52,160
of my arm and right leg.

972
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:54,280
And I had a stroke.

973
00:37:54,740 --> 00:37:56,980
And it was the fourth stroke that I'd

974
00:37:56,980 --> 00:37:58,960
had in three years.

975
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,440
And laying in Glendale Adventist Hospital with four

976
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:06,320
neurologists examining me, and they did an arteriogram,

977
00:38:06,500 --> 00:38:07,300
dyed my brain.

978
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,180
My head was, my neck was bigger than

979
00:38:09,180 --> 00:38:09,780
my head.

980
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:11,360
I like to die from the test.

981
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:14,480
And then they said, you have a ruptured

982
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:15,180
blood vessel.

983
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,700
It's swollen out like a balloon, and it's

984
00:38:17,700 --> 00:38:18,500
seeping blood.

985
00:38:18,620 --> 00:38:20,220
And we've got to go in and put

986
00:38:20,220 --> 00:38:21,840
in, take it out and put in tubing.

987
00:38:21,980 --> 00:38:23,580
And you may make it, or you may

988
00:38:23,580 --> 00:38:25,000
not, or this and all this.

989
00:38:25,060 --> 00:38:26,700
I said, but I'm supposed to leave next

990
00:38:26,700 --> 00:38:28,200
week carrying the cross.

991
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:29,900
He said, carrying a what?

992
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,060
I said, the cross in our building, 12

993
00:38:32,060 --> 00:38:33,520
foot long, 6 foot wide.

994
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:35,440
God said, leave Christmas Day.

995
00:38:35,720 --> 00:38:37,680
He said, you need surgery right now.

996
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:41,160
If you get excited or strained or preached,

997
00:38:41,340 --> 00:38:42,580
you could die like that.

998
00:38:43,020 --> 00:38:45,140
He said, and he said, if you had

999
00:38:45,140 --> 00:38:47,800
total rest, if you didn't have the operation,

1000
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,020
maybe you have six months to three years

1001
00:38:50,020 --> 00:38:52,820
to live, but any exertion or excitement.

1002
00:38:53,460 --> 00:38:55,180
And they were giving me medicine.

1003
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:56,720
I forget what it was to make my

1004
00:38:56,720 --> 00:38:58,060
blood thin or my head big.

1005
00:38:58,060 --> 00:38:59,360
I don't know, something.

1006
00:38:59,740 --> 00:39:01,320
I kept laying in bed.

1007
00:39:01,460 --> 00:39:02,640
I said, I've got to think it over.

1008
00:39:03,100 --> 00:39:05,120
And finally, I told Mr. Sherry, take me

1009
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:05,480
home.

1010
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:06,580
And I went home.

1011
00:39:06,820 --> 00:39:09,540
And there with all that medicine laying in

1012
00:39:09,540 --> 00:39:11,100
bed, I made a decision.

1013
00:39:11,500 --> 00:39:13,300
I said, I'd rather die in the will

1014
00:39:13,300 --> 00:39:15,420
of God than live outside of it.

1015
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:16,700
She helped me.

1016
00:39:16,940 --> 00:39:18,820
I went to the toilet, threw the medicine

1017
00:39:18,820 --> 00:39:20,500
in the toilet, flushed it down.

1018
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:22,660
Three days later at 8 o'clock in

1019
00:39:22,660 --> 00:39:24,700
the morning, got out of bed, went down

1020
00:39:24,700 --> 00:39:26,840
to our building, took that cross off the

1021
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:29,300
wall, put it on my shoulder, and started

1022
00:39:29,300 --> 00:39:32,760
walking down Sunset Boulevard, sick as could be.

1023
00:39:33,180 --> 00:39:34,700
I didn't know whether I'd make it to

1024
00:39:34,700 --> 00:39:35,080
Washington.

1025
00:39:35,240 --> 00:39:36,100
I wasn't healed.

1026
00:39:36,460 --> 00:39:38,560
I was still in bad shape.

1027
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:41,760
But every step I took, I got stronger

1028
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:44,820
and stronger and stronger.

1029
00:39:45,240 --> 00:39:48,360
It has been now, this Christmas, 13 years,

1030
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,460
walking farther than anybody's ever walked.

1031
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,580
And with a cough, through these 60 countries,

1032
00:39:54,720 --> 00:39:58,340
13 years, I've been in jail 25 times.

1033
00:39:58,780 --> 00:40:01,400
I've been beaten and stoned, taken out before

1034
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,320
a firing squad to be shot.

1035
00:40:03,660 --> 00:40:05,280
I'll tell you about that later on in

1036
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:05,700
the week.

1037
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:09,580
I've been through things you can hardly conceive

1038
00:40:09,580 --> 00:40:10,020
of.

1039
00:40:10,340 --> 00:40:13,060
And yet, by the grace of God, hadn't

1040
00:40:13,060 --> 00:40:16,260
been sick a day, never felt better in

1041
00:40:16,260 --> 00:40:16,900
my life.

1042
00:40:17,020 --> 00:40:18,920
All glory to God.

1043
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:23,520
He said, I will be with you.

1044
00:40:28,860 --> 00:40:29,980
There's a shoe company.

1045
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,240
I wear their shoes, not these shoes, but

1046
00:40:32,240 --> 00:40:34,560
I wear, I mean, the best shoes in

1047
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:34,980
the world.

1048
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:36,340
I'm not going to give them a commercial,

1049
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:38,540
but I wear their shoes.

1050
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:40,020
They've tried every way in the world.

1051
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:41,720
The president of the company has come to

1052
00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:43,320
talk to me, to try to get me

1053
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,160
to endorse their shoes.

1054
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:48,960
I said, listen, I wouldn't walk one step

1055
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:50,800
for a shoe company, but I'd give my

1056
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,060
life to walk all the steps for God.

1057
00:40:53,620 --> 00:40:54,900
I like these shoes.

1058
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:56,100
I wear these shoes.

1059
00:40:56,100 --> 00:40:59,300
But I tell you, no, I couldn't dare

1060
00:40:59,300 --> 00:41:01,160
take any money from the shoes.

1061
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,040
Hey, it's following Christ.

1062
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:06,020
He gives the victory.

1063
00:41:06,180 --> 00:41:08,160
I want you to know, He'll be with

1064
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:10,840
you always in your life.

1065
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,840
And when you're free in Him, He is

1066
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:15,540
there all the time.

1067
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:18,900
I remember going across Africa, and I was

1068
00:41:18,900 --> 00:41:19,920
in the Canary Island.

1069
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,120
And every day I'd go down to the

1070
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,660
boat to try to catch a ship going

1071
00:41:25,660 --> 00:41:26,260
to Africa.

1072
00:41:26,720 --> 00:41:28,520
Didn't know anybody over there anyway.

1073
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:30,760
And every day I'd say, can I get

1074
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:31,360
on your boat?

1075
00:41:31,580 --> 00:41:34,580
Finally, I caught a ship going to Freetown,

1076
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:35,480
Sierra Leone.

1077
00:41:35,980 --> 00:41:39,440
Arrived in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to start out

1078
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:44,520
to walk across Africa 4,500 miles.

1079
00:41:45,240 --> 00:41:47,660
It took me two years and one month

1080
00:41:47,660 --> 00:41:48,460
to do it.

1081
00:41:48,940 --> 00:41:51,660
But anyway, as I was in Freetown and

1082
00:41:51,660 --> 00:41:55,460
met missionaries and other preachers and Christians there,

1083
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:58,000
and they all said to me, Arthur, you

1084
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:02,120
can't walk across Africa with a big cross.

1085
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:04,140
Well, you've got to boil the water.

1086
00:42:04,260 --> 00:42:05,880
You've got to purify the water.

1087
00:42:06,380 --> 00:42:09,240
You can't eat the food and drink the

1088
00:42:09,240 --> 00:42:09,440
water.

1089
00:42:09,540 --> 00:42:12,640
You'll have amoebas and worms and diarrhea.

1090
00:42:13,100 --> 00:42:15,360
You'll just get diseased and die.

1091
00:42:15,980 --> 00:42:18,280
And I prayed, and I read the Scripture

1092
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:20,600
in Luke the 10th chapter where the Bible

1093
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,960
says, And in whatever house you enter, say,

1094
00:42:24,420 --> 00:42:25,320
Peace be to this house.

1095
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:27,680
If the Son of Peace be there, your

1096
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:28,960
peace shall rest upon it.

1097
00:42:29,140 --> 00:42:31,060
If not, it will return to you again.

1098
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:33,720
And in the same house, remain eating and

1099
00:42:33,720 --> 00:42:36,420
drinking such things as they give, for the

1100
00:42:36,420 --> 00:42:38,040
laborer is worthy of his hire.

1101
00:42:38,500 --> 00:42:40,280
Go not from house to house.

1102
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:42,440
And in whatever city you enter, and they

1103
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:44,600
receive you, eat such things as are set

1104
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:46,920
before you, and heal the sick that are

1105
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:50,340
therein, and say, The Kingdom of God hath

1106
00:42:50,340 --> 00:42:51,540
come here.

1107
00:42:52,720 --> 00:42:54,720
I said, I'm just, I don't know any

1108
00:42:54,720 --> 00:42:55,720
other way to do it.

1109
00:42:55,860 --> 00:42:57,780
I was scared to death.

1110
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:00,260
How do I walk across Africa?

1111
00:43:00,540 --> 00:43:01,260
I read this.

1112
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,940
I said, Lord, it's your problem, not mine.

1113
00:43:04,540 --> 00:43:05,740
You said, go.

1114
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:07,420
If you want me to see Dar es

1115
00:43:07,420 --> 00:43:09,860
Salaam, Tanzania, you've got to keep me alive.

1116
00:43:10,180 --> 00:43:12,620
If you want me to die of disease,

1117
00:43:12,940 --> 00:43:14,980
I'll die for you in these jungles.

1118
00:43:15,300 --> 00:43:16,380
I'm your problem.

1119
00:43:16,380 --> 00:43:17,940
I'll go and do what you said.

1120
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,680
The first house that asks, you go in.

1121
00:43:21,460 --> 00:43:22,900
I've lived that around the world.

1122
00:43:23,180 --> 00:43:24,300
You don't try to pick them.

1123
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:26,580
First person asking may be the poorest man

1124
00:43:26,580 --> 00:43:29,340
in town, or the richest, whoever it is.

1125
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:31,940
First one asks you to their house, go.

1126
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,240
First one asks you to eat, eat.

1127
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:35,860
Eat whatever they're eating.

1128
00:43:36,020 --> 00:43:38,740
Drink what they give you, and say, God's

1129
00:43:38,740 --> 00:43:40,620
Kingdom hath come here, and pray for the

1130
00:43:40,620 --> 00:43:40,860
sick.

1131
00:43:41,260 --> 00:43:42,680
And I said, I'm not going to preach

1132
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:43,080
to anybody.

1133
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:44,720
I won't eat what they're eating, drink what

1134
00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:46,520
they're drinking, or sleep in their house.

1135
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:48,320
And I said, it's yours, God.

1136
00:43:48,620 --> 00:43:51,060
I mean, I walked across that land, and

1137
00:43:51,060 --> 00:43:52,480
not only that, around the world.

1138
00:43:52,820 --> 00:43:55,020
You've got to drink.

1139
00:43:55,140 --> 00:43:57,000
You can go without food, but you can't

1140
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:57,860
without drink.

1141
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,780
And I have gone days without bathing.

1142
00:44:01,900 --> 00:44:03,700
Now, I did bathe today, so I'm all

1143
00:44:03,700 --> 00:44:03,920
right.

1144
00:44:04,140 --> 00:44:07,180
But I have gone days without bathing, because

1145
00:44:07,180 --> 00:44:10,180
the water was so bad, I wouldn't bathe

1146
00:44:10,180 --> 00:44:11,460
in it, but I had to drink it.

1147
00:44:12,060 --> 00:44:13,340
Because you've got to drink it.

1148
00:44:13,340 --> 00:44:17,660
And I mean old green scummy stuff, wiggly

1149
00:44:17,660 --> 00:44:18,580
things in it.

1150
00:44:18,940 --> 00:44:19,760
You've got to.

1151
00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:21,740
I dipped down with an old gourd, saying

1152
00:44:21,740 --> 00:44:23,720
the name of Jesus, kill them all.

1153
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:25,460
And I just drank it down.

1154
00:44:27,460 --> 00:44:32,240
And I am here to tell you, I

1155
00:44:32,240 --> 00:44:34,480
have even drank out of a pig's trough.

1156
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,520
I mean where the pigs are, almost like

1157
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:38,280
the prodigal son.

1158
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:40,300
I said, I called it the pig Hilton

1159
00:44:40,300 --> 00:44:44,100
one night in Columbia, down in South America.

1160
00:44:44,100 --> 00:44:47,520
I put some boards above this pig thing.

1161
00:44:47,620 --> 00:44:48,420
It was in the jungle.

1162
00:44:48,860 --> 00:44:50,620
And there was a pig pen and it's

1163
00:44:50,620 --> 00:44:50,960
wet.

1164
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:54,100
And I laid there over the pigs.

1165
00:44:54,240 --> 00:44:55,480
I call it the pig Hilton.

1166
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:59,420
But anyway, I'm telling you, never been sick,

1167
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:00,500
not even had diarrhea.

1168
00:45:01,700 --> 00:45:03,800
When I came back from Africa, my mother

1169
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:04,660
sent me to a doctor.

1170
00:45:04,740 --> 00:45:06,420
She said, you've got to be contaminated with

1171
00:45:06,420 --> 00:45:06,840
everything.

1172
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:08,160
Check me out.

1173
00:45:08,700 --> 00:45:10,520
Doctor said, never saw anybody in the world

1174
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:11,760
in any better shape than you are.

1175
00:45:11,900 --> 00:45:13,620
And I get up in the morning and

1176
00:45:13,620 --> 00:45:15,560
I say, God, if there's anything that's in

1177
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:17,360
me that shouldn't be there, kill it.

1178
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:19,840
And I say, God, if there's anything I

1179
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:21,760
need in me that's not there, put it

1180
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:23,480
in, in the name of Jesus.

1181
00:45:24,100 --> 00:45:24,760
I don't know.

1182
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,660
I believe God will be with you in

1183
00:45:27,660 --> 00:45:30,700
all things at all times because this is

1184
00:45:30,700 --> 00:45:32,040
what I think it's all about.

1185
00:45:32,540 --> 00:45:34,200
On the morning that I started out with

1186
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:38,460
a crawl in 1969, walking down Sunset Boulevard,

1187
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,320
as I got down to Vine Street, there

1188
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:44,420
was a man came running toward me and

1189
00:45:44,420 --> 00:45:47,460
grabbed the cross and tried to take it

1190
00:45:47,460 --> 00:45:47,780
away.

1191
00:45:48,240 --> 00:45:50,060
Now, you may think I'm weird, but I

1192
00:45:50,060 --> 00:45:51,060
mean, he was weird.

1193
00:45:51,380 --> 00:45:53,280
If you come to Hollywood, I am a

1194
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:54,700
fundamental conservative.

1195
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:58,800
This guy said, Jesus is my brother and

1196
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:00,700
you've stolen his cross and I want it

1197
00:46:00,700 --> 00:46:01,080
back.

1198
00:46:02,540 --> 00:46:03,800
Well, what do you do?

1199
00:46:04,780 --> 00:46:07,240
I just held on to the cross and

1200
00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:10,820
he's pulling and screaming and cursing and finally

1201
00:46:10,820 --> 00:46:12,040
said, I'm going to kill you.

1202
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:12,920
I'm going to kill you.

1203
00:46:12,980 --> 00:46:13,840
You're dead.

1204
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:16,460
And he turned and ran down the sidewalk.

1205
00:46:17,060 --> 00:46:18,800
Well, I figured the best place to be

1206
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:20,680
was anywhere but right there.

1207
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:23,800
So I kind of zigzagged around and make

1208
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:26,000
it on over by Los Feliz Boulevard near

1209
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:29,020
Griffith Park and kind of forgot about it.

1210
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:31,640
30 minutes later, there are three guys walking

1211
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:33,260
with me, Jim, OJ and Jesse.

1212
00:46:33,460 --> 00:46:36,340
Jim had come back from Vietnam, a Marine

1213
00:46:36,340 --> 00:46:38,400
had been converted and he was now out

1214
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:39,800
of the Marine Corps and he was going

1215
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:40,960
with me across America.

1216
00:46:41,100 --> 00:46:43,560
They were a singing group and OJ, a

1217
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:45,420
black militant converted to Christ.

1218
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:48,960
And then OJ was a nightclub piano player

1219
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:51,760
and old nightclub brawler converted to Christ.

1220
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:54,600
And there was me and I look and

1221
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:57,780
here comes this man running down the sidewalk

1222
00:46:57,780 --> 00:47:01,300
with a two by four board with a

1223
00:47:01,300 --> 00:47:04,060
big spike nail driven through the end of

1224
00:47:04,060 --> 00:47:04,200
it.

1225
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:05,520
And he's like this.

1226
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:06,660
He says, I'm going to kill you.

1227
00:47:06,700 --> 00:47:07,760
I'm going to kill you.

1228
00:47:08,610 --> 00:47:11,660
And there I am holding the cross, three

1229
00:47:11,660 --> 00:47:12,640
guys with me.

1230
00:47:13,240 --> 00:47:15,760
First thing I think about, these guys can

1231
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:17,040
wipe him out in no time.

1232
00:47:18,540 --> 00:47:20,300
Lay down the cross, wipe him out and

1233
00:47:20,300 --> 00:47:20,860
go on.

1234
00:47:22,460 --> 00:47:24,960
Suddenly it all came to a head.

1235
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:28,640
Seemed like the Lord was saying to me,

1236
00:47:29,240 --> 00:47:32,560
if you're going to carry the cross, are

1237
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:36,700
you willing to live in the way of

1238
00:47:36,700 --> 00:47:37,140
the cross?

1239
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:40,580
You know, is it a piece of wood?

1240
00:47:41,460 --> 00:47:42,340
Is this a board?

1241
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:45,120
Or is this my life?

1242
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:49,720
And it just hit me harder than that

1243
00:47:49,720 --> 00:47:52,240
board ever could in my mind.

1244
00:47:52,540 --> 00:47:54,340
Some of you know how fast you can

1245
00:47:54,340 --> 00:47:57,480
think at the very critical crisis moments of

1246
00:47:57,480 --> 00:47:57,820
life.

1247
00:47:58,380 --> 00:48:00,060
And those things flashed through my mind.

1248
00:48:00,540 --> 00:48:02,460
And I had to make a decision.

1249
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:05,200
New God had called me and I thought,

1250
00:48:05,300 --> 00:48:06,380
what would Jesus do?

1251
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:09,980
And I said, guys, if you can't take

1252
00:48:09,980 --> 00:48:10,620
it, run.

1253
00:48:10,980 --> 00:48:12,240
But don't touch him.

1254
00:48:12,580 --> 00:48:13,460
Don't touch him.

1255
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:14,840
Run or pray.

1256
00:48:15,340 --> 00:48:17,160
And I put the cross down, put my

1257
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:17,980
arms around it.

1258
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:20,180
And every one of those guys wrapped their

1259
00:48:20,180 --> 00:48:22,060
arms around it too, bent over and we

1260
00:48:22,060 --> 00:48:22,860
started praying.

1261
00:48:23,340 --> 00:48:26,380
My wife drove up and she hollered, Arthur,

1262
00:48:26,460 --> 00:48:27,780
guy's fixing to kill you.

1263
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:30,160
She was driving our car, pulling the trailer.

1264
00:48:30,420 --> 00:48:32,420
And he was standing over with that board

1265
00:48:32,420 --> 00:48:33,160
raised up.

1266
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:35,760
And in my mind, I could almost feel

1267
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:37,080
it hit me in the back.

1268
00:48:37,420 --> 00:48:40,620
But as I prayed, as I prayed in

1269
00:48:40,620 --> 00:48:44,320
those moments, there was a loosening and there

1270
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:47,700
was a freedom that surged through my body.

1271
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,700
I said, Jesus, if I die, I die

1272
00:48:50,700 --> 00:48:51,320
for You.

1273
00:48:51,780 --> 00:48:53,940
If I live, I live for You.

1274
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:54,780
I've had it.

1275
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:55,420
I'm free.

1276
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:56,860
Doesn't matter anymore.

1277
00:48:57,160 --> 00:48:59,160
And I want you to know, and you

1278
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:02,360
may not understand it, I mean joy swept

1279
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:03,620
through my being.

1280
00:49:04,060 --> 00:49:06,640
I thought right here at this moment, I

1281
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:09,260
know I'll die for You, Lord.

1282
00:49:09,380 --> 00:49:10,540
I'll live for You.

1283
00:49:10,720 --> 00:49:14,880
Whatever I want to live in the way

1284
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:16,120
of the cross.

1285
00:49:17,140 --> 00:49:21,460
And kneeling, praying, finally I heard somebody crying.

1286
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:24,420
And I looked up and the man was

1287
00:49:24,420 --> 00:49:26,560
at the foot of the cross on his

1288
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:27,960
knees crying.

1289
00:49:28,700 --> 00:49:31,960
I asked you tonight, how many of us

1290
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:35,640
who say, yes, I'm a Christian, and yet

1291
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:38,800
within our own life have yet to say,

1292
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:45,160
Jesus, I want to live in the way

1293
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:46,700
of the cross.

1294
00:49:47,240 --> 00:49:49,480
I want to live Your life.

1295
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:51,040
Your life for me is good.

1296
00:49:51,420 --> 00:49:52,840
Your life for me is right.

1297
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:54,200
I want this.

1298
00:49:54,780 --> 00:49:57,920
I was invited to Rome two years ago

1299
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:01,560
and I spent Christmas, well now this Christmas

1300
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:04,860
will be three years ago, Christmas 1979, to

1301
00:50:04,860 --> 00:50:08,200
spend Christmas in Rome and meet Pope John

1302
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,620
Paul II, who invited me to carry the

1303
00:50:11,620 --> 00:50:14,880
cross into the Vatican to celebrate ten years

1304
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:17,840
of walking around the world, carrying the first

1305
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:20,140
cross ever carried around the world.

1306
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:22,520
And I met with him and there was

1307
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:25,200
one priest who was in charge of my

1308
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:27,980
activities while I was there to assist me

1309
00:50:27,980 --> 00:50:28,480
in Rome.

1310
00:50:28,740 --> 00:50:31,980
His name was Father Maloney from Inglesia Santa

1311
00:50:31,980 --> 00:50:35,440
Susana, head of the Paulist Fathers, which are

1312
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:38,420
the evangelist fathers of the Catholic Church.

1313
00:50:38,820 --> 00:50:40,940
And I remember every time I'd see him,

1314
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:43,320
I'd be saying, I love you.

1315
00:50:43,380 --> 00:50:44,980
And when I'd leave him, I'd say, I

1316
00:50:44,980 --> 00:50:46,820
love you and see you in the morning.

1317
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:48,680
And I just meant it, but I kept

1318
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:49,640
saying, I love you.

1319
00:50:49,900 --> 00:50:51,540
And he'd never say anything.

1320
00:50:51,540 --> 00:50:54,140
He'd say, see you tomorrow or whatever.

1321
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:57,480
Well, it was kind of strange, you know,

1322
00:50:57,600 --> 00:51:00,440
after for several days we were together, never

1323
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:02,520
anything of expression.

1324
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:06,200
Finally, it's after I'd been with the Pope

1325
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:07,960
and the next day I'm leaving to go

1326
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:11,440
through Italy with a cross toward Assisi and

1327
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:14,700
it's raining like today and it's cold and

1328
00:51:14,700 --> 00:51:17,720
windy and I start out and I come

1329
00:51:17,720 --> 00:51:20,520
by his church to tell him goodbye and

1330
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:23,260
I am dripping wet and cold.

1331
00:51:23,620 --> 00:51:25,180
And when I'm walking, I don't even wear

1332
00:51:25,180 --> 00:51:25,860
a raincoat.

1333
00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:27,180
You'll bust them out.

1334
00:51:27,220 --> 00:51:28,460
The water will drip in it anyway.

1335
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:30,460
And if you wear a raincoat, you get

1336
00:51:30,460 --> 00:51:32,060
so hot, you sweat inside it.

1337
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:34,320
So you just get wet, you know, take

1338
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:35,460
it whatever it comes.

1339
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:38,300
And so I'm dripping and I'm shivering and

1340
00:51:38,300 --> 00:51:41,460
I tell him goodbye and I start to

1341
00:51:41,460 --> 00:51:42,200
walk away.

1342
00:51:43,420 --> 00:51:46,140
And Father Maloney said, Arthur, and I look

1343
00:51:46,140 --> 00:51:46,520
back.

1344
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:49,200
He said, I like you.

1345
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:52,000
I said, great.

1346
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:54,960
Oh, wow, I'm glad you feel something.

1347
00:51:55,140 --> 00:51:57,480
He said, listen, you've been leading me all

1348
00:51:57,480 --> 00:51:59,060
the time and you always say, I love

1349
00:51:59,060 --> 00:51:59,840
you, I love you.

1350
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:04,080
He said, Arthur, he said, I'm commanded by

1351
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:07,560
Christ to love everybody.

1352
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:11,780
But he said, not everybody that I love

1353
00:52:11,780 --> 00:52:13,400
do I really like.

1354
00:52:14,380 --> 00:52:16,760
He said, there's some people that curse him

1355
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:17,440
all the time.

1356
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:20,200
I love them, but I don't like the

1357
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:21,360
language they use.

1358
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:23,820
There are many people I love that I

1359
00:52:23,820 --> 00:52:25,460
don't like the life they live.

1360
00:52:25,580 --> 00:52:28,320
They don't love the Lord.

1361
00:52:28,460 --> 00:52:29,600
They don't love His church.

1362
00:52:29,780 --> 00:52:30,700
They don't love the Bible.

1363
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:31,900
They don't love other people.

1364
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:34,620
I love them, but I don't like their

1365
00:52:34,620 --> 00:52:35,180
actions.

1366
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:38,200
But he said, you know, I like you.

1367
00:52:38,460 --> 00:52:39,700
I like to eat with you.

1368
00:52:39,900 --> 00:52:41,160
I like to talk with you.

1369
00:52:41,260 --> 00:52:42,820
I like to walk down the street with

1370
00:52:42,820 --> 00:52:42,960
you.

1371
00:52:43,020 --> 00:52:44,300
And I like for you to make me

1372
00:52:44,300 --> 00:52:45,520
interpret when you preach.

1373
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:49,660
He said, I like being around you.

1374
00:52:49,720 --> 00:52:53,040
I like what you like and I love

1375
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:53,400
you.

1376
00:52:55,240 --> 00:52:58,900
Changed my thoughts about what love really was.

1377
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:01,520
And as I thought of those words, I

1378
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:03,540
thought of it in relationship to the Lord.

1379
00:53:03,860 --> 00:53:06,020
Many of you tonight, I ask you, you

1380
00:53:06,020 --> 00:53:07,460
say, do you love the Lord?

1381
00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:08,980
You'd say, yes, I love Him.

1382
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:11,660
Let me ask you this, do you like

1383
00:53:11,660 --> 00:53:11,840
Him?

1384
00:53:12,460 --> 00:53:15,300
Do you really like Jesus Christ?

1385
00:53:15,940 --> 00:53:18,840
Do you like what He likes?

1386
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:21,860
Do you like His Word?

1387
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,100
If you like it, you'll read it, right?

1388
00:53:25,980 --> 00:53:28,000
Do you like His life?

1389
00:53:28,780 --> 00:53:31,440
Do you really like living for Jesus?

1390
00:53:31,820 --> 00:53:33,300
Do you like what He likes?

1391
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:35,640
Do you like to be around Him?

1392
00:53:35,660 --> 00:53:36,760
Do you like to be with Him?

1393
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:39,020
If you do, why aren't you praying more?

1394
00:53:39,020 --> 00:53:41,880
You know, do we like what He likes?

1395
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:45,140
If we do, why aren't we sharing Him

1396
00:53:45,140 --> 00:53:45,640
more?

1397
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:49,200
I think tonight many of us may need

1398
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:52,340
to say, Lord Jesus, I like You.

1399
00:53:53,020 --> 00:53:55,820
Help me to like what You like, to

1400
00:53:55,820 --> 00:53:57,100
like Your life.

1401
00:53:57,580 --> 00:53:58,360
I like You.

1402
00:53:58,740 --> 00:54:01,120
I want to live in Your way.

1403
00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:03,360
I like Your way.

1404
00:54:04,220 --> 00:54:05,320
I like You.

1405
00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:06,500
I love You.

1406
00:54:07,300 --> 00:54:09,160
Many of us in our lives, as I'm

1407
00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:12,120
sharing about liberty in the Spirit, need to

1408
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:14,340
remember the words that are in the Bible,

1409
00:54:14,820 --> 00:54:19,240
recorded in Corinthians that says, where the Spirit

1410
00:54:19,240 --> 00:54:24,040
of the Lord is, there is liberty.

1411
00:54:25,020 --> 00:54:27,020
One last illustration, and then we're going to

1412
00:54:27,020 --> 00:54:30,080
have a time of invitation and commitment to

1413
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:30,880
Jesus Christ.

1414
00:54:31,500 --> 00:54:35,400
Last year I came across through Germany, and

1415
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:38,500
it arrived in Berlin, and there put the

1416
00:54:38,500 --> 00:54:41,800
cross on top of Olympic Stadium where Hitler

1417
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:44,840
in the 1936 Olympics had lit a torch.

1418
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:48,000
And thousands, tens of thousands of people in

1419
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:51,580
that stadium, cheering as they carried the cross

1420
00:54:51,580 --> 00:54:53,180
up to the top of that stadium and

1421
00:54:53,180 --> 00:54:57,440
stood that big cross high above that stadium

1422
00:54:57,440 --> 00:54:59,860
where the torch of Hitler had been lit.

1423
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:02,040
Jesus is Lord.

1424
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:04,560
Hitler's dead, but Jesus is still Lord.

1425
00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:08,040
Driving back to West Germany on the East

1426
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:13,160
German Autobahn corridor to West Germany, I got

1427
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:15,660
right at the border and my car broke

1428
00:55:15,660 --> 00:55:16,080
down.

1429
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:19,940
Jenna, my daughter, oldest daughter was with me,

1430
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:21,940
and she is 18 now.

1431
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:22,820
She was 17.

1432
00:55:23,620 --> 00:55:24,580
And when she...

1433
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:27,460
The car stopped and I prayed for the

1434
00:55:27,460 --> 00:55:29,940
car to crank up, but the car didn't

1435
00:55:29,940 --> 00:55:31,860
crank up, so I figured the Lord broke

1436
00:55:31,860 --> 00:55:32,000
it.

1437
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:35,480
And that night we stayed there for two

1438
00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:39,060
days, and that night I'd witnessed and I

1439
00:55:39,060 --> 00:55:41,820
was sitting there in the car praying.

1440
00:55:42,540 --> 00:55:46,360
And I said, Lord, why have you stopped

1441
00:55:46,360 --> 00:55:46,560
me?

1442
00:55:46,700 --> 00:55:47,920
I want to listen.

1443
00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:49,340
What are you saying?

1444
00:55:49,620 --> 00:55:50,560
What are you trying to do?

1445
00:55:50,740 --> 00:55:52,300
Let me just deviate for a moment and

1446
00:55:52,300 --> 00:55:53,120
tell you this.

1447
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:55,880
I'll give you the clue for making the

1448
00:55:55,880 --> 00:55:57,920
devil keep his hands off of you most

1449
00:55:57,920 --> 00:55:58,460
of the time.

1450
00:55:59,340 --> 00:56:01,840
Things happen, like that car breaking down, and

1451
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:03,340
you say, well, I guess the devil did

1452
00:56:03,340 --> 00:56:04,660
it, and you stand there fighting the devil

1453
00:56:04,660 --> 00:56:05,140
all the time.

1454
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:06,520
I believe this.

1455
00:56:06,820 --> 00:56:09,080
All things work together for good to those

1456
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:11,200
who love the Lord and are called according

1457
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:11,900
to his purpose.

1458
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:13,940
I prayed for that car and it didn't

1459
00:56:13,940 --> 00:56:14,460
get fixed.

1460
00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:16,580
I figured then God broke it down.

1461
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:17,880
If it was the devil, the Lord would

1462
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:18,500
have fixed it.

1463
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:21,280
So now I'm saying, God, I'm here because

1464
00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:22,160
you want me here.

1465
00:56:22,620 --> 00:56:23,880
That's my motto everywhere.

1466
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:26,500
My motto is, if ever in doubt and

1467
00:56:26,500 --> 00:56:28,120
you don't know what to do, preach.

1468
00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:34,340
If you don't know anything else, just preach.

1469
00:56:37,190 --> 00:56:38,990
And my motto, I'll tell you how it

1470
00:56:38,990 --> 00:56:39,270
works.

1471
00:56:39,950 --> 00:56:43,230
I'm heading off, and if the airplane doesn't

1472
00:56:43,230 --> 00:56:45,750
take off, and they say there's going to

1473
00:56:45,750 --> 00:56:47,770
be a three-hour delay or the plane's

1474
00:56:47,770 --> 00:56:49,570
not running, and you got to catch another

1475
00:56:49,570 --> 00:56:52,110
one, many times, oh, goodness, oh, wow, oh.

1476
00:56:52,530 --> 00:56:53,250
That's not me.

1477
00:56:53,370 --> 00:56:54,210
I can praise God.

1478
00:56:54,290 --> 00:56:55,590
I'm going to give the Hare Krishnas a

1479
00:56:55,590 --> 00:56:57,250
run for their money and I get out

1480
00:56:57,250 --> 00:56:58,110
there in that airport.

1481
00:57:02,750 --> 00:57:04,750
You think the old devil's going to break

1482
00:57:04,750 --> 00:57:06,690
my plane down so I'll have time to

1483
00:57:06,690 --> 00:57:07,870
witness in his airport?

1484
00:57:08,130 --> 00:57:09,630
He gets a plane out of there on

1485
00:57:09,630 --> 00:57:09,930
time.

1486
00:57:10,030 --> 00:57:10,650
Get him out of here.

1487
00:57:10,790 --> 00:57:11,710
Get him out of here.

1488
00:57:12,850 --> 00:57:14,750
That way you get all the demons working

1489
00:57:14,750 --> 00:57:15,290
for you.

1490
00:57:15,370 --> 00:57:16,530
Get him out of my town.

1491
00:57:16,810 --> 00:57:18,310
He'll keep everything going smooth.

1492
00:57:18,570 --> 00:57:20,790
I figure if my car breaks down, praise

1493
00:57:20,790 --> 00:57:22,950
God, the tow truck driver needs Jesus.

1494
00:57:23,670 --> 00:57:25,610
Or the mechanic needs the Lord.

1495
00:57:25,830 --> 00:57:26,870
That's how I look at it.

1496
00:57:27,170 --> 00:57:28,890
I mean, you can get so excited if

1497
00:57:28,890 --> 00:57:30,850
you're, oh, I'll say this sermon for tomorrow

1498
00:57:30,850 --> 00:57:31,130
night.

1499
00:57:31,130 --> 00:57:34,270
But isn't that a good motto?

1500
00:57:35,010 --> 00:57:37,530
I mean, he'll quit harassing you.

1501
00:57:38,130 --> 00:57:39,510
He'll quit harassing you.

1502
00:57:39,590 --> 00:57:41,090
Say, if I get any more bills, I'm

1503
00:57:41,090 --> 00:57:43,090
going to put gospel tracts every letter I

1504
00:57:43,090 --> 00:57:43,750
get, you know.

1505
00:57:43,990 --> 00:57:45,570
Man, they'll quit sending you those bills.

1506
00:57:45,890 --> 00:57:47,230
The devil don't want you in debt.

1507
00:57:47,330 --> 00:57:48,330
People get saved.

1508
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:54,200
So I'm there in the middle of the

1509
00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:56,020
night and I'm saying, Lord, you stopped my

1510
00:57:56,020 --> 00:57:56,360
car.

1511
00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:59,040
What are you trying to tell me, Lord?

1512
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:01,860
And it seems so clear the Lord spoke

1513
00:58:01,860 --> 00:58:04,760
and said, Arthur, you've been praying for years

1514
00:58:05,460 --> 00:58:08,800
when to go behind the iron curtain and

1515
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:09,780
carry the cross.

1516
00:58:10,300 --> 00:58:14,480
Well, I'm telling you there is no iron

1517
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:14,960
curtain.

1518
00:58:15,700 --> 00:58:17,320
That hit me.

1519
00:58:18,860 --> 00:58:21,700
That's not a Bible term, iron curtain.

1520
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:25,700
That's a political term, a news media term

1521
00:58:25,700 --> 00:58:27,960
that came up in the early 50s with

1522
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:29,240
the Berlin blockade.

1523
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:32,580
And we've made it almost a spiritual term.

1524
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:35,180
We've made an iron curtain.

1525
00:58:35,780 --> 00:58:37,300
I say, Lord, when will you leave me

1526
00:58:37,300 --> 00:58:38,880
behind the iron curtain?

1527
00:58:40,500 --> 00:58:42,540
And God said, there isn't an iron curtain.

1528
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:45,000
He said, if you'll take that word iron

1529
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:47,460
curtain out of your vocabulary, you can go

1530
00:58:47,460 --> 00:58:49,860
into those communist countries and they won't throw

1531
00:58:49,860 --> 00:58:50,380
you out.

1532
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:51,780
I'm with you, go.

1533
00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:53,440
I prayed.

1534
00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:54,100
I repented.

1535
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:55,660
I said, God, take it out of my

1536
00:58:55,660 --> 00:58:56,080
words.

1537
00:58:56,080 --> 00:58:58,400
Except when I preached to share it with

1538
00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:01,520
some people and went, got a visa for

1539
00:59:01,520 --> 00:59:04,340
Poland last summer, flew into Poland.

1540
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:09,140
Let me tell you, I got into Heathrow

1541
00:59:09,140 --> 00:59:12,420
airport, got there to the airport, checked my

1542
00:59:12,420 --> 00:59:14,440
cross in on a lot of airlines.

1543
00:59:14,700 --> 00:59:16,980
I just, you know, went on Polish airlines.

1544
00:59:17,160 --> 00:59:18,700
I figured if I'm going to Poland, I'll

1545
00:59:18,700 --> 00:59:20,520
start trying to get every pole saved as

1546
00:59:20,520 --> 00:59:21,460
soon as I can find them.

1547
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:23,220
And they had Polish airlines.

1548
00:59:23,380 --> 00:59:25,680
Instead of riding in on British airways, I'll

1549
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:27,080
go in with the Polish airlines.

1550
00:59:27,260 --> 00:59:30,600
They checked my cross in just like everybody

1551
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:31,620
was checking crosses.

1552
00:59:31,860 --> 00:59:34,500
They just put the baggage claim and haul

1553
00:59:34,500 --> 00:59:34,980
it off.

1554
00:59:36,780 --> 00:59:39,260
Nobody said a word, just put it on.

1555
00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:45,180
I fly into Warsaw and I'm now past

1556
00:59:45,180 --> 00:59:49,540
East Germany, heading into Warsaw land, go through

1557
00:59:49,540 --> 00:59:51,640
immigration, all right, get ready to go through

1558
00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:54,540
customs and I'm hauling through one backpack and

1559
00:59:54,540 --> 00:59:55,020
cross.

1560
00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:58,800
And they start going, Kolomo, Kulu, Kolomo, I

1561
00:59:58,800 --> 00:59:59,700
don't know how they go.

1562
01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:01,580
I got excited.

1563
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:03,660
I thought it was a charismatic conference, but

1564
01:00:03,660 --> 01:00:08,080
they finally got somebody that could speak English

1565
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:09,640
and said, what is it?

1566
01:00:10,100 --> 01:00:11,440
And I said, it's my cross.

1567
01:00:12,140 --> 01:00:13,880
And they said, what are you doing?

1568
01:00:14,260 --> 01:00:16,900
I said, on the way to Czestochowa, walking

1569
01:00:16,900 --> 01:00:17,500
through Poland.

1570
01:00:17,600 --> 01:00:19,360
They said, are you taking that with you

1571
01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:20,420
or are you leaving it in Poland?

1572
01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:21,980
I said, I'm taking it with me.

1573
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:24,560
They said, so you'll have no problem when

1574
01:00:24,560 --> 01:00:25,180
you leave.

1575
01:00:25,260 --> 01:00:26,740
We'll put you this thing down.

1576
01:00:26,820 --> 01:00:28,340
They gave me a receipt, brought in one

1577
01:00:28,340 --> 01:00:29,960
cross, can take one cross with him.

1578
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:30,340
Fantastic.

1579
01:00:30,820 --> 01:00:32,780
And that's the last person I saw from

1580
01:00:32,780 --> 01:00:34,300
the government till the day I left.

1581
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:37,540
On a Friday night, I arrived.

1582
01:00:37,620 --> 01:00:39,360
On Monday morning, started in the cathedral.

1583
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:42,320
The primate, the head Catholic of Poland gave

1584
01:00:42,320 --> 01:00:45,180
me a paper, said every church, convent, monastery,

1585
01:00:45,560 --> 01:00:48,540
welcome this evangelical brother in the name of

1586
01:00:48,540 --> 01:00:49,560
Jesus Christ.

1587
01:00:50,420 --> 01:00:52,780
Went down through Poland for a week.

1588
01:00:53,500 --> 01:00:54,500
No problem.

1589
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:57,000
The Lord, when I finished Poland, God said,

1590
01:00:57,180 --> 01:00:57,980
now go to Hungary.

1591
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:00,180
Fly in the morning on the first flight

1592
01:01:00,180 --> 01:01:02,700
to Budapest and go into Budapest.

1593
01:01:03,080 --> 01:01:04,520
Got in there and the Lord said, go

1594
01:01:04,520 --> 01:01:06,300
through the customs, don't look right or left,

1595
01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:07,680
just walk straight through.

1596
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:10,100
And I'm telling you it's the truth.

1597
01:01:10,540 --> 01:01:13,220
Arrived at the airport, went through immigration, got

1598
01:01:13,220 --> 01:01:14,540
the cross, walked through.

1599
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:17,100
People are lined up, having their bags checked.

1600
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:19,940
I walked through, don't look to the right

1601
01:01:19,940 --> 01:01:20,360
or left.

1602
01:01:20,660 --> 01:01:21,980
Nobody says a word.

1603
01:01:21,980 --> 01:01:23,900
Get in the front of the airport and

1604
01:01:23,900 --> 01:01:24,860
say, now what I do?

1605
01:01:26,460 --> 01:01:28,240
I didn't even have a map.

1606
01:01:29,780 --> 01:01:33,500
I call, Joel's sitting back there and I

1607
01:01:33,500 --> 01:01:36,680
call sharing the kids are in Vienna at

1608
01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:37,320
a trailer park.

1609
01:01:37,380 --> 01:01:38,460
I said, praise God.

1610
01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:40,000
Got through Poland all right.

1611
01:01:40,200 --> 01:01:42,000
We're going through communist countries.

1612
01:01:42,180 --> 01:01:44,060
Drive on in here with my wife, driving

1613
01:01:44,060 --> 01:01:47,040
the car loaded up with thousands and thousands

1614
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:51,120
of gospel tracts, Jesus stickers, Bibles and everything

1615
01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:53,300
else that you can evangelize with.

1616
01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:57,780
Came through, we went right on through Hungary,

1617
01:01:57,960 --> 01:01:58,900
carrying the cross.

1618
01:01:59,720 --> 01:02:01,500
And I always said, well, we get through

1619
01:02:01,500 --> 01:02:02,660
Hungary, praise the Lord.

1620
01:02:02,900 --> 01:02:06,780
And we went on through Yugoslavia and then

1621
01:02:06,780 --> 01:02:08,420
get to the end of Yugoslavia and go

1622
01:02:08,420 --> 01:02:12,520
into Bulgaria and go on through Bulgaria and

1623
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:13,980
finally get on to Turkey.

1624
01:02:14,960 --> 01:02:18,160
I'm telling you, God wants to break down

1625
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:21,200
these old iron curtains in our mind and

1626
01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:23,100
lose His spirit in it.

1627
01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:25,260
I've got to tell you one funny, I

1628
01:02:25,260 --> 01:02:27,040
freak a long time, so you don't have

1629
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:28,360
to, you can leave if you need to.

1630
01:02:29,100 --> 01:02:31,320
But let me tell you, you don't want

1631
01:02:31,320 --> 01:02:32,000
to miss this one.

1632
01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:34,060
And it's how the Lord works.

1633
01:02:34,560 --> 01:02:36,720
Joel, now I wouldn't lie in front of

1634
01:02:36,720 --> 01:02:38,320
my son right here.

1635
01:02:39,020 --> 01:02:41,040
What I'm telling you is strange, but it's

1636
01:02:41,040 --> 01:02:41,380
the truth.

1637
01:02:41,580 --> 01:02:43,260
We were going through Hungary and Joel was

1638
01:02:43,260 --> 01:02:44,960
with me and we were walking through this

1639
01:02:44,960 --> 01:02:46,820
town and nobody would talk to us.

1640
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:49,680
They were people crying, but they wouldn't speak

1641
01:02:49,680 --> 01:02:51,920
because they knew we'd be arrested.

1642
01:02:52,240 --> 01:02:54,480
They were so appraised because you're not supposed

1643
01:02:54,480 --> 01:02:55,540
to do anything religious.

1644
01:02:55,780 --> 01:02:58,420
And we're carrying a cross down the highway

1645
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:02,820
and into this city and we can't talk.

1646
01:03:03,320 --> 01:03:04,240
No one will talk.

1647
01:03:04,300 --> 01:03:05,800
They just kind of back up and look.

1648
01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:08,120
And I said, Joel, God wants to do

1649
01:03:08,120 --> 01:03:08,640
something here.

1650
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:10,420
And we got right in the middle of

1651
01:03:10,420 --> 01:03:10,520
town.

1652
01:03:10,580 --> 01:03:11,280
I didn't know what to do.

1653
01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:14,140
Suddenly I thought, let's eat at the restaurant.

1654
01:03:14,780 --> 01:03:16,740
Now you don't think that's a very profound

1655
01:03:16,740 --> 01:03:18,800
thing to do, but when you put your

1656
01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:22,440
cross parked at the door of a restaurant

1657
01:03:23,180 --> 01:03:27,540
in Hungary and walk in and just order,

1658
01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:29,540
go like that, you know, on your stomach,

1659
01:03:29,740 --> 01:03:30,900
I want something to eat.

1660
01:03:31,780 --> 01:03:34,400
Boy, the crowd starts gathering outside.

1661
01:03:35,060 --> 01:03:36,180
You know, a cross?

1662
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:37,020
How do you get in?

1663
01:03:37,100 --> 01:03:37,580
Where is it?

1664
01:03:37,600 --> 01:03:38,080
Who is it?

1665
01:03:38,280 --> 01:03:40,400
They're scared to ask us, but they're gathering

1666
01:03:40,400 --> 01:03:42,160
in the sidewalk, in the street.

1667
01:03:42,580 --> 01:03:44,280
And finally, in a little bit, we hear

1668
01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:45,400
sirens screaming.

1669
01:03:45,920 --> 01:03:47,420
And I said, are you ready, Joel?

1670
01:03:47,960 --> 01:03:48,960
They said, yeah, daddy.

1671
01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:51,380
I said, you know, this is it, showdown

1672
01:03:51,380 --> 01:03:51,740
time.

1673
01:03:52,220 --> 01:03:53,460
And the police stopped.

1674
01:03:53,760 --> 01:03:56,700
They come in, five police with billy clubs

1675
01:03:56,700 --> 01:04:00,280
in their hands, run into the restaurant.

1676
01:04:00,660 --> 01:04:02,920
I step up and I'm trying to talk

1677
01:04:02,920 --> 01:04:03,300
to them.

1678
01:04:03,340 --> 01:04:04,680
And I said, do you guys know the

1679
01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:05,020
Lord?

1680
01:04:05,540 --> 01:04:07,580
And they're just, you know, bala, kala, hula,

1681
01:04:07,700 --> 01:04:08,940
whatever they're trying to talk.

1682
01:04:09,200 --> 01:04:10,960
And I say, listen, I'd like to give

1683
01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:12,240
you a Jesus sticker here.

1684
01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:15,400
And I just stuck a Jesus sticker on

1685
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:15,540
them.

1686
01:04:15,740 --> 01:04:16,880
I said, come out and look at our

1687
01:04:16,880 --> 01:04:17,340
passport.

1688
01:04:17,340 --> 01:04:19,360
And I bring them out and I get

1689
01:04:19,360 --> 01:04:20,720
the passport out of the backpack.

1690
01:04:20,980 --> 01:04:21,800
And so they're looking.

1691
01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:23,160
We were really stamped.

1692
01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:24,020
We're in.

1693
01:04:24,900 --> 01:04:26,040
They're just looking.

1694
01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:28,220
And I'm trying to tell them, I'm walking

1695
01:04:28,220 --> 01:04:33,580
around the world praying, Jesus, you know, Jesus,

1696
01:04:33,860 --> 01:04:34,820
understand, Jesus.

1697
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:37,540
And I said, do you speak English?

1698
01:04:38,500 --> 01:04:40,860
And they're talking to each other.

1699
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:42,760
I say, listen, in the name of Jesus,

1700
01:04:42,900 --> 01:04:44,120
Satan, I bind you.

1701
01:04:44,340 --> 01:04:46,040
I bind you, Satan, just get in your

1702
01:04:46,040 --> 01:04:46,180
car.

1703
01:04:46,340 --> 01:04:47,720
They didn't know, see, they thought I was

1704
01:04:47,720 --> 01:04:49,420
being friendly and I was just praying all

1705
01:04:49,420 --> 01:04:49,860
over them.

1706
01:04:50,060 --> 01:04:50,860
I'm just going around.

1707
01:04:51,060 --> 01:04:52,780
I said, I bind you, Satan, in the

1708
01:04:52,780 --> 01:04:53,580
name of Jesus.

1709
01:04:54,180 --> 01:04:56,520
Satan, you have no authority over the cross.

1710
01:04:56,620 --> 01:04:58,320
You were defeated at Calvary.

1711
01:04:58,580 --> 01:05:01,300
And I'm just praying all over them.

1712
01:05:01,680 --> 01:05:04,580
I promise you, in less than five minutes,

1713
01:05:04,620 --> 01:05:07,000
they put their billy clubs up, get in

1714
01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:09,660
their cars and drive off and leave us

1715
01:05:09,660 --> 01:05:10,520
in the middle of town.

1716
01:05:11,720 --> 01:05:15,760
And then this summer, going on through, carrying

1717
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:17,080
the cross, I'll catch you another night.

1718
01:05:17,080 --> 01:05:18,040
Don't have time tonight.

1719
01:05:18,340 --> 01:05:21,380
About carrying the cross through Lebanon and Israel.

1720
01:05:21,600 --> 01:05:23,480
We've just come back from a summer with

1721
01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:25,760
Joshua who is 11 years old.

1722
01:05:26,120 --> 01:05:27,660
Did any of you see Joshua and I

1723
01:05:27,660 --> 01:05:30,340
on television this summer with Arafat and a

1724
01:05:30,340 --> 01:05:31,420
bunch of other dudes?

1725
01:05:31,440 --> 01:05:34,600
We walked right into West Beirut carrying the

1726
01:05:34,600 --> 01:05:38,060
cross, carried the cross this summer for two

1727
01:05:38,060 --> 01:05:41,640
months through the Israeli army, the Lebanese army,

1728
01:05:41,780 --> 01:05:44,820
the Philanthroist army, the Syrian army, and the

1729
01:05:44,820 --> 01:05:45,900
PLO army.

1730
01:05:46,540 --> 01:05:50,100
I'm here to tell you, God doesn't have

1731
01:05:50,100 --> 01:05:51,900
any iron curtains.

1732
01:05:52,660 --> 01:05:56,020
Not by might, nor by power, but by

1733
01:05:56,020 --> 01:05:57,000
My Spirit.

1734
01:05:57,460 --> 01:05:59,460
You know what I believe God wants in

1735
01:05:59,460 --> 01:06:00,140
Midland, Texas?

1736
01:06:00,520 --> 01:06:04,100
He'd just like a few people who don't

1737
01:06:04,100 --> 01:06:06,040
know what He can't do.

1738
01:06:06,940 --> 01:06:11,820
If we could just somehow get unlearned so

1739
01:06:11,820 --> 01:06:14,480
that we just don't know, but we simply

1740
01:06:14,480 --> 01:06:17,920
believe all things are possible.

1741
01:06:18,480 --> 01:06:21,660
But around our lives, we've erected big iron

1742
01:06:21,660 --> 01:06:22,800
curtains of fear.

1743
01:06:23,720 --> 01:06:25,440
Oh, I'm embarrassed.

1744
01:06:26,180 --> 01:06:26,900
Couldn't witness.

1745
01:06:27,080 --> 01:06:28,860
I'm kind of embarrassed over this.

1746
01:06:29,260 --> 01:06:30,480
Oh, God wants to set you free.

1747
01:06:31,220 --> 01:06:32,660
But I don't know what my friends would

1748
01:06:32,660 --> 01:06:34,880
think about God wants to set you free.

1749
01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:37,080
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there's

1750
01:06:37,080 --> 01:06:37,400
liberty.

1751
01:06:37,700 --> 01:06:39,040
Free to share at your school.

1752
01:06:39,260 --> 01:06:40,680
Free to share in your jobs.

1753
01:06:40,680 --> 01:06:43,720
Many of us have got old iron curtains

1754
01:06:43,720 --> 01:06:45,620
surrounding our lives of sin.

1755
01:06:46,320 --> 01:06:48,480
Old bondage that you've tried to get out

1756
01:06:48,480 --> 01:06:51,040
of, that year after year, and finally you've

1757
01:06:51,040 --> 01:06:53,540
reached the point, well, that's my weakness.

1758
01:06:53,700 --> 01:06:55,000
I've just got to learn to live with

1759
01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:55,120
it.

1760
01:06:55,320 --> 01:06:56,940
You can be free.

1761
01:06:57,580 --> 01:06:59,420
You can tell the devil tonight, in the

1762
01:06:59,420 --> 01:07:01,500
name of Jesus, fight and get your cut

1763
01:07:01,500 --> 01:07:02,800
and take your hands off me.

1764
01:07:03,120 --> 01:07:05,220
I'm the property of God.

1765
01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:07,560
I'm bought by the blood of Jesus.

1766
01:07:07,880 --> 01:07:11,060
I am His, and He indwells with me.

1767
01:07:11,140 --> 01:07:13,260
Greater is He that is in me than

1768
01:07:13,260 --> 01:07:15,740
he that is in the world.

1769
01:07:16,160 --> 01:07:20,420
And by being loose and free, God, breaking

1770
01:07:20,420 --> 01:07:23,800
down these old barriers in our mind, loosing

1771
01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:29,060
His Spirit through you, can revolutionize your life,

1772
01:07:29,620 --> 01:07:31,960
this church, and the world.

1773
01:07:32,520 --> 01:07:34,700
In a few minutes, I'm going to ask

1774
01:07:34,700 --> 01:07:37,880
that this altar be a place of commitment

1775
01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:40,540
for the glory of God, where those of

1776
01:07:40,540 --> 01:07:43,620
us who have been bound can be set

1777
01:07:43,620 --> 01:07:44,160
free.

1778
01:07:44,880 --> 01:07:47,320
Where those of us who have been in

1779
01:07:47,320 --> 01:07:49,860
bondage in our minds can be loosed.

1780
01:07:50,240 --> 01:07:52,600
Well, I don't believe God can use me.

1781
01:07:52,940 --> 01:07:55,880
Remember when God told Moses, I am that

1782
01:07:55,880 --> 01:07:56,380
I am.

1783
01:07:56,540 --> 01:07:59,000
I am with you.

1784
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:01,340
Saturday night, I'm going to preach on the

1785
01:08:01,340 --> 01:08:02,460
presence of God.

1786
01:08:02,700 --> 01:08:04,320
You've never heard anything like it.

1787
01:08:04,400 --> 01:08:05,660
Don't miss Saturday night.

1788
01:08:05,660 --> 01:08:07,980
You'll revolutionize your life.

1789
01:08:08,280 --> 01:08:10,860
But I mean, God will be with you.

1790
01:08:11,220 --> 01:08:12,500
He will free you.

1791
01:08:12,860 --> 01:08:14,020
He will give you liberty.

1792
01:08:14,460 --> 01:08:16,859
Not by might nor power, but His Spirit.

1793
01:08:17,220 --> 01:08:18,979
Those of you who've been bound can be

1794
01:08:18,979 --> 01:08:19,800
set free tonight.

1795
01:08:20,160 --> 01:08:22,220
Those of you who know what God's called

1796
01:08:22,220 --> 01:08:23,819
you to do, but you've never done it,

1797
01:08:24,140 --> 01:08:27,819
can be set free for the service of

1798
01:08:27,819 --> 01:08:28,120
God.

1799
01:08:28,399 --> 01:08:30,120
He'll use you.

1800
01:08:30,899 --> 01:08:32,580
If you know, I think one reason why

1801
01:08:32,580 --> 01:08:35,140
I've been an encouragement to so many people

1802
01:08:35,140 --> 01:08:37,660
to serve God more is they say, if

1803
01:08:37,660 --> 01:08:41,040
God can use you, oh, He can really

1804
01:08:41,040 --> 01:08:41,540
use me.

1805
01:08:41,740 --> 01:08:44,500
If you call that preaching, I could preach.

1806
01:08:44,800 --> 01:08:45,979
That's what I mean.

1807
01:08:46,100 --> 01:08:47,080
That's what it's all...

1808
01:08:47,520 --> 01:08:49,660
I know if God can raise me up

1809
01:08:49,660 --> 01:08:53,180
out of a hospital bed, Glendale Hospital in

1810
01:08:53,180 --> 01:08:55,500
Los Angeles and take an old piece of

1811
01:08:55,500 --> 01:08:58,300
wood that we found in a garbage dump

1812
01:08:58,779 --> 01:09:01,680
and use this boat to convey a message

1813
01:09:01,680 --> 01:09:05,080
to millions of people around this world, God

1814
01:09:05,080 --> 01:09:06,240
can use you.

1815
01:09:06,880 --> 01:09:07,680
And will.

1816
01:09:08,220 --> 01:09:09,260
And wants to.

1817
01:09:09,359 --> 01:09:11,420
For you to speak His name, to witness,

1818
01:09:11,939 --> 01:09:13,220
to tell others about Jesus.

1819
01:09:13,340 --> 01:09:14,140
For you to go out here tomorrow.

1820
01:09:14,200 --> 01:09:16,540
If people can get excited about those balls

1821
01:09:16,540 --> 01:09:20,080
and those wooden sticks, listen, tonight many of

1822
01:09:20,080 --> 01:09:21,500
us need to be at God's altar and

1823
01:09:21,500 --> 01:09:23,140
say, Lord, You've got me.

1824
01:09:23,680 --> 01:09:26,100
I mean business with God.

1825
01:09:26,800 --> 01:09:28,720
The moment we're going to pray, I'm going

1826
01:09:28,720 --> 01:09:30,140
to invite you to this offering.

1827
01:09:30,200 --> 01:09:31,200
Now, I want you to hear how I

1828
01:09:31,200 --> 01:09:31,899
give an invitation.

1829
01:09:32,040 --> 01:09:33,000
I'll say it every night.

1830
01:09:34,080 --> 01:09:35,720
But I don't give an invitation the way

1831
01:09:35,720 --> 01:09:37,399
most people do because I usually am not

1832
01:09:37,399 --> 01:09:38,319
preaching in churches.

1833
01:09:38,420 --> 01:09:39,740
I'm preaching outside.

1834
01:09:40,479 --> 01:09:42,200
Preach to armies all summer long.

1835
01:09:42,720 --> 01:09:43,779
All kind of armies.

1836
01:09:43,979 --> 01:09:45,260
Only one was a Christian one.

1837
01:09:45,340 --> 01:09:47,160
Most of them were Muslim or Israeli or

1838
01:09:47,160 --> 01:09:47,779
whatever else.

1839
01:09:48,600 --> 01:09:50,540
And I just preached day before yesterday on

1840
01:09:50,540 --> 01:09:52,760
board a Coast Guard cutter in Mobile, Alabama.

1841
01:09:53,420 --> 01:09:55,960
And all those soldiers standing there, what I

1842
01:09:55,960 --> 01:09:56,840
always ask them to do.

1843
01:09:56,900 --> 01:09:58,120
They know what it means to volunteer.

1844
01:09:58,320 --> 01:09:59,440
They know what commitment is.

1845
01:10:00,140 --> 01:10:01,140
They're already committed.

1846
01:10:01,880 --> 01:10:04,420
But it's like when you offer for volunteers

1847
01:10:04,420 --> 01:10:06,940
on a suicide mission or whatever it is.

1848
01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:08,120
Don't know whether you'll get out.

1849
01:10:08,540 --> 01:10:10,100
Somebody steps up and says, We need some

1850
01:10:10,100 --> 01:10:10,680
volunteers.

1851
01:10:11,280 --> 01:10:13,040
Mission's too dangerous to send you there.

1852
01:10:13,340 --> 01:10:15,240
Anybody volunteer, step out.

1853
01:10:15,320 --> 01:10:16,860
Why do they just take one step, right?

1854
01:10:17,400 --> 01:10:19,180
On that old Coast Guard cutter down there

1855
01:10:19,180 --> 01:10:22,100
in Mobile, day before yesterday, preaching to those

1856
01:10:22,100 --> 01:10:24,220
soldiers, those sailors on that boat.

1857
01:10:24,880 --> 01:10:26,860
I said to those guys standing there, those

1858
01:10:26,860 --> 01:10:28,140
of you who want to commit your life

1859
01:10:28,140 --> 01:10:29,860
to Jesus Christ, you know what it means

1860
01:10:29,860 --> 01:10:30,440
to volunteer.

1861
01:10:30,440 --> 01:10:32,960
You know what it means to make a

1862
01:10:32,960 --> 01:10:35,800
commitment that means everything whether you live or

1863
01:10:35,800 --> 01:10:36,280
die.

1864
01:10:36,840 --> 01:10:38,060
Those of you who are ready to commit

1865
01:10:38,060 --> 01:10:40,740
your life to Jesus Christ, I want to

1866
01:10:40,740 --> 01:10:41,420
pray for you.

1867
01:10:41,800 --> 01:10:42,920
And we want it to be a time

1868
01:10:42,920 --> 01:10:43,300
of commitment.

1869
01:10:43,480 --> 01:10:47,700
Take one step forward and accept that.

1870
01:10:48,500 --> 01:10:50,940
I've seen this summer guys do that in

1871
01:10:50,940 --> 01:10:52,600
front of others who are not even of

1872
01:10:52,600 --> 01:10:53,920
their religion and whatever else.

1873
01:10:54,100 --> 01:10:56,140
I mean courage and commitment.

1874
01:10:56,360 --> 01:10:59,040
I don't give an invitation with every head

1875
01:10:59,040 --> 01:11:01,560
bowed and every eye closed because I believe

1876
01:11:01,560 --> 01:11:03,840
we've got to start living in the open

1877
01:11:03,840 --> 01:11:04,460
for God.

1878
01:11:04,880 --> 01:11:06,500
We need to pray one for another.

1879
01:11:06,780 --> 01:11:08,880
If you can't, if you've got to slip

1880
01:11:08,880 --> 01:11:10,560
down here to this altar, you're not going

1881
01:11:10,560 --> 01:11:12,460
to have the courage to stand up out

1882
01:11:12,460 --> 01:11:12,900
in the world.

1883
01:11:13,200 --> 01:11:14,000
You've got to stand up.

1884
01:11:14,100 --> 01:11:17,740
I make no apologies for asking people to

1885
01:11:17,740 --> 01:11:21,000
openly confess Jesus Christ as their Savior.

1886
01:11:21,300 --> 01:11:24,280
We confess everything else, all these guys and

1887
01:11:24,280 --> 01:11:25,760
everything they're doing in their sports.

1888
01:11:25,920 --> 01:11:27,460
I'm telling you, I'm not ashamed.

1889
01:11:27,460 --> 01:11:28,960
The Bible commands it.

1890
01:11:29,600 --> 01:11:31,060
In the heart, we believe with a mouth,

1891
01:11:31,200 --> 01:11:32,660
confessions made to salvation.

1892
01:11:33,240 --> 01:11:36,780
Those of us who are in need of

1893
01:11:36,780 --> 01:11:39,560
a change that Christ can bring in your

1894
01:11:39,560 --> 01:11:40,780
life, in a moment I'm going to ask

1895
01:11:40,780 --> 01:11:41,400
you to the altar.

1896
01:11:42,140 --> 01:11:44,160
Those of you who are right with God,

1897
01:11:44,540 --> 01:11:45,940
you stay in your seat.

1898
01:11:46,580 --> 01:11:47,840
See, I don't like to give an invitation

1899
01:11:47,840 --> 01:11:49,420
where you think, well, I love the Lord.

1900
01:11:49,500 --> 01:11:51,000
I guess I ought to be down there.

1901
01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:52,040
Hey, no.

1902
01:11:52,340 --> 01:11:55,060
If you're right with God, stay in your

1903
01:11:55,060 --> 01:11:55,680
seat, okay?

1904
01:11:56,160 --> 01:11:59,040
So nobody will think you're intimidated.

1905
01:11:59,280 --> 01:12:00,600
They'll think you're right with God.

1906
01:12:00,720 --> 01:12:02,100
They're not going to think you're a sinner

1907
01:12:02,100 --> 01:12:03,280
for staying in your seat.

1908
01:12:03,360 --> 01:12:04,960
They're going to think you're right with God.

1909
01:12:06,080 --> 01:12:07,760
And among those who come to this altar,

1910
01:12:07,880 --> 01:12:09,920
we're saying, God, I need to be set

1911
01:12:09,920 --> 01:12:10,280
free.

1912
01:12:10,440 --> 01:12:12,440
There's barriers that need to be broken.

1913
01:12:12,640 --> 01:12:14,040
I want to get out of prison.

1914
01:12:14,500 --> 01:12:15,620
I want to be free.

1915
01:12:16,360 --> 01:12:18,500
I want the Spirit of Your liberty in

1916
01:12:18,500 --> 01:12:18,880
my life.

1917
01:12:19,100 --> 01:12:19,700
I need the liberty.

1918
01:12:19,820 --> 01:12:22,000
I need to be baptized with Your fire

1919
01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:24,440
to speak the name of Jesus, to tell

1920
01:12:24,440 --> 01:12:26,500
others about the Lord, to live in Your

1921
01:12:26,500 --> 01:12:26,780
will.

1922
01:12:26,900 --> 01:12:28,140
Some of you have been called to preach.

1923
01:12:28,300 --> 01:12:29,560
God accepts your call.

1924
01:12:30,260 --> 01:12:32,540
Everybody's called to witness and you haven't been

1925
01:12:32,540 --> 01:12:33,020
doing it.

1926
01:12:33,280 --> 01:12:35,120
I believe that this altar can be an

1927
01:12:35,120 --> 01:12:39,020
altar time of empowering for people meeting Jesus.

1928
01:12:39,480 --> 01:12:41,920
I'd like to ask for those of you

1929
01:12:41,920 --> 01:12:45,420
who are not saved, if you're not saved,

1930
01:12:46,200 --> 01:12:48,420
I'll give an invitation for you in a

1931
01:12:48,420 --> 01:12:48,660
moment.

1932
01:12:49,060 --> 01:12:52,340
This altar call, basically, if you can't restrain

1933
01:12:52,340 --> 01:12:53,880
yourself, come on down anyway.

1934
01:12:54,160 --> 01:12:58,540
But it's a call for Christians who say,

1935
01:12:58,700 --> 01:13:01,880
God, I mean business, and I need to

1936
01:13:01,880 --> 01:13:03,760
sell out, and I need to get free.

1937
01:13:04,040 --> 01:13:05,680
I want to live in the way of

1938
01:13:05,680 --> 01:13:06,080
Christ.

1939
01:13:06,240 --> 01:13:09,000
I like Your life, Jesus, and I want

1940
01:13:09,000 --> 01:13:12,100
to live in liberty and freedom and power,

1941
01:13:12,360 --> 01:13:13,740
and I want You to use me.

1942
01:13:14,400 --> 01:13:17,260
See, this city and our world turns upside

1943
01:13:17,260 --> 01:13:18,580
down for God.

1944
01:13:18,900 --> 01:13:21,000
And I say this, remember, it's a commitment

1945
01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:23,320
to God, not to me.

1946
01:13:24,260 --> 01:13:28,040
One person told out to Jesus will revolutionize

1947
01:13:28,040 --> 01:13:28,600
this city.

1948
01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:31,760
Ten, a hundred, I don't know.

1949
01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:34,100
And then another thing I do is in

1950
01:13:34,100 --> 01:13:35,340
a moment after I pray, I'm going to

1951
01:13:35,340 --> 01:13:36,680
ask those who need to be at this

1952
01:13:36,680 --> 01:13:38,060
altar to stand up.

1953
01:13:38,700 --> 01:13:40,480
And then after you've stood up, I'm going

1954
01:13:40,480 --> 01:13:41,600
to ask you to come to this altar

1955
01:13:41,600 --> 01:13:43,440
and pray at one time.

1956
01:13:44,240 --> 01:13:45,400
We're not going to sing a lot of

1957
01:13:45,400 --> 01:13:46,380
songs and verses.

1958
01:13:46,880 --> 01:13:49,080
I think it's time you make up your

1959
01:13:49,080 --> 01:13:51,480
mind clear and decidedly.

1960
01:13:52,140 --> 01:13:55,480
I have decided with my mind, with my

1961
01:13:55,480 --> 01:13:59,360
heart, God, I need freedom, I need liberty,

1962
01:13:59,680 --> 01:14:00,680
I need victory.

1963
01:14:00,960 --> 01:14:03,880
I desire Your way, and I want You

1964
01:14:03,880 --> 01:14:06,800
to change me tonight and empower me.

1965
01:14:07,200 --> 01:14:08,160
Let's pray together.

1966
01:14:08,860 --> 01:14:10,680
Father, right now in the name of Jesus,

1967
01:14:10,780 --> 01:14:11,320
I pray.

1968
01:14:12,360 --> 01:14:14,240
I pray for the liberty of Your Holy

1969
01:14:14,240 --> 01:14:16,180
Spirit to move through this auditorium.

1970
01:14:16,800 --> 01:14:19,420
I ask God that every work of Satan

1971
01:14:19,420 --> 01:14:23,200
be broken, every demonic spirit, every evil spirit

1972
01:14:23,200 --> 01:14:26,980
have no authority nor place in anybody's life

1973
01:14:26,980 --> 01:14:27,920
or in this building.

1974
01:14:28,080 --> 01:14:31,900
We acknowledge and confess Jesus is here, Your

1975
01:14:31,900 --> 01:14:34,700
Lord, and we pray that You'd give people

1976
01:14:34,700 --> 01:14:38,460
liberty, men, women, leaders of this church, visiting

1977
01:14:38,460 --> 01:14:41,240
preachers, whoever may be here, the liberty to

1978
01:14:41,240 --> 01:14:43,940
say, God, I want to get free tonight.

1979
01:14:44,340 --> 01:14:46,420
I want to get filled with Your Spirit.

1980
01:14:46,680 --> 01:14:48,480
I want to be burned by the fire

1981
01:14:48,480 --> 01:14:49,020
of God.

1982
01:14:49,020 --> 01:14:52,640
Father, we know You desire this, and we

1983
01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:56,460
pray, God, that every person who acknowledges and

1984
01:14:56,460 --> 01:15:00,080
confesses the need shall be met by You,

1985
01:15:00,780 --> 01:15:04,460
changed and transformed, and that as there's liberty

1986
01:15:04,460 --> 01:15:06,440
in the believers, there'll be liberty for the

1987
01:15:06,440 --> 01:15:07,740
lost to be saved.

1988
01:15:08,100 --> 01:15:10,640
In Jesus' name I pray.

1989
01:15:11,240 --> 01:15:11,620
Amen.

1990
01:15:12,220 --> 01:15:14,860
Now, right now with everyone looking up, those

1991
01:15:14,860 --> 01:15:16,720
of you who've heard this, have you say,

1992
01:15:16,900 --> 01:15:18,580
author, I need to be at that altar,

1993
01:15:18,580 --> 01:15:21,540
I mean business with God, I need God

1994
01:15:21,540 --> 01:15:23,320
to do something in my life that hadn't

1995
01:15:23,320 --> 01:15:25,320
been there, I need to be freed and

1996
01:15:25,320 --> 01:15:25,800
empowered.

1997
01:15:26,280 --> 01:15:29,180
Those of you who need that, begin right

1998
01:15:29,180 --> 01:15:31,320
now in the name of Jesus, stand up.

1999
01:15:31,860 --> 01:15:33,500
Just stand up in your seat right where

2000
01:15:33,500 --> 01:15:36,340
you are, around the auditorium, no games, no

2001
01:15:36,340 --> 01:15:38,680
tricks in the choir, wherever you are, you're

2002
01:15:38,680 --> 01:15:39,980
right with God, just stay seated.

2003
01:15:40,380 --> 01:15:42,180
I need this work of God in my

2004
01:15:42,180 --> 01:15:42,520
life.

2005
01:15:42,860 --> 01:15:43,960
Stand up right now.

2006
01:15:50,080 --> 01:15:51,360
As you're standing, would you make your way

2007
01:15:51,360 --> 01:15:52,140
down to this altar?

2008
01:15:52,560 --> 01:15:54,000
Make your way out of the balcony, others

2009
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:55,600
of you, get up from your seat.

2010
01:15:56,100 --> 01:15:57,240
God's Spirit is calling.

2011
01:15:57,620 --> 01:15:59,380
I want our choir to sing, I've decided

2012
01:15:59,380 --> 01:16:00,160
to follow Jesus.

2013
01:16:00,340 --> 01:16:02,120
No turning back while you're coming to this

2014
01:16:02,120 --> 01:16:02,400
altar.

2015
01:16:02,780 --> 01:16:04,220
Pray one for another.

2016
01:16:04,740 --> 01:16:06,020
God's Spirit is moving.

2017
01:16:06,440 --> 01:16:08,000
No games, no gimmicks.

2018
01:16:08,500 --> 01:16:09,240
God's speaking.

2019
01:16:09,320 --> 01:16:11,040
If you're right with God, stay where you

2020
01:16:11,040 --> 01:16:11,280
are.

2021
01:16:11,680 --> 01:16:13,500
God's not leading you to this altar, don't

2022
01:16:13,500 --> 01:16:13,860
come.

2023
01:16:14,440 --> 01:16:16,300
But if He is, don't resist.

2024
01:16:28,620 --> 01:16:29,640
Right now, quickly.

2025
01:16:29,640 --> 01:16:29,740
This

2026
01:16:29,740 --> 01:16:40,460
is

2027
01:16:47,140 --> 01:16:48,020
God's Spirit.

2028
01:16:48,320 --> 01:16:50,380
Convince me, God bless you, God bless you.

2029
01:16:50,800 --> 01:16:53,480
Lord, I want to be free.

2030
01:16:53,800 --> 01:16:55,240
I need to be saved.

2031
01:17:12,270 --> 01:17:13,310
I need to be at this altar.

2032
01:17:13,450 --> 01:17:14,870
Will you get up right now and come?

2033
01:17:16,210 --> 01:17:17,310
Right now, quickly.

2034
01:17:20,520 --> 01:17:20,840
Amen.

2035
01:17:21,920 --> 01:17:23,720
Anyone that needs to be here, even as

2036
01:17:23,720 --> 01:17:25,960
we pray, just get up from your seat

2037
01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:26,720
and come and join us.