WEBVTT NOTE This file was exported by MacCaption version 7.0.11 to comply with the WebVTT specification dated March 23, 2013. 00:00:00.667 --> 00:00:02.936 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% male announcer: The following program is sponsored by Friends 00:00:02.936 --> 00:00:04.938 align:start line:85% position:44% size:78% of Life Outreach International. 00:00:06.773 --> 00:00:09.209 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Daniel Kolenda: The gospel is not just our way out of hell, 00:00:09.209 --> 00:00:11.645 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% it's not just so we can get to heaven, it's so that heaven can 00:00:11.645 --> 00:00:15.415 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% get into us and so that through us heaven can get into the world 00:00:15.415 --> 00:00:16.783 align:start line:69% position:50% size:25% around us. 00:00:16.783 --> 00:00:18.118 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% That's the whole purpose that we're saved. 00:00:18.118 --> 00:00:19.853 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% I mean, if God just wanted to create porcelain dolls that were 00:00:19.853 --> 00:00:22.890 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% perfect little creatures, he'd have just made us in heaven. 00:00:22.890 --> 00:00:24.291 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% Why'd he put us here in this world? 00:00:24.291 --> 00:00:25.659 align:start line:69% position:50% size:70% There's obviously a purpose. 00:00:25.659 --> 00:00:28.528 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% announcer: Daniel Kolenda invites you to trade legalism 00:00:28.528 --> 00:00:33.166 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% for liberty, religion for relationship, and become furious 00:00:33.166 --> 00:00:35.168 align:start line:69% position:47% size:53% for the gospel, next. 00:00:36.536 --> 00:00:46.546 align:start line:85% position:48% size:18% [music] 00:00:46.546 --> 00:00:53.687 align:start line:85% position:48% size:18% [music] 00:00:53.687 --> 00:00:55.489 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% James Robison: Well, you know, we have exciting members, and 00:00:55.489 --> 00:00:58.659 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% they bring back a lot of precious memories. 00:00:58.659 --> 00:01:00.394 align:start line:63% position:48% size:43% Daniel Kolenda is our guest today. 00:01:00.394 --> 00:01:04.564 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% He was with Reinhard Bonnke, many of you know who he was, but 00:01:04.564 --> 00:01:07.534 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Christ for All Nations, he had one of the biggest ministries in 00:01:07.534 --> 00:01:10.203 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% the world, where millions of people would attend a 00:01:10.203 --> 00:01:11.805 align:start line:69% position:50% size:41% crusade service. 00:01:11.805 --> 00:01:15.409 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Millions would get saved in one service, and that was all over 00:01:15.409 --> 00:01:18.645 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Africa and other countries, third world countries, and we 00:01:18.645 --> 00:01:23.517 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% met him there, and we met Daniel Kolenda, who's our guest today, 00:01:23.517 --> 00:01:26.954 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% and he actually took over the ministry when he was quite young 00:01:26.954 --> 00:01:31.725 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% and stayed with the Reinhard till Reinhard died 6 years ago. 00:01:31.725 --> 00:01:33.627 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% But you gotta understand, this is a huge min-- 00:01:33.627 --> 00:01:36.263 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% We can start showing you pictures right now of just the 00:01:36.263 --> 00:01:39.766 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% millions of people that he's preaching to, and I spoke to 00:01:39.766 --> 00:01:42.169 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% some of those huge crowds. 00:01:42.169 --> 00:01:46.206 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% My mission associate, Peter Pretorius, he spoke a lot of, 00:01:46.206 --> 00:01:50.610 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% and Reinhard gave Peter a big tent to hold crusades in and 00:01:50.610 --> 00:01:51.979 align:start line:69% position:48% size:23% knew he-- 00:01:51.979 --> 00:01:54.514 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Well, you know, Reinhard knows how much we help Peter and help 00:01:54.514 --> 00:01:58.218 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% missionaries everywhere, and Daniel knows, and Daniel's been 00:01:58.218 --> 00:02:00.988 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% here, and Daniel, it's good to have you back. 00:02:00.988 --> 00:02:02.356 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% Daniel: Thank you so much. 00:02:02.356 --> 00:02:04.825 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% James: It really is, and it's hard to believe that Reinhard's 00:02:04.825 --> 00:02:06.727 align:start line:69% position:50% size:45% been gone 6 years. 00:02:06.727 --> 00:02:09.796 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% About how long did you leave the ministry, let's say, hands on? 00:02:09.796 --> 00:02:12.499 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Daniel: Well, when Reinhard was still alive, it was ten-plus 00:02:12.499 --> 00:02:14.801 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% years, and then obviously since then. 00:02:14.801 --> 00:02:16.336 align:start line:69% position:50% size:70% James: Which is another six. 00:02:16.336 --> 00:02:17.671 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% Daniel: Another six, yeah. 00:02:17.671 --> 00:02:21.475 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% James: Yeah, well, you are an amazing person, and then you 00:02:21.475 --> 00:02:26.947 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% asked to talk about this book, "Furious: A Modern Retelling of 00:02:26.947 --> 00:02:29.850 align:start line:69% position:45% size:73% Paul's Fight for the Gospel." 00:02:29.850 --> 00:02:32.085 align:start line:69% position:50% size:45% This is Galatians. 00:02:32.085 --> 00:02:35.355 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% What led you to take off on Galatians and with the 00:02:35.355 --> 00:02:37.424 align:start line:69% position:50% size:41% title "Furious?" 00:02:37.424 --> 00:02:40.027 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Daniel: Well, first of all, I did not plan to write a book 00:02:40.027 --> 00:02:41.361 align:start line:69% position:48% size:33% on Galatians. 00:02:41.361 --> 00:02:43.096 align:start line:69% position:47% size:58% It kinda blindsided me. 00:02:43.096 --> 00:02:45.565 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% I started a church a few years ago, and one of the things I've 00:02:45.565 --> 00:02:48.502 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% been doing in the church is preaching expositorily through 00:02:48.502 --> 00:02:49.836 align:start line:69% position:45% size:73% different books in the Bible. 00:02:49.836 --> 00:02:51.605 align:start line:63% position:50% size:50% So I decided to preach on Galatians. 00:02:51.605 --> 00:02:54.307 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% So I'm going through verse by verse, Sunday after Sunday, and 00:02:54.307 --> 00:02:55.909 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% people were coming up to me after the service. 00:02:55.909 --> 00:02:59.012 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% I mean, Christian people, people that I've known for many years, 00:02:59.012 --> 00:03:03.183 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% and they're telling me things like this is changing our lives. 00:03:03.183 --> 00:03:05.218 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% We didn't--we've never seen the gospel like this before. 00:03:05.218 --> 00:03:08.655 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% And it kind of hit me like a revelation that we think of, 00:03:08.655 --> 00:03:11.224 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% oftentimes Christians think of the gospel as something for 00:03:11.224 --> 00:03:13.627 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% heathens, and then once we get saved, it's kind of like we're 00:03:13.627 --> 00:03:15.629 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% done with that, now we move on to greater things. 00:03:15.629 --> 00:03:19.399 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% But Paul says that for us who are being saved, the gospel is 00:03:19.399 --> 00:03:20.801 align:start line:69% position:48% size:43% the power of God. 00:03:20.801 --> 00:03:23.804 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% We need, as Christians--I suddenly realized we need 00:03:23.804 --> 00:03:25.138 align:start line:69% position:48% size:28% the gospel. 00:03:25.138 --> 00:03:27.274 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% It's not something we had, it's something we get one time, it's 00:03:27.274 --> 00:03:28.642 align:start line:69% position:50% size:61% something where we live. 00:03:28.642 --> 00:03:30.777 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% So, I get to the end of the series, and I thought I'm gonna 00:03:30.777 --> 00:03:32.813 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% put my notes together for my congregation. 00:03:32.813 --> 00:03:36.383 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% And as I'm working on it, I just felt this sense of like 00:03:36.383 --> 00:03:39.453 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% frustration, and I kept thinking why do I feel this way? 00:03:39.453 --> 00:03:42.089 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Because I love the content of the book of Galatians, but what 00:03:42.089 --> 00:03:44.458 align:start line:63% position:50% size:50% I'm putting together wasn't satisfying. 00:03:44.458 --> 00:03:47.494 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% And then it struck me, you know, Galatians is such a 00:03:47.494 --> 00:03:48.862 align:start line:69% position:50% size:41% passionate book. 00:03:48.862 --> 00:03:50.564 align:start line:69% position:47% size:58% It's got so much drama. 00:03:50.564 --> 00:03:52.933 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% James: It starts passionate and ends passionately. 00:03:52.933 --> 00:03:55.569 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Daniel: And the backstory and the layers throughout, and I 00:03:55.569 --> 00:03:58.171 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% thought this--I'm just not able to do it justice in 00:03:58.171 --> 00:03:59.539 align:start line:69% position:48% size:33% a commentary. 00:03:59.539 --> 00:04:01.575 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% So I started thinking and praying, Lord, how do I 00:04:01.575 --> 00:04:04.845 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% communicate this in a way that does justice to the message of 00:04:04.845 --> 00:04:06.213 align:start line:69% position:50% size:25% this book? 00:04:06.213 --> 00:04:08.882 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% And suddenly it was like I saw it play out in front of my mind 00:04:08.882 --> 00:04:13.320 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% like a movie, like the scene of Paul, because we know that Paul 00:04:13.320 --> 00:04:16.156 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% didn't write his letters, he dictated them to a scribe. 00:04:16.156 --> 00:04:20.527 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% So, I'm imagining Paul dictating this letter to a scribe, and the 00:04:20.527 --> 00:04:23.163 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% scribe is hearing the things that we're reading and having 00:04:23.163 --> 00:04:25.765 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% the kind of reactions that we have when he says things like, 00:04:25.765 --> 00:04:28.068 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% "O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?" 00:04:28.068 --> 00:04:29.436 align:start line:69% position:48% size:23% you know? 00:04:29.436 --> 00:04:31.104 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And then the scribe wants to understand why are you talking 00:04:31.104 --> 00:04:32.472 align:start line:69% position:50% size:25% like this? 00:04:32.472 --> 00:04:34.808 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And the conversation that Paul begins to have with him, he's 00:04:34.808 --> 00:04:38.078 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% able to tell him the backstory, tell him the story of how he 00:04:38.078 --> 00:04:41.515 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% came to Christ, how the gospel came to the Gentiles, how he had 00:04:41.515 --> 00:04:44.117 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% this confrontation with Peter and all of these 00:04:44.117 --> 00:04:45.452 align:start line:69% position:50% size:50% interesting stories. 00:04:45.452 --> 00:04:46.820 align:start line:69% position:50% size:70% And so I wrote it like that. 00:04:46.820 --> 00:04:48.989 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% It really is--it reads like a novel. 00:04:48.989 --> 00:04:51.191 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Like some people watch that movie, "The Chosen," you know, 00:04:51.191 --> 00:04:54.394 align:start line:69% position:45% size:73% which dramatized the Gospels. 00:04:54.394 --> 00:04:57.797 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% This is like "The Chosen," but Paul is the main character and 00:04:57.797 --> 00:05:00.901 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% the stories of the Book of Acts are kind of the drama that 00:05:00.901 --> 00:05:02.269 align:start line:69% position:50% size:35% unfolds there. 00:05:02.269 --> 00:05:03.603 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% James: Okay, well, take off on some of it. 00:05:03.603 --> 00:05:08.775 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% I wanna know what you saw that we need to see, because you made 00:05:08.775 --> 00:05:13.680 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% it--to me, you made it so very, very clear. 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:16.082 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% James: Yeah, well, you know, one of the things that I like to say 00:05:16.082 --> 00:05:18.652 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% about Paul's writings in general, and I think Galatians 00:05:18.652 --> 00:05:22.455 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% is probably the best example of this, is the way that he writes, 00:05:22.455 --> 00:05:24.758 align:start line:69% position:50% size:75% I call it theological lasagna. 00:05:24.758 --> 00:05:26.993 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% So what you've got is these layers of meaning. 00:05:26.993 --> 00:05:29.229 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Of course, there's the top layer, which is what you read, 00:05:29.229 --> 00:05:31.731 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% and on the surface it makes sense, but then there's always 00:05:31.731 --> 00:05:34.434 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% another layer under it, and then there's a layer under that, and 00:05:34.434 --> 00:05:36.703 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% the more that you dig, the more that you find. 00:05:36.703 --> 00:05:38.738 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Like, for example, that verse that I just quoted, "You foolish 00:05:38.738 --> 00:05:41.474 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% Galatians," Paul says, "who has bewitched you?" 00:05:41.474 --> 00:05:43.977 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% On the surface, it just sounds like an insult, it just sounds 00:05:43.977 --> 00:05:45.312 align:start line:69% position:50% size:35% like he's mad. 00:05:45.312 --> 00:05:47.180 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% When you look closer, you realize he's saying a whole 00:05:47.180 --> 00:05:48.682 align:start line:69% position:50% size:61% bunch of things at once. 00:05:48.682 --> 00:05:52.018 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% For example, when he says, "Who has bewitched you?" 00:05:52.018 --> 00:05:54.020 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% there's something very interesting about that word. 00:05:54.020 --> 00:05:57.424 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% That's the Greek word baskaino, which in the first century 00:05:57.424 --> 00:06:00.961 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% world, this word referred to a superstition that was very 00:06:00.961 --> 00:06:03.296 align:start line:63% position:50% size:50% common in those days called the evil eye. 00:06:03.296 --> 00:06:04.664 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% And I don't know if you've heard of this. 00:06:04.664 --> 00:06:06.366 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% I mean, some places in the world, they still believe this, 00:06:06.366 --> 00:06:10.704 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% but it's this idea that a person could put a curse on you through 00:06:10.704 --> 00:06:12.606 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% their gaze just by looking at you. 00:06:12.606 --> 00:06:15.108 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% And in fact, if you had something wrong with your eyes, 00:06:15.108 --> 00:06:17.210 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% maybe you looked funny, maybe your eye was injured or 00:06:17.210 --> 00:06:20.480 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% something, they would say that you might have the curse of the 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:22.449 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% evil eye on you, and if that person looks at you, you're 00:06:22.449 --> 00:06:23.783 align:start line:69% position:50% size:50% gonna get the curse. 00:06:23.783 --> 00:06:25.785 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% What's interesting is that we know, and many scholars believe 00:06:25.785 --> 00:06:29.489 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% that Paul had some kind of a problem with his eyes. 00:06:29.489 --> 00:06:32.225 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% And we know that even in the book of Galatians there's clues. 00:06:32.225 --> 00:06:35.962 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Like, for example, in the last chapter of Galatians, Paul says, 00:06:35.962 --> 00:06:39.065 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% "Look at what large letters I use as I write to you in my 00:06:39.065 --> 00:06:40.400 align:start line:69% position:50% size:25% own hand." 00:06:40.400 --> 00:06:41.735 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% Well, why is Paul using such big letters? 00:06:41.735 --> 00:06:43.203 align:start line:69% position:44% size:78% Probably he had an eye problem. 00:06:43.203 --> 00:06:46.806 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Or in Galatians chapter 4 he says that when he first came to 00:06:46.806 --> 00:06:49.276 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% the Galatians, he had some kind of an illness. 00:06:49.276 --> 00:06:52.345 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% And he said, "When you first saw me, you did not reject me." 00:06:52.345 --> 00:06:55.348 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Now, what was it that they saw that would have caused them to 00:06:55.348 --> 00:06:56.683 align:start line:69% position:48% size:48% want to reject him? 00:06:56.683 --> 00:06:58.551 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% And then the next verse he says, "You would have taken out your 00:06:58.551 --> 00:07:01.554 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% own eyes and given them to me if it were possible." 00:07:01.554 --> 00:07:05.258 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% So it's clear when you put these things together, you realize 00:07:05.258 --> 00:07:06.926 align:start line:69% position:50% size:81% there's something going on here. 00:07:06.926 --> 00:07:09.496 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% The people are looking at Paul, they see the issue with his 00:07:09.496 --> 00:07:13.566 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% eyes, and we know that the big drama taking place in Galatians 00:07:13.566 --> 00:07:15.702 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% is this battle Paul is having with these guys called 00:07:15.702 --> 00:07:17.037 align:start line:69% position:50% size:35% the Judaizers. 00:07:17.037 --> 00:07:19.906 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% They were these guys that were trying to drag these Gentile 00:07:19.906 --> 00:07:23.243 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% believers back under the law of Moses and try to basically force 00:07:23.243 --> 00:07:25.045 align:start line:69% position:50% size:81% them into being Jewish converts. 00:07:25.045 --> 00:07:26.513 align:start line:69% position:45% size:73% That's who Paul is combating. 00:07:26.513 --> 00:07:29.516 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% And we know these Judaizers were trying to turn the Galatians 00:07:29.516 --> 00:07:30.884 align:start line:69% position:48% size:33% against Paul. 00:07:30.884 --> 00:07:32.652 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% So when you put it together, you realize probably what's 00:07:32.652 --> 00:07:35.555 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% happening here is the Judaizers are saying things to the 00:07:35.555 --> 00:07:38.358 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Galatians like this, "Look at that guy, that Paul guy that 00:07:38.358 --> 00:07:39.726 align:start line:69% position:50% size:50% you're listening to. 00:07:39.726 --> 00:07:41.428 align:start line:63% position:48% size:43% Just look at him, he looks cursed. 00:07:41.428 --> 00:07:42.962 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% You can see the look in his eyes." 00:07:42.962 --> 00:07:44.297 align:start line:69% position:45% size:73% And they say, "You know what? 00:07:44.297 --> 00:07:46.766 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% If you follow him, you're gonna come under that curse too." 00:07:46.766 --> 00:07:49.069 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% So, what Paul does is he flips the script back on 00:07:49.069 --> 00:07:50.437 align:start line:69% position:50% size:35% the Judaizers. 00:07:50.437 --> 00:07:52.639 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% He says, "Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:55.842 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% Before your very eyes, Christ was clearly portrayed 00:07:55.842 --> 00:07:57.177 align:start line:69% position:50% size:35% as crucified." 00:07:57.177 --> 00:07:58.778 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% In other words, he's saying, "I'm not the one that put a 00:07:58.778 --> 00:08:02.115 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% curse on you, it's those Judaizers, their false doctrine 00:08:02.115 --> 00:08:05.185 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% did it, and I'll tell you how I know it happened, because you 00:08:05.185 --> 00:08:07.487 align:start line:69% position:50% size:75% lost your vision of the cross. 00:08:07.487 --> 00:08:09.122 align:start line:69% position:45% size:73% You can't see Christ anymore. 00:08:09.122 --> 00:08:11.157 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% You don't see the gospel clearly anymore." 00:08:11.157 --> 00:08:13.827 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% And we learn something really important here about false 00:08:13.827 --> 00:08:16.796 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% doctrine in general, but about legalism in particular. 00:08:16.796 --> 00:08:20.066 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Legalism doesn't just cause us to have the wrong theology or 00:08:20.066 --> 00:08:24.337 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% the wrong doctrine, it blinds us, it takes away our vision, 00:08:24.337 --> 00:08:26.740 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% not just the way that we look at God, but the way that we look 00:08:26.740 --> 00:08:28.108 align:start line:69% position:50% size:25% at people. 00:08:28.108 --> 00:08:29.576 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% And so as you go through Galatians, you see all these 00:08:29.576 --> 00:08:31.378 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% problems that are happening in the Galatian church. 00:08:31.378 --> 00:08:34.814 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% They used to be generous, now they become stingy. 00:08:34.814 --> 00:08:37.384 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% They used to be full of love for one another and care and 00:08:37.384 --> 00:08:40.253 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% compassion, now they've become competitive, and they're 00:08:40.253 --> 00:08:41.621 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% fighting with each other-- 00:08:41.621 --> 00:08:42.956 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% James: And just critical, mean-spirited. 00:08:42.956 --> 00:08:45.692 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Daniel: Paul says that they're biting each other, devouring 00:08:45.692 --> 00:08:47.060 align:start line:69% position:50% size:31% one another. 00:08:47.060 --> 00:08:48.395 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% That's the kind of thing that's happening. 00:08:48.395 --> 00:08:52.165 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% So that legalism that's crept into their midst, it's not just 00:08:52.165 --> 00:08:54.934 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% a theological problem, it's affected the way that they live 00:08:54.934 --> 00:08:56.736 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% their lives and the fruit that comes out of their life. 00:08:56.736 --> 00:08:59.773 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% James: It destroys the fruit of grace, it destroys grace, and 00:08:59.773 --> 00:09:03.009 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% there was such a battle going on right there in that book, but it 00:09:03.009 --> 00:09:05.478 align:start line:69% position:50% size:70% was amazing how you took it. 00:09:05.478 --> 00:09:07.147 align:start line:69% position:50% size:70% Now, how's it been received? 00:09:07.147 --> 00:09:08.982 align:start line:69% position:50% size:70% Daniel: Well, I've had both. 00:09:08.982 --> 00:09:11.885 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% I've had some people that, you know, have in response to the 00:09:11.885 --> 00:09:14.087 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% book said, yes, this is changing my life, and I've had people 00:09:14.087 --> 00:09:16.456 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% that wanted to beat me, you know? 00:09:16.456 --> 00:09:18.691 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% Because they see--they're seeing it much more from the 00:09:18.691 --> 00:09:20.026 align:start line:69% position:50% size:41% legalistic side. 00:09:20.026 --> 00:09:22.162 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% In fact, I don't know if you're aware of this, but there's a 00:09:22.162 --> 00:09:25.799 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% really strong movement in the church world right now. 00:09:25.799 --> 00:09:30.403 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Some people call it like Hebrew roots theology and Torahism and 00:09:30.403 --> 00:09:33.373 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% stuff like that, and a lot of believers are being dragged 00:09:33.373 --> 00:09:34.707 align:start line:69% position:50% size:25% into this. 00:09:34.707 --> 00:09:37.777 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% The first real visceral encounter I had with it was 00:09:37.777 --> 00:09:40.713 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% there was a friend of mine who was starting to get into like 00:09:40.713 --> 00:09:44.083 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% some Jewish roots stuff and, you know, just going back into old 00:09:44.083 --> 00:09:45.452 align:start line:69% position:50% size:61% customs, old traditions. 00:09:45.452 --> 00:09:48.755 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% It was all very harmless, but it was like a progression. 00:09:48.755 --> 00:09:50.824 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% And I pulled up to his house one day, and he comes out, and I 00:09:50.824 --> 00:09:52.492 align:start line:69% position:50% size:81% hadn't seen him for a long time. 00:09:52.492 --> 00:09:55.795 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% He's wearing a black hat, a black robe, the sides of his 00:09:55.795 --> 00:09:59.332 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% beard are curled, he's dressed like an Orthodox Jew. 00:09:59.332 --> 00:10:02.335 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And I mean, what's so silly about that is orthodoxy didn't 00:10:02.335 --> 00:10:04.003 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% even exist in the time of Jesus or Paul. 00:10:04.003 --> 00:10:06.272 align:start line:69% position:50% size:81% That's a much later development. 00:10:06.272 --> 00:10:09.809 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% But yet this guy, this Christian, Gentile Christian, 00:10:09.809 --> 00:10:12.479 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% had come to believe that if he really wanted to be pleasing to 00:10:12.479 --> 00:10:16.516 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% God, he needed to dress like an Orthodox Jew, he needed to 00:10:16.516 --> 00:10:19.686 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% follow the feasts and the festivals and the law. 00:10:19.686 --> 00:10:22.922 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And I realized that, you know, that's a very--you know, it's 00:10:22.922 --> 00:10:24.290 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% very easy to see that. 00:10:24.290 --> 00:10:25.925 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% That's a visceral example. 00:10:25.925 --> 00:10:29.362 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% But legalism creeps into our lives in much more 00:10:29.362 --> 00:10:30.730 align:start line:69% position:50% size:41% subliminal ways. 00:10:30.730 --> 00:10:33.433 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And in fact, what would Paul think if he sat in some of our 00:10:33.433 --> 00:10:34.767 align:start line:69% position:48% size:38% churches today? 00:10:34.767 --> 00:10:37.237 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% I think he'd have some of the same issues with us that he had 00:10:37.237 --> 00:10:40.773 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% with the Galatians, because religion always has a way of 00:10:40.773 --> 00:10:42.141 align:start line:69% position:50% size:31% creeping in. 00:10:42.141 --> 00:10:43.476 align:start line:69% position:50% size:70% It's just like human nature. 00:10:43.476 --> 00:10:44.844 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% We always are tempted to go back. 00:10:44.844 --> 00:10:46.579 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% It's the very first thing that happens in the Garden of Eden, 00:10:46.579 --> 00:10:47.947 align:start line:69% position:48% size:28% by the way. 00:10:47.947 --> 00:10:50.550 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% After Adam and Eve fall, God comes looking for them in 00:10:50.550 --> 00:10:51.885 align:start line:69% position:48% size:28% the garden. 00:10:51.885 --> 00:10:53.253 align:start line:69% position:44% size:78% He says, "Adam, where are you?" 00:10:53.253 --> 00:10:56.389 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% And when God finds them, they're clothed with fig leaves. 00:10:56.389 --> 00:10:58.725 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% Now we know from scripture that fig leaves are a symbol 00:10:58.725 --> 00:11:00.093 align:start line:69% position:48% size:23% of works. 00:11:00.093 --> 00:11:02.395 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% So I want you to think about this picture. 00:11:02.395 --> 00:11:05.832 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% He sees them dressed in fig leaves, he rejects the work of 00:11:05.832 --> 00:11:07.267 align:start line:63% position:50% size:41% their hands, and what does he do? 00:11:07.267 --> 00:11:10.670 align:start line:69% position:44% size:78% He gives them skins of animals. 00:11:10.670 --> 00:11:14.908 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% In other words, he clothes them with the ultimate sacrifice of 00:11:14.908 --> 00:11:16.543 align:start line:69% position:47% size:58% an innocent substitute. 00:11:16.543 --> 00:11:17.911 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% There it is right there in the beginning. 00:11:17.911 --> 00:11:21.281 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% The first reaction of humans is to trend towards legalism, the 00:11:21.281 --> 00:11:24.551 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% work of the hands, and the reaction of God is to say that's 00:11:24.551 --> 00:11:26.886 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% not good enough, you need a substitute, you need a 00:11:26.886 --> 00:11:28.888 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% sacrifice, and that's the gospel. 00:11:28.888 --> 00:11:32.025 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% James: And I think so much you're showing in here all of 00:11:32.025 --> 00:11:36.696 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% the tension and all that's there in a very appropriate title, 00:11:36.696 --> 00:11:39.399 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% "Furious," because that's what we get, and we start building 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:43.202 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% our own army, building our own denomination, supporting our own 00:11:43.202 --> 00:11:47.407 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% point of view, and not being family. 00:11:47.407 --> 00:11:50.643 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% I don't have any trouble loving people I don't agree with. 00:11:50.643 --> 00:11:54.147 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% For the church to be captured by God, we're gonna love each other 00:11:54.147 --> 00:11:55.615 align:start line:69% position:50% size:61% even though we disagree. 00:11:55.615 --> 00:11:58.718 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Even though we may disagree seriously, we're gonna seek God 00:11:58.718 --> 00:12:01.754 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% even more seriously, and we're gonna seek to get his arms 00:12:01.754 --> 00:12:04.657 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% around the world and present the gospel of the kingdom to 00:12:04.657 --> 00:12:06.025 align:start line:69% position:50% size:25% the world. 00:12:06.025 --> 00:12:07.360 align:start line:69% position:47% size:53% Does that make sense? 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:08.728 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% Daniel: That's it, that's the message right there. 00:12:08.728 --> 00:12:10.196 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% Well, you, you've actually captured so much of that 00:12:10.196 --> 00:12:11.564 align:start line:69% position:48% size:33% in "Furious." 00:12:11.564 --> 00:12:14.367 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% I don't know if you saw it that way, but you have--this is an 00:12:14.367 --> 00:12:15.702 align:start line:69% position:48% size:33% amazing book. 00:12:15.702 --> 00:12:17.070 align:start line:69% position:45% size:73% Daniel: Thank you, thank you. 00:12:17.070 --> 00:12:19.439 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% I really feel like the Holy Spirit helped me. 00:12:19.439 --> 00:12:21.608 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% I'm not saying it's inspired by like the scriptures, but the 00:12:21.608 --> 00:12:24.010 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% script--it is based on the scriptures. 00:12:24.010 --> 00:12:26.946 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% And you know, what you're saying, even with the conflict 00:12:26.946 --> 00:12:28.381 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% and stuff, you see that in Galatians. 00:12:28.381 --> 00:12:31.484 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Maybe one of the most explicit places in the Bible where you 00:12:31.484 --> 00:12:35.254 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% have Paul, who wrote most of the New Testament, and Peter, who's 00:12:35.254 --> 00:12:38.791 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% like the chief of the apostles clashing in real time, 00:12:38.791 --> 00:12:41.361 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% very dramatic, but yet they're brothers, 00:12:41.361 --> 00:12:42.729 align:start line:69% position:45% size:73% but they're dealing in truth. 00:12:42.729 --> 00:12:44.397 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% James: And Peter withstood the correction 00:12:44.397 --> 00:12:45.732 align:start line:69% position:47% size:58% without coming unglued. 00:12:45.732 --> 00:12:47.066 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% Daniel: And it might have saved the church. 00:12:47.066 --> 00:12:49.002 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% James: It might have. But see, there it is. 00:12:49.002 --> 00:12:51.137 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% Look at that, there's where the friction did what? 00:12:51.137 --> 00:12:53.706 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% It made them both stronger. It made Paul stronger too. 00:12:53.706 --> 00:12:55.475 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% He needed strength. He said, "I'm in a battle. 00:12:55.475 --> 00:12:57.744 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% These things don't go away. I can't explain it." 00:12:57.744 --> 00:12:59.779 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% And we don't know what all was going on, but it was the 00:12:59.779 --> 00:13:02.348 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% deceiver, and he wasn't letting him alone, so he's not gonna let 00:13:02.348 --> 00:13:03.683 align:start line:69% position:50% size:41% any of us alone. 00:13:03.683 --> 00:13:06.386 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% He never shuts up, but we don't have to listen to him. 00:13:06.386 --> 00:13:08.021 align:start line:69% position:50% size:70% We can listen to the Father. 00:13:08.021 --> 00:13:11.324 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% We can refuse his lies, and we can recognize him in others 00:13:11.324 --> 00:13:14.594 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% without despising the person, but being concerned about the 00:13:14.594 --> 00:13:17.730 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% person the enemy has taken over and try to show them how the 00:13:17.730 --> 00:13:20.700 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% enemy's taken your mind, and this is not normal. 00:13:20.700 --> 00:13:23.369 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% This isn't normal behavior where you're going out and trying to 00:13:23.369 --> 00:13:25.605 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% organize a political party to go out and kill the other political 00:13:25.605 --> 00:13:28.307 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% party or go kill somebody you don't like or rage 00:13:28.307 --> 00:13:30.009 align:start line:69% position:50% size:81% and tear up somebody's business. 00:13:30.009 --> 00:13:31.644 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% This is crazy, this is the enemy, 00:13:31.644 --> 00:13:33.746 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% this is the destroyer, the deceiver. 00:13:33.746 --> 00:13:36.115 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% Excuse me, but I'm excited about--and I'm gonna 00:13:36.115 --> 00:13:39.485 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% tell you, you got it in here, you got it in your life. 00:13:39.485 --> 00:13:43.956 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Excuse me for preaching, but I'm just telling you, do you believe 00:13:43.956 --> 00:13:47.960 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% in what I'm saying about the gospel of the kingdom needing to 00:13:47.960 --> 00:13:49.929 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% take over the lives of the believers? 00:13:49.929 --> 00:13:54.100 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% And we've come together as the family of the perfect father and 00:13:54.100 --> 00:13:57.570 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% let him shape us, and even in our disagreement we love each 00:13:57.570 --> 00:14:01.340 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% other, and we get sharper instead of duller by clashing 00:14:01.340 --> 00:14:02.675 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% and starting our own army. 00:14:02.675 --> 00:14:05.378 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Daniel: Absolutely, and this is really the, you know, again it 00:14:05.378 --> 00:14:06.913 align:start line:63% position:50% size:50% goes back to what we were saying before. 00:14:06.913 --> 00:14:10.249 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% A lot of people think the gospel is just how I get out of 00:14:10.249 --> 00:14:11.617 align:start line:69% position:50% size:25% hell free. 00:14:11.617 --> 00:14:13.352 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% It's like a get out of hell free card or something like this. 00:14:13.352 --> 00:14:16.155 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% The gospel is not just our way out of hell, it's not just so we 00:14:16.155 --> 00:14:19.525 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% can get to heaven, it's so that heaven can get into us and so 00:14:19.525 --> 00:14:22.228 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% that through us heaven can get into the world around us. 00:14:22.228 --> 00:14:23.696 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% That's the whole purpose that we're saved. 00:14:23.696 --> 00:14:26.165 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% I mean, if God just wanted to create porcelain dolls that were 00:14:26.165 --> 00:14:29.235 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% perfect little creatures, he'd have just made us in heaven. 00:14:29.235 --> 00:14:30.670 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% Why did he put us here in this world? 00:14:30.670 --> 00:14:32.004 align:start line:69% position:50% size:70% There's obviously a purpose. 00:14:32.004 --> 00:14:34.307 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% James: I'm so glad I'm here, and I live in this challenged world 00:14:34.307 --> 00:14:38.244 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% with a great God and an awesome wife and a family and 00:14:38.244 --> 00:14:40.379 align:start line:69% position:48% size:43% 34 grandchildren. 00:14:40.379 --> 00:14:45.651 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Here's a fatherless kid, the product of a rape that didn't 00:14:45.651 --> 00:14:48.588 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% have a father ever or even a home. 00:14:48.588 --> 00:14:52.058 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% God, you're so great, you're so great. 00:14:52.058 --> 00:14:57.296 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Betty, you see your husband, and you watch God carrying me. 00:14:57.296 --> 00:14:58.664 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% Betty Robison: Absolutely. 00:14:58.664 --> 00:15:00.333 align:start line:69% position:44% size:78% James: Is he thrilling you too? 00:15:00.333 --> 00:15:01.701 align:start line:69% position:48% size:38% Betty: Oh, yes. 00:15:01.701 --> 00:15:03.035 align:start line:69% position:50% size:81% James: Do you enjoy the journey? 00:15:03.035 --> 00:15:04.637 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% Betty: I think this can be the greatest season of our lives. 00:15:04.637 --> 00:15:06.606 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% James: Well, it is gonna be in every way. 00:15:06.606 --> 00:15:09.175 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% I think it can be the greatest season for the church. 00:15:09.175 --> 00:15:12.044 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% Don't you believe the stage is set for the gospel of the 00:15:12.044 --> 00:15:13.579 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% kingdom to be taking all nations? 00:15:13.579 --> 00:15:14.914 align:start line:69% position:50% size:75% Daniel: Oh, like never before. 00:15:14.914 --> 00:15:16.783 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% I mean, what we're seeing today, the harvest that's happening 00:15:16.783 --> 00:15:18.551 align:start line:69% position:50% size:81% around the world, unprecedented. 00:15:18.551 --> 00:15:19.919 align:start line:69% position:50% size:65% James: Absolutely amazing. 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:22.155 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% What do you want everybody to hear from just the two of 00:15:22.155 --> 00:15:23.523 align:start line:69% position:50% size:31% us together? 00:15:23.523 --> 00:15:26.225 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% Both of us are zealous, both of us are excited. 00:15:26.225 --> 00:15:30.463 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% We've known one another's journey over the years. 00:15:30.463 --> 00:15:32.832 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% This book is a stick of dynamite. 00:15:32.832 --> 00:15:35.935 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% We're gonna send it to every one of you who will just help us in 00:15:35.935 --> 00:15:40.006 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% any way drill another 350 water wells. 00:15:40.006 --> 00:15:42.708 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% There needs to be a million water wells, and that could 00:15:42.708 --> 00:15:45.077 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% happen if we had enough people who said I'll help you drill 00:15:45.077 --> 00:15:46.813 align:start line:69% position:47% size:58% those wells, I'll help. 00:15:46.813 --> 00:15:50.216 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% Well, we're gonna send this to everybody that just helps. 00:15:50.216 --> 00:15:54.854 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% Do you think we got a chance of seeing the father's family begin 00:15:54.854 --> 00:15:56.189 align:start line:69% position:48% size:43% to look like him? 00:15:56.189 --> 00:15:57.657 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% Daniel: I think that's the whole point. 00:15:57.657 --> 00:16:00.426 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% That's what all of this has always been moving towards, 00:16:00.426 --> 00:16:01.794 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% starting right in the beginning in the garden. 00:16:01.794 --> 00:16:03.963 align:start line:63% position:48% size:43% You said it, what is God's dream? 00:16:03.963 --> 00:16:05.331 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% He was after a family. 00:16:05.331 --> 00:16:06.666 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% That's what Adam and Eve were about. 00:16:06.666 --> 00:16:08.367 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% That's what the children of Israel were about. 00:16:08.367 --> 00:16:10.169 align:start line:63% position:48% size:43% That's what the gospel was about. 00:16:10.169 --> 00:16:12.839 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% This is all building towards one thing, that God's going to get 00:16:12.839 --> 00:16:14.207 align:start line:69% position:50% size:61% that dream in his heart. 00:16:14.207 --> 00:16:16.375 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% James: And we keep thinking about the next kingdom when 00:16:16.375 --> 00:16:19.979 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% there'll be no challenge, nothing to overcome, no need for 00:16:19.979 --> 00:16:23.916 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% armor, no need to resist, no need to fight. 00:16:23.916 --> 00:16:26.152 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% Well, where are we gonna do all that? 00:16:26.152 --> 00:16:30.690 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% In this kingdom, we fulfill the Father's kingdom will on his 00:16:30.690 --> 00:16:35.595 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% earth, his planet, in his kingdom, and we impact all the 00:16:35.595 --> 00:16:38.431 align:start line:69% position:44% size:78% nations of the world with what? 00:16:38.431 --> 00:16:43.002 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% The gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all nations, then 00:16:43.002 --> 00:16:46.405 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% I'll come, the gospel of the kingdom, 00:16:46.405 --> 00:16:49.775 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% and I think not just in word but in demonstration. 00:16:49.775 --> 00:16:51.110 align:start line:69% position:47% size:53% Can we shake on that? 00:16:51.110 --> 00:16:52.478 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% Daniel: I agree. James: I love you, Daniel. 00:16:52.478 --> 00:16:53.980 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% Daniel: I love you, too, thank you so much. 00:16:53.980 --> 00:16:55.982 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% James: Let's stay close. Daniel: Okay. 00:16:55.982 --> 00:16:59.585 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% James: We wanna ask all of you to help us drill water wells. 00:16:59.585 --> 00:17:02.455 align:start line:58% position:47% size:63% We've helped drill thousands of water wells. 00:17:02.455 --> 00:17:05.024 align:start line:58% position:50% size:56% We've inspired the drilling of thousands. 00:17:05.024 --> 00:17:06.826 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% We want to drill another 350. 00:17:06.826 --> 00:17:09.462 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% I pray God double that. 00:17:09.462 --> 00:17:12.431 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% The only way it doubles if somebody will give another well, 00:17:12.431 --> 00:17:19.472 align:start line:58% position:50% size:70% 4800 or 1200 and pray for 3, or $48 gives 10 people water 00:17:19.472 --> 00:17:22.675 align:start line:58% position:47% size:58% the rest of their life, it is amazing. 00:17:22.675 --> 00:17:26.913 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% Father, help everybody watching to go get their bank card to use 00:17:26.913 --> 00:17:28.547 align:start line:63% position:50% size:41% it like a check. 00:17:28.547 --> 00:17:31.584 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% If they write a check, make it to Life, because they're giving 00:17:31.584 --> 00:17:34.353 align:start line:63% position:47% size:53% life in Jesus's name. 00:17:34.353 --> 00:17:38.991 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% Would you go get that bank card, call that number, or go online? 00:17:38.991 --> 00:17:42.828 align:start line:10% position:50% size:75% We have several gifts to give you, to share with you, and we 00:17:42.828 --> 00:17:47.667 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% have the beautiful bronze of the shepherd with the two sheep 00:17:47.667 --> 00:17:52.038 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% walking in his shadow, but there's one little sheep up here 00:17:52.038 --> 00:17:54.507 align:start line:63% position:48% size:43% on his shoulders. 00:17:54.507 --> 00:17:59.245 align:start line:58% position:47% size:58% The first time I saw that, I said that's me. 00:17:59.245 --> 00:18:01.714 align:start line:58% position:50% size:50% I couldn't even walk in your shadow. 00:18:01.714 --> 00:18:03.716 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% Too weak, too defeated. 00:18:03.716 --> 00:18:07.987 align:start line:58% position:47% size:63% You carried me, and I got so close to your mind and 00:18:07.987 --> 00:18:09.455 align:start line:63% position:48% size:28% your heart. 00:18:09.455 --> 00:18:11.891 align:start line:58% position:48% size:48% We're gonna send this to any of you. 00:18:11.891 --> 00:18:15.161 align:start line:58% position:50% size:56% Help us drill water wells by giving $1200. 00:18:15.161 --> 00:18:17.229 align:start line:63% position:48% size:43% Sure do love you. 00:18:17.229 --> 00:18:19.131 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% Please make that gift. 00:18:19.131 --> 00:18:22.234 align:start line:58% position:50% size:50% Go get that card, use it like a check. 00:18:22.234 --> 00:18:25.137 align:start line:58% position:48% size:43% You make a check, make it to Life. 00:18:25.137 --> 00:18:27.173 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% Thank you so much. 00:18:29.976 --> 00:18:33.112 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Isak Pretorius: We've just watched this young girl come in 00:18:33.112 --> 00:18:38.517 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% here, come all the way down into this area here where there's 00:18:38.517 --> 00:18:42.355 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% water, this is highly-contaminated water, but 00:18:42.355 --> 00:18:46.225 align:start line:79% position:50% size:56% it's the only water that's available here. 00:18:46.225 --> 00:18:51.297 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% She's literally come down and tried to get the cleanest of the 00:18:51.297 --> 00:18:53.933 align:start line:85% position:48% size:48% contaminated water. 00:18:53.933 --> 00:18:58.037 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% But the reality is the external danger of this child maybe 00:18:58.037 --> 00:19:01.173 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% falling in this water, drowning in this water, or any of the 00:19:01.173 --> 00:19:05.144 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% other external dangers that are here to this child don't even 00:19:05.144 --> 00:19:09.849 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% compare to the internal danger of the contamination of this 00:19:09.849 --> 00:19:13.953 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% water, the waterborne diseases that are in this water, that 00:19:13.953 --> 00:19:21.527 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% this child, her siblings, her family are forced to consume. 00:19:21.527 --> 00:19:24.397 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% I wish you could be here and actually experience what it is 00:19:24.397 --> 00:19:28.834 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% like to talk to these mothers, to hear from them as they 00:19:28.834 --> 00:19:33.773 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% explain how it's little children like this that are contracting 00:19:33.773 --> 00:19:38.811 align:start line:79% position:47% size:63% waterborne diseases, that are ultimately dying. 00:19:38.811 --> 00:19:42.882 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% I've met the mothers, I've seen the contamination of this water, 00:19:42.882 --> 00:19:46.685 align:start line:79% position:50% size:70% and I've seen the graves of those that we couldn't bring 00:19:46.685 --> 00:19:50.823 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% clean water to in time, and that's why I speak to you with 00:19:50.823 --> 00:19:54.193 align:start line:79% position:47% size:63% urgency today, because I know what has to be done. 00:19:54.193 --> 00:19:57.563 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% What has to be done is that we have to come back here, and we 00:19:57.563 --> 00:20:01.267 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% have to drill a well here, we have to put in fresh, clean 00:20:01.267 --> 00:20:05.304 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% water, we've got to provide clean water that will sustain 00:20:05.304 --> 00:20:07.706 align:start line:79% position:50% size:50% their life, that will give them life. 00:20:07.706 --> 00:20:15.114 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% Do it for her, give that gift today, give the gift of life. 00:20:15.114 --> 00:20:18.117 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% James: Well, I'll tell you what, for 30 to 35 years we've been 00:20:18.117 --> 00:20:21.587 align:start line:79% position:50% size:56% trying to get water to people that never had 00:20:21.587 --> 00:20:22.922 align:start line:85% position:47% size:53% uncontaminated water. 00:20:22.922 --> 00:20:25.658 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% The people you were just looking at, I can't help but think most 00:20:25.658 --> 00:20:29.929 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% of them, the clothes they have on were sent to them because we 00:20:29.929 --> 00:20:33.032 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% showed them to you, and you began to try to help them with 00:20:33.032 --> 00:20:38.337 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% either food or now for water, and then some of the clothes 00:20:38.337 --> 00:20:40.406 align:start line:79% position:50% size:65% that are made are out of material and cloth that we 00:20:40.406 --> 00:20:41.774 align:start line:85% position:50% size:25% gave them. 00:20:41.774 --> 00:20:45.177 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% And I can say, you know, this is an area that's not nearly as 00:20:45.177 --> 00:20:48.881 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% horrifically hidden as some of them are, but as far as the 00:20:48.881 --> 00:20:53.152 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% water and the death, that cycle is there, and only fresh, clean 00:20:53.152 --> 00:20:56.622 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% water and a well can change it, and it can change it instantly. 00:20:56.622 --> 00:20:59.525 align:start line:58% position:47% size:63% And we're asking you to please help us right now. 00:20:59.525 --> 00:21:01.861 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% USAID had to leave Africa. 00:21:01.861 --> 00:21:05.464 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% That has quadrupled the numbers of death immediately. 00:21:05.464 --> 00:21:08.968 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% And I'm thinking, God, we're trying to drill 350 wells, we 00:21:08.968 --> 00:21:11.937 align:start line:58% position:48% size:48% need to be drilling a million wells. 00:21:11.937 --> 00:21:14.607 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% Well, that's what we need to do immediately, and you say, well, 00:21:14.607 --> 00:21:16.709 align:start line:58% position:48% size:48% James, what would it take to do that? 00:21:16.709 --> 00:21:21.347 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% Somebody like you say I'll help drill a well or I'll drill 00:21:21.347 --> 00:21:22.681 align:start line:63% position:48% size:18% a well. 00:21:22.681 --> 00:21:26.886 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% I've got--I've been blessed, I can give $4800, or I can give 00:21:26.886 --> 00:21:29.221 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% $1200 and pray 3 join me. 00:21:29.221 --> 00:21:32.658 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% Well, if you can do that, do it, but remember this, $48 gives 10 00:21:32.658 --> 00:21:36.795 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% people, 10 people water the rest of their life, because that's 00:21:36.795 --> 00:21:39.165 align:start line:58% position:50% size:50% basically what these water wells do. 00:21:39.165 --> 00:21:43.169 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% They last a lifetime, so you're changing millions of lives. 00:21:43.169 --> 00:21:45.304 align:start line:58% position:50% size:50% Betty, we have saved millions of lives. 00:21:45.304 --> 00:21:50.442 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% When I say we, we found the need, we found the solution, we 00:21:50.442 --> 00:21:53.345 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% found that there's water accessible, because they drill 00:21:53.345 --> 00:21:56.815 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% boreholes that get contaminated and filthy, but there's water 00:21:56.815 --> 00:22:00.352 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% there under the ground that you can drill into and go deeper and 00:22:00.352 --> 00:22:04.723 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% encase it and give them a pump that a child can pump without 00:22:04.723 --> 00:22:06.058 align:start line:63% position:50% size:25% any power. 00:22:06.058 --> 00:22:07.726 align:start line:63% position:50% size:56% They don't have power. 00:22:07.726 --> 00:22:11.564 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% I'm praying today God will give us the greatest miracle response 00:22:11.564 --> 00:22:12.932 align:start line:63% position:50% size:41% we've ever seen. 00:22:12.932 --> 00:22:15.434 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% Betty: I am, too, and I hope you'll be part of that miracle 00:22:15.434 --> 00:22:17.903 align:start line:58% position:50% size:56% and with that response that you give. 00:22:17.903 --> 00:22:21.307 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% Give your love to the children, to the mothers that so 00:22:21.307 --> 00:22:23.842 align:start line:58% position:50% size:56% desperately want their children to live. 00:22:23.842 --> 00:22:27.179 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% You know what that's like, if you have children, you want them 00:22:27.179 --> 00:22:31.116 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% to live their full life, not to be cut short or something that 00:22:31.116 --> 00:22:35.254 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% they didn't expect, and water is one thing, it's the main thing. 00:22:35.254 --> 00:22:37.523 align:start line:63% position:45% size:73% They have to have good water. 00:22:37.523 --> 00:22:40.859 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% We've been there, James, we've shown you the heartache of a 00:22:40.859 --> 00:22:43.829 align:start line:58% position:50% size:70% mother losing a child, we've shown you the heartache of a 00:22:43.829 --> 00:22:45.664 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% baby dying in their arms. 00:22:45.664 --> 00:22:47.266 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% It just breaks my heart. 00:22:47.266 --> 00:22:50.769 align:start line:58% position:50% size:70% I never will get over that, but we've also shown you the 00:22:50.769 --> 00:22:55.708 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% possibilities of you helping us drill the water wells that make 00:22:55.708 --> 00:22:58.777 align:start line:58% position:50% size:65% a life difference in these children and in these 00:22:58.777 --> 00:23:00.112 align:start line:63% position:48% size:38% mothers' lives. 00:23:00.112 --> 00:23:03.749 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% So, please join with us, give as much as you can, give what God 00:23:03.749 --> 00:23:05.084 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% puts on your heart. 00:23:05.084 --> 00:23:09.121 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% James: Please go get your bank card and dial that number or go 00:23:09.121 --> 00:23:13.492 align:start line:63% position:47% size:63% online and use that card. 00:23:13.492 --> 00:23:14.827 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% I mean, use it like a check. 00:23:14.827 --> 00:23:17.096 align:start line:58% position:47% size:53% If you write a check, make it to Life, 00:23:17.096 --> 00:23:18.631 align:start line:58% position:50% size:50% and make the largest check you can. 00:23:18.631 --> 00:23:21.233 align:start line:58% position:47% size:58% Please do it right now. Don't put this off. 00:23:21.233 --> 00:23:23.569 align:start line:10% position:45% size:73% We're gonna send you "The Joy of Reading God's Word" 00:23:23.569 --> 00:23:25.070 align:start line:10% position:48% size:33% for any gift. 00:23:25.070 --> 00:23:29.141 align:start line:10% position:50% size:75% That will bless you so much and the Word getting into you. 00:23:29.141 --> 00:23:32.845 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% And then if you'll give $100 or more, this beautiful pictorial 00:23:32.845 --> 00:23:37.549 align:start line:10% position:45% size:73% book, "A Life of Compassion," showing you all the beauty of 00:23:37.549 --> 00:23:41.620 align:start line:10% position:45% size:73% your love being poured out on people all over the world. 00:23:41.620 --> 00:23:43.722 align:start line:10% position:50% size:45% The power of love. 00:23:43.722 --> 00:23:46.525 align:start line:58% position:48% size:48% Would you right now express that love? 00:23:46.525 --> 00:23:48.427 align:start line:63% position:50% size:50% Would you give life? 00:23:48.427 --> 00:23:53.132 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% Would you be the miracle that provides the greatest miracle 00:23:53.132 --> 00:23:59.571 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% these villages, these mothers, these children have ever seen? 00:23:59.571 --> 00:24:05.411 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% Please don't put it off, do it right now, and give the very 00:24:05.411 --> 00:24:09.448 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% best gift you can knowing you're giving the greatest gift, the 00:24:09.448 --> 00:24:12.985 align:start line:63% position:48% size:33% gift of life. 00:24:12.985 --> 00:24:16.422 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% announcer: Every day thousands of lives are lost to waterborne 00:24:16.422 --> 00:24:19.358 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% disease, and nearly half of those are children under the age 00:24:19.358 --> 00:24:20.693 align:start line:10% position:50% size:21% of five. 00:24:20.693 --> 00:24:24.029 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% Through mission Water for Life, you can give mothers hope and 00:24:24.029 --> 00:24:28.300 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% children a future, as we provide clean, fresh drinking water, 00:24:28.300 --> 00:24:30.636 align:start line:10% position:50% size:70% free from the fear of death. 00:24:30.636 --> 00:24:34.707 align:start line:10% position:45% size:73% With your gift today, you can help drill and establish 350 00:24:34.707 --> 00:24:36.475 align:start line:10% position:50% size:56% water wells this year. 00:24:36.475 --> 00:24:39.912 align:start line:10% position:50% size:65% Your gift of $24 will help provide clean water for 00:24:39.912 --> 00:24:41.246 align:start line:10% position:50% size:35% five children. 00:24:41.246 --> 00:24:43.849 align:start line:10% position:47% size:53% A gift of $48 will help provide for ten. 00:24:43.849 --> 00:24:48.587 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% And $144 will help provide life-giving water for 30 people 00:24:48.587 --> 00:24:49.922 align:start line:10% position:48% size:38% for a lifetime. 00:24:49.922 --> 00:24:53.959 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% With a gift of any amount, we'll send you "Discovering the Joy of 00:24:53.959 --> 00:24:55.327 align:start line:10% position:50% size:50% Reading God's Word." 00:24:55.327 --> 00:24:58.997 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% Whether you've read the Bible for years or are just beginning, 00:24:58.997 --> 00:25:02.468 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% this book invites you to experience Scripture in a fresh, 00:25:02.468 --> 00:25:03.869 align:start line:10% position:50% size:45% more intimate way. 00:25:03.869 --> 00:25:08.140 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% With your gift of $100 or more, you may request "A Life of 00:25:08.140 --> 00:25:11.577 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% Compassion" coffee table book, capturing LIFE Outreach's heart 00:25:11.577 --> 00:25:12.945 align:start line:10% position:50% size:35% for the world. 00:25:12.945 --> 00:25:16.815 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% Each page pairs timeless Bible verses with vivid mission field 00:25:16.815 --> 00:25:21.420 align:start line:10% position:47% size:63% photography, making God's Word visible in action. 00:25:21.420 --> 00:25:25.824 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% Finally, please consider a gift of $1200 to help provide water 00:25:25.824 --> 00:25:31.230 align:start line:10% position:50% size:65% for 250 people, or a gift of $4800 to help sponsor a 00:25:31.230 --> 00:25:32.564 align:start line:10% position:50% size:35% complete well. 00:25:32.564 --> 00:25:36.668 align:start line:10% position:50% size:70% And request Life's beautiful 2026 bronze sculpture, The 00:25:36.668 --> 00:25:38.070 align:start line:10% position:50% size:35% Good Shepherd. 00:25:38.070 --> 00:25:41.540 align:start line:10% position:46% size:68% Please call, write, or make your gift online today. 00:25:46.044 --> 00:25:49.348 align:start line:53% position:50% size:81% Randy Robison: You know, so many people don't have a choice when 00:25:49.348 --> 00:25:51.250 align:start line:58% position:50% size:45% it comes to water. 00:25:51.250 --> 00:25:55.554 align:start line:53% position:50% size:81% The only water source that they have is the one nearest them, in 00:25:55.554 --> 00:25:58.824 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% this case a river. 00:25:58.824 --> 00:26:02.895 align:start line:58% position:47% size:58% When you look at it, it doesn't look too bad. 00:26:02.895 --> 00:26:05.397 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% It's a little dirty, but you can see some of the areas where 00:26:05.397 --> 00:26:08.834 align:start line:58% position:50% size:70% there's moss and animals and people bathing and swimming. 00:26:08.834 --> 00:26:13.172 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% They tell us it's not so much what you can see in here that's 00:26:13.172 --> 00:26:15.407 align:start line:58% position:48% size:48% dangerous, it's what you can't see. 00:26:15.407 --> 00:26:19.912 align:start line:58% position:50% size:81% It's what goes into the stomachs and the systems of even the 00:26:19.912 --> 00:26:24.283 align:start line:58% position:47% size:63% youngest of children, and it hits them the hardest. 00:26:24.283 --> 00:26:30.055 align:start line:58% position:50% size:70% Fresh, clean drinking water, you can give that to them. 00:26:30.055 --> 00:26:33.125 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% We need to come into this village and that village over 00:26:33.125 --> 00:26:35.127 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% there across the river. 00:26:35.127 --> 00:26:38.564 align:start line:58% position:50% size:56% We need to come in with many water wells. 00:26:38.564 --> 00:26:41.567 align:start line:58% position:48% size:48% I'm asking you to make that possible. 00:26:41.567 --> 00:26:45.404 align:start line:58% position:48% size:48% You will be helping to save a life. 00:26:45.404 --> 00:26:47.906 align:start line:58% position:48% size:43% James: I want you to get "Furious." 00:26:47.906 --> 00:26:52.211 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% I was telling Daniel he doesn't realize how great all he put in 00:26:52.211 --> 00:26:54.213 align:start line:63% position:48% size:33% this book is. 00:26:54.213 --> 00:26:56.148 align:start line:58% position:44% size:78% We've been talking about the gospel of the kingdom here just 00:26:56.148 --> 00:26:57.483 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% kind of privately. 00:26:57.483 --> 00:27:01.119 align:start line:58% position:45% size:73% The gospel of the kingdom, that's his will being done on 00:27:01.119 --> 00:27:06.024 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% his earth by his family that's been captured by his vision. 00:27:06.024 --> 00:27:10.529 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% He wants the gospel of the kingdom preached by his family 00:27:10.529 --> 00:27:16.101 align:start line:58% position:47% size:63% in this kingdom to all nations, then he'll come. 00:27:16.101 --> 00:27:18.604 align:start line:63% position:50% size:50% Don't miss it, okay? 00:27:18.604 --> 00:27:22.774 align:start line:58% position:50% size:56% Keep up with him, keep up with "Life Today." 00:27:22.774 --> 00:27:25.077 align:start line:63% position:47% size:58% Stay tuned, I love you. 00:27:25.077 --> 00:27:28.780 align:start line:58% position:50% size:70% Thanks for helping put God's arms around the overlooked. 00:27:28.780 --> 00:27:38.790 align:start line:63% position:48% size:18% [music] 00:27:38.790 --> 00:27:48.800 align:start line:63% position:48% size:18% [music] 00:27:48.800 --> 00:27:53.805 align:start line:63% position:48% size:18% [music] 00:27:53.805 --> 00:28:01.513 align:start line:63% position:48% size:18% [music] 00:28:01.780 --> 00:28:04.650 align:start line:58% position:50% size:75% announcer: Tomorrow, learn how to fight the invisible war 00:28:04.650 --> 00:28:06.652 align:start line:58% position:48% size:43% that Satan wages. 00:28:06.652 --> 00:28:10.689 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% Randy: Can Christians be possessed by the devil 00:28:10.689 --> 00:28:12.558 align:start line:63% position:50% size:35% or by a demon? 00:28:12.558 --> 00:28:14.893 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% announcer: "Life Today" is made possible by the supporters of 00:28:14.893 --> 00:28:16.228 align:start line:10% position:50% size:70% Life Outreach International. 00:28:16.228 --> 00:28:18.330 align:start line:10% position:50% size:65% Your gift will be used exclusively for the exempt 00:28:18.330 --> 00:28:19.665 align:start line:10% position:48% size:43% purposes of life. 00:28:19.665 --> 00:28:22.100 align:start line:10% position:50% size:75% The ministry features specific outreaches as examples of the 00:28:22.100 --> 00:28:23.602 align:start line:10% position:50% size:50% programs it supports and conducts. 00:28:23.602 --> 00:28:25.737 align:start line:10% position:45% size:73% Gifts are considered to be without restriction as to use 00:28:25.737 --> 00:28:27.472 align:start line:10% position:50% size:61% unless explicitly stipulated by the donor. 00:28:27.472 --> 00:28:29.474 align:start line:10% position:48% size:48% The ministry is a member of the ECFA.