WEBVTT 00:00:06.840 --> 00:00:08.975 align:start line:63% position:25% size:48% >> And if God can do above and beyond 00:00:09.042 --> 00:00:11.277 align:center line:63% position:50% size:40% what I could ask or imagine, 00:00:11.344 --> 00:00:14.948 align:center line:63% position:50% size:68% let me begin to imagine a tomorrow that is so great 00:00:15.014 --> 00:00:18.017 align:center line:63% position:50% size:70% that it will pull me out of the pain of my yesterday. 00:00:18.084 --> 00:00:20.920 align:start line:63% position:23% size:53% We went out that day in some nowhere place 00:00:20.987 --> 00:00:23.523 align:center line:63% position:50% size:58% in Colorado, and I just know it was cold, 00:00:23.590 --> 00:00:25.992 align:center line:63% position:50% size:35% and we dreamed all day; 00:00:26.059 --> 00:00:28.094 align:center line:63% position:50% size:40% that was a turning point. 00:00:28.161 --> 00:00:30.196 align:start line:10% position:23% size:55% Ron and Hope Carpenter help you 00:00:30.263 --> 00:00:32.265 align:center line:10% position:50% size:53% turn your challenging circumstance 00:00:32.332 --> 00:00:35.702 align:center line:10% position:50% size:58% into a steppingstone for breakthrough. Next! 00:00:42.642 --> 00:00:49.182 align:end line:10% position:90% size:03% ♪ 00:00:53.753 --> 00:00:55.088 align:start line:63% position:10% size:73% RANDY: Welcome to LIFE Today! 00:00:55.155 --> 00:00:56.523 align:start line:63% position:10% size:45% I'm Randy Robison. 00:00:56.589 --> 00:00:57.590 align:start line:63% position:10% size:40% I'm solo because 00:00:57.657 --> 00:00:58.792 align:start line:63% position:10% size:43% Tammy is overseas 00:00:58.858 --> 00:00:59.926 align:start line:63% position:10% size:55% on a mission outreach. 00:00:59.993 --> 00:01:02.061 align:start line:63% position:10% size:58% We look forward to some 00:01:02.128 --> 00:01:03.797 align:start line:63% position:10% size:65% wonderful reports from her 00:01:03.863 --> 00:01:05.331 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% when she gets back. 00:01:05.398 --> 00:01:06.499 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% But today, we're here 00:01:06.566 --> 00:01:08.101 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% to offer you some hope 00:01:08.168 --> 00:01:09.335 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% and encouragement 00:01:09.402 --> 00:01:10.703 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% with Hope and Ron. 00:01:10.770 --> 00:01:11.871 align:start line:85% position:10% size:25% My guests, 00:01:11.938 --> 00:01:13.072 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% Ron and Hope Carpenter. 00:01:13.139 --> 00:01:14.274 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% Listen. If you missed 00:01:14.340 --> 00:01:15.542 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% the last program with them 00:01:15.608 --> 00:01:17.043 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% where they really got into 00:01:17.110 --> 00:01:19.446 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% some tough stories, 00:01:19.512 --> 00:01:20.814 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% some heartbreaking 00:01:20.880 --> 00:01:22.649 align:start line:85% position:10% size:30% difficulties 00:01:22.715 --> 00:01:24.150 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% that they've been through, 00:01:24.217 --> 00:01:25.952 align:start line:63% position:10% size:48% go to LifeToday.org 00:01:26.019 --> 00:01:28.455 align:start line:63% position:10% size:58% and watch that program. 00:01:28.521 --> 00:01:30.390 align:start line:63% position:10% size:63% Today, we're going to get 00:01:30.457 --> 00:01:31.958 align:start line:63% position:10% size:40% to a little more 00:01:32.025 --> 00:01:33.092 align:start line:63% position:10% size:45% of the good stuff. 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:34.828 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% The things they learned 00:01:34.894 --> 00:01:35.895 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% through the hardship 00:01:35.962 --> 00:01:36.963 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% in the way that 00:01:37.030 --> 00:01:38.031 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% God has gloriously 00:01:38.097 --> 00:01:39.566 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% brought them back together, 00:01:39.632 --> 00:01:41.100 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% restored them. 00:01:41.167 --> 00:01:42.535 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% It is a wonderful story. 00:01:42.602 --> 00:01:43.837 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% Ron does have a book 00:01:43.903 --> 00:01:44.938 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% that he talks about, 00:01:45.004 --> 00:01:46.406 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% The Necessity of an Enemy 00:01:46.473 --> 00:01:47.507 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% because I think a lot 00:01:47.574 --> 00:01:48.641 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% of times, we face 00:01:48.708 --> 00:01:49.843 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% these situations and go, 00:01:49.909 --> 00:01:50.977 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% God, why do I have 00:01:51.044 --> 00:01:52.178 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% to go through that? 00:01:52.245 --> 00:01:53.346 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% Why suffering? 00:01:53.413 --> 00:01:54.614 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% Nobody likes suffering. 00:01:54.681 --> 00:01:56.716 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% But yet, it is a path 00:01:56.783 --> 00:01:58.318 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% to some beautiful things. 00:01:58.384 --> 00:02:00.453 align:start line:85% position:10% size:30% So, hang on. 00:02:00.520 --> 00:02:01.554 align:start line:85% position:10% size:30% You're going 00:02:01.621 --> 00:02:02.889 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% to grow spiritually. 00:02:02.956 --> 00:02:03.990 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% Ron, Hope, welcome back. 00:02:04.057 --> 00:02:05.058 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% Great to have you. 00:02:05.124 --> 00:02:06.125 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% RON: Great to be here. 00:02:06.192 --> 00:02:07.193 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% RANDY: Let me just say 00:02:07.260 --> 00:02:08.261 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% thank you for sharing 00:02:08.328 --> 00:02:10.663 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% so openly and honestly. 00:02:10.730 --> 00:02:12.866 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% I know when you're a pastor 00:02:12.932 --> 00:02:15.235 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% you've got a congregation, 00:02:15.301 --> 00:02:17.136 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% you have an image to uphold. 00:02:17.203 --> 00:02:18.204 align:start line:85% position:10% size:23% You're on 00:02:18.271 --> 00:02:19.572 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% Christian television. 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:20.840 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% Sometimes, we can want 00:02:20.907 --> 00:02:22.308 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% to protect "the ministry" 00:02:22.375 --> 00:02:23.510 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% when God is like, I'm more 00:02:23.576 --> 00:02:25.678 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% interested in you guys. 00:02:25.745 --> 00:02:28.515 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% I don't want to rehash 00:02:28.581 --> 00:02:29.616 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% the whole program, but 00:02:29.682 --> 00:02:30.717 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% you guys were at a point 00:02:30.783 --> 00:02:31.818 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% where your marriage 00:02:31.885 --> 00:02:33.286 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% was basically done and 00:02:33.353 --> 00:02:35.121 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% it was affecting your church 00:02:35.188 --> 00:02:36.289 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% and your family, 00:02:36.356 --> 00:02:38.558 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% your children. 00:02:38.625 --> 00:02:40.894 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% To go through the hard work, 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:43.396 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% the sacrificial hard work 00:02:43.463 --> 00:02:44.464 align:start line:85% position:10% size:33% on your part, 00:02:44.531 --> 00:02:46.900 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% and honesty on your part, 00:02:46.966 --> 00:02:49.536 align:start line:85% position:10% size:73% what were some of the lessons 00:02:49.602 --> 00:02:51.905 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% you learned in fighting 00:02:51.971 --> 00:02:53.273 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% for your message 00:02:53.339 --> 00:02:55.174 align:start line:85% position:10% size:73% and standing up to this enemy 00:02:55.241 --> 00:02:56.776 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% of trauma, of pain, 00:02:56.843 --> 00:02:57.877 align:start line:85% position:10% size:30% of betrayal, 00:02:57.944 --> 00:02:59.412 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% and unfaithfulness? 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:01.347 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% HOPE: I think for me, 00:03:01.414 --> 00:03:03.583 align:start line:85% position:10% size:33% it was really 00:03:03.650 --> 00:03:04.817 align:start line:63% position:10% size:30% eye-opening. 00:03:04.884 --> 00:03:07.353 align:start line:63% position:10% size:60% And this sounds so silly 00:03:07.420 --> 00:03:08.421 align:start line:63% position:10% size:48% because we know why 00:03:08.488 --> 00:03:09.756 align:start line:63% position:10% size:45% Jesus had to come. 00:03:09.822 --> 00:03:10.823 align:start line:63% position:10% size:55% He had to come because 00:03:10.890 --> 00:03:11.925 align:start line:63% position:10% size:35% we were sinful 00:03:11.991 --> 00:03:13.293 align:start line:63% position:10% size:45% and broken people. 00:03:13.359 --> 00:03:16.629 align:start line:85% position:10% size:75% But the eye-opening revelation 00:03:16.696 --> 00:03:20.166 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% that we're all broken, 00:03:20.233 --> 00:03:21.334 align:start line:85% position:10% size:33% and we really 00:03:21.401 --> 00:03:23.803 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% do need a savior. 00:03:23.870 --> 00:03:25.171 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% For some reason, 00:03:25.238 --> 00:03:27.540 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% when we get saved, we feel 00:03:27.607 --> 00:03:29.909 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% like nothing is supposed 00:03:29.976 --> 00:03:31.411 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% to be wrong in our lives. 00:03:31.477 --> 00:03:32.645 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% Or we're not supposed 00:03:32.712 --> 00:03:34.213 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% to fight anything. 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:35.815 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% So, I think when that starts 00:03:35.882 --> 00:03:37.750 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% hitting our lives, 00:03:37.817 --> 00:03:39.452 align:start line:85% position:10% size:30% we feel like 00:03:39.519 --> 00:03:41.454 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% second-class citizens, 00:03:41.521 --> 00:03:43.556 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% second-class Christians. 00:03:43.623 --> 00:03:44.958 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% We're not good enough. 00:03:45.024 --> 00:03:46.559 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% We're not holy enough. 00:03:46.626 --> 00:03:47.594 align:start line:85% position:10% size:33% We don't read 00:03:47.660 --> 00:03:48.861 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% our Bible enough. 00:03:48.928 --> 00:03:49.929 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% So, we have a tendency 00:03:49.996 --> 00:03:51.030 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% to stuff it, and we have 00:03:51.097 --> 00:03:52.865 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% a tendency to not talk 00:03:52.932 --> 00:03:54.801 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% about it or admit it 00:03:54.867 --> 00:03:56.803 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% or get help for it. 00:03:56.869 --> 00:03:59.305 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% So, for me, it was just 00:03:59.372 --> 00:04:00.573 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% like the weight was 00:04:00.640 --> 00:04:02.342 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% lifted off of me to realize, 00:04:02.408 --> 00:04:04.844 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% we're on a journey 00:04:04.911 --> 00:04:06.879 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% to become more like Jesus. 00:04:06.946 --> 00:04:08.548 align:start line:85% position:10% size:73% That doesn't happen overnight 00:04:08.615 --> 00:04:09.782 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% when we say yes to Jesus 00:04:09.849 --> 00:04:12.619 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% and get saved. 00:04:12.685 --> 00:04:13.920 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% And it is okay 00:04:13.987 --> 00:04:14.954 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% that we stumble. 00:04:15.021 --> 00:04:16.189 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% But the goal is 00:04:16.255 --> 00:04:18.057 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% to get back up. 00:04:18.124 --> 00:04:20.193 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% So, I think for me 00:04:20.259 --> 00:04:23.429 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% personally, it was just 00:04:23.496 --> 00:04:24.797 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% the weight lifted off. 00:04:24.864 --> 00:04:25.999 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% That yes, there is going 00:04:26.065 --> 00:04:27.166 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% to be an adversary; 00:04:27.233 --> 00:04:28.401 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% you have an adversary. 00:04:28.468 --> 00:04:30.003 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% You have your own issues. 00:04:30.069 --> 00:04:31.704 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% You have your own past. 00:04:31.771 --> 00:04:32.839 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% You have your own 00:04:32.905 --> 00:04:34.574 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% unrenewed mind that 00:04:34.641 --> 00:04:37.210 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% you're having to renew 00:04:37.276 --> 00:04:38.878 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% on a daily basis. 00:04:38.945 --> 00:04:40.446 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% And it is a journey, 00:04:40.513 --> 00:04:42.949 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% but you can't stop. 00:04:43.016 --> 00:04:44.484 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% It's a journey till you 00:04:44.550 --> 00:04:45.785 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% get to the finish line. 00:04:45.852 --> 00:04:46.819 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% And the finish line is when 00:04:46.886 --> 00:04:48.388 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% you're six feet under, 00:04:48.454 --> 00:04:50.356 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% unfortunately. 00:04:50.423 --> 00:04:51.624 align:start line:63% position:10% size:60% RANDY: I think there are 00:04:51.691 --> 00:04:52.692 align:start line:63% position:10% size:58% certain -- you guys are 00:04:52.759 --> 00:04:53.760 align:start line:63% position:10% size:60% experiencing some things 00:04:53.826 --> 00:04:55.061 align:start line:63% position:10% size:58% that you had to journey 00:04:55.128 --> 00:04:56.129 align:start line:63% position:10% size:53% toward that are good. 00:04:56.195 --> 00:04:57.196 align:start line:63% position:10% size:55% That is an interesting 00:04:57.263 --> 00:04:58.264 align:start line:63% position:10% size:53% parallel because when 00:04:58.331 --> 00:04:59.332 align:start line:63% position:10% size:65% the Israelites were slaves 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:02.068 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% in Egypt, God miraculously 00:05:02.135 --> 00:05:03.803 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% delivered them and had 00:05:03.870 --> 00:05:06.239 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% for them a Promised Land 00:05:06.305 --> 00:05:09.075 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% of milk and honey. 00:05:09.142 --> 00:05:10.576 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% It is a place of abundance, 00:05:10.643 --> 00:05:11.944 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% a place of security. 00:05:12.011 --> 00:05:13.413 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% But in-between, 00:05:13.479 --> 00:05:14.847 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% there is this desert, 00:05:14.914 --> 00:05:18.184 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% and they had to fight. 00:05:18.251 --> 00:05:19.318 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% The interesting thing 00:05:19.385 --> 00:05:20.787 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% is the reason that 00:05:20.853 --> 00:05:22.088 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% a whole generation wandered 00:05:22.155 --> 00:05:23.289 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% in the desert was because 00:05:23.356 --> 00:05:26.125 align:start line:85% position:10% size:75% they didn't believe the report 00:05:26.192 --> 00:05:27.393 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% that if they fought, 00:05:27.460 --> 00:05:28.661 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% they would win. 00:05:28.728 --> 00:05:29.996 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% They believed the 12 spies, 00:05:30.063 --> 00:05:31.064 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% two of them said, 00:05:31.130 --> 00:05:32.131 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% "They're giants but 00:05:32.198 --> 00:05:33.199 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% we can beat them." 00:05:33.266 --> 00:05:34.267 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% Ten of them say, 00:05:34.333 --> 00:05:35.334 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% "No, we can't win. 00:05:35.401 --> 00:05:36.402 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% It's too much." 00:05:36.469 --> 00:05:37.704 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% They went with the odds 00:05:37.770 --> 00:05:38.771 align:start line:85% position:10% size:20% on that. 00:05:38.838 --> 00:05:40.106 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% And here's what I see. 00:05:40.173 --> 00:05:42.041 align:start line:85% position:10% size:73% A lot of people in the church 00:05:42.108 --> 00:05:43.109 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% are stuck between 00:05:43.176 --> 00:05:44.177 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% their deliverance 00:05:44.243 --> 00:05:45.244 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% and their destiny, 00:05:45.311 --> 00:05:46.579 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% and it is a desert. 00:05:46.646 --> 00:05:48.247 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% So, Ron, for you, 00:05:48.314 --> 00:05:50.049 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% what made you realize 00:05:50.116 --> 00:05:52.118 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% that yeah, I can fight? 00:05:52.185 --> 00:05:53.219 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% I have to fight, 00:05:53.286 --> 00:05:54.287 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% and I can win. 00:05:54.353 --> 00:05:55.354 align:start line:63% position:10% size:48% RON: You know Egypt 00:05:55.421 --> 00:05:56.556 align:start line:63% position:10% size:68% is full of external enemies 00:05:56.622 --> 00:05:57.890 align:start line:63% position:10% size:68% so God fought those enemies 00:05:57.957 --> 00:05:59.692 align:start line:63% position:10% size:73% because you can't fight them. 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:00.827 align:start line:63% position:10% size:38% The wilderness, 00:06:00.893 --> 00:06:01.894 align:start line:63% position:10% size:43% you have to fight 00:06:01.961 --> 00:06:02.895 align:start line:63% position:10% size:60% the internal enemies and 00:06:02.962 --> 00:06:04.263 align:start line:63% position:10% size:73% God don't fight them for you. 00:06:04.330 --> 00:06:05.765 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% You have to fight them 00:06:05.832 --> 00:06:06.866 align:start line:85% position:10% size:23% yourself. 00:06:06.933 --> 00:06:08.034 align:start line:85% position:10% size:73% That's why a whole generation 00:06:08.101 --> 00:06:09.736 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% didn't make it. 00:06:09.802 --> 00:06:11.504 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% I wrote that book 00:06:11.571 --> 00:06:14.240 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% in the middle of all this, 00:06:14.307 --> 00:06:15.308 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% not really knowing 00:06:15.374 --> 00:06:17.076 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% what was going on. 00:06:17.143 --> 00:06:19.378 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% I wrote that book. 00:06:19.445 --> 00:06:20.480 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% That was during 00:06:20.546 --> 00:06:22.115 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% the recession. 00:06:22.181 --> 00:06:24.150 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% Pastored in the Bible belt, 00:06:24.217 --> 00:06:26.886 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% a very blue-collar area. 00:06:26.953 --> 00:06:28.054 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% During the recession, 00:06:28.121 --> 00:06:29.388 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% I lost 42% of my operating 00:06:29.455 --> 00:06:31.657 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% income in one year. 00:06:31.724 --> 00:06:32.759 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% I remember one day 00:06:32.825 --> 00:06:33.793 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% I had to lay off 00:06:33.860 --> 00:06:35.628 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% 17 single mothers. 00:06:35.695 --> 00:06:36.696 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% I came home and laid 00:06:36.763 --> 00:06:37.864 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% in my lap and cried. 00:06:37.930 --> 00:06:39.065 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% I felt like I wasn't 00:06:39.132 --> 00:06:41.267 align:start line:85% position:10% size:28% even saved. 00:06:41.334 --> 00:06:43.736 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% Our oldest son was gone 00:06:43.803 --> 00:06:44.971 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% on drugs somewhere. 00:06:45.037 --> 00:06:46.038 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% I didn't know where he was. 00:06:46.105 --> 00:06:47.106 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% My marriage was -- 00:06:47.173 --> 00:06:48.274 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% I didn't know what 00:06:48.341 --> 00:06:49.342 align:start line:85% position:10% size:33% was going on, 00:06:49.408 --> 00:06:50.409 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% but it was crumbling, 00:06:50.476 --> 00:06:51.477 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% and the church was 00:06:51.544 --> 00:06:52.545 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% in bankruptcy, 00:06:52.612 --> 00:06:53.913 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% and I was under an F.B.I. 00:06:53.980 --> 00:06:54.981 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% investigation. 00:06:55.047 --> 00:06:56.048 align:start line:85% position:10% size:25% RANDY: Oh! 00:06:56.115 --> 00:06:57.116 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% RON: Our church did a lot 00:06:57.183 --> 00:06:58.484 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% of community efforts, 00:06:58.551 --> 00:06:59.552 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% a lot of partnerships 00:06:59.619 --> 00:07:00.620 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% with the state 00:07:00.686 --> 00:07:01.687 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% and local governments. 00:07:01.754 --> 00:07:02.755 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% We were building 00:07:02.822 --> 00:07:03.823 align:start line:85% position:10% size:33% a subdivision 00:07:03.890 --> 00:07:04.891 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% for single moms. 00:07:04.957 --> 00:07:05.992 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% Had a lot of success 00:07:06.058 --> 00:07:07.059 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% of people who never had 00:07:07.126 --> 00:07:08.127 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% a chance of ever owning 00:07:08.194 --> 00:07:09.195 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% property and we were 00:07:09.262 --> 00:07:10.263 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% putting them in property. 00:07:10.329 --> 00:07:11.330 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% We did a lot of things 00:07:11.397 --> 00:07:12.398 align:start line:85% position:10% size:25% like that. 00:07:12.465 --> 00:07:13.466 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% This is just one. 00:07:13.533 --> 00:07:14.567 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% We had a lot of things 00:07:14.634 --> 00:07:15.635 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% we did like that. 00:07:15.701 --> 00:07:16.702 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% But I had a company 00:07:16.769 --> 00:07:17.770 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% I worked with where 00:07:17.837 --> 00:07:18.838 align:start line:85% position:10% size:73% the president of that company 00:07:18.905 --> 00:07:19.906 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% was doing some unethical 00:07:19.972 --> 00:07:20.973 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% things with investments. 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:23.209 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% And so, the 250 some people 00:07:23.276 --> 00:07:24.377 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% involved took out 00:07:24.443 --> 00:07:25.745 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% a class action lawsuit on me 00:07:25.812 --> 00:07:26.813 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% for hiring him because 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:27.880 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% that's where the lawyers 00:07:27.947 --> 00:07:28.981 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% told them to go after, 00:07:29.048 --> 00:07:31.217 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% go after the preacher. 00:07:31.284 --> 00:07:32.485 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% Then the FBI got involved. 00:07:32.552 --> 00:07:34.086 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% So, I've got a son on drugs, 00:07:34.153 --> 00:07:35.922 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% a marriage falling apart, 00:07:35.988 --> 00:07:36.989 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% a church on the verge 00:07:37.056 --> 00:07:38.024 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% of bankruptcy, 00:07:38.090 --> 00:07:39.692 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% and the FBI breathing down 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:40.927 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% my neck every day 00:07:40.993 --> 00:07:42.094 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% going on at the same time. 00:07:42.161 --> 00:07:43.296 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% I'm a country boy 00:07:43.362 --> 00:07:44.297 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% from Possum Kingdom, 00:07:44.363 --> 00:07:45.431 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% South Carolina. 00:07:45.498 --> 00:07:46.532 align:start line:85% position:10% size:25% [Laughing] 00:07:46.599 --> 00:07:47.567 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% HOPE: We just wanted 00:07:47.633 --> 00:07:48.734 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% to get some people saved. 00:07:48.801 --> 00:07:49.802 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% RON: I just wanted to help 00:07:49.869 --> 00:07:50.970 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% some people get saved. 00:07:51.037 --> 00:07:52.638 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% I'm like, what am I doing 00:07:52.705 --> 00:07:53.840 align:start line:85% position:10% size:13% here? 00:07:53.906 --> 00:07:55.708 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% What in the world? 00:07:55.775 --> 00:07:56.776 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% That was really 00:07:56.843 --> 00:07:58.544 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% a revelation to me because 00:07:58.611 --> 00:07:59.612 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% the Bible says 00:07:59.679 --> 00:08:00.680 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% First Corinthians 16:9, 00:08:00.746 --> 00:08:02.114 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% "There is a great 00:08:02.181 --> 00:08:03.716 align:start line:85% position:10% size:75% and effective door open for me 00:08:03.783 --> 00:08:04.884 align:start line:85% position:10% size:33% but there are 00:08:04.951 --> 00:08:06.152 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% many adversaries." 00:08:06.219 --> 00:08:07.920 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% Adversaries and doors 00:08:07.987 --> 00:08:09.455 align:start line:85% position:10% size:30% go together. 00:08:09.522 --> 00:08:11.958 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% Opportunities always come 00:08:12.024 --> 00:08:13.626 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% with adversaries. 00:08:13.693 --> 00:08:15.127 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% God gave me that book. 00:08:15.194 --> 00:08:16.529 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% That book was the cry 00:08:16.596 --> 00:08:18.698 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% of my heart, really trying 00:08:18.764 --> 00:08:20.933 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% to understand an enemy 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:23.035 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% is a lot less lethal 00:08:23.102 --> 00:08:24.070 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% if you know what 00:08:24.136 --> 00:08:25.204 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% you're fighting. 00:08:25.271 --> 00:08:26.305 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% But man, when you don't know 00:08:26.372 --> 00:08:27.373 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% what you're fighting, 00:08:27.440 --> 00:08:28.441 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% they're lethal. 00:08:28.507 --> 00:08:29.942 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% And so, I began to go 00:08:30.009 --> 00:08:31.277 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% through the Bible, really, 00:08:31.344 --> 00:08:32.445 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% for my own survival. 00:08:32.511 --> 00:08:33.579 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% I didn't say man, 00:08:33.646 --> 00:08:35.314 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% this will be a good book. 00:08:35.381 --> 00:08:36.482 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% I was going through 00:08:36.549 --> 00:08:38.517 align:start line:85% position:10% size:75% the Bible to try to figure out 00:08:38.584 --> 00:08:39.652 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% how to make it 00:08:39.719 --> 00:08:40.720 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% and keep my sanity. 00:08:40.786 --> 00:08:41.854 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% I realized that you would 00:08:41.921 --> 00:08:42.989 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% have never even heard of 00:08:43.055 --> 00:08:44.156 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% a David if it wasn't 00:08:44.223 --> 00:08:45.224 align:start line:85% position:10% size:30% for Goliath. 00:08:45.291 --> 00:08:46.292 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% Wouldn't have even 00:08:46.359 --> 00:08:47.360 align:start line:85% position:10% size:33% heard of him. 00:08:47.426 --> 00:08:48.427 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% You wouldn't never know 00:08:48.494 --> 00:08:49.495 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% about Moses if 00:08:49.562 --> 00:08:50.563 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% there wasn't a Pharaoh. 00:08:50.630 --> 00:08:53.432 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% The fact is, I realized 00:08:53.499 --> 00:08:54.934 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% the hope the enemy gave me 00:08:55.001 --> 00:08:57.436 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% because the enemy arising 00:08:57.503 --> 00:08:58.804 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% in my life is a sign 00:08:58.871 --> 00:09:00.239 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% that there is a door 00:09:00.306 --> 00:09:01.407 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% arising in my life. 00:09:01.474 --> 00:09:02.608 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% And you've got to take 00:09:02.675 --> 00:09:03.876 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% the enemy to be able 00:09:03.943 --> 00:09:05.544 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% to access the door. 00:09:05.611 --> 00:09:08.347 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% So, usually the next seasons 00:09:08.414 --> 00:09:10.283 align:start line:85% position:10% size:73% are introduced with an enemy. 00:09:10.349 --> 00:09:11.284 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% There is a great 00:09:11.350 --> 00:09:12.385 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% and effective door 00:09:12.451 --> 00:09:14.487 align:start line:63% position:10% size:65% but there is an adversary. 00:09:14.553 --> 00:09:15.688 align:start line:63% position:10% size:45% So, I just learned 00:09:15.755 --> 00:09:16.889 align:start line:63% position:10% size:55% that all these battles 00:09:16.956 --> 00:09:18.391 align:start line:63% position:10% size:50% I'm fighting must be 00:09:18.457 --> 00:09:20.126 align:start line:63% position:10% size:60% an entrance to something 00:09:20.192 --> 00:09:21.928 align:start line:63% position:10% size:48% greater in my life. 00:09:21.994 --> 00:09:23.262 align:start line:63% position:10% size:45% It, Randy, gave me 00:09:23.329 --> 00:09:26.032 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% the fuel like I said, 00:09:26.098 --> 00:09:27.433 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% to stand up to these battles 00:09:27.500 --> 00:09:28.734 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% because they were draining 00:09:28.801 --> 00:09:29.802 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% financially, they were 00:09:29.869 --> 00:09:31.470 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% draining emotionally, 00:09:31.537 --> 00:09:32.872 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% and in every which way, 00:09:32.939 --> 00:09:35.174 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% being hit from every side. 00:09:35.241 --> 00:09:36.676 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% I really think it was 00:09:36.742 --> 00:09:37.910 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% that small timespan of 00:09:37.977 --> 00:09:40.079 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% about 2010 to 2013, 00:09:40.146 --> 00:09:41.747 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% I think the enemy wanted 00:09:41.814 --> 00:09:44.283 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% to take Ron Carpenter out. 00:09:44.350 --> 00:09:45.318 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% I don't think he wanted 00:09:45.384 --> 00:09:46.485 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% to hurt him or inhibit him; 00:09:46.552 --> 00:09:47.486 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% I think he wanted 00:09:47.553 --> 00:09:48.554 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% to take him out. 00:09:48.621 --> 00:09:49.588 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% Because honestly, 00:09:49.655 --> 00:09:50.790 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% any one of these three would 00:09:50.856 --> 00:09:52.725 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% take a lot of people out -- 00:09:52.792 --> 00:09:54.727 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% any one of them. 00:09:54.794 --> 00:09:55.928 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% The FBI thing went on 00:09:55.995 --> 00:09:57.063 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% for three years. 00:09:57.129 --> 00:09:58.631 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% That was horrible because 00:09:58.698 --> 00:09:59.899 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% you're fighting someone 00:09:59.966 --> 00:10:02.868 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% with unlimited resources. 00:10:02.935 --> 00:10:03.936 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% I was declared 00:10:04.003 --> 00:10:04.937 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% totally clean. 00:10:05.004 --> 00:10:05.972 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% It was ridiculous but 00:10:06.038 --> 00:10:07.073 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% the fact is you still 00:10:07.139 --> 00:10:08.140 align:start line:63% position:10% size:53% have got to fight it. 00:10:08.207 --> 00:10:09.275 align:start line:63% position:10% size:53% RANDY: Let me ask you 00:10:09.342 --> 00:10:10.409 align:start line:63% position:10% size:65% this tough question though 00:10:10.476 --> 00:10:11.510 align:start line:63% position:10% size:63% because it is easy to go, 00:10:11.577 --> 00:10:13.045 align:start line:63% position:10% size:43% oh, I'm a victim. 00:10:13.112 --> 00:10:14.080 align:start line:63% position:10% size:38% Or the enemy is 00:10:14.146 --> 00:10:15.348 align:start line:63% position:10% size:35% out to get me! 00:10:15.414 --> 00:10:16.782 align:start line:63% position:10% size:73% Was there any self-reflection 00:10:16.849 --> 00:10:18.084 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% and self-examination 00:10:18.150 --> 00:10:19.251 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% required during that time? 00:10:19.318 --> 00:10:20.619 align:start line:85% position:10% size:33% RON: Totally. 00:10:20.686 --> 00:10:22.288 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% I'm not the same man I was 00:10:22.355 --> 00:10:28.961 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% then because when -- 00:10:29.028 --> 00:10:31.530 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% when you're succeeding, 00:10:31.597 --> 00:10:32.765 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% you tend to be oblivious 00:10:32.832 --> 00:10:34.567 align:start line:85% position:10% size:25% to things. 00:10:34.633 --> 00:10:36.602 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% But when everything starts 00:10:36.669 --> 00:10:37.803 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% falling apart around you, 00:10:37.870 --> 00:10:38.871 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% you start assessing 00:10:38.938 --> 00:10:40.573 align:start line:85% position:10% size:28% everything. 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:41.774 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% I think that was me. 00:10:41.841 --> 00:10:42.942 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% I don't know if I could 00:10:43.009 --> 00:10:44.110 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% answer for her during 00:10:44.176 --> 00:10:45.378 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% that time, but yeah, I was 00:10:45.444 --> 00:10:46.979 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% doing a lot of 00:10:47.046 --> 00:10:48.848 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% how did I get here? 00:10:48.914 --> 00:10:50.950 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% What decisions did I make? 00:10:51.017 --> 00:10:54.053 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% Who was influencing me 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:55.654 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% when I made these decisions? 00:10:55.721 --> 00:10:56.822 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% I started asking questions 00:10:56.889 --> 00:10:59.258 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% about everything. 00:10:59.325 --> 00:11:02.762 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% Probably from 2010 to 2020, 00:11:02.828 --> 00:11:03.929 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% I probably went through 00:11:03.996 --> 00:11:06.365 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% my own personal revolution 00:11:06.432 --> 00:11:07.867 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% with just assessing 00:11:07.933 --> 00:11:09.001 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% the kind of father I was 00:11:09.068 --> 00:11:10.269 align:start line:85% position:10% size:73% and the kind of husband I was 00:11:10.336 --> 00:11:12.138 align:start line:85% position:10% size:73% and the kind of pastor I was. 00:11:12.204 --> 00:11:13.305 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% Let's go back to the 00:11:13.372 --> 00:11:15.708 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% kind of man I wanted to be. 00:11:15.775 --> 00:11:17.043 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% So yeah, there was a lot 00:11:17.109 --> 00:11:18.310 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% of self-reflection 00:11:18.377 --> 00:11:19.478 align:start line:85% position:10% size:73% and a lot of what I found out 00:11:19.545 --> 00:11:21.714 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% about myself I didn't like. 00:11:21.781 --> 00:11:23.115 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% RANDY: I get that. 00:11:23.182 --> 00:11:24.216 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% You know what's 00:11:24.283 --> 00:11:25.251 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% interesting though? 00:11:25.317 --> 00:11:26.318 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% Because we think, okay, 00:11:26.385 --> 00:11:27.553 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% we need to save the church! 00:11:27.620 --> 00:11:28.621 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% Or we need to save 00:11:28.687 --> 00:11:29.688 align:start line:85% position:10% size:33% our marriage. 00:11:29.755 --> 00:11:30.756 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% Both good things. 00:11:30.823 --> 00:11:31.824 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% But when you look 00:11:31.891 --> 00:11:32.892 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% at scripture it tells you 00:11:32.958 --> 00:11:33.959 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% that God's desire is 00:11:34.026 --> 00:11:35.061 align:start line:85% position:10% size:33% to conform us 00:11:35.127 --> 00:11:37.396 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% to the image of Christ. 00:11:37.463 --> 00:11:39.331 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% We like things like hope 00:11:39.398 --> 00:11:40.433 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% and faithfulness 00:11:40.499 --> 00:11:41.534 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% and perseverance, 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:42.601 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% but scripture tells us 00:11:42.668 --> 00:11:44.537 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% that starts with suffering. 00:11:44.603 --> 00:11:45.905 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% We don't like suffering. 00:11:45.971 --> 00:11:47.139 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% We call it the enemy -- 00:11:47.206 --> 00:11:48.774 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% the enemy component there. 00:11:48.841 --> 00:11:50.609 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% Or we pray against it. 00:11:50.676 --> 00:11:51.677 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% Or we think, well, 00:11:51.744 --> 00:11:52.745 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% that person is suffering, 00:11:52.812 --> 00:11:53.813 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% they must have done 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:55.948 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% something wrong. 00:11:56.015 --> 00:11:57.349 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% What have you learned 00:11:57.416 --> 00:11:58.417 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% through your suffering? 00:11:58.484 --> 00:11:59.852 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% RON: What I've learned 00:11:59.919 --> 00:12:01.253 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% is to press through. 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:02.321 align:start line:85% position:10% size:28% We say that 00:12:02.388 --> 00:12:03.389 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% tongue-in-cheek, but 00:12:03.456 --> 00:12:04.690 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% I'm concerned that we are 00:12:04.757 --> 00:12:06.859 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% raising up a generation now 00:12:06.926 --> 00:12:07.860 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% that has not learned 00:12:07.927 --> 00:12:08.994 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% to press through. 00:12:09.061 --> 00:12:10.096 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% Because there are a whole 00:12:10.162 --> 00:12:11.664 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% lot of quick quitters 00:12:11.730 --> 00:12:12.731 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% in the younger generation. 00:12:12.798 --> 00:12:13.999 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% What we learned was -- 00:12:14.066 --> 00:12:15.301 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% there is an old saying, 00:12:15.367 --> 00:12:16.602 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% it is not an original 00:12:16.669 --> 00:12:17.670 align:start line:85% position:10% size:20% with me. 00:12:17.736 --> 00:12:18.737 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% I don't know who 00:12:18.804 --> 00:12:19.805 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% said it first. 00:12:19.872 --> 00:12:21.107 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% My mom and dad's generation, 00:12:21.173 --> 00:12:22.274 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% their mom and dad's 00:12:22.341 --> 00:12:23.676 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% generation, when something 00:12:23.742 --> 00:12:24.743 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% was broken, you don't 00:12:24.810 --> 00:12:28.447 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% throw it away, you fix it. 00:12:28.514 --> 00:12:29.615 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% We took the road 00:12:29.682 --> 00:12:31.684 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% less traveled, 00:12:31.750 --> 00:12:34.086 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% and it was not an easy road. 00:12:34.153 --> 00:12:35.621 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% But now, on the other side 00:12:35.688 --> 00:12:36.655 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% of it, and we're skipping 00:12:36.722 --> 00:12:37.690 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% a whole lot of time 00:12:37.756 --> 00:12:39.525 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% and a whole lot of trials, 00:12:39.592 --> 00:12:41.360 align:start line:63% position:10% size:60% on the other side of it, 00:12:41.427 --> 00:12:42.728 align:start line:63% position:10% size:58% I wouldn't trade places 00:12:42.795 --> 00:12:44.130 align:start line:63% position:10% size:65% with anybody in the world. 00:12:44.196 --> 00:12:45.698 align:start line:63% position:10% size:63% Because one of the things 00:12:45.764 --> 00:12:46.866 align:start line:63% position:10% size:58% I'm so glad I didn't do 00:12:46.932 --> 00:12:47.967 align:start line:63% position:10% size:53% is she go off and get 00:12:48.033 --> 00:12:50.035 align:start line:85% position:10% size:73% her healing and somebody else 00:12:50.102 --> 00:12:51.604 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% get to enjoy it. 00:12:51.670 --> 00:12:53.005 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% And I dealt with the one 00:12:53.072 --> 00:12:54.173 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% that was painful but never 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:55.274 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% dealt with the one 00:12:55.341 --> 00:12:57.076 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% who God had restored. 00:12:57.143 --> 00:12:58.410 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% If I'm going to walk with 00:12:58.477 --> 00:12:59.645 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% the Hope that was broken, 00:12:59.712 --> 00:13:00.713 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% I want to hang around 00:13:00.779 --> 00:13:01.847 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% and wait for the Hope 00:13:01.914 --> 00:13:03.682 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% that gets restored. 00:13:03.749 --> 00:13:05.351 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% And I'm so glad that I did. 00:13:05.417 --> 00:13:06.418 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% RANDY: That required 00:13:06.485 --> 00:13:07.419 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% sacrifice on your side. 00:13:07.486 --> 00:13:08.854 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% RON: Yes, it did. 00:13:08.921 --> 00:13:10.022 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% Can I tell you one thing 00:13:10.089 --> 00:13:12.024 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% that helped me? 00:13:12.091 --> 00:13:13.092 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% Counseling, counseling, 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:14.160 align:start line:85% position:10% size:33% counseling -- 00:13:14.226 --> 00:13:15.227 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% I'm not doing away with it, 00:13:15.294 --> 00:13:16.295 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% I'm so grateful for it but 00:13:16.362 --> 00:13:17.363 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% we went through so much. 00:13:17.429 --> 00:13:18.430 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% We had friends, 00:13:18.497 --> 00:13:19.498 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% "Y'all need to go here 00:13:19.565 --> 00:13:20.566 align:start line:85% position:10% size:30% for a week." 00:13:20.633 --> 00:13:21.634 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% And we'd go there 00:13:21.700 --> 00:13:22.701 align:start line:85% position:10% size:28% for a week. 00:13:22.768 --> 00:13:23.769 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% "Y'all need to stay here." 00:13:23.836 --> 00:13:24.870 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% She had been here at this 00:13:24.937 --> 00:13:25.938 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% place seven months 00:13:26.005 --> 00:13:27.006 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% and it was just go 00:13:27.072 --> 00:13:28.073 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% and regurgitate it again and 00:13:28.140 --> 00:13:29.875 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% go and regurgitate it again. 00:13:29.942 --> 00:13:32.111 align:start line:85% position:10% size:73% This was now about six months 00:13:32.178 --> 00:13:33.145 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% into us trying 00:13:33.212 --> 00:13:35.247 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% to patch it together. 00:13:35.314 --> 00:13:36.348 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% We went to another place 00:13:36.415 --> 00:13:37.483 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% that at that time was 00:13:37.550 --> 00:13:38.551 align:start line:85% position:10% size:30% in Colorado, 00:13:38.617 --> 00:13:39.618 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% called Blessings Ranch. 00:13:39.685 --> 00:13:40.686 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% Wonderful people. 00:13:40.753 --> 00:13:41.754 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% Very intelligent. 00:13:41.820 --> 00:13:43.155 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% And we started it all again. 00:13:43.222 --> 00:13:44.223 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% Because we're just trying, 00:13:44.290 --> 00:13:45.891 align:start line:85% position:10% size:73% whatever it is, to get it out 00:13:45.958 --> 00:13:46.992 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% and help us put things 00:13:47.059 --> 00:13:48.060 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% back together. 00:13:48.127 --> 00:13:49.128 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% I'm sitting there, 00:13:49.195 --> 00:13:50.496 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% and it was the second day, 00:13:50.563 --> 00:13:51.630 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% and I just looked at 00:13:51.697 --> 00:13:52.765 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% that therapist and I said, 00:13:52.831 --> 00:13:54.833 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% "I can't do this no more. 00:13:54.900 --> 00:13:56.168 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% I just can't just sit here 00:13:56.235 --> 00:13:58.470 align:start line:63% position:10% size:73% and keep talking about this." 00:13:58.537 --> 00:14:02.942 align:start line:63% position:10% size:75% And God took me to Psalms 126, 00:14:03.008 --> 00:14:04.376 align:start line:63% position:10% size:70% where it said, "When we came 00:14:04.443 --> 00:14:06.245 align:start line:63% position:10% size:43% out of captivity, 00:14:06.312 --> 00:14:07.313 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% we were like those 00:14:07.379 --> 00:14:09.882 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% who dreamed again." 00:14:09.949 --> 00:14:10.950 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% I told the therapist, 00:14:11.016 --> 00:14:12.184 align:start line:85% position:10% size:75% I said, "With all due respect, 00:14:12.251 --> 00:14:13.252 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% y'all are amazing. 00:14:13.319 --> 00:14:14.320 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% But I'm not going 00:14:14.386 --> 00:14:15.387 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% to be coming back." 00:14:15.454 --> 00:14:16.622 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% I said, "I've got to get 00:14:16.689 --> 00:14:17.856 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% my wife, I've got to get 00:14:17.923 --> 00:14:19.091 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% out of here, and I've got 00:14:19.158 --> 00:14:20.159 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% to go dream again. 00:14:20.226 --> 00:14:21.393 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% I've got to put my mind 00:14:21.460 --> 00:14:22.461 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% somewhere else." 00:14:22.528 --> 00:14:23.529 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% HOPE: We've got to quit 00:14:23.596 --> 00:14:24.597 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% talking about the past. 00:14:24.663 --> 00:14:25.664 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% RON: Other than 00:14:25.731 --> 00:14:26.732 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% what I've been through. 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:27.800 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% I said, "I've got 00:14:27.866 --> 00:14:28.867 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% to dream again." 00:14:28.934 --> 00:14:29.935 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% Why? Because a lot of 00:14:30.002 --> 00:14:31.003 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% our dreams were broken. 00:14:31.070 --> 00:14:32.271 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% But a lot of our dreams 00:14:32.338 --> 00:14:33.339 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% were not broken, 00:14:33.405 --> 00:14:34.406 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% we let them go. 00:14:34.473 --> 00:14:35.741 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% We went out that day, 00:14:35.808 --> 00:14:37.409 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% another landmark day, 00:14:37.476 --> 00:14:38.510 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% this is one of those 00:14:38.577 --> 00:14:39.678 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% God encounters, we went out 00:14:39.745 --> 00:14:40.813 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% to someplace in the middle 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:41.880 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% of nowhere Colorado. 00:14:41.947 --> 00:14:42.948 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% It was freezing. 00:14:43.015 --> 00:14:44.016 align:start line:85% position:10% size:30% It was cold! 00:14:44.083 --> 00:14:45.184 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% And I remember we started 00:14:45.251 --> 00:14:46.885 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% talking about things 00:14:46.952 --> 00:14:48.020 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% we wanted to do 00:14:48.087 --> 00:14:49.655 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% that we hadn't done. 00:14:49.722 --> 00:14:51.690 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% We started talking about 00:14:51.757 --> 00:14:53.959 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% trips we wanted to take, 00:14:54.026 --> 00:14:56.662 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% and places we wanted to go 00:14:56.729 --> 00:14:57.796 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% and things we wanted 00:14:57.863 --> 00:14:59.498 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% to accomplish, and books 00:14:59.565 --> 00:15:02.001 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% that we wanted to write. 00:15:02.067 --> 00:15:03.135 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% HOPE: And how could 00:15:03.202 --> 00:15:04.436 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% God use this to help 00:15:04.503 --> 00:15:05.504 align:start line:85% position:10% size:33% other people? 00:15:05.571 --> 00:15:06.572 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% RON: That's another one 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:07.840 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% of those days that helped 00:15:07.906 --> 00:15:08.907 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% save my life because 00:15:08.974 --> 00:15:10.209 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% your mind does two things, 00:15:10.276 --> 00:15:11.277 align:start line:85% position:10% size:33% it remembers, 00:15:11.343 --> 00:15:12.344 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% and it imagines. 00:15:12.411 --> 00:15:13.412 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% It is programmed that 00:15:13.479 --> 00:15:14.713 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% if you don't give it 00:15:14.780 --> 00:15:15.781 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% anything to imagine, 00:15:15.848 --> 00:15:18.817 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% it retreats to memory. 00:15:18.884 --> 00:15:20.185 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% I was tired of having 00:15:20.252 --> 00:15:21.353 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% all of my focus -- 00:15:21.420 --> 00:15:22.421 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% the pain having 00:15:22.488 --> 00:15:23.622 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% all of my focus. 00:15:23.689 --> 00:15:24.823 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% And if God can do above 00:15:24.890 --> 00:15:25.958 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% and beyond of what I could 00:15:26.025 --> 00:15:27.693 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% ask or imagine, 00:15:27.760 --> 00:15:29.028 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% let me begin to imagine 00:15:29.094 --> 00:15:31.497 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% a tomorrow that is so great 00:15:31.563 --> 00:15:32.498 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% that it will pull me out 00:15:32.564 --> 00:15:34.199 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% of the pain of my yesterday. 00:15:34.266 --> 00:15:35.801 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% And we went out that day 00:15:35.868 --> 00:15:37.002 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% in some nowhere place 00:15:37.069 --> 00:15:38.237 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% in Colorado, and I just know 00:15:38.304 --> 00:15:39.838 align:start line:85% position:10% size:30% it was cold, 00:15:39.905 --> 00:15:42.107 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% and we dreamed all day. 00:15:42.174 --> 00:15:43.676 align:start line:85% position:10% size:73% And that was a turning point. 00:15:43.742 --> 00:15:45.044 align:start line:85% position:10% size:33% HOPE: It was! 00:15:45.110 --> 00:15:46.578 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% RANDY: Now, that came after 00:15:46.645 --> 00:15:49.381 align:start line:63% position:10% size:63% you'd done a lot of work. 00:15:49.448 --> 00:15:52.117 align:start line:63% position:10% size:70% So, what I hear, and tell me 00:15:52.184 --> 00:15:53.252 align:start line:63% position:10% size:75% if this is what you're saying, 00:15:53.319 --> 00:15:54.420 align:start line:63% position:10% size:33% is that yeah, 00:15:54.486 --> 00:15:55.888 align:start line:63% position:10% size:58% you need to get honest. 00:15:55.954 --> 00:15:57.189 align:start line:63% position:10% size:60% You've got to sacrifice. 00:15:57.256 --> 00:15:59.058 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% You've got to push through 00:15:59.124 --> 00:16:00.292 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% the pain, which is 00:16:00.359 --> 00:16:01.860 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% the suffering part of it. 00:16:01.927 --> 00:16:03.162 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% But if you endure, 00:16:03.228 --> 00:16:04.463 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% you can get to a place where 00:16:04.530 --> 00:16:06.198 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% you don't live in the past, 00:16:06.265 --> 00:16:08.000 align:start line:85% position:10% size:73% but you hope and dream again. 00:16:08.067 --> 00:16:09.668 align:start line:85% position:10% size:73% HOPE: The wonderful scripture 00:16:09.735 --> 00:16:11.670 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% in Hebrews 12 that tells us 00:16:11.737 --> 00:16:13.605 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% to run our race 00:16:13.672 --> 00:16:15.607 align:start line:63% position:10% size:63% but do it with endurance. 00:16:15.674 --> 00:16:16.942 align:start line:63% position:10% size:48% So, it is happening 00:16:17.009 --> 00:16:18.944 align:start line:63% position:10% size:43% at the same time. 00:16:19.011 --> 00:16:21.013 align:start line:63% position:10% size:55% You're running forward 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:22.314 align:start line:63% position:10% size:48% towards your future 00:16:22.381 --> 00:16:23.849 align:start line:63% position:10% size:48% but you're doing it 00:16:23.916 --> 00:16:24.950 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% with endurance. 00:16:25.017 --> 00:16:26.218 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% That means you're having 00:16:26.285 --> 00:16:28.887 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% to run against something. 00:16:28.954 --> 00:16:31.023 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% But you keep running. 00:16:31.090 --> 00:16:32.958 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% That pain is what makes you 00:16:33.025 --> 00:16:35.661 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% stronger to go faster. 00:16:35.728 --> 00:16:36.895 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% RANDY: It is interesting 00:16:36.962 --> 00:16:38.230 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% because it also talks 00:16:38.297 --> 00:16:39.598 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% about a race where it says, 00:16:39.665 --> 00:16:40.766 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% to lay aside the sin 00:16:40.833 --> 00:16:44.136 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% that so easily entangles us. 00:16:44.203 --> 00:16:46.772 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% Not only don't do the thing 00:16:46.839 --> 00:16:49.375 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% that is easier to do, right? 00:16:49.441 --> 00:16:51.310 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% That's easier, but at 00:16:51.377 --> 00:16:52.411 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% some point, you laid aside 00:16:52.478 --> 00:16:54.213 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% all the sin in your past 00:16:54.279 --> 00:16:56.281 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% and you just ran that race. 00:16:56.348 --> 00:16:57.750 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% How are you guys now? 00:16:57.816 --> 00:16:59.218 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% RON: The Bible says -- 00:16:59.284 --> 00:17:00.252 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% HOPE: He is more in love 00:17:00.319 --> 00:17:01.820 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% with me than he's ever been. 00:17:01.887 --> 00:17:03.489 align:start line:85% position:10% size:75% And I'm more in love with him! 00:17:03.555 --> 00:17:05.057 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% RON: And that's true. 00:17:05.124 --> 00:17:06.158 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% We are in some of 00:17:06.225 --> 00:17:07.259 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% the bliss stages. 00:17:07.326 --> 00:17:08.327 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% You know after you come 00:17:08.394 --> 00:17:09.361 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% out of the hell stage 00:17:09.428 --> 00:17:10.362 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% you need to have 00:17:10.429 --> 00:17:11.497 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% some bliss stage. 00:17:11.563 --> 00:17:13.031 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% The Bible says, 00:17:13.098 --> 00:17:14.233 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% "Forgetting those things 00:17:14.299 --> 00:17:15.401 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% that are behind, I press 00:17:15.467 --> 00:17:16.468 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% for the high calling 00:17:16.535 --> 00:17:17.603 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% of God in Christ Jesus." 00:17:17.669 --> 00:17:18.704 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% That "forget" doesn't mean 00:17:18.771 --> 00:17:21.507 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% selective amnesia. 00:17:21.573 --> 00:17:22.641 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% You can't unknow 00:17:22.708 --> 00:17:24.510 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% what you know. 00:17:24.576 --> 00:17:26.278 align:start line:85% position:10% size:75% So, I really honed in on that. 00:17:26.345 --> 00:17:27.446 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% Because this, you know, 00:17:27.513 --> 00:17:28.680 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% was no longer a sermon. 00:17:28.747 --> 00:17:30.582 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% This was me surviving. 00:17:30.649 --> 00:17:32.151 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% This is not preaching, 00:17:32.217 --> 00:17:33.385 align:start line:85% position:10% size:33% this is life. 00:17:33.452 --> 00:17:35.954 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% God how? It's in there. 00:17:36.021 --> 00:17:37.689 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% And I looked at that. 00:17:37.756 --> 00:17:38.724 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% In the Greek, that word 00:17:38.791 --> 00:17:39.992 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% forgetting don't mean 00:17:40.058 --> 00:17:41.126 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% that you forget it. 00:17:41.193 --> 00:17:42.327 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% It means to willfully 00:17:42.394 --> 00:17:43.796 align:start line:85% position:10% size:23% unnotice. 00:17:43.862 --> 00:17:45.330 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% So, in other words, 00:17:45.397 --> 00:17:46.665 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% you look on the timeline 00:17:46.732 --> 00:17:47.733 align:start line:85% position:10% size:73% of your life and when you get 00:17:47.800 --> 00:17:49.067 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% to those painful moments, 00:17:49.134 --> 00:17:51.370 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% you get to it and you -- 00:17:51.437 --> 00:17:54.406 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% in other words, it's there 00:17:54.473 --> 00:17:55.407 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% but it does not 00:17:55.474 --> 00:17:57.509 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% retain your focus. 00:17:57.576 --> 00:17:59.678 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% I can't stop every random 00:17:59.745 --> 00:18:00.879 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% thought that the enemy 00:18:00.946 --> 00:18:02.014 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% wants to throw through 00:18:02.080 --> 00:18:03.449 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% my head, but I am in charge 00:18:03.515 --> 00:18:04.616 align:start line:63% position:10% size:28% of my focus 00:18:04.683 --> 00:18:06.118 align:start line:63% position:10% size:48% and my meditations. 00:18:06.185 --> 00:18:07.286 align:start line:63% position:10% size:50% And my pain does not 00:18:07.352 --> 00:18:08.754 align:start line:63% position:10% size:48% get my meditations, 00:18:08.821 --> 00:18:09.855 align:start line:63% position:10% size:48% my victories get me 00:18:09.922 --> 00:18:11.557 align:start line:63% position:10% size:38% my meditations. 00:18:11.623 --> 00:18:12.858 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% RANDY: So, all these things 00:18:12.925 --> 00:18:14.159 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% that you talk about, 00:18:14.226 --> 00:18:16.061 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% we would call "enemies," 00:18:16.128 --> 00:18:17.396 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% is that why you can say 00:18:17.463 --> 00:18:19.398 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% that the enemy can be 00:18:19.465 --> 00:18:21.099 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% an opportunity, and we have 00:18:21.166 --> 00:18:22.501 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% to have those in life? 00:18:22.568 --> 00:18:23.702 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% RON: Everything. 00:18:23.769 --> 00:18:24.903 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% The Bible says that 00:18:24.970 --> 00:18:25.904 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% he makes his enemies 00:18:25.971 --> 00:18:27.072 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% his footstool. 00:18:27.139 --> 00:18:30.709 align:start line:85% position:10% size:73% I just end with this thought. 00:18:30.776 --> 00:18:31.844 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% My grandmother, 00:18:31.910 --> 00:18:33.479 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% we were raised on a farm. 00:18:33.545 --> 00:18:34.980 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% All my family were farmers. 00:18:35.047 --> 00:18:36.148 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% And my grandma was 00:18:36.215 --> 00:18:37.216 align:start line:85% position:10% size:33% a tiny woman, 00:18:37.282 --> 00:18:38.383 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% just a tiny little -- 00:18:38.450 --> 00:18:39.551 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% she might have been 00:18:39.618 --> 00:18:40.619 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% five-foot tall, 00:18:40.686 --> 00:18:41.687 align:start line:85% position:10% size:33% I don't know. 00:18:41.753 --> 00:18:42.888 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% But she would can 00:18:42.955 --> 00:18:43.956 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% all these vegetables. 00:18:44.022 --> 00:18:45.491 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% She had a high rack 00:18:45.557 --> 00:18:48.260 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% she'd can them on. 00:18:48.327 --> 00:18:49.261 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% She would always tell me, 00:18:49.328 --> 00:18:50.462 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% "Ron Junior, hand me 00:18:50.529 --> 00:18:51.530 align:start line:85% position:10% size:30% that stool." 00:18:51.597 --> 00:18:53.098 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% So, I knew she was wanting 00:18:53.165 --> 00:18:54.166 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% to get something high. 00:18:54.233 --> 00:18:55.701 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% So, I had this little stool 00:18:55.767 --> 00:18:56.768 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% that I would bring 00:18:56.835 --> 00:18:57.836 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% into the pantry where 00:18:57.903 --> 00:18:58.904 align:start line:85% position:10% size:33% she would can 00:18:58.971 --> 00:18:59.972 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% all those vegetables. 00:19:00.038 --> 00:19:01.240 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% And I remember back to 00:19:01.306 --> 00:19:02.674 align:start line:85% position:10% size:75% her stepping up and I am like, 00:19:02.741 --> 00:19:04.176 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% what is a footstool? 00:19:04.243 --> 00:19:05.477 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% A footstool is to help you 00:19:05.544 --> 00:19:07.212 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% reach a level that 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:08.313 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% without it you would never 00:19:08.380 --> 00:19:10.182 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% have been able to reach. 00:19:10.249 --> 00:19:11.283 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% God said, "I'll make 00:19:11.350 --> 00:19:13.218 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% your enemies cause you 00:19:13.285 --> 00:19:15.053 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% to reach levels that had 00:19:15.120 --> 00:19:17.489 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% that enemy not been there, 00:19:17.556 --> 00:19:18.524 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% you never would 00:19:18.590 --> 00:19:19.591 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% have reached it." 00:19:19.658 --> 00:19:20.826 align:start line:85% position:10% size:28% RANDY: Aah! 00:19:20.893 --> 00:19:21.894 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% You just opened up the eyes 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:23.362 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% of some viewers today. 00:19:23.428 --> 00:19:24.496 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% Some of you heard that and 00:19:24.563 --> 00:19:26.098 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% you went, I can see it now. 00:19:26.164 --> 00:19:27.466 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% That in me that I've been 00:19:27.533 --> 00:19:28.534 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% fighting, it's going 00:19:28.600 --> 00:19:29.601 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% to be a footstool. 00:19:29.668 --> 00:19:30.669 align:start line:63% position:10% size:50% Do you want somebody 00:19:30.736 --> 00:19:31.737 align:start line:63% position:10% size:40% to pray with you 00:19:31.803 --> 00:19:33.071 align:start line:63% position:10% size:68% and agree with you in that? 00:19:33.138 --> 00:19:34.206 align:start line:63% position:10% size:58% Just pick up the phone. 00:19:34.273 --> 00:19:35.274 align:start line:63% position:10% size:53% We've got people that 00:19:35.340 --> 00:19:36.642 align:start line:63% position:10% size:73% are waiting to pray with you. 00:19:36.708 --> 00:19:37.776 align:start line:63% position:10% size:50% We just love to hear 00:19:37.843 --> 00:19:38.844 align:start line:63% position:10% size:35% from you guys. 00:19:38.911 --> 00:19:39.978 align:start line:63% position:10% size:68% The viewers of this program 00:19:40.045 --> 00:19:41.380 align:start line:63% position:10% size:60% have meant so much to us 00:19:41.446 --> 00:19:42.614 align:start line:63% position:10% size:45% through the years. 00:19:42.681 --> 00:19:44.850 align:start line:63% position:10% size:58% We want to lift you up. 00:19:44.917 --> 00:19:45.884 align:start line:63% position:10% size:45% We want to believe 00:19:45.951 --> 00:19:46.952 align:start line:63% position:10% size:40% for that victory 00:19:47.019 --> 00:19:48.186 align:start line:63% position:10% size:68% and encourage you to fight. 00:19:48.253 --> 00:19:49.454 align:start line:63% position:10% size:68% Go through the hard things. 00:19:49.521 --> 00:19:50.522 align:start line:63% position:10% size:60% You may be suffering but 00:19:50.589 --> 00:19:52.057 align:start line:63% position:10% size:70% it will produce perseverance 00:19:52.124 --> 00:19:53.559 align:start line:63% position:10% size:68% if you just abide in Christ 00:19:53.625 --> 00:19:54.760 align:start line:63% position:10% size:33% through that. 00:19:54.826 --> 00:19:55.761 align:start line:63% position:10% size:53% Look, there are a lot 00:19:55.827 --> 00:19:56.828 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% of people right now who are 00:19:56.895 --> 00:19:57.829 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% facing an enemy that 00:19:57.896 --> 00:19:59.131 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% we call malnutrition 00:19:59.197 --> 00:20:00.198 align:start line:85% position:10% size:28% and hunger. 00:20:00.265 --> 00:20:01.266 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% We want to make 00:20:01.333 --> 00:20:02.334 align:start line:85% position:10% size:43% that a footstool. 00:20:02.401 --> 00:20:03.468 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% We want to invite you 00:20:03.535 --> 00:20:05.203 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% to help us defeat that enemy 00:20:05.270 --> 00:20:06.672 align:start line:85% position:10% size:15% today. 00:20:06.738 --> 00:20:08.574 align:start line:85% position:10% size:63% Watch and you'll see how. 00:20:11.944 --> 00:20:13.946 align:start line:79% position:23% size:53% TAMMY: In my travels to the mission field, 00:20:14.012 --> 00:20:17.349 align:center line:79% position:50% size:58% I'm always torn between happiness and sorrow. 00:20:17.416 --> 00:20:20.319 align:start line:79% position:13% size:75% Happy when I get to be part of our Mission Feeding program 00:20:20.385 --> 00:20:22.354 align:center line:79% position:50% size:40% that is saving children's lives 00:20:22.421 --> 00:20:24.990 align:center line:79% position:50% size:45% and providing hope for their mothers. 00:20:25.057 --> 00:20:27.025 align:start line:79% position:30% size:40% And then there is sorrow. 00:20:27.092 --> 00:20:29.828 align:start line:79% position:15% size:70% Sorrow when I'm with mothers in total despair 00:20:29.895 --> 00:20:32.764 align:center line:79% position:50% size:63% because they have no food for their families. 00:20:32.831 --> 00:20:35.667 align:center line:79% position:50% size:65% Sorrow as I watch children fighting for their lives 00:20:35.734 --> 00:20:38.904 align:center line:79% position:50% size:50% because of severe malnutrition. 00:20:38.971 --> 00:20:41.340 align:start line:79% position:30% size:40% For me, at times like these, 00:20:41.406 --> 00:20:43.442 align:center line:79% position:50% size:43% I must speak up for the voiceless 00:20:43.508 --> 00:20:46.378 align:center line:79% position:50% size:68% and say that providing them with life-saving food 00:20:46.445 --> 00:20:50.916 align:center line:79% position:50% size:58% can be the difference between life and death. 00:20:50.983 --> 00:20:52.985 align:start line:79% position:35% size:30% I do believe in hope. 00:20:53.051 --> 00:20:55.253 align:start line:79% position:28% size:43% I do believe that God will provide. 00:20:55.320 --> 00:20:57.322 align:start line:58% position:25% size:48% I do believe that that provision 00:20:57.389 --> 00:21:00.759 align:center line:58% position:50% size:35% will come from God's people. 00:21:00.826 --> 00:21:03.562 align:start line:79% position:23% size:55% Because truly, at the end of the day, 00:21:03.629 --> 00:21:06.131 align:start line:85% position:28% size:45% we are all family. 00:21:06.198 --> 00:21:08.834 align:start line:79% position:18% size:65% We are all family and I believe that God asks us 00:21:08.900 --> 00:21:11.703 align:center line:79% position:50% size:45% to step up when we see a need 00:21:11.770 --> 00:21:14.573 align:center line:79% position:50% size:55% and do whatever we can to stand in the gap 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:17.109 align:center line:79% position:50% size:48% for these families, for these children, 00:21:17.175 --> 00:21:20.712 align:center line:79% position:50% size:43% to save their very lives. 00:21:20.779 --> 00:21:23.315 align:start line:79% position:33% size:35% We cannot wait another day. 00:21:23.382 --> 00:21:25.917 align:center line:79% position:50% size:35% We cannot wait for tomorrow. 00:21:25.984 --> 00:21:27.986 align:center line:79% position:50% size:35% They may not have tomorrow. 00:21:28.053 --> 00:21:30.355 align:start line:79% position:28% size:45% Tomorrow may never come for them. 00:21:30.422 --> 00:21:32.891 align:center line:85% position:50% size:45% But we have today. 00:21:32.958 --> 00:21:37.062 align:start line:79% position:13% size:73% And today –- today, I will speak for them. 00:21:37.129 --> 00:21:40.899 align:center line:85% position:50% size:43% Please send help. 00:21:43.035 --> 00:21:44.503 align:start line:85% position:10% size:55% RANDY: I've been there 00:21:44.569 --> 00:21:45.804 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% outside the clinics 00:21:45.871 --> 00:21:47.072 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% when it was just too late. 00:21:47.139 --> 00:21:48.373 align:start line:85% position:10% size:58% I've prayed for a child 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:51.343 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% that died that very day. 00:21:51.410 --> 00:21:52.611 align:start line:85% position:10% size:28% And to hear 00:21:52.678 --> 00:21:54.079 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% the heartbreak of a mother, 00:21:54.146 --> 00:21:55.580 align:start line:85% position:10% size:70% it just rips your heart out. 00:21:55.647 --> 00:21:56.948 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% I've got to be honest 00:21:57.015 --> 00:21:58.283 align:start line:85% position:10% size:23% with you, 00:21:58.350 --> 00:21:59.551 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% those are the days 00:21:59.618 --> 00:22:02.320 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% where I've gone, 00:22:02.387 --> 00:22:04.423 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% God, I know you care. 00:22:04.489 --> 00:22:05.824 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% Lord, you say you do 00:22:05.891 --> 00:22:07.726 align:start line:85% position:10% size:68% in your word, I believe it. 00:22:07.793 --> 00:22:08.994 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% Why don't you do something 00:22:09.061 --> 00:22:10.395 align:start line:85% position:10% size:28% about this? 00:22:10.462 --> 00:22:12.030 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% You know what? 00:22:12.097 --> 00:22:13.498 align:start line:85% position:10% size:18% He has. 00:22:13.565 --> 00:22:15.033 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% We're all the help. 00:22:15.100 --> 00:22:16.835 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% We're a part of that body. 00:22:16.902 --> 00:22:17.969 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% Some the hands, 00:22:18.036 --> 00:22:19.104 align:start line:85% position:10% size:40% some the hearts, 00:22:19.171 --> 00:22:20.338 align:start line:85% position:10% size:35% some the head. 00:22:20.405 --> 00:22:21.540 align:start line:85% position:10% size:73% I don't know how it all works 00:22:21.606 --> 00:22:22.774 align:start line:85% position:10% size:38% but I know that 00:22:22.841 --> 00:22:23.975 align:start line:85% position:10% size:65% when we all work together, 00:22:24.042 --> 00:22:25.110 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% we do great things. 00:22:25.177 --> 00:22:26.445 align:start line:85% position:10% size:45% In fact, right now 00:22:26.511 --> 00:22:27.713 align:start line:85% position:10% size:60% we feed 350,000 children 00:22:27.779 --> 00:22:29.848 align:start line:85% position:10% size:48% every single day -- 00:22:29.915 --> 00:22:33.385 align:start line:85% position:10% size:20% 350,000! 00:22:33.452 --> 00:22:34.653 align:start line:85% position:10% size:50% That's a lot of need 00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:35.854 align:start line:85% position:10% size:30% but the need 00:22:35.921 --> 00:22:37.923 align:start line:85% position:10% size:53% is greater than that. 00:22:38.256 --> 00:22:39.524 align:start line:10% position:10% size:63% But we need to keep doing 00:22:39.591 --> 00:22:40.859 align:start line:10% position:10% size:43% what we're doing. 00:22:40.926 --> 00:22:42.461 align:start line:10% position:10% size:68% It is giving people a hope. 00:22:42.527 --> 00:22:43.729 align:start line:10% position:10% size:48% It is giving people 00:22:43.795 --> 00:22:45.063 align:start line:10% position:10% size:28% the future. 00:22:45.130 --> 00:22:46.364 align:start line:10% position:10% size:53% And it is giving them 00:22:46.431 --> 00:22:47.666 align:start line:10% position:10% size:68% an expression of God's love 00:22:47.733 --> 00:22:49.167 align:start line:10% position:10% size:53% that they can't deny. 00:22:49.234 --> 00:22:50.736 align:start line:10% position:10% size:58% Will you be that today? 00:22:50.802 --> 00:22:52.504 align:start line:10% position:10% size:68% That's my question for you. 00:22:52.571 --> 00:22:55.707 align:start line:10% position:10% size:55% It is not just a plea. 00:22:55.774 --> 00:22:57.142 align:start line:10% position:10% size:28% Yes, it is. 00:22:57.209 --> 00:22:58.710 align:start line:10% position:10% size:50% I'll never apologize 00:22:58.777 --> 00:22:59.911 align:start line:10% position:10% size:48% for asking for help 00:22:59.978 --> 00:23:01.279 align:start line:10% position:10% size:45% for people in such 00:23:01.346 --> 00:23:02.547 align:start line:10% position:10% size:60% desperate circumstances. 00:23:02.614 --> 00:23:03.749 align:start line:10% position:10% size:70% But it is also an invitation 00:23:03.815 --> 00:23:05.884 align:start line:10% position:10% size:55% to step in to what God 00:23:05.951 --> 00:23:07.786 align:start line:10% position:10% size:50% has designed for us, 00:23:07.853 --> 00:23:09.121 align:start line:10% position:10% size:75% which is to remember the poor, 00:23:09.187 --> 00:23:10.455 align:start line:10% position:10% size:53% to care for the poor, 00:23:10.522 --> 00:23:13.825 align:start line:10% position:10% size:75% to express his love in action. 00:23:13.892 --> 00:23:15.193 align:start line:10% position:10% size:53% We do that right now. 00:23:15.260 --> 00:23:17.362 align:start line:10% position:10% size:68% It is simple, a gift of $30 00:23:17.429 --> 00:23:19.131 align:start line:10% position:10% size:73% will help feed three children 00:23:19.197 --> 00:23:20.665 align:start line:10% position:10% size:65% for the next three months. 00:23:20.732 --> 00:23:21.967 align:start line:10% position:10% size:45% Yeah, it's because 00:23:22.033 --> 00:23:23.201 align:start line:10% position:10% size:70% we've been there a long time 00:23:23.268 --> 00:23:24.469 align:start line:10% position:10% size:23% doing it. 00:23:24.536 --> 00:23:25.670 align:start line:10% position:10% size:43% We have maximized 00:23:25.737 --> 00:23:26.838 align:start line:10% position:10% size:33% every dollar. 00:23:26.905 --> 00:23:28.106 align:start line:10% position:10% size:33% A gift of $50 00:23:28.173 --> 00:23:29.341 align:start line:10% position:10% size:73% will help feed five children. 00:23:29.407 --> 00:23:30.542 align:start line:10% position:10% size:35% A gift of $100 00:23:30.609 --> 00:23:31.877 align:start line:10% position:10% size:48% will help feed ten. 00:23:31.943 --> 00:23:33.078 align:start line:10% position:10% size:53% Some of you can feed, 00:23:33.145 --> 00:23:34.279 align:start line:10% position:10% size:33% I don't know, 00:23:34.346 --> 00:23:35.547 align:start line:10% position:10% size:45% a hundred children 00:23:35.614 --> 00:23:36.782 align:start line:10% position:10% size:58% for the next few months 00:23:36.848 --> 00:23:37.983 align:start line:10% position:10% size:55% with a gift of $1,000. 00:23:38.049 --> 00:23:39.084 align:start line:10% position:10% size:45% Maybe you can feed 00:23:39.151 --> 00:23:40.185 align:start line:10% position:10% size:35% 1,000 children 00:23:40.252 --> 00:23:41.319 align:start line:10% position:10% size:58% with a gift of $10,000. 00:23:41.386 --> 00:23:42.454 align:start line:10% position:10% size:33% I don't know. 00:23:42.521 --> 00:23:43.755 align:start line:10% position:10% size:25% All I know 00:23:43.822 --> 00:23:45.090 align:start line:10% position:10% size:63% is that God has called us 00:23:45.157 --> 00:23:46.424 align:start line:10% position:10% size:73% to express his love to people 00:23:46.491 --> 00:23:47.659 align:start line:10% position:10% size:58% and to do it by meeting 00:23:47.726 --> 00:23:48.927 align:start line:10% position:10% size:63% the very practical needs. 00:23:48.994 --> 00:23:50.195 align:start line:10% position:10% size:45% And here's a need. 00:23:50.262 --> 00:23:51.530 align:start line:10% position:10% size:58% So, will you join us in 00:23:51.596 --> 00:23:53.532 align:start line:10% position:10% size:75% this Mission Feeding outreach? 00:23:53.598 --> 00:23:55.734 align:start line:10% position:10% size:68% Will you join us comforting 00:23:55.801 --> 00:23:57.736 align:start line:10% position:10% size:50% those who have lost? 00:23:57.803 --> 00:23:59.004 align:start line:10% position:10% size:40% Will you join us 00:23:59.070 --> 00:24:00.238 align:start line:10% position:10% size:38% in saving those 00:24:00.305 --> 00:24:01.573 align:start line:10% position:10% size:43% who can be saved? 00:24:01.640 --> 00:24:02.941 align:start line:10% position:10% size:40% Go to the phone, 00:24:03.008 --> 00:24:04.776 align:start line:10% position:10% size:50% go online right now. 00:24:04.843 --> 00:24:05.944 align:start line:10% position:10% size:60% The situation is urgent. 00:24:06.011 --> 00:24:07.112 align:start line:10% position:10% size:60% We need to hear from you 00:24:07.179 --> 00:24:08.280 align:start line:10% position:10% size:25% right now. 00:24:08.346 --> 00:24:10.348 align:start line:10% position:10% size:68% Make the best gift you can. 00:24:11.349 --> 00:24:13.752 align:start line:58% position:20% size:60% Right now across the continent of Africa, 00:24:13.819 --> 00:24:15.854 align:center line:58% position:50% size:35% children are suffering, 00:24:15.921 --> 00:24:18.690 align:center line:58% position:50% size:65% facing severe malnutrition and even death. 00:24:18.757 --> 00:24:20.759 align:start line:58% position:30% size:38% Extreme drought and famine 00:24:20.826 --> 00:24:23.261 align:center line:58% position:50% size:45% putting at risk thousands of lives 00:24:23.328 --> 00:24:25.831 align:center line:58% position:50% size:63% means we must replenish food supplies immediately 00:24:25.897 --> 00:24:29.067 align:center line:58% position:50% size:50% to keep feeding the 350,000 children 00:24:29.134 --> 00:24:32.437 align:center line:58% position:50% size:65% and help reach more people in desperate need. 00:24:32.504 --> 00:24:34.606 align:start line:58% position:18% size:63% Through LIFE's Mission Feeding outreach, 00:24:34.673 --> 00:24:36.741 align:center line:58% position:50% size:65% your gift of love can be an answer to prayer 00:24:36.808 --> 00:24:40.312 align:center line:58% position:50% size:75% for a hurting and hungry child in their time of need. 00:24:40.378 --> 00:24:42.647 align:start line:58% position:45% size:45% Call now with your life-saving gift 00:24:42.714 --> 00:24:45.650 align:center line:58% position:75% size:30% of $30, $50, or $100 00:24:45.717 --> 00:24:47.719 align:center line:58% position:75% size:30% to help feed and care for 00:24:47.786 --> 00:24:49.721 align:center line:58% position:30% size:38% three, five, or ten children 00:24:49.788 --> 00:24:51.790 align:center line:58% position:25% size:30% for three full months. 00:24:51.857 --> 00:24:53.859 align:start line:10% position:10% size:35% With your gift of any amount, 00:24:53.925 --> 00:24:56.161 align:center line:10% position:50% size:63% we'll send the Daily LIFE devotional calendar. 00:24:56.228 --> 00:25:00.098 align:start line:10% position:13% size:73% This perpetual calendar has 365 days' worth of scriptures 00:25:00.165 --> 00:25:02.067 align:center line:10% position:50% size:65% and inspirational thoughts to remind you 00:25:02.133 --> 00:25:05.403 align:center line:10% position:50% size:60% of the rest you can find in God's loving arms. 00:25:05.470 --> 00:25:07.505 align:start line:10% position:10% size:40% With your gift of $100 or more, 00:25:07.572 --> 00:25:09.774 align:center line:10% position:50% size:75% you may request the "The Light of Life" desk lamp. 00:25:09.841 --> 00:25:11.877 align:start line:10% position:28% size:43% Find comfort and encouragement 00:25:11.943 --> 00:25:14.646 align:center line:10% position:50% size:43% from Jesus' words in John 8:12 00:25:14.713 --> 00:25:17.449 align:center line:10% position:50% size:73% displayed on this stand-alone acrylic gas lamp, 00:25:17.515 --> 00:25:19.517 align:center line:10% position:50% size:40% perfect for home or office décor 00:25:19.584 --> 00:25:22.954 align:center line:10% position:50% size:65% as a reminder that Jesus is the light of the world. 00:25:23.021 --> 00:25:25.957 align:start line:58% position:20% size:58% Finally, with your gift of $1,000 or more 00:25:26.024 --> 00:25:28.360 align:center line:58% position:50% size:65% to help feed and care for 100 children, 00:25:28.426 --> 00:25:30.528 align:center line:58% position:33% size:45% be sure to request our inspiring 00:25:30.595 --> 00:25:33.632 align:center line:58% position:33% size:43% bronze sculpture, "A Cup of Water." 00:25:33.698 --> 00:25:37.602 align:start line:10% position:15% size:68% Please call, write, or make your gift online today. 00:25:41.840 --> 00:25:44.643 align:start line:53% position:25% size:48% TAMMY: Here I am in Southern Africa. 00:25:44.709 --> 00:25:47.712 align:start line:53% position:20% size:60% Probably one of the most heartbreaking scenes. 00:25:47.779 --> 00:25:49.781 align:start line:53% position:23% size:53% It's so hard for me to sit here and watch 00:25:49.848 --> 00:25:52.951 align:center line:10% position:50% size:60% these tiny little babies fight for their life. 00:25:53.018 --> 00:25:55.186 align:start line:10% position:18% size:65% They don't belong here. They should never be here. 00:25:55.253 --> 00:25:57.255 align:start line:10% position:25% size:48% This little baby should not be here. 00:25:57.322 --> 00:25:59.291 align:start line:53% position:30% size:38% Together we can make a change. 00:25:59.357 --> 00:26:01.293 align:center line:53% position:50% size:50% Together we can make a difference. 00:26:01.359 --> 00:26:05.597 align:start line:53% position:18% size:63% That's why I'm asking you to partner with us today. 00:26:05.664 --> 00:26:08.900 align:start line:53% position:15% size:70% Go online or call the number on the bottom of the screen 00:26:08.967 --> 00:26:11.036 align:center line:53% position:50% size:48% and make a difference today. 00:26:11.102 --> 00:26:16.541 align:start line:53% position:15% size:68% Help me, help us to provide for these children, 00:26:16.608 --> 00:26:20.245 align:center line:10% position:50% size:55% thousands of children, with a bowl of food. 00:26:20.312 --> 00:26:22.314 align:start line:10% position:23% size:53% Just one bowl of food every day 00:26:22.380 --> 00:26:24.382 align:center line:10% position:50% size:38% will make the difference. 00:26:25.150 --> 00:26:26.217 align:start line:10% position:10% size:40% RANDY: I do hope 00:26:26.284 --> 00:26:27.319 align:start line:10% position:10% size:48% you're going online 00:26:27.385 --> 00:26:28.353 align:start line:10% position:10% size:55% or going to the phone. 00:26:28.420 --> 00:26:29.421 align:start line:10% position:10% size:68% Make the best gift you can. 00:26:29.487 --> 00:26:30.989 align:start line:10% position:10% size:58% Let's defeat this enemy 00:26:31.056 --> 00:26:32.223 align:start line:10% position:10% size:40% of malnutrition, 00:26:32.290 --> 00:26:34.392 align:start line:10% position:10% size:43% hunger and death. 00:26:34.459 --> 00:26:35.827 align:start line:10% position:10% size:35% You can do it. 00:26:35.894 --> 00:26:37.429 align:start line:10% position:10% size:58% If you want Ron's book, 00:26:37.495 --> 00:26:38.630 align:start line:10% position:10% size:65% The Necessity of an Enemy, 00:26:38.697 --> 00:26:40.065 align:start line:10% position:10% size:70% he is going to challenge you 00:26:40.131 --> 00:26:41.132 align:start line:10% position:10% size:40% a little bit but 00:26:41.199 --> 00:26:42.334 align:start line:10% position:10% size:55% he's going to give you 00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:43.401 align:start line:10% position:10% size:55% encouragement and hope 00:26:43.468 --> 00:26:44.469 align:start line:10% position:10% size:50% through the process. 00:26:44.536 --> 00:26:45.670 align:start line:10% position:10% size:65% Request that with any gift 00:26:45.737 --> 00:26:46.738 align:start line:10% position:10% size:48% today and we'd love 00:26:46.805 --> 00:26:47.939 align:start line:10% position:10% size:43% to send it to you 00:26:48.006 --> 00:26:49.140 align:start line:10% position:10% size:50% just to lift you up. 00:26:49.207 --> 00:26:50.642 align:start line:10% position:10% size:73% Ron, Hope, thank you so much. 00:26:50.709 --> 00:26:51.710 align:start line:10% position:10% size:40% HOPE: Thank you. 00:26:51.776 --> 00:26:52.911 align:start line:10% position:10% size:65% RON: It's been a blessing. 00:26:52.978 --> 00:26:54.245 align:start line:10% position:10% size:68% RANDY: You keep giving hope 00:26:54.312 --> 00:26:55.513 align:start line:10% position:10% size:58% and being that example. 00:26:55.580 --> 00:26:56.614 align:start line:10% position:10% size:55% It is really neat that 00:26:56.681 --> 00:26:57.983 align:start line:10% position:10% size:55% you're just a witness. 00:26:58.049 --> 00:26:59.417 align:start line:10% position:10% size:60% You're not worried about 00:26:59.484 --> 00:27:00.485 align:start line:10% position:10% size:43% what people think 00:27:00.552 --> 00:27:01.553 align:start line:10% position:10% size:45% or your reputation 00:27:01.619 --> 00:27:02.620 align:start line:10% position:10% size:30% or the past, 00:27:02.687 --> 00:27:04.022 align:start line:10% position:10% size:55% you're just a witness. 00:27:04.089 --> 00:27:05.290 align:start line:10% position:10% size:70% HOPE: Trying to help people. 00:27:05.357 --> 00:27:06.558 align:start line:10% position:10% size:70% RANDY: Yeah! You really are. 00:27:06.624 --> 00:27:07.625 align:start line:10% position:10% size:53% I appreciate you guys 00:27:07.692 --> 00:27:08.693 align:start line:10% position:10% size:53% helping people today. 00:27:08.760 --> 00:27:09.995 align:start line:10% position:10% size:65% Appreciate all of you guys 00:27:10.061 --> 00:27:11.062 align:start line:10% position:10% size:23% watching. 00:27:11.129 --> 00:27:12.130 align:start line:10% position:10% size:55% Don't miss an episode. 00:27:12.197 --> 00:27:13.198 align:start line:10% position:10% size:40% If you miss any, 00:27:13.264 --> 00:27:14.265 align:start line:10% position:10% size:50% go to LifeToday.org. 00:27:14.332 --> 00:27:15.633 align:start line:10% position:10% size:73% You can watch them all there. 00:27:15.700 --> 00:27:17.836 align:start line:10% position:10% size:60% We'll see you next time. 00:27:26.211 --> 00:27:31.282 align:end line:10% position:90% size:03% ♪ 00:27:40.125 --> 00:27:47.198 align:end line:10% position:90% size:03% ♪ 00:27:55.340 --> 00:28:01.046 align:end line:10% position:90% size:03% ♪ 00:28:02.714 --> 00:28:05.550 align:start line:63% position:15% size:68% Using his research to turn his mother's brain back on, 00:28:05.617 --> 00:28:07.585 align:center line:63% position:50% size:38% Dr. Don Colbert now urges you 00:28:07.652 --> 00:28:09.687 align:center line:63% position:50% size:58% to enter The Healthy Brain Zone! 00:28:09.754 --> 00:28:12.524 align:center line:63% position:50% size:35% Tomorrow on Life Today! 00:28:12.590 --> 00:28:16.061 align:start line:10% position:13% size:73% LIFE Today is made possible by the supporters of LIFE Outreach International. 00:28:16.127 --> 00:28:19.164 align:center line:10% position:50% size:70% Your gift will be used exclusively for the exempt purposes of LIFE. 00:28:19.230 --> 00:28:21.232 align:start line:10% position:23% size:53% The ministry features specific outreaches 00:28:21.299 --> 00:28:23.301 align:center line:10% position:50% size:68% as examples of the programs it supports and conducts. 00:28:23.368 --> 00:28:25.370 align:start line:10% position:18% size:63% Gifts are considered to be without restriction 00:28:25.437 --> 00:28:27.505 align:center line:10% position:50% size:68% as to use unless explicitly stipulated by the donor. 00:28:27.572 --> 00:28:29.808 align:center line:10% position:50% size:60% The ministry is a member of the ECFA.