WEBVTT 00:00:00.667 --> 00:00:02.869 align:start line:79% position:10% size:78% male announcer: The following program is sponsored by Friends 00:00:02.936 --> 00:00:04.938 align:start line:85% position:10% size:78% of Life Outreach International. 00:00:06.773 --> 00:00:09.142 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% Daniel Kolenda: The gospel is not just our way out of hell, 00:00:09.209 --> 00:00:11.578 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% it's not just so we can get to heaven, it's so that heaven can 00:00:11.644 --> 00:00:15.348 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% get into us and so that through us heaven can get into the world 00:00:15.415 --> 00:00:16.716 align:start line:69% position:38% size:25% around us. 00:00:16.783 --> 00:00:18.051 align:start line:63% position:20% size:60% That's the whole purpose that we're saved. 00:00:18.118 --> 00:00:19.786 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% I mean, if God just wanted to create porcelain dolls that were 00:00:19.853 --> 00:00:22.822 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% perfect little creatures, he'd have just made us in heaven. 00:00:22.889 --> 00:00:24.224 align:start line:63% position:25% size:48% Why'd he put us here in this world? 00:00:24.290 --> 00:00:25.592 align:start line:69% position:15% size:70% There's obviously a purpose. 00:00:25.658 --> 00:00:28.461 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% announcer: Daniel Kolenda invites you to trade legalism 00:00:28.528 --> 00:00:33.099 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% for liberty, religion for relationship, and become furious 00:00:33.166 --> 00:00:35.168 align:start line:69% position:23% size:53% for the gospel, next. 00:00:36.536 --> 00:00:46.479 align:start line:85% position:40% size:18% [music] 00:00:46.546 --> 00:00:53.620 align:start line:85% position:40% size:18% [music] 00:00:53.686 --> 00:00:55.422 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% James Robison: Well, you know, we have exciting members, and 00:00:55.488 --> 00:00:58.591 align:start line:63% position:23% size:53% they bring back a lot of precious memories. 00:00:58.658 --> 00:01:00.326 align:start line:63% position:28% size:43% Daniel Kolenda is our guest today. 00:01:00.393 --> 00:01:04.497 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% He was with Reinhard Bonnke, many of you know who he was, but 00:01:04.564 --> 00:01:07.467 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% Christ for All Nations, he had one of the biggest ministries in 00:01:07.534 --> 00:01:10.136 align:start line:63% position:18% size:63% the world, where millions of people would attend a 00:01:10.203 --> 00:01:11.738 align:start line:69% position:30% size:40% crusade service. 00:01:11.805 --> 00:01:15.341 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% Millions would get saved in one service, and that was all over 00:01:15.408 --> 00:01:18.578 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% Africa and other countries, third world countries, and we 00:01:18.645 --> 00:01:23.450 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% met him there, and we met Daniel Kolenda, who's our guest today, 00:01:23.516 --> 00:01:26.886 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% and he actually took over the ministry when he was quite young 00:01:26.953 --> 00:01:31.658 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% and stayed with the Reinhard till Reinhard died 6 years ago. 00:01:31.724 --> 00:01:33.560 align:start line:63% position:18% size:63% But you gotta understand, this is a huge min-- 00:01:33.626 --> 00:01:36.196 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% We can start showing you pictures right now of just the 00:01:36.262 --> 00:01:39.699 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% millions of people that he's preaching to, and I spoke to 00:01:39.766 --> 00:01:42.101 align:start line:69% position:18% size:65% some of those huge crowds. 00:01:42.168 --> 00:01:46.139 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% My mission associate, Peter Pretorius, he spoke a lot of, 00:01:46.206 --> 00:01:50.543 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% and Reinhard gave Peter a big tent to hold crusades in and 00:01:50.610 --> 00:01:51.911 align:start line:69% position:38% size:23% knew he-- 00:01:51.978 --> 00:01:54.447 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% Well, you know, Reinhard knows how much we help Peter and help 00:01:54.514 --> 00:01:58.151 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% missionaries everywhere, and Daniel knows, and Daniel's been 00:01:58.218 --> 00:02:00.920 align:start line:63% position:23% size:55% here, and Daniel, it's good to have you back. 00:02:00.987 --> 00:02:02.288 align:start line:69% position:18% size:65% Daniel: Thank you so much. 00:02:02.355 --> 00:02:04.757 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% James: It really is, and it's hard to believe that Reinhard's 00:02:04.824 --> 00:02:06.659 align:start line:69% position:28% size:45% been gone 6 years. 00:02:06.726 --> 00:02:09.729 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% About how long did you leave the ministry, let's say, hands on? 00:02:09.796 --> 00:02:12.432 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% Daniel: Well, when Reinhard was still alive, it was ten-plus 00:02:12.499 --> 00:02:14.734 align:start line:63% position:23% size:53% years, and then obviously since then. 00:02:14.801 --> 00:02:16.269 align:start line:69% position:15% size:70% James: Which is another six. 00:02:16.336 --> 00:02:17.604 align:start line:69% position:18% size:65% Daniel: Another six, yeah. 00:02:17.670 --> 00:02:21.407 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% James: Yeah, well, you are an amazing person, and then you 00:02:21.474 --> 00:02:26.880 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% asked to talk about this book, "Furious: A Modern Retelling of 00:02:26.946 --> 00:02:29.782 align:start line:69% position:13% size:73% Paul's Fight for the Gospel." 00:02:29.849 --> 00:02:32.018 align:start line:69% position:28% size:45% This is Galatians. 00:02:32.085 --> 00:02:35.288 align:start line:63% position:18% size:63% What led you to take off on Galatians and with the 00:02:35.355 --> 00:02:37.357 align:start line:69% position:30% size:40% title "Furious?" 00:02:37.423 --> 00:02:39.959 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% Daniel: Well, first of all, I did not plan to write a book 00:02:40.026 --> 00:02:41.294 align:start line:69% position:33% size:33% on Galatians. 00:02:41.361 --> 00:02:43.029 align:start line:69% position:20% size:58% It kinda blindsided me. 00:02:43.096 --> 00:02:45.498 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% I started a church a few years ago, and one of the things I've 00:02:45.565 --> 00:02:48.434 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% been doing in the church is preaching expositorily through 00:02:48.501 --> 00:02:49.769 align:start line:69% position:13% size:73% different books in the Bible. 00:02:49.836 --> 00:02:51.538 align:start line:63% position:25% size:50% So I decided to preach on Galatians. 00:02:51.604 --> 00:02:54.240 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% So I'm going through verse by verse, Sunday after Sunday, and 00:02:54.307 --> 00:02:55.842 align:start line:63% position:20% size:60% people were coming up to me after the service. 00:02:55.909 --> 00:02:58.945 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% I mean, Christian people, people that I've known for many years, 00:02:59.012 --> 00:03:03.116 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% and they're telling me things like this is changing our lives. 00:03:03.182 --> 00:03:05.151 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% We didn't--we've never seen the gospel like this before. 00:03:05.218 --> 00:03:08.588 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% And it kind of hit me like a revelation that we think of, 00:03:08.655 --> 00:03:11.157 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% oftentimes Christians think of the gospel as something for 00:03:11.224 --> 00:03:13.560 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% heathens, and then once we get saved, it's kind of like we're 00:03:13.626 --> 00:03:15.562 align:start line:63% position:18% size:65% done with that, now we move on to greater things. 00:03:15.628 --> 00:03:19.332 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% But Paul says that for us who are being saved, the gospel is 00:03:19.399 --> 00:03:20.733 align:start line:69% position:28% size:43% the power of God. 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:23.736 align:start line:63% position:18% size:63% We need, as Christians--I suddenly realized we need 00:03:23.803 --> 00:03:25.071 align:start line:69% position:35% size:28% the gospel. 00:03:25.138 --> 00:03:27.206 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% It's not something we had, it's something we get one time, it's 00:03:27.273 --> 00:03:28.575 align:start line:69% position:20% size:60% something where we live. 00:03:28.641 --> 00:03:30.710 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% So, I get to the end of the series, and I thought I'm gonna 00:03:30.777 --> 00:03:32.745 align:start line:63% position:23% size:53% put my notes together for my congregation. 00:03:32.812 --> 00:03:36.316 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% And as I'm working on it, I just felt this sense of like 00:03:36.382 --> 00:03:39.385 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% frustration, and I kept thinking why do I feel this way? 00:03:39.452 --> 00:03:42.021 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% Because I love the content of the book of Galatians, but what 00:03:42.088 --> 00:03:44.390 align:start line:63% position:25% size:50% I'm putting together wasn't satisfying. 00:03:44.457 --> 00:03:47.427 align:start line:63% position:18% size:65% And then it struck me, you know, Galatians is such a 00:03:47.493 --> 00:03:48.795 align:start line:69% position:30% size:40% passionate book. 00:03:48.861 --> 00:03:50.496 align:start line:69% position:20% size:58% It's got so much drama. 00:03:50.563 --> 00:03:52.865 align:start line:63% position:15% size:68% James: It starts passionate and ends passionately. 00:03:52.932 --> 00:03:55.501 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% Daniel: And the backstory and the layers throughout, and I 00:03:55.568 --> 00:03:58.104 align:start line:63% position:18% size:65% thought this--I'm just not able to do it justice in 00:03:58.171 --> 00:03:59.472 align:start line:69% position:33% size:33% a commentary. 00:03:59.539 --> 00:04:01.507 align:start line:63% position:18% size:63% So I started thinking and praying, Lord, how do I 00:04:01.574 --> 00:04:04.777 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% communicate this in a way that does justice to the message of 00:04:04.844 --> 00:04:06.145 align:start line:69% position:38% size:25% this book? 00:04:06.212 --> 00:04:08.815 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% And suddenly it was like I saw it play out in front of my mind 00:04:08.881 --> 00:04:13.252 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% like a movie, like the scene of Paul, because we know that Paul 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:16.089 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% didn't write his letters, he dictated them to a scribe. 00:04:16.155 --> 00:04:20.460 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% So, I'm imagining Paul dictating this letter to a scribe, and the 00:04:20.526 --> 00:04:23.096 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% scribe is hearing the things that we're reading and having 00:04:23.162 --> 00:04:25.698 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% the kind of reactions that we have when he says things like, 00:04:25.765 --> 00:04:28.001 align:start line:63% position:20% size:58% "O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?" 00:04:28.067 --> 00:04:29.369 align:start line:69% position:38% size:23% you know? 00:04:29.435 --> 00:04:31.037 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% And then the scribe wants to understand why are you talking 00:04:31.104 --> 00:04:32.405 align:start line:69% position:38% size:25% like this? 00:04:32.472 --> 00:04:34.741 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% And the conversation that Paul begins to have with him, he's 00:04:34.807 --> 00:04:38.011 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% able to tell him the backstory, tell him the story of how he 00:04:38.077 --> 00:04:41.447 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% came to Christ, how the gospel came to the Gentiles, how he had 00:04:41.514 --> 00:04:44.050 align:start line:63% position:20% size:58% this confrontation with Peter and all of these 00:04:44.117 --> 00:04:45.385 align:start line:69% position:25% size:50% interesting stories. 00:04:45.451 --> 00:04:46.753 align:start line:69% position:15% size:70% And so I wrote it like that. 00:04:46.819 --> 00:04:48.921 align:start line:63% position:25% size:48% It really is--it reads like a novel. 00:04:48.988 --> 00:04:51.124 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% Like some people watch that movie, "The Chosen," you know, 00:04:51.190 --> 00:04:54.327 align:start line:69% position:13% size:73% which dramatized the Gospels. 00:04:54.394 --> 00:04:57.730 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% This is like "The Chosen," but Paul is the main character and 00:04:57.797 --> 00:05:00.833 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% the stories of the Book of Acts are kind of the drama that 00:05:00.900 --> 00:05:02.201 align:start line:69% position:33% size:35% unfolds there. 00:05:02.268 --> 00:05:03.536 align:start line:63% position:20% size:58% James: Okay, well, take off on some of it. 00:05:03.603 --> 00:05:08.708 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% I wanna know what you saw that we need to see, because you made 00:05:08.775 --> 00:05:13.613 align:start line:63% position:23% size:55% it--to me, you made it so very, very clear. 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:16.015 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% James: Yeah, well, you know, one of the things that I like to say 00:05:16.082 --> 00:05:18.584 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% about Paul's writings in general, and I think Galatians 00:05:18.651 --> 00:05:22.388 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% is probably the best example of this, is the way that he writes, 00:05:22.455 --> 00:05:24.691 align:start line:69% position:13% size:75% I call it theological lasagna. 00:05:24.757 --> 00:05:26.926 align:start line:63% position:20% size:60% So what you've got is these layers of meaning. 00:05:26.993 --> 00:05:29.162 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% Of course, there's the top layer, which is what you read, 00:05:29.228 --> 00:05:31.664 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% and on the surface it makes sense, but then there's always 00:05:31.731 --> 00:05:34.367 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% another layer under it, and then there's a layer under that, and 00:05:34.434 --> 00:05:36.636 align:start line:63% position:20% size:58% the more that you dig, the more that you find. 00:05:36.703 --> 00:05:38.671 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% Like, for example, that verse that I just quoted, "You foolish 00:05:38.738 --> 00:05:41.407 align:start line:63% position:20% size:60% Galatians," Paul says, "who has bewitched you?" 00:05:41.474 --> 00:05:43.910 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% On the surface, it just sounds like an insult, it just sounds 00:05:43.976 --> 00:05:45.244 align:start line:69% position:33% size:35% like he's mad. 00:05:45.311 --> 00:05:47.113 align:start line:63% position:15% size:68% When you look closer, you realize he's saying a whole 00:05:47.180 --> 00:05:48.614 align:start line:69% position:20% size:60% bunch of things at once. 00:05:48.681 --> 00:05:51.951 align:start line:63% position:18% size:65% For example, when he says, "Who has bewitched you?" 00:05:52.018 --> 00:05:53.953 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% there's something very interesting about that word. 00:05:54.020 --> 00:05:57.356 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% That's the Greek word baskaino, which in the first century 00:05:57.423 --> 00:06:00.893 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% world, this word referred to a superstition that was very 00:06:00.960 --> 00:06:03.229 align:start line:63% position:25% size:50% common in those days called the evil eye. 00:06:03.296 --> 00:06:04.597 align:start line:63% position:23% size:53% And I don't know if you've heard of this. 00:06:04.664 --> 00:06:06.299 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% I mean, some places in the world, they still believe this, 00:06:06.365 --> 00:06:10.636 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% but it's this idea that a person could put a curse on you through 00:06:10.703 --> 00:06:12.538 align:start line:63% position:28% size:45% their gaze just by looking at you. 00:06:12.605 --> 00:06:15.041 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% And in fact, if you had something wrong with your eyes, 00:06:15.108 --> 00:06:17.143 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% maybe you looked funny, maybe your eye was injured or 00:06:17.210 --> 00:06:20.413 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% something, they would say that you might have the curse of the 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:22.381 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% evil eye on you, and if that person looks at you, you're 00:06:22.448 --> 00:06:23.716 align:start line:69% position:25% size:50% gonna get the curse. 00:06:23.783 --> 00:06:25.718 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% What's interesting is that we know, and many scholars believe 00:06:25.785 --> 00:06:29.422 align:start line:63% position:18% size:65% that Paul had some kind of a problem with his eyes. 00:06:29.489 --> 00:06:32.158 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% And we know that even in the book of Galatians there's clues. 00:06:32.225 --> 00:06:35.895 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% Like, for example, in the last chapter of Galatians, Paul says, 00:06:35.962 --> 00:06:38.998 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% "Look at what large letters I use as I write to you in my 00:06:39.065 --> 00:06:40.333 align:start line:69% position:38% size:25% own hand." 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:41.667 align:start line:63% position:20% size:58% Well, why is Paul using such big letters? 00:06:41.734 --> 00:06:43.136 align:start line:69% position:10% size:78% Probably he had an eye problem. 00:06:43.202 --> 00:06:46.739 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% Or in Galatians chapter 4 he says that when he first came to 00:06:46.806 --> 00:06:49.208 align:start line:63% position:20% size:60% the Galatians, he had some kind of an illness. 00:06:49.275 --> 00:06:52.278 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% And he said, "When you first saw me, you did not reject me." 00:06:52.345 --> 00:06:55.281 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% Now, what was it that they saw that would have caused them to 00:06:55.348 --> 00:06:56.616 align:start line:69% position:25% size:48% want to reject him? 00:06:56.682 --> 00:06:58.484 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% And then the next verse he says, "You would have taken out your 00:06:58.551 --> 00:07:01.487 align:start line:63% position:18% size:65% own eyes and given them to me if it were possible." 00:07:01.554 --> 00:07:05.191 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% So it's clear when you put these things together, you realize 00:07:05.258 --> 00:07:06.859 align:start line:69% position:10% size:80% there's something going on here. 00:07:06.926 --> 00:07:09.428 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% The people are looking at Paul, they see the issue with his 00:07:09.495 --> 00:07:13.499 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% eyes, and we know that the big drama taking place in Galatians 00:07:13.566 --> 00:07:15.635 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% is this battle Paul is having with these guys called 00:07:15.701 --> 00:07:16.969 align:start line:69% position:33% size:35% the Judaizers. 00:07:17.036 --> 00:07:19.839 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% They were these guys that were trying to drag these Gentile 00:07:19.906 --> 00:07:23.176 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% believers back under the law of Moses and try to basically force 00:07:23.242 --> 00:07:24.977 align:start line:69% position:10% size:80% them into being Jewish converts. 00:07:25.044 --> 00:07:26.445 align:start line:69% position:13% size:73% That's who Paul is combating. 00:07:26.512 --> 00:07:29.448 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% And we know these Judaizers were trying to turn the Galatians 00:07:29.515 --> 00:07:30.817 align:start line:69% position:33% size:33% against Paul. 00:07:30.883 --> 00:07:32.585 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% So when you put it together, you realize probably what's 00:07:32.652 --> 00:07:35.488 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% happening here is the Judaizers are saying things to the 00:07:35.555 --> 00:07:38.291 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% Galatians like this, "Look at that guy, that Paul guy that 00:07:38.357 --> 00:07:39.659 align:start line:69% position:25% size:50% you're listening to. 00:07:39.725 --> 00:07:41.360 align:start line:63% position:28% size:43% Just look at him, he looks cursed. 00:07:41.427 --> 00:07:42.895 align:start line:63% position:28% size:45% You can see the look in his eyes." 00:07:42.962 --> 00:07:44.230 align:start line:69% position:13% size:73% And they say, "You know what? 00:07:44.297 --> 00:07:46.699 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% If you follow him, you're gonna come under that curse too." 00:07:46.766 --> 00:07:49.001 align:start line:63% position:20% size:60% So, what Paul does is he flips the script back on 00:07:49.068 --> 00:07:50.369 align:start line:69% position:33% size:35% the Judaizers. 00:07:50.436 --> 00:07:52.572 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% He says, "Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? 00:07:52.638 --> 00:07:55.775 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% Before your very eyes, Christ was clearly portrayed 00:07:55.842 --> 00:07:57.109 align:start line:69% position:33% size:35% as crucified." 00:07:57.176 --> 00:07:58.711 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% In other words, he's saying, "I'm not the one that put a 00:07:58.778 --> 00:08:02.048 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% curse on you, it's those Judaizers, their false doctrine 00:08:02.114 --> 00:08:05.117 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% did it, and I'll tell you how I know it happened, because you 00:08:05.184 --> 00:08:07.420 align:start line:69% position:13% size:75% lost your vision of the cross. 00:08:07.486 --> 00:08:09.055 align:start line:69% position:13% size:73% You can't see Christ anymore. 00:08:09.121 --> 00:08:11.090 align:start line:63% position:20% size:60% You don't see the gospel clearly anymore." 00:08:11.157 --> 00:08:13.759 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% And we learn something really important here about false 00:08:13.826 --> 00:08:16.729 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% doctrine in general, but about legalism in particular. 00:08:16.796 --> 00:08:19.999 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% Legalism doesn't just cause us to have the wrong theology or 00:08:20.066 --> 00:08:24.270 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% the wrong doctrine, it blinds us, it takes away our vision, 00:08:24.337 --> 00:08:26.672 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% not just the way that we look at God, but the way that we look 00:08:26.739 --> 00:08:28.040 align:start line:69% position:38% size:25% at people. 00:08:28.107 --> 00:08:29.508 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% And so as you go through Galatians, you see all these 00:08:29.575 --> 00:08:31.310 align:start line:63% position:15% size:68% problems that are happening in the Galatian church. 00:08:31.377 --> 00:08:34.747 align:start line:63% position:18% size:63% They used to be generous, now they become stingy. 00:08:34.814 --> 00:08:37.316 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% They used to be full of love for one another and care and 00:08:37.383 --> 00:08:40.186 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% compassion, now they've become competitive, and they're 00:08:40.253 --> 00:08:41.554 align:start line:69% position:18% size:65% fighting with each other-- 00:08:41.621 --> 00:08:42.889 align:start line:63% position:20% size:60% James: And just critical, mean-spirited. 00:08:42.955 --> 00:08:45.625 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% Daniel: Paul says that they're biting each other, devouring 00:08:45.691 --> 00:08:46.993 align:start line:69% position:35% size:30% one another. 00:08:47.059 --> 00:08:48.327 align:start line:63% position:20% size:58% That's the kind of thing that's happening. 00:08:48.394 --> 00:08:52.098 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% So that legalism that's crept into their midst, it's not just 00:08:52.164 --> 00:08:54.867 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% a theological problem, it's affected the way that they live 00:08:54.934 --> 00:08:56.669 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% their lives and the fruit that comes out of their life. 00:08:56.736 --> 00:08:59.705 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% James: It destroys the fruit of grace, it destroys grace, and 00:08:59.772 --> 00:09:02.942 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% there was such a battle going on right there in that book, but it 00:09:03.009 --> 00:09:05.411 align:start line:69% position:15% size:70% was amazing how you took it. 00:09:05.478 --> 00:09:07.079 align:start line:69% position:15% size:70% Now, how's it been received? 00:09:07.146 --> 00:09:08.915 align:start line:69% position:15% size:70% Daniel: Well, I've had both. 00:09:08.981 --> 00:09:11.817 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% I've had some people that, you know, have in response to the 00:09:11.884 --> 00:09:14.020 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% book said, yes, this is changing my life, and I've had people 00:09:14.086 --> 00:09:16.389 align:start line:63% position:28% size:45% that wanted to beat me, you know? 00:09:16.455 --> 00:09:18.624 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% Because they see--they're seeing it much more from the 00:09:18.691 --> 00:09:19.959 align:start line:69% position:30% size:40% legalistic side. 00:09:20.026 --> 00:09:22.094 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% In fact, I don't know if you're aware of this, but there's a 00:09:22.161 --> 00:09:25.731 align:start line:63% position:15% size:68% really strong movement in the church world right now. 00:09:25.798 --> 00:09:30.336 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% Some people call it like Hebrew roots theology and Torahism and 00:09:30.403 --> 00:09:33.306 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% stuff like that, and a lot of believers are being dragged 00:09:33.372 --> 00:09:34.640 align:start line:69% position:38% size:25% into this. 00:09:34.707 --> 00:09:37.710 align:start line:63% position:15% size:68% The first real visceral encounter I had with it was 00:09:37.777 --> 00:09:40.646 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% there was a friend of mine who was starting to get into like 00:09:40.713 --> 00:09:44.016 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% some Jewish roots stuff and, you know, just going back into old 00:09:44.083 --> 00:09:45.384 align:start line:69% position:20% size:60% customs, old traditions. 00:09:45.451 --> 00:09:48.688 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% It was all very harmless, but it was like a progression. 00:09:48.754 --> 00:09:50.756 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% And I pulled up to his house one day, and he comes out, and I 00:09:50.823 --> 00:09:52.425 align:start line:69% position:10% size:80% hadn't seen him for a long time. 00:09:52.491 --> 00:09:55.728 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% He's wearing a black hat, a black robe, the sides of his 00:09:55.795 --> 00:09:59.265 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% beard are curled, he's dressed like an Orthodox Jew. 00:09:59.332 --> 00:10:02.268 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% And I mean, what's so silly about that is orthodoxy didn't 00:10:02.335 --> 00:10:03.936 align:start line:63% position:23% size:55% even exist in the time of Jesus or Paul. 00:10:04.003 --> 00:10:06.205 align:start line:69% position:10% size:80% That's a much later development. 00:10:06.272 --> 00:10:09.742 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% But yet this guy, this Christian, Gentile Christian, 00:10:09.809 --> 00:10:12.411 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% had come to believe that if he really wanted to be pleasing to 00:10:12.478 --> 00:10:16.449 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% God, he needed to dress like an Orthodox Jew, he needed to 00:10:16.515 --> 00:10:19.618 align:start line:63% position:18% size:63% follow the feasts and the festivals and the law. 00:10:19.685 --> 00:10:22.855 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% And I realized that, you know, that's a very--you know, it's 00:10:22.922 --> 00:10:24.223 align:start line:69% position:23% size:55% very easy to see that. 00:10:24.290 --> 00:10:25.858 align:start line:69% position:18% size:65% That's a visceral example. 00:10:25.925 --> 00:10:29.295 align:start line:63% position:20% size:60% But legalism creeps into our lives in much more 00:10:29.362 --> 00:10:30.663 align:start line:69% position:30% size:40% subliminal ways. 00:10:30.730 --> 00:10:33.366 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% And in fact, what would Paul think if he sat in some of our 00:10:33.432 --> 00:10:34.700 align:start line:69% position:30% size:38% churches today? 00:10:34.767 --> 00:10:37.169 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% I think he'd have some of the same issues with us that he had 00:10:37.236 --> 00:10:40.706 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% with the Galatians, because religion always has a way of 00:10:40.773 --> 00:10:42.074 align:start line:69% position:35% size:30% creeping in. 00:10:42.141 --> 00:10:43.409 align:start line:69% position:15% size:70% It's just like human nature. 00:10:43.476 --> 00:10:44.777 align:start line:63% position:25% size:48% We always are tempted to go back. 00:10:44.844 --> 00:10:46.512 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% It's the very first thing that happens in the Garden of Eden, 00:10:46.579 --> 00:10:47.880 align:start line:69% position:35% size:28% by the way. 00:10:47.947 --> 00:10:50.483 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% After Adam and Eve fall, God comes looking for them in 00:10:50.549 --> 00:10:51.817 align:start line:69% position:35% size:28% the garden. 00:10:51.884 --> 00:10:53.185 align:start line:69% position:10% size:78% He says, "Adam, where are you?" 00:10:53.252 --> 00:10:56.322 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% And when God finds them, they're clothed with fig leaves. 00:10:56.389 --> 00:10:58.657 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% Now we know from scripture that fig leaves are a symbol 00:10:58.724 --> 00:11:00.026 align:start line:69% position:38% size:23% of works. 00:11:00.092 --> 00:11:02.328 align:start line:63% position:23% size:55% So I want you to think about this picture. 00:11:02.395 --> 00:11:05.765 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% He sees them dressed in fig leaves, he rejects the work of 00:11:05.831 --> 00:11:07.199 align:start line:63% position:30% size:40% their hands, and what does he do? 00:11:07.266 --> 00:11:10.603 align:start line:69% position:10% size:78% He gives them skins of animals. 00:11:10.669 --> 00:11:14.840 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% In other words, he clothes them with the ultimate sacrifice of 00:11:14.907 --> 00:11:16.475 align:start line:69% position:20% size:58% an innocent substitute. 00:11:16.542 --> 00:11:17.843 align:start line:63% position:20% size:58% There it is right there in the beginning. 00:11:17.910 --> 00:11:21.213 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% The first reaction of humans is to trend towards legalism, the 00:11:21.280 --> 00:11:24.483 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% work of the hands, and the reaction of God is to say that's 00:11:24.550 --> 00:11:26.819 align:start line:63% position:18% size:63% not good enough, you need a substitute, you need a 00:11:26.886 --> 00:11:28.821 align:start line:63% position:28% size:45% sacrifice, and that's the gospel. 00:11:28.888 --> 00:11:31.957 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% James: And I think so much you're showing in here all of 00:11:32.024 --> 00:11:36.629 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% the tension and all that's there in a very appropriate title, 00:11:36.695 --> 00:11:39.331 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% "Furious," because that's what we get, and we start building 00:11:39.398 --> 00:11:43.135 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% our own army, building our own denomination, supporting our own 00:11:43.202 --> 00:11:47.339 align:start line:63% position:28% size:45% point of view, and not being family. 00:11:47.406 --> 00:11:50.576 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% I don't have any trouble loving people I don't agree with. 00:11:50.643 --> 00:11:54.080 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% For the church to be captured by God, we're gonna love each other 00:11:54.146 --> 00:11:55.548 align:start line:69% position:20% size:60% even though we disagree. 00:11:55.614 --> 00:11:58.651 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% Even though we may disagree seriously, we're gonna seek God 00:11:58.717 --> 00:12:01.687 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% even more seriously, and we're gonna seek to get his arms 00:12:01.754 --> 00:12:04.590 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% around the world and present the gospel of the kingdom to 00:12:04.657 --> 00:12:05.958 align:start line:69% position:38% size:25% the world. 00:12:06.025 --> 00:12:07.293 align:start line:69% position:23% size:53% Does that make sense? 00:12:07.359 --> 00:12:08.661 align:start line:63% position:18% size:63% Daniel: That's it, that's the message right there. 00:12:08.727 --> 00:12:10.129 align:start line:63% position:18% size:65% Well, you, you've actually captured so much of that 00:12:10.196 --> 00:12:11.497 align:start line:69% position:33% size:33% in "Furious." 00:12:11.564 --> 00:12:14.300 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% I don't know if you saw it that way, but you have--this is an 00:12:14.366 --> 00:12:15.634 align:start line:69% position:33% size:33% amazing book. 00:12:15.701 --> 00:12:17.002 align:start line:69% position:13% size:73% Daniel: Thank you, thank you. 00:12:17.069 --> 00:12:19.371 align:start line:63% position:23% size:55% I really feel like the Holy Spirit helped me. 00:12:19.438 --> 00:12:21.540 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% I'm not saying it's inspired by like the scriptures, but the 00:12:21.607 --> 00:12:23.943 align:start line:63% position:25% size:48% script--it is based on the scriptures. 00:12:24.009 --> 00:12:26.879 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% And you know, what you're saying, even with the conflict 00:12:26.946 --> 00:12:28.314 align:start line:63% position:28% size:45% and stuff, you see that in Galatians. 00:12:28.380 --> 00:12:31.417 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% Maybe one of the most explicit places in the Bible where you 00:12:31.484 --> 00:12:35.187 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% have Paul, who wrote most of the New Testament, and Peter, who's 00:12:35.254 --> 00:12:38.724 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% like the chief of the apostles clashing in real time, 00:12:38.791 --> 00:12:41.293 align:start line:63% position:23% size:53% very dramatic, but yet they're brothers, 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:42.661 align:start line:69% position:13% size:73% but they're dealing in truth. 00:12:42.728 --> 00:12:44.330 align:start line:63% position:20% size:60% James: And Peter withstood the correction 00:12:44.396 --> 00:12:45.664 align:start line:69% position:20% size:58% without coming unglued. 00:12:45.731 --> 00:12:46.999 align:start line:63% position:23% size:55% Daniel: And it might have saved the church. 00:12:47.066 --> 00:12:48.934 align:start line:63% position:23% size:53% James: It might have. But see, there it is. 00:12:49.001 --> 00:12:51.070 align:start line:63% position:15% size:68% Look at that, there's where the friction did what? 00:12:51.137 --> 00:12:53.639 align:start line:63% position:15% size:68% It made them both stronger. It made Paul stronger too. 00:12:53.706 --> 00:12:55.407 align:start line:63% position:18% size:65% He needed strength. He said, "I'm in a battle. 00:12:55.474 --> 00:12:57.676 align:start line:63% position:15% size:68% These things don't go away. I can't explain it." 00:12:57.743 --> 00:12:59.712 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% And we don't know what all was going on, but it was the 00:12:59.778 --> 00:13:02.281 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% deceiver, and he wasn't letting him alone, so he's not gonna let 00:13:02.348 --> 00:13:03.616 align:start line:69% position:30% size:40% any of us alone. 00:13:03.682 --> 00:13:06.318 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% He never shuts up, but we don't have to listen to him. 00:13:06.385 --> 00:13:07.953 align:start line:69% position:15% size:70% We can listen to the Father. 00:13:08.020 --> 00:13:11.257 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% We can refuse his lies, and we can recognize him in others 00:13:11.323 --> 00:13:14.527 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% without despising the person, but being concerned about the 00:13:14.593 --> 00:13:17.663 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% person the enemy has taken over and try to show them how the 00:13:17.730 --> 00:13:20.633 align:start line:63% position:20% size:60% enemy's taken your mind, and this is not normal. 00:13:20.699 --> 00:13:23.302 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% This isn't normal behavior where you're going out and trying to 00:13:23.369 --> 00:13:25.538 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% organize a political party to go out and kill the other political 00:13:25.604 --> 00:13:28.240 align:start line:63% position:18% size:63% party or go kill somebody you don't like or rage 00:13:28.307 --> 00:13:29.942 align:start line:69% position:10% size:80% and tear up somebody's business. 00:13:30.009 --> 00:13:31.577 align:start line:63% position:28% size:45% This is crazy, this is the enemy, 00:13:31.644 --> 00:13:33.679 align:start line:63% position:23% size:55% this is the destroyer, the deceiver. 00:13:33.746 --> 00:13:36.048 align:start line:63% position:18% size:65% Excuse me, but I'm excited about--and I'm gonna 00:13:36.115 --> 00:13:39.418 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% tell you, you got it in here, you got it in your life. 00:13:39.485 --> 00:13:43.889 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% Excuse me for preaching, but I'm just telling you, do you believe 00:13:43.956 --> 00:13:47.893 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% in what I'm saying about the gospel of the kingdom needing to 00:13:47.960 --> 00:13:49.862 align:start line:63% position:25% size:48% take over the lives of the believers? 00:13:49.929 --> 00:13:54.033 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% And we've come together as the family of the perfect father and 00:13:54.099 --> 00:13:57.503 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% let him shape us, and even in our disagreement we love each 00:13:57.570 --> 00:14:01.273 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% other, and we get sharper instead of duller by clashing 00:14:01.340 --> 00:14:02.608 align:start line:69% position:18% size:65% and starting our own army. 00:14:02.675 --> 00:14:05.311 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% Daniel: Absolutely, and this is really the, you know, again it 00:14:05.377 --> 00:14:06.845 align:start line:63% position:25% size:50% goes back to what we were saying before. 00:14:06.912 --> 00:14:10.182 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% A lot of people think the gospel is just how I get out of 00:14:10.249 --> 00:14:11.550 align:start line:69% position:38% size:25% hell free. 00:14:11.617 --> 00:14:13.285 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% It's like a get out of hell free card or something like this. 00:14:13.352 --> 00:14:16.088 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% The gospel is not just our way out of hell, it's not just so we 00:14:16.155 --> 00:14:19.458 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% can get to heaven, it's so that heaven can get into us and so 00:14:19.525 --> 00:14:22.161 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% that through us heaven can get into the world around us. 00:14:22.228 --> 00:14:23.629 align:start line:63% position:20% size:60% That's the whole purpose that we're saved. 00:14:23.696 --> 00:14:26.098 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% I mean, if God just wanted to create porcelain dolls that were 00:14:26.165 --> 00:14:29.168 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% perfect little creatures, he'd have just made us in heaven. 00:14:29.235 --> 00:14:30.603 align:start line:63% position:25% size:48% Why did he put us here in this world? 00:14:30.669 --> 00:14:31.937 align:start line:69% position:15% size:70% There's obviously a purpose. 00:14:32.004 --> 00:14:34.240 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% James: I'm so glad I'm here, and I live in this challenged world 00:14:34.306 --> 00:14:38.177 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% with a great God and an awesome wife and a family and 00:14:38.244 --> 00:14:40.312 align:start line:69% position:28% size:43% 34 grandchildren. 00:14:40.379 --> 00:14:45.584 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% Here's a fatherless kid, the product of a rape that didn't 00:14:45.651 --> 00:14:48.520 align:start line:63% position:28% size:45% have a father ever or even a home. 00:14:48.587 --> 00:14:51.991 align:start line:63% position:23% size:53% God, you're so great, you're so great. 00:14:52.057 --> 00:14:57.229 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% Betty, you see your husband, and you watch God carrying me. 00:14:57.296 --> 00:14:58.597 align:start line:69% position:18% size:65% Betty Robison: Absolutely. 00:14:58.664 --> 00:15:00.266 align:start line:69% position:10% size:78% James: Is he thrilling you too? 00:15:00.332 --> 00:15:01.634 align:start line:69% position:30% size:38% Betty: Oh, yes. 00:15:01.700 --> 00:15:02.968 align:start line:69% position:10% size:80% James: Do you enjoy the journey? 00:15:03.035 --> 00:15:04.570 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% Betty: I think this can be the greatest season of our lives. 00:15:04.637 --> 00:15:06.538 align:start line:63% position:23% size:55% James: Well, it is gonna be in every way. 00:15:06.605 --> 00:15:09.108 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% I think it can be the greatest season for the church. 00:15:09.174 --> 00:15:11.977 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% Don't you believe the stage is set for the gospel of the 00:15:12.044 --> 00:15:13.512 align:start line:63% position:25% size:48% kingdom to be taking all nations? 00:15:13.579 --> 00:15:14.847 align:start line:69% position:13% size:75% Daniel: Oh, like never before. 00:15:14.913 --> 00:15:16.715 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% I mean, what we're seeing today, the harvest that's happening 00:15:16.782 --> 00:15:18.484 align:start line:69% position:10% size:80% around the world, unprecedented. 00:15:18.550 --> 00:15:19.852 align:start line:69% position:18% size:65% James: Absolutely amazing. 00:15:19.918 --> 00:15:22.087 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% What do you want everybody to hear from just the two of 00:15:22.154 --> 00:15:23.455 align:start line:69% position:35% size:30% us together? 00:15:23.522 --> 00:15:26.158 align:start line:63% position:20% size:58% Both of us are zealous, both of us are excited. 00:15:26.225 --> 00:15:30.396 align:start line:63% position:18% size:63% We've known one another's journey over the years. 00:15:30.462 --> 00:15:32.765 align:start line:63% position:28% size:45% This book is a stick of dynamite. 00:15:32.831 --> 00:15:35.868 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% We're gonna send it to every one of you who will just help us in 00:15:35.934 --> 00:15:39.938 align:start line:63% position:23% size:53% any way drill another 350 water wells. 00:15:40.005 --> 00:15:42.641 align:start line:63% position:15% size:68% There needs to be a million water wells, and that could 00:15:42.708 --> 00:15:45.010 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% happen if we had enough people who said I'll help you drill 00:15:45.077 --> 00:15:46.745 align:start line:69% position:20% size:58% those wells, I'll help. 00:15:46.812 --> 00:15:50.149 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% Well, we're gonna send this to everybody that just helps. 00:15:50.215 --> 00:15:54.787 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% Do you think we got a chance of seeing the father's family begin 00:15:54.853 --> 00:15:56.121 align:start line:69% position:28% size:43% to look like him? 00:15:56.188 --> 00:15:57.589 align:start line:63% position:23% size:55% Daniel: I think that's the whole point. 00:15:57.656 --> 00:16:00.359 align:start line:63% position:15% size:68% That's what all of this has always been moving towards, 00:16:00.426 --> 00:16:01.727 align:start line:63% position:20% size:60% starting right in the beginning in the garden. 00:16:01.794 --> 00:16:03.896 align:start line:63% position:28% size:43% You said it, what is God's dream? 00:16:03.962 --> 00:16:05.264 align:start line:69% position:23% size:55% He was after a family. 00:16:05.331 --> 00:16:06.598 align:start line:63% position:25% size:48% That's what Adam and Eve were about. 00:16:06.665 --> 00:16:08.300 align:start line:63% position:20% size:60% That's what the children of Israel were about. 00:16:08.367 --> 00:16:10.102 align:start line:63% position:28% size:43% That's what the gospel was about. 00:16:10.169 --> 00:16:12.771 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% This is all building towards one thing, that God's going to get 00:16:12.838 --> 00:16:14.139 align:start line:69% position:20% size:60% that dream in his heart. 00:16:14.206 --> 00:16:16.308 align:start line:63% position:15% size:68% James: And we keep thinking about the next kingdom when 00:16:16.375 --> 00:16:19.912 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% there'll be no challenge, nothing to overcome, no need for 00:16:19.978 --> 00:16:23.849 align:start line:63% position:18% size:63% armor, no need to resist, no need to fight. 00:16:23.916 --> 00:16:26.085 align:start line:63% position:28% size:45% Well, where are we gonna do all that? 00:16:26.151 --> 00:16:30.622 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% In this kingdom, we fulfill the Father's kingdom will on his 00:16:30.689 --> 00:16:35.527 align:start line:63% position:13% size:75% earth, his planet, in his kingdom, and we impact all the 00:16:35.594 --> 00:16:38.364 align:start line:69% position:10% size:78% nations of the world with what? 00:16:38.430 --> 00:16:42.935 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% The gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all nations, then 00:16:43.001 --> 00:16:46.338 align:start line:63% position:23% size:53% I'll come, the gospel of the kingdom, 00:16:46.405 --> 00:16:49.708 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% and I think not just in word but in demonstration. 00:16:49.775 --> 00:16:51.043 align:start line:69% position:23% size:53% Can we shake on that? 00:16:51.110 --> 00:16:52.411 align:start line:63% position:18% size:65% Daniel: I agree. James: I love you, Daniel. 00:16:52.478 --> 00:16:53.912 align:start line:63% position:20% size:58% Daniel: I love you, too, thank you so much. 00:16:53.979 --> 00:16:55.914 align:start line:63% position:20% size:60% James: Let's stay close. Daniel: Okay. 00:16:55.981 --> 00:16:59.518 align:start line:58% position:13% size:75% James: We wanna ask all of you to help us drill water wells. 00:16:59.585 --> 00:17:02.388 align:start line:58% position:18% size:63% We've helped drill thousands of water wells. 00:17:02.454 --> 00:17:04.957 align:start line:58% position:23% size:55% We've inspired the drilling of thousands. 00:17:05.023 --> 00:17:06.759 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% We want to drill another 350. 00:17:06.825 --> 00:17:09.395 align:start line:63% position:20% size:58% I pray God double that. 00:17:09.461 --> 00:17:12.364 align:start line:58% position:10% size:80% The only way it doubles if somebody will give another well, 00:17:12.431 --> 00:17:19.405 align:start line:58% position:15% size:70% 4800 or 1200 and pray for 3, or $48 gives 10 people water 00:17:19.471 --> 00:17:22.608 align:start line:58% position:20% size:58% the rest of their life, it is amazing. 00:17:22.674 --> 00:17:26.845 align:start line:58% position:10% size:80% Father, help everybody watching to go get their bank card to use 00:17:26.912 --> 00:17:28.480 align:start line:63% position:30% size:40% it like a check. 00:17:28.547 --> 00:17:31.517 align:start line:58% position:10% size:78% If they write a check, make it to Life, because they're giving 00:17:31.583 --> 00:17:34.286 align:start line:63% position:23% size:53% life in Jesus's name. 00:17:34.353 --> 00:17:38.924 align:start line:58% position:10% size:80% Would you go get that bank card, call that number, or go online? 00:17:38.991 --> 00:17:42.761 align:start line:10% position:13% size:75% We have several gifts to give you, to share with you, and we 00:17:42.828 --> 00:17:47.599 align:start line:10% position:10% size:78% have the beautiful bronze of the shepherd with the two sheep 00:17:47.666 --> 00:17:51.970 align:start line:10% position:10% size:80% walking in his shadow, but there's one little sheep up here 00:17:52.037 --> 00:17:54.440 align:start line:63% position:28% size:43% on his shoulders. 00:17:54.506 --> 00:17:59.178 align:start line:58% position:20% size:58% The first time I saw that, I said that's me. 00:17:59.244 --> 00:18:01.647 align:start line:58% position:25% size:50% I couldn't even walk in your shadow. 00:18:01.713 --> 00:18:03.649 align:start line:63% position:20% size:58% Too weak, too defeated. 00:18:03.715 --> 00:18:07.920 align:start line:58% position:18% size:63% You carried me, and I got so close to your mind and 00:18:07.986 --> 00:18:09.388 align:start line:63% position:35% size:28% your heart. 00:18:09.455 --> 00:18:11.824 align:start line:58% position:25% size:48% We're gonna send this to any of you. 00:18:11.890 --> 00:18:15.093 align:start line:58% position:23% size:55% Help us drill water wells by giving $1200. 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:17.162 align:start line:63% position:28% size:43% Sure do love you. 00:18:17.229 --> 00:18:19.064 align:start line:63% position:23% size:55% Please make that gift. 00:18:19.131 --> 00:18:22.167 align:start line:58% position:25% size:50% Go get that card, use it like a check. 00:18:22.234 --> 00:18:25.070 align:start line:58% position:28% size:43% You make a check, make it to Life. 00:18:25.137 --> 00:18:27.172 align:start line:63% position:28% size:45% Thank you so much. 00:18:29.975 --> 00:18:33.045 align:start line:63% position:10% size:78% Isak Pretorius: We've just watched this young girl come in 00:18:33.111 --> 00:18:38.450 align:start line:63% position:10% size:80% here, come all the way down into this area here where there's 00:18:38.517 --> 00:18:42.287 align:start line:79% position:13% size:75% water, this is highly-contaminated water, but 00:18:42.354 --> 00:18:46.158 align:start line:79% position:23% size:55% it's the only water that's available here. 00:18:46.225 --> 00:18:51.230 align:start line:79% position:10% size:80% She's literally come down and tried to get the cleanest of the 00:18:51.296 --> 00:18:53.866 align:start line:85% position:25% size:48% contaminated water. 00:18:53.932 --> 00:18:57.970 align:start line:79% position:10% size:78% But the reality is the external danger of this child maybe 00:18:58.036 --> 00:19:01.106 align:start line:79% position:10% size:78% falling in this water, drowning in this water, or any of the 00:19:01.173 --> 00:19:05.077 align:start line:79% position:10% size:78% other external dangers that are here to this child don't even 00:19:05.143 --> 00:19:09.781 align:start line:79% position:13% size:75% compare to the internal danger of the contamination of this 00:19:09.848 --> 00:19:13.886 align:start line:79% position:13% size:75% water, the waterborne diseases that are in this water, that 00:19:13.952 --> 00:19:21.460 align:start line:79% position:13% size:73% this child, her siblings, her family are forced to consume. 00:19:21.527 --> 00:19:24.329 align:start line:79% position:13% size:75% I wish you could be here and actually experience what it is 00:19:24.396 --> 00:19:28.767 align:start line:79% position:13% size:75% like to talk to these mothers, to hear from them as they 00:19:28.834 --> 00:19:33.705 align:start line:79% position:10% size:80% explain how it's little children like this that are contracting 00:19:33.772 --> 00:19:38.744 align:start line:79% position:18% size:63% waterborne diseases, that are ultimately dying. 00:19:38.810 --> 00:19:42.814 align:start line:79% position:10% size:80% I've met the mothers, I've seen the contamination of this water, 00:19:42.881 --> 00:19:46.618 align:start line:79% position:15% size:70% and I've seen the graves of those that we couldn't bring 00:19:46.685 --> 00:19:50.756 align:start line:79% position:13% size:75% clean water to in time, and that's why I speak to you with 00:19:50.822 --> 00:19:54.126 align:start line:79% position:18% size:63% urgency today, because I know what has to be done. 00:19:54.192 --> 00:19:57.496 align:start line:79% position:13% size:75% What has to be done is that we have to come back here, and we 00:19:57.563 --> 00:20:01.199 align:start line:79% position:13% size:73% have to drill a well here, we have to put in fresh, clean 00:20:01.266 --> 00:20:05.237 align:start line:79% position:13% size:73% water, we've got to provide clean water that will sustain 00:20:05.304 --> 00:20:07.639 align:start line:79% position:25% size:50% their life, that will give them life. 00:20:07.706 --> 00:20:15.047 align:start line:79% position:13% size:73% Do it for her, give that gift today, give the gift of life. 00:20:15.113 --> 00:20:18.050 align:start line:79% position:10% size:80% James: Well, I'll tell you what, for 30 to 35 years we've been 00:20:18.116 --> 00:20:21.520 align:start line:79% position:23% size:55% trying to get water to people that never had 00:20:21.587 --> 00:20:22.854 align:start line:85% position:23% size:53% uncontaminated water. 00:20:22.921 --> 00:20:25.591 align:start line:79% position:10% size:80% The people you were just looking at, I can't help but think most 00:20:25.657 --> 00:20:29.861 align:start line:79% position:10% size:78% of them, the clothes they have on were sent to them because we 00:20:29.928 --> 00:20:32.965 align:start line:79% position:13% size:75% showed them to you, and you began to try to help them with 00:20:33.031 --> 00:20:38.270 align:start line:79% position:13% size:73% either food or now for water, and then some of the clothes 00:20:38.337 --> 00:20:40.339 align:start line:79% position:18% size:65% that are made are out of material and cloth that we 00:20:40.405 --> 00:20:41.707 align:start line:85% position:38% size:25% gave them. 00:20:41.773 --> 00:20:45.110 align:start line:79% position:10% size:78% And I can say, you know, this is an area that's not nearly as 00:20:45.177 --> 00:20:48.814 align:start line:79% position:13% size:75% horrifically hidden as some of them are, but as far as the 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:53.085 align:start line:79% position:10% size:78% water and the death, that cycle is there, and only fresh, clean 00:20:53.151 --> 00:20:56.555 align:start line:79% position:10% size:78% water and a well can change it, and it can change it instantly. 00:20:56.622 --> 00:20:59.458 align:start line:58% position:18% size:63% And we're asking you to please help us right now. 00:20:59.524 --> 00:21:01.793 align:start line:63% position:18% size:65% USAID had to leave Africa. 00:21:01.860 --> 00:21:05.397 align:start line:58% position:13% size:73% That has quadrupled the numbers of death immediately. 00:21:05.464 --> 00:21:08.900 align:start line:58% position:13% size:73% And I'm thinking, God, we're trying to drill 350 wells, we 00:21:08.967 --> 00:21:11.870 align:start line:58% position:25% size:48% need to be drilling a million wells. 00:21:11.937 --> 00:21:14.539 align:start line:58% position:10% size:78% Well, that's what we need to do immediately, and you say, well, 00:21:14.606 --> 00:21:16.642 align:start line:58% position:25% size:48% James, what would it take to do that? 00:21:16.708 --> 00:21:21.279 align:start line:58% position:10% size:78% Somebody like you say I'll help drill a well or I'll drill 00:21:21.346 --> 00:21:22.614 align:start line:63% position:40% size:18% a well. 00:21:22.681 --> 00:21:26.818 align:start line:58% position:13% size:75% I've got--I've been blessed, I can give $4800, or I can give 00:21:26.885 --> 00:21:29.154 align:start line:63% position:18% size:63% $1200 and pray 3 join me. 00:21:29.221 --> 00:21:32.591 align:start line:58% position:10% size:80% Well, if you can do that, do it, but remember this, $48 gives 10 00:21:32.658 --> 00:21:36.728 align:start line:58% position:10% size:80% people, 10 people water the rest of their life, because that's 00:21:36.795 --> 00:21:39.097 align:start line:58% position:25% size:50% basically what these water wells do. 00:21:39.164 --> 00:21:43.101 align:start line:58% position:10% size:78% They last a lifetime, so you're changing millions of lives. 00:21:43.168 --> 00:21:45.237 align:start line:58% position:25% size:50% Betty, we have saved millions of lives. 00:21:45.303 --> 00:21:50.375 align:start line:58% position:10% size:78% When I say we, we found the need, we found the solution, we 00:21:50.442 --> 00:21:53.278 align:start line:58% position:13% size:75% found that there's water accessible, because they drill 00:21:53.345 --> 00:21:56.748 align:start line:58% position:10% size:78% boreholes that get contaminated and filthy, but there's water 00:21:56.815 --> 00:22:00.285 align:start line:58% position:10% size:80% there under the ground that you can drill into and go deeper and 00:22:00.352 --> 00:22:04.656 align:start line:58% position:13% size:75% encase it and give them a pump that a child can pump without 00:22:04.723 --> 00:22:05.991 align:start line:63% position:38% size:25% any power. 00:22:06.058 --> 00:22:07.659 align:start line:63% position:23% size:55% They don't have power. 00:22:07.726 --> 00:22:11.496 align:start line:58% position:10% size:80% I'm praying today God will give us the greatest miracle response 00:22:11.563 --> 00:22:12.864 align:start line:63% position:30% size:40% we've ever seen. 00:22:12.931 --> 00:22:15.367 align:start line:58% position:13% size:75% Betty: I am, too, and I hope you'll be part of that miracle 00:22:15.434 --> 00:22:17.836 align:start line:58% position:23% size:55% and with that response that you give. 00:22:17.903 --> 00:22:21.239 align:start line:58% position:10% size:78% Give your love to the children, to the mothers that so 00:22:21.306 --> 00:22:23.775 align:start line:58% position:23% size:55% desperately want their children to live. 00:22:23.842 --> 00:22:27.112 align:start line:58% position:10% size:80% You know what that's like, if you have children, you want them 00:22:27.179 --> 00:22:31.049 align:start line:58% position:10% size:78% to live their full life, not to be cut short or something that 00:22:31.116 --> 00:22:35.187 align:start line:58% position:10% size:80% they didn't expect, and water is one thing, it's the main thing. 00:22:35.253 --> 00:22:37.456 align:start line:63% position:13% size:73% They have to have good water. 00:22:37.522 --> 00:22:40.792 align:start line:58% position:13% size:75% We've been there, James, we've shown you the heartache of a 00:22:40.859 --> 00:22:43.762 align:start line:58% position:15% size:70% mother losing a child, we've shown you the heartache of a 00:22:43.829 --> 00:22:45.597 align:start line:63% position:18% size:63% baby dying in their arms. 00:22:45.664 --> 00:22:47.199 align:start line:63% position:20% size:60% It just breaks my heart. 00:22:47.265 --> 00:22:50.702 align:start line:58% position:15% size:70% I never will get over that, but we've also shown you the 00:22:50.769 --> 00:22:55.640 align:start line:58% position:10% size:78% possibilities of you helping us drill the water wells that make 00:22:55.707 --> 00:22:58.710 align:start line:58% position:18% size:65% a life difference in these children and in these 00:22:58.777 --> 00:23:00.045 align:start line:63% position:30% size:38% mothers' lives. 00:23:00.112 --> 00:23:03.682 align:start line:58% position:10% size:80% So, please join with us, give as much as you can, give what God 00:23:03.749 --> 00:23:05.016 align:start line:63% position:25% size:48% puts on your heart. 00:23:05.083 --> 00:23:09.054 align:start line:58% position:10% size:78% James: Please go get your bank card and dial that number or go 00:23:09.121 --> 00:23:13.425 align:start line:63% position:18% size:63% online and use that card. 00:23:13.492 --> 00:23:14.760 align:start line:63% position:15% size:70% I mean, use it like a check. 00:23:14.826 --> 00:23:17.028 align:start line:58% position:23% size:53% If you write a check, make it to Life, 00:23:17.095 --> 00:23:18.563 align:start line:58% position:25% size:50% and make the largest check you can. 00:23:18.630 --> 00:23:21.166 align:start line:58% position:20% size:58% Please do it right now. Don't put this off. 00:23:21.233 --> 00:23:23.502 align:start line:10% position:13% size:73% We're gonna send you "The Joy of Reading God's Word" 00:23:23.568 --> 00:23:25.003 align:start line:10% position:33% size:33% for any gift. 00:23:25.070 --> 00:23:29.074 align:start line:10% position:13% size:75% That will bless you so much and the Word getting into you. 00:23:29.141 --> 00:23:32.778 align:start line:10% position:10% size:78% And then if you'll give $100 or more, this beautiful pictorial 00:23:32.844 --> 00:23:37.482 align:start line:10% position:13% size:73% book, "A Life of Compassion," showing you all the beauty of 00:23:37.549 --> 00:23:41.553 align:start line:10% position:13% size:73% your love being poured out on people all over the world. 00:23:41.620 --> 00:23:43.655 align:start line:10% position:28% size:45% The power of love. 00:23:43.722 --> 00:23:46.458 align:start line:58% position:25% size:48% Would you right now express that love? 00:23:46.525 --> 00:23:48.360 align:start line:63% position:25% size:50% Would you give life? 00:23:48.426 --> 00:23:53.064 align:start line:58% position:13% size:73% Would you be the miracle that provides the greatest miracle 00:23:53.131 --> 00:23:59.504 align:start line:58% position:13% size:75% these villages, these mothers, these children have ever seen? 00:23:59.571 --> 00:24:05.343 align:start line:58% position:13% size:75% Please don't put it off, do it right now, and give the very 00:24:05.410 --> 00:24:09.381 align:start line:58% position:10% size:80% best gift you can knowing you're giving the greatest gift, the 00:24:09.447 --> 00:24:12.918 align:start line:63% position:33% size:33% gift of life. 00:24:12.984 --> 00:24:16.354 align:start line:10% position:10% size:78% announcer: Every day thousands of lives are lost to waterborne 00:24:16.421 --> 00:24:19.291 align:start line:10% position:10% size:80% disease, and nearly half of those are children under the age 00:24:19.357 --> 00:24:20.625 align:start line:10% position:40% size:20% of five. 00:24:20.692 --> 00:24:23.962 align:start line:10% position:10% size:78% Through mission Water for Life, you can give mothers hope and 00:24:24.029 --> 00:24:28.233 align:start line:10% position:10% size:80% children a future, as we provide clean, fresh drinking water, 00:24:28.300 --> 00:24:30.569 align:start line:10% position:15% size:70% free from the fear of death. 00:24:30.635 --> 00:24:34.639 align:start line:10% position:13% size:73% With your gift today, you can help drill and establish 350 00:24:34.706 --> 00:24:36.408 align:start line:10% position:23% size:55% water wells this year. 00:24:36.474 --> 00:24:39.845 align:start line:10% position:18% size:65% Your gift of $24 will help provide clean water for 00:24:39.911 --> 00:24:41.179 align:start line:10% position:33% size:35% five children. 00:24:41.246 --> 00:24:43.782 align:start line:10% position:23% size:53% A gift of $48 will help provide for ten. 00:24:43.849 --> 00:24:48.520 align:start line:10% position:10% size:78% And $144 will help provide life-giving water for 30 people 00:24:48.587 --> 00:24:49.855 align:start line:10% position:30% size:38% for a lifetime. 00:24:49.921 --> 00:24:53.892 align:start line:10% position:10% size:80% With a gift of any amount, we'll send you "Discovering the Joy of 00:24:53.959 --> 00:24:55.260 align:start line:10% position:25% size:50% Reading God's Word." 00:24:55.327 --> 00:24:58.930 align:start line:10% position:10% size:80% Whether you've read the Bible for years or are just beginning, 00:24:58.997 --> 00:25:02.400 align:start line:10% position:10% size:80% this book invites you to experience Scripture in a fresh, 00:25:02.467 --> 00:25:03.802 align:start line:10% position:28% size:45% more intimate way. 00:25:03.869 --> 00:25:08.073 align:start line:10% position:10% size:78% With your gift of $100 or more, you may request "A Life of 00:25:08.139 --> 00:25:11.509 align:start line:10% position:10% size:78% Compassion" coffee table book, capturing LIFE Outreach's heart 00:25:11.576 --> 00:25:12.878 align:start line:10% position:33% size:35% for the world. 00:25:12.944 --> 00:25:16.748 align:start line:10% position:10% size:78% Each page pairs timeless Bible verses with vivid mission field 00:25:16.815 --> 00:25:21.353 align:start line:10% position:18% size:63% photography, making God's Word visible in action. 00:25:21.419 --> 00:25:25.757 align:start line:10% position:10% size:78% Finally, please consider a gift of $1200 to help provide water 00:25:25.824 --> 00:25:31.162 align:start line:10% position:18% size:65% for 250 people, or a gift of $4800 to help sponsor a 00:25:31.229 --> 00:25:32.497 align:start line:10% position:33% size:35% complete well. 00:25:32.564 --> 00:25:36.601 align:start line:10% position:15% size:70% And request Life's beautiful 2026 bronze sculpture, The 00:25:36.668 --> 00:25:38.003 align:start line:10% position:33% size:35% Good Shepherd. 00:25:38.069 --> 00:25:41.539 align:start line:10% position:15% size:68% Please call, write, or make your gift online today. 00:25:46.044 --> 00:25:49.281 align:start line:53% position:10% size:80% Randy Robison: You know, so many people don't have a choice when 00:25:49.347 --> 00:25:51.182 align:start line:58% position:28% size:45% it comes to water. 00:25:51.249 --> 00:25:55.487 align:start line:53% position:10% size:80% The only water source that they have is the one nearest them, in 00:25:55.553 --> 00:25:58.757 align:start line:63% position:28% size:45% this case a river. 00:25:58.823 --> 00:26:02.827 align:start line:58% position:20% size:58% When you look at it, it doesn't look too bad. 00:26:02.894 --> 00:26:05.330 align:start line:58% position:10% size:78% It's a little dirty, but you can see some of the areas where 00:26:05.397 --> 00:26:08.767 align:start line:58% position:15% size:70% there's moss and animals and people bathing and swimming. 00:26:08.833 --> 00:26:13.104 align:start line:58% position:10% size:78% They tell us it's not so much what you can see in here that's 00:26:13.171 --> 00:26:15.340 align:start line:58% position:25% size:48% dangerous, it's what you can't see. 00:26:15.407 --> 00:26:19.844 align:start line:58% position:10% size:80% It's what goes into the stomachs and the systems of even the 00:26:19.911 --> 00:26:24.215 align:start line:58% position:18% size:63% youngest of children, and it hits them the hardest. 00:26:24.282 --> 00:26:29.988 align:start line:58% position:15% size:70% Fresh, clean drinking water, you can give that to them. 00:26:30.055 --> 00:26:33.058 align:start line:58% position:13% size:73% We need to come into this village and that village over 00:26:33.124 --> 00:26:35.060 align:start line:63% position:20% size:58% there across the river. 00:26:35.126 --> 00:26:38.496 align:start line:58% position:23% size:55% We need to come in with many water wells. 00:26:38.563 --> 00:26:41.499 align:start line:58% position:25% size:48% I'm asking you to make that possible. 00:26:41.566 --> 00:26:45.337 align:start line:58% position:25% size:48% You will be helping to save a life. 00:26:45.403 --> 00:26:47.839 align:start line:58% position:28% size:43% James: I want you to get "Furious." 00:26:47.906 --> 00:26:52.143 align:start line:58% position:10% size:78% I was telling Daniel he doesn't realize how great all he put in 00:26:52.210 --> 00:26:54.145 align:start line:63% position:33% size:33% this book is. 00:26:54.212 --> 00:26:56.081 align:start line:58% position:10% size:78% We've been talking about the gospel of the kingdom here just 00:26:56.147 --> 00:26:57.415 align:start line:63% position:28% size:45% kind of privately. 00:26:57.482 --> 00:27:01.052 align:start line:58% position:13% size:73% The gospel of the kingdom, that's his will being done on 00:27:01.119 --> 00:27:05.957 align:start line:58% position:13% size:75% his earth by his family that's been captured by his vision. 00:27:06.024 --> 00:27:10.462 align:start line:58% position:13% size:75% He wants the gospel of the kingdom preached by his family 00:27:10.528 --> 00:27:16.034 align:start line:58% position:18% size:63% in this kingdom to all nations, then he'll come. 00:27:16.101 --> 00:27:18.536 align:start line:63% position:25% size:50% Don't miss it, okay? 00:27:18.603 --> 00:27:22.707 align:start line:58% position:23% size:55% Keep up with him, keep up with "Life Today." 00:27:22.774 --> 00:27:25.010 align:start line:63% position:20% size:58% Stay tuned, I love you. 00:27:25.076 --> 00:27:28.713 align:start line:58% position:15% size:70% Thanks for helping put God's arms around the overlooked. 00:27:28.780 --> 00:27:38.723 align:start line:63% position:40% size:18% [music] 00:27:38.790 --> 00:27:48.733 align:start line:63% position:40% size:18% [music] 00:27:48.800 --> 00:27:53.738 align:start line:63% position:40% size:18% [music] 00:27:53.805 --> 00:28:01.513 align:start line:63% position:40% size:18% [music] 00:28:02.547 --> 00:28:05.650 align:start line:58% position:10% size:78% Colby Maier: I tried to play God's role in my life in trying 00:28:05.717 --> 00:28:09.120 align:start line:58% position:13% size:75% to work out everything, all the details of my life, and it 00:28:09.187 --> 00:28:10.488 align:start line:63% position:35% size:30% consumed me. 00:28:10.555 --> 00:28:12.490 align:start line:63% position:25% size:50% announcer: Tomorrow. 00:28:12.557 --> 00:28:14.826 align:start line:10% position:10% size:78% announcer: "Life Today" is made possible by the supporters of 00:28:14.893 --> 00:28:16.161 align:start line:10% position:15% size:70% Life Outreach International. 00:28:16.227 --> 00:28:18.263 align:start line:10% position:18% size:65% Your gift will be used exclusively for the exempt 00:28:18.329 --> 00:28:19.597 align:start line:10% position:28% size:43% purposes of life. 00:28:19.664 --> 00:28:22.033 align:start line:10% position:13% size:75% The ministry features specific outreaches as examples of the 00:28:22.100 --> 00:28:23.535 align:start line:10% position:25% size:50% programs it supports and conducts. 00:28:23.601 --> 00:28:25.670 align:start line:10% position:13% size:73% Gifts are considered to be without restriction as to use 00:28:25.737 --> 00:28:27.405 align:start line:10% position:20% size:60% unless explicitly stipulated by the donor. 00:28:27.472 --> 00:28:29.474 align:start line:10% position:25% size:48% The ministry is a member of the ECFA.